Trial Errors 'Crippled Goldstein's Defense,' 4th Circ. Hears

By Jeff Overley

Appellate luminary Tom Goldstein unveiled a sweeping and forceful critique aimed at erasing his felony fraud convictions, telling the Fourth Circuit that prosecutors were hell-bent on convicting him "no matter the facts or law," disregarded a star witness "incompetence" and benefited from a trial judge's "inexplicable" rulings.

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'Quiet On Set' Makers Beat Producer's Libel Fight On Appeal

By Dorothy Atkins

A California appellate court Thursday reversed a lower court ruling and threw out Nickelodeon producer Dan Schneider's defamation suit against Warner Bros. Discovery and the makers of the "Quiet on Set" docuseries, finding that the series constitutes speech protected by the anti-SLAPP statute and Schneider isn't likely to win his claims.

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Sam Smith Struggles To End 'Dancing With A Stranger' IP Suit

By Craig Clough

A California federal judge said Friday he's unlikely to dismiss a copyright infringement suit accusing pop singers Sam Smith and Normani of copying another song in their 2019 hit "Dancing With a Stranger," saying he's not convinced that case law supports dismissing the suit after the Ninth Circuit revived it.

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Collectors Accuse Art Dealers Of $6.7M Fake Warhol Scheme

By Carolina Bolado

A family of art collectors has filed a racketeering suit against a group of people accused of helping a Miami art gallery owner sell the family $6.7 million worth of fake Andy Warhol paintings.

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'FBoy Island' Star-Turned-Va. Candidate Sues Over Kalshi Fine

By Hailey Konnath

A lawyer and former contestant on the reality series "FBoy Island" has sued Kalshi after he was banned for trading on prediction markets about his own political campaign, saying he's not advocating for political candidate trading, rather, he's highlighting the monetization of candidates on prediction markets.

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Interview

ABA Cyber Task Force Co-Chair Eyes AI Education Boost

By Allison Grande

With the legal industry presenting a more and more enticing target for cyberattacks, it's becoming increasingly important for practitioners to know how to best protect clients' data and most effectively use emerging artificial intelligence tools — a task that the American Bar Association's Cybersecurity Legal Task Force is well positioned to assist with, its incoming co-chair recently told Law360.

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Co. Ordered To Pay Dating Sites $821K Fees They're Owed

By Elliot Weld

A patent-holding company has been ordered to pay about $821,000 in attorney fees and costs to eHarmony and corporate sibling The Meet Group after its patent infringement suits failed in light of the U.S. Supreme Court's Alice test.

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In-House Atty Org. Says Rival Ripped Off Data For AI Tool

By Andrea Keckley

The Association of Corporate Counsel alleges in Delaware federal court that its competitor used the nonprofit's proprietary materials to train its artificial intelligence tool Lloyd and "brazenly promoted its Lloyd product by showing the public that ACC materials could be accessed via Lloyd."

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Meta 'Voiceprint' Privacy Suit Turns On Use Terms, Judge Says

By Bonnie Eslinger

A California federal judge mulling Meta's motion to dismiss a proposed class action claiming the tech giant secretly and unlawfully captures Facebook users' "voiceprints" and related biometric information said he'd review the social media platform's privacy and use terms, which he said would be "controlling."

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Brief

Verizon Drops T-Mobile Suit Over Ads Claiming $1K Savings

By Nadia Dreid

Verizon has quietly dropped its lawsuit in New York federal court accusing T-Mobile of running advertisements falsely claiming that consumers could save more than $1,000 a year by switching carriers, after Verizon won an injunction earlier this year.

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Academic Publishers Tell 2nd Circ. Antitrust Case Fell Short

By Matthew Perlman

Major publishers of academic journals urged the Second Circuit to reject an appeal from researchers accusing them of colluding to eliminate pay for peer reviewers and impose other restrictions, saying the case is based on ethical guidelines that do not reflect a conspiracy at all.

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Fanatics, TikTok Accused Of Squeezing Out Other Sellers

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

Fanatics and TikTok have been sued by a sports memorabilia seller alleging they orchestrated a "coordinated scheme" intended to push independent livestream "breakers" out of the NFL collectibles market by banning or suppressing them unless they agreed to exclusively buy and sell Fanatics products.

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X Wins Arbitration Bid In $500M Severance Suit

By Benjamin Morse

A former Twitter employee must arbitrate a suit seeking more than $500 million in severance the company promised after Elon Musk's takeover, a Delaware federal court ruled Friday, rejecting the worker's argument that the company had already refused arbitration.

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9 Prediction Markets Ordered To Stop Operating In Conn.

