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  Nicklaus' Golf Cos. File Ch. 11 With $500M+ Liabilities

  By Hilary Russ

  Nicklaus Companies LLC, the sporting gear and golf course design company founded by legend Jack Nicklaus, and 11...(read more)

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  SEC, Virtu To Settle Customer Data Suit For $2.5M

  By Sarah Jarvis

  Virtu Financial Inc. has agreed to pay the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission $2.5 million for allegedly fa...(read more)

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• Ex-Google CEO Accused Of Sex Assault, Cyberstalking

  By Hailey Konnath

  A woman who says she dated former Google CEO Eric Schmidt has accused him of sexually assaulting her, stealing her businesses and surveilling her devices via a "backdoor" he built with Google engineers to covertly spy on employees, according to a complaint she's trying to file in California state court.

• Lemon Law Attys Urge Court To Kill Ford's 'Chilling' RICO Suit

  By Craig Clough

  Attorneys representing three lemon law firms urged a California federal judge Friday to dismiss a racketeering suit Ford Motor Co. brought against them alleging they engaged in fraudulent billing practices, with one saying the "chilling" litigation could open every lawsuit to similar claims.

• Justice Alito Stays Order Blocking Texas Redistricting

  By Spencer Brewer

  U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito temporarily stayed a court order blocking Texas from adopting new congressional maps late Friday, allowing the state to move forward with redistricting plans a lower court found were adopted through unconstitutional racial gerrymandering.

• Tata Must Pay $168M For Trade Secrets Theft, 5th Circ. Says

  By Spencer Brewer

  A Fifth Circuit panel found Friday that Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. stole IT company Computer Sciences Corp.'s technology concerning source code and life insurance software documentation, keeping intact a $168 million verdict against Tata.

• IP Notebook: Kahwa Mix-Up, WallStreetBets, Hotel California

  By Ivan Moreno

  This round of Law360's look at emerging copyright and trademark issues includes a Federal Circuit case over an obscure tea drink and a nod to the Eagles' "Hotel California" in a precedential decision that is a primer on having an actual intent to use a trademark.

• Judge Halts IRS-ICE Info-Sharing Agreement

  By Anna Scott Farrell

  A D.C. federal judge temporarily stopped the IRS on Friday from sharing confidential taxpayer addresses with immigration enforcement officials, saying the agency's disclosures of addresses in August under an information-sharing deal were unlawful.

• Atty Had 6 AI Tools Check Each Other, Yet Fakes Still Cited

  By Andrea Keckley

  A California federal judge has sanctioned a solo practitioner representing the plaintiffs in a proposed wage and hour class action against clothing brand Vuori Inc. after he admitted to using about a half-dozen artificial intelligence tools to prepare a motion.

• Veolia Inks $3B US Waste Deal As Enviri Preps GC-Led Spinoff

  By Al Barbarino

  France's Veolia Environnement SA will buy Clean Earth from Philadelphia-based Enviri Corp. for $3.04 billion in cash, in a deal that will double Veolia's U.S. hazardous waste operations and create an Enviri spinoff headed by Enviri's general counsel, the companies said Friday.

• DOJ Will Speed Some Classified Discovery In Bolton Case

  By Jared Foretek

  Federal prosecutors agreed Friday to accelerate their classified discovery timeline in the prosecution of John Bolton, as a Maryland federal judge pressed them to move faster.

• Renewed Federal Push To Block State AI Laws Faces Backlash

  By Allison Grande

  The Trump administration is pushing to revive a failed effort to stop states from regulating artificial intelligence systems, drawing opposition from California's data privacy regulator, consumer advocates and others that argue it's crucial for states to retain their ability to put guardrails on the emerging technology in the wake of continued federal inaction.

• Meta Will Pay $190M, Change Policies To End $8B Privacy Suit

  By Hailey Konnath

  Meta Platforms Inc. has agreed to pay $190 million, as well as enhance its whistleblower program and implement a new code of conduct and insider trading policy, as part of a proposed settlement in an $8 billion privacy suit tied to the Cambridge Analytica scandal, according to several new filings Thursday.

• Starbucks Can't Dump Investors' 'Triple Shot' Strategy Suit

  By Emilie Ruscoe

  Starbucks and its former CEO can't shed investor class action claims that the company harmed shareholders by concealing its struggles to implement a "reinvention plan," which came to light when the company disclosed that its sales were being harmed by longer waits for customized drinks in its U.S. stores and by fierce competition in China.