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June 09, 2025
Feds Flag 'Varsity Blues' Ringleader's College Adviser Job
Boston federal prosecutors on Monday argued that the mastermind of the "Varsity Blues" college admissions scandal should look for work outside the college counseling business that served as the springboard for the yearslong, high-profile legal battle.
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June 09, 2025
AMC 'Dark Winds' Worker Says Crew Member Harassed Her
An entertainment company behind the AMC thriller series "Dark Winds" paid a female worker less than her male counterparts and then fired her after she complained that a male crew member had harassed her, she told a California state court.
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June 08, 2025
Judge Approves NCAA's $2.8B Athlete Revenue Settlement
The NCAA's $2.78 billion class action settlement that will for the first time provide for revenue sharing with college athletes was given final approval late Friday by a California federal judge.
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June 06, 2025
FTC Scoffs At Meta's Accusation Of 'Biased' Econ Expert
The FTC on Friday urged a Washington, D.C., federal judge to reject Meta's bid to strike testimony the agency's lead economics expert gave during the antitrust trial over Meta's purchase of Instagram and WhatsApp, scoffing at the allegation the New York University School of Law professor is biased.
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June 06, 2025
Trump Cuts To Federal Library Agency Can Resume, For Now
Employees of the federal agency that provides grants and resources to public libraries cannot immediately get blocked President Donald Trump's executive order dismantling the agency, a Washington, D.C., federal judge ruled Friday, saying there is a likelihood the case belongs in the Court of Federal Claims.
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June 06, 2025
Judge Signs Off On SEC Dismissal Of Crypto Promoter Suit
A Texas federal judge signed off on the end of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's case against crypto promoter Ian Balina, resolving the dispute over Balina's promotion of so-called SPRK tokens amid the agency's policy pivot on digital assets.
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June 06, 2025
Split DC Circ. Reinstates AP's White House Press Pool Ban
A split D.C. Circuit panel reinstated the White House's decision to ban the Associated Press from the press pool covering the Oval Office, Air Force One and Mar-a-Lago on Friday, while a dissenting judge criticized her colleagues' rationale as being nonsensical and upending longstanding First Amendment precedent and generations of tradition.
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June 06, 2025
Trump Champions Radio Spectrum Deal In Budget Bill
President Donald Trump on Friday applauded the electromagnetic spectrum deal brokered among Senate Republicans that is included in one of the chamber's budget reconciliation bills.
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June 06, 2025
T.I., Tiny Urge Judge To Prevent 4th Trial In $71M Doll Row
Clifford "T.I." Harris and Tameka "Tiny" Harris have urged a California federal judge to reject MGA Entertainment's motion to reverse a jury's $71.4 million verdict finding the company infringed the trade dress and publicity rights of the OMG Girlz pop group, saying the rehashed arguments fall flat.
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June 06, 2025
WaPo Can't Exit Trump Media's Defamation Suit, Judge Says
The Washington Post must face Trump Media & Technology Group's suit over an article accusing it of committing securities fraud over a purported finder's fee paid to Entoro Securities to secure a loan, a Florida federal judge said Friday, ruling Trump Media's latest pleading "squarely alleges" no fee agreement existed.
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June 06, 2025
Chancery Pauses Meta Privacy Suit For EU, Ireland Actions
A Delaware court on Friday paused a pension fund stockholder suit seeking documents on data privacy violations made by Meta Platforms Inc. that led to a €1.2 billion ($1.4 billion) fine from European authorities.
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June 06, 2025
Fox Stockholders Press For Election Suit Docs In Chancery
Attorneys for Fox Corp. shareholders are accusing the company of unjustifiably withholding documents sought in Delaware's Court of Chancery related to a derivative suit over the alleged defamation of vote tabulation companies in the midst of the 2020 election.
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June 06, 2025
OpenAI, Microsoft Say Musk Hasn't Fixed RICO Claims
OpenAI and Microsoft have urged a California federal judge to again trim Elon Musk's lawsuit challenging OpenAI's now-abandoned transition to a for-profit enterprise, arguing the billionaire and his own artificial intelligence company, xAI, have not made any changes to their previously nixed claims for contract breach and fraudulent enterprise.
