A federal judge in Delaware has voided three patents obtained by a Texas-based business technology management company involving its surge-pricing system for ride-sharing apps because the feature is less of a “technology problem” and more an issue of “human inefficiency that could be solved by automation.”
Match Scores Financial Concessions in Settlement with Google
Lawyers for Dallas-based online dating company Match Group were set to do battle with attorneys for internet search giant Google next week in a federal courthouse in San Francisco over allegations of antitrust abuses and breach of contract. But the two corporate powerhouses announced late Tuesday that they have settled their dispute and are best friends once again. The Match legal team included CLO Jared Sine, assistant GC Jeanette Teckman, senior counsel Stephen Myers and Dallas trial lawyer Jeff Tillotson.
Litigation Roundup: Paxton Gets TRO to Stop Razor Wire ‘Destruction’ at Border, ITC’s Win Against Enviro Claim Affirmed in Case of First Impression
In this edition of Litigation Roundup, a jury sides with a Baylor graduate in a lawsuit over the alleged mishandling of her sexual assault complaints, a woman sexually assaulted by her masseuse has a $1.8 million punitive award wiped out on appeal, and a judge in Texas puts a nationwide halt to a new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule that would require lenders collect certain data from small business borrowers.
Lawyers, Guns and Money: An Occasional Series on Movies, TV and Other Stories about Lawyers and the Law
The Insider is not a movie about the law per se. Like most Michael Mann movies, it’s about men engaged in an operatic, high-stakes dance with each other and with their fates, coming together and splitting apart in a flurry of paradoxically macho sensitivity. It’s about the sacred bond between a journalist and his source, and the troubling divide between the noble work journalists do and the corporate interests of their employers. As such it’s one of the great journalism thrillers; there’s no heresy in mentioning The Insider in the same breath as All the President’s Men. But there is, in fact, a lot of law in The Insider, and a fair number of lawyers.