Connecticut

  • January 16, 2025

    Biden's Imprint On The Judiciary In 6 Charts

    President Joe Biden leaves office with 235 lifetime judges confirmed, just one more than President Donald Trump seated during his first term, and many firsts for diversity.

  • January 15, 2025

    Amazon, FedEx, Anthem Blast Guo Ch. 11 Clawbacks

    Amazon, Anthem and FedEx on Wednesday asked a Connecticut bankruptcy judge to toss millions in clawback claims against nearly 40 entities by Chinese exile Miles Guo's Chapter 11 trustee, saying during oral arguments that the trustee is misusing prior rulings that Guo's shell companies were his alter egos.

  • January 15, 2025

    3M Wants Conn. AG's PFAS Case Paused For 2nd Circ. Appeal

    3M has urged a Connecticut Superior Court to stay the state's environmental lawsuit seeking damages for "forever chemical" pollution the company allegedly created, saying the Second Circuit should first review a federal judge's order remanding the case to state court.

  • January 15, 2025

    Block Pays Regulators $80M Over Cash App AML Compliance

    Jack Dorsey's fintech company Block Inc. has reached an $80 million settlement over alleged anti-money laundering compliance failures by its mobile payments platform Cash App, a coalition of state banking regulators announced Wednesday.

  • January 15, 2025

    Conn. Set To End Pollution Review On Property Transfers

    Connecticut regulators have finalized a set of new rules to catch environmental contamination that will replace a system of mandatory inspections on commercial and industrial property transfers, leaving New Jersey as the only U.S. state with such a policy.

  • January 15, 2025

    Connecticut Town Accused Of Fumbling Affordable Condo Plan

    The planning and zoning commission in Greenwich, Connecticut, attached conditions to a housing project that threaten the "viability" of the plan, which is meant in part to increase the availability of affordable units in the affluent town, a developer has said in an appeal to the state Superior Court.

  • January 15, 2025

    Beacon Roofing Rejects $11B Takeover Offer Lobbed By QXO

    QXO Inc. said Wednesday it has offered to purchase Beacon Roofing Supply Inc. for about $11 billion in cash, prompting Beacon to announce that it rejected the offer because it "significantly undervalues" the company.  

  • January 14, 2025

    Conn. City Hits PBMs And Pharma Cos. With Insulin Pricing Suit

    A city partway between New Haven and Hartford took pharmacy benefit managers and drug makers including CVS Health Corp., Eli Lilly and Co. and Novo Nordisk Inc. to Connecticut federal court on Monday, alleging that they conspired to keep diabetes medications and insulin at needlessly high prices.

  • January 14, 2025

    Navy Capital Fund Firm Settles SEC's AML Allegations

    Navy Capital Green Management LLC on Tuesday agreed to pay $150,000 to settle allegations from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that the investment adviser made misrepresentations to investors about its anti-money laundering due diligence practices.

  • January 14, 2025

    Prospect Medical Beats Objection To $29M In Ch. 11 Funds

    A Texas bankruptcy judge said Tuesday she would allow struggling hospital operator Prospect Medical Holdings Inc. to borrow part of a $100 million financing package that prompted an objection from the company's landlord, saying the money was needed to ensure patients continue to receive care.

  • January 14, 2025

    DA Says Trump's Appeals To Intervene In NY Case Now 'Moot'

    Counsel for the Manhattan district attorney urged both a federal and a state appeals court to toss out Donald Trump's lingering invitations to intervene in his hush money case now that he's been sentenced, arguing there's no need for a "bizarre mechanism" when Trump can appeal normally.

  • January 14, 2025

    Conn. Justices Revive Insemination Suit, Punt On 'Wrongful Life'

    The Connecticut Supreme Court on Tuesday reopened a lawsuit by two people who accuse a fertility doctor of using his own sperm to impregnate their mothers, ruling the case was more like an ordinary negligence claim than a wrongful life claim, which the doctor argued Connecticut law did not recognize.

  • January 14, 2025

    Carvana To Settle Connecticut AG's Consumer Suit For $1.5M

    Online car dealer Carvana LLC will pay $1.5 million to settle the state of Connecticut's claims that it delayed sending title and registration papers to buyers and didn't advance timely payments to vehicle sellers, Attorney General William M. Tong said on Tuesday.

