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October 18, 2024
Class Status Sought For Sex Bias Suit Over Layoffs At X
A suit alleging X targeted women in layoffs after Elon Musk bought the company should move forward as a class action because hundreds of women were impacted by sexist decision-making, a former employee for the company once known as Twitter argued in California federal court
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October 18, 2024
Off The Bench: Wemby Suit, Antitrust Fights In NASCAR, MMA
In this week's Off The Bench, NBA superstar Victor Wembanyama sues over illicit merchandise bearing his likeness, while antitrust litigation rocks NASCAR and mixed martial arts promotion Bellator.
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October 18, 2024
Podcast Co. Hit With Class Action Over Unwanted Texts
Financial advice podcast network Earn Your Leisure was hit with a proposed class action Thursday by a Georgia woman who says the company harassed her and other members of the National Do Not Call Registry with soliciting text messages.
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October 18, 2024
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
This past week in London has seen Professor Cat Jarman, Earl Spencer's new girlfriend, sue his ex-wife, Bitcoin fraudster Craig Wright file a £911 billion ($1.18 trillion) claim against BTC Core, journalist Oliver Kamm hit novelist Ros Barber with a defamation claim, and a barrister at Cloisters face a claim from a former client. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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October 17, 2024
Trump Media Investors Get Prison For Insider Trading
A New York federal judge on Thursday sentenced a Florida venture capitalist to over two years in prison for insider trading on confidential plans to take the media company behind former President Donald Trump's Truth Social network public, a scheme that netted the investor and his brother nearly $23 million.
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October 17, 2024
'It's The First Amendment, Stupid': Judge Blasts Fla.'s Threats
A Florida federal judge on Thursday blocked the state from threatening television stations with criminal prosecution if they did not pull a campaign ad promoting an abortion rights ballot initiative, calling the ads political speech that "is at the core of the First Amendment."
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October 17, 2024
Atty's 'Groundhog Day' Motion Trims Ex-Girardi Client's Suit
A California state judge on Thursday trimmed a family's $1.8 million malpractice lawsuit against an attorney that represented it in recovering millions lost in Girardi Keese's embezzlement scandal, calling a bid to nix one of the suit's claims a "Groundhog Day" motion because she already granted a similar one from the attorney's firm.
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October 17, 2024
How Muhammad Ali's Ex-Photog Won $2.7M From Brand Co.
When Muhammad Ali's former personal photographer brought a copyright suit against a powerful brand management company, his attorneys faced a daunting challenge at trial: How can they convince jurors that Authentic Brands Group was liable for willful infringement?
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October 17, 2024
Paramount Unlikely To Cut Extortion Claim Over Boxing Match
A Los Angeles judge appeared skeptical Thursday of Paramount Global's bid to toss allegations that former CBS Corp. CEO Les Moonves hired a lawyer to extort an actor out of his finder's fee for the lucrative 2015 boxing match between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr.
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October 17, 2024
NTIA Drops 1st List Of Self-Identified 'Build America' Makers
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration has released the first list of self-identifying manufacturers complying with the Broadband Equity Access and Deployment program's Build America, Buy America waiver.
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October 17, 2024
Feds Arrest Man In SEC X Account Hack Touting Bitcoin ETF
An Alabama man was arrested Thursday on federal charges tied to the January hack of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's X account, which caused bitcoin prices to spike after a phony post falsely touted that the agency had approved bitcoin exchange-traded products, federal authorities said.
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October 17, 2024
Colorado Judges Doubt Giuliani Shielded For 2020 Lies
Colorado appellate judges appeared skeptical Thursday of Rudy Giuliani's bid to escape a defamation lawsuit by a former executive for Dominion Voting Systems, noting that they already found Giuliani's statements weren't protected in a related appeal.
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October 17, 2024
Meta Judge Doubts Investor Suit Over Efforts To Protect Kids
A California federal judge appeared skeptical Thursday of keeping alive an investor's lawsuit claiming Meta Platforms Inc.'s annual proxy statement misled investors about the social media giant's efforts to protect children from sexual predators, telling the investor his economic loss arguments are circular and doubting whether Meta's statements are actionable.
