Samsung Says Jurors Lied In Netlist IP Trial, Seeks Do-Over

By Cara Salvatore

Samsung told a California federal judge it needs a fourth trial against Netlist Inc. after losing a suit over a deal to license computer memory patents, saying three jurors lied during voir dire in a case that bolsters Netlist's position regarding $421 million worth of related verdicts in Texas.

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SoundExchange Targets Sonos, Napster In $3M Royalties Suit

By Christine DeRosa

Nonprofit royalty collector SoundExchange has sued Sonos Inc. and Napster for failing to pay more than $3.4 million in royalties, interest and other costs related to the operation of Sonos Radio.

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Nielsen Sues Consumer Behavior Co. Over 'Buyer's Remorse'

By Bonnie Eslinger

The Nielsen Co. has sued consumer behavior adviser Circana in Delaware Chancery Court seeking an order requiring it to close on the deal it reached to buy two of its marketing and advertising businesses, saying Circana has "buyer's remorse" despite knowing a competitor was ready to sabotage one of the businesses.

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Democrats Probe Palantir About IRS Taxpayer Database

By Anna Scott Farrell

Ten Democratic lawmakers demanded information Tuesday from the head of Palantir Technologies Inc. about media reports that the software company is working with the IRS to create a searchable database containing sensitive taxpayer information — claims the company denied almost immediately.

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Feature

School's Out: 8 Summer Reading Picks For IP Attorneys

By Theresa Schliep

For busy intellectual property attorneys, summer can present the perfect opportunity to catch up on some reading, whether it's a treatise on contracts in the entertainment sector or a vivid work of science fiction that has the potential to bring new perspective to one's personal and professional lives.

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NFL Coach's Lawyer Faces Scrutiny Over NY Practice Claims

By Elaine Briseño

A federal judge on Tuesday chastised a lawyer defending a former NFL coach in his discrimination suit against the league, ordering him to show why he claimed he could practice in the Southern District of New York even though it appears "that is not accurate."

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Venezuela Oil Co. PDVSA Must Face $258M Default Ruling

By Joyce Hanson

Spanish company Elecnor SA has achieved a green light from a New York state judge to pursue enforcement of a nearly $258 million default judgment against Venezuela's state-owned oil and natural gas company over unpaid debt.

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4th Circ. Affirms $8M Award Against Kuwaiti Construction Co.

By Caroline Simson

The Fourth Circuit on Tuesday refused to revive a Kuwaiti construction company's bid to nix an $8 million arbitral award favoring Kellogg Brown & Root International Inc. in a dispute over a U.S. Army contract, ruling in a published opinion that the company missed a critical statutory deadline.

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Energy Co. Says Lease Differences Undermine Class Cert. Bid

By Matthew Santoni

A proposed class of XTO Energy Inc. lease holders have claimed they were uniformly overcharged for gathering and processing gas from their properties, but experts for the energy company testified Tuesday that their leases were too different to be certified as a class, and there was no better bargain available for the services.

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AIG Unit, Air Co. Seek Quick Wins In Herbicide Damage Row

By Ganesh Setty

An air services company told a New York federal court that an AIG unit must provide general liability coverage for a lawsuit seeking nearly $2.5 million for grass damage from herbicides, while the unit countered that neither company's general liability policy nor specialty "aerial applicator" policy applies.

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BowFlex Recall Burdens Buyers Of 3.7M Dumbbells, Suit Says

By Mike Curley

A BowFlex buyer is suing the brand's new owner in California federal court, alleging that a recall of defective adjustable dumbbells wrongly leaves out the vast majority of the product's buyers, covering only about 100,000 of the 3.8 million products sold.

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Safety Co. Demands Sanctions Over No-Show Witnesses

By Christine DeRosa

Safety inspection company UL LLC has sought $13,500 in sanctions and a court order to compel two Chinese solar companies to produce key witnesses in a dispute over counterfeit UL marks, accusing them of last-minute cancellations and monthslong delays.

