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August 25, 2025
Kong Toy Co. Owners Clash Over Alleged Deal Violations
Five attorneys traded accusations of secret power plays and cash grabs Monday at the start of the bench trial in Colorado state court between the co-owners of the dog toy maker Kong Co. LLC.
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August 25, 2025
DOJ Antitrust Whistleblowers May Find Ally At The Post Office
The U.S. Department of Justice's new whistleblower program brings the Antitrust Division in line with other programs across the DOJ and at other agencies, although it may have a particularly broad scope thanks to a unique partnership with the U.S. Postal Service.
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August 25, 2025
Build-A-Bear, Kelly Toys Settle TM Suit Over Stuffed Toys
Build-A-Bear Workshop Inc. and Kelly Toys Holdings have settled a dispute in California federal court over stuffed toys in which Kelly Toys claimed Build-A-Bear's Skoosherz toys copied its popular Squishmallow line.Â
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August 25, 2025
SEC Nabs $1.1M Over Alleged Blue Apron Insider Trading
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced that an Arizona man will pay over $1.1 million to settle claims he traded shares of meal kit company Blue Apron Holdings Inc. on inside information he learned from a family member who was also a senior executive at the company.
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August 25, 2025
Title Insurer Beats Ex-Board Member's Fiduciary Duty Claims
Connecticut title insurer CATIC, its Delaware and Florida corporate arms, and 12 of its senior leaders have escaped fiduciary duty claims from a lawyer who challenged his purported ejection from two boards of directors after an audit allegedly revealed accounting problems at his Hartford law firm.
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August 25, 2025
Trump Fires Fed's Lisa Cook Over Mortgage Fraud Allegation
President Donald Trump on Monday evening fired Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook over his administration's allegation that she committed mortgage fraud, thrusting the White House into uncharted territory in its campaign to exert control over the central bank.Â
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August 25, 2025
Epic Says Google Ought To Pay Up For Play Store Fight
While Google is busy appealing a ruling mandating that it open up its Play store, Epic Games isn't waiting to ask a California federal judge to order the technology titan to pay the $180 million in legal bills it racked up over the course of the five-year court battle.
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August 25, 2025
NC Woman Says Starbucks' Lid Design Led To Severe Burns
A North Carolina woman has claimed she suffered "severe burns" and permanent scarring when her Starbucks coffee lid "popped off without warning," spilling a hot Americano onto her lap, according to a product liability lawsuit recently removed to federal court.
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August 25, 2025
Texas Stock Exchange Wants In On Proxy Advisory Lawsuit
The Texas Stock Exchange and Texas Association of Business have moved to intervene in two lawsuits that proxy advisory firms have filed against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton over a state law restricting the firms, aiming to back up the law known as Senate Bill 2337.
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August 25, 2025
Google Can't Pause IP Suit To Wait On Justices' Cox Decision
Google can't halt textbook publishers' infringement suit over pirated book ads while awaiting the Supreme Court's decision in Cox Communications' appeal regarding the liability of internet service providers when their service leads to online music piracy, a New York federal judge has ruled.
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August 25, 2025
X Sues Apple, OpenAI For Cutting 'Anticompetitive' Deal
Billionaire Elon Musk on Monday made good on a promise that his artificial intelligence venture xAI would lodge an antitrust suit against Apple Inc. and OpenAI Inc. to target the companies' deal that integrated ChatGPT into the iPhone operating system, telling a Texas federal judge the arrangement stifles competition.
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August 25, 2025
5th Circ. Nixes SEC's Biden-Era Short-Selling Rules
The Fifth Circuit on Monday remanded a pair of Biden-era regulations aimed at bolstering transparency in the short-selling market, ruling that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission had failed to consider the economic impact of adopting both rules at once.
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August 25, 2025
ÃÛÌÒÊÓÆµ Plans To Limit Nonbank Supervision With Rule Proposal
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau plans to propose a rule that would rein in the use of the agency's power to designate individual nonbanks for supervision, according to a notice of rulemaking scheduled to publish in the Federal Register on Tuesday.
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August 25, 2025
Epic's 9th Circ. Case Against Apple Draws Amicus Support
Epic Games has received backing from state enforcers, Microsoft, Spotify and others as the Fortnite developer opposes Apple's Ninth Circuit appeal challenging an order blocking commissions on purchases made outside of Apple's own app payment system.
