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February 10, 2025
Pension Execs Found Liable In $2B Danish Tax Fraud Case
A New York federal jury found Monday by "clear and convincing evidence" that Denmark's tax agency reasonably relied on the false statements made on pension plan applications that were part of a $2.1 billion tax fraud scheme by pension plan executives.
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February 10, 2025
DOJ Brass Want Bribery Charges Against NYC Mayor Dropped
The U.S. Department of Justice has moved to drop public corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, an extraordinary development in the wake of a public courtship between the embattled mayor and President Donald Trump.
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February 10, 2025
Amazon Used App Toolkit To Harvest User Data, Suit Says
Amazon has used Candy Crush Saga, Subway Surfers and other mobile apps as a "Trojan Horse" to ingrain secret tracking mechanisms in hundreds of millions of consumers' smartphones through a software development kit for developers, according to a new proposed class action in Seattle federal court.
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February 10, 2025
NY Chief Judge: 'Our Criminal Justice System Isn't Working'
New York State Chief Judge Rowan Wilson harshly criticized incarceration rates in the court system he oversees during his annual address Monday, suggested new laws are needed, and even invited people convicted of murder to join him at the podium and speak on the issue.
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February 10, 2025
UnitedHealth Says Fed Suit Imperils Deal's Many Benefits
UnitedHealth Group and home health and hospice giant Amedisys Inc. responded to the U.S. Department of Justice's merger challenge Friday by telling a Maryland federal judge that the government is taking quotes out of context, focusing on "artificially narrow geographic markets" and misjudging market realities.
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February 10, 2025
Former Palm GC's Racial Bias Claim Should End, Judge Says
A New York federal judge has recommended dismissing a race discrimination claim brought by an ex-general counsel for The Palm steakhouse chain's owner while allowing her retaliation and breach of contract claims to proceed to arbitration, concluding that the company's onetime top lawyer had not shown the restaurant had "discriminatory intent."
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February 10, 2025
Lexitas Selling Registered Agent Unit To Dutch Co. For $415M
Austin, Texas-based legal services provider Lexitas said Monday that it has agreed to sell its Registered Agent Solutions Inc. unit to Dutch information services company Wolters Kluwer Financial & Corporate Compliance for approximately $415 million in cash.
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February 10, 2025
Mass. Judge Temporarily Blocks NIH Funding Cuts
A Massachusetts federal judge issued a temporary hold Monday on a Trump administration plan to slash grant funding provided by the National Institutes of Health after 22 states sued to block the cuts.
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February 10, 2025
Trump Admin Violating Order To Unfreeze Funds, Judge Says
A Rhode Island federal judge ruled Monday the Trump administration is not complying with the court's temporary restraining order barring a freeze on funding for federal grants and programs, ordering the administration to immediately restore the frozen funds.
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February 10, 2025
2nd Circ. Backs UBS In Retaliation Case That Justices Revived
A split Second Circuit panel sided Monday with UBS in a whistleblower case that a fired worker managed to get the U.S. Supreme Court to revive, ruling that the jury instructions that preceded the worker's trial court win were too unclear to let his victory stand.
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February 10, 2025
Bannon To Plead Guilty In Border Wall Fraud Case, Avoid Jail
Former Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon plans to plead guilty as part of a deal with New York state prosecutors to resolve fraud charges connected to fundraising for a U.S. southern border wall, allowing him to avoid any prison time, one of his lawyers said Monday.
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February 10, 2025
Herrick Adds 2 Trademark Attorneys From Moses & Singer
Herrick Feinstein LLP has hired two Moses & Singer LLP attorneys to bolster the firm's intellectual property and tech bench, according to an announcement.
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February 10, 2025
Pillsbury Recruits Former Mayer Brown Tax Pro In NY
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP said it has recruited a former Mayer Brown LLP tax expert to serve as a partner in Pillsbury's New York office.
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February 07, 2025
2nd Circ. Orders In-House Counsel Docs In Grand Jury Case
The Second Circuit on Friday ruled that an in-house attorney for a publicly traded company under federal investigation in New York must turn over communications as part of a grand jury investigation under the crime-fraud exception to attorney-client privilege.
