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July 08, 2025
Grocer's Octopus In Olive Oil Also Comes With Lead, Suit Says
Natural grocery store chain Lazy Acres has been selling a tinned "octopus in olive oil" product that also contains lead in violation of California's Proposition 65, according to a suit lodged in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Tuesday.
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July 08, 2025
Split 9th Circ. Axes Illegal Reentry-After-Removal Conviction
A split Ninth Circuit on Tuesday undid a Dominican man's conviction for unlawfully re-entering the U.S. after previously being removed, saying the federal government failed to prove he ever escaped border agents' surveillance near the U.S.-Mexico border.
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July 08, 2025
Breaking Down Stewart's Nonstop Discretionary Denial Orders
Acting U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Coke Morgan Stewart inundated the patent community in May and June with dozens of rulings altering the landscape of discretionary denials at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Here, Law360 goes through what you should know.
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July 08, 2025
Intel Seeks Final Toss Of Investor Suit Over Chip Struggles
Intel Corp. urged a California federal judge Tuesday to permanently toss a twice-amended complaint from investors claiming the company concealed struggles with expanding its domestic computer chip manufacturing, arguing that the plaintiff doesn't claim that Intel made any misleading statements.
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July 08, 2025
Medtronic's Blood Pressure IP Claims Against Recor Get Axed
A California federal judge on Monday agreed to toss, for now, Medtronic Ireland's counterclaims alleging that Recor's surgical treatment for high blood pressure infringes a pair of patents, finding that Medtronic Ireland doesn't have the standing to sue because it licensed its patents to another company.
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July 08, 2025
Product Liability Cases To Watch In 2nd Half Of 2025
The fate of a $2.5 billion punitive damages award against Ford and looming bench verdicts in the first PFAS trials brought by a state are among the cases that product liability attorneys will be following closely in the second half of 2025.
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July 08, 2025
Broadcom Wants Netflix's 'Retaliatory' Cloud Patent Suit Axed
Broadcom and cloud services provider VMware on Monday urged a California federal court to throw out Netflix's "meritless, retaliatory" patent infringement suit against them, arguing that Netflix is the one infringing Broadcom's patents and the latest suit is intended to give Netflix leverage in the ongoing dispute.
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July 08, 2025
Split 9th Circ. Revives Journos' Hacking Suit Against NSO
A divided Ninth Circuit reinstated a lawsuit by El Salvadoran journalists alleging Israeli spyware maker NSO Group hacked their iPhones when covering human rights abuses, ruling Tuesday the California federal court abused its discretion when dismissing their suit based on its conclusion that the district wasn't the appropriate forum.
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July 08, 2025
Alphabet's $500M Investor Deal Over Compliance Gets 1st OK
A California federal judge gave preliminary approval Tuesday to Google parent Alphabet's Inc.'s settlement with investors alleging that executives engaged in anticompetitive and monopolistic practices, saying she wants to hear shareholders' reactions to Alphabet's agreement to spend $500 million over the next decade building a global regulatory compliance program before she grants final approval.
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July 08, 2025
States Back Enviro Orgs. Bid To Block EPA's Halt Of $3B Grant
A group of Democratic attorneys general on Monday told a D.C. federal district court that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's decision to terminate environmental justice grants deprives vulnerable communities of funding "necessary to achieve a healthy environment."
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July 08, 2025
DHS Faces New Suit Over Protected Status Terminations
An immigration rights group hit the U.S. Department of Homeland Security with another Administrative Procedure Act lawsuit in California federal court on Monday, challenging its abrupt termination of temporary protection for over 60,000 immigrants from Honduras, Nicaragua and Nepal who've sought refuge from environmental and political crises in their home countries.
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July 08, 2025
Anoxia Says Alembic's Blood Clot Catheter Infringes Patents
Anoxia Medical Inc. commenced a patent infringement suit in California federal court Monday against its competitor Alembic LLC, accusing Alembic of ripping off Anoxia's novel technology for its endovascular "Slinky®" catheter invention that efficiently removes blood clots from the human body.
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July 08, 2025
Wells Fargo Seeks Dismissal Of COVID-19 Mortgage Suit
Wells Fargo said a North Carolina woman's claims that the bank forced the short sale of her home by denying her forbearance on her mortgage as mandated under federal law at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic should be dismissed for several reasons, including that the short sale never actually occurred.
