​​​​​​​Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court last week tackled disputes involving multibillion-dollar mergers, corporate oversight, founder control, SPAC litigation, commercial contracts and attorney fees.

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Amazon Shoppers' $309M Returns Class Deal Gets Initial OK

By Rachel Riley

A Washington federal judge gave a tentative green light Tuesday to a $309.5 million class action settlement to end allegations that Amazon shortchanged consumers on refunds for returned items, with the e-commerce giant pledging to improve its return policies to prevent future problems.  

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2 Firms Guide Ohio Uranium Site Data Center Development

By Nate Beck

OpenAI said it will take a 20-year lease at a planned data center campus being built by Nvidia and SoftBank on a Cold War-era nuclear site in central Ohio, in a project advised by Latham & Watkins LLP and Kirkland & Ellis LLP.

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Construction Co. Says It Is Owed $4M On Hotel Project

By Zach Dupont

The design-builder on a Denver hotel and luxury apartment building told a Colorado state court Monday that the owner of the property is refusing to pay more than $4 million owed for work on the project, according to the complaint.

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Ambulance Co. Says Insurers Failed To Settle Crash Claims

By Danielle Ferguson

A Pennsylvania ambulance service alleged in state court that its insurers refused to consider a settlement offer within its policy limits to resolve claims stemming from a fatal crash, exposing the company to a higher judgment after the crash victim's estate added punitive damages to the underlying case.

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Author Says Consulting Firm Stole Leadership Programs

By Zach Dupont

An author and executive leadership keynote speaker claimed in Colorado federal court Tuesday that the consulting firm he used to work with stole his copyrighted educational content after terminating a 15-year working relationship, according to the complaint.

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Boeing Is Pressed For Financial Records In NASA IP Row

By Elaine Briseño

Wilson Aerospace LLC asked a Washington federal judge to compel the Boeing Co. Inc. to turn over financial materials and other documents that have information relevant to their dispute over technology used in NASA's moon program.

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Netflix Says Tyra Banks Signed Away Editorial Control Of Doc

By Craig Clough

Netflix and the producers behind a docuseries about "America's Next Top Model" asked a California federal judge to dismiss Tyra Banks' defamation lawsuit, arguing her allegations are nothing more than "complaints about ordinary editorial decisions" that are protected by free speech laws.

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Sandy Hook Families Say Alex Jones Co. Can't Dodge Bond

By Aaron Keller

Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre victims' families have asked the Texas Supreme Court to dissolve an appeals court order blocking a receiver from deploying the assets of Alex Jones' Free Speech Systems LLC, saying the company is stalling a $1.3 billion judgment collection effort without posting the required bond.

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Sofia Vergara's Underwear Co. Moves To Nix AI Deepfake Suit

By Gina Kim

EBY urged a California federal judge to dismiss a content creator's suit alleging that, while she agreed to be a brand ambassador, the underwear company used AI to create a "deepfake" version and publish a video where she appeared partially nude, arguing Monday that the video is not "pornography" as commonly understood.

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Video Gaming Arena Co. Seeks OK Of $7.7M Arbitral Award

By Joyce Hanson

The operator of a chain of competitive video gaming arenas in the United Kingdom has asked a New York federal judge to enforce a $7.7 million arbitral award it won against a Delaware-based esports company and related subsidiary following a dispute over a collaboration deal.

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Texas Court Wipes Ex-GloriFi CEO's Claims Against Investor

By Spencer Brewer

A Texas appellate court tossed counterclaims brought by the former CEO of defunct conservative fintech company GloriFi against an erstwhile investor, saying he failed to show the investor defamed him.

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11th Circ. Affirms Kickback Convictions For Pain Doc, Salesman

By Danielle Ferguson

The Eleventh Circuit on Tuesday affirmed the conviction and sentences of a Florida pain doctor and a salesman found guilty of participating in a kickback conspiracy for prescribing a fentanyl spray, ruling prosecutors had "overwhelming" evidence the men knowingly participated in "sham" drug promotion events.

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2nd Circ. Lets Stand Cumulus' Nielsen Data Unbundling Order

By Matthew Santoni

The Second Circuit declined Tuesday to reconsider a ruling that Nielsen cannot tie together sales of its local and national radio data, sustaining a win for the troubled Cumulus Media New Holdings Inc. even as the company tries to enforce the lower court's order against the ratings giant.

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5th Circ. Rejects Texas Water Case Against River Authority

By Bryan Koenig

The Fifth Circuit refused Tuesday to revive a private water utility's antitrust case targeting Texas' San Jacinto River Authority contract fees designed to reduce groundwater use, concluding that the contract was not designed to fix prices.  

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Ex-Meta Worker Says His EB-2 Letter Concerns Got Him Fired

By Carla Baranauckas

A former Meta Platforms Inc. product design manager sued the social media giant and his former supervisor in New Jersey federal court, claiming that he was fired after refusing to sign an immigration support letter for a colleague because he believed it contained inaccurate or unsupported facts.

