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September 09, 2025
Coinbase Vendor Called 'Major' Cog In 'Insider Bribery' MDL
A Manhattan federal judge said Tuesday that a Texas-based Coinbase vendor called TaskUs will be a "major participant" in multidistrict litigation centralized in New York over allegations that thousands of Coinbase customers were victimized in a bribery-fueled data compromise.
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September 09, 2025
Insurance Tech Co. Owes For Unpaid Work, Ex-Employee Says
Insurance technology provider Zinnia does not pay its customer service personnel for all pre- and post-work activities, or for work that is performed during their meal breaks, according to a proposed collective and class action filed in Connecticut federal court.
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September 09, 2025
Quinn Emanuel Fights DQ Bid In Trade Secrets Fight
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP-represented Rippling is urging a Delaware state court to reject a bid to disqualify the firm from representing the human resources and payroll company in an ongoing trade secrets fight with competitor Deel Inc., saying the request is a misguided tactical move.
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September 09, 2025
Why SEC, CFTC Crypto Rules 'Sprint' Could Be A Marathon
The White House-backed push to entice the crypto industry's return to the U.S. with clearer rules is off to a quick start, but experts say the process could drag on longer than anticipated as regulators navigate competing interests of embracing the evolving digital assets market and protecting consumers.
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September 09, 2025
VC Firm's Top Atty Rejoins Skadden To Lead Tech Policy Team
The former chief legal and policy officer at California-based Sequoia Capital is returning to Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP to lead the firm's tech policy practice, advising clients on related regulation and enforcement matters, the firm announced Tuesday.
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September 09, 2025
Meta Wins At PTAB Amid IP Suit Over Facebook Safety Check
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has invalidated claims across four patents covering the technology behind features allowing people to check off that they're safe in a crisis, handing a win to challenger Meta as it faces a lawsuit accusing it of infringing those patents.
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September 09, 2025
Colorado Justices Uphold Rejection Of City's Telecom Tax
Tax ordinances in a Colorado city aimed at telecommunications providers, including a T-Mobile subsidiary, established new taxes without voter approval in violation of the state's Taxpayer Bill of Rights, the state Supreme Court ruled.
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September 09, 2025
4 Firms Build Horizon Quantum's $503M SPAC Merger
Quantum computing software developer Horizon Quantum Computing Pte. Ltd. on Tuesday announced plans to go public through a merger with special purpose acquisition company dMY Technology Group in a deal that values it at $503 million and was built by four law firms.
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September 08, 2025
Uber Put Profits Over Safety, Jury Told At 1st Sex Assault Trial
Uber put growth and money over passenger safety, counsel for a woman claiming she was sexually assaulted by a driver said Monday at the first trial in coordinated proceedings in San Francisco involving hundreds of plaintiffs, while Uber's lawyer countered sexual violence incidents against passengers are "exceedingly" rare.
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September 08, 2025
Ex-USPTO Leaders Bullish On AI's Potential For Office, Attys
Two former directors of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office said at a conference Monday that they foresee artificial intelligence being able to dramatically increase efficiency in the future, in ways that could transform the operation of the patent office and the work of attorneys.
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September 08, 2025
Burger King Can't Force Arbitration Of Website Tracking Row
A California federal judge has refused to send to arbitration a proposed class action accusing Burger King's parent company of illegally tracking website visitors who had opted out of the practice, finding that the plaintiff had neither affirmatively agreed to arbitrate nor waived his right to challenge the existence of such a pact.
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September 08, 2025
Texas Data Center Campus Developer Files For IPO
Former U.S. energy secretary Rick Perry's Fermi America filed for an initial public offering Monday, guided by Haynes and Boone LLP and Vinson & Elkins LLP.
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September 08, 2025
'Disappointed' Alsup Wants More Info On $1.5B Anthropic Deal
U.S. District Judge William Alsup has declined to sign off on Anthropic's proposed $1.5 billion settlement with authors accusing the artificial intelligence developer of copyright infringement, saying he's "disappointed that counsel have left important questions" unanswered and instructing the parties to provide more information by the end of the month.
