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September 10, 2025
Liberty Says Subcontractor's Insurer Must Defend Injury Row
A subcontractor's insurer must defend and indemnify companies insured by a Liberty Mutual unit on a primary basis in a worker's injury lawsuit, the unit argued to a New York federal court.
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September 10, 2025
Meet The Attys Now Fighting Judge Newman's Suspension
Federal Circuit Judge Pauline Newman's main attorney in the fight against her suspension from the appeals court has departed from the New Civil Liberties Alliance, leaving his former colleagues to head the litigation.
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September 10, 2025
Trump To Take Fed Gov. Cook's Removal Case To DC Circ.
President Donald Trump on Wednesday told a Washington, D.C., federal judge that the government will appeal the judge's decision granting a temporary win to Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook in her challenge to the president's attempt to remove her from her position.
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September 10, 2025
In Juniper's $14B Sale To HPE, Interim Covenants Were Key
Over the course of more than a decade, Juniper Networks had been on and off the block several times, but bids never quite matched the board's sense of the company's worth, Amr Razzak, the Skadden partner who led the team advising Juniper, told Law360.
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September 10, 2025
$5.9M Fidelity National Data Breach Settlement Gets Final OK
A Florida federal court officially signed off on a $5.9 million settlement of a proposed class action against title insurer Fidelity National Financial over a November 2023 data breach that allegedly impacted roughly 1.3 million individuals, noting the court was notified of a settlement just seven months after the litigation commenced.
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September 10, 2025
Del. Justices Urged To Reverse Ad Co. Note Conversion Nix
An investor group attorney told three Delaware Supreme Court justices Wednesday that the Court of Chancery wrongly found last year that advertising tech company Vistar Media Inc. had a right to involuntarily cash out millions worth of matured investor notes despite noteholder claims their agreement never allowed the move.
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September 10, 2025
SEC Taps Gibson Atty To Head Corporation Finance Division
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday named the co-chair of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP's securities regulation practice as the new leader of its Division of Corporation Finance, which is responsible for writing rules and providing guidance to publicly traded companies on shareholder disclosure matters, among other things.
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September 10, 2025
DC Circ. Temporarily Reinstates Copyright Head After Firing
The fired head of the U.S. Copyright Office has regained her position for the time being after a split D.C. Circuit faulted a lower court's analysis of whether she would be harmed if she didn't get her job back while fighting the Trump administration's dismissal of her.
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September 10, 2025
Kirkland Adds Fintech Regulatory Partner From McDermott
Kirkland & Ellis LLP has enhanced its fintech regulatory compliance capabilities in New York with the addition of an experienced corporate partner who joins the firm from McDermott Will & Schulte.
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September 10, 2025
Massachusetts Grocery Chain Ousts CEO In Power Struggle
The longtime president and CEO of New England supermarket chain Market Basket has been ousted following an unsuccessful mediation, the company announced Wednesday.
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September 09, 2025
Fed Reserve Gov. Cook Wins Removal Reprieve For Now
Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook, for now, can stay on the Fed's board while she challenges President Donald Trump's attempt to strip her of her position, a D.C. federal judge ruled late Tuesday, saying Cook has "made a strong showing" that her purported removal was likely illegal.
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September 09, 2025
Block Beats Investor Action Over 2021 Customer Data Breach
A Manhattan federal judge Tuesday knocked out consolidated litigation alleging Block's stock price plummeted after the financial technology company dilly-dallied disclosing a 2021 data breach stemming from a former employee's alleged theft of customer information, saying the complaint doesn't allege Block made misleading statements or knew it was misleading investors.
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September 09, 2025
DOD's Cybersecurity Rule May Help Fend Off FCA Claims
The U.S. Department of Defense's requirement for certain contractors to have a third-party assessor review their cybersecurity compliance, implemented in a final rule Tuesday, could help contractors protect themselves from False Claims Act enforcement.
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September 09, 2025
5th Circ. Says ConocoPhillips Can Arbitrate FLSA Suit
The Fifth Circuit on Tuesday ruled that a former ConocoPhillips safety consultant must arbitrate claims in his proposed collective action that accuses the oil and natural gas company of not paying overtime wages, saying in an unpublished opinion that the consultant entered into an agreement that incorporated an arbitration provision.
