Paramount, States Urge Court To Approve Merger Deal

By Matthew Perlman

State enforcers and Paramount Skydance responded Monday to several questions raised by a lawmaker over a settlement ending the states' challenge of Paramount's deal for Warner Bros. Discovery Inc., telling a California federal court there's no need for a full-blown review.

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Apple, Amazon Face Trimmed Class Action Over Reseller Pact

By Isabel Jackson

Apple and Amazon must face a trimmed-down class action after the Competition Appeal Tribunal partially certified a resurrected claim on Monday alleging that the companies colluded to exclude resellers of Apple products from Amazon's U.K. marketplace.

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ChatGPT Users' Antitrust Suit Against Microsoft Gets Trimmed

By Nadia Dreid

Microsoft isn't going to be able to force into arbitration claims that it undermined OpenAI by forcing the artificial intelligence giant into using only its cloud computing, but it did convince the California federal judge overseeing the case to toss the proposed class's antitrust claim.

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WordPress Parent Ducks Extortion But Not Antitrust Claims

By Bryan Koenig

A California federal judge issued a mixed ruling last week in the two-way fight between WordPress parent Automattic and web hosting company WPEngine, dismissing digital extortion claims against Automattic while preserving WPEngine's antitrust allegations, and preserving Automattic counterclaims of trademark infringement but dismissing false advertising accusations.

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Renters Seek Final OK For $360M RealPage Antitrust Deals

By Isaac Monterose

Renter plaintiffs have told a Tennessee federal court to grant final approval for more than $359 million worth of settlements that aim to resolve their antitrust claims against multiple landlords accused of using property management software company RealPage Inc.'s revenue management software for rent price-fixing.

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FTC Touts 'Dismantling' Of Corteva's Pesticide Rebates

By Bryan Koenig

The Federal Trade Commission on Monday touted its new settlement with Corteva Inc. for severely constricting the pesticide company's ability to pay distributors a loyalty rebate in exchange for limiting sales of cheaper generics, the latest in a string of agreements Trump-era antitrust enforcers have struck ending existing claims.

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Binance, Kraken Bid To Decertify Shrunken BSV Class Action

By Sophia Dourou

A group of cryptocurrency exchanges urged the Competition Appeal Tribunal on Monday to toss out a class action by crypto traders, arguing that the greatly reduced value of the once £10 billion ($13.3 billion) claim means that litigation costs outweigh benefits to the class.

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Brief

SocGen, Vodafone Get EU Approval For German Fiber Co. Buy

By Irene Madongo

The European Commission said Monday it has cleared banking giant Société Générale and telecoms company Vodafone GmbH's plan to jointly own German fiber network OXG Glasfaser.

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Louis Dreyfus Appeals Bid To Arbitrate Cotton Futures Case

By Matthew Perlman

Louis Dreyfus Commodities BV is appealing to the Second Circuit after a New York federal court refused its bid to force cotton futures traders to arbitrate a long-running case over the alleged manipulation of the cotton futures market.

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NASCAR Team Says Docket Error Doesn't Warrant Default

By Elaine Briseño

Joe Gibbs Racing has asked a North Carolina federal judge not to hand its former competition director and his current NASCAR team an entry of default over an inadvertently missed deadline, arguing it has so far participated fully in the litigation.

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Coors Urges Colo. Judge To Stop Suppliers' Contract Exits

By Rachel Konieczny

Coors Distributing Co. LLC has fired back amid a recent wave of beer brand owners ending contracts with the beer wholesaler, alleging in Colorado state court that two companies violated the state's arbitration laws by terminating their decades-long distribution agreements with the wholesaler without cause.

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Seed Patent Dispute Settles 3 Days Into Trial

By Elliot Weld

Corteva Agriscience and Inari Agriculture Inc. have settled a seed intellectual property dispute three days into a Delaware federal trial over whether the latter infringed three patents and misappropriated seed samples.

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HPE-Juniper Settlement Teaches Key Tunney Act Lessons

A California federal court's recent approval of the U.S. Department of Justice's settlement with Hewlett Packard over its Juniper Networks acquisition offers legal practitioners some crucial lessons, including on unique tech-sector remedies for mergers and acquisitions and the continued viability of the Tunney Act, says Shubha Ghosh at Syracuse University College of Law.

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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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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

O'Melveny & Myers LLP and Reed Smith LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Ninth Circuit overturned a $140 million class verdict against CenturyLink, holding that the company had a reasonable interpretation of the Fair Credit Reporting Act.

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Arkansas Firm 5th To Seal PE Deal With Uplift Investors

By Tracey Read

Arkansas' largest personal injury law firm is the latest legal entity to ink a deal to take private equity investment using Uplift Investors' associated management services organization.

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AI Mishap Has Judge Questioning 'Our Collective Character'

By Julie Manganis

A California attorney was barred from representing the plaintiffs in a Massachusetts insurance coverage dispute and ordered to pay legal costs of up to $10,000 to opposing counsel, after a federal judge found he relied on "inaccurate and fictitious" case cites and holdings in three filings.

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Tarter Krinsky Faces Suit After Disclosing Data Breach

By Andrea Keckley

Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP maintained "intentional opacity" about a recently disclosed cybersecurity attack last year that may have compromised protected health information, a proposed class action alleged in New York federal court.

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A2J At The High Court: Gun Bans, Voting And Civil Remedies

By Marco Poggio

From the right to own semiautomatic rifles to the rules governing voter registration, the upcoming U.S. Supreme Court term will see the justices tackle a broad swath of constitutional and access to justice issues.

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Domino Foods Fights Paul Weiss DQ Bid In Price-Fixing MDL

By Madison Arnold

Domino Foods is pushing back on an attempt to disqualify its counsel from Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP in a sugar price-fixing multidistrict litigation, arguing Hershey, J.M. Smucker and other food makers filed the motion as a "strategic attempt to gain tactical advantage" at a critical point in the dispute.

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Duane Morris To Settle Employee's Tax Withholding Claim

By Asha Glover

Duane Morris LLP has agreed to private mediation to settle a proposed class action by an employee who alleged that the firm failed to withhold taxes for workers who were misclassified as partners, according to a notice.

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Roundup

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

By Megan Norcott

The past week in London has seen Glencore Energy sue a refinery for allegedly defrauding it out of more than $236 million worth of crude oil, the former CEO of ankle-tag maker Big Technologies file a defamation claim against the company, and property investment group Hunter Jones hit by a claim from the Financial Conduct Authority. 

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

Wilson Sonsini topped a list of law firms that have alumni attorneys working at six of the country's most prominent tech companies. And general counsel at most large companies expect to increase their litigation budgets next year.

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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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