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August 26, 2025
1st Circ. Says Insurer Owes No Defense In Eviction Suits
A Liberty Mutual unit has no duty to defend a commercial real estate loan provider in underlying suits over the eviction of residents from a Massachusetts senior care facility, the First Circuit ruled, finding the insurer's denial of coverage to be reasonable.
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August 26, 2025
TikTok Takes State's Addictive App Case To NC Top Court
TikTok and its Chinese parent company are taking the state of North Carolina's lawsuit accusing it of intentionally designing the app to addict young users to the state's highest court after a Business Court judge rejected their early exit bid.
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August 25, 2025
Major Food Cos. Beat Suit Over Selling Kids Addictive Foods
A Pennsylvania federal judge on Monday threw out a suit claiming that The Kraft Heinz Co., Nestle USA, General Mills and other major food companies are aggressively marketing highly addictive, ultra-processed foods to children, ruling that the plaintiff hasn't adequately alleged that he was harmed by the companies' products.
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August 25, 2025
Eli Lilly Settles Feud With Clinics Over TM Infringement
Eli Lilly & Co. has come to terms with two clinics that it sued in Washington federal court for trademark infringement after accusing them of tricking customers into thinking they were buying brand name versions of weight loss medications Mounjaro and Zepbound.
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August 25, 2025
Del. Justices Won't Revive Hunter Biden Defamation Suit
Delaware's highest court on Monday affirmed a lower court's decision to toss defamation claims a computer repair shop owner lodged against Hunter Biden and others over media reports he asserted tied him to Russian disinformation, saying no reasonable person would have concluded that statements he alleged were defamatory concerned him.
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August 25, 2025
'Bring Him In': Judge Blasts Google Atty Over Witness Travel
The California federal judge overseeing a multibillion-dollar privacy lawsuit alleging Google illegally collected data from 98 million cellphone users chastised an attorney for the tech giant for allowing a Google employee on the witness list to leave on a trip, ordering the lawyer to "get him on an airplane" and "bring him in."
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August 25, 2025
FTC Says 'Conversational AI' Company Misled Small Businesses
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Monday accused artificial intelligence company Air AI Technologies of making deceptive claims about what businesses and entrepreneurs could achieve with its "conversational AI" tool, according to a suit filed in Arizona federal court.
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August 25, 2025
Nationstar Loan Payoff Statement Fees OK'd By Wash. Judge
A Washington federal judge has sided with Nationstar in a proposed class action alleging illegal fees, recognizing the home loan servicer is allowed to charge a "reasonable fee" for expedited delivery of a loan payoff statement upon request.
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August 25, 2025
Meta Has No Grounds To Erase Flo Privacy Verdict, Users Say
Flo app users opposed Meta's bid to overturn a California federal jury verdict that found it liable for using an online tracking tool to unlawfully retrieve sensitive health data users entered into the menstrual tracking app, arguing that the company can't scrap the decision because it doesn't "like" the outcome.
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August 25, 2025
Kraft Sued Over Oscar Mayer Turkey Bacon Listeria Recall
A Kraft Heinz customer has filed a proposed class action in Florida federal court amid the company's recent recall of more than 367,000 pounds of Oscar Mayer brand of turkey bacon due to possible listeria contamination, claiming the company failed to disclose on its packaging that the products may be contaminated.
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August 25, 2025
DOJ Antitrust Whistleblowers May Find Ally At The Post Office
The U.S. Department of Justice's new whistleblower program brings the Antitrust Division in line with other programs across the DOJ and at other agencies, although it may have a particularly broad scope thanks to a unique partnership with the U.S. Postal Service.
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August 25, 2025
Washington Judge OKs Tenant Class Challenging Lease Terms
A Washington federal judge certified a class of Washington tenants accusing a landlord for more than 700 U.S. residential properties of having lease provisions, such as service fees, that violate state law.
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August 25, 2025
SeatGeek Shares Users' Info With TikTok And Meta, Suit Says
A SeatGeek customer filed a proposed class action in California federal court alleging the ticketing platform is violating the state's "trap and trace" law by using tracking software tools created by TikTok and Meta to gather the personal data of SeatGeek's website visitors without consent for targeted advertising purposes.
