Corporate

  • January 14, 2025

    Enbridge Beats Ducere's Oil Transport Antitrust Suit

    Enbridge Inc. beat Ducere LLC's suit accusing it of killing a pipeline terminal project to maintain its monopoly over crude oil transportation services in the Chicago area, after an Illinois federal judge pointed out Monday there are several non-Enbridge pipeline routes providing refineries with alternatives for moving oil.

  • January 14, 2025

    Regal Cinemas, 'Vague Laws' Slowed BIPA Case, Judge Says

    An Illinois federal magistrate judge blasted Regal Cinemas for discovery disputes in litigation alleging the movie theater chain violated a worker's rights under Illinois' biometric privacy law by collecting fingerprint scans without informed consent, saying "most if not all" of Regal's objections to her information requests "are completely out of place."

  • January 14, 2025

    'Totally A Tactic': Judge Rips Apple For Discovery Delays

    The California federal judge presiding over Epic Games' antitrust compliance fight with Apple criticized the tech giant's efforts to withhold tens of thousands of documents under attorney-client privilege, telling Apple's counsel at a hearing Tuesday that "in large part, this is delay ... it's totally a tactic" and "there will be consequences."

  • January 14, 2025

    Mastercard Agrees To $26M Deal In Hiring Bias Suit

    Mastercard Inc. has agreed to shell out $26 million and change its hiring practices to put to rest a proposed class and collective action alleging sex, gender, race and ethnicity-based employment discrimination, according to a motion filed Tuesday, the same day the workers sued in New York federal court.

  • January 14, 2025

    Biden Order Outlines Steps For Bolstering AI Infrastructure

    President Joe Biden issued an executive order Tuesday that aims to shape the country into an artificial intelligence infrastructure leader by working with the private sector to build data centers.

  • January 14, 2025

    Frank Exec Wants Fraudster Comparisons Blocked At Trial

    The founder of student financial aid startup Frank has asked a Manhattan federal judge to block prosecutors from comparing her to well-known convicted fraudsters at her upcoming trial on charges that she tricked JPMorgan Chase & Co. into buying her company for $175 million.

  • January 14, 2025

    Biden Finalizes Ban On Chinese, Russian Connected Car Tech

    The Biden administration on Tuesday finalized a rule banning the import and sale in the U.S. of passenger vehicles with certain connectivity components made in China or Russia that the administration says could pose national security risks to American infrastructure and consumers.

  • January 14, 2025

    SEC Sues Elon Musk Over Late Twitter Buy-Up Disclosure

    Elon Musk violated securities laws by failing to timely disclose his initial buy-up of Twitter stock ahead of his $44 billion acquisition of the company, allowing him to purchase shares at artificially low prices, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission alleged in a D.C. federal lawsuit filed Tuesday.

  • January 14, 2025

    DOL Backs Uber Drivers' Bid To Revive Employment Case

    The Department of Labor threw its support behind Philadelphia Uber Black drivers in their employment classification case, telling the Third Circuit that the lower court misapplied agency guidance in its dismissal of the long-running lawsuit against the ride-sharing company.

  • January 14, 2025

    DXC Says Investor Suit Shows Integration Problems, Not Fraud

    DXC Technology has asked a Virginia federal court to toss a shareholder suit alleging the information technology giant overhyped efforts to reduce restructuring and integration costs after acquiring several companies, arguing hindsight critiques from the current CEO do not establish securities fraud.

  • January 14, 2025

    TripAdvisor, Class Flip Nevada Move Positions In Del. Appeal

    Attorneys for the boards and controller of TripAdvisor and Liberty TripAdvisor have asked Delaware's Supreme Court to keep alive their appeal from a lower court's refusal to toss a suit challenging their reincorporation in Nevada, despite a call for dismissal by class attorneys who had previously opposed both the deal and appeal.

  • January 14, 2025

    Meta Atty Quits IP Case Over Zuckerberg's 'Toxic Masculinity'

    An attorney helping defend Meta Platforms in copyright litigation brought by artists who claim their content was used to train the large language model Llama has dropped the tech company as his client, citing Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's "descent into toxic masculinity and Neo-Nazi madness" in a LinkedIn post.

  • January 14, 2025

    Equifax To Pay $725K For Inaccurate Credit Score Reporting

    Equifax Information Services LLC has agreed to a $725,000 settlement with the New York Attorney General's Office to resolve claims that the credit reporting agency inaccurately reported tens of thousands of New Yorkers' credit scores to lenders between March and April 2022, causing inflated costs for loans and other products.

