Mead Johnson's head of nutrition testified Thursday in a trial over whether its preterm infant formula led to a newborn's serious and ultimately fatal gut illness, saying she had no reasons to worry about the product's safety but acknowledging it carries a higher risk for the disease than human breast milk.
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Mead Johnson Nutrition Head Defends Formula In MDL Trial

By Celeste Bott

Mead Johnson's head of nutrition testified Thursday in a trial over whether its preterm infant formula led to a newborn's serious and ultimately fatal gut illness, saying she had no reasons to worry about the product's safety but acknowledging it carries a higher risk for the disease than human breast milk.

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Krispy Kreme Must Face Claims Over McDonald's Rollout

By Sydney Price

A North Carolina federal judge has denied part of Krispy Kreme's motion to dismiss a securities class action alleging it overhyped its partnership with McDonald's, allowing several claims to proceed that were made after the company may have known the collaboration would not be as successful as previously stated.

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Albertsons Loses Bid For Midtrial Win In Wash. Opioid Case

By Ben Adlin

Albertsons can't escape the state of Washington's lawsuit accusing the pharmacy chain and its Safeway subsidiary of contributing to the state's opioid crisis, a state judge ruled Thursday in denying the company's bid to dismiss the case midtrial.

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Dems Want DOJ, FTC To Look At Sysco's $29B Jetro Buy

By Gina Kim

Two Democratic lawmakers called on the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday to closely inspect Sysco Corp.'s plans to buy competitor Restaurant Depot LLC aka Jetro Restaurant Depot at a total enterprise value of $29.1 billion, warning in a letter the transaction could hurt independent restaurants, farmers and Americans who "are already facing an affordability crisis."

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Peeps TM Suit Hops Along But Rival's Candy Can't Be Blocked

By Dorothy Atkins

A New Jersey federal judge has rejected a bid to toss Peeps maker's trademark infringement suit against a rival candy maker, but he also refused to block the rival from selling bunny-shaped marshmallows, finding that it's unlikely consumers would be confused by the candies' different packaging.

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ENFORCEMENT

Mexico Growers Say US Erred In Not Revoking Tomato Duty

By Jack McLoone

The U.S. International Trade Commission based its determination not to revoke an antidumping duty on Mexican fresh tomatoes on faulty reasoning, a group of Mexican farm associations told the U.S. Court of International Trade, seeking a redo.

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LITIGATION

Faegre Drinker And Investor Trade Blame Over Depo Delays

By Andrea Keckley

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP this week pressed its bid to strike expert witnesses proffered by a real estate investor claiming the firm gave bad advice about a deal to buy an A&P shopping center, saying it made nine unsuccessful bids over the last three months to schedule two witnesses.

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Health Co. Gets Partial Win In Suit Over $8.5M Food Tech Deal

By David Minsky

A Florida federal judge handed a partial win to a health information technologies services company and its board Thursday, tossing some claims that they cheated a Canadian business out of $8.5 million in equity after fraudulently inducing the sale of a subsidiary specializing in plant-based extrusion technology.

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Importer Duped NJ Distributor To Steal Grocery Biz, Suit Says

By Jack McLoone

An importer of Korean food products purposefully mischaracterized why it was ending a relationship with its longtime distributor to gain direct access to a popular grocery chain, a New Jersey business told a federal court, asking a judge to rescind the resulting deals.

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Grocers' Microcaptive Valid For Tax Benefits, 7th Circ. Told

By Zak Kostro

Chicagoland grocery chain owners' in-house insurance arrangement is a valid insurance transaction "and should be respected as such," they told the Seventh Circuit, saying their business should be allowed to claim microcaptive tax benefits to reduce its taxable income.

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Kratom Group Says DEA Order Could Snare Natural Wares

By Sam Reisman

A kratom trade group has asked a D.C. federal judge to find that a recent U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration rule change targeting certain kratom-derived compounds should not apply when those compounds naturally occur in the kratom leaf.