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August 25, 2025
Shipbuilder Fights Subpoena In Baltimore Bridge Collapse
A South Korean shipbuilding giant said it has no ties to Pennsylvania and shouldn't be forced to appear for depositions in connection with a case brought by the Singaporean owner and manager of the container ship that slammed into Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge and triggered its collapse last year.
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August 25, 2025
Epic Says Google Ought To Pay Up For Play Store Fight
While Google is busy appealing a ruling mandating that it open up its Play store, Epic Games isn't waiting to ask a California federal judge to order the technology titan to pay the $180 million in legal bills it racked up over the course of the five-year court battle.
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August 25, 2025
NC Woman Says Starbucks' Lid Design Led To Severe Burns
A North Carolina woman has claimed she suffered "severe burns" and permanent scarring when her Starbucks coffee lid "popped off without warning," spilling a hot Americano onto her lap, according to a product liability lawsuit recently removed to federal court.
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August 25, 2025
Ticket Resellers Flag Case Challenging FTC's Bots Probe
Ticket brokers accused by the Federal Trade Commission of bypassing Ticketmaster limits to buy and resell hundreds of thousands of concert tickets, including for the Taylor Swift Eras Tour, have a previously pending case that seeks to block the agency's enforcement action.
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August 25, 2025
DOJ Wants $10.5M From Convicted Nursing Exec For Fraud
U.S. Department of Justice prosecutors asked a Nevada federal judge Friday for a $10.5 million preliminary forfeiture order against a nurse staffing executive convicted of wage-fixing, an amount that matches what he was paid for his staffing company after deceiving the buyer into thinking there was no criminal antitrust investigation.
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August 25, 2025
X Sues Apple, OpenAI For Cutting 'Anticompetitive' Deal
Billionaire Elon Musk on Monday made good on a promise that his artificial intelligence venture xAI would lodge an antitrust suit against Apple Inc. and OpenAI Inc. to target the companies' deal that integrated ChatGPT into the iPhone operating system, telling a Texas federal judge the arrangement stifles competition.
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August 25, 2025
Economists Say FCC Copper Line Phaseout Needed
Several outside economists told the Federal Communications Commission that its plan to phase out legacy copper telecommunications lines represents a rare chance to modernize FCC rules and should rank as a top priority.
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August 25, 2025
Epic's 9th Circ. Case Against Apple Draws Amicus Support
Epic Games has received backing from state enforcers, Microsoft, Spotify and others as the Fortnite developer opposes Apple's Ninth Circuit appeal challenging an order blocking commissions on purchases made outside of Apple's own app payment system.
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August 25, 2025
Alleged Crypto Thieves Fight Use Of Google Search History
A New York federal judge should exclude evidence showing two Massachusetts Institute of Technology-educated brothers accused of stealing $25 million in cryptocurrency searched terms including "top crypto lawyers" and "wire fraud statute / wire fraud statue of limitations," the brothers said in a motion, arguing their explanations for the searches are privileged.
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August 25, 2025
Wyden Urges Independent Review Of Courts' Cybersecurity
U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., a cybersecurity hawk, urged Chief Justice John Roberts on Monday to commission an independent study of the federal judiciary's cybersecurity practices in light of two significant hacks in the last five years.
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August 25, 2025
Generic-Drugs Group Asks 9th Circ. To Nix Pay-For-Delay Law
A trade group for generic drugmakers urged the Ninth Circuit to fully scrap a California law banning brand pharmaceutical companies from paying to delay generics competition, in a brief targeting both the law's in-state features upheld by a district court and the extraterritorial reach the state wants revived.
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August 25, 2025
NY Credit Union Denied Loans To DACA Recipients, Suit Says
A New York-based state-chartered credit union has been hit with a class action from an individual claiming the credit union wrongfully denied him and other Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients and immigrants access to loan products solely because of their citizenship status.
Expert Analysis
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Series
Volunteering At Schools Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Speaking to elementary school students about the importance of college and other opportunities after high school — especially students who may not see those paths reflected in their daily lives — not only taught me the importance of giving back, but also helped to sharpen several skills essential to a successful legal practice, says Guillermo Escobedo at Constangy.
