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  • September 17, 2025

    Colo. Judge Denies ACE's Bid To Halt USA Cricket Split

    A Colorado state judge refused Wednesday to stop USA Cricket from immediately ending its partnership with American Cricket Enterprises LLC, saying the sport's governing body must have a chance to be heard before deciding on ACE's request to maintain the agreement.

  • September 17, 2025

    FCC Told To Take Care When Adding AI To Public Alerts

    As the Federal Communications Commission mulls how to best overhaul its emergency alert rules, one California county is warning the agency to tread carefully when it comes to adopting emerging technologies like artificial intelligence.

  • September 17, 2025

    Media Matters Again Denied Transfer Of X's Nazi Posts Suit

    Media Matters for America must remain in Texas for X Corp.'s defamation lawsuit over a story about ads running alongside Neo-Nazi content, after a federal judge again refused Tuesday to transfer the case to California following a Fifth Circuit decision nixing a previous rejection of transfer.

  • September 17, 2025

    Morgan & Morgan Hauls Disney Into Court Over TM Concern

    Law firm Morgan & Morgan sued Disney on Wednesday, asking a Florida federal court to declare that an advertisement it plans to run featuring elements from the animated short film "Steamboat Willie" does not infringe on Disney's intellectual property because the work entered the public domain last year.

  • September 17, 2025

    Judges Pan Chris Cuomo's Arbitrator Bias Claim On Appeal

    A majority of the justices on a New York appellate court panel voiced skepticism of ex-CNN anchor Chris Cuomo's arguments that the arbitrator was biased against him in his $125 million wrongful termination case against the news network.

  • September 17, 2025

    Satellites Belong In FCC's Enviro Reviews, Agency Told

    The Federal Communications Commission can't justify excluding potentially luminous satellites from environmental reviews keyed to industries under its jurisdiction, a group fighting light pollution said.

  • September 17, 2025

    Noteholders Say $219M Mexico Claim Can Proceed

    Noteholders owed hundreds of millions of dollars by Mexican television producer TV Azteca are defending their $219 million investor-state claim against Mexico after its courts allegedly stymied collection efforts, saying any procedural deficiency in their claim arose as a result of the Mexican court's actions.

  • September 17, 2025

    Chancery Approves $30M Match.com Spinoff Suit Settlement

    A Delaware vice chancellor approved a $30 million mediated settlement Wednesday to resolve a five-year dispute over the fairness of Match.com's 2019 reverse spinoff from Barry Diller-controlled IAC/Interactive, with stockholder attorneys taking home $6.9 million.

  • September 17, 2025

    Anthropic, Reddit Spar Over Keeping AI Case In Federal Court

    Artificial intelligence startup Anthropic has asked a California federal judge to keep Reddit's claims that user content is used to train large language models in federal court, saying that at least one of Reddit's claims are preempted by the Copyright Act and effectively arise from federal law.

  • September 17, 2025

    DOJ & Google Going To Trial, Again, On Ad Tech Remedies

    The Justice Department goes to trial next week to try breaking up Google's advertising placement technology business after a Virginia federal court declared the company an illegal monopolist in ad tech.

  • September 17, 2025

    3rd Circ. Panel Puzzled By Economics Of NCAA Eligibility

    The introduction of compensation for college athletes may have changed the economic effects of the NCAA's eligibility rules, but a Third Circuit panel wondered Wednesday whether enough analysis on the specific effects had been done to justify suspending one of those rules for a Rutgers University football player.

  • September 17, 2025

    Celeb Photo Agency Sues Over Decade-Old Farley Picture Use

    Hyperlocal news organization Block Club Chicago has been hit with copyright infringement claims by a celebrity photo agency alleging predecessor site DNAInfo Chicago used a photo of late actor Chris Farley without licensing it on an article published more than a decade ago.

  • September 17, 2025

    Sky-High AI Valuations Are Reshaping Dealmaking Playbook

    The latest financing for Anthropic underscores how difficult it has become to dismiss sky-high valuations backing AI as froth, and shows how such numbers could reshape acquisition and exit strategies while exposing investors to heightened legal and financial risks.

