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September 15, 2025
11th Circ. Told Fla. 'Radioactive' Road Suit Must Be Tossed
The U.S. government and a fertilizer producer urged the Eleventh Circuit to toss an environmental nonprofit's challenge to the use of radioactive phosphogypsum on a private roadway, arguing the nonprofit lacks standing.
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September 15, 2025
Condo Group Says Insurer Undervalued $3.8M Plumbing Loss
A condominium association accused an AIG unit in Florida federal court Monday of "grossly" undervaluing the amount of damages it incurred from a cracked water pipe, saying the entirety of its plumbing system has since failed, causing more than $3.8 million in repair and replacement costs.
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September 15, 2025
Bank CEO's Wife Says She Never Joined $7M Fraud
The wife of a former Puerto Rican bank CEO asked a Florida federal judge Friday to dismiss the bank receiver's $7 million conspiracy claim against her, arguing that simply signing a loan note is not proof that she knowingly joined any scheme to defraud the bank.
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September 15, 2025
X Corp., X Social Media Settle TM Fight Over Twitter Rebrand
An advertising agency for attorneys, X Social Media, has settled a trademark dispute with X Corp. that arose from Elon Musk's Twitter rebrand, the parties told a Florida federal judge Monday.
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September 15, 2025
Exactech Gets OK For Ch. 11 Plan Ditching Sponsor Deal
A Delaware bankruptcy judge on Monday approved Exactech's Chapter 11 sale and liquidation plan that drops a previous deal with the joint implant maker's equity sponsor in favor of funding the pursuit of potential legal claims against the sponsor on behalf of creditors.
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September 15, 2025
Court Urged To Block Offshore Asset Freeze In $28M Tax Row
The federal government's claim that a beneficiary of offshore trusts is likely to spend down assets to avoid a $28 million tax bill lacks evidence, the beneficiary argued in urging a Florida federal court not to freeze his accounts.
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September 15, 2025
Ga. Businessman Guilty In Fla. FCPA Bribery Trial
A Florida federal jury on Monday found a Georgia businessman guilty of violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act by arranging to bribe Honduran government officials to secure contracts with the national police worth more than $10 million.
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September 15, 2025
NC Co.'s $41M Navy Award Challenge Sinks At GAO
The U.S. Government Accountability Office rejected an incumbent contractor protest asserting that the U.S. Navy improperly steered a $41.6 million training support services to another company and its subcontractor based on inflated past performance ratings.
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September 12, 2025
F1 Team Fights Ex-Sponsor's Third $34M Fraud Suit In Fla.
A British Formula One racing team is fighting back against a former supporter's third complaint alleging fraudulent inducement into sponsorship agreements, telling a Florida federal court the lawsuit is trying to evade a $34 million arbitration award.
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September 12, 2025
Roblox, Discord Face Wrongful Death Suit Over Teen's Suicide
The mother of a California teenager who died by suicide sued Roblox and Discord on Friday, claiming that her son was groomed and abused for years by a man who found him on the gaming platform, showed him how to disable parental controls and forced him to share explicit images.
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September 12, 2025
Builders Urge 11th Circ. To Block Biden's EO Labor Mandate
An association of builders on Friday urged the Eleventh Circuit to block a Biden administration executive order requiring labor agreements for all federal contracts exceeding $35 million, arguing the order will cause irreparable harm by increasing costs and reducing competition in the construction industry.
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September 12, 2025
Higher Ed Real Estate: A Back To School Special
As colleges and universities face mounting financial pressures and enrollment challenges, their real estate strategies are evolving. From legal battles over property disputes to creative approaches for monetizing underutilized assets, Law360 Real Estate Authority offers a window into real estate concerns in the higher education sector.
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September 12, 2025
Real Estate Recap: CMBS Distress, Nuclear AI, Campus Golf
Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including attorney perspectives on commercial mortgage-backed securities distress, the dawn of nuclear-powered data centers, and the albatross of golf courses on colleges and universities.