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October 17, 2024
DOJ Defends States' Right To Recoup Live Nation Overcharges
The federal government and 40 states are urging a New York federal court not to trim their antitrust case against Live Nation, arguing that states have the right to go after overcharges customers allegedly paid for concert tickets and also defending a tying claim based on venues and promotion services.
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October 17, 2024
Texans Say Rapper Is Tripping With Suit Over 'Still Tippin'
The Houston Texans are asking a Texas federal judge to toss a suit lodged by a rapper who claims the NFL team stole his song, "Still Tippin," characterizing his claims as "frivolous" and "not viable."
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October 17, 2024
Solar Site Settles Conn. AG's Claims Over Social Media Ads
The Connecticut attorney general's office has reached a settlement with EnergyBillCruncher.com to resolve claims that it ran deceptive social media ads falsely claiming that the "government will cover the cost" of solar panel installation and improperly displaying the state seal.
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October 17, 2024
Disney Can't Get Quick Appeal In Actor's Political Firing Suit
A California federal judge refused to sign off on Walt Disney Co.'s bid to immediately challenge a decision that kept a suit alive from a former Star Wars actor who said she was fired for expressing her political views, saying an appeal to the Ninth Circuit would be premature.
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October 17, 2024
NYC Art Adviser Admits Defrauding Clients Of $6.5M
A well-known Manhattan art adviser pled guilty in New York federal court Thursday to fleecing her clients of $6.5 million through transactions related to about 55 pieces of art.
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October 17, 2024
Google Asks 9th Circ. To Immediately Pause Epic Injunction
Google filed an emergency motion late Wednesday in its antitrust battle with Epic Games Inc. asking the Ninth Circuit to stay a lower court's injunction that's set to take effect Nov. 1 requiring Google to open up its Play Store to competing app stores, slamming the injunction as harmful and "unworkable."
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October 17, 2024
Ga. Man Shot During Lil Baby Video Shoot Sues Over Injuries
One of three men who were shot in May during the filming of a music video for Atlanta rapper Lil Baby filed suit last week against the production, security and property companies involved in Georgia state court.
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October 17, 2024
Randy Newman Sells Music Rights To Carlyle-Backed Litmus
Musician and songwriter Randy Newman has sold his stake in his recorded music and publishing rights to Carlyle-backed music rights business Litmus Music, a transaction that includes decades of popular recordings and music from feature films, including the song "You've Got A Friend In Me" from 1995's "Toy Story," Litmus said Thursday.
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October 17, 2024
Pa. AG Can't Get State Claims Restored In FTC Amazon Suit
A federal judge tersely denied a request from Pennsylvania's attorney general, who had sought to reinstate her state's consumer protection claims against Amazon in the Federal Trade Commission's antitrust suit.
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October 17, 2024
Former X Exec 'Worst' For Class In Bonus Suit, Judge Says
A former X Corp. senior director of compensation is "the worst possible candidate" for the class he proposed in his suit claiming unpaid bonuses after Elon Musk took the reins of the company, a California federal judge said, slamming his bid for class certification.
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October 16, 2024
Garth Brooks Says Rape Accuser Already Revealed Herself
Country music star Garth Brooks on Wednesday urged a Mississippi federal court to reject a hair and makeup artist's request that he be sanctioned for publicly revealing her identity out of spite after she accused him of rape, arguing that she already agreed to use her name in the litigation.
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October 16, 2024
Photog Tells 9th Circ. Miles Davis Tattoo Was Not Fair Use
A photographer wants the Ninth Circuit to undo a California federal jury's finding that cleared celebrity tattoo artist Kat Von D of claims she infringed a copyrighted photo of Miles Davis that he took, saying she failed to adequately show fair use.
Expert Analysis
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E-Discovery Quarterly: Recent Rulings On Text Message Data
Electronically stored information on cellphones, and in particular text messages, can present unique litigation challenges, and recent court decisions demonstrate that counsel must carefully balance what data should be preserved, collected, reviewed and produced, say attorneys at Sidley.
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CFPB Reality Check: Video Game Cash Is Still Money
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's recent report examining payments within online video games indicates that financial services offered within the game marketplace are quickly evolving to the point where they are indistinguishable from traditional financial services subject to regulation, say attorneys at Sheppard Mullin.
