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March 07, 2025
Trump DOJ Agrees: Google Must Sell Chrome Browser
The Department of Justice on Friday reiterated to a D.C. federal judge that Google should have to divest the Chrome browser to give rival search engines a fighting chance against its illegal monopoly, but backed off its previous request that Google sell its investments in artificial intelligence companies.
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March 07, 2025
Orlando Health Can't Duck Suit Over Sharing Of Patients' Data
A Florida federal judge has refused to release Orlando Health Inc. from a proposed class action accusing it of unlawfully sharing patients' private information with Meta Platforms and Google through ad tracking software, allowing several wiretap and contract claims to proceed while axing a single invasion of privacy allegation.
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March 07, 2025
Justices Asked To Audit Ed Sheeran's 'Thinking Out Loud' Win
Structured Asset Sales LLC asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to review the Second Circuit's opinion that Ed Sheeran's "Thinking Out Loud" did not rip off Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get It On," arguing that the lower appellate court incorrectly affirmed that the Copyright Act of 1909 only protected the Motown song's sheet music.
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March 07, 2025
ByteDance Wants Sanctions For Attys After Client's Perjury
TikTok's parent company ByteDance has urged a California court to sanction Nassiri & Jung LLP attorneys it says "enabled" a former engineer's perjury in a suit alleging he was wrongly fired, arguing that the lawyers should've prevented their client's "abuse of the justice system."
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March 07, 2025
Feds Say California Tribes' Casino Challenge Comes Too Late
The U.S. Department of the Interior and other agencies have asked a D.C. federal judge to deny two tribes' challenge to another tribe's plan to build a casino-hotel complex on 221 acres of trust land, saying their request for a stay is improper and untimely.
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March 07, 2025
Charter Defeats Touchstream's $1B Patent Case At Texas Trial
A Texas federal jury cleared cable giant Charter Communications on Friday in a patent case over a New York startup's device that allows videos to be played on a separate, larger screen.
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March 07, 2025
FTC: Outlining World Sans Amazon Price-Floor 'Not Possible'
The Federal Trade Commission told a Washington federal judge Friday that it can only offer pieces, and not the entire outline, of what an alternative world might look like without Amazon.com's allegedly monopolistic pricing floor created by penalties for sellers offering their goods more cheaply through other retailers.
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March 07, 2025
'Spiderman' Leak Cost Film Studio Tens Of Millions, DOJ Says
A 37-year-old Tennessee man who worked at a DVD and Blu-ray manufacturing and distribution company used by major studios has been charged with stealing and selling copies of blockbuster movies before their release and with leaking "Spiderman: No Way Home" online, the U.S. Justice Department announced.
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March 07, 2025
Google Says Special Master Can't Make Ad Tech Trial Calls
Google is opposing a bid in Texas federal court from state enforcers accusing the company of monopolizing key digital advertising technology to have a special master make decisions about what evidence will be admitted during trial.
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March 07, 2025
Judge OKs Atlanta Strip Club's Wage Theft Settlement
A Georgia federal judge signed off Thursday on a $119,000 deal to end a suit between an Atlanta strip club and a former server who said the club stole her wages through an allegedly unlawful tip pooling scheme.
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March 07, 2025
Texas High Court Passes On 1 Of 3 'Love Is Blind' Fights
The Texas Supreme Court on Friday declined to take up a dispute between the producers behind the Netflix reality series "Love Is Blind" and a former contestant, passing on one of three appeals that stem from the show's fifth season.
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March 07, 2025
Tariffs, Diversity And DOGE Dominate Trump 2.0 'Risk Factors'
Public companies are busily reworking risk disclosures since the arrival of President Donald Trump's second administration, seeking to walk a fine line of being upfront with investors about potential threats to business despite vast legal and policy uncertainties.
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March 07, 2025
GOP Rep Wants Legislative Redo Of Broadband Program
A key House Republican has filed legislation to overhaul the U.S. Commerce Department's multibillion-dollar broadband deployment program to remove some regulations tied to federal funding.
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March 07, 2025
DOJ Cites SDNY Prosecutors' Texts In Bid To End Adams Case
President Donald Trump's Justice Department doubled down Friday on its bid to toss the corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, citing newly released internal correspondence showing "troubling conduct" by Southern District of New York prosecutors the agency criticized as "careerist" and insubordinate.
