The National Music Publishers' Association and its members have told a Texas federal court that X Corp.'s antitrust suit fails to allege any conspiracy, with the best argument the company could muster being an "implausible" interpretation of a single word — "we" — in a single email.
The National Music Publishers' Association and its members have told a Texas federal court that X Corp.'s antitrust suit fails to allege any conspiracy, with the best argument the company could muster being an "implausible" interpretation of a single word — "we" — in a single email.
Amazon urged a Seattle federal judge to deny a woman's motion to intervene in a putative class action accusing the retailer of wrongfully auto-enrolling customers in its Audible e-book service, arguing the woman should not be able to obtain discovery in the case to buttress her own recently dismissed complaint.
A California federal magistrate judge on Friday rejected Schneider Wallace Cottrell Kim LLP's bid to increase its cut of a $75.4 million fee award for representing plaintiffs in a $228.5 million Sutter Health antitrust deal, saying lead counsel Constantine Cannon LLP's allocation of $1.4 million to Schneider Wallace was fair.
A French music company on Friday resolved a suit in New York federal court filed by a group of major music labels that asserted $500 million in claims that it distributed manipulated versions of copyrighted tracks to social media.
A real estate company asked a Florida state court for permission to seek punitive damages against Compass Inc., claiming the brokerage firm is misleading the public regarding its agents' fiduciary duties despite facing the company's lawsuit alleging "betrayal" from a real estate agent's double-dealing in a lucrative property transaction.
A Texas oil company said a would-be funding partner didn't abide by its $71 million contract to help develop a New Mexico project, instead using confidential information to gain leverage and mislead the company into giving up control of the project.
A Nebraska testing laboratory failed to prove that Aetna underpaid more than $53 million for COVID-19 testing services, a California federal judge has ruled, dismissing the lab's federal racketeering and state law claims against the insurer but leaving the door open to an amended suit.
Six major American insurers will join Chubb in providing $20 billion for the U.S. International Development Finance Corp.'s initiative to restore maritime trade in the Gulf region amid the Iran war, doubling the total amount of available reinsurance to $40 billion, according to an announcement Friday.
Lockheed Martin told a Colorado court that most of the claims it faces in a subcontractor's lawsuit accusing it of failing to pay back costs incurred from another subcontractor's alleged failures should be tossed, citing a "termination for convenience" provision.
Boston-based RSC Insurance Brokerage Inc. has sued two former managing directors for allegedly orchestrating a talent and client "raid" while jumping to rival Marshall & Sterling Enterprises Inc., purportedly causing more than 15 accounts worth close to $900,000 in revenue to leave with them.
Door manufacturer Jeld-Wen Inc. has dropped its latest appeal of the first court-ordered divestiture in a private merger challenge before the Fourth Circuit could rule, after pressing ahead with oral arguments earlier this year.
A New York federal judge dismissed the bulk of a suit from Advanced Flower Capital Inc. alleging lawyers from Loevy & Loevy misled the lender and breached a $46 million loan agreement, but let the fraud claims against one attorney move forward.
Latham & Watkins LLP is expanding its California team, bringing in a Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC tech transactions ace as a partner in its Bay Area offices in San Francisco and Silicon Valley.
A former trademark associate told a Manhattan federal jury Monday that DLA Piper "blindsided" her with termination after she announced she was pregnant, but the BigLaw firm countered that she was fired for "repeated mistakes" and other on-the-job shortcomings.
Jones Day is the latest law firm to be hit by a cyberattack, the firm confirmed Monday, revealing that an unauthorized party accessed files of 10 clients.
A former Troutman Pepper Locke LLP associate asked a D.C. federal court Monday to pause a suit as the two sides have reported they had reached a settlement agreement over her discrimination claims against the firm, sidestepping a trial set to begin next month.
A group of former U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission officials are backing four BigLaw firms in the Trump administration's consolidated D.C. Circuit appeal seeking to revive executive orders targeting the firms, arguing the president's directives contradict how Congress meant for the EEOC to operate.
More than a dozen Sorrento Therapeutics shareholders sued law firm Jackson Walker LLP and the defunct biopharmaceutical company's ex-CEO for over $100 million, accusing them of conspiring to launch an unnecessary bankruptcy in an irrelevant jurisdiction.
As threats against local judges continue to ramp up, protection and incident tracking varies not only from state to state but county to county, making it difficult to draw the national judicial security landscape. Now, lawmakers are looking to use federal resources to even out disparities.
The Legal Services Corp. is asking Congress for $2.14 billion in fiscal year 2027 to fund civil legal services for low-income Americans who cannot afford an attorney.
A disbarred New Orleans attorney has asked a federal judge in Louisiana for a new insurance fraud trial, arguing a suite of issues from her federal trial last month caused her to receive what she described in a filing as a "miscarriage of justice."
The College of Commercial Arbitrators has urged the D.C. Circuit to reject the Trump administration's consolidated D.C. Circuit appeal seeking to revive executive orders yanking the security clearances of four BigLaw firms, arguing a contrary ruling would "imperil" arbitration in the U.S.
A federal judge Monday refused to overturn a former Wisconsin state judge's conviction for helping shield a defendant in her courtroom from arrest by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, rejecting her contention that, because ICE had no authority to make the arrest in the courthouse, there was no obstruction.
Illinois Supreme Court justices have asked a Chicago federal judge to throw out constitutional claims filed by a retired Illinois state trial court judge alleging he was wrongfully terminated over protected speech in a political opinion column, with the justices arguing the federal court should not interfere with a state court matter.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday vacated an appeals court's order upholding Steve Bannon's conviction over his nonresponse to a congressional subpoena investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection, clearing the way for the Justice Department to dismiss his indictment.
The Delaware Chancery Court's docket this past week featured a mix of high-profile corporate disputes, insider trading allegations, contract fights and significant rulings shaping fiduciary duty and deal litigation.
