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February 20, 2025
X, Social Media Biz Settle TM Fight
A social media and public relations firm's trademark suit against X Corp. over the social media platform's logo has come to an end after the parties told a California federal judge that they have agreed to drop all claims and counterclaims, avoiding a jury trial set to begin in December.
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February 20, 2025
Nicolas Cage Sued Over Son's Alleged Assault Of Mother
Nicolas Cage has been accused of wrongly enabling his adult son's alleged assault of the latter's mother by not properly addressing his longstanding mental health issues, according to a lawsuit filed against the actor and his son in California state court.
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February 20, 2025
Feds Say DC Judge Can't Bar 'Hypothetical' Spending Freezes
A Justice Department attorney argued before a D.C. federal judge Thursday that there is no basis to continue blocking the Trump administration from implementing a blanket suspension on federal spending, saying the court cannot bar "hypothetical" future freezes.
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February 20, 2025
Wells Fargo, AAA Look To Nix Fraudulent Inducement Suit
Wells Fargo and the American Arbitration Association are urging a California federal judge to nix a proposed class action accusing them of colluding to fraudulently induce consumers into accepting a fundamentally unfair arbitration process, with the bank arguing that the claims must be arbitrated.
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February 20, 2025
Ye Sanctioned Again, Ordered To Sit For Another Deposition
A California judge on Thursday ordered rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, to sit for a deposition and sanctioned him for failing to appear at a scheduled deposition in a discrimination suit by a former Donda Academy employee, the second time since the Grammy's that the winner was hit with such an order.
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February 20, 2025
9th Circ. OKs Bar On Ponzi Scam Suits Against Chicago Title
The Ninth Circuit on Thursday upheld a ruling barring further litigation against Chicago Title and law firm Nossaman LLP over claims they aided convicted businesswoman Gina Champion-Cain's nearly $400 million liquor-licensing loan Ponzi scheme, finding the litigation bar is necessary to protect the ongoing U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission-appointed receivership.
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February 20, 2025
9th Circ. Won't Roll Back Birthright Citizenship Injunction
The Ninth Circuit rejected President Donald Trump's emergency bid to partially halt a Washington federal court's injunction on his executive order limiting birthright citizenship.
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February 20, 2025
9th Circ Asks Calif. High Court To Rule On Insurance Lapse
A Ninth Circuit panel asked the California Supreme Court on Thursday to clarify whether state laws regarding the steps insurance companies must take before canceling a policy for premium non-payment apply to policies issued out-of-state but later maintained in California, in a case over a widow's $2 million claim against a MetLife unit.
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February 20, 2025
Trade Desk's Rollout Of AI Product Draws Ire From Investors
Global digital marketing venture The Trade Desk Inc. was hit with a proposed shareholder class action alleging it misled investors about the rollout of its artificial intelligence-driven ad-buying platform by hiding execution problems that delayed adoption and hurt revenue.
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February 20, 2025
JPMorgan Has 'Buyer's Remorse' Over $175M Buy, Javice Says
Frank founder Charlie Javice believed in her student loan company, her lawyer told a Manhattan federal jury Thursday, pushing back against charges that the executive tricked JPMorgan Chase into a $175 million acquisition by claiming the case is about "buyer's remorse."
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February 20, 2025
Venezuelans Fight DHS Decision To End Removal Protections
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem acted unlawfully when she moved to terminate temporary deportation protections for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans in the U.S. and was driven, at least in part, by racial animus, the National TPS Alliance told a California federal judge.
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February 20, 2025
Calif. Judge Disciplined For Calling Victim 'Manipulative'
A former California Superior Court judge has been publicly admonished for repeatedly calling a domestic violence victim "manipulative" and saying she "liked being beat up" while telling her partner at a restraining order hearing in May 2023 that he had fallen into the victim's "trap."
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February 20, 2025
Competition Group Of The Year: Cravath
Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP scored a trailblazing antitrust verdict for Epic Games when a California federal jury decided Google's Play Store illegally dominated the Android app market, making Cravath one of the 2024 Law360 Competition Groups of the Year.
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February 20, 2025
Liberty Owes Travelers $2.1M For Hotel Defect Defense Costs
A Liberty Mutual unit owes Travelers over $2.1 million for costs it incurred defending a construction company in a 2011 lawsuit over defects at San Diego's Hard Rock Hotel, a California federal court ruled, saying Travelers never had a duty to defend the company.
