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April 10, 2025
Jury To Hear Judge Had 48 Guns In Retrial Over Shooting Wife
Jurors in the upcoming retrial of a California jurist accused of murdering his wife while intoxicated can hear that he had 48 firearms and thousands of ammunition rounds in his home, after the presiding judge ruled Thursday it was relevant to show he committed an intentional act he knew was inherently dangerous.
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April 10, 2025
Paying Senator Directly Would Have Been 'Funky,' Jury Hears
A former red-light camera executive serving as the government's star witness in an Illinois senator's bribery trial acknowledged Thursday that only he raised concerns about keeping their relationship private and concealing financial payments so they wouldn't look "funky" to the public.
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April 10, 2025
Pa. Court, University Partner To Offer Juror Counseling
Philadelphia's jury commissioner told a National Center for State Courts audience this week that his efforts to provide post-trial mental health support for jurors came to fruition when he was able to partner with a university.
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April 10, 2025
11th Circ. Says 'Bombshell' Producer Stuck With $19M Verdict
The Eleventh Circuit on Thursday backed a Florida jury's $19 million-plus verdict against a Canadian film producer known for the movie "Bombshell" over an investor's claims the producer defrauded him out of millions of dollars meant to fund several TV productions.
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April 10, 2025
1st Circ. Asked To Save $34M Fee Bid In JetBlue-Spirit Case
Passengers who launched an antitrust challenge to the since-scrapped JetBlue-Spirit Airlines merger have asked the First Circuit to revive their bid to collect up to $34 million in legal fees, insisting that they paved the way for the deal to be blocked, so they should be declared the "prevailing party."
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April 10, 2025
Soulja Boy's Ex-Assistant Wins $4.25M At Trial Over Abuse
A jury in California state court held Thursday that the rapper known as Soulja Boy must pay $4.25 million for physically and sexually abusing his live-in personal assistant for nearly two years, according to the plaintiff's counsel.
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April 10, 2025
Albright Sends VLSI-Intel Licensing Question To Trial
A Texas federal jury must determine whether VLSI Technology is controlled by Fortress Investment Group before a judge can then decide whether Intel Corp.'s license with a Fortress affiliate extends to VLSI's patents, U.S. District Judge Alan Albright ruled Thursday.
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April 10, 2025
Israel's NSO Faces April Damages Trial For WhatsApp Hacking
A California federal judge on Thursday nailed down details of an April 28 jury trial to determine the amount of damages Israeli spyware-maker NSO Group owes Meta for hacking into 1,400 WhatsApp users' devices, refusing to seal the proceedings and expressing frustration at the amount of discovery withheld by the parties, particularly NSO.
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April 10, 2025
Mass. Officials, Feds On A 'Low Boil' After Midtrial ICE Arrest
The midtrial immigration arrest of a Dominican national during his Massachusetts court case has raised tensions between federal and state prosecutors and threatens to injure cooperation between the offices, experts say.
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April 10, 2025
Ga. Panel Signals Toddler Death Testimony Best Left To Jury
The Georgia Court of Appeals appeared unpersuaded Thursday by a pediatrician's bid to toss a $4 million medical malpractice verdict she was hit with for allegedly misdiagnosing a toddler's ingestion of a battery that later killed him, doubting her efforts to undermine the testimony of one of the family's key experts.
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April 10, 2025
Ex-EBay Execs Want To Question Key Stalking Case Witness
Three former eBay executives facing claims they helped direct a campaign to harass bloggers critical of the company have told a Massachusetts federal judge they want to question a key witness about his past role as an undercover government agent.
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April 10, 2025
Colo. Supreme Court Rejects Fire Plaintiffs' Trial Opt-Out Bid
The Colorado Supreme Court has declined to hear a challenge to a judge's plan for a single liability trial on thousands of consolidated claims alleging Xcel Energy and two telecom companies are responsible for a 2021 wildfire.
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April 10, 2025
6th Circ. Backs Ford In Race, Sexual Harassment Suit
The Sixth Circuit declined to scrap a jury win for Ford Motor Co. in a Black ex-employee's suit claiming she was sexually assaulted and racially harassed on the job, ruling the verdict lined up with a lack of evidence that Ford could have stopped the alleged mistreatment sooner.