  • September 16, 2025

    Calif. Gov. Taps Consultancy Exec For Privacy Agency Board

    A business executive and consultant with "extensive leadership experience" in data privacy and corporate governance has been picked to sit on the five-member board that governs the California Privacy Protection Agency, the regulator said Monday. 

  • September 16, 2025

    Google And AI Co. Sued Over Teen Death, Sexual Content

    A chatbot maker with ties to Google was hit with three lawsuits in federal court Monday, two in Colorado and one in New York, by the families of minors who blame the companies for their children's suicide, suicide attempt and exposure to sexually explicit material.

  • September 16, 2025

    Okla. Town Looks To Toss Tribe's Casino Utility Dispute

    Hinton, Oklahoma, is looking to toss a lawsuit by the Delaware Nation claiming the town illegally threatened to cut off municipal utility services to a tribal casino after an agreement expired, telling a federal court Tuesday that it doesn't have jurisdiction because the controversy is local.

  • September 16, 2025

    Strip Club Execs Accused Of Bribing Auditor With Lap Dances

    Executives of strip club operator RCI Hospitality Holdings Inc. bribed a tax auditor for more than a decade to avoid paying $8 million in New York City sales taxes, providing him free trips to Florida strip clubs and expensive lap dances, the state of New York alleged Tuesday.

  • September 16, 2025

    IP Attorneys Aren't Playing Into Pokémon Patent Panic

    A patent granted to Nintendo and Pokémon earlier this month has video game players concerned that an entire genre of games could be undermined, yet patent attorneys say it's unlikely the companies would have any success if they chose to assert it.

  • September 16, 2025

    Texas AG Probes Glass Lewis, ISS On ESG Advice

    The Texas Office of the Attorney General launched an investigation into Glass Lewis & Co. and Institutional Shareholder Services Inc., claiming Tuesday the proxy advisory firms misled public companies and institutional investors to push for left-wing social causes.

  • September 16, 2025

    Meta Loses Bid To Overturn Verdict In Flo Privacy Class Action

    A California federal judge has refused to disturb a jury verdict that found Meta Platforms Inc. liable for using an online tracking tool to unlawfully obtain sensitive health data that users entered into the Flo menstrual tracking app, finding that there was nothing to justify reversing this result.

  • September 16, 2025

    Okla. Tribe Sues Social Platforms Over Youth Mental Health

    The Chickasaw Nation on Monday became the latest Native American tribe to lodge claims against social media giants in California federal court, alleging that the platforms harm their youth who are already at risk of mental health problems and suicidal ideation.

  • September 16, 2025

    Latham, Cooley Lead Ticket Sales Giant StubHub's $800M IPO

    StubHub, an online ticket reseller backed by private equity and venture capital firms, is set to hit the public markets Wednesday after pricing an $800 million initial public offering within its targeted range.

  • September 16, 2025

    4th Circ. Asked To Rehear 'Inspire' Dance Team Case

    A North Carolina charter school on Tuesday asked for the full Fourth Circuit to hear its claims that two former teachers should be barred from using the name "Inspire" for their dance company, arguing that declining to block the teachers is at odds with decades of circuit precedent.

  • September 16, 2025

    Influencers Walk Back Claim Of Capital One Settlement

    Attorneys for a proposed class of social media influencers on Tuesday withdrew a notice of settlement in their suit accusing Capital One of stealing commissions from creators, saying no settlement exists and that they signed the notice on Capital One's behalf without permission.

  • September 16, 2025

    Judge Orders Bench Trial On Key Issue In Sirius Patent Case

    A Delaware federal judge has ordered a bench trial on the issue of whether Sirius XM relied on a German research foundation's five-year delay in bringing patent claims related to satellite radio technology in making business decisions around that tech.

Expert Analysis

  • E-Discovery Quarterly: Rulings On Relevance Redactions

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    In recent cases addressing redactions that parties sought to apply based on the relevance of information — as opposed to considerations of privilege — courts have generally limited a party’s ability to withhold nonresponsive or irrelevant material, providing a few lessons for discovery strategy, say attorneys at Sidley.

  • Opinion

    Section 1983 Has Promise After End Of Nationwide Injunctions

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    After the U.S. Supreme Court recently struck down the practice of nationwide injunctions in Trump v. Casa, Section 1983 civil rights suits can provide a better pathway to hold the government accountable — but this will require reforms to qualified immunity, says Marc Levin at the Council on Criminal Justice.

