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August 07, 2025
Del. Court Weighs Final Leads For $13B Endeavor Stock Suit
In a rare battle of extremes, attorneys for a single Endeavor Group investor urged a Delaware vice chancellor on Thursday to accept their suit challenging the company's $13 billion take-private deal in March over a suit filed by investment giant Icahn Enterprises LP and a multinational bank based in Sweden.
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August 07, 2025
Novartis Faces $291M Trade Secrets Suit From Hedge Fund
A hedge fund on Thursday accused Novartis, a former investment executive and the executive's longtime friend and business partner of scheming to steal its "innovative hedge fund strategy" after an investment deal between the biotech giant and the hedge fund went south.
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August 07, 2025
2nd Circ. Axes Challenge To Medicare Drug Price Negotiations
In a published opinion Thursday, the Second Circuit turned away Boehringer Ingelheim's constitutional and administrative challenge to the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program, finding that the program is voluntary and it was lawfully implemented under the Inflation Reduction Act.
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August 07, 2025
Trump 'Debanking' Order Calls For Scrutiny Of Bank Practices
President Donald Trump on Thursday directed federal regulators to investigate and potentially punish banks if they have turned away customers based on their political or religious beliefs, escalating his administration's crackdown on so-called debanking.
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August 07, 2025
Wilson Elser Nabs Former Transpo Safety Board Adviser
A former team leader for the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration who worked with its passenger carrier division on issues involving commercial passenger vehicles like buses and motor coaches has joined Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP's Washington, D.C., office as an of counsel.
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August 07, 2025
Ex-Boston Heart CEO Defends Jenner & Block Fee Bid
Boston Heart's former CEO is urging the Delaware Chancery Court to order the medical testing company to advance her legal fees to pay Jenner & Block LLP for its defense of her in criminal and civil cases, disputing Boston Heart's claims that the law firm's rates are "grossly inflated."
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August 07, 2025
Ex-Data Co. Execs Charged With $25M 'Round Tripping' Scam
Two executives from bankrupt California data company Near Intelligence Inc. fraudulently inflated the company's revenues by $25 million in a conspiracy that involved a third executive from advertising company MobileFuse LLC, according to a Manhattan federal court indictment unsealed Thursday.
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August 07, 2025
Haynes Boone Grows NY Office With Ex-Winston Strawn Atty
Haynes Boone has added a litigator previously with Winston & Strawn LLP who once headed the Internal Revenue Service's Criminal Investigation division as chair of its financial services investigations and enforcement practice in New York, the firm has announced.
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August 07, 2025
Former LVMH Atty Joins Realtors Association's Legal Team
The National Association of Realtors announced Thursday it has appointed as its vice president of litigation and associate general counsel the former vice president of legal affairs and head of litigation at LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton Inc.
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August 06, 2025
Masimo Drops Founder Joe Kiani From 'Empty Voting' Suit
Masimo Corp. has agreed to free its founder, Joe Kiani, from the medical technology company's suit alleging he manipulated a shareholder vote through an "empty voting" scheme, pointing to "the interest of judicial efficiency and economy."
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August 06, 2025
Indivior Beats Investor Suit Over Opioid Drug Sales Forecasts
A Virginia federal judge Wednesday tossed an investor class action accusing drugmaker Indivior PLC of overstating the financial prospects of its drugs used to treat opioid use disorders and its ability to forecast such financial projections, finding, among other things, that the complaint's challenged statements are inactionable.
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August 06, 2025
Fox Corp. Seeks Del. Court Ruling On Class Suit Discovery
Fox Corp. attorneys asked a Delaware vice chancellor Wednesday to set boundaries for summary judgment discovery in a derivative suit linking Fox's board and officers to defamation of 2020 election vote tabulation companies, arguing that counsel for stockholders want an "overbroad" probe.
