Parler Ex-CEO Wins $11M Over Ouster From Social Media Site

By Cara Salvatore

A jury in Nevada found Friday that Parler co-founder John Matze is owed nearly $11.1 million, including $250,000 in punitive damages, for the stake he was stripped of after billionaire business partner Rebekah Mercer and others allegedly changed the social media company's constitution to get rid of him.

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Former Fla. Rep. Gets 10 Years In Venezuela FARA Case

By Carolina Bolado

A Florida federal judge on Friday sentenced ex-Florida Rep. David Rivera to 10 years in prison for failing to register as a foreign agent and laundering the proceeds of a $50 million contract with a unit of Venezuela's state-owned oil company.

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CH Robinson CLO Talks Montgomery, Dallas Verdict Impacts

By Linda Chiem

Nearly five months after the U.S. Supreme Court delivered its pivotal ruling reshaping freight brokers' liability exposure, C.H. Robinson Worldwide Inc. said lingering uncertainty over protracted litigation and volatile verdicts will upend the U.S. supply chain without some intervention by regulators or Congress.

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5 Supreme Court Cases To Watch This Fall

By Katie Buehler

The U.S. Supreme Court will convene Monday to begin its 2026 October term, which includes several cases that could determine the future of climate change tort litigation, expand religious freedoms and parental rights, and grant states authority to require proof of citizenship when individuals register for presidential elections using state forms. 

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Roberts Wants Less Talk. Supreme Court Attorneys Disagree.

By Katie Buehler

Near the end of last term, Chief Justice John Roberts voiced his frustration with the U.S. Supreme Court's lengthening oral argument sessions and suggested the justices might tweak their format over the summer. But as the new term begins Monday, the court has yet to announce any changes, and advocates see little need for improvement.

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Atty Can't Kill Claims He Tricked Client Into Renting From Him

By Jonathan Capriel

An attorney cannot escape a $14.5 million fraud lawsuit claiming he pressured his cannabis cultivation clients into an overpriced lease without telling them he was getting a 5% cut of the rent, a Los Angeles County judge ruled.

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Full Fed. Circ. Won't Review NPE Marking, Ramey Sanctions

By Adam Lidgett

The Federal Circuit on Friday said it won't rethink its ruling that patent owners must ensure that all licensees mark their products with patent information in order to recover presuit damages, nor its denial of patent attorney William Ramey's appeal of sanctions against him at a lower court.

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Fla. Firm Knew It Had To Secure Lender Notes, 11th Circ. Told

By David Minsky

A Puerto Rican microcap lender asked the Eleventh Circuit on Friday to overturn a trial verdict in favor of a law firm that the lender accused of botching several financial transactions, arguing jurors should've found that the firm committed malpractice by failing to secure the company's assets in bankruptcy proceedings.

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Texas Justices Won't Review Nixed $64M Credit Suisse Verdict

By Spencer Brewer

The Texas Supreme Court on Friday declined to hear an appeal of a decision that wiped away a $64 million award to a subsidiary of a Dallas investment company following alleged fraud by Credit Suisse surrounding lending for a luxury Nevada community.

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PACCAR Can't Nix Drivers' Faulty Diesel Engine Warranty Suit

By Gina Kim

A Washington federal judge ordered PACCAR Inc. to face a proposed class action alleging it sold faulty diesel engines, rejecting its Clean Air Act preemption defense and ruling that the suit plausibly pleads claims that the alleged defects breached the engine warranty. 

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Texas Justices Agree To Hear BNSF, Zurich Asbestos Suit

By Spencer Brewer

The Texas Supreme Court Friday agreed to take up Zurich American Insurance Co.'s challenge to a finding that it must continue to pay for the defense of BNSF Railway against hundreds of asbestos exposure suits.

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AIG Insurers Cleared In Del. To Appeal $50M Clawback Ruling

By Jarek Rutz

A Delaware Superior Court judge on Friday certified for immediate appeal his August ruling blocking two AIG insurers from clawing back $50 million they contributed to settle New York University's Hurricane Sandy lawsuit against Turner Construction, finding the unusual insurance dispute warrants early review by the Delaware Supreme Court.

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Del. Justices Back Dismissal Of Gemini's Bausch & Lomb Suit

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Supreme Court has upheld the dismissal of Gemini Insurance Co.'s request to block Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. from pursuing an insurance coverage fight in Louisiana, ruling that Gemini waived its argument that the case should have been transferable to Delaware Superior Court.

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Expert Clash Blocks $10M Hail Coverage Row Pretrial Win

By Danielle Ferguson

A Tennessee federal judge Friday rejected a cardboard manufacturer's successive requests for a pretrial win in its hailstorm damage coverage dispute with its insurer, finding the "hotly" contested facts at issue cannot be resolved by the court.

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Brief

Bell Sports, AIG Unit Settle Helmet Defect Coverage Dispute

By Alex Lawson

A motorcycle helmet company and an AIG-affiliated insurance company have resolved a lawsuit filed in California federal court over coverage stemming from claims of defects that allegedly caused a helmet to fly off a rider's head during a collision, according to court documents.

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Chemical Co. Secures $1.25M In Fees In Trade Secrets Case

By Elliot Weld

A chemical distributor was awarded nearly $1.25 million in attorney fees by a Seattle federal judge but was denied exemplary damages after winning $1.9 million in a trial against former employees accused of lifting trade secrets as they left the company.

