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October 02, 2025
Dell Accused Of Firing In-House Atty On Maternity Leave
Dell illegally fired an attorney in the midst of her maternity leave after repeatedly denying her promotion opportunities and handing them to her male colleagues instead, the attorney told a Massachusetts federal court.
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October 02, 2025
National Security Vets, App-Devs Back Google In Epic Fight
A group of former national security officials and scholars is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to stay the district court injunction requiring Google to distribute third-party app stores and allow app developers to provide alternate payment links directly to users, saying the order creates serious national and cybersecurity risks.
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October 02, 2025
NJ Says RealPage Price-Fixing Claims Meet 'Cartel' Standard
The New Jersey government defended its price-fixing claims against RealPage Inc. and multiple landlords in federal court, arguing that the defendants' collusion to jack up rents represents "cartel conduct in its most traditional form."
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October 02, 2025
Goodwin Promotes 37 Attorneys To Partner
Goodwin Procter LLP kicked off October with the promotion of more than 35 attorneys at 11 of its offices to partner.
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October 02, 2025
Deals Rumor Mill: Global Infrastructure, Yahoo, MRI Software
BlackRock's Global Infrastructure Partners is nearing a deal to take over utility company AES in a deal that could exceed $38 billion in value, Yahoo is reportedly ready to sell AOL to an Italian tech company for $1.4 billion, and private equity-backed real estate software company MRI Software is exploring options that could value it at up to $10 billion.
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October 02, 2025
NY Courts Back Use Of New Evidence Management Tech
The chief administrative judge of the New York Courts encouraged its commercial division in an administrative order to take advantage of web-based digital platforms known as virtual evidence courtrooms to help manage and present evidence during trials.
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October 02, 2025
Judge Sets Google IP Bench Trial For Magistrate
A Manhattan federal judge ruled that a magistrate judge can preside over a bench trial on Google's equitable defenses to infringement claims, rejecting an argument from the owner of location tracking patents that said the referral was unconstitutional.
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October 02, 2025
UChicago Medicine Ducks Class Claims In Patient Privacy Suit
A UChicago Medicine patient can move forward with amended privacy violation claims over the medical center's allegedly illegal use of Meta pixel tracking tools but must leave her class allegations behind, given an agreement she entered between pleadings, an Illinois federal judge ruled.
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October 02, 2025
Judge Nixes Pegasystems Shareholder Suits Over $2B Verdict
A Massachusetts state court has dismissed a pair of investor lawsuits against Pegasystems officials that had sought to hold them responsible for a $2 billion verdict in a trade secrets case, finding no evidence of bad faith on the part of the software company's board.
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October 02, 2025
Musk Loses Bid To Ship SEC's Twitter Suit To Texas
A U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit accusing Elon Musk of failing to timely disclose his ownership shares in Twitter will proceed in a Washington, D.C., federal court after a judge there said on Thursday that Musk's preferred forum in Texas was too backed up to take the case.
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October 02, 2025
Meta, VideoLabs Resolve Video Tech Patent Dispute
Patent licensing business VideoLabs has agreed to end its case in Delaware federal court accusing Meta Platforms of infringing various patents related to video technology.
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October 02, 2025
Apple Accused Of Infringing Multiple Video Encoding Patents
Apple has been hit with a lawsuit in Texas federal court accusing the technology giant of infringing a half dozen patents covering ways to encode and decode data.
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October 01, 2025
Accellion Breach Plaintiffs Get Cert. For Narrow Subclasses
A California federal judge has agreed to allow plaintiffs to proceed with five subclasses in their dispute with Accellion over allegations the company failed to protect against cyberattacks on its file-sharing software, while finding that a lack of "cohesion" doomed their chances to certify a broader negligence class of roughly 5 million breach victims.
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October 01, 2025
Alphabet CLO Urges Europe To Clear Hurdles For AI
Kent Walker, president of global affairs and chief legal officer for Google and Alphabet, on Wednesday called on the European Union to do away with "regulatory complexity" as global competition in artificial intelligence intensifies, saying European businesses are finding regulation to be their biggest hurdle to investment in the bloc.
