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March 04, 2025
Soccer League Demands New Trial After $500M Antitrust Loss
The defunct North American Soccer League asked a Brooklyn federal judge for a new antitrust trial over its claims that Major League Soccer and the American soccer governing body conspired to sabotage it, saying that improper instructions led a jury to reject the suit last month.
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March 04, 2025
3 Firms Build Instinct Brothers' $242M SPAC Merger
Japanese regenerative medicine and stem cell technology company Instinct Brothers Co. Ltd. on Tuesday unveiled plans to go public through a merger with special purpose acquisition company Relativity Acquisition Corp. in a $242 million deal built by three law firms.
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March 04, 2025
Pretium Clinches $500M Inaugural Legal Opportunities Fund
New York-headquartered investment firm Pretium, advised by Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP, on Tuesday revealed that it closed its inaugural Legal Opportunities Fund after securing roughly $500 million from investors.
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March 03, 2025
Jay-Z Files Fresh Defamation Suit Against Buzbee In Ala.
Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter on Monday lodged malicious prosecution claims against attorney Tony Buzbee over a "false," "malicious" and "strategically and tactically calculated and timed" rape suit that has since been dropped, this time in Alabama federal court.
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March 03, 2025
Knicks And Raptors Set Arbitration Hearing In Data-Theft Suit
An NBA arbitration hearing is scheduled to take place in July in the New York Knicks' lawsuit against the Toronto Raptors over claims a Knicks video director hired by the Toronto team had acted as a "mole" and provided his new team with proprietary data.
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March 03, 2025
Nike Says Lululemon Owes $2.8M As Shoe Patent Trial Begins
Nike opened a $2.8 million trial on Monday by telling a New York federal jury that athletic apparel maker Lululemon was only able to enter the shoe market by infringing Nike footwear manufacturing patents, while Lululemon suggested Nike's suit is aimed at hindering a key rival.
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March 03, 2025
American Asks Justices To Mull Bid To Revive JetBlue Pact
American Airlines has told the U.S. Supreme Court that the First Circuit flouted basic antitrust principles when it invalidated the carrier's codeshare agreement with JetBlue in Boston and New York, a decision that "threatens to wreak havoc on productive collaborations of all shapes and sizes."
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March 03, 2025
Judge Tosses SEC Crypto Case For Lack Of US Ties
Crypto founder Richard Heart has beaten a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission suit over his Hex, PulseChain and PulseX crypto projects after the Brooklyn federal judge overseeing the case found the regulator failed to show enough stateside ties.
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March 03, 2025
Fired NBA Ref Wants $178K Atty Fees After 2nd Circ. Win
A former longtime NBA referee asked a Manhattan federal judge on Monday to approve an attorney fee of $179,000, after winning $2.9 million in pension benefits in a case over his termination for refusing to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
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March 03, 2025
Broker Can't Use Jarkesy To Slip SEC's Pre-IPO Fraud Suit
A New York federal judge on Monday ordered an unregistered broker-dealer and its managing member to comply with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's administrative order requiring them to pay roughly $3.5 million to settle claims they made over $65 million selling interests in a portfolio of companies that hadn't yet gone public.
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March 03, 2025
Jarkesy Can't Get Penny Stock Co. Out Of SEC Penalty
The Second Circuit on Monday upheld the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's courtroom victory against a penny stock company found to have misled its investors about its financial state, ruling that the company couldn't lean on the U.S. Supreme Court's Jarkesy ruling to argue that a jury should have determined its punishment.
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March 03, 2025
Chamber Leads Group Challenging NY Climate Superfund Bill
A U.S. Chamber of Commerce-led coalition asked a New York federal judge to block a "plainly unconstitutional" Empire State law that promises to impose $75 billion in cost-recovery demands on fossil fuel companies to help pay for climate adaptation projects.
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March 03, 2025
Ex-Jaguars Worker Tells FanDuel Arbitration Isn't Enforceable
A former Jacksonville Jaguars employee urged a New York federal court to deny FanDuel's bid to arbitrate his claims in a lawsuit that alleges the company facilitated a gambling addiction, saying the company aggressively lured him with predatory tactics and must be held accountable.
