5th Circ. Pauses Order Scrapping FTC Merger Filing Overhaul

By Rae Ann Varona

The Fifth Circuit on Thursday granted the Federal Trade Commission's emergency motion to pause a Texas federal judge's ruling that threw out the agency's overhaul of premerger reporting requirements.

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Amazon Throwing Out Tech Intercom Not Sanctionable: Judge

By Bryan Koenig

While Amazon.com Inc. was negligent in allowing a consulting engineer to throw out an advanced intercom at the center of a trade secrets and unauthorized computer access proposed class action, a New York federal magistrate judge said Wednesday that doing so didn't cost the intercom's maker any relevant evidence.

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Google Says IPhone Users Campaign To 'Harass' Senior Execs

By Nadia Dreid

Google is going head-to-head with iPhone users who want to depose its executives at the tail end of discovery in a lawsuit accusing the tech behemoth of cutting a deal with Apple to become the default search engine on Apple devices, accusing the proposed class of harassment.

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Live Nation Says Judge Should Have Cut More Of DOJ's Case

By Matthew Perlman

Live Nation urged a New York federal court on Thursday to further pare down the government's antitrust case against the company, saying a ruling earlier in the week should have nixed additional allegations involving the promotion services it provides to major concert venues.

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Judge Denies Mylan And Aurobindo's Bid To Escape Trial

By Jonathan Capriel

A Connecticut federal judge has once again rejected generic-drug makers' bid to escape a multistate lawsuit accusing them of engaging in an overarching antitrust conspiracy, saying the evidence supports the need for a jury trial on whether the companies colluded to fix prices and divvy up markets for dozens of generic drugs.

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NCAA Sets Payment Plan For $303M Wage-Fixing Settlement

By Jared Foretek

The NCAA on Thursday announced a funding plan for its $303 million settlement resolving class action claims from more than 7,700 volunteer Division I coaches who claimed the governing body's former rules illegally suppressed coaching wages.

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Pepsi And Frito-Lay Avoid Class Chip-Pricing Claims, For Now

By Lauren Berg

A California federal judge struck class claims from a lawsuit accusing PepsiCo and Frito-Lay of illegally charging Walmart, Target, and other chain stores less for chips than smaller retailers, stating that the plaintiffs cannot show that the proposed class has suffered the same injury, but will allow them to rework the complaint.

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UK Raises Antitrust Concerns In Getty's Shutterstock Deal

By Najiyya Budaly

The U.K.'s antitrust authority said Thursday that it has provisionally found that Getty Images' planned $3.7 billion acquisition of Shutterstock could harm the supply of editorial images in Britain.

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Spread-Betting Biz Fights Order To Unwind Merger With Rival

By Lucia Osborne-Crowley

Sports betting company Spreadex urged the Competition Appeal Tribunal on Thursday to quash an order forcing it to sell a business it acquired in 2023, saying it was wrong to find that the merger would threaten competition.

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Delta, Aeromexico Urge 11th Circ. To Void DOT Split Order

By Linda Chiem

Delta Air Lines and Aeromexico urged the Eleventh Circuit to void a U.S. Department of Transportation order directing them to dismantle their joint venture, saying the agency had offered contrived reasoning and scant evidence for purported anticompetitive effects.

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Target Ends Chicken Price-Fixing Claims Against Tyson

By Lauren Berg

Target Corp. and Tyson Foods Inc. told an Illinois federal judge Thursday that they have reached an agreement to resolve the retailer's claims accusing the food company of conspiring with other poultry producers to fix broiler chicken prices.

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Live Nation Fights Uphill To Nix FTC Suit Over Ticket Scalping

By Gina Kim

Live Nation urged a California federal judge Thursday to reconsider her tentative decision refusing to dismiss the Federal Trade Commission's allegations it turned a blind eye to scalpers, arguing that the complaint doesn't identify specific tickets that scalpers were able to obtain by evading security measures that limit purchases.

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NYC Moving Co. Says Rival 'Denigrating' Competition

By Rae Ann Varona

Piece of Cake Moving & Storage has been scheming to monopolize the New York City market for residential moving and storage services by "denigrating" its competitors to building owners and employees and flouting traffic laws, Dumbo Moving & Storage alleged in a complaint removed to New York federal court Wednesday.

