A Delaware judge awarded $55 million in damages Wednesday to Tyson Foods Inc. arising from its $866 million acquisition of poultry rendering plants in Georgia and Alabama, finding after trial that American Proteins Inc. concealed past recycling of slaughter wastewater sludge and fraudulently induced the deal.
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Tyson Wins $55M In Del. After Poultry Rendering Plants Trial

By Jeff Montgomery

A Delaware judge awarded $55 million in damages Wednesday to Tyson Foods Inc. arising from its $866 million acquisition of poultry rendering plants in Georgia and Alabama, finding after trial that American Proteins Inc. concealed past recycling of slaughter wastewater sludge and fraudulently induced the deal.

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Investor Says Houston Apt. Owner Diverted $17M In Proceeds

By Grace Dixon

An investor controlled by bridge lender KHCA Funding LLC has filed suit against the owner and operator entities of a multifamily building in Houston, alleging that $17.6 million in investment proceeds it was due were improperly diverted elsewhere by the company.

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Judge Revives Supplement Patent Claims Jury Found Invalid

By Adam Lidgett

A Delaware federal judge Wednesday allowed HQ Specialty Pharma Corp. to correct an injectable calcium supplement patent it accused Fresenius Kabi of infringing and found the claims were no longer invalid as a result.

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Analysis

The Biggest Patent Rulings Of 2025: A Midyear Report

By Ryan Davis

A ruling by the full Federal Circuit invited greater scrutiny of patent damages testimony, and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's acting director established new criteria for rejecting patent challenges. Here's a look at the top patent decisions from the first half of 2025.

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SUPREME COURT

Feature

The Funniest Moments Of The Supreme Court's Term

By Jeff Overley

After justices and oral advocates spent much of an argument pummeling a lower court's writing talents, one attorney suggested it might be time to move on — only to be told the drubbing had barely begun. Here, Law360 showcases the standout jests and wisecracks from the 2024-25 U.S. Supreme Court term.

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POLICY & REGULATION

States Say DHS' Softer Stance On Grants Doesn't Moot Suit

By Zach Dupont

A collective of 20 states said Wednesday that only Congress can change the terms of federal grants, telling a Rhode Island federal judge that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's softening of its stance on withholding funds to states that don't cooperate with immigration enforcement cannot moot their suit against the government.

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COURT OF CHANCERY

SpaceX Investor Wins $1 After Suing Over $50M Deal Scratch

By Jeff Montgomery

A China-tied company that sued a California-based private equity firm for walking back a purported agreement to make a $50 million investment in SpaceX in November 2021 has won a single dollar in damages after a three-year, multiclaim Delaware Court of Chancery suit and trial.

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BANKRUPTCY COURT

Canned Food Group Del Monte Hits Ch. 11 With $1.2B Debt

By Clara Geoghegan

Packaged foods giant Del Monte is seeking Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in New Jersey with plans for a sale after a liability management transaction last year failed to sufficiently reduce borrowing costs from its $1.23 billion of secured debt.

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Insurers Blast Avon Ch. 11 Talc Injury Trust

By Rick Archer

A group of insurance carriers is asking a Delaware bankruptcy judge to reject cosmetic seller Avon Products' Chapter 11 plan, saying it would unfairly force them to pay possibly bogus talc injury claims.

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THIRD CIRCUIT

3rd Circ. Rules False Claims Fraud Can Trigger Deportation

By P.J. D'Annunzio

A Canadian national who gained permanent-resident status in the United States can be deported for costing the Department of Veterans Affairs $3 million by making false claims to get his scuba school into a GI Bill-funded program, the Third Circuit held in a precedential ruling Tuesday.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Assessing New Changes To Texas Officer Exculpation Law

Consistent with Texas' recent modernization of its corporate law, the recently passed S.B. 2411 allows officer exculpation, streamlines certificate of formation amendments, authorizes representatives to act on shareholders' behalf in mergers and makes other changes aimed toward companies seeking a more codified, statutory model of corporate governance, say attorneys at Bracewell.

