Nexstar-Tegna Judge Shows No Sign Of Unpausing Deal Block

By Bryan Koenig

A California federal judge Friday ordered a seven-day extension of the temporary restraining order blocking broadcast giants Nexstar and Tegna from fulfilling their merger, seeing "no evidence" contradicting the initial reasons for the TRO that DirecTV and Democratic attorneys general want solidified into a preliminary injunction.

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Medtronic Can't Ax $382M Trial Loss, Applied Medical Says

By Hailey Konnath

Applied Medical Resources Corp. has urged a California federal court to reject Medtronic Inc.'s attempt to ditch its roughly $382 million antitrust trial loss, arguing that Medtronic is simply repeating "erroneous legal arguments this court already rejected."

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'What're We Doing Here?' Judge Asks FTC After Deere Deal

By Bryan Koenig

An Illinois federal judge wondered aloud Friday whether John Deere's $99 million class action settlement with farmers, and more importantly its promised facilitation of independent equipment repairs, mooted the Federal Trade Commission's still-pending right-to-repair lawsuit.

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Agri Stats Atty 'More Optimistic' About Settling DOJ Case

By Bryan Koenig

An attorney for Agri Stats Inc. told a Minnesota federal judge Friday that a settlement resolving the U.S. Department of Justice's antitrust case could be on the horizon ahead of an early May trial accusing the company of helping major chicken, turkey and pork producers hike prices.

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​​​​​​​Apple Asks To Keep Stay In Epic Case During High Court Bid

By Craig Clough

Apple has asked the Ninth Circuit not to undo its order staying a decision in Epic Games Inc.'s favor while Apple petitions the U.S. Supreme Court to review the ruling that largely affirmed an injunction barring Apple from charging developers "prohibitive" commissions on iPhone app purchases.

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OpenAI 'Persistently Evaded' Antitrust Suit Discovery, X Says

By Rae Ann Varona

X Corp. has urged a Texas federal court to make OpenAI hand over several sets of documents for its suit accusing its artificial intelligence rival of entering an anticompetitive integration deal with Apple, saying its attempts to get the documents have been futile, despite depositions set to begin this month.

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Texas REIT Discloses $53M RealPage Settlement With Renters

By Isaac Monterose

A Texas-based real estate investment trust has reached a $53 million class action settlement for multidistrict litigation in Tenneseee federal court that accused the REIT and multiple landlords of using property management software company RealPage Inc.'s revenue management software for rent price-fixing.

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Amex Consumer Attys Want $13M Of $17.5M Antisteering Deal

By Katryna Perera

Counsel for a group of consumers who reached a $17.5 million settlement with American Express Co. in a suit alleging the credit card company's so-called antisteering rules caused non-Amex cardholders to pay higher charges has asked a New York federal judge to award them nearly $13 million in attorney fees and litigation costs.

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Uber Must Give FTC, States Contact Info On 30M Subscribers

By Dorothy Atkins

A California federal magistrate judge Friday ruled in favor of the Federal Trade Commission and states on multiple discovery disputes in their litigation alleging Uber dupes consumers into its paid subscription service, requiring Uber to hand over contact data on roughly 30 million Uber subscribers.

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Cisco Seeks Ruling That It Never Infringed Chip Patents

By Adam Lidgett

Cisco Systems wants a federal judge for the Eastern District of Texas to rule that it never infringed two patents covering ways to manage parts of computer chips, after the patent owner dropped them from its case just before a scheduled trial.

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Viamedia-Comcast Trial Pushed Back At Least A Month

By Nadia Dreid

Viamedia's antitrust fight against Comcast was set to come to a head after more than a decade later this year, but the judge overseeing the matter in Illinois federal court said the media and tech companies will have to wait a month longer to go to trial.

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Calculating Damages In IEEPA Tariff Refund Litigation

To calculate damages in the spate of refund litigation triggered by the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision invalidating tariffs collected under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, the central question will be how to determine where in the supply chain their economic burden ultimately came to rest, say analysts at Charles River Associates.

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The Federal Circuit's Evolving View Of Trade Secrets

In recent years, the Federal Circuit's approach to defining "readily ascertainable" information and determining sufficiency of trade secret identification has shifted, trending away from other circuits and potentially presenting a higher bar for trade secrets plaintiffs, say attorneys at MoFo.

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DLA Piper Partner Rejects Pregnant Atty's Account Of Firing

By Pete Brush

The DLA Piper partner who fired a pregnant associate said she did so lawfully, telling a Manhattan federal jury her former employee was "in over her head" and disputing that the associate raised pregnancy bias concerns on a termination call.

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Trump Taps Personal Atty For 2nd Circ.

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump announced on Friday evening he's tapping Matthew Schwartz, his attorney in the New York hush money case, for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. 

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Calif. Atty Avoids Sanctions For Filing Bogus Citations With AI

By Matt Perez

A California attorney has avoided sanctions over his use of artificial intelligence for a filing in a civil rights case, which resulted in false citations.

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NJ Justices Won't Review Beasley Allen's DQ From Talc Cases

By George Woolston

The New Jersey Supreme Court has declined to review a lower court's order booting the Beasley Allen Law Firm from multicounty litigation in the Garden State over Johnson & Johnson's talcum powder, according to an order made public Friday.

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6th Circ. Won't Revisit EFAA Ruling Against Adams & Reese

By Patrick Hoff

The Sixth Circuit said it won't reconsider its ruling that a law barring mandatory arbitration of sexual harassment cases kept a former Adams & Reese LLP paralegal's sex harassment and disability bias suit in court, concluding that the firm's objections were already considered.

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Conn. Justices Block Agency's Bias Probe Into Atty Licensing

By Brian Steele

Because citizens blocked the legislature from reviewing court decisions when ratifying the state's 1818 constitution, a Connecticut human rights agency has no power to investigate alleged bias in attorney licensing decisions, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled Friday in a unanimous opinion.

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

By Laura Stewart Liberty

The past week in London has seen the owner of an oil tanker stuck in the Strait of Hormuz sued by an energy company and an insurer, law firm Boodle Hatfield LLP and two Serle Court barristers sued by a group of Winston Churchill's great-grandchildren, and Welsh Water hit with a fresh class action over polluted rivers.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

Other states might follow the lead of California and break with President Donald Trump's policies in implementing guardrails for state agencies to contract with AI companies. And after three individual indictments last month for selling banned tech to China, Supermicro has hired Munger Tolles & Olson LLP to conduct an independent investigation, assigned its general counsel to lead an internal compliance review, and shaken up its compliance leadership.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Andrea Keckley

Two personal injury firms in Michigan lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions for their work to secure a more than $300 million verdict against a prison health services provider and one of its doctors for refusing to approve a 34-year-old man's surgery while he was detained at a local jail.

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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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