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September 23, 2024
Oracle Wins $58M In Atty Fees In Software Copyright Suit
Attorneys representing Oracle in its long-running software copyright battle with Rimini Street Inc. were awarded $58 million in fees Monday by a Nevada federal judge who called the tech giant's $69 million request "slightly excessive."
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September 23, 2024
Medical Records Co. Accused Of Blocking Data Access
A company that helps insurance providers access patient data on Monday accused medical records company Epic Systems Corp. of violating antitrust law by using its monopoly over electronic health records to squash an emerging competitor.
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September 23, 2024
House Swipes Right On Online Dating Safety Bill
The House passed a bipartisan bill via voice vote Monday requiring dating apps to inform users when they're talking with fraudsters.
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September 23, 2024
Del. Justices Uphold Bankrupt Byju's US Lender Takeover
A panel of Delaware Supreme Court justices on Monday affirmed a lower court's ruling that the American arm of Indian educational technology business Byju's was in default under a $1.2 billion loan and that lenders had the authority to install new directors.
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September 23, 2024
PNC, Plaid End Legal Battle With Customer Data-Sharing Deal
PNC Financial Services Group and Plaid have reached an agreement to end nearly four years of trademark litigation that allows PNC customers to use Plaid to share their financial data with fintech companies like Venmo and Cash App.
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September 23, 2024
Auto AI Co.'s $30M Settlement With Investors Gets Initial Nod
An automotive software company's $30 million settlement to end an investor fraud class action won initial approval from a Boston federal judge on Monday.
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September 23, 2024
Radio Station Could Lose FCC License Over $32K In Back Fees
The Federal Communications Commission is threatening to strip a New Jersey gospel radio station's license over delinquent regulatory fees, telling the station it needs either to pay up, explain why the fees should be waived or risk losing its broadcast license.
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September 23, 2024
RNC Urges NC Court To Block Digital Student IDs For Voting
The Republican National Committee and the North Carolina Republican Party urged a Tar Heel State appeals court to block the state's board of elections from allowing digital student and employee IDs from the University of North Carolina to be used as voter verification in the upcoming election, arguing the law already forbids them.
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September 23, 2024
Davis Polk Vows Ex-Clerk Won't Touch Crypto Merger Suit
Local counsel for Galaxy Digital Holdings Inc. has told a Delaware vice chancellor that Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP will ensure that an incoming associate who clerked for the state's Supreme Court won't share information with attorneys defending the digital assets company in a merger suit that the state's highest court revived in May.
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September 23, 2024
Biden Admin Seeks To Ban Certain Chinese, Russian Car Tech
The Biden administration proposed a new policy Monday that would ban automakers from importing and selling vehicles in the U.S. with certain connectivity components made in China or Russia that pose national security risks, in an effort to protect U.S. infrastructure and American consumers.
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September 23, 2024
Holland & Knight Adds Former Treasury Adviser In DC
A former adviser for the U.S. Department of the Treasury and counsel for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has moved his practice to Holland & Knight's office in Washington, D.C., the firm announced Monday.
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September 23, 2024
Telecoms Oppose Using Database Co.'s Do-Not-Originate List
A major telecommunications trade association is urging the Federal Communications Commission to reject suggested changes to its proposed anti-robocall rules, telling the commission that modifications recommended by telecom database company Somos could end up blocking legitimate calls.
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September 23, 2024
Autism Played Role In Bankman-Fried Case, 2nd Circ. Told
A group of experts on neurodiversity told the Second Circuit that Sam Bankman-Fried, who has said he has autism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, may have been hurt at trial by a "cognitive and communication style" that at times frustrated the trial judge.
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September 23, 2024
Data Co. Ousted Exec Who Reported Harassment, Suit Says
A former sales director for data storage company WekaIO says she suffered sexual harassment and retaliation and was ultimately forced to leave the "male-dominated" company after a sham investigation, according to a lawsuit filed Monday.
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September 23, 2024
Ex-Comtech CEOs Push For New Board, Strategic Changes
Two former CEOs of Comtech Telecommunications Corp. are calling for a new board at the global technology company and are pushing the business to consider strategic options, including a potential sale of its public safety business, while noting that one of the CEOs had even offered to re-take the helm at the company without cash compensation.
