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February 24, 2025
Filmmaker Seeks New IP Trial Against Shyamalan, Others
A filmmaker has asked for a new copyright infringement trial against writer-director M. Night Shyamalan and his co-defendants Friday after a jury found that they did not have access to the film she claimed they infringed, arguing that the court failed to answer a crucial question from the jury before the verdict was delivered.
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February 24, 2025
Trump Media Seeks Shareholder Approval To Leave Delaware
The owner of Donald Trump's social media platform plans to hold a shareholder vote in April asking investors whether it should move its legal address to Florida, potentially joining a growing number of companies reincorporating outside of Delaware.
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February 24, 2025
Netflix Sinks Robocast Playlist Patents In Del. IP Suit
A Delaware federal judge has sided with Netflix's arguments that a trio of Robocast patents covering playlist technology are invalid.
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February 24, 2025
Venable Litigator Jumps To Steptoe In California
Steptoe LLP continues growing its West Coast team, announcing Monday it is bringing in a Venable LLP commercial trial lawyer as a partner in its Los Angeles and San Francisco offices.
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February 24, 2025
Conn. Solo Wants Willkie Partner's $27K Fee Bid Slashed
A Connecticut solo practitioner who lost a First Amendment lawsuit after leaking a Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP's partner's landlord-tenant dispute to the New York Post on Monday criticized the partner's bid to recoup his legal fees, arguing $8,250 is more reasonable than his current $27,000 demand.
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February 24, 2025
Ex-Sheppard Mullin Media Atty Joins O'Melveny In Calif.
An entertainment attorney with expertise representing stakeholders on all sides of deal negotiations has moved his practice recently to O'Melveny & Myers LLP's office in the Los Angeles area after more than six years with Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP.
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February 24, 2025
Museum Cleared To Fire Hurt Worker After 4 Leave Extensions
A California appeals court declined to revive a former HVAC technician's suit claiming the J. Paul Getty Trust illegally fired him while recovering from an on-the-job leg fracture, saying terminating him instead of granting a fifth request for indefinite medical leave was reasonable.
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February 24, 2025
Justices Won't Rehear Case Against NY Broadband Price Cap
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday again rejected a telecom industry bid to reverse a New York state law capping the price for basic broadband service plans that must be offered to low-income households after first turning down the case in December.
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February 24, 2025
High Court Rejects Dish's Bid For Atty Fees For PTAB Work
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday turned down Dish Network's appeal arguing that, after being cleared in a patent infringement case, it was entitled to attorney fees for its successful Patent Trial and Appeal Board challenge, and from the plaintiff's attorneys.
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February 21, 2025
AP Says Press Ban Over Gulf Naming Row Unconstitutional
The Associated Press claimed the White House violated its constitutional rights by banning its reporters from presidential "pool" events due to a dispute over the name of the Gulf of Mexico, which the president wants renamed the Gulf of America, in a suit filed Friday in D.C. federal court.
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February 21, 2025
FTC's Holyoak Has Her Eyes On DeepSeek
Federal Trade Commission member Melissa Holyoak suggested Friday that DeepSeek, the Chinese artificial intelligence startup whose rise has roiled AI markets, could have competed unfairly if it really trained its model using ChatGPT in violation of OpenAI's policies, as has been suggested.
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February 21, 2025
Pepperdine Says Netflix, WB Series Rips Off 'Waves' Athletics
Netflix and Warner Bros. Entertainment ripped off Pepperdine University's intellectual property, including the colors and branding of its basketball team, to create their forthcoming comedy series "Running Point" and create a false sense of affiliation, the university alleges in a trademark infringement lawsuit filed Thursday in California federal court.
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February 21, 2025
Apple Can Claw Back Mistakenly Produced Docs In Epic Fight
A California federal magistrate judge said Friday that Apple can claw back two documents the tech giant said it accidentally produced during discovery for an antitrust suit brought by Epic Games, rejecting the game developer's assertion that Apple's bid was "opportunistic."
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February 21, 2025
Energy Transfer Brings $300M Greenpeace Case To Jury
Dakota Access Pipeline builder Energy Transfer LP heads to trial Monday against Greenpeace in a $300 million defamation suit over Greenpeace's role in supporting Standing Rock Indian Reservation protests — a suit the environmental group calls an attempt to stifle free speech. Here, Law360 previews what to watch for in the hotly anticipated trial.
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February 21, 2025
Verizon, T-Mobile Push For More Room In Upper C-Band
T-Mobile and Verizon are excited about the Federal Communications Commission's plan to launch an inquiry into opening up parts of the upper C-band later this month, thanking the agency for "moving swiftly" on the issue.
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February 21, 2025
Shkreli Avoids Sanctions Over 'Frustrating' Wu-Tang Tangle
Convicted former pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli won't have to pay sanctions after purportedly dragging his feet for nearly six months on complying with court orders to hand over copies of a Wu-Tang Clan album to the crypto project that bought it from him.
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February 21, 2025
New LA DA Doubts Menendez Brothers' Sexual Abuse Defense
Los Angeles County's new district attorney on Friday opposed Erik and Lyle Menendez's bid for a new trial for the 1989 murder of their parents, expressing doubts that the brothers were molested by their father and saying that even if true, such abuse wouldn't form the basis for self-defense.
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February 21, 2025
Kim Kardashian Accused Of Misidentifying Death Row Inmate
Kim Kardashian was sued Thursday in California state court one year after a photo the reality television star posted in an Instagram story allegedly identified the wrong man as a Texas prisoner on death row.
