Domino's Pizza Inc. pushed for the dismissal of a proposed securities class action alleging the pizza giant knew that a major franchisee would underperform when the company made positive, forward-looking statements to shareholders, arguing that the claims are based on assertions over which the chain can't be sued.
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Domino's Seeks To Shake Suit Over Performance Statements

By Isaac Monterose

Domino's Pizza Inc. pushed for the dismissal of a proposed securities class action alleging the pizza giant knew that a major franchisee would underperform when the company made positive, forward-looking statements to shareholders, arguing that the claims are based on assertions over which the chain can't be sued.

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Meta Eyes $14B AI Bet, Bullish Seeks IPO, And More Rumors

By Tom Zanki

Facebook owner Meta is eying a $14 billion investment in Scale AI, while Bullish plans to join the recent surge in cryptocurrency-related initial public offerings and investors want to take pizza chain Papa John's private at more than $60 per share. Here, Law360 breaks down the notable deal rumors from the past week.

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Roundup Plaintiffs' Rip Of Expert Was Off Base, Jury Hears

By Cara Salvatore

A Missouri jury weighing a Roundup cancer case heard expert testimony Thursday that plaintiffs offered a "remarkable mischaracterization" of a defense expert witness on cancer causation when they said in openings that he was "discredited."

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Turkey Buyers Fight Burford Units' Objection To Cargill Deal

By Lauraann Wood

Direct purchasers of turkey have told the Illinois federal judge handling consolidated turkey price-fixing litigation that he should disregard two litigation funding subsidiaries' untimely attempt to lodge what they called a meritless challenge to a nearly finalized price-fixing settlement with Cargill Inc.

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10th Circ. Says Timer Still Ticking In Sycamore Bakery TM Suit

By Adam Lidgett

The Tenth Circuit on Thursday backed a lower court decision shooting down a bid to terminate an order requiring the patriarch of a bakery business to hand over his portion of an LLC as part of a long-running feud with EarthGrains Baking Cos. Inc.

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LITIGATION

United Center Vendor Sued Over Use Of Amazon Technology

By Celeste Bott

A Compass Group subsidiary that provides food and beverage services to the United Center in Chicago has been sued in Illinois state court by concessions customers who claim it failed to get the informed consent required under the state's biometric privacy law before collecting their biometric information through Amazon's Just Walk Out cashierless checkout technology.

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Nutrien Says Ex-Employee Helped NC Rival Steal Office, Staff

By Hayley Fowler

The retail arm of global fertilizer company Nutrien Ltd. has accused a former crop consultant of swiping its trade secrets before decamping for a rival, saying in a federal lawsuit that he colluded with his new employer to hijack a branch office, its staff and its customers.

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NC BBQ Restaurant's Trademark Tiff Lands In Federal Court

By Hayley Fowler

The namesake behind a chain of barbecue restaurants battling over their shared trademark being used on branded sauces has extricated a complaint from the North Carolina Business Court accusing it of Lanham Act violations, saying those claims belong in federal court.

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Calif. Casinos Seek Coverage For Tribes' Gambling Suits

By Hope Patti

California casino operators said they are entitled to defense coverage for suits brought by several tribes over their gambling operations, telling a federal court that their insurer has denied coverage based on policy exclusions that do not apply and has failed to conduct a proper investigation of their claims.

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PEOPLE

Greenberg Traurig Adds IP Atty From Kilpatrick In NY

By Christine DeRosa

Greenberg Traurig LLP has boosted its intellectual property offerings in New York with the addition of an experienced litigator from Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

5 Open Questions About FDA's AI-Assisted Review Plans

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently touted the completion of a generative artificial intelligence program for scientific reviewers and plans for agencywide deployment to speed up reviews of premarket applications, but there is considerable uncertainty surrounding the tools' ability to protect trade secrets, avoid bias and more, say attorneys at King & Spalding.

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Attacks On Judicial Independence Tend To Manifest In 3 Ways

Attacks on judicial independence now run the gamut from gross (bald-faced interference) to systemic (structural changes) to insidious (efforts to undermine public trust), so lawyers, judges and the public must recognize the fateful moment in which we live and defend the rule of law every day, says Jim Moliterno at Washington and Lee University.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Analysis

These Firms Are Landing The Most PTAB Work

By Theresa Schliep

Intellectual property powerhouse Fish & Richardson again secured the top spot on a list of firms appearing in the most trials over the past three years in front of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.

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Mass. Judge, On Stand, Denies Helping Immigrant Evade ICE

By Julie Manganis

A Massachusetts judge accused of approving a plan to let a man elude immigration officers by letting him leave the court through a back door seven years ago testified Thursday that was not her intent when she granted a request to let him speak with an attorney in a courthouse lockup.

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Trump's Deployment Of National Guard Illegal, Judge Says

By Bonnie Eslinger

A California federal judge on Thursday granted California's request for a temporary restraining order blocking President Donald Trump's order sending the National Guard into Los Angeles, calling the president's actions "illegal" and unconstitutional, but the decision was quickly paused by the Ninth Circuit.

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Google Fights MDL Plaintiffs' Sanctions Bid Over Lost Chats

By Emily Sawicki

Google is pushing back on a request for sanctions that a slew of advertisers and publishers have brought in their antitrust lawsuit over the company's advertising placement technology, saying the plaintiffs have not shown Google hid evidence amid the "mountains" of electronically stored information it provided.

