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July 14, 2025
Top Data Privacy & AI Developments Of 2025: Midyear Report
The rise and rapid fall of a federal proposal to ban states from regulating artificial intelligence for a decade and an uptick in activity from data privacy enforcers in states across the country dominated headlines in the first half of 2025, and attorneys are expecting these areas to continue to grab attention in the coming months.Â
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July 14, 2025
NBA Deal Investor Suit Doesn't Hold Up, Warner Bros. Says
Warner Bros. Discovery has asked a New York federal judge to throw out investors' proposed class action over its failed negotiations for a new media rights agreement with the NBA, arguing that the investors haven't pointed to any evidence showing that Warner Bros. intended to mislead them about the deal.
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July 14, 2025
BCBS Defends $2.8B Provider Antitrust Deal Amid Objections
Blue Cross Blue Shield asked an Alabama federal judge on Friday to approve a $2.8 billion antitrust settlement with hospitals and other healthcare providers over its territorial policies, arguing that recent objections to the deal's release provision are meritless and the settlement preserves "key, procompetitive features" of the insurance system.
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July 14, 2025
Inspire Brands Hires Ex-Yum! Brands Exec As Its CLO
Inspire Brands, the company that owns franchises such restaurant chains as Arby's, Baskin-Robbins, Buffalo Wild Wings, Dunkin' and Jimmy John's, announced Monday that it has hired a former long-time executive with fast-food giant Yum! Brands as its new chief legal and administrative officer.
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July 14, 2025
TD Bank Defends $3 Monthly Paper Statement Fee
TD Bank has urged a New York federal judge to end a proposed class action alleging it illegally charges customers a $3 fee if they receive checking account paper statements every month, arguing Monday it has the authority under the National Bank Act to levy non-interest charges and fees.
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July 14, 2025
Court Says Insider Trading Rules Unscathed By Loper Bright
A U.S. Supreme Court ruling that curtailed deference to agency interpretations of law did not undermine the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's rules against insider trading, a Pennsylvania federal court ruled Friday.
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July 14, 2025
USPTO Acting Director Spurns 'Traditional Knowledge' Treaty
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's acting director has come out against an international treaty that could require patent applicants to report if an invention uses the traditional knowledge of indigenous people, suggesting in remarks that such a rule would undermine the global patent system's effectiveness.
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July 14, 2025
Nvidia Investors Push For Cert. After High Court Pass
Nvidia Corp. investors are asking a California judge to grant them class status on claims that the chipmaker and its CEO undersold the company's reliance on the volatile crypto market, putting the case back in the spotlight six months after the U.S. Supreme Court pulled the plug on issuing a ruling.
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July 14, 2025
House Passes Bills Aimed At Telecom Sector Security, Growth
The U.S. House of Representatives on Monday passed half a dozen bills designed improve U.S. network security and spur the growth of communications industries.
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July 14, 2025
Fans Settle With NFL's Commanders In Railing Collapse Suit
NFL fans suing the Washington Commanders for negligence over injuries they sustained from a collapsing stadium rail have reached a settlement with the team following a Fourth Circuit ruling that could have landed the plaintiffs in arbitration.
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July 14, 2025
LinkedIn Antitrust Deal Offers Open Access And $4M For Attys
LinkedIn will stop conditioning online interface access on would-be rivals agreeing not to field their own professional social network, under an antitrust settlement with premium subscribers disclosed Friday in California federal court that promises $4 million for class attorneys from Bathaee Dunne LLP, Burke LLP and Korein Tillery PC.
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July 14, 2025
Google Ads Rival Wants Search Fix To Include It, AI Cos.
If a D.C. federal judge agrees with the Justice Department and orders Google to syndicate its search and search advertising results, he should do so in a way that permits expansive access, a search advertising rival said Friday in an 11th-hour intervention bid.
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July 14, 2025
UnitedHealth Settling Fraud Case Over Fake Invoice Scheme
UnitedHealth Group Inc. and a subsidiary are not going to trial in Colorado state court this week after the company reached a settlement with a defunct Colorado investment company that claimed UnitedHealth should have been liable for the "multi-million dollar fraudulent scheme" executed by a former employee, counsel for the plaintiff told Law360.