  • January 14, 2025

    Attys Say Conn. Firm's Vexatious Litigation Claims Can't Stand

    A pair of attorneys have urged a Connecticut state judge to reject claims that they filed a frivolous unfair trade practices lawsuit against Hayber McKenna & Dinsmore LLC, arguing that the firm failed to show the case had been terminated in its favor.

  • January 14, 2025

    2nd Circ. Rules Prison Docs Can't Escape Indifference Claims

    A Second Circuit panel on Monday ruled two New York prison doctors must face a former inmate's deliberate indifference claims for allegedly overlooking his cancer symptoms despite medical exam results, while also finding the inmate's claims were not time-barred, though the court said the state and facility are protected by sovereign immunity. 

  • January 14, 2025

    H&E Rentals' Stock Doubles On $4.8B United Rentals Deal

    United Rentals Inc. has agreed to purchase fellow equipment rental company H&E Rentals for about $4.8 billion, including approximately $1.4 billion of debt, the companies said Tuesday, with the news leading to a more than 100% increase in H&E's stock price. 

  • January 14, 2025

    Connecticut Transfer Station Cases Settle Ahead Of Trial

    On the eve of jury selection, a lawsuit that started as a dispute over a $3 million transfer station performance bond and bloomed into a multipronged contract and unfair trade practices battle, as well as a companion case, have settled, Connecticut state court records show.

  • January 13, 2025

    US District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer Dies At 61

    U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer, 61, of the District of Connecticut has died following a long illness, according to news reports and social media posts from his colleagues and friends.

  • January 13, 2025

    Binance Can't Get High Court To Review Class Cert. Decision

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday passed on a petition from crypto exchange Binance Holdings Ltd. and its former CEO to consider whether transactions on its platform were beyond the reach of U.S. securities laws after a Second Circuit decision found enough stateside ties to revive a suit from the exchange's users.

  • January 13, 2025

    Vimeo Defeats Recording Owners' DMCA Appeal At 2nd Circ.

    The Second Circuit said Monday it won't revive copyright claims from a group of music rights holders over lip-sync videos posted on Vimeo by its users, saying a safe harbor under federal copyright law protects the website.

  • January 13, 2025

    Justices Seek SG Input On Private Investor Fight

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday asked for the U.S. solicitor general's input on whether securities laws governing investment funds allow for a private right of action, as the high court considered weighing in on a fight between private capital investors and investment funds.

  • January 13, 2025

    Infowars Bidder Raises Offer As Attys Consider Auction

    A failed bidder for conspiracy-monger Alex Jones' Infowars has more than doubled the amount it would pay to acquire the website, and the parent company of satirical news site The Onion is preparing to submit its own revised bid, counsel for the trustee in Jones' Chapter 7 case said at a hearing in Texas bankruptcy court Monday.

  • January 13, 2025

    Alex Jones Switches Conn. Attys In $1B Sandy Hook Appeal

    A Randazza Legal Group attorney will represent Alex Jones in a Connecticut Supreme Court bid to erase the remainder of a $1.44 billion defamation judgment for Sandy Hook shooting victims after the Infowars host's now-former lawyer raised unspecified conflict concerns about a third attorney representing Jones in the Connecticut appeal.

  • January 13, 2025

    $13.4M Suit Against Insurer For Conn. Death Verdict Paused

    A Connecticut state court judge has rejected Hanover Insurance Co.'s bid to dismiss a mother's lawsuit seeking to partially enforce a $13.4 million trial judgment over her son's death in a group home, but agreed to pause the matter while the group home appeals the verdict.

  • January 12, 2025

    Hospital Operator Hits Ch. 11 With $1B-Plus Debt, Sale Plans

    Listing more than $1 billion in debts, California-based hospital operator Prospect Medical Holdings Inc. and several subsidiaries on Saturday filed a Chapter 11 petition in bankruptcy court in the Northern District of Texas, saying they intend to advance the planned sales of several facilities and refocus on operations in their home state.

Expert Analysis

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    Round-Canopy Parachuting Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Similar to the practice of law, jumping from an in-flight airplane with nothing but training and a few yards of parachute silk is a demanding and stressful endeavor, and the experience has bolstered my legal practice by enhancing my focus, teamwork skills and sense of perspective, says Thomas Salerno at Stinson.

