1st Circ. Clears IT Co. In Suit Over Zoll Patient Data Breach

By Chris Villani

An information technology company cannot be held liable for a data breach exposing the health information of patients of a unit of medical device maker Zoll Medical Corp, the First Circuit ruled, because the two companies did not have a business relationship permitting them to hold one responsible for another's conduct.

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DOJ Will Speed Some Classified Discovery In Bolton Case

By Jared Foretek

Federal prosecutors agreed Friday to accelerate their classified discovery timeline in the prosecution of John Bolton, as a Maryland federal judge pressed them to move faster.

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Judge Halts IRS-ICE Info-Sharing Agreement

By Anna Scott Farrell

A D.C. federal judge temporarily stopped the IRS on Friday from sharing confidential taxpayer addresses with immigration enforcement officials, saying the agency's disclosures of addresses in August under an information-sharing deal were unlawful.

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Google Ad Tech Judge 'Concerned' By DOJ's Breakup Timing

By Bryan Koenig

A Virginia federal judge expressed concern during oral arguments Friday that breaking up Google's advertising placement technology business could take too long to help the market in the face of the company's anticipated appeal of the monopolization ruling won by the U.S. Department of Justice.

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Bankers Press Congress To Pass 'Critical' AML Reporting Bill

By Sarah Jarvis

The American Bankers Association and 50 state bankers groups are urging congressional leaders to pass proposed legislation to increase dollar thresholds for anti-money-laundering reporting, saying it would be a "critical element" of modernizing illicit finance rules for banks.

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Ex-Google CEO Accused Of Sex Assault, Cyberstalking

By Hailey Konnath

A woman who says she dated former Google CEO Eric Schmidt has accused him of sexually assaulting her, stealing her businesses and surveilling her devices via a "backdoor" he built with Google engineers to covertly spy on employees, according to a complaint she's trying to file in California state court.

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'Housewives' Star Says Revenge Porn Talks Were Coerced

By Chart Riggall

Former "Real Housewives of Atlanta" star Brit Eady accused Bravo and the show's production company of blackmailing her into discussing a "disgusting" revenge porn incident where in front of a live event audience, a cast member showed a graphic image falsely attributed to Eady.

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SEC, Virtu To Settle Customer Data Suit For $2.5M

By Sarah Jarvis

Virtu Financial Inc. has agreed to pay the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission $2.5 million for allegedly failing to safeguard customer information, according to a Friday proposed final order that would end the regulator's two-year-old suit against the broker-dealer.

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Mich. Atty Fights Defamation Suit From Election Investigator

By Danielle Ferguson

A Michigan attorney has said any statements that a cybersecurity firm claims she made to scuttle its president's job prospects with the Pennsylvania Legislature are protected speech on a matter of public concern, urging a federal judge to dismiss a suit the firm brought after it told her it found no evidence of fraud in the 2020 presidential election.

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Rothman Orthopaedics Hit With Pa. Wiretapping Lawsuit

By P.J. D'Annunzio

Rothman Orthopaedics has been hit with a proposed class action in Pennsylvania alleging the company violated state wiretapping laws by intercepting private healthcare information on its website using a third-party tracking pixel.

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Ruger's $1.5M Data Breach Deal Heads For Final OK

By Brian Steele

A proposed class of data breach victims has asked a federal judge to issue final approval of a $1.5 million settlement with Connecticut-based gunmaker Sturm, Ruger & Co. and a New Jersey web developer, along with $500,000 in fees to attorneys with four firms including Siri & Glimstad LLP.

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Mich. Mortgage Co. Hit With Data Breach Class Actions

By Isaac Monterose

A Michigan mortgage lender was hit with several proposed data breach class actions that alleged in Michigan federal court that the lender failed to do enough to protect consumers' personally identifiable information, such as their Social Security numbers, from a June data breach.

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DoorDash Hit With Suit Over Breach Of Customer, Dasher Data

By Allison Grande

Delivery service DoorDash failed to delete old data and take other necessary steps to protect the personal information of customers, dashers and merchants that was exposed in a recent security breach, according to a proposed class action filed in California federal court. 

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Sysnet Ends Noncompete Suit Against Ex-Manager

By Kelcey Caulder

Cybersecurity company Sysnet North America Inc. told a Georgia federal court it will dismiss a lawsuit alleging one of its former business relationship managers violated the restrictive covenants in his employment contract by taking a job with a direct competitor.

