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February 10, 2025
Megan Thee Stallion's Trial Lies Suit Survives Dismissal Bid
A Florida federal judge has largely kept alive Megan Thee Stallion's lawsuit accusing a social media personality of acting as a paid surrogate of her convicted shooter, fellow rapper Tory Lanez, to spread lies about the trial and for promoting an AI-generated pornographic video that appears to depict her.
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February 10, 2025
Boston Man Not Guilty In Chinese 'Agent' Case
A Boston man was acquitted Monday of federal charges that he acted as an unregistered agent for China by allegedly spying on pro-democracy activities and organizing a group to advocate for the interests of the Chinese government.
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February 10, 2025
Trump Buyout Plan Still On Hold As Unions Cite 'Confusion'
A Boston federal judge on Monday extended his hold on President Donald Trump's federal worker buyout program as he weighs a request from unions to block the so-called Fork Directive, which promises months of pay to government employees who resign their posts.
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February 10, 2025
Bird Shelter Settles 2nd Nuisance Calls Suit With UnitedHealth
UnitedHealth Group Inc. has settled a proposed class action brought by a North Carolina bird refuge over nuisance calls the health insurer allegedly made to consumers even after it demanded the calls stop, according to a court order pausing the case.
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February 10, 2025
Cybersecurity & Privacy Group Of The Year: Keller Rohrback
Keller Rohrback won final approval of a $725 million settlement in a case accusing Facebook of harvesting millions of users' data, and a year later, sought preliminary approval of a $30 million settlement in security breach litigation against 23andMe, placing the firm among the 2024 Law360 Cybersecurity & Privacy Groups of the Year.
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February 10, 2025
'Stand Down': CFPB's Acting Chief Pulls Employees Off Job
The Trump administration's acting Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Russell Vought told agency staff on Monday to "stand down" from doing any work, the latest in a series of rapid-fire moves that are sidelining the agency and prompting employees to sue.
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February 07, 2025
FCC Aims To Expand 'Do Not Originate' Call Coverage
The Federal Communications Commission is getting ready to vote on a rule change that would expand the number of voice providers who must comply with the agency's "do not originate" rules, which aim to staunch onslaughts of scam calls.
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February 07, 2025
Calif. Student Group Sues Ed Dept. Over DOGE Data Access
The University of California Student Association sued the U.S. Department of Education in D.C. federal court on Friday, claiming it unlawfully shared access to confidential student data with the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency.
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February 07, 2025
Feds Defend Corporate Transparency Act In 5th And 4th Circuits
The U.S. government defended the Corporate Transparency Act in the Fifth and Fourth Circuits on Friday, urging the former to reverse a Texas federal judge's nationwide injunction on the law and the latter to affirm a Virginia federal judge's rejection of a bid to block the law's enforcement.
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February 07, 2025
DOJ Tells DC Circ. Not To Delay Google Search Fix For Apple
The U.S. Department of Justice and state enforcers told the D.C. Circuit Friday that the remedies phase of the search monopolization case against Google is too important to wait while Apple appeals a ruling denying its last minute bid to intervene in the case.
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February 07, 2025
SolarWinds Accepts $4.4B Sale To PE Firm Turn/River Capital
SolarWinds said Friday it has agreed to be sold to Turn/River Capital for $4.4 billion, marking a notable turnaround for a company that came back from a consequential 2020 data breach to become what its CEO told Law360 is now "one of the most secure software companies."
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February 07, 2025
Virginia Senate Looks To Ban Sale Of People's Location Data
Virginia is on its way to banning the sale of data that can pinpoint a person's location, even if they consented to it, after the state's Senate voted 35-5 to tweak its privacy statute to outlaw the purchase of precise location data.
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February 07, 2025
CFPB's Medical Debt Rule Halted For 90 Days By Texas Judge
A Texas federal judge has issued a 90-day halt on an approaching effective day for a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule banning medical debt from credit reports, a day after the agency's new leadership said it needed time to consider the rule trade groups have sued to end.
