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February 07, 2025
Jury Awards Players $25M In High 5 Mobile Gambling Case
A Washington federal jury on Friday awarded nearly $25 million to a class of players who said they were injured by game developer High 5 Games' social casino-style mobile apps that targeted gambling addicts as "whales."
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February 07, 2025
Landmark NC Ruling Finds Race Bias Tainted Death Row Case
Racial bias sullied the jury selection process during the trial of a Black man in North Carolina who was ultimately sentenced to death for his crimes, a state court judge said Friday in a landmark ruling that could have a ripple effect for more than 100 ongoing capital punishment challenges across the Tar Heel State.
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February 07, 2025
Fla. Atty Couple Can't Escape Verdict Over Abandoning House
A Florida state appeals court has reinstated the original verdict against an attorney husband and wife team for breaching a lease agreement on a rental house and leaving it in disrepair, ruling that a reasonable jury could find that the landlord performed his expressly authorized duties to preserve the property.
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February 07, 2025
Judge Won't Transfer Apple IP Fight, Warns Of Circuit Split
A Texas federal judge has denied Apple's request to relocate Oregon startup Proxense LLC's patent suit against it, saying the case "would not be clearly more convenient to try in the Northern District of California."
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February 07, 2025
Ex-Mass. State Sen. Gets 18 Months For Pandemic, Tax Fraud
A former Massachusetts state senator was sentenced to 18 months in prison Friday after being convicted of fraudulently collecting pandemic unemployment benefits and failing to report consulting income he was also earning at the time on his tax returns.
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February 07, 2025
9th Circ. Backs Ex-Bank Auditor's $1.5M Retaliation Suit Win
The Ninth Circuit upheld a $1.5 million jury verdict in favor of a former bank auditor who claimed he was fired for flagging evidence of wrongdoing, finding evidence suggesting he was treated differently from other workers was enough to back up the jurors' decision.
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February 07, 2025
Ex-Aide To Eric Adams To Admit Campaign Fraud Scheme
A former aide to New York City Mayor Eric Adams intends to plead guilty to a charge that he took part in a scheme to collect illegal straw campaign contributions, prosecutors said Friday.
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February 07, 2025
Off The Bench: Trump Bans Trans Athletes, NCAA Falls In Line
In this week's Off The Bench, the NCAA changes course to accommodate a presidential ban on transgender women athletes, Shohei Ohtani's former interpreter is sentenced for his gambling-driven embezzlement, and women's soccer players get restitution for abuse at the hands of their coaches and teams.
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February 07, 2025
Conn. Trial Firm Partner Seeks Sanctions In Heated Split-Up
Connecticut Trial Firm LLC former co-owner Andrew Garza has asked a Connecticut Superior Court judge to issue sanctions against his former 50-50 partner, Ryan McKeen, accusing McKeen of "misconduct presenting a threat to the administration of justice" in heated litigation over the firm's split.
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February 07, 2025
GEO Group Urges Full 9th Circ. To Weigh $23.2M Wage Case
A Ninth Circuit panel decision holding GEO Group to Washington state's minimum wage standards discriminated against the federal government, the private prison giant argued, urging the full court to mull a case that has the company on the hook for $23.2 million.
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February 07, 2025
2 RE Execs, Brother Assaulted 60 Women, Feds Say
Three brothers from Florida, including two prominent real estate executives, denied sex-trafficking charges in Manhattan federal court Friday alleging they conspired to drug and rape women, as a prosecutor said the authorities have interviewed over 60 victims.
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February 06, 2025
Sterilization Plant's 'Royal' Mistake Leaked Pollution, Jury Told
A former head of Terumo BCT Inc.'s Colorado medical sterilization facility testified Thursday that after a 2008 incident that he called a "royal fuck up" resulted in the release of a toxic chemical inside the plant, Terumo aired out the building and allowed the emissions to go outside.
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February 06, 2025
Western Digital Seeks To Toss SPEX $553M Patent Verdict
Western Digital asked a California federal judge Wednesday to throw out a jury's $316 million verdict that was later increased to $553 million, which held that the data storage company infringed a SPEX Technologies' patent related to hardware encryption technology, saying SPEX did not prove infringement.
