A property insurer for numerous restaurants, bars and other small businesses owes no coverage for their consolidated business interruption claims related to the COVID-19 pandemic, an Illinois federal court ruled, looking to the laws of Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota and Tennessee.
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Insurer Avoids Businesses' COVID-19 Coverage Claims

By Ganesh Setty

A property insurer for numerous restaurants, bars and other small businesses owes no coverage for their consolidated business interruption claims related to the COVID-19 pandemic, an Illinois federal court ruled, looking to the laws of Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota and Tennessee.

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Compass Minerals Investors Get Final OK For $48M Deal

By Sydney Price

A Kansas federal judge on Thursday granted final approval to a $48 million settlement between salt producer Compass Minerals International and investors who claim they were harmed by the company's failure to maintain sufficient production levels at its Canadian mine.

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Walnut Co. Says Firm Misled Court To Lead Super Micro Case

By Gina Kim

A Hagens Berman client who lost the fight against Universal Investment to lead investor claims against Super Micro Computer has blasted the fund's opposition to its bid for a California federal judge to reconsider the denial, arguing Universal's attorneys from Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP have a "documented history" of "misleading courts."

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LITIGATION

Tyson Says Interference Claim 'Lays Bare' Burford's Greed

By Lauraann Wood

Tyson Foods urged an Illinois federal judge on Thursday to reject Burford Capital's bid to ditch allegations that the litigation funder improperly thwarted a near-final price-fixing settlement with Sysco Corp., arguing the counterclaim "lays bare" Burford's systematic effort to obtain a greater investment return.

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DEALS

Deals Rumor Mill

NYSE Parent May Buy Enverus For $6B, Plus More Rumors

By Al Barbarino

A Milwaukee-based advisory firm is in late talks for a stake sale at a $1 billion valuation, Black Rock Coffee Bar files confidentially for an initial public offering at a similar value, and the Intercontinental Exchange is in talks to buy Enverus for $6 billion. Here, Law360 breaks down these and other notable rumors from the past week.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Series

Playing Soccer Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Soccer has become a key contributor to how I approach my work, and the lessons I’ve learned on the pitch about leadership, adaptability, resilience and communication make me better at what I do every day in my legal career, says Whitney O’Byrne at MoFo.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Legal Job Sector Continued 5-Month Growth Streak In July

By Tracey Read

For the fifth straight month, the U.S. legal industry experienced job growth, adding 600 positions in July, according to preliminary data released on Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Brief

Test-Taker's Collapse At NY Bar Exam Sparks Criticism

By Anna Sanders

New York bar-takers were allegedly forced to continue the test after witnessing a Fordham University School of Law graduate suffer a medical incident and receive CPR while she took the exam, according to the school and accounts posted online by people who said they were present.

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DC Panel Calls For Former DOJ Official Clark's Disbarment

By Phillip Bantz

The majority of a Washington, D.C., lawyer ethics panel has called for the disbarment of Jeffrey Clark, a White House official and ally of President Donald Trump, over his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

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NJ Court Will Mull Legality Of Habba's US Atty Appointment

By Lauren Berg

If Alina Habba was illegally appointed acting U.S. attorney in New Jersey, a pair of defendants in a drug trafficking case are not entitled to dismissal of the indictment, but it "appears appropriate" that Habba would be barred from prosecuting them, a federal judge ruled Friday.

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Politics And Privacy Laws Collide 5 Years After Salas Shooting

By Jack Karp

Five years after a disgruntled litigant killed a New Jersey federal judge's son at their home, experts and judges disagree over whether the judicial privacy laws enacted following the shooting are doing much to protect jurists, while political leaders' heated rhetoric makes for an even more dangerous landscape for judges.

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Analysis

Wheeling & Appealing: Midyear Highlights For Every Circuit

By Jeff Overley

In this special edition of Wheeling & Appealing, we're spotlighting key decisions and developments in every circuit court during the first half of 2025, while also previewing August's most intriguing oral arguments, including a remarkably "fierce" showdown between Edible Arrangements and 1-800-Flowers with millions of dollars in attorney fees on the line.

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1st Circ. Doubtful Of Trump's Stance On Birthright Citizenship

By Chris Villani

The First Circuit on Friday seemed inclined to say that the children of unauthorized immigrants are citizens if they were born on U.S. soil, citing both the 14th Amendment and a subsequent U.S. Supreme Court ruling and pushing back on an argument by President Donald Trump's administration.