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February 07, 2025
Meta's $725M Deal Downplays Potential Liability, 9th Circ. Told
A group of objectors urged the Ninth Circuit on Friday to vacate Meta Platform Inc.'s $725 million settlement resolving privacy claims over the Cambridge Analytica data harvesting scandal, arguing the trial judge failed to fully consider the minimum $250 billion statutory damages award that could have been awarded if class counsel won at trial.
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February 07, 2025
Insurers Say Meta MDL Row Should Be In Del. State Court
Coverage litigation with Meta over underlying claims that it deliberately designed its platforms to be addictive to adolescents ought to take place in Delaware state court, units of Chubb and Hartford told a Delaware federal court, arguing the court need only examine the fact that Meta is a Delaware citizen.
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February 07, 2025
Cybersecurity & Privacy Group Of The Year: Latham
Latham & Watkins LLP delivered a heavy hit last year to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's efforts to expand regulatory authority over public companies' cybersecurity practices, winning a landmark victory for SolarWinds Corp. and landing it a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Cybersecurity & Privacy Groups of the Year.
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February 07, 2025
2nd Circ. Doubts Police Misused 'Sense-Enhancing' iPhone
Judges of the Second Circuit sounded highly skeptical Friday that police in Connecticut had illegally searched a suspect's car by using an Apple iPhone's camera function to peer through his tinted windows, comparing the technology to commonplace methods of enhancing vision like flashlights.
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February 06, 2025
State AGs To Sue Over DOGE Access To Payment Systems
Over a dozen state attorneys general are set to file suit challenging Elon Musk and Department of Government Efficiency staffers' access to people's sensitive personal information through government payment systems, New York Attorney General Letitia James' office announced Thursday.
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February 06, 2025
House Bill Aims To Ban DeepSeek On Gov't Devices
A pair of U.S. House lawmakers on Thursday rolled out bipartisan legislation that would prohibit the installation of Chinese company DeepSeek's chatbot app on government-issued devices, citing "alarming" national security threats similar to those that have propelled efforts to ban video app TikTok nationwide.
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February 06, 2025
Fla. Panel Rules Atty Imposter Scam Suit Had Invalid Service
A Florida appellate court has reversed a judgment against a New Jersey real estate agent who was accused in a lawsuit of posing as an attorney and intercepting a $930,000 wire transfer meant to close on a Miami-area property, saying service was invalid.
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February 06, 2025
Travelers' $6M Data Breach Settlement Nabs Final OK
A New York federal judge gave a final stamp of approval to a $6 million deal ending a proposed class action alleging Travelers failed to protect people's personally identifiable information prior to a 2021 data breach.
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February 06, 2025
Top Groups Lobbying The FCC
The Federal Communications Commission heard from interest groups and companies around two dozen times in January, on issues ranging from consumer consent to receive telemarketing calls to UScellular's contested $4.4 billion plan to sell its wireless operations to T-Mobile.
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February 06, 2025
Sam Altman Calls Musk's Claim Of Ban On Rivals 'False'
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the key claim made in a preliminary injunction request from Elon Musk in their ongoing investment spat is false, saying in a new declaration that he never told OpenAI investors that they wouldn't be able to invest in the company if they also invested in Musk's xAI.
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February 06, 2025
Western Digital Seeks To Toss SPEX $553M Patent Verdict
Western Digital asked a California federal judge Wednesday to throw out a jury's $316 million verdict that was later increased to $553 million, which held that the data storage company infringed a SPEX Technologies' patent related to hardware encryption technology, saying SPEX did not prove infringement.
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February 06, 2025
JPMorgan's State Trade Secret Data Row Claim Axed, For Now
A federal judge in Delaware has ruled that JPMorgan Chase & Co. sufficiently alleged Argus Information & Advisory Services violated a federal trade secrets law by allegedly misusing anonymized credit card data collected from banks, but said JPMorgan's contention Argus violated a Delaware trade secret law could not stand.
Expert Analysis
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Drug Cartels' Terrorist Label Raises Litigation Risk For Cos.
President Donald Trump's planned designation of some Latin American drug-trafficking groups as foreign terrorist organizations creates an additional and little-noticed source of legal exposure: U.S. civil litigation risk involving terrorism claims by victims of those groups, say attorneys at Covington.
