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March 12, 2024
GE Aerospace Plans $650M Manufacturing Investment
GE Aerospace said Tuesday it plans to invest $650 million into its manufacturing facilities and supply chain this year to bolster support for its commercial and defense customers.
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March 12, 2024
AT&T Offloaded Pensions In Risky Annuity Deal, Suit Says
AT&T shirked its fiduciary duty and put 96,000 workers' retirement savings in jeopardy by transferring pension obligations to a "risky" annuity provider, according to a proposed class action filed in Massachusetts federal court.
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March 11, 2024
Fed. Circ. OKs Boston Drug Developer's Patent Win
A Boston-area biotech developer that has yet to bring a product to market persuaded the Federal Circuit on Monday to affirm a finding by an administrative patent board last year that stripped a smaller Chinese rival of a patent covering a way of using a type of sulfonic acid to potentially treat Alzheimer's disease.
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March 11, 2024
Mexico Says High Court Long Shot Not Worth Halting Gun Suit
The Mexican government asked a Boston federal judge to keep its lawsuit against gun manufacturers moving along while the companies float what they referred to as "sky is falling" arguments to the U.S. Supreme Court challenging a First Circuit ruling that they are not immune from claims they aid and abet drug cartel violence.
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March 11, 2024
Entire Deadspin Staff Cut After Site's Sale To European Firm
All existing employees of sports blogging site Deadspin have been laid off after finding out Monday that the blog's owner, private equity-backed G/O Media Inc., has agreed to sell the site to European firm Lineup Publishing for an undisclosed price.
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March 11, 2024
FTC, 10 States Sue 'Sham' Women's Cancer Fund
The Federal Trade Commission and 10 state attorneys general have filed a federal complaint against a Pennsylvania-based cancer charity fund, calling the foundation a "sham" that deceived donors out of $18 million over five years.
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March 11, 2024
Most Claims Trimmed In Ford Faulty Transmission Suit
A Massachusetts federal judge has thrown out the bulk of a suit alleging Ford Motor Co. knowingly sold vehicles with a faulty transmission system, while allowing breach of implied warranty, fraudulent concealment and state law claims to proceed.
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March 11, 2024
SEC Can't Rely On 'Flawed' Ruling To Avoid Retrial, Atty Says
A Connecticut lawyer facing retrial in a securities fraud case told the First Circuit that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission can't lean on a summary judgment finding that was also flawed.
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March 08, 2024
Dartmouth Hoops Union Could Touch Off Legal Madness
A recent vote by the Dartmouth College men's basketball team to form a union could set the stage for the next round of litigation in shaping the rights of collegiate athletes, but experts told Law360 some steep obstacles could stand in the way of a breakthrough ruling that turns student athletes into full-fledged employees.
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March 08, 2024
Mass. Bar Agency Seeks Name Revision Due To Slavery Link
The state agency that regulates attorney conduct in Massachusetts is proposing a name change that would replace an archaic word seen by some as tainted by an association with slavery.
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March 08, 2024
Mass. Justices OK Town's 'Clever' Gradual Tobacco Ban
A Massachusetts town's admittedly novel bylaw phasing out the sale of tobacco by prohibiting sales to anyone born in this century could become a model for other local communities after the regulation withstood a legal challenge by a group of retailers at the state's highest court Friday.
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March 08, 2024
Debt-Stricken Homeowners Fight Back After High Court Ruling
Ten months after a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision finding a Minnesota county wrongly held onto excess proceeds it reaped after seizing a woman’s condominium and selling it to settle a tax debt, states are scrambling to reexamine their laws as financially distressed homeowners file new suits challenging the practice.
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March 08, 2024
Harvard Prof Fights Release Of School's Data Fraud Report
A Harvard researcher put on leave for allegedly fabricating research data told a Boston federal judge Friday it would be "poor policy" to let the school make public an internal 1,200-page report to dispute claims in a $25 million defamation suit she filed after her employer's accusations placed her at the center of a "media firestorm."
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March 07, 2024
Petition Watch: Student Athletes, Oil Spills & Preemption
The U.S. Supreme Court receives thousands of petitions for review each term, but only a few make the news. Here, Law360 looks at four petitions filed in the past three weeks that you might've missed: questions over whether student athletes have a business interest in being eligible to play college sports, how much oil is needed to qualify as an oil spill, whether an exemption to the Fourth Amendment applies to artificial intelligence and whether consumers can sue drug companies under state law for violating federal regulations.