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July 08, 2025
'Practice Better Judgment,' Judge Tells Comscore Foe
A California federal judge "strongly" admonished a film distribution and data company for filing an amended monopolization complaint against Comscore on the Fourth of July, while also concluding that the filing mooted, for now, a bid to force the box office giant to continue sharing data.
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July 08, 2025
Judge Doubts OpenAI Rival Used Similar TM Commercially
A California federal judge appeared skeptical Tuesday that Open Artificial Intelligence Inc. began using its name commercially earlier than ChatGPT developer OpenAI Inc., pushing the lesser-known company for evidence and expressing impatience over what she viewed as a lack of any substantive backing.
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July 08, 2025
FinCEN To Appeal Block Of Trump's Border Cash Biz Order
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, its director and others on Tuesday filed a notice of their plan to appeal a California federal judge's decision to temporarily block the Trump administration's order singling out cash-moving businesses along the southwest border for heightened anti-money laundering reporting.
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July 08, 2025
Wells Fargo Wants Investors' 'Sham' Hiring Suit Tossed
Wells Fargo & Co. is once again looking to rid itself of a California-based class action accusing it of deceiving investors about its hiring practices, arguing that suing shareholders have not found any evidence that so-called sham job interviews were widespread at the bank.
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July 08, 2025
Prospect Medical Doctor Groups Hit Ch. 11 After Astrana Sale
About two dozen physician practices linked to bankrupt healthcare company Prospect Medical have filed for Chapter 11 protection in Texas, days after Prospect sold some of the entities' assets to Astrana Health Inc. for $708 million.
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July 08, 2025
Calif. Bar Seeks 30-Day Suspension For Ex-Exec's Misconduct
The California State Bar Court has recommended a 30-day "actual" suspension for its onetime executive director, who last year was found culpable for a "significant ethical violation" in making misrepresentations to the State Bar Board of Trustees regarding his 2014 visit to Mongolia, which allegedly cost thousands of dollars in bar funds.
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July 08, 2025
Calif. 'Trail Immunity' Blocks Suit Over Bicyclist's Death
A California appeals court has refused to revive a woman's suit against East Bay Regional Park District over her husband's death, rejecting her argument that the state's "trail immunity" doesn't apply to paved trails.
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July 08, 2025
Vaxart Investors Can Pursue Suit Over COVID Vax Claims
A California federal judge declined to grant an early win to the onetime controlling shareholder of Vaxart in an investor suit alleging it dumped stock at inflated prices following deceptive headlines about the biotechnology company's ability to produce a COVID-19 vaccine.
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July 08, 2025
High Court Allows Trump's Gov't Cuts And Restructuring
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled the Trump administration can move forward with its plans for large-scale layoffs and reorganizations at various federal departments and agencies, lifting a California federal judge's order that had paused the efforts while a legal challenge continues.
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July 08, 2025
The Biggest Copyright Rulings Of 2025: A Midyear Report
Two California judges were the first to deliver crucial rulings about what constitutes fair use in training generative artificial intelligence models — a question expected to test the boundaries of the copyright doctrine amid the emergence of the groundbreaking technology. Here is Law360's list of the biggest copyright decisions so far this year.
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July 08, 2025
Calif. Agency Rolls Out Guidance For Violence Survivor Leave
The California Civil Rights Department rolled out its latest guidance and model notice for employees who are victims of violence or abuse and wish to take time off under a law that went into effect in the state in January.
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July 08, 2025
Frost LLP Adds Entertainment Vet As Partner
Longtime entertainment attorney Gary Stiffelman has joined Frost LLP as a partner after several years at his own firm, bringing the experience of four decades representing what the firm said were numerous high-profile artists, cultural leaders and executives.
Expert Analysis
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4 Consumer Class Action Trends To Watch In 2nd Half Of 2025
The first half of 2025 has seen a surge of consumer class action trends related to online tools, websites and marketing messages, creating a new legal risk landscape for companies of all sizes, says Scott Shaffer at Olshan Frome.
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8 Ways Lawyers Can Protect The Rule Of Law In Their Work
Whether they are concerned with judicial independence, regulatory predictability or client confidence, lawyers can take specific meaningful actions on their own when traditional structures are too slow or too compromised to respond, says Angeli Patel at the Berkeley Center of Law and Business.
