'Not Going To Keep Doing This,' Judge Warns Epic, Google

By Bonnie Eslinger

A California federal judge Thursday ordered an evidentiary hearing on Epic and Google's latest proposal to revise a court-crafted injunction following Epic's win in an antitrust trial over the Android app marketplace, saying he has concerns and warning the companies that "we're not going to keep" batting proposals back and forth.

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States Tell Jury That Live Nation Isn't Above The Law

By Stewart Bishop

Counsel for 33 states and the District of Columbia on Thursday urged a Manhattan federal jury to show the world that even "a $36 billion behemoth" like Live Nation isn't above antitrust laws and find it liable for flagrantly monopolizing the U.S. live entertainment market, to the detriment of artists, venue operators and fans.

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9th Circ. Upholds NCAA Eligibility Limit, Ends Player's Season

By David Steele

The Ninth Circuit has ended a University of Nevada baseball player's sixth season of competition, reversing a district court order that allowed him to start the season and upholding the NCAA's five-year eligibility limit.

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Cantwell Wants Fired FTC Dems At Senate Oversight Hearing

By Allison Grande

The top Democrat on the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee is pushing for the two commissioners who were fired from the Federal Trade Commission last year to be invited to an upcoming hearing, arguing that their presence is "necessary" to conduct proper oversight of how the Trump administration's influence has impacted the agency's work to protect consumers. 

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DOJ Probes NFL TV Contracts For Anticompetitiveness

By David Steele

The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating the National Football League regarding its broadcast contracts and whether fans are being harmed by the rising cost to view games.

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Juul Pricing Case Tossed Following Another Reversal

By Matthew Perlman

An Illinois federal court has again dismissed a price discrimination case against Juul Labs over e-cigarette sales, after finding that a reversal of a previous ruling tossing the lawsuit was based on facts misrepresented by the wholesaler bringing the case.

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Berkshire Unit Can't Use Broker Fee Deal To Duck Antitrust Suit

By Bryan Koenig

A Missouri federal judge refused Thursday to let a Berkshire Hathaway unit duck an antitrust lawsuit over real estate broker compensation rules, concluding the company cannot use its relationship with subsidiary brokerage HomeServices of America Inc. or a major settlement that HSA struck in a related case.

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Chancery Agrees To Fast-Track $58M Food Sale Fight

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court on Thursday agreed to fast-track a dispute over a $58 million food distribution deal, finding that the buyer's claims of ongoing competitive harm warrant expedited proceedings and a near-term hearing on a preliminary injunction.

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Brief

Canada Probe Of Keyera-Plains Deal Seeks Rival's Records

By Keith Goldberg

Canada's competition regulator said it has obtained a court order to get information from a rival of Keyera Corp. to aid its probe of the energy infrastructure giant's proposed $3.72 billion (around CA$5.16 billion) acquisition of Plains All American Pipeline LP's Canadian natural gas liquids business.

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Irish Mallinckrodt Unit Stuck In Drug Price-Fixing Suit

By Ben Zigterman

An Irish entity of drugmaker Mallinckrodt waited too long to seek dismissal of a price-fixing lawsuit brought by states based on a lack of personal jurisdiction or proper service, a Connecticut federal judge has ruled, finding that the company first raised that argument more than five years after the complaint was filed.

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Zillow, Redfin Ask To Use 4th Circ. NCAA Ruling In FTC Suit

By Isaac Monterose

Property listing giants Zillow and Redfin asked a Virginia federal court to let them use a recent Fourth Circuit ruling for an NCAA case to bolster their dismissal bid against antitrust claims filed by the Federal Trade Commission and multiple states.

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Sinclair Wants Judge To Rethink Order To Disclose Docs

By Nadia Dreid

Sinclair Broadcast Group is trying to convince an Illinois federal judge that she messed up by commanding it to hand over more than 6,000 documents it claims are attorney-client communications, saying the court's previous ruling "relies on a manifest error of law that will significantly and unfairly prejudice" the company.

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Ex-Joe Gibbs Racing Director Pans 'Desperate' Discovery Bid

By Hayley Fowler

Joe Gibbs Racing LLC's efforts to subpoena cellphone providers for deleted text messages is a "desperate" ploy to dig up proof its trade secrets were stolen when there is no evidence to suggest that is the case, the NASCAR team's former competition director said.

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Nonprofit Insurer Wants To Seek AstraZeneca Claims Revival

By Bryan Koenig

EmblemHealth asked a Massachusetts federal judge to let it seek First Circuit intervention against a decision that cut in half its proposed class action accusing AstraZeneca unit Alexion of using sham patents to protect blood disorder treatment Soliris from biosimilar rivals.

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BuzzBallz Rival Says 'Joke' Domain Grab Not Funny Or Legal

By Craig Clough

A claim by cocktail company BuzzBallz that its purchase of an upcoming rival's web domains was a "joke" is a shallow attempt to avoid responsibility for its anticompetitive cybersquatting actions, beverage company Patco Brands argued while urging a California federal court to deny BuzzBallz's motion for summary judgment.

