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August 21, 2024
Judge To Mull Recusal In Boston Marathon Bombing Case
A Boston federal judge said Wednesday he will allow briefing on whether he should recuse himself from the case of convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who is seeking a new sentencing trial over claims of possible jury bias.
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August 20, 2024
Girardi Jury Hears Of Ex-CFO's Alleged Bahama Hideout Plan
The former fiancee of ex-Girardi Keese executive Chris Kamon told a California federal jury in Tom Girardi's criminal trial Tuesday about a dramatic call she received from Kamon, during which he told her he was about to be "pinned" for the firm's crimes and wanted her to flee to the Bahamas with him.
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August 20, 2024
OnePlus Gets Do-Over For 'Excessive' $10M Pantech Verdict
Chinese phone company OnePlus can have a new trial on damages after it was hit with a $10 million infringement verdict in Pantech Corp.'s patent dispute over technology used to comply with 5G wireless standards, a Texas federal judge ruled, saying, "There is no question this verdict is excessive."
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August 20, 2024
Mesh Was Implanted After Serious FDA Alert, Jury Hears
A surgery patient went to trial Tuesday against an Oregon hospital and surgeon over an implant of prolapse mesh almost two weeks after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ordered its maker to stop selling it.
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August 20, 2024
Fla. Jury Awards Motorcyclist $8.5M After Box Truck Crash
A Florida state court jury awarded a motorcyclist $8.5 million for medical expenses in a lawsuit she brought against the driver of a box truck following a 2022 crash that left her with a mangled leg.
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August 20, 2024
Pastor Gets 2 Years For Bible-Themed Amusement Park Fraud
A Virginia pastor was sentenced Tuesday to 27 months in prison after he was convicted on charges of defrauding investors out of $800,000 with trumped-up promises of building a Bible-themed amusement park called Miracle Mansion, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of North Carolina said.
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August 20, 2024
Wash. Judges Won't Upend Tobacco Payout Ruling
A Washington appellate court on Monday rejected attempts by Philip Morris and other tobacco companies to pay the state less under a 1998 master settlement agreement, upholding an arbitrator's determination that the state was enforcing a law covering payment.
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August 20, 2024
Advanced Bionics Sues Med-El At ITC Over Implant Patents
Switzerland's Advanced Bionics has brought claims against Austria's Med-El at the U.S. International Trade Commission, alleging the rival maker of cochlear implants is infringing two patents on hearing aid technology and seeking an exclusion order banning Med-El's products from being imported into the U.S.
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August 20, 2024
Feds Want 20 Years For Backpage Trio In Prostitution Case
Prosecutors asked an Arizona federal judge Monday to sentence two former executives of the defunct classifieds service Backpage.com and the site's co-founder to 20 years in prison after they were found guilty of several counts over an alleged $500 million prostitution scheme.
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August 20, 2024
NFL Hangs Onto Victory In Sunday Ticket Antitrust Fight
A California federal judge on Tuesday entered judgment in favor of the NFL against all claims by a class of Sunday Ticket television package subscribers, including their bid seeking to block the league from engaging in anticompetitive conduct, more than two weeks after he upended a jury's $4.7 billion antitrust verdict against the league.
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August 20, 2024
Feds Fight Ex-Pa. Town Official's Appeal Of CWA Conviction
The federal government on Tuesday urged the Third Circuit to reject a former Pennsylvania township official's bid to undo his conviction for environmental and financial crimes committed during his time as director of the municipality's sewage authority.
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August 20, 2024
UFC Fighters' Wage Suit Headed To Trial In February
A trial has been set for February in the class action brought by mixed martial arts fighters who accused Ultimate Fighting Championship of suppressing their wages, a move that comes after a Nevada federal judge rejected the parties' settlement agreement in March, Law360 learned Tuesday.
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August 20, 2024
Ex-State's Atty Says Md. Trial Convictions Should Be Axed
Former Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby is vying to upend her convictions for perjury and mortgage fraud, telling the Fourth Circuit the federal prosecution was riddled with errors from the outset.
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August 20, 2024
Epic Will Pay Google $400K For Play Store Contract Breach
Epic Games has agreed to pay Google around $400,000 for implementing its own payment method in "Fortnite" and getting booted from the Play Store, as the court continues to mull what changes Google will have to make after a jury found that its policies violate antitrust law.
