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September 08, 2025
10th Circ. Backs Dentist's Murder, Insurance Fraud Convictions
A dentist convicted of murdering his wife on a hunting trip in Zambia to collect nearly $5 million in life insurance who became the subject of a Hulu documentary must continue to serve a life prison sentence for murder and insurance fraud, the Tenth Circuit ruled on Monday.
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September 08, 2025
Split 4th Circ. Axes States' Challenge To Trump Admin Layoffs
A split Fourth Circuit panel held Monday that a coalition of states doesn't have standing to sue the Trump administration over the mass firing of thousands of probationary government employees, finding that it was the employees — not the states — who "suffered the brunt of the harm" underlying the case.
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September 08, 2025
Lolli & Pops Sued For Docs Over Alleged Structure Changes
The former CEO of Hammond's Candies, who sold the business to candy maker Lolli & Pops last year, sued the company Friday in Delaware seeking to inspect its books and records alleging he has "credible basis to believe" Lolli & Pops modified its ownership structure in a way that could have potentially diluted his shares.
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September 08, 2025
Pac-12 Schools Reach Deal With Apparel Cos. In TM Suit
Schools in the NCAA's Pac-12 Conference have reached a tentative deal with two apparel companies that allegedly used university logos and other trademarks without authorization, telling a Washington state federal judge to expect details of the agreement in coming weeks.
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September 08, 2025
Ex-Trader Barred By SEC In Insider Trading Plea Deal
A former Irving Investors LLC trader has agreed to disgorge insider trading gains, to be banned from buying or selling securities based on nonpublic information and to stop communicating nonpublic information to others, all under an SEC enforcement action that parallels a recent criminal plea agreement.
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September 08, 2025
Blackstone REIT Says AI Co. Ignored Tech Development Deal
A real estate investment trust owned by Blackstone has sued an artificial intelligence company in Colorado state court, accusing it of failing to deliver on a contract to help build a virtual AI assistant.
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September 08, 2025
Longtime USPTO Rocky Mountain Director Leaves Agency
The leader of the regional U.S. Patent and Trademark Office covering Colorado, Nebraska and several other states has announced that she is no longer working at the agency.
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September 08, 2025
Dem Sens., AGs Increase Pressure On DOJ's HPE Merger Deal
The controversial Justice Department settlement clearing Hewlett Packard Enterprise's $14 billion purchase of Juniper Networks drew further pushback from Democratic senators and state attorneys general who respectively sought answers from U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and told a California federal judge to reject the deal.
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September 08, 2025
Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court
Last week at the Delaware Court of Chancery, a bankruptcy administrator for a generic drugmaker formerly known as Teligent was told he can proceed with duty of oversight claims against most former officers and directors of the company, who the administrator said was complicit in the company's collapse. In an opinion, the Court of Chancery cites its 1996 decision In re Caremark International Inc. Derivative Litigation, which refined director duties of care and oversight.
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September 08, 2025
PNC To Acquire Colorado-Based FirstBank In $4B Deal
Banking giant PNC Financial Services Group Inc. on Monday announced plans to acquire Colorado-based FirstBank in a deal valued Monday at $4.1 billion and guided by Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz and Sullivan & Cromwell LLP.
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September 05, 2025
Real Estate Recap: Investor Power Plays
Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including what attorneys have been seeing when it comes to the power dynamic between fund managers and their investors.
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September 05, 2025
Judge Doubts DOE Stance On Ending Mental Health Grants
A Seattle federal judge hinted on Friday that 16 states have valid claims against the U.S. Department of Education for arbitrarily discontinuing mental health funding for public schools, expressing frustration with the federal government's argument that it could terminate grant funding the same way it could fire a landscaper under contract.
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September 05, 2025
Quantum Corp. Faces Investor Suit Over $4M Revenue Error
Data storage company Quantum Corp. is facing a proposed class action from an investor who claimed in Colorado federal court on Thursday the company committed securities fraud by making false representations to investors through earnings reports for the 2024 fiscal year.
