Quinn Emanuel Seeks $750K After Defeating Buzbee Suits

By Lynn LaRowe

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP is seeking nearly $750,000 in attorney fees after defeating claims in Texas state court that it conspired with rapper Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter to retaliate against prominent Houston plaintiffs attorney Tony Buzbee and two of his former clients.

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Justices Skip 2 Patent Cases, 1 Trade Secret Dispute

By Theresa Schliep

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a trio of petitions concerning patent and trade secret litigation, declining to review questions about damages apportionment and patent eligibility.

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High Court Won't Review DirecTV Standing In Nexstar Fee Suit

By Christopher Cole

The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to review whether DirecTV has standing to sue broadcast chain Nexstar for allegedly working with two other station owners to fix retransmission fees for broadcast programs.

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Justices Won't Wade Into Netflix ERISA Document Fight

By Kellie Mejdrich

The U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to take up a Netflix employee health plan participant's challenge to a Ninth Circuit ruling that said contracts between Netflix and its health plan administrators weren't subject to disclosure under federal benefits law.

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Pepperdine Asks 9th Circ. For Another Shot At Netflix TM Suit

By Bonnie Eslinger

Pepperdine University is urging the Ninth Circuit to revive its trademark suit over the "Waves" team name used in a Netflix sports comedy series starring Kate Hudson, arguing that the district court judge's approach, "would give the entertainment industry carte blanche to infringe trademarks at will."

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Fox Tells DC Circ. Worker Wasn't Fired Over Leave, Politics

By Benjamin Morse

Fox News urged the D.C. Circuit to reject a former Capitol Hill producer's bid to revive claims that he was fired over his political views and use of sick leave, arguing he was terminated instead for insubordination and unprofessional conduct.

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ByteDance Can't Shake YouTubers' AI Video Copyright Suit

By Dorothy Atkins

A California federal judge refused Friday to throw out copyright litigation alleging TikTok owner ByteDance Inc. illegally scraped millions of YouTube videos to train its text-to-video AI products, finding that the content creators plausibly allege they've been harmed and that ByteDance circumvented at least some of YouTube's technological protections.

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Comedy Festival Accuses Apple, Tubi Of Infringement

By Kelcey Caulder

The organizer of America's longest-running urban comedy festival sued several entertainment distributors and a producer in Georgia federal court, accusing them of streaming its content on platforms including AppleTV+ and Tubi without authorization.

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Roblox Escapes Artist's AI Copyright Claims, For Now

By Elliot Weld

A California federal judge has allowed Roblox Corp. to duck claims from a 3D artist that his work had its copyright management information removed when it was used to train artificial intelligence but gave the artist a chance to remedy the issues with his suit.

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Nokia Says Pornhub Owner Freeloads On Its Video Patents

By Bonnie Eslinger

Nokia has filed a lawsuit in Texas federal court accusing Pornhub owner Aylo Holdings of infringing seven of its video coding patents in order to provide videos to "many millions of users."

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Verogen Genealogy Website Can't Escape DNA Privacy Suit

By Joyce Hanson

A California federal judge has preserved a proposed class action against the owner-operator of a genetic genealogy website, finding that the plaintiffs sufficiently showed that a technical loophole wrongly let law enforcement circumvent user opt-out privacy settings.

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NJ Panel Tosses Geofence Warrant, Upending Robbery Case

By Parker Quinlan

A New Jersey appeals court has ruled that police were incorrectly granted a geofence warrant because their application failed to establish a "nexus" between a string of gas station robberies and a potential suspect's cellphone location data.

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AppLovin Skirts Controls To Show Kids Explicit Ads, Suit Says

By Lauren Berg

The county of San Diego lodged a lawsuit Monday alleging digital advertising platform AppLovin Corp. strips away parental controls meant to shield children from sexual and violent material in order to steer graphic ads to children and harvest their sensitive information to train its artificial intelligence.

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Justices Won't Block Paramount's $110B WB Deal

By Dorothy Atkins

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday quickly rejected a request by consumers to immediately block Paramount Skydance's $110 billion purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery, which is expected to close Tuesday, while a lower court adjudicates their antitrust claims challenging the merger.

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Justices Won't Hear Google Maps Antitrust Case

By Bryan Koenig

The U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to scrutinize a Ninth Circuit decision declining to revive a proposed antitrust class action from app makers accusing Google of locking out rival maps products.

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DOJ, Google Want DC Circ. 'Priority' For Search Appeal

By Bryan Koenig

The U.S. Department of Justice and Google jointly asked the D.C. Circuit to prioritize their cross-appeals in the search monopolization case in order to schedule oral arguments as soon as Dec. 9.

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DOJ, Google Differ On Ad Tech Fix Timing, Oversight

By Bryan Koenig

The U.S. Department of Justice and Google offered disagreement Friday largely on relatively discreet points for the mandates meant to open up Google's advertising placement technology dominance, in a Virginia federal court filing where disputes centered heavily on how long the tech company has to implement changes and who'll monitor its compliance.

