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March 12, 2025
Judge Says Air Force Had Duty To Pay $1.9M For Materials
A Court of Federal Claims judge said the U.S. Air Force breached its contractual duty by failing to reimburse Centech Group Inc. $1.9 million for materials it approved for purchase, but stopped short of granting the company damages.
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March 12, 2025
Live Nation Calls DOJ 'Delay Tactics' Claim 'Groundless'
Live Nation Entertainment assailed the U.S. Department of Justice for claiming "out of the blue" that the company is slow-walking its discovery obligations in the government's New York federal court monopolization suit centered on the 2010 purchase of Ticketmaster.
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March 12, 2025
Northvolt's Ch. 11 Dismissal Possible After Swedish Filing
Bankrupt electric vehicle battery maker Northvolt AB told a Texas bankruptcy judge that its Chapter 11 case is possibly headed for dismissal after its parent company filed an insolvency case in Swedish court early Wednesday.
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March 12, 2025
TikTok Faces Copyright Suit Over Livestreaming Software
TikTok allegedly copied a company's livestreaming software to create a new feature on the app without complying with the company's open source requirements, according to a complaint filed in California federal court.
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March 12, 2025
Final Google Fixes Keep Apple Payments, DOJ Tells DC Circ.
The U.S. Department of Justice doubled down on its arguments against permitting Apple to intervene in the upcoming remedies phase of its Google search monopoly lawsuit, arguing that the newly submitted final version of its sought fixes show Apple would keep getting payments it wants protected.
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March 12, 2025
Cisco Wins Exit From Ex-Workers' BlackRock 401(k) Fund Suit
A California federal judge permanently tossed a proposed class action from ex-Cisco workers alleging their former employer mismanaged its 401(k) by keeping underperforming BlackRock target-date funds in the plan, finding their claims were still lacking despite multiple chances at amendment.
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March 12, 2025
Cannabis Tech Co. Seeks Over $1M Interest On $4.2M Verdict
A software company that won a $4.2 million judgment last year on claims that it was wrongly pushed out of a state government contract is urging a Pennsylvania federal court to award more than $1 million in pre- and postjudgment interest on the award.
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March 12, 2025
White House Urged To Back Patent Eligibility Bill To Aid AI
The Council for Innovation Promotion has urged the Trump administration to support a legislative overhaul of patent eligibility law and reconsider patent office guidance on the issue as the White House aims to ensure the U.S. plays a dominant role in artificial intelligence.
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March 12, 2025
Widow Blames Lawyer's Death On Heat From Atty, Biz Partner
A lawyer who co-founded a successful college athletics database took his own life after both his former business partner and his personal attorney falsely accused him of stealing from the company and sought to take control of his assets as repayment, his family said in a state court complaint that seeks to sort through the "financial wreckage."
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March 12, 2025
Boies Schiller Adds Calif. Litigator Experienced In AI Cases
Boies Schiller Flexner LLP is boosting its California team, bringing in a Joseph Saveri Law Firm litigator in San Francisco who brings expertise in navigating cases touching on artificial intelligence, the firm announced this week.
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March 12, 2025
Tech Co. Says Remote Worker Kept Old Job With Competitor
A Texas-based technology company said a Massachusetts man hired to work remotely as an account executive last year secretly continued working for his former employer, a direct competitor.
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March 12, 2025
Kirkland Guides Clearwater On $685M Investment Tech Buy
Clearwater Analytics said Wednesday it has agreed to pay $685 million across two strategic acquisitions that it said will transform its investment management technology platforms amid a surge in institutional investors seeking alternative assets.
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March 12, 2025
UK Enforcers Double Down On Apple Mobile Browser Worries
A new report from British competition enforcers claims that Apple and Google's dominance in mobile operating systems and browsers limits competition and innovation in the United Kingdom, while encouraging regulators to consider imposing pro-competition requirements on the tech giants.
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March 12, 2025
Feds, Ex-Cognizant Execs Ink April Date For FCPA Trial
A New Jersey federal judge set an April 7 trial date for the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act case against two former Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. executives on Wednesday, firming up a case timeline that's been beset by multiple delays, most recently due to the Trump administration's retreat from enforcing the statute.
