Google To Pay $28M On Claim It Favored White, Asian Workers

Google To Pay $28M On Claim It Favored White, Asian Workers

By Hailey Konnath

Google LLC will pay $28 million to put to rest allegations it pays and promotes certain nonwhite employees less than their white and Asian colleagues, counsel for a class of workers said Monday.

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ITC Hears Strong Views On Import Bans For Essential Patents

By Ryan Davis

As the U.S. International Trade Commission reviews a case where a judge said Amazon infringed Nokia standard-essential patents, tech giants told the ITC that import bans should rarely be issued for such patents, while patent advocates said such orders are "unquestionably" allowed.

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Biz Groups Push For High Court Review Of Cisco Spying Case

By Jared Foretek

National business groups are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a Ninth Circuit decision reviving a suit from a class of Falun Gong practitioners alleging that Cisco aided in the Chinese government's crackdown on the religious movement, claiming that the circuit's ruling could chill foreign investment and disadvantage American companies.

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Singaporean Tech Co. Inks $46M Investor Settlement

By Rachel Scharf

Singaporean tech conglomerate Sea Ltd. has reached a $46 million settlement to end a putative securities class action over investor statements that allegedly downplayed massive losses to its video game and e-commerce divisions, according to a filing in Arizona federal court.

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Samsung Wins Dismissal Of Touch Screen Patent Suit

By Adam Lidgett

A Michigan federal judge has tossed a lawsuit claiming certain Samsung tablets infringe a touch screen patent, finding that the company that brought the lawsuit didn't have any interest in the patent at the time the case was launched.

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Colo. Justices Reject Bid To Toss Election Defamation Suit

By Thy Vo

Colorado's justices have rejected petitions from President Donald Trump's campaign and conservative media personalities arguing that a former Dominion Voting executive's defamation suit should be tossed under a state anti-SLAPP law, according to an en banc order Monday declining to review the case. 

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NC AG Fights TikTok's Early Exit From Addiction Suit

By Jonathan Capriel

North Carolina is pushing back on TikTok's bid to sidestep a lawsuit accusing it of knowingly addicting young users to its platform, arguing that the state court has jurisdiction because the company has engaged directly with "over a million children and teens" within its borders.

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X Corp. Says Dismissal, Sanctions Go Together In Bonus Suit

By Irene Spezzamonte

A former X Corp. senior director of compensation engaged in "vexatious conduct" that should not allow him to drop his suit claiming unpaid bonuses without sanctions, the social media platform told a California federal judge.

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Meta Facing Investor Suit Over €1.2B EU Data Privacy Fine

By Hailey Konnath

A pair of pension funds on Monday filed suit against Meta Platforms Inc. in Delaware's Court of Chancery, accusing the company of repeatedly violating data privacy laws, a pattern that the funds say led to the company being fined €1.2 billion ($1.3 billion) by European authorities.

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Wright Looked To 'Bankrupt' Accusers With Suit, Filing Claims

By Aebra Coe

Former Federal Trade Commission member and ex-law professor Joshua Wright sought to "bankrupt" two women who publicly accused him of sexual misconduct and "make their lives hell" by filing a since-dropped $108 million defamation lawsuit against them, according to a filing Friday by one defendant seeking sanctions against Wright.

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SpaceX Hopes For Faster Commercial Launch Coordination

By Christopher Cole

SpaceX has asked the Federal Communications Commission to set up spectrum coordination among commercial space launches on tighter time frames to make it easier to avoid signal interference between users.

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Fox Mischaracterizes Philly License Controversy, Critics Say

By Christopher Cole

A public interest group has urged the Federal Communications Commission to restore an inquiry into whether Fox TV's Philadelphia station should have been denied a broadcast license renewal for airing election falsehoods in 2020 from Fox's cable news channel.

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IPRs Are Going Too Far, Fed. Circ. Told In Samsung Dispute

By Andrew Karpan

A late 1990s tech developer suing Samsung over LED patent claims wants the full Federal Circuit to "confirm the limits Congress placed" on patent challenges, after a panel decided that the patent board could accept patent applications that are not publicly accessible as prior art.