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Justices Turn Away Case Over NLRB Remedies And Review

By Braden Campbell

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday turned away an appeal of a Third Circuit ruling involving a number of labor issues, including the National Labor Relations Board's heightened remedies and the level of deference courts owe the agency.

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Colo. Caesar's Bartender Says Retaliation Cost Him Tips, Job

By Zach Dupont

A former casino bartender has told a Colorado federal judge he was retaliated against and terminated by his managers for reporting a coworker's drug use and sexual harassment.

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Crypto 'Godfather' Who Hired Cops To Extort Gets 6.5 Years

By Rae Ann Varona

A Los Angeles-based cryptocurrency businessman who called himself "The Godfather" was sentenced Monday to more than six years in prison and ordered to pay more than $23 million in restitution for getting Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies to harass his enemies and for separately stealing from Meta, federal prosecutors announced.

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Feds Wrap Up Case In $53M Uranium Finance Theft Trial

By Stewart Bishop

Manhattan federal prosecutors Monday concluded their case against a Maryland cybersecurity consultant accused of stealing about $53 million in crypto from Uranium Finance, a two-pronged heist that purportedly capitalized on "bugs" in smart contracts and brought about the end of the short-lived decentralized exchange.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court this past week temporarily froze roughly 32.1 million Talkdesk Inc. shares in a fight over a disputed foreclosure involving founder and CEO Tiago Paiva, while rejecting Saama Technologies founder Suresh Katta's nearly $68 million earnout bid and awarding the company about $7.3 million.

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FCC Evading Courts With 'Gamesmanship,' DC Circ. Told

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission is pursuing a road map for evading judicial review of major rulings, an advocacy group warned the D.C. Circuit in a case challenging Fox TV's Philadelphia license.

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Media Advocacy Groups Can't Join ABC Suit Against FCC

By Christopher Cole

A D.C. federal judge Monday denied two outside groups' bid to intervene in ABC's free speech suit against the Federal Communications Commission, saying they have not shown the network cannot adequately represent viewers' interests on its own.

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Brief

US Pushes For Reelection Of Int'l Radio Board Chief

By Christopher Cole

U.S. telecom regulators are urging their foreign counterparts to reelect the leader of a key global treaty-making body and have nominated another U.S. candidate for a top post in the organization ahead of a meeting next month in Qatar.

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Miss Universe Feud Must Proceed In Arbitration, Court Hears

By Joyce Hanson

The partial owners of the Miss Universe Organization asked the Delaware Chancery Court to throw out a Malaysian company's lawsuit over a soured share sale and strategic partnership deal, arguing the suit is premature because arbitration is already pending in the dispute.

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Exclusive

Jones Day Expands IP Team In San Francisco, Amsterdam

By Dani Kass

Jones Day has brought on an Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP partner and NautaDutilh's former technology group leader as partners in its intellectual property practice, the firm told Law360.

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Meta Smart Glasses Suit Will Test Privacy Law For Bystanders

In a consolidated suit over how Ray-Ban Meta AI smart glasses handle personal video footage, a recently proposed class of unwittingly recorded bystanders highlights questions over whether privacy laws and product disclosures adequately address the risks wearable recording devices pose to nonusers, say attorneys at Barnes & Thornburg.

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Analysis

Judge Clevenger's Intellect Defined His Time On Fed. Circ.

By Dani Kass

Newly retired Federal Circuit Judge Raymond Clevenger has an "exceptionally keen intellect" that allowed him to spot holes or new paths in cases that the parties or fellow panel members hadn't explored, his former colleagues told Law360.

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Sotomayor Warns Judges: Don't Scare Your Jurors

By Brandon Lowrey

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Monday criticized an Alabama trial court judge who frightened a pool of prospective jurors by ordering the arrest of a latecomer to jury selection, saying in a statement accompanying a denial of certiorari in the case that fear can undermine a defendant's right to an impartial jury.

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9th Circ. Pauses Rogoff's Return As Seattle US Atty

By Jack Karp

The Ninth Circuit has put on hold a Washington federal judge's decision to reinstate Roger Rogoff as Seattle's top federal prosecutor, a post Rogoff held for less than an hour before he was fired by President Donald Trump.

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Jackson Walker Deal Stalled By Standing Issue, Trustee Says

By Lauren Berg

The U.S. Trustee's Office told a Texas federal judge that its settlement with Jackson Walker LLP to disgorge fees from cases touched by scandal is on ice while a bankruptcy judge examines the watchdog's standing to seek such relief.

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Eckert Seamans Says Data Breach Harm Is Only Speculative

By James Boyle

Pittsburgh-based law firm Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott LLC told a Pennsylvania federal judge on Friday a pair of proposed class actions claiming damages from a data breach at the firm have not made specific complaints of actual harm caused by the breach and should be dismissed.

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