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Best Practices To Optimize Cybersecurity Insurance
As cyberthreats continue to evolve, the risks associated with third-party vendor breaches are an increasing concern, so businesses must not only reevaluate their internal cybersecurity insurance, but also take proactive steps to evaluate and manage the risks posed by their third-party relationships, say attorneys at Reed Smith.
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Imagine The Possibilities Of Openly Autistic Lawyering
Andi Mazingo at Lumen Law, who was diagnosed with autism about midway through her career, discusses how the legal profession can create inclusive workplaces that empower openly autistic lawyers and enhance innovation, and how neurodivergent attorneys can navigate the challenges and opportunities that come with disclosing one’s diagnosis.
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A Halftime Analysis Of DOJ's Compensation Pilot Program
The U.S. Department of Justice appears to consider the first half of its three-year pilot program on compensation incentives and clawbacks to be proceeding successfully, so companies should expect prosecutors to emphasize the program and other compliance-related considerations early in investigations, say attorneys at Debevoise.
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Top 10 Healthcare And Life Sciences Issues To Watch In 2025
Under the new Trump administration, this coming year may benefit some healthcare and life sciences stakeholders, while creating new challenges for others amid an increasingly complex regulatory environment, say attorneys at Debevoise.
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Documentary Filmmaking Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Becoming a documentary filmmaker has allowed me to merge my legal expertise with my passion for storytelling, and has helped me to hone negotiation, critical thinking and problem-solving skills that are important to both endeavors, says Robert Darwell at Sheppard Mullin.
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Litigation Funding Disclosure Debate: Strategy Considerations
In the ongoing debate over whether courts should require disclosure of litigation funding, funders and plaintiffs tend to argue against such mandates, but voluntarily disclosing limited details about a funding arrangement can actually confer certain benefits to plaintiffs in some scenarios, say Andrew Stulce and Marc Cavan at Longford Capital.
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A Look At Shifting Legal Landscape For Data Brokers
An increasingly complex legal landscape at both the federal and state levels has expanded the types of businesses classified as data brokers, so consumer-facing businesses should consider their designations under these new regulations and any consequences for compliance and business operations, say attorneys at Morrison Foerster.
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Top Considerations For Insurance Companies In 2025
As insurance industry participants look to plan for the year, regulatory changes, climate-related challenges, the ongoing effects of social inflation and the potential for significant mergers and acquisitions will be among the key items for insurer boards and management to have on their radar, say attorneys at Debevoise.
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Adventure Photography Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Photographing nature everywhere from Siberia to Cuba and Iceland to Rwanda provides me with a constant reminder to refresh, refocus and rethink the legal issues that my clients face, says Richard Birmingham at Davis Wright.
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How Cos. Can Respond To CFPB Digital Asset Safeguard Plan
Though the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s proposal to regulate online payment platforms via existing federal laws would create new challenges, digital payment companies that engage with the rulemaking process could help shape a win-win regulatory framework that protects consumer data and ensures the sector’s growth, says Allison Raley at Arnall Golden.
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EEOC Wearable Tech Guidance Highlights Monitoring Scrutiny
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's recent fact sheet on wearable technologies cautions against potential issues with federal anti-discrimination laws and demonstrates growing concern from regulators and legislators about intrusive technologies in the workplace, say attorneys at Littler.
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The 5 Most Important Bid Protest Decisions Of 2024
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the Court of Federal Claims and the Government Accountability Office issued five noteworthy bid protest decisions in 2024 that will likely have a continuing impact on questions concerning standing, timeliness, corporate transactions and more, say attorneys at Bradley Arant.
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High Court Could Further Limit Deference With TCPA Fax Case
The Supreme Court's decision to hear McLaughlin Chiropractic Associates v. McKesson, a case involving alleged junk faxes that centers whether district courts are bound by Federal Communications Commission rules, offers the court a chance to possibly further limit the judicial deference afforded to federal agency interpretations of statutes, says Samantha Duke at Rumberger Kirk.
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5 Ways To Create Effective Mock Assignments For Associates
In order to effectively develop associates’ critical thinking skills, firms should design mock assignments that contain a few key ingredients, from messy fact patterns to actionable feedback, says Abdi Shayesteh at AltaClaro.