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September 26, 2025
9th Circ. Halts Vegas Newspaper Ruling For High Court Appeal
The Ninth Circuit has stayed its ruling that a long-standing arrangement between the Las Vegas Sun and the Las Vegas Review-Journal is unlawful while the Sun appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court to preserve the pact.
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September 26, 2025
Mich. High Court To Revisit Wrongful Death Tolling Rule
The Michigan Supreme Court said on Friday it would weigh whether a required notice period for medical malpractice claims extends the time wrongful death plaintiffs may wait to sue, revisiting a question it decided in 2004.
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September 26, 2025
Trump Media Seeks End To Merger Fee Fight After Arbitration
In the wake of a favorable arbitration award, counsel for Donald Trump's social media company told a New York state judge Friday that it would seek to bar further litigation in a fee dispute with a company that helped launch Truth Social in an $875 million merger.
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September 26, 2025
GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week
Tech industry giant Oracle will monitor the U.S. operations of social media platform TikTok after a deal turns 80% of the formerly Chinese-owned subsidiary over to a U.S.-based joint venture. And a new compensation study of large company general counsel finds steady growth since 2020, although it still trails pay for chief financial officers.
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September 26, 2025
Freshfields, Simpson Thacher Guide Oracle's $18B Bond Offer
Software giant Oracle Corp. has priced an $18 billion investment-grade bond offering, a move that comes as the company has ramped up spending to manage increasing demand for artificial intelligence.
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September 26, 2025
TikTok, Chinese Co. Resolve $845M IP Fight Before Trial
TikTok and a Chinese company that accuses it of stealing trade secrets for a video-editing tool and infringing copyrights related to the tool informed a California federal judge Friday that they've reached a settlement in principle, avoiding a jury trial that was set to begin next month.
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September 26, 2025
Advertisers, Publishers Can Expand Google Ad MDL Markets
A New York federal judge on Thursday allowed publishers and advertisers in multidistrict litigation over Google's advertising placement technology to expand their claims to cover a worldwide scope, like the U.S. Department of Justice's successful similar case, finding it would not prejudice the tech giant.
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September 26, 2025
Trump Announces 100% Tariff On Drug Imports Starting Oct. 1
President Donald Trump announced a slew of new Section 232 tariffs to be imposed beginning Oct. 1, including a 100% tariff on drug imports and new rates for semi trucks, kitchen cabinets, bathroom vanities and upholstered furniture.
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September 26, 2025
Operator Of NBA's Suns Says Doc Suit Is For Buyout Leverage
Phoenix Suns franchise operator Suns Legacy Holdings LLC has pushed back in Delaware Chancery Court against two minority owners seeking access to company records, responding that the demands are aimed at pressuring a higher-priced buyout from the NBA team's majority owner, Mat Ishbia.
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September 26, 2025
Taxation With Representation: De Brauw, Hengeler Mueller
In this week's Taxation With Representation, power grid operator TenneT Holding sells a stake in its German transmission business to institutional investors, Pfizer Inc. acquires biotechnology company Metsera Inc., and Dutch brewer Heineken NV buys most of Costa Rica's FIFCO beverage and retail operations.
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September 26, 2025
Cherokee Nation Cos. Appeal Gaming License Suit To 8th Circ.
Two Cherokee Nation entities are looking to the Eighth Circuit to overturn an Arkansas federal court decision that dismissed their challenge to a voter-approved referendum that revoked a gambling license in the state.
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September 26, 2025
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
This past week in London has seen Sanjeev Gupta’s Liberty OneSteel sue its collapsed former lender Greensill Capital, television personality Janice Dickinson hit ITV with a personal injury claim after falling over while appearing on “I’m a Celeb …”, and energy investor Blasket bring fresh litigation against Spain amid a row over a $416 million arbitration award. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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September 25, 2025
DOJ Unveils New 'Affirmative Litigation' Civil Division Branch
The U.S. Department of Justice Thursday announced its newly created "Enforcement & Affirmative Litigation Branch," part of which will be dedicated to going after states, municipalities and private entities that impede federal immigration enforcement or profit from "false and misleading claims" about gender transition.