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Burford Capital Targeted For Docs In German Funding Feud

By Caroline Simson

A German entity is accusing Burford Capital LLC of improperly trying to dodge information requests in a dispute relating to German antitrust litigation by citing an underlying arbitration clause, despite being a nonsignatory and the Third Circuit shutting down the arbitration bid last year.

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Investment Firm Loses Bid For CNA Defense From Competitor

By Gianna Ferrarin

A CNA Financial Corp. unit has no duty to defend an investment firm from suits alleging it stole a competitor's employees and solicited its investors, a Connecticut federal judge said Thursday, ruling any claims that would have triggered that duty predated the policy period.

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Lab Seeks Rare Essential Patent Injunction In Wi-Fi Case

By Ryan Davis

Citing recent encouragement from federal agencies, a Korean research lab is seeking a rare permanent injunction in a case involving standard essential patents, after a unit of Taiwan's Asus stipulated that its routers infringe the lab's essential Wi-Fi patents.

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CIT Orders Reconsideration Of Fujifilm Co.'s Industry Status

By Jack McLoone

The U.S. International Trade Commission must redo its determination that a U.S. subsidiary of Fujifilm qualifies as a domestic producer for purposes of finding domestic industry has been harmed by imports from Japan and China, the U.S. Court of International Trade said.

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Brief

Commerce Orders Duties On Paper Folders From Cambodia

By Jack McLoone

Paper file folders imported into the U.S. from Cambodia will be subject to a countervailing duty order following affirmative determinations by the U.S. Department of Commerce that these imports are benefiting from harmful subsidies and damaging U.S. domestic industry, Commerce said Thursday.

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Texas Suit Says Sanofi Paid Kickbacks For Prescriptions

By Spencer Brewer

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued Sanofi-Aventis US LLC in state court Thursday, accusing the pharmaceutical company of paying kickbacks to providers so they would prescribe Sanofi's drugs.

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Series

Trivia Competition Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Playing trivia taught me to quickly absorb information and recognize when I've learned what I'm expected to know, training me in the crucial skills needed to be a good attorney, and reminding me to be gracious in defeat, says Jonah Knobler at Patterson Belknap.

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McGlinchey Stafford Files Ch. 7 With Over $10M In Liabilities

By Lauren Berg

New Orleans-based firm McGlinchey Stafford PLLC, which announced last month that it's winding down operations after more than half a century, filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy with more than $10 million in liabilities owed to former staff and attorneys, workplace vendors, financial institutions and other creditors.

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Judge Nixes DOJ Fine In ICE Case, But Blasts 'Radio Silence'

By Hailey Konnath

A Minnesota federal judge said Friday that a U.S. Department of Justice attorney won't be fined after an immigrant's identification documents were finally returned to him, yet she tore into the DOJ's excuses and said she will "not tolerate what happened here: disobedience and radio silence from the government."

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Analysis

Deportation Policy Pushes Texas Federal Bench To The Brink

By Courtney Bublé

Texas has suffered through a shortage of judges for its federal courts for a while now, but the recent influx of immigration cases is pushing the system to the brink.

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Michigan Federal Judge Faces State's 'Super Drunk' Charge

By Bonnie Eslinger

A Michigan federal judge facing trial on drunken driving charges crashed his car on the night he was arrested, registered a 0.27% blood alcohol level and told a state trooper who asked him to recite the alphabet, "A, B, C, D, F, U," according to a police report recently made public.

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Boies Schiller Partner Faces Possible Sanctions For AI Errors

By Emily Sawicki

A Boies Schiller Flexner LLP partner must explain why he should not face monetary sanctions for filing a brief containing artificial intelligence-generated citation errors amid his representation of women who allege the Church of Scientology harassed them for reporting convicted actor Danny Masterson's sexual assaults.

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Epstein's Advisers Ink $35M Deal With Sex Trafficking Victims

By Katryna Perera

A class of victims of Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking scheme has asked a New York federal judge to grant the first OK in a settlement reached with Epstein's lawyer and accountant, who allegedly aided him in the scheme.

