The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission told a Texas federal court Thursday that a Chick-fil-A franchisee unlawfully fired a delivery manager because she needed Saturdays off to observe the Sabbath.
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Chick-fil-A Worker Fired For Sabbath Observance, EEOC Says

By Patrick Hoff

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission told a Texas federal court Thursday that a Chick-fil-A franchisee unlawfully fired a delivery manager because she needed Saturdays off to observe the Sabbath.

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Brown-Forman Rejects $15B Takeover Offer, More Rumors

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Alcoholic drink maker Brown-Forman rejected rival Sazerac's $15 billion takeover offer; fintech Digital Asset is seeking a $2 billion valuation with its latest funding round; and shoemaker Skechers has upped its offer to settle an investor lawsuit.

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Smucker's Misleads About Splenda In Fudge, Consumer Says

By Mike Curley

A New York man sued The J.M. Smucker Co. in federal court on Thursday, alleging it misleads consumers by claiming its fudge topping is sweetened with Splenda, when in reality its primary sweeteners are less-healthy sugar alcohols and sugar substitutes.

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'People Could Die': Wash. Justice Dings Appeal Of COVID Fine

By Rachel Riley

A Washington State Supreme Court justice pushed back Thursday after a restaurant argued state regulators improperly fined it nearly $1 million for offering indoor dining during the COVID-19 pandemic, spurning the eatery's claim that regulators failed to cite any harm by noting "people could die" from the disease's spread.

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Farmworkers Lose Early Bid To Halt DOL H-2A Wage Rule

By Britain Eakin

A California federal judge declined Thursday to block a U.S. Department of Labor regulation reducing wages for H-2A seasonal farmworkers, ruling that United Farm Workers failed to show there is an immediate injury that warrants court intervention now.

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POLICY & REGULATION

House Passes Bill To Narrow Biofuel Blending Exemption

By Gautama Mehta

The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a bill that would lift summertime restrictions on the sale of higher-ethanol fuel and tighten requirements for a biofuel blending exemption for small refineries.

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LITIGATION

NCR To Pay $48M To End Former Execs' Lifetime Benefits Suit

By Patrick Hoff

NCR Corp. will pay nearly $48 million to resolve a class action from former executives who alleged the software company broke its promise to send them annuity payments for life, the workers told a Georgia federal court.

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HF Foods Investor Sues Over Written Consent Bylaw

By Jarek Rutz

A stockholder has sued HF Foods Group Inc. in the Delaware Chancery Court, claiming the food distributor's bylaws illegally restrict investors' right to act by written consent without advance notice.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

AG Watch: Reconciling 2 Maryland Data Privacy Statutes

In-house counsel should map the interplay between the Maryland Online Data Privacy Act's strictly necessary standard to deliver a requested service, and the Protection From Predatory Pricing Act's exemption of consent-based pricing within loyalty programs, before the state attorney general begins enforcement on the latter in October, says Erek Barron at Mintz.

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Series

Playing Basketball Makes Me A Better Lawyer

My grandfather used to say "I wear your jersey" as shorthand for wholly committing to support someone with loyalty and integrity — ideals that have shaped my life on the basketball court and in legal practice, says Tracy Schimelfenig at Schimelfenig Legal.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Analysis

Insider Trading Case Shows BigLaw Associate Vetting Gaps

By Chris Villani

A BigLaw attorney who was able to move through three major firms while allegedly orchestrating a massive insider trading scheme may have been aided by relatively loose hiring practices for associates that firms may consider strengthening moving forward, recruiting experts told Law360.

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DOJ Asserts Broad Power In BigLaw Executive Order Appeal

By Jared Foretek

A Trump administration attorney told the D.C. Circuit on Thursday that the courts have no authority to review the president's decision to revoke someone's security clearance for any reason, including race, religion, or even refusal to pay a $1 million bribe.

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Trump's 8th Circ. Pick Clears Senate Panel Vote

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump's nominee for the Eighth Circuit, who represented the president in the cases brought by writer E. Jean Carroll, advanced to the full Senate on Thursday.

