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June 06, 2025
Lobbying Firm Sued Over Deal For White House Meetings
A lobbying firm, its owner and an employee have been sued in Georgia federal court by a legal and consulting firm for breach of contract after they allegedly accepted partial payment for but never delivered on a $500,000 deal to arrange meetings with senior White House officials: the president, vice president and secretary of state.
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June 06, 2025
LA Complex Civil Litigation Judge Joins JAMS As Mediator
JAMS has welcomed a retired Los Angeles County Superior Court judge to its roster who spent more than three decades on the bench, where he presided over individual matters, as well as complex civil litigation from mass torts, labor, toxic contamination and insurance disputes.
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June 06, 2025
Kroger-Owned Grocery Escapes Baby Food Metal Claims
Harris Teeter escaped a proposed class action against parent Kroger and other grocery stores alleging that their Simple Truth baby teething wafers contain unsafe levels of toxic metals, according to a Friday order.
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June 06, 2025
X Corp., Music Publishers Say They Want To Settle IP Suit
A copyright dispute between music publishers and X Corp. is heading toward a potential settlement, with both sides on Friday asking a Tennessee federal judge to stay proceedings for 90 days so they can participate in negotiations.
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June 06, 2025
DOGE Can Access Social Security Data For Now, Justices Say
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 Friday that the Department of Government Efficiency could obtain unlimited access to Social Security Administration data on millions of Americans while a legal dispute over privacy concerns plays out.
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June 06, 2025
Ex-CEO Nets Deal With PE Firm To End Dispute Over Firing
The former CEO of a defense industry supplier has settled his lawsuit alleging he was duped into taking the job by a North Carolina private equity firm and then fired for refusing to go along with fibs about its financial future to a major client, according to a notice filed Friday.
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June 06, 2025
GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week
In corporate legal news from the past week,​ in-house lawyers' use of alternative legal service providers remains low, and the top Justice Department merger official said that the Trump administration welcomes "fix-it-first proposals," where merging companies arrange to sell off overlapping business lines.
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June 06, 2025
Gemini Confidentially Files For IPO Amid Crypto Listings Buzz
Crypto exchange Gemini Space Station Inc. said Friday it confidentially filed for an initial public offering, marking a first step toward going public amid growing enthusiasm for crypto-related listings following stablecoin issuer Circle Internet Group Inc.'s blockbuster IPO.
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June 06, 2025
Ex-SDNY Prosecutor Exits Paul Weiss For Jenner & Block
Just months after rejoining Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP, the former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York is leaving the firm to join Jenner & Block LLP.
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June 06, 2025
Taxation With Representation: Winston, Stibbe, Weil, Goodwin
In this week's Taxation With Representation, Chart Industries Inc. and Flowserve Corp. merge, Aedifica NV and Cofinimmo NV unite, Sanofi buys Blueprint Medicines Corp., and Kimberly-Clark Corp. sells a majority stake in its international tissue business to Suzano.
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June 06, 2025
OpenAI CEO Calls NYT's ChatGPT Log Demand 'Inappropriate'
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and his company have said they intend to appeal a Manhattan federal court order mandating the preservation of ChatGPT logs at the request of The New York Times and other news agencies in ongoing copyright infringement litigation, saying the demand goes too far.
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June 06, 2025
Mayer Brown Adds Partner To NY Corporate, Securities Team
Aideen Brennan, a former mergers and acquisitions and private equity senior managing associate at Sidley Austin, has joined Mayer Brown's global corporate and securities practice as a partner in New York.
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June 05, 2025
OneTaste Founder Tells Jury Racy Details Are a Distraction
Counsel for OneTaste co-founder Nicole Daedone on Thursday told a Brooklyn federal jury that Daedone's provocative teachings involving "orgasmic meditation" don't matter to the forced labor conspiracy charges she and her deputy face, unlike the free will of those who say they were victimized.
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June 05, 2025
Playboy Fired Exec For Raising Harassment Issues, Suit Says
Playboy's ousted chief creative officer filed a retaliation suit against the company in Los Angeles Superior Court on Thursday alleging he was illegally terminated after speaking up about sexual harassment, financial improprieties and a minor uploading explicit images of herself to a public company website.
