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March 10, 2025
Latham-Led Physical Therapy Startup Hinge Health Files IPO
Artificial intelligence-focused physical therapy startup Hinge Health Inc. on Monday filed plans for an initial public offering, represented by Latham & Watkins LLP and underwriters counsel Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, joining a growing number of IPO prospects.
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March 10, 2025
DOJ Wants In On Invisalign Monopoly Arguments At 9th Circ.
The U.S. Department of Justice wants to be there when orthodontists and consumers who purchased clear teeth aligners face off with the company behind Invisalign at the Ninth Circuit next month, so it can tell the appellate judges where the lower court went wrong in killing their monopoly suits.
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March 10, 2025
Miley Cyrus Says 'Glee' Ruling Wilts 'Flowers' Copyright Suit
An attorney for Miley Cyrus and co-writers of her hit "Flowers" urged a California federal judge Monday to toss a music investment company's complaint alleging they ripped off a Bruno Mars song, arguing that a Ninth Circuit ruling clearing the school that inspired the show "Glee" of infringement supports the move.
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March 10, 2025
Ex-NFL Player Gets 2½ Years For $5.3M Ponzi Scheme
A former NFL linebacker was sentenced to two and a half years in prison Monday after pleading guilty to running a Ponzi scheme in which he bilked $5.3 million from investors who believed they were buying into luxury real estate and gold mines in Alaska and Ghana.
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March 10, 2025
Adidas Seeks Injunction In Fashion Nova Trademark Row
Adidas is seeking a preliminary injunction against Fashion Nova, accusing the popular fast-fashion brand in a California federal lawsuit of infringing on its iconic three-stripe trademark and noting that the company has "a penchant for overlooking" intellectual property rights.
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March 10, 2025
Judge May Pause Trump Admin's Cuts To Teacher Training
A Massachusetts federal judge hinted Monday it would be reasonable to order the U.S. Department of Education to temporarily reinstate $250 million in teacher-training grants targeted for cuts by the Trump administration over their ties to diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.
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March 10, 2025
DOJ Defends Musk's Influence Against States' Challenge
The U.S. Department of Justice is defending Elon Musk's influence in the federal government against a constitutional challenge brought by 14 states, telling D.C. federal court that the "special government employee" does not occupy an official office that would be subject to the Constitution's appointments clause.
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March 10, 2025
Tribe Says BNSF Can't Derail $400M Trespass Judgment
A Washington tribe is urging the Ninth Circuit to uphold a lower court's finding that BNSF Railway Co. must pay nearly $400 million for years of illegally running oil cars across tribal territory, saying the railroad's claim that it strips away lawfully earned profits "makes little sense."
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March 10, 2025
Disney Unit Wins Copyright Trial Over 'Moana' Film
A Los Angeles federal jury handed a win Monday to a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Co. in a copyright infringement trial over the 2016 blockbuster "Moana," rejecting a claim that the movie ripped off another animation artist's Polynesian adventure epic.
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March 10, 2025
Trump Tells 9th Circ. To Undo Birthright Citizenship Injunction
President Donald Trump urged the Ninth Circuit to undo a Washington federal court's injunction on his executive order limiting birthright citizenship, saying children born to noncitizens in the United States do not fall within the Fourteenth Amendment's Citizenship Clause.
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March 10, 2025
Perkins Coie Adds 2 Finnegan IP Attys In Calif.
Perkins Coie LLP is growing its West Coast team, announcing Monday it is bringing in two Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner LLP intellectual property attorneys as partners in its Silicon Valley office in Palo Alto, California.
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March 10, 2025
Davis Polk Adds Debevoise M&A Co-Leader In Calif.
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP announced Monday the firm bolstered its mergers and acquisitions practice by hiring an attorney who most recently co-chaired the M&A group at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP.
