Parler Ex-CEO Wins $11M Over Ouster From Social Media Site

By Cara Salvatore

A jury in Nevada found Friday that Parler co-founder John Matze is owed nearly $11.1 million, including $250,000 in punitive damages, for the stake he was stripped of after billionaire business partner Rebekah Mercer and others allegedly changed the social media company's constitution to get rid of him.

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Former Fla. Rep. Gets 10 Years In Venezuela FARA Case

By Carolina Bolado

A Florida federal judge on Friday sentenced ex-Florida Rep. David Rivera to 10 years in prison for failing to register as a foreign agent and laundering the proceeds of a $50 million contract with a unit of Venezuela's state-owned oil company.

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CH Robinson CLO Talks Montgomery, Dallas Verdict Impacts

By Linda Chiem

Nearly five months after the U.S. Supreme Court delivered its pivotal ruling reshaping freight brokers' liability exposure, C.H. Robinson Worldwide Inc. said lingering uncertainty over protracted litigation and volatile verdicts will upend the U.S. supply chain without some intervention by regulators or Congress.

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5 Supreme Court Cases To Watch This Fall

By Katie Buehler

The U.S. Supreme Court will convene Monday to begin its 2026 October term, which includes several cases that could determine the future of climate change tort litigation, expand religious freedoms and parental rights, and grant states authority to require proof of citizenship when individuals register for presidential elections using state forms. 

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Roberts Wants Less Talk. Supreme Court Attorneys Disagree.

By Katie Buehler

Near the end of last term, Chief Justice John Roberts voiced his frustration with the U.S. Supreme Court's lengthening oral argument sessions and suggested the justices might tweak their format over the summer. But as the new term begins Monday, the court has yet to announce any changes, and advocates see little need for improvement.

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Atty Can't Kill Claims He Tricked Client Into Renting From Him

By Jonathan Capriel

An attorney cannot escape a $14.5 million fraud lawsuit claiming he pressured his cannabis cultivation clients into an overpriced lease without telling them he was getting a 5% cut of the rent, a Los Angeles County judge ruled.

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Full Fed. Circ. Won't Review NPE Marking, Ramey Sanctions

By Adam Lidgett

The Federal Circuit on Friday said it won't rethink its ruling that patent owners must ensure that all licensees mark their products with patent information in order to recover presuit damages, nor its denial of patent attorney William Ramey's appeal of sanctions against him at a lower court.

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Fla. Firm Knew It Had To Secure Lender Notes, 11th Circ. Told

By David Minsky

A Puerto Rican microcap lender asked the Eleventh Circuit on Friday to overturn a trial verdict in favor of a law firm that the lender accused of botching several financial transactions, arguing jurors should've found that the firm committed malpractice by failing to secure the company's assets in bankruptcy proceedings.

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Texas Justices Won't Review Nixed $64M Credit Suisse Verdict

By Spencer Brewer

The Texas Supreme Court on Friday declined to hear an appeal of a decision that wiped away a $64 million award to a subsidiary of a Dallas investment company following alleged fraud by Credit Suisse surrounding lending for a luxury Nevada community.

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PACCAR Can't Nix Drivers' Faulty Diesel Engine Warranty Suit

By Gina Kim

A Washington federal judge ordered PACCAR Inc. to face a proposed class action alleging it sold faulty diesel engines, rejecting its Clean Air Act preemption defense and ruling that the suit plausibly pleads claims that the alleged defects breached the engine warranty. 

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Texas Justices Agree To Hear BNSF, Zurich Asbestos Suit

By Spencer Brewer

The Texas Supreme Court Friday agreed to take up Zurich American Insurance Co.'s challenge to a finding that it must continue to pay for the defense of BNSF Railway against hundreds of asbestos exposure suits.

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AIG Insurers Cleared In Del. To Appeal $50M Clawback Ruling

By Jarek Rutz

A Delaware Superior Court judge on Friday certified for immediate appeal his August ruling blocking two AIG insurers from clawing back $50 million they contributed to settle New York University's Hurricane Sandy lawsuit against Turner Construction, finding the unusual insurance dispute warrants early review by the Delaware Supreme Court.

