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April 10, 2025
IP Forecast: Novartis' Entresto Fight Heads To DC Circ.
Novartis will go before the D.C. Circuit next week in the latest legal front in the drug giant's battle to stop generic versions of its blockbuster heart failure drug Entresto. Here's a look at that case — plus all the other major intellectual property matters on deck in the coming week.
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April 10, 2025
Jury To Hear Judge Had 48 Guns In Retrial Over Shooting Wife
Jurors in the upcoming retrial of a California jurist accused of murdering his wife while intoxicated can hear that he had 48 firearms and thousands of ammunition rounds in his home, after the presiding judge ruled Thursday it was relevant to show he committed an intentional act he knew was inherently dangerous.
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April 10, 2025
9th Circ. Remands Challenge To Biden-Era Asylum Limits
The Ninth Circuit on Thursday remanded a district court's 2023 vacatur of a Biden-era rule placing limits on asylum so that the lower court can address legal developments, but one circuit judge asserted that the remand was the latest move in an "ongoing game of Supreme Court keep-away."
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April 10, 2025
9th Circ. Open To Sending Invisalign Antitrust Suit To Trial
Two Ninth Circuit judges appeared open on Thursday to reversing Align's summary judgment win against a pair of class actions accusing Invisalign of monopolizing the clear braces and teeth scanners market, with one judge saying there is a triable factual dispute and another judge doubting Align's interpretation of antitrust law.
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April 10, 2025
Netchoice Wants New Calif. Online Marketplace Law Blocked
Big Tech trade group Netchoice LLC has asked a California federal court to block a new Golden State law requiring online marketplaces to collect information from third-party sellers and report those selling stolen goods, claiming the "onerous" measure will "impose unprecedented and unconstitutional burdens on widely used online services."
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April 10, 2025
Calif. Centers Used 'Body Brokers' In $10M Scam, BCBS Says
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Oklahoma slammed two California recovery centers and their owners with a lawsuit Thursday, alleging they spearheaded a $10 million kickback scheme to employ "body brokers" to find Indigenous patients for substance treatment facilities where they went to appalling lengths to stop them from leaving.
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April 10, 2025
Online Advertising Co. Is Sued Over Use Of Tracking Cookies
Digital advertising firm PubMatic Inc. engaged in vast and unauthorized tracking of the online lives of "hundreds of millions of Americans," which it later shared and sold to third parties, violating state and federal privacy laws, according to a proposed class action filed in California federal court.
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April 10, 2025
Calif. Rep's Bill Would Shield Farmers From Retaliatory Tariffs
A California congressman on Thursday introduced a bill in the U.S. House aiming to curb the authority of President Donald Trump to impose new or additional duties on agricultural products from countries that are major agricultural trade partners with the United States.
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April 10, 2025
Pa. Family Blames Fatal House Fire On Prosthetic Arm Battery
The surviving family members of a house fire that killed two people are suing prosthesis manufacturers Liberating Technologies Inc. and Ossur Americas Inc. and related companies in Pennsylvania state court, claiming the battery in a prosthetic arm that was being charged during the night started the fire.
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April 10, 2025
Soulja Boy's Ex-Assistant Wins $4.25M At Trial Over Abuse
A jury in California state court held Thursday that the rapper known as Soulja Boy must pay $4.25 million for physically and sexually abusing his live-in personal assistant for nearly two years, according to the plaintiff's counsel.
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April 10, 2025
Oracle Wins Bid To Keep Trade Secret Case Out Of Arbitration
Oracle doesn't have to arbitrate its trade secret case against a former employee accused of absconding to a rival with confidential information related to enterprise resource planning applications, after a California federal judge said Wednesday he signed a proprietary information contract that says such issues could be litigated in court.
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April 10, 2025
Israel's NSO Faces April Damages Trial For WhatsApp Hacking
A California federal judge on Thursday nailed down details of an April 28 jury trial to determine the amount of damages Israeli spyware-maker NSO Group owes Meta for hacking into 1,400 WhatsApp users' devices, refusing to seal the proceedings and expressing frustration at the amount of discovery withheld by the parties, particularly NSO.
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April 10, 2025
Fairplay Urges FTC To Investigate Meta Over Kids' VR Privacy
A nonprofit organization that works to curb child-targeted marketing asked the Federal Trade Commission on Thursday to look into whether Meta Platforms is violating the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act by allowing kids under the age of 13 to access its "Horizon Worlds" virtual reality platform and collecting their personal information.