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Yeti Escapes Suit Over Third-Party Info Sharing

By Rae Ann Varona

A California federal judge has freed Yeti from a woman's proposed class action accusing the cooler and drinkware company of disclosing people's personal and financial information to a payment processor without consent, saying the woman's now twice-amended complaint didn't fix problems the court had previously highlighted.

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Judge Ends Ex-Ga. Tech Prof's Suit Over Finance Probe

By Chart Riggall

Two Georgia Tech auditors have escaped a malicious prosecution suit from a former professor over allegedly suspicious financial dealings by his startup that they flagged, as a Georgia federal judge said the professor "failed to provide evidence" his rights were violated.

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Kroger Shakes Calif. Suit Over Interception Of Website Chats

By Allison Grande

A California federal judge has refused to hold The Kroger Co. liable for a third party's allegedly unlawful eavesdropping on Kroger website users' chats, in a ruling that the grocery chain's counsel predicted could have a "wide impact" on the crush of state wiretapping litigation currently flooding the courts.

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AT&T Can't Get EDTX To Ship Wireless Tech IP Case To Calif.

By Adam Lidgett

A Texas federal magistrate judge has refused to send a lawsuit accusing AT&T of infringing patents related to wireless technology like DSL to California, finding that part of an agreement signed by the telecom giant and the patent owner requiring any fight be litigated in the Golden State doesn't apply.

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X Says Nonprofit Is Using Calif. Court To Evade Texas Suit

By Spencer Brewer

X Corp. told a Texas federal judge a left-leaning media watchdog was trying to use a California court to weasel out of a suit accusing the nonprofit of running defamatory articles, saying Monday it was first to file and that the suit should stay in the Lone Star State.

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DJI Says DOD Chinese Military Co. Listing Was Irrational

By Daniel Wilson

Drone manufacturer SZ DJI Technology Co. Ltd. has urged a D.C. federal judge to order the U.S. Department of Defense to take the company off a list of Chinese military companies, saying the listing was based on faulty reasoning and a failure to consider relevant evidence.

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Rippling Accuses HR Rival Of 'Brazen' Corporate Espionage

By Dorothy Atkins

Human resources service provider Rippling hit rival Deel Inc. with a trade secret theft lawsuit in California federal court Monday, accusing Deel of placing a spy in Rippling's Dublin office in a "brazen," calculated and illegal corporate espionage scheme to steal its confidential intellectual property.

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ZoomInfo Says Rival's Employee Reviews Show Infringement

By Rae Ann Varona

Customer data platform company ZoomInfo has hauled its competitor Apollo.Io into Delaware federal court for allegedly infringing two of its patents, citing employee reviews on Glassdoor criticizing Apollo for copying and "cloning" rival products.

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Brief

Gogo Says Rival Pivoted From Competing To Suing

By Nadia Dreid

In-flight entertainment company Gogo Business Aviation wants out of a $1 billion lawsuit accusing it of wielding its monopoly over air-to-ground broadband tech to keep competitors at bay, telling the court that SmartSky is just trying to convert their intellectual property dispute into an antitrust one.

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$4.4B Alteryx Sale Was Lowball Offer, Investors Tell Del. Court

By Jeff Montgomery

Former stockholders of cloud-based enterprise analytics platform Alteryx Inc. have challenged the venture's allegedly lowball, $4.4 billion sale in 2024 to two private equity buyers, claiming breaches of fiduciary duty in Delaware Chancery Court that include undisclosed conflicts among directors and key officers.

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Ex-Flooring Co. Exec Gets 7½ Years For $1.8M Fraud Scheme

By Chart Riggall

Flooring manufacturer Mohawk Industries Inc.'s former head of information technology has been hit with a 7½-year prison sentence after admitting to masterminding a $1.8 million scheme to rip off the company, taking a guilty plea just days before a trial where his co-conspirators were set to testify against him.

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Opinion

CPSC's Amazon Ruling Is A Win For Safety, Accountability

A recent U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission order classifying Amazon.com as a distributor, and requiring it to comply with notice, recall, refund and remediation obligations for defective products, is a major victory for consumer safety — and for attorneys pursuing product liability claims against major online retailers, says Donald Fountain at Clark Fountain.