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September 23, 2024
Debevoise Reps KKR On $4.6B Middle-Market Fund
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP-advised private equity giant KKR announced Monday that it clinched its latest fund dedicated to middle-market businesses in North America after securing $4.6 billion in investor commitments.
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September 23, 2024
Journalists Say EBay Can't ID Sources In Stalking Case
A Massachusetts couple who were harassed by a group of eBay Inc. employees over their negative blog posts about the company said they shouldn't have to turn over the names of confidential sources purportedly scared off by the ordeal.
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September 20, 2024
RV Co. Wins $5.5M Enhanced TM Damages, $1.3M Atty Fees
Forest River can collect enhanced damages after a jury determined inTech Trailers infringed its mountain design trademarks on recreational vehicles, an Indiana federal judge ruled Thursday, increasing the award from $2 million to more than $5.5 million to make sure inTech does not profit from its infringement.
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September 20, 2024
AGs Push To Can Google Privacy Deal With No Class Payout
Nearly two dozen Republican state attorneys general are urging the Ninth Circuit to scrap a data privacy deal that requires Google to pay $62 million to plaintiffs' counsel and third-party organizations but gives no money to individual class members, arguing that consumers aren't adequately benefiting from the settlement.
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September 20, 2024
Ad Tech Judge Not Biting On Google's Market Metaphor
Comparing Big Macs and Whoppers to undermine the Justice Department's market definition appeared to be a step too far Friday for the Virginia federal judge weighing the fate of Google's display advertising placement technology.
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September 20, 2024
ITC Has Been Launching Fewer Section 337 Investigations
Intellectual property activity at the U.S. International Trade Commission has "decreased somewhat," the agency said in a report Friday.
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September 20, 2024
Cities Score Wins Over FCC Even In 9th Circ. Permitting Loss
Even though the Ninth Circuit in a recent decision largely upheld a Federal Communications Commission policy that reined in municipal governments' power to impose zoning restrictions on wireless network siting, the court's ruling wasn't all bad news for city officials.
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September 20, 2024
EV Battery Co. Hit With $207M Default Loss For Lack Of Attys
Shareholders of electrical vehicle battery maker Romeo Power Inc. have secured a $206.8 million default win against the company after it failed to retain new counsel in a proposed class action alleging it concealed its acute shortage of high-quality battery cells before going public via a merger with a blank check company.
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September 20, 2024
SEC To Seek Sanctions For Musk Deposition 'Gamesmanship'
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission plans to seek sanctions against Elon Musk for not showing up to a scheduled deposition over his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter and instead flying to Florida to oversee a SpaceX launch, telling a California federal judge Friday that his excuse "smacks of gamesmanship."
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September 20, 2024
Judge Won't Toss Fraud Suit Against Crypto-Forex Co. Execs
A Florida judge decided that the CEO and a founding shareholder of purported foreign exchange currency broker FxWinning Ltd. have sufficient ties to Florida to keep them among the defendants of a suit alleging the business and its operators perpetrated a multimillion-dollar fraud.
Expert Analysis
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What We Know From Early Cyberinsurance Rulings
Recent cyber disruption incidents, like the Crowdstrike outage and the CDK Global cyberattack this summer, highlight the necessity of understanding legal interpretations of cyberinsurance coverage — an area in which there has been little litigation thus far, say Peter Halprin and Rebecca Schwarz at Haynes Boone.
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5 Tips To Succeed In A Master Of Laws Program And Beyond
As lawyers and recent law school graduates begin their Master of Laws coursework across the country, they should keep a few pointers in mind to get the most out of their programs and kick-start successful careers in their practice areas, says Kelley Miller at Reed Smith.
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Examining Patent Subject Matter Eligibility Of AI Inventions
In light of U.S. Patent and Trademark Office data showing that patent applications for artificial intelligence inventions are likelier to get rejected based on patent-ineligible subject matter, inventors seeking protection should be aware of the difficulties and challenges pertaining to patent eligibility, say Georgios Effraimidis at NERA and Joel Lehrer at Goodwin.
