Roland Christensen of Arnold & Itkin LLP said that for the life of him, he couldn't understand why C.H. Robinson didn't cut a deal offered by the families of victims who burned to death following an 18-wheeler crash.
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How Plaintiffs Won A $604M Verdict Against CH Robinson

By Spencer Brewer

Roland Christensen of Arnold & Itkin LLP said that for the life of him, he couldn't understand why C.H. Robinson didn't cut a deal offered by the families of victims who burned to death following an 18-wheeler crash.

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Netlist, Samsung Enter 5-Year Deal To End Extensive IP Feud

By Adam Lidgett

Netlist and Samsung have resolved their multipronged patent fight after reaching a deal in which the South Korean electronics giant agreed to make multimillion-dollar payments to get access to a portfolio of Netlist's patents.

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Starbucks Ditched Irish Vodka Without Notice, Producer Says

By Ben Adlin

An Irish vodka producer sued Starbucks Corp. in Washington state court over accusations the coffee giant broke a contract that required it to give six months' notice before discontinuing its use of the vodka at Starbucks Reserve and Roastery locations in the United States.

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Grocery Chains Accuse Refined Sugar Cos. Of Price-Fixing

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

Several grocery chains, including Albertsons and Kroger, have accused a group of refined sugar companies including Domino Sugar of conspiring to artificially raise the cost of refined sugar through a "give to get" arrangement.

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Sierra Leone Isn't Responding To Its Own Attys, Judge Told

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

A second law firm now says it is being iced out by the government of Sierra Leone in a yearslong legal battle that began over the country's dispute with a U.K.-based mining company.

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LEGAL ETHICS & MALPRACTICE

CREXi Wants 9th Circ. To Undo Quinn Emanuel CoStar Row DQ

By Bryan Koenig

Commercial Real Estate Exchange Inc. doesn't want to replace Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP after a California federal judge disqualified the firm from defending a copyright infringement suit by CoStar, seeking Ninth Circuit intervention and a pause on the district court case.

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Backing Penalty For 1st Misquote, Panel 'Stunned' By Another

By Hayley Fowler

A solo practitioner in North Carolina sanctioned for misleading a trial court judge with a misquote in his pleadings "stunned" an appellate panel when he made yet another quotation blunder in his brief on appeal, according to a published opinion Wednesday affirming his punishment.

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ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL

NJ Utility's Suit Over $6.8M In Added Project Costs Tossed

By George Woolston

A New Jersey federal judge has tossed a municipal utilities authority's suit seeking a pause in arbitration over the cost of delays in an energy savings and capital improvement project, holding that the dispute falls within the scope of the parties' arbitration agreement.

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Utilities Say Toshiba Can't Redo Discovery After $394M Verdict

By Melanie Dorsey

The owners of Michigan's Ludington pumped storage plant have urged a federal judge to block Toshiba Corp. from reopening discovery after a jury awarded the plant owners nearly $394.4 million for Toshiba's botched overhaul of the facility, arguing the company is trying to build a new record to challenge issues already decided at trial.

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INSURANCE

Chubb Seeks Repayment For Skaggs Overdose Suit Defense

By Hope Patti

A Chubb unit said it is entitled to recover costs paid to defend the Los Angeles Angels against wrongful death actions brought by the family of pitcher Tyler Skaggs, who overdosed while traveling for an away game, telling a California federal court that another carrier improperly denied its coverage obligations.

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Brief

I-70 Contractor Drops Bid For New Trial, Signals Appeal

By Rachel Konieczny

A New York engineering company and its insurers withdrew their bid for a new trial after a Colorado state jury found them liable for more than $1.3 million in damages for breaching a subcontract linked to an Interstate 70 construction project in Denver, saying they intend to appeal.

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PRODUCT LIABILITY

Cummins, Trucking Co. End Engine Warranty Suit In Mich.

By Susan Smiley

A proposed class action against Indiana-based engine manufacturer Cummins Inc. became moot Wednesday, following a settlement resolving Michigan trucking company SBS Transport's breach of contract and product liability claims.

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SPORTS & BETTING

Kalshi To Block Wash. Betting But Said Pause Is Overbroad

By Ben Adlin

Kalshi agreed to implement geofencing restrictions by Aug. 26 to prevent people in Washington from making bets on the platform in accordance with a state judge's preliminary injunction, but the prediction market is still at odds with state officials over the scope of the court order.

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SECURITIES & WHITE COLLAR

Brief

Loomis Sayles Pulls Plug On $70M Suit Against Citi

By Jessica Corso

Loomis Sayles said Wednesday that it was dropping a lawsuit accusing Citigroup Global Markets of causing $70 million in trading losses when it fulfilled trades in shares of Shopify Inc. and Colgate-Palmolive Co. in violation of "best execution" practices.

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GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS

Shipcom Says Navy Sub Worked Outside Approved Orders

By Elaine Briseño

Shipcom Federal Solutions LLC asked a Texas federal court to toss a lawsuit seeking to recover nearly $4.6 million for products and services delivered for a U.S. Navy project, saying its subcontractor is attempting to escape responsibility for its own actions.

