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May 28, 2025
2nd Circ. Backs Credit One Win In FCRA Investigation Suit
The Second Circuit on Wednesday declined to revive a New York woman's lawsuit against Credit One Bank for allegedly failing to investigate identity theft claims against her mother, with a panel agreeing with the lower court that no reasonable investigation required under federal law conducted by the bank would have yielded different results.
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May 28, 2025
Hill Dems Blast 'Indefensible' Delay In Multilingual Alert Regs
More than two dozen congressional Democrats called on the Federal Communications Commission to complete the rollout of a bipartisan rule meant to provide wireless emergency alerts in multiple languages, claiming untenable delays in the process.
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May 28, 2025
ID Verification Platform Fights Bid To DQ MoFo In IP Dispute
Identity verification platform Jumio urged a California federal court to reject a bid to disqualify Morrison & Foerster LLP as its counsel in patent litigation over facial recognition technology, saying the law firm had not been co-counsel with its previously disqualified firm, Perkins Coie LLP.
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May 28, 2025
Freshfields Gains New Tech M&A Leadership From Debevoise
Freshfields LLP announced Wednesday that it has hired a former Debevoise & Plimpton LLP attorney in San Francisco to co-lead its U.S. tech and life sciences mergers and acquisitions practice.
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May 28, 2025
Nielsen Rival Wants To Ditch Viewing Data Patent Case
A rival of Nielsen Co. LLC has asked a Delaware federal judge to toss a suit by Nielsen that claims infringement of a patent covering a way to measure audience viewership outside the home through mobile phone data, arguing that the subject matter is patent-ineligible.
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May 28, 2025
Redgrave Hires E-Discovery Co.'s Microsoft 365 Tech Pro
E-discovery and information law firm Redgrave LLP has hired one of the minds behind the creation of e-discovery company Lighthouse's Microsoft compliance and security compliance team, touting what the firm calls his "niche practice built to address the impact of cloud computing on eDiscovery and information governance."
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May 28, 2025
Skadden Lands Kirkland Trial Ace In Chicago
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP is expanding its litigation team, announcing Wednesday it is bringing in a Kirkland & Ellis LLP trial lawyer as a partner in its Chicago office.
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May 28, 2025
IT Contractor Says Retainer Deposit Lets Ch. 11 Stay In NY
Government information technology contractor Sysorex Government Services on Wednesday argued to a New York bankruptcy judge that the retainer on deposit for its bankruptcy counsel is sufficient to establish the Southern District of New York as the venue for its Chapter 11 case.
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May 28, 2025
NRA President's Attys Want Out Of Election-Inspection Case
The lawyers representing the recently elected president of the National Rifle Association in a contract dispute stemming from investigations of the 2020 election are asking a Michigan federal court to excuse them from the case, after their client allegedly heard from his codefendant and stopped talking to them.
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May 27, 2025
Anthropic Declaration Partly Stricken Over AI Hallucination
A California federal magistrate judge has partially stricken an expert report filed by Anthropic in copyright infringement litigation that cited a nonexistent study — an error created by the artificial intelligence company's own Claude AI tool — calling the issue "serious," but "not quite so grave as it first appeared."
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May 27, 2025
Retailer To Face Privacy Suit Instead Of Arbitration Claims
More than 2,400 Janie & Jack website visitors pursuing arbitration claims over the children clothing retailer's allegedly unlawful online tracking practices have agreed to drop these individual grievances and instead lodge a single proposed class action to press their allegations, according to a notice filed in California federal court.
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May 27, 2025
Fortress' Power On VLSI Board Takes Spotlight At Trial's Start
Fortress Investment Group's head of intellectual property told a Texas federal jury Tuesday that his company's overlap with investment funds that run VLSI Technology and Finjan Holdings highlights its dedication to overseeing investors' best interests, not that Fortress controls the funds.
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May 27, 2025
CardiacSense Gives Patent Suit Against Garmin Another Go
Wearable tech company CardiacSense Ltd. dove deeper into a fitness tracker patent it accuses Garmin International Inc. of infringing after a Michigan federal judge last month dismissed its lawsuit but allowed for an amended complaint given the suit's "technical issues."
