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March 24, 2025
ATP Rips Players' Coercion Claims As Tennis Feud Escalates
The men's professional tennis tour — one of the organizations facing an antitrust class action in New York federal court by players accusing the groups of operating like a "cartel" — has vehemently denied an accusation that it was threatening players with punishment if they did not disavow the lawsuit.
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March 24, 2025
Justices Decline To Revisit Landmark Press Freedom Ruling
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied casino mogul and Trump donor Steve Wynn's bid to overturn a landmark ruling on press freedom that established a high evidentiary standard for public figures to pursue defamation claims.
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March 21, 2025
Attys Suing FIFA Say Humans, Not AI, Made Citation Errors
Attorneys accusing soccer's international governing body, its Puerto Rican affiliate and a regional soccer association of trying to block local rivals told a Puerto Rico federal judge Friday that it was simply human oversight — not the use of artificial intelligence — that led to citation inaccuracies in recent filings.
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March 21, 2025
NHL, CHL Antitrust Suit May Require Plaintiff Line Change
A Washington federal judge on Friday asked the National Hockey League if a rule that dictates where junior athletes can play restricted the freedom of player movement, but the judge also questioned if the wrong players were plaintiffs in an antitrust suit because they were never drafted by the premiere professional league.
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March 21, 2025
Lululemon Secures PTAB Decision Axing Nike Shoe Patent
Lululemon persuaded a panel of administrative judges on Friday to wipe out all of the claims in a Nike footwear manufacturing patent, which Nike had already dropped from its New York suit against the athletic apparel retailer by the time that case went to trial earlier this month.
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March 21, 2025
Latham-Led Online Ticket Giant StubHub Files IPO
Private equity- and venture-backed online ticket reseller StubHub Holdings Inc. on Friday filed its long-awaited initial public offering plans, represented by Latham & Waktins LLP and underwriters counsel Cooley LLP.
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March 21, 2025
Off The Bench: Celts Sold, Tennis 'Cartel,' DraftKings In Deep
In this week's Off The Bench, two BigLaw titans help steer the record sale of a prestigious NBA franchise, tennis pros heap damning antitrust allegations on the sport's leadership, and DraftKings remains mired in a dispute over its use of baseball players' likenesses to promote their gambling offers.
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March 21, 2025
MGM Says Atty Fees Shouldn't Be Triple Mich. Worker's Award
MGM Grand Casino said attorneys for a fired employee cannot recoup more than three times the $133,000 a Michigan federal jury awarded him earlier this year in his lawsuit alleging he was improperly denied religious accommodation from the company's COVID-19 vaccine policy.
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March 21, 2025
Football Player Hits NCAA With Latest Antitrust Eligibility Suit
The NCAA is facing yet another antitrust challenge to its eligibility rules, this time from a college football player who says the organization unfairly denied him a waiver that would have allowed him to play at Rutgers University next season.
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March 21, 2025
Taxation With Representation: Cravath, Paul Weiss, Cooley
In this week's Taxation With Representation, Google acquires Wiz, QXO Inc. acquires Beacon Roofing Supply, and the Boston Celtics are bought by a group led by private equity firm co-founder William Chisholm.
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March 21, 2025
Ex-UM Football Coach Charged With Hacking Student Photos
A former assistant coach for the University of Michigan football team hacked thousands of students' digital accounts and gained access to intimate photos, according to a 24-count federal indictment filed Thursday.
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March 21, 2025
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
This past week in London has seen a sub-postmaster sue the Post Office and Fujitsu, Russian insurer Ingosstrakh hit the Financial Times with a defamation claim, and Britvic-owned Robinsons Soft Drinks file a passing off claim against Aldi. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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March 21, 2025
Criminal Inaction Can Be Violence, Justices Rule In Mob Case
A divided U.S. Supreme Court on Friday upheld the conviction of an alleged New York mobster who argued he should not have been found guilty of a murder-for-hire scheme because he did not physically participate in the botched hit job.
