Calif. Bar Says Internal Docs Bolster Claims Against Exam Co.

By Emily Sawicki

The State Bar of California has bulked up its breach of contract and fraud suit against the administrator of its "disastrous" February 2025 bar exam, filing an amended complaint in light of information it says it learned from internal communications unearthed amid discovery.

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Chancery Dissolves Litigation Funder Amid Partner Deadlock

By Ryan Boysen

A hedge fund manager can wind down the litigation funding operation he ran with a Florida-based personal injury attorney, the Delaware Chancery Court has ruled, finding that a falling out between the two partners did not involve any wrongdoing.

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Del. Chancery Rejects Fraud Claims In $313.5M Fertilizer Deal

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court has ruled that a group of investors failed to prove that executives and a private equity sponsor behind agricultural technology company Verdesian Life Sciences LLC defrauded them into investing in a 2014 acquisition, holding after trial that the claims were both time-barred and unsupported.

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Doc's Hands Aren't Property, Texas Panel Rules In Death Suit

By Mark Payne

A state-employed doctor's hands are not "tangible personal property," a Texas appeals court ruled Thursday, dismissing a wrongful death suit from the family of a patient who contracted a fatal infection during her hospital stay. 

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SeaWorld Broke Sesame Street License Agreement, Suit Says

By Rae Ann Varona

SeaWorld is flouting its obligations under a licensing agreement for the Sesame Street brand, the nonprofit behind the children's television series alleged Thursday in New York federal court, accusing the theme park giant of carrying out a "retaliation campaign" after losing an arbitration over unpaid royalties.

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Colo. Law Firm Alleges Personal Injury Firm Owes It $120K

By Rachel Konieczny

A Fort Collins, Colorado, trial law firm alleged in state court that a Denver personal injury firm has not paid it $120,000 in fees the trial firm says it is owed for legal work it performed for the PI firm.

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Ecuador Oil Co. Says No Arbitration In $650M Suit

By Caroline Simson

Ecuador's state-owned oil shipping company on Wednesday urged a Pennsylvania federal court not to force it to arbitrate its $650 million lawsuit over events at the heart of an impeachment scandal involving former Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso, arguing that the case is "not a contract dispute."

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Chubb Unit Can't Tag Excess Insurer For $100M Settlement

By Gianna Ferrarin

The Georgia Court of Appeals rejected an attempt by a Chubb unit to share liability with an excess insurer for coverage of a $100 million settlement between a boat manufacturer and the family of a boy who died in a boating accident.

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Insurer Asks NC Justices To Free It From Captive Carrier Row

By Hope Patti

A Georgia insurance company told North Carolina's highest court that the state's Business Court doesn't have jurisdiction over it in a shareholder dispute over the demise of a defunct captive insurer, arguing it had nothing to do with the supposed bad acts of its individual members.

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Tanger Asks NC Justices Not To Review COVID Coverage Suit

By Gianna Ferrarin

Two insurers failed to establish an error justifying review from the North Carolina Supreme Court of a decision allowing Tanger Factory Outlet Centers Inc. to seek $50 million in pandemic-related coverage, the retail outlet chain told the justices.

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FDIC Owns SVB Insurance Claims, Court Told

By Abigail Harrison

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., as receiver for Silicon Valley Bank after its historic collapse in early 2023, is entitled to recover on what could be tens of millions of dollars in financial institution bond proceeds, the FDIC's counsel told a North Carolina federal court Thursday.

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TV Academy Foundation Sues Over CW Docuseries Clips

By Ivan Moreno

The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation has sued the producers of the CW docuseries "TV We Love," accusing the team behind the show of using nearly 50 unlicensed clips from the foundation's Emmy broadcasts and its long‑running oral history project "The Interviews."

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DraftKings Wants Emails Under Wraps In Voided Bet Suit

By Alex Lawson

DraftKings has asked an Indiana federal judge to redact its emails with a betting technology company while it looks to fend off a class action from bettors alleging that they were unfairly denied payouts on successful NBA wagers.

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NFL Alumni Argues Biotech's Suit Lacks Contractual Basis

By Elaine Briseño

The National Football League's largest alumni group is angling to quash a biotech company's breach of contract lawsuit, explaining that details in the suit on the termination of their partnership for a vaccine education program are thin.

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Ex-Consultants Sue Gallagher Over Nonsolicitation Clauses

By Mark Payne

Insurance broker Arthur J. Gallagher Co. shouldn't be able to enforce nonsolicitation clauses that "stifle valid competition and hinder employee mobility," a pair of former group welfare benefits consultants told a federal court this week, telling the court both clauses run afoul of North Carolina law. 

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Investors Sue Florida Trading 'Savant' Over Ponzi-Style Fraud

By Carolina Bolado

Investors sued a self-styled foreign exchange trading "savant" claiming he solicited millions from friends and relatives that were meant to be pooled into legitimate investments but were instead funneled into a Ponzi scheme.

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Dish Blasts Disney's Bid To Pause Discovery In Sling TV Suit

By Matthew Perlman

Dish Network is pushing back on a bid from the Walt Disney Co. to pause discovery for Dish's antitrust counterclaims over the programming giant's carriage licensing deals.

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Podcasting Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Podcasting has changed how I ask questions and connect with people, sharpening my ability to listen without interrupting or prejudging, and bringing me closer to what law is meant to be: a human profession grounded in understanding, judgment and trust, says Donna DiMaggio Berger at Becker.

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4th Circ. Scolds Atty Suspected Of Using AI In Race Bias Suit

By Patrick Hoff

The Fourth Circuit has reprimanded an attorney suspected of using generative artificial intelligence to draft briefs in a race discrimination lawsuit against Baltimore Gas and Electric Co., warning that courts need to grapple with the technology as it "may soon become the norm."

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Democrats Seek Review Of Bondi's Role In Brother's Cases

By Alison Knezevich

Two Democratic lawmakers have asked the U.S. Department of Justice's inspector general to review whether Attorney General Pam Bondi "adequately recused herself" from cases involving clients represented by her brother Brad Bondi, who is a partner at Paul Hastings LLP.

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Sinema Says Tryst With Ex-Guard Not In NC Court's Reach

By Abigail Harrison

Former U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, now a Hogan Lovells attorney, told a North Carolina federal court Thursday that a lawsuit alleging her cross-country affair with a former member of her security detail ended a 14-year marriage must be dismissed because the trysts occurred outside state borders.

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Ex-Judge Testifies About Alleged Forgeries In Amazon Case

By Kelcey Caulder

The former chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia testified Thursday about the alleged forging of court documents, signatures and court stamps in a criminal case against a woman accused of defrauding Amazon out of $9.4 million through fraudulent invoices. 

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Judge Newman Takes Suspension Battle To Supreme Court

By Ryan Davis

Federal Circuit Judge Pauline Newman brought her fight against a suspension imposed on her by her colleagues to the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday, arguing that a lower court wrongly held that her challenges to the order are not subject to judicial review.

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Holyoak's US Attorney Nomination Advances

By Courtney Bublé

The nomination of Melissa Holyoak, former commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission, to be U.S. attorney for the District of Utah was sent to the full Senate on Thursday.

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CFTC Takes 1st Steps Toward Prediction Market Regulations

By Jessica Corso

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission opened the door Thursday to promised prediction market regulation, calling for public feedback on what such rules might look like while laying out the staff's view on the current rules that the platforms should follow in order to offer betting on sports and other events.

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