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January 26, 2026
DOJ Urges 6th Circ. To Uphold IRS Jet Fee Excise Tax
A fractional aircraft ownership company is liable for federal excise taxes, the U.S. Department of Justice told the Sixth Circuit, arguing that the company failed to establish any statutory or equitable defense while urging the appellate judges to affirm a lower court's ruling.
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January 26, 2026
Navy SEAL-Turned-MrBallen YouTuber Sues Ex-CEO in Del.
A former Navy SEAL-turned-internet storyteller has asked the Delaware Chancery Court to unwind a reorganization of the company he started and strip a onetime business partner of control rights, alleging the deal was procured through fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty and the concealment of material facts about company finances and a key podcast licensing agreement.
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January 26, 2026
Ill. Judge Trims False Ad Suit Over Abbott Formula
An Illinois federal judge Friday dismissed several claims in a putative class action alleging Abbott Laboratories falsely advertised its toddler drinks sold under the Similac brand as nutritionally proper for children ages 12 months to 36 months, but largely allowed the parents' complaint to move forward.
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January 26, 2026
King & Spalding Adds 5 Healthcare Attys From Burr & Forman
King & Spalding LLP announced Monday that it has added five attorneys from Burr & Forman LLP to its healthcare practice, as firms across the country look to boost their capabilities in the sector.
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January 26, 2026
35 AGs Demand X Crack Down On Grok Sexual Deepfakes
A group of 35 attorneys general sent a letter to xAI, an arm of the social media network formerly known as Twitter, to demand stronger action curtailing its Grok chatbot from altering pictures on its site to be sexually explicit or revealing.
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January 26, 2026
Remote Discovery Tech Co. Alleges Fraud In Del. Suit
A tech company that developed self-service applications for remote data collection from smartphones has launched a seven-count suit in Delaware's Court of Chancery accusing a product reseller of copying the application's functions and features and marketing competing versions.
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January 26, 2026
Zenas BioPharma Slams Investor's Revamped Fraud Claim
Zenas BioPharma has asked a Massachusetts federal judge to toss a putative investor class action targeting pre-initial public offering statements about the company's spending, saying it didn't hide that it had ramped up investment in research and development.
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January 26, 2026
Pool Equipment Co. Reaches $20M Deal To End Investor Suit
Pool equipment maker Hayward Holdings Inc. has reached a nearly $20 million deal with its investors to settle claims that it failed to properly disclose its struggles with ballooning inventory and lowered demand.
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January 26, 2026
4th Circ. Preview: NCAA Eligibility And E-Cigarette Law
Notwithstanding the winter storm that slammed several states over the weekend, litigators will clash at the Fourth Circuit this week on whether NCAA eligibility rules violate antitrust law, or federal law preempts North Carolina's ability to regulate e-cigarette sales.
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January 26, 2026
Healthcare Rewards Co. Sues Partner Over Alleged Tech Theft
A California-based healthcare technology company has sued in Delaware Chancery Court, accusing a longtime business partner of secretly stealing its proprietary rewards technology, then attempting to terminate their contract years early after building a competing product in-house.
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January 26, 2026
Geico Pays $900K Settlement To End Call Center OT Suits
Geico will pay $900,000 to settle several suits, all accusing the insurance company of not paying call center workers for preshift and postshift work, after a Georgia federal judge gave the deal final approval.
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January 26, 2026
Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court
The Delaware Chancery Court wrapped up the week with a slate of high-stakes deal challenges, governance rulings and oversight decisions, including an emergency bid to block a $10.9 billion bank merger, a state Supreme Court reversal reshaping stockholder agreement litigation and a major opinion allowing sexual misconduct oversight claims to proceed.
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January 26, 2026
Treasury Cancels Booz Allen Contracts Following Leak
The U.S. Department of the Treasury is canceling $21 million in contracts with consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton after a massive leak at the Internal Revenue Service that included President Donald Trump's tax returns, the department said Monday.
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January 26, 2026
Supreme Court To Define 'Consumer' Under Privacy Law
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider what criteria consumers need to meet in order to sue under the federal Video Privacy Protection Act, accepting a challenge to a ruling that said a Paramount digital newsletter subscriber could not bring a lawsuit.
