The Federal Trade Commission told a Virginia federal judge Monday that it had settled its lawsuit challenging a rental listings syndication deal that the agency said amounted to a $100 million payout by Zillow for the smaller Redfin listing service to exit the market.
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Zillow Avoids Trial As Redfin Agrees 'To Reenter Market'

By Bryan Koenig

The Federal Trade Commission told a Virginia federal judge Monday that it had settled its lawsuit challenging a rental listings syndication deal that the agency said amounted to a $100 million payout by Zillow for the smaller Redfin listing service to exit the market.

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Trump Says Capital One Accounts Case Shouldn't Be Tossed

By Hailey Konnath

President Donald Trump and his businesses have urged a Florida federal court not to axe their suit against Capital One, doubling down on their argument that the bank surveilled them and unlawfully closed hundreds of accounts "for no reason other than politics."

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11th Circ. Affirms $9M Loss For Chinese Circuit Board Maker

By Carolina Bolado

The Eleventh Circuit has affirmed a $9.2 million judgment for the U.S. distributor of a Chinese circuit board manufacturer after finding that the manufacturer's lawsuit did not put the distributor's U.S. affiliate on notice it was being sued for its Hong Kong-based affiliate's unpaid invoices.

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Ben & Jerry's Suit Against Magnum Trimmed, But Not Tossed

By Rae Ann Varona

A New York federal judge has largely trimmed a Ben & Jerry's lawsuit accusing its former parent company, Unilever, and its current parent, Magnum, of failing to respect the ice cream company's social mission, tossing seven out of 10 claims in the breach of contract suit.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court last week saw a wave of lawsuits involving corporate oversight, take-private deals, financing transactions, bankruptcy fallout, stockholder voting rights and disputes over control.

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ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL

3rd Circ. Revives Exxon Unit's Bid To Arbitrate Royalties Claims

By P.J. D'Annunzio

ExxonMobil subsidiary XTO Energy Inc. will get another chance to pursue arbitration in a case over allegedly underpaid natural gas royalties, with the Third Circuit ruling Monday that litigating class claims for more than four years did not preclude its bid for an out-of-court resolution.

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INSURANCE

Avis Didn't Waive Arbitration In Insurance Fight, 3rd Circ. Says

By Hope Patti

Avis Budget Group didn't waive its right to arbitrate a dispute over its supplemental liability insurance by deposing a pair of customers in discovery, the Third Circuit ruled Monday, saying the car rental company needed to develop a factual record before moving to compel arbitration.

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AIG Owes Primary Coverage For $4.7M Ambulance Crash Deal

By Hope Patti

An AIG unit owes primary coverage for a $4.75 million settlement of an underlying suit over an ambulance crash, a New Jersey federal court ruled, finding that a borough's coverage through a county joint insurance fund does not trigger an "other insurance" provision.

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PRODUCT LIABILITY

Fiat Chrysler Brings Defective Headrest Suit To Justices

By Caroline Simson

Fiat Chrysler is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to resolve a circuit split over whether an arbitrator or a court should decide the proper venue for a dispute involving a nonsignatory to an arbitration agreement, in a proposed class action over allegedly defective Jeep and Dodge headrests.

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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

'Time Bubble' Doesn't Warrant 'RAW' TM Retrial, Judge Says

By Elliot Weld

An Arizona federal judge has denied a request for a new trial to a company suing a rival over its "RAW" rolling papers trademark, saying the company had not been prejudiced by the judge's decision to exclude evidence from May 2021 on and ordering the company to pay its rival over $3 million in attorney fees and costs.

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Judge Preserves, But Narrows, IP Verdict Against NuVasive

By Theresa Schliep

A Delaware federal judge on Monday kept in place much of a jury's infringement findings against NuVasive in a doctor's case against it over a group of spinal implant patents but found the jury's other infringement conclusions weren't supported by enough evidence.

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5th Circ. Revives Architect's IP Claims In Fractured Ruling

By Ivan Moreno

A divided Fifth Circuit has revived an architectural firm's copyright infringement claims over the use of its home designs in a Texas residential development, while affirming the dismissal of claims alleging that the defendants stripped copyright information from marketing materials.

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Spirit Data Sale To Google Draws Objection From Springshot

By Emily Lever

Software company Springshot Inc. has filed a limited objection to the $10 million sale of Spirit Aviation Holdings' business data to Google LLC for artificial intelligence training, saying some of the data being sold could potentially constitute Springshot's intellectual property.