  • January 14, 2025

    Hytera Asks Justices To Check Whether DTSA Applies Abroad

    China-based Hytera Communications Corp. Ltd., which lost a trade secrets trial resulting in a $764 million jury award for Motorola Solutions that has since been reduced, has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review whether the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 can apply extraterritorially.

  • January 14, 2025

    Ex-Department Of Commerce Trade Pro Joins King & Spalding

    King & Spalding LLP announced Tuesday that it has hired an attorney who formerly served as a U.S. Department of Commerce official and assistant general counsel for the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative to bolster its international trade team.

  • January 14, 2025

    OpenAI Products Not Designed To Evade Paywalls, Judge Told

    Lawyers for OpenAI and Microsoft spent Tuesday morning trying to convince a New York federal judge to trim down news organizations' copyright infringement cases against them, saying large language models aren't designed to spit out entire articles so that readers can avoid paywalls.

  • January 14, 2025

    Monsanto Hit With $100M Jury Verdict In 10th Seattle PCB Trial

    A Washington state jury said Tuesday that Monsanto should pay $100 million to four people who claim they developed various health issues from PCB exposure at a school facility, far less than the $4 billion requested by 15 plaintiffs but still adding to the $1.1 billion in losses the chemical giant already faces over the site.

  • January 14, 2025

    Ex-Cognizant Execs Seek Update On Elusive Gov't Witness

    A vital prosecution witness whose unavailability delayed the highly anticipated 2023 trial of two former Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. executives on foreign bribery charges in New Jersey federal court might again be missing in action as the new trial date of March 3 approaches, according to court filings.

  • January 14, 2025

    Pillsbury Wants Out Of Chancery Suit Against Auto Seller Biz

    Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP wants to escape or force arbitration of an aiding and abetting breach of fiduciary duty claim that was asserted in Delaware Chancery Court by a stockholder and former director of Quantum Automotive Intelligence Inc., saying a "broad arbitration provision" exists between the law firm and company.

  • January 14, 2025

    Boston Globe Can't Ditch Exec's Wrongful Firing Suit

    The Boston Globe cannot escape the remainder of a lawsuit brought by its former president over his 2021 firing because there are still too many disputed issues on the table, including the reason why he was dismissed, a Massachusetts state court judge ruled.

  • January 14, 2025

    Curaleaf's Ex-CEO Wants Out Of Ex-VP's Pay, Sex Bias Suit

    The former CEO of Curaleaf Holdings Inc. is urging a Massachusetts federal court to toss a former senior vice president's claims against him in a suit alleging the company discriminated against her for her gender and race, saying the state's courts don't have jurisdiction over him.

  • January 14, 2025

    Mass. AG Says Insulin Makers, Middlemen Colluded On Costs

    Insulin makers Eli Lilly, Sanofi and Novo Nordisk conspired with pharmacy benefit managers OptumRX, Express Scripts and CVS Caremark to jack up prices by as much as 1,000%, the Massachusetts attorney general alleged in a suit.

  • January 14, 2025

    Ex-NC Assistant AG To Co-Lead WilmerHale State AGs Group

    WilmerHale has tapped the former first assistant attorney general and general counsel to former North Carolina attorney general Josh Stein as co-leader of its state attorneys general practice, the firm announced Monday.

  • January 14, 2025

    DOL Finalizes ERISA Voluntary Correction Program Changes

    The U.S. Department of Labor's employee benefits arm has finalized changes to a program allowing retirement plan managers to voluntarily self-correct when they fail to forward employee contributions on time or make other transaction errors, according to a notice the agency posted online Tuesday.

  • January 13, 2025

    Meat Giant JBS To Address Child Labor In $4M DOL Deal

    The U.S. Department of Labor announced Monday that it secured an agreement with JBS USA Food Co. that requires the meatpacking processor and slaughterhouse giant to put $4 million towards helping those affected by unlawful child labor practices.

Expert Analysis

  • What To Make Of Dueling Corporate Transparency Act Rulings

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    Although challenges to the Corporate Transparency Act abound — as highlighted by recent federal court decisions from Alabama and Oregon taking opposite positions on its constitutionality — the act is still law, so companies should comply with their filing requirements or face the potential consequences, say attorneys at Lowenstein Sandler.

