Live Nation CEO Says He Can't Recall 'Market Power' Remark

By Pete Brush

Live Nation's longtime CEO sparred Thursday with states that say the $36 billion entertainment giant engages in monopolization, telling a Manhattan federal jury the business is a "better mousetrap" than rivals and saying he couldn't recall telling investors the company has "incredible market power."  

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Maya Kowalski Says Atty Made Her 'Uncomfortable'

By Carolina Bolado

The attorney who persuaded a jury to award $261 million to Netflix documentary subject Maya Kowalski also provided unsolicited dating and sex advice to his 18-year-old client and arranged an advance funding loan for the Kowalski family in violation of Florida Bar rules, according to a statement Kowalski filed.

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Chance The Rapper Could 'Smell Court' Before Firing Manager

By Lauraann Wood

Chance the Rapper felt his once-close relationship with his former manager straining after he couldn't accept a Grammy Award on his own, but the rapper could really "smell court" once the manager sent a letter mischaracterizing their dynamic and the role he played in it, Illinois jurors heard Thursday.

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Meta Offers Special Portal For Crime Investigators, Jury Told

By Cara Salvatore

Meta's head of child safety policy told a New Mexico jury Thursday about the dedicated website the company maintains for law enforcement to request records, which, if marked as emergency requests, can get a response from the company in an average of 67 minutes.

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DOJ Antitrust Head Tells Staff: Don't Worry About Criticism

By Bryan Koenig

The acting head of the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division said Thursday that he pays no heed to criticism of the agency and tells staff to do the same, while asserting in Washington, D.C., remarks that there's no better time to come work for the DOJ.

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Apple Watch Redesign Gets Early OK As Patent Loss Upheld

By Ryan Davis

The Federal Circuit on Thursday affirmed a U.S. International Trade Commission decision that found a previous version of the Apple Watch infringes two Masimo blood oxygen monitor patents, but the ruling came one day after an ITC judge said Apple's redesigned version does not infringe those patents.

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Judge Declines New Trial Over Smart TV Patents After LG Win

By Adam Lidgett

A Texas federal judge won't disturb a jury verdict clearing LG Electronics of allegations that it infringed Multimedia Technologies Pte. Ltd.'s smart television patents, shooting down the patent owner's challenge to the finding that the patents were invalid.

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Brewery Founder Can't Knock Out $31M Logo Battle

By Chart Riggall

A Georgia federal judge sent to trial a long-running dispute over the ownership of Atlanta-based Sweetwater Brewing's leaping trout logo after ruling Thursday that she couldn't yet sort out "a case so centrally rooted in the conflicting testimony" of the designer and the brewery's former owner.

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Fed. Circ. Rejects Last Challenge To Squires' Discretion

By Dani Kass

The Federal Circuit on Thursday shot down Volkswagen's mandamus petition claiming that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office director shouldn't have "unfettered discretion" to deny Patent Trial and Appeal Board challenges, closing the last of 14 related appeals.

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Pallet Biz Tells Mich. Judge To Toss Discovery Bid

By Melanie Dorsey

Pallet company Palltronics is urging a Michigan federal court to deny a rival firm's request for more discovery in their trade secret dispute, arguing the request is unnecessary, premature and filed in bad faith.

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Man Hurt By Broken Glass From Flying Golf Ball Wins $1.4M

By Gina Kim

A Los Angeles jury tasked with determining damages for a man whose eye was permanently damaged from shattered glass after a golf ball launched by a mower flew through a café door at a Long Beach golf course where he was sitting inside awarded him $1.4 million Tuesday.

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Coaching Soccer Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Coaching youth soccer for my 7-year-old son's team has sharpened how I communicate with clients, prepare witnesses, work within teams and think about leadership, making me a more thoughtful and effective lawyer in many ways, says Joshua Holt at Smith Currie.

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Sitting Judges Take Stand Over Threats Growing 'Ordinary'

By Jake Maher

On the heels of an ethics opinion giving them wider latitude to speak publicly, sitting federal judges brought attention Thursday to the increasing threats against them and their family members, warning about the dangers of such threats becoming "ordinary."

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Anatomy Of A Citation Hallucination: AI Edit, Associate Review

By Rachel Riley

Counsel for consumers in a supplement labeling lawsuit against Amazon responded Wednesday to a Seattle federal judge's order to explain an AI-hallucinated citation, saying the error was introduced by a generative artificial intelligence tool used to "harmonize" drafts of a brief, then missed by a fifth-year Boies Schiller associate tasked with checking the citations.

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Jackson Walker, US Trustee Reach Deal On Fee Settlements

By Vince Sullivan

The Office of the U.S. Trustee and law firm Jackson Walker LLP on Wednesday resolved the bankruptcy watchdog's opposition to a series of settlements tied to a romantic relationship between a former Jackson Walker attorney and a now-retired bankruptcy judge.

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Judge Quashes Subpoena Of 5 Firms That Repped Twitter

By Rae Ann Varona

A Delaware federal court ruled Thursday that six former Twitter employees cannot subpoena five law firms that represented the social media company in connection with its acquisition by Elon Musk, rejecting the employees' "conclusory allegations" that the company and Musk used the firms to make false promises of severance benefits.

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Nomination For New DOJ Fraud Chief Heads To Senate Floor

By Courtney Bublé

The nomination of Colin McDonald for the new position of assistant attorney general for fraud was sent to the full Senate on Thursday, after the Judiciary Committee voted 12-10 along party lines to advance his nomination.

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Judge Digs Into Counsel Over 'Astronomically High' Fee Bid

By Nadia Dreid

Attorneys who represented classes of people who say they received harassing phone calls from real estate agents in violation of federal telemarketing laws are asking for way too much of the $20 million settlement, according to the California federal judge who tore into them Wednesday.

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Fired 'Arctic Frost' Agents Accuse FBI Of Political Retribution

By Dorothy Atkins

Two former FBI agents who worked on the "Arctic Frost" investigation into President Donald Trump's attempts to overturn his 2020 election loss have accused the government of abruptly firing them in an unconstitutional act of "political retribution."

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