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April 10, 2025
Meta Trial Rooted In Decade-Old WhatsApp, Instagram Buys
Federal Trade Commission lawyers are set for a trial Monday that will assess the exact scope of competition that Meta Platform's offerings face providing personal social media services and the reach of monopolization allegations targeting its purchases of WhatsApp and Instagram.
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April 09, 2025
OpenAI Countersues Musk For 'Relentless' Harassment
OpenAI on Wednesday lodged a countersuit to Elon Musk's lawsuit accusing the ChatGPT maker of abandoning its nonprofit mission, urging a California federal court to stop the billionaire from continuing an alleged "harassment campaign" aimed at impeding its success.
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April 09, 2025
FBI Agent Denounced By OneTaste Execs Likely To Testify
An FBI agent accused of misconduct by two former OneTaste executives will likely be allowed to testify at their upcoming trial on forced labor conspiracy charges, a Brooklyn federal judge said Wednesday.
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April 09, 2025
Hollywood Filmmaker Owes $1.7B For Sex Assault, Jury Says
A New York state jury held Wednesday that Oscar-nominated screenwriter and director James Toback must pay $1.68 billion to 40 women he sexually assaulted over the course of four decades, according to an announcement from the victims' lawyers.
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April 09, 2025
Charter Confused Jurors In $1B Patent Feud, Gilstrap Told
A New York-based startup whose infringement case against Charter Communications was rejected by a federal jury in Marshall, Texas, last month now wants a new trial, telling U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap that Charter deployed a "calculated plan to confuse the jury."
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April 09, 2025
Ill. Senator Sought Bribe In 'Politics For Profit,' Feds Say
An Illinois state senator engaged in "politics for profit" as he solicited a bribe to limit a state study on automated traffic enforcement and then lied about his conduct to investigators, federal prosecutors told a jury Wednesday.
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April 09, 2025
Full Fed. Circ. Lets Stand Patent Tied To $400M Labcorp Loss
The full Federal Circuit on Wednesday rejected Labcorp's request for a review of a panel decision foiling its bid to challenge patent claims underpinning an infringement judgment against it that now totals $400 million.
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April 09, 2025
Disney Doesn't Deserve $5.7M Fee In 'Moana' Suit, Artist Says
Disney doesn't deserve $5.7 million in fees for beating an animator's copyright suit accusing it of ripping off his Polynesian adventure story to create "Moana," the plaintiff said Tuesday, arguing his case wasn't frivolous, considering the California federal judge found multiple times that sufficient similarity existed between the works.Â
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April 09, 2025
Justices Urged To Look At Fed. Circ. Ax Of $13M IP Verdict
A patent-holding company has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review a Federal Circuit decision that threw out a $13 million jury verdict against NCR Corp. in a suit accusing it of infringing two payment processing patents.
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April 09, 2025
Defunct Concrete Co.'s Profits Were An 'Illusion,' NC Jury Told
The former owner of a concrete business that flopped months after it was bought out cooked the books to make the sale look more appealing, a federal jury in North Carolina heard Wednesday at the start of a civil fraud trial, in which the company's buyer has alleged he was lured into a bad deal.
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April 09, 2025
NC Fights Bias Finding In Death Row Case After Clemency
North Carolina has asked the state Supreme Court to review a trial court ruling finding racial bias tainted the jury selection at a Black man's capital murder trial, saying the man's case was rendered moot in December when the outgoing governor commuted his sentence, according to a petition filed Monday.
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April 09, 2025
Ex-Qualcomm Executive Convicted Of $180M Fraud
A federal jury in San Diego has found a former executive at Qualcomm guilty of defrauding the chipmaker by creating a fake company, concealing his connection to it and selling it to Qualcomm for $180 million.
Expert Analysis
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Opinion
AI May Limit Key Learning Opportunities For Young Attorneys
The thing that’s so powerful about artificial intelligence is also what’s most scary about it — its ability to detect patterns may curtail young attorneys’ chance to practice the lower-level work of managing cases, preventing them from ever honing the pattern recognition skills that undergird creative lawyering, says Sarah Murray at Trialcraft.
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Antitrust Issues To Watch Amid Google Ad Tech Trial
Regardless of the outcome of the U.S. Department of Justice's advertising technology antitrust suit against Google in Virginia federal court, matters ranging from market definition to unified pricing will likely have far-reaching implications for the digital advertising industry, competition and innovation, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.
