Former NBA player Tristan Thompson sued cryptocurrency firm World Mobile Group Ltd. in Delaware Chancery Court, accusing the company of manufacturing bogus allegations to get out of its obligations under his $2 million brand ambassador deal while continuing to use his name, image and likeness.
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Ex-NBA Player Sues Crypto Co. After $2M Publicity Deal Sours

By Dorothy Atkins

Former NBA player Tristan Thompson sued cryptocurrency firm World Mobile Group Ltd. in Delaware Chancery Court, accusing the company of manufacturing bogus allegations to get out of its obligations under his $2 million brand ambassador deal while continuing to use his name, image and likeness.

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5 AI Cos. Sued Over Neural Network Patent In Delaware

By Elliot Weld

Five companies developing various transcription, speech-to-text and customer experience products with artificial intelligence are facing lawsuits brought by an entity alleging they infringed a patent covering neural networks.

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Chancery Tosses Insider Financing Suit Against Ayala Brass

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court has dismissed a stockholder derivative suit against several venture capital investors and directors of biotechnology company Ayala Pharmaceuticals Inc., ruling that the plaintiff failed to show the board could not independently evaluate litigation over a disputed 2023 financing deal.

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POLICY & REGULATION

Athletes Decry Antitrust Immunity In College Sports Bill

By David Steele

College athlete advocacy groups have criticized a proposed bipartisan U.S. Senate bill that provides congressional oversight to college sports and allows athletes to have agents, but also limits player movement and compensation and grants the NCAA antitrust immunity.

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U.S. SUPREME COURT

High Court Says First Step Act Can't Inform Early Releases

By Matthew Santoni

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that changes in mandatory minimum sentences cannot be considered retroactively when weighing if a federal prisoner should be granted early release.

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BANKRUPTCY COURT

Bestar Wins Ch. 15 Bid Amid Landlord Deposit Tussle

By Hilary Russ

A Delaware bankruptcy judge on Thursday granted Chapter 15 recognition to Canadian furniture company Bestar Inc. over the objection of a landlord seeking a $250,000 security deposit for potential damages that could occur when Bestar's foreign representative begins to liquidate a western New York factory next month.

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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

ITC Investigating Welch's Rival's Fruit Snack Imports

By Jack McLoone

The U.S. International Trade Commission opened an investigation into claims by the manufacturer of Welch's Fruit Snacks that a rival company, Cibo Vita, is importing patent-infringing yogurt-covered snacks into the U.S.

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DISTRICT COURT

King & Spalding Blocked From Exiting $300M Fraud Lawsuit

By Brian Steele

King & Spalding LLP and Lennon Murphy & Phillips LLC can't withdraw from representing clients in consolidated litigation over an alleged $300 million stock swindle, a Connecticut state court judge has ruled, saying the firms' motions ahead of a June trial lack good cause.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Series

Studying Foreign Languages Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Studying Italian and Japanese has shown me that learning a new language can benefit a legal career in several ways, including by demonstrating the importance of approaching problems from a fresh perspective and the value of practicing patience with colleagues and clients, says Anna King at Genworth Financial.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Florida High Court Adopts AI Policy For Lawyers

By Madison Arnold

The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday amended the state's rules to require those filing court documents to check any artificial intelligence-generated content for accuracy, and allow for sanctions if the content contains errors.

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Goldstein Says Bad Jury Instructions Warrant New Trial

By Jared Foretek

SCOTUSblog founder Tom Goldstein said that the prosecutors who convicted him on 12 tax and mortgage fraud charges in February are now contradicting arguments they made at the end of his trial in their attempt to deny him a bench acquittal or new trial.

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Fla. Court Refers Atty To Bar Over Bogus Case Citations

By Madison Arnold

A Florida state appeals court has referred an appellant's attorney to the state's bar for disciplinary proceedings after filing a petition that appears to be generated by artificial intelligence and "raises frivolous arguments, misstates the law, and cites non-existent case law."

