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January 10, 2025
Marlins, Collector Near Deal Over Ohtani's Historic Base
The Miami Marlins appear close to resolving a federal suit brought by a baseball collector who claimed that the team reneged on a deal to sell him a base used in the game that saw Los Angeles Dodgers slugger Shohei Ohtani eclipse 50 home runs and 50 stolen bases in a single season, according to a Friday court filing.
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January 10, 2025
Couple Says EBay, Top Brass Can't Duck Trial In Stalking Suit
A Massachusetts couple argued Friday that eBay Inc. and several of its top executives were at least aware of a harassment campaign perpetrated by employees of the online retailer and should not be let off the liability hook.
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January 10, 2025
Microscope Co. Didn't Infringe UMich Patent, Judge Finds
A California federal judge has held that German microscope company Leica Microsystems Inc. didn't infringe a patent issued to the University of Michigan that covers a new way of measuring fluorescence.
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January 10, 2025
Fired Athletics Exec Slaps USC With Intersectional Bias Suit
The University of Southern California fired a high-ranking Black woman from its athletics department after she complained that her boss made frequent racist and sexist remarks, according to a suit filed in state court that invokes California's new intersectionality bias law.
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January 10, 2025
Ex-Twitter Exec Can't Snag Docs In Bonus Suit
A former senior director of compensation for X Corp., previously known as Twitter, won't be able to recover communications from Twitter management or financial records in his suit alleging unpaid bonuses after Elon Musk took over the company, a California federal magistrate judge ruled.
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January 10, 2025
LA Fire Insured Damages Could Top $20B, JP Morgan Says
Insured losses from wildfires still blazing through Los Angeles could exceed $20 billion, J.P. Morgan analysts said in client notes, a steep increase from the more than $12 billion California insurers incurred from the next costliest spate of wildfires in 2018.
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January 10, 2025
As Lawyers Face Wildfire Losses In LA, Firms Step Up To Help
Amid the tragedy of losing their homes to the wildfires engulfing Los Angeles, attorneys have found hope in the support of their firms and colleagues.
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January 10, 2025
Stellantis Fights To Preserve Suit Over UAW's Strike Threat
Stellantis' North American arm has asked a California federal judge to preserve its lawsuit accusing the United Auto Workers of making an unlawful strike threat, saying even though the union agreed to hold off on striking, the threat could still be a prosecutable contract violation.
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January 10, 2025
Ye Inks $625K Deal To End Misclassification Suit
Ye and his clothing company, Yeezy Apparel LLC, will pay $625,000 to resolve a class action accusing them of incorrectly classifying design workers as independent contractors and thus causing them to lose out on overtime wages, an order in California state court said.
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January 10, 2025
EU Greenlights $35B Synopsys-Ansys Deal With Remedies
The European Commission said Friday it has conditionally approved Synopsys Inc.'s proposed $35 billion acquisition of Ansys Inc. after the companies agreed to certain divestitures, as the megadeal continues to make regulatory progress across jurisdictions.
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January 10, 2025
Taxation With Representation: Kirkland, Davis Polk, Wachtell
In this week's Taxation With Representation, Constellation acquires Calpine, Cintas seeks a deal with UniFirst Corp., Stryker Corp. acquires Inari Medical Inc., and Paychex Inc. buys Paycor.
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January 10, 2025
X Asks 9th Circ. To Back Dismissal Of $500M Severance Suit
Social platform X urged the Ninth Circuit to uphold the dismissal of a suit claiming it owes workers $500 million in severance after Elon Musk bought the business and conducted mass layoffs, arguing the lower court correctly found that the ex-employees couldn't sue under federal benefits law.
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January 10, 2025
Couple Sue Feds Over Family Reunification Delay
A California woman urged a federal judge to direct U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to act on a pending petition to bring her husband to the country from Afghanistan, saying it has failed to resolve the petition for more than 13 months.
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January 09, 2025
'Stunned': Judge Rips Atty For Violating Antitrust Trial Order
A California federal judge overseeing an antitrust jury trial over claims that Intuitive Surgical was a monopolist that abused its power by blocking hospitals from using a service to extend the life of a component related to its surgical-robot arms said Thursday she was "stunned" when plaintiff Surgical Instrument Service showed a video that violated a pretrial order.