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September 12, 2025
Fla. Ex-Atty Banned From Pro Se Suits To Win Back House
The Florida Supreme Court has sanctioned a disbarred Tampa tax attorney and banned her from filing any more pro se complaints related to efforts to regain her house, which was taken away by court order more than eight years ago.
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September 12, 2025
Shein Uses AI To Steal Popular Designs, Suit Claims
Fast-fashion e-commerce giant Shein is facing a suit in California federal court by a Florida artist who claims the company uses artificial intelligence and other automated technology to dredge the internet and steal popular works to be misappropriated for profit.
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September 12, 2025
FCC Refuses To Revisit Denial Of 105 Low-Power FM Stations
After denying more than 100 applications for new low-power FM radio stations across the South, the Federal Communications Commission says it's not going back on the decision.
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September 12, 2025
Anti-Vax Dr. Asks 11th Circ. To Revive NYT Defamation Suit
Alternative medicine proponent Dr. Joseph Mercola on Friday asked the Eleventh Circuit to revive his defamation suit against The New York Times over a 2021 report about his statements criticizing the COVID-19 vaccines, calling it a "character assassination piece to shut him down."
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September 12, 2025
Del. Judge Says Pet Med Co. Founder Liable For $40.2M
A Delaware Superior Court judge has ruled the founder of a veterinary orthopedic implant venture must indemnify the company's recent buyer for $40.2 million from a $70 million patent infringement-related settlement, while capping the cumulative liability award after other costs at $55 million and awaiting proposals covering interest awards.
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September 12, 2025
2nd Circ. OKs Verdict In DEA Bribe Case But Nixes Forfeiture
The Second Circuit on Friday affirmed the convictions of a pair of ex-Drug Enforcement Administration agents over a bribery scheme but overturned an order requiring both to forfeit funds, saying it would constitute a double payment for the same crime.
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September 12, 2025
Entertainment Center Escapes Suit Over 'Freakish' Collision
A Florida appeals court on Friday tossed a suit accusing an entertainment center of causing a customer to get hit by a truck outside the venue after an event, saying criminal behavior by the truck's passenger, which led to a "freakish and improbable chain of events," could not have been foreseen.
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September 12, 2025
Winston & Strawn Litigator Remembered As Brilliant Mentor
The founding partner of Winston & Strawn LLP's Miami office, David A. Coulson, is being remembered by former colleagues as a brilliant litigator who brought a strategic mind to cases and mentored fellow attorneys.
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September 12, 2025
Title Group Says FinCEN Erred In Rule On All-Cash Resi Deals
The American Land Title Association told a Florida federal judge that the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network underestimated the costs and overestimated the benefits of a rule imposing new reporting requirements on all-cash residential real estate transactions.
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September 12, 2025
Newsmax Drops Fla. Suit Against Fox, Refiles In Wisconsin
Newsmax dropped its antitrust claims against Fox Corp. late Thursday night, just before the deadline to file an amended complaint, and immediately refiled them in Wisconsin.
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September 11, 2025
SEC Sues Podcast Host, Others Over $82M In Securities Sales
A trio of allegedly unregistered securities brokers, including a podcaster, are facing a suit from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, alleging they sold unregistered oil and gas securities at the behest of sponsors of the associated unregistered offerings, raising a combined $82 million in exchange for transaction-based compensation.
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September 11, 2025
Bankrupt $300M Fla. Project Gets Nod On DIP Loan
A Florida bankruptcy judge on Thursday signed off on a $1.75 million debtor-in-possession loan and approved a chief restructuring officer for the debtors of a $300 million real estate development to buy time for the parties to work out a deal to exit bankruptcy.
Expert Analysis
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Series
Law School's Missed Lessons: Mastering Discovery
The discovery process and the rules that govern it are often absent from law school curricula, but developing a solid grasp of the particulars can give any new attorney a leg up in their practice, says Jordan Davies at Knowles Gallant.
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Maneuvering The Weeds Of Cannabis Vertical Integration
The conversation around vertical integration has taken on new urgency as the cannabis market expands, despite federal reform remaining a distant dream, so the best strategy for cannabis operators is to approach vertical integration on a state-by-state basis, say attorneys at Sweetspot Brands.
