Medtronic Owes $381M For Antitrust 'War Games,' Jury Told

By Craig Clough

An attorney for Applied Medical told a California federal jury Wednesday during closing arguments in an antitrust trial against Medtronic that internal documents from the medical device giant show it played illegal "war games" against his client and should pay up to $381 million. 

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CREXi Fights Bid To Disqualify Quinn Emanuel In CoStar IP Suit

By Rae Ann Varona

Commercial real estate platform CREXi has urged a California federal judge to let it keep Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP as its counsel as it fights CoStar's accusations of copyright infringement, saying CoStar is only now raising conflict of interest concerns to gain a "tactical advantage."

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9th Circ. Seems Reluctant To Keep Netflix Bias Case In Court

By Vin Gurrieri

The Ninth Circuit zeroed in on timing Wednesday as a former Netflix worker pushed to keep her sexual harassment suit out of arbitration, appearing sympathetic to the streaming company's argument that her dispute began before a law banning mandatory arbitration for sexual harassment claims became effective.

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US Supreme Court Won't Halt New Calif. Congressional Map

By Lauren Berg

The U.S. Supreme Court will not block California's new, voter-approved congressional districts before they can be used in this year's midterm election while California Republicans appeal their previous failed bid to block the redrawn map that they argue constitutes illegal racial gerrymandering with Democratic officials "maximizing Latino voting strength."

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Mayweather Sues Showtime Over Missing Earnings

By Tom Lotshaw

Boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. hit Showtime Networks Inc. with a lawsuit accusing the company of helping a former manager defraud him, with at least $340 million of fight earnings misappropriated or unaccounted for.

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Law360 Seeks Members For Its 2026 Editorial Boards

Law360 is looking for avid readers of our publications to serve as members of our 2026 editorial advisory boards.

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EPA Can't OK Calif. Engine Emissions Rules, 9th Circ. Told

By Keith Goldberg

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency failed to determine whether California's plan to set tighter emissions rules for off-road engines warranted a Clean Air Act waiver before giving the go-ahead to the Golden State, industry groups have told the Ninth Circuit.

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Parent Tells 9th Circ. Roblox Can't Arbitrate Suit

By Emily Field

A parent has urged the Ninth Circuit to uphold a lower court's ruling that Roblox can't arbitrate claims that his daughter was preyed upon by adults on the popular gaming platform, since it was his minor child, not him, who made purchases on the app.

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SPEX Urges Fed. Circ. To Revert Slashed $1 IP Win To $553M

By Dani Kass

SPEX Technologies Inc. is asking the Federal Circuit to reinstate the $553 million award it had won against Western Digital for patent infringement, after a California federal judge lowered it to a single dollar.

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Analysis

​What's Left In VLSI-Intel's $3B Patent Litigation

By Dani Kass

Intel and VLSI are set to square off Thursday at the Federal Circuit ​i​n one arm of their high​-stakes fight over semiconductor patents, but questions over the state of $3 billion in verdicts, a potential license, fraud allegations and invalidations are still playing out in other cases. Here's where things stand.​

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Carnegie Mellon Avoids Alice Ax Of Patents In Calif. Suit

By Adam Lidgett

A California federal judge has shot down a bid by an indirect Broadcom Inc. subsidiary to invalidate claims in a pair of Carnegie Mellon University patents the company has been accused of infringing, saying they passed muster under the U.S. Supreme Court's Alice test.

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Seidler Family Resolves Most Of Padres Ownership Dispute

By Alex Lawson

A dispute over control of the San Diego Padres appears to be over, as the widow of the team's late owner has dropped several claims against his brothers just months after the Major League Baseball team announced it was putting itself up for sale.

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Calif. Court Revives Walmart Worker's Background Check Suit

By Gina Kim

California appellate justices Wednesday revived a Walmart employee's lawsuit alleging the retailer added extraneous consumer reporting agencies in a background check notice during her hiring process, finding she has standing since Walmart obscured the specific agency that provided the report and the ways she could contact the agency to fix errors.

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Brief

Calif. Panel Won't Publish Amazon Drivers Arbitration Ruling

By Irene Spezzamonte

A California appeals court will not publish its decision that last-mile deliveries Amazon workers performed represented interstate commerce exempt from federal arbitration, turning down requests to publish the opinion.

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9th Circ. Reopens Funko Investors' Securities Class Action

By Ben Adlin

A Ninth Circuit panel Wednesday revived a proposed securities class action against toy-maker Funko Inc. and two former executives, ruling that shareholders sufficiently alleged that some company statements about its handling of millions of dollars of dead inventory were false and misleading.