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January 09, 2025
Autotrader Can't Ditch Suit Over Tracking Of Website Visitors
A California federal judge has refused to toss a proposed class action accusing Autotrader of unlawfully sharing website visitors' search queries with third parties, rejecting the contention that tracking software isn't covered by the state's wiretap law and finding that the plaintiff would likely be able to fix separate standing deficiencies.
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January 09, 2025
Wonderful Pistachios Defeats Worker's Shed-Trapping Appeal
A California appellate court on Thursday refused to resurrect a former Wonderful Pistachios & Almonds worker's claims that former colleagues of hers trapped her in a shed during work, finding that her qualms with an arbitrator's determinations in Wonderful Pistachios' favor lack merit.
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January 09, 2025
IP Forecast: OpenAI, Microsoft Look To Toss NYT Case
OpenAI and its backers at Microsoft will try persuading a New York judge to dismiss one of the major copyright suits against them, with arguments that using news stories to train the startup's artificial intelligence model is a "transformative" use. Here's a spotlight on where that case stands — plus all the other major intellectual property matters on deck in the coming week.
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January 09, 2025
Zillow Brings 'Goldman' Debate Over Class Cert. To 9th Circ.
Zillow Group Inc. is asking the Ninth Circuit to issue its first ruling on the correct application of a U.S. Supreme Court's Goldman decision to investor class certification bids, saying a lower court was wrong to certify a class of shareholders who alleged that the company misled them about the robustness of its now defunct home-flipping business.
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January 09, 2025
Vape Laptop Hacking Suit Belongs In Court, Co. Says
A vape-maker has urged a California federal court to deny a bid by the founder of vape distributor Next Level to arbitrate the manufacturer's claims that he broke into a laptop to access its confidential information, saying he's not a signatory to an underlying arbitration agreement.
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January 09, 2025
Inventor Group Warns Of Issa's Return As House IP Panel Chair
Policy outfit US Inventor Inc. has spoken out against the return of Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., to head the U.S. House subcommittee overseeing intellectual property in the new Congress, warning on Thursday Issa's leadership role will have distressing affects on American startups and innovators while benefiting foreign competitors in other countries like China.
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January 09, 2025
Judge Rips Meta's 'Grossly Overbroad' AI Sealing Requests
A California federal judge appeared open Thursday to allowing authors to amend their copyright infringement proposed class action to include allegations Meta nefariously removed copyright disclaimers from tens of millions of books in creating its Llama artificial intelligence product, while criticizing Meta's "grossly overbroad" sealing requests as illegitimate attempts at avoiding bad publicity.
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January 09, 2025
Kroger Accused By Calif. AG Of Ignoring Opioid 'Red Flags'
California's attorney general has accused The Kroger Co. of ignoring "red flags" of opioid misuse, alleging in a lawsuit lodged in a Los Angeles state court that the supermarket giant dispensed opioids without first questioning the legitimacy of prescriptions.
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January 09, 2025
Amazon Can't Cancel Audible Auto-Enrollment Suit
A Washington federal judge declined to toss a California consumer's proposed class action over Amazon's Audible auto-enrollment practices on Wednesday, emphasizing the plaintiff has now specified she never received any emails outlining the terms of the subscription she was allegedly registered for after redeeming a promotional offer.
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January 09, 2025
Susman Godfrey Vies To Help Lead Crypto DAO Suit
Susman Godfrey LLP has asked a federal judge in California to allow it to serve as co-lead counsel in an investor lawsuit against decentralized autonomous organization Lido DAO and its large institutional investors over allegedly unregistered securities sold in the form of crypto tokens.
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January 09, 2025
DOJ Wants Time At 9th Circ. In Zillow, NAR Antitrust Case
The U.S. Department of Justice has asked the Ninth Circuit for permission to appear at oral arguments in an appeal looking to revive antitrust claims from a defunct brokerage platform against Zillow and the National Association of Realtors.
Expert Analysis
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7 Ways 2nd Trump Administration May Affect Partner Hiring
President-elect Donald Trump's return to the White House will likely have a number of downstream effects on partner hiring in the legal industry, from accelerated hiring timelines to increased vetting of prospective employees, say recruiters at Macrae.
