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March 31, 2025
Perkins Coie DQ'd From Facial Recognition IP Suit
Perkins Coie LLP has been disqualified from defending Jumio Corp. in a patent infringement lawsuit involving facial recognition technology, with the San Francisco federal judge who signed the order citing the firm's prior general corporate and intellectual property representation of plaintiff FaceTec Inc.
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March 31, 2025
Aspiration Partners Hits Ch. 11 After Founder's Fraud Arrest
Sustainability-focused financial services company Aspiration Partners Inc. filed for Chapter 11 protection in Delaware, less than a month after founder Joseph Sanberg was arrested and hit with federal fraud charges.
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March 31, 2025
Paul Hastings Lands Wilson Sonsini Emerging Co. Pro In SF
Paul Hastings LLP is expanding its corporate team, announcing Monday it is bringing in a Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC emerging companies expert as a partner in its San Francisco office.
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March 31, 2025
Justices Reject Gas Price-Fixing Claims Over Trump Oil Pact
The U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to review a bid to revive a proposed class action alleging price-fixing between major oil producers as part of a 2020 deal among Russia, Saudi Arabia and President Donald Trump's administration to cut production.
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March 31, 2025
Cleary Gains 5-Atty Latham Team Known For Big IP Wins
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP has welcomed a bi-coastal team of five intellectual property litigators from Latham & Watkins LLP, lauding their history leading "many of the most high-profile and complex patent and trade secrets cases of the last decade" in a statement Monday.
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March 28, 2025
Calif. Privacy Action Drives Home Need To Look Under Hood
California's privacy agency targeted design features and contracting policies that apply to a wide range of companies in its inaugural enforcement strike under the state's data privacy law, signaling a broad regulatory approach that experts say promises to heat up as the agency continues to mature.
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March 28, 2025
Real Estate Recap: Train Domain, FinCEN, Atlanta Data Centers
Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including an insider's view of the Union Station takeover in Washington, D.C., the latest game-changing development at the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, and a BigLaw dealmaker's take on Atlanta's data center boom.
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March 28, 2025
Doctor's Counterclaims Cut In 'Groq' TM Feud With Chipmaker
A Manhattan federal judge says her court can't order the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to reject pending trademark applications, turning down counterclaims in a fight between generative artificial intelligence inference chipmaker Groq and a notable New York endocrinologist who changed the name of her company to "Groq Health."
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March 28, 2025
Exxon Says It Never Oversold Plastic Recycling Claims
Exxon Mobil Corp. has urged a California federal court to throw out a lawsuit brought by four environmental groups accusing it of fueling plastic pollution through decades of misleading recycling claims, arguing the case is based on implausible allegations.
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March 28, 2025
Ex-Mayor Gets 2 Months In Probe Of Angel Stadium Sale
Former Anaheim, California, Mayor Harry Sidhu was sentenced Friday in federal court to two months in prison for obstructing justice and lying to investigators in connection with a probe over the sale of Angel Stadium to the Los Angeles Angels baseball team.
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March 28, 2025
States Urge Justices To Skip Teacher Grants Case
California, New York and six other states told the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday it doesn't need to weigh in on the validity of a Massachusetts federal judge's order reinstating $250 million in teacher training grants the Trump administration targeted for cuts, noting the dispute will soon be moot.
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March 28, 2025
Dr. Martens Maker Moves To Keep Shein TM Fight Alive
The maker of Dr. Martens shoes said an affiliate of fast-fashion giant Shein shouldn't be able to dodge accusations of selling knockoff products and violating the terms of a previous intellectual property settlement agreement, arguing it has sufficiently laid out its case.
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March 28, 2025
GM's Cruise Must Face Trimmed Securities Fraud Suit
A Michigan federal judge on Friday trimmed a proposed class action alleging General Motors and its self-driving car unit Cruise LLC misrepresented the technological capabilities of its autonomous vehicles, but said the investor plaintiffs plausibly alleged that some Cruise executives made recklessly false statements.
