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Calif. Homeowners Win Cert. In State Farm Underpayment Suit

By Hope Patti

A California federal court certified a class of nearly 200,000 homeowners alleging State Farm systematically underpaid property insurance claims in violation of the state's insurance code, ruling Tuesday that the plaintiffs offered a feasible methodology for calculating damages classwide and demonstrated that class members are identifiable.

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Morgan Lewis Atty Killed In Hit-And-Run Had 'Joy For Life'

By James Mills

A Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP first-year litigation associate who was killed last week in a hit-and-run bicycle crash in West Hollywood, California, had a "joy for life" and a deep passion for the law, friends and former colleagues said.

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Keesal Young Accuses Stradley Ronon Of Unfair Poaching

By Emma Cueto

Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young has been hit with allegations from California firm Keesal Young & Logan that it unfairly poached both shareholders and associates from the firm, allegedly conspiring with the departing attorneys to violate their agreements with the firm and costing Keesal Young $2.5 million in annual profits.

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Anthropic Seeks 9th Circ. Fair Use Appeal Over Piracy Claims

By Ivan Moreno

Anthropic PBC asked a California federal judge Tuesday to let the Ninth Circuit review his decision that making fair use of copyrighted books to train artificial intelligence technology did not absolve the company of potential liability for alleged piracy.

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Frito-Lay Settles Flamin' Hot Cheetos Defamation Suit

By Craig Clough

Frito-Lay Inc. and a former employee have reached a settlement Monday in his suit claiming he invented Flamin' Hot Cheetos and had his livelihood destroyed when the company disavowed his story, according to a Monday filing in California federal court.

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50 Cent Can't Stop Release Of Horror Film, Calif. Judge Rules

By Gina Kim

50 Cent cannot block the release of Hollywood producer Ryan Kavanaugh's horror film that allegedly uses his name and likeness without a final contract in place, after a California federal judge decided there was evidence suggesting the rapper assented to the parties' agreed-upon terms to do so.

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LA Deputies Admit Using Positions To Aid Crypto 'Godfather'

By Anna Scott Farrell

Two Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies admitted using their official positions to harass enemies of a cryptocurrency founder who called himself "The Godfather" and failed to report $36 million in income from selling hacked Meta business accounts, the U.S. Department of Justice said.

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FDIC Says Farella Braun Can't Get Fees In First Republic Suit

By Katryna Perera

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has asked a California federal court to toss a more than $50,000 legal fee claim tied to First Republic Bank's collapse, arguing that Farella Braun, the law firm behind the claim, failed to submit a valid written agreement or itemized invoices and its claim is legally insufficient.

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Analysis

High Court Term Yields Gains For Criminal Defendants

By Marco Poggio

The U.S. Supreme Court addressed several contentious issues this term, with the conservative majority prevailing in numerous high-profile cases. Yet, in a notable trend, the court also issued multiple rulings favorable to criminal defendants, including expanding prisoners' rights in civil lawsuits and reinforcing due process protections in capital cases.

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9th Circ. Rejects Sentencing Enhancement In Gun Case

By Elizabeth Daley

A Washington state federal court should not have applied a sentencing enhancement in the case of a man who handed a gun to someone who later used it to shoot an undercover federal agent, the Ninth Circuit said Monday, finding there wasn't proof his five-second hold on the weapon emboldened the shooter.

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Calif. Legislature OKs Retroactive Solar Property Exclusion

By Jaqueline McCool

California would allow the purchaser of a new property a three-year window to apply for a property tax exclusion for solar energy systems under a bill passed by the state Senate and sent to Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom for approval.

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State Farm 'Maliciously' Denied Property Coverage, Court Told

By Ganesh Setty

A California property owner accused State Farm of "maliciously" denying its property insurance claim in a lawsuit removed to federal court, further alleging that the insurer intentionally ignored evidence of the extent of the property damage.

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Insurers Prevail In $59M Mishandled Remains Row At 9th Circ.

By Ganesh Setty

Two insurers for a provider of medical training have no duty to cover a $58.5 million civil judgment against a man found liable for mishandling donated bodily remains, the Ninth Circuit ruled Tuesday, though also allowing the underlying claimants to still pursue bad faith claims against the insurers.

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Fizz Social Loses Bid To Block Instacart's 'Fizz' Drink App

By Dorothy Atkins

A California federal judge has denied social media platform Fizz Social Corp.'s bid for a preliminary injunction in its trademark infringement and anti-cybersquatting lawsuit accusing Instacart and Partiful of ripping off its "FIZZ" mark to launch a rival "Fizz" beverage-delivery app that targets the so-called Gen Z demographic.

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Consumers Say Apple's Bid To End App Store Case Will Fail

By Matthew Perlman

A massive class of consumers accusing Apple of monopolizing the distribution of apps on its devices has told a California federal court the tech giant's planned summary judgment bid should be rejected because there's evidence showing harm to both users and developers.

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9th Circ. Upholds Axing Of IT Co.'s Microsoft Data Misuse Case

By Craig Clough

The Ninth Circuit declined Tuesday to revive a cybersecurity supplier's case accusing Microsoft of misusing a proprietary database of login credentials recovered on the black market, concluding that the parties' contract did not impose limits on the tech giant's use of the data.