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March 07, 2025
WWE Can't Take 'Red Pencil' To Assault Suit, Ex-Staffer Says
A former staffer accusing World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. and two of its former executives, including former CEO Vince McMahon, of assault and sex trafficking defended her bid to add more detail to her complaint, arguing Friday that her ex-employers seek to "take a red pencil" to unflattering truths.
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March 07, 2025
Off The Bench: NASCAR Feud Grows, ACC Peace, NCAA Wins
In this week's Off The Bench, NASCAR insists that the two teams suing it are the real antitrust bullies, the ACC keeps two valued and valuable members in the fold, and a baseball player ends his court fight to play another year in college.
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March 07, 2025
Goldstein Must Be Tracked Amid 'Ongoing' Crimes, Feds Say
The federal government has doubled down on allegations that U.S. Supreme Court advocate and SCOTUSblog publisher Tom Goldstein has been secretly moving cryptocurrency, urging a federal judge to keep monitoring his electronic devices to prevent him from fleeing tax evasion charges.
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March 06, 2025
Diddy Threatened Employees, Feds Say In New Indictment
Manhattan federal prosecutors on Thursday filed a new indictment in the sex trafficking and racketeering case against Sean "Diddy" Combs, revealing new details about the hip-hop mogul's alleged practices of forcing his employees to work long hours, while subjecting them to physical and psychological harm.
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March 06, 2025
Federal Arts Agency Sued Over 'Gender Ideology' Restrictions
East Coast theater groups Thursday hauled the National Endowment for the Arts into Rhode Island federal court to challenge a restriction on funding to federal grant applicants who "promote gender ideology," saying the prohibition issued after an executive order from President Donald Trump unconstitutionally placed vague restrictions on artists' speech.
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March 06, 2025
MyPillow CEO Found In Contempt For Failing To Give Up Docs
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell was found in contempt of court by a Minnesota federal judge on Thursday for failing to produce documents in voting machine company Smartmatic's defamation suit claiming that he lied about its operations during the 2020 presidential election.
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March 06, 2025
Disney Slams Paltry Evidence As 'Moana' IP Trial Nears End
Counsel for a unit of The Walt Disney Co. urged a California federal judge to enter judgment in their favor as a copyright trial wound to a close Thursday, saying an artist has theories but no actual evidence that his work was stolen for the blockbuster animated movie "Moana."
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March 06, 2025
CBS Calls Trump's $20B Suit 'Affront To The 1st Amendment'
Paramount Global and CBS Broadcasting urged a Texas federal court on Thursday to toss President Donald Trump's $20 billion lawsuit accusing the network of deceptively doctoring a "60 Minutes" interview with Kamala Harris before last year's election, calling the litigation "an affront to the First Amendment" and arguing it was incorrectly lodged in Texas.
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March 06, 2025
CAA, Disney Not Enmeshed In Weinstein Claim, NY Court Told
Creative Artists Agency, Disney and a Miramax entity told a New York appeals court Thursday that actress Julia Ormond's case against them over an alleged Harvey Weinstein assault should have been dismissed, with former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch arguing for the talent agency that the complaint doesn't lay out a tort.
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March 06, 2025
ASUSTeK, HTC, Others Sued Over Media Patent
A New York-based patent-holding company has launched a series of lawsuits in Texas federal court accusing 13 companies of infringing its patent covering a media keying system used to upload content to users.
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March 06, 2025
AppLovin Hit With Suit Over 'Forced Shadow Downloads'
Technology company AppLovin faces a proposed investor class action alleging it invoked "cutting-edge AI technologies" in touting growth that allegedly resulted from manipulative practices triggering forced shadow downloads of its apps.
Expert Analysis
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Chancery May Have Raised Bar For Books, Records Requests
The Delaware Court of Chancery recently approved the denial of a books and records demand against Amazon, raising important questions about what evidence and purpose a stockholder is required to show to succeed on such a request, say attorneys at Selendy Gay.
