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October 06, 2025
AT&T, T-Mobile Settle Patent Suit Over 4G, 5G Tech
AT&T and T-Mobile have settled claims from Pegasus Wireless Corp. that they infringed patents with technology that runs on 4G and 5G standards.
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October 06, 2025
AWS Atty Takes AI Post At Greenberg Traurig In Minneapolis
A lawyer who spent the past nine years at Amazon Web Services Inc. has moved back into private practice, this time as a shareholder in Greenberg Traurig LLP's corporate, innovation and artificial intelligence, and technology transactions groups, the law firm said Monday.
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October 06, 2025
3 Firms Guide $1.3B Heidrick & Struggles PE Buyout
Heidrick & Struggles International Inc. said Monday it has agreed to be acquired in an all-cash transaction valued at about $1.3 billion, with Paul Hastings LLP steering Heidrick and two firms — Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP and Ropes & Gray LLP — advising the buying group.Â
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October 06, 2025
Social Security Chief Adds Duties As Inaugural CEO Of IRS
The current administrator of the Social Security Administration is adding a new role as the Internal Revenue Service's first chief executive officer, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced Monday.
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October 06, 2025
Health Data Co. Accused Of Post-Deal Doc Deletions
A post-acquisition representative for Caravan Health Inc. shareholders has asked Delaware's Court of Chancery to approve a forensic examination of records held by acquirer Signify Inc. after Signify was said to have acknowledged post-closing erasures of some Caravan employee records.
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October 06, 2025
High Court Wants Feds' Input On Coffee Drink TM Fight
The solicitor general has been asked by the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on a trademark case against PepsiCo Inc. launched by a company that makes nitro-brewed coffee drinks called Rise.
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October 06, 2025
High Court Skips Review Of ERISA Liability For DuPont Heirs
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to consider whether DuPont heirs should be held liable for alleged Employee Retirement Income Security Act violations for inadequately funding a now-insolvent trust established in 1947 by their grandmother to pay them and their workers retirement benefits.
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October 06, 2025
High Court Won't Review NYC Bus Tour Antitrust Case
The U.S. Supreme Court refused on Monday to review a New York City tour bus operator's case accusing a group of rivals of combining their operations and using the partnership to squash competition for hop-on, hop-off tour bus service.
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October 06, 2025
Justices Won't Review Live Nation's Arbitration Terms
The U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to grant Live Nation's request for clarity about whether federal arbitration law covers "alternative" forms of arbitration after the Ninth Circuit found Ticketmaster's consumer arbitration agreement cannot be enforced in an antitrust case.
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October 06, 2025
Justices Deny SEC Whistleblower Award Calculation Appeal
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up two whistleblowers' case alleging the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission shortchanged them after they helped to uncover purportedly the largest fraud in Texas history, after the pair argued the agency improperly and retroactively applied a rule amendment to dilute their awards.
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October 06, 2025
Justices Won't Hear Coinbase's Calif. Arbitration Challenge
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a case from Coinbase over whether federal arbitration laws preempt a California high court precedent that enabled a group of users to keep the crypto exchange in court over claims it misrepresented the security of its platform.
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October 06, 2025
High Court Refuses To Review Revived SAP Tying Claims
The U.S. Supreme Court denied a request on Monday from German software giant SAP to review a ruling that revived Teradata's antitrust claims over the alleged tying of software and database products.
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October 06, 2025
High Court Turns Down 6 Patent Cases At Start Of Term
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected six petitions in patent-related cases, taking some of its first actions on intellectual property matters this term.
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October 06, 2025
Justices Won't Hear Nissan Sunroof Defect Class Spat
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up Nissan North America Inc.'s bid to unravel certified classes of drivers alleging the automaker sold vehicles with defective panoramic sunroofs, a case that sought additional clarity on standards that might allow uninjured plaintiffs to pursue class claims against corporate defendants.