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Kousisis Concurrence Maps FCA Defense To Anti-DEI Suits

Justice Clarence Thomas' recent concurrence in Kousisis v. U.S. lays out how federal funding recipients could use the high standard for materiality in government fraud cases to fight the U.S. Justice Department’s threatened False Claims Act suits against payees deviating from the administration’s anti-DEI policies, say attorneys at Miller & Chevalier.

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Opinion

Subject Matter Eligibility Test Should Return To Preemption

Subject matter eligibility has posed challenges for patentees due to courts' arbitrary and confusing reasoning, but adopting a two-part preemption test could align the applicant, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the courts, says Manav Das at McDonnell Boehnen.

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8 Ways Lawyers Can Protect The Rule Of Law In Their Work

Whether they are concerned with judicial independence, regulatory predictability or client confidence, lawyers can take specific meaningful actions on their own when traditional structures are too slow or too compromised to respond, says Angeli Patel at the Berkeley Center of Law and Business.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Legal Sector Jobs Continue To Climb, Nearing All-Time High

By Aebra Coe

The U.S. legal industry added 2,800 jobs in June, marking four months in a row of job growth in the sector, according to preliminary data released Thursday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Analysis

Breaking Down The Vote: The High Court Term In Review

By Jack Karp

The U.S. Supreme Court once again waited until the term's closing weeks — and even hours — to issue some of its most anticipated and divided decisions.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

Target's board faces a shareholder derivative suit that accuses the retail giant of damaging the company by implementing an LGBTQ+ Pride-themed marketing campaign, despite knowing the risk of "public backlash." Meanwhile, SolarWinds and the SEC are close to resolving a novel case that alleges the software developer hid faulty cybersecurity practices before a major breach. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.

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Analysis

The Firms That Won Big At The Supreme Court

By Jack Karp

The number of law firms juggling three or more arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court this past term nearly doubled from the number of firms that could make that claim last term.

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Analysis

What Judges Might Ponder In Judicial Safety Law Challenge

By Carla Baranauckas

A Third Circuit panel set to examine the constitutionality of a judicial safety law born out of the murder of a New Jersey federal judge's son is tasked with what experts are viewing as a lesser-of-two-evils choice: chilling free speech or chilling public service.

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Ex-Treasury Official Joins Covington's Nat'l Security Practice

By Madeline Lyskawa

Covington & Burling LLP has boosted its national security practice with the hire of the former head of the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence under former President Barack Obama's administration as of counsel.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a Maryland school district burdened parents' religious rights when it declined to provide opt-outs from a policy that introduced LGBTQ-themed storybooks into its K-12 English curriculum.

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Spectrum, Border, Injunction Changes Included In Mega Bill

By Courtney Bublé

The House voted 218-214, almost along party lines, on Thursday on the reconciliation budget package, which includes a range of policy provisions on nationwide injunctions, spectrum and immigration and now goes to President Donald Trump's desk ahead of the decided Fourth of July deadline.

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Orrick Adds Nixon Peabody Public Finance Atty In LA

By James Mills

Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP is boosting its finance team, bringing in a Nixon Peabody LLP public finance pro as a partner in its Los Angeles office.

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Analysis

The Moments That Shaped The Universal Injunction Case

By Cara Bayles and Steven Trader

The U.S. Supreme Court voted along ideological lines when it hindered the ability of federal district court judges to issue nationwide pauses on presidential policies, but that outcome didn't seem like a foregone conclusion during oral arguments earlier this year. What do the colloquies suggest about the justices' thinking? Here are some moments that may have swayed them.

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Justices Extend Due Process Pause To South Sudan Removals

By Katie Buehler

The U.S. Supreme Court clarified Thursday that its recent order allowing the Trump administration to send noncitizens to countries they have no connection to with little notice or chance to object extends to a group of men the government plans to send to South Sudan.

