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August 01, 2025
Fed. Circ. Won't Move Fintiv, Apple Trial Date
The Federal Circuit on Friday denied Fintiv Inc.'s request to delay its Monday trial against Apple over a patent for storing virtual credit cards on mobile devices for contactless payments.
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August 01, 2025
Google Wants Pause On Play Store Order In Antitrust Fight
Google asked the Ninth Circuit for an emergency administrative pause Friday on its looming deadline to open up the Play Store to alternative app distribution, saying it needs breathing room before it can formally seek a pause after the appellate court upheld Epic Games' landmark antitrust win.
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August 01, 2025
Fed. Circ. Backs PTAB Ax Of Claims In Network Speed Patents
The Federal Circuit on Friday affirmed a handful of Patent Trial and Appeal Board decisions that found claims across four patents on increasing network communication speed owned by Israeli tech company Bright Data were invalid.
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August 01, 2025
J&J Unit's Catheter Rival Scores Injunction After $442M Win
A California federal judge will block Johnson & Johnson's Biosense Webster from refusing clinical support for its Carto cardio mapping systems from hospitals that use competitors' cardiac catheters, requiring the company to institute nondiscriminatory pricing for its services at hospitals regardless of which products they use.
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August 01, 2025
Tesla Hit With $329M Verdict In Trial Over Fatal Autopilot Crash
A Miami jury in a highly publicized trial over Tesla's autopilot on Friday found the product to be defective and awarded the victims of a 2019 fatal Florida Keys crash $329 million in damages.
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August 01, 2025
Widow Can't Be Spared Husband's Tax Debt, 11th Circ. Affirms
A widow is not entitled to innocent spouse relief from tax debt she shared with her husband because the underlying income belonged to her, the Eleventh Circuit said, affirming a U.S. Tax Court ruling and skirting an additional challenge to job protections for judges.
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July 31, 2025
CSX Settles Derailment Suit With NC Mine On Eve Of Trial
CSX Transportation Inc. has agreed to settle its multimillion-dollar lawsuit against a North Carolina sand and gravel mine over a 2018 derailment during Hurricane Florence that destroyed its locomotives, ending the litigation just one week before trial was set to begin.
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July 31, 2025
'Abusive Behavior' Spurs $195M Add To Phillips 66 IP Verdict
A California state judge added $195 million in exemplary damages to a $605 million trade secrets verdict against oil giant Phillips 66 following its "abusive behavior" toward startup and onetime acquisition target Propel Fuels.
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July 31, 2025
Flo Settles Privacy Fight Midtrial, Leaving Meta To Face Jury
Flo Health Inc. told a California federal judge Thursday it had reached an agreement to settle claims that its popular menstrual-tracking app illegally shared sensitive health data of millions of women with Meta Platforms Inc. and Google, partially resolving a sweeping privacy case midtrial, and leaving Meta as the sole remaining defendant.
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July 31, 2025
Plaintiffs Seek $345M For Fatal Crash In Tesla Autopilot Trial
The plaintiffs in a suit seeking to hold Tesla accountable for a fatal crash in the Florida Keys asked jurors Thursday to award $345 million in damages for putting out an allegedly defective autopilot product into the market.
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July 31, 2025
Sex Abuse Verdict Tossed Because Jury Wasn't Sworn In
A Michigan man will be given a new trial after a split state appeals panel on Thursday found that because a trial judge failed to swear in the jury that convicted him of criminal sexual conduct, a structural error occurred with the proceeding.
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July 31, 2025
Colo. Court Affirms Stalking Conviction In 'True Threat' Case
The Colorado Court of Appeals on Thursday declined to overturn the stalking and harassment convictions of a man who claimed his threatening emails to a police officer were protected First Amendment speech.
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July 31, 2025
Robotic Surgery Co.'s Antitrust Appeal Backed At 9th Circ.
Surgical Instrument Service Co. Inc. has received backing at the Ninth Circuit from a trade association and others groups as it looks to revive its case accusing Intuitive Surgical Inc. of blocking third parties from refurbishing components for its popular da Vinci surgery robot.