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Opinion

Despite Deputy AG Remarks, DOJ Can't Sideline DC Bar

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche’s recent suggestion that the D.C. Bar would be prevented from reviewing misconduct complaints about U.S. Department of Justice attorneys runs contrary to federal statutes, local rules and decades of case law, and sends the troubling message that federal prosecutors are subject to different rules, say attorneys at HWG.

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Bonus Spotlight

Texas Boutique Giving Associates Bonuses Of Up To $135K

By Tracey Read

Texas complex commercial litigation boutique Vartabedian Hester & Haynes LLP announced Friday that it will reward associates with additional year-end bonuses of up to $135,000 by Dec. 31, while more firms said they'd match or exceed the prevailing BigLaw scale.

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Atty Had 6 AI Tools Check Each Other, Yet Fakes Still Cited

By Andrea Keckley

A California federal judge has sanctioned a solo practitioner representing the plaintiffs in a proposed wage and hour class action against clothing brand Vuori Inc. after he admitted to using about a half-dozen artificial intelligence tools to prepare a motion.

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Fenwick & West Must Face New Claims In FTX Crypto MDL

By Madison Arnold

A Florida federal judge signed off on a bid to file new claims against Fenwick & West LLP by victims of the infamous FTX Trading Ltd. cryptocurrency scam after they argued that new information had emerged about the firm's alleged role in the trading platform's collapse.

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Google Calls Rumble's Judge Recusal Bid 'Cynical Maneuver'

By Rae Ann Varona

Google argued Friday that a California federal judge need not recuse himself from YouTube rival Rumble's antitrust suit despite his friendship with Google's top in-house litigation chief, saying Rumble's push for the recusal was a "cynical maneuver" for its Ninth Circuit appeal of a summary judgment loss.

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Ex-Gordon Rees Atty Reprimanded For Mistakes Blamed On AI

By Rose Krebs

An Alabama bankruptcy judge won't sanction Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLC for a filing submitted by one of its former lawyers that contained mistakes blamed on artificial intelligence, but has reprimanded the attorney and ordered her to notify her clients about the reprimand.

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Worker Says Morgan & Morgan Fired Her Over Fraud Concern

By Irene Spezzamonte

Injury law firm Morgan & Morgan PA fired a case manager after she voiced a concern about fraudulent client hospital records she said the firm gave to opposing counsel to snag more favorable settlements and failed to pay overtime, according to a suit in California state court.

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Tort Report: Ga. Injury Suits Surge Ahead Of Tort Reform

By Y. Peter Kang

Word of a big surge in Georgia injury lawsuits ahead of tort reform legislation and a $66 million Atlanta nightclub shooting judgment lead Law360's Tort Report, which compiles recent personal injury and medical malpractice news that may have flown under the radar.

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Ex-US Trustee Director's Firing Appeal Tossed, For Now

By Clara Geoghegan

The former head of the U.S. Department of Justice's bankruptcy watchdog program had her appeal challenging her abrupt firing dismissed, at least for now, while a federal agency mulls questions around executive power in separate cases.

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Ga. Justices Spell Out How Atty Ads Can Be Misleading

By Emily Johnson

The Georgia Supreme Court has updated the State Bar of Georgia's rule that prohibits attorneys from misleading the public in advertising their services, defining how lawyers' messaging in ads could run afoul of the state's rule and possibly lead to disbarment.

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DC Judge Backs Local Grand Jury's Federal Indictment Power

By Jared Foretek

Following a D.C. federal judge's Thursday ruling that the city's unique legal structure allows prosecutors to bring indictments from local grand juries to federal court, a District of Columbia man on Friday asked the court to stay the ruling for five business days.

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Roundup

UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

By Laura Stewart Liberty

This past week in London has seen Clyde & Co. face a claim from Yorkshire firm GWB Harthills, a property developer previously investigated over suspected bribery and corruption sue the general counsel and solicitor to HM Revenue and Customs, and sportswear giant Gymshark bring an intellectual property claim against its co-founder's rival company, AYBL. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

This week's edition of GC Cheat Sheet explores which top legal officers take home the most money and why. And the general counsel of SolarWinds Corp. can finally leave its data breach regulatory problems behind after the Securities and Exchange Commission dropped its unprecedented case against the company and its chief information security officer.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Kellogg Hansen Todd Figel & Frederick PLLC leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a D.C. federal judge rejected a Federal Trade Commission suit accusing Meta Platforms of illegally monopolizing social media through its purchases of WhatsApp and Instagram.

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In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Law360

For those who missed out, here's a look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the most buzz on Law360 last week.

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