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October 08, 2025
Micron Files Patent Case In Calif. Day After Hit With Texas Suit
Chinese chipmaker Yangtze Memory Technologies Company Ltd. has accused Micron Technology Inc. of infringing a series of patents related to computer memory, prompting Micron to respond with its own suit asserting that it didn't infringe the patents.
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October 08, 2025
Advocacy Group Sues Trump To Restore Digital Equity Funds
A group advocating for wider broadband adoption has sued the Trump administration for canceling the disbursement of grants under the Digital Equity Act.
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October 08, 2025
Tyson Hillshire Corn Dogs Have Wood Bits, Suit Claims
Tyson Foods and Hillshire Farms on Tuesday were hit with a proposed class action in Illinois federal court over recalled corn dogs and sausages on sticks that had pieces of wood in the batter, brought by a consumer who says the recall falls short of remedying consumers.
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October 08, 2025
DOJ Asks For Stay In PVC Antitrust Case Amid Criminal Probe
The U.S. Department of Justice is asking an Illinois federal court to pause discovery in a case accusing polyvinyl chloride pipe manufacturers of using a commodity pricing service to exchange information and fix prices while a grand jury investigates the alleged activity.
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October 08, 2025
Retirees Can't Show Losses From Pension Deal, Judge Says
An aerospace materials manufacturer shouldn't face a proposed class action alleging it violated federal benefits law when it converted $1.5 billion in pension obligations to risky insurance-backed annuities, a Pennsylvania federal judge recommended Tuesday, saying retirees hadn't demonstrated that the transaction diminished their benefits.
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October 08, 2025
Landlord Loses Bid To Depose DC In RealPage Case
A District of Columbia Superior Court judge has rejected a landlord's bid to depose D.C. for the city's rent price-fixing suit against property management software company RealPage Inc. and multiple landlords.
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October 08, 2025
2 More States Join Growing US Privacy Regulator Consortium
A bipartisan collective of U.S. regulators that was recently formed to collaborate on the implementation and enforcement of their states' data privacy regimes has swelled to double digits, with the attorneys general of Minnesota and New Hampshire on Wednesday being announced as the group's newest members.
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October 07, 2025
Atty Fee Concerns Sink Health Provider's $2M Privacy Deal
An Arizona federal judge refused to sign off on a nearly $2 million deal to resolve a proposed class action accusing LifeStance Health Group of illegally sharing website visitors' personal data with Meta, finding the proposed attorney fees to be "disproportionately high" compared to what class members stand to recover.
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October 07, 2025
Panel Said Congress Was 'Feckless,' 6th Circ. Told In FCC Row
The Sixth Circuit should agree to a full court reconsideration of a panel's decision to back the Federal Communications Commission's expanded data breach notifications for telecom carriers, says a conservative legal organization that believes the panel assumed Congress was legislating "fecklessly."
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October 07, 2025
Wash. Spam Email Law Is Unconstitutional, Retailers Say
Beauty retail giant Ulta and home improvement retailer Home Depot argued last week in separate cases that Washington state's Commercial Electronic Mail Act is unconstitutional and preempted by federal law as they seek to shed proposed consumer class actions claiming their promotional emails were misleading.
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October 07, 2025
Bausch And Teva Blocked Cheaper IBS Drug, Retailers Say
A slew of retailers on Tuesday accused Bausch Health Cos. Inc. and Teva Pharmaceuticals of working together to keep the generic version of an irritable bowel syndrome drug off the market until 2028, forcing the retailers and other purchasers of the drug to pay monopoly prices.
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October 07, 2025
Ex-Prisoners Push Back On Bid To Decertify Debit Card Class
Former prisoners accusing Central Bank of Kansas City of charging excessive fees on prepaid debit cards have pushed back on the bank's effort to undo their certified class, arguing they were subject to a "uniform pattern of conduct" that forced them to accept the cards.
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October 07, 2025
Sunbeam Ovens Burn Users, Suit Says
Sunbeam Products Inc. and its parent company, Newell Brands Inc., were hit Tuesday with a proposed class action in federal court over a recalled countertop oven by a New Yorker claiming the appliance burned her and that the company failed to warn about the risks of injury.
