4 Key Takeaways | Trade Secret Update 2024 Legal Developments and Trends
On January 30, the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota dismissed with prejudice a proposed class action lawsuit brought by two investment-account holders challenging the interest rates paid through a...more
It is well settled that a “valid release constitutes a complete bar to an action on a claim which is the subject of the release.” “[A] release that, by its terms, extinguishes liability on any and all claims arising in...more
On December 4, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois dismissed a proposed price-fixing and information sharing class action against several manufactured housing companies and Datacomp Appraisal...more
After claims against Madison Square Garden for the use of facial recognition technology were dismissed, another individual has filed a putative class action against Queens Ballpark Company, LLC, the operator of the New York...more
On November 12, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California granted in part and denied in part a motion to dismiss in a class action case involving mortgage contracts claims. ...more
The plaintiff, BDO USA, P.C. is an accounting and professional services advisory firm. The defendants are Ankura Consulting Group, LLC, Ankura’s CEO Kevin Lavin, and Phuoc Vin Phan....more
In a recent blog post, we explained how Webb v. Injured Workers Pharmacy, LLC has become a touchstone for courts analyzing Article III standing in data breach class actions, citing Shea v. American International College as a...more
On July 8, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington granted in part and denied in part motions to dismiss claims brought by AHP Capital Management LLC against Oak Harbor Capital LLC, Western...more
This week, a federal judge in the Eastern District of Michigan dismissed a lawsuit brought by four former University of Michigan football players who claimed they had been deprived of profits derived from use of their name,...more
Second Circuit affirms dismissal of copyright infringement and state-law claims brought by former Congressman George Santos against Jimmy Kimmel and others for broadcast of Cameo videos created by Santos. ...more
On July 31, 2025, the District of Massachusetts issued two rulings largely denying motions to dismiss filed by software developer Progress Software Corporation (“Progress”) and certain direct users or vendor contracting...more
A federal judge in Oregon has tossed a subcontractor’s unjust enrichment or “quantum meruit” claim against the owner because the subcontractor did not first exhaust its contractual remedies against the contractor. Exhaustion...more
Voice actors received a rare, if incomplete, victory against alleged AI infringers in a recent opinion from an SDNY judge in Lehrman v. Lovo, Inc. Voice actors Paul Lehrman and Linnea Sage filed an action against AI...more
In President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against journalist Robert Woodward arising from Woodward’s publication of audio recordings of Woodward’s interviews of Trump in 2019 and 2020, district court dismisses Trump’s second...more
On June 6, 2025, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California dismissed a number of claims being brought against Google related to its alleged improper collection of health-related data though...more
Takeaway: Unjust enrichment is one of the most commonly asserted causes of action in class actions seeking compensatory damages. Equitable considerations form the foundation of unjust enrichment claims under the laws of...more
A federal court in California recently granted a manufacturer’s motion to dismiss a distributor’s oral contract claims, but declined to dismiss claims for promissory estoppel and unjust enrichment. Cosmonova, LLC v. BioFilm,...more
Ninth Circuit Does Flip Turn, Reversing Antitrust Case Against World Aquatics - In a decision that is making waves through the world of competitive swimming, the Ninth Circuit reversed a California district court’s grant...more
In a ruling that’s being hailed as a win for fair use, a federal judge has tossed out a lawsuit brought by disgraced ex-congressman George Santos against late-night TV host Jimmy Kimmel, in Santos v. Kimmel, American...more
In the lawsuit brought against them for using visual artists' work to teach their large language model, and producing near-identical copies in response to prompts, Stability AI, Midjourney, DeviantArt, and Runway AI moved to...more
The Delaware Court of Chancery’s recent decision in In re Hennessy Capital Acquisition Corp. IV Stockholder Litigation,1 marks the Chancery Court’s first total dismissal of a complaint alleging breaches of fiduciary duties in...more
On January 10, 2024, a class action lawsuit survived a motion to dismiss a complaint alleging injury due to misleading "carbon neutrality" branding on bottled water. Dorris v. Danone Waters of America, Case No. 22 Civ. 8717...more
The U.S. District Court for the North District of California dismissed four of six claims in a pair of cases alleging that the use by OpenAI, Inc. of the plaintiffs’ books infringed the copyrights in those books. Tremblay v....more
A federal court in California denied a franchisor’s motion to dismiss a consumer’s claims for a violation of the unfair-practices prong of California’s Unfair Competition Law (UCL) and unjust enrichment. Torres v. Botanic...more
Meta Platforms (parent company of Facebook) and OpenAI (creator of ChatGPT) have individually filed a Motion to Dismiss the class-action lawsuit filed by comedian Sarah Silverman and authors Richard Kadrey and Christopher...more