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March 07, 2024
Mass. Atty's AI Gaffe Prompts Warning, 'Restrained' Penalty
A Massachusetts judge has put the state's legal bar on notice of the dangers of trusting artificial intelligence by sanctioning an attorney $2,000 for filing court papers that were full of realistic-sounding but fictitious case citations.
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March 07, 2024
Ex-Mass. Senator's Aide Gets Short Prison Term For Tax Fraud
The former chief of staff to a Massachusetts state senator was sentenced Wednesday in federal court to 30 days in prison for failing to report income she was receiving from a business she owned and other jobs while collecting her state salary.
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March 07, 2024
Senate Tees Up 5 More Judge Picks Despite GOP Resistance
The Senate Judiciary Committee voted out five judicial nominees on Thursday, which includes various historic firsts for diversity.
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March 07, 2024
Activist Caligan Sets Sights On Anika Therapeutics Again
New York-based activist investor Caligan Partners LP disclosed a nearly 10% stake in Anika Therapeutics and nominated two director candidates, a move that comes a year after the hedge fund urged the biotech company to consider "urgent changes" to its operations and structure.
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March 06, 2024
Ex-Northeastern Coach Gets 5 Years In Nude Photo Ploy
A former Northeastern University track and field coach was sentenced by a federal judge to five years in prison Wednesday for a series of schemes to trick young women into providing him with nude or semi-nude photos that he used for his own gratification and shared for clout in online forums that traded in surreptitiously-obtained images.
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March 06, 2024
Meta Must Tackle Increased Account Hijackings, 41 AGs Say
A bipartisan group of 41 attorneys general have urged Meta Platforms Inc. to tackle the "dramatic" increase in hackers taking over Facebook and Instagram accounts, saying the attacks have caused financial harm to victims and their families and friends.
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March 06, 2024
'Larger' Airlines Didn't Help Flyers, DOJ Tells 1st Circ.
The U.S. Department of Justice has assailed American Airlines for pressing its appeal over its since-nixed Northeast Alliance with JetBlue, telling the First Circuit that just because the deal made the airlines "larger" doesn't mean it helped consumers as the airline claims or that a district court gave potential benefits short shrift.
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March 06, 2024
New Balance Bid To Cut Nike Patents Is Too Early, Judge Hints
New Balance's bid to snip three patents from the latest infringement fight centering on Nike's patented Flyknit technology got an uneasy reception Wednesday from a Boston federal judge unwilling to dig too deep into the merits of the claims at the early stage of this case.
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March 06, 2024
Gambling Ring Honcho Cops Plea After 13 Years On The Lam
A man who helped run a multimillion-dollar online gambling ring has pled guilty after 13 years as a fugitive in Antigua, Boston federal prosecutors said.
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March 05, 2024
UMass, L'Oreal Fight Over Anti-Aging Cream May Be Near End
Cosmetics brand L'Oreal and the University of Massachusetts told a Delaware federal judge they "have agreed to resolve" a purportedly $200 million dispute over a method for adding an ingredient into moisturizing cream, nearly two years after a federal appeals court breathed new life into the patent case.
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March 05, 2024
Pharmacist Takes Deal In Mich. Over Fatal Meningitis Outbreak
The founder of a Massachusetts drug compounding center that was the source of a deadly meningitis outbreak has pled no contest to 11 counts of manslaughter brought by Michigan state prosecutors, the latter state's Department of Attorney General announced Tuesday.
Expert Analysis
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5 Insider-Threat Reminders After Recent DOJ Prosecutions
Three recent U.S. Department of Justice actions may well lead to much greater scrutiny of companies in which insiders engage in a variety of corporate misconduct, including conducting or enabling cybercrimes, which will likely fall not just on government contractors, but across industries and geographies, say attorneys at Paul Weiss.
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JetBlue-American Ruling Offers Fresh Angle On Antitrust Risk
The District of Massachusetts' recent decision that the JetBlue-American Airlines pact combining some Northeastern operations violates the Sherman Act stands as a reminder that collaborations between competitors can warrant close scrutiny — even if they create real, tangible benefits for consumers, say Benjamin Dryden and Elizabeth Haas at Foley & Lardner.
