Sotomayor Rips Cert Denial In Texas Journalist's Arrest Suit

By José Luis Martínez and Spencer Brewer

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to take up a citizen journalist's suit alleging Laredo, Texas, police violated her free speech rights by arresting her for asking for undisclosed details of a suicide and vehicle crash, with Justice Sonia Sotomayor's dissent of the denial calling the decision a "grave error."

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Ramey IP Attys, Client Must Pay $107K Fees In Bad-Faith Suit

By Emily Sawicki

A San Francisco federal judge has ordered three sanctioned attorneys, including Texas intellectual property lawyer William Ramey III, together with their client, to cover $107,389 in attorney fees stemming from three identical patent suits the lawyers launched and withdrew in 2024, also ordering Ramey to show cause why he should not face further sanctions.

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Google Can't Escape Mobile Search Antitrust Case

By Matthew Perlman

A Texas federal court has refused to dismiss a case from Branch Metrics, accusing Google of blocking competition from its Android search product, after finding the company does not have to make a general search engine to have standing for its antitrust claims.

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Musk Escapes Claim He Implied Jewish Student Was Neo-Nazi

By Mike Curley

A Texas appeals court has freed Elon Musk from a defamation suit alleging that he falsely implied a Jewish student at the University of California was a neo-Nazi involved in a fight in Portland, Oregon, saying his social media posts on the subject are protected opinion.

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Sotomayor Blasts 'Inexplicable' Test Refusal In Capital Case

By Brandon Lowrey

After the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a death penalty appeal Monday, Justice Sonia Sotomayor argued in dissent that the high court should have taken up a constitutional challenge to Texas prosecutors' "inexplicable" refusal to allow DNA testing on a murder weapon.

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Marketing Firm Claims $23M Loss In Client-Poaching Suit

By José Luis Martínez

A Georgia-based digital marketing agency said its former executive based in Texas siphoned off confidential client lists and proprietary strategies tied to auto dealership clients before launching a rival firm, costing the company about $23 million in lost business.

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Roundup

Injury Law Roundup: Meta Atty Uses Jane Doe Plaintiff's Name

By Y. Peter Kang

A Meta attorney's gaffe and Mark Zuckerberg's testimony in the closely watched social media addiction bellwether trial, and an announced $7.25 billion settlement by Bayer over Roundup weedkiller claims, lead Law360's Injury Law Roundup.

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US Pays TotalEnergies $1B To Abandon Offshore Wind Leases

By Keith Goldberg

The Trump administration said Monday that it would pay TotalEnergies nearly $1 billion to give up a pair of offshore wind leases in exchange for the French energy giant sinking the cash into U.S. oil and gas development.

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SEC Must Give Video Of Elon Musk Interview To Oscar Winner

By Rae Ann Varona

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission must release a video interview of Elon Musk from its civil fraud investigation of the billionaire to a film company led by Oscar-winner Alex Gibney, a D.C. federal judge ruled Monday, saying the SEC already has publicized the interview's contents through a transcript.

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High Court Doubts Legality Of Late-Arriving Ballot Laws

By Katie Buehler

The U.S. Supreme Court appeared skeptical Monday of Mississippi's law allowing state election officials to count mail-in ballots that arrive up to five days after Election Day, with the justices divided ideologically over whether historical practices or legislative history should control the outcome of the case.

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FCC Urges Justices To Reject Repeal Of Penalty Power

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to keep the agency's monetary penalty powers intact, saying the agency's current practice does not deny targets of fines their right to a jury trial and is not binding until a court orders payment.

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Snap Says Texas Child Harm Suit Would Limit DHS, FDA Work

By José Luis Martínez

Snap Inc. has moved Texas' lawsuit over Snapchat's alleged harms to minors into federal court, arguing that the case targets conduct tied to its work with federal agencies to deliver public health and safety messaging to teens.

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Ex-Border Agent's Request To Stay Assault Sentence Denied

By Parker Quinlan

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rebuffed a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agent's attempt to delay enforcement of his two-year prison sentence for assaulting two people at the Texas border.

