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September 05, 2025
CEO's Alleged Threat After Records Demand Prompts Del. Suit
A major stockholder and officer of a health risk software venture who reported receiving a threatening reply from the company's CEO when he requested records has sued for the documents in Delaware's Court of Chancery, saying the earlier request was otherwise ignored.
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September 05, 2025
Warner Bros. Sues AI Image Biz Over Character Outputs
Warner Bros. has sued artificial intelligence image and video company Midjourney over alleged copyright infringement, saying it "thinks it is above the law" by allowing users to create images of copyrighted household-name characters.
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September 05, 2025
Taxation With Representation: Milbank, Wachtell, Latham
In this week's Taxation With Representation, aircraft lessor Air Lease Corp. agrees to a take-private deal, Evernorth Health Services invests billions in Shields Health Solutions, Cadence Design Systems Inc. acquires the design and engineering business of Hexagon AB, and Kraft Heinz Co. plans to split into two independent, publicly traded companies.
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September 05, 2025
Pot Co. Investors Say Ex-Partner Drained Coffers For Suits
The members of an investment firm are suing their former business partner in California state court, alleging that he misappropriated funds from the firm to defend himself in a separate suit by another business partner accusing him of fraud.
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September 05, 2025
How A 'Risky' Move Fueled Kobre & Kim's Win Over Phillips 66
In the trial over Propel Fuels' claims that Phillips 66 stole trade secrets during due diligence for an acquisition, Kobre & Kim switched up standard witness order and convinced a jury to award $605 million.
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September 04, 2025
18 States Fight Trump Admin's Bid To End Haitian Protections
A coalition of 18 states led by Massachusetts, California and New York has thrown its weight behind immigrants challenging the Trump administration's effort to remove temporary protected status for more than 250,000 Haitians in D.C. federal court, arguing TPS-eligible Haitians contribute $4.4 billion annually to the U.S. economy.
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September 04, 2025
Geragos Strikes At $100K Verdict Over Nike Extortion Role
Celebrity attorney Mark Geragos asked a California judge to strike a $100,000 jury verdict that found he aided and abetted disbarred lawyer Michael Avenatti in a failed attempt to extort Nike, saying award of damages without an underlying finding of liability "is impermissible as a matter of law."
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September 04, 2025
9th Circ. Affirms Dismissal Of Google-Apple Antitrust Suit
The Ninth Circuit on Thursday affirmed a lower court's decision dismissing a lawsuit alleging an antitrust conspiracy between Apple and Google over search engine technology, agreeing with the lower court that a restaurant meeting between the companies' CEOs is not sufficient evidence to back up the claims.Â
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September 04, 2025
AI Co. Sues Rival, Ex-Exec Over Alleged Trade Secret Theft
Scale AI Inc. has slapped Mercor and a former executive with a trade secret theft suit in California federal court, claiming that while the generative artificial intelligence data competitor was wooing Scale's employee, he was stealing documents that "amount to a roadmap for unfairly competing with Scale."
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September 04, 2025
Calif. High Court Nixes Death Sentence Over Gang Law Shift
The California Supreme Court on Thursday reversed the convictions of a prisoner on Death Row, saying developments in legislation and case law defining gang involvement have invalidated his death sentence.
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September 04, 2025
Trader With Middle Name 'Danger' Owes $3.8M In SEC Claims
A securities trader with the middle name "Danger" who was sentenced to nearly four years in prison after copping to a federal wire fraud charge in connection with a $2.9 million Ponzi scheme, is also on the hook for $3.8 million in disgorgement and prejudgment interest in a parallel U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission suit, a California federal judge has ruled.
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September 04, 2025
Yale Hospital's Info Request Upheld In $435M Property Suit
Three third-party hospital real estate holding companies and their corporate parent cannot challenge a decision requiring them to give records to Yale New Haven Health Services Corp. for its $435 million asset sale dispute with bankrupt Prospect Medical Holdings Inc., a Connecticut appeals court has ruled.
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September 04, 2025
PTAB Mostly Backs Comcast In Entropic Patent Challenges
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has found that numerous claims of two Entropic Communications LLC communications network patents challenged by Comcast are invalid, but that the cable giant failed to prove that other claims are invalid.
