Kash Patel Sues Atlantic For $250M Over 'Fabricated' Report

By Jared Foretek

FBI Director Kash Patel sued The Atlantic magazine for $250 million in damages Monday, claiming a recent report about his alleged drinking and absences from work was "fabricated" and designed to "drive him from office."

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Justices Decline 'Rapunzel' Dispute Over Trademark Standing

By Ivan Moreno

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a law professor's trademark appeal over the name "Rapunzel," leaving intact a Federal Circuit ruling that found consumers lack standing to challenge generic marks at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

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High Court Rejects Artist's Appeal In Walmart Copyright Feud

By Theresa Schliep

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday passed on reviewing a sculptor's efforts to save a portion of her copyright case against Walmart over photographs that appeared on its website, letting stand a Ninth Circuit decision that partly reversed her lower court win in the suit.

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Video Privacy Law Covers All Consumers, Supreme Court Told

By Allison Grande

A Paramount Global newsletter subscriber is pushing the U.S. Supreme Court to refrain from limiting the reach of the Video Privacy Protection Act to only consumers that directly subscribe to audiovisual goods and services, arguing that such a narrow application would require a rewrite of the decades-old statute. 

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CNN Says High Court Should Reject Dershowitz's Appeal

By Carolina Bolado

CNN has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reject a petition to revive Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz's $300 million defamation suit, calling Dershowitz a "uniquely unfit petitioner to force a constitutional showdown" over the high court's First Amendment jurisprudence.

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Fox Lawyer In Dominion Case Confirmed To Texas Bench

By Courtney Bublé

The Senate voted 47-46 Monday evening to confirm Andrew Davis, a partner at Lehotsky Keller Cohn LLP who defended Fox News in the Dominion Voting Systems defamation case, to serve on the bench in the Western District of Texas.

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The Onion Makes Deal To Run Alex Jones' Infowars

By Ben Zigterman

The state court-appointed receiver of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' Infowars media business has reached an agreement to license its trademark and domain name to The Onion, as the satirical news outlet seeks another chance at running Jones' website.

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Mobile Game Co. Lied About Reliance On Skill, Jury Told

By Elliot Weld

An attorney for mobile game maker Skillz Platform Inc. told a Manhattan federal jury Monday that rival Papaya Gaming Ltd. lied to customers about their ability to win based on skill in its games, and that bots made sure users never won too much.

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'It Isn't That Complicated': Judge Rips Nvidia Discovery Delays

By Dorothy Atkins

A California federal magistrate judge overseeing discovery in a group of writers' proposed copyright class action against Nvidia ordered the multitrillion-dollar AI chipmaker to produce basic discovery information within a month, saying "it isn't that complicated" and that she's "astonished" and "puzzled" by Nvidia's monthslong delays.

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Google Wants Piracy Case Trimmed After Cox Ruling

By Elliot Weld

Google has asked a Manhattan federal judge to throw out a contributory infringement claim asserted by a group of textbook publishers in light of a U.S. Supreme Court decision that held that internet service providers aren't accountable for piracy committed by users.

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Colorado Court Asked To Toss Trans Pilot's Defamation Suit

By Rachel Konieczny

A conservative social media influencer accused of defaming a transgender Army National Guard pilot by claiming that she caused the deadly January 2025 collision over the Potomac River has asked a Colorado federal judge to reconsider his decision not to throw out the lawsuit.

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Netflix Eyes $3M In Fees In Suit Where Ramey Drew $95K Fine

By Adam Lidgett

Netflix's attorneys at Baker Botts and Perkins Coie are asking a California federal court to order a Finnish national and his former attorney at Ramey LLP to pay $3 million in fees the streaming giant incurred in defending a patent suit.

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Reddit Defends Data-Scraping Claims Against Perplexity

By Matthew Perlman

Reddit Inc. is defending its case accusing Perplexity AI Inc. and three data-scraping companies of circumventing security measures to access copyrighted content in order to train the artificial intelligence startup's "answer engine."