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August 20, 2024
A Deep Dive Into Law360 Pulse's 2024 Women In Law Report
The legal industry continues to see incremental gains for female lawyers in private practice in the U.S., according to a Law360 Pulse analysis, with women now representing 40.6% of all attorneys and 51% of all associates.
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August 20, 2024
These Firms Have The Most Women In Equity Partnerships
The legal industry still has a long way to go before it can achieve gender parity at its upper levels. But these law firms are performing better than others in breaking the proverbial glass ceiling that prevents women from attaining leadership roles.
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August 20, 2024
Clifford Chance 'In Shock' Over Missing Partner
Clifford Chance said Tuesday that it is "in shock and deeply saddened" that a partner is among six passengers missing from a yacht that was reportedly chartered to celebrate the legal victory of technology entrepreneur Mike Lynch.
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August 20, 2024
Menendez, Co-Defendants Seek Acquittal After Guilty Verdicts
Convicted U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez and two of his co-defendants want their guilty verdicts thrown out, telling a New York federal judge the government failed to offer any evidence of how the senator used his office's power to benefit any of the alleged bribe givers.
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August 19, 2024
4 Ex-Girardi Keese Attys Are Federal Targets, Agent Testifies
At least four former attorneys with the defunct Girardi Keese law firm are under active investigation related to the federal government's California wire fraud case and have received letters informing them they are targets, an IRS criminal investigator disclosed Monday under cross-examination by Tom Girardi's attorney at his criminal trial.
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August 19, 2024
Hunter Biden Loses Bid To Duck Tax Case In Calif.
Hunter Biden cannot escape his criminal tax case set to go to trial next month, a Los Angeles federal judge ruled Monday, saying Biden's latest motion comes too late.
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August 19, 2024
T.I. Can't Bar Witness Motivation Questions At Doll IP Retrial
Rapper T.I. can't block MGA Entertainment from questioning his customer witnesses' motivations to testify at the upcoming intellectual property retrial over the company's L.O.L. Surprise! doll line, and he likewise is barred from raising questions of cultural appropriation in that context, a California federal judge ruled Monday.
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August 19, 2024
Mike Lynch, Clifford Chance Pro Among Missing After Yacht Sinks
Former Autonomy CEO Michael Lynch and a Clifford Chance LLP partner who helped him beat federal fraud charges back in June are among those missing after their chartered luxury yacht sank during a storm off Sicily early Monday during a trip reportedly to celebrate Lynch's legal victory.
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August 19, 2024
Ore. Jury Awards $25M For Surgery Death, Clears Gastro Doc
A state court jury in Portland, Oregon, has awarded more than $24.6 million to the family of a colonoscopy patient who died, holding a healthcare provider group 40% responsible and an anesthesiologist 60% responsible, while saying the gastroenterologist who performed the procedure bore no fault.
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August 19, 2024
FTC Pushes To Limit Meta's Merger Defenses
The Federal Trade Commission continues to push the D.C. federal court overseeing its monopoly suit against Meta to slim down the social media titan's defenses ahead of the trial that the Facebook parent company is still hoping won't happen.
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August 19, 2024
NuVasive Beats Fraudulent Inducement Claim At Trial
A Delaware federal jury has rejected a physician's claim that NuVasive Inc. fraudulently induced him to enter into a 2014 agreement related to patents he owns for spinal implant system components — but also rejected the medical device manufacturer's claim that the doctor had breached the deal by suing.
Expert Analysis
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Series
Serving In The National Guard Makes Me A Better Lawyer
My ongoing military experience as a judge advocate general in the National Guard has shaped me as a person and a lawyer, teaching me the importance of embracing confidence, balance and teamwork in both my Army and civilian roles, says Danielle Aymond at Baker Donelson.
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Big Business May Come To Rue The Post-Administrative State
Many have framed the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decisions overturning Chevron deference and extending the window to challenge regulations as big wins for big business, but sand in the gears of agency rulemaking may be a double-edged sword, creating prolonged uncertainty that impedes businesses’ ability to plan for the future, says Todd Baker at Columbia University.