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July 14, 2025
Microsoft, OpenAI Ask 9th Circ. To Toss Coders' DMCA Claims
Microsoft and OpenAI have asked the Ninth Circuit to affirm the dismissal of a suit brought by coders who claim that the companies' large language models spit out code almost identical to code they wrote, saying the coders have only alleged hypothetical injuries.
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July 14, 2025
Ex-ComEd Exec Gets 1½ Years For Hiding Madigan Bribes
An Illinois federal judge on Monday sentenced a former Commonwealth Edison executive and lobbyist to one and a half years in prison for his role in a scheme to steer payments to allies of ex-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan to win his support for energy legislation favorable to the utility, and for falsifying company records to hide no-show jobs for Madigan's associates.
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July 14, 2025
Ex-Treasury Atty To Lead Trade Risk Mitigation At Baker Botts
Baker Botts LLP announced new partner hires in Washington, D.C., and New York on Monday, adding a U.S. Department of the Treasury official to lead national security and risk mitigation for the firm's international trade section, and a dealmaker previously with Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP to its corporate department.
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July 14, 2025
Masimo Corp. Settles Investor Suit Over Revenue Disclosures
Masimo Corp. has settled proposed class claims alleging the health technology firm misrepresented the company's finances and plans to investors, according to a filing in Southern California federal court.
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July 14, 2025
Ex-Engineer At Tech Co. IyO Hit With Trade Secrets Suit
Technology company iyO Inc. has alleged in a California state court lawsuit that a former engineer gave confidential company information to the co-founder of competitor io Products Inc., which is currently facing a federal trademark lawsuit alongside its new owner, OpenAI.
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July 14, 2025
Ex-SEC Counsel Joins Snell & Wilmer, Boosting Denver Team
Snell & Wilmer has added a litigator in its Denver office who previously served as enforcement counsel at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the firm announced Monday.
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July 14, 2025
UAE Prisoner Voluntarily Drops Suit Against Ex-Dechert GC
A Jordanian lawyer imprisoned in the United Arab Emirates has permanently dropped a Philadelphia civil suit seeking discovery against Dechert LLP's former general counsel in the U.S. over what the law firm's leadership knew of alleged human rights abuses committed by a former partner.
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July 14, 2025
2 Ex-Binance Employees Seek To Escape FTX Clawback Suit
Two former Binance employees named as defendants in a $1.76 billion clawback suit brought by FTX in Delaware bankruptcy court have asked to be dismissed from the case, saying the court has no personal jurisdiction over them and that the complaint doesn't allege that they were involved in the transactions at issue.
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July 14, 2025
Calif. Panel Keeps Charter PAGA Case Out Of Arbitration
Charter Communications can't arbitrate an employee's Private Attorneys General Act suit because parts of the arbitration agreement are "unconscionable," a California appeals panel ruled, relying on the state Supreme Court's decisions addressing the same pact.
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July 14, 2025
2nd Circ. Won't Let UBS Arbitrate Fund Mismanagement Suit
The Second Circuit on Monday affirmed a New York federal judge's decision rejecting UBS' bid to send a charitable trust's mismanaged funds suit to arbitration, finding that the bank knowingly relinquished the right to arbitrate "by acting inconsistently with that right."
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July 14, 2025
Calif. Panel Upends Arbitration Pact In Worker's Firing Suit
A Charter Communications worker's wrongful termination suit should not have been sent to arbitration, a California appeals court said, after finding the company's alternative dispute resolution pact held one-sided provisions and made it difficult for employees to opt out.
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July 11, 2025
Meta Asks 9th Circ. To Bar Zuckerberg Depo In Privacy Suit
Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg is turning to the Ninth Circuit to free him from having to give a limited deposition in privacy litigation over a Facebook tool's alleged collection of patient health information, arguing that district courts are "deeply divided" on how to decide whether to allow executive depositions.
Expert Analysis
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Buyer Beware Of Restrictive Covenants In Delaware
Based on recent Delaware Chancery Court opinions rejecting restricted covenants contained in agreements in the sale-of-business context, businesses need to craft narrowly tailored restrictions that have legitimate interests, say attorneys at Saul Ewing.
