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July 03, 2025
7th Circ. Cuts Chicken Price-Fixing Atty Fees Again
A Seventh Circuit panel reduced a $51.6 million fee award for class counsel who took on alleged price-fixing among the country's biggest producers of broiler chickens to about $47 million Wednesday, saying the district court made one easily-correctable error.
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July 03, 2025
Real Estate Recap: CEQA, Data Center Energy, Midyear Views
Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including attorney insight into this week's reforms to the California Environmental Quality Act, how states are approaching energy demand for data center projects, and where the commercial and residential real estate sectors stand at the midyear.
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July 03, 2025
7th Circ. Says Record Backs Accenture Win, But Bias Possible
The Seventh Circuit on Wednesday affirmed summary judgment for Accenture LLP in a Black former manager's suit alleging he was fired for complaining about racial discrimination, but noted that its finding is based on "the record and binding case law, not blindness to the reality [he] presses — that bias affected aspects of his work experience."
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July 03, 2025
CMA To Review Global Payments' $24.2B Worldpay Deal
British competition officials said this week that they were beginning their initial evaluation of Global Payments Inc.'s plans, unveiled earlier this year, to purchase payments giant Worldpay from GTCR and FIS for $24.25 billion.
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July 03, 2025
Thoma Bravo Buying Restaurant Platform Olo In $2B Deal
Software-focused private equity firm Thoma Bravo has agreed to purchase New York-based Olo Inc., a software-as-a-service platform for restaurants, in an all-cash transaction that gives Olo an approximately $2 billion equity value, the companies said Thursday.

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