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March 12, 2025
Construction Co. Must Face Insurer's $7M Iron Plant Fire Suit
A construction company can't avoid an AIG unit's $7 million subrogation suit over a fire at an iron processing plant, a Texas federal court ruled, saying the insurer sufficiently stated a claim for negligence.
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March 12, 2025
Calif. Privacy Agency Hits Honda Over Data Rights Handling
The California Privacy Protection Agency revealed Wednesday that American Honda Motor Co. has agreed to pay a $632,500 fine and make it easier for consumers to exercise their rights under the state's data privacy law in order to settle the first enforcement strike stemming from the agency's ongoing investigation into the data handling practices of connected car manufacturers.
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March 12, 2025
Skadden-Led Scopely Buying Pokémon Go Biz In $3.5B Deal
Skadden-led Scopely said Wednesday it has agreed to acquire the games business of Niantic, the company behind Pokémon Go and other popular mobile game titles, in a deal Scopely valued at $3.5 billion.
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March 11, 2025
Telescope Buyers Get Class Certification In Antitrust Dispute
A California federal judge on Monday certified a class of telescope buyers in an antitrust lawsuit saying a syndicate of manufacturers were price-fixing and scheming to monopolize the telescope market, accepting an expert opinion's methods for calculating classwide antitrust damages.
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March 11, 2025
Media Matters Slams X For 'Vendetta-Driven Libel Tourism'
Media Matters for America lobbed its own claims at X Corp. in California federal court on Monday, accusing the social media company of launching a "vendetta-driven campaign of libel tourism" against the left-leaning watchdog across the globe that challenges Media Matters' "truthful reporting."
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March 11, 2025
Musk Opens Del. Appeal To Recover $56B In Tesla Pay
Elon Musk on Tuesday launched his Delaware Supreme Court appeal aimed at a Court of Chancery decision that had short-circuited the electric car company's 10-year, $55.6 billion compensation plan for the celebrity CEO.
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March 11, 2025
Kenvue Unit Can't Nix BIPA Suit Over Neutrogena Skin360 App
A Kenvue unit can't escape a proposed class action alleging it unlawfully stores facial scans of people who use its Neutrogena Skin360 tool in violation of Illinois' biometric privacy statute, after a New Jersey federal judge said those users are not "patient[s] in a healthcare setting" under the statute's healthcare exemption.
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March 11, 2025
Digimarc Faces Investor Suit Over Subscription Plunge
Digital watermarking technology company Digimarc Corp. and two of its executives face a proposed investor class action alleging that the company failed to warn investors that its recurring revenue would take a significant hit after one of its major customers had its contract expire in June.
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March 11, 2025
Ex-Mohawk CIO Seeks Lighter Sentence For $1.8M Fraud Plea
Flooring giant Mohawk's former head of information technology pushed back Tuesday on the government's recommendation that he serve 96 months in prison, pay nearly $1 million in restitution and a $150,000 fine for running a third-party vendor scheme that ripped off his employer to the tune of $1.8 million.
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March 11, 2025
USPTO Acting Director To Review Bitcoin, Railway Patents
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's current acting director made some of her first moves wading into patent board rulings, deciding last week to take a closer look at two board decisions involving blockchain mines and railway signs.
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March 11, 2025
More ITC Patent Cases Expected After Fed. Circ. 'Sea Change'
A recent Federal Circuit decision discarding the U.S. International Trade Commission's limits on what types of domestic expenses qualify a company to bring a patent suit at the agency marks a pronounced shift that will likely spur considerably more ITC cases, attorneys say.
Expert Analysis
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How The AI Antitrust Landscape Might Evolve Under Trump
The Trump administration's early actions around artificial intelligence and antitrust policy, along with statements from competition regulators, suggest that the AI competition landscape may see reduced scrutiny around acquisitions, but not an entirely hands-off enforcement approach, say attorneys at Hogan Lovells.
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Series
Racing Corvettes Makes Me A Better Lawyer
The skills I use when racing Corvettes have enhanced my legal practice in several ways, because driving, like practicing law, requires precision, awareness and a good set of brakes — complete with the wisdom to know how and when to use them, says Kat Mateo at Olshan Frome.