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February 06, 2025
Texas' Google Ad Tech Trial Delayed From March To August
A Texas federal judge has pushed back the trial date for a group of Texas-led states' antitrust suit against Google over its digital advertising business, moving the scheduled start from March to August.
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February 06, 2025
Girardi's Mental Evaluation At NC Prison Extended By 15 Days
A California federal judge Thursday ordered Tom Girardi's psychiatric evaluation at a North Carolina federal prison to be extended by 15 days, and she also lectured Girardi's public defender while saying she "could not have imagined" why it took 17 days to get his client's medical records sent to the facility.
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February 06, 2025
Tort Report: Kiss Death Suit Must Be Axed, Band Says
A bid to escape a suit accusing legendary rock band Kiss of causing a guitar technician's coronavirus death and the $8.5 million settlement of a convoluted medical malpractice case lead Law360's Tort Report, which compiles recent personal injury and medical malpractice news that may have flown under the radar.
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February 06, 2025
Philly Law Firm Settles $1.5M Fee Suit Against Metal Company
Philadelphia firm Cohen Seglias Pallas Greenhall & Furman PC and metalworking company M. Cohen & Sons have resolved a legal battle in which the firm sought to collect $1.5 million in fees while also attempting to fight legal malpractice counterclaims over an alleged conflict of interest.
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February 06, 2025
Judge Puts Atty On Hook For Fees For Conduct In TM Trial
A California judge ordered an attorney who represented a microphone manufacturer that lost a trade dress infringement trial to be jointly responsible with his client for attorney fees and costs as a sanction for his conduct during the case.
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February 06, 2025
Harvard Biotech Patent Case Ends With Mid-Trial Deal
Harvard University and biotech developer 10x Genomics Inc. on Thursday reached a settlement agreement with rival developer Vizgen Inc. after three days of trial, ending a case over alleged infringement of tissue sample analyzation patents.
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February 06, 2025
Farm Can't Unravel $2.5M Severed-Foot Verdict, 4th Circ. Told
A North Carolina farmworker who lost his foot in an auger accident and won $2.5 million at trial said he gave the Fourth Circuit a reliable recitation of the case in his opening brief, arguing his former employer is "picking apart" his statement in a "misguided attempt to discredit" him and have the verdict thrown out.
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February 06, 2025
Filing Claims 'Secret Lockout' Led To Conn. Trial Firm Schism
One of the 50-50 partners litigating the dramatic breakup of Connecticut Trial Firm LLC, a personal injury firm known for high-dollar verdicts, has accused his onetime partner of having "plotted a secret lockout" to remove him from the firm, according to a revised derivative complaint filed in Connecticut state court.
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February 05, 2025
Sterilization Co. Skimped On Pollution Controls, Residents Say
An attorney for four Colorado residents who claim emissions from a Terumo BCT Inc. medical sterilization facility caused their cancers told jurors at the start of a six-week trial Wednesday that the company cut corners and failed to implement known solutions to cut toxic emissions into the community.
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February 05, 2025
Mass. US Atty Won't Ignore Local Immigration Pushback
President Donald Trump's newly appointed top federal prosecutor in Massachusetts said Wednesday that she hopes state and local officials won't obstruct immigration enforcement, explaining that "not helping is not obstruction" in the eyes of her office.
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February 05, 2025
Lyondell Leak Is On Job Foreman, Not Valve Maker, Jury Told
A valve maker indicated to a Houston jury on Wednesday that a 2021 chemical leak at a LyondellBasell plant was the result of poor communication between a plant operator and a now-deceased Turn2 Specialty Cos. contractor, not the valve's design.
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February 05, 2025
Ga. Judge Balks At Zurich's Claim Of Surprise Testimony
A Georgia federal judge has rejected Zurich American Insurance's bid to strike supposed surprise testimony from a recent trial where it lost $12.2 million over a disputed rain damage claim from a solar farm, ruling Wednesday that the real surprise was Zurich's belated and meritless objections.
Expert Analysis
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8 Tech Tips For Stress-Free Remote Depositions
Court reporter Kelly D’Amico shares practical strategies for attorneys to conduct remote depositions with ease and troubleshoot any issues that arise, as it seems deposition-by-Zoom is here to stay after the pandemic.