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Parents Demand 'Bad Faith' Sanctions In Camp Mystic Case

By Lynn LaRowe

Camp Mystic in Texas' Hill Country should be sanctioned over "bad faith" conduct in litigation over flooding deaths last summer, including purported misrepresentations to courts and regulators and an alleged remark by one of its attorneys to a plaintiffs' lawyer that he would "burn in hell," a state court has been told.

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Trump Considers Tech Entrepreneur For DOJ Grants Post

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump appears poised to nominate a real estate attorney turned tech entrepreneur for a top U.S. Department of Justice post that oversees grants and criminal justice programs.

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Dem Sens. Ask DOJ To Preserve Trump-IRS Settlement Docs

By Jack McLoone

Two Democratic Senate leaders asked the U.S. Department of Justice to preserve any records related to the settlement of President Donald Trump's suit against the IRS in a letter published Thursday, signaling that further investigations may be coming.

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Roundup

Injury Law Roundup: Freight Brokers, Uber Lose Key Cases

By Y. Peter Kang

The U.S. Supreme Court's green light of negligent hiring claims against freight brokers in highway crash cases and an adverse verdict against Uber in the sexual assault multidistrict litigation lead Law360's Injury Law Roundup.

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Ex-Fla. Chief Justice Fred Lewis Dies At 78

By Carolina Bolado

Former Florida Chief Justice R. Fred Lewis, who spent two decades on the bench of the Florida Supreme Court, has died at 78, the court announced Thursday.

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Titan Of The Plaintiffs Bar: Gupta Wessler's Deepak Gupta

By Daniel Moritz-Rabson

In the decade and a half since starting his own firm, Deepak Gupta has argued seven cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, has won matters in state high courts from coast to coast, and has become a mainstay in federal appellate courts while building his plaintiff-side litigation boutique into a sought-after juggernaut.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Fried Goldberg

Allegaert Berger

ArentFox Schiff

Arnold & Itkin

Bergeson LLP

Bielli & Klauder

Carlton Fields

Castagna Scott

Cohen Milstein

Cooley LLP

DLA Piper

Debevoise & Plimpton

Finnegan

Freiwald Law

Gilmartin Magence

Goodwin Procter

Gupta Wessler

Kellogg Hansen

King & Spalding

Lennon Murphy

Ligris & Associates

McCarter & English

McDonald Hopkins

Morgan & Morgan PA

Morgan Lewis

Morris James

Munger Tolles

Nix Patterson

Rabicoff Law

Richards Layton

Ross LLP

Silverman McDonald

Townsend Law Firm

Watts Law Firm

Wiggin & Dana

Wright Close Barger & Guzman

Yetter Coleman

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Alliance for Cooperative Energy Services

AssemblyAI Inc.

Audi AG

Ayala Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Banyan

Boston University

C.H. Robinson Worldwide Inc.

CATIC Financial Inc.

Cerence Inc.

Cibo Vita

Citigroup Inc.

Cleveland Cavaliers

Council on Criminal Justice

Genworth Financial Inc.

Gerald Holdings LLC

Google LLC

Harvard University

LinkedIn Corp.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Merck & Co. Inc.

Meta Platforms Inc.

Monsanto Co.

NVIDIA Corp.

National College Players Association

National Collegiate Athletic Association

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Quince

Snap Inc.

Stavvy Inc.

The Florida Bar

The Promotion In Motion Cos. Inc.

TikTok Inc.

Uber Technologies Inc.

United Food & Commercial Workers International Union

University of Miami

Volkswagen AG

YouTube Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Delaware Court of Chancery

Executive Office of the President

Florida Supreme Court

Internal Revenue Service

International Trade Commission

Office of Justice Programs

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

Supreme Court of Nevada

Texas Health and Human Services Commission

Texas Tenth Court of Appeals

U.S. Army

U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware

U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

U.S. Senate

U.S. Sentencing Commission

U.S. Supreme Court