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July 08, 2025
Jackson Walker, US Trustee Have A Week To Finish Mediation
A Texas federal judge has given Jackson Walker LLP and the federal government's bankruptcy watchdog a week to finish mediation in a fee dispute stemming from a former bankruptcy judge's secret relationship with a former firm partner.
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July 08, 2025
NY Lawyer Wants Jay-Z's Claims In Suit Against Buzbee Tossed
A New York City lawyer wants a court to dismiss allegations that she took part in a conspiracy with prominent attorney Tony Buzbee to extort Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter via a since-dropped rape case, arguing that the hip-hop mogul's claims against her were brought in an improper forum and that he failed to state a claim.
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July 08, 2025
Texas Stock Exchange Taps Former SEC Markets Executive
The Texas Stock Exchange's owner on Tuesday said it has hired U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission veteran David Saltiel to join the startup, which aims to compete with the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq.
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July 08, 2025
Fed. Circ. Won't Revive EcoFactor Thermostat Patent Claims
The Federal Circuit on Tuesday refused to revive a series of EcoFactor Inc. patents related to energy-efficient smart thermostats, backing Patent Trial and Appeal Board findings that Google showed the patents were invalid.
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July 08, 2025
Approach The Bench: Judge Biery Has Fun Writing
U.S. District Judge Fred Biery is now famous for the quirky written opinions he's produced during three decades as a trial judge for the Western District of Texas, but he was on the federal bench for a few years before he started to experiment in his opinion writing.
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July 08, 2025
Linqto Hits Ch. 11 Amid SEC Probe, Compliance Concerns
Linqto, a platform that connected investors with pre-IPO startups and other privately held firms, has filed for bankruptcy in Texas amid an investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and internal concerns over its compliance with securities laws.
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July 07, 2025
Texas Says GM Can't Use Ch. 11 Sale To End Data Privacy Suit
The Texas attorney general is urging a New York bankruptcy court to reject General Motors' bid to escape a data privacy suit being pressed by his office over the automaker's allegedly unlawful collection and sale of drivers' private information, arguing that the court lacks jurisdiction over the agency and that the claims aren't barred by prior bankruptcy proceedings.Â
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July 07, 2025
AGs Urge Texas Ad Tech Judge Not To Delay Google Trial
An attorney for the Texas-led coalition of attorneys general targeting Google's advertising placement technology business urged a Texas federal judge Monday not to delay the upcoming jury trial, arguing there's no need to worry about potential inconsistencies with a Justice Department case in Virginia.
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July 07, 2025
5th Circ. Says Apple Didn't Suppress Union In NYC
The Fifth Circuit on Monday reversed the National Labor Relations Board's ruling that Apple illegally interrogated a leader of a Manhattan store organizing campaign and confiscated union flyers, saying the manager's questions were benign and the confiscations were routine tidying.
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July 07, 2025
Gun Rights Groups Sue To Overturn National Firearms Act
Multiple gun rights advocacy groups asked a Texas federal court to throw out most of the National Firearms Act, saying that because the One Big Beautiful Bill Act reduced the tax for certain controlled firearms to $0, the NFA could no longer pass a constitutional smell test.
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July 07, 2025
Coder Who Claimed Evidence 'Ambush' Can't Get New Trial
An Ohio federal judge refused Monday to grant the request for a new trial from a former software engineer at a multinational power engineering conglomerate who alleged that prosecutors "ambushed" him with key evidence at his trial on a computer-sabotage charge, ruling the evidence in question was not "material."
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July 07, 2025
Texas Appeals Court Finds $50M Dubai Judgment Was Unfair
A Texas appeals court has found that a $50 million judgment issued by a United Arab Emirates court system against executives who allegedly fled the country after committing fraud could not stand under state law, saying the UAE court system never provided the executives adequate notice.
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July 07, 2025
Well Co. Says Contractor, Liberty Units Must Cover Injury Suit
A well site operator is entitled to defense and indemnity for an underlying injury suit brought by a contractor's employee, the operator told a Texas federal court, saying the contractor and its Liberty Mutual insurers have wrongfully refused coverage.