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September 08, 2025
DC Circ. Mulls Whether To Leave Whistleblower Rewardless
The D.C. Circuit didn't seem to think it was fair that the SEC refused a million dollar reward to a whistleblower who went to the media first, even though the judges hinted Monday they thought the agency might have been within its rights to do so.
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September 08, 2025
Split 4th Circ. Axes States' Challenge To Trump Admin Layoffs
A split Fourth Circuit panel held Monday that a coalition of states doesn't have standing to sue the Trump administration over the mass firing of thousands of probationary government employees, finding that it was the employees — not the states — who "suffered the brunt of the harm" underlying the case.
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September 08, 2025
9th Circ. Affirms Toss Of Illuminate Education Data Breach Suit
A Ninth Circuit panel affirmed a lower court's dismissal of a proposed class action Monday filed against Illuminate Education Inc. by parents of children whose personal information may have been exposed in a massive data breach, holding the plaintiffs did not demonstrate that any harms were suffered.
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September 08, 2025
VLSI Argues PQA Was Formed Illegally In Renewed Fraud Suit
VLSI Technology LLC is once again trying to persuade a Virginia state judge that Patent Quality Assurance LLC owes it more than $3 million for misconduct at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, raising a new argument Monday that PQA's existence as a limited liability company was never legal.
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September 08, 2025
CoinShares, Infleqtion To Hit Public Markets Via SPAC Mergers
Two separate companies, digital asset manager CoinShares International Ltd. and quantum computing company Infleqtion, on Monday announced plans to go public through mergers with special-purpose acquisition companies in two deals that combined are worth an estimated $3 billion.
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September 08, 2025
Pokémon Go Maker Gets Judge To 'Avada Kedavra' Patents
A federal judge on Monday said he cast the so-called unforgivable avada kedavra curse from Harry Potter to kill three ImagineAR Inc. video game patents in its lawsuit against Pokémon Go maker Niantic Inc., saying the patents were all abstract and lacked any inventive concept.
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September 08, 2025
FCC Nears 4-Year Review Of Media Ownership Regs
Fresh off an Eighth Circuit decision that undercut a key rule limiting companies from controlling multiple broadcast stations in the same market, the FCC will vote this month on launching its required four-year review of media ownership rules.
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September 08, 2025
Google Tells Judge Not To Break Up Ad Tech Biz
Google has urged a Virginia federal judge not to impose the "severe, counterproductive, and unprecedented remedy" of breaking up its advertising placement technology business, and has pushed its own proposed fixes over those sought by the U.S. Department of Justice in the upcoming monopoly remedies trial.
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September 08, 2025
Oura Domestic Labor Investment Won Import Ban, ITC Says
The U.S. International Trade Commission has found that Ouraring Inc.'s commitments in the U.S. to producing its smart ring warranted the agency's decision to block Ultrahuman and RingConn from importing products it held infringed a wearable computing device patent.
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September 08, 2025
Nasdaq Seeks SEC Nod To Trade Tokenized Securities
Nasdaq said on Monday that it has submitted to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission its proposal to facilitate tokenized securities trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market, in an effort to "support the evolution of the markets."
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September 08, 2025
Super Micro Hit With Stockholder Derivative Suit In Del.
A Super Micro Computer Inc. stockholder has launched a lawsuit seeking recoveries from top officers and directors for hundreds of millions in damages allegedly arising from false and misleading statements tied to financial reports and internal controls.
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September 08, 2025
Securities Class Actions Had A Late Summer Appellate Bloom
While the later summer months are often a quiet time for the nation's courts, the federal appellate courts were hard at work this past July and August issuing important rulings on class certification standards for shareholder lawsuits and handing down split-panel decisions over the future of disclosure litigation.
Expert Analysis
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Top Takeaways From Trump's AI Action Plan
President Donald Trump's AI Action Plan represents some notable evolution in U.S. policy, including affirmation of the administration's trend toward prioritizing artificial intelligence innovation over guardrails and toward supporting greater U.S. private sector reach overseas, say attorneys at WilmerHale.
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Reel Justice: 'Eddington' Spotlights Social Media Evidence
In the neo-Western black comedy “Eddington” released last month, social media is a character unto itself, highlighting how the boundaries between digital and real-world conduct can become blurred, thereby posing evidentiary challenges in criminal prosecutions, says Veronica Finkelstein at Wilmington University School of Law.
