The Campbell's Soup Co. on Monday admitted to the federal government's and environmental groups' allegations that it violated a Clean Water Act permit more than 5,000 times at its Lake Erie facility, leaving only its penalty to be decided.
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Campbell's Soup Admits To Thousands Of Lake Erie Violations

By Juan-Carlos Rodriguez

The Campbell's Soup Co. on Monday admitted to the federal government's and environmental groups' allegations that it violated a Clean Water Act permit more than 5,000 times at its Lake Erie facility, leaving only its penalty to be decided.

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Cookie Buyers Can't Get Certified In Mistranslated Label Suit

By Mike Curley

A California federal judge on Monday denied certification to a proposed class of cookie buyers alleging that tree nuts were omitted from the English label of imported Japanese cookies, saying individualized questions about which consumers read, relied on and were injured by the mistranslation would predominate.

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SEC Says 'Nutrient Infused' Water Biz Was A $10.3M Fraud

By Emilie Ruscoe

A phony dentist and his "nutrient infused" bottled-water company have agreed to settle U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission claims that they fraudulently raised $10.3 million from over 50 investors after he agreed to plead guilty to wire fraud in a parallel criminal case, the agency said Monday.

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Trans Hog Farm Worker Settles Bias Suit That EEOC Dropped

By Lauraann Wood

An Illinois federal judge officially closed the book on a sexual harassment dispute between a transgender former hog farm worker and the business on Monday, approving a court clerk's judgment acknowledging the parties' settlement following employment regulators' exit from the case.

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LITIGATION

Stop & Shop Says Too Late To Swap Plaintiff In Wipes Suit

By Mike Curley

Stop & Shop on Monday urged a Massachusetts federal court to deny a bid to substitute new plaintiffs in a suit alleging its flushable wipes are not flushable as advertised, saying the plaintiff hasn't shown good cause for the change 14 months after the amendment deadline.

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Steakhouse Servers Say Conn. Judge Did Defense's Job

By Matthew Santoni

Counsel for a class of servers at a steakhouse at the Foxwoods Resort Casino in Connecticut made good on his promise to seek recusal or disqualification of the judge slated to oversee an upcoming trial, arguing in a motion Friday that Superior Court Judge Elizabeth J. Stewart had improperly made part of the defense's case for it.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Katryna Perera and Jeff Montgomery

Delaware's governor weighed in on a challenge to recently approved state legislation that bars damages or "equitable" relief for some controlling stockholder or going-private deals. Meanwhile, Moelis told the Delaware Supreme Court that the struck-down stockholder agreement that triggered that legislation was valid. Additionally, one of two newly funded magistrates' posts in the Chancery Court has been filled.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Ex-Epstein Prosecutor Maurene Comey Sues DOJ Over Firing

By Emily Sawicki

Maurene Comey, a former Manhattan federal prosecutor who brought high-profile criminal cases against the likes of Jeffrey Epstein and Sean "Diddy" Combs, sued the Justice Department on Monday alleging her abrupt July firing came "solely or substantially" because she is the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey, a Trump critic.

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Tom Goldstein Can't Pay Attys With 'Tainted Funds,' DOJ Says

By Jeff Overley

Indicted appellate luminary Tom Goldstein cannot cover his legal bills by selling his multimillion-dollar home, because it's a "tainted asset" worth "far less" than his attorney fees, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a blistering court filing, adding that Goldstein may flee the country as his reputation and marriage collapse.

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Feds Urge 3rd Circ. To Restore NJ US Atty's Authority

By Emily Sawicki

The federal government has urged the Third Circuit to reverse a district court ruling disqualifying acting U.S. Attorney Alina Habba from prosecuting two criminal cases in New Jersey after the clock allegedly ran out on her interim term, arguing that her appointment is valid and that the court erred in its interpretation of the statute.

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Calif. Court Issues AI Hallucinations 'Warning,' Sanctions Atty

By Y. Peter Kang

A California appeals court has issued a published opinion "as a warning" to Golden State attorneys to personally review case law quotations made by generative artificial intelligence, and imposed a $10,000 monetary sanction on plaintiff's counsel in an otherwise straightforward appeal in an employment case.

