General Mills said it is entitled to defense and indemnity for a series of suits claiming it injured consumers through the distribution of ultraprocessed foods, telling a Pennsylvania federal court that its Liberty Mutual and Chubb insurers lack legitimate grounds to contest their coverage obligations.
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General Mills Urges Coverage For Ultraprocessed Food Suits

By Hope Patti

General Mills said it is entitled to defense and indemnity for a series of suits claiming it injured consumers through the distribution of ultraprocessed foods, telling a Pennsylvania federal court that its Liberty Mutual and Chubb insurers lack legitimate grounds to contest their coverage obligations.

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Keurig Accused Of Falsely Labeling K-Cups Recyclable

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

Keurig Dr Pepper Inc. is facing a proposed class action alleging it violated New York consumer protection statutes by deceptively labeling its popular K-Cup pods as recyclable.

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Agri Stats' Price-Fix Settlement Receives Chicken Judge's OK

By Lauraann Wood

An Illinois federal judge overseeing broiler chicken price-fixing litigation gave his early blessing Tuesday to a settlement that end users struck with Agri Stats Inc. that calls for the data service to either cease or substantially change the reports it compiles for protein industry subscribers.

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Turkey Cos. Denied Response To DOJ Price-Fix Intervention

By Bryan Koenig

An Illinois federal judge refused Friday to let Agri Stats, Tyson Foods and other turkey producers respond to the Justice Department statement of interest weighing in on private price-fixing litigation against them, finding "no need" when the court is already obligated to consider the legal precedent the agency raised.

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Feds Say USDA Can Tie State Funding To Gender Policies

By Carolyn Muyskens

The U.S. Department of Agriculture defended its move to condition grant funding on compliance with Trump administration policies on gender, women's sports, diversity and immigration, telling a Massachusetts federal judge that states can forgo the funding if they don't want to comply.

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LITIGATION

Automation Co. Wants Ruling It Didn't Infringe Ocado Patents

By Adam Lidgett

Warehouse robotics company Brightpick wants a Virginia federal judge to find that its artificial intelligence automation robot, Gridpicker, doesn't infringe a series of patents owned by a unit of the British grocery technology business Ocado Group.

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Colo. Supplement Co. Sent Unwanted Texts, Suit Says

By MJ Koo

A Colorado dietary supplement company violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by bombarding consumers with unsolicited telemarketing text messages despite their numbers being listed on the national Do Not Call Registry, according to a proposed class action filed Tuesday in Colorado federal court.

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Judge Says Army Override For Kitchen Support Was Justified

By Tom Lotshaw

A Court of Federal Claims judge affirmed the U.S. Army's decision to forge ahead with a short-term task order to shore up kitchen staffing gaps at West Point and override a stay triggered when a company protested the deal.

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Kansas Cops Say Hemp Laws Too 'Complex' For Raid Liability

By Jonathan Capriel

Kansas state law enforcement officials are looking to escape litigation accusing them of confiscating tens of thousands of dollars worth of legal hemp products during allegedly illegal raids on two vape shops, telling a federal court that state hemp laws are too "complex" for officers to know what is and isn't illicit.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Rebuttal

FTC Case Reinforces Established Price Discrimination Rules

Far from redefining price discrimination, as contended by a recent Law360 guest article, the Federal Trade Commission's suit against Southern Glazer's falls squarely within the historical interpretation of the Robinson-Patman Act, says retired attorney Irving Scher.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

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Grassley Says Cruz And Lee Top His List If Alito Retires

By Courtney Bublé

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said on Tuesday that if U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito were to retire then he would recommend the president nominate either Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, or Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah.

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Ginsburg Hack Conviction Upheld For Man Who Blamed Cat

By Craig Clough

The Fourth Circuit affirmed Tuesday a former hospital transplant coordinator's conviction for illegally accessing U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's healthcare records, upholding a ruling that the defendant was not improperly coerced when he told FBI agents a coworker or his cat may have been responsible.

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Judiciary Panel Backs Legal Finance Project, Subpoena Rules

By Jeff Overley

Federal judiciary advisers agreed Tuesday to develop transparency obligations for litigation funders despite "vehement" views in the defense and plaintiffs bars, while also advancing controversial subpoena rules involving remote testimony and process servers.

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Analysis

IBM's FCA Deal Creates Unease Over DEI Enforcement Scope

By Madeline Lyskawa

IBM's agreement to pay the Trump administration $17 million to resolve allegations it violated the False Claims Act with policies aimed at increasing the diversity of its workforce continues to raise more questions than answers about what the administration views as illegal diversity, equity and inclusion programs.

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Mintz Can't Halt Texas Malpractice Suit For Fee Fight In Mass.

