The NCAA has agreed to pay $303 million to resolve antitrust claims by a class of more than 7,700 current and former NCAA Division I volunteer coaches whose wages were illegally suppressed by the athletic organization's former bylaw, according to documents filed in California federal court.
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NCAA, Volunteer Coaches Cut $303M Wage-Fixing Deal

By Dorothy Atkins

The NCAA has agreed to pay $303 million to resolve antitrust claims by a class of more than 7,700 current and former NCAA Division I volunteer coaches whose wages were illegally suppressed by the athletic organization's former bylaw, according to documents filed in California federal court.

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11th Circ. Grounds DOT's Delta, Aeromexico JV Split Order

By Lauren Berg

The Eleventh Circuit Wednesday halted the U.S. Department of Transportation's order directing Delta Air Lines and Aeroméxico to scuttle their joint venture by Jan. 1, while the airlines pursue their petition asking the appellate court to void the government's order.

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NASCAR Can't Oust Teams' Damages Expert In Antitrust Trial

By Hayley Fowler

NASCAR can't block a damages expert from testifying at trial about potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in losses supposedly suffered by two teams suing the stock car racing company for alleged antitrust violations, a North Carolina federal judge ruled Wednesday.

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Sandoz Tells 3rd Circ. To Restore Full $137M Win Over UTC

By George Woolston

Sandoz Inc. and its marketing firm RareGen LLC urged a Third Circuit panel on Wednesday to reinstate the full $137.2 million awarded in breach of contract damages against United Therapeutics Corp., claiming a lower court's decision to halve the damages provided a windfall to their adversary.

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Antitrust Plaintiffs Want Chat On Apple, Google CEO Depos

By Bonnie Eslinger

A group of consumers asked a federal judge on Wednesday for a private hearing after the court rejected their request to depose Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google CEO Sundar Pichai in antitrust litigation accusing Google of suppressing rival search engines with anticompetitive deals.

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Wash. Linebacker's Suit Over NCAA Limits Sprints To Tenn.

By Rachel Riley

A Seattle federal judge has sent University of Washington linebacker Jacob Manu's lawsuit challenging NCAA eligibility limits to a Tennessee court, concluding the suit overlaps with a putative class action pending there over the same rules capping student-athletes at four seasons of competitive play.

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MERGER REVIEW

FTC Puts $3.6B Cabinetry Merger Under Microscope

By Matthew Perlman

The Federal Trade Commission has requested additional information from MasterBrand Inc. and American Woodmark Corp. about the planned $3.6 billion merger between the cabinet manufacturers, extending a waiting period that prevents the transaction from closing.

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Jones Day, Paul Hastings Guide $9.3B Filtration Group Deal

By Al Barbarino

Parker-Hannifin Corp. has said it will acquire Filtration Group Corp. in a transaction valued at about $9.25 billion, expanding the industrial manufacturer's reach into recurring-revenue filtration systems used across industrial, life sciences and HVAC markets.

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LITIGATION

Google Tells 9th Circ. Not To Revive Rumble Antitrust Case

By Bryan Koenig

Google urged the Ninth Circuit not to revive Rumble's antitrust suit accusing the tech giant of rigging search results to favor its YouTube unit over the rival video-sharing site, arguing a district court rightly found the claims time-barred.

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Pork Buyers Fight Bid To Pause Price-Fixing Case For Appeal

By Matthew Perlman

Pork buyers told a Minnesota federal judge not to hit pause on their price-fixing case while Agri Stats Inc. and major producers push the Eighth Circuit to force the judge's recusal over a law clerk's previous work on a related case.

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4th Circ. Sides With Father-Son Duo In Equity Fight

By Adam Lidgett

A company that makes elevated stairs on Wednesday lost its appeal at the Fourth Circuit following various rulings against it in a suit it lodged against its co-founder and his son over a soured business venture involving the design of the business's sole product.

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Marathon Prevails In Texas Business Court Gas Contract Trial

By Spencer Brewer

A Texas Business Court judge found in favor of Marathon Oil Co. on Tuesday after a bench trial earlier this month, ruling that Winter Storm Uri absolved Marathon from having to buy natural gas to make up for delivery shortfalls to a commodity trading company.