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Brief

Ex-Copyright Chief Appeals Denial Of Reinstatement Bid

By Elliot Weld

The former head of the U.S. Copyright Office will appeal a D.C. federal judge's denial of her request to be immediately reinstated to her former position after she was fired by President Donald Trump while her suit remains pending.

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NY Law Mandating Judicial Fine Declared Unconstitutional

By Madison Arnold

A New York state appeals court has declared unconstitutional a statute that mandates a judge forfeit $1,000 to a plaintiff if the judge refuses to issue a writ of habeas corpus.

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Monthly Merger Review Snapshot

By Matthew Perlman

The U.S. Department of Justice abandoned its challenge of a corporate travel management deal, while lawmakers are calling for scrutiny of the agency's recent decision to settle a different case, and the Federal Trade Commission agreed to nix the requirements placed on a pair of oil and gas deals.

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The Top In-House Hires Of July

By Michele Gorman

Legal department hires over the past month included high-profile appointments at Warner Bros. Discovery, Deutsche Bank and Kroger. Here, Law360 Pulse looks at some of the top in-house announcements from July.

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UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

By Max Austin

This past week in London has seen several telco giants hit with a trademark claim, a collapsed hotel company sue a property investor in an ongoing dispute over a decades-old hotel sale, and two litigation funders square off against each other.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

Department store retailer Dillard's has asked for a special shareholder's vote on Aug. 19 on management's plan to move its incorporation from Delaware to Texas, becoming the latest company to join the so-called DExit trend.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP and Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a Ninth Circuit panel affirmed Epic Games Inc.'s 2023 antitrust jury trial win, along with an injunction requiring Google to open its Google Play Store to rivals.

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In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Law360

For those who missed out, here's a look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the most buzz on Law360 last week.

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COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

1-800-Flowers.com Inc.

7-Eleven Inc.

AT&T Inc.

AXA XL Ltd.

Abbott Laboratories

Air Products & Chemicals Inc.

Airbnb Inc.

Amazon.com Inc.

American Bar Association

American Civil Liberties Union

American Express Global Business Travel

Amneal Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Ancestry

Aramark

BASF SE

BCE Inc.

BDO LLP

BJC HealthCare

Balfour Beatty PLC

Beyond Meat Inc.

Boy Scouts of America

Burford Capital LLC

CVS Health Corp.

Charter Communications Inc.

Chegg Inc.

Chevron Corp.

Cincinnati Financial Corp.

Compass Minerals International, Inc.

Cox Communications Inc.

Davies Group Ltd.

Delta Corp. Ltd.

Democracy Forward Foundation

Deutsche Bank AG

Dick's Sporting Goods Inc.

Dollar Tree Inc.

Donna Karan Co. LLC

Downtown Music Holdings LLC

EE Ltd.

EQT Corp.

Edgeworth Economics LLC

Edible Arrangements LLC

Eli Lilly & Co.

Enerpac Tool Group Corp.

Epic Games Inc.

Euronext Amsterdam NV

Exxon Mobil Corp.

Federal Bar Association

Federalist Society

Foot Locker Inc.

Fordham University

GE HealthCare Technologies Inc.

Global Payments Inc.

Goal Group Ltd.

Google LLC

Green Bay Packers Inc.

Greencore Group PLC

HSBC Holdings PLC

Harvard University

Hess Corp.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.

Honeywell International Inc.

Intelsat SA

JELD-WEN Inc.

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Johnson & Johnson

Juniper Networks Inc.

KKR & Co. Inc.

LVMH Moet Hennessy

Lawyers for Civil Rights

Lex Machina Inc.

Liberty Mutual Insurance Group

Live Nation Entertainment Inc.

Louis Dreyfus Holding B.V.

MS Amlin PLC

Macrae Inc.

Mediterranean Shipping Co. SA

Mednax Inc.

Metronet

Morgan Stanley

Munchkin Inc.

NFL Enterprises LLC

National Collegiate Athletic Association

New Mountain Capital LLC

New York Legal Assistance Group Inc.

New York Racing Association Inc.

