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August 27, 2024
SEC Cites Amazon's FTC Loss In Coinbase Document Dispute
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday told a New York federal judge that a recent ruling denying Amazon's request to review internal documents from the Federal Trade Commission bolsters its own bid to shield internal communications in its enforcement suit against crypto exchange Coinbase.
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August 27, 2024
Revlon Says Ex-Workers Stole Britney Spears Fragrance Deal
Global beauty and cosmetics brand Revlon sued several former fragrance marketing executives and upstart competitor Give Back Beauty in New York federal court, alleging they stole trade secrets and breached contracts when luring Britney Spears' perfume line away from Revlon.
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August 27, 2024
Del. Court Nixes Trump Media Contempt Bid In Share Suit
A Delaware vice chancellor declined on Tuesday to find Donald Trump's social media venture in contempt for suing in Florida to block the release of two Trump Media & Technology Group founders' shares, while the same founders are battling for the stock in the Court of Chancery.
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August 27, 2024
Floyd Mayweather Jr., Tyga Swindled Jeweler, Suit Says
World champion boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. and rapper Tyga owe nearly $3.9 million for unpaid merchandise, according to a lawsuit filed by Florida luxury jeweler Lenzo & Co., which claims the pair asked to meet privately and kept the items with promises of payment.
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August 27, 2024
NFL Union Sues DraftKings Over Broken NFT Licensing Deal
The NFL Players Association has accused DraftKings Inc. of failing to make good on a licensing agreement when the online sportsbook decided to cease payments after shuttering its nonfungible token marketplace in the wake of a civil suit that argued DraftKings' NFTs offended securities laws.
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August 27, 2024
5th Circ. Holds Mandate In Subsidy Suit During FCC Appeal
The Fifth Circuit has agreed to let the current subsidy for telecom services remain in place while the Federal Communications Commission seeks U.S. Supreme Court review of a ruling that upended the subsidy system.
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August 27, 2024
Disney Wipes Out Verdict In Movie Graphics Copyright Suit
Walt Disney Pictures does not have to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in copyright infringement damages a jury said it owes to a digital-effects company after a California federal judge overturned the verdict and granted the entertainment company a post-trial victory.
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August 27, 2024
Broadcaster Settles With FCC For $8K Over Stock Transfers
An Arkansas radio broadcaster will pay an $8,000 fine to settle a Federal Communications Commission probe into unauthorized changes in control of the company's stock that occurred over two years.
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August 27, 2024
FCC Urged To Include Streetlight Poles In Deployment Regs
It's time for the Federal Communications Commission to clarify that streetlight poles are utility poles as far as the Communications Act's mandates on pole attachments are concerned, a trade group and the country's biggest mobile companies have teamed up to tell the agency.
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August 27, 2024
Hip-Hop Label Misclassified, Underpaid Performers, Suit Says
Rapper DaBaby's hip-hop label misclassified performers as independent contractors to avoid paying them overtime and minimum wages and dictated when they were allowed to eat and use the bathroom, according to a proposed class action filed in California state court.
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August 27, 2024
3rd Circ. Axes Kavanaugh Classmate's HuffPo Defamation Suit
A lower court was right to nix a defamation lawsuit by a former classmate of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh against The Huffington Post because the suit is time-barred no matter which state's law governs it, the Third Circuit ruled Tuesday.
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August 27, 2024
SpaceX, T-Mobile Seek Speedy Action On Mobile 'Dead Zones'
SpaceX and T-Mobile last week continued to push the Federal Communications Commission to approve Starlink's planned direct-to-cellular service in light of the agency's approval of rules allowing satellite companies to join with terrestrial mobile providers to fill gaps in wireless service.
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August 27, 2024
NTIA Gathers Info On Best Techs For Reaching Remote Areas
As the government continues rolling out a $42.5 billion spending program to deploy broadband to unserved areas, the U.S. Department of Commerce has asked the public to help identify technologies suitable for connecting the most remote and hard-to-reach areas.
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August 27, 2024
SXSW, Chubb Unit Settle Ticket Coverage Dispute
The organizers of the South by Southwest festival and a Chubb insurer told a Texas federal court they settled their dispute over coverage for costs stemming from a class action by ticket holders seeking refunds after the 2020 festival was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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August 27, 2024
3 Firms Build $314M Events.com SPAC Merger
Event management platform Events.com plans to go public by merging with Concord Acquisition Corp. II at an estimated $314 million value, both parties announced on Tuesday, through a deal guided by three law firms.
