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August 20, 2024
Credit Union, 'Dreamers' Get Final OK To Settle Loan Bias Suit
A California federal judge gave the final stamp of approval to a class settlement offering cash to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients and other immigrants who alleged a Chicago-based credit union denied them loans due to their immigration status.
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August 20, 2024
Terrorized Air Passenger Case Tossed For Failure To Amend
Fifteen passengers can no longer pursue claims against American Airlines and regional carriers for negligently allowing a worker to tap into their private information so he could fuel a monthslong harassment campaign, a Connecticut federal judge ruled, saying the plaintiffs failed to meet a filing deadline.
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August 20, 2024
9th Circ. Trans Health Appeal Hints At Supreme Court Fight
The Ninth Circuit will hear arguments Wednesday in an appeal from the state of Idaho seeking to preserve its ban on gender dysphoria treatment for minors, in a case that involves questions about trans health access that the U.S. Supreme Court is set to consider this fall, attorneys say.
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August 20, 2024
Ex-SEC Senior Counsel, AUSA Joins Tech Co. As CCO
A former assistant U.S. attorney with senior counsel experience at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has joined technology company Tools For Humanity, a startup co-founded and chaired by OpenAI head Sam Altman, as deputy general counsel and chief compliance officer.
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August 20, 2024
NFL Hangs Onto Victory In Sunday Ticket Antitrust Fight
A California federal judge on Tuesday entered judgment in favor of the NFL against all claims by a class of Sunday Ticket television package subscribers, including their bid seeking to block the league from engaging in anticompetitive conduct, more than two weeks after he upended a jury's $4.7 billion antitrust verdict against the league.
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August 20, 2024
Anthropic Hit With Another Copyright Suit Over LLM Training
Anthropic PBC was hit with a proposed class action Monday in California federal court from a group of journalists and authors alleging the artificial intelligence giant is exploiting their copyrighted materials to train its large language model, Claude, without permission or a license, and has become enormously successful at their expense.
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August 20, 2024
Teen Football Star Allegedly Exploited, Kept From Family
The family of a high school football player has filed a California federal lawsuit accusing Klutch Sports Group and the teen's former stepfather of seducing him with promises of fame and fortune while orchestrating a rift between him and his family to profit off the teen's talent.
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August 20, 2024
Albright Won't Let Meta Patent Row Move To California
U.S. District Judge Alan Albright of the Western District of Texas says the presence of some Texas-based Meta employees involved in developing its Quest headsets outweighs the tech company's bid to eject out of his court a lawsuit over patents once issued to a failed mobile fitness brand.
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August 20, 2024
Ex-Client Opposes Amicus In McCarter & English Fee Fight
A dietary supplement maker has asked Connecticut's highest court to reject a bid by the Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association to file a friend-of-court brief in a case questioning whether McCarter & English LLP can obtain punitive damages in a fee dispute, saying no additional input is necessary because no tort occurred.
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August 20, 2024
Pierson Ferdinand Furthers Growth With FisherBroyles IP Ace
The rapidly growing Pierson Ferdinand LLP announced Tuesday that it picked up an intellectual property partner from FisherBroyles LLP with a long resume of trademark law work to serve clients out of Boston, Washington, D.C., and California.
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August 20, 2024
Allen Matkins Tax Group Leader Jumps To Covington In LA
Covington & Burling LLP has added to its Los Angeles office a partner with more than 20 years of experience who most recently led Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP's tax group, describing the new hire as "one of the country's leading authorities on partnership tax."
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August 20, 2024
Epic Will Pay Google $400K For Play Store Contract Breach
Epic Games has agreed to pay Google around $400,000 for implementing its own payment method in "Fortnite" and getting booted from the Play Store, as the court continues to mull what changes Google will have to make after a jury found that its policies violate antitrust law.
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August 20, 2024
Ex-Kirkland PE Partner Joins Freshfields In Silicon Valley
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP announced Tuesday that a longtime Kirkland & Ellis LLP private equity attorney has joined the firm's Silicon Valley office as a partner in what's been one of its fastest growing practice groups over the last few years.
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August 20, 2024
Feds Launch Probe Into Wi-Fi Technology Imports
The U.S. International Trade Commission opened an investigation into a domestic semiconductor company's claims that a Chinese rival was selling Wi-Fi technology in the U.S. that infringes on its intellectual property.