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August 06, 2025
Accounting Firm Must Face Ex-Credit Union CEO's Firing Suit
The largest accounting firm in Connecticut, Whittlesey PC, must face the former CEO of Sound Federal Credit Union's claim that he was fired for following the firm's advice on when to calendar gains from a $1.2 million property sale, a Connecticut trial court judge has ruled.
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August 06, 2025
Spinal Implant Co. CEO Avoids Prison After Plea Deal
The founder and CEO of Massachusetts medical device maker SpineFrontier was sentenced Wednesday to a year of supervised release, the first six months on home confinement, for directing employees to mislead the government about the nature of payments to a surgeon who was using the company's products.
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August 06, 2025
Renewable Energy Co. Sued In Del. Over $82M 'Hostage' Loan
Lenders to the purportedly insolvent, Chicago-based renewable energy venture Hecate Holdings LLC have sued the company in Delaware's Court of Chancery for allegedly breaching an $82 million loan agreement, holding collateral "hostage" and shifting collateral sale proceeds to unsecured accounts.
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August 06, 2025
Wells Fargo Worker To Pay $3M To Settle ESOP Class Claims
A Wells Fargo employee will pay $3 million to resolve claims against her in a class action alleging owners of an electrical component company and managers of its employee stock ownership plan undervalued the plan's shares when the program shut down, according to a filing in Massachusetts federal court.
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August 06, 2025
9th Circ. Backs SEC's No-Denials Settlements Rule
The Ninth Circuit on Wednesday rejected a First Amendment challenge to a decades-old U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission rule that restricts defendants who settle securities law charges from denying the claims against them, saying the law has "long regarded the voluntary relinquishment of constitutional rights as permissible" with safeguards.
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August 06, 2025
Judge OKs Addition Of Kenvue, Janssen To J&J Talc MDL
A New Jersey federal judge has rejected Johnson & Johnson's challenge to cancer patients' bid to add additional corporate defendants to multidistrict federal litigation over its talcum powder products, finding the additions would not be futile.
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August 06, 2025
Amazon IT Unit Accused Of Ousting 'Old, White, Bald Guys'
A 61-year-old Massachusetts man who worked in information technology sales for Amazon Web Services says he was wrongfully terminated last year as part of an alleged companywide campaign to push out older workers.
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August 06, 2025
10th Circ. Partly Revives Ex-Sales Head's Client List Case
A split panel of the Tenth Circuit partially revived a case from a sales executive against his former employer who claims the company took a customer list, saying the executive had improperly been barred from offering expert testimony on his lost wages.
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August 06, 2025
Akin, Latham Advise Apollo's Data Center Builder Stake
Apollo Global Management on Wednesday announced it will acquire a majority stake in Dallas-based builder Stream Data Centers in a deal advised by Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP and Latham & Watkins LLP that the asset manager said would enable possibly billions in digital infrastructure spending.
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August 06, 2025
Honey Dew Says M&A Adviser Missed Fake $25M Letter
Massachusetts-based regional coffee and donut chain Honey Dew says the investment banking firm it hired to find a buyer in 2018 would have learned that a $25 million "proof of funds" letter purporting to be from UBS was a forgery had it performed the expected due diligence.
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August 05, 2025
Fat Brands Shareholder Disputes Settle With $10M Payout
Fat Brands Inc.'s chairman and some of the restaurant franchising company's former directors announced Tuesday they agreed to settle a pair of shareholder derivative lawsuits pending in Delaware's Chancery Court that alleged breaches of fiduciary duties concerning a 2020 merger and a 2021 recapitalization.
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August 05, 2025
Tesla Verdict Could Embolden Plaintiffs With Similar Claims
The $329 million verdict handed down by jurors in Miami on Friday over a fatal Florida Keys crash is the first to find Tesla's autopilot defective and will likely embolden other plaintiffs with similar claims to take them to trial, personal injury attorneys told Law360.
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August 05, 2025
FCC Asked To Reconsider Paramount-Skydance Deal
The Federal Communications Commission needs to rethink its decision to greenlight Skydance Media's controversial $8 billion acquisition of Paramount Global, a third-party firm has told the agency, arguing it never addressed "substantial evidence in the record" that Paramount was talking to President Donald Trump on the sidelines.