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Del. Justices Back Dismissal Of Gemini's Bausch & Lomb Suit

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Supreme Court has upheld the dismissal of Gemini Insurance Co.'s request to block Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. from pursuing an insurance coverage fight in Louisiana, ruling that Gemini waived its argument that the case should have been transferable to Delaware Superior Court.

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Expert Clash Blocks $10M Hail Coverage Row Pretrial Win

By Danielle Ferguson

A Tennessee federal judge Friday rejected a cardboard manufacturer's successive requests for a pretrial win in its hailstorm damage coverage dispute with its insurer, finding the "hotly" contested facts at issue cannot be resolved by the court.

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Brief

Bell Sports, AIG Unit Settle Helmet Defect Coverage Dispute

By Alex Lawson

A motorcycle helmet company and an AIG-affiliated insurance company have resolved a lawsuit filed in California federal court over coverage stemming from claims of defects that allegedly caused a helmet to fly off a rider's head during a collision, according to court documents.

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Chemical Co. Secures $1.25M In Fees In Trade Secrets Case

By Elliot Weld

A chemical distributor was awarded nearly $1.25 million in attorney fees by a Seattle federal judge but was denied exemplary damages after winning $1.9 million in a trial against former employees accused of lifting trade secrets as they left the company.

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AI Co. Reaches Deal To End Copyright Case Against Microsoft

By Adam Lidgett

Artificial intelligence company Cerence Inc. has agreed to a deal to end its copyright lawsuit in Delaware federal court against Microsoft Corp. over text-to-speech technology.

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Consulting Firm Says Author's Copying Suit Lacks Details

By MJ Koo

A farm credit consulting firm asked a Colorado federal court to toss a suit brought by a leadership author who alleges the company launched a training program based on his copyrighted books, arguing the copyright claim is too vague and the state law claims are preempted.

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NJ Township Accused Of Discriminatory Paving Contract

By Katherine Smith

An apprenticeship and training fund has sued a New Jersey township in state court over a project labor agreement in its 2026 paving project, claiming the agreement prevents the United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union from placing apprentices on the project.

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Analysis

DOJ Envisions 'Full-Fledged Law Firm' To Combat Gov't Fraud

By Phillip Bantz

The National Fraud Enforcement Division was created less than six months ago, but it is rapidly reshaping the U.S. Department of Justice and spurring an uptick in internal corporate investigations, white collar experts say.

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Amazon E-Book Readers Near Cert. Of 30M Antitrust Class

By Lauren Berg

A New York federal magistrate judge recommended certifying a class of more than 30 million readers accusing Amazon of monopolizing the e-book market, according to a report unsealed Thursday.

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Live Nation Fights States' Latest Bid For Insight Into DOJ Deal

By Dorothy Atkins

Live Nation has fired back against the latest request in New York federal court by some state attorneys general seeking material related to Live Nation's midtrial antitrust settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice, arguing the states are seeking burdensome discovery, including communications between third parties and outside counsel.

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Gov't Contractor Owner Guilty Of Hiding Assets In Bankruptcy

By Clara Geoghegan

A Delaware federal judge found the owner of a government contracting firm lied on bankruptcy forms to hide assets from creditors but cleared her on a related criminal charge of making false statements under oath.

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AT&T Users' Attys Score $59M, $177M Data Breach Deal OK'd

By Hailey Konnath

A Texas federal judge on Friday gave final approval to AT&T's $177 million data breach settlement, awarding a combined $59 million to attorneys representing two classes of millions of customers whose information was exposed in the incidents.

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Crypto Investors Denied Early Win Against Bitcoin Latinum

By Sydney Price

A Michigan federal judge said investors accusing their cousin of fraudulently convincing them to invest in a cryptocurrency firm cannot get a partial early win, finding they have not shown the firm transferred the tokens' ownership rights to them or solicited their purchases.

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NJ Senator Accused Of Cannabis Social Equity Scheme

By George Woolston

The former chief of staff for Democratic New Jersey state Sen. Raj Mukherji alleged that the lawmaker and his business associates exploited him and other minorities to secure social equity cannabis licenses.