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March 10, 2025
Judge Who Shot Wife Gets Mistrial As Jury Hangs On Murder
A California judge declared a mistrial Monday in the murder trial of Orange County Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Ferguson, who shot and killed his wife in their Anaheim Hills home in 2023, after jurors said they remained at an impasse over whether he was guilty of second-degree murder.
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March 10, 2025
ServiceNow Makes AI Push With $2.85B Moveworks Buy
Santa Clara, California-based software company ServiceNow said Monday it has agreed to acquire Moveworks for $2.85 billion, in a move that ServiceNow said will expand its existing artificial intelligence offerings to include more automated options for front-end employees.
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March 10, 2025
Pot Shop Receiver Says Brand Licensor Diverted Product
A receiver overseeing the possible sale or liquidation of a Massachusetts cannabis retailer asked a judge to order the return of more than 900 packages of product taken from its cultivation facility days before the receivership began.
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March 10, 2025
Nonbinary Ex-Workers Ask To Intervene In Dropped EEOC Suit
Two nonbinary former Lush Cosmetics workers asked a California judge to let them intervene in a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming the business let a manager sexually harass them, after the agency dropped the case following an executive order from President Donald Trump.
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March 10, 2025
Business Telecom Co. Mitel Files $1.1B Prepack Ch. 11
Communications software company Mitel Networks filed for Chapter 11 protection Monday in a Texas bankruptcy court with a prepackaged equity-swap plan it says will cut $1.15 billion from its more than $1.3 billion in secured debt.
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March 10, 2025
Justices Reject Red-State Bid To End State Climate Torts
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to consider a request from red states to stop climate change torts against fossil fuel companies brought by blue-state governments.
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March 10, 2025
High Court Turns Down Firefighter's Religious Bias Case
The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to hear a religious discrimination case from a Christian fire chief who said he was fired for his beliefs, leaving in place a Ninth Circuit decision that sided with the city that employed him as well as a long-standing legal framework that the justices had been asked to reconsider.
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March 10, 2025
Supreme Court Vacates Ruling On Nazi-Looted Art Dispute
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday vacated a unanimous Ninth Circuit decision holding that a Spanish museum is not obligated to return a painting that was stolen from a Jewish family by the Nazis, months after California changed its law in response to the dispute.
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March 07, 2025
Real Estate Recap: NAR Suits, Tariff Tactics, Betting On Texas
Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including a look at widespread antitrust litigation surrounding the National Association of Realtors broker rules, the role contracts may play in combating a trade war, and the implications for real estate if casinos come to the Lone Star State.
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March 07, 2025
9th Circ. Open To Reviving Monsanto Expiration Label Fight
A Ninth Circuit panel appeared open Friday to reviving a proposed class action over expiration dates on Monsanto's Roundup pesticides, but two judges were skeptical of claims against a distributor, which the distributor's counsel argued could open the floodgates of litigation.
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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
Musk To Give Deposition In Twitter Shareholder Suit
Elon Musk has agreed to sit for a deposition in early April in a proposed shareholder class action accusing him of fraudulently claiming Twitter had a bot problem to get out of his $44 billion acquisition of the site, his attorneys said Friday.
Expert Analysis
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What Calif. Bill Could Mean For Battery Energy Storage
A newly proposed bill in the California Legislature would place major restrictions on the development of battery energy storage system projects in the state — but with Gov. Gavin Newsom's strong support for clean energy technology, the legislation will likely face significant obstacles, say attorneys at Sheppard Mullin.
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3 Ways Trump Can Nix SEC's Climate Disclosure Rules
Given President Donald Trump's campaign statements and agency appointments, it's likely that his administration will try to annul the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's climate disclosure rules, but his options for doing so present unique opportunities and challenges, with varying levels of permanence and impact, say attorneys at DLA Piper.
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Perspectives
Accountant-Owned Law Firms Could Blur Ethical Lines
KPMG’s recent application to open a legal practice in Arizona represents the first overture by an accounting firm to take advantage of the state’s relaxed law firm ownership rules, but enforcing and supervising the practice of law by nonattorneys could prove particularly challenging, says Seth Laver at Goldberg Segalla.