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March 20, 2025
9th Circ. Judge Takes Aim At Calif. Gun Ruling On YouTube
A Ninth Circuit judge on Thursday took to YouTube to issue a dissent over the court's decision to ban in California all high-capacity magazines for weapons, a move that several of his fellow judges lamented as "wildly improper" and said they needed to address "lest the genre proliferate."
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March 20, 2025
Payday Lender Gets Appeal On Lawyer's Blackmail Conflict
The Second Circuit has decided to let a former payday lending executive, now incarcerated on charges that he ran a fraudulent $2 billion lending scheme, move ahead with a new appeal after hearing that his trial counsel faced blackmail from another client.
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March 20, 2025
'Skill Games' Don't Define One's Character, Court Says
Pennsylvania regulators can't judge owners and operators of so-called skill games terminals as lacking "good character" solely because the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board has concerns about the legality and effects of the games, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
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March 20, 2025
Feds Ask High Court To Nix Mich. Tribal Land Trust Row
A Michigan tribe's analysis of a law governing the state's Indigenous land claims would allow it to purchase property anywhere and then compel the U.S. to take it into trust for its benefit, the Interior Department has told the Supreme Court, arguing the interpretation would render a bizarre result.
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March 20, 2025
Attys Suing FIFA Appear To Have Used AI In Fighting DQ Bid
A Puerto Rico federal judge is threatening sanctions for attorneys accusing soccer's international governing body, its Puerto Rican affiliate and a regional soccer association of trying to block local rivals, after the attorneys appeared to use artificial intelligence to help write briefs containing citations to nonexistent cases.
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March 20, 2025
Fox Sues Mexico Media Cos. For $13M Over Broadcast Deal
Fox and its streaming service Tubi have filed suit against a group of Mexican media companies in California federal court alleging they breached contracts over soccer-related broadcasting rights and failed to pay $13 million owed for sublicense agreements.
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March 20, 2025
Boston Marathon Organizers Can't Shed All Race Bias Claims
A Black women's running club may continue pursuing some federal and state law racial bias claims against the nonprofit that oversees the Boston Marathon and a city along the course, a Massachusetts federal judge ruled Thursday.
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March 20, 2025
Ex-Harvard Coach's Bias Suit Filed On Time, Judge Advises
Harvard University shouldn't escape a former ice hockey coach's suit alleging she was forced into retirement for complaining that she was treated differently from her male colleagues, a Massachusetts federal judge recommended, saying her claims were filed within the statutory time limits.
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March 20, 2025
Three Firms Assist On Record $6.1B Boston Celtics Sale
The defending NBA champion Boston Celtics and their longtime owners, represented by Gunderson Dettmer and Cooley LLP, have been purchased for $6.1 billion by a Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz-advised group led by private equity firm co-founder William Chisholm, setting a new record for a North American pro sports franchise.
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March 20, 2025
No 1st Circ. Appeal For 'Varsity Blues' Guilty Plea, Judge Says
A judge in the "Varsity Blues" college admissions case won't allow a former attorney and television executive to seek First Circuit review of his order rejecting claims that a U.S. Supreme Court ruling invalidates the legal underpinnings of the former executive's guilty plea, according to a Thursday decision.
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March 19, 2025
California Rancheria Can Comment On Casino Land Dispute
A D.C. federal judge has let the Redding Rancheria file a friend of the court brief in two tribes' challenge to the U.S. government's decision to take 221 acres into trust for the rancheria's casino project, ruling it has a special interest in the litigation.
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March 19, 2025
NFL Keeps Delaying Wrongful Death Suit, NJ Widow Says
A widow in New Jersey, who is suing the NFL alleging it overworked her late husband to the point of exhaustion and caused his fatal car accident, has told a state court the organization is needlessly trying to delay the case with several postponements already on the record and a recent request for another.
Expert Analysis
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A Midyear Forecast: Tailwinds Expected For Atty Hourly Rates
Hourly rates for partners, associates and support staff continued to rise in the first half of this year, and this growth shows no signs of slowing for the rest of 2024 and into next year, driven in part by the return of mergers and acquisitions and the widespread adoption of artificial intelligence, says Chuck Chandler at Valeo Partners.