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Northwestern Escapes Event-Photos Biometric Suit, For Now

By Lauren Berg

An Illinois federal judge tossed a proposed class action alleging Northwestern University's photographers capture and collect without permission the biometrics of people attending its events and then share the sensitive data with the SpotMyPhotos platform, but will allow the plaintiff to rework his complaint to provide more detailed allegations.

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Live Nation To Pay $9.9M To Ditch DC AG Ticket Pricing Probe

By Nadia Dreid

Live Nation will pay $9.9 million to escape a Washington, D.C., probe accusing it of deploying deceptive ticketing practices over the last decade, just days after a federal jury found that the company and its subsidiary Ticketmaster monopolized ticketing services for major concert venues.

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Live Nation Wants Expert, Damages Cut After Antitrust Verdict

By Matthew Perlman

Live Nation is asking a New York federal court to strike the testimony of a key expert witness for the states and to wipe the damages awarded by the jury based on her work, in the antitrust case accusing the company of monopolizing the live entertainment industry.

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Union Urges Court To Back Arbitrator In DirecTV Layoff Fight

By Rachel Konieczny

The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers has asked a Colorado federal judge to affirm an arbitrator's finding that DirecTV's layoffs of union-represented technicians violated a collective bargaining agreement between the two entities.

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Kylie Jenner Sued By Ex-Housekeeper Over Bias, Unpaid OT

By Gina Kim

A former housekeeper for Kylie Jenner has sued the celebrity influencer in California state court, alleging the housekeeper was forced to do additional work without pay, mocked by colleagues for her accent, treated as inferior due to her Salvadoran background, and that "things got violent" when she complained to her supervisors. 

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Feds Get SEC Suit Paused Against Corporate Raider Bilzerian

By Emilie Ruscoe

Prosecutors can pause U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission fraud claims in New York federal court against convicted corporate raider Paul Bilzerian and his associates as the government's own charges against him, his accountant and a vape company head for an October trial.

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ImmunityBio Stock Fell After FDA Letter, Derivative Suit Says

By Zak Kostro

Biotechnology company ImmunityBio Inc.'s stock slipped by 21% after misleading statements on a podcast by the company's founder about its lead cancer drug prompted the issuance of a warning letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, according to a shareholder derivative suit in California federal court.

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WWE Execs Urge Court To Reject 'Speculative' Evidence Bid

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court should not grant WWE shareholders' latest discovery motion, company leaders and related parties have said, arguing that investors' demand for more information about what they called deleted messages were unnecessary, unsupported and already satisfied.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court this past week delivered another mix of procedural rulings, fiduciary duty disputes and deal litigation, highlighting both the court's gatekeeping role and its continued focus on stockholder rights and transactional fairness.

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Analysis

Gov't Hopes Court Rescues FCC Fines. Here's What Amici Say

By Christopher Cole

A rare U.S. Supreme Court showdown between the Big Three wireless carriers and their regulator takes place Tuesday, when the justices will put the Federal Communications Commission's authority to issue fines under a microscope.

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House Votes To Re-Up National First Responder Network

By Christopher Cole

The U.S. House of Representatives voted Monday to reauthorize the First Responder Network Authority for another decade.

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Brief

E-Rate Bid Revamp Likely To Be Harmful, Advocates Tell FCC

By Nadia Dreid

An organization that normally champions the Federal Communications Commission's E-rate program, which subsidizes internet service for schools and libraries, has told the agency it thinks its plans to consolidate bids into a single competitive portal is a bad idea.

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Judge Largely Axes Protest Over NASA Movie Production Deal

By Madeline Lyskawa

A NASA contracting officer lacked the authority to enter into a long-term contract with a movie production company, a Court of Federal Claims judge said, axing the company's claims that NASA breached an implied agreement to lease space at a Louisiana facility for 10 years.