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September 25, 2025
Trump Blesses Deal To Transfer TikTok To $14B US Co.
President Donald Trump Thursday signed an executive order greenlighting a proposed deal that transfers the majority of TikTok's U.S. operations to a new U.S.-based joint venture, saying that the divestiture adequately addresses national security concerns.
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September 25, 2025
Is Uber Liable For Sex Assault? Bellwether Goes To Calif. Jury
A woman who said she was sexually assaulted by her Uber driver deserves compensatory and punitive damages from the ride-hailing giant, her lawyer told a California jury in a bellwether trial Thursday, while Uber's lawyer denied negligence and said it's not required to "guarantee that nothing bad is ever going to happen."
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September 25, 2025
Google VP Says Ad Tech Breakup Is 'Possible'
The Google executive responsible for its advertising placement technology business told a Virginia federal judge Thursday that the company previously determined that a breakup was doable, even as he argued that the U.S. Department of Justice is mischaracterizing recent considerations of what that would look like.
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September 25, 2025
Paramount Taps Latham Antitrust Pro, Ex-Asst. AG As CLO
Paramount Skydance Corp. announced Thursday that a Latham & Watkins LLP antitrust and competition attorney, who was head of the U.S. Department of Justice's antitrust unit during President Donald Trump's first term, has been tapped to be its new chief legal officer.
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September 25, 2025
Ex-Highland CEO Tells High Court Judge's Novels Show Bias
The founder and president of hedge fund Highland Capital Management has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on a bankruptcy judge's refusal to recuse herself from proceedings involving the company after she published two novels that he says contain veiled commentary about the case.
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September 25, 2025
$8.9B Deal For Health Tech R1 RCM Draws Del. Chancery Suit
Four stockholders of healthcare revenue management venture R1 RCM Inc. challenged the company's take-private deal in Delaware's Court of Chancery Thursday, alleging that the private equity and allies who won the $8.9 billion, November transaction lined up an unfairly low, $14.30 per share price.
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September 25, 2025
Big Banks Beat Yearslong Libor-Rigging Claims In NY
A New York federal judge Thursday disposed of the remaining claims in long-running multidistrict litigation accusing Bank of America, Merrill Lynch and more than a dozen other large banks of Libor manipulation.
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September 25, 2025
Hagens Berman Not Very Contrite About AI Errors, Judge Says
A California federal judge chided attorneys from Hagens Berman on Thursday over what he called a lack of contrition after submitting briefs that contained errors lifted from ChatGPT in a proposed class action against the online platform OnlyFans, saying the attorneys seemed more interested in excuses.
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September 25, 2025
Atkins Hints At Flexible Reporting Deadlines For Public Cos.
With the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission preparing to seek public feedback on President Donald Trump's proposal that public companies be allowed to report their financial results only twice a year, agency Chair Paul Atkins suggested Thursday that the SEC may not take a "one-size-fits-all" approach.
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September 25, 2025
Anthropic Judge Greenlights 'Historic' $1.5B Copyright Deal
A California federal judge on Thursday preliminarily approved a $1.5 billion deal Anthropic PBC struck with authors to end their copyright class action against the artificial intelligence developer, with counsel for the plaintiffs calling it a "historic settlement" that will result in the "largest copyright recovery of all time."
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September 25, 2025
Amazon Denied Quick Appeal Of Massive Antitrust Class Cert.
The Ninth Circuit has rejected a petition from Amazon seeking permission to immediately appeal an order certifying a class of roughly 300 million consumers in a sweeping antitrust case accusing the e-commerce giant of inflating prices through its merchant policies.
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September 25, 2025
Perrigo Mostly Beats US In $163M Tax Refund Dispute
A Michigan federal court largely sided Thursday with pharmaceutical company Perrigo in a $163 million tax refund case, rejecting the government's claim that the company's transactions with a foreign entity lacked economic substance and were meant only to avoid taxes.