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October 07, 2025
Urologist Provider Must Face Data Leak Claims, Panel Says
The Georgia Court of Appeals has largely revived a proposed class action against a urology provider over a 2021 data breach that allegedly compromised the personal information of more than 79,000 patients, ruling Monday that the clinic could be liable for negligence and breach of contract.
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October 07, 2025
Mortgage Giants Shared Data To Fix Rates, Homeowners Say
A proposed class of homeowners has launched a sweeping class action against Rocket Mortgage, Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase and more than two dozen other mortgage lenders, accusing them of conspiring through Optimal Blue's pricing software to secretly share sensitive data and fix mortgage rates nationwide, allegedly inflating costs and deepening the U.S. housing affordability crisis.
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October 07, 2025
Cabinetry Co. Refiles $3.6B Merger To Give FTC More Time
Kitchen cabinet and vanity manufacturer American Woodmark Corp. has withdrawn and refiled its intent to merge with MasterBrand in a $3.6 billion deal in order to give the Federal Trade Commission more time to scrutinize the deal for competition concerns.
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October 07, 2025
3rd Circ. Says State Lawmakers Mostly Immune From TCPA
State legislators in certain instances can make robocalls if they want, the Third Circuit has declared after finding that the Telephone Consumer Protection Act's ban on automated and prerecorded texts and calls without consent doesn't apply to them.
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October 07, 2025
1st Circ. Left In Limbo Over FCC's Prison Phone Rate Caps
First Circuit judges Tuesday questioned the Federal Communications Commission's turnabout in defense of its Biden-era prison phone rate caps and were unsure how to construct a legal ruling with the FCC poised to vote on a policy makeover within weeks.
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October 07, 2025
FAA Drone Rule Draws Over 1M Comments As Public Weighs In
Complex safety certification, technological and other security requirements are among the issues that U.S. regulators must still iron out before a long-awaited new rule allowing drones to fly beyond the sight line of their operators can truly take off, according to drone companies, aviation and other industry groups.
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October 07, 2025
Chanel, The RealReal Fail To Reach Settlement In TM Feud
Fashion house Chanel and used-items retailer The RealReal Inc. have told a Manhattan federal judge they haven't been able to reach a settlement on Chanel's claims of trademark infringement despite, as The RealReal's attorneys put it, significant efforts being expended to try to reach a compromise.
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October 07, 2025
Graco Can't Nix Warranty Claims Over Car Booster Seat Safety
A Georgia federal judge on Tuesday refused to nix warranty breach claims in a consolidated action alleging Graco misrepresented that its car booster seats would protect occupants in side-impact collisions, ruling a reasonable jury could find Graco's labeling is material and misleading to consumers.
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October 07, 2025
Amazon Supplement Buyers Seek Spoliation Penalties
Consumers in a proposed class action accusing Amazon of peddling dietary supplements without making federally required disclosures urged a Washington federal judge on Tuesday to punish the e-commerce giant for allegedly failing to preserve product detail webpages they say are key to the litigation.
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October 07, 2025
Apple Seeks To Toss IPhone, Watch Buyers' Antitrust Suits
Apple has asked a New Jersey federal court to toss multidistrict antitrust litigation brought by iPhone and Apple Watch buyers, arguing that while they "try in vain to invent" theories about how Apple charges monopoly prices the inflation-adjusted price of the latest iPhone is nearly the same as the first model.
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October 07, 2025
Duke Gas Rate Increase Was Improper, Ohio High Court Hears
Duke Energy's Ohio utility shouldn't be allowed to collect $17 million from ratepayers to cover now-shuttered underground caverns used to store propane, the state's utility consumer advocate told the Ohio Supreme Court on Tuesday.
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October 07, 2025
Zillow Can See Anywhere Deal Docs In Compass Antitrust Suit
A New York federal judge partially approved real estate listings company Zillow Inc.'s discovery motion in brokerage Compass Inc.'s antitrust suit over Zillow's listings policy, ruling that Compass must provide Zillow with specific documents related to its $1.6 billion all-stock acquisition of Anywhere Real Estate Inc.
Expert Analysis
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2 Appellate Rulings Offer Clickwrap Enforcement Road Map
Two recent decisions from the Fourth and Eleventh Circuits in cases involving Experian signal that federal appellate courts are recognizing clickwrap agreements' power in spite of their simplicity, and offer practical advice on how companies can sufficiently demonstrate notice and assent when attempting to enforce contractual terms, says Brian Willett at Saul Ewing.
