A Minnesota federal judge gave the final stamp of approval to a $48 million settlement Tyson reached with a class of commercial and institutional indirect pork purchasers that resolves antitrust claims over allegedly inflated pork prices, and granted class counsel nearly $16 million in attorney fees from the fund.
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Tyson, Pork Buyers Get Final OK For $48M Pork Price-Fix Deal

By Rae Ann Varona

A Minnesota federal judge gave the final stamp of approval to a $48 million settlement Tyson reached with a class of commercial and institutional indirect pork purchasers that resolves antitrust claims over allegedly inflated pork prices, and granted class counsel nearly $16 million in attorney fees from the fund.

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Starbucks Says NLRB Ignored Repeat Dress Code Violations

By Lauren Berg

Starbucks asked the Fifth Circuit on Thursday to vacate a National Labor Relations Board decision that the coffee chain flouted federal labor law by stepping up dress code policy enforcement without bargaining beforehand, arguing management at a unionized Oregon store followed the company's established corrective action policy.

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Roundup Is The Cancer Culprit For 3 Plaintiffs, Jury Hears

By Cara Salvatore

A prominent oncologist testified Thursday that Roundup use is the factor responsible for the blood cancers of three plaintiffs, including one "without any risk factors" other than her use of the Monsanto pesticide.

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POLICY & REGULATION

Analysis

USPTO Plan To Limit AIA Reviews Is In White House's Hands

By Ryan Davis

Rules proposed by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to place new limits on patent challenges are being scrutinized by a White House agency, which has held dozens of meetings with groups advocating for and against the plan in recent weeks.

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ENFORCEMENT

Gildan Changes T-Shirt Contract Terms After FTC Pressure

By Matthew Perlman

The Federal Trade Commission said Thursday that T-shirt manufacturer Gildan Activewear SRL has removed terms from its supply agreement with distributor S&S Holdings LLC that prevented Gildan from offering better prices to competing distributors.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Series

Mentalism Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Convincing strangers I can read their minds may seem like an unusual second career for a legal practitioner, but both disciplines share several important requirements, including trust and preparation, says Warren Biro at Manatt.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Sheppard Mullin Hit With Class Action Over Data Breach

By Jake Maher

A former Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP paralegal launched a proposed class action against the firm in California federal court on Wednesday over a cyberattack it had in August, in which she says at least 1,000 people's names and Social Security numbers were stolen.

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IP Rights Group Urges Against Litigation Funding Disclosure

By Elliot Weld

An inventor rights advocacy group has told a federal courts rules committee that requiring the disclosure of who is funding civil litigation would put independent inventors at a disadvantage when trying to enforce patents against a larger company.

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Analysis

New Fraud Division Flexes Might In Latest Enforcement Policy

By Phillip Bantz

The National Fraud Enforcement Division's new corporate enforcement policy emphasizes the quick pursuit of certain types of fraud through data analysis and staff resources, expands the target list beyond traditional healthcare providers and highlights the division's growing dominance within the U.S. Department of Justice, experts say.

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Cornell Defendant Seeks To Nix James As Special Prosecutor

By Andrea Keckley

One of the seven men accused of drugging and raping a fellow Cornell University student at a fraternity home has asked a New York state court to void Gov. Kathy Hochul's appointment of New York Attorney General Letitia James as special prosecutor in the case.

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Gov't Attys Could Face Sanctions Over AI Use Omissions

By Madeline Lyskawa

A U.S. Court of Federal Claims judge has ordered four government attorneys to explain why they shouldn't be sanctioned for making factual misrepresentations about the U.S. Army's use of artificial intelligence to evaluate contract proposals.

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Split Congress Could Spur Competing Probes, Cleary Finds

By Courtney Bublé

If the new year brings an era of divided Congress, then "dueling investigations" into the same topics should be expected, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP said in a report it released Thursday.

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Fla. Judge Says Oct. 7 Attack Was 'Inflection Point' For U.S.

By David Minsky

U.S. District Judge Roy K. Altman addressed a small group of attorneys in a Florida law office to speak on his book about the October 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel, saying public debate over facts surrounding the event and underlying feud has reached an "inflection point" in America.

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Buzbee Faces $970K Fee Bid In Dismissed Conspiracy Cases

By Lynn LaRowe

A Mississippi lawyer is asking a Texas state court to award her more than $970,000 in fees after defeating claims that she and her law firm conspired with rapper Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter and Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP to retaliate against prominent Houston plaintiffs attorney Tony Buzbee and two of his former clients.

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Dems Says GOP Broke Senate Rules In Jack Smith Hearing

By Courtney Bublé

The Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee have accused Republicans of violating committee rules during a hearing last week with former special counsel Jack Smith.

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AbbVie Inc.

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Amazon.com Inc.

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Atlanta Hawks

Bayer AG

Clemens Food Group LLC

Cornell University

Council for Innovation Promotion

Gildan Activewear Inc.

Google LLC

JBS USA Holdings Inc.

Lenovo Group Ltd.

LinkedIn Corp.

Monsanto Co.

PepsiCo Inc.

QUALCOMM Inc.

ROC Nation LLC

Smithfield Foods Inc.

Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits LLC

Starbucks Corp.

Tesla Inc.

Toyota Motor Corp.

Triumph Foods LLC

US Inventor

United Nations Children's Fund

Walmart Inc.

Yale University

LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Arnold & Porter

Axinn

Baker & Hostetler

Bracewell LLP

Bradley Arant

Buzbee Law Firm

Cleary Gottlieb

Cuneo Gilbert

Dovel & Luner

Fish & Richardson

Fox Rothschild

Gibson Dunn

Larson King

Littler Mendelson

MJ Legal PA

Manatt Phelps

McDermott Will & Schulte

Miller & Chevalier

Morgan Lewis

Nesenoff & Miltenberg

Paul Hastings

Quinn Emanuel

Reed Smith

Sheppard Mullin

Sidley Austin

Strauss Borrelli

Taft Stettinius

Tripp Scott

WilmerHale

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Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Executive Office of the President

Federal Trade Commission

Food and Drug Administration

National Institutes of Health

National Labor Relations Board

New York Attorney General's Office

Patent Trial and Appeal Board

Texas Supreme Court

Texas Tenth Court of Appeals

U.S. Army

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

U.S. Department of Justice

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

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

U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

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

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Supreme Court

US Office of Management and Budget