Expert Analysis
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Forced Labor Bans Hold Steady Amid Shifts In Global Trade
As businesses try to navigate shifting regulatory trends affecting human rights and sustainability, forced labor import bans present a zone of relative stability, notwithstanding outstanding questions about the future of enforcement, say attorneys at Simpson Thacher.
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Grappling With Workforce-Related Immigration Enforcement
To withstand the tightening of workforce-related immigration rules and the enforcement uptick we are seeing in the U.S. and elsewhere, companies must strike a balance between responding quickly to regulatory changes, and developing proactive strategies that minimize risk, say attorneys at Fragomen.
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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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What To Do When Congress And DOJ Both Come Knocking
As recently seen in the news, clients may find themselves facing parallel U.S. Department of Justice and congressional investigations, requiring a comprehensive response that considers the different challenges posed by each, say attorneys at Friedman Kaplan.
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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.
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23andMe Fine Signals ICO's New GDPR Enforcement Focus
Many of the cybersecurity failures identified by the Information Commissioner’s Office in its investigation of 23andMe, recently resulting in a £2.3 million fine, were basic lapses, but the ICO's focus on several new U.K. General Data Protection Regulation considerations will likely carry into the future, say lawyers at Womble Bond.
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Midyear Rewind: How Courts Are Reshaping VPPA Standards
The first half of 2025 saw a series of cases interpreting the Video Privacy Protection Act as applied to website tracking technologies, including three appellate rulings deepening circuit splits on what qualifies as personally identifiable information and who qualifies as a consumer under the statute, say attorneys at Perkins Coie.
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Lessons On Parallel Settlements From Vanguard Class Action
A Pennsylvania federal judge’s unexpected denial of a proposed $40 million settlement of an investor class action against Vanguard highlights key factors parties should consider when settlement involves both regulators and civil plaintiffs, say attorneys at Ropes & Gray.
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How The Healthline Privacy Settlement Redefines Ad Tech Use
The Healthline settlement is the first time California has drawn a clear line in the sand around how website tracking must function in practice, so if your site uses tracking technologies, especially around sensitive content like health or finance, regulators are inspecting your website's back end, not just its banner, say attorneys at Baker Donelson.
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AI Infrastructure Growth Brings Unique IP Considerations
The explosive rise of artificial intelligence has triggered an equally dramatic transformation in the supporting infrastructure required to meet growing AI demand, and the technology used in these data centers has its own intellectual property considerations to navigate, says Vincent Allen at Carstens Allen.
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Legal Ops, Compliance Increasingly Vital To Antitrust Strategy
With deal timelines tightening and disclosure requirements intensifying, legal operations and compliance teams are becoming critical drivers of premerger strategy, cross-functional alignment and regulatory credibility, says Alexander Lima at Wesco International.
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Series
Adapting To Private Practice: From ATF Director To BigLaw
As a two-time boomerang partner, returning to BigLaw after stints as a U.S. attorney and the director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, people ask me how I know when to move on, but there’s no single answer — just clearly set your priorities, says Steven Dettelbach at BakerHostetler.
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What To Know As SEC Looks To Expand Private Fund Access
As the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission considers expanding retail access to private markets, understanding how these funds operate — and the role of financial intermediaries in guiding investors — is increasingly important, say attorneys at K&L Gates.
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New DOJ Penalty Policy Could Spell Trouble For Cos.
In light of the U.S. Department of Justice’s recently published guidance making victim relief a core condition of coordinated resolution crediting, companies facing parallel investigations must carefully calibrate their negotiation strategies to minimize the risk of duplicative penalties, say attorneys at Debevoise.
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IPR Decisions Clarify Stewart's 'Settled Expectations' Factor
Recent discretionary denial decisions from U.S. Patent and Trademark Office acting Director Coke Morgan Stewart have begun to illuminate the contours of her "settled expectations" doctrine, informing when it might be worth petitioning for inter partes review if the patent at issue has been in force for a few years, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.