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January 26, 2026
Top Treasury Attorney Returns To WilmerHale's DC Team
WilmerHale announced Monday it welcomed back a former attorney who stepped away from the firm three years ago to serve in the chief counsel's office at U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control, where he advised agency leaders on enforcement of emergency economic powers legislation, the constitutional implications of imposing sanctions and other matters.
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January 23, 2026
Rivian Can't Ditch Latest Investor Suit Over EV Production
A California federal judge refused Thursday to toss a proposed class action alleging Rivian and its top brass misled investors about its 2023 production capabilities and demand for electric vehicles, rejecting Rivian's arguments that the securities claims cannot proceed in light of the Ninth Circuit's recent Sneed v. Talphera ruling.
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January 23, 2026
Real Estate Recap: HUD, Corporate Landlords, Atty Errors
Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including how the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development may be shifting focus, what President Donald Trump's executive order on investment in single-family homes means for Wall Street, and a look at some of the mistakes made by real estate attorneys.
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January 23, 2026
Mich. AG Sues Major Oil Co. 'Cartel' Amid Fight With DOJ
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel filed an antitrust suit in federal court against BP, Shell, Chevron, Exxon and the American Petroleum Institute on Friday, claiming they conspired to maintain market dominance by steering money away from renewable energy and using a bevy of other tactics including intimidation and information suppression.
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January 23, 2026
CLO Investors Accused Of Rigging Rates In Shift From Libor
Major equity investors in collateralized loan obligations have been sued in Connecticut federal court over claims that they colluded to force corporate leveraged-loan borrowers to accept higher interest rates during the phaseout of the London Interbank Offered Rate, or Libor.
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January 23, 2026
Hasbro Brass Sued Over Magic: The Gathering Card Glut
The top brass of toy company Hasbro Inc. have been hit with a shareholder suit alleging they misled investors about the company's strategy for its popular Magic: The Gathering brand, leading to stock price declines as it was revealed that the game's signature cards were being overprinted.
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January 23, 2026
6th Circ. Won't Revive Bread Financial Investors' Suit
The Sixth Circuit won't resuscitate investor claims against the company now known as Bread Financial Holdings Inc., finding that the suit didn't show how shareholders were misled or defrauded leading up to a corporate spin-off that ended in bankruptcy.
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January 23, 2026
Employment Authority: Lessons From Trump, UAW Interaction
Law360 Employment Authority covers the biggest employment cases and trends. Catch up this week with coverage on how an interaction between a United Auto Workers member and President Donald Trump at a Michigan Ford plant could be a lesson for employers and unions on how to handle political speech in the workplace, a look at five trends among paid leave laws that took place in the United States in January and how the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act could land before the U.S. Supreme Court after the Fifth Circuit granted en banc review to a case challenging whether the law was validly enacted.
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January 23, 2026
Cartiva Hid Toe Implant Safety Info, Pa. Woman's Suit Claims
Cartiva Inc. was sued Thursday in Pennsylvania federal court by a woman who claims that she was injured by a recalled defective toe implant device and that the company has concealed its safety data from regulators and medical providers.
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January 23, 2026
Comerica Investor Seeks TRO To Halt $10.9B Fifth Third Deal
A Comerica Inc. activist investor sued in Delaware's Court of Chancery Friday for an emergency temporary restraining order to block the company from closing Feb. 1 on a proposed $10.9 billion, all-stock acquisition by Fifth Third Bancorp, branding the terms as "fire sale" and tainted by fiduciary breaches.
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January 23, 2026
10th Circ. Asked To Overturn Mail Scam Fraud Convictions
Two former Epsilon Data Management LLC employees convicted for their roles in selling data to mail scammers who preyed on the elderly and vulnerable asked the Tenth Circuit to overturn their convictions Friday, while the panel questioned the government's conspiracy case against Epsilon's former business manager.
Expert Analysis
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How 11th Circ.'s Qui Tam Review Could Affect FCA Litigation
On Dec. 12, the Eleventh Circuit will hear arguments in U.S. ex rel. Zafirov v. Florida Medical Associates, setting the stage for a decision that could drastically reduce enforcement under the False Claims Act, and presenting an opportunity to seek U.S. Supreme Court review of the act's whistleblower provisions, say attorneys at Epstein Becker.
