Northwestern Wrongly Fired Gender Center Chief, Ill. Jury Told

By Lauraann Wood

Northwestern University illegally fired its former gender and sexuality center director for criticizing its decision to remove resources from the center's website in an email to colleagues that leaked to the student newspaper and "embarrassed" the university, Illinois state jurors heard Wednesday.

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Parler Ex-CEO Makes Final Trial Pitch For $100M Damages

By Cara Salvatore

The former CEO of social media site Parler made his final argument Wednesday that he was wrongly stripped of a stake worth up to $100 million, with his lawyer telling a Nevada jury a valuation finding the entire company worth $10.81 was "bunk."

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Icee Scores $23M In Slush Puppie Frozen Drink TM Fight

By Elliot Weld

Frozen drink company Icee was awarded $23 million in damages against rival Slush Puppie Ltd. by an Ohio federal judge who found that Slush Puppie had tried to divert customers to a product called Slushy Jack's and capitalize on Slush Puppie's brand recognition after selling the trademark rights to it.

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PTAB Invalidations Chip Away At Stratasys' $28M Trial Victory

By Dani Kass

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has invalidated as obvious nearly all claims Bambu Lab Ltd. challenged in three Stratasys Inc. 3D printer patents, including the patent claims underlying $2.8 million of Stratasys' $27.6 million infringement trial win in Texas.

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'Numerical Mumbo Jumbo': Gogo Escapes $22.7M IP Damages

By Rae Ann Varona

A federal judge Wednesday undid a damages award of roughly $22.7 million against Gogo Business Aviation for infringing four patents held by rival in-flight Wi-Fi company SmartSky Networks, saying SmartSky had leaned on "numerical mumbo jumbo" in its damages case before a Delaware jury.

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Dropbox Fights Sanctions Bid After Being Cleared In IP Case

By Adam Lidgett

Dropbox is arguing that a licensing company is asking for "completely unprecedented" sanctions over claims that Dropbox submitted new, undisclosed expert opinions at a 2023 trial where a jury cleared the online file-sharing company of infringement allegations.

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Judge Erases $14M Charger Patent Verdict Against Anker

By Elliot Weld

A Delaware federal judge has wiped out a $14 million jury verdict against Hong Kong electronics company Anker Innovations after finding its rival litigant, Fundamental Innovation Systems International LLC, failed to properly prove the apportionment segment of the case.

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Ex-Budget Official Sentenced To 7 Years After Fleeing US

By Aaron Keller

Former Connecticut budget official Konstantinos Diamantis, who fled to Greece before learning his fate on federal corruption charges, was sentenced while absent on Wednesday to seven years in prison, if extradition efforts are successful, and immediately faced new litigation over his state government pension.

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Cigna, Fla. Atty Resolve $21M Claim In Ch. 7 Case

By David Minsky

A Florida federal bankruptcy judge on Wednesday approved a settlement between a lawyer and Cigna in a Chapter 7 lawsuit, resolving a $21 million claim the health insurer once disputed as nondischargeable for only a fraction of the amount. 

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NC Protester Wants No Jail Time For Impeding ICE Officers

By Hayley Fowler

A protester is seeking probation and a nominal fine after a Charlotte, North Carolina, jury found him guilty of hindering U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers from carrying out their official duties, arguing he was acquitted of the more serious charge and saying the conduct didn't stem from "selfish motives."

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Fla. Panel Says Hot-Car Conviction Needs Knowledge Element

By Parker Quinlan

A Florida state appeals court Wednesday ruled that a nanny convicted of felony murder after forgetting she left a 10-month-old inside a hot car should be tried again, saying prosecutors used an improper underlying charge as a basis for the felony murder charge.

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Tort Report: Uber Owes $40M In Abandoned Rider Death Case

By Y. Peter Kang

A $40 million arbitration award in a case over an Uber incident and looming litigation against the federal government over a highly publicized U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid on a Hyundai-LG plant in Georgia 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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AI Meeting Recaps Pose New Discovery And Privilege Risks

The New York City Bar Association’s recent ethics opinion, cautioning attorneys not to record nonclient conversations with artificial intelligence tools, reflects an emerging view that AI meeting recaps are now a distinct business record category, meaning counsel should set meeting-level controls and apply framework-level updates, says William Wright at Faegre Drinker.

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The Law360 Pulse Prestige Leaders: A Look At The Top Firms

Today's most prestigious firms attract top talent and marquee clients while posting record profits. Here's a look at the top 10 firms in this year's Law360 Pulse Prestige Leaders, a ranking of the firms that stand out for their prominence, power and distinction.

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DOJ Accuses Judges Of Ethics Violations With Press Remarks

By Jack Karp

Several Minnesota federal judges ran afoul of their ethical obligations when they commented on President Donald Trump's immigration policies in a recent news article, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a judicial misconduct complaint filed Wednesday.

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Federal Bar Discussion Looks At Courts' Role In Regulating AI

By Bonnie Eslinger

A Federal Bar Association discussion Wednesday in California about AI and how it will be regulated in the United States prompted the Northern District's new chief judge to ask whether Congress' "inability to pass laws" will leave it to the courts "to figure out how we're going to do this."

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DOJ Atty Picked For Judgeship Probed On Fulton County Raid

By Courtney Bublé

A top U.S. Department of Justice official tapped for a federal judgeship faced questions from Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday about the department's investigation in Fulton County, Georgia, over Trump's allegations of fraud in the 2020 election.

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Texas AG Says ABA Stifling Law School Competition

By Spencer Brewer

The Texas Attorney General announced an investigation into the American Bar Association relating to alleged anticompetitive conduct in the association's accreditation of law schools, claiming Wednesday that the ABA "weaponized its accreditation authority" to push "unconstitutional racial and gender preference requirements."

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Sen. Blackburn Sues Smith For Seizing Phone Records

By James Boyle

U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn alleges in a federal complaint filed Wednesday that Jack Smith illegally subpoenaed her phone records as part of an investigation into alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.

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3rd Circ. Calls Westlaw AI Fight 'Ordinary Copyright Case'

By Ivan Moreno

The Third Circuit said the first appellate fight over artificial intelligence training and fair use ultimately came down to an "ordinary copyright case," affirming that Ross Intelligence infringed Thomson Reuters' Westlaw headnotes when it used them to train a competing legal research platform.

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Blank Rome Seeks Time To Exit LIV Golf's Fla. Office

By Ben Zigterman

Blank Rome LLP on Wednesday filed a limited objection to LIV Golf's motion to reject its sublease at an office building in West Palm Beach, Florida, saying it didn't receive any advance notice and would like until the end of October to transition to a new office.

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Roundup

Defamation Litigation Roundup: Candace Owens, Firm DQ

By Theresa Schliep

In this month's review of defamation fights, Law360 highlights a new suit over right-wing media personality Candace Owens and her conspiracy theories about the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, as well as Quinn Emanuel's disqualification from a suit against a former client.

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Hub Hires: Mintz, Foley Hoag, Barclay Damon

By Chris Villani

Boston saw several significant moves across its legal landscape as the summer wound down, with Foley Hoag adding an experienced debt finance attorney from Goodwin Procter, a boutique white collar firm snagging a longtime federal prosecutor, and Mintz getting new leadership for the first time in nearly two decades.

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