Breyer Rips Musk Atty For 'False Impression' To Twitter Jury

By Bonnie Eslinger

U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer blasted Elon Musk's counsel Tuesday in a trial over Twitter investors' allegations that Musk intentionally tanked its stock, telling the lawyer she'd created a "false impression" with the jury by questioning an ex-Twitter attorney about her right to speak with plaintiffs' counsel while under oath.

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Feds Lose Fight To End NY Congestion Pricing

By Linda Chiem

A Manhattan federal judge ruled Tuesday that the U.S. Department of Transportation acted unlawfully when it purportedly terminated a federal agreement that gave New York's congestion pricing the green light, handing the state a decisive victory against the Trump administration's efforts to eliminate the program.

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NY Judge Affirms Venture Global's Win Over Shell

By Caroline Simson

Shell has failed in its bid to overturn an arbitral award siding with liquefied natural gas producer Venture Global in a dispute over sales from one of its Louisiana facilities, after a New York state judge ruled Monday that the tribunal had already rejected allegations that it was misled.

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Day Pitney Faces DQ Bid Over Ex-Justice's Role In $1.3M Case

By Aaron Keller

Day Pitney LLP should be sidelined from a $1.3 million private equity management company's windup lawsuit because former Connecticut Supreme Court Chief Justice Richard A. Robinson, now a partner at the firm, heard the case before it was earmarked for a new trial, three company owners have argued.

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Wash., Cities Say Pandemic Eviction Moratoria Suit Is Too Late

By Grace Dixon

Washington and a host of municipal governments throughout the state urged a federal court to toss landlords' suit challenging several pandemic-era eviction moratoria, arguing the claims are barred by a three-year statute of limitations.

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Condo Group Claims Developer's Negligence In Colo. Project

By Rachel Konieczny

A pair of Colorado development companies misrepresented the quality of a residential housing project that contained numerous construction defects, a Colorado condominium association alleged in state court.

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Gas Wholesaler Says QuikTrip Torpedoed $3.6M Property Deal

By Kelcey Caulder

A petroleum wholesaler slapped gas station chain QuikTrip with a lawsuit in Georgia federal court Tuesday, saying QuikTrip wrongly asserted a right to purchase a $3.6 million property in metro Atlanta to block the wholesaler from acquiring it to develop a new filling station.

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11th Circ. Backs Dismissal Of Fee Dispute From BCBS MDL

By Chart Riggall

The Eleventh Circuit has affirmed the dismissal of an attorney fee dispute between two lawyers on the plaintiffs' side of a $2.8 billion Blue Cross Blue Shield multidistrict litigation, ruling Tuesday that neither an oral deal nor a letter between the two lawyers was binding on their payouts.

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False Positive Blocks $50M COVID Coverage Bid, Court Told

By Hope Patti

An insurer said an auto parts manufacturer can't get $50 million in coverage for COVID-19 losses, telling a North Carolina federal court the company concealed that an employee's positive test result was false since it was the only evidence that the virus was present at one of the manufacturer's facilities.

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North Face Left Co. With $2.2M In Unsold Garments, Suit Says

By MJ Koo

A Vietnamese garment supplier has sued The North Face's parent companies in Colorado federal court, alleging they refused to accept and pay for more than 200,000 finished North Face-branded garments worth about $2.23 million after the supplier completed production under purchase orders.

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Brief

Copyright Licensing Org. Unveils AI-Use Options For Colleges

By Ivan Moreno

The Copyright Clearance Center on Tuesday unveiled a new content licensing option for artificial intelligence systems used by colleges and universities.

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Venue Operator Seeks Toss Of Wembley Arena Vendor Suit

By Jarek Rutz

A venue management company urged the Delaware Chancery Court on Tuesday to dismiss a lawsuit accusing it of sabotaging food service contract extensions at two major entertainment venues, arguing the governing agreement simply does not impose the obligations the plaintiff claims were breached.

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Tenn. Team Left Out In Minor League Contraction Plans Appeal

By David Steele

A Tennessee-based minor league baseball club has asked a New Jersey federal judge to enter final judgment on the dismissal of a suit against an opposing team owner to clear the path for an appeal.

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NC Guards' Pay Starts At Prison Entry, Judge Says

By Benjamin Morse

North Carolina correctional officers are entitled to compensation under federal wage law for time spent inside prison facilities before and after their scheduled shifts, a federal judge ruled, granting a win to a class and collective accusing the state of violating said law.