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Series
The Biz Court Digest: Welcome To Miami
After nearly 20 years in operation, the Miami Complex Business Litigation Division is a pioneer upon which other jurisdictions in the state have been modeled, adopting many innovations to keep its cases running more efficiently and staffing experienced judges who are accustomed to hearing business disputes, say attorneys at King & Spalding.
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Recent Proposals May Spell Supervision Overhaul For Banks
A slew of rules recently proposed by the federal banking agencies with approaching comment deadlines would rewrite supervision standards to be further tailored to banks' size and activities, while prioritizing financial risks over process, documentation and other nonfinancial risks, say attorneys at Davis Wright.
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What US Can Learn From Brazil's Securities Arbitration Model
To allay investor concerns about its recent approval of mandatory arbitration clauses in public company registration statements, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission should look to Brazil's securities arbitration model, which shows that clear rules and strong institutions can complement the goals of securities regulation, say arbiters at the B3 Arbitration Chamber.
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Navigating The New Patchwork Of Foreign-Influence Laws
On top of existing federal regulations, an expanding wave of state legislation — placing new limits on foreign-funded political spending and new registration requirements for foreign agents — creates a confusing compliance backdrop for corporations that demands careful preplanning, say attorneys at BakerHostetler.
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AI Evidence Rule Tweaks Encourage Judicial Guardrails
Recent additions to a committee note on proposed Rule of Evidence 707 — governing evidence generated by artificial intelligence — seek to mitigate potential dangers that may arise once machine outputs are introduced at trial, encouraging judges to perform critical gatekeeping functions, say attorneys at Lankler Siffert & Wohl.
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Terrorist Label For Maduro Poses New Risks For US Firms
The State Department's recent designation of President Nicolás Maduro, and other Venezuelan government and military officials, as members of a foreign terrorist organization drastically increases the level of caution companies must exercise when doing business in the region to mitigate potential civil, criminal and regulatory risk, say attorneys at Freshfields.
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The Law Firm Merger Diaries: Getting The Message Across
Communications and brand strategy during a law firm merger represent a crucial thread that runs through every stage of a combination and should include clear messaging, leverage modern marketing tools and embrace the chance to evolve, says Ashley Horne at Womble Bond.
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2 Early Settlement Alternatives In Federal Securities Litigation
Most class actions brought under the federal securities laws are either settled or won by the defendants following a motion to dismiss, but two alternative strategies have the potential to lower discovery costs and allow defendants to obtain judgment without the uncertainty of jury trials on complex matters, says Richard Zelichov at DLA Piper.
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Opinion
Horizontal Stare Decisis Should Not Be Casually Discarded
Eliminating the so-called law of the circuit doctrine — as recently proposed by a Fifth Circuit judge, echoing Justice Neil Gorsuch’s concurrence in Loper Bright — would undermine public confidence in the judiciary’s independence and create costly uncertainty for litigants, says Lawrence Bluestone at Genova Burns.
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How Fed. Circ. Shaped Subject Matter Eligibility In 2025
The Federal Circuit's most impactful patent eligibility decisions this year, touching on questions about obviousness and abstractness, provide a toolbox of takeaways that can be utilized during patent preparation and prosecution to guard against potential challenges, says Reilley Keane at Banner Witcoff.
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DC Circ. Decision Reaffirms SEC Authority Post-Loper Bright
The recent denial of a challenge to invalidate 2024 amendments to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's tick size and fee-cap rules reinforces the D.C. Circuit's deference to SEC expertise in market structure regulation, even after Loper Bright, though implementation of the rules remains uncertain, say attorneys at Sidley.
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10 Commandments For Agentic AI Tools In The Legal Industry
Though agentic artificial intelligence has demonstrated significant promise for optimizing legal work, it presents numerous risks, so specific ethical obligations should be built into the knowledge base of every agentic AI tool used in the legal industry, says Steven Cordero at Akerman LLP.
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NY Tax Talk: New ALJs, New Rules, Apportionment, Bundling
Attorneys at Eversheds review the top New York tax law developments from last quarter, including appointments to the New York City Tax Appeals Tribunal and the city's proposed rules to clarify income taxation of foreign corporations, and highlight two litigation matters to watch.
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Series
Preaching Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Becoming a Gospel preacher has enhanced my success as a trial lawyer by teaching me the importance of credibility, relatability, persuasiveness and thorough preparation for my congregants, the same skills needed with judges and juries in the courtroom, says Reginald Harris at Stinson.