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September 04, 2025
Samsung Inks Deal To End Neonode Smartphone's Patent Suit
A Texas federal judge has approved Neonode Smartphone's bid to dismiss the company's patent suit against Samsung over its swipe to unlock feature after the parties reached a deal in the case.
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September 04, 2025
San Francisco Archdiocese Claimants Must Refile Affiliate Suit
A California bankruptcy judge on Thursday told the unsecured creditors committee in the Chapter 11 of the Archdiocese of San Francisco to refile a complaint seeking to declare parish assets estate property, saying the "substance" of the arguments was enough to go forward to trial.
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September 04, 2025
Latham, Jones Day Advise On $3.15B Cadence-Hexagon Deal
Latham-led Cadence Design Systems Inc. said on Thursday it has agreed to acquire the design and engineering business of Jones Day-advised Hexagon AB in a deal valued at approximately €2.7 billion ($3.15 billion).
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September 04, 2025
Settlement Reached In Harassment Suit Against Fox Sports
A lawsuit accusing prominent figures at Fox Sports of sexual harassment — including an allegation that popular host Skip Bayless offered $1.5 million for sex — has been dismissed by a California state judge after a hairstylist who formerly worked for the network reached a settlement with Fox Sports and the personalities.
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September 04, 2025
DC Sues Trump Over National Guard Deployment
The District of Columbia sued President Donald Trump on Thursday, asserting that the deployment of more than 2,200 National Guard troops to the district violates the Home Rule Act and a compact governing the interstate mobilization of National Guard troops.
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September 04, 2025
Coinbase Fights Password Co.'s IP Claims Over Login Method
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has sued password solutions company DynaPass Inc. seeking a declaratory judgment that Coinbase's secure sign-in method does not infringe on Dynapass' two-factor authentication method it patented nearly 20 years ago.
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September 04, 2025
Music Lyrics Co.'s $1B Antitrust Suit Mostly Survives
A California federal judge largely refused to dismiss LyricFind Inc.'s $1 billion suit accusing a streaming music lyrics rival of using an exclusive deal with Warner Music to edge it out of the market, crediting claims about the importance of Warner while nixing some business interference allegations.
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September 04, 2025
Albertsons Says Kroger CEO Docs Fair Game In Del. Suit
An attorney for Albertsons Companies Inc. told a Delaware vice chancellor Thursday the food and drugstore giant should get access to The Kroger Co.'s documents related to CEO Rodney McMullen's abrupt exit from the job months after the collapse of the two companies' planned $25 billion merger.
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September 04, 2025
Monthly Merger Review Snapshot
The Justice Department settled a challenge to UnitedHealth's $3.3 billion home hospice acquisition while Democrats called for a judge to reject a different government settlement and the Federal Trade Commission moved against medical technologies transactions for heart valves and device coatings.
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September 04, 2025
Judge Questions Defense Dept. Cap On Research Costs
A Massachusetts federal judge weighing whether to vacate a U.S. Department of Defense cap on administrative costs for research funding programs said Thursday that the government appeared to have ignored a series of injunctions in similar challenges to Trump administration grant cuts and terminations when it imposed the across-the-board limits.
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September 04, 2025
Solar Co. Mosaic Gets OK For Debt-For-Equity Ch. 11 Plan
A Texas bankruptcy judge Thursday approved residential solar panel financing firm Mosaic's plan to reorganize and hand ownership of its loan servicing business to its secured lender, after no buyers came forward at a Chapter 11 auction.
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September 04, 2025
Fed. Circ. Backs Motorola Camera Lens Patent Win At PTAB
The Federal Circuit on Thursday upheld the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's finding that smartphone maker Motorola was able to prove that claims in an imaging lens system patent owned by a Taiwanese company were invalid.
Expert Analysis
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Foreign Sovereign Entities Should Heed 9th Circ. IP Ruling
After the Ninth Circuit recently held that four Chinese state-controlled companies were not immune from criminal indictment for alleged economic espionage, foreign sovereign-controlled entities should assess whether their operations and affiliation with their parent states qualify for sovereign immunity under the common law, say attorneys at Cleary.
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Proposed State AI Rule Ban Could Alter Employer Compliance
A proposal in the congressional budget bill that would ban state and local enforcement of laws and regulations governing artificial intelligence may offer near-term clarity by freezing conflicting rules, but long-term planning would remain difficult for employers seeking safe, lawful AI deployment strategies, say attorneys at Fisher Phillips.
