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July 02, 2025
NCAA, NASCAR Antitrust Challenges Permeate 2025's 1st Half
The first half of 2025 saw the dispute between NASCAR and two of its teams become supercharged and a judge give final approval to the disputed settlement for the NCAA name, image and likeness antitrust litigation.
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July 02, 2025
The Biggest Patent Rulings Of 2025: A Midyear Report
A ruling by the full Federal Circuit invited greater scrutiny of patent damages testimony, and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's acting director established new criteria for rejecting patent challenges. Here's a look at the top patent decisions from the first half of 2025.
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July 02, 2025
Pentegra Agrees To Pay $48.5M After $38.8M ERISA Verdict
A New York federal judge Wednesday preliminarily approved a settlement in which Pentegra Retirement Services agreed to pay nearly $10 million more than a $38.8 million jury verdict awarded to a 27,000-member class of 401(k) plan participants who challenged the plan's excessive administrative fees.
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July 02, 2025
Girardi Asks To Remain Free During Fraud Appeal
Disbarred attorney Tom Girardi asked a California federal judge on Wednesday to remain free on bond while he appeals his wire fraud conviction, saying he's not a flight risk or danger to the community and there are several issues on appeal that could result in reversal or resentencing.
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July 02, 2025
Genentech's $122M IP Fight Against Biogen In Jury's Hands
Genentech Inc. wrapped a California federal trial Wednesday over claims that Biogen MA Inc. wrongly withheld $122 million in royalties for supplies of Biogen's multiple sclerosis drug, reminding jurors that Biogen's own internal projections showed it owing royalty payments in the years after the main patent expired in December 2018.
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July 02, 2025
Judge Revives Supplement Patent Claims Jury Found Invalid
A Delaware federal judge Wednesday allowed HQ Specialty Pharma Corp. to correct an injectable calcium supplement patent it accused Fresenius Kabi of infringing and found the claims were no longer invalid as a result.
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July 02, 2025
Tyson Wins $55M In Del. After Poultry Rendering Plants Trial
A Delaware judge awarded $55 million in damages Wednesday to Tyson Foods Inc. arising from its $866 million acquisition of poultry rendering plants in Georgia and Alabama, finding after trial that American Proteins Inc. concealed past recycling of slaughter wastewater sludge and fraudulently induced the deal.
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July 02, 2025
Amazon Judge Presses FTC On Bid For 'Bad Faith' Finding
As the Federal Trade Commission insisted Wednesday that Amazon should be punished with a bad faith finding for mislabeling documents as privileged in a case over the company's Prime subscription practices, a Washington federal judge questioned why the agency wasn't "made whole" when the court granted its sanctions bid.
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July 02, 2025
Life Insurer Agrees To Settle Inflated Charges Suits For $45M
A Missouri-based life insurer agreed to pay $45 million to settle a group of proposed and certified class actions accusing it of using certain nonmortality factors, contrary to policy language, to impose higher costs on policyholders, bringing the insurer's total losses for such claims to over $94.5 million.
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July 02, 2025
2nd Circ. Reinstates FIFA Bribery Convictions
The Second Circuit on Wednesday reinstated two conspiracy convictions linked to the FIFA bribery scandal, saying a former 21st Century Fox executive and a company that brokers media rights for major tournaments weren't absolved by new U.S. Supreme Court rulings.
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July 02, 2025
Netlist Asks For Toss Of Rival's 'Bad Faith' Claims
Netlist Inc. has asked an Idaho federal judge to dismiss a suit brought by rival Micron Technology Inc. alleging bad faith patent litigation, saying the suit was simply an effort to undo a $445 patent verdict that Netlist won against Micron in Texas federal court last year.
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July 02, 2025
Fla. Panel Says Shooting Suspect Had Right To Atty Violated
A state appeals court in Florida on Tuesday ruled that a man convicted of first-degree murder must get a new trial because his trial court judge allowed evidence from a police interview that occurred after police ignored the man's repeated requests for an attorney.
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July 02, 2025
Fla. Court Upholds Conviction In Case Over Slain Law Prof
A Florida appeals court on Wednesday refused to disturb the murder conviction of Katherine Magbanua, the ex-girlfriend of the dentist who conspired to kill former Florida State University law professor Dan Markel, after finding that she failed to demonstrate prejudicial error by the trial court.