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How Amended Rule 702 Affects Testimony In Patent Litigation

In 2023, Federal Rule of Evidence 702 was amended to address the apparent failure of some courts to prevent unreliable expert evidence from reaching a jury, but a statistical analysis of Daubert decisions in 2022 and 2024 shows that courts remain divided about how to apply consistent evidence standards, say attorneys at Perkins Coie.

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1st Circ. IMessage Ruling Illustrates Wire Fraud Circuit Split

The First Circuit’s recent decision that text messages exchanged wholly within Massachusetts but transmitted by the internet count as interstate commerce spotlights a split in how circuits interpret intrastate actions under the federal wire fraud statute, perhaps prompting U.S. Supreme Court review, say attorneys at ArentFox Schiff.

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Cross-Border Lessons In Using Hague Evidence Convention

Recent case law demonstrates that securing evidence located abroad requires a strategic approach, including utilization of the Hague Evidence Convention and preparation to justify your chosen evidence-gathering path, say attorneys at Fish & Richardson.

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4 Ways Women Attorneys Can Build A Legal Legacy

This Women’s History Month, women attorneys should consider what small, day-to-day actions they can take to help leave a lasting impact for future generations, even if it means mentoring one person or taking 10 minutes to make a plan, says Jackie Prester, a former shareholder at Baker Donelson.

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20 Law Firms Face EEOC Demands For DEI Employment Info

By Jack Karp

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has written to 20 law firms seeking information about their diversity, equity and inclusion-related employment practices, the agency announced Monday.

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Dentons Merger Brings Firm To The Turks And Caicos

By Andrea Keckley

Dentons says it is set to become the first global law firm to establish a presence in the Turks and Caicos, announcing Monday that it plans to combine with island firm Griffiths & Partners.

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Pillsbury Lands 14 Int'l Trade Attys From Curtis

By Rose Krebs

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP announced Monday that it has added a 14-attorney team, including three partners, from Curtis Mallet-Prevost Colt & Mosle LLP to strengthen its international trade practice and help clients navigate tariffs, supply chains and other issues.

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Judge Questions DOJ Timing Of Deportations After Injunction

By Britain Eakin

U.S. Chief District Judge James Boasberg admonished the Trump administration Monday for its seeming noncompliance with an oral order to turn around flights carrying Venezuelans who were deported under a presidential proclamation invoking the 1798 Alien Enemies Act.

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Judge Ikuta's Sr. Status Plans Give Trump 9th Circ. Opening

By Courtney Bublé

U.S. Circuit Judge Sandra Segal Ikuta of the Ninth Circuit will be taking semi-retired status upon confirmation of her successor, a court representative confirmed to Law360 on Monday.

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DC Judge Holds Off Ruling On Immigration Legal Aid Funds

By Ali Sullivan

A D.C. federal judge on Monday held off on deciding whether to order the Trump administration to continue funding programs that give noncitizens access to legal aid and information, as requested in a lawsuit from nonprofit groups, noting that other court orders in separate lawsuits have mandated that federal funds keep flowing.

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Houston Midwife Arrested In Texas' 1st Criminal Abortion Case

By Catherine Marfin

A Houston-area midwife has been arrested after an investigation by the Texas attorney general's office for allegedly providing illegal abortions, Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Monday, the first such criminal charges brought since the state issued its near-total abortion ban.

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Littler Elects 6 New Members To Board Of Directors

By Tracey Read

Littler Mendelson PC has elected six new members to its 19-member, 2025 board of directors, the management-side employment and labor law firm announced Monday.

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Ex-Seton Hall Law Worker Avoids Jail In Embezzlement Case

By Carla Baranauckas

A former employee of Seton Hall University School of Law was sentenced Monday to two years of probation with one year of electronic monitoring for her guilty plea in an embezzlement scheme that defrauded the school of $1.3 million over 13 years.

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Seeger Weiss Atty Tapped To Lead Depo-Provera Plaintiffs

By Carolina Bolado

A Florida federal judge on Sunday selected Christopher Seeger of Seeger Weiss LLP to lead the team representing plaintiffs in the multidistrict litigation claiming Pfizer Inc. failed to adequately warn patients and doctors about the risk of brain tumors associated with the hormonal contraceptive drug Depo-Provera.

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