Roblox, Epic Can't Force Arbitration In Gaming Addiction Suit

By Mike Curley

A Pennsylvania federal judge won't let Roblox Corp., Epic Games Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Mojang AB compel arbitration in a suit by a minor alleging that they became addicted to video games, hurting their mental health.

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Senate Passes Protect College Sports Act

By Courtney Bublé

The Senate voted 77-22 on Monday night to pass legislation to impose sweeping regulations on college sports, a multibillion dollar industry. 

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court this past week heard arguments over whether to dismiss a derivative suit accusing UiPath Inc. insiders of misleading investors and trading on inside information, while a Match Group Inc. stockholder sued for records concerning reports of sexual assault and other violence involving users of the company's dating apps.

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Insurers Don't Owe Coverage For $11M Quarry Closure Award

By Danielle Ferguson

Insurers do not owe coverage to the town of East Haven, Connecticut, and former officials for an $11 million settlement over the politically motivated shutdown of a local quarry, a Connecticut federal judge ruled, because the underlying claims fell outside a policy period or are barred by an exclusion. 

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Insurer Gets Hotel Co.'s $12.5M Storm Loss Suit Trimmed

By Hope Patti

A North Carolina federal court on Monday tossed a hotel group's claim that a Liberty Mutual unit committed unfair and deceptive trade practices in violation of state law after it denied the group's $12.5 million business interruption loss claim stemming from Hurricane Helene.

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Policyholders Say RICO Plot 'Pillaged' Insurer's Assets

By Aaron Keller

A private equity firm and a financial services business have been hit with civil racketeering claims by the holders of a combined $5 million in PHL Variable Insurance Co. policies, but whose benefits were capped at just $300,000 during a Connecticut state-managed rehabilitation effort.

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Del. High Court Adds To Vet Patent Indemnity, Strikes Interest

By Craig Clough

The Delaware Supreme Court has issued a mixed ruling in a veterinary implant patent dispute, holding a company's founder liable for his share of a $9.8 million license and about $2.4 million more in defense fees while striking millions in prejudgment interest he had been ordered to pay.

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NASCAR Team Says Docket Error Doesn't Warrant Default

By Elaine Briseño

Joe Gibbs Racing has asked a North Carolina federal judge not to hand its former competition director and his current NASCAR team an entry of default over an inadvertently missed deadline, arguing it has so far participated fully in the litigation.

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Jet Broker Accused Of Stealing $815K Through Ponzi Scheme

By Zach Dupont

A Florida couple has told a Colorado federal court a private jet charter company kept over $800,000 of the couple's money in "what amounted to a Ponzi scheme" after the company abruptly ceased operations and refused to provide refunds, leaving an estimated $150 million in customer funds in flux.

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Parler Wasn't Worth Much When CEO Was Fired, Jury Told

By Cara Salvatore

A company valuation expert testified Monday in the trial over Parler's 2021 ouster of its CEO that the company had little value at the time and that insider estimates in the hundreds of millions of dollars were "speculation."

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Coors Urges Colo. Judge To Stop Suppliers' Contract Exits

By Rachel Konieczny

Coors Distributing Co. LLC has fired back amid a recent wave of beer brand owners ending contracts with the beer wholesaler, alleging in Colorado state court that two companies violated the state's arbitration laws by terminating their decades-long distribution agreements with the wholesaler without cause.

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JV Partner Accused Of Exceeding Air Force Contract Share

By Ganesh Setty

A government contractor has accused its joint venture counterpart of taking a greater share of work under a U.S. Air Force contract than it was supposed to and failing to give proper financial records access, telling an Alabama federal court there's been a "systematic breach" of their agreements. 

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Cannabis Distributor Says Partner Denied Its $332K Stake

By Jonathan Capriel

The manager of a Los Angeles cannabis cultivation facility seized an entire harvest without his business partner's permission, selling much of it until armed men raided the facility and took a significant portion of the inventory, according to a state lawsuit seeking more than $300,000 for the iced-out partner.

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3rd Circ. Affirms Thomson Reuters' Westlaw AI Copyright Win

By Ivan Moreno

The Third Circuit on Tuesday upheld Thomson Reuters' victory against Ross Intelligence Inc. in the first U.S. appellate ruling to address whether artificial intelligence training can be fair use of copyrighted material, upholding a Delaware federal court's decision that the startup infringed Westlaw headnotes by using material derived from them to develop an AI-powered legal search tool.

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11th Circ. Won't Pause Sanctions Against Trump In IRS Case

By Jack McLoone

An Eleventh Circuit panel refused Tuesday to pause a district court's sanctions order barring President Donald Trump and others from citing the agreement he made to settle his $10 billion suit against the Internal Revenue Service while they appeal the order.

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DC Circ. Weighs Limits On Boasberg's Contempt Inquiry

By Jared Foretek

A top Justice Department official told an en banc D.C. Circuit panel that a district judge should refer former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem for contempt over the 2025 deportation flights to El Salvador and move on, saying the judge had no authority to wrap others into his inquiry.

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Jack Smith Says He Won't Be Intimidated By Trump Threats

By Courtney Bublé

Former special counsel Jack Smith testified on Tuesday he "will not be silenced" by threats of prosecution by the president or others.

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Baker Botts Atty Disputes Inventor's Claim Of Defamation Deal

By Madison Arnold

A Baker Botts LLP patent attorney is pushing back on an inventor's claim that they reached a settlement agreement in the inventor's defamation suit in Florida federal court.

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Richards Layton Atty's Chancery Nomination Advanced

By Rose Krebs

A Delaware senate committee Tuesday advanced the nomination for a Richards Layton & Finger PA director to serve as a vice chancellor on the nationally important Chancery Court, with him vowing to continue the court's esteemed legacy for corporate law jurisprudence.

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