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July 25, 2025
Punitive Damages Denial Stands In Jack Nicklaus' Fla. Suit
A Florida state judge has rejected legendary golfer Jack Nicklaus' motion to reconsider the denial of a punitive damages claim in a defamation suit against a company Nicklaus founded and two of its officers.
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July 25, 2025
Trump Directs NLRB And DOL To 'Clarify' Athletes' Status
President Donald Trump has directed the U.S. Department of Labor and the National Labor Relations Board to "clarify" the status of college athletes as part of a broader push to halt changes to collegiate athletics following the courts' end to certain restrictions on compensating players.
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July 25, 2025
Fighters Push Sports Agency For Docs In UFC Wage Dispute
Fighters engaged in an ongoing battle over wages with UFC are asking a Nevada federal court to force a sports talent agency to turn over documents they say will shed light on their antitrust claims and help build their case.
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July 25, 2025
Fried Frank M&A Leader Sees Silver Lining Amid Uncertainties
After nearly a decade as co-head of Fried Frank's M&A and private equity practice, seasoned corporate attorney Steve Epstein has learned how to roll with the punches — and the current market has delivered plenty.
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July 25, 2025
Okla. Tribe Fights Town's Plan To Cut Casino Utilities
The Delaware Nation is suing the town of Hinton, Oklahoma, and its officials, alleging that the municipality has threatened to nix utility services to its casino after an agreement over land use expired, in an effort to extract taxes from the federally recognized tribe.
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July 24, 2025
Logan Paul's Co. Can't Depose Messi In Drink TM Row
Logan Paul's sports drink company has lost its bid to depose soccer star Lionel Messi in a trademark dispute after a New York federal judge found the deposition request to be "vexatious and improper," and pointed out that Messi attested he lacks unique knowledge about the issues in the case.
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July 24, 2025
Split 9th Circ. Affirms Block Of Calif. Ammunition Regulation
A split Ninth Circuit panel Thursday affirmed a lower court's finding that California can't require gun owners to undergo background checks before buying ammunition, ruling that the law runs afoul of the Second Amendment in light of the U.S. Supreme Court's 2022 ruling in Bruen.
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July 24, 2025
Ex-Astros CEO Says He Fully Trusted Owner During 2011 Sale
A former Houston Astros CEO testified Thursday in state court that the baseball team fully trusted owner Drayton McLane Jr. during his 2011 sale of the team when he said Comcast Corp. could deliver on a plan estimated to be worth $700 million over eight years.
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July 24, 2025
NY Regents Say Court Already Ruled On Native Mascot Ban
The New York State Board of Regents has told a federal judge the opponents of a ban on Native American mascots cannot rehash issues already settled by the court, while an advocacy organization has argued that tossing the lawsuit based on precedent would silence the very group the new rule seeks to help.
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July 24, 2025
Swimmers Cut Deal In Antitrust Case Against Governing Body
Professional swimmers have reached a settlement ending their claims accusing the sport's international governing body of organizing a group boycott against an upstart league, while the league's antitrust claims against the governing body remain set for a January trial.
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July 24, 2025
NJ Judge Orders Gun Store To Halt Illegal Ammo Sales
A Garden State firearms retailer violated state law by failing to implement reasonable safeguards and selling ammunition to undercover state investigators without checking identification or confirming eligibility to purchase, a New Jersey Superior Court judge ruled.
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July 24, 2025
DC Council Sets Vote On Revised Commanders Stadium Deal
The Washington, D.C., City Council will vote next Friday, Aug. 1, on a revised version of the proposal to build a stadium for the Washington Commanders at the site of its previous stadium, Council Chair Phil Mendelson announced Thursday.
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July 24, 2025
CapVest Seeks $11.7B Stake In Stada, Plus More Rumors
British private equity firm CapVest Partners is looking to take a major stake in German drugmaker Stada Arzneimittel in a roughly $11.7 billion deal, Comedy Central's "South Park" creators have nabbed a $1.5 billion five-year streaming rights deal with Paramount, and ExxonMobil wants to explore deepwater blocks in Trinidad and Tobago for oil and gas. Here, Law360 breaks down these and other deal rumors from the past week.
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July 24, 2025
Ex-UMich Coach Must Answer Hacking Claims By Sept. 2
A former University of Michigan football coach told a federal judge Thursday that he wasn't trying to delay civil cases alleging he hacked thousands of female student-athletes' personal information, as the judge rejected his request to give him more time than other defendants to respond to the allegations.
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July 23, 2025
Full Fed. Circ. Won't Disturb Machine Learning Patent Ruling
The full Federal Circuit on Wednesday declined to reconsider its first-ever patent eligibility decision involving machine learning, leaving in place a panel's April findings that applying established machine learning methods to a new area cannot be patented.
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July 23, 2025
Meme Coin Buyers Say Pump.Fun Offered 'Illegal Gambling'
Users of the meme coin launchpad Pump.Fun accused the company of operating an illegal digital casino in an updated complaint that added racketeering allegations to their earlier proposed securities class action and named developers of the project's underlying blockchain as defendants.