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Opinion
Proposals Against Phillips 66 Threaten Corporate Law
Activist investor Elliott Investment Management's latest attempted tactic — initiating a high-stakes proxy contest against Phillips 66 — goes too far and would cause the company to both violate Delaware law and avoid the legal exception to the shareholder proposal process, says J.W. Verret at George Mason University.
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Series
Playing Guitar Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Being a lawyer not only requires logic and hard work, but also belief, emotion, situational awareness and lots of natural energy — playing guitar enhances all of these qualities, increasing my capacity to do my best work, says Kosta Stojilkovic at Wilkinson Stekloff.
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Crisis Management Lessons From The Parenting Playbook
The parenting skills we use to help our kids through challenges — like rehearsing for stressful situations, modeling confidence and taking time to reset our emotions — can also teach us the fundamentals of leading clients through a corporate crisis, say Deborah Solmor at the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation and Cara Peterman at Alston & Bird.
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Adapting To Private Practice: From NY Fed To BigLaw
While the move to private practice brings a learning curve, it also brings chances to learn new skills and grow your network, requiring a clear understanding of how your skills can complement and contribute to a firm's existing practice, and where you can add new value, says Meghann Donahue at Covington.
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Top 3 Litigation Finance Deal-Killers, And How To Avoid Them
Like all transactions, litigation finance deals can sometimes collapse, but understanding the most common reasons for failure, including a lack of trust or a misunderstanding of deal terms, can help both parties avoid problems, say Rebecca Berrebi at Avenue 33 and Boris Ziser at Schulte Roth.
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5th Circ. Ruling Is Latest Signal Of Shaky Qui Tam Landscape
In his recent concurring opinion in U.S. v. Peripheral Vascular Associates, a Fifth Circuit judge joined a growing list of jurists suggesting that the False Claims Act's whistleblower provisions are unconstitutional, underscoring that acceptance of qui tam relators can no longer be taken for granted, say attorneys at Miller & Chevalier.
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How Attys Can Use A Therapy Model To Help Triggered Clients
Attorneys can lean on key principles from a psychotherapeutic paradigm known as the "Internal Family Systems" model to help manage triggered clients and get settlement negotiations back on track, says Jennifer Gibbs at Zelle.
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Navigating Florida's Bad Faith Reforms After Appellate Ruling
A Florida appellate court's recent decision is among the first to interpret two significant amendments to the state's insurance bad faith law, and its holding that one of the statutes could not apply retroactively may affect insurers' interpretation of the other statute, say attorneys at Cozen O'Connor.
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3 Steps For In-House Counsel To Assess Litigation Claims
Before a potential economic downturn, in-house attorneys should investigate whether their company is sitting on hidden litigation claims that could unlock large recoveries to help the business withstand tough times, says Will Burgess at Hilgers Graben.
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IRS And ICE Info Sharing Could Drive Payroll Tax Enforcement
Tax crimes are historically difficult to prosecute, but the Internal Revenue Services’ recent agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to share taxpayer records of non-U.S. citizens could be used to enhance payroll tax-related enforcement against their employers, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.
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Series
Teaching College Students Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Serving as an adjunct college professor has taught me the importance of building rapport, communicating effectively, and persuading individuals to critically analyze the difference between what they think and what they know — principles that have helped to improve my practice of law, says Sheria Clarke at Nelson Mullins.
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Atty Insurance Implications Of Rising Nonclient Cyber Claims
As law firms are increasingly targeted in cyberattacks, claims by clients as well as nonclients against lawyers are also on the rise, increasing the scope of exposure that attorneys face in their practice, say attorneys at Wilson Elser.
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Series
Adapting To Private Practice: From DOJ Enviro To Mid-Law
Practitioners leaving a longtime government role for private practice — as when I departed the U.S. Department of Justice’s environmental enforcement division — should prioritize finding a firm that shares their principles, values their experience and will invest in their transition, says John Cruden at Beveridge & Diamond.