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March 28, 2025
Edtech Co. Instructure Faces Parent Suit Over Data Harvesting
Education technology company Instructure, which claims to offer the nation's second most widely used learning management system, faces a suit brought by parents alleging that the company's "massive data-harvesting apparatus" violates the constitutionally guaranteed privacy rights of school-age children.
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March 28, 2025
Anthropic Says Using Books For AI Is 'Quintessential' Fair Use
Anthropic on Thursday moved to toss a group of journalists and authors' proposed class action accusing the artificial intelligence startup of exploiting their copyrighted work to train its large language model, Claude, telling a California federal court that its use of their works was transformative and thus "quintessential fair use."
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March 28, 2025
Google Privacy Fight Raises 'Classic' Trial Issues, Judge Says
A California federal judge Friday doubted consumers' bid to certify a class of Chrome users in a revived lawsuit accusing Google of surreptitiously collecting their data while also observing that the case raises "classic" trial questions and asking how else Americans could "tell corporations what they believe to be offensive?"
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March 28, 2025
Wash. Uber Driver Fails To Upend Arbitration Over Termination
A Washington federal judge has thrown out an ex-Uber driver's case seeking to block the ride-hailing company from forcing him to settle his wrongful termination dispute in arbitration, despite the plaintiff's argument that a 2024 U.S. Supreme Court ruling upended the company's case for arbitration.
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March 28, 2025
Google To Pay $100M To Resolve AdWords Action
Groups of Google advertisers asked a California federal judge Thursday to greenlight a $100 million settlement that would resolve their long-running class claims that the tech company overcharged them for advertisements.
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March 28, 2025
9th Circ. Affirms Toss Of 3D Printer Co. Derivative Suit
The Ninth Circuit on Friday affirmed the dismissal of a derivative suit brought by a venture capital firm over an $11 million investment it made in a 3D printing company, with the panel finding the lower court correctly tossed the suit due to previous and ongoing "outside entanglements" between the parties.
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March 28, 2025
9th Circ. Affirms Maui County's Win In Religious Land-Use Suit
The Ninth Circuit is backing a Hawaii county's jury trial victory over a nonprofit's Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act lawsuit, ruling on Friday that the lower court rightfully sided with the county even though it erred by including a certain jury instruction.
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March 28, 2025
Kroger, Albertsons Appeal Block Of $24.6B Merger
Kroger and Albertsons say they plan to appeal a Washington state judge's ruling that blocked the $24.6 billion merger of the grocery chains and determined the state could collect legal costs for prevailing in its Consumer Protection Act suit opposing the deal.
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March 28, 2025
Stay Of Sex Assault Suits Sought After Foreman's Death
The death of George Foreman has prompted two women suing the late boxer in California federal court for sexual assault to request a 90-day pause in their lawsuits until a legal representative can be appointed.
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March 28, 2025
SEC Dismisses Kraken, Consensys, Cumberland Crypto Suits
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed to dismiss crypto-focused enforcement actions against Kraken, Consensys and Cumberland DRW, solidifying a series of resolutions the firms announced earlier this month as the SEC charts a new path on crypto policy.
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March 28, 2025
Orrick Private Equity Ace Jumps To Willkie In San Francisco
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP is expanding its West Coast practice, bringing in a former Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP private equity ace as a partner in its San Francisco office.
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March 28, 2025
Calif. Tenants Claim REIT Charged Extra For Pests, Trash
A proposed class of California tenants accused real estate investment trust Equity Residential and two of its subsidiaries of unlawfully charging them separate fees for pest control and trash collection.
Expert Analysis
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High Court Could Further Limit Deference With TCPA Fax Case
The Supreme Court's decision to hear McLaughlin Chiropractic Associates v. McKesson, a case involving alleged junk faxes that centers whether district courts are bound by Federal Communications Commission rules, offers the court a chance to possibly further limit the judicial deference afforded to federal agency interpretations of statutes, says Samantha Duke at Rumberger Kirk.
