Hytera Fights $290M Restitution Bid At Sentencing Hearing

By Celeste Bott

Counsel for Hytera Communications Corp. urged an Illinois federal judge Monday to reject prosecutors' request that it pay more than $290 million in restitution to Motorola Solutions Inc. for conspiring to steal its trade secrets, arguing during the first day of a two-day sentencing hearing that Motorola will be made whole by the more than $600 million Hytera must fork over in a parallel civil case.

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OpenAI Attys Must Share Internal Comms In Copyright MDL

By Hailey Konnath

A New York federal magistrate judge on Monday ordered OpenAI's in-house attorneys to share their internal communications regarding deleted training datasets with authors suing over the alleged use of copyrighted works to train ChatGPT, rejecting OpenAI's argument that the communications are privileged.

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Video Service Cameo Wins Order Against OpenAI In TM Row

By Elliot Weld

A California federal judge has granted celebrity video service Cameo a temporary restraining order barring OpenAI from using the Cameo mark during a trademark dispute, saying Cameo had shown it is likely to succeed in the case and would suffer harm without court intervention.

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Calif. AG Notches $1.4M Privacy Deal With Mobile App Maker

By Allison Grande

California's attorney general is continuing to build on his enforcement efforts under the state's data privacy law, announcing a new $1.4 million settlement with a mobile gaming developer that allegedly failed to offer consumers a way to opt out of the sale and sharing of their personal information and that disclosed data belonging to users under 16 without proper permission.

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Apple Fights Bid To Recertify 200 Million IPhone Buyer Class

By Bonnie Eslinger

Apple has urged the Ninth Circuit to deny a petition from customers seeking to restore certification of a consumer class plaintiffs say reaches "upwards of 200 million" with a collective $20 billion in damages, in litigation claiming that the tech giant violated antitrust laws with its App Store policies.

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Meta Buried Own Research On Youth Harm, Schools Say

By Emily Field

School districts are alleging that Meta clamped down on internal research showing that the mental health of young users suffered from compulsive use of its social media platforms, even as staff likened themselves to drug pushers.

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Nvidia Stole AI Co.'s IP And Trashed $1.5B In Value, Suit Says

By Lauren Berg

Nvidia Corp. obtained a tech startup's proprietary artificial intelligence software under the guise of a potential acquisition, used the software to develop its own product, then rendered $1.5 billion in IP worthless by publishing the software for anyone to download free, according to a lawsuit filed Monday in New York state court.

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Author Claims Snowflake Used Pirated Books To Train AI

By Ivan Moreno

Montana-based AI developer Snowflake Inc. has been hit with a proposed class action from an author who accuses the company of using his published books to train a series of large language models.

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Analysis

3 Federal Circuit Clashes To Watch In December

By Ryan Davis

The Federal Circuit's argument calendar for December includes a festive $71.4 million patent dispute about artificial Christmas trees, as well as a software company's bid to revive a nine-figure trade secrets and contract verdict against Ford that was slashed to a nominal $3.

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Analysis

$100K H-1B Fee Could Sow Seeds Of Innovation Abroad

By Britain Eakin

Startup founders and their attorneys are warning that President Donald Trump’s $100,000 H-1B visa fee could push innovation and domestic job growth overseas if the fee prohibits U.S. startups from hiring the talent they need.

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Oversight Chair Seeks USPTO Briefing On Litigation Funding

By Courtney Bublé

U.S. Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., chair of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, is seeking a briefing by the end of the month from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on third-party litigation funding and reforms the agency is working on.

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FCC To Update Rules For Low Power TV Stations

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission will consider next month whether to update the regulatory regime for low power TV broadcasters and adopt new rules to ensure anti-robocall compliance.

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HHS Says It Plans To Resume Sharing Medicaid Info With ICE

By Hailey Konnath

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has completed a decision-making process and established a new policy under which the agency will share certain Medicaid information with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to a notice published in the Federal Register on Monday.

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Judges Question Limits On FCC Power To Rework 4.9 GHz

By Christopher Cole

Washington, D.C., Circuit judges sounded unconvinced Monday that the Federal Communications Commission lacked authority to effectively hand control of 4.9 gigahertz airwaves to FirstNet during arguments from some band users' challenge to last year's controversial FCC revamp of the spectrum.

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Fed. Circ. Told To Erase 'Remarkable' $50M Fuel Tank IP Award

By Dani Kass

KUS Technology Corp. is urging the Federal Circuit to free it from a nearly $50 million judgment in Wisconsin for its alleged infringement of a fuel tank sensor patent owned by rival SSI Technologies.

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Google Calls Rumble's Recusal Bid Irrelevant To Its Appeal

By Andrea Keckley

Google is urging the Ninth Circuit to disregard concerns Rumble has raised about the trial judge's relationship with the tech giant's litigation vice president, saying Friday that the information is irrelevant to the YouTube rival's appeal of the court's ruling that its antitrust lawsuit was filed too late.

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Israeli Co. Can't Expand Contract Breach Suit Over $25M Deal

By Abigail Harrison

An Israeli smart packaging company can't enlarge a North Carolina Business Court contract breach suit, a judge ruled Monday, saying the amendment would "wholly transform" the case and prejudice defendant Sealed Air Corp.