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Opinion
States Should Loosen Law Firm Ownership Restrictions
Despite growing buzz, normalized nonlawyer ownership of law firms is a distant prospect, so the legal community should focus first on liberalizing state restrictions on attorney and firm purchases of practices, which would bolster succession planning and improve access to justice, says Michael Di Gennaro at The Law Practice Exchange.
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Series
Solving Puzzles Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Tackling daily puzzles — like Wordle, KenKen and Connections — has bolstered my intellectual property litigation practice by helping me to exercise different mental skills, acknowledge minor but important details, and build and reinforce good habits, says Roy Wepner at Kaplan Breyer.
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Dapper Settlement Offers Rules Of The Road For NFT Issuers
The terms of a $4 million settlement in a class action alleging that Dapper Labs sold its NBA Top Shot Moments as unregistered securities may be a model for third parties that wish to avoid securities liability in connection with offering digital asset non-fungible token collectibles, say attorneys at K&L Gates.
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Texas Ethics Opinion Flags Hazards Of Unauthorized Practice
The Texas Professional Ethics Committee's recently issued proposed opinion finding that in-house counsel providing legal services to the company's clients constitutes the unauthorized practice of law is a valuable clarification given that a UPL violation — a misdemeanor in most states — carries high stakes, say Hilary Gerzhoy and Julienne Pasichow at HWG.
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In Memoriam: The Modern Administrative State
On June 28, the modern administrative state, where courts deferred to agency interpretations of ambiguous statutes, died when the U.S. Supreme Court overruled its previous decision in Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council — but it is survived by many cases decided under the Chevron framework, say Joseph Schaeffer and Jessica Deyoe at Babst Calland.
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Series
After Chevron: Impact On Indian Law May Be Muted
Agency interpretations of Indian law statutes that previously stood the test of judicial review are likely to withstand new challenges even after the end of Chevron deference, but litigation in the area is all but certain, say attorneys at Jenner & Block.
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How To Clean Up Your Generative AI-Produced Legal Drafts
As law firms increasingly rely on generative artificial intelligence tools to produce legal text, attorneys should be on guard for the overuse of cohesive devices in initial drafts, and consider a few editing pointers to clean up AI’s repetitive and choppy outputs, says Ivy Grey at WordRake.
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Series
Boxing Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Boxing has influenced my legal work by enabling me to confidently hone the skills I've learned from the sport, like the ability to remain calm under pressure, evaluate an opponent's weaknesses and recognize when to seize an important opportunity, says Kirsten Soto at Clyde & Co.
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Opinion
Industry Self-Regulation Will Shine Post-Chevron
The U.S. Supreme Court's Loper decision will shape the contours of industry self-regulation in the years to come, providing opportunities for this often-misunderstood practice, says Eric Reicin at BBB National Programs.
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3 Ways Agencies Will Keep Making Law After Chevron
The U.S. Supreme Court clearly thinks it has done something big in overturning the Chevron precedent that had given deference to agencies' statutory interpretations, but regulated parties have to consider how agencies retain significant power to shape the law and its meaning, say attorneys at K&L Gates.
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Roundup
After Chevron
Since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the Chevron deference standard in June, this Expert Analysis series has featured attorneys discussing the potential impact across 37 different rulemaking and litigation areas.
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Opinion
FIFA Maternity Policy Shows Need For Federal Paid Leave
While FIFA and other employers taking steps to provide paid parental leave should be applauded, the U.S. deserves a red card for being the only rich nation in the world that offers no such leave, says Dacey Romberg at Sanford Heisler.
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Opinion
Atty Well-Being Efforts Ignore Root Causes Of The Problem
The legal industry is engaged in a critical conversation about lawyers' mental health, but current attorney well-being programs primarily focus on helping lawyers cope with the stress of excessive workloads, instead of examining whether this work culture is even fundamentally compatible with lawyer well-being, says Jonathan Baum at Avenir Guild.
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Series
Skiing And Surfing Make Me A Better Lawyer
The skills I’ve learned while riding waves in the ocean and slopes in the mountains have translated to my legal career — developing strong mentor relationships, remaining calm in difficult situations, and being prepared and able to move to a backup plan when needed, says Brian Claassen at Knobbe Martens.