A California federal judge on Wednesday refused to greenlight a $1.8 million deal that would wrap up a proposed class action alleging a plumbing company's retirement plan was loaded with costly investment options and excessive management fees, ruling that the plan participants' bid for approval was lacking critical details.
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Judge Seeks More Info On Plumbing Co.'s 401(k) Suit Deal

By Patrick Hoff

A California federal judge on Wednesday refused to greenlight a $1.8 million deal that would wrap up a proposed class action alleging a plumbing company's retirement plan was loaded with costly investment options and excessive management fees, ruling that the plan participants' bid for approval was lacking critical details.

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DOJ Pulls ISS Letter, Signals Possible Antitrust Enforcement

By Sarah Jarvis

The Justice Department's Antitrust Division signaled Wednesday that it may take enforcement action against Institutional Shareholder Services, withdrawing a 1987 letter stating the division would not do so and flagging "significant competition concerns" about the concentration of proxy advisory market power.

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UPS Driver Says Late Sick Pay Can't Sink Colo. Suit

By Benjamin Morse

A UPS driver urged a Colorado federal judge to reject the company's early win bid in a proposed class action, arguing late payments cannot erase paid-sick-leave violations.

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LITIGATION

JBS To Pay $31M In Pilgrim's Pride Investors' Control Suit

By Sydney Price

Brazil-based meat giant JBS SA agreed to pay $31 million to shareholders of its subsidiary Pilgrim's Pride Corp. to settle a suit accusing JBS, its affiliates and its Pilgrim's board appointees of unfairly increasing JBS' clout and access to dividends and tax benefits at the expense of minority shareholders of Pilgrim's.

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Brief

High Court To Hear Intel 401(k) Suit Arguments In October

By Patrick Hoff

The U.S. Supreme Court has set an October date for oral arguments in an appeal from Intel workers who argued the Ninth Circuit imposed too strict a standard when it upheld the dismissal of their lawsuit alleging their retirement savings were dragged down by underperforming investment options.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

How Does In-House Pay Compare? Take The Law360 Survey

How do in-house salaries vary across industries, roles, and organizational revenue? What compensation tools are companies using to lure top talent? Help Law360 Pulse answer these questions and more in this year's In-House Compensation Survey.

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2 Law Firms Say IRS Wrongly Denied COVID-19 Tax Credits

By Adrian Cruz

A pair of law firms are alleging in Georgia federal court that the Internal Revenue Service wrongly denied their claims to employee retention credits, a tax incentive created during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic to encourage businesses to keep workers on their payrolls.

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NC House OKs Unpaid Suspensions For Judges Under Inquiry

By Hayley Fowler

Republicans in the North Carolina House of Representatives have given the green light to a legislative proposal empowering the chief justice of the state Supreme Court to suspend trial court judges without pay if they're under investigation by the state Judicial Standards Commission.

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Simpson Thacher Lands In Chicago With 5-Atty Kirkland Team

By James Boyle

A five-person team of Kirkland & Ellis LLP attorneys are moving their practices to Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP to help the firm launch an office in Chicago.

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BREAKING: No Simpson Thacher Malpractice In PIPE Case, Jury Finds

By Madison Arnold

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP escaped a malpractice lawsuit late Thursday over its representation of Patriot National Inc. in a private investment in public equity transaction in the years before the company's downfall.

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Sidley Adds Ex-Accenture Enterprise Platforms Lead As CIO

By Matt Perez

Sidley Austin LLP on Wednesday announced the hiring of a nearly two-decade veteran at professional services firm Accenture as its chief information officer.

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New ABA Chief Seeks To 'Streamline' Org, Defend Democracy

By Emily Sawicki

The American Bar Association's new president, Barbara J. Howard, will focus on twin goals of defending democracy against expected unprecedented attacks associated with this year's midterm elections, while also reorganizing the association to run more efficiently, as she kicks off her one-year term this month.

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Richards Layton Under Fire Amid Bid To Avoid AI Sanctions

By Rose Krebs

A firm has asked a Delaware vice chancellor to allow it to submit more "factual information" regarding what it says are inconsistencies in Richards Layton & Finger PA's attempt to avoid sanctions for submitting a filing with errors generated by artificial intelligence.

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Justices' FTC Ruling Weakens Qui Tam's Constitutional Base

The U.S. Supreme Court’s holding in Trump v. Slaughter, expanding presidential control over those exercising executive power, suggests that courts may be receptive to arguments challenging the constitutional foundations of the False Claims Act’s qui tam mechanism, says Daniel Passeser at Wiggin.

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Analysis

The Dramatic Moments Set To Shape Tom Goldstein's Appeal

By Jeff Overley and Jared Foretek

Prurient revelations, brash recriminations and purportedly glaring judicial errors in Tom Goldstein's criminal case have captivated the appellate bar for nearly 19 months, and many of those moments will be center stage in the star attorney's imminent appeal.

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6th Circ. Slashes 'Egregious' Fee Award In Tax-Taking Suit

By Susan Smiley

Michigan attorneys representing plaintiffs in a tax foreclosure suit had their awarded attorney fees, which more than doubled the settlement they obtained in the case, slashed by a Sixth Circuit panel in a published opinion Thursday.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Anderson Kill

Ashurst Perkins

Bass Berry

Bernstein Litowitz

Bodker Ramsey

Burns Charest

Conrad & Scherer

Crowell & Moring

Davis Graham

Friedman Oster

Giarmarco Mullins

Gordon Dana & Gilmore

Honigman LLP

Hughes Hubbard

Kirkland & Ellis

Labaton Keller

Lowrey Parady

McAlpine PC

McDermott Will & Schulte

McGuireWoods

Paul Hastings

Richards Layton

Rueb Stoller

Seila Law

Sharman Law Firm

Sidley Austin

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

Stearns Weaver

Tower Legal Group

Wade Kilpela

White & Case

Wiggin & Dana

Williams & Connolly

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Accenture PLC

American Bar Association

Executive Health Resources Inc.

Ferguson Enterprises Inc.

Glass Lewis & Co. LLC

Hard Yaka Inc.

Institutional Shareholder Services Inc.

Intel Corp.

JBS USA Holdings Inc.

Pacific Legal Foundation

Patriot National Inc.

Pilgrim's Pride Corp.

Public Co. Accounting Oversight Board

The Boeing Co.

The Charles Schwab Corp.

The UPS Store

United Parcel Service Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Colorado Department of Labor and Employment

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Delaware Court of Chancery

Federal Trade Commission

Internal Revenue Service

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of Labor

U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

U.S. Supreme Court

United States District Court for the District of Colorado