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Food Processor Says Tribe's Request Would Hinder Its Ops

By Susan Smiley

A Michigan produce processor fired back at a tribe's request that it stop releasing water into local wetlands, telling a federal judge Wednesday that even though it may have dumped untreated wastewater in the past, it's no longer in violation and that any restrictions would hurt its business.

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BANKRUPTCY

Salad Chain Gets OK For Lease Auction, New Ch. 11 Loan

By Rick Archer

A Texas bankruptcy judge on Thursday gave drive-thru chain Salad and Go permission to take out replacement Chapter 11 financing on new terms and put about 130 leases up for auction, including 65 originally slated for a $105 million private sale.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Class Actions At The Circuit Courts: August Lessons

In this month's review of class action appeals, Mitchell Engel at Shook Hardy discusses seven recent rulings from cases involving Class Action Fairness Act jurisdiction, appellate jurisdiction, attorney fees and employment rights.

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Series

Taekwondo Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Taekwondo has taught me to recognize when to fight for a position and when to focus on finding a solution, and that the best outcomes are often achieved by solving problems — all of which has improved my work as a bankruptcy lawyer, mediator and Subchapter V trustee, says Amy Denton Mayer at Berger Singerman.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

McDermott Closing Health Policy Shop In DC

By Alison Knezevich

McDermott Will & Schulte is closing its healthcare lobbying and consulting shop after a dozen years in business.

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Feature

Rachael Rollins Pitches Scandal As Asset In Comeback Bid

By Taylor Bowie

Rachael Rollins rode a progressive wave to become Suffolk County's district attorney in 2019. After a scandal derailed her stint as Massachusetts U.S. attorney, she's trying to win her old DA post back, and leaning into her alleged ethical missteps as a resume boost.

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Calif. County Judges Recuse From Bias Suit Against DA's Office

By Patrick Hoff

The entire bench of a county court recused itself from a lawsuit alleging the San Francisco District Attorney's Office didn't take appropriate action when a Black employee reported a colleague's use of a racial slur, pushing the trial in the decade-old case to early October.

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'Exemplary Performance' Earns Google Users' Attys $146.8M

By Bonnie Eslinger

A California federal judge Friday awarded plaintiffs' attorneys $146.8 million in fees after they secured a $425 million jury verdict against Google LLC in a privacy class action covering about 98 million people, calling the one-third fee award "extraordinary" but justified given their "exemplary performance."

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House Eyes Vote To Lock Supreme Court At 9 Justices

By Courtney Bublé

The House returns from recess on Monday, and its agenda could include a vote to keep the number of U.S. Supreme Court justices at nine.

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Trump Denied New Bid To Federalize Hush Money Prosecution

By Pete Brush

A New York federal judge on Friday again denied President Donald Trump's bid to move his criminal hush money conviction out of state court, finding as he did earlier that a federal law defense that Trump was operating in his official capacity would be meritless.

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Roundup

UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

By Megan Norcott

The past week in London has seen shoe brand Crocs bring an appeal against the chief executive of the U.K.'s Intellectual Property Office, singer Alanis Morissette sued by the former head of operations at Live Nation Israel and the son of convicted fraudster Guo Wengui file an appeal against the Chapter 11 trustee controlling his father's bankruptcy estate. 

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Roundup

GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

KKR will pay a $250 million civil penalty to end allegations that it hid key documentation and entire transactions for merger notification. In the meantime, Apple told an Illinois federal judge that a recent Seventh Circuit decision affirming Samsung's win in a biometric privacy suit means the tech giant should prevail over similar claims. These are among the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

WilmerHale leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a California federal judge held that the U.S. Department of Defense's designation of Anthropic PBC as a supply chain risk to national security was retaliation for the company's public criticism of the Trump administration.

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In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Law360

For those who missed out, here's a look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the most buzz on Law360 last week.

