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May 27, 2025
Calif. Bar Seeks More Remedies After Problematic Feb. Exam
The state bar of California has formally asked the state Supreme Court to approve measures including a limited provisional licensure program and a more direct pathway to admission for out-of-state attorneys, in the state bar's latest attempt to seek equitable remedies amid the fallout from the bungled February 2025 California bar exam.
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May 27, 2025
Dollar Bank Yanks Funeral Home Loan Over Pet Accusations
A Pittsburgh-area funeral director's alleged failure to disclose that he was facing criminal charges and civil suits over accusations that he mishandled the remains of customers' pets led Dollar Bank to declare that he and his companies now owe nearly $332,000 on a 2023 loan, according to a lawsuit filed in state court.
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May 23, 2025
Law360 Reveals Titans Of The Plaintiffs Bar
This past year, a handful of attorneys secured billions of dollars in settlements and judgments for both classes and individual plaintiffs against massive companies and organizations like Facebook, Dell, the National Association of Realtors, Johnson & Johnson, UFC and Credit Suisse, earning them recognition as Law360's Titans of the Plaintiffs Bar for 2025.
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May 23, 2025
Disney Accuses YouTube Of Poaching Ex-Distribution Exec
Disney has hauled YouTube and freshly resigned Disney executive Justin Connolly into California state court, accusing YouTube of poaching Connolly, who it said was leading license renewal negotiations with the Google-owned video sharing company.
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May 23, 2025
X Says Media Matters Must Pay For 'Unjustified' Transfer Bid
Social media giant X Corp. wants Media Matters for America sanctioned for waiting more than a year to try to transfer X Corp.'s lawsuit against it, and told a Texas federal judge Wednesday that the left-leaning media watchdog must cover the costs of defending against the unsuccessful motion.
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May 23, 2025
Texas Justices Flip $6M Judgment In Gas Pipeline Row
The Texas Supreme Court chided a trial court after it "blue-penciled extra words" into a contract dealing with a natural gas pipeline, reversing Friday a $6 million judgment previously in favor of Rainbow Energy Marketing Corporation and what it called a "cascade of errors."
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May 23, 2025
X Corp. Hit With $8.2M Judgment Over Colo. Lease Breach
A Colorado state judge on Friday found that X Corp. violated a lease and ordered the company to pay more than $8.2 million in unpaid rent and other costs, citing testimony from a former employee that the social media company stopped making rent payments on various leases as a "renegotiating tactic."
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May 23, 2025
Alleged Forex Scammers Owe $18.5M In CFTC Default Win
A pair of entities purporting to be commodity trading platforms and the duo that allegedly controlled them have been hit with an order saddling them with restitution and civil penalty obligations totaling nearly $18.5 million after ignoring claims brought by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
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May 23, 2025
X Alleges Vietnamese Group Is Exploiting Engagement Metrics
X Corp. on Thursday filed suit in Texas federal court against several Vietnamese nationals it alleges run a cybercrime ring that farms money using computer-generated content and manipulating its social media platform's engagement metrics through bots.
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May 23, 2025
Texas Justices Answer 5th Circ. Query On State Usury Laws
The Texas Supreme Court on Friday concurred with a credit card industry firm that sued a lender over its "usurious" interest charges, telling the Fifth Circuit that state law holds that the maximum permissible interest on a loan is based on the declining principal balance, not the initial total principal amount.
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May 23, 2025
SoCal Edison To Pay $82.5M Over 2020 Bobcat Fire Costs
Southern California Edison agreed Friday to pay $82.5 million to the federal government to resolve a lawsuit that seeks to recoup costs incurred by the U.S. Forest Service as a result of the devastating 2020 Bobcat Fire, which burned over 100,000 acres, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California announced.
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May 23, 2025
DC DHS Guards Forced To Work Through Breaks, Court Told
A contractor that provides guards for a U.S. Department of Homeland Security facility in Washington, D.C., forces them to take meal break pay deductions despite such breaks rarely occurring, employees said in a proposed class and collective action.
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May 23, 2025
Judge Tells Boat Crash Widow To Replead $66M Insurer Suit
A Florida federal judge on Friday dismissed a lawsuit by the widow of the victim of a fatal boat crash seeking to get insurers to pay $66 million judgments but told the widow to replead her claims without the bad faith allegations to streamline discovery in the first stage of the litigation.
