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October 23, 2025
Sullivan & Cromwell Adds Irell & Manella IP Litigator In LA
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP is expanding its West Coast team, announcing Thursday it is bringing in an Irell & Manella LLP intellectual property litigator as a partner in its Los Angeles office.
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October 23, 2025
Yelp's Tying Claim Against Google Can Move Ahead
A California federal court has refused to trim Yelp's claim that Google ties its general search results to its local search listings in a case accusing Google of monopolizing the local search market, after finding the latest version of the claim fixed the problems previously identified.
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October 23, 2025
Whole Foods Strikes Deal To End Calif. Pregnancy Bias Probe
Grocery giant Whole Foods Market has struck a deal with the California Civil Rights Department to resolve a worker's allegations that she was illegally fired after seeking pregnancy-related accommodations, the agency announced Wednesday.
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October 23, 2025
Buyers Sue Colgate Over Lead Found In Kids' Toothpaste
A proposed class of buyers is suing Colgate-Palmolive Co. in California federal court, alleging that it sold children's toothpaste that contains substantial amounts of lead without warning consumers.
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October 23, 2025
2 AI-Focused SPACs Plan To Raise Combined $575M In IPOs
Two artificial intelligence-focused special purpose acquisition companies have filed plans with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to raise up to a combined $575 million in their initial public offerings.
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October 23, 2025
NBA Coach Billups, Guard Rozier Arrested In Gambling Bust
Chauncey Billups, the head coach of the NBA's Portland Trail Blazers, and Terry Rozier, a point guard with the Miami Heat, have been arrested on federal gambling charges in what the FBI on Thursday called a "sweeping" and "historic" Mafia-linked crackdown.
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October 22, 2025
Apple Hit With Another Suit Alleging Copyright Theft For AI
Apple is using pirated copies of authors' works to train its artificial intelligence models, one author alleged Wednesday in yet another class action filed in California federal court against the Cupertino company, saying Apple's alleged copyright infringement was an act of desperation to avoid falling behind competitors.
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October 22, 2025
Coast Guard Must Face Conception Fire Suit, 9th Circ. Told
The families of 34 people who died in a blaze aboard the recreational dive boat MV Conception urged the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday to revive their suit accusing the U.S. Coast Guard of inspection failures, saying the lower court wrongly declared the agency immune from their claims.
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October 22, 2025
'Danger Zone': 9th Circ. Judge Warns Atty Battling L'Oreal
A Ninth Circuit judge warned an attorney Wednesday he was in a "danger zone" and should have considered never appealing a district court's order throwing out his client's trade secrets case against L'Oreal USA Inc., saying the lower court's finding that his client fabricated evidence puts the attorney in the panel's crosshairs.
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October 22, 2025
Meta Beats False Ad Suit Over Bricked Devices, For Now
A California federal judge indicated Wednesday that he'll toss a proposed class action alleging Meta deceptively sold Portal video-calling devices that it later "bricked" by dropping software support, but he allowed the buyers to amend their claims, saying Meta's decision to strip the devices of functionality "seems wrong."
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October 22, 2025
PragerU Beats Privacy Suit Over Video Data Sharing, For Now
A California federal judge has tossed a putative class action accusing conservative media group PragerU of illegally sharing information about website visitors' video-viewing activities with Meta, finding that the plaintiffs focused only on the "general capabilities" of the tracking technology being deployed rather than on how it was being used to divulge their own personal information.
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October 22, 2025
Ex-Beverly Hills Housewife Boots Defamation Counterclaim
An Illinois federal judge on Tuesday tossed a counterclaim the American Society of Anesthesiologists lodged to challenge a former "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" cast member's social media response to a press release the organization issued after she sued for defamation, saying her post was a nonactionable opinion.
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October 22, 2025
Phillips 66 Can't Undo $805M Trade Secrets Trial Loss
Phillips 66 can't get a new trial after its $805 million loss on claims it stole startup Propel Fuels' intellectual property during due diligence for an acquisition, a California state judge has ruled, saying the jury's findings, including malicious misconduct, are well-supported.
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October 22, 2025
Lizzo Hit With Copyright Theft Suit Over Social Media Clip
American singer and rapper Lizzo allegedly ripped off someone else's composition in an unreleased song she teased on social media, according to a new lawsuit filed Tuesday in California federal court.