Expert Analysis
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What To Do When Congress And DOJ Both Come Knocking
As recently seen in the news, clients may find themselves facing parallel U.S. Department of Justice and congressional investigations, requiring a comprehensive response that considers the different challenges posed by each, say attorneys at Friedman Kaplan.
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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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23andMe Fine Signals ICO's New GDPR Enforcement Focus
Many of the cybersecurity failures identified by the Information Commissioner’s Office in its investigation of 23andMe, recently resulting in a £2.3 million fine, were basic lapses, but the ICO's focus on several new U.K. General Data Protection Regulation considerations will likely carry into the future, say lawyers at Womble Bond.
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Midyear Rewind: How Courts Are Reshaping VPPA Standards
The first half of 2025 saw a series of cases interpreting the Video Privacy Protection Act as applied to website tracking technologies, including three appellate rulings deepening circuit splits on what qualifies as personally identifiable information and who qualifies as a consumer under the statute, say attorneys at Perkins Coie.
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Lessons On Parallel Settlements From Vanguard Class Action
A Pennsylvania federal judge’s unexpected denial of a proposed $40 million settlement of an investor class action against Vanguard highlights key factors parties should consider when settlement involves both regulators and civil plaintiffs, say attorneys at Ropes & Gray.
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How The Healthline Privacy Settlement Redefines Ad Tech Use
The Healthline settlement is the first time California has drawn a clear line in the sand around how website tracking must function in practice, so if your site uses tracking technologies, especially around sensitive content like health or finance, regulators are inspecting your website's back end, not just its banner, say attorneys at Baker Donelson.
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AI Infrastructure Growth Brings Unique IP Considerations
The explosive rise of artificial intelligence has triggered an equally dramatic transformation in the supporting infrastructure required to meet growing AI demand, and the technology used in these data centers has its own intellectual property considerations to navigate, says Vincent Allen at Carstens Allen.
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Legal Ops, Compliance Increasingly Vital To Antitrust Strategy
With deal timelines tightening and disclosure requirements intensifying, legal operations and compliance teams are becoming critical drivers of premerger strategy, cross-functional alignment and regulatory credibility, says Alexander Lima at Wesco International.
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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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What To Know As SEC Looks To Expand Private Fund Access
As the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission considers expanding retail access to private markets, understanding how these funds operate — and the role of financial intermediaries in guiding investors — is increasingly important, say attorneys at K&L Gates.
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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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IPR Decisions Clarify Stewart's 'Settled Expectations' Factor
Recent discretionary denial decisions from U.S. Patent and Trademark Office acting Director Coke Morgan Stewart have begun to illuminate the contours of her "settled expectations" doctrine, informing when it might be worth petitioning for inter partes review if the patent at issue has been in force for a few years, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.
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4th Circ. Favors Plain Meaning In Bump-Up D&O Ruling
The Fourth Circuit's latest denial of indemnity coverage in Towers Watson v. National Union Fire Insurance and its previous ruling in this case lay out a pragmatic approach to bump-up provisions that avoids hypertechnical constructions to limit the effect of a policy's plain meaning, say attorneys at Kennedys.
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A Look At Key 5th Circ. White Collar Rulings So Far This Year
In the first half of 2025, the Fifth Circuit has decided numerous cases of particular import to white collar practitioners, which collectively underscore the critical importance of meticulous recordbuilding, procedural compliance and strategic litigation choices at every stage of a case, says Joe Magliolo at Jackson Walker.
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How Cos. In China Can Tailor Compliance Amid FCPA Shifts
The U.S. Department of Justice’s recently updated Foreign Corrupt Practices Act enforcement guidelines create a fluid business environment for companies operating in China that will require a customized compliance approach to navigate both countries’ corporate and legal systems, say attorneys at Dickinson Wright.