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Artificial Intelligence
April 17, 2025 | Emma Whitford
North America
State Aid
April 17, 2025 | Jean Comte and Lewis Crofts
Europe
Data Privacy and Security
April 16, 2025 | Maria Dinzeo
North America
Antitrust View More
April 18, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Counsel for Nyzier Fourqurean asked a US appeals court to affirm an injunction against the National Collegiate Athletic Association enforcing its five-year-rule. “Throughout its arguments to the ... (more story)
April 18, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: More than 20 state attorneys general filed an amicus brief in support of former US Federal Trade Commissioners Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Slaughter’s lawsuit alleging they were illegally fired fro... (more story)
April 18, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Bright Data has plausibly alleged that X Corp. engaged in a monopolistic scheme that has limited access to public data through exclusionary agreements, a US judge ruled. District Judge William Al... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
April 18, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The Intercept filed its second amended complaint against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging they intentionally removed copyright management information from its stories in violation of the Digital Mi... (more story)
April 18, 2025 | Mike Swift
North America
Clearview AI, the controversial facial recognition startup, will have to wait for final judicial approval of its plan to sell off a portion of itself to settle biometric privacy claims. Two objectors to the se... (more story)
April 18, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Robert Weissman and Rick Claypool, objectors to a settlement of privacy litigation against facial recognition company Clearview AI that was approved by a US judge in Chicago in March, have filed ... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
April 18, 2025 | Curtis Eichelberger
North America
The US Federal Reserve Board and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency both approved Capital One’s acquisition of Discover Friday, and the companies said they plan to close the $35.3 billion merger on ... (more story)
April 18, 2025
Europe, North America
MLex Summary: A status conference in the US Department of Justice's lawsuit to block the Amex GBT-CWT merger has been scheduled for April 22.
April 18, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: US Senator Elizabeth Warren issued a statement against the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency's decision to approve Capital One's m... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
April 18, 2025 | Mike Swift
North America
A federal judge in Californa said she would allow Meta Platforms to seek a quick summary judgment ruling that it did not violate Illinois' biometric privacy law by allegedly collecting the voiceprints of Faceb... (more story)
April 18, 2025 | Maria Dinzeo
North America
An update to Oregon’s data privacy law is headed to the state Senate after sailing out of the House by a vote of 51-0.
April 18, 2025 | Xu Yuan
North America
Amid a streak of wins in its challenges of state social media laws, Big Tech industry group NetChoice suffered a setback as an appeals court sent remanded its lawsuit against a Mississippi age-verification law... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
April 18, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: In a precedential decision they said is one of first impression, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit declared "patents that do no more than claim the application of generic machine le... (more story)
April 18, 2025 | Melissa Ritti
Asia, North America
Efficient Power Conversion Corp., or EPC, indicated in a notice yesterday with the Patent Trial and Appeal Board it intends to seek director review of an inter partes review, or IPR, of its gallium nitride tra... (more story)
April 18, 2025 | Inbar Preiss
Europe
The UPC Court of Appeal rejected Meril’s request to suspend an injunction issued against it in a patent infringement case brought by Edwards Lifesciences. Meril argued that the lower court decision was procedu... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
April 18, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: A US judge today denied Safemoon LLC executive Braden John Karony's motion to dismiss charges that he defrauded investors in the cryptocurrency company and spent the funds on his own purposes.
April 18, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: US District Judge Amy Berman Jackson gave an oral order to stop the mass firings at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau pending an April 28 hearing to hear testimony from CFPB officials.
April 18, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
Asia, North America
A former chair of the Philippines electoral commission, charged in the US with laundering bribes he allegedly received from a Florida voting machine company, is fighting his extradition from Canada, according ... (more story)
Financial Services View More
April 18, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau told a US federal judge that it alleges the bulk of Experian’s practices at issue in this case continues to the present day, making its claims in court... (more story)
April 17, 2025
North America
MLex summary: US Senator Elizabeth Warren, the top Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee, decried reports that President Donald Trump's acting US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau director sent reduction... (more story)
April 17, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Yulia Svyrydenko, Ukraine's first deputy prime minister and minister of economy, said in a statement on X that Ukrainian officials have signed a memorandum of intent that paves the way toward an ... (more story)
Trade View More
April 18, 2025
Asia, North America
MLex summary: The US Justice Department filed a complaint against a US company and two business owners for allegedly violating the False Claims Act and knowingly underpaying customs duties on imported clothing... (more story)
April 18, 2025 | Eliana Hubacker
North America
The US Commerce Department was correct to use 1995-96 data to determine the current dumping rates for Mexican fresh tomato growers, the US Court of International Trade ruled.
April 18, 2025 | Zack Budryk
Europe
The White House announced a series of trade agreements with Italy that fall short of a full deal following a meeting between President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Georgia Meloni.
State Aid View More
April 15, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Norway has secured approval by the EFTA Surveillance Authority for its plan to fund a program to develop a wind farm in Utsira Nord, located in the North Sea. The farm will raise renewable energy... (more story)
April 15, 2025 | Jean Comte
Europe
The EU General Block Exemption Regulation needs to be simplified, according to comments from several member states seen by MLex. The legal text, which sets out some conditions to exempt state aid from the Euro... (more story)
April 15, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Spain has won European Commission approval for its plan to spend 400 million euros to boost its generation of renewable hydrogen. Production will be supported through the “Auctions-as-a-Service” ... (more story)
Energy View More
April 17, 2025 | Oscar Pandiello and Jean Comte
Europe
EU companies caught under the scope of the bloc’s due diligence law could see reduced supply chain obligations and potential fines capped at 5 percent of their net global turnover, according to a Polish propos... (more story)
April 17, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: EU countries have taken a step forward on the first “omnibus” simplification law covering sustainability and due-diligence reporting duties, with the presentation of a compromise text. Poland, wh... (more story)
April 16, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Steel and aluminum, textiles, furniture, tires and mattresses are the products to be prioritized over the next five years in ecodesign and energy labeling requirements, according to a working pla... (more story)
Technology View More
April 18, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Mozilla Chief Executive Laura Chambers said some of the remedies proposed in the US Department of Justice's Internet search monopolization suit against Google "risk the future" of its Firefox bro... (more story)
April 18, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The Computer & Communications Industry Association said remedies in the Google search monopoly case should be narrowly tailored to address specific conduct and confined to a set of search distrib... (more story)
April 18, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: DuckDuckGo said that Google's decade-plus illegal monopolization of the Internet search market and search text market means that the smaller search engine has never had the opportunity to compete... (more story)