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March 07, 2025
How To Tell If A Litigation Funder Is Helping Your IP Opponent
Knowing when a litigation funder is involved in an intellectual property case can help attorneys better understand their adversary's footing in a dispute, and while most courts don't have disclosure requirements, lawyers told Law360 there are several signs attorneys can look out for to determine whether their opponent is receiving funding from an outside party.
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March 07, 2025
Calif. Atty, Reality TV Hopeful Gets 5 Years For Client Theft
A California lawyer who claimed to be developing a Bravo TV show about himself has been sentenced to more than five years in prison for looting his firm's client trust accounts, an offense that appears to be only one tentacle of "a larger criminal scheme."
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March 07, 2025
California Bar Orders Investigation Of Flawed Exam
The State Bar of California is bringing on an independent investigator to look into the problem-plagued administration of the February bar exam, which left scores of test-takers feeling cheated.
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March 07, 2025
Workday Decries 'Staggeringly Broad' Age Bias Collective Bid
A lawsuit accusing Workday of using automated hiring tools to unlawfully screen out applicants over 40 should not be given collective action status, the human resources platform told a California federal court, arguing the group would contain millions of dissimilar workers and innumerable employers.
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March 07, 2025
Womble Bond Adds Foley & Lardner Corporate Ace In SF
Womble Bond Dickinson has hired a California-based attorney from Foley & Lardner who advises clients in technology, healthcare, energy and other industries on corporate and transactional matters.
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March 06, 2025
BofA Says COVID-Era Workers Too Dissimilar For Class Cert.
Proposed classes of Bank of America loan officers include too many individualized claims for certification, the bank has argued in litigation alleging the loan officers were "short-changed" as they processed emergency small business loans during the pandemic.
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March 06, 2025
Disney Slams Paltry Evidence As 'Moana' IP Trial Nears End
Counsel for a unit of The Walt Disney Co. urged a California federal judge to enter judgment in their favor as a copyright trial wound to a close Thursday, saying an artist has theories but no actual evidence that his work was stolen for the blockbuster animated movie "Moana."
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March 06, 2025
Calif. Woman Accuses Fla. Sugar Co. Of Greenwashing
Florida Crystals Corp. is deceptively advertising sugar products as eco-friendly when it knows that its farming practices are "unnecessarily poisoning people and the planet," a Santa Cruz, California, woman has said in a proposed class action accusing the company of greenwashing.
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March 06, 2025
AppLovin Hit With Suit Over 'Forced Shadow Downloads'
Technology company AppLovin faces a proposed investor class action alleging it invoked "cutting-edge AI technologies" in touting growth that allegedly resulted from manipulative practices triggering forced shadow downloads of its apps.
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March 06, 2025
State AGs Want Fees In Kroger Wash., Ore. Merger Cases
A total of 10 attorneys general kicked off two separate bids Wednesday for attorney fees in the state and federal court cases in Washington and Oregon that blocked Kroger's $24.6 billion bid to buy Albertsons, arguing in the federal lawsuit that their substantial participation alongside the Federal Trade Commission means they "substantially prevailed."
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March 06, 2025
Crypto Cos. Want Justices To Settle Venue Statute Circuit Split
A Binance-branded U.S. exchange and affiliated crypto data site CoinMarketCap have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to settle what they call a circuit split over whether a trader must show the firms had contacts in their state, or if ties to the country as a whole are enough to press a manipulation claim under the Commodity Exchange Act.
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March 06, 2025
Fla. Court Told Cannabis Biz Investor Agreed Not To Sue
The CEO of an Arizona-based cannabis business on Thursday urged a Florida federal court to toss a securities fraud lawsuit brought by an investor alleging an undisclosed $13 million tax liability, saying the investor agreed not to bring claims based on whether critical nonpublic information may have been withheld.
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March 06, 2025
9th Circ. Shreds 'Muddled' Argument In Amazon Antitrust Case
A panel of the Ninth Circuit on Thursday picked apart arguments from consumers in their lawsuit alleging Amazon violated antitrust law through the e-commerce giant's fulfillment services, with the judges saying an amended complaint was "extraordinarily light on any actual evidence" and the arguments appeared "muddled."