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Fired DOJ Deputy Says Lobbyists 'Playing Dangerous Game'

By Bryan Koenig

A former top Justice Department Antitrust Division deputy, allegedly fired for opposing the "pay-to-play" settlement clearing Hewlett Packard Enterprise's $14 billion purchase of Juniper Networks, had a warning Monday for the lobbyists he said made the deal possible: there are only so many times they can go over division leadership.

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Stradley Ronon Wants Keesal Young's Poaching Suit Tossed

By Emma Cueto

Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young LLP has moved to nix a suit by California firm Keesal Young & Logan, saying its recruitment of 10 former Keesal Young attorneys was entirely above board and that the noncompete clauses in Keesal Young's partnership agreement were not allowed under California law.

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FTC Commissioner Says Antitrust Moment Has Been Building

By Matthew Perlman

Federal Trade Commissioner Mark R. Meador said Monday the current interest in antitrust enforcement has been building for the last several decades as corporate boardrooms increasingly take control over the economic lives of Americans.

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3 Law Firms Want Ford's 'Thermonuclear' RICO Suit Snuffed

By Linda Chiem

Knight Law Group LLP, the Altman Law Group and Wirtz Law APC have urged a California federal judge to dismantle Ford Motor Co.'s racketeering lawsuit accusing the firms of overzealous billing and conspiring to dupe unsuspecting clients in product liability and personal injury cases against automakers.

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Software Co. Defends Contempt Order Against Womble Atty

By Abigail Harrison

A North Carolina federal court fairly held Womble Bond Dickinson partner Pressly Millen in contempt after he and his client made misrepresentations in a "parallel" trademark dispute abroad, U.S.-based software company Dmarcian Inc. told the Fourth Circuit on Friday.

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DC Circ. Says Fed's Cook Can Keep Job For Now

By Jon Hill

A D.C. Circuit panel said Monday that Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook can remain on the central bank's board while challenging President Donald Trump's effort to fire her, clearing the way for her to participate in a key interest-rate policy vote this week.

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Senate Confirms Top Trump Economist To Federal Reserve

By Jon Hill

The U.S. Senate narrowly confirmed top White House economist Stephen Miran to the Federal Reserve Board on Monday, giving President Donald Trump a close ally at the central bank as he pushes for greater control over the traditionally independent body.

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DC Circ. Won't Stay District Court's Order On Quick Removals

By Jared Foretek

The D.C. Circuit declined to stay a district judge's suspension of specific U.S. Department of Homeland Security actions implementing expedited removal of noncitizen parolees Friday, saying that the government faces no irreparable harm from the order because it has separate, pre-existing regulatory authority to quickly deport parolees.

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W.Va., Idaho Tell Justices Trans Sports Bans Based On Science

By Elaine Briseño

West Virginia and Idaho urged the U.S. Supreme Court to rule that courts should not use subjective preferences when analyzing whether laws that ban transgender athletes from competing on sports teams different from their sex assigned at birth violate the Constitution.

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COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Albertsons Cos. Inc.

Alliance Defending Freedom

American Bankers Association

American Civil Liberties Union

American Economic Liberties Project

Campbell Soup Co.

Ford Motor Co.

Foxwoods Resort Casino

George Washington University

Google LLC

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.

Jana Partners LLC

Juniper Networks Inc.

Live Nation Entertainment Inc.

Moelis & Co.

Stop & Shop Supermarket Co.

The Kroger Co.

Zendesk Inc.

LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Atkinson Andelson

Blank Rome

Brooks Pierce

Bursor & Fisher

Clarick Gueron

Cooley LLP

Ellis & Winters

Flannery Georgalis

Fox Rothschild

Goldstein & Russell

Gordon Rees

HKM Employment Attorneys

Hayber McKenna

Hecker Fink

Hodel Wilks

Jackson Lewis PC

Keesal Young

King & Spalding

Klinedinst PC

Knight Law Group

Koskoff Koskoff

Krovatin Nau

Lowell & Associates

Milbank LLP

Munger Tolles

Norton Rose

Oberheiden PC

Pillsbury Winthrop

Reardon Scanlon

Stradley Ronon

UB Greensfelder

Williams & Connolly

Wirtz Law APC

Womble Bond

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Delaware Court of Chancery

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Reserve System

Federal Trade Commission

Idaho Attorney General's Office

U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Maryland

U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey

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

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York

U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Department of Justice

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

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

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

U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

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

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

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

U.S. Office of Personnel Management

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Senate

U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

U.S. Supreme Court

United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio

West Virginia Attorney General's Office