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September 09, 2025
Investor Tells Texas Justices UDF Claims Aren't Derivative
The Texas Supreme Court on Tuesday pressed an alternative investment firm to explain how its suit against an adviser to a fund at the center of a $100 million, decadelong Ponzi scheme would not be classified as a derivative action, asking what distinct injury allows the firm to sue individually.
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September 09, 2025
CVS Says Takeda Tried To Block Heartburn Drug Competition
Drugmaker Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. and other entities engaged in a "horizontal conspiracy and agreement" to restrain competition in the U.S. market for the acid reflux drug Dexilant and its generic equivalents, CVS Pharmacy Inc. alleged in a complaint filed in California federal court Tuesday.
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September 09, 2025
NFL Insists Ex-Raiders Coach Case Belongs In Arbitration
The NFL and Commissioner Roger Goodell have urged the Nevada Supreme Court to reconsider its decision to keep out of arbitration a lawsuit filed by former Las Vegas Raiders head coach Jon Gruden accusing the league of character assassination, arguing that the current ruling "would have destabilizing consequences" for contract negotiations in a number of industries.
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September 09, 2025
OCC Taps Cravath Atty As Principal Deputy Chief Counsel
A former Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP corporate attorney has been tapped to serve as the principal deputy chief counsel of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, while a longtime agency official has been promoted to oversee its newly elevated chartering and licensing process, the regulator said Tuesday.
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September 09, 2025
Ex-SEC Trading And Markets Special Counsel Joins Skadden
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP has added a former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission attorney to its white collar defense and regulatory team in its Washington, D.C., office, the firm announced Tuesday.
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September 09, 2025
5th Circ. Says Jarkesy Doesn't Doom OCC Enforcement Action
A Fifth Circuit panel has upheld industry bans and $250,000 fines against two former top executives of a failed Texas bank, rejecting their bid to overturn an Office of the Comptroller of the Currency enforcement order, finding that the OCC's in-house proceedings and ordered sanctions did not violate the executives' constitutional right to a jury trial.
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September 09, 2025
PTAB Leader Urges Specificity In Discretionary Denial Briefs
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board's acting chief judge urged litigants Tuesday to support the arguments they make in the board's new discretionary denial process with specific details about their cases, during a panel where lawyers expressed both frustration about and praise for the system.
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September 09, 2025
7th Circ. Questions Decertifying Amazon Makeup Try-On Class
Two judges on a Seventh Circuit panel seemed skeptical Tuesday that individual location questions or the risk of a substantial damages award require reversing a district court decision certifying a 160,000-member class in a biometric privacy suit targeting a virtual makeup try-on feature in Amazon's app.
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September 09, 2025
Trump's Latest Tariff EO Offers Some Relief, But No Certainty
President Donald Trump's latest tariff executive order essentially creates an exclusion process for many goods not readily available in the U.S. if the exporter countries enter trade agreements with the U.S., a strategic shift cautiously welcomed by importers even as they still seek certainty for their supply chains.
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September 09, 2025
TransUnion Faces Suit Over Data Breach Affecting 4.4M
TransUnion LLC is under fire in Illinois federal court after a woman filed a proposed class action Monday against the credit bureau claiming approximately 4.4 million customers had their personal information stolen in a cyberattack against the company earlier this year.
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September 09, 2025
Private Fund Adviser To Pay $9.7M To End SEC Suit
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced on Tuesday that a real estate-focused Colorado private fund adviser and his two management firms would pay $9.7 million to settle claims of defrauding investors with misrepresentations, which include concealing conflicts of interests in proposed buyout transaction requests he sent to investors.
Expert Analysis
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Evaluating The SEC's Rising Whistleblower Denial Rate
The rising trend of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission whistleblower award claim denials represents a departure from the SEC's previous track record and may reflect a more conservative approach to whistleblower award determinations under the current administration, say attorneys at Troutman Pepper.
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State Crypto Regs Diverge As Federal Framework Dawns
Following the Genius Act's passage, states like California, New York and Wyoming are racing to set new standards for crypto governance, creating both opportunity and risk for digital asset firms as innovation flourishes in some jurisdictions while costly friction emerges in others, say attorneys at Sheppard Mullin.
