A Ninth Circuit panel summarily refused to allow a Las Vegas home nursing executive to avoid prison while appealing the U.S. Department of Justice's first-ever criminal wage-fixing conviction.
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9th Circ. Denies Bail Pending Nurse Wage-Fixing Appeal

By Bryan Koenig

A Ninth Circuit panel summarily refused to allow a Las Vegas home nursing executive to avoid prison while appealing the U.S. Department of Justice's first-ever criminal wage-fixing conviction.

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Signal 'Never' Regular Biz Practice, Amazon Tells FTC Judge

By Bryan Koenig

Amazon.com Inc. assailed the Federal Trade Commission for accusing the company of using auto-deleting Signal chats and improper privilege claims to hide evidence of rules that created an artificial pricing floor across online retail stores, telling a Washington federal judge that it never hid anything.

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College Athletes Balk At Exclusion From White House Panel

By Alex Lawson

The White House's apparent failure to invite any active student-athletes to this week's college sports policy roundtable drew fire on Thursday from a college athletes' advocacy group, which reiterated its demand for a broad collective bargaining agreement covering amateur athletics.

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NCAA Takes Eligibility Battle With QB To Miss. Supreme Court

By David Steele

The NCAA on Thursday asked the Mississippi Supreme Court to overturn a lower court injunction allowing star quarterback Trinidad Chambliss to exceed its eligibility limits and play football next season for the University of Mississippi.

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MERGER REVIEW

Enviri, Veolia's $3B Clean Earth Deal Gets US Antitrust Nod

By Al Barbarino

Enviri Corp. has disclosed the early termination of the waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act for its planned sale of Clean Earth to Veolia Environnement SA for more than $3 billion.

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INTERNATIONAL

Meta Agrees To Let Rival AI Bots On WhatsApp In Europe

By Matthew Perlman

Meta Platforms will let rival artificial intelligence providers back on its WhatsApp service in Europe for a fee for the next year, after enforcers threatened to impose restrictive measures as part of an antitrust investigation, the company confirmed Thursday.

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EU Approves KKR, PAG's $3B Sapporo Property Biz Buy

By Isaac Monterose

The European Commission on Thursday approved global investment firm KKR & Co. Inc. and private asset manager PAG's $3 billion acquisition of Sapporo Holdings Ltd.'s real estate business.

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Water Cos. Beat Attempt To Revive £800M Sewage Claim

By Sophia Dourou

An environmental consultant cannot revive an £800 million ($1.1 billion) collective action against water utility companies for their allegedly underreported sewage discharge after a divided Court of Appeal held Thursday that misleading of the industry regulator was an "essential ingredient" of the claim.

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LITIGATION

'Addiction' Became A 'Dirty Word' At Instagram, Jury Hears

By Craig Clough

A former executive and consultant for Meta testified Thursday in bellwether litigation over claims that its subsidiary Instagram is harmful to children, telling a Los Angeles jury that between his two stints with the company, he saw "addiction" go from an openly researched topic to a taboo "dirty word."

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Berkshire Unit Wants Out Of Broker Commission Fees Suit

By Isaac Monterose

A Berkshire Hathaway unit that owns real estate brokerage HomeServices of America Inc. urged a Missouri federal court to grant its quick win bid against an antitrust class action that accused the National Association of Realtors and brokerages of running an anticompetitive scheme that inflates buyer-broker commission fees.

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Nielsen Urges 2nd Circ. To Nix Data-Tying Order

By Matthew Perlman

Ratings provider Nielsen has told the Second Circuit that a lower court injunction blocking it from conditioning access to its nationwide radio ratings data on the purchase of local market data intruded on its private price negotiations with radio giant Cumulus Media.

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Fed. Circ. Mulls Patents In Penile Implant Trade Secret Win

By Ivan Moreno

A Federal Circuit panel on Thursday grilled both sides in a trade secret dispute over penile implants that resulted in an $18.3 million judgment against defendants, repeatedly questioning attorneys about whether existing patents doomed the trade secrets claimed by International Medical Devices and its founder, Dr. James Elist.

