Pro Swimming League Wins Antitrust Trial. Its Prize? $1

By Hailey Konnath

A California federal jury has determined that World Aquatics illegally boycotted International Swimming League events in violation of federal antitrust law, but awarded just $1 in damages, in a verdict returned Friday.

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Ex-Olympic Snowboarder Arrested On Drug, Murder Charges

By Alex Lawson

Ryan Wedding, a former snowboarder on the Canadian Olympic team, was arrested in Mexico on murder and drug-running charges, FBI Director Kash Patel announced Friday, nearly 10 months after the bureau placed Wedding on its list of 10 most-wanted fugitives.

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Kenvue Unit Asks Justices To Clarify Class Cert. Expert Rules

By Dorothy Atkins

A unit of consumer health products company Kenvue has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to hear its class certification challenge in litigation over Neutrogena's "oil-free" face wash labels, arguing circuit courts are "openly and intractably" divided over whether expert testimony must be admissible for certification and the split has "immense practical consequences."

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Full 9th Circ. Won't Review Google Maps Antitrust Case

By Gina Kim

The full Ninth Circuit won't reconsider an appellate panel's recent decision refusing to revive a proposed antitrust class action alleging Google's terms suppresses competition by locking out rival maps products and jacking up developer costs up to 1,400%, according to a brief order issued Thursday.

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Rivian Can't Ditch Latest Investor Suit Over EV Production

By Dorothy Atkins

A California federal judge refused Thursday to toss a proposed class action alleging Rivian and its top brass misled investors about its 2023 production capabilities and demand for electric vehicles, rejecting Rivian's arguments that the securities claims cannot proceed in light of the Ninth Circuit's recent Sneed v. Talphera ruling.

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Calif. Forecast: Court Weighs BlackBerry Discrimination Suit

By Max Kutner

In the coming week, attorneys should watch for a summary judgment hearing in a former BlackBerry Corp. executive's discrimination and harassment suit. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.

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Judge Blocks DOJ Anti-Diversity Conditions On Police Grants

By Brandon Lowrey

A California federal judge has blocked the U.S. Department of Justice from withholding community policing grants from a group of cities and counties that refuse to scrap their diversity programs and certify compliance with all of President Donald Trump's executive orders, saying those conditions directly conflict with the law that created the grants.

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Real Estate Recap: HUD, Corporate Landlords, Atty Errors

By Real Estate Authority Staff

Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including how the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development may be shifting focus, what President Donald Trump's executive order on investment in single-family homes means for Wall Street, and a look at some of the mistakes made by real estate attorneys.

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Calif. Urges 9th Circ. To Block Sable Pipeline Permit

By Hailey Konnath

California Attorney General Rob Bonta on Friday asked the Ninth Circuit to shut down the Trump administration's emergency approvals for Sable Offshore Corp.-owned onshore pipelines, calling it another "unlawful power grab" that violates the Administrative Procedure Act.

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Trump Admin's EV Infrastructure Funding Pause Vacated

By Rachel Riley

A Seattle federal judge said Friday that President Donald Trump's administration overstepped its statutory powers and broke federal law by abruptly freezing approved funding for new electric vehicle charging infrastructure last year, vacating the program's suspension and siding with 20 states and environmental groups who challenged the move.

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Reforms, $737.5K Fee Proposed To End Del. Skin Tech Suit

By Jeff Montgomery

A mediated deal on corporate governance reforms and a fee and expenses award have tentatively settled a consolidated Delaware Court of Chancery derivative suit targeting oversight and disclosure failures involving a "hydrafacial" skin treatment device that cost The Beauty Health Co. at least $63.2 million to manage.

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Guardant Can Try Again To Nix Patent Tied To $83M Verdict

By Adam Lidgett

The Federal Circuit on Friday threw out a Patent Trial and Appeal Board decision finding Guardant Health couldn't show that a University of Washington DNA sequencing patent is invalid, sending the case back to the board for another look.

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$200M Sun, Taro Generics Deal Gets Final OK

By Bryan Koenig

A Pennsylvania federal judge granted final approval Friday for a $200 million deal resolving employee benefits plans' claims against Sun Pharmaceutical and Taro Pharmaceuticals in the sprawling price-fixing litigation against generic-drug makers, while again ensuring the claims from dozens of state attorneys general remain untouched by the settlement.

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Intel Case Sets Up Justices To Tackle 401(k) Benchmarks

By Kellie Mejdrich

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to take up a suit challenging target-date fund offerings in two Intel employee 401(k) plans gives benefits attorneys hope that clarity is coming on whether meaningful benchmarks are required to plead that investment underperformance breached fiduciary duties under federal benefits law.