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August 20, 2024
A Deep Dive Into Law360 Pulse's 2024 Women In Law Report
The legal industry continues to see incremental gains for female lawyers in private practice in the U.S., according to a Law360 Pulse analysis, with women now representing 40.6% of all attorneys and 51% of all associates.
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August 20, 2024
These Firms Have The Most Women In Equity Partnerships
The legal industry still has a long way to go before it can achieve gender parity at its upper levels. But these law firms are performing better than others in breaking the proverbial glass ceiling that prevents women from attaining leadership roles.
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August 20, 2024
Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court
A nearly record-breaking attorney fee got the nod in Delaware last week, along with Chancery Court settlements involving an international private jet service and a chain of trampoline parks. New disputes involved a famous burger restaurant chain, a computer-chip maker, a now-defunct genomic science company, and a historic manor house in west London.
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August 20, 2024
Clifford Chance 'In Shock' Over Missing Partner
Clifford Chance said Tuesday that it is "in shock and deeply saddened" that a partner is among six passengers missing from a yacht that was reportedly chartered to celebrate the legal victory of technology entrepreneur Mike Lynch.
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August 20, 2024
IP Duo Join Thompson Hine From Cincinnati Boutique
Thompson Hine LLP announced Tuesday that a pair of attorneys from intellectual property boutique Wood Herron & Evans joined the firm's office in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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August 19, 2024
4 Ex-Girardi Keese Attys Are Federal Targets, Agent Testifies
At least four former attorneys with the defunct Girardi Keese law firm are under active investigation related to the federal government's California wire fraud case and have received letters informing them they are targets, an IRS criminal investigator disclosed Monday under cross-examination by Tom Girardi's attorney at his criminal trial.
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August 19, 2024
Hunter Biden Loses Bid To Duck Tax Case In Calif.
Hunter Biden cannot escape his criminal tax case set to go to trial next month, a Los Angeles federal judge ruled Monday, saying Biden's latest motion comes too late.
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August 19, 2024
Parents Not Bound By Schools' Arbitration Pact, FTC Argues
The Federal Trade Commission has stepped into a proposed class action accusing education technology company IXL Learning of unlawfully collecting and selling children's personal information, telling a California federal court that the company's agreement with schools to arbitrate disputes doesn't extend to the parents pressing the data privacy suit.
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August 19, 2024
Ariz. Sheriff Can't Ax Racial Profiling Injunction, 9th Circ. Says
The Ninth Circuit on Monday kept in place a permanent injunction in a class action alleging the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office in Arizona racially profiled Latinos for traffic stops under the guise of immigration enforcement, saying the district court was within its powers to assign an independent monitor.
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August 19, 2024
T.I. Can't Bar Witness Motivation Questions At Doll IP Retrial
Rapper T.I. can't block MGA Entertainment from questioning his customer witnesses' motivations to testify at the upcoming intellectual property retrial over the company's L.O.L. Surprise! doll line, and he likewise is barred from raising questions of cultural appropriation in that context, a California federal judge ruled Monday.
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August 19, 2024
Mike Lynch, Clifford Chance Pro Among Missing After Yacht Sinks
Former Autonomy CEO Michael Lynch and a Clifford Chance LLP partner who helped him beat federal fraud charges back in June are among those missing after their chartered luxury yacht sank during a storm off Sicily early Monday during a trip reportedly to celebrate Lynch's legal victory.
Expert Analysis
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Motion To Transfer Venue Considerations For FCA Cases
Several recent decisions highlight the importance for practitioners of analyzing as early as possible whether a False Claims Act case warrants a change of venue, and understanding how courts weigh certain factors for defendants versus whistleblowers, say Ellen London at London & Stout, and Li Yu and Corey Lipton at DiCello Levitt.
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New NHTSA Fuel Economy Rule Adds Compliance Complexity
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's recently announced final rule on new corporate average fuel economy standards for passenger cars and light trucks will create challenges for manufacturers, which must also comply with the EPA's multipollutant rule and California's zero-emission vehicle programs, say Joanne Rotondi and Hannah Graae at Hogan Lovells.