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Questions Remain After Justices' Narrow E-Rate FCA Ruling
The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in Wisconsin Bell, holding that requests for reimbursement from the Federal Communications Commission's E-Rate program are subject to False Claims Act liability, resolves one important question but leaves several others open, says Jason Neal at HWG.
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Opinion
At 100, Federal Arbitration Act Is Used To Thwart Justice
The centennial of the Federal Arbitration Act, a law intended to streamline dispute resolution in commercial agreements, is an opportunity to reflect on its transformation from a tool of fairness into a corporate shield that impedes the right to a fair trial, says Lori Andrus at the American Association for Justice.
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Opinion
Attorneys Must Act Now To Protect Judicial Independence
Given the Trump administration's recent moves threatening the independence of the judiciary, including efforts to impeach judges who ruled against executive actions, lawyers must protect the rule of law and resist attempts to dilute the judicial branch’s authority, says attorney Bhavleen Sabharwal.
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Rethinking 'No Comment' For Clients Facing Public Crises
“No comment” is no longer a cost-free or even a viable public communications strategy for companies in crisis, and counsel must tailor their guidance based on a variety of competing factors to help clients emerge successfully, says Robert Bowers at Moore & Van Allen.
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Del. Supreme Court TripAdvisor Ruling May Limit 'MFW Creep'
The Delaware Supreme Court's recent Maffei v. Palkon ruling regarding TripAdvisor's proposed reincorporation to Nevada potentially signals a turning point in the trend of expanding the protections from Kahn v. M&F Worldwide to other types of transactions, says Andrew J. Haile at Elon University.
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9th Circ. Draws The Line On Software As A Derivative Work
The Ninth Circuit's recent decision in Oracle International v. Rimini Street clarifies the meaning of derivative work under the Copyright Act, and when a work based upon a preexisting item doesn't constitute a derivative, says John Poulos at Norton Rose.
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A Closer Look At FDX's New Role As Banking Standard-Setter
Should the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau let stand the decision empowering Financial Data Exchange as an industry standard-setter, it will be a significant step toward broader financial data-sharing, but its success will depend on industry adoption, regulatory oversight and consumer confidence, say attorneys at Clark Hill.
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How Design Thinking Can Help Lawyers Find Purpose In Work
Lawyers everywhere are feeling overwhelmed amid mass government layoffs, increasing political instability and a justice system stretched to its limits — but a design-thinking framework can help attorneys navigate this uncertainty and find meaning in their work, say law professors at the University of Michigan.
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Trending At The PTAB: Insights From 2024 Fed. Circ. Statistics
Looking at stats from the Federal Circuit's decisions in 219 Patent Trial and Appeal Board appeals last year sheds light on potential trends and strategy considerations that could improve appeals' chances of success, say attorneys at Finnegan.
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Biden-Era M&A Data Shows Continuity, Not Revolution
While the federal antitrust agencies under former President Joe Biden made broad claims about increasing merger enforcement activity, the data tells a different story, with key claims under Biden coming in at the lowest levels in decades, say attorneys at Covington.
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What Travis Hill's Vision For FDIC Could Portend For Banks
If selected to lead the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. in a permanent capacity, acting Chairman Travis Hill is likely to prioritize removing barriers to innovation and institution-level growth, emphasizing the idea that eliminating rules, relaxing standards and reducing scrutiny will reinvigorate the industry, say attorneys at Mitchell Sandler.
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10 Issues To Watch In Aerospace And Defense Contracting
This year, in addition to evergreen developments driven by national security priorities, disruptive new technologies and competition with rival powers, federal contractors will see significant disruptions driven by the new administration’s efforts to reduce government spending, regulation and the size of the federal workforce, say attorneys at Thompson Hine.
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5 Major Crypto Developments From The Trump Admin So Far
The early weeks of the Trump administration have set the stage for a significant transformation in U.S. digital asset policy by prioritizing regulatory clarity, innovation and a shift away from enforcement-heavy tactics, but many of these changes will require congressional support and progress may be gradual, say attorneys at Ropes & Gray.