Candor Wins AI Tech Ownership Fight In Del. Chancery

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court has ruled that Italian artificial intelligence company iDentiVisuals must transfer ownership of its emotion-recognition technology to legal tech firm Candor, saying the startup breached a binding agreement by failing to deliver and safeguard the technology it had licensed.

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Nektar CEO Opens Door To Finance Questions In Eli Lilly Trial

By Bonnie Eslinger

Nektar Therapeutics failed Wednesday to block evidence of its financial condition from entering into a California federal trial over a failed deal to codevelop its drug Rezpeg with Eli Lilly, after its CEO's testimony on cross-examination prompted the judge to allow the evidence for impeachment purposes.

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Trump Trust Gets Doc Review In Fla. Debanking Suit

By David Minsky

A Florida federal judge ruled Wednesday that the court can review banking records before they are released to the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust in a lawsuit alleging its Capital One accounts were closed for political reasons, saying there is no regulation preventing the examination of Bank Secrecy Act-related documents.

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Ford Says DOT Concern Over China Tech 'Wrongheaded'

By Jack McLoone

Ford Motor Co. pushed back on U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy's "profound concern" over what he said was too close of a relationship between it and a Chinese battery manufacturer, saying the claims are unfounded and don't mesh with other administration stances.

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Chicago Firm Says Co-Counsel Cut It Out Of Case, $7.6M Deal

By Celeste Bott

Chicago-based personal injury firm Disparti Law Group PA is suing another law firm and one of its attorneys in Illinois state court, saying they secretly continued litigating a wrongful death case they'd agreed to work on jointly after telling Disparti they planned to dismiss it, then cut the firm out of its share in more than $2.5 million in attorney fees when the case settled.

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Real Estate Firm Says Insurers Owe $5.3M For Motel Damage

By Gianna Ferrarin

A pair of insurers under the Berkshire Hathaway Inc. and Munich Re umbrellas wrongly refused to cover over $5.3 million in damage to a motel that a real estate company purchased to convert into affordable housing, according to a complaint removed to Washington federal court.

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Class Settlement MDL Plaintiffs Say Cos. Hinder Disclosure

By Jared Foretek

Plaintiffs in a sprawling multidistrict case accusing class action settlement administrators of hiding kickbacks from financial institutions are accusing the defendant companies of stalling prediscovery planning through "piecemeal and inadequate" disclosures and are asking the D.C. federal judge presiding over the case to order disclosures.

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Justice Roberts Won't Pause Dutch Software Co.'s IP Trial

By Hayley Fowler

U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts on Wednesday rejected a Dutch software company's bid to postpone an upcoming trademark trial with its former U.S. partner while it petitions for review of the lower court's injunction and contempt orders.

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Fed. Circ. Eyes PTAB Cases That May Sink $445M Netlist Win

By Ryan Davis

A $445 million verdict against Micron Technology Inc. for infringing two Netlist Inc. computer memory patents hung in the balance Wednesday, as a Federal Circuit panel questioned Netlist's arguments that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board wrongly found claims in both patents invalid.

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AMC Settles 'Walking Dead' Suit With Creator, Producers

By Elliot Weld

Television studio AMC has reached a deal to pay the creator of its hit show "The Walking Dead" and some of its producers $120 million to settle claims that they were not paid the correct amount under their contracts and left out of a previous settlement with the show's former executive producer.

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Pa. Athletes Challenge Exclusion From NCAA Eligibility Rule

By Matthew Santoni

More than a dozen student-athletes who graduated from high school in 2022 say they were unfairly excluded from a new NCAA rule granting five years of eligibility for competition, and asked a Pennsylvania state court for an order allowing them to reenroll for sports in the new school year.

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NC State Football Player Settles NCAA Eligibility Challenge

By Alex Lawson

A North Carolina State University football player dropped his suit against the NCAA on Wednesday after the organization granted him a waiver declaring him eligible to play this season.

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Texas Justices Deny Bid To Undo $37M Arbitration Award

By Spencer Brewer

The Texas Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to take up a bid by a Dallas-based alternative investment company seeking to toss a $37 million arbitration award in favor of the company's former director.

