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  Gibbons, Frost Brown Combining As 800-Atty Nationwide Firm

  By Jake Maher

  Gibbons PC and Frost Brown Todd LLP announced Wednesday that they will combine at the beginning of 2026 to form ...(read more)

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• Golf Execs Deny Discrediting Jack Nicklaus In NY Lawsuit

  By David Minsky

  Two executives with the company named after Jack Nicklaus testified in Florida state court on Wednesday that they played no role in providing defamatory statements in a New York lawsuit against the golf legend, denying that they also forwarded false claims to reporters and were involved with filing the complaint.

• Fed. Circ. Hesitant To Review DOD Contract Cost Appeal

  By Madeline Lyskawa

  A Federal Circuit judge appeared reluctant Wednesday to review an Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals' decision over the proper way to calculate the cost Pratt & Whitney paid for commercial engine parts, pointing to precedent that goes against the government's position.

• Senate IP Leader Plans Push To Pass Patent Eligibility Bill

  By Ryan Davis

  Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., the leader of the Senate's intellectual property subcommittee, said Wednesday that before he leaves Congress in just over a year, one of his primary goals will be to advance his long-gestating bill to make more inventions eligible for patents.

• ALN Medical Strikes $4M Data Breach Deal With 1.8M Users

  By Gina Kim

  Healthcare advisory firm ALN Medical has offered to create a $4 million settlement fund to resolve litigation surrounding a March 2024 data breach that affected more than a million individuals, requesting a Nebraska federal court's preliminary approval of the deal.

• Jones Day, Kirkland Guide TopBuild's $1B Insulation Biz Buy

  By Al Barbarino

  TopBuild Corp., an installer and distributor of insulation and related building materials in North America, said Wednesday it has acquired Specialty Products and Insulation for $1 billion in cash, with Jones Day advising TopBuild and Kirkland & Ellis LLP guiding SPI.

• Del. Jurist Says Blue Bell's Late Stand Defies Common Sense

  By Jeff Montgomery

  Challenges to purportedly late-raised defenses on Wednesday sidetracked arguments at the Court of Chancery that sought dismissal of a derivative stockholder suit seeking damages from Blue Bell Creameries USA Inc. fiduciaries for company losses tied to a deadly tainted ice cream incident in 2015.

• OpenAI Says Copyright Case Isn't About AI Outputs

  By Elliot Weld

  OpenAI told a Manhattan federal judge Wednesday that a group of authors should not be allowed to argue that ChatGPT spits out summaries or verbatim portions of their books in a copyright infringement case, saying this is an additional theory of infringement that would make discovery more onerous than it already is.

• Chiquita Victims Urge 11th Circ. To Revive Claims Over Killings

  By Carolina Bolado

  Family members of victims of paramilitary violence in Colombia asked the Eleventh Circuit Wednesday to revive their claims against Chiquita Brands International Inc. executives, arguing they had provided enough information to show the killings were committed "under color of law" as required by the Torture Victim Protection Act.

• LA County Probes Firm's Conduct In $4B Sex Abuse Deal

  By Craig Clough

  The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has unanimously voted to launch an investigation into a record $4 billion sex abuse settlement it approved earlier this year following claims that the Downtown L.A. Law Group paid people to file complaints.

• High Court Open To Allowing USPS 'Campaign Of Terror' Suit

  By Katie Buehler

  The U.S. Supreme Court appeared likely Wednesday to let a Texas woman pursue claims that U.S. Postal Service workers engaged in an alleged "racially motivated harassment campaign," with several justices doubting that a federal tort law immunized the service from being held liable for intentional delivery failures.

• 11th Circ. Urged To Keep Ga.'s E-Commerce Regs On Ice

  By Chart Riggall

  Internet trade group NetChoice urged the Eleventh Circuit Wednesday to leave in place an injunction that for more than a year has kept Georgia from enforcing new requirements on e-commerce platforms, arguing the state's law tries to push past a regulatory "ceiling" already imposed by federal law.

• Justices Probe Standing In Suit Over Ill. Ballot Counting

  By Celeste Bott

  The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared open to reviving an Illinois congressman's suit challenging the state's policy of counting certain ballots after Election Day, with several justices pressing counsel for the state to address whether its position would require courts to analyze a candidate's potential success in an election to determine their standing to sue.