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Rebuttal
BigLaw Settlements Should Not Spur Ethics Deregulation
A recent ݮƵ op-ed argued that loosening law firm funding restrictions would make BigLaw firms less inclined to settle with the Trump administration, but deregulating legal financing ethics may well prove to be not merely ineffective, but counterproductive, says Laurel Kilgour at the American Economic Liberties Project.
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Opinion
8th Circ. Should Reaffirm False Commercial Speech's Nature
The Eighth Circuit in Goldfinch Laboratory v. Iowa Pathology Associates should assert that false commercial speech is not categorically immune from antitrust scrutiny, says Daniel Graulich at the Federal Trade Commission.
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Bid Protest Spotlight: Injunctions, Unequal Treatment
Two recent decisions by the Court of Federal Claims and the U.S. Government Accountability Office illustrate how poorly defined criteria can muddle an agency's evaluation and best-value decision, and affirm the fundamental principle that an agency must evenhandedly evaluate vendors' quotations against solicitation requirements, says Victoria Angle at MoFo.
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9th Circ. Leaves Scope Of CIPA Applicability Unclear
Three recent Ninth Circuit decisions declined to directly address whether all of the California Invasion of Privacy Act's provisions actually apply to internet activity, and given this uncertainty, companies should heed five recommendations when seeking to minimize CIPA litigation risk, say attorneys at Skadden.
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5 Ways Lawyers Can Earn Back The Public's Trust
Amid salacious headlines about lawyers behaving badly and recent polls showing the public’s increasingly unfavorable view of attorneys, we must make meaningful changes to our culture to rebuild trust in the legal system, says Carl Taylor at Carl Taylor Law.
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USPTO's AI Tool Redefines Design Patent Landscape
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's newly introduced DesignVision tool for artificial intelligence-powered image searching represents a dramatic shift in how design patent applications are examined, necessitating new strategies for patent practitioners, says Matthew Epstein at Dinsmore.
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Series
Hiking Makes Me A Better Lawyer
On the trail, I have thought often about the parallels between hiking and high-stakes patent litigation, and why strategizing, preparation, perseverance and joy are important skills for success in both endeavors, says Barbara Fiacco at Foley Hoag.
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6 Tips On Drafting Machine Learning Patents Post-Recentive
While the Federal Circuit's decision in Recentive v. Fox narrows the scope of patent-eligible machine learning applications, there are several drafting and prosecution strategies that may help practitioners navigate Section 101 challenges, say attorneys at BCLP.
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Regulating Online Activity After Porn Site Age Check Ruling
A recent U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding an age verification requirement for accessing online adult sexual content applied a lenient rational basis standard, raising questions for how state and federal courts will determine what kinds of laws regulating online activity will satisfy this standard going forward, say attorneys at Hogan Lovells.
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DC Circ. Ruling Augurs More Scrutiny Of Blanket Gag Orders
The D.C. Circuit’s recent ruling in In re: Sealed Case, finding that an omnibus nondisclosure order was too sweeping, should serve as a wake-up call to prosecutors and provide a road map for private parties to push back on overbroad secrecy demands, says Gregory Rosen at Rogers Joseph.
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Series
Law School's Missed Lessons: Negotiation Skills
I took one negotiation course in law school, but most of the techniques I rely on today I learned in practice, where I've discovered that the process is less about tricks or tactics, and more about clarity, preparation and communication, says Grant Schrantz at Haug Barron.
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What EU GPAI Compliance Code Will Mean For Developers
The European Union recently released a code of practice to guide compliance for general purpose artificial intelligence models, offering early adopters regulatory deference, but posing timing concerns and significant costs burdens that may discourage smaller developers, say lawyers at Perkins Coie.
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Taxpayers Face Tough Choices Under NJ's New Nexus Rules
Though New Jersey’s new rules expanding the commercial nexus that triggers state taxation are likely to be challenged, businesses still need to carefully consider whether it’s best to minimize potential tax by reducing online customer support services or maintain their current instate services and begin paying tax, say attorneys at Husch Blackwell.