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June 05, 2025
FTC Chair Calls On Congress To 'Reform' Kids' Privacy Model
The longstanding framework for protecting children from online privacy harms is no longer working as Congress intended, the head of the Federal Trade Commission said Wednesday, in urging federal lawmakers to take steps to empower both the agency and parents to more effectively tackle these growing risks.Â
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June 05, 2025
9th Circ. Broadens Test For ERISA Claim Releases
The Ninth Circuit on Thursday reversed a finding that releases signed by two former microchip manufacturer employees bar them from leading a class action over claims the company illegally revoked its severance program, finding that the court should consider whether the company breached its fiduciary duty in obtaining the releases.
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June 05, 2025
AI Co. Sues French Tech Biz Over $20M Graphics Content Deal
An artificial intelligence company is suing a French technology business in California federal court over a more than $20 million deal giving it access to a platform that creates graphics content, accusing it of committing acts of bad faith "at every stage" of their relationship.
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June 05, 2025
Musk's X Corp. Seeks Exit From Legal Marketing Co.'s TM Suit
Elon Musk's Twitter rebrand X Corp. urged a Florida federal judge Wednesday to reject claims that it infringed the trademark of an advertising agency for attorneys, arguing that each company offers different services for different audiences with no chance of consumer confusion.
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June 05, 2025
SEC Seeks To Cut Enforcement Staff To 2010 Levels
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission could see its lowest level of enforcement attorneys since the first Obama administration if Congress approves the agency's requested budget, with the proposal indicating that even more workers could leave the SEC in the next fiscal year.Â
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June 05, 2025
SEC Beats Challenge To Stricter Shareholder Proposal Rule
A Washington, D.C., federal judge Thursday upheld the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's rule that raises eligibility requirements for submitting shareholder proposals, disagreeing with investor advocacy groups that the requirements "severely impair" investors' input on corporate policies.
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June 05, 2025
Del. Court Scuttles Salvage Co. Investor's Doc Suit Appeal
An ocean salvage company stockholder's attempt to refloat a rejected Delaware Court of Chancery suit for documents on a more than decade-long treasure hunt off Cape Cod, Massachusetts, sank again Thursday after a vice chancellor found that a magistrate in chancery made the right call.
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June 05, 2025
SEC Panel Backs Rules Curbing Advisers' Arbitration Power
An investor-focused committee recommended Thursday that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission enact rules governing mandatory arbitration clauses between registered investment advisers and their clients, concerned that such clauses can harm investors.
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June 05, 2025
Crypto Hedge Fund Co-Founder To Pay $944K In SEC Suit
A co-founder of hedge fund firm BKCoin Management LLC has agreed to pay $944,000 to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to resolve claims that he and the Miami-based investment adviser fraudulently raised $100 million from 55 investors between 2018 and 2022 under the guise of investing in crypto assets.
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June 05, 2025
Trump Expects China Trade Talks To Resume After Xi Phone Call
President Donald Trump said he and Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke over the phone Thursday about an impasse in ongoing trade talks over U.S. claims China was slow-walking the exports of rare earths, with Trump saying he expects meetings between the countries' negotiating teams to resume.
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June 05, 2025
Copyright Office Says Registration Delay Had No Legal Impact
The U.S. Copyright Office said Thursday that a two-week pause on issuing registration certificates last month after its leader was fired did not adversely affect any claimant's rights.
Expert Analysis
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Navigating The Expanding Frontier Of Premerger Notice Laws
Washington's newly enacted law requiring premerger notification to state enforcers builds upon a growing trend of state scrutiny into transactions in the healthcare sector and beyond, and may inspire other states to enact similar legislation, say attorneys at Simpson Thacher.
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Jurisdictional Issues At Play In 9th Circ.'s FCA Trade Case
A decision by the Ninth Circuit in Island Industries v. Sigma Corp. could result in the U.S. Court of International Trade’s exclusive jurisdiction over trade-related FCA cases, a big shift in the enforcement landscape just as tariffs take center stage in trade policy, say attorneys at Haynes Boone.