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July 07, 2025
Split 5th Circ. Upholds Block Of Texas' Migrant Arrest Law
A split Fifth Circuit panel left intact a district court order blocking the enforcement of a Texas law that allows state officials to arrest people suspected of crossing the border unlawfully and empowers local judges to order their removal.
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July 07, 2025
Energy Co. Says $7.6M Award Result Of 'Classic' Contract Law
An energy company that ended a contract with a Houston Ship Channel facility over a lack of dock space is asking an appeals court to back its $7.6 million award, writing that the lack of availability was a clear violation of its original agreement.
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July 07, 2025
Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court
In Delaware in the past week, a vice chancellor awarded just $1 in damages to a China-tied company looking to secure a $50 million stake in SpaceX while also slamming the fund's manager for acting "insincerely," Tyson Foods won $55 million in damages in a suit claiming the owner of two poultry rendering plants Tyson acquired hid that it relied on a "disfavored" practice of recovering "unappetizing remnants of butchered chickens," and a suit over a one-site bank's 11-aircraft fleet was moved into the discovery phase.
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July 07, 2025
Texas AG Paxton Drops Appeal Of $6.7M Whistleblower Award
The Texas attorney general's office has abandoned its appeal of a $6.68 million judgment awarded to a group of former deputies to Attorney General Ken Paxton who say they were fired in retaliation for reporting alleged abuses of office to the FBI.
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July 07, 2025
Gift Wrap Manufacturer Can Tap $25M Post-Bankruptcy Money
IG Design Group Americas Inc., one of the world's biggest manufacturers of gift wrap, won court approval Monday to tap $25 million of new money to finance its bankruptcy case as it pursues a sale of some assets, after the company filed for Chapter 11 protection last week in the face of sagging business, U.S. tariffs and the loss of Joann Inc., a major customer.
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July 03, 2025
State Telecom Roundup: States Rush To Meet New BEAD Regs
States were allocated their share of the $42.5 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment Program two years ago. Some states were nearly ready to announce which companies would receive a slice of the funding and exactly how much they would get when President Donald Trump's administration shook things up in early June by rescinding all the awards.
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July 03, 2025
Stewart Drops Mixed Bag Of Discretionary Denial Rulings
Acting U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Coke Morgan Stewart has released 24 more discretionary denial decisions, more than half of which she cleared challenges to move forward through the Patent Trial and Appeal Board process.
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July 03, 2025
Real Estate Recap: CEQA, Data Center Energy, Midyear Views
Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including attorney insight into this week's reforms to the California Environmental Quality Act, how states are approaching energy demand for data center projects, and where the commercial and residential real estate sectors stand at the midyear.
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July 03, 2025
Truck Crash Case Settles Amid Appeal Of $14M Verdict
Texas trucking companies and an injured driver have settled a nearly decade-old negligence lawsuit, ending a case that initially resulted in an $80 million verdict — later reduced to $13.7 million — but was dramatically reshaped by intervention by the state's highest court.Â
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July 03, 2025
Fortnite Creator Accused Of IP Violations For In-Game Comms
The creator of the popular video game Fortnite has been sued by a California company claiming the game's player-to-player messaging options infringe patents it holds related to communications via internet protocols.
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July 03, 2025
Dr. Phil, Christian Network Clash Over Media Co. Ch. 11 Loan
A Texas bankruptcy judge on Thursday gave a media company permission to draw on a Chapter 11 loan from its founder, television personality Phil McGraw, and set a short schedule for a hearing on an attempt to claw back a $25 million note from the company's Christian network co-owner.
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July 03, 2025
Circuit-By-Circuit Recap: Justices Send Message To Outliers
It was a tough term at the U.S. Supreme Court for two very different circuits — one solidly liberal, one solidly conservative — that had their rulings overturned in eye-popping numbers. But it was another impressive year for a relatively moderate circuit that appears increasingly simpatico with the high court.
Expert Analysis
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Why Texas Should Slow Down On Healthcare Merger Bills
More time is needed to study three Texas bills aimed at considering the effects of healthcare consolidation to increase affordability and access to healthcare, which could have the opposite effect, say John Saran and Harshita Rathore at Holland & Knight and Robbie Allen at U.S. Heart and Vascular.