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HSR Compliance Lessons Abound In Proposed $250M Deal

The U.S. Justice Department's recently proposed $250 million Hart-Scott-Rodino Act settlement with KKR sheds light on additional safeguards that companies can put into place to mitigate risk as they prepare for their next deal, including implementation of a robust document process, say attorneys at White & Case.

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New DNA Screening Standard Has No Clear Playbook

Although the government has not yet released promised guidance intended to support its new standards for screening mail-order DNA, companies should not read this as a reprieve from the Oct. 13 compliance deadline because the delay shifts enforcement risk to statutes that need no new authority, including false statements, the False Claims Act and fraud, says Ashwin Ram at Buchalter.

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Justice Alito Says He's Weighing The Best Time To Retire

By Katie Buehler

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has confirmed that he considered retiring at the end of the high court's latest term, and that he will continue to weigh that decision "every term." 

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Munger Tolles Announces Clerkship Bonus Increases

By Matt Perez

Munger Tolles & Olson LLP announced Thursday that it is increasing its clerkship bonuses to $180,000 for one qualifying clerkship and $200,000 for two or more qualifying clerkships.

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Legal Sector Adds 2K Jobs, For 6th Straight Month Of Growth

By Tracey Read

While the overall U.S. economy's unemployment rate ticked up to 4.2% last month, the legal industry was in the midst of a six-month hot streak.

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Judge Clevenger Retires After 36 Years On Fed. Circ.

By Dani Kass

U.S. Circuit Judge Raymond C. Clevenger III has retired from the Federal Circuit, 20 years after taking senior status, the court said Friday.

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Jackson Walker May Face New Sanctions Over Old Romance

By Rick Archer

A Texas bankruptcy judge Friday threatened Jackson Walker LLP with sanctions over yet another bankruptcy case where the firm's retention was approved by a judge in a relationship with a former attorney at the firm.

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Keesal Young Owes Duty To Safeguard 316K People's Data

By Matt Perez

A California federal judge has kept negligence and consumer privacy claims intact against law firm Keesal Young & Logan over a 2024 data breach that exposed the personal information of more than 316,000 people, finding the plaintiffs have standing because their data apparently landed on the dark web.

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Trump Asks 9th Circ. To Pause Seattle US Atty Reinstatement

By Rachel Riley

The Trump administration called on the Ninth Circuit Friday to suspend a federal judge's Thursday order reinstating Roger Rogoff as U.S. attorney for the Western District of Washington, seeking to keep Charles Neil Floyd as acting head of the Seattle office pending the government's appeal.

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Thomson Reuters Hit With Antitrust Case Over 'Killer' AI Deal

By Matthew Perlman

A California law firm has accused Thomson Reuters of violating antitrust law when it purchased artificial intelligence research tool Casetext for $650 million and then shuttered the platform to extinguish a rising competitor to its Westlaw service.

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Amazon Seeks Records Around Lawyer's USPTO Suspension

By Ben Adlin

An attorney Amazon has accused of furthering a scheme to fraudulently register thousands of trademarks and use them to report infringement by rival Amazon merchants must hand over documents related to her discipline in California and Washington, the retail giant argued in a Washington federal court filing Thursday.

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Tenn. High Court Keeps ABA As Law School Accreditor

By Emma Cueto

The Tennessee Supreme Court on Friday declined to follow other conservative states in dropping the American Bar Association as the state's law school accreditor, though it indicated it is open to approving other accreditors in addition to or instead of the ABA in the future.

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Analysis

3rd Circ. AI Ruling May Reach Beyond Westlaw Content Fight

By Ivan Moreno

The Third Circuit went out of its way to say its ruling against a defunct legal research startup was not a generative artificial intelligence case, but copyright lawyers expect the reach of its reasoning to be tested almost immediately in pending AI litigation.

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Roundup

GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

The Department of Justice has unveiled new corporate fraud enforcement priorities, and a report found that more than four out of five legal departments have adopted artificial intelligence. These are among the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions after a California federal jury said Apple owes $5.7 billion to headphone-maker Taction for infringing two vibration technology patents, issuing the largest patent verdict in U.S. history.

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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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