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April 10, 2025
Texas Group Seeks Halt Of Trump Admin Border Cash Order
A Texas trade group has urged a federal judge to immediately block the Trump administration's order singling out cash-moving businesses along the southwest border for heightened anti-money laundering reporting, saying the order is unjustified and discriminates against businesses that serve predominately Latino immigrant communities.
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April 10, 2025
Manufacturer Says Insurers Owe $3.4M For Warehouse Theft
An anime merchandise manufacturer is seeking to recover over $3.4 million from its insurers for business personal property and business income that was lost after its warehouse was robbed, telling a California federal court that a majority of its claim hasn't been paid.
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April 10, 2025
NSO Hack Needed Apple's Calif. Servers, Foreign Journos Say
Counsel for a group of El Salvador-based journalists urged the Ninth Circuit on Thursday to revive a lawsuit accusing Israeli spyware maker NSO Group of hacking their iPhones, saying the case belongs in California federal court because the alleged attacks relied on Apple's servers within the Golden State.
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April 10, 2025
Live Nation Cites Amazon's Win In Urging Nix Of Antitrust Suit
An attorney for Live Nation Entertainment and Ticketmaster urged a California federal judge Thursday to rethink his tentative opinion to keep alive an antitrust case alleging monopolization of the concert ticketing market, saying the judge did not consider a recent Ninth Circuit decision in favor of Amazon that "maps 100%" to the case.
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April 10, 2025
Holmes Seeks Full 9th Circ. Review Of Theranos Fraud Appeal
Convicted Theranos Inc. founder Elizabeth Holmes has asked the Ninth Circuit for en banc review of a panel's decision to affirm her criminal fraud conviction and 11-year prison sentence, saying problems with the opinion included a "time-warping relevance theory."
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April 10, 2025
Mint Mobile Secretly Records Customer Calls, Suit Says
Mint Mobile "routinely and intentionally" records conversations on its customer service line without notifying callers, according to a proposed class action moved to California federal court Wednesday.
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April 10, 2025
Ex-EBay Execs Want To Question Key Stalking Case Witness
Three former eBay executives facing claims they helped direct a campaign to harass bloggers critical of the company have told a Massachusetts federal judge they want to question a key witness about his past role as an undercover government agent.
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April 10, 2025
DEA Ignored Subpoenas In Criminal Case, Suit Alleges
A pair of defendants in a pending state court criminal case in San Diego County have asked a California federal judge to compel the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to direct two of its agents to testify in that matter, alleging the agency has violated the law by ignoring subpoenas.
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April 10, 2025
Consumer Wants Steam Award Axed, Says Arbitrator Used AI
A consumer has asked a California federal court to vacate an arbitral award issued in favor of Valve Corp., the company behind the PC game marketplace Steam, accusing the case's arbitrator of improperly relying on artificial intelligence.
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April 09, 2025
OpenAI Countersues Musk For 'Relentless' Harassment
OpenAI on Wednesday lodged a countersuit to Elon Musk's lawsuit accusing the ChatGPT maker of abandoning its nonprofit mission, urging a California federal court to stop the billionaire from continuing an alleged "harassment campaign" aimed at impeding its success.
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April 09, 2025
Media Matters' Delay Irks Judge In X 'Libel Tourism' Case
The California federal judge overseeing X Corp.'s lawsuit alleging Media Matters for America drove advertisers from its platform blasted the defendant on Wednesday for waiting over a year before seeking to enforce a forum selection clause in X's terms of service requiring disputes be litigated in San Francisco.
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April 09, 2025
'Evasive' Unions Told To List Fired Probationary Workers
The California federal judge who ordered the reinstatement of many fired probationary federal workers before the U.S. Supreme Court stayed his ruling on Wednesday ordered the public sector unions representing federal staffers to provide a list of their booted members, calling their claims that the information would be difficult to produce "evasive."
Expert Analysis
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Navigating The Growing Thicket Of 'Right To Repair' Laws
An emerging patchwork of state laws on the right to repair creates tensions with traditional intellectual property and competition principles, so manufacturers should plan proactively for legal disputes and minimize potential for rival third-party repairs to weaponize state laws, say attorneys at Reed Smith.