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Uber Gets Fatal Crash Suit Sent To Arbitration

By Jonathan Capriel

The widow of a man who died while he was a passenger in an Uber must take her claims against the ride-share company before an arbitrator, an Illinois state appeals court ruled Tuesday, finding that when she signed up for an Uber account she first agreed to have an arbitrator review any claims she had against the company.

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5th Circ. Finds $37M For PPE Delivery Problems Went Too Far

By Spencer Brewer

The Fifth Circuit on Monday kept partially intact a $37 million award the Federal Trade Commission secured against a drop-shipping company, but found part of the award went too far because it fully refunded customers for COVID-19 protective gear that was delivered late.

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Ex-Yankee Makes Final Pitch To Jury In Moldy Mansion Suit

By Brian Steele

A retired New York Yankees third baseman incurred hundreds of thousands of dollars in costs after he rented a Connecticut mansion that turned out to have a mold problem, and his landlord should pay up after failing to act quickly, his attorney told a federal jury in Hartford on Tuesday.

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Org. Urges 9th Circ. To OK NFL Sunday Ticket Verdict Dismissal

By Jared Foretek

A legal foundation focused on promoting free enterprise principles is offering support to the NFL as the league defends a California federal judge's dismissal of a jury's $4.7 billion Sunday Ticket price-fixing award, arguing Tuesday the district court was right to correct a "gatekeeping failure" in expert testimony.

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Ga. College Seeks Toss Of $240K Athletic Conference Exit Fee

By Chart Riggall

A small north Georgia college urged the Georgia Court of Appeals Tuesday to throw out an early win in a contract fight with an athletic conference it left several years ago, arguing that the "enforceability is doubtful" of $240,000 in damages the conference imposed on the school for its departure.

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Protego Takes $200M Crypto Bank Suit To Wash. Court

By Sydney Price

Protego Holdings Corp. has re-launched a lawsuit in Washington state court blaming a Texas investment firm for failing to carry out a $200 million investment pledge in its launch of a cryptocurrency bank, which never materialized because rare conditional approval from the U.S. government lapsed over financing concerns.

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Crypto Co. Says Meme-Coin Creating Atty Can't Rep Theft Suit

By Katryna Perera

Cryptocurrency wallet provider Phantom Technologies has asked a New York federal judge to disqualify an attorney from representing a group of plaintiffs, including himself, in a suit he filed over the alleged theft of half-a-million dollars worth of a meme coin he created in honor of his pet dachshund.

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Google Opposes Advertisers' Ad Tech Class Cert Bid

By Matthew Perlman

Google told a New York federal court that the advertiser seeking to represent a class of more than 2 million members in multidistrict litigation accusing the tech giant of monopolizing key digital ad technology spent less than $500 on Google Ads during the class period.

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Firms Fight To Rep End Users In PVC Pipe Antitrust Row

By Celeste Bott

Several law firms are duking it out for a lead counsel appointment representing a new class of end-user plaintiffs in consolidated litigation accusing PVC pipe companies of using a commodity pricing service to exchange information and illegally fix prices, with Pearson Warshaw LLP, Kirby McInerney LLP, Fegan Scott LLC and Levin Sedran & Berman LLP making bids.

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Former Antitrust Enforcers Launching New Firm

By Matthew Perlman

Former enforcers from the Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice launched a new law firm on Tuesday, Simonsen Sussman LLP, to bring cases on behalf of entrepreneurs, small businesses, workers and other victims of anticompetitive practices.

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Litigation Firm Kaplan Martin Hires Ex-Cadwalader Partner

By Matt Perez

Kaplan Martin LLP, a civil and commercial litigation firm launched last year by Roberta Kaplan, announced on Tuesday the hiring of a former partner at Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP.

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Navigating Potential Sources Of Tariff-Related Contract Risk

As the tariff landscape continues to shift, companies must anticipate potential friction points arising out of certain common contractual provisions, prepare to defend against breach claims, and respond to changing circumstances in contractual and treaty-based relationships, say attorneys at Debevoise.