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May 27, 2025
Kirkland, Cravath Steer WiseTech's $2.1B Merger With E2open
Kirkland & Ellis LLP advised cloud-based software platform E2open Parent Holdings Inc. in its $2.1 billion merger with logistics software provider WiseTech Global Ltd., which is being advised by Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP, according to an announcement made Tuesday.
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May 27, 2025
AMS Nets $52M As 17-Year-Old Trade Secrets Case Wraps
Light sensor maker AMS has been granted a $51.7 million judgment against a rival in Texas federal court, ending a 17-year-old trade secrets case that has gone through multiple appeals and two trials.
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May 27, 2025
11th Circ. Won't Revisit FCC Ownership Ruling
The Eleventh Circuit won't take a second whack at its order upholding a Federal Communications Commission finding that Gray Television had broken agency ownership consolidation rules by owning one too many stations in Anchorage, Alaska.
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May 27, 2025
Atty Avoids Sanctions After Adding AI Hallucinations To Brief
A California attorney who represented a software company in a trade secret dispute will not be sanctioned for filing a brief that included two ChatGPT-hallucinated case citations under circumstances so unusual they "couldn't have been made up," an Illinois federal judge said Tuesday.
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May 27, 2025
CFTC Member Speaks On Agency Exits: 'Not A Great Situation'
Departing U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission member Christy Goldsmith Romero said Tuesday that a possible leadership void at the agency could do a "great disservice to regulation" at a time when Congress is thinking of handing the agency the keys to the cryptocurrency industry.
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May 27, 2025
Tort Report: 'High-Low' Deal Nets Plaintiff Extra $10M
A last-minute "high-low" agreement that turned out to be a stroke of genius by lawyers for an injured motorcyclist and a $26 million verdict for a crash caused by a postal worker 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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May 27, 2025
Bankrupt 23andMe To Delist Stock After Regeneron Deal
Bankrupt genetic testing provider 23andMe Inc. said Tuesday it will delist its stock from the Nasdaq exchange, following Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc.'s agreement last week to buy the defunct company.
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May 27, 2025
Judge Follows The Users And The Money In Meta's FTC Case
A D.C. federal judge on Tuesday looked for the right metrics to measure the effect that Meta Platforms Inc. has had on Instagram and WhatsApp in terms of users, growth and money spent buying the apps in deals the Federal Trade Commission says were designed to buy or bury the competition.
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May 27, 2025
FCC Mulls Adding Connected Vehicle Tech To Covered List
The Federal Communications Commission is thinking about adding more technologies to the list of those whose components are banned if they come from China or Russia, but it wants to hear what the industry thinks first.
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May 27, 2025
Lawmakers Float Fast Patent Program For AI, Semiconductors
Lawmakers in the U.S. Senate and House have introduced legislation that would require the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to create an experimental program to prioritize patent applications for technologies like artificial intelligence and semiconductors.
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May 27, 2025
Debate Over Moratorium On State AI Oversight Goes To Senate
Before going on recess, the U.S. House of Representatives passed their budget reconciliation bill that includes a hotly debated moratorium on states' enforcement of artificial intelligence-related legislation, and the debate continues as the bill heads to the U.S. Senate, where at least a few Republicans have voiced opposition.
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May 27, 2025
DOJ Wants Google Docs Analyzing Potential Ad Tech Breakup
Enforcers are asking a Virginia federal court for access to Google documents analyzing a potential break up of the company's ad tech business, as the court considers what remedies to impose after finding Google monopolized key ad tech markets.
Expert Analysis
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Beware Risks Of Arguing Multiple Constructions In IP Cases
Defendants accused of patent infringement often argue for different, potentially contradictory, claim constructions before district courts and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, but the board may be clamping down on this strategy, say attorneys at Dechert.
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Unpacking Liability When AI Makes A Faulty Decision
As artificial intelligence systems become more autonomous and influential in decision-making, concerns about AI-related harms and problematic decisions are growing, raising the pressing question of who bears the liability, says Megha Kumar at CyXcel.