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June 06, 2025
Commerce Dept. Creates Tech-Neutral Plan For BEAD Funding
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick on Friday unveiled a technology-neutral approach for broadband deployment subsidies under the $42.5 billion program created during the Biden administration, which he argues will speed up the federal effort.
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June 06, 2025
Willkie Atty's Ex-Landlord Says NY Post Leak Wasn't His Idea
A Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP partner's onetime landlord asked for a pretrial victory in a federal feud with his former tenants, telling a Connecticut court Friday he did not participate in his ex-attorney's leak of unflattering allegations about A. Mark Getachew and his wife to the New York Post.
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June 06, 2025
Ga. Judge Signals '2,000 Mules' Slander Suit May Go On
A Georgia federal judge signaled Friday that he may leave it up to a jury to decide whether a Peach State voter was defamed by his portrayal as an election fraud operative in the conspiracy movie "2,000 Mules," doubting whether he had enough evidence to prove the film's producers deliberately tried to slander him.
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June 06, 2025
NY AG Shuts Down 26 Online Sweepstakes Casinos
New York Attorney General Letitia James announced Friday that her office has shuttered the in-state operations of 26 online sweepstakes casinos, saying they are prohibited by state law because they involve risking something of value.
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June 06, 2025
X Corp., Music Publishers Say They Want To Settle IP Suit
A copyright dispute between music publishers and X Corp. is heading toward a potential settlement, with both sides on Friday asking a Tennessee federal judge to stay proceedings for 90 days so they can participate in negotiations.
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June 06, 2025
Stewart To Review PTAB Refusal To Ax TikTok IPRs
The acting head of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will review a decision by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board refusing to throw out TikTok's bids to invalidate a series of patents related to publishing multimedia content.
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June 06, 2025
Seton Hall Suit About Negligence, Not MedMal, Hoopsters Say
Two basketball players suing Seton Hall University with claims their injuries were minimized so they could continue playing told a New Jersey federal judge Thursday that the lawsuit is about gross negligence, not their personal injuries, in a response to a motion for summary judgment.
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June 06, 2025
OpenAI CEO Calls NYT's ChatGPT Log Demand 'Inappropriate'
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and his company have said they intend to appeal a Manhattan federal court order mandating the preservation of ChatGPT logs at the request of The New York Times and other news agencies in ongoing copyright infringement litigation, saying the demand goes too far.
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June 06, 2025
Off The Bench: NASCAR Antitrust Saga, White Sox Transfer
In this week's Off The Bench, an appeals court says Michael Jordan's auto racing team cannot compete amid an antitrust suit against NASCAR, the Chicago White Sox start a long ownership transfer process, and the woman who accused a college football coach of sexual harassment sues the university over its handling of the complaint.
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June 06, 2025
Mayer Brown Adds Partner To NY Corporate, Securities Team
Aideen Brennan, a former mergers and acquisitions and private equity senior managing associate at Sidley Austin, has joined Mayer Brown's global corporate and securities practice as a partner in New York.
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June 05, 2025
OneTaste Founder Tells Jury Racy Details Are a Distraction
Counsel for OneTaste co-founder Nicole Daedone on Thursday told a Brooklyn federal jury that Daedone's provocative teachings involving "orgasmic meditation" don't matter to the forced labor conspiracy charges she and her deputy face, unlike the free will of those who say they were victimized.
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June 05, 2025
Playboy Fired Exec For Raising Harassment Issues, Suit Says
Playboy's ousted chief creative officer filed a retaliation suit against the company in Los Angeles Superior Court on Thursday alleging he was illegally terminated after speaking up about sexual harassment, financial improprieties and a minor uploading explicit images of herself to a public company website.
Expert Analysis
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Series
Teaching Business Law Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Teaching business law to college students has rekindled my sense of purpose as a lawyer — I am more mindful of the importance of the rule of law and the benefits of our common law system, which helps me maintain a clearer perspective on work, says David Feldman at Feldman Legal Advisors.
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Deregulation Memo Presents Risks, Opportunities For Cos.