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HPE Backs DOJ Bid For Final Merger Deal Approval

By Bryan Koenig

Hewlett Packard Enterprise has endorsed the Justice Department's bid for final approval of a controversial settlement permitting the $14 billion purchase of Juniper Networks, telling a California federal judge that Democratic state attorneys general have nothing but "vague and inaccurate accusations" that the deal was improper.

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Gov't Pushes For Greystar Antitrust Settlement Approval

By Isaac Monterose

The federal government pushed back against public comments that criticized its proposed antitrust settlement with landlord Greystar Management Services LLC, telling a North Carolina federal court Wednesday to approve the proposed settlement because it does enough to resolve its claims.

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Fed. Circ. Backs Infringement Immunity For NASA Contractor

By Adam Lidgett

The Federal Circuit on Wednesday endorsed a California federal judge's decision that a NASA contractor doesn't have to face a patent infringement suit from a pair of California men, given that its allegedly infringing use was authorized by the federal government.

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Stem-Cell Drug Developer PrimeGen Inks $1.5B SPAC Merger

By Al Barbarino

Regenerative medicine developer PrimeGen US said Wednesday it has agreed to go public through a merger with blank check company DT Cloud Star Acquisition Corp., in a deal that values the company at about $1.5 billion.

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Analysis

2 Killings Are Reshaping ICE Strategy. States Also Have Plans.

By Carla Baranauckas

The killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis in separate immigration enforcement episodes have become a fresh catalyst for state lawmakers who are moving on legislation to limit federal agents' tactics or deepen cooperation with them, despite looming constitutional fights over how far states can go.

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Davis Polk Picks Up IP Ace From Debevoise & Plimpton

By Gina Kim

Preeminent intellectual property attorney John "Jay" Neukom, who has a storied track record prevailing on behalf of major companies in high-profile legal battles across the country, has joined Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP in Northern California, after spending nearly four years with Debevoise & Plimpton LLC, according to an announcement made Monday.

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Cooley, Ropes & Gray Transactional Attys Move To Latham

By Andrea Keckley

Latham & Watkins LLP announced Tuesday that it has hired two partners to help the firm meet evolving capital and growth demands — a Los Angeles-based emerging companies attorney from Cooley LLP and a New York-based capital markets attorney from Ropes & Gray LLP.

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Eversheds Sutherland Hires Paul Hastings Trial Pro

By Grace Dixon

Eversheds Sutherland announced that it has added a partner to its litigation practice group, who joins the firm from Paul Hastings LLP fresh off the heels of guiding Prologis Inc. through a three-month jury trial in Los Angeles County Superior Court.

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O'Melveny Supreme Court Ace Joins Hecker Fink

By James Mills

Litigation firm Hecker Fink LLP is expanding its appellate team, announcing Wednesday that an O'Melveny & Myers LLP Supreme Court expert is joining as of counsel.

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Donahue Fitzgerald Adds Fennemore Craig Real Estate Atty

By Nate Beck

East Bay law firm Donahue Fitzgerald LLP said it has hired an Oakland, California-based Fennemore Craig PC attorney as a partner in its real estate group.

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Opinion

Congress Should Lead On AI Policy, Not The States

There needs to be some limits on how far federal agencies go in regulating artificial intelligence systems, but Congress must not abdicate its responsibility and cede control over this interstate market to state and local officials, say Kevin Frazier at the University of Texas School of Law and Adam Thierer at the R Street Institute.

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New State Regs On PFAS In Products Complicate Compliance

The new year brought new bans and reporting requirements for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in half a dozen states — in many cases, targeting specific consumer product categories — so manufacturers, distributors and retailers must not only monitor their own supply chains, but also coordinate to ensure compliance, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.

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How Specificity, Self-Dealing Are Shaping ERISA Litigation

Several recent cases, including the U.S. Supreme Court's forthcoming ruling in Anderson v. Intel, illustrate the competing forces shaping excessive fee litigation, with plaintiffs seeking flexibility, courts demanding specificity, fiduciaries facing increased scrutiny for conflicts of interest, and self-dealing amplifying exposure, says James Beall at Willig Williams.

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Series

Law School's Missed Lessons: Practicing Resilience

Resilience is a skill acquired through daily practices that focus on learning from missteps, recovering quickly without internalizing defeat and moving forward with intention, says Nicholas Meza at Quarles & Brady.

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Meet New Paul Weiss Chairman Scott Barshay

By Anna Sanders

New Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP chair Scott Barshay is a rainmaker who most recently led the corporate department, guiding clients through some of the largest transactions in recent history after joining the firm's New York office a decade ago.

