States Settle Challenge Of Paramount's Warner Bros. Deal

By Matthew Perlman

State enforcers suing to block Paramount Skydance's planned $110 billion purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery reached a settlement on Monday to end the case with a package of concessions.

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STB Denies Bid To Halt UP-Norfolk Southern Merger Review

By Linda Chiem

The Surface Transportation Board will press ahead with its review of Union Pacific's proposed $85 billion merger with Norfolk Southern, denying requests from rival railroads and major freight rail shipping customers seeking to have the board stop the deal in its tracks.

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AI Cos. Hit With Antitrust Suit Over Deal To 'Pace The Frontier'

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

Artifical intelligence users in Florida and California have accused Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceX and Google of illegally restraining competition by publicly agreeing to "pace the frontier" and collectively slow down their AI development.

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Nielsen Faced Potential Fine Of $50K Per Day In Tying Case

By Nadia Dreid

If the Second Circuit hadn't stepped in and paused a New York federal court order commanding Nielsen Co. to provide its national ratings data separate from its local offerings, the company would have racked up $50,000 a day in sanctions if it did not comply.

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Endeavor, Silver Lake Sue To Block Appraisal Claims

By Jarek Rutz

Endeavor Group Holdings Inc. and Silver Lake Technology Management LLC on Monday sued dozens of hedge funds and other investors in Delaware Chancery Court, seeking to block them from pursuing appraisal claims over Silver Lake's $27.50 per-share buyout of Endeavor and alleging that many bought shares only after the deal was announced to profit from litigation.

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NCAA Fights Lower-Division Athletes' 5th-Year Eligibility Bid

By Elaine Briseño

The NCAA urged a Colorado federal court not to become the first to certify a class of lower-division college athletes seeking a fifth season of eligibility, arguing they have significantly different circumstances from those of Division I athletes lodging a similar challenge.

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NEC Hits Anker With New Patent Suit, Days Before EDTX Trial

By Ryan Davis

Japan-based electronics company NEC Corp. has sued over home security products made by Chinese rival Anker Innovations, accusing it of infringing six image processing patents, days before another NEC suit against Anker on similar patents is set for trial in Texas.

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Judge Reduces $38.9M Beyond Meat TM Verdict

By Carolyn Muyskens

A Massachusetts judge slashed a $38.9 million trademark infringement verdict against Beyond Meat Inc. for an advertising campaign that used the slogan "Great Taste, Plant Based" after finding that the trademark owner failed to prove all of its damages.

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Teddy's Says Buc-ee's TM Campaign Violates Antitrust Law

By Lauren Berg

Teddy's Market has escalated its counterclaims against Buc-ee's in Georgia federal court with allegations of antitrust violations, claiming the travel-center chain uses trademark infringement lawsuits to unlawfully expand its control over cartoon-animal branding in the convenience store industry.

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Clippers Tap BigLaw Vet To Fill In For Suspended Owner

By Alex Lawson

The Los Angeles Clippers on Monday named veteran corporate litigator John S. Gibson as the team's interim CEO and governor while team owner Steve Ballmer serves a one-year suspension for violating the NBA's salary cap rules.

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Legal Deserts: Millions Across America Struggle To Access Lawyers

Tens of millions of Americans live in towns and counties across the nation with limited or no access to legal services. By one estimate, at least a third of the nation's counties qualify as a "legal desert," having only one or no attorney per 1,000 residents. Roughly 24 million Americans reside in these counties.

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Greenberg Traurig Hit With Action Over Client Data Breach

By Matt Perez

A proposed class of Greenberg Traurig LLP clients said the New York law firm failed to secure their personal data prior to a preventable data breach and delayed notifying clients of the breach for two weeks, in an action filed over the weekend in New York federal court seeking injunctive and other equitable relief to protect client data.

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Tesla Atty Misled Witness Days Before Bias Trial, Judge Hears

By Dorothy Atkins

The California Civil Rights Department asked a California judge for a protective order Monday on the first day of a bench trial over claims Tesla Inc. fostered racism at its Fremont factory, after a witness testified that an in-house Tesla attorney recently called him and misled him into believing he represented the agency.

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New Calif. Law Bars Legal Funders From Influencing Litigation

By Jack Karp

Corporate investors and litigation funders will be barred from influencing litigation strategy in California under a new bill signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom.

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She Has A Point: Fenwick's Jessica Kaempf

By Theresa Schliep

Jessica Kaempf of Fenwick & West LLP is a pragmatic yet tenacious attorney whose representation of her clients has earned her plaudits from Kathi Vidal of Winston Taylor, who praised Kaempf as part of a Law360 series celebrating women litigators.

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$1.35M Class Deal Reached Over Botched Calif. Bar Exam

By Emily Johnson

Takers of the February 2025 California bar exam that was marred by technical failures have agreed to settle their proposed class action against the proctor for $1.35 million, while the company also agreed to complete quality checks before proctoring future bar examinations, according to a motion seeking preliminary approval in federal court.

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Ex-Prosecutor Escapes Jan. 6 Atty's Defamation Suit

By Jared Foretek

Former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann on Monday won judgment on the pleadings in a defamation case brought by attorney Stefan Passantino, who had represented Cassidy Hutchinson, after Passantino alleged Weissmann had defamed him when saying he'd "coached" Hutchinson "to lie" to the January 6th Select Committee.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court this past week dismissed a challenge to Alteryx Inc.'s $4.4 billion take-private sale, resolved a fight over the removal of a security technology company's director and declined to let Empery Digital Inc. immediately appeal a proxy contest ruling.

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