State and federal enforcers have reached settlements with Cal-Maine, Versova and Hickman's Egg Ranch over claims that the egg producers inflated prices by colluding to manipulate benchmarking rates.
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Egg Producers Settle Collusion Claims From DOJ, States

By Matthew Perlman

State and federal enforcers have reached settlements with Cal-Maine, Versova and Hickman's Egg Ranch over claims that the egg producers inflated prices by colluding to manipulate benchmarking rates.

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Justices Skip Pork Case Over Alito, Kavanaugh Objections

By Julie Manganis

The U.S. Supreme Court said Tuesday it will not review a challenge to a Massachusetts law restricting the sale of pork produced in tightly confined spaces, though Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Samuel Alito were in favor of hearing the case.

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FDA Lets Zyn Market Some Pouches As Less Risky Than Cigs

By Rae Ann Varona

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Tuesday that Philip Morris may now market 20 of its Zyn nicotine pouch products as having less of a health risk than cigarettes.

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POLICY & REGULATION

Income Taxes Drive Slight Boost In Asia-Pacific Tax Ratio

By Jack McLoone

Increases in income tax collection in the Asia-Pacific region helped drive a modest increase in the region's average ratio of tax to gross domestic product in 2024, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said Tuesday, though it still sits well below the OECD average.

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ENFORCEMENT

CFPB's Slimmer Small-Biz Data Rule Cements End To 2 Suits

By Katryna Perera

Kentucky banks and a lender trade group have dropped their parallel lawsuits over the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's Biden-era small business loan reporting requirements, citing the agency's scaled-back version of the requirements that went into effect Tuesday.

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LITIGATION

Costco Says Chubb Unit Owes Defense For Warehouse Injury

By Jennifer Mandato

Costco accused a Chubb unit of wrongfully refusing to defend the big-box retailer in an underlying bodily injury lawsuit, arguing that the carrier owes the retailer a full defense because it was listed as an additional insured vendor under a home decor brand's policy.

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Coca-Cola Bottler Off The Hook In Cop Crash Suit

By Jonathan Capriel

The Coca-Cola Bottling Co. United-East LLC has beaten a personal injury lawsuit stemming from a three-car pileup with a police car, after a Georgia state appeals court ruled on Tuesday that there is no evidence to suggest that the driver of the company's tractor-trailer did anything wrong.

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Conn. Servers Seek Quick Win On Minimal Duties Claims

By MJ Koo

Restaurant servers have asked a Connecticut state court to throw out a steakhouse's argument that some of their unpaid work was too small to matter, saying a recent state high court ruling makes clear that no amount of work can go uncompensated under state law.

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Ex-NC Gov. Faces Deposition Bid In COVID Bar Closure Suit

By Abigail Harrison

A group of bar owners has asked a North Carolina state court to let it depose former Gov. Roy Cooper and his top health and human services official while in office as it attempts to show COVID-19-era executive orders forcing bar closures violated the owners' constitutional rights.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Series

Power To The Paralegals: Burnout As A Structural Problem

Law firm leadership can best retain their paralegals not by encouraging self-care, but by seeking top-down structural solutions for the quiet proliferation of responsibilities and the vicarious exposure to client trauma that particularly drive burnout in this vital role, says Erika Sneeringer at Brockstedt Mandalas.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

2 Ex-Clifford Chance Attys Say Firm Wants To Claw Back $6M

By Jake Maher

Two former practice group leaders at Clifford Chance LLP have sued in New York federal court alleging the firm is trying to claw back nearly $6 million in total from the pair after they moved to Sidley Austin LLP early this year.

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Trump Nominates Just Confirmed La. Judge For 5th Circ.

By Courtney Bublé

Judge Anna St. John has been on the federal bench for less than four months, and now she's being put forth for a higher court.

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McCarter Atty Says He Didn't Know NY Law Before $20M Deals

By Brian Steele

A onetime McCarter & English LLP partner in Hartford testified Tuesday that he did not research New York's municipal contracting laws before helping two insurers enter into doomed $20 million loan repayment agreements with a Long Island town, but contended that he was under no obligation to do so.

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NJ Assembly Passes Litigation Funding Disclosure Bill

By Jake Maher

The New Jersey Assembly passed a bill requiring the disclosure of third-party litigation funding arrangements on Tuesday by an overwhelming margin after similar pending legislation in the state Senate received pushback from trial lawyers and litigation finance representatives.

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Apple Gets High Court Review Of Epic Case Sanctions

By Bryan Koenig

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to take up Apple's challenge to a California federal court contempt order against it for violating a ban, won by Epic Games, on company policies that barred app developers from steering users to outside payment options.

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Analysis

Justices' Birthright Ruling Leaves Little Room For Congress

By Britain Eakin

The U.S. Supreme Court's 5-4 holding Tuesday that President Donald Trump's executive order limiting birthright citizenship is unconstitutional did more than invalidate the policy, it effectively foreclosed Congress from trying to implement the executive order through legislation, experts told Law360.

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High Court Scraps Caps On Coordinated Campaign Spending

By Katie Buehler and Jeff Overley

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down federal limits on political party spending in coordination with individual candidates, agreeing with a Republican-led challenge that the caps violate the First Amendment.

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Uber, FedEx Slam Pa. Law Firm Counterclaims In RICO Suit

By James Boyle

Philadelphia-based personal injury firm Simon & Simon PC and its founder have failed to support a counterclaim in Pennsylvania federal court saying Uber Technologies Inc. and FedEx Corp. filed a sham litigation and abused the legal process with their ongoing RICO complaint against the firm, the companies argued Monday.

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NY State Bar Wants New Bar Exam Rules For Emergencies

By Kevin Penton

Following two recent incidents that drew scrutiny over their handling, the New York State Bar Association is calling for new standardized protocols to be followed should emergencies occur during the administration of the bar exam.

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Agri Stats Inc.

Amazon.com Inc.

American Immigration Lawyers Association

Apple Inc.

Bauer Inc.

Burke Inc.

Cal-Maine Foods Inc.

Cato Institute

Coca-Cola Consolidated Inc.

Competitive Enterprise Institute

Costco Wholesale Corp.

Democratic National Committee

Epic Games Inc.

FedEx Corp.

Fordham University

Foxwoods Resort Casino

Google LLC

Hamilton Lincoln

Hickman’s Family Farms

International Legal Finance Association

LinkedIn Corp.

Monticello Banking Co.

New Jersey Association for Justice

New Jersey State Bar Association

New York State Bar Association

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

Philip Morris International Inc.

Swedish Match AB

Triumph Foods LLC

Uber Technologies Inc.

LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Balch & Bingham

Blank Rome

Bott & Spencer

Brockstedt Mandalas

Buchalter LLP

Clifford Chance

Covington & Burling

Cozen O'Connor

Cravath Swaine

Duane Morris

Elias Law Group LLP

Faegre Drinker

Harris Beach Murtha

Hayber McKenna

Husch Blackwell

Jackson Lewis PC

Jones Day

K&L Gates

Latham & Watkins

McCarter & English

Morgan Pottinger

Perkins Coie

Quinn Emanuel

Reeves Immigration Law Group

Sidley Austin

Silver Golub

Simon & Simon PC

Stevens Martin

Strawinski & Stout

Troutman

Wiggin & Dana

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Federal Election Commission

Food and Drug Administration

Georgia Court of Appeals

North Carolina Department of Justice

Texas Attorney General's Office

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

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

U.S. Department of Justice

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

U.S. Senate

U.S. Sentencing Commission

U.S. Supreme Court