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In the courts

  • Arent Fox LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 9 2012

On July 3, 2012, a New York Criminal Court Judge ruled that Twitter must produce tweets and user information about a criminal defendant, an Occupy Wall Street protester, that were subpoenaed by the District Attorney

Broadband news

  • Arent Fox LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 9 2012

On July 2, 2012, Verizon and MetroPCS filed their initial briefs in the appeal at the D.C. Circuit of the FCC’s Open Internet Rules (Verizon Wireless v. FCC, Case No. 11-1355 and consolidated cases

Broadband news

  • Arent Fox LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 4 2012

On May 25, 2012, the D.C. Circuit largely adopted the proposed schedule of the parties in the appeal of the FCC’s Open Internet Order

Broadband news

  • Arent Fox LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 30 2012

On April 23, 2012, the parties to the Open Internet appeal filed a joint motion with a proposed briefing schedule

Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and privacy regulation

  • Arent Fox LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 26 2012

On March 20, 2012, several residents of California and New York filed separate class action suits against Google regarding recent changes to its privacy policy

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announcements

  • Arent Fox LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 5 2012

The FCC has released the Tentative Agenda for its next Open Meeting to be held March 21, 2012, at 10:30 am Eastern

Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and privacy regulation

  • Arent Fox LLP
  • -
  • European Union, France, USA
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  • March 5 2012

On February 24, 2012, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) lawsuit to compel the FTC to enforce the Google consent order prior to March 1, 2012, the date on which Google implemented the announced consolidation of its privacy policies

Broadband news

  • Arent Fox LLP
  • -
  • Global, USA
  • -
  • March 5 2012

On March 1, 2012, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit denied the motions to hold the consolidated appeal of the FCC Open Internet Order in abeyance

Broadband news

  • Arent Fox LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 21 2011

On November 16, 2011, two companies filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California against the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and ICM Registry, LLC (ICM) challenging the new system for increasing the number of Top-Level Domains (TLDs) under the antitrust and unfair competition laws

In the courts

  • Arent Fox LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
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  • October 31 2011

On October 26, 2011, the United Kingdom’s High Court, Chancery Division ruled that British Telecom has two weeks to implement an order requiring it to block its customers’ access to Newzbin2, a file-sharing site against which six Hollywood studios (Studios) have secured an injunction