Blake Lively's 'Blunderbuss' $8M Atty Fee Bid Nets $407K

By Hailey Konnath

A New York federal judge Wednesday awarded Blake Lively $407,452 in attorney fees and court costs in her defamation dispute with her "It Ends With Us" co-star Justin Baldoni, significantly less than the $8 million she had requested, citing her "blunderbuss approach" and flaws in records she submitted.

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9th Circ. Panel Won't Revisit Boeing's $72M Trade Secret Loss

By Rachel Riley

A Ninth Circuit panel has rejected Boeing's bid for a panel rehearing of its August 2025 decision reinstating a $72 million jury verdict for electric jet startup Zunum Aero Inc. in a trade secret dispute, spurning the aerospace giant's fresh argument that the case belongs in the Federal Circuit because of the patent counterclaims involved.

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AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile Defeat Asus Patent Case In EDTX

By Theresa Schliep

An Eastern District of Texas jury on Wednesday cleared AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile of claims by Asus Technology Licensing Inc. and other companies that the carriers infringed a group of wireless communications patents.

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Fla. Firm Must Face Fiduciary Breach Suit Over Property Deal

By Madison Arnold

A Florida state appeals court on Wednesday reversed an order dismissing a lawsuit brought by a property company alleging that Hoffman Larin & Agnetti PA and one of its attorneys aided and abetted a breach of fiduciary duty while representing a third party claiming an interest in a property owned by the company.

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Colo. Developer Says Xcel Delayed Providing Service

By Isaac Monterose

A residential developer based in Denver has accused utility Public Service Co. of Colorado in state court of causing its business more than $25 million in damages after repeatedly failing to provide electrical power for the developer's projects.

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Texas Appeals Court Affirms Injured Oil Worker's Loss

By Jonathan Capriel

An oil worker who was paralyzed when a wellhead fell on him failed to persuade a Texas appellate court to revive his negligence suit against the safety training contractor he blamed for the accident, with the court saying he presented no evidence that the company's training caused his injury.

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Trucking Groups Urge Full 5th Circ. To Mull Penske Liability

By Linda Chiem

Trucking industry groups contend the Fifth Circuit unjustifiably expanded liability for upstream motor carriers when it recently held that trucking services giant Penske Logistics LLC could be held vicariously liable for a fatal 2018 Texas collision caused by a motor carrier that Penske knew nothing about.

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Ex-Josh Cellars Exec Balks At Bid For Lit Funding Probe  

By Aaron Keller

Companies behind the Josh Cellars wine brand should be banned from probing a former executive's litigation funding deal during a November trademark royalties trial, the executive told a Connecticut state court Tuesday, arguing his cash sources are irrelevant to his attempt to seek more than $4 million through contract and fiduciary duty claims.

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Boeing Beats Bid For More Depos In Moon Mission IP Suit

By Rachel Konieczny

A Colorado aerospace company cannot conduct additional depositions in its lawsuit accusing The Boeing Co. of stealing patented technology for a NASA moon exploration program, a Washington federal magistrate judge ruled.

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Chemical Co. Reps Can't Dissolve $1.9M Trade Secret Verdict

By Ben Adlin

A federal judge on Tuesday rejected a request by three chemical sales representatives to undo a $1.9 million jury verdict for their former employer in a trade secret dispute, ruling that Silver Fern Chemical Inc. clearly demonstrated that they took confidential customer information that was valuable and not readily accessible elsewhere.

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Conn. Gallery Beats Buyer's $165K Keith Haring Art Claims

By Brian Steele

A Greenwich, Connecticut-based art gallery has prevailed on a buyer's claims that it sold him a fake Keith Haring chalk drawing for $165,000 after vouching for its authenticity.

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Ex-Coal Exec Asks Court To Toss Bribery Conviction

By Phillip Bantz

A former coal executive convicted of authorizing bribes to an arm of the Egyptian government in a closely watched Foreign Corrupt Practices Act trial is seeking a new trial or to have his indictment tossed, arguing the government misused his criminal proffer agreement to wrongly hamstring his defense.

