Aerosonic Wins $116.8M In Joby Aero Air Data Probe IP Trial

By Elliot Weld

A Florida federal jury has awarded $116.8 million to aviation manufacturer Aerosonic LLC in its case alleging Joby Aero Inc. stole intellectual property related to air data probes.

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Drug Discounter's $48M Arbitration Award Tossed For Fraud

By Carolina Bolado

A Florida federal judge vacated a $48 million arbitration award won by a drug discounter for unpaid commissions for pharmacy claims under an agreement with an Illinois-based pharmacy benefit company, finding the award had been procured by fraud.

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McDonald's Accused Of Using AI To Hike Menu Prices

By Celeste Bott

A potential class action filed in Illinois federal court Friday accuses McDonald's of flouting federal and state antitrust laws by using artificial intelligence to coordinate prices among independently owned restaurants, causing customers to overpay and average menu prices to rise by roughly 40% in a five-year period.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court this past week temporarily froze roughly 32.1 million Talkdesk Inc. shares in a fight over a disputed foreclosure involving founder and CEO Tiago Paiva, while rejecting Saama Technologies founder Suresh Katta's nearly $68 million earnout bid and awarding the company about $7.3 million.

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Quinn Emanuel Seeks $750K After Defeating Buzbee Suits

By Lynn LaRowe

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP is seeking nearly $750,000 in attorney fees after defeating claims in Texas state court that it conspired with rapper Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter to retaliate against prominent Houston plaintiffs attorney Tony Buzbee and two of his former clients.

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Justices Won't Disturb BP, Chevron Win In Well Cleanup Fight

By Keith Goldberg

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to disturb a ruling dismissing a surety company's lawsuit claiming BP and Chevron needed to pony up $11 million to pay for offshore decommissioning costs.

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Supreme Court Won't Hear Venezuela Rig Seizure Case

By Caroline Simson

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to review a D.C. Circuit opinion ordering Venezuela's state-owned oil company to face long-pending allegations of unlawfully seizing an Oklahoma-based oil drilling company's rigs.

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Negligence Claims Nixed In $4.6M Faulty Roof Coverage Row

By Hope Patti

A Tokio Marine unit accused of misrepresenting the terms of its policy has slipped a roofing contractor's negligence claims in a $4.6 million coverage dispute over a school renovation project but must face a claim that it intentionally misrepresented coverage, a Connecticut state court ruled.

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Colo. Church Drops Hailstorm Payment Suit Against Insurer

By Benjamin Morse

A Denver church dropped claims in Colorado state court that a Vermont insurer failed to pay the full amount it was owed under the parish's policy for a May 2024 hailstorm and underestimated the property's damage by more than $650,000.

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Justices Skip American Airlines Teen In-Flight Death Suit

By Linda Chiem

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to consider a case from the family of a 14-year-old teenager who died of cardiac arrest on board an American Airlines flight, which sought clarity on what's considered an accident under the Montreal Convention.

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Huawei And Qualcomm Strike Patent Licensing Deal

By Ryan Davis

China's Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. and U.S.-based Qualcomm Inc. said Monday they have reached a multi-year patent licensing agreement that involves Qualcomm purchasing some of Huawei's U.S. patents.

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Fed. Circ. Orders Tossing Indemnity Bid On Different Grounds

By Elliot Weld

The Federal Circuit on Monday ordered a federal district judge to lift an order dismissing shopping mall owner Simon Property Group's indemnification claim against gift card company Blackhawk Network over a patent infringement case involving methods of executing card payments.

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Miss Universe Feud Must Proceed In Arbitration, Court Hears

By Joyce Hanson

The partial owners of the Miss Universe Organization asked the Delaware Chancery Court to throw out a Malaysian company's lawsuit over a soured share sale and strategic partnership deal, arguing the suit is premature because arbitration is already pending in the dispute.

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Illinois' Curbs On Kalshi Sports Contracts Blocked For Now

By Elaine Briseño

An Illinois federal judge temporarily blocked the state from enforcing its gambling license requirements against Kalshi and Coinbase on Friday, saying that the companies' core sports betting contracts are likely federally regulated swaps.

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Justices Skip EIDP Retiree's Annuity Reduction Challenge

By Hayley Fowler

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a pensioner's appeal challenging agricultural chemical giant EIDP Inc. and its retirement plan administrator's decision to reduce his monthly benefits.

