Daily Mail, Publishers Fight Google's 'Multi-Year Delay'

By Bryan Koenig

Gannett, the Daily Mail and a certified class of website publishers urged a New York federal judge Monday not to let Google pause a scheduled advertising placement technology trial, arguing in twin briefs that the U.S. Department of Justice's antitrust win is strong and Google's appeal won't disrupt the multidistrict litigation.

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Anthropic's 'Existential Risks' Warning Sets Stage For AI IPOs

By Sarah Jarvis

Anthropic PBC's registration statement includes more than 90 pages of risk disclosures for prospective investors ahead of the Claude developer's planned public offering, including "existential risks to humanity" posed by advanced artificial intelligence and a corporate governance structure the company warns may make it difficult for voting shareholders to replace directors and managers.

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5-Hour Energy Sellers Ask 9th Circ. To Revive Antitrust Fight

By Dorothy Atkins

Family-owned wholesalers urged the Ninth Circuit to revive antitrust claims Tuesday alleging 5-Hour Energy violated price discrimination law by providing Costco with disproportionate promotional support, arguing the court wrongly applied an "extremely narrow view of antitrust injury."

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Playground Equipment Makers Abandon Deal After FTC Action

By Matthew Perlman

PlayPower has abandoned its planned purchase of fellow private equity-backed playground equipment maker BCI Burke after the Federal Trade Commission and a dozen states moved to challenge the deal.

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AI Users Say SpaceXAI Can't Split, Arbitrate Slowdown Suit

By Bryan Koenig

Artificial intelligence users urged a California federal judge Tuesday not to let SpaceXAI separate itself from their proposed class action accusing it, Anthropic, OpenAI and Google of violating antitrust law through their "pace the frontier" collaboration slowing down AI development, attacking the Elon Musk-owned company's efforts to invoke arbitration.

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CVS Says Faulty Medicare Advantage Ratings Will Cost It $2B

By Craig Clough

Insurance giant CVS Health sued the Trump administration in Georgia federal court Monday, alleging that federal quality ratings for its Medicare Advantage contracts were calculated using methods a judge rejected last year and will cost the company more than $2 billion in bonus payments and rebates in 2028.

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Amazon Can Seek Seller Evidence In £2.7B Data Misuse Claim

By Sophia Dourou

Amazon can approach sellers for evidence to fight a £2.7 billion ($3.6 million) class action over alleged competition abuses, but a tribunal said the technology giant must inform them that refusing to cooperate will not jeopardize their business relationship.

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Healthcare In Court

Courts Take On Lilly GLP-1 Ads, J&J Mesothelioma Trial, More

By Gianna Ferrarin

Law360 Healthcare Authority looks at a Novo Nordisk loss in its challenge to Eli Lilly's GLP-1 advertising, an Ohio verdict in wrongful death litigation over Johnson & Johnson's talc baby powder and other legal news from the past week.

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Spotify Beats Rapper's Bot-Streaming Royalty Suit For Good

By Ivan Moreno

A California federal judge has permanently dismissed rapper RBX's proposed class action accusing Spotify of failing to stop bots that distort streaming data and royalty payments, finding the platform had no duty to protect artists from third-party misconduct and rejecting his theory that Spotify selectively enforced its anti-fraud measures in favor of popular acts.

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Disney Says Fubo Can't Appeal Arbitration Order

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

Disney has asked a California federal court to deny Fubo subscribers certification of an interlocutory appeal as they fight an order to arbitrate their case over streaming rates, saying they failed to satisfy the requirements for it.

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​​​​​​​Drugmakers Seek To Bar 'Big Pharma' Label In Price-Fix Trial

By Mark Payne

A group of generic-drug makers facing price-fixing claims brought by dozens of state attorneys general asked a Connecticut federal judge to bar or limit the use of terms like "Big Pharma" or "rising costs of pharmaceuticals and healthcare" in next year's trial.

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FCC OKs Amazon's $11.6B Globalstar Satellite Buy

By Nadia Dreid

The Federal Communications Commission has signed off on Amazon.com Inc.'s $11.6 billion plan to buy U.S. satellite company Globalstar Inc., bringing the e-commerce behemoth one step closer to expanding its nascent satellite internet business.

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CMA Seeks Views On Prologis' £14B Segro Deal

By Dawood Fakhir

The antitrust regulator called Tuesday for input on how U.S. warehouse business Prologis' £14 billion ($19 billion) planned acquisition of British rival Segro might harm competition in U.K. markets.

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FTC's Changing Model Raises Questions About Its Mission

Federal Trade Commission leaders have recently sketched a vision of an agency that continues an enforcement role distinct from the U.S. Department of Justice's, even as a shift toward greater presidential control makes enforcement more responsive to changes in administrations, say attorneys at Wiley.

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At 4th Circ., DOJ Admits But Downplays Goldstein Trial Errors

By Jeff Overley

The U.S. Department of Justice late Tuesday acknowledged that it confused key statutory terms related to jury instructions at famed appellate advocate Tom Goldstein's criminal trial, while also insisting "the government's mistake here was understandable" and shouldn't upend a jury's guilty verdict.

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Brief

Fenwick & West To Match $235K Salary Scale For Associates

By Tracey Read

Fenwick & West LLP is reportedly the latest firm that will raise associate pay in the new year.

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Ex-Fla. Bar Prez Accused Of Botching $350M Estate Claim

By Carolina Bolado

The widow of a Miami real estate investor is suing a former president of the Florida Bar for malpractice, claiming his botched representation left her without a claim to her late husband's $350 million estate.

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Analysis

3 Federal Circuit Clashes To Watch In November

By Ryan Davis

A high-stakes case that will determine whether the U.S. government should face patent infringement claims over Moderna's COVID-19 vaccines and Labcorp's appeal of a nine-figure patent verdict against it are among the arguments the Federal Circuit will hear in November.

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4th Circ. Says W.Va. Daniel's Law Is Unconstitutional

By Rose Krebs

The Fourth Circuit on Tuesday affirmed a district court determination striking down as unconstitutional West Virginia's law restricting the publication of the home addresses and phone numbers of law enforcement and judicial officials, saying the district court applied "well-established" First Amendment principles.

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