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July 23, 2025
Oakley Penalized For Failing To Preserve Texts In MSG Spat
A New York federal judge Wednesday declined to dismiss the assault and battery lawsuit launched by former New York Knicks player Charles Oakley against Madison Square Garden and said it will not impose monetary sanctions, related to destroyed text messages, against two law firms representing him.
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July 23, 2025
No Coverage For Deadly Chiefs Super Bowl Rally, Insurer Says
An insurer said it has no duty to defend or indemnify the organizers of the 2024 Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl rally in a suit by the family of a woman who was fatally shot during the event, telling a Missouri federal court that an assault or battery exclusion bars coverage.
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July 23, 2025
AGs Ask NCAA To Revoke Transgender Athletes' Awards
Attorneys general from 27 states and Guam sent a letter to the NCAA urging it to rescind recent records and titles that were "wrongly" awarded to transgender female college athletes and instead give them to their cisgender competitors.
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July 23, 2025
DLA Piper Employment Atty Jumps To Davis Wright In LA
Davis Wright Tremaine LLP is expanding its employment law team, announcing this week that it has brought in a DLA Piper litigator as a partner in its Los Angeles office.
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July 23, 2025
8th Circ. Wipes Out Pot-Smoking Gun Owner's Conviction
The Eighth Circuit has vacated a man's conviction for possessing a firearm as an unlawful drug user, saying the trial court failed to determine that his use of cannabis made him dangerous to others or pose a credible threat with the firearm.
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July 22, 2025
JetBlue Sued Over Scalding Coffee Incident On Flight
A Team USA judo instructor suffered permanent eye injuries when a JetBlue employee spilled coffee on him while trying to serve another passenger, according to a New York federal lawsuit that seeks to hold the airline liable.
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July 22, 2025
Mich. Justices Say Gaming Act Doesn't Bar $3M BetMGM Suit
The Michigan Supreme Court on Tuesday said a statute legalizing online betting did not take away a disgruntled gambler's ability to bring certain common-law claims in state court, reviving a lawsuit alleging BetMGM improperly withheld more than $3 million in winnings from an online roulette game.
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July 22, 2025
Fubo Streamers Get Own Attys In Disney Suit
DiCello Levitt and Lite DePalma have won out over Bathaee Dunne in a battle to represent FuboTV subscribers suing Disney over ESPN streaming rates, with a judge saying he had "grave doubts" that Yavar Bathaee could adequately represent the plaintiffs after Bathaee undercut their case in a status conference.
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July 22, 2025
Del. Boutique Wins 'Heated' Battle To Lead Endeavor Suit
Litigation boutique Abrams & Bayliss LLP has been handed the reins to a potential blockbuster lawsuit alleging that sports and entertainment giant Endeavor Group Holdings was undervalued in a $13 billion take-private deal, with a Delaware vice chancellor on Tuesday settling what she described as a "heated," and at times personal, leadership fight in the case.
Expert Analysis
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Making The Pitch To Grow Your Company's Legal Team
In a compressed economy, convincing the C-suite to invest in additional legal talent can be a herculean task, but a convincing pitch — supported by metrics and cost analyses — may help in-house counsel justify the growth of their team, say Elizabeth Smith and Roger Garceau at Major Lindsey.
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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’s 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 — from changes in the C-suite to lateral move challenges — providing clues for what’s to come in the year ahead, says Ben Curle at Ambition.
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5 Notable Anti-Money Laundering Actions From 2024
Regulators' renewed interest in anti-money laundering programs in 2024 led to numerous enforcement actions and individual prosecutions in industries like banking, cryptocurrency and gaming, including the blockbuster TD Bank settlement and investigations of casinos in Nevada, says Michael Beckwith at Dickinson Wright.
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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 at Greenwald Doherty.
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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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From Football To Pickleball, Sports Investing Evolved In 2024
The NFL's decision to allow private-equity investments in football franchises capped off a transformative year in U.S. sports that also included landmark PE transactions in emerging sports ranging from women's soccer to pickleball, say attorneys at Weil.
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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’s market, with the average candidate demanding less compensation for a larger book of business — 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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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 “sliding scale” approach instead of syllogistic reasoning, says Luke Andrews at Poole Huffman.
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Think Like A Lawyer: Note 3 Simple Types Of Legal Complexity
Cases can appear complex for several reasons — due to the number of issues, the volume of factual and evidentiary sources, and the sophistication of those sources — 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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Tracking The Uncertainty Of The FTC's Negative Option Rule
The fate of the Federal Trade Commission's final rule requiring businesses that utilize negative options to provide consumers with a simple cancellation method remains in limbo as it faces multiple legal challenges and the threat of possible congressional action looms, say attorneys at Manatt.
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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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Takeaways From DOJ's Intervention On Pricing Algorithm Use
A recent U.S. Justice Department amicus brief arguing that a Nevada federal judge wrongly focused on the nonbinding aspect of software company Cendyn Group's pricing algorithm underscores the growing challenge of determining when, if ever, pricing algorithms are legal, say attorneys at Rule Garza.
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Litigation Inspiration: Reframing Document Review
For attorneys — new ones especially — 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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Series
Flying Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Achieving my childhood dream of flying airplanes made me a better lawyer — and a better person — 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.