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How AstraZeneca Ruling Could Change Dosage Patent Claims
If affirmed on appeal, the rationale employed by the Delaware federal court in Wyeth v. AstraZeneca to find "unit dosage"-related patent claims invalid could lead to a significant paradigm shift in how active-ingredient-focused patent applications are drafted and litigated, say Matthew Zapadka and John Schneible at Arnall Golden.
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4 Ways Attorneys Can Emotionally Prepare For Trial
In the course of litigation, trial lawyers face a number of scenarios that can incite an emotional response, but formulating a mental game plan in advance of trial can help attorneys stay cool, calm and collected in the moment, says Rachel Lary at Lightfoot Franklin.
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The Bar Needs More Clarity On The Discovery Objection Rule
Almost 10 years after Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 34 was amended, attorneys still seem confused about what they should include in objections to discovery requests, and until the rules committee provides additional clarity, practitioners must beware the steep costs of noncompliance, says Tristan Ellis at Shanies Law Office.
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Deepfakes In Court Proceedings: How To Safeguard Evidence
The legal community can confront the risks that deepfake technology poses to the integrity of court proceedings by embracing the latest detection technologies, developing comprehensive legal frameworks and fostering education and collaboration, say Daniel Garrie and Jennifer Deutsch at Law & Forensics.
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Presidential Campaign Errors Provide Lessons For Trial Attys
Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign employed numerous strategies that evidently didn’t land, and trial attorneys should take note, because voters and jurors are both decision-makers who are listening for how one’s case presentation would affect them personally, says Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner.
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Being A Navy Reservist Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Serving this country in uniform has not only been one of the greatest honors of my life, but it has also provided me with opportunities to broaden my legal acumen and interpersonal skills in ways that have indelibly contributed to my civilian practice, says Phillip Smith at Weinberg Wheeler.
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So You Want To Move Your Law Practice To Canada, Eh?
Google searches for how to move to Canada have surged in the wake of the U.S. presidential election, and if you’re an attorney considering a move to the Great White North, you’ll need to understand how the practice of law differs across the border, says David Postel at Henein Hutchison.
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Promoting Diversity In The Selection Of ADR Neutrals
Excerpt from Practical Guidance
Choosing neutrals from diverse backgrounds is an important step in promoting inclusion in the legal profession, and it can enhance the legitimacy and public perception of alternative dispute resolution proceedings, say attorneys at Lowenstein Sandler.
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Playing Ultimate Makes Us Better Lawyers
In addition to being fun, ultimate Frisbee has improved our legal careers by emphasizing the importance of professionalism, teamwork, perseverance, enthusiasm and vulnerability, say Arunabha Bhoumik and Adam Bernstein at Regeneron.
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High Court 'Violent Crimes' Case Tangled Up In Hypotheticals
In Delligatti v. U.S., the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments next week on whether attempted murder constitutes a crime of violence, and because the court’s interpretive approach thus far has relied on hairsplitting legal hypotheticals with absurd results, Congress should repeal the underlying statute, say attorneys at Patterson Belknap.
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Curious Case Of FTC's Amicus Brief In Teva Fed. Circ. Appeal
Attorneys at BCLP explore the Federal Trade Commission's backing of Amneal's Orange Book-delisting efforts on Teva ahead of a key Federal Circuit hearing in a case between the two pharmaceutical companies, and wonder if the FTC amicus brief indicates a future trend, especially in the next administration.
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E-Discovery Quarterly: Recent Rulings On Metadata
Several recent rulings reflect the competing considerations that arise when parties dispute the form of production for electronically stored information, underscoring that counsel must carefully consider how to produce and request reasonably usable data, say attorneys at Sidley.
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2nd Circ. Maxwell Ruling Adds To Confusion Over NPA Reach
The Second Circuit’s recent decision upholding Ghislaine Maxwell’s conviction made an analytical leap in applying plea agreement precedent to a nonprosecution agreement, compounding a circuit split and providing lessons for defense counsel, say attorneys at Kropf Moseley.
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Striking A Balance Between AI Use And Attorney Well-Being
As the legal industry increasingly adopts generative artificial intelligence tools to boost efficiency, leaders must note the hidden costs of increased productivity, and work to protect attorneys’ well-being while unlocking AI’s full potential, says Ed Sohn at Factor.