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Google Duped App Users With 'Fake' Privacy Button, Jury Told

By Bonnie Eslinger

A lead plaintiff in a multibillion-dollar privacy lawsuit alleging Google illegally collected data from 98 million cell phone users told a California federal jury Wednesday that the tech giant is "misleading" consumers with a "fake button" purporting to allow users to opt out of tracking.

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Masimo Targets CBP Over Latest Apple Watch Import Ruling

By Theresa Schliep

Masimo sued U.S. Customs and Border Protection in D.C. federal court Wednesday, arguing the agency defied the law by issuing a ruling that found a newly redesigned version of Apple's smartwatches is not subject to an import ban in the companies' patent dispute.

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United, Delta Flyers Sue Over Windowless 'Window' Seat Fees

By Gina Kim

United and Delta on Tuesday were hit with a pair of proposed breach of contract class actions in California and New York federal courts by customers who accused the airlines of charging premium fees for windowless seats that are misleadingly advertised as having windows. 

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FTC Sues LA Fitness Over Difficult Gym Cancellation Policies

By Gina Kim

The Federal Trade Commission sued gym chain LA Fitness in California federal court Wednesday, alleging it employs burdensome cancellation practices, such as requiring customers to come to the gym in-person to cancel memberships or send cancellation forms through registered or certified mail. 

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Supertramp Co-Founder Must 'Give A Little Bit' In Royalty Row

By Elliot Weld

The Ninth Circuit said Wednesday that a California federal judge was wrong to rule that a 1977 royalties agreement between the members of rock group Supertramp could be terminated, overruling a jury verdict and ordering that the band's co-founder Roger Hodgson be held liable for discontinuing his royalty payments to three other band members.

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9th Circ. Told Apple, Google CEO Meeting Aids Antitrust Claim

By Craig Clough

A California crane operator training school's attorney told a Ninth Circuit panel Wednesday that a lower court erred in dismissing his client's suit alleging an antitrust conspiracy between Apple and Google because a meeting between the companies' CEOs should have been taken into consideration as supporting the claim.

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9th Circ. Blocks Alaska's Bid To Loosen Federal Fishing Regs

By Juan-Carlos Rodriguez

The Ninth Circuit on Wednesday said Alaska state officials may not open part of the Kuskokwim River to gill net fishing by all residents of the state because that would violate a federal law that favors rural, subsistence fishers.

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TikTok Can't Dodge NC Claims Over Addictive App Design

By Abigail Harrison

Chinese internet behemoth ByteDance Inc. and its social media subsidiary TikTok Inc. can be sued in the Tar Heel State, North Carolina's business court ruled Tuesday, preserving a lawsuit that accuses the companies of exploiting minors through addictive app design.

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Credit Union, Customers Notch Deal In Data Breach Suit

By Allison Grande

OE Federal Credit Union and a proposed class of current and former customers revealed Wednesday that they have reached a deal to resolve litigation over a 2023 cyberattack, a day after the federal judge overseeing the case refused to cut negligence, California Consumer Privacy Act and several other claims from the dispute. 

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Envestnet Didn't Preserve Data In IP Suit, Special Master Says

By Adam Lidgett

A special master in Delaware federal court has recommended sanctioning Envestnet for failing to properly preserve data from a piece of log management software as part of a suit, accusing it of scheming to steal rival fintech software company FinApps' trade secrets.

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UC Berkeley Accused Of Bias Against Israeli Prof Applicant

By Rae Ann Varona

A dance researcher filed suit in California state court, accusing the University of California, Berkeley of rejecting her application to return as a visiting professor solely because she is Israeli.

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Split 9th Circ. Rejects Retrial Of SF Gang Members

By Elizabeth Daley

The Ninth Circuit on Wednesday affirmed the life sentences of two San Francisco gang members for committing a murder at a 2019 funeral, finding that the district court correctly refused to bifurcate their trial since legal precedent prohibited it.

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Palo Alto Networks Beats Suit Over Strategy For Good

By Sydney Price

Cybersecurity company Palo Alto Networks has secured permanent dismissal of a proposed class action alleging it overstated the success of its platform consolidation strategy, with a California federal court ruling the investors do not show the company's statements were misleading when made.

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Masimo's 'Empty Voting' Suit Against Founder Gets Green Light

By Sarah Jarvis

A California federal judge has rejected a bid to dismiss Masimo Corp.'s suit alleging the medical technology company's founder and an investment firm manipulated a shareholder vote through an "empty voting" scheme, finding there is enough evidence at this point to show the pair formed an undisclosed insider group under federal securities laws.

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Exec's Friends Made $1M On Insider Trades, SEC Says

By Madeline Lyskawa

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is suing the former head of a Kaman Corp. subsidiary and his friends in New York federal court, accusing him of insider trading ahead of the aircraft component maker's $1.8 billion sale to a private equity firm.

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Ouraring Maker Looks To Nix $16M Stymied Stock Option Suit

By Caroline Simson

A U.S. subsidiary of the maker of the Ouraring health and fitness tracker is looking to escape an early investor's $16 million lawsuit accusing the company of refusing to honor a stock option deal, saying it should be dismissed or, alternatively, that the whole dispute must be arbitrated in Finland.

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State AGs Sidelined From Sandoz Price-Fixing Deal

By Jack McLoone

A group of over 40 states and territories cannot intervene in a $275 million settlement resolving generic-drug price-fixing claims against Sandoz because they only have a nominal interest in the suit that fails to confer standing, a Pennsylvania federal judge said.