New York State Bar Association

New York Stock Exchange LLC

Norfolk Southern Corp.

Northern Trust Corp.

Nova Biomedical Corp.

Novo Nordisk A S

Orient Overseas Container Line Ltd.

Ozone Networks Inc.

PGA TOUR Inc.

Palantir Technologies Inc.

Paramount Global

Philadelphia Consolidated Holding Corp.

Philadelphia Eagles

Pioneer Natural Resources Co.

Pivot Bio Inc.

ProAssurance Corporation

Quantum Energy Partners

Reddit Inc.

Reebok International Ltd.

Repligen Corporation

Restoration Hardware Holdings Inc.

SES SA

Sage Therapeutics Inc.

Sanofi

Satyam Computer Services Ltd.

Skydance Media LLC

Solventum

Southwest Airlines Co.

Spectrum Management Holding Co.

Steves & Sons Inc.

Sunoco LP

Super Micro Computer Inc.

Supernus Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Symantec Corp.

Sysco Corp.

Sysmex Corp.

Take-Two Interactive Software Inc.

Tesla Inc.

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.

The Bank of New York Mellon Corp.

The Charles Schwab Corp.

The District of Columbia Bar

The Doctors Co.

The Kraft Heinz Co.

The Kroger Co.

Therium Capital Management Ltd.

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.

Toys R Us Inc.

Tricon Energy Inc.

Tyson Foods Inc.

Union Pacific Corp.

Universal Music Group NV

Verizon Communications Inc.

Verve Therapeutics Inc.

Virgin Media Inc.

Vivendi SA

Volkswagen AG

Vuori Inc.

WHP Global

Warner Bros. Discovery Inc.

Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.

West Bend Mutual Insurance Co.

Wipfli LLP

Workday Inc.

Worldpay LLC

Yang Ming Marine Transport Corp.

LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Arnold & Porter

Ashurst LLP

Axinn Veltrop

Baker & Hostetler

Bernstein Litowitz

Boies Schiller

Burns Bair

Bush Gottlieb

CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang

Cleary Gottlieb

Clifford Law Offices

Consovoy McCarthy

Covington & Burling

Cravath Swaine

Crowell & Moring

DLA Piper

DWF LLP

David Boies

Dentons

DiCello Levitt

Dinsmore & Shohl

Faegre Drinker

Flood & Flood

Freeman Mathis

Freeths LLP

Freshfields

Gibson Dunn

Greenberg Traurig

Hagens Berman

Harrison LLP

Hogan Lovells

Holwell Shuster

Horwich Farrelly

Howes Percival

Husch Blackwell

Jones Day

K&L Gates

Kellogg Hansen

Keystone Law

Kilpatrick Townsend

Kirby McInerney

Kirkland & Ellis

Knights Solicitors

Lanier Law Firm

Latham & Watkins

Law Offices of Todd M. Friedman

Lipe Lyons

MFG Solicitors

McDermott Will & Emery

McGuireWoods

Mills & Reeve

Mishcon de Reya

Morgan Lewis

Morrison & Foerster

Munger Tolles

Nabarro LLP

Pierce Atwood

Pinsent Masons

Quinn Emanuel

Robbins Alloy

Robbins Geller

Rudy Exelrod

Schall Law

Seyfarth Shaw

Shapiro Arato

Sidley Austin

Skadden Arps

Spector Roseman

Stevens & Bolton

Stranch Jennings

Stueve Siegel

Tarter Krinsky

Taylor Rose

Trethowans LLP

Tucker Ellis

Wachtell Lipton

Ward Hadaway

Webb Law Group APC

Williams Mullen

Willkie Farr

WilmerHale

Winston & Strawn

gunnercooke LLP

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives

Bureau of Labor Statistics

Companies House

Competition and Markets Authority

European Commission

Federal Communications Commission

Federal Trade Commission

Food and Drug Administration

Judicial Conference of the United States

Library of Congress

Mississippi Attorney General's Office

National Labor Relations Board

New Jersey Attorney General's Office

New York Supreme Court, New York County

Office of the Comptroller of the Currency

U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission

U.S. Copyright Office

U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

U.S. Department of Justice

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

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

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

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

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

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

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

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

UK High Court

US Office of Management and Budget

United States District Court for the District of Kansas

Wisconsin Supreme Court