A new California federal judge has taken over from the one originally assigned the lawsuit from Democratic state attorneys general challenging Paramount Skydance's $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, putting the case in front of the same judge hearing challenges from consumers and the Writers Guild of America.
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AG Merger Case Gets New Judge After Paramount Recusal Bid

By Bryan Koenig

A new California federal judge has taken over from the one originally assigned the lawsuit from Democratic state attorneys general challenging Paramount Skydance's $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, putting the case in front of the same judge hearing challenges from consumers and the Writers Guild of America.

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Paramount Beats Effort To Quickly Block $110B Warner Deal

By Craig Clough

A California federal judge denied a preliminary injunction request Thursday from consumers challenging Paramount Skydance Corp.'s pending $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery after challenging their attorney to cite more recent rulings beyond the 1960s-era U.S. Supreme Court cases he relied on.

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'No Time To Waste' On Google Antitrust Reports, Judge Says

By Bonnie Eslinger

A California federal judge said Thursday there's "no time to waste" to begin monitoring a three-year injunction against Google in Epic's antitrust battle over Google's Android app store policies, saying he wants monthly reports now that the parties have agreed to accept the injunction terms he laid out.

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AG Fines, Not Damages Allowed After RealPage Renter Deals

By Bryan Koenig

The attorneys general of D.C., Kentucky, Maryland, New Jersey and Washington can seek civil fines and injunctive relief against RealPage Inc. and landlords for fixing rent prices, but claims on behalf of their residents are barred by deals made with private plaintiffs, a Tennessee federal judge ruled Thursday.

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INTERNATIONAL

ECJ Leaves Most FIFA Agent Rules To Lower Courts

By Sophia Dourou

Europe's top court ruled Thursday that the rules of the governing body of world football regarding players' agents breach the EU's ban on cartels, but said national courts must decide whether other rules also violate competition law.

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LITIGATION

$200B Swipe Fee Deal Merits $206M For Attys, Merchants Say

By Craig Clough

Merchants who secured a $200 billion settlement over Visa and Mastercard swipe fees asked a New York federal court Wednesday to approve $206 million in attorney fees and costs, saying: "The result achieved here did not come easily and was far from certain."

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Athletes In Colo. Suit Want Halt To New NCAA Eligibility Rule

By David Steele

Twelve college athletes suing the NCAA for denying them a chance to compete next season under its new eligibility rules have asked a Colorado federal judge to stop the enforcement of the rules and to certify their proposed class.

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Apple, Amazon Face Bid To Revive Wash. Antitrust Suit

By Ben Adlin

Plaintiffs' counsel urged a Seattle federal judge Thursday to rethink dismissal of a proposed antitrust class action accusing Apple and Amazon of illegally restricting sales of iPhones and iPads, contending that attorneys at Hagens Berman couldn't have concluded from their client's "ambiguous" message that he wanted to get out of the case.

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Cal-Maine Says DOJ Deal Doesn't Impact Private Case

By Matthew Perlman

Cal-Maine told an Illinois federal court that Kraft, Kellogg and other food companies are mischaracterizing a recent settlement egg companies reached with federal and state enforcers, as the court continues to mull a $53 million jury verdict in a long-running price-fixing case.

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Brief

Players Expand NCAA Suit Over 5th-Season Eligibility

By Elaine Briseño

A group of college football players challenging the NCAA over its eligibility rules proposed adding athletes from other sports to its Tennessee federal proposed class action as well as naming the five "power" conferences as co-defendants.

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Mo. Pot Co. Monopoly Suit Belongs In State Court, Buyer Says

By Jonathan Capriel

Cannabis company Good Day Farm Retail Management has allegedly become an illegal monopoly in Missouri, capturing more than a quarter of the state's available dispensary licenses through an ownership and management scheme, according to a lawsuit by a consumer who seeks to push the case back into state court.

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NJ Justices Clarify FCA Amendment In Reviving Bank Suit

By Carla Baranauckas

The New Jersey Supreme Court on Thursday revived whistleblower claims accusing Bank of America, Wells Fargo and other financial giants of manipulating Libor interest rates, reasoning that a lower court improperly blocked the attorney general from participating in the litigation.