  • Courts Redefining Software As Product Generates New Risks

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    A recent wave of litigation against social media platforms, chatbot developers and ride-hailing companies has some courts straying from the traditional view of software as a service to redefining software as a product, with significant implications for strict liability exposure, say attorneys at Reed Smith.

  • Trump's 2nd Term Puts Merger Remedies Back On The Table

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    In contrast with the Biden administration, the second Trump administration has signaled a renewed willingness to resolve merger enforcement concerns through remedies from the outset, particularly when the proposed fix is structural, clearly addresses the harm and does not require burdensome oversight, say attorneys at Cooley.

  • Reel Justice: 'Oh, Hi!' Teaches Attys To Return To The Statute

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    The new dark comedy film “Oh, Hi!” — depicting a romantic vacation that turns into an inadvertent kidnapping — should remind criminal practitioners to always reread the statute to avoid assumptions, meet their ethical duties and finesse their trial strategy, says Veronica Finkelstein at Wilmington University School of Law.

  • What To Know About NCAA Deal's Arbitration Provisions

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    Kathryn Hester at Jones Walker discusses the key dispute resolution provisions of the NCAA's recently approved class action settlement that allows for complex revenue sharing with college athletes, breaking down the arbitration stipulations and explaining how the Northern District of California will handle certain enforcement, administration, implementation and interpretation disputes.

  • Opinion

    Premerger Settlements Don't Meet Standard For Bribery

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    Claims that Paramount’s decision to settle a lawsuit with President Donald Trump while it was undergoing a premerger regulatory review amounts to a quid pro quo misconstrue bribery law and ignore how modern legal departments operate, says Ediberto Román at the Florida International University College of Law.

  • Series

    Playing Soccer Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Soccer has become a key contributor to how I approach my work, and the lessons I’ve learned on the pitch about leadership, adaptability, resilience and communication make me better at what I do every day in my legal career, says Whitney O’Byrne at MoFo.

  • What To Do When Congress And DOJ Both Come Knocking

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    As recently seen in the news, clients may find themselves facing parallel U.S. Department of Justice and congressional investigations, requiring a comprehensive response that considers the different challenges posed by each, say attorneys at Friedman Kaplan.

  • Series

    Law School's Missed Lessons: Learning From Failure

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    While law school often focuses on the importance of precision, correctness and perfection, mistakes are inevitable in real-world practice — but failure is not the opposite of progress, and real talent comes from the ability to recover, rethink and reshape, says Brooke Pauley at Tucker Ellis.

  • Midyear Rewind: How Courts Are Reshaping VPPA Standards

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    The first half of 2025 saw a series of cases interpreting the Video Privacy Protection Act as applied to website tracking technologies, including three appellate rulings deepening circuit splits on what qualifies as personally identifiable information and who qualifies as a consumer under the statute, say attorneys at Perkins Coie.

  • How The Healthline Privacy Settlement Redefines Ad Tech Use

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    The Healthline settlement is the first time California has drawn a clear line in the sand around how website tracking must function in practice, so if your site uses tracking technologies, especially around sensitive content like health or finance, regulators are inspecting your website's back end, not just its banner, say attorneys at Baker Donelson.

  • Series

    Adapting To Private Practice: From ATF Director To BigLaw

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    As a two-time boomerang partner, returning to BigLaw after stints as a U.S. attorney and the director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, people ask me how I know when to move on, but there’s no single answer — just clearly set your priorities, says Steven Dettelbach at BakerHostetler.

  • Influencer Marketing Partnerships Face Rising Litigation Risk

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    In light of recent class actions claiming that brands and influencers are misleading consumers with deceptive marketing practices — largely premised on the Federal Trade Commission's endorsements guidance — proactive compliance measures are becoming more important, say attorneys at Olshan Frome.

  • 7 Ways Employers Can Avoid Labor Friction Over AI

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    As artificial intelligence use in the workplace emerges as a key labor relations topic in the U.S. and Europe, employers looking to reduce reputational risk and prevent costly disputes should consider proactive strategies to engage with unions, say attorneys at Baker McKenzie.

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