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5 Ways To Create Effective Mock Assignments For Associates
In order to effectively develop associates’ critical thinking skills, firms should design mock assignments that contain a few key ingredients, from messy fact patterns to actionable feedback, says Abdi Shayesteh at AltaClaro.
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More Environmental Claims, More Greenwashing Challenges
As companies prepare for the 2025 greenwashing landscape, they should take heed of a D.C. appellate decision that shows that environmental claims are increasingly subject to attack and provides plaintiffs with a playbook for challenging corporate claims of sustainability, say attorneys at Sidley.
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And Now A Word From The Panel: How MDLs Fared In 2024
A significant highlight of the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation's practice during 2024 was the increase in the percentage of new MDL petitions granted by the panel, with 25 granted and only eight denied — one of the highest grant rates in years, says Alan Rothman at Sidley.
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Opinion
Legal Personhood Can Give Natural Entities Their Day In Court
Granting legal personhood to natural entities like the River Thames, or vulnerable species like the Pacific bearded seal and Arctic ringed seal, could protect them from ecological threats and the vagaries of politics, and help us transform our relationship with nature, says Sachin Nandha at the International Centre for Sustainability.
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Calif. Cannabis Decision Deepens Commerce Clause Divide
In Peridot Tree v. Sacramento, the Eastern District of California joined a growing minority of courts that have found the dormant commerce clause inapplicable to state-regulated marijuana, and the Ninth Circuit will soon provide important guidance on this issue, say attorneys at Perkins Coie.
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A Defendant's Guide To 4 Common CFPB Discovery Tactics
With the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's recent flurry of new lawsuits showing no signs of stopping, defendants should know the bureau's most relied-upon discovery strategies — and be prepared to resist them, say attorneys at Goodwin.
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Insurance Considerations For LA Wildfire Recovery
Businesses and homeowners affected by the destructive Southern California wildfires must act swiftly and strategically to navigate the complexities of the insurance recovery process, including by identifying all applicable policies, documenting damage thoroughly and keeping abreast of relevant state law, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.
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10 Key Worker-Friendly California Employment Law Updates
New employment laws in California expand employee rights, transparency and enforcement mechanisms, and failing to educate department managers on these changes could put employers at risk, says Melanie Ronen at Stradley Ronon.
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Class Actions At The Circuit Courts: Nov. And Dec. Lessons
In this month's review of class action appeals, Mitchell Engel at Shook Hardy discusses five federal court decisions and identifies practice tips from cases involving takings clause violations, breach of contract with banks, life insurance policies, employment and automobile defects.
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Mentorship Resolutions For The New Year
Attorneys tend to focus on personal achievements or career milestones when they set yearly goals, but one important area often gets overlooked in this process — mentoring relationships, which are some of the most effective tools for professional growth, say Kelly Galligan at Rutan & Tucker and Andra Greene at Phillips ADR.
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Trump's Energy Plans For Generation, Transmission And More
The executive orders and presidential memoranda issued by President Donald Trump on the day of his inauguration, unwinding the Biden administration's energy policies and encouraging development of fossil fuels, may have significant impacts on the generation mix, electric transmission construction and the state regulatory environment, say attorneys at Polsinelli.
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LA Wildfires' Effect On Calif. Insurer Of Last Resort
Attorneys at Willkie discuss the background of California's insurer of last resort — known as the Fair Access to Insurance Requirements Plan — and examine the process of assessing member insurers and relevant recent property insurance market developments in light of the destruction from the ongoing Los Angeles wildfires.
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How PAGA Reform Can Inform Employer Strategies In 2025
While recent changes to California's Private Attorneys General Act will not significantly reduce PAGA claims, employers can use the new law to potentially limit their future exposure, by taking advantage of penalty reduction opportunities and more, say attorneys at Thompson Coburn.
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Key Trends In PFAS Regulation And Litigation For 2025
The critical policy milestones for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances expected in 2025 will not only shape the trajectory of PFAS regulation, but also set key precedents for environmental accountability, potentially reshaping the corporate approach to these "forever chemicals" for decades to come, say attorneys at MG+M.