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July 31, 2025
Fed. Circ. Judges Cast Doubts On Trump Tariff Powers
Several Federal Circuit judges raised concerns about whether President Donald Trump's tariffs imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act override constitutional and congressional authority during oral arguments Thursday in their questions to better understand the extent of the appeals court's review.
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July 31, 2025
Witness' Use Of 'Fraud' Doesn't Cancel TV Sports Exec's Verdict
The First Circuit rejected arguments by a former executive at the cable channel for the Boston Red Sox and Boston Bruins that a witness' use of the word "fraud" and testimony about his lavish spending tainted the jury that convicted him of a fake invoice scheme.
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July 31, 2025
1st Circ. Denies Marathon Bomber's Bid To DQ Trial Judge
The First Circuit on Thursday denied a request by convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to have the judge who presided over his 2015 trial removed from conducting a probe into whether some of the jurors who sentenced him to death were biased.
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July 31, 2025
Nadine Menendez Loses Bid To Toss Bribery Conviction
The wife of former U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez failed Thursday in her effort to overturn her conviction in a sweeping federal corruption case as a Manhattan federal judge ruled that the evidence against her was both extensive and compelling.
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July 31, 2025
Ill. Jury Convicts Forex Trader In $230K Fraud Scheme
A Chicago federal jury on Thursday convicted an Illinois man of duping investors with promises to deliver considerable profits by trading their money on the foreign exchange market, when he really spent most of their investments on himself and was barred from trading securities in the state.
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July 31, 2025
9th Circ. Upholds Google's Play Store Antitrust Trial Loss
A Ninth Circuit panel Thursday affirmed Epic Games' 2023 antitrust jury trial win, along with an injunction requiring Google to open its Google Play Store to rivals, backing a landmark finding that Google monopolized the Android app-distribution market.
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July 31, 2025
Baldwin Eyes Deal Over Failed 'Rust' Trial With Suit Dormant
Alec Baldwin's lawsuit in New Mexico state court against prosecutors and others involved in his botched involuntary manslaughter case in the "Rust" film shooting has been temporarily thrown out, but the actor-producer's attorneys said Thursday that they've been in settlement discussions and will move to reinstate the suit if the talks fail.
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July 30, 2025
Tornado Was A One-Stop Crypto Laundering Shop, Jury Told
Manhattan federal prosecutors Wednesday made their final arguments in the money laundering and sanctions trial of Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm, claiming the cryptocurrency tumbler's privacy-focused ethos was just a fig leaf for dirty money that flowed through its "fancy online laundromat."
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July 30, 2025
Flo Likely To Get Health Privacy Claim Tossed In Meta Case
The California federal judge overseeing a trial on allegations that Flo Health and Meta Platforms Inc. violated the privacy of millions of women who used Flo's period tracker app said Wednesday he'd likely toss the California Confidentiality of Medical Information Act claim, saying the lack of evidence is an "unsurmountable" problem.
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July 30, 2025
2nd Circ. Backs Live Well Founder's Bond Fraud Convictions
The Second Circuit affirmed convictions for Live Well's founder for inducing lenders to extend credit by jacking up bond valuations to increase its debt and borrow against it, ruling Wednesday jurors had enough evidence to determine he misrepresented the value of collateral to secure loans and did so with fraudulent intent.
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July 30, 2025
High Court Urged To Review Ineffective-Counsel Case
A man who threatened to sue his civil lawyer for malpractice has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to take up his case and find that such a situation creates an automatic conflict of interest when the same lawyer was also defending him in a criminal case.
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July 30, 2025
9th Circ. Upholds Life Sentences In Kidnapping Case
The Ninth Circuit ruled Tuesday that a man must continue to face two life sentences for his role in the kidnapping of a California medical marijuana dispensary owner who the kidnappers wrongly believed had $1 million buried in the Mojave Desert.
Expert Analysis
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Opinion
Section 1983 Has Promise After End Of Nationwide Injunctions
After the U.S. Supreme Court recently struck down the practice of nationwide injunctions in Trump v. Casa, Section 1983 civil rights suits can provide a better pathway to hold the government accountable — but this will require reforms to qualified immunity, says Marc Levin at the Council on Criminal Justice.