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October 22, 2025
Experian Can't Slash CFPB Suit Over Tolling Deal 'Mistake'
A California federal judge on Wednesday refused to toss part of a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau suit against Experian's U.S. operating subsidiary, saying the credit bureau's statute-of-limitations defense "defies logic" to suggest Experian Information Solutions wasn't bound by a tolling deal its own lawyers helped negotiate.
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October 22, 2025
ISIS Victims Ask 9th Circ. To Revive YouTube Negligence Suit
Victims of the 2015 Paris terrorist attack urged the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday to revive negligence claims against YouTube over the rise of ISIS, arguing the district court erroneously found that federal courts lack jurisdiction over the winding case, which has spanned nine years and a trip to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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October 22, 2025
State AGs Push Back In First Amendment Subpoena Fight
A coalition of state attorneys general is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to safeguard their fundamental investigative authority, warning in an amicus brief filed Tuesday that a New Jersey anti-abortion center's challenge could allow subpoenaed entities to routinely bypass state courts and tie up enforcement actions in federal litigation.
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October 22, 2025
Trump's Takeover Of Calif. Guard 'Unreviewable,' 9th Circ. Told
A U.S. Department of Justice attorney told the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday that President Donald Trump's federalization of the California National Guard in June is "unreviewable" by the courts, while an attorney for California said the president's order is reviewable and far exceeded his statutory authority.
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October 22, 2025
RJR Says 'Carbon Neutral' Vape Claim Was Not Deceptive
R.J. Reynolds companies, claiming they were telling the truth when asserting their Vuse e-cigarette was the "first carbon neutral" vape on the market, urged a California federal judge on Tuesday to dismiss consumers' proposed class claims they engaged in deception.
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October 22, 2025
'Would-Be Bank Robbers': Reddit Says Perplexity Steals Data
Perplexity AI Inc. and three data-scraping companies act like "would-be bank robbers" to bypass Reddit's data security measures and collect users' "continuous stream of real-time and creative copyrighted works" to feed the company's generative text products, Reddit alleges in a lawsuit filed Wednesday in New York federal court.
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October 22, 2025
'Forthright' Yardi Source Code Production Beats Rent Suit
Yardi thinks it's found the right formula for beating antitrust litigation targeting algorithms allegedly used to fix prices for rental housing, hotel rooms and more, winning a California state court ruling the software company's attorneys say is the first to nix claims by looking at the source code itself.
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October 22, 2025
Ed Dept. Must Face States' Case Over Mental Health Grants
A Seattle federal judge declined to throw out a lawsuit accusing the U.S. Department of Education of illegally discontinuing grants for student mental health programming, recognizing that Washington and other states have valid claims that the move will cut them off from money meant for reducing violence in schools.
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October 22, 2025
Grocery Outlet Fights Investor Claims Over IT Update Woes
Grocery Outlet Holding Corp. has asked a California federal court to toss a shareholder's suit accusing it of botching the implementation of an enterprise resource planning system that allegedly caused operational disruptions and financial losses, saying the suit is based on "impermissible fraud by hindsight."
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October 22, 2025
Investor Advocates Criticize SEC's New Arbitration Stance
Two investor advocacy groups are speaking out against a recent U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission decision to allow some newly public companies to adopt mandatory arbitration clauses, arguing that the move undermines shareholder rights and could make the U.S. a less attractive place to invest.
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October 22, 2025
Disney Trims But Can't Defeat Thanos Tech Copyright Suit
A fifth amended complaint from technology company Rearden LLC against Disney over alleged copyright infringement related to digital modeling technology partly survived an attempt by Disney to kill the suit Wednesday, with a judge permanently tossing a contributory infringement claim.
Expert Analysis
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Series
Writing Novels Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Writing my debut novel taught me to appreciate the value of critique and to never give up, no matter how long or tedious the journey, providing me with valuable skills that I now emphasize in my practice, says Daniel Buzzetta at BakerHostetler.
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Trader Joe's Ruling Highlights Trademark Infringement Trends
The Ninth Circuit's recent decision in Trader Joe's Co. v. Trader Joe's United explores the legal boundaries between a union's right to advocate for workers and the protection of a brand's intellectual property, and illustrates a growing trend of courts disfavoring early dismissal of trademark infringement claims in the context of expressive speech, say attorneys at Mitchell Silberberg.