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A Close-Up Look At DOJ's Challenge To HPE-Juniper Deal
The outcome of the Justice Department's challenge to Hewlett Packard Enterprise's proposed $14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks will likely hinge on several key issues, including market dynamics and shares, internal documents, and questions about innovation and customer harm, say attorneys at McDermott.
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9 Considerations For Orgs Using AI Meeting Assistants
When deciding to use artificial intelligence meeting assistants, organizations must create and implement a written corporate policy that establishes the do's and don'ts for these assistants, taking into account individualized business operations, industry standards and legal and regulatory requirements, say attorneys at Faegre Drinker.
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AG Watch: Texas Is Entering New Privacy Enforcement Era
The state of Texas' recent suit against Allstate is the culmination of a long-standing commitment to vigorously enforcing privacy laws in the state, and while still in the early stages, it offers several important insights for companies and privacy practitioners, says Paul Singer at Kelley Drye.
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6th Circ. Ruling Paves Path Out Of Loper Bright 'Twilight Zone'
The U.S. Supreme Court’s Loper Bright ruling created a twilight zone between express statutory delegations that trigger agency deference and implicit ones that do not, but the Sixth Circuit’s recent ruling in Moctezuma-Reyes v. Garland crafted a two-part test for resolving cases within this gray area, say attorneys at Wiley.
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A Reminder On Avoiding Improper Venues In Patent Cases
A Texas federal court's recent decision in the Symbology and Quantum cases shows that baseless patent venue allegations may be subject to serious Rule 11 sanctions, providing venue-vetting takeaways for plaintiffs and defendants, say attorneys at Bond Schoeneck.
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Cos. Should Prepare For Mexican Payments Surveillance Tool
The recent designation of six Mexican cartels as "specially designated global terrorists" will allow the Treasury Department to scrutinize nearly any Mexico-related payment through its Terrorist Finance Tracking Program — a rigorous evaluation for which even sophisticated sanctions compliance programs are not prepared, says Jeremy Paner at Hughes Hubbard.
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Implications Of Kid Privacy Rule Revamp For Parents, Cos.
The Federal Trade Commission's recent amendments to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act will expand protections for children online, meaning parents will have greater control over their children's data and tech companies must potentially change their current privacy practices — or risk noncompliance, say attorneys at Labaton Keller.
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2 Practical Ways For Banks To Battle Elder Financial Abuse
Federal regulators' recent statement raising awareness of elder financial exploitation provides a useful catalog of techniques that banks can employ to fight fraud, particularly encouraging older account holders to establish trusted contacts and sharing timely warnings about the latest scams with customers, say attorneys at Nutter.
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When Reincorporation Out Of Del. Isn't A Good Idea
While recent high-profile corporate moves out of Delaware have prompted discussion about the benefits of incorporation elsewhere, for many, remaining in the First State may be the right decision due to its deep body of business law, tradition of nonjury trials and other factors, say attorneys at Goodwin.
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Is AI Distillation By DeepSeek IP Theft?
A brewing controversy over whether Chinese artificial intelligence company DeepSeek's distillation of outputs from OpenAI's ChatGPT violates copyright law raises questions about the legality and ethics of such practices, and will set important precedents for the future of AI development and intellectual property law, say attorneys at Winston & Strawn.
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Opinion
SEC Defense Bar Should Pursue Sanctions Flexibility Now
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission defense bar has an opening under the new administration to propose flexible, tailored sanctions that can substantially remediate misconduct and prevent future wrongdoing instead of onerous penalties, which could set sanctions precedent for years to come, says Josh Hess at BCLP.
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7 Tips For Associates To Thrive In Hybrid Work Environments
Excerpt from Practical Guidance
As the vast majority of law firms have embraced some type of hybrid work policy, associates should consider a few strategies to get the most out of both their in-person and remote workdays, says James Argionis at Cozen O’Connor.
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Series
Playing Beach Volleyball Makes Me A Better Lawyer
My commitment to beach volleyball has become integral to my performance as an attorney, with the sport continually reminding me that teamwork, perseverance, professionalism and stress management are essential to both undertakings, says Amy Drushal at Trenam.