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September 05, 2025
Judge Awards Over $6M In Atty Fees In Bluetooth Co.'s IP Suit
A Colorado federal judge has awarded the attorneys representing a Bluetooth technology company more than $6 million after the company won on the bulk of its claims at trial last year in its trade secrets and breach of confidentiality case against a Massachusetts display technology company.
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September 05, 2025
Sierra Club Looks To Secure Border Wall Settlement Funds
The Sierra Club and a nonprofit ally asked a California federal judge to order the Trump administration to preserve at least $50 million of border wall construction funds to pay for environmental projects required by a settlement struck with the Biden administration.
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September 05, 2025
Miner Must Show Why Chuckwalla Suit Belongs In Mich.
A Michigan federal judge has ordered a Michigan resident challenging the Chuckwalla National Monument's protected status to show why the lawsuit should remain in the Great Lakes State, suggesting that the case seems to fit better in California where the vast desert acreage is located.
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September 04, 2025
Colo. Developer Says Wash. Atty Botched Bankruptcy Case
A Colorado company has hit a law firm and one of its former bankruptcy attorneys with a legal malpractice suit in Washington federal court, alleging that the defendants' "negligence" caused the business to lose properties worth more than $5 million in its Chapter 11 case.
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September 04, 2025
10th Circ. Ends Huffing Death Product Liability Suit
The Tenth Circuit refused to revive a Kansas man's proposed class action seeking damages against the makers of canned compressed air after his adult son fatally inhaled their product, saying the manufacturers can't be held liable because intentionally huffing the toxic gases in the product is against state law.
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September 04, 2025
Datavail CEO, Ex-Arrow Exec Sentenced In $2M Fraud Case
Two executives who conducted a scheme to defraud Arrow Electronics Inc. and the Datavail Corp. of nearly $2 million were sentenced to prison on Thursday, with the former CEO of Datavail receiving a more lenient sentence of just over two years compared to the nearly four-year sentence given to the former chief technology officer of Arrow.
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September 04, 2025
10th Circ. Backs Firearms Ban For Those Under Indictment
The Tenth Circuit has upheld a ban on receiving firearms while under federal criminal indictment, finding a Utah man did not have his rights violated under the U.S. Supreme Court's recent Bruen decision.
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September 04, 2025
Albertsons Says Kroger CEO Docs Fair Game In Del. Suit
An attorney for Albertsons Companies Inc. told a Delaware vice chancellor Thursday the food and drugstore giant should get access to The Kroger Co.'s documents related to CEO Rodney McMullen's abrupt exit from the job months after the collapse of the two companies' planned $25 billion merger.
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September 04, 2025
Judge Questions Defense Dept. Cap On Research Costs
A Massachusetts federal judge weighing whether to vacate a U.S. Department of Defense cap on administrative costs for research funding programs said Thursday that the government appeared to have ignored a series of injunctions in similar challenges to Trump administration grant cuts and terminations when it imposed the across-the-board limits.
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September 04, 2025
Solar Co. Meyer Burger Unit Gets OK For $29M Ch. 11 Sale
The U.S. unit of Swiss solar-panel maker Meyer Burger secured a Delaware bankruptcy judge's approval Thursday to sell its assets for $28.7 million in Chapter 11, defeating an objection to the deal from unsecured creditors who charged that it benefits secured creditors but no one else.
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September 04, 2025
Which GCs Sold Stock In August? Carlyle Group And More
General counsel Jeffrey W. Ferguson, who has been with the Carlyle Group for 26 years, cashed in some $19 million worth of stock in August.
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September 04, 2025
Colorado Powerhouse: Wheeler Trigg
Wheeler Trigg O'Donnell LLP's work to return several banned books featuring people of color and LGBTQ+ individuals back to the shelves of a Colorado school district library, as well as its inclusive firm culture built from strong foundations, have helped to establish it as one of Colorado's top firms.
Expert Analysis
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Series
Creating Botanical Art Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Pressing and framing plants that I grow has shown me that pursuing an endeavor that brings you joy can lead to surprising benefits for a legal career, including mental clarity, perspective and even a bit of humility, says Douglas Selph at Morris Manning.