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SDNY OpenAI Order Clarifies Preservation Standards For AI
The Southern District of New York’s recent order in the OpenAI copyright infringement litigation, denying discovery of The New York Times' artificial intelligence technology use, clarifies that traditional preservation benchmarks apply to AI content, relieving organizations from using a “keep everything” approach, says Philip Favro at Favro Law.
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What 9th Circ.'s Rosenwald Ruling Means For Class Actions
The Ninth Circuit's recent decision in Rosenwald v. Kimberly-Clark has important implications around the Class Action Fairness Act and traditional diversity jurisdiction — both for plaintiff-side and defense-side class action litigators — and deepens the circuit split concerning the use of judicial notice to establish diversity, says Grace Schmidt at DTO Law.
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Compliance Steps To Take As FCRA Enforcement Widens
As the Fair Credit Reporting Act receives renewed focus from both federal and state enforcers, regulatory and litigation risk is most acute in several core areas, which companies can address by implementing purpose processes and quick remediation of consumer complaints, among other steps, say attorneys at Wiley.
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How Calif. Law Cracks Down On Algorithmic Price-Fixing
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed two laws this month significantly expanding state antitrust enforcement and civil and criminal penalties for the use or distribution of shared pricing algorithms, as the U.S. Department of Justice has recently wielded the Sherman Act to challenge algorithmic pricing, say attorneys at Pillsbury.
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Opinion
Expert Reports Can't Replace Facts In Securities Fraud Cases
The Ninth Circuit's 2023 decision in Nvidia v. Ohman Fonder — and the U.S. Supreme Court's punt on the case in 2024 — could invite the meritless securities litigation the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act was designed to prevent by substituting expert opinions for facts to substantiate complaint assertions, say attorneys at A&O Shearman.
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Hermes Bags Antitrust Win That Clarifies Luxury Tying Claims
A California federal court recently found that absent actual harm to competition in the market for ancillary products, Hermes may make access to the Birkin bag contingent on other purchases, establishing that selective sales tactics and scarcity do not automatically violate U.S. antitrust law, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.
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Opinion
High Court, Not A Single Justice, Should Decide On Recusal
As public trust in the U.S. Supreme Court continues to decline, the court should adopt a collegial framework in which all justices decide questions of recusal together — a reform that respects both judicial independence and due process for litigants, say Michael Broyde at Emory University and Hayden Hall at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.
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Amazon Ruling Marks New Era Of Personal Liability For Execs
A Washington federal court's recent decision in FTC v. Amazon extended personal liability to senior executives for design-driven violations of broad consumer protection statutes, signaling a fundamental shift in how consumer protection laws may be enforced against large public companies, say attorneys at Orrick.
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Series
Traveling Solo Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Traveling by myself has taught me to assess risk, understand tone and stay calm in high-pressure situations, which are not only useful life skills, but the foundation of how I support my clients, says Lacey Gutierrez at Group Five Legal.
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Opinion
Courts Must Continue Protecting Plaintiffs In Mass Arbitration
In recent years, many companies have imposed onerous protocols that function to frustrate plaintiffs' ability to seek justice through mass arbitration, but a series of welcome court decisions in recent months indicate that the pendulum might be swinging back toward plaintiffs, say Raphael Janove and Sasha Jones at Janove Law.
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Series
Law School's Missed Lessons: Client Service
Law school teaches you how to interpret the law, but it doesn't teach you some of the key ways to keeping clients satisfied, lessons that I've learned in the most unexpected of places: a book on how to be a butler, says Gregory Ramos at Armstrong Teasdale.
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How The FTC Is Stepping Up Subscription Enforcement
Despite the demise of the Federal Trade Commission's click-to-cancel rule in July, the commission has not only maintained its regulatory momentum, but also set new compliance benchmarks through recent high-profile settlements with Match.com, Chegg and Amazon, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.
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Where 4th And 9th Circ. Diverge On Trade Secret Timing
Recent Fourth and Ninth Circuit decisions have revealed a deepening circuit split over when plaintiffs must specifically define their alleged trade secrets, turning the early stages of trade secret litigation into a key battleground and elevating the importance of forum selection, say attorneys at Skadden.