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Series
Law School's Missed Lessons: Communicating With Clients
Law school curricula often overlook client communication procedures, and those who actively teach this crucial facet of the practice can create exceptional client satisfaction and success, says Patrick Hanson at Wiggam Law.
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One Year On, Davidson Holds Lessons On 'Health Halo' Claims
A year after the Ninth Circuit's Davidson v. Sprout Foods decision — which raised the bar for so-called health halo claims — food and beverage companies can draw insights from its finding, subsequently expanded on by other courts, that plaintiffs must be specific when alleging fraud in healthfulness marketing, say attorneys at Sidley.
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How State AG Consumer Finance Enforcement Is Expanding
As the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau becomes less active, state attorneys general are increasingly shaping the enforcement landscape for consumer financial services — and several areas of focus have recently emerged, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.
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Series
Adapting To Private Practice: From US Rep. To Boutique Firm
My transition from serving as a member of Congress to becoming a partner at a boutique firm has been remarkably smooth, in part because I never stopped exercising my legal muscles, maintained relationships with my former colleagues and set the right tone at the outset, says Mondaire Jones at Friedman Kaplan.
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Comparing New Neural Data Privacy Laws In 4 States
Although no federal law yet addresses neural privacy comprehensively, the combined effect of recent state laws in Colorado, California, Montana and Connecticut is already shaping the regulatory future, but a multistate compliance strategy has quickly become a gating item for those experimenting with neuro-enabled workplace tools, says Kristen Mathews at Cooley.
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Employer Tips For Responding To ICE In The Workplace
Increased immigration enforcement under President Donald Trump's administration has left employers struggling to balance their compliance obligations with their desire to provide a safe workplace, so creating a thorough response plan and training for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's presence at the workplace is crucial, say attorneys at Hanson Bridgett.
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Opinion
Senate's 41% Litigation Finance Tax Would Hurt Legal System
The Senate’s latest version of the Big Beautiful Bill Act would impose a 41% tax on the litigation finance industry, but the tax is totally disconnected from the concerns it purports to address, and it would set the country back to a time when small plaintiffs had little recourse against big defendants, says Anthony Sebok at Cardozo School of Law.
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Tips For Litigating Apex Doctrine Disputes Amid Controversy
Litigants once took for granted that deposition requests of high-ranking corporate officers required a greater showing of need than for lower-level witnesses, but the apex doctrine has proven controversial in recent years, and fights over such depositions will be won by creative lawyers adapting their arguments to this particular moment, say attorneys at Hangley Aronchick.
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Series
Performing As A Clown Makes Me A Better Lawyer
To say that being a clown in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade has changed my legal career would truly be an understatement — by creating an opening to converse on a unique topic, it has allowed me to connect with clients, counsel and even judges on a deeper level, says Charles Tatelbaum at Tripp Scott.
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Focusing On Fluoride: From FDA To Class Action
A class action filed two days after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced plans to remove ingestible fluoride prescription drug products for children from the market may be the tip of the iceberg in terms of the connection between government pronouncements on safety and their immediate use as evidence in lawsuits, says Rachel Turow at Skadden.
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9th Circ. Ruling Is Turning Point For Private Funds In 401(k)s
The Ninth Circuit's decision in Anderson v. Intel reinforces that the Employee Retirement Income Security Act's duty of prudence permits fiduciaries to use private market assets in diversified funds, yet it also exposes the persistent litigation and regulatory uncertainties that continue to temper wider adoption in 401(k) plans, say attorneys at Debevoise.
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How Dfinity Timeliness Ruling Can Aid Crypto Issuers
A California federal court's recent dismissal of a class action against Dfinity, holding that the claims were time-barred by the Securities Act's three-year statute of repose, provides a useful defense for cryptocurrency issuers, which often solicit investments years before minting and distributing the associated tokens, say attorneys at Paul Weiss.
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4 Precautions For Responsible AI Use In Bid Protests
Despite the U.S. Government Accountability Office’s May warning that it will impose stiff sanctions on bid protesters whose filings contain artificial intelligence-generated mistakes and hallucinations, generative AI can be a valuable tool for the bid protest bar if used with safeguards, say attorneys at Crowell & Moring.