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March 03, 2025
NYT Seeks To Ax Baldoni's 'It Ends With Us' Defamation Suit
The New York Times urged a New York federal court to toss defamation claims made by Justin Baldoni over the news organization's coverage of the "It Ends With Us" actor-director's legal battle with Blake Lively over the actress's sexual harassment complaints, saying it is legally protected reporting and opinion made without malice.
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March 03, 2025
Countertop Co. Demands Insurer Cover Over 100 Injury Suits
A distributor of countertops and flooring accused a Liberty Mutual unit in New York federal court of reversing its coverage position on nearly 130 underlying personal injury lawsuits in bad faith, arguing that each underlying plaintiff's alleged injuries should constitute separate occurrences.
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March 03, 2025
Kirkland-Led Garnett Station Partners Clinches $1.2B Fund
Kirkland & Ellis LLP-advised Garnett Station Partners on Monday announced that it wrapped its fifth fund after securing $1.2 billion from investors, which will be used to invest across the New York-based firm's core sectors of consumer and business services, health and wellness, automotive, and food and beverage.
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March 03, 2025
JLL Can't Get Early Win In $7.4M Broker Fee Suit, IT Co. Says
Information technology staffing company Nityo Infotech Corp. is fighting JLL's early win bid in New York federal court in a $7.4 million brokerage fee dispute, arguing that it doesn't contractually owe anything to JLL.
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March 03, 2025
2nd Circ. Denies Amish Schools' Vaccine Rule Challenge
The Second Circuit on Monday denied a religious challenge to New York's immunization law from three Amish schools and two Amish parents, saying both the appellate court and the U.S. Supreme Court have a history of upholding school immunization requirements implemented by states.
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March 03, 2025
Former NY Prosecutor Joins Vedder Price From Orrick
Vedder Price PC announced Monday that a veteran attorney who spent a combined 13 years as a prosecutor in New York state and the Eastern District of New York has joined the firm from Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP as a government investigations and white collar shareholder.
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March 03, 2025
Bove Faces Ethics Complaint Over Adams Case
Emil Bove, the Trump administration's controversial second-in-command at the U.S. Department of Justice, has been hit with an ethics complaint for a widely criticized directive ordering prosecutors in the Southern District of New York to drop a corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams.
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March 03, 2025
Ex-Judges Urge Probe Of 'Quid Pro Quo' Claim In Adams Case
A group of more than a dozen retired federal judges has asked to weigh in on the potential dropping of corruption claims against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, filing a proposed amicus brief warning the "integrity of the judicial process" risks being "imperiled" by the improper dismissal of claims.
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March 03, 2025
Justices To Weigh Double-Jeopardy Claim In Robbery Case
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to wade into a seven-circuit split over whether the double jeopardy clause allows for separate sentences on different charges stemming from the same robbery — an issue that can lead to significantly longer prison terms.
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March 03, 2025
Contrite Ex-Santos Staffer And Feds At Odds Over Prison Term
A former staffer for ex-U.S. Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., has asked a Brooklyn federal judge to spare him prison time after pleading guilty to posing as an aide to former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to solicit donations, calling the conduct an "aberration" in his life.
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March 03, 2025
Former SDNY Top Prosecutor Kim Returns To Private Sector
Veteran white-collar defense lawyer Edward Kim, who most recently served as acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, said Monday he is returning to the firm he founded, Krieger Lewin LLP, which will be known as KKL.
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March 03, 2025
High Court Declines Souvenir Store's TM Fraud Case
The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday it will not consider a Florida souvenir store chain's challenge to a Second Circuit decision shutting down its case that a bankrupt beachwear company fraudulently procured a trademark registration to secure a $3.5 million settlement.
Expert Analysis
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Ledbetter's Legacy Shines In 2024 Equal Pay Law Updates
The federal Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act turned 15 this year, and its namesake's legacy is likely to endure in 2025 and beyond, as demonstrated by 2024's state- and local-level progress on pay equity, as well as several rulings from federal appellate courts, say attorneys at Fisher Phillips.