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High Court Won't Consider $30M Argentine Bondholder Claim

By Jack McLoone

Argentine bondholders claiming the Second Circuit wrongly upheld a block of over $30 million in contractual claims against Argentina won't get a chance to argue their stance at the U.S. Supreme Court, as the justices declined on Monday to review the case.

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Convicted Ex-Coal Exec Flags New Claim Against Key Witness

By Phillip Bantz

A former coal executive convicted in a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act trial has asked a Pennsylvania federal judge to delay his upcoming sentencing hearing, arguing he recently learned of allegations that a key government witness in the case "continues to pay bribes."

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Split 9th Circ. Backs Ex-GM Worker's $5M Bribery Conviction

By Lauren Berg

A split Ninth Circuit on Monday upheld a former General Motors Co. commodity manager's conviction for soliciting a $5 million cash bribe from an auto parts supplier in return for ensuring it secured a $100 million contract.

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Detroit Nonprofit Can Pursue Claims Over $40M Theft

By Susan Smiley

Family members and associates of a former Detroit Riverfront Conservancy executive who was convicted of embezzling more than $40 million lost their bid on Monday to escape the nonprofit's Michigan state court suit seeking to claw back the ill-gotten gains.

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9th Circ. Revives Antitrust Suits Against Invisalign

By Rae Ann Varona

The Ninth Circuit on Monday reversed Invisalign-maker Align's summary judgment win in two class actions accusing the company of monopolizing the clear teeth aligner market, saying in a published opinion that Align's true reason for ending tech interoperability with a rival is still up for dispute.

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High Court Won't Review Medical Tape Antitrust Case

By Matthew Perlman

The U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to review a case accusing medical supplies group purchasing giant Vizient Inc. of locking in hospital customers, after the lower courts found a medical tape supplier failed to define a market that Vizient allegedly monopolized.

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PVC Pipe Price-Fixing Settlements Get Final OKs

By Lauraann Wood

An Illinois federal judge has given her final blessing to more than $200 million in settlements consumers have struck in their antitrust suit accusing major polyvinyl chloride pipe producers of participating in an illegal price-fixing conspiracy, teeing the rest of the case up for the evidence-gathering phase of litigation.

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Meta Smart Glasses Suit Will Test Privacy Law For Bystanders

In a consolidated suit over how Ray-Ban Meta AI smart glasses handle personal video footage, a recently proposed class of unwittingly recorded bystanders highlights questions over whether privacy laws and product disclosures adequately address the risks wearable recording devices pose to nonusers, say attorneys at Barnes & Thornburg.

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Analysis

Judge Clevenger's Intellect Defined His Time On Fed. Circ.

By Dani Kass

Newly retired Federal Circuit Judge Raymond Clevenger has an "exceptionally keen intellect" that allowed him to spot holes or new paths in cases that the parties or fellow panel members hadn't explored, his former colleagues told Law360.

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Sotomayor Warns Judges: Don't Scare Your Jurors

By Brandon Lowrey

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Monday criticized an Alabama trial court judge who frightened a pool of prospective jurors by ordering the arrest of a latecomer to jury selection, saying in a statement accompanying a denial of certiorari in the case that fear can undermine a defendant's right to an impartial jury.

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9th Circ. Pauses Rogoff's Return As Seattle US Atty

By Jack Karp

The Ninth Circuit has put on hold a Washington federal judge's decision to reinstate Roger Rogoff as Seattle's top federal prosecutor, a post Rogoff held for less than an hour before he was fired by President Donald Trump.

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Jackson Walker Deal Stalled By Standing Issue, Trustee Says

By Lauren Berg

The U.S. Trustee's Office told a Texas federal judge that its settlement with Jackson Walker LLP to disgorge fees from cases touched by scandal is on ice while a bankruptcy judge examines the watchdog's standing to seek such relief.

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Eckert Seamans Says Data Breach Harm Is Only Speculative

By James Boyle

Pittsburgh-based law firm Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott LLC told a Pennsylvania federal judge on Friday a pair of proposed class actions claiming damages from a data breach at the firm have not made specific complaints of actual harm caused by the breach and should be dismissed.

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