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February 20, 2025
EV Maker Nikola Aims For Quick Ch. 11 Sale
Counsel for Nikola Corp., which makes electric and hydrogen-powered trucks, told the Delaware bankruptcy court on Thursday the company hopes to hold a bankruptcy auction by the end of March and find a buyer before its cash runs out in mid-April.
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February 20, 2025
Sen. Warren Wants DOJ To Probe Disney-FuboTV Deal
Sen. Elizabeth Warren is calling on the U.S. Department of Justice to "closely scrutinize" Disney's acquisition of a majority stake in the live television streamer Fubo, saying the deal raises serious antitrust concerns and could allow Disney to inflate prices.
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February 20, 2025
Musk's X Seeks Cash At $44B Valuation, Plus More Rumors
Elon Musk is seeking to raise money for his social media platform X at a $44 billion valuation — the same price he paid to buy the site in 2022 — while BP is considering selling its Castrol lubricants unit for $10 billion and KKR could inject $5 billion into ailing British utility Thames Water. Here, Law360 breaks down the notable deal rumors from the past week.
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February 20, 2025
Zurich Expects To Cough Up $200M For LA Wildfire Claims
Insurance giant Zurich said Thursday it expects to take a $200 million hit from the fires that swept Los Angeles in January, in which approximately 30 people were killed and more than 18,000 structures were destroyed or damaged.
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February 20, 2025
Holland & Knight Adds Manatt Real Estate Pro In California
Holland & Knight LLP continues expanding its West Coast team, bringing in a Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP real estate expert as a partner in its Orange County, California, office.
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February 19, 2025
'Convict My Ass': Judge Admits Killing Wife In Police Video
Orange County Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Ferguson's trial for allegedly murdering his wife opened Wednesday with shocking video footage of the judge sitting alone, handcuffed in a police station interrogation room, muttering to himself "I killed her. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, convict my ass. I did it."
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February 19, 2025
Eaton Fire Class Action Blames SoCal Edison Power Lines
Southern California Edison was hit with a proposed class action Tuesday alleging that its failure to maintain its electrical grid and shut down power lines during fire weather conditions sparked the Eaton Fire that killed 17 people and destroyed more than 9,000 structures in Altadena, California.
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February 19, 2025
Trump Wants Birthright Citizenship EO Enacted Amid Appeal
The Trump administration on Wednesday urged a Massachusetts federal judge to set aside his preliminary injunction blocking the president's executive order limiting birthright citizenship, arguing that the federal government should be permitted to implement it while the First Circuit considers its appeal.
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February 19, 2025
Meta Should've Preserved Health Tracking Data, Judge Says
A California federal judge considering sanctions against Meta for deleting data in privacy litigation over a Facebook tool's collection of patient health information said Wednesday that he's not convinced Meta had "malintent," but said, "I do think this information should have been preserved."
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February 19, 2025
News Site Ditches Suit Over Sharing Of Visitors' IP Addresses
A New York federal judge has tossed a proposed class action accusing online business news site Insider Inc. of unlawfully disclosing website visitors' IP addresses to a third party, finding that the plaintiff had failed to establish the type of concrete injury necessary to sustain his claims under California law.
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February 19, 2025
Netflix Wants IP Atty Sanctioned Over Alleged Doc Sharing
Netflix urged a California judge Tuesday to require a prolific patent plaintiff's former counsel to explain why they shouldn't be held in civil contempt and sanctioned for allegedly giving Netflix's confidential financial information to nonparty AiPi LLC, arguing discovery in another patent case has revealed AiPi is "shadow lead counsel."
Expert Analysis
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State Of The States' AI Legal Ethics Landscape
Over the past year, several state bar associations, as well as the American Bar Association, have released guidance on the ethical use of artificial intelligence in legal practice, all of which share overarching themes and some nuanced differences, say Eric Pacifici and Kevin Henderson at SMB Law Group.
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Cos. Face Increasing Risk From Environmental Citizen Suits
Environmental citizen suits stepping in to fill the regulatory vacuum concerning consumer goods waste may soon become more common, and the evolving procedural landscape and changes to environmental law may contribute to companies' increased exposure, say J. Michael Showalter and Bradley Rochlen at ArentFox Schiff.