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October 01, 2025
Contractors Must Record Shutdown-Related Losses, Attys Say
Government contractors risk losing money due to the shutdown in Washington, D.C., and experts told Law360 that contractors must be diligent about documenting the costs they incur for project delays, stop-work orders and other interruptions to their work.
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October 01, 2025
USPTO Tells Fed. Circ. To Reject Ineligibility Rule Petition
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has urged the Federal Circuit to reject a software company's argument that the office violated due process by rejecting challenges to patents a court has found ineligible, saying that decision is entirely in the office's discretion.
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October 01, 2025
Drone Maker Can't Arbitrate Minor's Suit Over Eye Injuries
A Texas federal judge on Tuesday rejected a motion to compel arbitration in a case brought by a minor who was legally blinded in one eye by a drone, finding that the minor had disavowed the arbitration agreement both when he was underage and when he turned 18.
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October 01, 2025
Economist Says Google's Ad Tech Fix Enough To Boost Rivals
Google's expert economics witness urged a Virginia federal judge Wednesday not to break up the search giant's advertising placement technology business, arguing the company's counterproposal would free up rivals without the "market reengineering" threatened by the Justice Department's proposed remedies.
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October 01, 2025
Squires Jumps Right Into Patent Eligibility Reform
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires used his first week at the agency to make bold statements about what should be eligible for patenting, with patent owners celebrating his support of diagnostics, crypto and machine learning technologies.
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October 01, 2025
HP Ditches Antitrust Suit Over Third-Party Ink, For Now
HP customers accusing the printer maker of illegally using a firmware update to block them from using third-party ink cartridges in their machines have not outlined a viable antitrust claim to pursue, but they can try again, an Illinois federal judge has ruled.
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October 01, 2025
Temu Antitrust Claims Nixed, Copyright Claims Get Go-Ahead
Major fast fashion company Shein has convinced a D.C. federal judge to slim down a lawsuit brought by its main rival Temu, which accuses Shein of spamming it with copyright takedown requests.
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October 01, 2025
DC Circ. Won't Rethink Return Of Head Of Copyright Office
The D.C. Circuit said Wednesday that it won't rethink its decision to temporarily reinstate the head of the U.S. Copyright Office, who was fired by President Donald Trump as her lawsuit against the administration plays out in court.
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October 01, 2025
States Accuse Zillow, Redfin Of Deal To End Competition
A coalition of states followed their federal counterparts with an antitrust lawsuit in Virginia federal court Wednesday accusing Zillow of paying Redfin more than $100 million to stop competing for the sale of rental housing advertisements on their listing services.
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October 01, 2025
Monthly Merger Review Snapshot
The Federal Trade Commission put the final tweaks on its deal allowing a $13.5 billion merger of marketing companies to move ahead and pushed its bid to block a merger in the medical device coatings industry, while U.K. enforcers launched a number of merger probes.
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October 01, 2025
Gambling Machine Patent Owner Can't Get New Trial
The owner of a gambling machine patent that a jury ruled was not infringed has lost its bid for a new trial, after a Nevada federal judge rejected the argument that the accused infringer made a "highly prejudicial and inflammatory" damages request on its unsuccessful defamation counterclaim.
Expert Analysis
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Series
Playing Mah-Jongg Makes Me A Better Mediator
Mah-jongg rewards patience, pattern recognition, adaptability and keen observation, all skills that are invaluable to my role as a mediator, and to all mediating parties, says Marina Corodemus.
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Does Research Tool Safe Harbor Cover AI Drug Development?
As artificial intelligence increasingly takes root in drug development, many questions may emerge regarding current gaps in courts' application of the research tool exception to the safe harbor defense against patent infringement, and whether that defense applies to AI-based tools, say attorneys at Arnold & Porter.