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Gov't Scrutiny Of Workplace Chat Apps Set To Keep Growing
The incoming Trump administration and Republican majorities in Congress are poised to open numerous investigations that include increasing demands for entities to produce communications from workplace chat apps, so companies must evaluate their usage and retention policies, say attorneys at Orrick.
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When US Privilege Law Applies To Docs Made Outside The US
As globalization manifests itself in disputes over foreign-created documents, a California federal court’s recent trademark decision illustrates nuances of both U.S. privilege frameworks and foreign evidentiary protections that attorneys must increasingly bear in mind, say attorneys at Hunton.
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Notable 2024 Trademark Cases And What To Watch In 2025
Emerging disputes between established tech giants and smaller trademark holders promise to test the boundaries of trademark protection in 2025, following a 2024 marked with disputes in areas ranging from cybersquatting to geographic marks, says Danner Kline at Bradley Arant.
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'Minimal Participant' Bar Is Tough To Clear For Whistleblowers
Under the U.S. Department of Justice’s corporate whistleblower pilot program, would-be whistleblowers will find it tough to show that they only minimally participated in criminal misconduct while still providing material information, but sentencing precedent shows how they might prove their eligibility for an award, say attorneys at MoloLamken.
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What 2024 Trends In Marketing, Comms Hiring Mean For 2025
The state of hiring in legal industry marketing, business development and communications over the past 12 months was marked by a number of trends — from changes in the C-suite to lateral move challenges — providing clues for what’s to come in the year ahead, says Ben Curle at Ambition.
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5 Notable Anti-Money Laundering Actions From 2024
Regulators' renewed interest in anti-money laundering programs in 2024 led to numerous enforcement actions and individual prosecutions in industries like banking, cryptocurrency and gaming, including the blockbuster TD Bank settlement and investigations of casinos in Nevada, says Michael Beckwith at Dickinson Wright.
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Wage Whiplash: Surviving A Compliance Roller Coaster
As the transition to the Trump administration causes mounting uncertainty about federal wage and hour policies, employers can transform compliance challenges into opportunities for resilience and growth by taking key steps to comply with stricter state and local requirements, says Lee Jacobs at Barclay Damon.
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Series
Group Running Makes Me A Better Lawyer
The combination of physical fitness and community connection derived from running with a group of business leaders has, among other things, helped me to stay grounded, improve my communication skills, and develop a deeper empathy for clients and colleagues, says Jessica Shpall Rosen at Greenwald Doherty.
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Marketing Messages Matter In State AG Consumer Protection
Attorneys general interpret marketing claims far more broadly than many companies may realize, so to mitigate potential risk, businesses should be vigilant about all consumer messaging, including communications that may not traditionally be considered advertising in the colloquial sense, say attorneys at Cozen O'Connor.
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7th Circ. Ruling Muddies Split On Trade Secret Damages
The Seventh Circuit's recent endorsement in Motorola v. Hytera of a Second Circuit limit on avoided-cost damages under the Defend Trade Secrets Act contradicts even its own precedents, and will further confuse the scope of a developing circuit conflict that the U.S. Supreme Court has already twice declined to resolve, says Jordan Rice at MoloLamken.
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Opinion
6 Changes I Would Make If I Ran A Law School
Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner identifies several key issues plaguing law schools and discusses potential solutions, such as opting out of the rankings game and mandating courses in basic writing skills.
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Implications Of NY Climate Case For Generating Facilities
Regardless of how Greenidge Generation LLC v. New York Department of Environmental Conservation develops on remand, this decision has immediate repercussions for generating facilities seeking permit applications and renewals in New York, likely involving Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act considerations, say attorneys at Hodgson Russ.
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Firms Still Have The Edge In Lateral Hiring, But Buyer Beware
Partner mobility data suggests that the third quarter of this year continued to be a buyer’s market, with the average candidate demanding less compensation for a larger book of business — but moving into the fourth quarter, firms should slow down their hiring process to minimize risks, say officers at Decipher Investigative Intelligence.
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AV Compliance Is Still A State-By-State Slog — For Now
While the incoming Trump administration has hinted at new federal regulations governing autonomous vehicles, for now, AV manufacturers must take a state-by-state approach to compliance with safety requirements — paying particular attention to states that require express authorization for AV operation, say attorneys at Frost Brown.