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6 Tips For Trying Cases Away From Home
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A truly national litigation practice, by definition, often requires trying cases in jurisdictions across the country, which presents unique challenges that require methodical preparation and coordination both within the trial team and externally, say Edward Bennett and Suzanne Salgado at Williams & Connolly.
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How NLRB Memo Balances Schools' Labor, Privacy Concerns
Natale DiNatale at Robinson & Cole highlights the recent National Labor Relations Board advice memorandum that aims to help colleges reconcile competing obligations under the National Labor Relations Act and the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act as university students flock toward unionization.
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A Blueprint For Structuring An Effective Plaintiff Case Story
The number and size of nuclear verdicts continue to rise, in part because plaintiffs attorneys have become more adept at crafting compelling trial stories — and an analysis of these success stories reveals a 10-part framework for structuring an effective case narrative, says Jonathan Ross at Decision Analysis.
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Series
Round-Canopy Parachuting Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Similar to the practice of law, jumping from an in-flight airplane with nothing but training and a few yards of parachute silk is a demanding and stressful endeavor, and the experience has bolstered my legal practice by enhancing my focus, teamwork skills and sense of perspective, says Thomas Salerno at Stinson.
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Boeing Ruling Is A Cautionary Tale For Trade Secret Litigants
A Washington federal court’s recent ruling canceling a $72 million jury award against Boeing because Zunum Aero had failed to properly identify its trade secrets highlights the value of an early statement of alleged secrets, amended through discovery and used as a framework at trial, says Matthew D'Amore at Cornell.
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Why Now Is The Time For Law Firms To Hire Lateral Partners
Partner and associate mobility data from the second quarter of this year suggest that there's never been a better time in recent years for law firms to hire lateral candidates, particularly experienced partners — though this necessitates an understanding of potential red flags, say Julie Henson and Greg Hamman at Decipher Investigative Intelligence.
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Google And The Next Frontier Of Divestiture Antitrust Remedy
The possibility of a large-scale divestiture in the Google search case comes on the heels of recent requests of business breakups as remedies for anticompetitive conduct, and companies should prepare for the likelihood that courts may impose divestiture remedies in the event of a liability finding, say Lauren Weinstein and Nathaniel Rubin at MoloLamken.
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Considering Possible PR Risks Of Certain Legal Tactics
Disney and American Airlines recently abandoned certain litigation tactics in two lawsuits after fierce public backlash, illustrating why corporate counsel should consider the reputational implications of any legal strategy and partner with their communications teams to preempt public relations concerns, says Chris Gidez at G7 Reputation Advisory.
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It's No Longer Enough For Firms To Be Trusted Advisers
Amid fierce competition for business, the transactional “trusted adviser” paradigm from which most firms operate is no longer sufficient — they should instead aim to become trusted partners with their most valuable clients, says Stuart Maister at Strategic Narrative.
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5 Credibility Lessons Trial Attys Can Learn From Harris' Run
In launching a late-stage campaign for president, Vice President Kamala Harris must seize upon fresh attention from voters to establish, or reestablish, credibility — a challenge that parallels and provides takeaways for trial attorneys, says Ken Broda-Bahm at Persuasion Strategies.
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Court Denial Of $335M UFC Deal Sets Bold Antitrust Precedent
A Nevada federal court’s recent refusal to accept a $335 million deal between Ultimate Fighting Championship and a group of former fighters to settle claims of anticompetitive conduct was a rare decision that risks the floodgates opening on established antitrust case law, says Mohit Pasricha at Lawrence Stephens.
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How Methods Are Evolving In Textualist Interpretations
Textualists at the U.S. Supreme Court are increasingly considering new methods such as corpus linguistics and surveys to evaluate what a statute's text communicates to an ordinary reader, while lower courts even mull large language models like ChatGPT as supplements, says Kevin Tobia at Georgetown Law.
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5 Ways To Confront Courtroom Technology Challenges
Recent cybersecurity incidents highlight the vulnerabilities of our reliance on digital infrastructure, meaning attorneys must be prepared to navigate technological obstacles inside the courtroom, including those related to data security, presentation hardware, video playback and more, says Adam Bloomberg at IMS Legal Strategies.