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August 25, 2025
Judge Flags Possible Conflict In Foley & Lardner Client Spat
A Texas appellate court told Foley & Lardner LLP and two of its former clients that one of its judges might have a conflict of interest precluding him from deciding the parties' dispute over the firm's alleged failure to disclose conflicts of interest.
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August 25, 2025
Troutman Adds Ex-Medallion Midstream GC To Energy Team
Troutman Pepper Locke LLP has added the former general counsel of Medallion Midstream LLC — which was acquired for $2.6 billion last year — to its Dallas office, strengthening the firm's energy transactional practice with an energy attorney who has two decades of legal experience, the firm announced Monday.
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August 25, 2025
AI Startup Anthropic Picks Legal Legend As GC
Anthropic, a multibillion-dollar AI startup and public benefit corporation focused on safety, has hired a much-honored California attorney who was special counsel to former President Barack Obama, a corporate chief legal officer and a law clerk to late Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist.
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August 25, 2025
MusclePharm Ex-CEO Pays $175K To End SEC Fraud Claims
A former CEO of supplements company MusclePharm Corp. will pay the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission $75,000 and reimburse his former company $100,000 as part of an agreement ending the regulator's claims he failed to properly oversee the company's accounting and financial reporting, including by not reporting $231,000 worth of perks he received.
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August 25, 2025
Woman Who Beat $1.7M In Tax Liens Can't Recover Costs
A woman blamed by the government for the employment tax failures of her husband's construction company cannot recover her legal costs after a jury cleared her, a New York federal judge ruled, saying the U.S. was justified in trying to uphold $1.7 million in liens against her.
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August 25, 2025
3 Firms Steer $18.4B Keurig Dr Pepper, JDE Peet's Coffee Deal
Keurig Dr Pepper will acquire JDE Peet's in an approximately $18.4 billion deal that aims to create a "global coffee champion" through the combination of the Keurig brand single-serve coffee platform and JDE Peet's coffees, the companies announced Monday, with three law firms guiding the transaction.Â
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August 22, 2025
Apple Says Ex-Employee Stole Watch Secrets For Oppo
Apple is going after a former employee on its Apple Watch team in a California federal lawsuit, claiming he stole trade secrets related to the wearable device to share with his new employer, Chinese phone maker Oppo.
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August 22, 2025
Coder Gets 4 Years For 'Kill Switch' On Ex-Employer's System
A Texas-based software developer has been sentenced in Ohio federal court to four years in prison after an unsuccessful attempt at getting a new trial following his conviction for deploying a "kill switch" on his former employer's network.
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August 22, 2025
Intel Says US Will Take 10% Stake In Business
Intel Corp. announced Friday that it has reached an agreement with the Trump administration for the U.S. government to acquire a 10% stake in its business in exchange for $8.9 billion in previously awarded grants, a move the company says will help it expand the American semiconductor industry.
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August 22, 2025
Ex-Tennis Channel Chief Says Sinclair Fired Him To Duck Pay
The former Tennis Channel president sued the network, the Sinclair Broadcast Group and others in California state court Friday, alleging that after he spent 20 years building the channel into a success, he was fired last year in a pretextual move to avoid paying him his equity options.Â
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August 22, 2025
Rite Aid Execs Dodge Investor Suit Over Opioid Litigation
Several of Rite Aid's executives have escaped a securities fraud suit accusing them of making misleading statements about the pharmacy retailer's opioid-related liabilities, with a Pennsylvania federal court finding they sufficiently cautioned investors about the company's ongoing legal battles.
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NY Banking Brief: All The Notable Legal Updates In Q2
In the second quarter of the year, New York utilized every available tool to fill gaps left by federal retrenchment from consumer finance issues, including sweeping updates to its consumer protection framework and notable amendments to cybersecurity rules, say attorneys at Steptoe.
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SEC Proposal Could Hurt Foreign Issuers' US Market Access
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s June call for feedback on potentially narrowing how it designates foreign private issuers of securities could ultimately result in significant new barriers for traders that rely on FPI accommodations to participate in U.S. markets, say attorneys at Gibson Dunn.
