Albright Explains Why He Cleared Apple Again In Fintiv Case

By Adam Lidgett

Fintiv failed to show that Apple products with the Apple Pay and Apple Wallet features meet certain elements of a Fintiv mobile wallet patent, Western District of Texas Judge Alan Albright said in an opinion detailing why he cleared the technology giant of certain infringement allegations.

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Boehringer Long Ignored Zantac's Cancer Risks, Jury Hears

By Lauraann Wood

Boehringer Ingelheim ignored years of mounting concerns that the active ingredient in its over-the-counter drug Zantac degraded into a highly toxic compound, and it simply changed the color of its tablets to shield their problems, a colorectal cancer patient told an Illinois state jury Monday.

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Defense In Gilgo Beach Killings Case Opposes DNA Evidence

By Elizabeth Daley

Rex Heuermann, accused in a series of Gilgo Beach killings, is urging a New York state court not to allow the admission of DNA evidence in his murder trial, arguing that the "paradigm shifting methodology" employed to link him with hair found on victims is too untested to pass rigorous court admissibility standards for the first time.

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Newsmax Settles Dominion Defamation Suit For $67M In Del.

By Jeff Montgomery

Newsmax Inc. and Dominion Voting Systems Inc. have settled for $67 million Dominion claims that Newsmax falsely accused the voting machine company of rigging the 2020 election in favor of former President Joe Biden.

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Monsanto Reaches Terms To Settle Wash. School PCB Torts

By Rachel Riley

Monsanto has come to tentative settlement terms to end claims from roughly 200 people who say they developed various health problems from chemical contamination at a Washington state school site, parent company Bayer AG said Monday.

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Albright Delays EcoFactor-Google Damages Retrial For PTAB

By Dani Kass

U.S. District Judge Alan Albright is making EcoFactor Inc. wait for Patent Trial and Appeal Board proceedings to finish before scheduling a highly anticipated retrial, ordered by the full Federal Circuit, on how much Google should pay for infringing its thermostat patent.

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Ex-NY AG Immune From Malicious Prosecution Suit

By Cara Salvatore

Former New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has immunity from a suit by a former New York City Council member claiming wrongful prosecution, a federal judge has ruled.

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Fla. Rapper Sentenced To 3½ Years In Prison For $1M Fraud

By David Minsky

A Florida federal judge sentenced a Miami rapper to more than three years in prison after a jury convicted him of fraud-related charges in connection with a scheme to defraud luxury merchandise vendors of more than $1 million. 

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Pa. Court Affirms $7.3M Verdict To Man Hit By SEPTA Train

By Y. Peter Kang

A split Pennsylvania appeals panel on Monday upheld a $7.3 million jury verdict in a suit accusing a construction company of negligently causing a subcontract worker to get hit by a SEPTA train while working, saying the company can't be considered the man's employer for purposes of workers compensation immunity.

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Mich. Judge Keeps Eagles Player In NCAA Fight On Field

By Bonnie Eslinger

A Michigan state court judge has granted a preliminary injunction allowing an Eastern Michigan University offensive lineman to remain on the football team while he challenges a five-year eligibility cap for college athletes, saying the player has shown a likelihood of success at trial on his claims.

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Reel Justice: 'Eddington' Spotlights Social Media Evidence

In the neo-Western black comedy “Eddington” released last month, social media is a character unto itself, highlighting how the boundaries between digital and real-world conduct can become blurred, thereby posing evidentiary challenges in criminal prosecutions, says Veronica Finkelstein at Wilmington University School of Law.

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Rebuttal

BigLaw Settlements Should Not Spur Ethics Deregulation

A recent Law360 op-ed argued that loosening law firm funding restrictions would make BigLaw firms less inclined to settle with the Trump administration, but deregulating legal financing ethics may well prove to be not merely ineffective, but counterproductive, says Laurel Kilgour at the American Economic Liberties Project.

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Litigation Funder Burford Eyes Investments In US Law Firms

By Ryan Boysen

Burford Capital LLC, the world's largest litigation funder, is eyeing an investment model to put money directly in U.S. law firms after years of investing in U.S. lawsuits, its chief development officer told Law360 Pulse.

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Fired DOJ Antitrust Deputy Warns Of Lobbyist Influence

By Matthew Perlman

The former top deputy for the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division, Roger P. Alford, defended the agency's leadership Monday while calling out a pair of senior officials and warning of the influence that lobbyists are wielding over merger reviews and other issues.

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Fried Frank Escapes Sanctions Over Flawed RICO Patent Suit

By Emily Sawicki

A Florida federal court has rejected sanctions motions leveled against Tristar Products Inc. and its counsel at Fried Frank for bringing a doomed anti-racketeering patent fraud lawsuit against Telebrands Corp., finding that the claims were not frivolous despite "myriad" flaws and "sloppy lawyering."

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SDNY Judges OK Trump's Selection Of Jay Clayton As US Atty

By Hailey Konnath

The Southern District of New York on Monday permitted Jay Clayton to continue overseeing the district's prosecutorial office, appointing Clayton as U.S. attorney just a day before his tenure as interim U.S. attorney was set to expire.

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Burr & Forman Must Face Claims From Healthcare Scheme

By Chart Riggall

A Georgia federal judge has denied Burr & Forman LLP's bid to escape a lawsuit accusing the firm of being party to a massive healthcare fraud scheme, ruling that it must largely face malpractice and breach of fiduciary claims from a pair of bankruptcy trustees.

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NJ Feds Say Habba's US Atty Role Unusual, But Not Unlawful

By Lauren Berg

Acting U.S. Attorney Alina Habba on Monday doubled down on her argument that President Donald Trump legally appointed her New Jersey's top federal prosecutor, telling a federal judge that this is simply "an unusual situation" created when the district court last month refused to extend her interim tenure.

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Lawmaker Pans 'Selective' Charges Over ICE Facility Clash

By Carla Baranauckas

U.S. Rep. LaMonica McIver has moved to dismiss criminal charges against her from a May confrontation with federal agents at an immigrant detention center in Newark, New Jersey, arguing she is immune from prosecution under the U.S. Constitution's speech or debate clause and is being selectively targeted by the government.

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Whiteford Taylor Must Face Wire Fraud Malpractice Suit

By Emily Sawicki

A Maryland federal judge has declined to toss the majority of a malpractice and gross negligence suit brought by the founder of a construction company who accused his former business partners and their shared counsel of being partially to blame for hackers stealing his $4 million share of proceeds from the sale of their business.

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Treasury Seeks Input On Tech To Combat Crypto Crimes

By Aislinn Keely

The U.S. Department of the Treasury on Monday asked the public to share feedback on how novel technologies might be used to detect and thwart illicit crypto activity, fulfilling a directive under a recently signed bill to regulate stable value tokens.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Sydney Price and Jeff Montgomery

Executives and board members of Cencora Corp. tentatively settled a stockholder derivative suit for $111.25 million, VectoIQ board members reached a $6.3 million deal on stockholder claims over electric carmaker Nikola's prospects, and class attorneys who secured a $50 million derivative suit settlement saw their proposed 25% attorney fee cut by almost half. Here's the latest from the Delaware Chancery Court.

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