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July 02, 2025
Top Product Liability News In H1 2025
There was no shortage of big rulings, verdicts and happenings in the product liability sphere in the first half of 2025. Here, Law360 looks at the most significant news cross-referenced with the articles that garnered the most page views.
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July 02, 2025
The Funniest Moments Of The Supreme Court's Term
After justices and oral advocates spent much of an argument pummeling a lower court's writing talents, one attorney suggested it might be time to move on — only to be told the drubbing had barely begun. Here, Law360 showcases the standout jests and wisecracks from the 2024-25 U.S. Supreme Court term.
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July 02, 2025
SEC Strikes Deal With SolarWinds In Data Breach Case
SolarWinds Corp. is on the cusp of resolving the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's novel case alleging the software developer hid faulty cybersecurity practices before a major breach, telling a New York federal judge Wednesday that the parties have agreed to a settlement.
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July 02, 2025
Combs Cleared Of Most Serious Charges
A Manhattan federal jury on Wednesday convicted Sean "Diddy" Combs of transporting two former girlfriends for prostitution, but cleared the hip-hop mogul on prosecutors' top racketeering and sex-trafficking charges that could have sent him to prison for decades.
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July 01, 2025
Google Hit With $314M Verdict In Android Data Use Suit
A California state jury Tuesday sided with a class of millions of Android mobile device users in the Golden State accusing Google of transferring cellular data from their devices without their consent for information harvesting and surveillance purposes, awarding the users more than $314.6 million.
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July 01, 2025
NYT Says Palin Can't Get New Defamation Trial, Recusal
The New York Times urged a New York federal judge to refuse Sarah Palin's request for a new trial and judge after a jury rejected her defamation claims over a 2017 editorial, saying her arguments misunderstood circuit court rulings in the long-running case and skipped a procedural bar.
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July 01, 2025
5 Healthcare Enforcement Actions You Don't Want To Miss
A healthcare fraud operation announced by the Justice Department targeting $14.6 billion in potential false claims wasn't the only enforcement action making waves in the industry this past week.
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July 01, 2025
Illinois Court Orders Additional Look At Shooting Conviction
An appeals court in Illinois has ruled that a man accused of committing a drive-by shooting in Chicago must be given a second chance at a postconviction petition because his counsel had not properly made arguments about evidence that could exonerate him.
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July 01, 2025
Google Wants Texas Ad Tech Trial To Wait On DOJ Judge
Google has asked a Texas federal judge to delay the looming August trial in a case from state enforcers targeting its advertising technology until after a Virginia federal judge issues her final judgment in a similar case by the U.S. Department of Justice.
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July 01, 2025
5 Federal Circuit Clashes To Watch In July
The Federal Circuit's argument calendar this month includes Apple's bid to undo a ruling that caused a blood oxygen monitor feature to be pulled from the Apple Watch, and a challenge by Sonos to a decision that torpedoed its $32.5 million speaker patent verdict against Google.
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July 01, 2025
Apple Backers Raise Price, Privilege Concerns At 9th Circ.
Trade groups and advocacy organizations have raised a series of concerns with the Ninth Circuit about a federal district court mandate blocking Apple from charging commissions on iPhone app purchases made outside its systems, arguing an Epic Games Inc. injunction redux improperly compels speech, imperils price-setting autonomy and threatens legal privilege.
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July 01, 2025
The Sharpest Dissents From The Supreme Court Term
The term's sharpest dissents often looked beyond perceived flaws in majority reasoning to raise existential concerns about the role and future of the court, with the justices accusing one another of rewarding executive branch lawlessness, harming faith in the judiciary and threatening democracy, sometimes on an emergency basis with little briefing or explanation.
Expert Analysis
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Adapting To Private Practice: From DOJ Leadership To BigLaw
The move from government service to private practice can feel like changing one’s identity, but as someone who has left the U.S. Department of Justice twice, I’ve learned that a successful transition requires patience, effort and the realization that the rewards of practicing law don’t come from one particular position, says Richard Donoghue at Pillsbury.
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In-House Expert Testimony Is Tricky, But Worth Considering
Litigation counsel often reject the notion of designating in-house personnel to provide expert opinion testimony at trial, but dismissing them outright can result in a significant missed opportunity, say David Ben-Meir at Ben-Meir Law and Martin Pitha at Lillis Pitha.
