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July 23, 2025
Tendit Accuses Ex-CEO Of Illegally Raising Rent Before Exit
A facility services company sued its former CEO this week in Colorado state court, aiming to void a lease she created with her real estate business a day before resigning that increased the company's rent by more than $7,000 per month.
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July 23, 2025
Adviser Drops FINRA 5th Amendment Challenge
A financial adviser has dropped his Fifth Amendment challenge against the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, following the regulator's arguments that it is not subject to constitutional requirements when carrying out its self-regulatory responsibilities.
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July 23, 2025
9th Circ. Partially Revives UPS Workers' Wage Claims
Four former United Parcel Service seasonal employees supported their claims for unpaid wages and late payments after their termination, a Ninth Circuit panel said Wednesday, but ruled that their breach of contract claims are preempted by federal labor law.
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July 23, 2025
SEC Asks 8th Circ. To Rule On Abandoned Climate Regs
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission asked the Eighth Circuit on Wednesday to decide the fate of Biden-era climate disclosure rules that the agency has said it will no longer defend against challenges brought by Republican-led states and business interests.
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July 23, 2025
Feds Seek 15 Months For Lobbyist Over Madigan Scheme
Federal prosecutors have urged an Illinois federal judge to sentence ex-ComEd lobbyist Jay Doherty to one year and three months in prison for his "critical role" in a scheme to bribe former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, whose associates were paid as "subcontractors" under Doherty's lobbying contract with the utility even though they did little to no work.
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July 23, 2025
Chancery Denies Toss Of AT&T Cos.' Investor Payout Suits
A Delaware vice chancellor sent toward trial Wednesday a fleet of coordinated, derivative suits seeking hundreds of millions of dollars in damages from AT&T and affiliates for allegedly claiming excessive shares of partnership revenues, in a ruling that also limited time windows for some claims.
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July 23, 2025
Firm Can't Arbitrate After Filing Suit, 4th Circ. Says
A Maryland law firm and a debt buyer cannot force a debt collection dispute into arbitration, the Fourth Circuit ruled Wednesday, finding they waived their right to arbitrate when they filed their own collective action.
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July 23, 2025
NLRB Precedent Shifts Still Far Away Despite Nominees
The freeze that has gripped the National Labor Relations Board during the first six months of the year showed signs of thawing last week as nominees took key steps forward, but experts said there are still major hurdles they must clear before the board can return to normal function.
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July 23, 2025
High Court Lets Trump Fire CPSC Members, For Now
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that President Donald Trump could fire three members of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, even though a Maryland federal judge found that the president lacked authority to remove them without cause.
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July 23, 2025
CFTC Settles With Puerto Rico-Based Gas Futures Trader
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission and a Puerto Rico-based natural gas futures trader on Wednesday announced that they had reached a settlement, ending the agency's suit alleging that the trader used nonpublic information to make profitable energy trades.
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July 23, 2025
American Arbitration Assoc. Looks To Duck Monopoly Claims
The American Arbitration Association urged an Arizona federal court Tuesday to toss a case accusing it of monopolizing the market for consumer arbitration services, saying the proposed class action hasn't come close to pleading predatory pricing.
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July 23, 2025
Apple Tells 9th Circ. Birthright Ruling Scraps Epic's Injunction
Apple Inc. told the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday that the U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling in litigation challenging President Donald Trump's birthright citizenship executive order means that a nationwide injunction and civil contempt order in Epic Games Inc.'s antitrust case over Apple's App Store policies cannot stand.
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July 23, 2025
NY Finance Atty Joins Proskauer From A&O Shearman
Proskauer Rose LLP announced that an experienced finance attorney who's spent over 20 years primarily working on collateralized loan obligations has joined the firm's New York office from Allen Overy Shearman Sterling.
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July 23, 2025
Paramount, Skydance Defend Merger Plan At FCC
Paramount Global and Skydance Media continued to lobby the Federal Communications Commission for approval of their proposed $8 billion merger last week, telling the agency not to side with commenters calling for additional regulation as a condition.
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July 23, 2025
PE-Backed Consumer Data Giant NIQ Prices $1.1B IPO
Private equity-backed consumer research services provider NIQ Global Intelligence began trading after pricing its initial public offering at $1.1 billion within its marketed range, one of two new listings to debut Wednesday.
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July 22, 2025
Google, Meta Can't Escape GoodRx Health Data Sharing Suit
Google, Meta Platforms and Criteo largely cannot escape litigation alleging GoodRx improperly shared patients' protected health information with the tech companies, a California federal judge ruled Tuesday.
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July 22, 2025
Becton Dickinson Investors Seek Final OK Of $9M Deal
Investors in medical tech manufacturer Becton Dickinson are seeking final approval of their $9 million deal that will end derivative claims the company was damaged by its attempts to hide regulatory problems regarding sales of its Alaris pump, which would add to the list of settlements the company has entered over the alleged misrepresentations.
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July 22, 2025
Engineer Cops To Stealing Missile Tracking Tech To Aid China
An engineer who worked at a tech company admitted in California federal court to stealing trade secrets regarding nuclear missile detection used by the U.S. government after previously seeking to help the People's Republic of China with its military research, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
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July 22, 2025
Meta And Menstrual App Maker Violated Privacy, Users Testify
Five named plaintiffs testified Tuesday in a 13 million-member class action alleging Meta and Flo Health illegally collected their private health information and used it for ad targeting, telling a California federal jury considering the multibillion-dollar suit that they never gave permission for data from the menstrual-tracking app to be shared.