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Rethinking Litigation Risk And What It Really Means To Win
Attorneys have a tendency to overestimate litigation risk before summary judgment and underestimate risk after it, but an eight-stage litigation framework can clarify risk at different points and help litigators reassess what true success looks like in any particular case, says Joshua Libling at Arcadia Finance.
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Mass Arbitration Procedures After Faulty Live Nation Ruling
Despite the Ninth Circuit's flawed reasoning in Heckman v. Live Nation, the exceptional allegations of collusive conduct shouldn't be read to restrict arbitration providers that have adopted good faith procedures to ensure that consumer mass arbitrations can be efficiently resolved on the merits, says Collin Vierra at Eimer Stahl.
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5 Notable Information Security Events In 2024
B. Stephanie Siegmann at Hinckley Allen discusses 2024's largest and most destructive data breaches seen yet, ranging from ransomware disrupting U.S. healthcare systems on a massive scale, to tensions increasing between the U.S. and China over cyberespionage and the control of U.S. data.
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Series
Playing Rugby Makes Me A Better Lawyer
My experience playing rugby, including a near-fatal accident, has influenced my legal practice on a professional, organizational and personal level by showing me the importance of maintaining empathy, fostering team empowerment and embracing the art of preparation, says James Gillenwater at Greenberg Traurig.
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Looking Back At 2024's Noteworthy State AG Litigation
State attorneys general across the U.S. took bold steps in 2024 to address unlawful activities by corporations in several areas, including privacy and data security, financial transparency, children's internet safety, and other overall consumer protection claims, say attorneys at Troutman Pepper.
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Opinion
No, Litigation Funders Are Not 'Fleeing' The District Of Del.
A recent study claimed that litigation funders have “fled” Delaware federal court due to a standing order requiring disclosure of third-party financing, but responsible funders have no problem litigating in this jurisdiction, and many other factors could explain the decline in filings, say Will Freeman and Sarah Tsou at Omni Bridgeway.
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5 Advertising Law Trends To Watch In 2025
Although advertisers are encouraged by the incoming Trump administration's focus on deregulation, this year could feel like wading through uncharted waters, and decreased federal government regulation may mean increased state regulation, say attorneys at Reed Smith.
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5 E-Discovery Predictions For 2025 And Beyond
In the year to come, e-discovery will be shaped by new and emerging trends, from the adoption of artificial intelligence provisions in protective orders, to the proliferation of emojis as a source of evidence in contemporary litigation, say attorneys at Littler.
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Celebs' Suits Show Limits Of Calif. Anti-SLAPP Laws
Two recent cases including Amanda Ghost v. Rebel Wilson and Leviss v. Sandoval highlight the delicate balancing act courts must perform in weighing free speech against privacy and reputational harm under California's robust anti-strategic lawsuit against public participation laws, say attorneys at Nixon Peabody.
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What To Expect From Federal Cybersecurity Policy In 2025
There are 12 cyber policy questions to keep an eye on as the new administration and Republican control of Congress present an opportunity to advance less regulatory approaches and revisit some choices from the prior administration, say attorneys at Wiley.
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2024 Was A Banner Year For Shareholder Activism
Shareholder activism campaigns in 2024 continued at an elevated pace globally, with activist investors exploiting valuation gaps and pushing aggressively for corporate governance reforms, including the ouster of many companies' chief executives, a trend that could continue once President-elect Donald Trump takes office, say attorneys at Sidley.
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6 Predictions For Cyber Risk And Insurance In 2025
This year is likely to bring with it some thorny and expensive cyber challenges, including increased ransomware activity, more data breach class actions and continued efforts to define business interruption loss calculations, say attorneys at Wiley.
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7 Ways 2nd Trump Administration May Affect Partner Hiring
President-elect Donald Trump's return to the White House will likely have a number of downstream effects on partner hiring in the legal industry, from accelerated hiring timelines to increased vetting of prospective employees, say recruiters at Macrae.
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4 Novel Issues From The Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni Suits
A series of lawsuits arising from actress Blake Lively's sexual harassment and retaliation complaint against her "It Ends With Us" co-star, Justin Baldoni, present novel legal issues that employment and defamation practitioners alike should follow as the litigation progresses, say attorneys at Dorsey & Whitney.