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February 21, 2025
Russian Gamer's Dispute Belongs In Arbitration, Twitch Says
Twitch has sued a sanctioned Russian professional gamer in California, arguing the gamer should be barred from trying to enforce an "unconscionable and oppressive" judgment against the livestreaming platform after he was banned from it shortly after the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
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February 21, 2025
Diddy Atty Says No Way He Can Continue As Defense Counsel
A defense attorney representing Sean "Diddy" Combs' in his criminal sex-trafficking case on Friday asked a Manhattan federal judge to allow him to quit, saying in a carefully worded court filing that "under no circumstances" could he continue to represent the disgraced hip-hop mogul.
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February 21, 2025
6 Things To Know About Shein's Fast Fashion Feuds
Ultra-fast fashion behemoth Shein is facing accusations of infringing intellectual property in dozens of cases from plaintiffs ranging from major fashion brands to individual artists. Here are six things to know about Shein's intellectual property battles.
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February 21, 2025
Telecom Biz Re-Ups Push To Exempt BEAD Funds From Taxes
The telecom industry is again pressing policymakers to make income from federal broadband deployment grants tax-free.
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February 21, 2025
NFL Alums Accused Of Misusing COVID Outreach Funding
The National Football League's largest alumni organization has been accused by a biotechnology company of trying to misuse Georgia taxpayer dollars intended for a COVID-19 vaccine education program before unlawfully breaking their contract last year.
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February 21, 2025
Swizz Beatz Says Suit Over 1MDB Funds Is Time-Barred
Hip-hop artist Swizz Beatz has told a Manhattan federal judge that a suit claiming he received millions of dollars that were stolen in the 1Malaysia Development Berhad fraud scandal should be tossed since it was brought after the six-year statute of limitations.
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February 21, 2025
'Unsupported Conclusions' Doom Ad App Suit Against Google
A California federal judge has permanently tossed an antitrust suit accusing Google of kicking a now-defunct advertising app maker out of the Play Store in order to squelch a potential digital advertising rival, finding that the act alone was not enough to show harm to the market from the alleged monopolization.
Expert Analysis
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Recent Securities Cases Highlight Risks In AI Disclosures
Increasing public disclosure about the use and risks of artificial intelligence, and related litigation asserting that such disclosures are false or misleading, suggest that issuers need to exercise great care with respect to how they describe the benefits of AI, say Richard Zelichov and Danny Tobey at DLA Piper.
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Opinion
This Election, We Need To Talk About Court Process
In recent decades, the U.S. Supreme Court has markedly transformed judicial processes — from summary judgment standards to notice pleadings — which has, in turn, affected individuals’ substantive rights, and we need to consider how the upcoming presidential election may continue this pattern, says Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner.
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Consider Best Legal Practices For Commissioning Public Art
Commissioning public art for real estate projects can provide many benefits to real estate developers and the public, but it's important to understand the unique legal and contracting aspects of the process to ensure that projects are completed on time and on budget, says Sarah Conley Odenkirk at ArtConverge.
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A Look At The PTAB's Assessment Of Prior Art Exceptions
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board's approach over the last 10 years to assessing Section 102(b) prior art exceptions reveals a few trends, including that evidence of common ownership may have a higher likelihood of successfully disqualifying prior art under Section 102(b)(2)(C) at the institution stage, say Louis Panzica and David Holman at Sterne Kessler.
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Series
Playing Diplomacy Makes Us Better Lawyers
Similar to the practice of law, the rules of Diplomacy — a strategic board game set in pre-World War I Europe — are neither concise nor without ambiguity, and weekly gameplay with our colleagues has revealed the game's practical applications to our work as attorneys, say Jason Osborn and Ben Bevilacqua at Winston & Strawn.
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Open Questions In Unsettled Geofence Warrant Landscape
The Fourth and Fifth Circuits recently reached radically divergent conclusions about the constitutionality of geofence warrants, creating an uncertain landscape in which defendants should assert and preserve the full range of conventional Fourth Amendment challenges, says Charles Fowler at McKool Smith.
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A Look At 5 States' New Data Privacy Laws
With new data privacy laws in Utah, Florida, Texas, Oregon and Montana recently in effect or coming into force this year, state-level enforcement of data privacy creates significant challenges and risks for how businesses interact with employees and consumers, and for companies that provide and use technologies in multiple jurisdictions, say attorneys at Jenner & Block.
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Mental Health First Aid: A Brief Primer For Attorneys
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.
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Licensing And Protections For Voice Actors In The Age Of AI
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.
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2 High Court Securities Cases Could Clarify Pleading Rules
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.
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Series
Collecting Art Makes Me A Better Lawyer
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.
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Secret Service Failures Offer Lessons For Private Sector GCs
The Secret Service’s problematic response to two assassination attempts against former President Donald Trump this summer provides a crash course for general counsel on how not to handle crisis communications, says Keith Nahigian at Nahigian Strategies.
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Unpacking Nazi-Era Art Restitution Cases Under HEAR Act
Since the enactment of the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act in 2016, courts, commentators and litigants have struggled to delineate the extent to which time-based arguments remain relevant to resolving Nazi-era restitution claims, but a decision in Bennigson v. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation provides valuable clarity on this issue, say attorneys at Patterson Belknap.
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Insurance Likely Kept Swift Out Of The Woods After Vienna
Financial losses Taylor Swift incurred from the cancellation of three concerts in Vienna in August will likely be covered by insurance policies, considering how the facts of the situation differ from those of the Foo Fighters' 2015 insurance dispute over event cancellation and terrorism coverage, say attorneys at Anderson Kill.
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Litigation Inspiration: Honoring Your Learned Profession
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.