Quinn Emanuel, Spiro Ousted From CoStar Copyright Fight

By Elliot Weld

A California federal judge has disqualified Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP and its attorney Alex Spiro from representing a commercial real estate platform in a copyright infringement suit brought by CoStar, agreeing that the firm's representation of CoStar in a different case should result in its removal from this one.

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Calif. Bar Settles With Administrators Of 'Disastrous' Bar Exam

By Andrea Keckley

The State Bar of California has reached a settlement with the administrators of its "disastrous" February 2025 bar exam, whose array of highly publicized technical glitches prevented hundreds of aspiring lawyers from completing the test.

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4th Circ. Sends $166M Arbitral Judgment Back To Trial Court

By Abigail Harrison

The Fourth Circuit ruled Tuesday that a trial court must determine if a $166 million arbitral award against convicted insurance mogul Greg Lindberg can stand under North Carolina law, reversing a lower court's confirmation of the award under the Federal Arbitration Act.

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Mich. Panel Reinstates $1.5M Engineering Malpractice Verdict

By Susan Smiley

A Michigan appeals court on Monday reinstated a $1.5 million professional negligence verdict against an engineering company, ruling that the trial court improperly changed the jury's award to damages for breach of contract.

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Insurer Ducks Models' Advertising Claims Against Strip Club

By Aaron Keller

A Connecticut federal judge has handed Clear Blue Specialty Insurance Co. a win in six professional models' attempts to access a strip club's $1 million policy pursuant to a settlement in an underlying false association and false advertising lawsuit, saying an exclusion for "exhibitions and related marketing" insulates the insurer.

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Md. Terminal Sues Bruks Over Failed Bulk Handling System

By Jared Foretek

A Baltimore-area marine terminal sued its bulk material handling system provider Monday in Maryland federal court, claiming that the system failed after processing less than 26,000 tons — a fraction of the 5-million-ton capacity Bruks claimed the system could handle — and seeking more than $2 million in damages.

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Litigation Funder Can Keep Award Under Pre-Injury Case Deal

By Jake Maher

A litigation funder can keep a $166,000 award from settlement proceeds in a personal injury case, a New Jersey state appeals court ruled Tuesday, finding the business was entitled to the payout after having covered the funding recipient's medical care.

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Capital One Says Terms Allow It To Void Card Rewards

By Sydney Price

Capital One NA has asked a Virginia federal court to free it from a proposed class action accusing it of unlawfully canceling billions of dollars in earned credit card rewards by unilaterally closing customers' accounts, saying that all of its cardholders were informed that it could close their accounts at any time.

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Kellogg Sues Apparel Co. In Delaware Over General Mills Deal

By Jarek Rutz

WK Kellogg North America LLC has sued apparel company Odd Sox LLC in the Delaware Chancery Court, accusing the licensee of violating a licensing agreement by launching a branded apparel collaboration with rival General Mills and heavily discounting Kellogg-themed merchandise without authorization.

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Pharma Cos. Clash In Del. Chancery Over Dental Drug License

By Jarek Rutz

Ventis Pharma Inc. has sued Balanced Pharma Inc. in the Delaware Chancery Court, accusing its licensee of failing to make commercially reasonable efforts to develop and market a licensed dental anesthetic product and seeking a declaration that the companies' exclusive licensing agreement has been terminated.

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Bayer Defends Fees For Seed Tech With Expired Patents

By Bryan Koenig

Bayer asked a Missouri federal judge to dismiss a sweeping antitrust proposed class action, arguing that the independent seed company suing it, in a complaint that also includes breach of contract allegations, is contesting perfectly legal licensing fees charged for corn technology, even after the last patents expired.

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Alex Jones' Co. Balks At Sandy Hook Victims' Stay Appeal

By Emlyn Cameron

Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' media company has urged the Texas Supreme Court to reject a bid by victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting to license his website, Infowars, to The Onion, arguing the request is defective and the satire publication is already damaging the brand.

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Crypto Expert Gets $28M Bitcoin Arbitration Award Enforced

By Katryna Perera

A New York federal judge has enforced a $28 million arbitration award issued to a Malta-based cryptocurrency expert and his two companies following their dispute with a bitcoin mining server supplier they claim sent them faulty machinery.