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9th Circ. Backs Nature's Way Loss In Supplements TM Suit

By Adam Lidgett

The Ninth Circuit on Tuesday upheld a lower court's finding that a Doctor's Best Inc. brand of supplements didn't infringe a trademark of competitor Nature's Way Products LLC because the Doctor's Best products were all sold outside the U.S.

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TikTok, Chinese Co. Dispute Ownership Of Video Editing Tech

By Ivan Moreno

TikTok and a Chinese company that accuses it of stealing trade secrets for a video-editing tool and infringing copyrights related to the tool have filed opposing motions for summary judgment, with the social media giant arguing that the plaintiff has not established ownership of the technology in question.

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9th Circ. Won't Revive SAG-AFTRA Vax Mandate Challenge

By Grace Elletson

The Ninth Circuit declined Tuesday to reinstate a suit claiming SAG-AFTRA shirked its duties to union members by greenlighting a COVID-19 vaccine mandate to get actors back to work during the pandemic, ruling their claims are either untimely or preempted by federal labor law.

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5th Circ. Says Media Matters Can Challenge X Suit Venue

By Spencer Brewer

The Fifth Circuit gave left-leaning watchdog Media Matters for America another shot at transferring a business disparagement lawsuit launched by X Corp. to California, saying Tuesday the Texas federal judge overseeing the case didn't do an adequate venue analysis.

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X Says Laid-Off Twitter Worker Not Owed A Jury Trial

By Bonnie Eslinger

X Corp. has urged a California federal judge against holding a jury trial on a former Twitter worker's claims the company and owner Elon Musk violated state and federal laws requiring advance warning of mass layoffs, arguing the statutes don't provide for more than a bench trial.

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UnitedHealth, Optum Accused Of Pregnancy Discrimination

By Irene Spezzamonte

Optum Care Inc. and parent company UnitedHealth Group fired a care team supervisor while she was on maternity leave without a tangible reason, according to a suit lodged in California state court.

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Law Curbing Arbitration Keeps AutoNation Bias Suit In Court

By Patrick Hoff

AutoNation Inc. can't arbitrate a former sales associate's lawsuit claiming supervisors treated her differently because she's an older Black woman and made sexual comments in the workplace, a California state appeals court ruled, saying her case is shielded by a federal law prohibiting mandatory arbitration of sex harassment cases.

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Workers Seek Class Status In United Pricing Scheme Suit

By Grace Elletson

A group of workers urged a California federal judge to award them class certification in their suit alleging United Behavioral Health and a billing contractor shorted them on coverage for out-of-network substance use disorder treatments, arguing they put forward new detail that clears class status requirements.

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Tax Return Preparer Cops To Role In $25M Fraud Scheme

By Natalie Olivo

A tax return preparer pled guilty in a California federal court for his role in a fraud scheme that involved submitting fake federal income tax returns to claim $25 million in refunds.

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MaxLinear, Silicon Motion Beat Suit Over Failed $3.8B Merger

By Rae Ann Varona

A California federal judge on Tuesday threw out a proposed class action that accused semiconductor company MaxLinear and chipmaker Silicon Motion of misleading investors about a $3.8 billion merger that fell through, saying Silicon Motion shareholders couldn't sue MaxLinear or prove that Silicon Motion knew about an alleged breach of the merger agreement.

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Weedmaps, SPAC Officers Want Out Of Investor SEC Fine Suit

By Sydney Price

Cannabis tech company Weedmaps Technology Inc. and leaders of a blank check company that it merged with have asked to be released from an investor's proposed class action alleging damages following the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's announcement that it fined Weedmaps $1.5 million for allegedly making misleading statements about its monthly active users.

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Auto Dealership Software Biz Must Face Rival's Monopoly Suit

By Rae Ann Varona

A California federal judge Tuesday denied Texas tech company CDK Global's bid to dismiss a lawsuit accusing it of cornering the auto dealership management software market, saying its rival, Tekion, plausibly alleged that CDK holds a monopoly power and made it hard for dealerships to switch to competing platforms.

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PVC Pipe Buyers Seek Initial OK Of $6M Deal In Antitrust Row

By Celeste Bott

Counsel for two classes of purchasers of polyvinyl chloride pipe urged an Illinois federal judge Tuesday to grant preliminary approval to two $3 million settlements resolving their antitrust claims against an analytics service allegedly used in a conspiracy by PVC pipe makers to inflate the price of their products.

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Feds Urge Calif. Judge To End Suit Over Border Patrol Sweep

By Gina Kim

The U.S. government moved Tuesday to end a proposed class action alleging Border Patrol agents conducted race-based stops and warrantless arrests of people who appear to be farmworkers, arguing the government has required agents to evaluate flight risks and reasonable suspicion for stops, which renders the suit's claims moot.

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Judge Won't Block Strike On Calif. Native American Casino

By Emily Brill

A California federal judge won't intervene in a strike at a Native American casino until the casino and a union have fleshed out their arguments over whether the work stoppage is legal, saying the casino's request for a restraining order left several key questions unanswered.