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May 23, 2025
Ohio Pest Co. Says Ex-Director Is Unfairly Competing
An Ohio-based pest control company took a former regional director of operations to federal court, claiming he formed his own pest control firm in violation of his noncompete agreement and is unfairly cutting in on the company's business.
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May 23, 2025
Dallas Jury Enters $9.4M Verdict Against El Rancho Chain
A Dallas County jury said that a Texas trucking company is owed nearly $10 million from the El Rancho Supermercado grocery chain and its shipping arm over contract breaches that occurred after the chain was acquired by a new company.
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May 23, 2025
9th Circ. Urged To Force ERISA 401(k) Suit Arbitration
A Los Angeles-based investment management company urged the Ninth Circuit to force individual arbitration of an ex-worker's proposed class action alleging 401(k) mismanagement, arguing a lower court incorrectly concluded an arbitration provision in employees' retirement plan wasn't enforceable because it waived statutory rights under federal benefits law.
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May 23, 2025
Home Makeover Host Sues Citibank For Debit Declines
The host of a home makeover show who calls himself "America's top lifestyle expert" has sued Citibank N.A. in Connecticut state court, alleging that he suffered embarrassment and loss of business opportunities when his debit card transactions were declined numerous times despite sufficient funds.
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May 23, 2025
NC Biz Court Serves Up Wins In Real Estate Commission Fight
North Carolina's business court gave a food service company and a real estate broker partial wins in their ongoing commission dispute, ruling that the broker is entitled to commissions on transactions it has not been paid for but cannot require the food firm to use it for future deals.
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May 23, 2025
Musk Doubles Down After OpenAI Drops For-Profit Transition
OpenAI's decision to abandon its transition into a for-profit enterprise was not enough to appease Elon Musk, who doubled down Thursday with an amended California federal court complaint continuing to allege the ChatGPT maker tricked him into contributing nearly $45 million with false promises of remaining a nonprofit.
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May 23, 2025
Fed. Circ. Partly Revives Allstate Challenge To Tech Patent
The Federal Circuit on Friday threw out the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's finding that Allstate failed to show the invalidity of two claims in a patent on cellphone sensors that can tell if a vehicle has accelerated or crashed, telling the board to take another look.
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May 23, 2025
Off The Bench: Tennis Officials, NCAA Stay On The Defensive
In this week's Off The Bench, tennis players face pushback from the governing bodies they are accusing of antitrust violations, college basketball players claiming the NCAA exploited them want their class action revived, and a baseball player seeking one last year to play in college hits another legal roadblock.
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May 23, 2025
Lindberg Urges NC Panel To Rebuff 'Ambush' Sanctions Bid
A convicted billionaire seeking to unravel a receivership order against him has urged the North Carolina Court of Appeals not to scrap his case as a sanction for alleged procedural violations, saying the only gamesmanship afoot is opposing counsel's monthslong "radio silence."
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May 23, 2025
FTC Finally Drops Challenge To Microsoft-Activision Deal
The Federal Trade Commission has dropped its in-house case seeking to block Microsoft's $68.7 billion purchase of video game developer Activision Blizzard, after its Ninth Circuit loss earlier this month, ending a lingering challenge to a deal that closed in late 2023.
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May 22, 2025
Fed. Circ. Ruling Will Spark More Patent Damages Fights
The full Federal Circuit's decision Wednesday ordering a new trial in a patent case against Google LLC and finding the plaintiff's damages expert unreliable is likely to lead to greater scrutiny of patent damages testimony and more attempts to get it thrown out, attorneys say.
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May 22, 2025
Bilfinger Urges NC Justices To Skip Cargill Arbitration Case
International construction company Bilfinger is urging North Carolina's top court not to review a decision nixing Cargill's bid to revive arbitration it initiated in a dispute stemming from a construction contract, disputing the food conglomerate's argument that the case raises novel issues.
Expert Analysis
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The 7th Circ.'s Top 10 Civil Opinions Of 2024
Attorneys at Jenner & Block examine the most significant decisions issued by the Seventh Circuit in 2024, and explain how they may affect issues related to mass arbitration, consumer fraud, class certification and more.