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Credit Suisse Denies Role In Tech Exec's Alleged Stock Theft

By Katryna Perera

Credit Suisse has urged a New York federal judge to let it out of a lawsuit by an Aeva Technologies co-founder who claims the banking giant provided "institutional cover" to conspirators who allegedly stole tens of millions of dollars, arguing that it also fell victim to the scam.

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Amazon Says Digital Film Sales Are Not Like Owning DVDs

By Ben Adlin

Amazon has urged a Seattle federal court judge to toss a proposed class action alleging the company lies to customers about whether they actually own movies purchased on its Prime Video platform, arguing the e-commerce giant clearly informs buyers that "content might potentially become unavailable" later on.

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Calif. Personal Injury Law Firm Sued Over Ransomware Attack

By Gina Kim

A former Adamson Ahdoot LLP client lodged a proposed class action in California state court on Friday over a Nov. 3 ransomware attack, alleging the law firm failed to protect his personal information despite touting on its website that it follows industry standards to do so.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court last week delivered a packed mix of fraud allegations, merger fallout, corporate-governance reforms and jurisdictional fights, while a new academic report ignited debate over attorney fee awards in Delaware's influential corporate forum.

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Revolut Clinches $75B Valuation In Latest Share Sale

By Dawood Fakhir

International digital bank Revolut said Monday that it has reached a valuation of $75 billion after completing a share sale which involved investors including U.S. firm Coatue Management LLC and chips behemoth Nvidia.

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Digital-Focused SWB To Go Public Via $8.1B SPAC Merger

By Aislinn Keely

Financial services firm SWB announced Monday that it plans to go public through an $8.1 billion business combination deal shepherded by teams at Sichenzia Ross Ference Carmel LLP and Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP, which will lay the foundation for the firm's plans to issue a stablecoin and launch a novel international bank.

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Smith Ventures, CommerceOne Buy Fintech Biz In $1.1B Deal

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Fintech company Green Dot Corp. on Monday announced that it has agreed to be bought by Smith Ventures and CommerceOne Financial Corp. in deals that total $1.1 billion and were built by three law firms.

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OMB Issues New Drone Procurement Security Framework

By Madeline Lyskawa

Office of Management and Budget Director Russell T. Vought has outlined a new framework for government procurement of drones, telling federal agencies that funds should go toward boosting domestic manufacturing and warning against cybersecurity threats posed by purchasing foreign-manufactured drones. 

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Comcast To Pay $1.5M Over Hack Of Debt Collector, FCC Says

By Gina Kim

Comcast will pay $1.5 million and change its vendor oversight practices to resolve the Federal Communications Commission's investigation related to a 2024 data breach of a now-defunct debt collection company, which leaked the information of over 230,000 current and former Comcast customers, the agency announced on Monday.

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State AGs May Extend Their Reach To Nat'l Security Concerns

Companies with foreign supply-chain risk exposure need a comprehensive risk-management strategy to address a growing trend in which state attorneys general use broadly written state laws to target conduct that may not violate federal regulations, but arguably constitutes a national security threat, say attorneys at Wiley.

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Series

The Law Firm Merger Diaries: Making The Case To Combine

When making the decision to merge, law firm leaders must factor in strategic alignment, cultural compatibility and leadership commitment in order to build a compelling case for combining firms to achieve shared goals and long-term success, says Kevin McLaughlin at UB Greensfelder.

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Bonus Spotlight

Weil Matches Year-End And Special Bonuses For Associates

By Anna Sanders

Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP on Tuesday joined a cadre of other firms in matching the BigLaw standard for this year's associate bonuses.  

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Texas Law Firm, Atty Reach Tentative Deal In Age Bias Suit

By Rose Krebs

An attorney who sued a Houston-based law firm alleging she was fired in retaliation for having complained about age discrimination has reached "a tentative agreement" to resolve the matter, according to a filing in Illinois federal court.

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Fla. Law Student Expelled For Antisemitic Post To Be Reenrolled

By David Minsky

A Florida federal judge has ordered the reinstatement of a law school student who was expelled after he was investigated over antisemitic posts on social media, saying the university didn't prove his speech "constituted a true threat." 

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Husch Blackwell Blasts Ex-Firm Atty's ERISA Suit

By James Boyle

A former Hush Blackwell LLP partner's claim that the firm violated federal law by withholding monthly retirement account contributions misidentified the funds in question as participant contributions, when they were, in fact, contributions from the firm's year-end profit-sharing program.

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Judges Decline Invites To Senate Hearing On Impeachment

By Courtney Bublé

Two federal judges, both of whom Republicans are looking to impeach, declined to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing next week on the impeachment of "rogue" judges, a source familiar told Law360 on Tuesday.

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Democrats Seek Documents On Emil Bove's DOJ Tenure

By Courtney Bublé

Senate Democrats are turning to public records requests to learn more about the controversial tenure of U.S. Circuit Judge Emil Bove while he served at the U.S. Department of Justice, claiming that they're being "stonewalled" by the department.

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