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  • The creators of the long-running whodunit series “Columbo” will have to retry a crucial part of their case accusing Universal City Studios of shorting them on profits from the show, after a California judge on Monday upended a $70 million judgment in the creators’ favor… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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  • U.S. Rep. Duncan D. Hunter pled guilty Tuesday in California federal court to a charge of conspiring to steal campaign funds, bringing an end to a criminal prosecution he once decried as a witch hunt… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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  • U.S. Rep. Duncan D. Hunter plans to plead guilty in a corruption case accusing him of misusing more than a quarter-million dollars in campaign funds, one of his lawyers told Law360 on Monday… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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  • A Seventh Circuit appeals panel on Wednesday pared back a $3 million punitive damages award won by a woman who claimed a mortgage servicer had mishandled her account, with the judges calling the award “excessive” but not letting the company off the hook completely… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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  • Massachusetts-based iRobot Corp., the maker of the Roomba line of robotic vacuum cleaners, has lost a bid to block its rival SharkNinja from selling a competing product while a patent infringement case plays out in Bay State federal court, SharkNinja said Tuesday… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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