Monthly Archives: November, 2022

Jury Awards $46.7M to Record Labels in Copyright Suit Against ISP Over Illegal Music Downloading

On Thursday, a federal jury convened in the Western District of Texas returned a verdict in favor of more than a dozen record labels,...

FTC Returns More Than $830K to Students Misled by Caribbean Medical School’s Marketing Claims

The Federal Trade Commission has fined the Saint James Medical School (SJMS) $830,000 with the proceeds returned to students. They found the school guilty...

Google Opposes Imposition of Sanctions in Play Store Antitrust Cases

Google filed an opposition motion on Thursday, opposing discovery sanctions brought by the plaintiffs over deleted internal chat messages in the Google Play Store...

GitHub, Microsoft, and OpenAI Sued Over AI Tool’s ‘Unprecedented Scale’ of Software Piracy

A civil suit filed in the Northern District of California by two anonymous software developers on behalf of a class claims that GitHub, Microsoft,...

E-Health Record Biz to Pay $45M for Kickback Scheme

Modernizing Medicine Inc. (ModMed), an electronic health records (EHR) vendor, has agreed to pay a $45 million fine for allegedly accepting payment in...

AGs Sue to Halt Dividend Amidst Kroger Merger

On Wednesday the District of Columbia, California and Illinois filed a complaint and temporary restraining order in federal court in the nation's capital in...

Court Strikes Meta’s Affirmative Defenses in FTC’s Suit to Halt Acquisition of VR App Developer Within Unlimited

In an opinion issued Wednesday by Judge Edward J. Davila of the Northern District of California, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) largely won its...

Montana Construction Company President Pleads Guilty to Monopolization in Criminal Sherman Act Case

The president of a construction company has pleaded guilty to violating the Sherman Act by attempting to form a market-allocation agreement with a competitor....