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DraftKings Denied 3rd Circ. Review In MLB Players' IP Case

By Elaine Brise帽o

A Pennsylvania judge on Wednesday denied a request from DraftKings Inc. to appeal to the Third Circuit the lower court's refusal to dismiss an intellectual property lawsuit that accuses the company of using players' images without permission, saying the issues raised are not appropriate for immediate appeal.

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LA Chargers Latest NFL Team To Add PE Minority Ownership

By David Steele

The Los Angeles Chargers have become the third NFL team to sell a minority ownership stake to a private equity firm since the league approved such investments in August, with NFL owners OK'ing the purchase of a Chargers stake by Arctos Partners LP.

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Tennis Groups Serve Up Bids To Nix Players' Antitrust Claims

By Caroline Simson

The international governing bodies for tennis are looking to escape a proposed antitrust class action filed by players who have accused them of operating as a "cartel," arguing in a series of briefs submitted to a New York federal court that the claims should be tossed, transferred or arbitrated.

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Court Won't Budge On Player's Eligibility Until 6th Circ. Acts

By Elaine Brise帽o

A Tennessee federal judge on Wednesday refused to reconsider a University of Tennessee baseball player's request for an injunction that would pause the NCAA's eligibility restrictions on junior college transfers, saying he will have to wait for a Sixth Circuit decision in a similar antitrust lawsuit.

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Basketball Player's Suit Challenges NCAA's 4-Year Rule

By David Steele

Athletes should be able to compete in all five years in an eligibility window created by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, not just four, a University of Tennessee basketball player has argued in an antitrust suit challenging college sports' longtime playing limit.

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Think Tank Challenges Taxpayer Grants To Michigan Ballparks

By Carolyn Muyskens

A free-market think tank is challenging earmarks for local projects incorporated in Michigan's state budget in a new lawsuit that claims the funding was never properly authorized.

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Tech CEO Duped Investors, Faked Blockchain Deals, Feds Say

By Stewart Bishop and Aislinn Keely

The co-founder and CEO of Amalgam Capital Ventures on Wednesday was charged with defrauding investors in the purported blockchain-based software startup by lying about sky-high revenue projections and partnerships with well-known businesses, including major league sports teams and top payment processing platforms.

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Sports Betting Fraudster Gets 5 Years In Prison

By Elliot Weld

A Las Vegas man was sentenced Wednesday in Ohio federal court to five years and five months in prison after pleading guilty in a case alleging he used sports betting businesses to bilk $8.5 million from investors for his personal enrichment.

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Gold Mine Risks Alaska Preserve And Whales, Tribe Claims

By Jonathan Capriel

An Alaskan tribe and environmental groups have filed suit against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers seeking to stop a mining company from expanding gold operations, activity that would contaminate the waterways near a national park and harm the endangered beluga whale population.

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Series

Law School's Missed Lessons: Becoming A Firmwide MVP

Though lawyers don't have a neat metric like baseball players for measuring the value they contribute to their organizations, the sooner new attorneys learn skills frequently skipped in law school — like networking, marketing, client development and case evaluation — the more valuable, and less replaceable, they will be, says Alex Barnett at DiCello Levitt.

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The Status Of Biden-Era Immigration Suits: A Roundup

By Britain Eakin

Following the presidential transition, the U.S. Department of Justice moved to dismiss suits brought by the Biden administration challenging state immigration enforcement measures in Texas, Iowa and Oklahoma, leaving the status of those cases up in the air.

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Judge Warns Attys Using AI To 'Advocate — Not Hallucinate'

By Lauren Berg

A Florida federal judge on Tuesday sanctioned two attorneys in a shipping contract dispute for filing a brief that included a nonexistent case citation added by artificial intelligence, warning lawyers that they must "carefully evaluate, elucidate and advocate — not hallucinate" in their legal briefs.

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$1.8M From Legal Industry Fuels NYC Mayor's Race

By Anna Sanders

The legal industry poured at least $1.79 million into this year’s election for New York City mayor, the majority going to incumbent Eric Adams, attorney Jim Walden and former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Law360 Pulse found.

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Democrats Wary of Nominees' Pledge To Honor Court Orders

By Courtney Bubl茅

Nominees for top roles at the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security fended off questions from Democrats on Wednesday about the Trump administration's willingness to defy court orders and pledged that the White House would at least follow rulings of the Supreme Court.

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Ford Hits Calif. Firms With RICO Suit Over Lemon Law Billing

By Emily Sawicki

The Ford Motor Co. sued several California-based law firms and lawyers in Los Angeles federal court Wednesday, accusing them of conspiring to overcharge clients and defraud major automotive manufacturers by more than $100 million by submitting falsely inflated time sheets in thousands of consumer protection cases.

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Girardi's Son-In-Law Was No 'Babe In The Woods,' Feds Say

By Lauraann Wood

The Chicago federal judge presiding over a summer client theft trial against Girardi Keese founder Tom Girardi's son-in-law should not limit the government's case based on positions it took during Girardi's California trial because its positions are consistent, and the cases are charged differently, prosecutors argued Wednesday.

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SF Law Firms' Ex-CFO Gets 3 Years For Embezzling $1.3M

By Bonnie Eslinger

A former chief financial officer of two San Francisco law firms was sentenced to just over three years in prison Wednesday for stealing more than $1.3 million from the firms and others, after one firm's founder said the defendant appeared to enjoy "stabbing us all in the back."

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Apologetic NJ Atty Gets 21 Months For $350K COVID Fraud

By George Woolston

A New Jersey attorney sentenced to 21 months in federal prison on Wednesday for claiming he was a business in order to receive nearly $350,000 earmarked for small businesses amid the COVID-19 pandemic apologized to the court for the "embarrassment" he caused to the legal profession.

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Immigrant Groups Appeal Denied Bid To Halt IRS-ICE Deal

By Natalie Olivo

Immigrant advocacy groups on Wednesday appealed a D.C. federal judge's order denying their bid to block the IRS from sharing taxpayer data with immigration enforcement agencies, with their counsel warning "it will be too late" once the information is shared.

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