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  Chancery Awards $50M To Arxada In Trade Secrets Case

  By Adam Lidgett

  Chemicals company Arxada on Wednesday was awarded more than $50 million in damages and expenses in its lawsuit i...(read more)

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  Wachtell-Led Prosperity To Buy Stellar Bancorp In $2B Deal

  By Al Barbarino

  Prosperity Bancshares Inc. has agreed to acquire Stellar Bancorp Inc. and its bank subsidiary in a transaction v...(read more)

• Anthropic Hit With 2nd Music IP Suit, This Time For $3B

  By Hailey Konnath

  Major music publishers already suing Anthropic for copyright infringement filed a second, $3 billion suit against the artificial intelligence company on Wednesday, a move they say is necessary to hold Anthropic accountable for "brazen," newly discovered mass infringement of sheet music and songbooks.

• ICE Violated Nearly 100 Court Orders, Minn. Judge Says

  By Rae Ann Varona

  The Minnesota federal court's chief judge admonished U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Wednesday for violating nearly 100 court orders concerning the Trump administration's immigration enforcement operations in Minnesota while another judge, on the same day, temporarily blocked ICE from unlawfully arresting and detaining refugees in the North Star State.

• Mid-America Inks $53M Deal In RealPage Landlord MDL

  By Lauren Berg

  Mid-America Apartment Communities Inc. revealed in a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing Wednesday that it will pay $53 million to settle out of multidistrict antitrust litigation alleging some of the largest landlords in the country used RealPage Inc.'s software to fix rent prices for residential properties.

• Google To Pay Android Users $135M To End Data Use Suit

  By Allison Grande

  Google agreed to pay $135 million and obtain consent from new Android users for use of their cellular data to resolve a proposed class action accusing it of conducting "passive" data transfers without consumers' knowledge or consent over the Android operating system, according to a proposed deal filed in California federal court.

• Trade Secret Filings Hit Record High In 2025, Report Finds

  By Ivan Moreno

  Trade secret litigation reached an all-time high in 2025, with more than 1,500 federal cases filed for the first time ever, according to a new report by legal analytics firm Lex Machina, which also highlights trends about damages, the busiest courts and the law firms most frequently involved.

• Louis Vuitton Didn't Heed Salesforce Breach Alert, Suit Says

  By Gina Kim

  Louis Vuitton failed to heed warnings and security recommendations from Salesforce to protect against "vishing" techniques from cybercriminals who ended up infiltrating the fashion house's systems last summer and stole customer information, alleges a proposed class action filed Tuesday in New York federal court.

• USPTO Seeks 'Serious Sanctions' For Chinese Co.'s 19K Apps

  By Rae Ann Varona

  The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office says the "most serious sanctions" are warranted against a China-based company for filing more than 19,000 trademark submissions using names of U.S.-licensed attorneys who did not review the applications, saying submissions were at times filed in 3-minute intervals "or less."

• Ex-Google Engineer's Trade Secret Theft Case Goes To Jury

  By Bonnie Eslinger

  Software engineer Linwei Ding "stole, cheated and lied" when he worked at Google LLC, taking its artificial intelligence trade secrets to help himself and China, a California federal prosecutor told jurors Tuesday, urging them to convict him of economic espionage and trade secret theft.

• Tyson Cuts $48M Deal To End More Pork Price-Fixing Claims

  By Dorothy Atkins

  Commercial and institutional indirect pork purchasers have urged a Minnesota federal judge to preliminarily approve Tyson Foods Inc.'s $48 million deal to resolve antitrust claims over allegedly inflated pork prices, noting that it's the certified class's sixth settlement, bringing the class's total recovery to $114 million as the years-long litigation nears trial.  

• 7th Circ. Doubtful Climate Fight Belongs In Federal Court

  By Lauraann Wood

  Seventh Circuit judges seemed skeptical Wednesday of Chevron and other oil giants' argument that a lower court incorrectly sent Chicago's climate deception claims back to state court, questioning whether they've cited the type of contractual government work and relationship that would otherwise keep the suit in federal court.

• Senators Question If FirstNet, AT&T Need More Oversight

  By Christopher Cole

  A U.S. Senate panel Wednesday examined calls to reform the national first responder network and to rework AT&T's 25-year exclusive contract to provide network coverage for emergency personnel across the country.

• Trump Announces Pick For New Assistant AG For Fraud Role

  By Courtney Bublé

  President Donald Trump announced Wednesday evening that he would be nominating Colin McDonald, associate deputy attorney general, for the newly created assistant attorney general for fraud role.