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How AI May Reshape The Future Of Adjudication

As discussed at a recent panel at Texas A&M, artificial intelligence will not erase the human element of adjudication in the next 10 to 20 years, but it will drive efficiencies that spur private arbiters to experiment, lead public courts to evolve and force attorneys to adapt, says Christopher Seck at Squire Patton.

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When Legal Advocacy Crosses The Line Into Incivility

As judges issue sanctions for courtroom incivility, and state bars advance formal discipline rules, trial lawyers must understand that the difference between zealous advocacy and unprofessionalism is not just a matter of tone; it's a marker of skill, credibility and potentially disciplinary exposure, says Nate Sabri at Perkins Coie.

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Analysis

High Court Concurrences Signal Hard Battle For Trans Rights

By Katie Buehler

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined the court's two most conservative members Wednesday to suggest laws that differentiate based on transgender status should be subject to the lowest level of judicial review, providing guidance to lower courts that will likely make it harder for litigants to vindicate trans rights.

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Atty Told To Fix AI 'Train Wreck' In Multiple Fla. Courts

By David Minsky

A Florida federal judge expressed outrage toward an attorney's reliance on artificial intelligence to draft filings with fake legal citations, ordering counsel in a fight over a $5 million Canadian judgment to submit supplemental briefs in order to fix a "train wreck" that spans several cases in multiple courts.

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Trump Organization Taps DLA Piper Atty As Ethics Adviser

By Alison Knezevich

President Donald Trump's family business said Wednesday that it has named a leader of DLA Piper's government affairs and public policy practice as its outside ethics adviser.

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6th Circ. Vacates Removal, Judge Slams High Court's Ruling

By Rae Ann Varona

The Sixth Circuit ruled Wednesday that U.S. Supreme Court precedent required it to vacate a Mexican native's removal order after his U.S. citizenship was revoked for not disclosing a criminal charge, although one circuit judge said it was time justices reconsidered the precedent.

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Jeanine Pirro Faring Better Than Earlier Pick For DC US Atty

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump's second pick for U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, former judge and Fox News host Jeanine Pirro, seems to be having an easier time than the previous contender, Ed Martin.

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Pa. Injury Atty With 'No Idea Who He Is Suing' Faces Discipline

By Dorothy Atkins

A Pennsylvania federal judge reprimanded Simon & Simon attorneys Tuesday for letting paralegals file a "cookie-cutter" slip-and-fall lawsuit against Walmart without a presuit investigation and adding store managers as a ploy to beat federal jurisdiction, criticizing counsel for racing through courts "wearing blinders" with "no idea who he is suing."

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California Bar Exam Woes Latest Chapter In Ongoing Scrutiny

By Emily Sawicki

Recent headline-grabbing blunders with the February California bar exam represent a stumbling block in a yearslong effort to reshape the exam, with an eye toward equity and accessibility for the more than 10,000 applicants who sit for the exam each year.

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Trump's Attack On Fed. Worker Unions Meets Skeptical Judge

By Bonnie Eslinger

A California federal judge Wednesday appeared open to temporarily blocking President Donald Trump's executive order reclassifying hundreds of thousands of federal workers to bar them from collective bargaining, calling the order "dramatic" and "unprecedented," and asking about the downsides of keeping the status quo until trial.

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DOL Noms Vow To Confront Child Labor, Back Davis-Bacon

By Max Kutner

President Donald Trump's nominees for key U.S. Department of Labor roles told a U.S. Senate panel Wednesday they will go after unlawful child labor and enforce prevailing wages under the Davis-Bacon Act, painting a picture of what the agency could look like as its leadership team rounds out.

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Paralegal Says Firm Fired Her For Cancer Recurrence

By Abigail Harrison

A paralegal alleged in North Carolina federal court that The Driscoll Firm PC fired her one day after she informed her superiors about the recurrence of her ovarian cancer, violating federal disability and state wage laws.

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Ex-Public Defender Says Bogus Bias Reports Got Her Fired 

By Matthew Santoni

The former chief public defender for Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, said Wednesday in a lawsuit that she was wrongfully accused of racial bias and unilaterally fired by the county manager, rather than by the county executive who had appointed her.

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