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March 06, 2025
Wheeling & Appealing: The Latest Must-Know Appellate Action
Believe it or not, there's still important litigation happening that doesn't involve President Donald Trump, and the proof exists in this month's circuit court calendars. During the remaining weeks of March, arguments will explore numerous high-profile topics, including a law firm's severe punishment for alleged misconduct in 9/11 litigation and a judicial rebuke of Trader Joe's for "an attempt to weaponize the legal system."
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March 06, 2025
California City Abandons Battle Over Affordable Housing
A wealthy Southern California city wants to drop its appeal of a legal nonprofit's suit that was filed over the city's opposition to a mixed-income affordable-housing project, according to a filing in a state appellate court.
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March 06, 2025
Coinbase Investors Ask Court To Lead Direct Listing Suit
Two new contenders have filed to lead a shareholder class action over crypto exchange Coinbase's direct listing hours after its original lead plaintiff dropped out following the Ninth Circuit's dismissal of a similar case brought against Slack Technologies.
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March 06, 2025
Insurer's 9th Circ. Procedural Win Highlights Appraisal Rules
A Ninth Circuit panel affirmed that a property owner could not litigate its insurer's failure to pay for losses before a required appraisal to resolve disagreements, highlighting the importance of appraisal provisions and how they could limit potential policyholder challenges. Here, Law360 speaks to Colin Kemp, an insurance recovery attorney for Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, about Mount Vernon Specialty Insurance Co.'s procedural victory and its implications for coverage challenges.
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March 06, 2025
Dems Tell DOJ Musk May Be Strong-Arming X Advertisers
Democratic lawmakers led by Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Cory Booker, D-N.J., have warned the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission that billionaire Elon Musk might be using his position in the Trump administration to bully companies that advertise on his social media platform, X.
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March 06, 2025
Hunter Biden Seeks To Drop Data Hack Suit Over Money Woes
Hunter Biden on Wednesday requested that a California federal court let him dismiss his lawsuit accusing a former Trump White House aide of hacking his data as part of a campaign targeting the Biden family, saying "significant debt in the millions of dollars range" has left him unable to continue litigation.
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March 06, 2025
Insurers Seek Toss Of Meta's Social Media MDL Coverage Suit
A group of insurers urged a California federal court to either toss or stay Meta's suit seeking to pause all coverage litigation regarding underlying claims that the company deliberately designed its platforms to be addictive to adolescents, saying the first-to-file rule applies to the carriers' Delaware state court suit.
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March 06, 2025
Music Streaming Lyrics Co. Hits Rival With $1B Antitrust Suit
LyricFind Inc. slapped Musixmatch SpA with a $1 billion antitrust lawsuit in California federal court, calling the rival a monopolist in the market for providing lyrics to digital services companies like Spotify and saying Musixmatch inked a deal with Warner Chappell Music Inc. that essentially pushes LyricFind and others out of the market.
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March 06, 2025
E.L.F. Beauty Hit With Investor Suit After Muddy Waters Report
Cosmetics giant e.l.f. Beauty's shareholders filed a proposed class action in California federal court on Thursday, accusing the company of overstating its revenue while hiding growing inventory issues due to inadequate sales — troubles that investment research firm Muddy Waters revealed in a November report that caused share prices to plunge.
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March 06, 2025
9th Circ. Nixes Challenge To Wash. Abortion Coverage Law
A split Ninth Circuit panel on Thursday rejected a Christian church's challenge to a Washington state law requiring employer health plans to cover abortion services, saying the church could invoke its religious beliefs to skirt the challenged obligations.
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March 06, 2025
Reuters Won't Have To Turn Over Meta AI Deal To Authors
A California federal judge has sided with Reuters News & Media Inc. that it doesn't have to turn over its multi-year licensing agreement with Meta Platforms Inc. to use its news content in Meta's AI chatbot to authors suing OpenAI Inc. for allegedly using their books to train OpenAI's large language models.
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March 06, 2025
States Say Teacher Training Grants Are Caught In DEI Dragnet
A group of eight states sued the U.S. Department of Education in Massachusetts federal court Thursday, seeking reinstatement of $600 million in teacher training and placement grants they say were unlawfully targeted by the Trump administration as diversity initiatives.
Expert Analysis
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Courts Must Stick To The Science On Digital Addiction Claims
A number of pending personal injury and product liability lawsuits allege that plaintiffs have developed behavioral addictions to the use of social media and video games — but this is not yet recognized by relevant authorities as an addiction, so courts must carefully scrutinize such claims, say attorneys at DLA Piper.
