FDA To Review Food Preservative BHA For Safety

By Emily Field

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday said that it is reviewing whether a chemical used for decades as a food preservative is safe, pointing to concerns about whether it causes cancer.

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America's Test Kitchen Harvests Food52 Assets In Ch. 11

By Jeff Montgomery

A Chapter 11 deal to serve up assets of cooking and home goods e-commerce company Food52 Inc. to America's Test Kitchen secured a Delaware Bankruptcy judge's approval Tuesday, one of three sale measures totaling nearly $12.5 million to move forward.

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Insurer Owes No Coverage For Contamination Suit Threat

By Mark Payne

An insurer for an herb supplier owes no coverage for a threat from a customer seeking over $1 million in reimbursements for alleged losses tied to salmonella contamination, a New York federal court ruled, saying that the threat of a suit had not been fulfilled. 

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Feds Say 50 Cent's Liquor Boss Violated Fraud Plea Deal

By Hailey Konnath

Federal prosecutors said a former executive at rapper Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson's liquor brand violated a fraud plea agreement by requesting a sentence of one year in home confinement, arguing he had already agreed to spend more than two years behind bars.

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Law360 Seeks Members For Its 2026 Editorial Boards

Law360 is looking for avid readers of our publications to serve as members of our 2026 editorial advisory boards.

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Wash. County Defends Judge's DUI Arrest, Cites Open Alcohol

By Ben Adlin

Sheriff's deputies were justified in arresting a sitting Washington judge on suspicion of DUI given his "bloodshot and watery eyes," admission of drinking earlier that evening and refusal to perform sobriety tests, Grays Harbor County told a Washington federal court in a filing seeking to throw out the ex-judge's suit.

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Commerce Probing Possible Aluminum Import Duty Evasion

By Jack McLoone

The U.S. Department of Commerce announced it is opening a countrywide investigation into whether Chinese disposable aluminum packaging that is completed in the United Arab Emirates before being exported to the U.S. is avoiding antidumping and countervailing duties.

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Labeling Co. Says Ex-Manager Lied About Plan To Compete

By Brian Steele

A former manager at an Ohio labeling and packaging facility lied about plans to go to work for a competitor and then poached an employee to join him, violating his noncompetition and nonsolicitation agreements, according to a lawsuit filed in Connecticut state court.

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Little Caesars Franchisees Get Initial OK For $2.2M OT Deal

By Benjamin Morse

Little Caesars franchisees will pay $2.2 million to end a collective action alleging they misclassified store managers as overtime-exempt, according to a New York federal judge's order preliminarily approving the deal.

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Food Slicer Rivals End Patent Case Weeks Before 3rd Trial

By Elliot Weld

Weber Inc. and Provisur Technologies Inc. have told a federal district court and an appeals court that they were dismissing disputes between them over food slicer patents, ending a fight that saw a $21 million jury verdict thrown out and a second trial end in a mistrial.

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Malpractice Claim Assignability Continues To Divide Courts

Recent decisions from courts across the country demonstrate how different jurisdictions balance competing policy interests in determining whether legal malpractice claims can be assigned, providing a framework to identify when and how to challenge any attempted assignment, says Christopher Blazejewski at Sherin & Lodgen.

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Circuit Split Brewing Following 5th Circ.'s No-Bond Ruling

By Britain Eakin

The Fifth Circuit's split ruling blessing the Trump administration's mandatory immigration detention policy won't be the final say on the matter, but it could supercharge efforts to concentrate detained immigrants there while other circuits weigh the policy's legality.

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Fla. US Attys Push Back Against Sanctions In Habeas Case

By Rae Ann Varona

The U.S. attorney for the Middle District of Florida and an assistant U.S. attorney have urged an Orlando federal judge not to sanction them for the government's response to a noncitizen's habeas petition, saying any shortcomings were an "unintentional oversight."

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Ex-McDermott Atty Fights 'Harassing' Subpoena In Bias Suit

By Grace Elletson

A Black attorney accusing McDermott Will & Schulte LLP of firing her for calling out racial bias has urged an Illinois federal court to reject the firm's bid to get employment records from her previous employer, Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, saying the request serves no other purpose than to harass her.

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Kirkland Joins Growing Number Of Firms Launching In Tenn.

By Andrea Keckley

Kirkland & Ellis is joining a long line of firms setting their sights on Tennessee, announcing Tuesday that it would set up shop in Nashville with a team of former Butler & Snow LLP and King & Spalding LLP litigators.

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Amazon Calls FTC Allegations Of Hidden Documents 'Reckless'

By Bryan Koenig

Amazon.com assailed the Federal Trade Commission for accusing it 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, asking a Washington federal judge to appoint a special master to handle the "inflammatory, close-of-discovery filings."

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Tom Goldstein To Testify At Tax Trial Wednesday

By Jared Foretek

SCOTUSblog co-founder Thomas Goldstein will take the stand in his tax fraud trial Wednesday, after the government rested its case with an IRS agent tallying up $3.6 million that she said went unreported on his 2016 tax return.

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Senate Confirms Burrows As DOJ Policy Chief

By Courtney Bublé

The U.S. Senate voted 52-46 on Tuesday to confirm Daniel Burrows, a White House official and former chief deputy attorney general of Kansas, to lead the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Legal Policy.

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Lewis Brisbois, Ex-Paralegal Bring Dueling Suits Over Firing

By Adrian Cruz

Days after being sued to compel her to arbitrate her claims against the firm, a former Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP paralegal hit her ex-employer with a defamation suit claiming its actions tarnished her reputation and cost her a job at another firm.

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DOJ Pushes To Revive Comey, James Indictments

By Emily Sawicki

Criminal indictments against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James were brought under a validly serving interim U.S. attorney and, therefore, never should have been dismissed, the U.S. Department of Justice argued in its opening brief in its consolidated appeal before the Fourth Circuit.

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