Forbes Strikes $10M Deal In Calif. Tracker Privacy Suit

By Craig Clough

A proposed class of Forbes.com website users has asked a California federal judge to preliminarily approve a $10 million settlement to resolve claims that Forbes Media violated Golden State privacy laws by using third-party tracking technologies on its website to collect and share visitors' data without their consent.

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Vivienne Westwood Ends IP Dispute Over Artists' Graffiti Work

By Gina Kim

Renowned fashion house Vivienne Westwood has agreed to end an intellectual property dispute initiated by a trio of prominent graffiti and street artists who accused the brand of exploiting their names and splashing their works across its apparel without permission, the parties told a California federal judge.

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Weinstein Atty Features Rape Accuser's Warm Words For Him

By Frank G. Runyeon

On cross-examination Friday, an attorney for Harvey Weinstein repeatedly confronted the woman accusing the longtime Hollywood producer of rape with her own kind words for him, but the witness remained firm in her assault claims.

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Don't 'Throw' Young Attys Under Bus, Judge Warns Musk Atty

By Dorothy Atkins

The California federal judge presiding over Elon Musk's challenge to OpenAI's for-profit conversion criticized Musk's attorney Marc Toberoff on Friday for eliciting "waste of time" trial testimony into Musk's $97.4 billion acquisition bid, warning Toberoff he "shouldn't throw young lawyers under the bus" by not quickly acknowledging his role.

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Ex-Staffer Says 50 Cent Pushed Her To Frame Bodyguard

By Kelcey Caulder

Rapper 50 Cent has been hit with a lawsuit in Georgia federal court by a former executive at his companies, claiming that he threatened and harassed her after she refused to file a police report accusing a bodyguard of theft. 

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Q&A

How Paul Clement Does It All

By Katie Buehler

For most lawyers, getting to argue before the U.S. Supreme Court is a once-in-a-lifetime event, but for a select few, it's a common occurrence. Clement & Murphy PLLC name partner Paul Clement is one of those lawyers. 

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Analysis

What To Watch For As Meta Stares Down NM Injunction Trial

By Cara Salvatore

The attorney general who convinced a jury to penalize Meta Platforms Inc. $375 million for teen mental health harms now faces a critical follow-up bench trial to fight for a suite of court orders that Meta claims would force "a different Instagram to exist in New Mexico."

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Vietnam Tops USTR Priority IP Watch List In Latest Report

By Adam Lidgett

Vietnam hasn't dealt with "long-standing" issues to protect and enforce intellectual property rights, and its actions have had the biggest negative impact on U.S. products, according to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative's latest annual global IP report.

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Zazzle Settles Suit Over Font Design Use

By Elliot Weld

Online retailer Zazzle has settled claims brought by a designer who alleged the site went beyond what was allowed by a license between the parties to use a copyrighted font she designed.

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Va. Social Media Limit Law Should Stay Blocked, Court Told

By Nadia Dreid

There's no reason a Virginia federal judge should stay her decision blocking the commonwealth from enforcing a law that limits children's access to social media to an hour a day unless they get special permission from their parents, says the trade group challenging the law.

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Media Matters Says Justices' New Ruling Secures Its FTC Win

By Nadia Dreid

The U.S. Supreme Court just handed down a decision in favor of an anti-abortion pregnancy center that a left-leaning media watchdog says supports its argument that a district court had the power to block a Federal Trade Commission subpoena before the agency tried to enforce it.

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Consumers Challenge Paramount-Warner Bros. Deal

By Bryan Koenig

News watchers and streaming subscribers have brought a lawsuit against Paramount Skydance Corp. opposing both its pending $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery and the completed tie-up between Skydance Media and Paramount Global, telling a California federal court the earlier transaction has already caused higher streaming prices.

