- March 14, 2024
DC Circ. Won't Delay Prison For Ex-Trump Aide Peter Navarro
The D.C. Circuit on Thursday refused to permit former White House adviser Peter Navarro to avoid reporting to prison by Tuesday while he appeals his sentence, ruling that Navarro hasn't shown that his appeal is likely to result in a new sentence that doesn't involve imprisonment.
- March 14, 2024
Lehman Brothers Can't Undo Trial Loss Over Crisis-Era CDS
A New York appeals court on Thursday affirmed a bench trial loss Lehman Brothers' bankrupt European unit suffered last year in a suit attempting to claw back nearly half a billion dollars from Assured Guaranty over losses on credit default swaps tied to the 2008 financial crisis.
- March 14, 2024
Ex-LA Official Lied To Feds Immediately In Interview, Jury Told
An FBI agent told a California federal jury on Thursday in former Los Angeles Deputy Mayor Raymond Chan's federal bribery trial that Chan lied to him during a 2018 interview immediately after he was warned that lying to the bureau is a crime.
- March 14, 2024
IP Forecast: Internet Archive Fights Vinyl Copyright Case
A California federal judge will hear arguments next week over whether the Internet Archive can toss accusations from record labels that describe its project for a free, digitized library of 78 rpm records as a "wholesale theft of generations of music." Here's a look at that case, plus all the other major intellectual property matters on deck in the coming week.
- March 14, 2024
Life Became 'Pointless' After Handcuffed Tasering, Jury Hears
A woman who says she was Tasered while handcuffed by a former Atlanta Police Department officer told jurors Thursday that the trauma of the 2018 incident had, in the intervening years, shattered her career, her relationships with her friends and family, and her sense of self.
- March 14, 2024
Vet-Themed T-Shirt Co. Wins $700K In Army Motto TM Trial
An Illinois federal jury awarded Chicago-based T-shirt company Grunt Style LLC $739,500 on Thursday, agreeing with the company's claim that a California competitor illegally used the phrase "This We'll Defend" in connection with its online retail store.
- March 14, 2024
Colo. Surgery Center Can't Undo Contract Breach Verdict
A Colorado appellate panel saw no reason to disturb a jury's half-million-dollar verdict finding a surgery center breached a contract with a management firm and failed to pay for work outside the contract, concluding that even if jurors got the wrong instructions, they wouldn't have made a different decision.
- March 14, 2024
Artist Can't Exhibit 'MetaBirkins' NFT After TM Trial Loss
The Los Angeles-based designer behind the "MetaBirkins" non-fungible token is barred from displaying his artwork at a Swedish museum after a federal judge ruled there is a high probability he will use the platform to promote products that a jury previously said infringed trademarks held by luxury French fashion house Hermes International.
- March 14, 2024
DOD Contractors Raise Double Jeopardy Issues With Retrial
Two defense contractors asked a New Mexico federal court to bar prosecutors' evidence purportedly relating to a charge of conspiring to win small business contracts, saying the evidence actually relates to fraud charges for which they were already acquitted.
- March 14, 2024
Insurance Mogul Drops NC Counsel Before Retrial
Embattled insurance mogul Greg Lindberg has dropped Aaron Zachary Tobin of Condon Tobin Sladek Thornton Nerenberg PLLC from his legal team ahead of his retrial on a charge of trying to bribe North Carolina's insurance commissioner.
- March 14, 2024
Sen. Menendez Loses Bid To Nix Corruption Charges
A New York federal judge on Thursday rejected U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez's bid to dismiss his bribery case, ruling none of the government's allegations target actions that could be considered protected activity under the U.S. Constitution.
- March 14, 2024
NJ Urologist Keeps Win In Prostate Procedure Med Mal Suit
A New Jersey appeals panel won't let a man revive his claims alleging a urologist botched a prostate procedure resulting in his inability to ejacul*te, finding the trial court was correct in finding that his standard of care expert should be excluded.