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8 Childhood Lessons That Can Help You Be A Better Attorney
A new school year is underway, marking a fitting time for attorneys to reflect on some fundamental life lessons from early childhood that offer a framework for problems that no legal textbook can solve, say Chris Gismondi and Chris Campbell at DLA Piper.
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2nd Circ. Provides NY Pathway For Fighting Foreign Infringers
A recent decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit provides a road map for expeditiously obtaining personal jurisdiction in New York against foreign trademark infringers based on a single purchase of counterfeit goods, meaning the Second Circuit could now be the preferred venue for combating foreign infringement, says Jeffrey Ratinoff at Spencer Fane.
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How A Trump Win Might Affect The H-1B Program
A review of the Trump administration's attempted overhaul of the H-1B nonimmigrant visa program suggests policies Donald Trump might try to implement if he is reelected, and specific steps employers should consider to prepare for that possibility, says Eileen Lohmann at BAL.
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Compliance Considerations For Calif. Child Labor Audit Law
California employers will need to conduct a fact-intensive analysis to determine whether a new state law that imposes transparency rules for child labor audits applies to their operations, and should look out for regulatory guidance that answers open questions about deadlines and penalties, says Sylvia St. Clair at Faegre Drinker.
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Recent Securities Cases Highlight Risks In AI Disclosures
Increasing public disclosure about the use and risks of artificial intelligence, and related litigation asserting that such disclosures are false or misleading, suggest that issuers need to exercise great care with respect to how they describe the benefits of AI, say Richard Zelichov and Danny Tobey at DLA Piper.
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Sublimit And Policy Interpretation Lessons From Amtrak Case
The recently settled dispute between Amtrak and its insurers over sublimit coverage illustrates that parties with unclear manuscript policies may wish to avoid litigation in favor of settlement — as the New York federal court declined to decide the case by applying prior term interpretations, says Laura Maletta at Chartwell Law.
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Harris Unlikely To Shelve Biden Admin's Food Antitrust Stance
A look at Vice President Kamala Harris' past record, including her actions as California attorney general, shows why practitioners should prepare for continued aggressive antitrust enforcement, particularly in the food and grocery industries, if Harris wins the presidential election, says Steve Vieux at Bartko.
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3rd Circ. Hertz Ruling Highlights Flawed Bankruptcy Theory
The Third Circuit, in its recent Hertz bankruptcy decision, became the latest appeals court to hold that noteholders were entitled to interest before shareholders under the absolute priority rule, but risked going astray by invoking the flawed theory of code impairment, say Matthew McGill and David Casazza at Gibson Dunn.
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Opinion
This Election, We Need To Talk About Court Process
In recent decades, the U.S. Supreme Court has markedly transformed judicial processes — from summary judgment standards to notice pleadings — which has, in turn, affected individuals’ substantive rights, and we need to consider how the upcoming presidential election may continue this pattern, says Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner.
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The Complex Challenges Facing Sustainable Food Packaging
More and more states are requiring recycled content to be used in product packaging, creating complex technological and regulatory considerations for manufacturers who must also comply with federal food safety requirements, say Peter Coneski and Natalie Rainer at K&L Gates.
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Series
Playing Diplomacy Makes Us Better Lawyers
Similar to the practice of law, the rules of Diplomacy — a strategic board game set in pre-World War I Europe — are neither concise nor without ambiguity, and weekly gameplay with our colleagues has revealed the game's practical applications to our work as attorneys, say Jason Osborn and Ben Bevilacqua at Winston & Strawn.
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How Multifamily Property Owners Can Plan For The EV Future
As the electric vehicle market expands, and federal and state incentives and mandates intended to promote EV use come into effect, owners and operators of multifamily residential properties should be prepared to meet the growing demand for onsite EV charging infrastructure, say Sydney Tucker and Andreas Wokutch at Frost Brown.
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New Law May Move Calif. Toward Fashion Sustainability
California’s recently signed Responsible Textile Recovery Act seeks to increase sustainability innovation in the fashion industry, but it could also create compliance hurdles for brands, especially smaller fashion houses that do not have ample resources, say Warren Koshofer and Maggie Franz at Michelman & Robinson.