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  • February 20, 2025

    EV Maker Nikola Aims For Quick Ch. 11 Sale

    Counsel for Nikola Corp., which makes electric and hydrogen-powered trucks, told the Delaware bankruptcy court on Thursday the company hopes to hold a bankruptcy auction by the end of March and find a buyer before its cash runs out in mid-April.

  • February 20, 2025

    Sen. Warren Wants DOJ To Probe Disney-FuboTV Deal

    Sen. Elizabeth Warren is calling on the U.S. Department of Justice to "closely scrutinize" Disney's acquisition of a majority stake in the live television streamer Fubo, saying the deal raises serious antitrust concerns and could allow Disney to inflate prices.

  • February 20, 2025

    Musk's X Seeks Cash At $44B Valuation, Plus More Rumors

    Elon Musk is seeking to raise money for his social media platform X at a $44 billion valuation — the same price he paid to buy the site in 2022 — while BP is considering selling its Castrol lubricants unit for $10 billion and KKR could inject $5 billion into ailing British utility Thames Water. Here, Law360 breaks down the notable deal rumors from the past week.

  • February 20, 2025

    Zurich Expects To Cough Up $200M For LA Wildfire Claims

    Insurance giant Zurich said Thursday it expects to take a $200 million hit from the fires that swept Los Angeles in January, in which approximately 30 people were killed and more than 18,000 structures were destroyed or damaged.

  • February 20, 2025

    Holland & Knight Adds Manatt Real Estate Pro In California

    Holland & Knight LLP continues expanding its West Coast team, bringing in a Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP real estate expert as a partner in its Orange County, California, office.

  • February 19, 2025

    'Convict My Ass': Judge Admits Killing Wife In Police Video

    Orange County Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Ferguson's trial for allegedly murdering his wife opened Wednesday with shocking video footage of the judge sitting alone, handcuffed in a police station interrogation room, muttering to himself "I killed her. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, convict my ass. I did it."

  • February 19, 2025

    Eaton Fire Class Action Blames SoCal Edison Power Lines

    Southern California Edison was hit with a proposed class action Tuesday alleging that its failure to maintain its electrical grid and shut down power lines during fire weather conditions sparked the Eaton Fire that killed 17 people and destroyed more than 9,000 structures in Altadena, California.

  • February 19, 2025

    Trump Wants Birthright Citizenship EO Enacted Amid Appeal

    The Trump administration on Wednesday urged a Massachusetts federal judge to set aside his preliminary injunction blocking the president's executive order limiting birthright citizenship, arguing that the federal government should be permitted to implement it while the First Circuit considers its appeal.

  • February 19, 2025

    Meta Should've Preserved Health Tracking Data, Judge Says

    A California federal judge considering sanctions against Meta for deleting data in privacy litigation over a Facebook tool's collection of patient health information said Wednesday that he's not convinced Meta had "malintent," but said, "I do think this information should have been preserved."

  • February 19, 2025

    News Site Ditches Suit Over Sharing Of Visitors' IP Addresses

    A New York federal judge has tossed a proposed class action accusing online business news site Insider Inc. of unlawfully disclosing website visitors' IP addresses to a third party, finding that the plaintiff had failed to establish the type of concrete injury necessary to sustain his claims under California law. 

  • February 19, 2025

    Netflix Wants IP Atty Sanctioned Over Alleged Doc Sharing

    Netflix urged a California judge Tuesday to require a prolific patent plaintiff's former counsel to explain why they shouldn't be held in civil contempt and sanctioned for allegedly giving Netflix's confidential financial information to nonparty AiPi LLC, arguing discovery in another patent case has revealed AiPi is "shadow lead counsel."

  • February 19, 2025

    Ex-CNBC Pundit Cops To Scamming Investors Out Of $2.7M

    A former frequent CNBC guest pled guilty Wednesday to defrauding investors out of at least $2.7 million, part of a plea deal reached with federal prosecutors after he spent years on the lam.

  • February 19, 2025

    PVC Pipe Giant Atkore Discloses DOJ Grand Jury Probe

    Atkore Inc.'s antitrust woes have grown from civil price-fixing litigation targeting the company's PVC pipe manufacturing, according to a new investor filing disclosing a U.S. Department of Justice criminal investigation.

