Mike LaSusa

  • A split Ninth Circuit panel said Monday that Williams-Sonoma doesn’t have to disclose a list of its California customers in a proposed class action claiming the company misled customers about the thread count of its bedding, with the dissenting judge calling his colleagues’ ruling “unnecessary”… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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  • A federal jury in the Eastern District of Texas handed down a $102 million verdict against Wells Fargo on Friday, marking the second time in recent months that a jury has found the bank willfully infringed mobile deposit patents owned by the United Services Automobile Association… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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  • The New York Attorney General’s Office said Friday that it will not appeal Exxon Mobil Corp.’s bench trial win last month in a state court case accusing the energy behemoth of deceiving investors about climate change-related risks to its business… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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  • Apple Inc. poached key employees from medical device maker Masimo Corp. and swiped some of the company’s trade secrets and patent-protected technology for use in the Apple Watch series of products, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday in California federal court… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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  • A New York bankruptcy judge discharged more than $220,000 in student loan debt racked up by a self-represented law school graduate, slamming the “punitive standards” used by many of her peers on the bench and vowing “not [to] participate in perpetuating these myths”… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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