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

Brief

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

How States' 'Perry Mason Moment' Led To $17B Meta Deal

By Dorothy Atkins

A recent landmark $17.1 billion settlement with Meta Platforms Inc. may have never happened if it weren't for a quick-thinking trial attorney and his close-knit team of lawyers representing 29 states, who worked together to swiftly shift strategies midtrial.

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Ashurst Perkins Aided $230M ICap Ponzi Scheme, Suit Claims

By Ben Adlin

Ashurst Perkins Coie pocketed millions of dollars in legal fees by providing services to clients it knew were operating a Ponzi scheme that ultimately swindled investors out of nearly $230 million, plaintiffs claimed in a Washington state lawsuit accusing the firm of aiding and abetting fraud.

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Trump Taps Ex-DOL Official To Serve As EEOC Top Cop

By Anne Cullen

The White House nominated a former Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP attorney who previously led the U.S. Department of Labor's contractor compliance arm to serve as the general counsel of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

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Washington Sen. Murray Vows To Block Trump US Atty Pick

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump's nominee to be U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Washington is under fire from one of the home state senators who vowed to use every avenue possible to block him.

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Fla. Judge Won't Pause Trump-IRS Settlement Sanctions

By Jack McLoone

The Florida federal judge who barred President Donald Trump and others from citing a settlement resolving what she characterized as a sham $10 billion case against his own Internal Revenue Service won't pause her sanctions order while the president appeals to the Eleventh Circuit.

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4th Circ. Appears Split On Reviving Comey, James Indictments

By Jared Foretek

Partisan splits were apparent Tuesday on the Fourth Circuit panel hearing the Trump administration's challenge to a federal district judge's dismissal of the indictments of former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, with two of the three judges appearing to agree an improper appointment doomed the cases.

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Brief

Calif. Judge Charged Over Fatal Crash With Bicyclist

By Craig Clough

California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced Tuesday that his office charged Kings County Superior Court Judge Kendra Weber with a misdemeanor count of vehicular manslaughter, alleging she struck and killed a bicyclist.

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APC

Amazon.com Inc.

Archer-Daniels-Midland Co.

Burger King Holdings Inc.

Carrols Restaurant Group Inc.

Chobani LLC

Costco Wholesale Corp.

Crag Law Center

DoorDash Inc.

GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare Ltd.

GrubHub Inc.

Haleon PLC

Instagram Inc.

Jefferies Financial Group Inc.

Kind LLC

Maverick Gaming LLC

Meta Platforms Inc.

Restaurant Brands International Inc.

San Francisco Giants

Unilever PLC

WK Kellogg Co

Western Environmental Law Center

Wonder Group Inc.

LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Andrews & Springer

Ashurst Perkins

Baron & Budd

Bartko Pavia

Bernstein Litowitz

Brito PLLC

Carmichael Ellis

Charles C. Weller APC

Cooley LLP

Covington & Burling

Dawson Morton LLC

Fenwick & West

Fisher & Phillips

Hagens Berman

Holland & Knight

Kaskela Law

Kornfeld LLP

Labaton Keller

Latham & Watkins

Lowell & Associates

Morgan Lewis

Norton Rose

Pachulski Stang

Paduano & Weintraub

Paul Weiss

Rennert Vogel

Rivero Mestre

Sonosky Chambers

Susman Godfrey

Wilson Sonsini

Wohl & Fruchter

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

California Attorney General's Office

California Department of Justice

Colorado Attorney General's Office

Delaware Court of Chancery

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Executive Office of the President

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Food and Drug Administration

Government of Mexico

Internal Revenue Service

National Indian Gaming Commission

National Marine Fisheries Service

Native Village of Eklutna

New York Attorney General's Office

Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs

Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife

Oregon Department of Justice

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. Department of Commerce

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of Labor

U.S. Department of the Interior

U.S. Department of the Treasury

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 Virginia

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

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

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

U.S. Office of Personnel Management

U.S. Supreme Court

United States District Court for the District of Colorado

United States District Court for the Eastern District of Washington

Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board