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DOJ Memo Raises Bar For Imposition Of Corporate Monitors
A recently released U.S. Department of Justice memo, outlining guidance on the imposition of compliance monitors in corporate criminal cases, reflects DOJ leadership’s concerns about scope creep and business costs, but the strategies for companies to avoid a monitorship haven't changed much compared to the Biden era, says James Koukios at MoFo.
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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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How Cos. Can Navigate Risks Of New Cartel Terrorist Labels
The Trump administration’s recent designation of eight drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations gives rise to new criminal and civil liabilities for companies that are unwittingly exposed to cartel activity, but businesses can mitigate such risks in a few key ways, say attorneys at Steptoe.
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5 Tribunals' Rules To Help Patent Litigators Avoid AI Disasters
Tech-savvy patent litigators are uniquely poised to stay current on the latest developments in artificial intelligence, such that courts may have even higher expectations for their compliance with AI rules, including the standing orders of several patent-heavy fora, say attorneys at Finnegan.
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Perspectives
Reading Tea Leaves In High Court's Criminal Law Decisions
The criminal justice decisions the U.S. Supreme Court will announce in the coming weeks will reveal whether last term’s fractured decision-making has continued, an important data point as the justices’ alignment seems to correlate with who benefits from a case’s outcome, says Sharon Fairley at the University of Chicago Law School.
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$38M Law Firm Settlement Highlights 'Unworthy Client' Perils
A recent settlement of claims against law firm Eckert Seamans for allegedly abetting a Ponzi scheme underscores the continuing threat of clients who seek to exploit their lawyers in perpetrating fraud, and the critical importance of preemptive measures to avoid these clients, say attorneys at Lockton Companies.
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Hints Of Where Enforcement May Grow Under New ÃÛÌÒÊÓÆµ
Though the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has significantly scaled back enforcement under the new administration, states remain able to pursue Consumer Financial Protection Act violators and the ÃÛÌÒÊÓÆµ seems set to enhance its focus on predatory loans to military members and fraudulent debt collection and credit reporting practices, say attorneys at MoFo.
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Series
Teaching Business Law Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Teaching business law to college students has rekindled my sense of purpose as a lawyer — I am more mindful of the importance of the rule of law and the benefits of our common law system, which helps me maintain a clearer perspective on work, says David Feldman at Feldman Legal Advisors.
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Choosing A Road To Autonomous Vehicle Compliance
As autonomous vehicle manufacturers navigate the complex U.S. regulatory landscape, they may opt for different approaches to following federal, state and local rules and laws, as they balance the tradeoffs between innovation, compliance and speed of deployment, say attorneys at Sidley.
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Navigating The Expanding Frontier Of Premerger Notice Laws
Washington's newly enacted law requiring premerger notification to state enforcers builds upon a growing trend of state scrutiny into transactions in the healthcare sector and beyond, and may inspire other states to enact similar legislation, say attorneys at Simpson Thacher.
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Law School's Missed Lessons: Mastering Discovery
The discovery process and the rules that govern it are often absent from law school curricula, but developing a solid grasp of the particulars can give any new attorney a leg up in their practice, says Jordan Davies at Knowles Gallant.
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Opinion
Proposals Against Phillips 66 Threaten Corporate Law
Activist investor Elliott Investment Management's latest attempted tactic — initiating a high-stakes proxy contest against Phillips 66 — goes too far and would cause the company to both violate Delaware law and avoid the legal exception to the shareholder proposal process, says J.W. Verret at George Mason University.
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AT&T Decision May Establish Framework To Block FCC Fines
The Fifth Circuit's recent decision in AT&T v. FCC upends the commission's authority to impose certain civil penalties, reinforcing constitutional safeguards against administrative overreach, and opening avenues for telecommunications and technology providers to challenge forfeiture orders, say attorneys at HWG.
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Playing Guitar Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Being a lawyer not only requires logic and hard work, but also belief, emotion, situational awareness and lots of natural energy — playing guitar enhances all of these qualities, increasing my capacity to do my best work, says Kosta Stojilkovic at Wilkinson Stekloff.