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Zuckerberg's Remarks Pose Legal Risk For Meta Amid Layoffs
Within days of announcing that Meta Platforms will cut 5% of its lowest-performing employees, Mark Zuckerberg remarked that corporations are becoming "culturally neutered" and need to bring back "masculine energy," exposing the company to potential claims under California employment law, says Andi Mazingo at Lumen Law Center.
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Perspectives
DC Circ. Cellphone Ruling Upends Law Enforcement Protocol
The D.C. Circuit’s recent U.S. v. Brown decision, holding that forcibly requiring a defendant to unlock his cellphone with his fingerprint violated the Fifth Amendment, has significant implications for law enforcement, and may provide an opportunity for defense lawyers to suppress electronic evidence, says Sarah Sulkowski at Gelber & Santillo.
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Reg Waiver Eases Calif. Rebuilding, But Proceed With Care
California Gov. Gavin Newsom's executive order suspending some environmental review and permitting requirements for the reconstruction of homes and businesses damaged by recent wildfires may streamline rebuilding efforts, but will require careful navigation of the evolving regulatory landscape, says Gregory Berlin at Alston & Bird.
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The Post-Macquarie Securities Fraud-By-Omission Landscape
While the U.S. Supreme Court's 2024 opinion in Macquarie v. Moab distinguished inactionable "pure omissions" from actionable "half-truths," the line between the two concepts in practice is still unclear, presenting challenges for lower courts parsing statements that often fall within the gray area of "misleading by omission," say attorneys at Katten.
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AI Will Soon Transform The E-Discovery Industrial Complex
Todd Itami at Covington discusses how generative artificial intelligence will reshape the current e-discovery paradigm, replacing the blunt instrument of data handling with a laser scalpel of fully integrated enterprise solutions — after first making e-discovery processes technically and legally harder.
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A View Of The Shifting Insurance Regulatory Landscape
Attorneys at Eversheds Sutherland explore how the Federal Insurance Office's climate report, the new presidential administration and the California wildfires might affect the insurance regulatory landscape.
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When Innovation Overwhelms The Rule Of Law
In an era where technology is rapidly evolving and artificial intelligence is seemingly everywhere, it’s worth asking if the law — both substantive precedent and procedural rules — can keep up with the light speed of innovation, says Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner.
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Engaging With Feds On Threats To Executives, Employees
In an increasingly polarized environment, where companies face serious concerns about how to protect executives and employees, counsel should consider working with federal law enforcement soon after the discovery of threats or harassment, says Jordan Estes at Gibson Dunn.
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The Risk And Reward Of Federal Approach To AI Regulation
The government has struggled to keep up with artificial intelligence's furious pace, but while an overbroad federal attempt to adopt a more unified approach to regulating AI poses its own risks, so does the current environment of regulatory uncertainty, say attorneys at Covington.
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Imagine The Possibilities Of Openly Autistic Lawyering
Andi Mazingo at Lumen Law, who was diagnosed with autism about midway through her career, discusses how the legal profession can create inclusive workplaces that empower openly autistic lawyers and enhance innovation, and how neurodivergent attorneys can navigate the challenges and opportunities that come with disclosing one’s diagnosis.
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Top 10 Healthcare And Life Sciences Issues To Watch In 2025
Under the new Trump administration, this coming year may benefit some healthcare and life sciences stakeholders, while creating new challenges for others amid an increasingly complex regulatory environment, say attorneys at Debevoise.
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Why Trump's FTC May Not U-Turn On Robinson-Patman
The Federal Trade Commission's recent revival of Robinson-Patman Act enforcement may well be here to stay under the Trump administration — albeit with some important caveats for businesses caught in the government's crosshairs, say attorneys at Reed Smith.