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August 27, 2024
Disbarred Atty Tom Girardi Convicted Of Defrauding Clients
A California federal jury on Tuesday convicted disbarred attorney Tom Girardi on all four counts of wire fraud, finding that the former titan of the plaintiffs bar misappropriated $15 million of his clients' settlement funds.
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August 27, 2024
Google Wants Out Of IP Suit Over Pirated Books
Google asked a Manhattan federal judge to dismiss allegations that it allowed advertisements to be shown to users from websites that sell pirated textbooks, claiming it has no ability to supervise those sites and isn't profiting from alleged pirating.
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August 27, 2024
Sony, Zee Drop Dispute Over Failed $10B India Media Deal
Zee Entertainment and Sony Group's India unit have reached a noncash settlement to end their dispute over the $10 billion merger deal that unraveled earlier this year, with the companies stating Tuesday they will withdraw all legal claims against each other.
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August 27, 2024
Va. Ad Tech Judge Warns Google Over Chat Deletion
Google's defense of its advertising technology could get a little harder after a Virginia federal judge on Tuesday kept the door open to assuming that deleted internal chats hid evidence that would support U.S. Department of Justice monopolization claims bound for a bench trial next month.
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August 26, 2024
Bronfman Scraps Paramount Bid, Paving Way For Skydance
Media executive Edgar Bronfman Jr. has dropped his reported $6 billion bid to buy Paramount Global just days after the offer was disclosed, opening a path for Paramount to close its merger agreement with Skydance Media.
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August 26, 2024
$4.4M Award Against Cheat Code Site Upheld At 9th Circ.
A website that circulated cheat codes for the video game "Destiny 2" failed to convince the Ninth Circuit on Monday that it got an unfair shake in front of an arbitrator who told the site to pay $4.4 million for breaking copyright and trademark laws.
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August 26, 2024
RFK Jr. Loses Bid To Get Vax Censorship Injunction At 9th Circ.
The Ninth Circuit on Monday affirmed a decision rejecting Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s bid to get an injunction in his case alleging Google violated his First Amendment rights by removing his YouTube videos doubting the safety of the COVID-19 vaccines.
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August 26, 2024
Girardi Lied 'Over And Over,' Jury Told As Fraud Trial Wraps
A federal prosecutor told a California federal jury during closing arguments in Tom Girardi's criminal fraud trial Monday that the now-disbarred attorney lied to his clients "over and over and over again" in order to misappropriate millions of their settlement money as part of a yearslong Ponzi scheme.
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August 26, 2024
Army Corps Looks To Trim Claims In Alaskan Gold Mine Row
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has told an Alaska federal judge that most of the claims asserted by a small village that's trying to thwart an open pit gold mine can't be supported and should be dismissed.
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August 26, 2024
Firm Wants Award Nixed Over DLA Piper, Arbitrator Ties
Fortis Advisors is urging a Delaware court to vacate an arbitral award favoring gaming company Stillfront following its 2019 purchase of a Canadian video game company, arguing that an accounting firm hired to adjudicate the dispute and Stillfront's counsel at DLA Piper hid a "web of relationships" between them.
Expert Analysis
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Series
Cheering In The NFL Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Balancing my time between a BigLaw career and my role as an NFL cheerleader has taught me that pursuing your passions outside of work is not a distraction, but rather an opportunity to harness important skills that can positively affect how you approach work and view success in your career, says Rachel Schuster at Sheppard Mullin.
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After TikTok, Tiptoeing Toward Patent Transfer Alignment
Following the Fifth Circuit's TikTok decision, which aimed to standardize transfer analysis in patent cases, the Federal Circuit and Texas federal courts facing transfer requests have taken small steps to consider the practical realities of patent litigation, reinforcing the intensely factual focus of the analysis, says Charles Fowler at McKool Smith.
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Series
ESG Around The World: Gulf Cooperation Council
The Gulf Cooperation Council is in the early stages of ESG policy implementation, but recent commitments by both states and corporations — including increases in sustainable finance transactions, environmental commitments, female representation on boards and human rights enforcement — show continuing progress toward broader ESG goals, say attorneys at Cleary.