  • February 19, 2025

    Energy Credit Market Still Robust Amid Uncertainty, Attys Say

    Companies continue to buy and sell valuable tax credits earned from large-scale clean energy tax development projects despite President Donald Trump's active efforts to undermine renewable energy and cut the federal workforce administering the incentives, practitioners said Wednesday.

  • February 19, 2025

    Robinhood Says It Faces New Scrutiny From States, FDIC

    Online brokerage Robinhood is facing investigations from Massachusetts' state securities regulator and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. alongside an ongoing probe from the New York attorney general, the firm disclosed in its latest filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

  • February 19, 2025

    NBA Teams Urge Justices To Take Up 'Discovery Rule' Case

    Eight NBA teams facing copyright lawsuits for songs used in promotional videos without permission have filed a brief supporting a petition asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review the so-called discovery rule, a judicially created doctrine that allows claims to be brought outside the three-year statute of limitations.

  • February 19, 2025

    SEC Says Duo Ran $1.5M Scam To Fund Deal With Red Flags

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has accused two California insurance brokers and their firm of fraudulently raising $1.5 million from an investor and then losing the money to an overseas investment scheme that the agency said presented many red flags. 

  • February 19, 2025

    Prospect Medical Blames Yale Lawsuit For Ch. 11 Filing

    Bankrupt hospital operator Prospect Medical Holdings is seeking to convince a Connecticut federal judge to have a bankruptcy court oversee a $435 million lawsuit through which Yale New Haven Health is trying to back out of buying three Prospect hospitals, saying the case played a key role in its bankruptcy filing.

  • February 19, 2025

    LA Gardasil Trial Against Merck Bagged After 3 Weeks

    A Los Angeles state court trial over the alleged dangers of Merck & Co. Inc.'s human papillomavirus vaccine Gardasil was abruptly called off after three weeks of testimony, with a new panel of jurors slated to hear the case next fall instead.

  • February 19, 2025

    Perplexity AI Seeks To Toss Or Transfer Publishers' IP Suit

    Perplexity AI has asked a New York federal judge to dismiss a copyright and trademark lawsuit filed by the publishers of The Wall Street Journal and the New York Post for lack of jurisdiction or to move the case to its home in California.

  • February 19, 2025

    Equinix Shareholder Claims Its Board Manipulated Financials

    An Equinix Inc. shareholder lodged a derivative shareholder suit accusing the data center-focused real estate investment trust's executives of manipulating financials to dupe investors, marking the latest legal challenge to arise since an investment research firm first made the claim last year.

  • February 19, 2025

    Democrats Say DOGE Took 'Trove' Of Musk Rivals' CFPB Data

    U.S. Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Adam Schiff, D-Calif. demanded Wednesday that Elon Musk remove Department of Government Efficiency staffers from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, saying Musk's potential conflicts of interest undermine the agency's goals while giving Musk access to a "trove" of confidential corporate data and an unfair advantage against rivals.

  • February 19, 2025

    Vets Urge 9th Circ. To Bar UCLA From Baseball Lease Row

    A group of disabled military veterans asked the Ninth Circuit to uphold a California federal judge's ruling that it's too late for the University of California system to join a suit over a campus that the veterans say should have been used for housing.

  • February 19, 2025

    Faegre Drinker Adds White & Case Antitrust Pro In SF

    Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP has brought on a former Silicon Valley office executive partner from White & Case LLP to its office in San Francisco, strengthening the firm's litigation practice with an attorney who said she has helped represent clients in multiple high-profile trials including matters involving antitrust issues.

  • February 19, 2025

    Calif. Bill Aims To Ban Sale Of Anti-Aging Products To Minors

    A San Francisco Bay Area legislator has introduced a new bill that bans the sale of anti-aging products "that contain potent and harsh ingredients" to people under the age of 18 in the Golden State.

Expert Analysis

  • New Law May Move Calif. Toward Fashion Sustainability

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    California’s recently signed Responsible Textile Recovery Act seeks to increase sustainability innovation in the fashion industry, but it could also create compliance hurdles for brands, especially smaller fashion houses that do not have ample resources, say Warren Koshofer and Maggie Franz at Michelman & Robinson.