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EMPLOYMENT

'Old Boys Club' Tainted College Prof's Review, Jurors Told

By George Woolston

A former professor at The College of New Jersey told a Garden State jury on Monday that the college's finance department was run like an old boys club and that her contract was not renewed because she's a woman.

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TELECOMMUNICATIONS

DirecTV Opposes Nexstar's High Court Bid In Fee Case

By Matthew Perlman

DirecTV has urged the U.S. Supreme Court not to grant a petition for review in the satellite provider's case accusing Nexstar of working with two other station owners to fix retransmission fees, arguing DirecTV's past licensing deals show it has standing to sue.

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Brief

2nd Circ. Says Nielsen Unbundling Order Starts Tuesday

By Nadia Dreid

The Second Circuit has declared that the preliminary injunction blocking Nielsen from making Cumulus Media buy its local offerings to gain access to its national radio ratings data will go into effect Tuesday.

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CANNABIS

Interference Cross-Claims Tossed In Pot Sale Contract Suit

By Mike Curley

A Los Angeles judge has thrown out several interference cross-claims in a contract dispute over cannabis product distribution rights, finding that distributor Broadway Alliance hadn't sufficiently alleged that Stella Farms deliberately sabotaged its relationships with third parties.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Prepping To Use Crypto Collateral Under Ohio Ownership Law

Ohio's digital asset law should ease the path to using cryptocurrency as collateral, and as the October effective date approaches, lenders should update their loan documentation and diligence processes to take advantage of the new control-based perfection rules, say attorneys at Kegler Brown.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

AGs Want Meta's Privilege Claims Reviewed In Bellwether Trial

By Dorothy Atkins

During a break in a jury trial Monday over states' claims Meta hid social media's harm, states' counsel urged a California federal judge to require Meta to re-review all of its attorney-client privilege designations, arguing that "it seems actually logically impossible" that Meta described the wrong standard in only a single document.  

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Legal Center Says DOJ Is Stonewalling Fund Records Request

By Jared Foretek

A voting rights nonprofit is accusing the U.S. Department of Justice of stonewalling a request for records on the Trump administration's attempted "anti-weaponization fund," claiming that the agency has spent the summer unlawfully ducking a Freedom of Information Act submission.

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Galindo Law Files For Ch. 11 After Camp Lejeune Fee Fight

By Ben Zigterman

A Houston-based personal injury law firm sought bankruptcy relief on Monday with more than $50 million in liabilities after a mass tort litigation marketing company sued for over $9 million in fees related to finding potential victims of water contamination at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune.

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Attys Ask Court To Toss Suit Alleging They Stole 1,000 Cases

By Spencer Brewer

Multiple attorneys asked a Texas federal court to toss claims that they conspired to hijack 1,000 cases filed by hurricane survivors who had hired and built cases with a different firm, claiming the firm that brought the suit failed to plead a viable RICO claim.

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Advisors LLC

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Brito PLLC

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Davis Polk

Debevoise & Plimpton

Dickinson Wright

Dykema Gossett

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Goodwin Procter

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Paul Weiss

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Reed Smith

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COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

American Federation of Labor & Congress of Industrial Organizations

American Homes 4 Rent LP

American International Group Inc.

Apple Inc.

Association of Flight Attendants-CWA

Avis Budget Group Inc.

Avis Rent A Car System LLC

B. Riley Financial Inc.

Ben & Jerry's Homemade Inc.

Campaign Legal Center

Capital One Financial Corp.

Central Coast Agriculture Inc.

Columbia House

Cumulus Media Inc.

Deer Finance LLC

Discover Financial Services Inc.

Elite

Enviva LP

Exxon Mobil Corp.

FCA US LLC

Fort Point Capital

Gemspring Capital

Globus Medical Inc.

Google LLC

HBI International

Henry Schein Inc.

Instagram Inc.

Jefferies Financial Group Inc.

JetBlue Airways Corp.

Meta Platforms Inc.

NBCUniversal Media LLC

Nexstar Media Group Inc.

Nielsen Holdings PLC

NuVasive, Inc.

Ohio State Bar Association

RWE AG

Ryanair Holdings PLC

Sales Inc.

Tegna Inc.

The American Law Institute

The DIRECTV Group Inc.

Trulia Inc.

Trump Organization Inc.

Unilever PLC

XTO Energy Inc.

Zillow Group Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

California Department of Justice

Connecticut Attorney General's Office

Delaware Court of Chancery

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Federal Communications Commission

Federal Trade Commission

Internal Revenue Service

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

New Jersey Supreme Court

U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. District & Bankruptcy Courts of Southern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

U.S. Supreme Court

U.S. Uniform Law Commission