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COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

A.P. Moller-Maersk

Abbott Laboratories

Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty SE

American Academy of Ophthalmology

American Economic Liberties Project

Anheuser-Busch Inbev SA/NV

Anthropic PBC

Apple Inc.

Arab Bank PLC

Ascension Health Inc.

BMW of North America LLC

Balfour Beatty PLC

BarkerGilmore LLC

BitGo Inc.

Bridge Capital Holdings

Celltrion Inc.

City Attorney of San Francisco

Crocs Inc.

FTI Consulting Inc.

Federation Employment & Guidance Service Inc.

First Eagle Investments

Freddie Mac

GKN PLC

Gartner Inc.

GateHouse Media Inc.

Genstar Capital LLC

Google LLC

H Mart

Instagram Inc.

KKR & Co. Inc.

LinkedIn Corp.

MS Amlin PLC

McDonald's Corp.

Merck & Co. Inc.

Meta Platforms Inc.

Nasdaq Inc.

National Bank of Kuwait SAKP

Network Rail Ltd.

Norfolk Southern Corp.

Ohio Public Employees Retirement System

Pulmuone Co Ltd.

Raine

Rite Aid Corp.

Salad and Go

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal

Solicitors Regulation Authority Ltd.

StoneTurn Group LLP

Sysco Corp.

Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd.

Twitter Inc.

UMB Financial Corp.

World Wrestling Entertainment Inc.

LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

A&O Shearman

Addleshaw Goddard

Ashurst Perkins

Baker McKenzie

Ballard Spahr

Baron & Budd

Berger Singerman

Bingham McCutchen

Bishop & Sewell

Bochner PLLC

Boies Schiller

Browne Jacobson LLP

Capital Law Ltd.

Clifford Chance

Cooley LLP

Covington & Burling

Cramer & Anderson

DAC Beachcroft

DLA Piper

DWF LLP

David Boies

David Ebert LLP

Davis Polk

DiCello Levitt

Faegre Drinker

Farrer & Co.

Folger Levin

Gibson Dunn

Greenberg Traurig

Hill Dickinson

Hodge Jones

Hogan Lovells

Howes Percival

Husch Blackwell

Ice Miller

Kennedys Law LLP

Kilpatrick Townsend

Kirkland & Ellis

Klarquist Sparkman

Klausner Kaufman

Latham & Watkins

Law Office of Daniel Ray Bacon

Law Office of Tracy Jane Andrews

Levin Papantonio

Levin Rojas

Markovits Stock

Mathys & Squire

McDermott Will & Schulte

McHugh Fuller

McIntyre Thanasides

Miller Thomson

Mintz Levin

Mishcon de Reya

Morgan & Morgan PA

Morgan Lewis

Munger Tolles

Norris McLaughlin

Ogden Murphy

Olson & Howard

Osborne Clarke

Pallas Partners

Pinsent Masons

Powell & Majestro

Reed Smith

Riker Danzig

Robinson Bradshaw

Ropes & Gray

Sackers & Partners LLP

Saxena White

Seddons Law LLP

Shook Hardy

Silver Law PLC

Skadden Arps

Spratt Endicott

Steptoe LLP

Strauss Troy

Sullivan & Cromwell

Susman Godfrey

Terpening Law

Troutman

Trowers & Hamlins

Varnum LLP

Ward Hadaway

Williams & Connolly

Willkie Farr

WilmerHale

Winton & Chapman

gunnercooke LLP

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

California Supreme Court

Companies House

Crown Prosecution Service

Delaware Court of Chancery

Federal Trade Commission

Food and Drug Administration

Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians

International Trade Commission

Manhattan District Attorney's Office

Michigan Supreme Court

National Labor Relations Board

New Jersey Court

New Jersey Supreme Court

New York County District Attorney's Office

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

U.S. Department of Defense

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

U.S. Department of Justice

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

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 New Jersey

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 California

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

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

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia

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

U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration

U.S. Postal Service

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

U.S. Tax Court

UK High Court

United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Utah Insurance Department

Washington Attorney General's Office