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4 Novel Issues From The Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni Suits
A series of lawsuits arising from actress Blake Lively's sexual harassment and retaliation complaint against her "It Ends With Us" co-star, Justin Baldoni, present novel legal issues that employment and defamation practitioners alike should follow as the litigation progresses, say attorneys at Dorsey & Whitney.
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Trump, Tariffs And Tech: The Right To Repair In 2025
The "right-to-repair" movement has helped make it easier for independent repair shops and consumers to repair their devices and vehicles — but President-elect Donald Trump's complicated relationship with Big Tech, and his advocacy for increased tariffs, make the immediate future of the movement uncertain, say attorneys at Carter Ledyard.
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E-Discovery Quarterly: Rulings On Custodian Selection
Several recent rulings make clear that the proportionality of additional proposed custodians will depend on whether the custodians have unique relevant documents, and producing parties should consider whether information already in the record will show that they have relevant documents that otherwise might not be produced, say attorneys at Sidley.
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Opinion
Section 230 Debates Will Continue, With Or Without TikTok
Regardless of whether TikTok is forced to shut down in the U.S. in the coming weeks, legal disputes will continue over social media platforms' responsibility under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act for harms allegedly caused by content shared on their apps, says Carla Varriale-Barker at Segal McCambridge.
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Religious Accommodation Lessons From $12.7M Vax Verdict
A Michigan federal jury’s recent $12.7 million verdict against Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan starkly reminds employers of the risks they face when assessing employees’ religious accommodation requests, highlighting pitfalls to avoid and raising the opportunity to consider best practices to follow, say attorneys at Williams & Connolly.
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5 Privacy Law Trends That Will Continue In 2025
While preparing privacy programs for the year, companies should keep in mind several developments from 2024 that will carry over — namely, in the realm of artificial intelligence, passive data collection, combining data from multiple sources, privacy program expectations and managing vendors, say attorneys at Sheppard Mullin.
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When Judging Product Label Claims, Follow The Asterisk
A recurring question in false advertising class actions is whether misleading or ambiguous statements on a product's front label can be cured by information on the back label — but recent decisions from the Ninth Circuit suggest that a front-label asterisk can help alert consumers to seek further clarification, say attorneys at Hunton.
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2 Cases May Enlighten UK Funds' Securities Litigation Path
Following recent nine-figure settlements in securities class actions against Apple and Under Armour, U.K. pension funds may increasingly lead U.S. shareholder derivative suits, advocating for transparency, better risk management and stronger governance practices, say lawyers at Labaton Keller.
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Series
Exercising On My Peloton Bike Makes Me A Better Lawyer
While I originally came to the Peloton bike for exercise, one cycling instructor’s teachings have come to serve as a road map for practicing law thoughtfully and mindfully, which has opened opportunities for growth and change in my career, says Andrea Kirshenbaum at Littler.
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5 Drug And Device Developments That Shaped 2024
The last year saw significant legal developments affecting drug and device manufacturers, with landmark decisions and regulatory changes that require vigilance and agility from the industry, say attorneys at Faegre Drinker.
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Takeaways From SEC's Mixed Results In '24 Crypto Litigation
Though the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's new leadership seems likely to create a more favorable cryptocurrency regulatory environment, it must also confront the consequences of, and lingering questions raised by, the SEC's 2024 policy of investigating and charging cryptocurrency trading platforms for operating unregistered exchanges, say attorneys at Dechert.
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Lessons From United's Axed Win In Firing Over Online Pics
In Wawrzenski v. United Airlines, a California state appeals court revived a flight attendant’s suit over her termination for linking photos of herself in uniform to her OnlyFans account, providing a cautionary tale for employers navigating the complexities of workplace policy enforcement in the digital age, say attorneys at ArentFox Schiff.
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Mich. Ruling Offers View On 'Occurrence' Coverage Definition
As demonstrated by a Michigan state court in its recent decision finding per-wound insurance coverage for a school shooting, the amount of coverage available under occurrence-based policies often depends on how courts interpret "occurrence," say attorneys at Hunton.
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Exploring Venue Strategy For Trump-Era Regulatory Litigation
Litigation will likely play a prominent role in shaping policy outcomes during the second Trump administration, and stakeholders have several tools at their disposal to steer regulatory litigation toward more favorable venues, say attorneys at Covington.