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August 08, 2025
Conn. Legislation Highlights In The 1st Half Of 2025
The highest-profile bill of Connecticut's 2025 legislative session was the state's two-year, $55.8 billion budget, which increased salaries for judges, boosted access to early childhood education programs and made changes to corporate taxes that are expected to raise around $350 million. But lawmakers also tackled issues in family, criminal and employment law, with mixed success.
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August 08, 2025
Stewart Rejects 8 IPR Petitions While Overriding May Denial
Acting U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Coke Morgan Stewart used her director review powers to grant a petition for inter partes review that she'd previously denied, but otherwise largely supported patent owners in the small batch of recent discretionary denial reviews.
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August 08, 2025
Akin Hires 2 More Crowell & Moring Cyber Pros In DC
Following Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP's hire last month of Crowell & Moring LLP attorney Evan D. Wolff as co-head of its cybersecurity, privacy and data protection practice, two more Crowell & Moring lawyers will be joining the team.
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August 08, 2025
Google Loses Bid To Send Patent Case From WDTX To Calif.
A Western District of Texas magistrate judge has refused to ship to California a lawsuit accusing Google of infringing patents covering ways to safely do financial transactions on a mobile device, finding the tech giant failed to show the Golden State was more convenient.
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August 08, 2025
Medical Tech Startup Heartflow's Upsized IPO Raises $317M
Venture-backed medical technology company Heartflow Inc. began trading publicly on Friday after raising nearly $317 million in an upsized initial public offering that exceeded its initial price range, marking the latest in a wave of medtech startups to go public recently.
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August 08, 2025
Taxation With Representation: Latham, Alston & Bird, Orrick
In this week's Taxation With Representation, fiber optic connector systems maker Amphenol Corp. buys CommScope's connectivity and cable solutions business, Blackstone acquires Enverus from private equity firms, investors buy a majority stake in medical device company HistoSonics Inc., and ESPN swaps an equity stake for the National Football League's NFL Network and other intellectual property.
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August 08, 2025
Buchanan Ingersoll Hires Section 337 Leader From Polsinelli
Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC has brought on as shareholder an international trade attorney from Polsinelli PC to lead its International Trade Commission Section 337 practice, the firm has announced.
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August 08, 2025
New Jersey Litigation Highlights For The 1st Half Of 2025
More than halfway through 2025, the New Jersey legal community has seen the state lose its case against one of the most politically connected figures to never hold office, as well as the federal government dropping its case against two former technology executives accused of bribing foreign officials. Here are some of the biggest decisions and ongoing cases to watch for the rest of the year.
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August 08, 2025
Texas Modernizes Barratry Ban To Include Online Outreach
Texas, a state with a long history of outlawing prohibited legal services solicitation — known as barratry — has passed a bill updating its penal code to expand the definition of illegal barratry to cover new media, amid a reported rise in digital solicitation, with the amended law set to take effect on Sept. 1.
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August 08, 2025
Latham Steers Silver Lake On $400M Data Center Project Fund
Private equity firm Silver Lake said Friday that it has launched a $400 million fund to build a portfolio of powered land sites with demand for data centers increasing, in a deal advised by Latham & Watkins LLP.
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August 08, 2025
Kirkland-Led Accel-KKR Clinches $1.9B Continuation Fund
Kirkland & Ellis LLP-advised technology-focused investment firm Accel-KKR on Friday revealed that it wrapped its latest single-asset continuation fund after securing $1.9 billion of commitments, which will be used to extend the firm's partnership with human capital management software company isolved.
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August 07, 2025
Meta Can't Ax 'Pen Register' Claim In Tax Data Tracking Row
A California federal judge overseeing a consolidated class action accusing Meta of unlawfully collecting sensitive information from several tax filing websites has refused to cut a claim that the social media giant's tracking pixel qualifies as a "pen register" device prohibited by the state's wiretap law.
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August 07, 2025
Health Insurance Telemarketers Cough Up $145M In FTC Suits
Two telemarketing companies will pay $145 million to settle Federal Trade Commission claims that they misled millions of consumers into buying phony health insurance plans, the FTC said in a Thursday announcement accusing the telemarketers of making false promises that didn't provide what they offered.
