Texas Oil Exec Asks 5th Circ. To Ax 'Lopsided' $210M Verdict

By Dorothy Atkins

Exxon-acquired company InterOil's founder has urged the Fifth Circuit to reverse his $210 million loss in a lengthy Texas battle with a Swiss financier, arguing it resulted from a "lopsided" trial with sleeping and distracted jurors and a "cascading series of prejudicial errors" that wrongly allowed his ex-lawyer to testify.

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Campbell's Can't Undo $17M Soup Rack Patent Verdict

By Elliot Weld

An Illinois federal judge has refused to nullify a $17 million patent infringement verdict against Campbell's Soup Co., rejecting its claims that a reasonable jury would have awarded only nominal damages to Gamon at most.

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NJ Justices Say No To Mass Tort For No Surprises Act Suits

By George Woolston

The New Jersey Supreme Court has rejected an application from five health insurers to designate 160 pending cases seeking the enforcement of alleged independent dispute resolution payment determinations issued under the federal No Surprises Act as multicounty litigation.

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Lilly Left Nektar Drug 'Damaged Goods,' Jury Told At Trial End

By Bonnie Eslinger

Eli Lilly & Co. turned Nektar Therapeutics' autoimmune-disease drug Rezpeg into "damaged goods" by breaching the companies' co-development deal and delaying the medication's development in favor of a competing drug the pharma giant subsequently acquired, Nektar's counsel told a California federal jury during closing arguments Friday in the $1 billion case.

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Transpo Tracker: Amazon Crash Suits, Md. Bridge Claims Trimmed

By Linda Chiem

In our latest Law360 Transportation Tracker, a deadly runway crash of an Amazon cargo plane has sparked a series of negligence and wrongful death lawsuits, while California scored two injunctions blocking the Trump administration's efforts to wipe out the state's Clean Air Act waivers. 

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Bungled Injury Settlement Cost Insurer $3.7M, NC Suit Says

By Hayley Fowler

An insurer says a third-party claims administrator owes $3.7 million for an underlying personal injury settlement after the administrator allegedly failed to tender a settlement offer in time that would have been within the insured's policy limits.

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Fla. Panel Upholds $1.19M Auto Crash Verdict Against Insurer

By David Minsky

A Florida state appellate court on Friday issued a split opinion upholding a $1.19 million noneconomic damages verdict for a woman injured by an uninsured motorist, but reversed a $230,000 award for future medical expenses after finding most of that amount was based on speculation. 

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Berkshire Unit Says Coverage Barred For Worker's Death

By Danielle Ferguson

A Berkshire Hathaway insurance unit asked a Connecticut federal judge to declare it has no duty to defend a masonry contractor accused of safety failings in a state court suit over a worker's death, saying an exclusion bars coverage for injuries to employees.

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Insurers Seek To Toss $6M Mill Coverage Fight

By Benjamin Morse

Insurers urged a Colorado state judge to toss a flour processor's claims over coverage for equipment destroyed in a Texas mill explosion, saying a roughly $6 million coverage fight does not support bad faith claims after insurers paid nearly $44 million toward the loss.

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Injured Sprinter Says Puma Trying End-Run In German Court

By Julie Manganis

An athlete alleging she was injured by Puma's carbon fiber shoes has told a Massachusetts state court the brand's U.S. subsidiary should be barred from pursuing a $13.3 million de facto counterclaim in a German court, calling it an attempt to "intimidate" her and other runners pursuing product liability cases against the company.

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Ex-Animal Rescue Dir. Owes $975K In TM Feud, Judge Says

By Elliot Weld

A Pennsylvania federal judge has awarded animal shelter and rescue Last Chance Ranch a $975,000 judgment against its former director, saying the cyberpiracy and trademark infringement merited damages and attorney fees.

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Universal, Sony Expand IP Battle With AI Music Startup

By Carolyn Muyskens

Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music Group launched a new suit against artificial intelligence company Suno Inc. on Friday after they discovered "millions" of copyrighted songs in the training data for an AI song generator, but were not permitted by a judge to add the works to an existing lawsuit.

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Gaming Record Label Sues Rival Over YouTube Takedowns

By Rachel Riley

Video-game music record label GameChops launched a lawsuit in Washington federal court Friday accusing a Washington-based competitor of a campaign to force it to accept "unjustified and unreasonable demands," primarily by flagging its YouTube videos for takedown based on fabricated copyright concerns.

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McGraw-Hill Can't Exit Authors' Textbook Royalty Suit

By Elliot Weld

A Manhattan federal judge has refused to grant publisher McGraw-Hill a win in litigation brought by textbook authors over book royalties, ruling that a reasonable jury could conclude there was a breach of a section of their publishing agreements.

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Kalshi Loses Bid To Lift Wash. Event Contracts Ban

By Ben Adlin

Kalshi can't lift an injunction currently barring its operations in Washington, a King County Superior Court judge ruled, denying the prediction market's request to reconsider an August order blocking the company from offering most event contracts to state residents.

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Oppenheimer Customers Win Final Approval For $70M Deal

By Katryna Perera

A New York federal judge on Friday granted final approval to a $70 million settlement between Oppenheimer & Co. and a class of customers that resolves claims that the investment bank pocketed hefty fees from its cash sweep account program while paying customers "unreasonable, below-market interest rates."

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OpenAI Can't See SpaceXAI, Apple Antitrust Settlement Terms

By Ganesh Setty

OpenAI cannot access a confidential settlement between Elon Musk's SpaceXAI and Apple Inc. over SpaceXAI's antitrust lawsuit challenging Apple's integration of OpenAI's ChatGPT into its devices, a Texas federal court has ruled, finding the settlement isn't relevant to the case against OpenAI.