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Fighters Say UFC Withheld Arbitration Evidence In Wage Suit

By Joyce Hanson

Ultimate Fighting Championship fighters suing the mixed martial arts organization for wage suppression are accusing it in Nevada federal court of withholding a large amount of evidence key to the UFC's bid to force their antitrust claims into arbitration.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Defeating Estoppel-Based Claims In Legal Malpractice Actions

State supreme court cases from recent years have addressed whether positions taken by attorneys in an underlying lawsuit can be used against them in a subsequent legal malpractice action, providing a foundation to defeat ex-clients’ estoppel claims, says Christopher Blazejewski at Sherin and Lodgen.

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Series

Law School's Missed Lessons: Networking 101

Cultivating a network isn't part of the law school curriculum, but learning the soft skills needed to do so may be the key to establishing a solid professional reputation, nurturing client relationships and building business, says Sharon Crane at Practising Law Institute.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

McDermott Exploring Selling Stake To Private Equity

By Emily Sawicki and Alison Knezevich

McDermott Will & Schulte on Wednesday acknowledged it is fielding interest from private equity investors, a development that underscores how some of the legal industry's largest players are considering moving to a nontraditional business model.

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Baker McKenzie Accuses Ex-Atty Of Playing 'Cat And Mouse'

By James Boyle

An ex-associate at Baker McKenzie's Washington, D.C., office has been accused by her former employer of playing a "cat and mouse game" to avoid getting served a defamation complaint filed in October by the office and its managing partner.

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Ex-Prince Lobel Atty Charged With Forging Liquor Licenses

By Julie Manganis

The former chair of Prince Lobel Tye LLP's restaurant and hospitality practice has been indicted on charges that she forged liquor licenses for three clients before she was fired last year, the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office said Wednesday.

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Feds Launch Crypto Scam Strike Force With New Sanctions

By Sarah Jarvis

Federal authorities said Wednesday they have created a strike force targeting cryptocurrency-related fraud and scams originating in Southeast Asia, a development announced alongside the addition of a Burmese armed group to a list of entities under U.S. sanctions.

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Reed Smith Facilitated Jet Repossession Ploy, Suit Claims

By Emilie Ruscoe

Reed Smith LLP and two of its attorneys are facing claims of improperly facilitating an attempted repossession of an aviation company's plane, purportedly representing the company's lender while actually working for an alternative investment firm angling to seize the plane.

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Law Firm Drops 'Steamboat Willie' Suit Against Disney

By Carolina Bolado

Morgan & Morgan dropped its suit Wednesday against Disney that asked a Florida federal court to declare that an advertisement the firm planned to run featuring elements from the animated short film "Steamboat Willie" does not infringe Disney's intellectual property because the work entered the public domain last year.

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Texas Pick Among 3 Formally Tapped For District Court Seats

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday three nominees for federal judgeships in Texas, Arkansas and Alaska, which have been anticipated for a few weeks.

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Analysis

CFPB Forges Ahead On Rules As Funding Hangs In Doubt

By Jon Hill

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is rolling out plans to narrow how it defines and watches out for lending discrimination, even as the Trump administration casts fresh doubt on any plans to fund the agency once its reserves dry up.  

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Insurer Fights Margolis Edelstein's Bid To Toss Malpractice Case

By Jake Maher

An insurance company told a New Jersey state court this week that it should be allowed to proceed with a malpractice suit against Margolis Edelstein because the firm had a duty to represent it in an underlying insurance dispute under state law.

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Edelson Enters 'Clean' Dismissal In Girardi Atty Case

By Andrea Keckley

Edelson PC has submitted a "clean and unadulterated" dismissal of its conversion case against two former attorneys from the now-defunct law firm Girardi Keese after an Illinois federal judge took issue with a previous version of the stipulation.

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Ex-Alaska Judge Disbarred Over Sexual Misconduct Scandal

By Jack Karp

Former Alaska federal judge Joshua Kindred has been disbarred by that state's Supreme Court over multiple allegations of sexual misconduct, including that he had inappropriate sexual relationships with several attorneys who appeared before him.

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House Looks To Undo Sens.' Ability To Sue Over Phone Info

By Courtney Bublé

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said Wednesday that House Republicans will be introducing stand-alone legislation to repeal a provision tucked into the government funding package the Senate passed Monday that would allow Republican senators investigated by special counsel Jack Smith to sue for damages.