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October 06, 2025
Justices Won't Review Ex-BigLaw Atty's OneCoin Conviction
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a former Locke Lord LLP partner's appeal of his conviction and prison sentence for helping launder roughly $400 million in proceeds from the infamous OneCoin cryptocurrency scheme.
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October 06, 2025
Justices Decline Case Over Scope Of Forced Arbitration Ban
The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to wade into a former employee's legal battle with CVS despite the worker's claim that the justices need to clarify key terms in a 3-year-old federal law banning mandatory arbitration of employment-related sex harassment claims.
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October 06, 2025
Justices Deny Aviation Co.'s Appeal Over TM Trial Rights
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from a personal aviation company that raised the question of whether parties in trademark infringement cases still have a right to a jury trial when seeking an accounting of profits as the monetary remedy rather than damages.
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October 06, 2025
Justices Turn Away BDO's Auditor Fraud Case
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday said it would not hear a case that BDO USA LLP claimed could set a "dangerous precedent" for public-company auditors, leaving intact a Second Circuit decision allowing the securities fraud suit against the accounting firm to move forward.
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October 06, 2025
Slack Investor Won't Get 2nd Shot Before High Court
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday turned away a Slack Technologies investor's petition for the justices to hear his fraud dispute for the second time in two years, leaving intact a Ninth Circuit ruling that the case against the messaging software company was impossible to salvage under the 2023 high court ruling.
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October 06, 2025
Supreme Court Rejects Wash. State Climate Law Challenge
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected Ohio-based Invenergy Thermal LLC's challenge to Washington state's Climate Commitment Act, which the company alleged illegally favors in-state power providers.
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October 06, 2025
Justices Skip TM Dispute Over Pink Color In Hip Implants
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined a German medical supplier's appeal challenging a Federal Circuit conclusion that the color pink in a hip joint implant part is not protectable trade dress because its purpose is functional.
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October 03, 2025
Up First At High Court: Election Laws & Conversion Therapy
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in six cases during the first week of its October 2025 term, including in disputes over federal candidates' ability to challenge state election laws, Colorado's ban on conversion therapy, and the ability of a landlord to sue the U.S. Postal Service for allegedly refusing to deliver mail.Â
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October 03, 2025
6th Circ. Says FirstEnergy's Bribery Probe Docs Are Privileged
The Sixth Circuit on Friday vacated a district court's order forcing FirstEnergy to disclose to investors its internal investigation materials amid a $1 billion bribery scandal involving an Ohio lawmaker, ruling that the materials were "clearly" protected by the attorney-client privilege and work-product doctrine.Â
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October 03, 2025
Real Estate Recap: How RE Attorneys Are Using AI
Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including real estate attorney perspective on where artificial intelligence may be useful, how hospitals are leveraging real estate and one BigLaw practice chair's bullish take on deal flow.
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October 03, 2025
Meta Gets Facebook Ad Overcharging Suit Tossed, For Now
A California federal judge on Friday dismissed a proposed class action from Iron Tribe Fitness claiming Meta Platforms Inc. secretly overcharged Facebook advertisers $4 billion by using an undisclosed auction system, but gave the fitness company the opportunity to submit a bolstered complaint.
Expert Analysis
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Expect DOJ To Repeat 4 Themes From 2024's FCPA Trials
As two upcoming Foreign Corrupt Practice Act trials approach, defense counsel should anticipate the U.S. Department of Justice to revive several of the same themes prosecutors leaned on in trials last year to motivate jurors to convict, and build counternarratives to neutralize these arguments, says James Koukios at MoFo.
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How The SEC Has Subtly Changed Its Injunction Approach
For decades, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has relied on the obey-the-law injunction, but judicial deference to the SEC's desired language has fractured since 2012 — with the commission itself this year utilizing a more tailored approach to injunctions, albeit inconsistently, say attorneys at Hilgers Graben.