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Judge Who Resigned To Criticize Trump Had Faced Inquiry

By Chris Villani

Former Massachusetts U.S. District Judge Mark L. Wolf was the subject of an inquiry into potential misconduct when he announced his November resignation, a decision he said at the time was motivated by a desire to speak out against the Trump administration, according to a source familiar with the matter.

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Judge Says AI Errors Show Atty Can't 'Learn' From Mistakes

By Ivan Moreno

A New York federal judge concluded that an attorney who repeatedly submitted filings with false AI-generated citations must be punished with case-terminating sanctions against a client he was defending in a trademark lawsuit, saying Thursday that the lawyer "has not, and apparently cannot, learn from his mistakes."

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NY Times Article Excerpts Admitted In Goldstein Trial

By Jared Foretek

Federal prosecutors pressing their case against SCOTUSblog co-founder Thomas Goldstein for tax evasion and misleading statements on mortgage applications were finally able on Thursday to present jurors with key statements the U.S. Supreme Court lawyer made to legal journalist Jeffrey Toobin for a long New York Times Magazine article.

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Texas Atty Must Explain AI 'Misuse' In Employment Case

By Lauren Berg

A prominent civil rights attorney representing a University of Texas at Austin nurse in an employment discrimination case must explain why he shouldn't be sanctioned "for his apparent misuse of artificial intelligence" to research and write a brief, a Texas federal judge ruled.

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Ex-Alex Jones Atty Asks Conn. Justices To Nix Suspension

By Brian Steele

A Connecticut attorney who formerly represented conspiracy broadcaster Alex Jones in a $1.4 billion defamation case has asked the state's highest court to consider whether it was proper for a judge to suspend his law license for violating a protective order governing Sandy Hook families' personal information.

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Deel Loses Bid To DQ Quinn Emanuel In Trade Secrets Fight

By Lauren Berg

Payroll and human resources company Deel Inc. cannot have Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP disqualified from representing its competitor Rippling in a trade secrets fight, a Delaware judge ruled Thursday, saying there is no "clear conflict" that would require booting the BigLaw firm.

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State Bar Of Texas Declines To Open Grievance On Ramey

By Emily Sawicki

The State Bar of Texas has declined to open a grievance against patent litigator William P. Ramey III after a San Francisco federal court sanctioned him and his firm, Ramey LLP, for practicing law in California without a license.

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Wash. Lawyer Faces Sanction Threat Over Alleged AI Errors

By Ben Adlin

A federal judge has ordered an attorney in Washington state to submit a sworn declaration explaining why she shouldn't be sanctioned for what opposing counsel claimed are dozens of artificial intelligence "hallucinations" across multiple case filings.

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Fake Case Pulled From Toshiba Malicious Prosecution Suit

By Bryan Koenig

A former printer toner salesman is trying to salvage his lawsuit against Toshiba after the company flagged nonexistent citations, apologizing to the California federal court in a corrected brief Thursday defending claims that the electronics company manufactured a criminal case against him and others to maintain an illegal monopoly.

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McCarter & English Wants To Torpedo $22M Malpractice Suit

By Aaron Keller

McCarter & English LLP on Thursday asked a Connecticut Superior Court judge to sink a $22.3 million professional negligence lawsuit by two struggling insurers, saying failures to provide documents or knowledgeable people to testify during pretrial depositions warrant a "harsh" end to the nearly decade-old case.

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Trump's Seattle US Atty Stays On For Now Via Title Swap

By Rachel Riley

Trump administration appointee Charles Neil Floyd will continue to be the Western District of Washington's top federal prosecutor for now, under the new title of "First Assistant U.S. Attorney," after the deadline passed Wednesday for the U.S. Senate to confirm the interim appointment.

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Klobuchar Alarmed By Exodus Of Prosecutors In Minnesota

By Courtney Bublé

Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., on Thursday said she was alarmed by the surge of resignations by federal prosecutors in her state following the shooting deaths of two Minnesotans by immigration agents.

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Judiciary Backs Bill To Let Judges Carry Concealed Guns

By Courtney Bublé

The federal judiciary has come out in support of a Republican-led bill to allow judges and prosecutors to carry concealed firearms across state lines, according to a letter obtained by Law360.

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Ex-Prosecutors Call For Independent Probes Of ICE Killings

By Rose Krebs

A coalition of former federal prosecutors and civil rights attorneys is urging U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to ensure that the U.S. Department of Justice allows for "transparent, unbiased and impartial" investigations into the killings in Minneapolis last month of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal immigration enforcement agents.

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