Harvest Sherwood Gets OK On $150M Replacement DIP

By Alex Wittenberg

Defunct food distributor Harvest Sherwood secured a Texas bankruptcy judge's approval on Wednesday to take on $150 million in new Chapter 11 financing and set up bidding procedures for its exit funding, defeating an objection from a litigation finance firm.

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Acer Can't Nix Texas Jury's $10M Verdict Over Monitor Patents

By Craig Clough

A Texas federal judge rejected Acer's effort to wipe out a jury's $10.3 million infringement award to rival SVV Technology Innovations over optical-film patents for monitors, finding the jury's verdict was supported by the evidence and the company's criticism of an SVV expert's methodology is too late.

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FTC Claims Trans Health Org. Lied About Medical Consensus

By Spencer Brewer

The Federal Trade Commission and several Republican-led states sued the World Professional Association for Transgender Health on Wednesday, telling a Texas federal court that the organization falsely touted a "medical consensus" while advocating for transgender healthcare for children.

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Mich. Court Says Rental Cap Affects Senior Care Home Value

By Michael Nunes

The Michigan tax tribunal wrongly ruled that a senior care facility's low-income units shouldn't be considered when assessing the property, a state appeals court panel said, remanding the case back to determine its valuation considering the rental restrictions.

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Brief

Crypto Mining Firm Gets $11M Award Confirmed

By Spencer Brewer

A Texas federal court confirmed a crypto mining company's $11 million arbitration award after the opposing party failed to show up at an arbitration hearing and then failed to respond or appear before the federal court.

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Ex-Texas City Worker Gets $272K For Fees After $2M Ask

By Grace Elletson

A Texas federal judge said a former worker can collect attorney fees on claims that the City of Hutto illegally demanded he return $400,000 in separation pay, but cited his dismissed race allegations in awarding him far less than the $2 million in fees, interest and costs he sought.

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Brief

No Deal Reached In Cheer Competition Antitrust Mediation

By Ganesh Setty

A mediator told a Texas federal court on Wednesday that cheerleading competition organizers and national cheer governing body U.S. All Star Federation Inc. were unable to reach a settlement this month of the organizers' antitrust lawsuit.

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Amazon Urges Fed. Circ. To Halt Patent Suit In Texas

By Adam Lidgett

Amazon has asked the Federal Circuit to force a Texas federal court to pause a suit accusing it of infringing a pair of Headwater Research LLC patents while a similar suit against Google plays out.

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Aequum To Escrow Inventory Sale Funds In First Brands Row

By Vince Sullivan

A Texas bankruptcy judge granted a preliminary injunction on Wednesday that will require the escrow of $18 million in inventory sale proceeds in a lien superiority dispute among lenders in the First Brands Chapter 11 case.

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3 Firms Guide Quantum Tech Co. EigenQ's $3B SPAC Merger

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Quantum technology company EigenQ Inc., advised by Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP, on Wednesday unveiled plans to go public by merging with Greenberg Traurig LLP-led special purpose acquisition company Silicon Valley Acquisition Corp. in a deal that values the business at $3 billion.

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Paul Weiss-Led Data Center Operator Csquare Files IPO Plans

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Data center operator CSquare Inc. has filed plans with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for its initial public offering, steered by Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP and Latham & Watkins LLP.

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Dykema Adds Privacy Pro In San Antonio From Quadrant Law

By Lynn LaRowe

Dykema Gossett PLLC has fortified its corporate finance and data privacy and cybersecurity practice groups in Texas with a San Antonio-based senior counsel who came aboard from Quadrant Law Group LLP.

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Texas AG's Payola Theory May Reach Beyond Music Platforms

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton recently issued investigative demands to five major music streaming platforms, appearing to invoke the payola concept as a consumer protection theory against the streaming business, a novel application that could extend to other companies monetizing on ranking, visibility or recommendation placement, say attorneys at Benesch.

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When Do Murals Qualify For IP Protection?

Artist Robert Wyland recently sued FIFA for painting over his 1999 "Ocean Life" mural to make room for a World Cup promotion in Dallas, spotlighting questions over the extent to which copyright law and the Visual Artists Rights Act protect different types of art, say attorneys at Armstrong Teasdale.

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Opinion

Rule Of Law Requires Gov't Engagement With Bar, Not Retreat

A federal agency's absence from national and local bar conferences, most recently illustrated by the U.S. Department of Justice's withdrawal from a New York City Bar Association white collar conference, disserves the bar, the government lawyers themselves and, ultimately, the administration of justice, says Muhammad Faridi at Linklaters.

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Judiciary Cites AI Deepfakes In Opposing Courtroom Cameras

By Courtney Bublé

Two bipartisan bills to bring cameras into federal courtrooms advanced Thursday, but the policymaking body for the federal judiciary continues to oppose them and raised the issue of deepfakes in the age of artificial intelligence.

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Trump Lawyer Advances In Senate Judiciary Noms Vote

By Courtney Bublé

The nomination of Matthew Schwartz to be a judge on the Second Circuit advanced out of committee Thursday.

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'Mortified' Atty Takes Blame For Fake Quotes In Taco TM Fight

By Ivan Moreno

A Connecticut attorney facing possible sanctions over fake case quotations in a taco restaurant trademark fight told a federal judge Thursday that he takes "full and unqualified responsibility" for the flawed filings, saying he is "mortified" and acknowledging that his verification process for AI-assisted legal work fell far short.

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Calif. Moves On Proposal To Allow Legal Aid By Nonlawyers

By Lynn LaRowe

The California Supreme Court has directed the state bar to solicit public comments on a proposed community justice worker program that would allow nonlawyers to provide limited legal assistance under the supervision of qualified legal aid organizations, according to a Thursday announcement.

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Analysis

Law Students Undeterred Under Trump's Immigration Climate

By Britain Eakin

In a climate where immigration lawyers are coming under the Trump administration’s scrutiny to tamp down on asylum fraud, law students are being ignited to enter the workforce early and rectify the injustices they see.

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Mich. Panel Sanctions Atty Over AI-Hallucinated Cases

By Susan Smiley

A medical malpractice suit in the Michigan Court of Appeals led to financial sanctions against an attorney who the court said during litigation repeatedly cited nonexistent cases that were generated by artificial intelligence.

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Ford Says 'Lemon Law' Firm Faked Bills Using Overseas Staff

By Linda Chiem

Ford Motor Co. on Thursday accused California personal injury firm Quill & Arrow LLP of defrauding it out of more than $25 million in high-priced legal bills for work actually handled by virtual assistants overseas and non-lawyers in scores of product liability cases against the automaker.

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NY High Court Upholds Mandatory Judge Retirement Age

By Dorothy Atkins

New York's highest court Thursday affirmed a ruling that rejected jurists' challenges to the Empire State's mandatory retirement age of 70 for state judges and justices, finding that the centuries-old constitutional mandate doesn't conflict with a recent state civil rights amendment banning age discrimination.

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Tort Report: Meta Set To Face Facebook Sex Trafficking Trial

By Y. Peter Kang

An upcoming trial in Texas for a first-of-its-kind case against Meta and claims against a health clinic owned by a U.S. senator lead Law360's Tort Report, which compiles recent personal injury and medical malpractice news that may have flown under the radar.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

General counsel may cringe at the news, but their chief financial officers will rejoice over a new study that shows the average spending by legal departments dropped to a six-year low in 2026. And two in-house Cigna lawyers are at the center of a finding of "improperly asserted privilege" over key company documents related to a payment lawsuit brought by three labs.

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