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Alimentation Couche-Tard has withdrawn its nearly $47 billion bid to acquire Seven & i Holdings, the Japanese parent of 7-Eleven, citing "a persistent lack of good faith engagement" from Seven & i leadership.
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TOP NEWS

Couche-Tard Pulls $47B Takeover Bid For 7-Eleven Parent

By Al Barbarino

Alimentation Couche-Tard has withdrawn its nearly $47 billion bid to acquire Seven & i Holdings, the Japanese parent of 7-Eleven, citing "a persistent lack of good faith engagement" from Seven & i leadership.

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FDA Signs Off On Juul E-Cig Products After 5-Year Review

By Hailey Konnath

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday gave Juul the green light to market five e-cigarette products, although the FDA noted that the long-awaited authorization "does not mean these tobacco products are safe, nor are they FDA-approved."

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Wisconsin Bar Settles Atty's Legal Challenge Over DEI Efforts

By Madison Arnold

The State Bar of Wisconsin has settled a lawsuit from a lawyer challenging its diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, with the agency agreeing to apply a tweaked definition of diversity to two leadership programs.

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Tesco Must Wait For Appeal In Equal Pay Case

By Ronan Barnard

A London appeals court delayed on Thursday an appeal by Tesco in lengthy equal pay litigation between the retail giant and around 55,000 workers to consider it at a later date because of an upcoming ruling by a lower appellate tribunal.

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POLICY & REGULATION

Trump Picks Two For NLRB, Setting Up Return Of Quorum

By Tim Ryan

President Donald Trump announced his choices Thursday of an in-house counsel at Boeing and a longtime National Labor Relations Board official to fill two long-standing vacancies on the board, setting up confirmations that would restore a quorum on the NLRB.

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ENFORCEMENT

EU Approves Luxembourg Beverage Deal With Fix

By Matthew Perlman

European enforcers have approved beverage producer and distributor Brasserie Nationale's planned purchase of a Luxembourg-based wholesaler, after the companies agreed to unload a portion of the business that sells to hotels, restaurants and cafes in the country.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

What 9th Circ. Cracker Barrel Ruling Means For FLSA Cert.

The Ninth Circuit's decision in Harrington v. Cracker Barrel suggests a settling of two procedural trends in Fair Labor Standards Act jurisprudence — when to issue notice and where nationwide collectives can be filed — rather than deepening circuit splits, says Rebecca Ojserkis at Cohen Milstein.

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Defense Lessons From Freshworks' Win In Post-IPO Case

A California federal court’s recent decision to grant Freshworks’ summary judgment bid in a proposed investor class action helpfully clarifies two important points for defendants facing postoffering securities claims under Section 11 of the Securities Act, say attorneys at Paul Weiss.

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Series

Playing Mah-Jongg Makes Me A Better Mediator

Mah-jongg rewards patience, pattern recognition, adaptability and keen observation, all skills that are invaluable to my role as a mediator, and to all mediating parties, says Marina Corodemus.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

5 Things To Know As California Courts Decide On AI Rule

By Emily Sawicki

Fourteen months after California Supreme Court Chief Justice Patricia Guerrero first convened a task force to study potential benefits and risks of using artificial intelligence in the court system, the Judicial Council of California is poised Friday to consider the proposed rules and standards the task force developed.

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Watchdog Raises Concerns On 9th Circ. Nominee's Crypto Work

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump's nominee for the Ninth Circuit has a long record of representing cryptocurrency companies, which a watchdog group fears could aid what it calls the president's "self-enrichment" with digital currency.

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Dems Walk Out On Vote Of Emil Bove For 3rd Circ.

By Courtney Bublé

The Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee walked out of the vote on Emil Bove's Third Circuit nomination on Thursday morning after Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., accused committee chair Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, of subverting committee rules by not acknowledging his request to speak and rushing through the nomination.

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US Trustee Says Constitution Bars Jackson Walker Jury Trial

By Adrian Cruz

The federal government's bankruptcy watchdog told a Texas federal judge that under the Seventh Amendment, Jackson Walker LLP isn't entitled to a jury trial in its fee dispute stemming from a former bankruptcy judge's secret relationship with a onetime partner.

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CFTC Restructures Enforcement Division Amid Layoffs

By Jessica Corso

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission plans to lay off around two dozen staff members and has restructured its enforcement division by eliminating some management positions, a person familiar with the matter told Law360 Thursday.

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Wis. Senators Send List Of Bipartisan 7th Circ. Picks To Trump

By Courtney Bublé

The senators from Wisconsin, one Republican and one Democrat, have sent President Donald Trump a list of five candidates for the seat of the Seventh Circuit that is slated to open in October.