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AI Co. Reaches Deal To End Copyright Case Against Microsoft

By Adam Lidgett

Artificial intelligence company Cerence Inc. has agreed to a deal to end its copyright lawsuit in Delaware federal court against Microsoft Corp. over text-to-speech technology.

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Consulting Firm Says Author's Copying Suit Lacks Details

By MJ Koo

A farm credit consulting firm asked a Colorado federal court to toss a suit brought by a leadership author who alleges the company launched a training program based on his copyrighted books, arguing the copyright claim is too vague and the state law claims are preempted.

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NJ Township Accused Of Discriminatory Paving Contract

By Katherine Smith

An apprenticeship and training fund has sued a New Jersey township in state court over a project labor agreement in its 2026 paving project, claiming the agreement prevents the United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union from placing apprentices on the project.

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Analysis

DOJ Envisions 'Full-Fledged Law Firm' To Combat Gov't Fraud

By Phillip Bantz

The National Fraud Enforcement Division was created less than six months ago, but it is rapidly reshaping the U.S. Department of Justice and spurring an uptick in internal corporate investigations, white collar experts say.

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Amazon E-Book Readers Near Cert. Of 30M Antitrust Class

By Lauren Berg

A New York federal magistrate judge recommended certifying a class of more than 30 million readers accusing Amazon of monopolizing the e-book market, according to a report unsealed Thursday.

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Live Nation Fights States' Latest Bid For Insight Into DOJ Deal

By Dorothy Atkins

Live Nation has fired back against the latest request in New York federal court by some state attorneys general seeking material related to Live Nation's midtrial antitrust settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice, arguing the states are seeking burdensome discovery, including communications between third parties and outside counsel.

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Gov't Contractor Owner Guilty Of Hiding Assets In Bankruptcy

By Clara Geoghegan

A Delaware federal judge found the owner of a government contracting firm lied on bankruptcy forms to hide assets from creditors but cleared her on a related criminal charge of making false statements under oath.

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AT&T Users' Attys Score $59M, $177M Data Breach Deal OK'd

By Hailey Konnath

A Texas federal judge on Friday gave final approval to AT&T's $177 million data breach settlement, awarding a combined $59 million to attorneys representing two classes of millions of customers whose information was exposed in the incidents.

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Crypto Investors Denied Early Win Against Bitcoin Latinum

By Sydney Price

A Michigan federal judge said investors accusing their cousin of fraudulently convincing them to invest in a cryptocurrency firm cannot get a partial early win, finding they have not shown the firm transferred the tokens' ownership rights to them or solicited their purchases.

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NJ Senator Accused Of Cannabis Social Equity Scheme

By George Woolston

The former chief of staff for Democratic New Jersey state Sen. Raj Mukherji alleged that the lawmaker and his business associates exploited him and other minorities to secure social equity cannabis licenses.

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HSR Compliance Lessons Abound In Proposed $250M Deal

The U.S. Justice Department's recently proposed $250 million Hart-Scott-Rodino Act settlement with KKR sheds light on additional safeguards that companies can put into place to mitigate risk as they prepare for their next deal, including implementation of a robust document process, say attorneys at White & Case.

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New DNA Screening Standard Has No Clear Playbook

Although the government has not yet released promised guidance intended to support its new standards for screening mail-order DNA, companies should not read this as a reprieve from the Oct. 13 compliance deadline because the delay shifts enforcement risk to statutes that need no new authority, including false statements, the False Claims Act and fraud, says Ashwin Ram at Buchalter.

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Analysis

Judge Clevenger's Intellect Defined His Time On Fed. Circ.

By Dani Kass

Newly retired Federal Circuit Judge Raymond Clevenger has an "exceptionally keen intellect" that allowed him to spot holes or new paths in cases that the parties or fellow panel members hadn't explored, his former colleagues told Law360.

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Sotomayor Warns Judges: Don't Scare Your Jurors

By Brandon Lowrey

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Monday criticized an Alabama trial court judge who frightened a pool of prospective jurors by ordering the arrest of a latecomer to jury selection, saying in a statement accompanying a denial of certiorari in the case that fear can undermine a defendant's right to an impartial jury.

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Quinn Emanuel Seeks $750K After Defeating Buzbee Suits

By Lynn LaRowe

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP is seeking nearly $750,000 in attorney fees after defeating claims in Texas state court that it conspired with rapper Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter to retaliate against prominent Houston plaintiffs attorney Tony Buzbee and two of his former clients.

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9th Circ. Pauses Rogoff's Return As Seattle US Atty

By Jack Karp

The Ninth Circuit has put on hold a Washington federal judge's decision to reinstate Roger Rogoff as Seattle's top federal prosecutor, a post Rogoff held for less than an hour before he was fired by President Donald Trump.

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Jackson Walker Deal Stalled By Standing Issue, Trustee Says

By Lauren Berg

The U.S. Trustee's Office told a Texas federal judge that its settlement with Jackson Walker LLP to disgorge fees from cases touched by scandal is on ice while a bankruptcy judge examines the watchdog's standing to seek such relief.

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Eckert Seamans Says Data Breach Harm Is Only Speculative

By James Boyle

Pittsburgh-based law firm Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott LLC told a Pennsylvania federal judge on Friday a pair of proposed class actions claiming damages from a data breach at the firm have not made specific complaints of actual harm caused by the breach and should be dismissed.

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