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February 07, 2025
Trump Isn't Obeying Order To Unfreeze Funds, States Say
The Trump administration is not complying with a temporary restraining order barring a freeze on funding for federal grant and aid programs, a coalition of states told a Rhode Island federal judge Friday, asking the court to enforce its order and to enter a stiffer injunction blocking the funding freeze.
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February 07, 2025
Real Estate Recap: Evolving CRE Finance, Tariffs, PFAS
Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including how modern commercial real estate financing has changed the way real estate lawyers practice, as well as insights from Big Law attorneys on two major topics of 2025: tariffs and polyfluoroalkyl substances, a.k.a. "forever chemicals."
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February 07, 2025
70 Depo-Provera Suits Joined In Florida's Northern District
The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation on Friday consolidated more than 70 consumer lawsuits claiming that Pfizer Inc. failed to adequately warn patients and doctors about the risk of brain tumors associated with the hormonal contraceptive drug Depo-Provera in the Northern District of Florida.
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February 07, 2025
SafeMoon CEO Says Crypto Policy Shifts Warrant Trial Delay
The crypto executive behind the alleged SafeMoon fraud is fighting to delay his trial by a month in the hopes that a new approach to cryptocurrency by the Trump administration could ax the securities fraud charge from the counts against him.
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February 07, 2025
Coinbase Can't Yet Escape Class Claims Over Crypto Sales
Coinbase users can move forward with class claims that the cryptocurrency firm operated as an unregistered securities exchange after a New York federal judge ruled Friday that the Second Circuit prevented him from shuttering the case without first determining whether Coinbase was the seller of the tokens trading on its platform.
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February 07, 2025
Teamsters Pension Plan Overseers Skirt Mismanagement Suit
The caretakers of a Teamsters pension plan dodged a mismanagement lawsuit Friday, with a New York federal judge dismissing the plan participants' claims that the plan's trustees and advisers greenlighted risky investment decisions and hefty plan management fees.
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February 07, 2025
NYU Law Professor On His AI-Powered Tenants' Rights Bot
New York City tenants routinely face uphill battles when prodding their landlords to make repairs in their rented homes. A recently launched AI chatbot designed by an NYU law professor could help turn things around.
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February 07, 2025
Ex-Aide To Eric Adams To Admit Campaign Fraud Scheme
A former aide to New York City Mayor Eric Adams intends to plead guilty to a charge that he took part in a scheme to collect illegal straw campaign contributions, prosecutors said Friday.
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February 07, 2025
Off The Bench: Trump Bans Trans Athletes, NCAA Falls In Line
In this week's Off The Bench, the NCAA changes course to accommodate a presidential ban on transgender women athletes, Shohei Ohtani's former interpreter is sentenced for his gambling-driven embezzlement, and women's soccer players get restitution for abuse at the hands of their coaches and teams.
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February 07, 2025
Trump Birthright Citizenship Order Faces Scrutiny In 3rd Court
A Massachusetts federal judge on Friday appeared to question the constitutionality of President Donald Trump's executive order aiming to limit birthright citizenship, considering whether to follow district courts in Washington state and Maryland in blocking the move.
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February 07, 2025
Taxation With Representation: Kirkland, Latham, Skadden
In this week's Taxation With Representation, Triumph Group goes private via Berkshire Partners and Warburg Pincus affiliates, alternative asset manager TPG buys Altus Power, Globus Medical buys Nevro Corp., and Honeywell separates its automation and aerospace technology businesses, resulting in the formation of three distinct companies.
Expert Analysis
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Why Now Is The Time For Law Firms To Hire Lateral Partners
Partner and associate mobility data from the second quarter of this year suggest that there's never been a better time in recent years for law firms to hire lateral candidates, particularly experienced partners — though this necessitates an understanding of potential red flags, say Julie Henson and Greg Hamman at Decipher Investigative Intelligence.
