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June 13, 2025
2024 Patent Litigation: A Year In Review
The Eastern District of Texas held onto its newly regained title as the busiest patent venue in the U.S., with nearly three times as many cases in 2024 as the once-dominant Western District of Texas. In addition, Patent Trial and Appeal Board filings bounced back after falling to a record low in 2023.
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June 13, 2025
Judge Blocks Trump Voting Order Requiring Citizenship Proof
A Massachusetts federal judge on Friday blocked enforcement of what she called a likely unconstitutional Trump administration executive order requiring physical proof of citizenship to vote and invalidating ballots received after Election Day, saying the president lacks authority to override existing voting laws.
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June 12, 2025
7th Circ. Backs Hartford's Denial Of Benefits To Ex-PwC Exec
The Seventh Circuit on Thursday refused to revive a lawsuit by a former PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP executive accusing the accounting firm's disability insurance provider of wrongly denying her long-term disability benefits for her fibromyalgia, affirming a lower court's "detailed and diligent opinion" that found her condition limiting, but not disabling.
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June 12, 2025
Judge Pans 'Breathtaking' 蜜桃视频 Disavowal Of Redlining Deal
An Illinois federal judge Thursday refused to allow the Trump administration to abandon a recently settled Consumer Financial Protection Bureau redlining case, calling the 蜜桃视频's bid to refund a Chicago-area mortgage lender accused of discriminatory lending practices "breathtaking."
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June 12, 2025
Turkey Buyers Fight Burford Units' Objection To Cargill Deal
Direct purchasers of turkey have told the Illinois federal judge handling consolidated turkey price-fixing litigation that he should disregard two litigation funding subsidiaries' untimely attempt to lodge what they called a meritless challenge to a nearly finalized price-fixing settlement with Cargill Inc.
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June 12, 2025
Ex-NBA Star's $11M Fraud Suit Kept Alive By Ill. Judge
An Illinois federal judge on Wednesday trimmed some claims from a lawsuit brought by former NBA star Toni Kukoc accusing a Swiss bank of allowing his former friend and financial adviser to embezzle more than $11 million from him, while also agreeing the remaining allegations can be litigated in Chicago federal court.
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June 12, 2025
Navistar To Pay $450K To End Unpaid OT Suit
Commercial vehicle manufacturer Navistar Inc. will pay $450,000 to resolve a former employee's collective action accusing it of failing to incorporate bonus payments in overtime pay calculations, thus causing workers' wages to fall, a filing in Illinois federal court said.
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June 12, 2025
United Center Vendor Sued Over Use Of Amazon Technology
A Compass Group subsidiary that provides food and beverage services to the United Center in Chicago has been sued in Illinois state court by concessions customers who claim it failed to get the informed consent required under the state's biometric privacy law before collecting their biometric information through Amazon's Just Walk Out cashierless checkout technology.
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June 11, 2025
Consultant Pulls RTX Into Tech Co.'s $1.8M Contract Suit
RTX Corp. is responsible for a business consulting firm's inability to pay a tech subcontractor for data migration work, according to a third-party complaint that dragged the aerospace and defense giant into a $1.8 million court battle in聽Connecticut.
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June 11, 2025
Think Tank Says Ill. 'Captive Audience' Fight Should Proceed
A libertarian think tank and business group urged an Illinois federal judge聽Wednesday to let its legal challenge to a recent state law banning mandatory workplace meetings on politics and religion continue, arguing its already-chilled speech is enough to establish pre-enforcement standing.
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June 11, 2025
AGs Press Meta To Do More To Stop Pump-And-Dump Scams
Attorneys general from states and territories around the country, as well as the District of Columbia, sent an open letter to Meta Platforms Inc. Wednesday urging the social media giant to help stem the tide of widespread investment scams across Facebook and WhatsApp that they said have caused people to lose "life-changing" amounts of money.
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June 11, 2025
Epic Games Hits Fortnite Cheat Maker With Copyright Suit
Fortnite maker Epic Games is suing a German cheat software developer, alongside resellers of the software, in North Carolina federal court for allegedly violating copyright law and interfering with contracts Epic has with its players.
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June 11, 2025
These Firms Are Landing The Most Patent Litigation Work
Rabicoff Law LLC reclaimed its status as the most active firm for patent plaintiffs, having filed more than twice as many cases in 2024 as it did in 2023, according to a new report from Lex Machina.