  • Politics In California Workplaces: What Employers Must Know

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    As the election looms, it is critical that California employers ensure their compliance with state laws providing robust protections for employees' political activity — including antidiscrimination laws, off-duty conduct laws, employee voting leave laws and more, say Bradford Kelley and Britney Torres at Littler.

  • Mental Health First Aid: A Brief Primer For Attorneys

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    Amid a growing body of research finding that attorneys face higher rates of mental illness than the general population, firms should consider setting up mental health first aid training programs to help lawyers assess mental health challenges in their colleagues and intervene with compassion, say psychologists Shawn Healy and Tracey Meyers.

  • Licensing And Protections For Voice Actors In The Age Of AI

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    While two recently enacted California laws and other recent state and federal legislation largely focus on protecting actors and musicians from the unauthorized use of their digital likenesses by generative artificial intelligence systems, the lesser-known community of professional voice actors also stands to benefit, says attorney Scott Mortman.

  • Series

    Calif. Banking Brief: All The Notable Legal Updates In Q3

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    In the third quarter of the year, California continued to be at the forefront of banking regulation as it enacted legislation on unfair banking practices and junk fees, and the state Department of Financial Protection and Innovation notably initiated enforcement actions focused on crypto-assets and student loan debt relief, say Stuart Richter and Eric Hail at Katten.

  • Revisiting The Crime-Fraud Exception After Key Trump Cases

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    Evidence issues in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and classified documents cases involving former President Donald Trump offer an opportunity to restudy elements and implications of the crime-fraud exception to attorney-client privilege and the work product doctrine, noting the courts' careful scrutiny of these matters, say Robert Hoff and Paul Tuchmann at Wiggin and Dana.

  • Enviro Policy Trends That Will Continue Beyond The Election

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    Come October in a presidential election year, the policy world feels like a winner-take-all scenario, with the outcome of the vote determining how or even whether we are regulated — but there are several key ongoing trends that will continue to drive environmental regulation regardless of the election results, say J. Michael Showalter and Samuel Rasche at ArentFox Schiff.

  • 2 High Court Securities Cases Could Clarify Pleading Rules

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    In granting certiorari in a pair of securities fraud cases against Facebook and Nvidia, respectively, the U.S. Supreme Court has signaled its intention to align interpretations of the heightened pleading standard under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act amid its uneven application among the circuit courts, say attorneys at V&E.

  • What 2 Key Rulings Mean For Solicitation Under TCPA

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    Two recent rulings from federal district courts in New York and California — each of which came to a different conclusion — bring to light courts' continued focus on and analysis of when an alleged communication constitutes a solicitation under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, say Felix Shipkevich and Jessica Livingston at Shipkevich.

  • Series

    Collecting Art Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    The therapeutic aspects of appreciating and collecting art improve my legal practice by enhancing my observation skills, empathy, creativity and cultural awareness, says attorney Michael McCready.

  • Litigation Inspiration: Honoring Your Learned Profession

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    About 30,000 people who took the bar exam in July will learn they passed this fall, marking a fitting time for all attorneys to remember that they are members in a specialty club of learned professionals — and the more they can keep this in mind, the more benefits they will see, says Bennett Rawicki at Hilgers Graben.

  • Payward And The Secondary Crypto Transaction Confusion

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    Following orders in cases against Coinbase and Binance, the recent California federal court ruling in U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission v. Payward raises even more questions about regulation of secondary transactions involving crypto-assets, as it tries to sidestep fundamental flaws in the SEC's legal theories, say attorneys at Cahill Gordon.

  • Opinion

    AI May Limit Key Learning Opportunities For Young Attorneys

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    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.

  • Takeaways From Texas AG's Novel AI Health Settlement

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    The Texas attorney general's recent action against a health tech company marks another step in rapidly proliferating enforcement against artificial intelligence and privacy issues across multiple states, and highlights important risk mitigation considerations for health companies that implement AI systems, say attorneys at Troutman Pepper.

  • What To Know About Latest Calif. Auto-Renewal Law Update

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    While businesses have about nine months to prepare before the recently passed amendment to California's automatic renewal law takes effect, it’s not too early to begin working on compliance efforts, including sign-up flow reviews, record retention updates and marketing language revisions, say Gonzalo Mon and Beth Chun at Kelley Drye.

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