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Opinion
Post-Chevron, Good Riddance To The Sentencing Guidelines
The U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of the Chevron doctrine may signal the end of the U.S. sentencing guidelines, which is good news given that they have accomplished the opposite of Congress’ original intent to bring certainty, proportionality and uniformity to sentencing, say attorneys Mark Allenbaugh, Doug Passon and Alan Ellis.
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A Midyear Forecast: Tailwinds Expected For Atty Hourly Rates
Hourly rates for partners, associates and support staff continued to rise in the first half of this year, and this growth shows no signs of slowing for the rest of 2024 and into next year, driven in part by the return of mergers and acquisitions and the widespread adoption of artificial intelligence, says Chuck Chandler at Valeo Partners.
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Opinion
States Should Loosen Law Firm Ownership Restrictions
Despite growing buzz, normalized nonlawyer ownership of law firms is a distant prospect, so the legal community should focus first on liberalizing state restrictions on attorney and firm purchases of practices, which would bolster succession planning and improve access to justice, says Michael Di Gennaro at The Law Practice Exchange.
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How Attorneys Can Reduce Bad Behavior At Deposition
To minimize unprofessional behavior by opposing counsel and witnesses, and take charge of the room at deposition, attorneys should lay out some key ground rules at the outset — and be sure to model good behavior themselves, says John Farrell at Fish & Richardson.
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Best Text Practices In Light Of Terraform's $4.5B Fraud Deal
Text messages were extremely important in a recent civil trial against Terraform Labs, leading to a $4.5 billion settlement, so litigants in securities fraud cases need to have robust mobile data policies that address the content and retention of messages, and the obligations of employees to allow for collection, say Josh Sohn and Alicia Clausen at Crowell & Moring.
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Tricky Venue Issues Persist In Fortenberry Prosecution Redo
Former Rep. Jeff Fortenberry was recently indicted for a second time after the Ninth Circuit tossed his previous conviction for improper venue, but the case, now pending in the District of Columbia, continues to illustrate the complexities of proper venue in "false statement scheme" prosecutions, says Kevin Coleman at Covington.
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Series
Solving Puzzles Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Tackling daily puzzles — like Wordle, KenKen and Connections — has bolstered my intellectual property litigation practice by helping me to exercise different mental skills, acknowledge minor but important details, and build and reinforce good habits, says Roy Wepner at Kaplan Breyer.
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Texas Ethics Opinion Flags Hazards Of Unauthorized Practice
The Texas Professional Ethics Committee's recently issued proposed opinion finding that in-house counsel providing legal services to the company's clients constitutes the unauthorized practice of law is a valuable clarification given that a UPL violation — a misdemeanor in most states — carries high stakes, say Hilary Gerzhoy and Julienne Pasichow at HWG.
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In Memoriam: The Modern Administrative State
On June 28, the modern administrative state, where courts deferred to agency interpretations of ambiguous statutes, died when the U.S. Supreme Court overruled its previous decision in Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council — but it is survived by many cases decided under the Chevron framework, say Joseph Schaeffer and Jessica Deyoe at Babst Calland.
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Opinion
Justices' Malicious-Prosecution Ruling Shows Rare Restraint
The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in Chiaverini v. City of Napoleon, Ohio, declining to limit malicious-prosecution suits, is a model of judicial modesty and incrementalism, in sharp contrast to the court’s dramatic swings on other rights, says Steven Schwinn at the University of Illinois Chicago Law School.
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Opinion
Trump Immunity Ruling Upends Our Constitutional Scheme
The U.S. Supreme Court’s Trump v. U.S. decision elevates the president to imperial status and paves the way for nearly absolute presidential immunity from potential criminal prosecutions — with no constitutional textual support, says Paul Berman at the George Washington University Law School.
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High Court Paves Middle Ground For Proceedings Obstruction
The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Fischer sensibly leaves the door open for prosecutors to make more nuanced assessments as to whether defendants' actions directly or tangentially impair the availability or integrity of anything used in an official proceeding, without criminalizing acts such as peaceful demonstrations, say attorneys at Perry Law.
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How To Clean Up Your Generative AI-Produced Legal Drafts
As law firms increasingly rely on generative artificial intelligence tools to produce legal text, attorneys should be on guard for the overuse of cohesive devices in initial drafts, and consider a few editing pointers to clean up AI’s repetitive and choppy outputs, says Ivy Grey at WordRake.