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Brief

Realtek, MediaTek Drop Case Alleging Bogus Patent Litigation

By Elliot Weld

Taiwanese semiconductor-makers Realtek and MediaTek have agreed to drop a case in which the former accused the latter of colluding with other companies to harass Realtek with bogus patent cases.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Fed Autonomy Rests On Narrow Exception After Justices Rule

The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decisions in Trump v. Cook and Trump v. Slaughter expand presidential removal power while temporarily preserving the Federal Reserve’s independence, but there is uncertainty about which of the Fed’s authorities fall within the court’s narrow monetary-policy exception, says Keith Bradley at Squire Patton.

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Series

Being A Magician Makes Me A Better Lawyer

The skills I've developed as a lifelong magician have translated directly into tangible benefits in the courtroom because performing magic and trying cases both live at the intersection of psychology, storytelling, timing and disciplined rehearsal, says Mark Dombroff at Fox Rothschild.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

How Does Your Compensation Stack Up? Take Our Survey

Is your compensation keeping pace with the rate of inflation? Do you know what your colleagues made last year? Help Law360 Pulse answer these questions and more in this year's Law Firm Compensation Survey.

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Feature

As Law Firms Race To Adopt AI, Cost Concerns Grow

By Phillip Bantz

Pressure is mounting on law firm leaders to dive into the AI waters or watch competitors swim away, but figuring out responsible, cost-effective methods to use high-priced legal tech remains tricky, experts say.

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Richards Layton Apologizes For AI Errors In Chancery Case

By Rose Krebs

Richards Layton & Finger PA and one of its attorneys have apologized to the Delaware Chancery Court for submitting a filing with errors generated by artificial intelligence, asking that sanctions not be imposed.

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McDermott Atty Denies Pressuring Friend To Alter Testimony

By Rose Krebs

A McDermott Will & Schulte LLP attorney has told a Delaware vice chancellor that he is in "complete shock" and "hurt" by a longtime friend's contention that he pressured him to change his testimony in a Chancery Court case, saying the accusation "is false and without any merit."

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Simpson Thacher 'Never' Explained Ill-Fated Deal, Exec Says

By Cara Salvatore

A founder seeking over $100 million from Simpson Thacher & Bartlett over a transaction he says destroyed his insurance services company testified Thursday the law firm provided him no education on various words he wasn't familiar with in the deal.

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Blue-Slip-Backed Trump Judge Selections Advance

By Courtney Bublé

The first two judicial nominations of the second Trump administration to receive supportive blue slips from Democratic senators advanced to the Senate floor Thursday.

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Goulston Docked Ex-Partners' Pay For Joining Rival, Suit Says

By Julie Manganis

Two Goulston & Storrs PC directors who jumped to Troutman Pepper Locke LLP were stiffed out of hundreds of thousands of dollars in compensation in retaliation for leaving, according to a suit filed Thursday in New York federal court.

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Feature

In Uber Assault Trial, A Courtroom Tests Truth Face-To-Face

By Hayley Fowler

This is the first in a two-part series about the Virginia Revival Model courtroom in the Charles R. Jonas federal courthouse in Charlotte, North Carolina. Here, judges and attorneys recall how a sexual assault trial against Uber unfolded in a space designed to place focus on the witnesses.

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Tillis Might Back Blanche, As AG Pick Met Epstein Survivors

By Courtney Bublé

Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche on Thursday afternoon met with a group of survivors of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein after retiring Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., said his condition for supporting Blanche's appointment to the permanent position was for the nominee to speak to them face-to-face.