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DEALS LITIGATION

Chancery Sets Hybrid Interest Formula In Alexion Merger Fight

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court has adopted a hybrid method for calculating prejudgment interest in the long-running merger dispute between Shareholder Representative Services LLC and Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc., rejecting both sides' competing approaches.

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BANKRUPTCY

Bang Energy's Ex-CEO Gets Loan Approval To Fund Defense

By Carolina Bolado

A Florida bankruptcy judge approved a loan Wednesday for a company managed by Bang Energy founder Jack Owoc to allow him to fund his defense in litigation filed by the trustee overseeing the energy drinks manufacturer's bankrupt estate.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Deposit Contracts Do Heavy Lifting As Fraud Moves Upstream

As courts increasingly find that upstream parties are best positioned to detect red flags in fraud disputes, most recently in Yangtze v. Ohio Valley Trackwork, companies should tighten treasury and deposit agreement verification protocols, indemnity terms, and insurance coordination to reduce exposure, says Nadine Dorsht at Stinson.

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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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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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Ex-GC Hijacked Accounts And Posted Klan Imagery, Suit Says

By Ben Adlin

A Washington state court granted a temporary restraining order Wednesday in a school fundraising company's lawsuit accusing its former general counsel of taking control of its social media accounts and allegedly replacing its LinkedIn photo with a manipulated image of its president in a Ku Klux Klan robe.

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Wash. Justices Offer Bar Waiver After July Exam Tech Failure

By Rachel Riley

The Washington State Supreme Court said Thursday it's offering to waive the bar exam requirement for first-time applicants who were unable to take the test last week due to an abrupt cancellation driven by technical issues at the Yakima Convention Center where it was scheduled to be administered.   

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Dems Slam Skadden's 'Nothing To See Here' Trump Deal Reply

By Hailey Konnath

Three Democratic lawmakers on Thursday criticized Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP's response to their request that the firm disclose details of its pro bono arrangement with the Trump administration, saying the firm's "three sentence letter essentially saying 'nothing to see here'" is "not going to cut it."

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Trump Again Targets Birthright Citizenship In 2 New Orders

By Rae Ann Varona

President Donald Trump on Thursday signed two executive orders that seek to limit automatic citizenship for babies born in the U.S., after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a previous birthright citizenship executive order as unconstitutional.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Anderson Kill

Anderson McPharlin

Arnold & Itkin

Arnold & Porter

Ashurst Perkins

Baker Botts

Barnes & Thornburg

Bass Berry

Bast Amron

Bodker Ramsey

Burns Charest

Bush Seyferth

Cairncross & Hempelmann

Cohen Seglias

Conrad & Scherer

Corr Cronin

Cravath Swaine

Crowell & Moring

Drew Cooper & Anding

Foley & Lardner

Foley Hoag

Giarmarco Mullins

Gordon Dana & Gilmore

HSF Kramer

Honigman LLP

Hughes Hubbard

Irell & Manella

Jackson Walker LLP

Jenner & Block

Kirkland & Ellis

Lasher Holzapfel

Latham & Watkins

Lowenstein Sandler

McAlpine PC

McDermott Will & Schulte

Milbank LLP

MoloLamken

Morgan Lewis

Morrison Cohen

Paul Hastings

Quinn Emanuel

Richards Layton

Rueb Stoller

Seila Law

Sidley Austin

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

Skadden Arps

Sperling Kenny

Stearns Weaver

Sterne Kessler

Stinson LLP

Susman Godfrey

Trif & Modugno

White & Case

Wiggin & Dana

Wilks Law Firm (Wilmington, DE)

Williams & Connolly

WilmerHale

Woods Aitken

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Accenture PLC

Albertsons Cos. Inc.

Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc.

American Arbitration Association

American Bar Association

American Civil Liberties Union

American Crystal Sugar Co.

Arch Capital Group Ltd.

AstraZeneca PLC

C.H. Robinson Worldwide Inc.

Citigroup Inc.

CoStar Group Inc.

Colgate-Palmolive Co.

Cross River Bank

Cummins Inc.

Elite

Executive Health Resources Inc.

GeoComply Solutions Inc.

Gerald Holdings LLC

Google LLC

Harborview Capital Partners LLC

Hard Yaka Inc.

Information Inc.

Intel Corp.

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc.

LinkedIn Corp.

Loomis Sayles & Co. LP

Los Angeles Angels

Michigan Sugar Co.

Monster Beverage Corp.

Netlist Inc.

Pacific Legal Foundation

Patriot National Inc.

Peterbilt Motors Co.

Public Co. Accounting Oversight Board

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

Schneider Electric

Starbucks Corp.

Sterling National Bank

The Boeing Co.

The Charles Schwab Corp.

Toshiba Corp.

U.S. Sugar Corp.

Vimeo Inc.

Vital Pharmaceuticals

WSP Global Inc.

WSP Holdings Ltd.

Washington State Bar Association

Yelp Inc.

YouTube Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

California Supreme Court

Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Delaware Court of Chancery

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

Federal Trade Commission

Internal Revenue Service

International Trade Commission

Patent Trial and Appeal Board

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal 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 Agriculture

U.S. Department of Commerce

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. District & Bankruptcy Courts of Southern District of Texas

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

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

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

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

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

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. Navy

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Supreme Court

United States District Court for the District of Colorado

Washington Attorney General's Office