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September 09, 2025
Azure Power Investors Get Final OK Of $23M Settlement
A New York federal judge granted final approval to a $23 million settlement between India-based solar energy company Azure Power and investors accusing it of misrepresenting its compliance with anti-corruption and anti-bribery laws, and the methods through which it won bids for projects.
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September 09, 2025
BDO Seeks To Ditch Bulk Of Ex-Partner's $75M Bias Suit
Accounting firm BDO sought to fend off most of the claims in a $75 million discrimination suit brought by a former tax partner who took leave when her son had a stroke, telling a New York federal court she was not an employee protected by the laws she says the firm violated.
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September 09, 2025
Judge Warns Fake AI Cites May Need 'Eye-Catching Sanction'
A Connecticut federal judge on Tuesday warned a multistate solo practitioner that an "eye-catching sanction" may be necessary to stop attorneys from filing briefs rife with fake case law generated by artificial intelligence systems, while the lawyer bemoaned the fact that he'd "trusted a tool."
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September 09, 2025
NY AG James Hires Munger Tolles For Federal Probes
New York Attorney General Letitia James recently retained top attorneys at Munger Tolles & Olson LLP amid ongoing federal investigations related to her office's past cases against the Trump Organization and the National Rifle Association.
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September 09, 2025
Execs Hit With 'Drastic' Sanctions In RE Platform Dispute
A New York state court has sanctioned two directors of Fang Holdings Ltd. and their affiliates for "flagrant and blatant disregard" of discovery orders amid a shareholder derivative suit accusing them of manipulating the Chinese real estate portal to enrich themselves.
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September 09, 2025
2nd Circ. Allows NY AG To Curb Nonprofit's Debtor Coaching
The Second Circuit vacated a lower court order that prevented New York Attorney General Letitia James from stopping a bankruptcy education nonprofit from advising low-income debtors Tuesday, saying that while the state's unauthorized practice of law statutes regulate speech, they are content neutral and should be reviewed under intermediate scrutiny.
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September 09, 2025
Ex-CFTC Atty Presses Religious Bias Claim At 2nd Circ.
A former Commodity Futures Trading Commission lawyer urged an inquisitive panel of the Second Circuit Tuesday to revive the religious discrimination claims he brought alleging a "gag order" effectively banned him from praying with a friend who was serving as the agency watchdog at the time.
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September 09, 2025
Meta Wins At PTAB Amid IP Suit Over Facebook Safety Check
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has invalidated claims across four patents covering the technology behind features allowing people to check off that they're safe in a crisis, handing a win to challenger Meta as it faces a lawsuit accusing it of infringing those patents.
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September 09, 2025
NY Pot Regulator Says Lawmakers Must Fix Proximity Issue
The head of New York's cannabis regulatory agency said Tuesday that only the state Legislature could cure a recent destabilizing shift in regulatory interpretation that threatens to upend more than a hundred marijuana businesses.
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September 09, 2025
Crate & Barrel's Insurer Owes Primary Coverage In Injury Suit
Crate & Barrel's insurer has the primary duty to defend and indemnify a company that subleased a commercial space to the retailer and the owner of the Lower Manhattan property in an underlying personal injury suit, a New York federal court ruled, handing a win to the sublessor's insurer.
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September 09, 2025
4 Possible Factors In Nadine Menendez's Bribery Sentence
The New York federal judge tasked with sentencing Nadine Menendez in the high-profile public corruption case that also ensnared her husband, a once entrenched New Jersey politician, will weigh a higher number of mitigating factors than in the usual criminal case, leaving her ultimate penalty a question mark to legal observers.
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September 09, 2025
States Urge Justices To Quickly Rule Against Trump's Tariffs
The U.S. Supreme Court should quickly consider the appeal of the Federal Circuit's ruling that President Donald Trump's emergency tariffs are unlawful and affirm that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act doesn't provide the authority to impose duties, the states challenging the measures told the justices this week.
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September 08, 2025
NY Supreme Court Says ICE Office At Rikers Order Is Illegal
A New York state court on Monday ruled that an executive order of New York City Mayor Eric Adams' administration that allowed for a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office at Rikers Island is "illegal," pointing to Adams' escape of federal corruption charges days ahead of the order being issued.
