POLICY & REGULATION
LITIGATION
Panasonic Can't Get Fees After $1 Touchscreen Tech Loss
By Christine DeRosa
A Michigan federal judge on Thursday ruled that Panasonic can't collect nearly $318,000 in legal fees after Panasonic unit Sanyo North America Corp. was found to be on the hook for $1 in damages earlier this year to electronics company Oldnar Corp. for wrongly using its touchscreen technology to develop a vehicle console for General Motors.
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Inovalon Investors' Revived Chancery Suit Moves Forward
By Katryna Perera
A Delaware chancellor sent into discovery investors' claim that Inovalon didn't properly disclose that a consortium of private equity firms that bought the healthcare data company paid $400 million in fees to its financial adviser before the transaction, dismissing some claims but finding it is "reasonably conceivable" that the suit's defendants acted in bad faith.
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United Center Vendor Sued Over Use Of Amazon Technology
By Celeste Bott
A Compass Group subsidiary that provides food and beverage services to the United Center in Chicago has been sued in Illinois state court by concessions customers who claim it failed to get the informed consent required under the state's biometric privacy law before collecting their biometric information through Amazon's Just Walk Out cashierless checkout technology.
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DEALS
BANKRUPTCY
23andMe Ombudsman Not Confident Sale Is Lawful
By Ben Zigterman
The privacy expert probing 23andMe's proposed sale of customers' genetic data in bankruptcy told a Missouri federal judge Wednesday that he couldn't determine the deal wouldn't violate state privacy laws and recommended the company be required to obtain consent from its customers before handing over the data.
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ENFORCEMENT
PEOPLE
EXPERT ANALYSIS
5 Open Questions About FDA's AI-Assisted Review Plans
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently touted the completion of a generative artificial intelligence program for scientific reviewers and plans for agencywide deployment to speed up reviews of premarket applications, but there is considerable uncertainty surrounding the tools' ability to protect trade secrets, avoid bias and more, say attorneys at King & Spalding.
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LEGAL INDUSTRY
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
By Max Austin
This past week in London has seen Tottenham Hotspur FC kick off against Manchester United co-owner Ineos Automotive following a soured sponsorship deal, Acer and Nokia clash over patents for video coding technology, and two investors reignite litigation against the founders of an AI exercise bike business that unlawfully pocketed $1.2 million in investments to fund their own lifestyles. 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 Michele Gorman
Compliance experts say corporate leaders with business interests south of the border are worried about possible terrorism-related charges under the Trump administration for inadvertently working with the cartels. Meanwhile, the head of Glass Lewis pushed back against allegations from some lawmakers concerning the firm's "expansive, opaque and ideologically driven influence" on companies. 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
The Institute for Justice, Mitchell Shapiro Greenamyre & Funt LLP, Spears & Filipovits LLC and attorney Lisa Lambert lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Constitution's supremacy clause cannot shield the federal government from Federal Tort Claims Act suits.
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