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Holland & Knight Adds LGBTQ-Led Startup Pro To VC Team

By Tracey Read

Holland & Knight LLP has added a director of client development with over a decade of experience in venture capital, startup investing and business development for its emerging companies and venture capital practice.

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Opinion

4 Former Justices Would Likely Frown On Litigation Funding

As courts increasingly confront cases involving hidden litigation finance contracts, the jurisprudence of four former U.S. Supreme Court justices establishes a constitutional framework that risks erosion by undisclosed financial interests, says Roland Eisenhuth at the American Property Casualty Insurance Association.

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9th Circ. Customs Ruling A Limited Win For FCA Plaintiffs

While the decision last month in Island Industries v. Sigma may be welcome news for False Claims Act relators, under binding precedent courts within the Ninth Circuit still do not have jurisdiction to adjudicate customs-based FCA claims pursued by the government, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.

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Challenging A Class Representative's Adequacy And Typicality

Recent cases highlight that a named plaintiff cannot certify a putative class action unless they can meet all the applicable requirements of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, so defendants should consider challenging a plaintiff's ability to meet typicality and adequacy requirements early and often, say attorneys at Womble Bond.

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Copyright Takeaways From 2 Calif. GenAI Rulings

Two California federal court decisions suggest that the fair use defense may protect generative artificial intelligence output, but given the ongoing war between copyright holders and AI platforms, developers should still consider taking steps to reduce legal risk, says Lincoln Essig at Knobbe Martens.

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Jackson Walker, US Trustee Tell Court 'There's No Deal'

By Lauren Berg

Jackson Walker LLP and the federal government's bankruptcy watchdog told a Texas federal judge Tuesday that they have not reached an agreement to resolve a fee dispute stemming from a former bankruptcy judge's previously undisclosed romantic relationship with a onetime partner of the firm.

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Trump Admin Fires 17 More Immigration Judges, Union Says

By Hailey Konnath

The Trump administration has fired 17 more immigration judges, bringing the total of immigration judges that have either been terminated, transferred or accepted retirement offers since January to 103, according to an announcement made Tuesday by the union that represents them.

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Wisconsin Judge Says Actions Were Part Of Judicial Duties

By Adrian Cruz

The Wisconsin state judge accused of helping an immigrant living in the country illegally avoid arrest objected to a federal judge's recommendation not to have her indictment dismissed, arguing Tuesday that her actions were lawful and that accepting the recommendation would set a dangerous precedent.

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Advocates Turn To Florida High Court For Bondi Ethics Probe

By Madison Arnold

A group of attorneys, law professors and former judges asked the Florida Supreme Court on Tuesday to order the Florida Bar to investigate U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi for alleged unethical conduct.

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Grassley Rejects Dems' Push For 2nd Hearing On Emil Bove

By Courtney Bubl茅

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, on Tuesday rebuffed the request from Democrats on his committee for the whistleblower who made claims regarding Third Circuit nominee Emil Bove to testify and said the committee will proceed with the vote on Bove's nomination Thursday.

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SEC Drops Bribery Suit Against Ex-Cognizant Execs

By Lauren Berg

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission told a New Jersey federal court Tuesday that it will drop its lawsuit against the former president and chief legal officer of Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. over an alleged bribery scheme, after the U.S. Department of Justice dropped a related criminal case.

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Funding 'Crisis' Jeopardizes Indigent Defense, Judiciary Says

By Courtney Bubl茅

The judiciary rang the alarm on Tuesday that funding has been exhausted for the private attorneys who represent indigent federal criminal defendants, and this predicament is expected to last for three months.

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2 NY Legal Services Shops Go On Strike, More Could Follow

By Andrea Keckley

Two member shops of the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys — a union that represents thousands of public interest attorneys and advocates in the New York City metro area — commenced strikes Tuesday, with deadlines for others looming later this week as the ALAA hopes its sectoral bargaining strategy will lead to better contracts.

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Jeanine Pirro's $11M Net Worth Revealed In Disclosure

By Courtney Bubl茅

Former judge and Fox News host Jeanine Pirro, nominee for U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, has a net worth of over $11 million, according to a financial disclosure obtained by Law360 on Monday.

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Judge Denies Early Win For Family Of Atty Seeking 9/11 Fees

By Jared Foretek

A D.C. federal judge denied an early win for the estate of a 9/11 families attorney suing the firm that contracted him over fees Tuesday, lambasting the contracts at the center of the litigation for their lack of clarity and suggesting that a trial might be the only way to discern their meaning.

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Analysis

The Biggest IP Agency Developments Of 2025: Midyear Report

By Theresa Schliep

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the U.S. Copyright Office have not been spared from the Trump administration's shake-ups and changes across the federal government in the first half of the year.

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Court Reporters Defend Suit Saying Group Coerces Dues

By Bryan Koenig

A pair of court reporters defended their New Jersey federal court proposed class action accusing the National Court Reporters Association of anticompetitively conditioning needed certification on expensive membership with the group, arguing the NCRA can't try to argue that membership and certification are one and the same.

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