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Autonomy Execs' Acquittal Highlights Good Faith Instruction
The recent acquittal of two former Autonomy executives demonstrates that a good faith jury instruction can be the cornerstone of an effective defense strategy in white collar criminal cases, in part because the concept of good faith is a human experience every juror can relate to, says Sara Kropf at Kropf Moseley.
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Teaching Scuba Diving Makes Me A Better Lawyer
As a master scuba instructor, I’ve learned how to prepare for the unexpected, overcome fears and practice patience, and each of these skills – among the many others I’ve developed – has profoundly enhanced my work as a lawyer, says Ron Raether at Troutman Pepper.
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Navigating The Murky Waters Of Patent Infringement Damages
Recent cases show that there is no easy way to isolate an infringed patent’s value, and it would serve all sides well for courts to thoroughly examine expert opinions of this nature and provide consistent guidance for future cases, say Manny Caixeiro and Elizabeth Manno at Venable.
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3 Ways To Lower Insider Trading Risk After First 10b5-1 Case
In light of the U.S. Department of Justice's insider trading prosecution against the former CEO of Ontrack based on alleged abuse of a Rule 10b5-1 safe harbor plan — designed to allow executives to sell their companies' securities without liability — companies and individuals should take steps to avoid enacting similar plans in bad faith, say attorneys at Jenner & Block.
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Lawyers Can Take Action To Honor The Voting Rights Act
As the Voting Rights Act reaches its 59th anniversary Tuesday, it must urgently be reinforced against recent efforts to dismantle voter protections, and lawyers can pitch in immediately by volunteering and taking on pro bono work to directly help safeguard the right to vote, says Anna Chu at We The Action.
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PE Firms Should Prepare For Increased False Claims Scrutiny
The impact private equity firms may have over medical decisions and care is increasingly attracting potential liability under the False Claims Act and attention from states and the federal government, so investors should follow best practices including conducting due diligence both before and after acquisitions, say attorneys at K&L Gates.
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Proposed NIL Deal Leaves NCAA Antitrust Liability Door Open
The proposed House v. NCAA settlement filed in California federal court creates the possibility of significant direct payments to student-athletes for the first time, but the resulting framework is unlikely to withstand future antitrust scrutiny because it still represents an agreement among competitors to limit labor cost, says Yaman Desai at Lynn Pinker.
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A Day In The In-House Life: Block CLO Talks Problem-Solving
Amid the busy summer months, Block Inc. Chief Legal Officer Chrysty Esperanza chronicles a typical Wednesday where she conquered everything from unexpected fintech regulatory issues and team building to Bay Area commutes and school drop-off.
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Shipping Containers As Building Elements Require Diligence
With the shipping container market projected to double between 2020 and 2028, repurposing containers as storage units, office spaces and housing may become more common, but developers must make sure they comply with requirements that can vary by intended use and location, says Steven Otto at Crosbie Gliner.
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Drip Pricing Exemption Isn't A Free Pass For Calif. Eateries
A new exemption relieves California bars and restaurants from the recently effective law banning prices that don't reflect mandatory fees and charges — but such establishments aren't entirely off the hook for drip pricing, due to uncertainty over disclosure requirements and pending federal junk fee regulations, say Alexandria Ruiz and Amy Lally at Sidley.
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Justices' Intent Witness Ruling May Be Useful For Defense Bar
At first glance, the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent Diaz v. U.S. decision, allowing experts to testify to the mental state of criminal defendants in federal court, gives prosecutors a new tool, but creative white collar defense counsel may be able to use the same tool to their own advantage, say Jack Sharman and Rachel Bragg at Lightfoot Franklin.
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How To Grow Marketing, Biz Dev Teams In A Tight Market
Faced with fierce competition and rising operating costs, firms are feeling the pressure to build a well-oiled marketing and business development team that supports strategic priorities, but they’ll need to be flexible and creative given a tight talent market, says Ben Curle at Ambition.
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Why Calif. Courts Are Split On ERISA Forfeited Contributions
A split between two California federal courts, in deciding whether an employer’s use of forfeited retirement plan contributions to offset future costs violates the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, suggests employers should soon expect more ERISA cases to advance this novel legal theory when making anti-inurement and breach of fiduciary duty claims, says Blake Crohan at Alston & Bird.