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Bank Secrecy Act Lessons For Casinos After DOJ Settlements
The U.S. Department of Justice's recent settlements with the MGM Grand and Cosmopolitan casinos, resolving an investigation into alleged violations of the Bank Secrecy Act, signal a shift in the DOJ's enforcement focus and provide insight into potential pitfalls in anti-money laundering compliance programs, say attorneys at Jenner & Block.
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Using Arbitration And Class Waivers As Privacy Suit Tools
Amid a surge in data breach class actions over the last few years, several federal court decisions indicate that arbitration clauses and class action waiver provisions can be possible alternatives to public court battles and potentially reduce the costs of privacy litigation, say Mark Olthoff and Courtney Klaus at Polsinelli.
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6 Pointers For Attys To Build Trust, Credibility On Social Media
In an era of information overload, attorneys can use social media strategically — from making infographics to leveraging targeted advertising — to cut through the noise and establish a reputation among current and potential clients, says Marly Broudie at SocialEyes Communications.
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A Post-Mortem Analysis Of Stroock's Demise
After the dissolution of 147-year-old firm Stroock late last year shook up the legal world, a post-mortem analysis of the data reveals a long list of warning signs preceding the firm’s collapse — and provides some insight into how other firms might avoid the same disastrous fate, says Craig Savitzky at Leopard Solutions.
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Retailers Must Be Mindful Of Sale Ads As Class Actions Rise
A recent uptick in class actions filed against retailers over a breadth of allegedly deceptive pricing practices — including misleading reference prices for sales and discounts offered on a perpetual basis — show no sign of slowing down, indicating that class counsel are laser-focused on challenging advertising strategies, say Louis DiLorenzo and Paavana Kumar at Davis+Gilbert.
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Legislative And Litigation Trends In Environmental Advertising
Companies that tout their products' environmental benefits can significantly reduce the risk that they will face allegations of greenwashing by staying up to date on related Federal Trade Commission guidance, state requirements and litigation trends, say Raqiyyah Pippins and Kelsie Sicinski at Arnold & Porter.
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What's On The Horizon In Attorney General Enforcement
A look at recent attorney general actions, especially in the areas of antitrust and artificial intelligence, can help inform businesses on what they should expect in terms of enforcement trends as 10 attorney general races play out in 2024, say attorneys at Cozen O'Connor.
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2nd Circ. Ruling Will Guide Social Media Account Ownership
The Second Circuit’s recent decision in JLM Couture v. Gutman — which held that ownership of social media accounts must be resolved using traditional property law analysis — will guide employers and employees alike in future cases, and underscores the importance of express agreements in establishing ownership of social media accounts, says Joshua Glasgow at Phillips Lytle.
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Storytelling Strategies To Defuse Courtroom Conspiracies
Misinformation continues to proliferate in all sectors of society, including in the courtroom, as jurors try to fill in the gaps of incomplete trial narratives — underscoring the need for attorneys to tell a complete, consistent and credible story before and during trial, says David Metz at IMS Legal Strategies.
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Opinion
9th Circ. Should Overturn The Miles Davis Tattoo Ruling
A California district court made several missteps that led to a finding that celebrity artist Kat Von D's Miles Davis tattoo did not infringe copyright, and the Ninth Circuit should overturn the decision because recent U.S. Supreme Court guidance was ignored and the jury did not receive adequate instruction, says Brian Moriarty at Hamilton Brook.
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Is Compulsory Copyright Licensing Needed For AI Tech?
The U.S. Copyright Office's inquiry into whether Congress should establish a compulsory licensing regime for artificial intelligence technologies that are trained on copyrighted works has received relatively little attention — but commenters recently opposed the regime under three key themes, say Michael Kientzle and Ryan White at Arnold & Porter.
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EDNY Ruling Charts 99 Problems In Rap Lyric Admissibility
A New York federal court’s recent ruling in U.S. v. Jordan powerfully captures courts’ increasing skepticism about the admissibility of rap lyrics as evidence in criminal trials, particularly at a time when artists face economic incentives to embrace fictional, hyperbolic narratives, say attorneys at Sher Tremonte.