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How Attorneys Can Become Change Agents For Racial Equity
As the administration targets diversity, equity and inclusion efforts and law firms consider pulling back from their programs, lawyers who care about racial equity and justice can employ four strategies to create microspaces of justice, which can then be parlayed into drivers of transformational change, says Susan Sturm at Columbia Law School.
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Opinion
9th Circ. Shopify Decision Gets Personal Jurisdiction Wrong
The Ninth Circuit's recent opinion in Briskin v. Shopify, rejecting the differential targeting requirement for personal jurisdiction, not only deviates from long-standing jurisprudence, but it also significantly expands the reach of internet-based claims under California law, says Matthew Pearson at Womble Bond.
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What Employers Can Learn From 'Your Friends & Neighbors'
The new drama series "Your Friends and Neighbors," follows a hedge fund firm manager who is terminated after an alleged affair with an employee in another department, and his employment struggles can teach us a few lessons about workplace policies, for cause termination and nonsolicitation clauses, says Anita Levian at Levian Law.
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Robinson-Patman Enforcement May Fizzle Out After PepsiCo
After securing an early Robinson-Patman Act victory against the largest wine and spirits distributor in the U.S., the Federal Trade commission's voluntary dismissal of its own enforcement action against PepsiCo throws into doubt the future of the federal statute that prohibits price discrimination and other anticompetitive practices, say attorneys at V&E.
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Series
Running Marathons Makes Me A Better Lawyer
After almost five years of running marathons, I’ve learned that both the race itself and the training process sharpen skills that directly translate to the practice of law, including discipline, dedication, endurance, problem-solving and mental toughness, says Lauren Meadows at Swift Currie.
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Calif. Air Board Offers Early Hints On Climate Reporting
As initial reporting deadlines for California's new climate reporting laws approach, guidance provided by the California Air Resources Board in a virtual public workshop sheds some light on rulemaking to come, and how to prepare for compliance during this period of uncertainty, say attorneys at Simpson Thacher.
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Tips To Avoid Consumer Tracking Tech Class Actions
Recent class actions alleging Trade Desk illegally tracked millions of consumers through its advertising platform highlight growing data privacy compliance concerns over digital tracking practices, but there are disclosure best practices businesses can take to reduce litigation risk, says David Wheeler at Neal Gerber.
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Series
Law School's Missed Lessons: Supporting A Trial Team
While students often practice as lead trial attorneys in law school, such an opportunity likely won’t arise until a few years into practice, so junior associates should focus on honing skills that are essential to supporting a trial team, including organization, adaptability and humility, says Lucy Zelina at Tucker Ellis.
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A Look At Employer Wins In Title VII Suits Over DEI Training
Despite increased attacks on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, courts across the country have favored employers in cases opposing diversity training, challenging the idea that all workplace inclusion efforts violate the law and highlighting the importance of employers precisely recognizing the legal guardrails, say attorneys at Perkins Coie.
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7 D&O Coverage Areas To Assess As DOJ Targets DEI
Companies that receive federal funds or have the remnants of a diversity, equity and inclusion program should review their directors and officers liability insurance policies ahead of a major shift in how the U.S. Department of Justice enforces the False Claims Act, says Bill Wagner at Taft.
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Lessons From FTC Action On Dark Patterns In User Interfaces
The Federal Trade Commission's recent complaint against Uber for its billing and cancellation practices comes amid other actions addressing consumer confusion and deception, so it is paramount to deploy tools that assess customers' cognitive states of mind to separate lawful marketing from misconduct, says Ceren Canal Aruoba at Berkeley Research Group.
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Series
Adapting To Private Practice: From US Attorney To BigLaw
When I transitioned to private practice after government service — most recently as the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia — I learned there are more similarities between the two jobs than many realize, with both disciplines requiring resourcefulness, zealous advocacy and foresight, says Zach Terwilliger at V&E.
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Rebuttal
Forced Litigation Funding Disclosure Threatens Patent Rights
A recent Law360 guest article argued that courts should adopt stronger disclosure requirements for third-party litigation funding, but rather than enabling fairness or transparency, such measures would only undermine patent holders' access to capital and weaken their ability to assert valid patent rights, says Anup Misra at Curiam Capital.