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Payroll Co.'s Poaching Suit Can Proceed, Ga. Judge Says

By Chart Riggall

Enterprise software firm invenioLSI must face a suit from a rival company alleging it conspired to engineer a "mass defection" of workers in 2024, after a Georgia federal judge ruled that it "did not have a legal right" to aid in a plan that led to several high-level managers' defections.

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Judge Appoints Receiver For Crypto Co. Over $328M Scheme

By Carolina Bolado

A Florida judge appointed a receiver Tuesday in a lawsuit against cryptocurrency company Goliath Ventures Inc. after expressing concerns about the company's assets following the arrest last week of its CEO on charges that he was operating a $328 million Ponzi scheme at Goliath.

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Investor Claims Telecom CEO Faked Emails To Dilute Stake

By Jarek Rutz

The primary investor of a telecom infrastructure startup has accused its founder and a top executive in Delaware Chancery Court of forging board approvals, unlawfully issuing equity and sidelining the plaintiff in a bid to entrench control.

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King & Spalding Adds 3 More Attys From Winston & Strawn

By Rose Krebs

King & Spalding LLP announced Tuesday that it is continuing to expand in Dallas by adding three more attorneys from Winston & Strawn LLP.

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How Recent Del. Rulings Clarify M&A Deal Fraud Carveouts

Two recent Delaware decisions have provided clarity regarding when a party can or cannot rely on representations made during the course of an M&A transaction, particularly on the scope and enforceability of antireliance provisions, and on representations they knew or should have known were false, says Anthony Boccamazzo at Olshan Frome.

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What US Arms Sales Reforms Mean For Defense Industry

A recent executive order with the goal of increasing U.S. arms sales transparency, speed and government-industry collaboration carries both promise and risk for the defense industry as the government seeks to leverage the private sector and use commercial products for defense purposes, say attorneys at Fluet.

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Aligning Microsoft Tools With NYC Bar AI Recording Guidance

The New York City Bar Association’s recently issued formal opinion, providing ethical guidance on artificial intelligence-assisted recording, transcription and summarization, raises immediate questions about data governance and e-discovery for companies that use Microsoft 365 and Copilot, say Staci Kaliner, Martin Tully and John Collins at Redgrave.

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Judge Questions DOJ Stance In ABA's Intimidation Suit

By Jared Foretek

A Susman Godfrey LLP attorney told a district judge that the Trump administration's recent double-reversal on its executive orders targeting law firms proved that attorneys fighting government action face a real and ongoing threat and urged the judge not to toss a suit from his client, the American Bar Association, to end the "Intimidation Policy."

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DOJ Seeks Power To Block State Bar Probes Of Agency Attys

By Jake Maher

The U.S. Department of Justice is seeking to pause and review state-level ethics complaints against its attorneys to combat what the agency called "weaponization" of ethics processes, a proposal that drew concerns from ethics scholars for overstepping states' authorities.

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Analysis

Wheeling & Appealing: The Latest Must-Know Appellate Action

By Jeff Overley

If this month's circuit calendars were a March Madness bracket, we'd struggle to pick the top-seeded showdown. Big Pharma against the False Claims Act, or big business against President Donald Trump's visa fees? A big bank's view of "human life wagers," or en banc review in a State Farm class action?

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Bondi Subpoenaed To Testify On DOJ's Epstein Investigation

By Lauren Berg

The House Oversight Committee on Wednesday voted to subpoena U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to testify about the U.S. Department of Justice's investigation into deceased child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, with five Republicans joining their Democratic colleagues to compel Bondi's testimony.

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Analysis

Trump's FCA Expansion Plan Heightens Compliance Risk

By Sarah Jarvis

In light of the Trump administration's record False Claims Act enforcement haul, companies should be especially mindful of a planned expansion in the scope of enforcement and the false compliance certification risks that may bring, attorneys say.

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SEC, PCAOB Auditor Enforcement Plummeted In 2025

By Sarah Jarvis

Both the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board saw decreases in accounting and auditing enforcement activity in 2025, including sharp decreases in SEC settlements and PCAOB fines for auditing actions.

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Comey, James Urge 4th Circ. To Reject Indictment Revival Bid

By Emily Sawicki

Former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James have urged the Fourth Circuit not to revive criminal indictments filed against them last year in the Eastern District of Virginia, arguing they were fatally flawed because they were brought by a federal prosecutor who was not lawfully in that position.

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Appeals Panel Debates NJ's Duty In Prosecutor Ethics Case

By George Woolston

A New Jersey appellate panel on Wednesday weighed whether it was in the state's best interest to represent an assistant prosecutor in an ethics proceeding, questioning how a prosecutor is different from any other attorney called before the disciplinary board.

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