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June 11, 2025
Union Pacific Can Appeal BIPA Retroactivity At 7th Circ.
An Illinois federal judge on Tuesday allowed Union Pacific to pursue an early appeal of her finding that a recent amendment to Illinois' biometric privacy law limiting companies' exposure does not apply retroactively, recognizing the "novelty and complexity of the legal issue" and allowing the Seventh Circuit the opportunity to weigh in.
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June 11, 2025
New Patent Cases Rebound As EDTX Seals Top Venue Spot
The number of new patent suits filed in 2024 increased 22.2% over 2023, bouncing back from a historically slow year, and the Eastern District of Texas further cemented its status as the most popular patent venue after a rule change made another Texas district less attractive to plaintiffs.
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June 11, 2025
Holland & Knight Finance Ace Jumps To Norton Rose
Norton Rose Fulbright announced Wednesday that it has fortified its corporate finance offerings with a former Holland & Knight LLP partner who will share his time between Dallas and Chicago.
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June 10, 2025
States Sue To Block 23andMe From Selling DNA Data In Ch. 11
A bipartisan coalition of 28 attorneys general has sued 23andMe Inc. in Missouri bankruptcy court seeking to block the genetic-testing company from auctioning off its 15 million customers' personal genetic information without their explicit consent in its ongoing Chapter 11 proceeding.
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June 10, 2025
Who Infringed Kokomo's Owl Logo? CrisisGo, Suit Says
Kokomo Solutions Inc., an emergency response and safety technology company, filed a lawsuit against CrisisGo Inc. in Illinois federal court Tuesday alleging the company's use of an owl logo for its ECHO Badge product is聽confusingly similar to its own owl logo.
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June 10, 2025
Ill. Judge Questions Standing In Biogen Antitrust Suit
An Illinois federal judge seemed skeptical Tuesday that health benefit plans accusing Biogen of impairing competition for聽its multiple sclerosis drug, Tecfidera, have standing to bring their lawsuit under decades-old precedent allowing only direct purchasers to recoup damages.
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June 10, 2025
Edward Jones Among 5 Firms Paying $9.3M Over Inflated Fees
Edward Jones, TD Ameritrade and three other wealth adviser firms have reached a $9.3 million settlement with the North American Securities Administrators Association after having been accused of overcharging fees for small-dollar investors.
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June 10, 2025
Deere & Co. Must Face FTC Suit Over Repair Restrictions
An Illinois federal judge compared John Deere's second attempt at beating a right-to-repair suit to Steve Martin's Pink Panther II reboot, calling it "predictable" and "derivative" as he again rejected the farm equipment giant's motion for judgment on the pleadings and allowed the Federal Trade Commission's case against it to proceed.
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June 10, 2025
Trump Wind Farm Pause Has Stalled Projects, Judge Hears
A coalition of blue states and industry advocates told a federal judge on Tuesday that the recent mothballing of a New Jersey offshore wind project exemplifies the damage being inflicted by the Trump administration's unlawful decision to pause wind farm permitting.
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June 10, 2025
Target, Campbell's End Chicken-Price Fix Suit With Mar-Jac
Target Corp. and The Campbell's Co. are the latest broiler chicken purchasers to permanently end their price-fixing claims Monday against poultry processor giant Mar-Jac Inc. in a decade-old sprawling antitrust litigation claiming broiler chicken producers acted in concert to limit chicken production to raise prices and exchange sales volume information with each other.
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June 10, 2025
Judge Warns Attys Over Candor In Grubhub-Kroger TM Row
An Illinois federal judge on Monday admonished defense counsel in ongoing trademark litigation between Grubhub Inc. and The Kroger Co. after finding discrepancies in the Kroger attorney's representations of information Grubhub provided in a discovery response, reminding all lawyers involved of their duty of candor and adherence to professional conduct rules.
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June 10, 2025
Class Decertified In Hill's Prescription Pet Food Suit
An Illinois federal judge has decertified a class of pet food buyers alleging that Hill's Pet Nutrition Inc. misled them into thinking its "prescription" pet food was necessary medicine, saying a recent summary judgment renders the plaintiffs' damages model inadequate for certification.
Expert Analysis
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When US Privilege Law Applies To Docs Made Outside The US
As globalization manifests itself in disputes over foreign-created documents, a California federal court鈥檚 recent trademark decision illustrates nuances of both U.S. privilege frameworks and foreign evidentiary protections that attorneys must increasingly bear in mind, say attorneys at Hunton.