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Schools Say Fee Concerns Doom Financial Aid Fixing Class

By Matthew Perlman

Universities accused of conspiring to limit financial aid offerings told an Illinois federal court that concerns raised by an attorney for the students about potential ethical violations involving attorney fees should prevent the court from certifying the class.

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States Say Kidde-Fenwal Ch. 11 Disclosures Still Inadequate

By Jeff Montgomery

Attorneys for seven states and Washington, D.C., have told a Delaware bankruptcy court that firefighting foam maker Kidde-Fenwal Inc. failed to meet court-directed disclosure statement requirements for its latest, fifth-amended Chapter 11 liquidation plan and called for rejection of the document.

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Judge Grills Feds On Upending 30-Year Noncitizen Benefits

By Britain Eakin

A Rhode Island federal judge seemed perplexed Wednesday by a government attorney's contention that for nearly 30 years, various administrations across the political spectrum have wrongly interpreted a law the Trump administration now says requires immigration status checks for additional federal benefits.

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9th Circ. Axes Navajo Man's Confession Over Missing Woman

By Parker Quinlan

A split Ninth Circuit panel has ruled that a Navajo man in Arizona can suppress a statement he made to law enforcement about assaulting a missing woman after ruling that officers violated his right to remain silent by luring him back into questioning.

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Tribes Say Calif. Cannabis Raids Violate Sovereignty

By Joyce Hanson

The Round Valley Indian Tribes are fighting a Mendocino County sheriff's attempt to toss their California federal court suit claiming law enforcement illegally raided cannabis growing operations on three tribal members' trust allotments, arguing that the raids are illegal and violate their sovereign rights.

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Supersede California's Voice Over IP Rules, FCC Urged

By Nadia Dreid

California's new regulatory regime for internet voice call providers is a "power grab" and the Federal Communications Commission should make clear that its rules preempt those of the Golden State, a free market think tank is telling the agency.

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Buchalter Lands Procopio IP Ace To Lead Medical Tech Group

By Christine DeRosa

Buchalter PC has added a veteran intellectual property attorney from Procopio Cory Hargreaves & Savitch LLP to serve as chair of its medical technology practice group, the firm announced on Wednesday.

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Loeb & Loeb Adds Allen Matkins Employment Atty In SF

By James Mills

Loeb & Loeb LLP is expanding its West Coast team, announcing Wednesday it is bringing in an Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP employment litigator as a partner in its San Francisco office.

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Lessons Learned 3 Years After First CCPA Enforcement Action

Three years after the first public enforcement action under the California Consumer Privacy Act, Attorney General Rob Bonta has pursued a steady stream of enforcement actions across industries, providing a clearer picture of how the law is being interpreted and enforced, says Tatum Andres at Kilpatrick.

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Utility Agency Suits May Rise As Calif. Justices Nix Deference

A recent California Supreme Court ruling rejecting the uniquely deferential standard of review accorded to California Public Utilities Commission decisions interpreting the Public Utilities Code will incentivize more litigation against the agency, as long as litigants can show their challenges meet certain requirements, says Thaila Sundaresan at Davis Wright.

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Morris Manning Faces $5M Ga. RICO Suit Over Tax Strategy

By Emily Sawicki

Morris Manning & Martin LLP is facing allegations of racketeering and tax fraud in a suit brought in Georgia state court by three investors that names a number of professional services firms.

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LegalZoom Launches Patent Filing Service

By Matt Perez

Online legal services provider LegalZoom announced Tuesday the launch of a streamlined alternative to traditional patent filing through its Arizona-based law firm LZ Legal Services.

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Trump Says Fed's Cook 'Must Resign' Amid Loan Fraud Claim

By Jon Hill

President Donald Trump's Federal Housing Finance Agency chief on Wednesday accused Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook of potential mortgage fraud and said he has referred the matter to federal prosecutors, prompting Trump to call for Cook's immediate resignation — a call she has rejected.

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Ga. Court Drops Greenberg Traurig Suit After Atty's Death

By Chart Riggall

The Georgia Court of Appeals said Wednesday that it will toss an appeal in a legal malpractice suit filed by a record executive against Greenberg Traurig LLP and its former music law guru Joel Katz after the parties were unable to identify a successor for Katz following his death earlier this year.

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Error-Filled Pro Se Recusal Bid Draws Conn. Judge's Ire

By Emily Sawicki

A Connecticut federal judge will not docket a pro se recusal request in a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission fraud action accusing a man of skimming nearly $1 million in investments designated for hotel repair work, saying in a minute order that the defendant otherwise has counsel and submitted a meritless, error-riddled bid.

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Abrego Garcia Seeks To Toss Feds' 'Vindictive' Charges

By Britain Eakin

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whom the government erroneously deported to El Salvador in March, has asked a Tennessee federal judge to dismiss federal human smuggling charges he contends constitute retaliation for challenging his removal.

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NC's Cap On Med Mal Damages Is Constitutional, Panel Rules

By Hayley Fowler

The North Carolina state appeals court ruled Wednesday that a state law capping compensatory damages in certain medical malpractice lawsuits at $500,000 is constitutional, handing a defeat to a woman seeking to recoup her full $7.5 million jury verdict stemming from the loss of her unborn baby.

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In Illinois, Public Defender Welcomes Sea Change In Structure

By Steven Trader

Illinois is set to receive the first overhaul of its public defense system in 75 years, and Champaign County Chief Public Defender Elisabeth Pollock is "very much looking forward" to it, she told 蓝莓视频.

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