- March 14, 2024
Trump's NY Trial May Be Delayed After Document Dump
The Manhattan district attorney on Thursday proposed delaying former President Donald Trump's hush money trial by up to 30 days after federal prosecutors recently disclosed tens of thousands of pages of documents related to the past criminal case of a key witness, ex-Trump attorney Michael Cohen.
- March 14, 2024
Feds Seek 20 Mos. For Aegerion Fraud 'Puppet Master'
A pharmaceutical sales representative who gloated about being a "puppet master" for false insurance claims for Aegerion's cholesterol drug should serve 20 months in prison, the U.S. government has told a Boston federal judge.
- March 14, 2024
Trump Hush Money 'Half Mary': Blame The Lawyers, Sort Of
Donald Trump's informal advice-of-counsel defense in the criminal hush money case in New York is a potentially risky, long-shot attempt at "having it both ways" by blaming his lawyers without having to testify or divulge details of their relationship, experts say.
- March 14, 2024
Trial Challenging NC Abortion Restrictions Pushed To July
A July trial date has been set in a closely watched constitutional challenge seeking to dismantle a state law that restricts access to abortions in North Carolina after 12 weeks, marking a pushback from the court's earlier projected spring timetable for the trial.
- March 13, 2024
TriZetto's $200M Jury Awards Thrown Out In Syntel Dispute
A New York federal judge on Wednesday vacated roughly $200 million in damages awards Cognizant affiliate TriZetto won in a trade secret misappropriation and copyright infringement suit against Syntel, ruling that the awards were improperly calculated.
- March 13, 2024
Jury Awards Photog $3.1M In Licensing Fight Against Otter
A Colorado federal jury has said a California photographer is entitled to about $3.1 million in a copyright suit after finding that cellphone case maker Otter Products LLC wrongly copied various images.
- March 13, 2024
Feds Want 6.5 Years For Ex-Utility Commission Boss' Bribery
The onetime head of San Francisco's Public Utilities Commission should spend six-and-a-half years in prison after his conviction on charges he accepted bribes from local businesses, federal prosecutors have argued.
- March 13, 2024
Epic Says Apple Is 'Blatantly' Violating App Store Order
Epic Games told a California federal court on Wednesday that Apple is "blatantly" violating an order issued under state law barring anti-steering rules in the App Store by imposing new fees and restrictions that make linking to outside payment methods effectively impossible.
- March 13, 2024
Probe Found Woman 'Likely' Tasered By Ex-Atlanta Cop
An Atlanta Police Department internal affairs investigator found that a former officer "more than likely" tasered a woman during a 2018 traffic stop at the heart of a federal civil rights lawsuit, according to testimony from the investigating officer presented in a jury trial Wednesday.
- March 13, 2024
Cherry IP Deception Claims Would Inflame Jury, Canada Says
The Canadian government has told a Washington federal judge that jurors should not hear allegations that its IP licenser deceived the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in a trial against Washington fruit growers it claims rebranded a unique Canadian sweet cherry variety as their own, citing the "inflammatory" nature of the growers' counterclaim.
- March 13, 2024
Versata Wants Axed $105M Ford Verdict Revived Or Expanded
Versata Software has urged the Federal Circuit to undo a Michigan federal judge's decision erasing a nearly $105 million trade secrets and breach of contract verdict it won against Ford, and argued that it was wrongly barred from presenting damages theories seeking up to $1.3 billion.
- March 13, 2024
Google Calls DOJ's 'Fake Privilege' Docs Citation 'Misleading'
The D.C. federal judge weighing the fate ofGoogle'ssearch business shouldpay no heed to discussions, cited by the Justice Department,from company lawyers in a separate case of "fake privilege" hiding otherwise discoverable evidence, Google has said.
- March 13, 2024
Ex-Boeing IP Manager's Counsel Secures $224K In Fees
A Washington federal judge has awarded more than $224,000 in attorney fees to a former Boeing intellectual property manager after finding that the company retaliated against him for speaking up against the poor treatment of other workers.