By Aislinn Keely

Connecticut has directed nine prediction market operators to close up shop in the state for allegedly offering off-label sports bets, while separately requesting several media outlets, payment processors and data organizations hand over information that could be relevant to the state's prediction market investigations.

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Bongino Disavows Inside Knowledge On Parler Ouster

By Cara Salvatore

Former deputy FBI director Dan Bongino testified Friday that he was not privy to decisions leading to social media company Parler's 2021 ouster of its CEO, but he was pressed over having seen a draft of the document revision that supposedly allowed the CEO's 40% interest to be confiscated.

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Tesla Investors Press Del. High Court To Keep Cases In State

By Jessica Corso

Tesla Inc. investors have asked the Delaware Supreme Court to keep in the state a trio of lawsuits accusing the carmaker and its CEO, Elon Musk, of breaching their fiduciary duty, after a Chancery Court judge ruled earlier this year that the cases belong in Texas.

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Social Media-Focused Fund Founder Bilked Clients, Feds Say

By Pete Brush

A New York City hedge fund manager lulled clients into keeping millions of dollars invested with his social media- and crowdsourcing-focused business by reporting high rates of return that were not real, federal prosecutors charged Friday.

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Trump Admin Pulls Back Obama-Era Spectrum Policy

By Nadia Dreid

The White House is retracting an Obama-era guidance that it says makes it harder for the government to repurpose spectrum in a move that it says will "dramatically improve" the process of turning federally used spectrum usable for 6G.

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Va. Agency Tells FCC Verizon Copper Retirement Affects 150K

By Nadia Dreid

The Virginia State Corporation Commission is wary about Verizon's plan to end all legacy copper line service in the commonwealth, telling the Federal Communications Commission that 5% of the mobile behemoth's customers in the state still use wireline services.

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FCC Can't Avoid Final Order On Fox Philly Issue, Court Told

By Christopher Cole

A media advocacy group told the D.C. Circuit on Friday that the Federal Communications Commission cannot sidestep its duty to issue a final order on whether to dismiss a petition over Fox TV's character fitness for a broadcast license in Philadelphia.

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Brief

Senate Committee Soon Taking Up Anti-Jawboning Bill

By Christopher Cole

A key U.S. Senate panel on communications issues plans Sept. 16 to vote on a bill that would seek to prevent government officials from exerting undue influence over news organizations and social media platforms.

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IRS Can Withhold Docs That May Air Taxpayer ID, Court Rules

By Zak Kostro

The IRS may withhold documents sought by a tax news publisher, a Washington, D.C., federal judge said, finding the subject is prominent enough that disclosing the records could allow the taxpayer to be identified using a former IRS contractor's leak of President Donald Trump's tax returns and thousands of others.

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Minnesota Vikings Seek Payment In Sleep Number Ch. 11

By Yun Park

An affiliate of the Minnesota Vikings has asked a New York bankruptcy judge to require Sleep Number to pay more than $313,000 that the NFL team says the mattress company owes under a sponsorship agreement.

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Attorneys Using AI May Have Ethical Duty To Redact Docs

The trajectory of legal ethics guidance in recent years strongly suggests that as redaction technology becomes more accessible, the failure to use it when uploading highly confidential materials into artificial intelligence tools will become increasingly difficult to defend as reasonable, say attorneys at Lewis Brisbois.

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Senior Lawyers Survey: Tell Us About Your Career

How are senior lawyers adapting to evolving career paths and emerging technologies? Share your perspective in this five-minute survey.

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Greenberg Traurig, Eckert Seamans Hit By Data Breaches

By Ryan Boysen

Greenberg Traurig LLP and Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott LLC have publicly revealed that they've been hit by data breaches, adding to the dozens of cybersecurity incidents U.S. law firms have suffered this year.

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Analysis

Midterm Wins Could Help Dems Probe Trump's BigLaw Deals

By Courtney Bublé

If the Democrats take back one or both chambers of Congress in the midterm elections, a big item on their oversight agenda will be to step up ongoing investigations of the deals that nine major law firms cut with the Trump administration last year.

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Personal Injury Firm Beats Atty's Bid For 'Birth Justice' TM

By Adam Lidgett

A former associate at a personal injury and medical malpractice law firm can't register in her own name a trademark for birth-injury legal services that she helped develop before and during her employment with the firm, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board has ruled.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

AI is driving a significant gap between in-house legal departments' budgets and the cost of their workloads, according to a new study. Speaking of gaps, a new Law360 Pulse report on women in law found that men still make up 71% of law firm equity partners and 63% of nonequity partners. These are some of 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

Elias Law Group LLP and Stinson LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Missouri cannot use a newly drawn congressional map that favors Republicans in the midterms.

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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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