5th Circ. Sinks Motorola's Discovery Bid For IP Feuds Abroad

By Adam Lidgett

The Fifth Circuit on Thursday reversed a lower court's approval of Motorola's discovery request for use in foreign proceedings in litigation brought by Advanced Standard Communication LLC over allegations of patent infringement, saying the district court "erred legally and analytically."

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Colo. Judge Blocks Coors' Supplier From Exiting Contract

By Rachel Konieczny

Beer brand supplier Constellation Brands Inc. cannot terminate its 18-year-long distribution contract with Coors Distributing Co. LLC until arbitration can occur as mandated under the companies' agreement, a Colorado state judge ruled.

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McCarter Can Keep ABA Report Quotes In Loan Suit Brief

By Brian Steele

A Connecticut state judge will not order McCarter & English LLP to file a new post-trial reply brief in a $21.3 million malpractice case over collapsed loan transactions, despite two insurers' arguments that the firm improperly quoted a treatise that was never admitted into evidence.

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Pot Use Firing Suit Can Be Arbitrated Despite Flawed Clause

By Mike Curley

A California state judge has granted Aarris Healthcare Staffing LLC's bid to compel arbitration against a former employee alleging she was wrongly fired for off-duty cannabis use, despite finding portions of the agreement unenforceable.

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Homebuyers Defend Third Zillow Suit Over Loan Kickbacks

By Nate Beck

A group of homebuyers urged a Washington federal judge to uphold a third amended complaint alleging Zillow paid kickbacks to brokers who steered homebuyers to use the company's mortgage services, driving up the cost of home loans and purchases overall.

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Fertility Cos. Accused Of Moving Eggs Without Consent

By Gianna Ferrarin

A national fertility clinic network has been hit with a suit in Los Angeles Superior Court alleging it jeopardized a 50-year-old woman's ability to have a biological child by transporting her frozen eggs across state lines to an automated facility without her permission.

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ITC To Review ALJ's Infringement Ruling In Wi-Fi Patent Case

By Adam Lidgett

The U.S. International Trade Commission has said it will look over various parts of an agency judge's findings that Taiwanese electronics manufacturer Asus and another Wi-Fi device seller infringed claims in a couple of patents licensed to Netgear.

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Ex-Property Management VPs Owe $1.6M For Poaching Clients

By Hayley Fowler

Two former officers and directors at a North Carolina property management company must pay their ex-employer more than $1.6 million in damages to make up for clients they allegedly poached for a rival business they ran, a state court judge ruled, granting the company a partial pretrial win.

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FTC, States Allege Toast Trapped Restaurants With Fees

By Carolina Bolado

The Federal Trade Commission and eight states sued Toast Inc. on Thursday, accusing the restaurant software company of saddling restaurants with hidden fees, failing to provide promised customer support and making it difficult to cancel its services.

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Uber, Amazon, Instacart Fight NYC Courier Deactivation Law

By Linda Chiem

Uber, Amazon and Instacart have accused New York City of overstepping by enacting a law prohibiting them from "deactivating" delivery couriers without formal notice and investigation, claiming in a new federal lawsuit that the regulation unconstitutionally interferes with their contractual rights.

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Fugitive Former Conn. Official Must Pay Capital One $25K

By Aaron Keller

A onetime Connecticut budget official who fled to Greece as sentencing neared in one federal public corruption case and a trial loomed in another must pay more than $25,000 to cover the balance of a Capital One personal loan, a state judge has ruled.

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Fla. REIT Entity Seeks OK To Settle Texas Foreclosure Suit

By Isaac Monterose

A bankrupt Florida-based real estate investment trust's entity and two other companies have asked a Florida bankruptcy court to approve their settlement in a Texas state court lawsuit that involved multiple foreclosed properties in the Texas city of Humble.

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Telecom Shareholders Claim Arbitrator Was Biased

By Nadia Dreid

Majority shareholders of a Central and South American telecommunications tower business fighting a $300 million arbitration award they were ordered to pay to the minority shareholders of that business have told the Second Circuit that the arbitrator was biased against them.