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    The Pop Culture Docket: Justice Lebovits On Gilbert And Sullivan

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    Characters in the 19th century comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan break the rules of good lawyering by shamelessly throwing responsible critical thought to the wind, providing hilarious lessons for lawyers and judges on how to avoid a surfeit of traps and tribulations, say acting New York Supreme Court Justice Gerald Lebovits and law student Tara Scown.

  • California's AI Safety Bill Veto: The Path Forward

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    California Gov. Gavin Newsom's veto of a bill that sought to impose stringent regulations on advanced artificial intelligence model development has sparked a renewed debate on how best to balance innovation with safety in the rapidly evolving AI landscape, say Bobby Malhotra and Carson Swope at Winston & Strawn.

  • To Report Or Not To Report Others' Export Control Violations

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    A recent Bureau of Industry and Security enforcement policy change grants cooperation credit to those that report violations of the Export Administration Regulations committed by others, but the benefits of doing so must be weighed against significant drawbacks, including the costs of preparing and submitting a report, says Megan Lew at Cravath.

  • With Esmark Case, SEC Returns Focus To Tender Offer Rules

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    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's recent enforcement action against Esmark in connection with its failed bid to acquire U.S. Steel indicates the SEC's renewed attention under Rule 14e‑8 of the Exchange Act on offerors' financial resources as a measure of the veracity of their tender offer communications, say attorneys at MoFo.

  • What FDIC Expansion Of Change In Bank Control Could Mean

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    A recent Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. proposal pertaining to the Change in Bank Control Act has the potential to create uncertainty around investments by mutual fund complexes in banking organizations, which represent a stable source of capital for the banking industry, say attorneys at Sullivan & Cromwell.

  • HSR Amendments Intensify Merger Filing Burdens, Data Risk

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    The antitrust agencies' long-awaited changes to premerger notification rules under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act stand to significantly increase the time and cost involved in preparing an initial HSR notification, and will require more proactive attention to data issues, says Andrew Szwez at FTI Technology.

  • What's Inside Feds' Latest Bank Merger Review Proposals

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    Recent bank merger proposals from a trio of federal agencies highlight the need for banks looking to grow through acquisition to consider several key issues much earlier in the planning process than has historically been necessary, say attorneys at Simpson Thacher.

  • State Of The States' AI Legal Ethics Landscape

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    Over the past year, several state bar associations, as well as the American Bar Association, have released guidance on the ethical use of artificial intelligence in legal practice, all of which share overarching themes and some nuanced differences, say Eric Pacifici and Kevin Henderson at SMB Law Group.

  • Cos. Should Focus On State AI Laws Despite New DOL Site

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    Because a new U.S. Department of Labor-sponsored website about the disability discrimination risks of AI hiring tools mostly echoes old guidance, employers should focus on complying with the state and local AI workplace laws springing up where Congress and federal regulators have yet to act, say attorneys at Littler.

  • How Biden Admin Has Used Antitrust Tools, And What's Next

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    The last four years have been marked by an aggressive whole-of-government approach to antitrust enforcement using a broad range of tools, and may result in lasting change regardless of the upcoming presidential election result, say attorneys at Norton Rose.

  • Cos. Face Increasing Risk From Environmental Citizen Suits

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    Environmental citizen suits stepping in to fill the regulatory vacuum concerning consumer goods waste may soon become more common, and the evolving procedural landscape and changes to environmental law may contribute to companies' increased exposure, say J. Michael Showalter and Bradley Rochlen at ArentFox Schiff.

  • How BIS' Rule Seeks To Encourage More Voluntary Disclosure

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    Updated incentives, penalties and enforcement resources in the Bureau of Industry and Security's recently published final rule revising the Export Administration Regulations should help companies decide how to implement export control compliance programs and whether to disclose possible violations, say attorneys at Freshfields.

  • Making Sure Your Co. Isn't In The Next Section 13(f) Sweep

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    Enforcement actions taken against 11 institutional investment managers for alleged failures to file forms required by Section 13(f) of the Securities Exchange Act serve as a reminder that firms should carefully monitor their obligations to avoid becoming the target of the next enforcement sweep, say attorneys at Ropes & Gray.

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    Florida Banking Brief: All The Notable Legal Updates In Q3

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    With the implementation of H.B. 989, the third quarter of 2024 has been transformative for banking law and regulation in Florida, and this new law places a strong emphasis on fair access to banking, and prohibits ideologically or politically motivated decisions by financial institutions, says Sha’Ron James at Gunster.

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