By Elliot Weld

A Massachusetts federal judge on Tuesday declined Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC's request to halt a former client's legal malpractice case against the firm in Texas federal court while the two fight over a $2 million "success fee" the law firm claims it is owed.

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DC Circ. Halts Boasberg's 'Unnecessary' Alien Enemies Probe

By Britain Eakin

A split D.C. Circuit panel on Tuesday halted for the second time U.S. District Judge James Boasberg's criminal contempt probe of Trump administration officials for willfully violating his order barring removals of Venezuelans under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act.

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House Dem Threatens Bondi Contempt Over Epstein Files

By Courtney Bublé

The top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee is looking to hold former Attorney General Pam Bondi in contempt if she does not appear before the committee to discuss the U.S. Department of Justice's handling of the Epstein files.

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Grassley Hits 100 Judge Confirmations As 2 Clear Senate

By Courtney Bublé

The Senate on Tuesday confirmed the 100th district judge under Sen. Chuck Grassley's leadership of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

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Investors Want Sanctions For Fake Citations In LGBCoin Suit

By Carolina Bolado

Investors in the "Let's Go Brandon" meme token urged a Florida federal judge Monday to issue "case-terminating sanctions" against the man behind the coin, saying he and his counsel have lied in discovery, disobeyed court orders and submitted fake legal citations in at least eight filings.

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Calif. Federal Judges Weigh Audio Access For Civil Jury Trials

By Dorothy Atkins

California Northern District federal judges are seeking public comment on modifying local court rules to allow jurists to audio stream civil jury trials in the district, which regularly presides over high-stakes courtroom fights involving tech giants such as Google, Meta, OpenAI and Apple.

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IOLTA Group Owed Notice Of Settlements, Mass. Justices Say

By Julie Manganis

Massachusetts' highest court said Tuesday that a committee overseeing lawyers' trust accounts should have been given a chance to request potential leftover funds prior to a judge's approval of a class action settlement, but saw no reason to unwind the deal.

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COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

AB Volvo

Agri Stats Inc.

American Bar Association

American Civil Liberties Union

Apple Inc.

Aramark

Bi-Lo

Butterball LLC

Chubb Ltd.

Cooper Farms Inc.

Epic Games Inc.

FedEx Corp.

Foster Farms

General Mills Inc.

George Washington University

Global Logistic Properties Ltd.

Google LLC

Hillshire Brands Co.

Hormel Foods Corp.

House of Raeford Farms Inc.

International Business Machines Corp.

Jennie-O Turkey Store LLC

KBR Inc.

Keurig Dr Pepper Inc.

Lawyers for Civil Justice

Liberty Mutual Insurance Group

Lincoln Property Co.

Meta Platforms Inc.

Microsoft Corp.

NASCAR Digital Media LLC

National Federation of Independent Business

New York State Bar Association

New York University

Ocado Ltd.

OpenAI OpCo LLC

Perdue Farms Inc.

Prestage Farms Inc.

Sanderson Farms Inc.

Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits LLC

Suzuki Motor Corp.

The UPS Store

Twitter Inc.

Tyson Foods Inc.

Walmart Inc.

LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Axinn Veltrop

Barrett Law Group

Blank Rome

Bona Law PC

Bradley Arant

Burnham & Gorokhov

Carpenter Lipps

Casey Lundregan

Cavanaugh Biggs

Chalmers Adams Backer

Cherry Johnson Siegmund James

Clausen Miller

Cohen Milstein

Covington & Burling

Cuneo Gilbert

Dentons

Di Pietro Partners

Eimer Stahl

Faegre Drinker

Falkenberg Ives

Foley Hoag

Graves Garrett

Hagens Berman

Hogan Lovells

Holland & Knight

Jordan Price Wall

Kellogg Hansen

Koutoulas Law

Lanier Law Firm

LeGrand Law

Lipe Lyons

Lockridge Grindal

Manning Fulton

McGuireWoods

Merchant & Gould

Metaxas Brown

Miller Canfield

Mintz Levin

Ogborn Mihm

Proskauer Rose

Reese LLP

Robinson Bradshaw

Scheef & Stone

Scott&Scott

Shepherd & Shepherd

Steptoe LLP

Vedder Price

Venable LLP

Wheeler Trigg

Zigler Law Group

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Trade Commission

Judicial Conference of the United States

Kansas Attorney General's Office

Los Angeles Superior Court

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Patent Trial and Appeal Board

U.S. Army

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

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia

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

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

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

U.S. Department of Agriculture

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 Massachusetts

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

U.S. Government Accountability Office

U.S. Postal Service

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

United States District Court for the District of Colorado

United States District Court for the District of Kansas