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Uber Fights Uphill To Ax FTC, States' Subscription Fight

By Dorothy Atkins

A California federal judge appeared open Thursday to keeping alive the Federal Trade Commission and states' claims that Uber dupes consumers into its paid subscription service, doubting that Uber's disclosures clearly communicate its subscription practices "as a matter of law," and saying certain state claims are "on very firm ground."

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Conspiracy Claims Not 'Plausible,' Insurers Tell Calif. Judge

By Rae Ann Varona

California homeowners affected by the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires cannot "plausibly" allege insurers conspired to eliminate competition in the marketplace, an attorney for Chubb and other insurers told a California state judge Thursday in a bid to toss the homeowners' litigation, chalking market exits to insurers' independent economic interests.

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Ex-Assurant Workers Look To Toss RICO, Trade Secrets Suit

By Kelcey Caulder

A group of former Assurant salesmen called the auto warranty underwriter's eighth attempt at bringing Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations and trade secrets claims a shotgun pleading, arguing in Georgia federal court that competition and criminal enterprise are not the same.

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StubHub To Pay $10M Over Hidden NFL Ticket Fees, FTC Says

By Lauren Berg

StubHub agreed to pay $10 million to resolve the Federal Trade Commission's allegations that the ticket exchange purposely slow-walked its compliance with a new rule banning hidden fees in order to gain an advantage over competitors when the NFL announced its 2025 game schedule, the agency announced Thursday.

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Fuel Executive Gets 5 Years For $4.5M Navy Fraud Scheme

By Elaine Briseño

A Florida federal judge sentenced a former fuel executive to five years in prison after a jury found him guilty of defrauding the U.S. Department of Defense of more than $4.5 million.

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'Made In America' Rules Raise Stakes For Gov't Contractors

The convergence of widely varying "buy American" requirements, increased enforcement efforts and continuing regulatory attempts to limit foreign sourcing suggests that government contractors should carefully review their supply chain and country-of-origin compliance to remain competitive, say attorneys at Arnold & Porter.

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Series

Alpine Skiing Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Skiing has shaped habits I rely on daily as an attorney — focus, resilience and the ability to remain steady when circumstances shift rapidly — and influences the way I approach legal strategy, client counseling and teamwork, says Isaku Begert at Marshall Gerstein.

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DLA Piper Partner Rejects Pregnant Atty's Account Of Firing

By Pete Brush

The DLA Piper partner who fired a pregnant associate said she did so lawfully, telling a Manhattan federal jury her former employee was "in over her head" and disputing that the associate raised pregnancy bias concerns on a termination call.

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6th Circ. Won't Revisit EFAA Ruling Against Adams & Reese

By Patrick Hoff

The Sixth Circuit said it won't reconsider its ruling that a law barring mandatory arbitration of sexual harassment cases kept a former Adams & Reese LLP paralegal's sex harassment and disability bias suit in court, concluding that the firm's objections were already considered.

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Roundup

UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

By Laura Stewart Liberty

The past week in London has seen the owner of an oil tanker stuck in the Strait of Hormuz sued by an energy company and an insurer, law firm Boodle Hatfield LLP and two Serle Court barristers sued by a group of Winston Churchill's great-grandchildren, and Welsh Water hit with a fresh class action over polluted rivers.

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Calif. Atty Avoids Sanctions For Filing Bogus Citations With AI

By Matt Perez

A California attorney has avoided sanctions over his use of artificial intelligence for a filing in a civil rights case, which resulted in false citations.

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Another Gov't Atty From Vt. Joins Stris & Maher's Team

By Jack Rodgers

A former civil chief of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Vermont has joined Stris & Maher LLP's practice as a partner, the firm announced Friday.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

Other states might follow the lead of California and break with President Donald Trump's policies in implementing guardrails for state agencies to contract with AI companies. And after three individual indictments last month for selling banned tech to China, Supermicro has hired Munger Tolles & Olson LLP to conduct an independent investigation, assigned its general counsel to lead an internal compliance review, and shaken up its compliance leadership.

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NJ Justices Won't Review Beasley Allen's DQ From Talc Cases

By George Woolston

The New Jersey Supreme Court has declined to review a lower court's order booting the Beasley Allen Law Firm from multicounty litigation in the Garden State over Johnson & Johnson's talcum powder, according to an order made public Friday.

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Conn. Justices Block Agency's Bias Probe Into Atty Licensing

By Brian Steele

Because citizens blocked the legislature from reviewing court decisions when ratifying the state's 1818 constitution, a Connecticut human rights agency has no power to investigate alleged bias in attorney licensing decisions, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled Friday in a unanimous opinion.

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Airline Worker Asks To Expand Sanctions Row In Bias Case

By Emily Brill

A Southwest Airlines flight attendant who was fired after sending her union's president pictures of aborted fetuses is pushing for additional remedies in a sanctions dispute stemming from her long-running religious discrimination lawsuit against the airline, from which she received $800,000 after winning a jury trial in 2022.

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In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Law360

For those who missed out, here's a look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the most buzz on Law360 last week.

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Trump Taps Personal Atty For 2nd Circ.

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump announced on Friday evening he's tapping Matthew Schwartz, his attorney in the New York hush money case, for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. 

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