Law

  • LATAM Airlines is ripping off its customers with a “no-show” cancellation policy that lets the Chile-based carrier nix flyers’ reservations and resell their seats if they miss a leg of their trip, according to a proposed class action filed Monday in Florida federal court… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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  • A California federal judge ruled on Friday that musical performers and composers can go ahead with a class action claiming a pair of websites have been violating their intellectual property rights by streaming bootleg audio and video recordings of live rock shows… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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  • The U.S. Department of Labor released a pair of memos Friday clarifying rules for employers reporting cases of COVID-19 and sketching out guidelines for a program meant to supplement unemployment benefits as the economy reels from the effects of the pandemic… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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  • Gilead Sciences Inc. urged the Federal Circuit on Thursday to nix a Merck & Co. subsidiary’s bid for the full court to review a panel decision that wiped out a $2.5 billion verdict in a patent dispute, calling the Merck unit’s “attacks” on the panel’s ruling “an exercise in selective omission”… Read this piece in…

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  • A split Ninth Circuit panel sent an immigration detainee’s coronavirus-based emergency release bid to a California district court on Thursday, though the dissenting judge said the appeals panel should have tossed the case by the man with no COVID-19 symptoms, asking “If he’s entitled to relief, who isn’t?”… Read this piece in its entirety at…

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