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Google Ad Tech Ruling Creates Antitrust Uncertainty
A Virginia federal court’s recent decision in the Justice Department’s ad tech antitrust case against Google includes two unusual aspects in that it narrowly construed U.S. Supreme Court precedent when rejecting Google's two-sided market argument, and it found the company liable for unlawful tying, say attorneys at Ballard Spahr.
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Brazilian Jiujitsu Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Competing in Brazilian jiujitsu – often against opponents who are much larger and younger than me – has allowed me to develop a handful of useful skills that foster the resilience and adaptability necessary for a successful legal career, says Tina Dorr of Barnes & Thornburg.
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Opportunities And Challenges For The Texas Stock Exchange
While the new Texas Stock Exchange could be an interesting alternative to the NYSE and the Nasdaq due to the state’s robust economy and the TXSE’s high-profile leadership and publicity opportunities for listings, its success as a national securities exchange may hinge on resolving questions about its regulatory and cost advantages, say attorneys at Norton Rose.
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Pace Of Early Terminations Suggests Greater M&A Scrutiny
The nascent return of early termination under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act shows a more limited use than before its 2021 suspension under the Biden administration's Federal Trade Commission, suggesting deeper scrutiny of mergers and acquisitions across the board, says Michael Wise at Squire Patton.
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Energy Order Brings Risks For Lenders And Borrowers Alike
A recent executive order directing the attorney general to submit a report next month with recommendations for halting enforcement of state laws the administration says are hampering energy resources presents risks for lenders and borrowers using state-generated carbon credits, but proactive steps now can help insulate against adverse consequences, say attorneys at Faegre Drinker.
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Customs Fraud Enforcement In The Age Of Tariffs
In the wake of the Trump administration’s new approach toward tariffs, two recent Justice Department developments demonstrate aggressive customs fraud enforcement, with the DOJ emphasizing competitive harm to American businesses, and signaling that investigations will likely involve both civil and criminal enforcement tools, say attorneys at Bernstein Litowitz and London & Naor.
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Power To The Paralegals: An Untapped Source For Biz Roles
Law firms looking to recruit legal business talent should consider turning to paralegals, who practice several key skills every day that prepare them to thrive in marketing and client development roles, says Vanessa Torres at Lowenstein Sandler.
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Google Case Amicus Briefs Reveal Patent Damage Fault Lines
The 21 amicus briefs filed before the en banc rehearing of EcoFactor v. Google offer opposing viewpoints on important patent damages issues that extend beyond the specific question the Federal Circuit eventually ruled on, helping practitioners anticipate and address likely objections to future damages opinions, say attorneys at Stout.
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The Legal Risks Of US Restrictions On Investments In China
The second Trump administration has continued to embrace a more restrictive economic policy toward China, including an ongoing review of further restrictions on the flow of U.S. capital to China, so early planning and enhanced diligence can reduce exposure to the challenges resulting from further restrictions, say attorneys at Cleary.
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UK May Play Major Role In Corporate Misconduct Regulation
In light of the U.S.' pause in Foreign Corrupt Practices Act enforcement, the U.K. Serious Fraud Office has released new guidance showing it may seize the opportunity to play a heightened role in regulating corporate misconduct by U.S. companies with a global presence, particularly over the next few years, say attorneys at Paul Weiss.
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Playing Poker Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Poker is a master class in psychology, risk management and strategic thinking, and I’m a better attorney because it has taught me to read my opponents, adapt when I’m dealt the unexpected and stay patient until I'm ready to reveal my hand, says Casey Kingsley at McCreadyLaw.
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Does R-Squared Have A Role In Event Study Analysis?
With 2024 marking the second consecutive year to experience an increase in securities class action filings, determining the reliability of event study models is of utmost importance, but it's time to reconsider the traditional method of doing so, say analysts at StoneTurn Group.
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Avoiding The Risk Of Continued AI-Washing Enforcement
A recent action brought by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Department of Justice, alleging a software developer defrauded investors by lying about his app’s artificial intelligence capabilities, suggests this administration will continue to target AI washing, so companies should adopt practices to mitigate enforcement risk, say attorneys at Debevoise.
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Cos. Should Review Pay Strategies In Light Of 2025 Tariffs
Companies should think about what they can or should do to ensure the ongoing effectiveness of their compensation plans in light of rising material costs, reduced profit margins, market volatility and other impacts of the Trump administration’s evolving tariff regime, say attorneys at Cooley.