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Approach The Bench: Judge Proctor On Civility, Civil Rules

By Cara Bayles and Steven Trader

R. David Proctor, chief judge of the Northern District of Alabama, is a leader within the federal judiciary. He's both assigned and presided over multidistrict litigation. He may write a nationwide rule governing third-party litigation funding. And he's gained internet fame for ordering two attorneys to eat lunch together.

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Avenatti Sheds 3 Years After 9th Circ. Orders Resentencing

By Gina Kim

A California federal judge on Thursday resentenced disbarred attorney Michael Avenatti to just over 11 years in federal prison for filching millions of dollars from his clients' settlement funds, reducing a 14-year sentence overturned by the Ninth Circuit and leaving Avenatti with about eight years left after time served.

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DOJ Picks Proceed Despite Worry Over Honoring Court Orders

By Courtney Bublé

Two nominations for top positions in the U.S. Department of Justice were voted out of committee on party lines on Thursday.

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Calif. Sues Trump Over 'Wildly Partisan' EV Waiver Repeal

By Dorothy Atkins

The California attorney general and 10 other states sued the Trump administration in federal court Thursday, minutes after President Donald Trump signed resolutions repealing California's Clean Air Act waiver that allowed the state to establish its own vehicle emissions standards, slamming the resolutions as unconstitutional, irrational and "wildly partisan."

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Interview

Ex-Interior Secretary Salazar On 'Coming Home' To WilmerHale

By Aebra Coe

Former U.S. Sen. Ken Salazar of Colorado, who served as secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior during the Obama administration and most recently as ambassador to Mexico during the Biden administration, returned this month to WilmerHale's Denver office, which he founded in 2014.

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Justices Say Habeas Claims Can't Be Added After Judgment

By Marco Poggio

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a prisoner may not add new claims to a habeas corpus petition once a final judgment is issued, cementing strict limits on repeat habeas filings prescribed by federal law.

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Justices Limit FTCA Defense In FBI Raid Case

By Chart Riggall

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday held that the Constitution's supremacy clause cannot shield the federal government from Federal Tort Claims Act suits, in the process reviving a Georgia woman's claim over an FBI raid aimed at a gang member but mistakenly carried out at her home.

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Analysis

Rising PTAB Filings Follow Surge In Patent Cases

By Theresa Schliep

The number of petitions filed with the Patent Trial and Appeal Board ticked up last year, following a similar increase in federal court litigation and suggesting that activity at the board has somewhat stabilized, according to a new report.

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Weinstein Sex Abuse Trial Ends After Mixed, Partial Verdict

By Pete Brush

Harvey Weinstein's sexual abuse retrial ended Thursday with a Manhattan jury failing to reach a verdict on a count alleging the movie mogul raped an actress, one day after he was convicted of forcing sex on a production assistant and cleared on a third charge.

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COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

3M Co.

Ace Hardware Corp.

Advanced Bionics AG

Agri Stats Inc.

Alphabet Inc.

Amazon.com Inc.

American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers

American Petroleum Institute Inc.

Apollo Global Management LLC

Apple Inc.

Bloomberg LP

Bridgestone Corp.

Bullish Inc.

Burford Capital LLC

CEC Entertainment Inc.

Cargill Inc.

Center for Biological Diversity Inc.

City of Hope National Medical Center

Compass Minerals International, Inc.

Domino's Pizza Inc.

Federalist Society

Google LLC

Hillshire Brands Co.

Instagram Inc.

Institute for Justice

Jennie-O Turkey Store LLC

Levy Restaurants Inc.

Lex Machina Inc.

LexisNexis Legal & Professional

LinkedIn Corp.

Meta Platforms Inc.

Microsoft Corp.

Monsanto Co.

Natural Resources Defense Council

Nike Inc.

Nutrien Ltd.

Ohio State University

Papa John's International Inc.

RELX PLC

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

Sierra Club

Starboard Value LP

Washington & Lee University

YouTube Inc.

LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Aidala Bertuna

Akin Gump

Arnold & Itkin

Axinn Veltrop

Baker Botts

Boies Schiller

Brand Woodward

Bryan Cave

Bush Seyferth

Cahill Gordon

Caudle & Spears

Coats & Bennett

Davis Polk

Fabricant LLP

Finnegan

Fish & Richardson

Freshfields

Girard Sharp

Greenberg Traurig

Hagens Berman

Halpern May

Heideman & Associates

Herman Jones LLP

Hunton Andrews

Husch Blackwell

Kellogg Hansen

Kilpatrick Townsend

King & Spalding

Kline & Specter

Leason Ellis

Libby Hoopes

Lockridge Grindal

Mayer Brown

McKool Smith

Meehan Boyle

O'Melveny & Myers

Parsons Behle

Pomerantz LLP

Ropes & Gray

Russ August & Kabat

Sidley Austin

Simon Paschal

Spero Law LLC

Stephan Zouras

Sterne Kessler

Tillman Wright

Wexler Boley

Williams & Connolly

WilmerHale

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians

California Air Resources Board

California Attorney General's Office

Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Cook County Circuit Court

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Trade Commission

Food and Drug Administration

Internal Revenue Service

Manhattan District Attorney's Office

New York County District Attorney's Office

New York Supreme Court, New York County

Patent Trial and Appeal Board

Rincon Band of Luiseno Indians

Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Mission Indians

State of Rhode Island Office of the General Treasurer

Texas Attorney General's Office

U.S. Attorney's Office

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

U.S. Department of Defense

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of the Interior

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

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

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

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

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

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

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

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

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

U.S. Government Accountability Office

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

U.S. Marine Corps

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Supreme Court

United States District Court for the District of South Dakota

World Intellectual Property Organization