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August 07, 2025
9th Circ. Says Attys Can't Get $920K Fees For $8K Trial Win
The Ninth Circuit affirmed a lower court's decision Thursday to deny a request of over $920,000 in attorney fees from the creator of two strategic problem-solving charts following her jury trial win of $8,000 in a copyright infringement case, saying the district court property articulated the reasons for the denial.
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August 07, 2025
Fintiv Says Apple's 'Trojan Horse' Stole Mobile Wallet Tech
Fintiv Inc. upped the ante Wednesday in its mobile wallet technology litigation against Apple Inc., accusing it in a new lawsuit of "theft and racketeering of monumental proportions" just days after a Texas federal judge called off a looming patent trial between the companies.
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August 07, 2025
Amazon, DC AG Get Antitrust Trial Delayed To May 2027
The District of Columbia's antitrust suit accusing Amazon of not allowing sellers to offer their products for less on other platforms will not make it to trial until closer to mid-2027, after a D.C. judge agreed Wednesday to allow the parties to push back the original trial date by four months.
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August 07, 2025
Google Wants Epic's Claims Tossed After Samsung Deal
Google urged a California federal court to toss the remaining claims in a case from Epic Games that initially accused the tech giant of colluding with Samsung to block app store competition, but now centers on a security feature Google said the court has already addressed.
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August 07, 2025
Music Publishers Denied Anthropic User Info In AI Case
A California federal judge on Thursday denied a request from music publishers for the names of people who used Anthropic PBC's generative text tool Claude to get copyrighted lyrics, saying she was not persuaded that production of personal third-party user information was needed for the infringement litigation.
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August 07, 2025
PTAB Knocks Out Nike Patent From $355K Trial Victory
A Nike footwear manufacturing patent at the heart of a $355,450 damages verdict in an infringement case against athletic apparel maker Lululemon is invalid, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board has found.
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August 07, 2025
Lyten To Buy Bankrupt Northvolt's Swedish, German Factories
Lithium-sulfur battery maker Lyten announced Thursday that it will buy bankrupt Swedish battery manufacturer Northvolt AB's factories in two countries and all its remaining intellectual property in a move that Northvolt said averted a "complete shutdown" of the business.
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August 07, 2025
USPTO's Chief Information Officer Leaves Agency
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's chief information officer is departing the agency for a job in the private sector, and the deputy CIO is stepping up to fill the position, a spokesperson confirmed to Law360 on Thursday.
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August 07, 2025
FTC Urged To Investigate Meta's $14.3B Scale AI Investment
A group of advocacy organizations is calling on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Meta's recent $14.3 billion investment in Scale AI, saying it fits into a "buy or bury" strategy to eliminate competition.
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August 07, 2025
FCC Chucks Nearly 100 'Outdated' Broadcast Rules
In a bid to reduce what it considers to be obsolete regulations, the Federal Communications Commission voted Thursday to drop nearly 100 older rules applying to broadcasters from its books.
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August 07, 2025
FCC Plans To Narrow Enviro Rules For Broadband Projects
The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday proposed to make it easier for broadband providers to clear FCC reviews required by the National Environmental Policy Act.
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August 07, 2025
HPE-Juniper Judge Shuns More Direct Comment On DOJ Deal
Comments, or complaints, about the controversial U.S. Department of Justice deal permitting Hewlett Packard Enterprise's $14 billion purchase of Juniper Networks must go through the DOJ and will no longer be accepted if submitted directly to the court, the reviewing California federal judge said Wednesday.
Expert Analysis
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Previewing State Efforts To Regulate Mental Health Chatbots
New York, Nevada and Utah have all recently enacted laws regulating the use of artificial intelligence to deliver mental health services, offering early insights into how other states may regulate this area, say attorneys at Goodwin.