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Delta Lounge Workers Cheated Out Of Wages, Suit Says

By Irene Spezzamonte

Delta Air Lines and a food service company cheated workers at airport lounges out of wages by not paying them for time spent undergoing security checks and by denying them meal and rest breaks, a worker said in a proposed class action in California state court.

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X Can't Access OpenAI Source Code In Antitrust Suit

By Matthew Perlman

A Texas federal court will not force OpenAI Inc. to hand over its source code in an antitrust case from Elon Musk's X Corp. over the artificial intelligence company's deal to integrate ChatGPT on Apple devices.

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Live Nation Antitrust Judge Wants To 'Punt' On State Claims

By Pete Brush

A federal judge in Manhattan asked Friday whether federal and state authorities accusing Live Nation of stifling competition in live entertainment would consent to staying the state law claims and focus on federal claims in an upcoming trial so it won't end up "lasting five years."

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Providers Oppose Credit Bureaus' Medical Debt Appeal

By Mark Payne

A proposed class of medical providers and collection agencies accusing Equifax, Experian and TransUnion of colluding to exclude medical debt under $500 from consumer credit reports is opposing a bid by the credit bureaus to expedite an appeal of a ruling that denied dismissal of the claims.

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9th Circ. Revives Honduran Woman's Bid For Asylum

By Tom Lotshaw

The Ninth Circuit has told immigration judges to reconsider their denial of a Honduran woman's bid for asylum and withholding of removal when evidence showed the Honduran government was unable or unwilling to protect her from a gang member partner's abuse.

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Truckers Can't Lift Calif. Immigrant Driver's License Freeze

By Linda Chiem

A federal judge rejected a local trucking group's bid to force California to lift its freeze on immigrant truck driver's licenses, saying the Golden State cannot run afoul of federal mandates in a way that would jeopardize highway funding or risk the state's licensing program getting decertified altogether.

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Justices' Med Mal Ruling May Hurt Federal Anti-SLAPP Suits

The U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision in Berk v. Choy restricts the application of certain state laws in diversity actions in federal court — and while the ruling concerned affidavit requirements in medical malpractice suits, it may also affect the use of anti-SLAPP statutes in federal litigation, says Travis Chance at Brownstein Hyatt.

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Series

Law School's Missed Lessons: How To Start A Law Firm

Launching and sustaining a law firm requires skills most law schools don't teach, but every lawyer should understand a few core principles that can make the leap calculated rather than reckless, says Sam Katz at Athlaw.

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Law Student Recruiting Moves Further Off Campus

By Emma Cueto

About four-fifths of law school summer associate recruiting in 2025 happened through employer-sponsored channels, as opposed to more traditional law school-sponsored channels, with recruiting also happening increasingly early, according to research unveiled Monday by the National Association for Law Placement.

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Fla. Bar Clears Gaetz Despite US House Ethics Report

By Courtney Bublé

The Florida Bar has decided to not discipline former U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., who was briefly President Donald Trump's pick for attorney general, despite the House ethics committee's findings that Gaetz regularly paid for sex, including with a minor.

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Texas Law Firm-Linked Plane Crashes In Maine With Fatalities

By Lynn LaRowe

A private plane connected to Texas-based litigation firm Arnold & Itkin LLP overturned and caught fire Sunday night as it attempted to take off from a Maine airport, killing at least six people on board, according to authorities and public records.

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Indiana Judge Was Shot Through Front Door, Cop Says

By Hailey Konnath

An Indiana Superior Court judge and his wife were shot by a man standing on their front porch, through their closed front door, according to an affidavit, which noted that the suspected shooter was connected to a man with pending charges in the judge's courtroom.

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Foley & Lardner Can't Dodge Pro-Palestinian Atty's Bias Suit

By Emily Sawicki

A Chicago federal judge on Monday denied Foley & Lardner LLP's bid for an early win against claims brought by a former summer associate who said discrimination led to the firm's decision to rescind a job offer after she publicly supported Palestinians amid Israel's war with Hamas.

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Minn. Judge Probes Limits Of ICE Enforcement Actions

By Ganesh Setty

A Minnesota federal judge on Monday considered whether to preliminarily block the Trump administration from sending thousands of immigration enforcement officers to the state, questioning if the surge is a coercive federal act in violation of state sovereignty.

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Full 3rd Circ. Passes On Alina Habba DQ Challenge

By Carla Baranauckas

The Third Circuit on Monday declined to reconsider its decision blocking Alina Habba from serving as acting U.S. attorney for New Jersey, denying the Justice Department's petition for rehearing and leaving intact a decision that sharply curtailed the government's use of creative maneuvers to install interim federal prosecutors.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court wrapped up the week with a slate of high-stakes deal challenges, governance rulings and oversight decisions, including an emergency bid to block a $10.9 billion bank merger, a state Supreme Court reversal reshaping stockholder agreement litigation and a major opinion allowing sexual misconduct oversight claims to proceed.

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