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Abrams & Bayliss

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Allen Matkins

Altshuler Berzon

Anapol Weiss

Archie Lamb & Associates

Arnold & Porter

Baker & Hostetler

Baker Botts

Baker Donelson

Barrack Rodos

Barrett & Farahany

Bell Nunnally

BoiesBattin

Bradley Arant

Brown Fox PLLC

Buchalter LLP

Burns Charest

Cafferty Clobes

Cheshire Parker

Clark Hill

Cleary Gottlieb

Cohen & Gresser

Cohen Hochman & Allen

Cohen Milstein

Conrad & Scherer

Cotchett Pitre

Cozen O'Connor

Cravath Swaine

Criden & Love

Cuneo Gilbert

DLA Piper

Davis Wright Tremaine

DiCello Levitt

Dimond Kaplan

Dorsey & Whitney

Edelson PC

FBT Gibbons

Faegre Drinker

Farmer Brownstein

Foreman & Brasso

Fox Rothschild

Frazer PLC

Freed Kanner

Freshfields

Gallagher Evelius

Gordon Rees

Goulston & Storrs

Grant & Eisenhofer

Greenberg Traurig

Gustafson Gluek

Hagens Berman

Hartley LLP

Hausfeld LLP

Herzfeld Suetholz

Hilliard Shadowen

Holland & Knight

Holwell Shuster

Hughes Hubbard

Husch Blackwell

Israel David LLC

Jenner & Block

Jones Day

King & Spalding

Kirkland & Ellis

Korein Tillery

Kozyak Tropin

Landis Rath

Latham & Watkins

Leventhal Puga

Levin Sedran

Lieff Cabraser

Lockridge Grindal

Lowey Dannenberg

Mayer Brown

McDermott Will & Schulte

McKool Smith

Milbank LLP

Morgan Lewis

Morris Nichols

Munger Tolles

Nussbaum Law Group

O'Melveny & Myers

Olshan Frome

Orrick Herrington

Pashman Stein

Paul Hastings

Paul Weiss

Potter Anderson

Pryor Cashman

Quinn Emanuel

Reed Smith

Reinhardt Wendorf

Richards Layton

Riley & Jacobson

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Salahi PC

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Sherrard Roe

Shinder Cantor

Shindler Anderson

Shook Hardy

Shumaker Loop

Shuman Glenn

Sidley Austin

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

Sims Funk

Skadden Arps

Smith Krivoshey

Spector Roseman

Spragens Law

Squire Patton

Stearns Weaver

Steckler Wayne

Stone & Magnanini

Stranch Jennings

Strauss Borrelli

Terrell Marshall

Troutman

Watstein Terepka

Wexler Boley

Whistleblower Law Collaborative

Wilkinson Stekloff

Williams & Connolly

Williams Dirks

WilmerHale

Winston Taylor

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Amazon.com Inc.

American Express Co.

Apple Inc.

Atlantic Coast Conference

BH Management Services LLC

Bank of America Corp.

Brown Shoe Company Inc.

Burke Inc.

Camden Property Trust

Citigroup Inc.

Cottrell Inc.

Epic Games Inc.

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Federation Internationale de Football Association

General Mills Inc.

Google LLC

Hard Yaka Inc.

Hickman’s Family Farms

Highmark Residential LLC

IPValue Management Inc.

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

KPMG International

MasterCard Inc.

MediaTek Inc.

Microsoft Corp.

Mid America Apartment Communities Inc.

Morgan Stanley

National Collegiate Athletic Association

Nestle SA

Pabst Brewing Co. Inc.

Palantir Technologies Inc.

Paramount Global

Patriot National Inc.

Public Co. Accounting Oversight Board

RealPage Inc.

Rose Acre Farms Inc.

Skydance Media LLC

Southeastern Conference

The Bozzuto Group Inc.

The Kraft Heinz Co.

Tidewater, Inc.

Uber Technologies Inc.

Warner Bros. Discovery Inc.

Washington State Bar Association

Wells Fargo & Co.

Writers Guild of America East

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Delaware Court of Chancery

Executive Office of the President

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Housing Finance Agency

Federal Reserve System

Federal Trade Commission

International Trade Commission

New Jersey Legislature

New Jersey Supreme Court

U.S. Department of Justice

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

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

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

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

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

U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

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

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

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

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

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

United States District Court for the District of Colorado

United States District Court for the District of North Dakota