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What Dismissal Rulings May Mean For ERISA Forfeiture Cases
Following an influx of Employee Retirement Income Security Act class actions challenging the long-standing practice of plan sponsors using plan forfeitures to offset employer contributions, recent motion to dismiss rulings and a U.S. Department of Labor amicus brief may encourage more courts to reject plaintiffs' forfeiture theories, say attorneys at Mayer Brown.
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Justices' Age Verification Ruling May Lead To More State Laws
The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton ruling, permitting a Texas law requiring certain websites to verify users’ ages, significantly expands states' ability to regulate minors’ social media access, further complicating the patchwork of internet privacy laws, say attorneys at Troutman.
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E-Discovery Quarterly: Rulings On Relevance Redactions
In recent cases addressing redactions that parties sought to apply based on the relevance of information — as opposed to considerations of privilege — courts have generally limited a party’s ability to withhold nonresponsive or irrelevant material, providing a few lessons for discovery strategy, say attorneys at Sidley.
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How DOJ's New Data Security Rules Leave HIPAA In The Dust
The U.S. Department of Justice's recently effective data security requirements carry profound implications for how healthcare providers collect, store, share and use data — and approach vendor oversight — that go far beyond the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, say attorneys at Nelson Mullins.
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Opinion
Section 1983 Has Promise After End Of Nationwide Injunctions
After the U.S. Supreme Court recently struck down the practice of nationwide injunctions in Trump v. Casa, Section 1983 civil rights suits can provide a better pathway to hold the government accountable — but this will require reforms to qualified immunity, says Marc Levin at the Council on Criminal Justice.
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Courts Redefining Software As Product Generates New Risks
A recent wave of litigation against social media platforms, chatbot developers and ride-hailing companies has some courts straying from the traditional view of software as a service to redefining software as a product, with significant implications for strict liability exposure, say attorneys at Reed Smith.
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Trump's 2nd Term Puts Merger Remedies Back On The Table
In contrast with the Biden administration, the second Trump administration has signaled a renewed willingness to resolve merger enforcement concerns through remedies from the outset, particularly when the proposed fix is structural, clearly addresses the harm and does not require burdensome oversight, say attorneys at Cooley.
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Patent Ambiguity Persists After Justices Nix Eligibility Appeal
The Supreme Court recently declined to revisit the contentious framework governing patent eligibility by denying certiorari in Audio Evolution Diagnostics v. U.S., suggesting a necessary recalibration of both patent application and litigation strategies, say attorneys at Skadden.
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How Banks Can Harness New Customer ID Rule's Flexibility
Banking regulators' update to the customer identification process, allowing banks to collect some information from third parties rather than directly from customers, helps modernize anti-money laundering compliance and carries advantages for financial institutions that embrace the new approach, say attorneys at Bradley Arant.
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Series
Playing Soccer Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Soccer has become a key contributor to how I approach my work, and the lessons I’ve learned on the pitch about leadership, adaptability, resilience and communication make me better at what I do every day in my legal career, says Whitney O’Byrne at MoFo.
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How Trump Cybersecurity EO Narrows Biden-Era Standards
President Donald Trump recently signed Executive Order No. 14306, which significantly narrows the scope and ambition of a Biden executive order focused on raising federal cybersecurity standards among federal vendors, say attorneys at Jenner & Block.
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Opinion
The SEC Should Embrace Tokenized Equity, Not Strangle It
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission should grant no-action relief to firms ready to pilot tokenized equity trading, not delay innovation by heeding protectionist industry arguments, says J.W. Verret at George Mason University.
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Compliance Changes On Deck For Banks Under Texas AI Law
Financial services companies, including banks and fintechs, should evaluate their artificial intelligence usage to prepare for Texas' newly passed law regulating AI governance, noting that the enforcement provisions provide for an affirmative defense to liability, say attorneys at Mitchell Sandler.
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Series
Law School's Missed Lessons: Learning From Failure
While law school often focuses on the importance of precision, correctness and perfection, mistakes are inevitable in real-world practice — but failure is not the opposite of progress, and real talent comes from the ability to recover, rethink and reshape, says Brooke Pauley at Tucker Ellis.