Law
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The Ninth Circuit on Wednesday vacated a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency decision allowing the herbicide dicamba to be used on cotton and soybean crops, saying the regulator “substantially understated” the risks associated with the weedkiller produced by several major agrochemical companies… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The Federal Circuit on Wednesday backed a lower court’s ruling letting Tinder’s parent IAC/InterActiveCorp out of a suit claiming it had infringed a British Telecommunications patent, agreeing with the earlier decision that the technology was too abstract for patent protection… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara has launched a proposed class action against Zoom Video Communications Inc., accusing the burgeoning company of allowing a 400-person video conference to be “Zoombombed” with child porn… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A Virginia federal judge on Tuesday largely upheld a $1 billion internet piracy verdict won by major record labels against Cox Communications, but said he would need to reassess how many songs had been involved in the lawsuit in order to recalculate the award… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Novo Nordisk Inc. can’t immediately block a former employee from continuing to work for rival BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. because the worker likely isn’t subject to a noncompete agreement he had signed with the Danish pharma giant, the First Circuit ruled Tuesday… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 