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Court Lets Stand Exxon Win In Decade-Old Securities Case

By Spencer Brewer

A Texas federal judge denied a motion by a class of Exxon Mobil Corp. investors seeking a new trial in a 10-year-old securities class action claiming the energy giant misled shareholders, saying Wednesday that the company's closing arguments did not prejudice the jury.

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3rd Circ. Stands By Upholding Lipitor Pay-For-Delay Suit Toss

By Bryan Koenig

The Third Circuit has refused to rethink its decision backing a New Jersey district court's dismissal of an antitrust suit alleging Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd. conspired to delay a generic version of the cholesterol drug Lipitor.

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Disney Gets Fubo Streaming Rate Claims Sent To Arbitration

By Matthew Perlman

A California federal court ordered Fubo subscribers to arbitrate their antitrust claims in a case accusing Disney of driving up the cost of subscriptions by forcing the streaming platform to carry a package of channels instead of just ESPN.

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Amazon Urges NY Court To Deny E-Book Antitrust Class Cert.

By Rachel Riley

Amazon on Tuesday objected to a New York federal magistrate judge's recommendation to certify a class of over 30 million customers in a suit accusing it of monopolizing the e-book market, saying the judge disregarded proof that a significant share of the consumers benefited from the challenged practices.

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Texas Justices Reject Sandy Hook Families' Infowars Appeal

By Aaron Keller

The Texas Supreme Court on Wednesday denied Sandy Hook families' requests to dissolve lower appeals court orders that stopped a court-appointed receiver from assuming control of bankrupt commentator Alex Jones' website Infowars and leasing the intellectual property of its parent company Free Speech Systems LLC to satire publication The Onion.

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Va. Judge Tosses Bulk Of EB-5 Investors' Fraud Suit

By Isaac Monterose

A Virginia federal judge has nixed multiple claims lodged by a group of 14 Vietnamese EB-5 project investors against a law firm and other parties that allegedly refused to provide investment refunds for a "doomed" hotel redevelopment project.

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Stiiizy Beats Bid To Block Packaging Supplier Switch

By Jonathan Capriel

A California federal judge said she won't force cannabis distributor Stiiizy Inc. to exclusively buy packaging from an Aurora, Colorado-based supplier, saying the alleged multimillion-dollars in damages caused in this contract dispute do not justify jumping to such an "extraordinary" remedy.

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DOJ Says Berkeley Law Is Racially Biased In Admissions

By Craig Clough

The U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of Education said Wednesday that the University of California, Berkeley School of Law discriminated against white and Asian applicants in its 2024 and 2025 admissions cycles by preferring Black applicants because of their race, violating federal civil rights law and recent U.S. Supreme Court precedent.

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Murdaugh Murder Retrial Venue Shift Fueled By Bias Concern

By Emily Sawicki

A South Carolina trial court has approved a request to move Alex Murdaugh's murder retrial to a different county, finding the disgraced attorney could not expect a fair trial in Colleton County, where his wife and son were killed and where he was previously convicted for the crimes.

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Sugar Buyers Want Paul Weiss DQ'd From Price-Fixing MDL

By Dorothy Atkins

Hershey, J.M. Smucker and other food makers urged a Minnesota federal judge Tuesday to disqualify Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP from representing Domino Foods in sugar price-fixing multidistrict litigation, arguing the firm is conflicted out because it saw their confidential sugar-purchasing data when it was being considered as plaintiffs' counsel.

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Virginia Law Prof Says He'll Take USPTO General Counsel Job

By Jack Rodgers

A University of Virginia School of Law professor who has taught tort, administrative, patent and international intellectual property law there for more than 15 years recently said he plans to become the new general counsel of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

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Hogan Lovells Partner Tapped For Mass. Judgeship

By Julie Manganis

A Hogan Lovells Cadwalader senior partner has been nominated to a seat as an associate justice on the Massachusetts Superior Court, the governor's office announced Wednesday.

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Kilpatrick Atty Tapped For Yakima County Bench In Wash.

By Ben Adlin

Washington's governor appointed Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP litigator Bree R. Black Horse to the Yakima County Superior Court bench on Wednesday, filling the first new position added to that court in nearly three decades.

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