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Fed's Crypto Guidance Yank Could Drive Innovation
The Federal Reserve Board's recent withdrawal of guidance letters brings regulatory consistency and broadens banks' ability to innovate in the crypto-asset space, but key distinctions remain between the Fed's policy on crypto liquidity and that of the other banking regulators, says Dan Hartman at Nutter.
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GM Case Highlights New Trends In AI-Related Securities Suits
Bold company statements about artificial intelligence have resulted in a rise in AI-related securities litigation, and a recent Michigan federal court decision in In Re: General Motors Co. Securities Litigation illustrates how courts are analyzing these AI-based claims and applying traditional securities concepts to new technologies, say attorneys at Cooley.
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Attacks On Judicial Independence Tend To Manifest In 3 Ways
Attacks on judicial independence now run the gamut from gross (bald-faced interference) to systemic (structural changes) to insidious (efforts to undermine public trust), so lawyers, judges and the public must recognize the fateful moment in which we live and defend the rule of law every day, says Jim Moliterno at Washington and Lee University.
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Statistics Tools Chart A Path For AI Use In Expert Testimony
To avoid the fate of numerous expert witnesses whose testimony was recently deemed inadmissible by courts, experts relying on artificial intelligence and machine learning should learn from statistical tools’ road to judicial acceptance, say directors at Secretariat.
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Compliance Refresher For 'Made In USA' Labeling Claims
As tariffs reshape the trade landscape, companies hoping to invoke the powerful consumer appeal of “Made in USA” labels must understand the strict rules for making acceptable claims so they avoid the costly legal ramifications and brand damage possible from misrepresenting products as 100% American, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.
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4 Strategies For De-Escalating Hospitality Industry Disputes
As recent uncertainty in the travel business exacerbates the risk of conflict in the hospitality sector, industry in-house counsel and their outside partners should consider proactive strategies aimed at de-escalating disputes, including preserving the record, avoiding boilerplate clauses and considering arbitration, say Randa Adra at Crowell and Stephanie Jean-Jacques at Hyatt.
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Law School's Missed Lessons: Appreciating Civil Procedure
If you’re like me, law school’s often complex and theoretical approach to teaching civil procedure may have contributed to an early struggle with the topic, but when seen from a practical perspective, new lawyers may find they enjoy mastering these rules, says Chloe Villagomez at Foster Garvey.
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Appellate Guidance Needed On California Chatbot Litigation
There is wide variation in how courts are applying the California Invasion of Privacy Act against website owners that allegedly help third parties spy on visitors via chatbots — and the lack of appellate rulings creates uncertainty, especially as these cases move toward the summary judgment stage, say attorneys at Crowell & Moring.
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Calif. Bar Exam Fiasco Shows Why Attys Must Disclose AI Use
The recent revelation that a handful of questions from the controversial California bar exam administered in February were drafted using generative artificial intelligence demonstrates the continued importance of disclosure for attorneys who use AI tools, say attorneys at Troutman.
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Platforms Face Section 230 Shift From Take It Down Act
The federal Take It Down Act, signed into law last month, aims to combat deepfake pornography with criminal penalties for individual wrongdoers, but the notice and takedown provisions change the broad protections provided by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act in ways that directly affect platform providers, say attorneys at Troutman.
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Ƶ's Guidance Withdrawal Deepens Industry Uncertainty
Following the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's recent withdrawal of dozens of guidance documents in a post-Chevron world, financial services providers are left to make their own determinations about the complex issues addressed in the now-revoked materials, presenting a significant compliance burden, say attorneys at Bradley Arant.
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In 2nd Place, Va. 'Rocket Docket' Remains Old Reliable
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia was again one of the fastest civil trial courts in the nation last year, and an interview with the court’s newest judge provides insights into why it continues to soar, says Robert Tata at Hunton.
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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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Digital Equity Act Grant Terminations Raise Key Legal Issues
The Trump administration's move to cancel grant programs created under the Digital Equity Act yields key legal and policy questions facing the executive branch, Congress and the courts, including how the administration plans to implement the cancellation of the Digital Equity Act's appropriations in the first place, say attorneys at Akin.