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IP Hot Topic: The Intersection Of Trademark And Antitrust Law
Antitrust claims – like those in the U.S. Department of Justice’s recent case against Apple – are increasingly influencing trademark disputes and enforcement practices, demonstrating how antitrust law can dilute the power of a trademark, say attorneys at Dentons.
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Series
Being An Opera Singer Made Me A Better Lawyer
My journey from the stage to the courtroom has shown that the skills I honed as an opera singer – punctuality, memorization, creativity and more – have all played a vital role in my success as an attorney, says Gerard D'Emilio at GableGotwals.
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How Law Firms Can Avoid 'Collaboration Drag'
Law firm decision making can be stifled by “collaboration drag” — characterized by too many pointless meetings, too much peer feedback and too little dissent — but a few strategies can help stakeholders improve decision-making processes and build consensus, says Steve Groom at Miles Mediation.
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Election Outlook: A Precedent Primer On Content Moderation
With the 2024 election season now in full swing, online platforms will face difficult and politically sensitive decisions about content moderation, but U.S. Supreme Court decisions from last term offer much-needed certainty about their rights, say Jonathan Blavin and Helen White at Munger Tolles.
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Workday AI Bias Suit Suggests Hiring Lessons For Employers
As state laws and a federal agency increasingly focus on employment bias introduced by artificial intelligence systems, a California federal court's recent decision to allow a discrimination suit to proceed against Workday's AI-driven recruitment software, shows companies should promptly assess these tools' risks, say attorneys at Williams & Connolly.
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Fed. Circ. Resolves Post-AIA Question On Prefiling Activity
For more than a decade, patent attorneys have worried about what the America Invents Act means for specific prefiling activities, but two recent Federal Circuit decisions suggest the enumerated prefiling activities in Section 102(a)(1) will not affect validity if done within a year of filing the application, says Howard Skaist at Berkeley Law.
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Opinion
Litigation Funding Disclosure Key To Open, Impartial Process
Blanket investor and funding agreement disclosures should be required in all civil cases where the investor has a financial interest in the outcome in order to address issues ranging from potential conflicts of interest to national security concerns, says Bob Goodlatte, former U.S. House Representative for Virginia.
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The Ethics of Using Generative AI In Environmental Law
The rapid emergence of generative artificial intelligence tools is challenging environmental lawyers, consultants and government agencies to determine when and how these tools can be responsibly, ethically and productively integrated into their practices to streamline research, predictive analytics and regulatory compliance, say Ahlia Bethea and Pamela Esterman at Sive Paget.
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RealPage Suit Shows Growing Algorithm, AI Pricing Scrutiny
The U.S. Department of Justice's suit against RealPage for helping fix rental rates, filed last week, demonstrates how the use of algorithmic and artificial intelligence tools to assist with pricing decisions is drawing increasing scrutiny and action across government agencies, and specifically at the Federal Trade Commission and the DOJ, say Andre Geverola and Leah Harrell at Arnold & Porter.
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Fed. Circ. Patent Ruling Clarifies Section 101 Procedures
The Federal Circuit’s recent ruling in Mobile Acuity v. Blippar affirming a dismissal at the pleading stage illustrates important considerations and potential pitfalls for both filing and opposing a Section 101 motion to dismiss, say Thomas Sprankling and Vikram Iyer at WilmerHale.
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What NFL Draft Picks Have In Common With Lateral Law Hires
Nearly half of law firm lateral hires leave within a few years — a failure rate that is strikingly similar to the performance of NFL quarterbacks drafted in the first round — in part because evaluators focus too heavily on quantifiable metrics and not enough on a prospect's character traits, says Howard Rosenberg at Baretz+Brunelle.
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CrowdStrike Incident Highlights Third-Party Risk For Banks
The global business disruptions caused by CrowdStrike's faulty software update last month serves as a reminder that banks should assess operational and compliance risks associated with third-party service providers and create resiliency plans extending down to fourth- and fifth-level providers, says Craig Landrum at Jones Walker.