Burger King and Popeyes owner Restaurant Brands International Inc. has reached an $18.2 million deal with shareholders who say they were "materially uninformed" about the true value of the company's 2024 $1 billion buyout of fast food franchisee Carrols Restaurant Group Inc.
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Burger King Owner Inks $18M Deal In Suit Over $1B Buyout

By Sydney Price

Burger King and Popeyes owner Restaurant Brands International Inc. has reached an $18.2 million deal with shareholders who say they were "materially uninformed" about the true value of the company's 2024 $1 billion buyout of fast food franchisee Carrols Restaurant Group Inc.

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3 Firms Advise On DoorDash's $300M Campus Dining App Buy

By Al Barbarino

DoorDash said Tuesday it has agreed to purchase food technology platform Wonder Group Inc.'s Grubhub Campus Dining business for $300 million, and it has also made a $125 million investment in Wonder's Series D fundraising round. 

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Costco Tequila Buyers Say Agave Certification Isn't Conclusive

By Rachel Riley

Tequila buyers who claim Costco falsely labeled Kirkland Signature-brand tequila told a Washington federal judge on Tuesday that a Mexico-based council's certification of the bottles as "100% agave" isn't enough to extinguish their deceptive marketing case against the U.S. retailer.

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Haleon Sued Over 'Zero Sugar' Claim In Emergen-C Gummies

By Gina Kim

Haleon US Holdings was hit with a proposed class action in California federal court Sunday, which accused the consumer healthcare giant of deceptively labeling its Emergen-C immune support gummies as containing "zero sugar," even though they are sweetened with allulose, which is a sugar under federal regulations.

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POLICY & REGULATION

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Commerce Orders Duties On Chinese Feed Additive

By Jack McLoone

The U.S. Department of Commerce ordered antidumping and countervailing duties on animal feed-grade additive from China on Tuesday after the product was found to be sold at unfair prices and to be harming domestic industry.

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LITIGATION

Judge Bars Oregon Steelhead Stocking In North Santiam River

By Tom Lotshaw

A federal judge has ordered Oregon to stop releasing non-native summer steelhead into the North Santiam River for recreational fishing until the National Marine Fisheries Service updates a flawed opinion on the harms the hatchery-raised fish may pose to native winter steelhead.

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Justices Asked To Resolve Cannabis Dormant Commerce Split

By Sam Reisman

A California litigator's campaign of lawsuits alleging that state and local cannabis regulatory regimes violate the U.S. Constitution's dormant commerce clause has culminated in a petition for a writ of certiorari which appeared on the U.S. Supreme Court's docket Tuesday.

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9th Circ. Backs Tribe In Casino Fight, Questions Joinder Rule

By Crystal Owens

A Ninth Circuit panel has rejected a group of Anchorage, Alaska, residents' appeal to undo an order finding the Native Village of Eklutna immune from their lawsuit seeking to block a casino development, with two judges expressing some doubt over a tribe's ability to be joined in a lawsuit.

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Colo. Judge Certifies H-2A Workers' Overtime Suit

By Tom Lotshaw

A Colorado federal judge granted migrant workers' certification bid for a collective and class action alleging that KB Custom Ag Services LLC misclassified their jobs, failed to pay required overtime and breached their contracts.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Burford Exec, Holland & Knight Adviser Open AI-Native Firm

By Andrea Keckley

Two veterans of the legal industry announced on Wednesday that they have teamed up to launch FairPlay Law, an AI-native firm based in Manhattan and focused on representing employees.

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Michael Best Combines With NY-Based Kane Kessler

By Kevin Penton

Michael Best & Friedrich LLP announced Wednesday that it is combining with New York-based firm Kane Kessler PC, adding 36 attorneys and a Big Apple presence to a firm that ranked 143rd on Law360's list of the nation's largest law firms.

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Protesters Say Feds' Fight Shows Need For Misconduct Probe

By Lauraann Wood

The U.S. government's opposition to a special investigation of prosecutorial misconduct that "poisoned" a now-dismissed criminal conspiracy case suggests Chicago prosecutors are still shielding critical details regarding the extent of official communications preceding the prosecution, underscoring the probe's necessity, protesters argued Tuesday.

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Apple Backs Its $132K Fee Ask Over 'Bad Faith' Subpoenas

By Bonnie Eslinger

Apple has urged a California federal magistrate judge to grant its $132,700 attorney fee request as a sanction against plaintiff consumers' lead lawyer in antitrust litigation claiming Google muscles out rival search engines, but said Apple's counsel doesn't want to disclose their "highly and competitively sensitive" negotiated legal rates.

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Newman Saga Prompts Bill To Limit Judicial Suspensions

By Courtney Bublé

The long-running saga over Federal Circuit Judge Pauline Newman's fitness to remain on the court has exposed "major flaws" in the judicial accountability system, according to a Republican member of the House who introduced a bill Wednesday to reform it.

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Senate Panel Weighs 6 Trump Judicial Picks From Red States

By Courtney Bublé

Six nominees for U.S. district judge appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday for their nomination hearing.

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COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

APC

Amazon.com Inc.

Amphastar Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Apple Inc.

Archer-Daniels-Midland Co.

Burford Capital LLC

Burger King Holdings Inc.

Carrols Restaurant Group Inc.

Chobani LLC

Costco Wholesale Corp.

Crag Law Center

DoorDash Inc.

Etsy Inc.

GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare Ltd.

Google LLC

GrubHub Inc.

Haleon PLC

Jefferies Financial Group Inc.

Kind LLC

Maverick Gaming LLC

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Restaurant Brands International Inc.

Sequoia Capital Operations LLC

Thomson Reuters Corp.

Twitter Inc.

Uber Technologies Inc.

Unilever PLC

WK Kellogg Co

Western Environmental Law Center

Wonder Group Inc.

LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Alioto Law Firm

Andrews & Springer

Baron & Budd

Bartko Pavia

Bernstein Litowitz

Charles C. Weller APC

Cheronis & Parente

Cotsirilos Poulos

Dawson Morton LLC

Fenwick & West

Fisher & Phillips

Hagens Berman

Holland & Knight

Kane Kessler

Kaskela Law

Katten Muchin

Labaton Keller

Latham & Watkins

Law Offices of Lawrence G. Papale

Michael Best & Friedrich

Nedeau Law Firm

Paduano & Weintraub

Paul Weiss

Rennert Vogel

Skadden Arps

Sonosky Chambers

Taft Stettinius

Veen Firm

Williams & Connolly

Wilson Sonsini

Wohl & Fruchter

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Delaware Court of Chancery

Food and Drug Administration

Government of Mexico

National Indian Gaming Commission

National Marine Fisheries Service

Native Village of Eklutna

Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife

Oregon Department of Justice

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Illinois

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. Department of Commerce

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of the Interior

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

U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska

U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

United States District Court for the District of Colorado

United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma

Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board