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The stars of the 1984 mockumentary “This Is Spinal Tap” announced Tuesday that they have struck a settlement agreement with Vivendi SA subsidiary Universal Music Group Inc., letting the company exit the suit accusing it and others of withholding royalties related to the cult classic… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A California federal judge who had previously found internet call-routing patents held by Voip-Pal.com Inc. too generalized and abstract made a similar ruling on Friday in two cases in which the communications company had accused Apple Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. of infringing similar intellectual property… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A split Ninth Circuit panel published a decision Thursday reviving putative class action claims that Capital One checked credit histories without a valid reason under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, though one judge said the lead plaintiff hadn’t laid out a sufficiently plausible case… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Former students who say they were defrauded by now-defunct, for-profit colleges can take on the U.S. Department of Education as a class in a suit alleging the agency is slow-rolling their loan forgiveness applications, a California federal judge ruled Wednesday… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The U.S. Department of Justice announced a deal on Wednesday aimed at resolving suits seeking to seize assets stolen from the 1Malaysia Development Berhad sovereign investment fund, with $15 million of the expected $700 million recovery being set aside to pay lawyers for a key suspect in the scandal… Read this piece in its entirety…
Mike LaSusa 