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Reel Justice: 'Oh, Hi!' Teaches Attys To Return To The Statute
The new dark comedy film “Oh, Hi!” — depicting a romantic vacation that turns into an inadvertent kidnapping — should remind criminal practitioners to always reread the statute to avoid assumptions, meet their ethical duties and finesse their trial strategy, says Veronica Finkelstein at Wilmington University School of Law.
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Series
Playing Soccer Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Soccer has become a key contributor to how I approach my work, and the lessons I’ve learned on the pitch about leadership, adaptability, resilience and communication make me better at what I do every day in my legal career, says Whitney O’Byrne at MoFo.
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What To Do When Congress And DOJ Both Come Knocking
As recently seen in the news, clients may find themselves facing parallel U.S. Department of Justice and congressional investigations, requiring a comprehensive response that considers the different challenges posed by each, say attorneys at Friedman Kaplan.
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Series
Law School's Missed Lessons: Learning From Failure
While law school often focuses on the importance of precision, correctness and perfection, mistakes are inevitable in real-world practice — but failure is not the opposite of progress, and real talent comes from the ability to recover, rethink and reshape, says Brooke Pauley at Tucker Ellis.
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How Courts Are Addressing The Use Of AI In Discovery
In recent months, several courts have issued opinions on handling discovery issues involving artificial intelligence, which collectively offer useful insights on integrating AI into discovery and protecting work product in connection with AI prompts and outputs, says Philip Favro at Favro Law.
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Series
Adapting To Private Practice: From ATF Director To BigLaw
As a two-time boomerang partner, returning to BigLaw after stints as a U.S. attorney and the director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, people ask me how I know when to move on, but there’s no single answer — just clearly set your priorities, says Steven Dettelbach at BakerHostetler.
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A Look At Key 5th Circ. White Collar Rulings So Far This Year
In the first half of 2025, the Fifth Circuit has decided numerous cases of particular import to white collar practitioners, which collectively underscore the critical importance of meticulous recordbuilding, procedural compliance and strategic litigation choices at every stage of a case, says Joe Magliolo at Jackson Walker.
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Playing Baseball Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Playing baseball in college, and now Wiffle ball in a local league, has taught me that teamwork, mental endurance and emotional intelligence are not only important to success in the sport, but also to success as a trial attorney, says Kevan Dorsey at Swift Currie.
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Opinion
Prosecutors' Duty To Justice Sometimes Demands Mea Culpa
Two recent cases — U.S. v. Lucas and U.S. v. Echavarria — demonstrate that prosecutors’ special ethical duty to seek justice can sometimes be in tension with other obligations and incentives, but it nonetheless requires them to concede their mistakes in the interests of justice, say Eastern District of Texas law clerk Ian Stephens and Texas A&M University law professor Jemila Lea.
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Law School's Missed Lessons: Skillful Persuasion
In many ways, law school teaches us how to argue, but when the ultimate goal is to get your client what they want, being persuasive through preparation and humility is the more likely key to success, says Michael Friedland at Friedland Cianfrani.
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Fed. Circ. Ingenico Ruling Pivotal For IPR Estoppel Landscape
The Federal Circuit's recent decision in Ingenico v. Ioengine brings long-awaited clarity to the scope of inter partes review estoppel, confirming that a patent challenger is not precluded from relying on the same or substantially similar prior art in both IPR and district court proceedings, so long as it is used to support a different invalidity theory, say attorneys at Irwin IP.
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Litigation Inspiration: How To Respond After A Loss
Every litigator loses a case now and then, and the sting of that loss can become a medicine that strengthens or a poison that corrodes, depending on how the attorney responds, says Bennett Rawicki at Hilgers Graben.
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Justices' Resentencing Ruling Fortifies First Step Act Tools
The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent Hewitt v. U.S. ruling clarifies that resentencing after vacatur must reflect the law in effect at the time of the new sentencing, ultimately strengthening the strategic tools available to defense attorneys under the First Step Act, says Benson Varghese at Varghese Summersett.
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The Metamorphosis Of The Major Questions Doctrine
The so-called major questions doctrine arose as a counterweight to Chevron deference over the past few decades, but invocations of the doctrine have persisted in the year since Chevron was overturned, suggesting it still has a role to play in reining in agency overreach, say attorneys at Crowell & Moring.