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• March 12, 2026

  Tom's Toothpaste Trims Class Action Over Lead Levels

  Tom's of Maine can't beat back proposed class claims it allowed heavy metals to taint its children's toothpaste, a New York federal judge ruled Wednesday, finding that the parent behind the suit adequately claimed the company falsely marketed the products as "safe" and "healthy."

• March 12, 2026

  Icahn Outbid By $7B Caesars Offer, And Other Rumors

  Billionaire Tilman Fertitta is in exclusive negotiations to buy Caesars Entertainment for roughly $7 billion, superseding a competing all-cash offer from Carl Icahn's Icahn Enterprises, and Papa John's received a bid from Qatari-backed investment firm Irth Capital Management that could value the pizza chain at $1.5 billion. 

• March 12, 2026

  Del. Chancery Rejects Fraud Claims In $313.5M Fertilizer Deal

  The Delaware Chancery Court has ruled that a group of investors failed to prove that executives and a private equity sponsor behind agricultural technology company Verdesian Life Sciences LLC defrauded them into investing in a 2014 acquisition, holding after trial that the claims were both time-barred and unsupported.

• March 12, 2026

  In Hain, Justices Increase Stakes For Jurisdictional Errors

  The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Hain Celestial Group v. Palmquist, addressing the consequences of a district court's erroneous dismissal of a nondiverse party before final judgment, has amplified the risk that a mistaken jurisdictional ruling in district court will render moot everything that comes after, says Steven Boranian at Reed Smith.

• March 12, 2026

  IRS Allows 15% Of KFC Parent's Domestic Production Claim

  The IRS and the parent of Pizza Hut, KFC and Taco Bell agreed that the company's total deductions for domestic production activities during 2013-2015 were $1.6 million — roughly 15% of the $10.7 million the company had claimed as deductions for the three years.

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