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Private-Bidding Compliance Lessons From Siemens Plea Deal
Siemens Energy’s recent wire fraud conspiracy guilty plea shows that U.S. prosecutors are willing and able to police the private, domestic bidding market to protect the integrity of the competitive marketplace, and companies will need a robust compliance program to mitigate these risks, say attorneys at Foley Hoag.
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FTC Report On AI Sector Illuminates Future Enforcement
The Federal Trade Commission's report on cloud service providers and their partnerships with developers of artificial intelligence's large language models suggests that the agency will move to rein in Big Tech with antitrust enforcement to protect startups, say attorneys at Squire Patton.
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Mentorship Resolutions For The New Year
Attorneys tend to focus on personal achievements or career milestones when they set yearly goals, but one important area often gets overlooked in this process — mentoring relationships, which are some of the most effective tools for professional growth, say Kelly Galligan at Rutan & Tucker and Andra Greene at Phillips ADR.
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Series
Coaching Little League Makes Me A Better Lawyer
While coaching poorly played Little League Baseball early in the morning doesn't sound like a good time, I love it — and the experience has taught me valuable lessons about imperfection, compassion and acceptance that have helped me grow as a person and as a lawyer, says Alex Barnett at DiCello Levitt.
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5 Litigation Funding Trends To Note In 2025
Lawyers and their clients must be prepared to navigate an evolving litigation funding market in 2025, made more complicated by a new administration and the increasing overall cost of litigation, says Jeffery Lula at GLS Capital.
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The Fed. Circ. In 2024: 5 Major Rulings To Know
In 2024, the Federal Circuit provided a number of important clarifications to distinct areas of patent law – including design patent obviousness, expert testimony admissions and patent term adjustments – all of which are poised to have an influence going forward, say attorneys at Knobbe Martens.
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Rethinking Litigation Risk And What It Really Means To Win
Attorneys have a tendency to overestimate litigation risk before summary judgment and underestimate risk after it, but an eight-stage litigation framework can clarify risk at different points and help litigators reassess what true success looks like in any particular case, says Joshua Libling at Arcadia Finance.
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Mass Arbitration Procedures After Faulty Live Nation Ruling
Despite the Ninth Circuit's flawed reasoning in Heckman v. Live Nation, the exceptional allegations of collusive conduct shouldn't be read to restrict arbitration providers that have adopted good faith procedures to ensure that consumer mass arbitrations can be efficiently resolved on the merits, says Collin Vierra at Eimer Stahl.
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Proactively Managing Tariff Impacts On Megaprojects
President-elect Donald Trump's proposed tariffs may compound the complexity, duration and risks associated with financing and building large-scale infrastructure projects — so owners and contractors should plan to take possible tariff-related cost and schedule overruns into account when drafting contracts, say attorneys at Crowell & Moring.
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US-China Deal Considerations Amid Cross-Border Uncertainty
With China seemingly set to respond to the incoming U.S. administration's call for strategic decoupling and tariffs, companies on both sides of the Pacific should explore deals and internal changes to mitigate risks and overcome hurdles to their strategic plans, say attorneys at Covington.
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Considering The Status Of The US Doctrine Of Patent Misuse
A recent Ninth Circuit decision and a U.K. Court of Appeal decision demonstrate the impact that the U.S. Supreme Court's 2015 decision in Kimble v. Marvel Entertainment has had on the principle that post-patent-expiration royalty payments amount to patent misuse, not only in the U.S. but in English courts as well, say attorneys at Covington.
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Playing Rugby Makes Me A Better Lawyer
My experience playing rugby, including a near-fatal accident, has influenced my legal practice on a professional, organizational and personal level by showing me the importance of maintaining empathy, fostering team empowerment and embracing the art of preparation, says James Gillenwater at Greenberg Traurig.
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Reviewing 2024's Evolving EdTech Privacy Regulations
Lawmakers are trying to keep up with the privacy and security risks of the increasingly prevalent education technology, with last year's developments including the Federal Trade Commission's proposed amendments to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, and the U.S. Senate passing two new children's privacy acts, say attorneys at McDermott.
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Opinion
No, Litigation Funders Are Not 'Fleeing' The District Of Del.
A recent study claimed that litigation funders have “fled” Delaware federal court due to a standing order requiring disclosure of third-party financing, but responsible funders have no problem litigating in this jurisdiction, and many other factors could explain the decline in filings, say Will Freeman and Sarah Tsou at Omni Bridgeway.