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July 09, 2025
California Court Allows Worker To Pursue 'Headless' PAGA Suit
A California appeals court panel held Monday that a worker who dismissed his individual claims against his former employer for civil penalties under California's Private Attorneys General Act can still pursue claims solely on behalf of other aggrieved employees in a so-called headless PAGA action.
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July 09, 2025
J&J Unit Owes $76.6M For Ending AI Tissue Imaging Deal
A New York federal judge held Tuesday that Johnson & Johnson's Ethicon unit owes ChemImage Corp. $76.6 million after unilaterally ending their deal to develop in-surgery artificial intelligence imaging techniques, adopting a 17% discount rate on intellectual property impairment damages proposed by ChemImage as opposed to Ethicon's proposed 40% rate.
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July 09, 2025
Senators Weigh Principles To Guide Crypto Market Rules
Senate Democrats and a former chair of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission homed in on the importance of preserving the strength of existing securities laws during a Wednesday hearing where senators and industry experts previewed their priorities for the chamber’s coming crypto market structure proposal.
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July 09, 2025
Ohio Officials Sued Over $600M In Funds For Browns Stadium
The transfer of $600 million in unclaimed property funds to the Cleveland Browns to help finance a proposed new suburban stadium for the NFL team is an "unconstitutional and unlawful misappropriation of private property,'' a group of unclaimed-property owners alleged in a proposed class action in Ohio state court against several state officials.
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July 09, 2025
Former Josh Wine Exec Sues Over Soured Buyout Deal
The former president of the wine and spirits company that owns multibillion-dollar brand Josh Cellars has filed suit in New York state court, claiming the family-run enterprise has withheld millions in royalty payments that he was due after his employment contract expired, exposing "the dark underbelly of the adage that blood is thicker than water."
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July 09, 2025
T.I.'s Big Punitive Damages Win Cut To $1, Teeing Up 4th Trial
A California federal judge has reduced a jury's $53.6 million punitive damages award for rapper T.I. and his wife, singer Tameka "Tiny" Harris, to a $1 remitter, setting up a fourth trial in the trademark infringement case if the Harrises don't accept the remitter, which they have already said they will decline.
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July 09, 2025
Walgreens Judge OKs $950K Uniform Policy Deal On 2nd Try
More than 12,000 Walgreens employees have received preliminary approval of a $950,000 class action settlement over claims of unreimbursed uniform expenses, after a California federal judge said the parties had resolved deficiencies he previously cited, including an opt-out timeframe and the chance for class members to challenge proposed attorney fees.Â
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July 09, 2025
Mich. Justices Nix Ruling On ER Doctor-Hospital Agency
The Michigan Supreme Court on Wednesday reversed an appeals court's decision tossing a woman's vicarious liability claim against William Beaumont Hospital, finding she did not need to show she relied on a specific representation from the hospital to establish an ostensible agency relationship between the hospital and her treating doctor.
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July 09, 2025
Quinn Emanuel Says 'Spite' Behind Unpaid $30M Legal Tab
The new owners of a business that was forced by Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP attorneys to honor a merger agreement are refusing to pay a $30 million legal bill "out of spite," the firm has alleged in Massachusetts state court.
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July 09, 2025
Ticketmaster Deceptive Pricing Suit Moves Forward, For Now
A lawsuit accusing Ticketmaster and Live Nation of baiting customers to buy event tickets with deceptively low prices can move forward for now, because the entertainment giants challenged the claims with arguments that are better resolved after gathering evidence, a California federal judge said Wednesday.
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July 09, 2025
Holland & Knight Insurer's COVID Benefits Denial Upheld
A Colorado federal judge on Wednesday handed an insurance company a win in a Holland & Knight LLP attorney's federal benefits lawsuit alleging she was wrongly denied long-term disability benefits after a COVID-19 infection left her unable to work, concluding substantial evidence supported the insurer's decision.
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July 09, 2025
Calif. Atty Drops Out Of Class Action Against Avvo Inc.
One of two attorneys leveling a class action against online legal service provider Avvo Inc. over allegations it misappropriated the identities of more than 1 million attorneys to promote its legal marketing tools and referral services has moved to drop her claims.