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DirecTV's Collusion Case Against Nexstar Survives Dismissal

By Matthew Perlman

A New York federal court has refused to toss DirecTV's antitrust case accusing Nexstar Media Group of using a pair of broadcast station owners to demand excessive retransmission fees, after a split Second Circuit panel revived the claims.

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Sports Video Analytics Co. Defends Hudl Monopolization Case

By Alex Lawson

An antitrust feud over sports video analytics services is heating up in New Jersey federal court, where QwikCut LLC is fortifying its argument that Hudl Inc. has monopolized the market for assisting high school and college teams.

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Social Equity Pot Licensee Says Investors Are Freezing Him Out

By Julie Manganis

A former Massachusetts resident granted a retail cannabis license under the state's social equity licensing program said two brothers he brought in as investors are trying to freeze him and another investor out of the business, according to a lawsuit filed in state court Tuesday.

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Vape Co. Seeks $314K Judgment Over Alleged Unpaid Order

By Jonathan Capriel

The Illinois-based owner of the Urb vape brand is asking a federal court to issue a $314,000 default judgment against a California company that ordered tens of thousands of empty vape devices but allegedly never paid for them, saying the company "refused to defend itself" in the case.

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Medical Device Co. Settles FCA Claims

By Julie Manganis

A company that sells compression devices to reduce swelling in patients with certain medical conditions will pay $551,000 to settle allegations that it obtained Medicare reimbursement with falsified medical records, the U.S. attorney's office in Massachusetts announced Tuesday.

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BakerHostetler Flips Holland & Knight's Antitrust Co-Lead

By James Boyle

An attorney with nearly 25 years of experience in commercial and antitrust litigation has moved his practice to BakerHostetler's Philadelphia office after five years with Holland & Knight LLP.

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What Actually Matters To GCs During Cross-Border Disputes

A recent international arbitration forum featured an in-house perspective on dispute resolution, highlighting that relationship preservation and other factors may matter more to businesses than success on legal merits, say Michael Mutek at Womble Bond and Mark Stadnyk at Thyssenkrupp Nucera.

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Reviving Prize Law Would Reshape Maritime Seizure Risks

Recent U.S. maritime interdictions of sanctioned tankers and shadow fleet vessels raise urgent questions about whether civil forfeiture or prize law — a framework that has not been meaningfully tested since the Spanish-American War — governs and the potential impacts on vessel owners, charterers and insurers, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.

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Lessons On Contingency Planning From OFAC's Iran Reversal

The Office of Foreign Assets Control‘s abrupt revocation of a recent license easing sanctions on Iranian oil products shows commercial dealings relying on OFAC licenses or with higher sanctions risks should expressly address what happens if a policy change makes performance prohibited, says Michelle Roberts at Berliner Corcoran.

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Blanche Called Anti-Weaponization Fund 'Mistake,' Per Durbin

By Courtney Bublé

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said on Tuesday the anti-weaponization fund created as part of the president's settlement with the IRS was "a mistake," according to Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., after his meeting with Blanche.

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Justices Seek More Funds Over Increased Threats, Talk Ethics

By Courtney Bublé

U.S. Supreme Court Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Elena Kagan made rare Capitol Hill appearances Tuesday, discussing the court's budget request for fiscal 2027, the "shadow docket" and ethics issues.

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Bronx Defenders Union OKs Strike 1 Year After Last Walkout

By Andrea Keckley

The Bronx Defenders has become the third New York City-based legal aid organization to authorize a strike this month, which comes just one year after the group's most recent walkout.

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Trump Lawyer Matthew Schwartz Confirmed To 2nd Circ.

By Courtney Bublé

The Senate voted 50-45, along party lines, on Tuesday to confirm Matthew Schwartz, one of President Donald Trump's personal attorneys and a partner at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

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Ky. Law Prof Wants Court To Block Judge For Dean Pick

By Hailey Konnath

A University of Kentucky law professor asked a federal court to block U.S. District Judge Gregory Van Tatenhove from becoming the next law school dean, claiming that the appointment has "stripped the faculty" of their credibility on the basis of peer review.

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