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Federal Regs Order May Spell Harsher FDCA Enforcement
A recent executive order aimed at reducing criminal prosecutions of those who unknowingly violate complex federal regulations may actually lead to more aggressive felony indictments under the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, but companies and executives can mitigate risks by following several key principals, say attorneys at McGuireWoods.
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DOJ's 1st M&A Declination Shows Value Of Self-Disclosures
The U.S. Department of Justice's recent decision not to charge private equity firm White Deer Management — the first such declination under an M&A safe harbor policy announced last year — signals that even in high-priority national security matters, the DOJ looks highly upon voluntary self-disclosures, say attorneys at Perkins Coie.
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Law School's Missed Lessons: Practicing Self-Care
Law schools don’t teach the mental, physical and emotional health maintenance tools necessary to deal with the profession's many demands, but practicing self-care is an important key to success that can help to improve focus, manage stress and reduce burnout, says Rachel Leonard​​​​​​​ at MG+M.
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Nev. Steps Up Efforts To Attract Incorporations With New Law
Recent amendments to Nevada corporate law, which will narrow controlling stockholders’ liability, streamline mergers and allow companies to opt out of jury trials, show the interstate competition to attract new and reincorporating companies is still heating up, say attorneys at Simpson Thacher.
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ABA Opinion Makes It A Bit Easier To Drop A 'Hot Potato'
The American Bar Association's recent ethics opinion clarifies when attorneys may terminate clients without good cause, though courts may still disqualify a lawyer who drops a client like a hot potato, so sending a closeout letter is always a best practice, say attorneys at Thompson Hine.
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Plan For Increased HSR Info Sharing With Wash. Antitrust Law
Washington's merger notification requirements, effective later this month, combined with the Federal Trade Commission's new Hart-Scott-Rodino Act rules, will result in greater information sharing among state and federal agencies, making it important for merging parties to consider their transaction's potential state antitrust implications early on, say attorneys at McDermott.
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Federal Construction Considerations Amid Policy Overhaul
The rapid overhaul of federal procurement, heightened domestic sourcing rules and aggressive immigration enforcement are reshaping U.S. construction, but several pragmatic considerations can help federal contractors engaged in infrastructure and public construction avoid the legal, financial and operational fallout, say attorneys at Cozen O'Connor.
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3rd-Party Audit Tactics To Improve Export Control Compliance
Companies should take a strategic approach to third-party audits in response to the Trump administration's ramp-up of export control enforcement with steps that strengthen their ability to identify the control weaknesses of distributors, dealers and resellers, say Michael Huneke at Hughes Hubbard, and John Rademacher and Abby Williams at Secretariat Advisors.
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A Look At Trump Admin's Shifting Strategies To Curtail ÃÛÌÒÊÓÆµ
The Trump administration has so far carried out its goal of minimizing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's authority and footprint via an individualized approach comprising rule rollbacks, litigation moves and administrative tools, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.
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Can Companies Add Tariffs Back To Earnings Calculations?
With the recent and continually evolving tariffs announced by the Trump administration, John Ryan at King & Spalding takes a detailed look at whether those new tariffs can be added back in calculating earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization — an important question that may greatly affect a company's compliance with its financial covenants.
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Evading DOJ Crosshairs As Data Security Open Season Starts
As the U.S. Department of Justice begins enforcing its new data security program — aimed at preventing foreign adversaries from accessing government-related and personal sensitive data — U.S. companies will need to understand the program’s contours and potential pitfalls to avoid potential civil liability or criminal scrutiny, say attorneys at Cohen & Gresser.
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How Trump's Trade Policies Are Shaping Foreign Investment
Five months into the Trump administration, investors are beginning to see the concrete effects of the president’s America First Investment Policy as it presents new opportunities for clearing transactions more quickly, while sustaining risk aversion related to Chinese trade and potentially creating different political risks, say attorneys at Covington.
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My Opera And Baseball Careers Make Me A Better Lawyer
Though participating in opera and the world of professional baseball often pulls me away from the office, my avocations improve my legal career by helping me perform under scrutiny, prioritize team success, and maintain joy and perspective at work, says Adam Unger at Herrick Feinstein.