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Analysis

Circuit-By-Circuit Recap: Justices Send Message To Outliers

By Jeff Overley

It was a tough term at the U.S. Supreme Court for two very different circuits — one solidly liberal, one solidly conservative — that had their rulings overturned in eye-popping numbers. But it was another impressive year for a relatively moderate circuit that appears increasingly simpatico with the high court.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

AFN Law PLLC

Abrams & Bayliss

Agnifilo Intrater

Arnold & Porter

Baker Botts

Baker Donelson

Ballard Spahr

Bartlit Beck

Blank Rome

Boies Schiller

Bracewell LLP

Brown Rudnick

Buchanan Ingersoll

Bucher Law PLLC

Bunsow De Mory

Clement & Murphy

Cole Schotz

Constangy Brooks

Covington & Burling

DLA Piper

Dechert LLP

Duane Morris

Dykema

Farnan LLP

FisherBroyles

Gibbons PC

Gibson Dunn

Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani

Greenberg Traurig

Greenspoon Marder

Groombridge Wu

Gupta Wessler

Haun Mena

Hausfeld LLP

Herbert Smith Freehills

Hogan Lovells

Holland & Hart

Holland & Knight

Ifrah Law

Jones Day

Kennedys Law LLP

King & Spalding

Kirkland & Ellis

Klein Thomas

Knobbe Martens

Korein Tillery

Latham & Watkins

Lewis Brisbois

Lomurro Munson

Lowenstein Sandler

Manatt Phelps

McDermott Will & Emery

McDonnell Boehnen

McElroy Deutsch

McManis Faulkner

Milbank LLP

Miller & Chevalier

Morgan & Morgan

Morris Nichols

Nixon Peabody

Orrick Herrington

Patterson Belknap

Pierson Ferdinand LLP

Potter Anderson

Quinn Emanuel

RKW LLC

Raj Ferber

Rakoczy Molino

Reavis Page

Richards Layton

Riker Danzig

Ross Aronstam

Rothwell Figg

Seyfarth Shaw

Shapiro Arato

Sheppard Mullin

Sidley Austin

Skarzynski Marick

Sterlington PLLC

Stinson LLP

Stoel Rives

Sullivan & Cromwell

Thompson Hine

Troutman

Weil Gotshal

White and Williams

Williams & Connolly

WilmerHale

Wood Smith

Wright Close & Barger

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

American Bankers Association

Apple Inc.

Association of Corporate Counsel

Avon Products Inc.

CTIA

Competitive Carriers Association

Del Monte Foods Inc.

Drummond

Equifax Inc.

Fox Corp.

Fresenius Kabi AG

Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA

Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc.

Google LLC

Harvard University

Human Rights First

Institutional Shareholder Services Inc.

LexisNexis Legal & Professional

LinkedIn Corp.

Major Lindsey & Africa LLC

Medtronic PLC

NVIDIA Corp.

Natura Cosmeticos SA

Oracle Corp.

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

PacifiCorp

Planned Parenthood Federation

Pro Bono Institute

RELX PLC

Smith & Wesson Brands Inc.

SolarWinds Corp.

Space Exploration Technologies Corp.

Stanford University

Supervalu Inc.

The Wireless Infrastructure Association

Thomson Reuters Corp.

TikTok Inc.

Tyson Foods Inc.

United States Telecom Association

Universal Health Services Inc.

University of California Davis

University of the Pacific

Valve Corp.

Versity Invest LLC

Welch Allyn Inc.

Werner Enterprises Inc.

iRhythm Technologies Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives

Bureau of Labor Statistics

California State Treasurer's Office

Delaware Court of Chancery

Executive Office of the President

Federal Communications Commission

Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

Federal Emergency Management Agency

Federal Reserve System

Food and Drug Administration

Government of Mexico

Internal Revenue Service

International Trade Commission

New Jersey Legislature

Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Office of Foreign Assets Control

Office of the Comptroller of the Currency

Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals

Patent Trial and Appeal Board

Pennsylvania Department of Transportation

Texas Supreme Court

U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Rhode Island

U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware

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

U.S. Coast Guard

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

U.S. Department of Defense

U.S. Department of Education

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of Labor

U.S. Department of State

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

U.S. Department of the Treasury

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware

U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

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

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

U.S. Tax Court