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Gerber Can't Trim Antitrust Claims Over Perrigo Factory Sale

By Dorothy Atkins

A New York federal court on Friday rejected Gerber's bid to trim a baby-formula packager's antitrust lawsuit against the Nestle-owned company, finding that the packager sufficiently alleged Gerber recently sold its infant-formula factory to Perrigo to entrench Perrigo's market power "at the expense of potential competitors."

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NY Surgeons Say Elevance Penalty Policy Is Anticompetitive

By Gianna Ferrarin

A practice group for independent neurosurgeons lobbed an antitrust suit against Elevance Health Inc. in New York federal court alleging the insurer is impeding their ability to compete for patients by threatening to financially penalize and terminate in-network facilities that work with them.

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NJ Flags Possible Unauthorized ICE Activity At Warehouse

By Isaac Monterose

New Jersey and a local township told a federal court that they are investigating reports of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement using a 470,000-square-foot warehouse as a detention center, which would violate a court order.

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Cannabis Tech Co. Says Ex-Workers Stole IP For New Venture

By Jonathan Capriel

Cannabis marketing company Alpine IQ Inc. and its chief executive are countersuing two former employees, accusing them of stealing code to build a competing product and urging a federal judge not to let them avoid claims they infringed the company's copyright.

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Roundup

UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

By Poppy Grainger

The past week in London has seen Victoria's Secret and Thomas Pink file competing IP claims, more than 1,000 retail consumers launch a group action against Binance, Baker Hughes targeted in a commercial claim by its former Russian subsidiary and university students hit four British institutions with breach of contract claims over pandemic-era closures.

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Time Is On Payment Processors' Side As Deal Dynamics Shift

As payment processors increasingly use timing and volume to gain leverage, merchants should negotiate payment processing agreements well before renewal or migration deadlines, ensuring proper benchmarking, reserve, data, termination and transition terms are in place, says James Alexander at Reed Smith.

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A Texas Ruling May Offer Guidance On Freight Broker Liability

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Montgomery v. Caribe Transport removed federal preemption defenses to freight broker negligent-selection claims, and a July verdict in Texas against C.H. Robinson raised further questions about how brokers can achieve compliance — but another recent Texas decision involving Home Depot may offer some answers, say attorneys at Baker Donelson.

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Senior Lawyers Survey: Tell Us About Your Career

How are senior lawyers adapting to evolving career paths and emerging technologies? Share your perspective in this five-minute survey.

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The 2026 Regional Powerhouses

By Cara Bayles

From major deals to high-profile litigation, the firms named to Law360's 2026 Regional Powerhouses list are leading the way across 14 states. They deliver deep regional expertise and make a lasting impact at the state and local level.

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Analysis

Attys 'Itching' To Join Congressional Probes Of Trump Admin

By Phillip Bantz

Efforts to recruit high-powered lawyers to Capitol Hill to potentially lead congressional committee probes into the various dealings of President Donald Trump's administration are gaining momentum as Democrats push to retake control of Congress in the quickly approaching midterm elections.

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Ex-DOJ Chief Lambastes 'Abuses Of Power' In Goldstein Case

By Jeff Overley

The U.S. Department of Justice constantly made false statements in its criminal case against famed appellate advocate Tom Goldstein, and his convictions must be erased because "prosecutorial misconduct pervaded every stage of the proceedings," a former DOJ prosecutor told the Fourth Circuit.

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Taxation With Representation: Davis Polk, Latham, Sullivan

By Zak Kostro

In this week's Taxation With Representation, a group backed by Michael Dell's family office and Sequence Holdings acquires a majority interest in The Baldwin Group, May Mobility merges with a blank check company, and Infineon Technologies sells its memory chip business to Winbond Electronics.

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Ex-Wis. Judge Keeps License Amid ICE Conviction Appeal

By Ryan Boysen

The ex-Wisconsin judge convicted of obstructing an ICE arrest will remain an attorney in good standing while she appeals, after the Supreme Court of Wisconsin declined to suspend her law license.

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Richards Layton Litigator Selected For Chancery Seat In Del.

By Rose Krebs

A Richards Layton & Finger PA attorney has been nominated by Delaware Gov. Matt Meyer to serve on the bench of the nationally important Chancery Court, a venue that adjudicates some of the biggest corporate law cases.

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Judge Questions Whether 'Lawfare' Fund Fight Is Really Moot

By Jared Foretek

A Virginia federal judge seemed unlikely to toss a challenge to the Trump administration's nixed "Anti-Weaponization Fund" and tax audit immunity for the Trump family Friday, saying she worries the fund could be revived in a different form down the road.

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Chief US District Judge In SC To Take Senior Status Oct. 1

By Courtney Bublé

Chief U.S. District Judge Timothy Cain of the District of South Carolina has informed the president that he will be taking semiretired status on Oct. 1, according to an update posted Friday by the federal judiciary.

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Roundup

GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

Starbucks settled a high-profile discrimination suit with Florida over its diversity, equity and inclusion policies, agreeing not to use race- or sex-based goals in hiring and promoting. And the SEC floated changing how publicly traded companies seek shareholder input, including promising to end one pathway for shareholders to place their proposals on corporate ballots. These are among the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.

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Reed Smith Defends Docs Production In Ex-Atty's Bias Suit

By Jake Maher

Reed Smith LLP urged a New Jersey court on Thursday to reject an "impulsive" motion from a former attorney suing it for gender discrimination seeking to strike its answer and affirmative defenses.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Schemery Zicolello leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a Third Circuit panel ruled that police cannot conduct warrantless strip searches outside of jails or prisons absent consent or an emergency.

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In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Law360

For those who missed out, here's a look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the most buzz on Law360 last week.

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