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September 08, 2025
Split 4th Circ. Axes States' Challenge To Trump Admin Layoffs
A split Fourth Circuit panel held Monday that a coalition of states doesn't have standing to sue the Trump administration over the mass firing of thousands of probationary government employees, finding that it was the employees — not the states — who "suffered the brunt of the harm" underlying the case.
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September 08, 2025
NY AG To Fight Texas Bid To Enforce Abortion Ban Ruling
New York Attorney General Letitia James on Monday moved to intervene in a lawsuit brought by the state of Texas that seeks to enforce a money judgment against a New York doctor for providing abortion-inducing drugs to a woman via telemedicine in the Lone Star state.
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September 08, 2025
Las Vegas Man Gets 7 Years For $1.4M Fraud Scheme
A Las Vegas man who pled guilty to charges related to defrauding investors out of $1.4 million, largely for a phony cannabis manufacturing venture, was sentenced to seven years in prison by a New York federal judge in a Friday order that more than doubled the maximum time prosecutors sought.
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September 08, 2025
Securities Class Actions Had A Late Summer Appellate Bloom
While the later summer months are often a quiet time for the nation's courts, the federal appellate courts were hard at work this past July and August issuing important rulings on class certification standards for shareholder lawsuits and handing down split-panel decisions over the future of disclosure litigation.
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September 08, 2025
London Insurers Owe Full Coverage Limits To NY Archdiocese
Certain underwriters at Lloyd's of London and other London market insurers must pay their full applicable policy limits under policies issued to the Archdiocese of New York, a state court ruled Monday in the archdiocese's suit seeking coverage for thousands of sexual abuse claims.
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September 08, 2025
Dem Sens., AGs Increase Pressure On DOJ's HPE Merger Deal
The controversial Justice Department settlement clearing Hewlett Packard Enterprise's $14 billion purchase of Juniper Networks drew further pushback from Democratic senators and state attorneys general who respectively sought answers from U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and told a California federal judge to reject the deal.
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September 08, 2025
NBA Taps Wachtell To Probe Possible Cap Scam By Clippers
Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz, which has led two previous probes into misconduct by NBA franchises that pushed their owners to sell the teams, has been retained by the league to investigate reported circumvention of the salary cap for superstar Kawhi Leonard by the Los Angeles Clippers.
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September 08, 2025
Calif. Says Defunct SVB Owes State Over $76M In Taxes
The former parent company of Silicon Valley Bank owes the state of California upward of $76 million in taxes on income from a portfolio of securities for years leading up to the bank's failure, a state taxing authority told a New York bankruptcy court.
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September 08, 2025
Fla. Judge May Sever Claims In Ex-NRA Lobbyist's Suit
A Florida federal judge said he may proceed with severing a contract breach claim in a former lobbyist's lawsuit against the National Rifle Association and order it refiled in Virginia after ruling that the nonprofit could enforce a valid forum selection clause.
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September 08, 2025
E-Bike Co. Hid Battery Issues, Investor Says In Stock Suit
An investor sued Fly-E Group Inc. on Monday in New York federal court, alleging that the company and its officers ignored slumping sales because of problems with its lithium-ion batteries, inflating stocks until they dropped by 87% in a single day when the truth came out.
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September 08, 2025
Former Skadden Atty Moves Tax Practice To Simpson Thacher
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP has deepened its transactional resources in the New York office with the recent addition of an attorney who moved his practice from Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP after 15 years.
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September 08, 2025
Penny Stock Trader Denies SEC Claims At Trial Despite Plea
An Ohio salesman who in 2022 copped to fraudulently pumping a lone penny stock on Twitter told a Manhattan federal jury Monday that a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission suit alleging he pilfered $2.5 million via dozens of such schemes seeks to punish him for everyday, lawful behavior.
Expert Analysis
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2nd Circ. Limits VPPA Liability, But Caveats Remain
The Second Circuit's narrowed scope of the Video Privacy Protection Act in Solomon v. Flipps Media, in which the court adopted the ordinary person standard, will help shield businesses from VPPA liability, but the decision hardly provides a free pass to streamers and digital media companies utilizing website pixels, say attorneys at Frankfurt Kurnit.