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Noncompete Forecast Shows Tough Weather For Employers
Several new state noncompete laws signal rough conditions for employers, particularly in the healthcare sector, so employers must account for employees' geographic circumstances as they cannot rely solely on choice-of-law clauses, say lawyers at McDermott.
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Opinion
The Legal Education Status Quo Is No Longer Tenable
As underscored by the fallout from California’s February bar exam, legal education and licensure are tethered to outdated systems, and the industry must implement several key reforms to remain relevant and responsive to 21st century legal needs, says Matthew Nehmer at The Colleges of Law.
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E-Discovery Quarterly: Rulings On Relevance Redactions
In recent cases addressing redactions that parties sought to apply based on the relevance of information — as opposed to considerations of privilege — courts have generally limited a party’s ability to withhold nonresponsive or irrelevant material, providing a few lessons for discovery strategy, say attorneys at Sidley.
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Opinion
Section 1983 Has Promise After End Of Nationwide Injunctions
After the U.S. Supreme Court recently struck down the practice of nationwide injunctions in Trump v. Casa, Section 1983 civil rights suits can provide a better pathway to hold the government accountable — but this will require reforms to qualified immunity, says Marc Levin at the Council on Criminal Justice.
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Courts Redefining Software As Product Generates New Risks
A recent wave of litigation against social media platforms, chatbot developers and ride-hailing companies has some courts straying from the traditional view of software as a service to redefining software as a product, with significant implications for strict liability exposure, say attorneys at Reed Smith.
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Series
Playing Soccer Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Soccer has become a key contributor to how I approach my work, and the lessons I’ve learned on the pitch about leadership, adaptability, resilience and communication make me better at what I do every day in my legal career, says Whitney O’Byrne at MoFo.
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Compliance Changes On Deck For Banks Under Texas AI Law
Financial services companies, including banks and fintechs, should evaluate their artificial intelligence usage to prepare for Texas' newly passed law regulating AI governance, noting that the enforcement provisions provide for an affirmative defense to liability, say attorneys at Mitchell Sandler.
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Series
Law School's Missed Lessons: Learning From Failure
While law school often focuses on the importance of precision, correctness and perfection, mistakes are inevitable in real-world practice — but failure is not the opposite of progress, and real talent comes from the ability to recover, rethink and reshape, says Brooke Pauley at Tucker Ellis.
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How Justices' Ruling On NEPA Reviews Is Playing Out
Since the U.S. Supreme Court's May decision in Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. Eagle County, narrowing the scope of agencies' required reviews under the National Environmental Policy Act, the effects of the ruling are starting to become visible in the actions of lower courts and the agencies themselves, say attorneys at Saul Ewing.
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Series
Adapting To Private Practice: From ATF Director To BigLaw
As a two-time boomerang partner, returning to BigLaw after stints as a U.S. attorney and the director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, people ask me how I know when to move on, but there’s no single answer — just clearly set your priorities, says Steven Dettelbach at BakerHostetler.
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Reverse Bias Rulings Offer Warning About DEI Quotas
Several recent holdings confirm that targeted or quota-based diversity programs can substantiate reverse discrimination claims, especially when coupled with an adverse action, so employers should exercise caution before implementing such policies in order to mitigate litigation risk, says Noah Bunzl at Tarter Krinsky.
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4 In-Flux Employment Law Issues Banks Should Note
Attorneys at Ogletree provide a midyear update on employment law changes that could significantly affect banks and other financial service institutions — including federal diversity equity and inclusion updates, and new and developing state and local artificial intelligence laws.
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New DOJ Penalty Policy Could Spell Trouble For Cos.
In light of the U.S. Department of Justice’s recently published guidance making victim relief a core condition of coordinated resolution crediting, companies facing parallel investigations must carefully calibrate their negotiation strategies to minimize the risk of duplicative penalties, say attorneys at Debevoise.
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7 Ways Employers Can Avoid Labor Friction Over AI
As artificial intelligence use in the workplace emerges as a key labor relations topic in the U.S. and Europe, employers looking to reduce reputational risk and prevent costly disputes should consider proactive strategies to engage with unions, say attorneys at Baker McKenzie.