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Crypto CEO Says Investors Lack Proof In Refund Fraud Suit

By Sydney Price

The CEO of Power Block Coin LLC, which does business as SmartFi, asked the Pennsylvania federal court for a win in a suit alleging he refused to fulfill their "buyback guarantee" of SmartFi tokens, saying the investors cannot even show they personally bought the tokens.

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FCA Says Autoliv Still Missing The Mark In Air Bag Scrap

By Susan Smiley

FCA US LLC has urged a Detroit federal judge to dismiss Autoliv's amended countercomplaint in their contract dispute, saying that the automotive safety supplier acknowledged in its latest filing that it missed the deadline to request a price increase for an FCA-driven air bag redesign.

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Joe Gibbs Racing Beats Ex-Director's Cyber Trespass Claims

By Hayley Fowler

Joe Gibbs Racing's former competition director can't pursue counterclaims alleging the NASCAR super team violated state and federal cyber hacking statutes when it allegedly accessed "off-limits" information on his devices during a forensic review, a North Carolina federal judge ruled Wednesday in their high-profile trade secrets dispute.

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Mother Of Musk's Child Calls XAI Contract Breach Claim Faulty

By Spencer Brewer

The mother of one of Elon Musk's children has told a Texas federal judge that fees xAI racked up in New York litigation cannot form the basis for the company's lawsuit in the Lone Star State, asking the court to dismiss xAI's lawsuit.

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Mass Tort Firm Galindo Law Can Use Cash In Ch. 11

By Clara Geoghegan

A bankruptcy judge said he would give interim approval to Galindo Law Firm's package of first-day motions Wednesday, allowing it to use cash on hand to fund operations, after the Texas mass tort firm resolved a lender's objection.

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Coffee Seller's Tax Suit Counterclaims Belong In Calif.

By Zach Dupont

The founder of a California coffee equipment manufacturer asked a Colorado state court judge Monday to dismiss the bulk of counterclaims from the founder of a Colorado coffee equipment provider who allegedly hid his company's true tax designation on a loan application to push through a merger.

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Chancery Lets Investor Defend SpaceX Fund In Florida

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court on Wednesday granted investor Alessandro Possati a limited default judgment allowing him to act on behalf of an investment partnership in related Florida litigation, while declining to make broader findings that could affect his remaining fiduciary duty claims.

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Consultant Says Tribal Corp. Can't Rewrite Contract Claim

By Benjamin Morse

A Colorado consulting company and its founder urged a federal judge to toss a tribal business corporation's contract claim in a trade secrets dispute, arguing the company still cannot revive the claim by asking the court to rewrite an agreement that names a different employer.

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Detroit Can't Fully Shake Telecom's Fiber Access Suit

By Melanie Dorsey

A Michigan federal judge has allowed a telecommunications carrier to pursue claims that Detroit discriminated against it over access to city-controlled fiber conduit, while dismissing state constitutional, antitrust and mandamus counts. 

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Pot Distributor Again Files Counterclaims In Contract Dispute

By Mike Curley

A cannabis distributor has filed renewed counterclaims against its former consulting partner and a rival distributor, alleging that the rival deliberately interfered with an exclusivity agreement with the consulting partner.

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3rd Circ. Hotel Ruling Flags Key Issues In Dynamic Pricing

The Third Circuit's recent decision in Cornish-Adebiyi v. Caesars Entertainment relies on allegations that competitors used nonpublic data to set real-time rates considered exorbitant, highlighting both the potential risks and substantial benefits of utilizing emerging technologies, say attorneys at Baker McKenzie.

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Dems Say DOJ Opinion Aims To Foil Oversight Of White House

By Courtney Bublé

With midterm elections right around the corner, Senate Democrats are worried the new legal opinion from the U.S. Department of Justice could let the Trump Administration obstruct congressional oversight of the White House.

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ABA Faces Uphill Battle To Remain As Law School Accreditor

By Emma Cueto

The American Bar Association council responsible for accrediting law schools is fighting on multiple fronts to retain its status as a nationwide accreditor, fending off challenges at both the federal and state levels.

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Bradley Arant Launches Retail, Consumer Brands Practice

By Tracey Read

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP has launched a retail, digital commerce and consumer brands practice to help clients protect their brands and preserve public trust in fast-moving, highly regulated markets.

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