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An Employer's Overview Of AI Legislation In 5 Jurisdictions
Many employers are likely aware of the July 5 enforcement date for New York City's artificial intelligence law, but there are also proposals in Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Vermont and Washington, D.C., and a comparison illustrates the emerging legislative trends for AI employment decision tools, say attorneys at Gibson Dunn.
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Some Client Speculations On AI And The Law Firm Biz Model
Generative artificial intelligence technologies will put pressure on the business of law as it is structured currently, but clients may end up with more price certainty for legal services, and lawyers may spend more time being lawyers, says Jonathan Cole at Melody Capital.
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A Lawyer's Guide To Approaching Digital Assets In Discovery
The booming growth of cryptocurrency and non-fungible tokens has made digital assets relevant in many legal disputes but also poses several challenges for discovery, so lawyers must garner an understanding of the technology behind these assets, the way they function, and how they're held, says Brett Sager at Ehrenstein Sager.
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Opinion
High Court's Ethics Statement Places Justices Above The Law
The U.S. Supreme Court justices' disappointing statement on the court's ethics principles and practices reveals that not only are they satisfied with a status quo in which they are bound by fewer ethics rules than other federal judges, but also that they've twisted the few rules that do apply to them, says David Janovsky at the Project on Government Oversight.
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Opinion
Time For Law Schools To Rethink Unsung Role Of Adjuncts
As law schools prepare for the fall 2023 semester, administrators should reevaluate the role of the underappreciated, indispensable adjunct, and consider 16 concrete actions to improve the adjuncts' teaching experience, overall happiness and feeling of belonging, say T. Markus Funk at Perkins Coie, Andrew Boutros at Dechert and Eugene Volokh at UCLA.
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History Supports 2nd Circ. View Of FAA Transport Exemption
In the circuit split over when transport workers are exempt from the Federal Arbitration Act, sparked by the 2022 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Southwest Airlines v. Saxon, the Second Circuit reached a more faithful interpretation — one supported by historical litigation and legislative context, though perhaps arrived at via the wrong route, say Joshua Wesneski and Crystal Weeks at Weil.
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Tips For In-House Legal Leaders In A Challenging Economy
Amid today's economic and geopolitical uncertainty, in-house legal teams are running lean and facing increased scrutiny and unique issues, but can step up and find innovative ways to manage outcomes and capitalize on good business opportunities, says Tim Parilla at LinkSquares.
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Beware Patchwork Of State NIL Laws For Student-Athletes
With each U.S. state at a different stage of engaging with name, image and likeness laws for collegiate and high school student-athletes, the NIL world is as much a minefield for attorneys as it is for the players themselves — and counsel must remain on red alert for any and all legislative changes, say Lauren Bernstein and Dan Lust at Moritt Hock.
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PFAS Coverage Litigation Strategy Lessons For Policyholders
While policyholders' efforts to recover insurance proceeds for PFAS-related costs are in the early stages, it appears from litigation so far that substantial coverage should be available for PFAS-related liabilities, including both defense costs and indemnity payments in connection with those liabilities, say Benedict Lenhart and Alexis Dyschkant at Covington.
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What Associates Need To Know Before Switching Law Firms
Excerpt from Practical Guidance
The days of staying at the same firm for the duration of one's career are mostly a thing of the past as lateral moves by lawyers are commonplace, but there are several obstacles that associates should consider before making a move, say attorneys at HWG.
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A Case For Sharing Mediation Statements With Counterparties
In light of a potential growing mediation trend of only submitting statements to the mediator, litigants should think critically about the pros and cons of exchanging statements with opposing parties as it could boost the chances of reaching a settlement, says Arthur Eidelhoch at Eidelhoch Mediation.
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Tackling Long-Tail Legacy Liability Risk: A Defendant's Toolkit
Johnson & Johnson was recently rebuffed in its efforts to employ the "Texas Two-Step," which is likely to affect this increasingly popular method to isolate and spin off large asbestos and talc liabilities, but companies have multiple options to reduce long-tail legacy liability risk, says Stephen Hoke at Hoke LLC.
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Preparing For Legal Scrutiny Of Data Retention Policies
Two recent cases involving Google and Meta should serve as a call to action for companies to ensure their data retention policies are updated and properly implemented to the degree of being able to withstand judicial scrutiny, especially as more data is generated by emerging technologies, say Jack Kallus and Labeed Choudhry at Kaufman Dolowich.