A recent Trump administration memo providing direction to agencies tasked with rescinding regulations under an earlier executive order — without undergoing the typical notice-and-review process — will likely create much uncertainty for businesses, though they may be able to engage with agencies to shape the regulatory agenda, say attorneys at Blank Rome.
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Law School's Missed Lessons: Mastering Discovery
The discovery process and the rules that govern it are often absent from law school curricula, but developing a solid grasp of the particulars can give any new attorney a leg up in their practice, says Jordan Davies at Knowles Gallant.
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Web Tracking Ruling Signals Potential Broadening Of CCPA
The Northern District of California's recent decision in Shah v. Capital One Financial Corp. is notable, as it signals a potential broadening of the California Consumer Privacy Act's private right of action beyond data breaches to unauthorized, nonbreach disclosures involving the use of now-ubiquitous tracking technologies, say attorneys at Baker Donelson.
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Patent Takeaways In Fed. Circ.'s 1st Machine Learning Ruling
The Federal Circuit’s recent decision in Recentive Analytics v. Fox, a case of first impression affirming the invalidity of patents that applied general machine learning methods to conventional tasks, serves as a cautionary guide for patent practitioners navigating the complexities of machine learning inventions, say attorneys at Foley & Lardner.
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Opinion
Int'l Athletes' Wages Should Be On-Campus Employment
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security should recognize participation in college athletics by international student-athletes as on-campus employment to prevent the potentially disastrous ripple effects on teams, schools and their surrounding communities, says Catherine Haight at Haight Law Group.
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Playing Guitar Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Being a lawyer not only requires logic and hard work, but also belief, emotion, situational awareness and lots of natural energy — playing guitar enhances all of these qualities, increasing my capacity to do my best work, says Kosta Stojilkovic at Wilkinson Stekloff.
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Crisis Management Lessons From The Parenting Playbook
The parenting skills we use to help our kids through challenges — like rehearsing for stressful situations, modeling confidence and taking time to reset our emotions — can also teach us the fundamentals of leading clients through a corporate crisis, say Deborah Solmor at the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation and Cara Peterman at Alston & Bird.
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Tips For Companies Crafting Tariff Surcharge Disclosures
As the Trump administration imposes tariffs on imports, retail businesses considering itemizing tariff-related costs separately for consumers must ensure that any disclosures are both accurate and defensible to avoid regulatory enforcement or private suits, says Christopher Cole at Katten.
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Adapting To Private Practice: From NY Fed To BigLaw
While the move to private practice brings a learning curve, it also brings chances to learn new skills and grow your network, requiring a clear understanding of how your skills can complement and contribute to a firm's existing practice, and where you can add new value, says Meghann Donahue at Covington.
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Combs Case Reveals Key Pretrial Scheduling Strategies
The procedural battles over pretrial disclosure deadlines leading up to the criminal trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs show how disclosure timing can substantially affect defendants’ ability to prepare and highlight several scheduling pointers for defense counsel, says Sara Kropf at Kropf Moseley.
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Top 3 Litigation Finance Deal-Killers, And How To Avoid Them
Like all transactions, litigation finance deals can sometimes collapse, but understanding the most common reasons for failure, including a lack of trust or a misunderstanding of deal terms, can help both parties avoid problems, say Rebecca Berrebi at Avenue 33 and Boris Ziser at Schulte Roth.
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Best Practices For Companies Integrating Existing IP With AI
Some copyright owners are exploring how they can make new content by combining their existing intellectual property assets with generative artificial intelligence, and although these initiatives can serve multiple business goals, those considering such practices should be aware they are entering largely uncharted waters, says Josh Weigensberg at Pryor Cashman.
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How Attys Can Use A Therapy Model To Help Triggered Clients
Attorneys can lean on key principles from a psychotherapeutic paradigm known as the "Internal Family Systems" model to help manage triggered clients and get settlement negotiations back on track, says Jennifer Gibbs at Zelle.
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How Athletes Can Protect Their Signature Celebrations As IP
As copyright and trademark law adapts to short-form choreography and dynamic media, athletes and their business partners have new tools to protect the intellectual property embedded in their unique dances, poses and celebrations, say attorneys at Debevoise.