Buffalo Wild Wings Can Sell Breast Meat As 'Boneless Wings'

By Lauren Berg

A Buffalo Wild Wings customer who claims he was deceived by the restaurant's "boneless wings" found his lawsuit in the deep fryer Tuesday, after an Illinois federal judge determined no reasonable consumer would believe the product is actually deboned chicken wings that are "reconstituted into some sort of Franken-wing."

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Pepsi And Walmart Inflated Soda Prices, ND Businesses Say

By Zak Kostro

Pepsi and Walmart devised a plan to inflate prices for Pepsi soft drinks above competitive levels, two North Dakota businesses said in a proposed class action in New York federal court that alleges the companies violated federal antitrust laws.

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Cohen Milstein To Rep Perrigo Investors In Formula Biz Suit

By Emilie Ruscoe

Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC will represent a proposed class of Perrigo Company PLC investors who allege the company failed to disclose critical issues with infant formula operations that it purchased from Nestlé and caused stock prices to drop as the issues came to light. 

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Kraft Heinz To Face Damages Bid In Factory Upgrade Row

By P.J. D'Annunzio

A Pennsylvania federal judge has ruled that Kraft Heinz Co. contributed to delays in a construction project at one of its facilities by rushing the contractor and frequently changing the plans, holding that Industrial Power Systems Inc. sufficiently showed that it suffered damages from the delays.

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BBQ Co. ESOP Members Urge Trial Despite DOL's $15M Deal

By Kellie Mejdrich

A certified class of participants in a barbecue company's employee stock ownership program is seeking assurance that a $15 million settlement among the U.S. Department of Labor, the company's executives and the ESOP's caretaker won't affect a coming trial on the matter. 

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Founders Made Fish Farming Co. Go Belly Up, Court Told

By Spencer Brewer

The president of a defunct fish farming company told a Texas federal judge that its founders misappropriated and then squandered $90 million worth of debt and equity, saying during a Tuesday bench trial that the layers of their deceit were "like an onion."

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NC Justices Asked To Undo Earth Fare Founder's $195K Award

By Hayley Fowler

Organic supermarket chain Earth Fare and its post-bankruptcy owner told North Carolina's top court on Tuesday that its founder can't recover damages for work he was salaried to do while revitalizing the brand, saying the justices should unravel a $195,000 unjust enrichment verdict in his favor.

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Okla. Officials Look To Toss Creek Nation's Hunting Suit

By Joyce Hanson

A special prosecutor for Oklahoma's governor and the state's wildlife conservation director have asked a federal court judge to throw out the Muscogee Creek Nation's hunting rights lawsuit, saying the tribe has gone along with state hunting regulations for more than a century.

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Multi-Color Noteholders Sue Barclays In Ch. 11 Collateral Fight

By Hilary Russ

Unsecured noteholders for bankrupt label-maker Multi-Color Corp. are suing Barclays Bank PLC as Multi-Color's collateral agent, seeking a declaration that the bank holds liens only on some assets and not "substantially all" assets and property as stated previously in the Chapter 11 case.

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Law Professors Sue EEOC For Firm DEI Letter Records

By Craig Clough

Two professors at law schools in Michigan and Florida have sued the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in D.C. federal court, seeking documents related to 20 letters the agency sent to law firms over their purported diversity, equity and inclusion practices.

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Goldstein Tax Trial Heads To Closing Args As Defense Rests

By Jared Foretek

Jurors in SCOTUSblog founder Thomas Goldstein's tax fraud trial will hear closing arguments Wednesday, after the final two witnesses in the monthlong proceeding took the stand, and new emails regarding Goldstein's efforts to conceal poker debts came to light Tuesday.

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Flat Fee Or Contingency? Firm, Ex-Client Fight Over IP Spoils

By Ben Adlin

A 3D printing technology company has urged a Washington federal court to toss a breach of contract lawsuit brought by its former law firm, Lee & Hayes PC, arguing it agreed to a flat fee ahead of a patent settlement, while Lee & Hayes says it only waived a contingency fee because of its onetime client's "underhanded misrepresentations."

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J&J Fights Beasley Allen's Bid To Pause Talc DQ Ruling

By Emily Sawicki

A New Jersey state court lacks standing to block an appellate panel's removal of Beasley Allen from representing hundreds of women with ovarian cancer pursuing claims against Johnson & Johnson over talcum powder, the pharmaceutical company has argued in an opposition brief.

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Valve Jury Says Rothschild, Atty Broke Anti-Patent Troll Law

By Rachel Riley

Inventor Leigh Rothschild, his companies and his former attorney broke Washington state's anti-patent trolling law by making a bad faith assertion of patent infringement against video game developer Valve Corp., and Rothschild and his companies breached an intellectual property licensing deal in the process, a Seattle federal jury found on Tuesday. 

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Supreme Court Adopts Rule To Suss Out Stock Conflicts

By Katie Buehler

The U.S. Supreme Court announced Tuesday that litigants will soon be required to include companies' stock ticker symbols in court documents as part of new rules aimed at helping the justices identify potential conflicts of interest.

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Sens. Concerned About Live Nation Case After DOJ 'Ousting'

By Matthew Perlman

A group of Senate Democrats is raising concerns about potential political influence at the U.S. Department of Justice, following the abrupt departure of the agency's top antitrust enforcer weeks before Live Nation is set to face trial in the government's monopolization case.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jeff Montgomery

Cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence disputes continued their slow weave into Delaware Court of Chancery and state Supreme Court dockets last week, with jurists and litigants grappling over how — or if — the courts' old-school equity jurisdiction and fiduciary duty hooks apply to new kinds of deals.

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