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July 09, 2025
10th Circ. Won't Rule On Immunity In Dental Dispute
The Tenth Circuit has declined to grant a dental products company immunity from a rival's defamation claims, saying it can't yet rule on the issue since the district court's denial of immunity did not turn on a legal question.
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July 09, 2025
Armstrong Teasdale Taps Longtime Partner As Corporate Lead
Armstrong Teasdale LLP announced Wednesday that it has chosen a longtime partner with a background in the finance industry to lead its corporate services group.
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July 09, 2025
Ex-Pfizer Immigration Lead Joins Jackson Lewis In NY
Jackson Lewis PC has added the former head of Pfizer's in-house immigration group as a principal in its White Plains, New York, office, the firm has announced.
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July 09, 2025
7th Circ. Asks Ill. Justices To Mull Amazon COVID Pay Fight
The Seventh Circuit shipped to the Illinois Supreme Court a suit accusing Amazon of not paying workers for time spent in COVID-19 screenings, asking the state justices to sort out whether state law incorporates federal regulations for preshift activities.
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July 09, 2025
Former SEC Officials Discuss Agency's New Priorities
Though swift regulatory and enforcement changes at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission have created a more business-friendly environment, three agency veterans now at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP caution to watch out for compliance landmines.
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July 09, 2025
Antitrust Enforcers Beat Google, Try Meta And Keep Going
When U.S. District Judge Leonie M. Brinkema held on April 17 that Google was liable for illegally monopolizing two out of three advertising placement technology markets targeted by the U.S. Department of Justice, her ruling contributed to potentially one of the most consequential convergences of antitrust enforcement in recent memory.
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July 09, 2025
DOJ Charges Oak View CEO With Rigging Arena Project Bid
The U.S. Department of Justice announced an indictment on Wednesday of Oak View Group's CEO Tim Leiweke for allegedly rigging the bid to build and operate the Moody Center arena on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin.
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July 08, 2025
FTC Warns Amazon, Walmart On False 'Made In USA' Labeling
The Federal Trade Commission announced Tuesday that it has informed Amazon and Walmart that third-party sellers on their online marketplaces might be falsely labeling products "Made in USA" and asked the companies to watch for and take corrective action against sellers who make such false claims.
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July 08, 2025
Breaking Down Stewart's Nonstop Discretionary Denial Orders
Acting U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Coke Morgan Stewart inundated the patent community in May and June with dozens of rulings altering the landscape of discretionary denials at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Here, Law360 goes through what you should know.
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July 08, 2025
Product Liability Cases To Watch In 2nd Half Of 2025
The fate of a $2.5 billion punitive damages award against Ford and looming bench verdicts in the first PFAS trials brought by a state are among the cases that product liability attorneys will be following closely in the second half of 2025.
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July 08, 2025
Chinese Man Arrested Over COVID Data Theft, Law Firm Hack
Federal agents have arrested a Chinese citizen to face criminal charges for his alleged role in the Microsoft "HAFNIUM" cyberattack in which the People's Republic of China allegedly directed him and a co-conspirator to hack email accounts at a law firm and a Texas university to steal crucial COVID-19 vaccine information.
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July 08, 2025
Broadcom Wants Netflix's 'Retaliatory' Cloud Patent Suit Axed
Broadcom and cloud services provider VMware on Monday urged a California federal court to throw out Netflix's "meritless, retaliatory" patent infringement suit against them, arguing that Netflix is the one infringing Broadcom's patents and the latest suit is intended to give Netflix leverage in the ongoing dispute.
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July 08, 2025
Alphabet's $500M Investor Deal Over Compliance Gets 1st OK
A California federal judge gave preliminary approval Tuesday to Google parent Alphabet's Inc.'s settlement with investors alleging that executives engaged in anticompetitive and monopolistic practices, saying she wants to hear shareholders' reactions to Alphabet's agreement to spend $500 million over the next decade building a global regulatory compliance program before she grants final approval.
Expert Analysis
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5th Circ. Ruling Is Latest Signal Of Shaky Qui Tam Landscape
In his recent concurring opinion in U.S. v. Peripheral Vascular Associates, a Fifth Circuit judge joined a growing list of jurists suggesting that the False Claims Act's whistleblower provisions are unconstitutional, underscoring that acceptance of qui tam relators can no longer be taken for granted, say attorneys at Miller & Chevalier.