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Analysis

Copyright Guide Or Policy Change? Project Divides IP Attys

By Ivan Moreno

The American Law Institute's restatements of law, widely regarded as influential reference points for judges and attorneys, are typically yearslong projects that are finished quietly and without much controversy, but one for copyright that concluded this year has diverged from that tradition.

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SEC's Atkins Previews Crypto 'Taxonomy' Plans, Exemptions

By Aislinn Keely

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Paul Atkins on Wednesday pledged to "draw clear lines" about which crypto transactions the SEC doesn't regulate, but said that coming rules and exemptions for digital assets are "not a promise of lax enforcement at the SEC."

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Trump's Budget Deputy Named Interim US Atty In NC

By Abigail Harrison

Federal budget official and former U.S. Rep. Dan Bishop secured an interim role as one of North Carolina's top prosecutors Wednesday.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Adams & Reese

Ahmad Zavitsanos

Alioto Law Firm

Alston & Bird

Axinn Veltrop

Baker McKenzie

Ballard Spahr

Berger Montague

Blank Rome

Brown Fox PLLC

Cadwalader Wickersham

Campbell & Williams

Carney Badley

Clark Hill

Cohen Milstein

Coleman & Horowitt

Cooley LLP

Covington & Burling

Cuneo Gilbert

Davidoff Hutcher

Dorsey & Whitney

Edelson PC

Engstrom Lipscomb

Fairmark Partners LLP

Frankfurt Kurnit

Gibson Dunn

Girardi & Keese

Gustafson Gluek

Hagens Berman

Haynes Boone

Hogan Lovells

Husch Blackwell

Jackson Lewis PC

Jones Day

Joseph Saveri Law Firm

Kemp Jones

Kirby McInerney

Kirkland & Ellis

Larkin Hoffman

Larson King

Latham & Watkins

LeGrand Law

Lockridge Grindal

Margolis Edelstein

McDermott Quilty

McDermott Will & Schulte

McDowell Hetherington

Milbank LLP

Morgan & Morgan PA

Morgan Lewis

Morrison & Foerster

Munger Tolles

Niemeyer Grebel

Orrick Herrington

Paul Hastings

Pearson Warshaw

Pillsbury Winthrop

Prince Lobel

Reed Smith

Rosen Saba

Sherin & Lodgen

Shumaker Loop

Spector Gadon

Stinson LLP

Taft Stettinius

Troutman

Werther & Mills

Williams & Connolly

Winston & Strawn

Wood Craig & Avery

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Agri Stats Inc.

Alaska Bar Association

Alphabet Inc.

Amazon.com Inc.

American Bankers Association

American Bar Association

American Intellectual Property Law Association

American Woodmark Corp.

Apple Inc.

Bank Policy Institute

Bauer Inc.

Burford Capital LLC

Burke Inc.

Clemens Food Group LLC

Copyright Alliance

Dell Technologies Inc.

Delta Air Lines Inc.

Embraer SA

Endeavor Operating Company LLC

Filtration Group

Gleason Corp.

Google LLC

GrubHub Inc.

Grupo Aeromexico SAB de CV

Independent Community Bankers of America

LinkedIn Corp.

Mozilla Corp.

NASCAR Digital Media LLC

National Collegiate Athletic Association

New York State Bar Association

New York University

OpenAI OpCo LLC

Parker-Hannifin Corp.

Practising Law Institute Inc.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

Sandoz International GmbH

Smithfield Foods Inc.

The American Law Institute

The Walt Disney Co.

Triumph Foods LLC

Tyson Foods Inc.

Ultimate Fighting Championship Ltd.

United Therapeutics Corp.

University of Arkansas

YouTube Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Alaska Department of Law

Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Communications Commission

Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

Federal Reserve System

Federal Trade Commission

Government of Mexico

Idaho Supreme Court

Judicial Conference of the United States

North Dakota Supreme Court

Office of Foreign Assets Control

U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Alaska

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Arkansas

U.S. Copyright Office

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

U.S. Department of Commerce

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of State

U.S. Department of Transportation

U.S. Department of the Treasury

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

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

U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

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

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

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 Southern District of New York

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

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

U.S. Secret Service

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

US Office of Management and Budget

United States District Court for the District of Nevada