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Streamers Say They're Not Like App Dog Walkers In Pay Suit

By Benjamin Morse

Performers for an adult livestream platform urged a Connecticut federal judge Friday to reject the platform operators' reliance on a ruling that found a dog-walking app was not a service provider with employees, arguing the out-of-state decision has no bearing on whether the performers were misclassified as independent contractors.

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Netflix Looks To Push Disability Bias Suit To Arbitration

By Patrick Hoff

A former Netflix engineer should have to arbitrate her lawsuit alleging she was fired for taking medical leave to address her mental health conditions, the streaming giant told a Georgia federal court, arguing her claims fall squarely in the purview of an arbitration agreement she signed.

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Citron Founder Slips False Statement Charge In Calif. Case

By Craig Clough

A California federal judge has trimmed Citron Research founder Andrew Left's securities fraud case by throwing out one criminal count accusing him of making false statements to federal agents, finding the proper venue for the charge is in Florida where the statements allegedly were made.

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Top Groups Lobbying The FCC

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission heard from lobbying groups almost 140 times in April on issues ranging from satellite spectrum sharing to the upcoming auction of C-band, changes to the E-Rate funding program, rules to tamp down on robocalls and more.

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Brief

ReConnect Program Back In Farm Bill Passed By House

By Nadia Dreid

The U.S. Department of Agriculture had floated the idea of ditching its ReConnect program, which provides loans and grants for broadband deployment in rural areas, but the farm bill that just passed through the House of Representatives included funding for the initiative.

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Live Nation Beats Punitive Damages In Festival Shooting Suit

By Ben Adlin

Live Nation won't face punitive damages in a lawsuit over two concertgoers' shooting deaths at the 2023 Beyond Wonderland music festival, a Washington state judge has ruled, finding that the plaintiffs failed to show the entertainment giant's alleged conduct was malicious.

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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 a Swiss energy trader bring a Financial List claim against shipping benchmarking company Baltic Exchange, law firm Slater and Gordon sued by a former client, Slack and Salesforce hit Microsoft with an antitrust claim, and Stephen Fry bring a personal injury claim after he broke bones falling off a stage. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a California federal jury cleared Armistice Capital and two of its executives of class action claims that it pumped and dumped $250 million in Vaxart stock during the COVID-19 pandemic and violated federal securities law with insider trading.

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Whistleblower Says DOJ Rushed SPLC Indictment

By Courtney Bublé

A whistleblower has come forward to say a top U.S. Department of Justice official ordered prosecutors in Alabama to "rush" the indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center despite concerns about the viability of the case, according to Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee.

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California High Court Rejects Dunn's Bid To Nix Suspension

By Adrian Cruz

The California Supreme Court has declined to review a California State Bar decision to impose a one-year stayed suspension on former State Bar executive Joseph Dunn.

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FTC, DOJ Say ABA Reliance Limits Law School Competition

By Matthew Perlman

The Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division told the Tennessee Supreme Court the American Bar Association's monopoly over law school accreditations is driving up the cost of legal education.

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Analysis

SEC's Corp. Governance Shift Puts Onus On States, Cos.

By Sarah Jarvis

Lawyers who work with clients on corporate governance matters had a warm response to a recent pledge from U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Paul Atkins to let states handle such issues, saying the shift marks a return to the agency's historical approach and may spur increased activity among state regulators.

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Ex-Bondi Adviser Tapped As Fraud Task Force's Chief Lawyer

By Phillip Bantz

Ousted U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi's former adviser is taking on a new role as general counsel for the White House's fraud task force.

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Roundup

GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

A pair of proxy advisory firms have sued two state attorneys general over laws they say impose burdensome requirements for issuing recommendations that go against corporate managers' wishes. Meanwhile, KPMG reports that legal is evolving into a key driver of business performance, and AI is a core component of the department. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.

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Roundup

The Top In-House Hires Of April

By Michele Gorman

Legal department hires during the past month included high-profile appointments at Intel, Colgate and Tripadvisor. Here, Law360 Pulse looks at some of the top in-house announcements from April.

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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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