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Equatorial Guinea Must Pay $8.2M Hospital Contract Award

By Caroline Simson

A D.C. federal judge Thursday again enforced a roughly $8.2 million arbitral award issued against Equatorial Guinea in a dispute over an ill-fated hospital operating contract, ruling that the dispute-resolution clause did not first require litigation in the Equatoguinean courts.

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Importer, NJ Distributor End Suit Over Stealing Grocery Biz

By George Woolston

A distributor has agreed to drop its lawsuit alleging a Korean food importer purposefully mischaracterized why it was ending the parties' relationship in order to gain direct access to a popular grocery chain, according to a filing in New Jersey federal court.

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Are You Happy With Your In-House Role? Take Our Survey

Is your company giving you everything you need to succeed? What are some misconceptions about working in-house? Help Law360 Pulse answer these questions and more in this year's In-House Satisfaction Survey.

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DOJ Backs Ex-Wisconsin Judge's ICE Obstruction Conviction

By Andrea Keckley

The U.S. Department of Justice told the Seventh Circuit that the high-profile conviction of a former Wisconsin state court judge for interfering with an ICE arrest was not compromised by her position on the bench or by jury instructions.

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Roundup

Hub Hires: WilmerHale, Womble Bond, Kirkland

By Chris Villani

Falling temperatures didn't bring a cooldown in the Boston legal lateral market as WilmerHale and Robinson & Cole LLP both welcomed former assistant attorneys general, Honigman LLP established its first office in the market, and Kirkland & Ellis LLP snagged a partner from Ropes & Gray LLP.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Consovoy McCarthy PLLC and Smith Porsborg Schweigert Armstrong Moldenhauer & Smith lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Eighth Circuit struck down the Federal Reserve's regulatory cap on the swipe fees that larger banks may collect on debit card transactions.

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Cyberattack Class Action Against Fox Rothschild Dropped

By Madison Arnold

Three data breach victims have dismissed their proposed class action against Fox Rothschild LLP after ransomware group Silent Ransom Group targeted the firm.

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Ramona Nee, Tapped To Lead Weil, Now In Talks With Kirkland

By Daniel Moritz-Rabson

Ramona Nee, the co-leader of Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP's U.S. private equity practice who had been poised to become its leader, is engaged in talks to join Kirkland & Ellis LLP, a source with knowledge of the situation told Law360 Pulse on Friday.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

Meta reached a settlement during jury selection in the second Los Angeles bellwether trial over claims its Instagram platform harms the mental health of children, leaving Snap as the lone defendant facing trial. In the meantime, current and former in-house lawyers for Google and Meta said that the ability of AI to write patent applications is rapidly improving, and that in blind tests, experienced attorneys often deem AI-drafted patents to be superior to those from humans. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.

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Jackson Walker Inks $500K Deal In EXCO's Ch. 11 Fee Fight

By Clara Geoghegan

Jackson Walker has agreed to pay EXCO Resources Inc. $500,000 to end litigation over fees paid to the firm while one of its partners was in an undisclosed relationship with the former bankruptcy judge who mediated in the reorganized oil and gas driller's Texas Chapter 11.

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Fed. Judge A No-Show Amid Inquiry Into Her Mental Health

By Craig Clough

U.S. District Judge Ada Brown of the Northern District of Texas failed to appear Friday before a judicial investigative committee examining allegations that she abandoned her post and concerns that a mental condition may be interfering with her ability to perform her duties.

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K&L Gates DQ'd In Trust's Mortgage Loan Agreement Dispute

By Isaac Monterose

A Washington federal judge disqualified K&L Gates LLP from a trust's dispute over a residential mortgage loan sale agreement, ruling that the law firm must leave the suit because it drafted the form agreement used in the transaction.

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Cruz Counsel Returns To FCC As Space Bureau Chief

By Nadia Dreid

The Federal Communications Commission has named a former employee with experience in both the public and private sectors to head the agency's Space Bureau, after a stint as chief telecommunications counsel to the Senate Commerce Committee.

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In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Law360

For those who missed out, here's a look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the most buzz on Law360 last week.

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Kalshi Taps Clement For High Court Sports Contracts Fight

By Elaine Briseño

Kalshi has hired appellate heavyweight Paul D. Clement of Clement & Murphy PLLC to represent the company in its potential U.S. Supreme Court battle over whether the prediction markets platform's sports wagering is subject to state or federal oversight.

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