Egg Producers Settle Collusion Claims From DOJ, States

By Matthew Perlman

State and federal enforcers have reached settlements with Cal-Maine, Versova and Hickman's Egg Ranch over claims that the egg producers inflated prices by colluding to manipulate benchmarking rates.

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Justices Skip Pork Case Over Alito, Kavanaugh Objections

By Julie Manganis

The U.S. Supreme Court said Tuesday it will not review a challenge to a Massachusetts law restricting the sale of pork produced in tightly confined spaces, though Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Samuel Alito were in favor of hearing the case.

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FDA Lets Zyn Market Some Pouches As Less Risky Than Cigs

By Rae Ann Varona

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Tuesday that Philip Morris may now market 20 of its Zyn nicotine pouch products as having less of a health risk than cigarettes.

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Income Taxes Drive Slight Boost In Asia-Pacific Tax Ratio

By Jack McLoone

Increases in income tax collection in the Asia-Pacific region helped drive a modest increase in the region's average ratio of tax to gross domestic product in 2024, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said Tuesday, though it still sits well below the OECD average.

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CFPB's Slimmer Small-Biz Data Rule Cements End To 2 Suits

By Katryna Perera

Kentucky banks and a lender trade group have dropped their parallel lawsuits over the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's Biden-era small business loan reporting requirements, citing the agency's scaled-back version of the requirements that went into effect Tuesday.

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Costco Says Chubb Unit Owes Defense For Warehouse Injury

By Jennifer Mandato

Costco accused a Chubb unit of wrongfully refusing to defend the big-box retailer in an underlying bodily injury lawsuit, arguing that the carrier owes the retailer a full defense because it was listed as an additional insured vendor under a home decor brand's policy.

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Coca-Cola Bottler Off The Hook In Cop Crash Suit

By Jonathan Capriel

The Coca-Cola Bottling Co. United-East LLC has beaten a personal injury lawsuit stemming from a three-car pileup with a police car, after a Georgia state appeals court ruled on Tuesday that there is no evidence to suggest that the driver of the company's tractor-trailer did anything wrong.

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Conn. Servers Seek Quick Win On Minimal Duties Claims

By MJ Koo

Restaurant servers have asked a Connecticut state court to throw out a steakhouse's argument that some of their unpaid work was too small to matter, saying a recent state high court ruling makes clear that no amount of work can go uncompensated under state law.

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Ex-NC Gov. Faces Deposition Bid In COVID Bar Closure Suit

By Abigail Harrison

A group of bar owners has asked a North Carolina state court to let it depose former Gov. Roy Cooper and his top health and human services official while in office as it attempts to show COVID-19-era executive orders forcing bar closures violated the owners' constitutional rights.

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Series

Power To The Paralegals: Burnout As A Structural Problem

Law firm leadership can best retain their paralegals not by encouraging self-care, but by seeking top-down structural solutions for the quiet proliferation of responsibilities and the vicarious exposure to client trauma that particularly drive burnout in this vital role, says Erika Sneeringer at Brockstedt Mandalas.

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Law Firm Mergers Level Off As Risks Tick Up

By Aebra Coe

Despite two large law firm combinations closing this week, deal announcements flatlined to a near-decade-low in the first half of the year as law firms face a patchwork of risks including geopolitical volatility, private equity interest and uncertainty around artificial intelligence in law. However, activity is expected to pick up by year-end.

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Brief

Texas Federal Judge Requires Confirmation Of AI Checks

By Emily Sawicki

Attorneys and self-represented parties appearing before U.S. District Judge Ernest Gonzalez of the Western District of Texas are now required to certify that they have independently verified the contents of any filings created or edited using artificial intelligence.

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Hogan Lovells Cadwalader Sees 'Opportunity' In Boston

By Chris Villani

With the official launch of Hogan Lovells Cadwalader, Boston attorneys at Hogan Lovells are expecting the firm to be able to leverage Cadwalader's strengths and some of the Hub's unique traits in what they call a truly "additive" merger.

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5 NYC Legal Service Provider Union Contracts Have Expired

By Andrea Keckley

The collective bargaining agreements for five New York City-based indigent defense and civil legal aid providers expired at the end of the day Tuesday as multiple unions reported outstanding points of contention in their negotiations.

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Withers Promotes 12 Partners In US, UK, Singapore

By Christine DeRosa

International law firm Withers has appointed a dozen new partners across three countries, nearly half of whom are based in the United States.

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Roundup

The Top In-House Hires Of June

By Michele Gorman

Legal department hires during the past month included high-profile appointments at Bayer, Harley-Davidson and PBS. Here, Law360 Pulse looks at some of the top in-house announcements from June.

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Littler Adds Ex-Morgan Lewis Labor Litigator In California

By Matt Perez

Littler Mendelson PC, which primarily deals in employment and labor law practice representing management, announced on Tuesday the hiring of a former Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP attorney as a shareholder in its Walnut Creek, California, office.

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PCAOB Names Ex-Venable Partner As GC

By Jessica Corso

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has named a former Venable LLP partner as its new general counsel, where he will be tasked with providing legal advice to an agency that is currently undergoing leadership changes.

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Wash. Atty Loses Bid For Jury In Dispute Over Bar Sanctions

By Emily Sawicki

A Washington lawyer sanctioned and disciplined for bringing a "frivolous" election suit in 2021 against then-Gov. Jay Inslee has lost her bid to have her ethics charges heard by a jury, with a state appeals panel finding no error in a trial court's ruling that it lacked jurisdiction to take on the disciplinary matter.

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Judiciary Dems Seek DOJ Replies Before Blanche Hearing

By Courtney Bublé

Ahead of acting Attorney General Todd Blanche's confirmation hearing for the permanent position, Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee are demanding he provide answers to their outstanding oversight inquiries.

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4 Mass. Rulings You May Have Missed In June

By Julie Manganis

An advisory firm's failure to register as a broker before diving into work on a $2.1 billion take-private deal last year has cost it, while emails and text messages took center stage in several other disputes pending in Massachusetts state court in June.

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Watchdog Says DOL Needs Better Info Sharing Controls

By Kellie Mejdrich

The U.S. Department of Labor's lack of controls over information sharing between subagencies and nongovernmental entities, including law firms and legal advocacy organizations, may have unfairly advantaged those parties with privileged investigative information, an agency watchdog reported, though use of the practice has dropped off. 

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