  • Why Now Is The Time For Law Firms To Hire Lateral Partners

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    Partner and associate mobility data from the second quarter of this year suggest that there's never been a better time in recent years for law firms to hire lateral candidates, particularly experienced partners — though this necessitates an understanding of potential red flags, say Julie Henson and Greg Hamman at Decipher Investigative Intelligence.

  • Considering Possible PR Risks Of Certain Legal Tactics

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    Disney and American Airlines recently abandoned certain litigation tactics in two lawsuits after fierce public backlash, illustrating why corporate counsel should consider the reputational implications of any legal strategy and partner with their communications teams to preempt public relations concerns, says Chris Gidez at G7 Reputation Advisory.

  • It's No Longer Enough For Firms To Be Trusted Advisers

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    Amid fierce competition for business, the transactional “trusted adviser” paradigm from which most firms operate is no longer sufficient — they should instead aim to become trusted partners with their most valuable clients, says Stuart Maister at Strategic Narrative.

  • Video Game Release Highlights TM Pitfalls Of App Store

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    The upcoming release of poker video game Balatro in Apple's App Store underscores the tradeoff of keyword advertising and trademark protection for indie developers who, unlike corporate counterparts, lack resources but seek to maximize the reach of their game, say Parmida Enkeshafi and Simon Pulman at Pryor Cashman.

  • Missouri Injunction A Setback For State Anti-ESG Rules

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    A Missouri federal court’s recent order enjoining the state’s anti-ESG rules comes amid actions by state legislatures to revise or invalidate similar legislation imposing disclosure and consent requirements around environmental, social and governance investing, and could be a blueprint for future challenges, say attorneys at Paul Hastings.

  • The Risks Of Employee Political Discourse On Social Media

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    As election season enters its final stretch and employees increasingly engage in political speech on social media, employers should beware the liability risks and consider policies that negotiate the line between employees' rights and the limits on those rights, say Bradford Kelley and James McGehee at Littler.

  • DOJ Must Overcome Hurdles In RealPage Antitrust Case

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    The U.S. Department of Justice's recent claims that RealPage's pricing software violates the Sherman Act mark a creative, and apparently contradictory, shift in the agency's approach to algorithmic price-fixing that will face several key challenges, say attorneys at Clifford Chance.

  • How Methods Are Evolving In Textualist Interpretations

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    Textualists at the U.S. Supreme Court are increasingly considering new methods such as corpus linguistics and surveys to evaluate what a statute's text communicates to an ordinary reader, while lower courts even mull large language models like ChatGPT as supplements, says Kevin Tobia at Georgetown Law.

  • Avoiding Corporate Political Activity Pitfalls This Election Year

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    As Election Day approaches, corporate counsel should be mindful of the complicated rules around companies engaging in political activities, including super PAC contributions, pay-to-play prohibitions and foreign agent restrictions, say attorneys at Covington.

  • Why Attorneys Should Consider Community Leadership Roles

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    Volunteering and nonprofit board service are complementary to, but distinct from, traditional pro bono work, and taking on these community leadership roles can produce dividends for lawyers, their firms and the nonprofit causes they support, says Katie Beacham at Kilpatrick.

  • Firms Must Offer A Trifecta Of Services In Post-Chevron World

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    After the U.S. Supreme Court’s Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo decision overturning Chevron deference, law firms will need to integrate litigation, lobbying and communications functions to keep up with the ramifications of the ruling and provide adequate counsel quickly, says Neil Hare at Dentons.

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    A Day In The In-House Life: Narmi GC Talks Peak Productivity

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    On a work-from-home day in August, Narmi general counsel Amy Pardee chronicles a typical day in her life in which she organizes her time to tackle everything from advising on products and contract negotiations to volunteering and catching up on the New York Times crossword.

  • 5 Tips To Succeed In A Master Of Laws Program And Beyond

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    As lawyers and recent law school graduates begin their Master of Laws coursework across the country, they should keep a few pointers in mind to get the most out of their programs and kick-start successful careers in their practice areas, says Kelley Miller at Reed Smith.

  • IP Hot Topic: The Intersection Of Trademark And Antitrust Law

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    Antitrust claims – like those in the U.S. Department of Justice’s recent case against Apple – are increasingly influencing trademark disputes and enforcement practices, demonstrating how antitrust law can dilute the power of a trademark, say attorneys at Dentons.

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