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Google And The Next Frontier Of Divestiture Antitrust Remedy
The possibility of a large-scale divestiture in the Google search case comes on the heels of recent requests of business breakups as remedies for anticompetitive conduct, and companies should prepare for the likelihood that courts may impose divestiture remedies in the event of a liability finding, say Lauren Weinstein and Nathaniel Rubin at MoloLamken.
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Considering Possible PR Risks Of Certain Legal Tactics
Disney and American Airlines recently abandoned certain litigation tactics in two lawsuits after fierce public backlash, illustrating why corporate counsel should consider the reputational implications of any legal strategy and partner with their communications teams to preempt public relations concerns, says Chris Gidez at G7 Reputation Advisory.
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Defamation Law Changes May Be Brewing At Supreme Court
The U.S. Supreme Court's significant rightward shift has produced dramatic changes in many areas of the law, and the long-standing "actual malice" standard protecting speech about public figures could be the next precedent to fall, say attorneys at Paul Hastings.
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It's No Longer Enough For Firms To Be Trusted Advisers
Amid fierce competition for business, the transactional “trusted adviser” paradigm from which most firms operate is no longer sufficient — they should instead aim to become trusted partners with their most valuable clients, says Stuart Maister at Strategic Narrative.
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Behind 3rd Circ. Ruling On College Athletes' FLSA Eligibility
The Third Circuit's decision that college athletes are not precluded from bringing a claim under the Fair Labor Standards Act raises key questions about the practical consequences of treating collegiate athletes as employees, such as Title IX equal pay claims and potential eligibility for all employment benefits, say attorneys at Debevoise.
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Rise Of Transpo Contractors Brings Insurance Disputes
As more independent contractors are contracted and subcontracted in the delivery industry, companies must be prepared to defend claims from drivers who are injured on the job as they are often seeking to establish an employment relationship with one of the entities in the chain, says Nathan Milner at Goldberg Segalla.
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Video Game Release Highlights TM Pitfalls Of App Store
The upcoming release of poker video game Balatro in Apple's App Store underscores the tradeoff of keyword advertising and trademark protection for indie developers who, unlike corporate counterparts, lack resources but seek to maximize the reach of their game, say Parmida Enkeshafi and Simon Pulman at Pryor Cashman.
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Missouri Injunction A Setback For State Anti-ESG Rules
A Missouri federal court’s recent order enjoining the state’s anti-ESG rules comes amid actions by state legislatures to revise or invalidate similar legislation imposing disclosure and consent requirements around environmental, social and governance investing, and could be a blueprint for future challenges, say attorneys at Paul Hastings.
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How States Are Approaching AI Workplace Discrimination
As legislators across the U.S. have begun addressing algorithmic discrimination in the workplace, attorneys at Reed Smith provide an overview of the status, applicability and provisions of 13 state and local bills.
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The Risks Of Employee Political Discourse On Social Media
As election season enters its final stretch and employees increasingly engage in political speech on social media, employers should beware the liability risks and consider policies that negotiate the line between employees' rights and the limits on those rights, say Bradford Kelley and James McGehee at Littler.
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How Methods Are Evolving In Textualist Interpretations
Textualists at the U.S. Supreme Court are increasingly considering new methods such as corpus linguistics and surveys to evaluate what a statute's text communicates to an ordinary reader, while lower courts even mull large language models like ChatGPT as supplements, says Kevin Tobia at Georgetown Law.
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The State Law Landscape After Justices' Social Media Ruling
Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent NetChoice ruling on social media platforms’ First Amendment rights, it’s still unclear if state content moderation laws are constitutional, leaving online operators to face a patchwork of regulation, and the potential for the issue to return to the high court, say attorneys at Crowell & Moring.
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Navigating New Enforcement Scrutiny Of 'AI Washing'
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's recent lawsuit against Joonko Diversity, its first public AI-focused enforcement action against a private company, underscores the importance of applying the same internal legal and compliance rigor to AI-related claims as other market-facing statements, say attorneys at Fried Frank.
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Avoiding Corporate Political Activity Pitfalls This Election Year
As Election Day approaches, corporate counsel should be mindful of the complicated rules around companies engaging in political activities, including super PAC contributions, pay-to-play prohibitions and foreign agent restrictions, say attorneys at Covington.