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Unpacking First Consumer Claim Under Wash. Health Data Act
The first consumer class action claim filed under Washington's My Health My Data Act, Maxwell v. Amazon.com, may answer questions counsel have been contending with since the law was introduced almost a year ago, if the court takes the opportunity to interpret some of more opaque language, say attorneys at Polsinelli.
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A Judge's Pointers For Adding Spice To Dry Legal Writing
U.S. District Judge Fred Biery shares a few key lessons about how to go against the grain of the legal writing tradition by adding color to bland judicial opinions, such as by telling a human story and injecting literary devices where possible.
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Implementation, Constitutional Issues With Birthright Order
President Donald Trump's executive order reinterpreting the 14th Amendment's birthright citizenship clause presents unavoidable administrative problems and raises serious constitutional concerns about the validity of many existing federal laws and regulations, says Eric Schnapper at the University of Washington School of Law.
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A Close-Up Look At DOJ's Challenge To HPE-Juniper Deal
The outcome of the Justice Department's challenge to Hewlett Packard Enterprise's proposed $14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks will likely hinge on several key issues, including market dynamics and shares, internal documents, and questions about innovation and customer harm, say attorneys at McDermott.
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Justices Likely To Issue Narrow Ruling In $1.3B Award Dispute
After last week's argument in Devas v. Antrix, the Supreme Court appears likely to reverse the holding that minimum contacts are required before a federal court may exercise personal jurisdiction over a foreign state and remand the case for further litigation on other important constitutional questions, say attorneys at Cleary.
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AG Watch: Texas Is Entering New Privacy Enforcement Era
The state of Texas' recent suit against Allstate is the culmination of a long-standing commitment to vigorously enforcing privacy laws in the state, and while still in the early stages, it offers several important insights for companies and privacy practitioners, says Paul Singer at Kelley Drye.
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IRS Scrutiny May Underlie Move Away From NIL Collectives
The University of Colorado's January announcement that it was severing its partnership with a name, image and likeness collective is part of universities' recent push to move NIL activities in-house, seemingly motivated by tax implications and increased scrutiny by the Internal Revenue Service, say attorneys at Buchanan Ingersoll.
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6 Laws Transforming Calif.'s Health Regulatory Framework
Attorneys at Hooper Lundy discuss a number of new California laws that raise pressing issues for independent physicians and small practice groups, ranging from the use of artificial intelligence to wage standards for healthcare employees.
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Opinion
NCAA Name, Image, Likeness Settlement Is A $2.8B Mistake
While the plaintiffs in House v. NCAA might call the proposed settlement on name, image and likeness payments for college athletes a breakthrough, it's a legally dubious Band-Aid that props up a system favoring a select handful of male athletes at the expense of countless others, say attorneys at Clifford Chance.
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Implications Of Kid Privacy Rule Revamp For Parents, Cos.
The Federal Trade Commission's recent amendments to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act will expand protections for children online, meaning parents will have greater control over their children's data and tech companies must potentially change their current privacy practices — or risk noncompliance, say attorneys at Labaton Keller.
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Copyright Ruling Could Extend US Terminations Worldwide
If upheld on appeal, Vetter v. Resnik, a recent ruling from a Louisiana federal court, could extend the geographical scope of U.S. copyright termination rights to foreign territories, say attorneys at Manatt.
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Anticipating Calif. Oversight Of PE Participation In Healthcare
A new bill recently introduced in the California Senate revives last year's attempt to increase oversight of healthcare transactions involving private equity groups and hedge funds, meaning that attorneys may soon need to assess the compliance status of existing management relationships and consider modifying contract terms, says Andrew Demetriou at Husch Blackwell.
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Recent Cases Suggest ESG Means 'Ever-Shifting Guidelines'
U.S. courts have recently handed down a number of contradictory decisions on important environmental, social and governance issues, adding to an already complex mix of conflicting political priorities, new laws and changing regulatory guidance — but there are steps that companies can take to minimize risk, say attorneys at Paul Hastings.
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Pepperdine Case Highlights Shift In Collegiate IP Landscape
A complaint filed by Pepperdine University against Netflix and Warner Bros. two weeks ago alleges that a comedy series unlawfully copies the school's trademarks, and the decision could reshape the portrayal of collegiate athletics on screen and the legal tools schools use to defend their emblems, says Mindy Lewis at Michelman & Robinson.