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How Copyright Office AI Standards Depart From Precedent
The U.S. Copyright Office's recent departure from decades of precedent for technology-assisted works, and express refusal to grant protection to artificial intelligence-assisted works, may change as the dust settles around ancillary copyright issues for AI currently pending in litigation, says Kristine Craig at Hanson Bridgett.
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Keeping Up With Class Actions: A New Era Of Higher Stakes
Corporate defendants saw unprecedented settlement numbers across all areas of class action litigation in 2022 and 2023, and this year has kept pace so far, with three settlements that stand out for the nature of the claims and for their high dollar amounts, says Gerald Maatman at Duane Morris.
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8 Questions To Ask Before Final CISA Breach Reporting Rule
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s recently proposed cyber incident reporting requirements for critical infrastructure entities represent the overall approach CISA will take in its final rule, so companies should be asking key compliance questions now and preparing for a more complicated reporting regime, say Arianna Evers and Shannon Mercer at WilmerHale.
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Is The Digital Accessibility Storm Almost Over?
Though private businesses have faced a decadelong deluge of digital accessibility complaints in the absence of clear regulations or uniformity among the courts, attorneys at Epstein Becker address how recent federal courts’ pushback against serial Americans with Disabilities Act plaintiffs and the U.S. Department of Justice’s proposed government accessibility standards may presage a break in the downpour.
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Series
Swimming Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Years of participation in swimming events, especially in the open water, have proven to be ideal preparation for appellate arguments in court — just as you must put your trust in the ocean when competing in a swim event, you must do the same with the judicial process, says John Kulewicz at Vorys.
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How Courts Are Interpreting Fed. Circ. IPR Estoppel Ruling
In the year since the Federal Circuit’s Ironburg ruling, which clarified the scope of inter partes and post-grant review estoppel, district court decisions show that application of IPR or PGR estoppel may become a resource-intensive inquiry, say Whitney Meier Howard and Michelle Lavrichenko at Venable.
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What 100 Federal Cases Suggest About Changes To Chevron
With the U.S. Supreme Court poised to overturn or narrow its 40-year-old doctrine of Chevron deference, a review of 100 recent federal district court decisions confirm that changes to the Chevron framework will have broad ramifications — but the magnitude of the impact will depend on the details of the high court's ruling, say Kali Schellenberg and Jon Cochran at LeVan Stapleton.
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Opinion
Viral Deepfakes Of Taylor Swift Highlight Need For Regulation
As the nation grapples with addressing risk from artificial intelligence use, the recent circulation of AI-generated pornographic images of Taylor Swift on the social platform X highlights the need for federal legislation to protect nonconsenting subjects of deepfake pornography, say Nicole Brenner and Susie Ruiz-Lichter at Squire Patton.
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New Federal Bill Would Drastically Alter Privacy Landscape
While the recently introduced American Privacy Rights Act would eliminate the burdensome patchwork of state regulations, the proposed federal privacy law would also significantly expand compliance obligations and liability exposure for companies, especially those that rely on artificial intelligence or biometric technologies, says David Oberly at Baker Donelson.
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Social Media Free Speech Issues Are Trending At High Court
The U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision examining what constitutes state action on social media can be viewed in conjunction with oral arguments in two other cases to indicate that the court sees a need for more clarity regarding how social media usage implicates the First Amendment, say attorneys at Kean Miller.
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Don't Use The Same Template For Every Client Alert
As the old marketing adage goes, consistency is key, but law firm style guides need consistency that contemplates variety when it comes to client alert formats, allowing attorneys to tailor alerts to best fit the audience and subject matter, says Jessica Kaplan at Legally Penned.
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Don't Fall On That Hill: Keys To Testifying Before Congress
Because congressional testimony often comes with political, reputational and financial risks in addition to legal pitfalls, witnesses and their attorneys should take a multifaceted approach to preparation, walking a fine line between legal and business considerations, say attorneys at Crowell & Moring.
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Series
Walking With My Dog Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Thanks to my dog Birdie, I've learned that carving out an activity different from the practice of law — like daily outdoor walks that allow you to interact with new people — can contribute to professional success by boosting creativity and mental acuity, as well as expanding your social network, says Sarah Petrie at the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office.