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Foreign Countries Have Strong Foundation To Fill FCPA Void
Though the U.S. has paused enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, liberal democracies across the globe are well equipped to reverse any setback in anti-corruption enforcement, potentially heightening prosecution risk for companies headquartered in the U.S., says Stephen Kohn at Kohn Kohn.
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How Attys Can Use A Therapy Model To Help Triggered Clients
Attorneys can lean on key principles from a psychotherapeutic paradigm known as the "Internal Family Systems" model to help manage triggered clients and get settlement negotiations back on track, says Jennifer Gibbs at Zelle.
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Tracking The Evolution Of Liability Management Exercises
As liability management exercises face increasing legal scrutiny, understanding the history of these debt restructuring tools can help explain how the playbook keeps adapting — and why the next move is always just one ruling or transaction away, say attorneys at Weil.
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A Tale Of Two Admins: Parsing 1st Half Of SEC's FY 2025
The first half of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's fiscal year 2025, which ended March 31, was unusually eventful, marked by a flurry of enforcement actions in the last three months of former Chair Gary Gensler's tenure and a prompt pivot after Inauguration Day, say attorneys at Jones Day.
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Getting Ahead Of The SEC's Continued Focus On Cyber, AI
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is showing it will continue to scrutinize actions involving cybersecurity and artificial intelligence, but there are proactive measures that companies and financial institutions can take to avoid regulatory scrutiny going forward, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.
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3 Steps For In-House Counsel To Assess Litigation Claims
Before a potential economic downturn, in-house attorneys should investigate whether their company is sitting on hidden litigation claims that could unlock large recoveries to help the business withstand tough times, says Will Burgess at Hilgers Graben.
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ERISA Forecast After Diverging Pension Risk Transfer Rulings
Two district courts' split decisions on whether plaintiffs had standing in class actions challenging pension risk transfer transactions, amid a swath of similar suits, provide an early indication of how courts might rule in this new wave of Employee Retirement Income Security Act litigation, say attorneys at Gibson Dunn.
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Despite SEC Climate Pause, Cos. Must Still Heed State Regs
While businesses may have been given a reprieve from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's rules aimed at standardizing climate-related disclosures, they must still track evolving requirements in states including California, Illinois, New Jersey and New York that will soon require reporting of direct and indirect carbon emissions, say attorneys at Husch Blackwell.
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Series
Teaching College Students Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Serving as an adjunct college professor has taught me the importance of building rapport, communicating effectively, and persuading individuals to critically analyze the difference between what they think and what they know — principles that have helped to improve my practice of law, says Sheria Clarke at Nelson Mullins.
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5 Areas Contractors Should Watch After 1st 100 Days
Federal agencies and contractors face challenges from staff reductions, contract terminations, pending regulatory reform and other actions from the second Trump administration's first 100 days, but other areas stand to become more efficient and cost-effective, say attorneys at Thompson Hine.
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Crunching The Numbers Of Trump SEC's 1st 100 Days
During the first 100 days of the second Trump administration, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission brought significantly fewer stand-alone enforcement actions than at the beginning of the Biden and the first Trump administrations, with every one of the federal court complaints including allegations of fraudulent conduct, say attorneys at Dentons.
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Adapting To Private Practice: From DOJ Enviro To Mid-Law
Practitioners leaving a longtime government role for private practice — as when I departed the U.S. Department of Justice’s environmental enforcement division — should prioritize finding a firm that shares their principles, values their experience and will invest in their transition, says John Cruden at Beveridge & Diamond.
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Addressing D&O Allocation Questions Amid Shifting Economy
As increasing global insolvency this year may lead to an increase in directors and officers insurance claims, businesses should review their policies' allocation provisions to avoid negotiating how coverage will apply to covered and uncovered claims during a suit, say attorneys at Reed Smith.
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A Look At Probabilistic Tracing After High Court's Slack Ruling
Recent decisions following the U.S. Supreme Court's 2023 ruling in Slack v. Pirani have increased the difficulty of pleading Securities Act claims for securities issued in direct listings by rejecting the use of statistical probabilities to establish that share purchases were traceable to a challenged registration statement, says Jonathan Richman at Brown Rudnick.