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July 22, 2025
EQT Investors' $167.5M Deal To End Merger Suit Gets 1st OK
Investors in energy company EQT Corp. have gotten an initial green light for their $167.5 million settlement to end claims the company overstated the benefits of its $6.7 billion merger with Rice Energy, drawing what's purported to be the largest shareholder settlement in the Western District of Pennsylvania closer to a close.
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July 22, 2025
Trump Says US Has Reached 'Exciting' Trade Deal With Japan
President Donald Trump on Tuesday said the United States has entered into a "massive" trade deal with Japan under which Japan will "open their country to trade, including cars and trucks, rice and certain other agricultural products" and pay a 15% tariff.
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July 22, 2025
Clorox's $380M Suit Says Cognizant Gave Hackers Passwords
Bleach maker Clorox hit Cognizant with a $380 million lawsuit in California state court Tuesday, alleging the cybersecurity company enabled a "catastrophic" 2023 cyberattack by handing over highly sensitive Clorox employee passwords after hackers simply asked for them.
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July 22, 2025
GOP Senators Float Crypto Market Structure Discussion Draft
Republicans on the Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday circulated a discussion draft of their bill to regulate crypto markets building on the House's Clarity Act, which passed the lower chamber last week.
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July 22, 2025
States, Asbestos Claimants Seek Claim Purge Block In Del.
An attorney for companies embroiled in asbestos injury suits urged a Delaware vice chancellor Tuesday to block plans by asbestos bankruptcy claims trusts to begin routine destruction of exposure-related data, arguing that the move would cut off a potential last-resort source of information.
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July 22, 2025
DC Circ. Won't Revive Cocoa Farm Child Slave Labor Suit
The D.C. Circuit on Tuesday declined to revive a proposed class suit by former child laborers against Hershey, Nestlé and five other companies alleging they were forced into child labor to pick cocoa later used by the companies, saying the plaintiffs failed to link the companies to the specific farms they worked on.
Expert Analysis
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How Attys Can Use AI To Surface Narratives In E-Discovery
E-discovery has reached a turning point where document review is no longer just about procedural tasks like identifying relevance and redacting privilege — rather, generative artificial intelligence tools now allow attorneys to draw connections, extract meaning and tell a coherent story, says Rose Jones at Hilgers Graben.
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New FCPA Guidance May Flip The Whistleblowing Script
The U.S. Department of Justice’s updated Foreign Corrupt Practices Act guidelines lay out a new incentive structure that may put multinational U.S.-based companies in an unusual offensive whistleblowing position, potentially spurring them to conduct external investigations of their foreign rivals, says Markus Funk at Perkins Coie.
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IP Due Diligence Tips For AI Assets In M&A Transactions
Artificial intelligence systems' integration into business operations creates new considerations for intellectual property due diligence in mergers and acquisitions and financing transactions, and implementing a practical approach to identifying AI assets can help avoid litigation and losses, say Armin Ghiam and Senna Hahn at Hunton.
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A Look At Florida's New Protected Series LLC Legislation
A new law in Florida enhances the flexibility of using limited liability companies as the entities of choice for most privately held businesses, moving Florida into a small group of states with reliable uniform protected series legislation for series LLCs, says Louis Conti at Holland & Knight.
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Georgia Banking Brief: All The Notable Legal Updates In Q2
The second quarter brought a number of significant legislative and regulatory changes for Georgia banking, including an extension of the intangibles tax exemption for short-term notes, modernization of routine regulatory practices, and new guardrails against mortgage trigger leads, says Walter Jones at Balch & Bingham.
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Capital One Deal Approval Lights Up Path For Bank M&A
The federal banking regulators' recent approval of Capital One's acquisition of Discover signals the agencies' willingness to approve large transactions and a more favorable environment generally for bank mergers under the Trump administration, say attorneys at Arnold & Porter.
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Gauging The Risky Business Of Business Risk Disclosures
With the recent rise of securities fraud actions based on external events — like a data breach or environmental disaster — that drive down stock prices, risk disclosures have become more of a sword for the plaintiffs bar than a shield for public companies, now the subject of a growing circuit split, say attorneys at A&O Shearman.
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New FCPA Guidance Creates 5 Compliance Imperatives
In light of new Foreign Corrupt Practices Act guidelines that mark a fundamental shift in enforcement priorities, companies should consider several specific steps to ensure compliance, from enhanced due diligence to robust whistleblower protections, says Andrew Wirmani at Reese Marketos.
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Playing The Violin Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Playing violin in a string quartet reminds me that flexibility, ambition, strong listening skills, thoughtful leadership and intentional collaboration are all keys to a successful legal practice, says Julie Park at MoFo.
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DOJ Enforcement Trends To Watch In 2nd Half Of 2025
Recent investigations, settlements and a declination to prosecute suggest that controlling the flow of goods into and out of the country, and redressing what the administration sees as reverse discrimination, are likely to be at the forefront of the U.S. Department of Justice's enforcement agenda the rest of this year, say attorneys at Baker Botts.
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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.