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Oil Execs Face Fraud Claims Over Investment Tactics

By Elaine Briseño

Two oil and gas executives enticed investors to finance their venture by promising priority access to thousands of mineral acres, only to steer the deals through affiliated companies to profit themselves instead, a pair of investors have alleged.

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Concrete-Maker Survives OT Suit With FLSA Exemption

By Irene Spezzamonte

A concrete-maker supported its arguments that drivers who claimed they were misclassified as overtime-exempt fell under a Fair Labor Standards Act exemption, a Texas federal judge said, adopting a magistrate judge's findings.

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Trucking Co. Denied H-2A Workers Overtime, Suit Says

By Benjamin Morse

A Texas trucking company denied H-2A workers overtime pay and misrepresented the nature of their work to qualify for the federal visa program, according to a proposed collective action filed Monday in federal court.

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Fox's Bid To Detain Mexican Exec In TM Dispute Denied

By Adam Lidgett

Fox Corp. on Monday lost its bid to detain a Mexican media executive for misusing the company's sports broadcast trademarks after a New York federal judge said it was not the right move despite the executive's attempt to evade sanctions.

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Bosch Didn't Infringe Fuel Injector Patents, EDTX Jury Says

By Adam Lidgett

An Eastern District of Texas jury on Monday cleared engineering and technology company Robert Bosch of allegations that it infringed a Canadian company's fuel injection patents.

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Breaking Down State Legislative Efforts In Telecom Security

As the federal government has strengthened national security safeguards for the telecommunications ecosystem, states have also asserted a role in telecom security, with variations among these regimes risking regulatory fragmentation and complicating compliance strategies, say attorneys at Hogan Lovells.

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How 2 Decisions Reframed Witness-Centered Trials

The recent Maryland federal jury verdict in U.S. v. Goldstein and the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Villarreal v. Texas suggest that the traditional paradigm of American civil trial practice, with its emphasis on witness performance and assertive advocacy, may not reflect the ideal approach for the modern courtroom, says Joshua Robbins at Crowell & Moring.

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Labor & Employment Head Named Next Morgan Lewis Chair

By Tracey Read

Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP announced Monday that the global leader of its labor and employment practice was unanimously elected as the firm's next chair to take over for Jami McKeon, who will retire at the end of the year.

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Social Media Atty Sanctioned For 'Most Shameful Moment'

By Craig Clough

A California judge on Monday sanctioned an attorney for the plaintiff in a bellwether trial alleging Meta Platforms and Google's social media platforms harm children's mental health, fining him $1,100 and keeping him off the plaintiffs' steering committee for violating court rules by twice filming inside the courthouse.

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NJ Judges Name US Atty In Apparent End To Leadership Fight

By Jake Maher

The New Jersey federal court on Monday appointed a career federal prosecutor to serve as U.S. attorney for the Garden State in what appears to end a lengthy standoff between district judges and the U.S. Department of Justice over leadership of the office.

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Immigration Judges To Challenge Their Firing At Fed. Circ.

By Britain Eakin

Attorneys for a pair of fired immigration judges said Monday they will ask the Federal Circuit to review a federal panel ruling that stripped them of civil service protections, warning of a dramatic expansion of presidential authority over the civil workforce.

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Day Pitney Fights DQ Over Ex-Justice's Time On Case He Heard

By Aaron Keller

Day Pitney LLP has apologized after former Connecticut Supreme Court Chief Justice Richard A. Robinson, now a firm partner, billed 15.7 hours for reviewing a since-remanded case he heard years ago as a justice, but the firm said the "error" should not disqualify its other lawyers from advancing the litigation. 

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Reed Smith Pushes To Continue Atty Depo In NJ Bias Suit

By Jake Maher

Reed Smith LLP is urging a New Jersey state trial court to allow it to resume its deposition of a former attorney suing it for gender discrimination years after the last deposition date in the wake of an appeals court decision widely expanding the scope of discovery.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court's docket this past week featured high-stakes disputes involving major consumer brands, a reinstated video game executive, revived noncompete and compensation claims and fresh allegations of corporate misconduct in the healthcare sector.

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