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Tracking Changes To AI Evidence Under Federal Rules
As the first quarter of 2025 draws to a close, important changes to the Federal Rules of Evidence regarding the use of artificial intelligence in the courtroom are on the horizon, including how to handle evidence that is a product of machine learning, say attorneys at Debevoise.
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Nev. Fraud Ruling Raises Stakes For Proxy Battles
Though a Nevada federal court’s recent U.S. v. Boruchowitz decision involved unusual facts, the court's ruling that board members can be defrauded of their seat through misrepresentations increases fraud risks in more typical circumstances involving board elections, especially proxy fights, say attorneys at ArentFox Schiff.
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Law Firm Executive Orders Create A Legal Ethics Minefield
Recent executive orders targeting BigLaw firms create ethical dilemmas — and raise the specter of civil or criminal liability — for the government attorneys tasked with implementing them and for the law firms that choose to make agreements with the administration, say attorneys at Buchalter.
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Firms Must Embrace Alternative Billing Models Or Fall Behind
As artificial intelligence tools eliminate inefficiencies and the Big Four accounting firms enter the legal market, law firms that pivot from the entrenched billable hour model to outcomes-based pricing will see a distinct competitive advantage, says attorney William Brewer.
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Risks Of Today's Proffer Agreements May Outweigh Benefits
Modern-day proffer agreements offer fewer protections to individuals as U.S. attorney's offices take different approaches to information-sharing, so counsel must consider pushing for provisions in such agreements that bar the prosecuting office from sharing information with nonparty government agencies, say attorneys at Lankler Siffert & Wohl.
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SDNY Sentencing Ruling Is Boon For White Collar Defendants
Defense attorneys should consider how to maximize the impact of a New York federal court’s recent groundbreaking ruling in U.S. v. Tavberidze, which held that a sentencing guidelines provision unconstitutionally penalizes the right to a jury trial, says Sarah Sulkowski at Gelber & Santillo.
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How Attorneys Can Master The Art Of On-Camera Presence
As attorneys are increasingly presented with on-camera opportunities, they can adapt their traditional legal skills for video contexts — such as virtual client meetings, marketing content or media interviews — by understanding the medium and making intentional adjustments, says Kerry Barrett.
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Baseball Fantasy Camp Makes Me A Better Lawyer
With six baseball fantasy experiences under my belt, I've learned time and again that I didn't make the wrong career choice, but I've also learned that baseball lessons are life lessons, and I'm a better lawyer for my time at St. Louis Cardinals fantasy camp, says Scott Felder at Wiley.
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DOJ Immigration Playbook May Take Cues From A 2017 Case
A record criminal resolution with a tree trimming company accused of knowingly employing unauthorized workers in 2017 may provide clues as to how the U.S. Department of Justice’s immigration crackdown will touch American companies, which should prepare now for potential enforcement actions, says Jonathan Porter at Husch Blackwell.
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Adapting To Private Practice: From Fed. Prosecutor To BigLaw
Making the jump from government to private practice is no small feat, but, based on my experience transitioning to a business-driven environment after 15 years as an assistant U.S. attorney, it can be incredibly rewarding and help you become a more versatile lawyer, says Michael Beckwith at Dickinson Wright.
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Service By Token Is Transforming Crypto Litigation Landscape
As the Trump administration advocates a new course of cryptocurrency regulation, courts in the U.S. and abroad are authorizing innovative methods of process service, including via nonfungible tokens and blockchain messaging, offering practical solutions for litigators grappling with the anonymity of cyber defendants, says Jose Ceide at Salazar Law.
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PG&E Win Boosts Employers' Defamation Defense
A California appeals court's recent Hearn v. PG&E ruling, reversing a $2 million verdict against PG&E related to an ex-employee’s retaliation claims, provides employers with a stronger defense against defamation claims tied to termination, but also highlights the need for fairness and diligence in internal investigations and communications, say attorneys at Kaufman Dolowich.
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Justices' False Statement Ruling Curbs Half-Truth Liability
The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent Thompson v. U.S. decision clarified that a federal statute used to prosecute false statements made to bank regulators only criminalizes outright falsehoods, narrowing prosecutors’ reach and providing defense counsel a stronger basis to challenge indictments of merely misleading statements, says Tamara de Silva at De Silva Law Offices.