Zillow-Redfin Noncompete Deal Sank Stock, Investor Claims

By Isaac Monterose

A proposed class of Zillow Group Inc. shareholders accused the property listings company of making an anticompetitive noncompete agreement with rival Redfin Corp., which caused the federal government to file an antitrust suit and Zillow's common stock value to drop.

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Influencer Says Underwear Co. Posted Lewd Deepfake

By Elliot Weld

A lifestyle content creator has sued body-inclusivity-oriented underwear company EBY Inc., claiming that while she had agreed to be a brand ambassador, the company used artificial intelligence to create a "deepfake" version of her and then used it to post a video where she appeared partially nude.

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Newman's Own, Avatar End $2M Cookie Contract Fight

By Brian Steele

Avatar Foods and Newman's Own have pulled their dueling claims in a Connecticut federal lawsuit arising from the breakdown of the companies' co-packing agreement to produce cream-filled sandwich cookies, court records show.

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Judge Cuts IP Suit, Sees Error In Defendant's AI-Assisted Brief

By Elliot Weld

A Colorado federal judge has narrowed two claims in an Alaska tribal corporation's suit against a consultant and her business and told an attorney for the consultant to explain why she shouldn't be sanctioned for an improper citation in a brief generated with the help of artificial intelligence.

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Fla. Panel Says Policy Breach Verdict Didn't Bar Bad Faith Suit

By Danielle Ferguson

A Florida appellate panel on Wednesday revived a restaurant owner's claims that its insurer acted in bad faith in not resolving a claim over losses from a roof collapse before the contract dispute went to trial, finding the extra-contractual damages the company sought had not yet been litigated.

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Electric Co-Op Says Texas Is Wrong Venue For $120M Suit

By Spencer Brewer

An electric cooperative told a federal court that Texas is the wrong place for an infrastructure company to pursue claims that it backed out of a contract after the infrastructure company had already racked up $120 million in costs, saying the work took place in North Dakota.

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Elliott, Stronghold Clash Over Oil And Gas Asset Wind-Down

By Jarek Rutz

Elliott Investment Management LP and Stronghold Resource Partners urged the Delaware Supreme Court on Tuesday to adopt competing readings of a settlement agreement governing the wind-down of an oil and gas investment fund, with each side saying the contract's language supports a different path for liquidating the fund's remaining holdings.

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NY Judge Says Insurer Owes No Coverage In $1.6M Care Row

By Danielle Ferguson

A New York federal judge said an insurer does not have to defend or indemnify a nursing and rehabilitation facility in a hospital's lawsuit seeking to recover $1.6 million in medical expenses for a former worker, finding Tuesday that the underlying action isn't a covered claim.

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NC Law Firm Ends Coverage Fight Over Helene Biz Losses

By Hope Patti

A North Carolina law firm on Wednesday agreed to drop a suit claiming that its insurer wrongfully denied coverage for business income losses stemming from Hurricane Helene, according to a federal court filing.

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AmeriHealth Unit, PBM Look To Escape Pharmacy Fee Suit

By Matthew Santoni

The AmeriHealth Caritas Health Plan and its in-house pharmacy benefits manager asked a federal court to toss a proposed class action over "transmission fees," alleging the law that required disclosure of those fees, Pennsylvania's Human Services Code, doesn't let private parties sue.

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Colo. Co. Says Boeing Tolled Contract Claim In NASA IP Suit

By Zach Dupont

A Colorado aerospace company has told a Washington federal judge that its breach of contract claim against The Boeing Co. alleging theft of its patented technology was timely and that Boeing's bid to dismiss the claim cited the incorrect statute of limitations for a breach of a written contract.

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Variety Makes Offer It Says Panel Can't Refuse In Coppola Suit

By Craig Clough

An attorney for entertainment trade publication Variety urged a California appellate panel Wednesday to end Francis Ford Coppola's libel suit over a story suggesting he sexually harassed actresses on the set of his "Megalopolis" movie, saying a trial judge erred when he declined to toss the suit on First Amendment grounds.

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Grindr Says Arbitration Order In Teen Death Suit Was Proper

By Y. Peter Kang

The Grindr dating platform criticized a bid to undo an arbitration order lodged by the estate of a 16-year-old girl who was tortured and killed after a 35-year-old man allegedly used the app to lure her to his home, saying case law cited by the estate was not precedential.

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Union May Tap Surety For Unpaid Benefits, Mass. Court Says

By Julie Manganis

A labor union's benefits fund is entitled to pursue a claim against a general contractor's surety bond after two subcontractors failed to make contractually obligated contributions, the Massachusetts intermediate appellate court ruled Wednesday in reversing a lower court.

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$50M Atkore PVC Price-Fix Deal Receives Ill. Judge's Early OK

By Lauraann Wood

A $50 million settlement between Atkore Inc. and end users who claimed the polyvinyl chloride pipe maker participated in a price-fixing scheme during the height of the pandemic has cleared its first hurdle, receiving a judge's initial approval Wednesday in an Illinois federal court.

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NC GOP Official Accused Of Duping Lenders, Hiding Assets

By Abigail Harrison

A lender accused a North Carolina Republican Party official and furniture heir in federal court on Tuesday of using his family name and its political legacy to influence him into lending over $6.2 million only to let payments fall months in arrears while hiding assets in his father's trust.

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Susman Godfrey Beats, Seward & Kissel Matches Milbank Pay

By Tracey Read

At least four more firms have joined the associate pay raise bandwagon, with Seward & Kissel LLP matching the salary scale recently set by Milbank LLP, and Susman Godfrey LLP exceeding it.

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Judicial Noms Say Biden Won, But Critics Fault Their Caveats

By Courtney Bublé

Three district court nominees on Wednesday said President Joe Biden won the 2020 election, a departure from other judicial nominees in the second Trump administration, but court watchers on the left took issue with how they couched those statements.

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Camp Mystic Fights Sanctions Over 'Burn In Hell' Atty Remark

By Lynn LaRowe

Camp Mystic and parents of a girl killed in flooding there last summer faced off Wednesday over whether the camp should be sanctioned because its attorney said a plaintiff's lawyer would "burn in hell" and for other alleged misconduct in litigation over flooding deaths at the Texas camp.

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Ga. Federal Judge Faces 2nd Set Of Impeachment Articles

By Kelcey Caulder

A Georgia congressman has filed articles of impeachment against a federal judge who was reprimanded for having sex with a police officer in her Atlanta chambers within earshot of staff, the second lawmaker this week to do so. 

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Unions Rally As 5 Shops Approach Contract Deadline

By Andrea Keckley

Legal service providers across New York City gathered in City Hall Park on Wednesday afternoon as five unions represented by the Association of Legal Advocates and Attorneys approach their deadlines for a new contract at the end of the month.

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'Anti-ICE Vigilantes': DOJ Says Law Clerks Aided Noncitzens

By Lauren Berg

Two state court clerks in Utah are facing criminal charges after federal prosecutors say they acted as "self-appointed anti-ICE vigilantes" by helping noncitizens leave the courthouse by a back door to evade arrest by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to the newly unsealed case.

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Morgan & Morgan Atty Again Blocked From Harvard Suit

By Carolyn Muyskens

A Massachusetts judge rebuffed a Morgan & Morgan PA attorney's second attempt to appear in a lawsuit over the theft of body parts from a Harvard Medical School morgue, saying he would not reconsider his earlier decision to bar the attorney over an incident in a separate court involving fake AI-generated case citations.

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