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Evolving Federal Rules Pose Further Obstacles To NY LLC Act
Following the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network's recent changes to beneficial ownership information reporting under the federal Corporate Transparency Act — dramatically reducing the number of companies required to make disclosures — the utility of New York's LLC Transparency Act becomes less apparent, say attorneys at Pillsbury.
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Action Steps To Prepare For Ramped-Up Export Enforcement
In light of recent Bureau of Industry and Security actions and comments, companies, particularly those with any connection to China, should consider four concrete steps to shore up their compliance programs given the administration's increasingly aggressive approach to export enforcement, say attorneys at Gibson Dunn.
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Series
Law School's Missed Lessons: Mastering Discovery
The discovery process and the rules that govern it are often absent from law school curricula, but developing a solid grasp of the particulars can give any new attorney a leg up in their practice, says Jordan Davies at Knowles Gallant.
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DOJ Signals Major Shift In White Collar Enforcement Priorities
In a speech on Monday, an official outlined key revisions to the U.S. Department of Justice’s voluntary self-disclosure, corporate monitorship and whistleblower program policies, marking a meaningful change in the white collar enforcement landscape, and offering companies clearer incentives and guardrails, say attorneys at McGuireWoods.
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Web Tracking Ruling Signals Potential Broadening Of CCPA
The Northern District of California's recent decision in Shah v. Capital One Financial Corp. is notable, as it signals a potential broadening of the California Consumer Privacy Act's private right of action beyond data breaches to unauthorized, nonbreach disclosures involving the use of now-ubiquitous tracking technologies, say attorneys at Baker Donelson.
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Opinion
Proposals Against Phillips 66 Threaten Corporate Law
Activist investor Elliott Investment Management's latest attempted tactic — initiating a high-stakes proxy contest against Phillips 66 — goes too far and would cause the company to both violate Delaware law and avoid the legal exception to the shareholder proposal process, says J.W. Verret at George Mason University.
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Strategies To Limit Inherent Damage Of Multidefendant Trials
As shown by the recent fraud convictions of two executives at the now-shuttered education startup Frank, multidefendant criminal trials pose unique obstacles, but with some planning, defense counsel can mitigate the harm and maximize the chances of a good outcome, says Kenneth Notter at MoloLamken.
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Patent Takeaways In Fed. Circ.'s 1st Machine Learning Ruling
The Federal Circuit’s recent decision in Recentive Analytics v. Fox, a case of first impression affirming the invalidity of patents that applied general machine learning methods to conventional tasks, serves as a cautionary guide for patent practitioners navigating the complexities of machine learning inventions, say attorneys at Foley & Lardner.
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Parsing The SEC's New Increased Co-Investment Flexibility
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's new co-investment exemptive orders simplify processes and reduce barriers for regulated funds — and rulemaking may evolve further to allow investors access to additional investment opportunities and increase available capital for issuers seeking to raise money from fund complexes, say attorneys at Simpson Thacher.
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Cos. Must Assess And Prepare For Cartel-Related FCPA Risks
Given the Trump administration’s strong signaling that it will focus on drug cartels and transnational criminal organizations when it resumes Foreign Corrupt Practices Act enforcement, global businesses should refresh their risk assessments and conduct enhanced due diligence to account for these shifting priorities, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.
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AT&T Decision May Establish Framework To Block FCC Fines
The Fifth Circuit's recent decision in AT&T v. FCC upends the commission's authority to impose certain civil penalties, reinforcing constitutional safeguards against administrative overreach, and opening avenues for telecommunications and technology providers to challenge forfeiture orders, say attorneys at HWG.
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Series
Playing Guitar Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Being a lawyer not only requires logic and hard work, but also belief, emotion, situational awareness and lots of natural energy — playing guitar enhances all of these qualities, increasing my capacity to do my best work, says Kosta Stojilkovic at Wilkinson Stekloff.
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Addressing PFAS Risks In Public Company Disclosures
As individual lawsuits and class actions over PFAS risks spanning multiple sectors and products increase, and rapidly evolving and often unclear regulatory initiatives on both the federal and state levels proliferate, it's more important than ever for companies to know how and when to complete PFAS-related disclosures, say attorneys at Venable.