The Federal Trade Commission told a Virginia federal judge Monday that it had settled its lawsuit challenging a rental listings syndication deal that the agency said amounted to a $100 million payout by Zillow for the smaller Redfin listing service to exit the market.
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Zillow Avoids Trial As Redfin Agrees 'To Reenter Market'

By Bryan Koenig

The Federal Trade Commission told a Virginia federal judge Monday that it had settled its lawsuit challenging a rental listings syndication deal that the agency said amounted to a $100 million payout by Zillow for the smaller Redfin listing service to exit the market.

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DOJ Backs Biotech Co. Against Red Cross At 1st Circ.

By Matthew Perlman

The U.S. Department of Justice is continuing to back a biotech company that accuses the American Red Cross of blocking competition for blood platelet testing, telling the First Circuit the nonprofit is not part of the government and is not immune from the antitrust claims.

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Google Says Publishers Can't Get 'Fake Privilege' Discovery

By Bryan Koenig

Google urged a New York federal judge not to grant additional discovery to a group of publishers targeting its advertising placement technology dominance in a wider multidistrict litigation, arguing claims of insufficient detail into corporate policies allegedly hiding evidence are belied by the volume of information already cited.

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DirecTV Opposes Nexstar's High Court Bid In Fee Case

By Matthew Perlman

DirecTV has urged the U.S. Supreme Court not to grant a petition for review in the satellite provider's case accusing Nexstar of working with two other station owners to fix retransmission fees, arguing DirecTV's past licensing deals show it has standing to sue.

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2nd Circ. Says Nielsen Unbundling Order Starts Tuesday

By Nadia Dreid

The Second Circuit has declared that the preliminary injunction blocking Nielsen from making Cumulus Media buy its local offerings to gain access to its national radio ratings data will go into effect Tuesday.

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LITIGATION

Interference Cross-Claims Tossed In Pot Sale Contract Suit

By Mike Curley

A Los Angeles judge has thrown out several interference cross-claims in a contract dispute over cannabis product distribution rights, finding that distributor Broadway Alliance hadn't sufficiently alleged that Stella Farms deliberately sabotaged its relationships with third parties.

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Insurance Broker Says Rival Poached 18 Employees

By Julie Manganis

Insurance broker Willis Towers Watson says rival Lockton Cos. orchestrated a "smash and grab" of 18 employees who all quit within a 45-minute span Wednesday to jump to Lockton, taking more than a dozen clients with them, according to a suit in Massachusetts state court.

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5th Circ. Revives Architect's IP Claims In Fractured Ruling

By Ivan Moreno

A divided Fifth Circuit has revived an architectural firm's copyright infringement claims over the use of its home designs in a Texas residential development, while affirming the dismissal of claims alleging that the defendants stripped copyright information from marketing materials.

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'Time Bubble' Doesn't Warrant 'RAW' TM Retrial, Judge Says

By Elliot Weld

An Arizona federal judge has denied a request for a new trial to a company suing a rival over its "RAW" rolling papers trademark, saying the company had not been prejudiced by the judge's decision to exclude evidence from May 2021 on and ordering the company to pay its rival over $3 million in attorney fees and costs.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

NC Dental Review Change Counters Tougher National Trend

North Carolina’s elimination of its prior review requirement for dental management agreements departs sharply from the national trend toward expanded corporate practice of medicine oversight, but stakeholders should not view this regulatory shift as a relaxation of compliance expectations, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.

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What Cos. Should Do During Stay Of Nasdaq Delisting Rule

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission recently approved — and subsequently stayed — Nasdaq's $5 million market value threshold for continued listing, giving companies additional time to evaluate financing opportunities, communicate with investors and consider strategic alternatives, says Joseph Lucosky at Lucosky Brookman.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

AGs Want Meta's Privilege Claims Reviewed In Bellwether Trial

By Dorothy Atkins

During a break in a jury trial Monday over states' claims Meta hid social media's harm, states' counsel urged a California federal judge to require Meta to re-review all of its attorney-client privilege designations, arguing that "it seems actually logically impossible" that Meta described the wrong standard in only a single document.  

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Legal Center Says DOJ Is Stonewalling Fund Records Request

By Jared Foretek

A voting rights nonprofit is accusing the U.S. Department of Justice of stonewalling a request for records on the Trump administration's attempted "anti-weaponization fund," claiming that the agency has spent the summer unlawfully ducking a Freedom of Information Act submission.

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Galindo Law Files For Ch. 11 After Camp Lejeune Fee Fight

By Ben Zigterman

A Houston-based personal injury law firm sought bankruptcy relief on Monday with more than $50 million in liabilities after a mass tort litigation marketing company sued for over $9 million in fees related to finding potential victims of water contamination at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune.

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Attys Ask Court To Toss Suit Alleging They Stole 1,000 Cases

By Spencer Brewer

Multiple attorneys asked a Texas federal court to toss claims that they conspired to hijack 1,000 cases filed by hurricane survivors who had hired and built cases with a different firm, claiming the firm that brought the suit failed to plead a viable RICO claim.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court last week saw a wave of lawsuits involving corporate oversight, take-private deals, financing transactions, bankruptcy fallout, stockholder voting rights and disputes over control.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Advisors LLC

Andrus Boudreaux

Axinn

Ballard Spahr

Carlton Fields

Cleary Gottlieb

Covington & Burling

Dickinson Wright

Dykema Gossett

Freshfields

Gibson Dunn

Goodwin Procter

Hogan Lovells

Holland & Knight

Jason J. Joy & Associates

Jenner & Block

Jordan Lynch & Cancienne

Kellogg Hansen

King & Spalding

Latham & Watkins

Lucosky Brookman

Osha Bergman

Saul Ewing

Stream Kim

Thompson Coe

Venable LLP

Wiley Rein

Wilkinson Stekloff

Willkie Farr

Winstead PC

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Affordable Care LLC

Alliant Insurance Services Inc.

American Homes 4 Rent LP

American Red Cross

Apple Inc.

Aspen Dental Management Inc.

B. Riley Financial Inc.

Campaign Legal Center

Capital One Financial Corp.

Carbon Health

Central Coast Agriculture Inc.

Cerus Corp.

Columbia House

Cumulus Media Inc.

Deer Finance LLC

Discover Financial Services Inc.

Elite

Enviva LP

Epic Games Inc.

Fort Point Capital

Gannett Co. Inc.

Gemspring Capital

Google LLC

HBI International

Instagram Inc.

Jefferies Financial Group Inc.

LightPath Technologies Inc.

Lockton Companies Inc.

Los Angeles Times

Meta Platforms Inc.

NBCUniversal Media LLC

Nasdaq Inc.

Nexstar Media Group Inc.

Nielsen Holdings PLC

Patrick Industries Inc.

PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center

RWE AG

Tegna Inc.

The DIRECTV Group Inc.

Trulia Inc.

Trump Organization Inc.

Verax Biomedical Inc.

Willis Towers Watson PLC

Zillow Group Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

California Attorney General's Office

California Department of Justice

Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Connecticut Attorney General's Office

Delaware Court of Chancery

Federal Communications Commission

Federal Trade Commission

Internal Revenue Service

North Carolina General Assembly

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. District & Bankruptcy Courts of Southern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

U.S. Postal Service

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Supreme Court