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5 Litigation Funding Trends To Note In 2025
Lawyers and their clients must be prepared to navigate an evolving litigation funding market in 2025, made more complicated by a new administration and the increasing overall cost of litigation, says Jeffery Lula at GLS Capital.
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4 Property Insurance Action Steps For LA Policyholders
Property insurance will play a vital role in rebuilding the areas affected by the Los Angeles wildfires, and policyholders should be aware of key aspects of that coverage in order to maximize their insurance recovery, say attorneys at Cohen Ziffer.
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Predicting Where State AGs Will Direct Their Attention In 2025
In 2025, we expect state attorneys general will navigate a new presidential administration while continuing to further regulate and police financial services, artificial intelligence, junk fees and antitrust, say attorneys at Troutman Pepper.
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A Look At Sweepstakes Casinos' Legal Issues In Fla., Beyond
Scheduled for trial in Florida federal court this fall, the VGW sweepstakes case underscores the growing urgency for gambling states to clarify and enforce their laws in response to emerging online gaming models, as the expansion of sweepstakes casinos challenges traditional interpretations of gambling regulations, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.
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FTC Privacy Enforcement Takeaways From 2024
In 2024, the Federal Trade Commission distinguished three prominent trends in its privacy-related enforcement actions: geolocation data protections, data minimization practices, and artificial intelligence use and marketing, say Cobun Zweifel-Keegan at IAPP and James Smith at Dechert.
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The Fed. Circ. In 2024: 5 Major Rulings To Know
In 2024, the Federal Circuit provided a number of important clarifications to distinct areas of patent law – including design patent obviousness, expert testimony admissions and patent term adjustments – all of which are poised to have an influence going forward, say attorneys at Knobbe Martens.
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Rethinking Litigation Risk And What It Really Means To Win
Attorneys have a tendency to overestimate litigation risk before summary judgment and underestimate risk after it, but an eight-stage litigation framework can clarify risk at different points and help litigators reassess what true success looks like in any particular case, says Joshua Libling at Arcadia Finance.
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Mass Arbitration Procedures After Faulty Live Nation Ruling
Despite the Ninth Circuit's flawed reasoning in Heckman v. Live Nation, the exceptional allegations of collusive conduct shouldn't be read to restrict arbitration providers that have adopted good faith procedures to ensure that consumer mass arbitrations can be efficiently resolved on the merits, says Collin Vierra at Eimer Stahl.
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Public Corruption Enforcement In 2024 Has Clues For 2025
If 2024 activity is any indication, the U.S. Supreme Court will likely continue to rein in expansive prosecutorial theories of fraud in the year to come, but it’s harder to predict what the new administration will mean for public corruption prosecutions in 2025, says Cathy Fleming at Offit Kurman.
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Roundup
Banking Brief: State Law Recaps From Each Quarter Of 2024
In this Expert Analysis series, throughout 2024 attorneys provided quarterly recaps discussing the biggest developments in banking regulation, litigation and policymaking in various states, including New York, California and Illinois.
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Calif. Justices' Options In Insurance Exhaustion Case
Fox Paine v. Twin City Fire Insurance may serve as the California Supreme Court's opportunity to firmly establish precedent with respect to a strict adherence to excess insurance policies' exhaustion provisions when the language is clear and explicit, says Aiden Spencer at Langsam Stevens.
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Considering The Status Of The US Doctrine Of Patent Misuse
A recent Ninth Circuit decision and a U.K. Court of Appeal decision demonstrate the impact that the U.S. Supreme Court's 2015 decision in Kimble v. Marvel Entertainment has had on the principle that post-patent-expiration royalty payments amount to patent misuse, not only in the U.S. but in English courts as well, say attorneys at Covington.
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Series
Playing Rugby Makes Me A Better Lawyer
My experience playing rugby, including a near-fatal accident, has influenced my legal practice on a professional, organizational and personal level by showing me the importance of maintaining empathy, fostering team empowerment and embracing the art of preparation, says James Gillenwater at Greenberg Traurig.
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Looking Back At 2024's Noteworthy State AG Litigation
State attorneys general across the U.S. took bold steps in 2024 to address unlawful activities by corporations in several areas, including privacy and data security, financial transparency, children's internet safety, and other overall consumer protection claims, say attorneys at Troutman Pepper.