Ex-Joe Gibbs Racing Director Barred From Using Secrets

By Abigail Harrison

Joe Gibbs Racing LLC succeeded in blocking former competition director Christopher Gabehart from using or disclosing its trade secrets, after a North Carolina federal court found the NASCAR team was likely to prevail on its misappropriation and contract breach claims against him.

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MV Realty To Pay $4.5M To End NC Suit Over 40-Year Contracts

By Abigail Harrison

Embattled Florida real estate company MV Realty agreed to pay $4.5 million to end a lawsuit from the North Carolina attorney general accusing it of using shady business practices to lock homeowners into decades-long listing agreements with predatory rates, according to a consent judgment.

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Toshiba Subsidiary Must Face Black Worker's Bias Suit

By Patrick Hoff

A Toshiba retail technology subsidiary can't escape a Black business analyst's lawsuit claiming he was demoted and excluded from meetings and training opportunities because of his race, with a North Carolina federal judge ruling that his allegations against the company were detailed enough to proceed to discovery.

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FTC Says It Has Evidence To Back Pesticides Antitrust Case

By Matthew Perlman

The Federal Trade Commission is pushing back against bids from Syngenta Corp. and Corteva Inc. in North Carolina federal court to escape allegations of using loyalty rebate schemes to block competition from rival generic pesticides.

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Judge Shields More Colleges From Admissions Data Survey

By Carolyn Muyskens

A Boston federal judge on Friday blocked enforcement of the federal government's demand for seven years' worth of college admissions data from dozens of universities, following an earlier ruling enjoining the U.S. Department of Education survey for the public colleges of 17 states.

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States Seek Early Win In Challenge To Trump Mail-In Ballot EO

By Carla Baranauckas

A coalition of Democrat-led states is asking a Massachusetts federal judge to permanently block core provisions of President Donald Trump's executive order limiting mail-in voting, arguing the directive unlawfully encroaches on states' authority over elections and violates the Constitution's separation of powers.

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4th Circ. Won't Stay Bargaining Order Pending High Court Bid

By Irene Spezzamonte

The Fourth Circuit turned down a Virginia trucking company's bid to stay a mandate requiring the entity to bargain with the union that workers tried to incorporate before facing pressure to vote against representation.

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Roundup

Taxation With Representation: Gibson Dunn, Paul Weiss

By Zak Kostro

In this week's Taxation With Representation, Elon Musk's SpaceX strikes a deal with Cursor that could lead to an acquisition of the artificial intelligence startup, building products distributor QXO Inc. buys TopBuild Corp., and Eli Lilly & Co. acquires clinical-stage biotechnology company Kelonia Therapeutics.

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Real Estate Recap: Insurance Allure, People Pinch, Blackstone

By Real Estate Authority Staff

Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including an alluring source of capital for real estate investment trusts, how competition for skilled workers may hamper data center development, and Blackstone Inc.'s take on the first quarter of the year.

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Analysis

One Certainty As Tariff Refunds Start: 'There Will Be Litigation'

By Chris Villani

The launch of the refund process for tariffs struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court marks the start of lengthy and multifaceted court battles as companies fight with consumers — and amongst themselves — about who gets a slice of the $166 billion pie, experts told Law360.

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DLA Piper Clears Vote To End Verein, Unify Leadership

By Tracey Read

DLA Piper announced Friday that firm partners on both sides of the Atlantic have "overwhelmingly approved" a plan to dissolve its Swiss verein structure effective May 1.

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Judge Albright Reflects On 8 Years Shaping Patent Law

By Dani Kass

U.S. District Judge Alan Albright will be walking away from the Western District of Texas at the end of the summer, ready to head back into patent litigation work. He talked with Law360 on Friday about the rockier elements of his judgeship and lessons he'll take into private practice.

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Wigdor Sanctioned For Lying In Leon Black Rape Case

By Ryan Boysen

Prominent victims rights law firm Wigdor LLP has been sanctioned for lying to a New York federal judge while pursuing a lawsuit that claims ex-Apollo Global Management CEO Leon Black raped a teenager provided to him by convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Consovoy McCarthy PLLC, Butler Prather LLP, Bowen Painter LLC and Cannella Snyder LLC lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Fluor Corp. can be held liable for a veteran's state-based injury claims stemming from a 2016 suicide bombing in Afghanistan.

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Oregon Lawyer Ordered To Pay Attorney Fees For Use Of AI

By Matt Perez

An Oregon attorney was sanctioned by a state appellate court for filing a brief containing a fabricated list of authorities because she used generative artificial intelligence, marking the first case in the jurisdiction to present the option of awarding attorney fees as a sanction as opposed to fines payable to the court.

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Akin Can't 'Recast' Appeal As Good-Faith Effort, 9th Circ. Told

By Lauren Berg

A European winemaker slammed attempts by a U.S. importer and its Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP attorneys to "recast a frivolous appeal as a good-faith effort," saying they should have to pay monetary sanctions for pursuing what the Ninth Circuit called a "self-indulgent" appeal of a valid arbitration award.

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Up Last At High Court: TPS, Geofence, Skinny Labels

By Katie Buehler

The U.S. Supreme Court will close out its oral argument portion of the 2025 October term by hearing a panoply of disputes over the constitutionality of geofence warrants, the existence of aiding and abetting torture claims, and the rescission of temporary protected status for hundreds of thousands of immigrants.

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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 Hong Kong company sue the government and a COVID-19 PPE company linked to Tory peer Michelle Mone, an oligarch bring a fresh claim against a rival in a long-running feud, a rugby league club sue over a canceled mass dance event, and Visa and Mastercard hit with legal action from H&M, Eurostar, and Bang & Olufsen. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

In what may be a first, a federal judge has ordered BJ's Wholesale Club to put an investor's climate-related proxy proposal up for a vote of the shareholders at the company's annual meeting. And a new study shows that more in-house counsel are staying in place despite pay increases slowing amid less competition for talent.

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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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