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What 2024 Trends In Marketing, Comms Hiring Mean For 2025
The state of hiring in legal industry marketing, business development and communications over the past 12 months was marked by a number of trends 鈥 from changes in the C-suite to lateral move challenges 鈥 providing clues for what鈥檚 to come in the year ahead, says Ben Curle at Ambition.
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Series
Group Running Makes Me A Better Lawyer
The combination of physical fitness and community connection derived from running with a group of business leaders has, among other things, helped me to stay grounded, improve my communication skills, and develop a deeper empathy for clients and colleagues, says Jessica Shpall Rosen聽at聽Greenwald Doherty.
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7th Circ. Ruling Muddies Split On Trade Secret Damages
The Seventh Circuit's recent endorsement in Motorola v. Hytera of a Second Circuit limit on avoided-cost damages under the Defend Trade Secrets Act contradicts even its own precedents, and will further confuse the scope of a developing circuit conflict that the U.S. Supreme Court has already twice declined to resolve, says Jordan Rice at MoloLamken.
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Opinion
6 Changes I Would Make If I Ran A Law School
Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner identifies several key issues plaguing law schools and discusses potential solutions, such as opting out of the rankings game and mandating courses in basic writing skills.
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Firms Still Have The Edge In Lateral Hiring, But Buyer Beware
Partner mobility data suggests that the third quarter of this year continued to be a buyer鈥檚 market, with the average candidate demanding less compensation for a larger book of business 鈥 but moving into the fourth quarter, firms should slow down their hiring process to minimize risks, say officers at Decipher Investigative Intelligence.
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AV Compliance Is Still A State-By-State Slog 鈥 For Now
While the incoming Trump administration has hinted at new federal regulations governing autonomous vehicles, for now, AV manufacturers must take a state-by-state approach to compliance with safety requirements 鈥 paying particular attention to states that require express authorization for AV operation, say attorneys at Frost Brown.
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Think Like A Lawyer: 1 Type Of Case Complexity Stands Out
In contrast to some cases that appear complex due to voluminous evidence or esoteric subject matter, a different kind of complexity involves tangled legal and factual questions, each with a range of possible outcomes, which require a 鈥渟liding scale鈥 approach instead of syllogistic reasoning, says Luke Andrews at Poole Huffman.
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Why State Captive Audience Laws Matter After NLRB Decision
As employers focus on complying with the National Labor Relations Board's new position that captive audience meetings violate federal labor law, they should also be careful not to overlook state captive audience laws that prohibit additional types of company meetings and communications, says Karla Grossenbacher at Seyfarth.
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Think Like A Lawyer: Note 3 Simple Types Of Legal Complexity
Cases can appear complex for several reasons 鈥 due to the number of issues, the volume of factual and evidentiary sources, and the sophistication of those sources 鈥 but the same basic technique can help lawyers tame their arguments into a simple and persuasive message, says Luke Andrews at Poole Huffman.
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Series
Gardening Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Beyond its practical and therapeutic benefits, gardening has bolstered important attributes that also apply to my litigation practice, including persistence, patience, grit and authenticity, says Christopher Viceconte at Gibbons.
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Litigation Inspiration: Reframing Document Review
For attorneys 鈥 new ones especially 鈥 there is much fulfillment to find in document review by reflecting on how important, interesting and pleasant it can be, says Bennett Rawicki at Hilgers Graben.
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7th Circ. Travel Time Ruling Has Far-Reaching Implications
In a case of first impression, the Seventh Circuit鈥檚 recent holding in Walters v. Professional Labor Group will have significant implications for employers that must now provide travel time compensation for employees on overnight assignments away from home, says Anthony Sbardellati at Akerman.
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Service Providers Must Mitigate 'Secondary Target' Risks
A lawsuit recently filed in an Illinois federal court against marketing agency Publicis over its work for opioid manufacturers highlights an uptick in litigation against professional service providers hired by clients that engaged in alleged misconduct 鈥 so potential targets of such suits should be sure to conduct proper risk analysis and mitigation, say attorneys at Dechert.
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Series
Flying Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Achieving my childhood dream of flying airplanes made me a better lawyer 鈥 and a better person 鈥 because it taught me I can conquer difficult goals when I leave my comfort zone, focus on the demands of the moment and commit to honing my skills, says Ivy Cadle at Baker Donelson.