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Parenting Skills That Can Help Lawyers Thrive Professionally
As kids head back to school, the time is ripe for lawyers who are parents to consider how they can incorporate their parenting skills to build a deep, meaningful and sustainable legal practice, say attorneys at Alston & Bird.
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Series
Teaching Trial Advocacy Makes Us Better Lawyers
Teaching trial advocacy skills to other lawyers makes us better litigators because it makes us question our default methods, connect to young attorneys with new perspectives and focus on the needs of the real people at the heart of every trial, say Reuben Guttman, Veronica Finkelstein and Joleen Youngers.
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The Crucial Question Left Unanswered In EpicentRx Decision
The California Supreme Court recently issued its long-awaited decision in EpicentRx Inc. v. Superior Court, resolving a dispute regarding the enforceability of forum selection clauses, but the question remains whether private companies can trust that courts will continue to consistently enforce forum selection clauses in corporate charters, says John Yow at Yow PC.
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Why Civil RICO Claims Are Gaining Traction With Plaintiffs
A Texas federal court's recent $71 million verdict in Point Bridge Capital v. Johnson demonstrates that, when used properly, civil lawsuits under the Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act can be a devastating weapon — and increasingly favorable for plaintiffs, says Akiva Shapiro at Gibson Dunn.
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Navigating Brazil's Regulations, Incentives For Green Projects
Brazil's evolving environmental regulatory framework and ongoing moves to attract international capital for climate-focused projects may appeal to U.S.-based companies and investors interested in sustainable development — but taking advantage of these opportunities requires careful planning and meaningful stakeholder engagement, says Milena Angulo at Guimarães.
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Why EpicentRx Ruling Is A Major Win For Business Certainty
The California Supreme Court's recent decision in EpicentRx v. Superior Court removes a significant source of uncertainty that plagued commercial litigation in California by clarifying that forum selection clauses shouldn't be invalidated solely because the selected forum lacks the right to a jury trial, say attorneys at Clark Hill.
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How Sustainability Reporting Changed In The 1st Half Of 2025
Sustainability reporting is evolving rapidly, with fewer S&P 500 companies publishing reports in the first half of 2025 than in the same period last year, suggesting that companies are becoming more selective and intentional about their reporting, say analysts at Orrick.
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9th Circ. Finding That NFTs Are Goods Will Change TM Law
The Ninth Circuit's recent ruling in Yuga Labs v. Ripps establishes that NFTs have real, commercial value under U.S. federal trademark law, a new legal precedent that may significantly influence intellectual property enforcement and marketplace policies regarding digital assets going forward, say attorneys at Wilson Elser.
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Series
Adapting To Private Practice: From Texas AUSA To BigLaw
As I learned when I transitioned from an assistant U.S. attorney to a BigLaw partner, the move from government to private practice is not without its hurdles, but it offers immense potential for growth and the opportunity to use highly transferable skills developed in public service, says Jeffery Vaden at Bracewell.
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Lessons From Liberty Mutual FCPA Declination
Liberty Mutual’s recent Foreign Corrupt Practices Act resolution with the U.S. Department of Justice signals that the Trump administration is once again considering such declinations after an enforcement pause, offering some assurances for companies regarding the benefits of voluntary self-disclosure, say attorneys at Paul Weiss.
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3 Rulings Show Hurdles To Proving Market Manipulation Fraud
Three recent conviction reversals from New York federal courts highlight the challenges that prosecutors face in establishing fraud and market manipulation allegations, suggesting that courts are increasingly reluctant to find criminal liability when novel theories are advanced, say attorneys at WilmerHale.
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Drafting M&A Docs After Delaware Corp. Law Amendments
Attorneys at Greenberg Traurig discuss how the March and June amendments to the Delaware General Corporation Law affect the drafting of corporate and M&A documents, including board resolutions, governing documents, and books and records demands.
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Advice For 1st-Gen Lawyers Entering The Legal Profession
Nikki Hurtado at The Ferraro Law Firm tells her story of being a first-generation lawyer and how others who begin their professional journeys without the benefit of playbooks handed down by relatives can turn this disadvantage into their greatest strength.