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Thomas Urges Defense Of Constitution At Judicial Conference

By Carolina Bolado

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas urged attendees at the Eleventh Circuit Judicial Conference on Thursday to "stand up" for the U.S. Constitution and to see the positives in the country, despite its flaws, on its 250th birthday.

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Fenwick Hit With FTX Suit In DC Over $525M Losses

By Emily Lever

A group of former FTX customers has sued Fenwick & West LLP in federal court in Washington over its work representing FTX from 2018 to 2022, seeking to recover more than $525 million for losses stemming from the cryptocurrency exchange's collapse.

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NYC Bar Endorses Random Audits For Law Firm Accounts

By Emily Sawicki

The New York City Bar Association's Professional Discipline Committee on Thursday threw its support behind a statewide bill to institute a random audit program for law firm financial accounts.

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Ogletree Fights Atty's Discovery Bid For DQ Push In Bias Suit

By Lynn LaRowe

A Georgia federal court should deny a bid for discovery aimed at disqualifying Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC from defending a security company against discrimination claims because the request stems from the plaintiff's lawyer's "personal grievances," the company said Thursday.

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Lover's Ex-Wife Fights Sinema's Request For Therapy Notes

By Abigail Harrison

A bid by former U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona to unearth notes and communications from a therapist working with her lover's ex-wife should be summarily denied, as the ex-wife, Heather Ammel, told a North Carolina federal court Thursday that the request is a clear overreach.

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8th Circ. Backs Dismissal Of Horse Breeder's Malpractice Suit

By Tom Lotshaw

The Eighth Circuit said a federal judge was right to dismiss a malpractice suit a Minnesota horse breeder brought against Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP and one of its former attorneys for mishandling malpractice cases against three other firms.

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COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

3G Capital

ADT Inc.

AT&T Inc.

American Farm Bureau Federation Inc.

American Petroleum Institute Inc.

Andreessen Horowitz LLC

Apollo Global Management LLC

Barnes & Noble Inc.

Beacon Hill Staffing Group LLC

Brown-Forman Corp.

Chick-fil-A Inc.

DRW Holdings LLC

Digital Asset Holdings LLC

Earthjustice

Elliott Investment Management LP

FT Partners

Hobby Lobby Stores

Jack Daniel's Properties Inc.

Johnson & Johnson

Marriott International Inc.

Microsoft Corp.

Momenta Pharmaceuticals Inc.

NCR Atleos Corp.

NCR Corp.

NCR Voyix Corp.

Nasdaq Inc.

National Corn Growers Association

New York City Bar Association

Otis Worldwide Corp.

Pernod Ricard SA

Sazerac Co. Inc.

Sierra Club

Skechers USA Inc.

The J. M. Smucker Co.

TikTok Inc.

United Farm Workers

Watanabe Schwartz

Wells Fargo & Co.

World Resources Institute

LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Abbott Cooper PLLC

Andrews & Springer

Ard Law Group

Bondurant Mixson

Bradford Andresen

Clement & Murphy

Cooley LLP

Covington & Burling

Dorsey & Whitney

Fenwick & West

Fields Kupka

Foley & Mansfield

Goodwin Procter

Hogan Lovells

Jenner & Block

Kaskela Law

Kirkland & Ellis

Korein Tillery

Koskoff Koskoff

Latham & Watkins

Lehman Lee

Lowell & Associates

McDermott Will & Schulte

Mintz Levin

Munger Tolles

Ogletree Deakins

Paul Weiss

Perkins Coie

Porter Wright

Poyner Spruill

Robbins Alloy

Sidley Austin

Susman Godfrey

Taft Stettinius

Van Camp Meacham

Wachtell Lipton

Watkins Calcara

Weil Gotshal

Williams & Connolly

WilmerHale

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Bureau of Labor Statistics

Delaware Court of Chancery

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Executive Office of the President

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Georgia Department of Labor

Maryland Attorney General's Office

Maryland General Assembly

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

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

U.S. Department of Agriculture

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of Labor

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 Eastern District of California

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

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

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

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

U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia

Washington Attorney General's Office

Washington State Department of Labor and Industries