Coca-Cola Sued Over Minute Maid 'Natural Flavors' Claim

By Rae Ann Varona

The Coca-Cola Co. was accused Wednesday in Illinois federal court of falsely marketing its Minute Maid Fruit Punch as containing only natural flavors, with a consumer alleging in the putative class action that the beverage actually gets its tartness from a "synthetic, non-natural flavoring ingredient."

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Krispy Kreme Brass Face Another Suit Over McDonald's Deal

By Matthew Santoni

More Krispy Kreme shareholders have filed suit in North Carolina federal court against current and former executives over alleged misrepresentations of the doughnut company's aborted rollout of a partnership with McDonald's.

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5th Circ. Orders Fresh Look At Tequila Brands' TM Confusion

By Lauren Berg

A split Fifth Circuit on Wednesday revived a trademark dispute between Mexican brand "Clase Azul" and U.S. startup "Casa Azul," finding that because the Texas district court made some errors in its underlying findings, it needs to reassess the likelihood of confusion between the two companies' marks.

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Anti-Pot Group Eyes New Repeal Pushes After Mass. Loss

By Sam Reisman

After Election Day, anti-cannabis activists are pledging to bring repeal efforts to other states despite a decisive defeat in Massachusetts, while pro-cannabis industry and consumer-focused groups say they hope to work with a Democrat-controlled Congress to secure federal reform.

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UK Biz Wins Fresh Look At Collagen Product's VAT Status

By Kevin Pinner

A court must look again at whether a U.K. company's liquid collagen product is a drink for human consumption, and therefore a zero-rated food for value-added tax purposes, in light of an appeals court's ruling in a separate case, a London tribunal said in a decision published Wednesday.

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Humm Kombucha Hit With Suit Over 'Zero Sugar' Labels

By Jonathan Capriel

A maker of probiotic kombucha products faces a proposed class action claiming its "zero-sugar" drinks are deceptively marketed and actually contain a substance that federal food regulators have "repeatedly" called a sugar, according to a complaint filed in California federal court.

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Iranian Investor's 'Fraud' Sinks His Claim Against Azerbaijan

By Joyce Hanson

An Iranian entrepreneur who accused the Republic of Azerbaijan of waging a campaign of intimidation against him has seen his $800 million investment treaty claim against the state thrown out after he was found to have "fabricated fraudulent documents" in support of his case.

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True Food Kitchen Gets Another $2M In Ch. 11 Funding

By Alex Wittenberg

A Texas bankruptcy judge said Wednesday that he would allow health-focused restaurant chain True Food Kitchen to borrow another $2 million to fund its Chapter 11 case and pay employees.

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What Axing ERISA Exhaustion Rule Means For Plan Sponsors

The Eleventh Circuit’s recent reversal of a 40-year precedent requiring plaintiffs to exhaust administrative remedies before filing statutory Employee Retirement Income Security Act claims eliminates a common threshold defense in fiduciary breach suits, making it important for plan sponsors to reassess their internal review and litigation strategies, say attorneys at Nelson Mullins.

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Opinion

The Invisible AI Danger That May Undermine Legal Profession

A public database tracking cases involving hallucinations generated by artificial intelligence recently surpassed 2,200 entries, but the bigger risk underlying attorneys’ use of such tools is that they will slowly surrender their judgment to AI and lose analytical skills, says Massachusetts District Court Associate Justice Brian Palmucci.

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Gibson Dunn Set To Bring On 120 Lawyers From Weil

By Daniel Moritz-Rabson and Marialuisa Taddia

Gibson Dunn is set to hire the U.S. and London-based private funds teams from Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, bringing on 120 attorneys in the largest group move reported since Weil's management committee recommended last week that the firm wind down operations.

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Midterm Dem Wins To Scramble Lit Funding Legislative Efforts

By Ryan Boysen

Litigation funders can rest easy, for now, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce will need to rethink its approach after last night's midterm elections saw Democrats rout Republicans, scrambling a yearslong effort for federal regulation of litigation finance that's so far relied on Republicans.

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State AG Race Wins Set To Give Dems Control Of Most Offices

By Madison Arnold

Democrats are poised to oversee a majority of state attorneys general offices around the country after Tuesday's elections saw the party hang on to all of its existing seats and flip control of five offices from the Republicans, according to unofficial election results.

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Goldstein Ordered To Pay Trimmed $1M Forfeiture

By Nadia Dreid

Former SCOTUSblog publisher Tom Goldstein was hit with a $1 million forfeiture order Wednesday by a Maryland federal judge in the wake of his tax and mortgage fraud trial, where the appellate advocate was convicted on a dozen charges.

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Attys Ensure Voters' 'Right To Be Heard' In Midterm Elections

By James Boyle and Lynn LaRowe

From BigLaw attorneys and solo practitioners to university professors, thousands of attorney volunteers turned out for Tuesday's midterm elections to ensure American voters' ballots would be counted.

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DOJ Says Epshteyn Will Answer ABA Service Motion

By Jared Foretek

Trump advisor Boris Epshteyn will answer for himself why he has allegedly been evading subpoenas in the American Bar Association's legal challenge to the administration's law firm targeting campaign, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Wednesday.

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Holland & Hart Cost Ex-Client $23M Stake In Co., Suit Says

By Zach Dupont

Holland & Hart LLP and two of its attorneys were accused of malpractice in Colorado state court Tuesday by a former client who claims the attorneys failed to inform her that a wealth transfer plan with her then-husband left her iced out of the couple's most valuable asset.

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DOJ Accused Of Unlawfully Ending Crime Victim Agreement

By Tom Lotshaw

The National Crime Victim Law Institute has accused the U.S. Department of Justice in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims of unlawfully terminating a $500,000 cooperative agreement aimed at strengthening legal support for disabled crime victims in the wake of an executive order against diversity, equity and inclusion programs.

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Former DOJ Officials See Mixed Results In Midterm Races

By Chris Villani

The 2026 midterm elections included bids for office by several former U.S. Department of Justice officials and nominees for the federal bench, with one race a dead heat and several others decided as of early Wednesday.

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