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Utilizing 6th Circ.'s Expanded Internal Investigation Protection
A recent Sixth Circuit decision in In re: FirstEnergy demonstrates one way that businesses can use a very limited showing to protect internal investigations from discovery in commercial litigation, while those looking to force production will need to employ a carefully calibrated approach, say attorneys at Brownstein Hyatt.
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Power To The Paralegals: How And Why Training Must Evolve
Empowering paralegals through new models of education that emphasize digital fluency, interdisciplinary collaboration and human-centered lawyering could help solve workforce challenges and the justice gap — if firms, educators and policymakers get on board, say Kristine Custodio Suero and Kelli Radnothy.
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Evaluating The Current State Of Trump's Tariff Deals
As the Trump administration's ambitious tariff effort rolls into its ninth month, and many deals lack the details necessary to provide trade market certainty, attorneys at Adams & Reese examine where things stand.
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Playing Softball Makes Me A Better Lawyer
My time on the softball field has taught me lessons that also apply to success in legal work — on effective preparation, flexibility, communication and teamwork, says Sarah Abrams at Baleen Specialty.
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5 Years In, COVID-19 Fraud Enforcement Landscape Is Shifting
As the government moves pandemic fraud enforcement from small-dollar individual prosecutions to high-value corporate cases, and billions of dollars remain unaccounted for, companies and defense attorneys must take steps now to prepare for the next five years of scrutiny, says attorney David Tarras.
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Analyzing AI's Evolving Role In Class Action Claims Admin
Artificial intelligence is becoming a strategic asset in the hands of skilled litigators, reshaping everything from class certification strategy to claims analysis — and now, the nuts and bolts of settlement administration, with synthetic fraud, algorithmic review and ethical tension emerging as central concerns, says Dominique Fite at CPT Group.
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IPO Suit Reinforces Strict Section 11 Tracing Requirement
A California federal court's recent dismissal of an investor class action against Allbirds in connection with the company's initial public offering cites the U.S. Supreme Court's 2023 Slack v. Pirani decision, reinforcing the firm tracing requirement for Section 11 plaintiffs — even at the pleading stage, say attorneys at Paul Weiss.
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Law School's Missed Lessons: Mastering Time Management
Law students typically have weeks or months to prepare for any given deadline, but the unpredictability of practicing in the real world means that lawyers must become time-management pros, ready to adapt to scheduling conflicts and unexpected assignments at any given moment, says David Thomas at Honigman.
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Privacy Policy Lessons After Google App Data Verdict
In Rodriguez v. Google, a California federal jury recently found that Google unlawfully invaded app users' privacy by collecting, using and disclosing pseudonymized data, highlighting the complex interplay between nonpersonalized data and customers' understanding of privacy policy choices, says Beth Waller at Woods Rogers.
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Rare Del. Oversight Ruling Sends Governance Wake-Up Call
An unusual ruling from the Delaware Court of Chancery recently allowed Caremark oversight claims to proceed against former executives of a company previously known as Teligent, sending a clear reminder that boards and officers must actively monitor and document oversight efforts when addressing mission-critical risks, say attorneys at WilmerHale.
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How Hyperlinks Are Changing E-Discovery Responsibilities
A recent e-discovery dispute over hyperlinked data in Hubbard v. Crow shows how courts have increasingly broadened the definition of control to account for cloud-based evidence, and why organizations must rethink preservation practices to avoid spoliation risks, says Bree Murphy at Exterro.
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More NJ Case Law On LLCs Would Aid Attys, Litigants, Biz
More New Jersey court opinions would facilitate the understanding of the nuances of the state's Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act, including on breach of the duty of loyalty, oppression, piercing the corporate veil and derivative actions, says Gianfranco Pietrafesa at Archer & Greiner.
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State False Claims Acts Can Help Curb Opioid Fund Fraud
State versions of the federal False Claims Act can play an important role in policing the misuse of opioid settlement funds, taking a cue from the U.S. Department of Justice’s handling of federal fraud cases involving pandemic relief funds, says Kenneth Levine at Stone & Magnanini.