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Israel Criticism Isn't Antisemitism, Judge Tells DOJ Lawyers

By Julie Manganis

A Massachusetts federal judge overseeing a free speech trial over deportation actions targeting pro-Palestinian students and faculty said Thursday that "criticism of the state of Israel is not antisemitism," and that even the most "vile" statements, absent threats or violence, are protected by the First Amendment.

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J&J Loses Bid To DQ Beasley Allen From Talc MDL Committee

By George Woolston

A New Jersey federal judge on Thursday denied Johnson & Johnson's bid to remove the Beasley Allen Law Firm from the plaintiffs steering committee in the multidistrict talc litigation but said that changes would be made to the committee's structure.

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Former Microsoft GC Remembered As Rule Of Law Champion

By Andrea Keckley

Former American Bar Association President William H. "Bill" Neukom, the first head lawyer for Microsoft and a longtime partner at a predecessor firm to K&L Gates LLP, has died at age 83, the bar said Wednesday.

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Fla. Law Firm Zumpano Patricios Hit With Data Breach Suit

By Sarah Martinson

Miami-headquartered national law firm Zumpano Patricios is facing a proposed class action in Florida federal court accusing the firm of failing to protect sensitive information, including dates of birth and healthcare payments, that was compromised in a May data breach.

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LA Ex-Judge Admonished For 'Discourteous,' 'Demeaning' Talk

By Hailey Konnath

California's Commission on Judicial Performance has publicly admonished a retired Los Angeles state judge for a pattern of "discourteous, undignified and impatient" behavior that also involved "demeaning" remarks toward women, findings that the judge said don't reflect "the full complexity of the circumstances."

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SEC Atty Exits After Hiding Revoked License, OIG Says

By Jessica Corso

A longstanding employee of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission resigned after it was discovered that they had falsely reported being in good standing with a state bar association, according to the regulator's inspector general.

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Analysis

6 Cases For Patent Attys To Watch In The Second Half Of 2025

By Dani Kass

The Federal Circuit is considering major questions about when delays in prosecuting patents become bad faith and whether the acting U.S. Patent and Trademark Office director is legally allowed to apply new rules retroactively. Here's what you need to know about these cases and others that attorneys are keeping an eye on for the rest of the year.

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7-Eleven Inc.

Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc.

American Association of University Professors

American Bar Association

Apple Inc.

Aramark

Bimbo Bakeries USA Inc.

Binance Holdings Ltd.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.

Coinbase Global Inc.

Cracker Barrel Old Country Store Inc.

Day & Zimmermann

Dell Technologies Inc.

Elevance Health Inc.

Eli Lilly & Co.

Freshworks Inc.

Getty Images Holdings Inc.

Google LLC

HR Policy Association

Harvard University

Hikma Pharmaceuticals PLC

Illumina Inc.

InterContinental Hotels Group PLC

JUUL Labs Inc.

Johnson & Johnson

KBW, Inc.

LKQ Corp.

Lazer Spot Inc.

LinkedIn Corp.

MGM Resorts International

Microsoft Corp.

Motorola Mobility LLC

Motorola Solutions Inc.

National Treasury Employees Union

New York University

SAP AG

San Francisco Giants

Seven & i Holdings Co. Ltd.

Sonos Inc.

Stanford University

State Bar of California

State Bar of Wisconsin

SunPower Corporation

Tesco Corp.

Tesco PLC

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.

UCLA School of Law

Unum Group

World Justice Project

Xerox Holdings Corp.

LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Ashcraft & Gerel

Baker Botts

Beasley Allen

Berman Fink

Blank Rome

Cohen Milstein

Cohen Placitella

Cole & Van Note

Corodemus & Corodemus

Crowell & Moring

Erskine Chambers

Faegre Drinker

Freshfields

Haynes Boone

Honigman LLP

Hurley Burish

Jackson Walker LLP

Jones Day

K&L Gates

Leigh Day

Littleton Chambers

Matrix Chambers

McDermott Will & Emery

Morgan Lewis

Norton Rose

O'Melveny & Myers

Ogletree Deakins

Old Square Chambers

OnderLaw

Outer Temple Chambers

Paul Weiss

Rusty Hardin

Saul Ewing

Sher Tremonte

Skadden Arps

Zimmer Citron

Zumpano Patricios

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

California Supreme Court

City and County of San Francisco, California

Commodity Futures Trading Commission

European Commission

Executive Office of the President

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Food and Drug Administration

Homeland Security Investigations

Illinois Supreme Court

Internal Revenue Service

National Labor Relations Board

Office of Foreign Assets Control

Patent Trial and Appeal Board

U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of the Treasury

U.S. District & Bankruptcy Courts of Southern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska

U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

United States District Court for the District of Montana