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Va. Judges Name New US Atty, But Blanche Says 'You're Fired'

By Lauren Berg

The federal judges in the Eastern District of Virginia on Friday unanimously appointed veteran litigator James W. Hundley to serve as interim U.S. attorney, a decision immediately met with derision from Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who purported to fire Hundley in a social media post.

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Class Attys Allege Lead Counsel Is Hoarding $75M Sutter Fees

By Dorothy Atkins

Schneider Wallace Cottrell Kim LLP has urged a California federal magistrate judge to enforce the $75.4 million fee award in Sutter Health's $228.5 million deal resolving a decade-long antitrust fight, arguing lead counsel Constantine Cannon LLP "unilaterally" and "arbitrarily" cut SWCK's fees by nearly $800,000 while boosting its own.

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Beasley Allen Can't Pause NJ Talc DQ Order, Judge Rules

By George Woolston

The Beasley Allen Law Firm can't delay an order disqualifying it from representing hundreds of women who claim their ovarian cancer was caused by Johnson & Johnson's talcum powder while it seeks review from the New Jersey Supreme Court, a state judge ruled on Friday.

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Fake Attys, Judges, Hearings: DOJ Alleges Immigration Scam

By Hailey Konnath

A group of Colombian immigrants scammed clients out of $100,000 by pretending to be immigration lawyers at a fake firm and orchestrating phony hearings in which they pretended to be judges and federal agents, complete with fake judicial robes and uniforms, federal prosecutors in New York said Friday.

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6th Circ. Chief Judge To Take Senior Status

By Courtney Bublé

Chief Sixth Circuit Judge Jeffrey Sutton announced on Friday that he will take senior status on Oct. 1 after more than 20 years on the bench.

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Judiciary Preps Training On National Injunction Limits

By Courtney Bublé

Seven months after the budget reconciliation bill was enacted, the federal judiciary is making progress on the provisions to rein in what Republicans deem abuse of nationwide injunctions targeting the Trump administration's initiatives.

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Analysis

Valve's Anti-Troll Law Win Could Open New Doors

By Dani Kass

The first jury verdict in the U.S. finding a patent owner violated state law meant to curb bad faith patent suits had unique circumstances that will be hard to repeat, but attorneys say Tuesday's decision still has them considering the little-used laws more closely.

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Florida AG Defends $100K Teaching Side Gig Amid Scrutiny

By Jake Maher

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has been on defense amid scrutiny over a reported $100,000-per-year teaching gig at the University of Florida law school, just as he sought to roll out a new anti-corruption unit.

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Attys Regret Unnoticed ChatGPT Errors In Conn. Court Filings

By Tracey Read

Attorneys ordered to explain errors in two January Connecticut Supreme Court briefs said ChatGPT altered legal arguments that counsel did not notice when they asked the artificial intelligence software to help limit duplicate passages, meet word count rules and format the filings.

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Brief

2nd NJ Defendant Joins Bid To Disqualify US Atty Leadership

By Carla Baranauckas

A second defendant in a New Jersey federal criminal case on Friday joined a pending bid to disqualify the three assistant U.S. attorneys overseeing the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey, escalating a constitutional challenge to the office's leadership structure.

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Beltway Moves: Baker McKenzie, Armstrong & Bradylyons

By Alison Knezevich

The deputy assistant attorney general of the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division returned to Baker McKenzie, while two former DOJ fraud prosecutors launched a new white collar boutique, in some of the latest legal industry happenings in Washington, D.C.

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Roundup

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

By Max Austin

The last week in London saw the founders of Getir sue investment fund Mubadala for more than $700 million tied to alleged breaches during the company's restructuring, the Welsh Rugby Union face a claim by Swansea Council over a proposed takeover of Cardiff Rugby, and Euro Car Parks target the Competition and Markets Authority after it was fined by the watchdog. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

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Roundup

GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

Several pension funds in New York City sued AT&T, alleging the illegal exclusion of their shareholder proposal requesting a corporate diversity report from the telecom giant's corporate ballot. In the meantime, the DOJ said the Trump administration is investigating federal contractors and grant recipients for potentially engaging in discrimination, rather than for their DEI programs. These are among the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Wigdor LLP and Elefterakis Elefterakis & Panek lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a New York federal judge denied the NFL's bid to force a class of National Football League coaches into arbitration.

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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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