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PEOPLE

Willkie Hires Ex-Clifford Chance UK Competition Chief

By Ashish Sareen

Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP said Thursday that it has hired a former competition leader at Jones Day and Clifford Chance for its office in London.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Series

Volunteering With Scouts Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Serving as an assistant scoutmaster for my son’s troop reaffirmed several skills and principles crucial to lawyering — from the importance of disconnecting to the value of morality, says Michael Warren at McManis Faulkner.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

OpenAI Practices Law Without A License, Insurer Alleges

By Lauren Berg

OpenAI is practicing law without a license, according to an insurer's lawsuit filed in Illinois federal court that alleges artificial intelligence platform ChatGPT provided faulty legal advice to a woman seeking disability benefits that led to a breached settlement and a flurry of frivolous court filings.

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Analysis

UK Law Sector's Private Equity Boom Offers Lessons For US

By Ryan Boysen

Private equity money is pouring into the U.K. legal sector, fueling a wave of consolidation in consumer-facing practices and offering a glimpse of what it could look like if outside investment in the U.S. legal industry takes off.

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Criminal Contempt Of DOJ Attys Unlikely For Violating Orders

By Jack Karp

Federal judges have been floating the possibility of holding government attorneys in criminal contempt of court for violating immigration-related court orders, a potentially shocking move that scholars say is unlikely and probably less effective than civil contempt orders.

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Lindsey Halligan Faces Fla. Bar Investigation, Watchdog Says

By Lauren Berg

The Florida Bar is investigating Lindsey Halligan, the former interim U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia who pursued controversial indictments against President Donald Trump's political opponents, according to a letter the Campaign for Accountability made public Thursday.

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Troutman And Former Atty Push To Limit Scope Of Bias Trial

By Jake Maher

Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP and a former associate suing the firm for racial discrimination and retaliation this week fought over the role that charged language and calculations of financial damages should play in an upcoming trial.

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Atty's Scheduling Error Dooms Appeal In AT&T Forfeiture Suit

By Patrick Hoff

An AT&T worker can't ask the Ninth Circuit to review the dismissal of his proposed class action claiming the telecommunications company misused forfeited 401(k) funds, with a California federal judge saying his attorney's busy schedule was "one of the least compelling excuses" for filing a late appeal.

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Analysis

A Look At Four States' Tort Reform Legislation Fights

By Y. Peter Kang

There are currently four states debating whether to install business-friendly tort reform legislation or medical malpractice guardrails. The issues include a potentially brutal showdown in California over auto collision litigation and efforts in Florida to expand wrongful death liability for healthcare providers.

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Ex-Judge In Wis. Says ICE Prosecution Theory Has No Limits

By Britain Eakin

A former Wisconsin judge has said the government's case against her for obstructing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has no limiting principle and wrongly turned her authority to manage her courtroom into a federal felony for impeding ICE.

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Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana Judicial Nominees Advance

By Courtney Bublé

Four judicial nominees advanced out of committee Thursday along party lines, which included two for Texas.

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Williams & Connolly

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Willkie Farr

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COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

AT&T Inc.

Acquira

AlixPartners LLP

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Boy Scouts of America

Consumer Attorneys of California

Cumulus Media Inc.

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Enviri Corp.

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Google LLC

Hamilton Lincoln

Harsco Corporation

HomeServices of America Inc.

Instagram Inc.

KKR & Co. Inc.

LVMH Moet Hennessy

Medtronic PLC

Meta Platforms Inc.

National Association of Realtors

National Collegiate Athletic Association

Nielsen Holdings PLC

Nippon Life Insurance Company of America

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Otis Worldwide Corp.

Severn Trent PLC

Snap Inc.

The Florida Bar

TikTok Inc.

Uber Technologies Inc.

Veolia Environnement SA

Virginia State Bar

Westwood One, Inc.

YouTube Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Competition Appeal Tribunal

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European Commission

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Federal Trade Commission

Mississippi Supreme Court

New York Attorney General's Office

U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Minnesota

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Department of Justice

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

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

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U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

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