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Ill. Judge Sides With ICE Trackers In Meta Censorship Case

By Joyce Hanson

An Illinois federal judge has ruled in favor of a Facebook group and a phone app that track U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement immigration operations in their lawsuit accusing U.S. government officials of coercing Meta and Apple into disabling their content, finding their First Amendment rights were likely violated.

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Akin Taps Kirkland Atty To Lead Music Team

By Andrea Keckley

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP announced on Monday that it has hired a former Kirkland & Ellis LLP partner to lead its music practice, touting his work at the intersection of intellectual property, media and entertainment, technology and commercial transactions.

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The Role Of Operational Data In Tech Platform Liability Suits

As litigation becomes a de facto substitute for the regulation of major technology platforms, with plaintiffs advancing claims under product liability, public nuisance and consumer protection laws, among others, courts are evaluating how platform systems operate in practice based on large-scale operational data, say attorneys at Brattle.

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Del. Ruling Shows Power Of Postclose Governance Provisions

After the Delaware Court of Chancery reinstated a target company's CEO as part of the equitable remedy in Fortis Advisors v. Krafton, deal parties should emphasize the importance of postclosing governance provisions to earnout economics, knowing that they will have to live with these provisions for the duration of the earnout period, say attorneys at Sidley.

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Black McDermott Atty Says White Men Favored For Partner

By Lauren Berg

A Black female McDermott Will & Schulte attorney accused the firm of gender, race and pregnancy discrimination in a lawsuit lodged in California state court, saying she has been consistently bypassed for promotion by less-experienced white attorneys and was yanked off casework after taking medical leave following a life-threatening illness during pregnancy.

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'Kind Of Lawyering We Don't Like': Judge Rips Quinn Emanuel

By Bonnie Eslinger

Guardant Health Inc. urged a California federal judge on Monday to make Quinn Emanuel pay nearly $1.3 million on top of $3 million in sanctions already imposed over misrepresentations lawyers made representing its rival Natera Inc., prompting the judge to criticize Quinn Emanuel lawyers for making distinctions so fine they veer into misrepresentation.

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Q&A

She Has A Point: Fish & Richardson's Nitika Gupta Fiorella

By Dani Kass

Fish & Richardson PC principal Nitika Gupta Fiorella is "a no-stone-unturned, always super prepared" lawyer who "epitomizes professionalism and respect," according to Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner LLP partner Cora Holt.

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Justices Won't Consider IP Theft Allegations Against Akin

By Dani Kass

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a former Cornell University graduate student's petition trying to revive his malpractice suit against Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP stemming from patent litigation against Illumina Inc. over DNA sequencing intellectual property.

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DC Ethics Office Says Ex-Interim US Atty Can't Remove Case

By Emily Sawicki

Washington, D.C., ethics officials have asked a federal court to send U.S. Department of Justice official Ed Martin's ethics case back to the D.C. Board on Professional Responsibility, arguing the D.C. federal court lacks jurisdiction over a disciplinary matter, which is neither a civil action nor a criminal prosecution.

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Ex-Newman Clerks, Judges Back High Court Suspension Fight

By Adam Lidgett

A group of former clerks for Federal Circuit Judge Pauline Newman, as well as former federal judges, have urged the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the challenge to her suspension imposed by her colleagues.

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Insurer Intentionally Avoiding $200M Loan Claim, Court Told

By Hope Patti

A litigation funding firm has accused its insurer of wrongfully refusing to pay out its policy's guaranteed $200 million in coverage for an unpaid loan, saying the insurer buried it in duplicative and burdensome information requests to avoid paying a valid claim.

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Judge Says Ill. Justices Can't Fire Him Over MAGA Op-Ed

By Jack Karp

Illinois Supreme Court justices have no authority to remove a state judge from the bench for alleged misconduct, so their effort to dismiss a retired state trial judge's claims that his removal for penning a political opinion column violated his constitutional rights should be rejected, the retired jurist has said.

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