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Tips For Business Users After 2 Key AI Copyright Decisions
Because two recent artificial intelligence copyright decisions from the Northern District of California — Bartz v. Anthropic and Kadrey v. Meta — came out mostly in favor of the developers using the plaintiffs' works to train large language models, business users should proceed with care, says Chris Wlach at Acxiom.
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Series
Law School's Missed Lessons: Navigating Client Trauma
Law schools don't train students to handle repeated exposure to clients' traumatic experiences, but for litigators practicing in areas like civil rights and personal injury, success depends on the ability to view cases clinically and to recognize when you may need to seek help, says Katie Bennett at Robins Kaplan.
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Copyright Takeaways From 2 Calif. GenAI Rulings
Two California federal court decisions suggest that the fair use defense may protect generative artificial intelligence output, but given the ongoing war between copyright holders and AI platforms, developers should still consider taking steps to reduce legal risk, says Lincoln Essig at Knobbe Martens.
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5 Things Manufacturing GCs Should Know About Cyber Risk
Following a recent government report underscoring the growing cyber threat landscape for manufacturers, general counsel in the sector should be aware of the potentially broad consequences of a cyberattack, evolving notification systems and the need for incident response plans, say attorneys at Alston & Bird.
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Challenging A Class Representative's Adequacy And Typicality
Recent cases highlight that a named plaintiff cannot certify a putative class action unless they can meet all the applicable requirements of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, so defendants should consider challenging a plaintiff's ability to meet typicality and adequacy requirements early and often, say attorneys at Womble Bond.
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Lawsuit, Exec Orders Should Boost Small Modular Reactors
A lawsuit in Texas federal court and a set of new executive orders from the White House may finally push the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to allow for accelerated deployment of small modular reactors — a technology that could change the country's energy future, says Aleksey Shtivelman at Shutts & Bowen.
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Opinion
4 Former Justices Would Likely Frown On Litigation Funding
As courts increasingly confront cases involving hidden litigation finance contracts, the jurisprudence of four former U.S. Supreme Court justices establishes a constitutional framework that risks erosion by undisclosed financial interests, says Roland Eisenhuth at the American Property Casualty Insurance Association.
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Congress Crypto Movement Could Bring CFTC 'Clarity' At Last
The Clarity Act's arrival at the House floor during "Crypto Week" in Congress demonstrates enduring bipartisan support for legislation addressing digital assets and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's important role in a future regulatory structure, say attorneys at DLA Piper.
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What To Know About Bill Aiming To Curb CIPA
A bill pending in the California Assembly would amend the California Invasion of Privacy Act to allow for the use of website tracking technologies for commercial business purposes, limiting class actions seeking damages under the act for industry standard practices, say Katherine Alphonso and Avazeh Pourhamzeh at Kaufman Dolowich.
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Practical Implications Of SEC's New Crypto Staking Guidance
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's recent staff guidance that protocol staking does not constitute securities offerings provides a workable compliance blueprint for crypto developers, validators and custodial platforms willing to keep staking strictly limited to protocol-driven rewards, say attorneys at Cahill.
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Brand Protection Takeaways From OpenAI Trademark Case
The ongoing battle between IYO and OpenAI offers critical lessons on diligent trademark enforcement and proactive risk management for startups and established players alike navigating branding in the rapidly evolving artificial intelligence sector, say attorneys at Dykema.
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How Attys Can Use AI To Surface Narratives In E-Discovery
E-discovery has reached a turning point where document review is no longer just about procedural tasks like identifying relevance and redacting privilege — rather, generative artificial intelligence tools now allow attorneys to draw connections, extract meaning and tell a coherent story, says Rose Jones at Hilgers Graben.
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Identifying Data Center Investment Challenges, Opportunities
The role of data centers is expanding, as are new opportunities for private capital investors, but there are issues to consider, including finance models and contract complexity, as well as power supply, cyber threat resilience and data sovereignty, say lawyers at Ropes & Gray.