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The Ins And Outs Of Consensual Judicial References
As parties consider the possibility of judicial reference to resolve complex disputes, it is critical to understand how the process works, why it's gaining traction, and why carefully crafted agreements make all the difference, say attorneys at Pillsbury.
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Opinion
The BigLaw Settlements Are About Risk, Not Profit
The nine Am Law 100 firms that settled with the Trump administration likely did so because of the personal risk faced by equity partners in today's billion‑dollar national practices, enabled by an ethics rule primed for modernization, says Adam Forest at Scale.
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State Tort Claims May Help Deter Bribes During FCPA Pause
As the U.S. pauses Foreign Corrupt Practices Act enforcement, companies that lose business due to competitors' bribery should consider using state tortious interference suits to expose corruption, deter illegal practices and obtain compensation for commercial losses, says Jason Manning at Levy Firestone.
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2nd Circ. Arb. Ruling May Give Foreign Insurers An Edge
The Second Circuit's decision this month in Lloyds of London v. 3131 Veterans Blvd that international arbitration agreements take primacy over state anti-arbitration insurance laws opens a division between domestic and foreign insurers that could affect the surplus lines market, says attorney Rosanne Felicello.
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Series
Brazilian Jiujitsu Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Competing in Brazilian jiujitsu – often against opponents who are much larger and younger than me – has allowed me to develop a handful of useful skills that foster the resilience and adaptability necessary for a successful legal career, says Tina Dorr of Barnes & Thornburg.
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Birthright Ruling Could Alter Consumer Financial Litigation
The U.S. Supreme Court’s upcoming decision about the validity of the nationwide injunctions in the birthright citizenship cases, argued on May 15, could make it much harder for trade associations to obtain nationwide relief from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's enforcement of invalid regulations, says Alan Kaplinsky at Ballard Spahr.
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Opportunities And Challenges For The Texas Stock Exchange
While the new Texas Stock Exchange could be an interesting alternative to the NYSE and the Nasdaq due to the state’s robust economy and the TXSE’s high-profile leadership and publicity opportunities for listings, its success as a national securities exchange may hinge on resolving questions about its regulatory and cost advantages, say attorneys at Norton Rose.
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And Now A Word From The Panel: A Rare MDL Petition Off-Day
In an unusual occurrence in the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation's history, there are zero new MDL petitions scheduled for Thursday's hearing session, but the panel will be busy considering a host of motions regarding whether to transfer cases to eight existing MDL proceedings, says Alan Rothman at Sidley.
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Series
Power To The Paralegals: An Untapped Source For Biz Roles
Law firms looking to recruit legal business talent should consider turning to paralegals, who practice several key skills every day that prepare them to thrive in marketing and client development roles, says Vanessa Torres at Lowenstein Sandler.
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30 Years Later: 2nd Circ.'s Road To Arbitral Preemption
The Second Circuit's recent decision in Lloyds of London v. 3131 Veterans Blvd. overturns its own 1995 precedent and squares its position with decades of circuit court jurisprudence holding that international arbitration agreements must take primacy over state anti-arbitration insurance laws, say attorneys at Linklaters.
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Series
Playing Poker Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Poker is a master class in psychology, risk management and strategic thinking, and I’m a better attorney because it has taught me to read my opponents, adapt when I’m dealt the unexpected and stay patient until I'm ready to reveal my hand, says Casey Kingsley at McCreadyLaw.
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Avoiding The Risk Of Continued AI-Washing Enforcement
A recent action brought by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Department of Justice, alleging a software developer defrauded investors by lying about his app’s artificial intelligence capabilities, suggests this administration will continue to target AI washing, so companies should adopt practices to mitigate enforcement risk, say attorneys at Debevoise.
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Opinion
Counterfeiting Cases Could Alter TM Law, Hurt Resale Market
Trademark infringement litigation brought by Nike and Chanel against resale platforms could reshape the first-sale doctrine, with the future of the $49 billion luxury fashion resale market at stake, says attorney Charles Meyer.
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DOJ Memo Raises Bar For Imposition Of Corporate Monitors
A recently released U.S. Department of Justice memo, outlining guidance on the imposition of compliance monitors in corporate criminal cases, reflects DOJ leadership’s concerns about scope creep and business costs, but the strategies for companies to avoid a monitorship haven't changed much compared to the Biden era, says James Koukios at MoFo.