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LA Pot Partnership Deal Void, Calif. Appeals Court Says

By Sam Reisman

A California state appeals court has affirmed a lower court's determination that a partnership agreement tied to a group of medical marijuana dispensaries could not be enforced because it called for operations that violated a Los Angeles city ordinance.

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Fla. Panel Undoes Fraud Finding In Pot Extract Machine Suit

By Jonathan Capriel

A Florida entrepreneur and engineer accused of failing to deliver on a marijuana extraction system known as the Green Machine will get an opportunity to convince a jury he's not on the hook for the device, a state appeals court ruled, saying a trial is needed to determine whether he is personally responsible.

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Ex-Loeb & Loeb RE Pro Joins Greenberg Traurig In NYC

By Isaac Monterose

Greenberg Traurig LLP has hired former Loeb & Loeb LLP real estate partner Brian L. Helweil as a shareholder for its global real estate practice team in New York City, the firm has announced.

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SCOTUSblog Founder Goldstein Seeks Release During Appeal

By Rachel Rippetoe

SCOTUSblog founder Thomas Goldstein on Tuesday asked to be released from federal custody while he appeals his 12 tax and mortgage fraud convictions and a six-year prison sentence, saying he is not a flight risk and it would be a "grave injustice" for him to begin a sentence he believes will eventually get axed.

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Nutter Leader Eyes Fla. Growth, AI-Driven Billing Shift

By Chris Villani

After overseeing Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP's expansion into New York City, California and Hawaii, co-managing partner Michael Scott is setting his sights on extending the firm's footprint into Florida within the next year and leveraging the power of artificial intelligence to lower clients' bills.

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Atty, Ex-Mentor Settle After Harassment, Bias Suit Dismissed

By Melanie Dorsey

An attorney whose sexual harassment and employment discrimination suit against her former mentor was thrown out last month for repeated discovery violations has reached a settlement resolving the remaining claims and counterclaims in the case.

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Atty, Son Charged In Probe Of Alleged Penn State Drug Ring

By Rose Krebs

An equity partner based in Meyer Darragh Buckler Bebenek & Eck PLLC's Pittsburgh office has been charged with tampering with evidence and obstructing an investigation in connection with an alleged cocaine ring at Penn State University that allegedly involved his son, according to news reports.

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Fed. Circ. Rejects Patent Marking Immunity For NPEs

By Dani Kass

Nonpracticing entities hoping for presuit damages can't get out of Patent Act requirements to mark products with patent information just because licensees don't believe their products infringe, the Federal Circuit held Wednesday.

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Jackson Walker Says US Trustee Can't Claw Back Legal Fees

By Clara Geoghegan

Jackson Walker said this week that the U.S. Department of Justice's bankruptcy watchdog is beyond the bounds of its authority in a yearslong effort to force the firm to return millions of dollars in legal fees over an undisclosed relationship between a former partner and a Texas bankruptcy judge.

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Ex-US Attys Protest Trump's Swift Firing Of Rogoff In Seattle

By Rachel Riley

Thirty former U.S. attorneys backed Roger Rogoff's bid for reinstatement as Seattle's top federal prosecutor after President Donald Trump fired him on the heels of his court-ordered appointment, arguing Tuesday that Trump is trying to "sidestep the Senate's advice-and-consent role and sideline the judiciary" by letting unappointed individuals play such roles.

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Sinema Says Brief Signal Chat Can't Anchor NC Affair Suit

By Hayley Fowler

A single exchange on the encrypted messaging app Signal became the focal point of former Arizona U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema's testimony on Wednesday as she sought to convince a North Carolina federal judge that she cannot be hauled into court in the Tar Heel state over an affair — which she declined to characterize as a "passionate" romance — she had with her married security guard.

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Polsinelli Can't Rep Doctor In 'Bad Faith' IP Suits, Cos. Say

By Lauren Berg

Two medical device companies suing Polsinelli PC and its longtime client, a patent-holding doctor, for allegedly pursuing "bad faith" infringement claims asked federal courts in Tennessee and Mississippi to disqualify the firm from defending the doctor in the lawsuits, citing their "diverging interests and liabilities."

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Davis Wright Vets Scolded: Don't Tell Foes 'How To Run Firm'

By Jeff Overley

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP veterans have failed to dodge six-figure sanctions in a prominent discovery donnybrook, and a California magistrate judge added invective to the financial injury, lambasting "troubling" omissions in case citations and heavy-handed "nitpicking" akin to commandeering an adversary's law firm.

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USPTO Says Patent Atty's Suit Shouldn't Stop Discipline Case

By Theresa Schliep

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has said an Ohio federal court shouldn't pause professional discipline proceedings against an attorney while he sues the agency, saying he's likely to fail with his suit challenging the fact that a judge from another agency is overseeing his discipline case.

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