Akin Gump Owes Fees For Winebow's 'Self-Indulgent' Appeal

By Dorothy Atkins

The Ninth Circuit on Thursday ordered an importer's Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP attorneys to pay a European winemaker fees for having to defend against the importer's "spurious objections" to the winemaker's valid arbitral award, ruling that the importer's "self-indulgent" appeal warrants sanctions in the form of fees.

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Skadden-Led IFF Selling Ingredients Biz To CVC For $4.3B

By Al Barbarino

Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP is advising food and fragrance company IFF on an agreement to sell its food ingredients business to White & Case LLP-advised CVC Capital Partners, valuing the unit at about $4.3 billion, according to a Friday announcement. 

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Cargill, The Andersons Ink $10M Deal To End Wheat Futures Suit

By Sydney Price

Agribusinesses The Andersons Inc. and Cargill Inc. will each pay $5 million to end derivatives market manipulation claims from a class of wheat futures traders, the parties announced.

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Paging Dr. Brown: Baby Care Biz Sues Soda Co. In TM Fight

By Gina Kim

Baby care product manufacturer Dr. Brown's Co. has asked a Missouri federal judge in a declaratory action to find that it doesn't infringe trademarks of soda giant Dr. Brown's Beverage Co. in connection with the plaintiff's products, including a recently launched electrolyte replacement solution.

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Walmart, Baby Food Brands Face Conn. Toxic Metals Claims

By Aaron Keller

Walmart Inc. and six baby food makers face a new Connecticut federal lawsuit claiming products contaminated with "dangerous levels of toxic heavy metals" caused a child's brain injuries, autism and related health issues, allegations similar to those lodged by others in California multidistrict litigation proceedings.

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Md. Expands Urban Agriculture Property Tax Credit Eligibility

By Zak Kostro

Maryland loosened eligibility requirements for a local option property tax credit for urban agricultural activities under a bill signed by the governor.

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Brief

NJ Bill Eases Path To Adult-Use Pot Sales For Medical Shops

By Sam Reisman

New Jersey lawmakers have given final approval to a bill extending the state's existing hemp policy until an upcoming shift in the federal definition of hemp takes effect in November as well as making it easier for medical cannabis dispensaries to also sell recreational products.

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Brief

EU Clears Dairy Cooperatives' Merger Plan

By Tom Fish

The European Commission has approved the proposed acquisition by Arla Foods of DMK Group after concluding that the deal, which would create a farmer-owned dairy cooperative giant, raises no competition concerns in the European Economic Area.

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Jersey Shore Shop Says NJ Jumped Gun On Hemp Change

By Mike Curley

A Wildwood-based hemp store is suing New Jersey state regulators in federal court, alleging they jumped the gun by changing the state's definition of legal hemp ahead of the change in federal regulation, leaving it with unsellable and illegal inventory as the beach season starts.

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Church & Dwight Buys Stain Removal Biz In $325M Deal

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Household and personal care manufacturing giant Church & Dwight Co. Inc., advised by Proskauer Rose LLP, on Friday announced plans to acquire stain removal brand Miss Mouth's Messy Eater in a roughly $325 million deal.

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Your Next Litigation Hold Should Cover AI Chat Logs

The Delaware Chancery Court’s recent decision in Fortis Advisors v. Krafton to treat a CEO’s artificial intelligence chats as substantive evidence is being read as a discovery warning to litigators, but there is a second duty-to-preserve lesson that is especially pertinent to in-house counsel, say attorneys at Faegre Drinker.

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Double Shooting Renews Courthouse Safety Fears In NC

By Hayley Fowler

The shooting of two Fox Rothschild LLP attorneys outside a courthouse in Raleigh, North Carolina, ahead of Memorial Day weekend has renewed calls to protect the safety of judges and lawyers in an increasingly volatile justice system.

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Baker McKenzie Asks Judge Not To Toss Suit Against Ex-Atty

By Alison Knezevich

A lawyer for Baker McKenzie on Friday urged a Washington, D.C., judge not to dismiss the BigLaw firm's defamation suit against a former tax associate who accused a firm office leader of sexual assault, telling the court the accusations were false and made with "malice."

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Bonus Spotlight

Selendy Gay Doles Out Spring Associate Bonuses

By Aebra Coe

New York litigation boutique Selendy Gay PLLC paid its associates spring bonuses of as much as $25,000 this week, according to the firm.

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Calif. Panel Reverses Order For Citing Atty's Bogus Case Law

By Dorothy Atkins

A California appellate panel on Thursday reversed a judgment in favor of a man accused of abusing his son, finding that "without doubt" the trial judge abused her discretion by incorporating the man's bogus legal citations into her ruling, despite being alerted to the mistakes in advance.

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NY Judge Doubts Nussbaum-Linked Firms Belong In Ch. 11

By Emily Lever

A New York bankruptcy judge on Friday questioned whether his court was the proper venue to wind down two commercial real estate law firms headed by Mark J. Nussbaum as the debtors sought to ditch an assignment for the benefit of creditors process in New York state court.

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Dems Say DOJ Blocked Bondi On Trump Questions

By Courtney Bublé

Democrats were incensed on Friday that the U.S. Department of Justice attorneys who accompanied former Attorney General Pam Bondi to her committee interview stopped her from answering questions about President Donald Trump.

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Civil Rights Icon Clarence B. Jones Dies At 95

By Andrea Keckley

Civil rights icon Clarence B. Jones, a speechwriter and personal attorney to Martin Luther King Jr., died May 22 at an assisted living facility in the Santa Clara County city of Cupertino, California, his family confirmed earlier this week. He was 95.

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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 the billionaire who donated £5 million ($6.7 million) to Nigel Farage sue Ben Habib, the leader of far-right party Advance UK, for defamation; Mashreqbank bring claims against three subsidiaries of dissolved private equity giant Abraaj Group for commercial fraud; and the property and investment vehicle of the State of Kuwait be targeted by four real estate figures who filed a miscellaneous claim. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

Kirkland & Ellis says it's investing a half billion dollars into developing its own artificial intelligence platform to better serve clients. And Law360 looks at the general counsel who is guiding BP through its latest leadership crisis after the company abruptly dismissed its board chair.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Phillips Black Inc., Hogan Lovells and Watkins & Eager PLLC lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a Black Mississippi death row prisoner who argued racial discrimination tainted his jury selection is entitled to habeas corpus relief.

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Titan Of The Plaintiffs Bar: Boies Schiller's Matthew Schwartz

By Sarah Jarvis

Matthew L. Schwartz oscillated among many career aspirations as a kid, from astronaut to mayor of New York. When it was time to head off to college, the man who would go on to handle the prosecution of employees tied to Bernie Madoff and become chair of Boies Schiller Flexner LLP set his sights on science, earning an undergraduate degree in physics.

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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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