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A Look At Robinson-Patman Enforcement In The MLM Industry
The Federal Trade Commission's recent focus on price discrimination in high-profile speeches and litigation suggests a renewed interest around Robinson-Patman Act enforcement, particularly in multilevel marketing, making it an apt time for direct sellers to audit their pricing, say Katrina Eash at Winston & Strawn and Juliet Belling Warren and Branko Jovanovic at Edgeworth Economics.
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How AI Is Easing Digital Asset Recovery In Fraud Cases
In combination with recent legislation and a maturing digital asset infrastructure, artificial intelligence tools are making it easier to recover stolen assets, giving litigants a more specific understanding of financial fraud earlier in the process and making it economically feasible to pursue smaller fraud claims, says Solomon Shinerock at Lewis Baach.
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What 2 Profs Noticed As Transactional Law Students Used AI
After a semester using generative artificial intelligence tools with students in an entrepreneurship law clinic, we came away with numerous observations about the opportunities and challenges such tools present to new transactional lawyers, say professors at Cornell Law School.
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State AGs Are Turning Up The Antitrust Heat On ESG Actions
Recent antitrust developments from red state attorneys general continue a trend of environmental, social and governance scrutiny, and businesses exposed to these areas should conduct close examinations of strategy and potential material risk, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.
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Crypto Custody Guidelines Buoy Both Banks And Funds
A statement released last month by banking regulators — highlighting risks that the agencies expect banks holding crypto-assets to mitigate — may encourage more traditional institutions to offer crypto-asset safekeeping and thereby offer asset managers more options for qualified custodians to custody crypto-assets for their clients, say attorneys at Dechert.
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Rebuttal
BigLaw Settlements Should Not Spur Ethics Deregulation
A recent Law360 op-ed argued that loosening law firm funding restrictions would make BigLaw firms less inclined to settle with the Trump administration, but deregulating legal financing ethics may well prove to be not merely ineffective, but counterproductive, says Laurel Kilgour at the American Economic Liberties Project.
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9th Circ. Leaves Scope Of CIPA Applicability Unclear
Three recent Ninth Circuit decisions declined to directly address whether all of the California Invasion of Privacy Act's provisions actually apply to internet activity, and given this uncertainty, companies should heed five recommendations when seeking to minimize CIPA litigation risk, say attorneys at Skadden.
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What FinCEN's AML Rule Delay Means For Advisers
Even with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network's statement last month delaying the compliance date for a rule requiring advisers to report suspicious activity, advisers can expect some level of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission oversight in connection with anti-money laundering compliance, say attorneys at Simpson Thacher.
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Liquidity Rule Compliance Still Vital Even After SEC Dismissal
Despite its recent dismissal of a novel case against Pinnacle Advisors over liquidity rule violations, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has continued to bring enforcement actions involving investment advisers, making compliance with the rule important for registrants, say attorneys at Simpson Thacher.
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5 Ways Lawyers Can Earn Back The Public's Trust
Amid salacious headlines about lawyers behaving badly and recent polls showing the public’s increasingly unfavorable view of attorneys, we must make meaningful changes to our culture to rebuild trust in the legal system, says Carl Taylor at Carl Taylor Law.
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How To Successfully Challenge Jurors For Cause In 5 Steps
To effectively challenge a potential juror for cause, attorneys should follow a multistep framework rather than skipping straight to the final qualification question, says Ken Broda-Bahm at Persuasion Strategies.
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State Laws Show Uniformity Is Key To Truly Fair Bank Access
The lack of uniformity among state laws — including new Idaho legislation — that forbid banks from discriminating against customers based on ideology shows that a single set of federally administered fair access rules would better serve financial institutions and American consumers, say attorneys at Bradley Arant.
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Class Actions At The Circuit Courts: August Lessons
In this month's review of class action appeals, Mitchell Engel at Shook Hardy discusses key takeaways from federal appellate decisions involving topics including antitrust, immigration, consumer fraud, birthright citizenship under the Fourteenth Amendment, and product defects.
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Notable Q2 Updates In Insurance Class Actions
Vehicle valuation challenges regarding the use of projected sale adjustments continued apace in insurance class actions this quarter, where insurers have been scoring victories on class certification decisions in federal circuit courts, says Mathew Drocton at BakerHostetler.