Biz Pushes Class Cert. As Solution To IEEPA Refund Issues

By Jack McLoone

The U.S. Court of International Trade should grant class certification to companies seeking refunds of duties paid under the invalidated global tariff regime, the company serving as a test case for the refunds said in arguments mirroring those recently made in the underlying dispute.

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TD Bank Still Faces Much Of Ex-Employees' Chinese Bias Suit

By Rae Ann Varona

A New York federal judge on Monday trimmed a proposed class action accusing TD Bank of discriminating against employees of Chinese national origin in the wake of federal anti-money laundering investigations, saying former employees sufficiently alleged disparate treatment based on their national origin but not any policy that targeted them.

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Mead Johnson Pushed Formula Knowing Risks, Jury Told

By Celeste Bott

Mead Johnson knew its infant formula posed an increased risk of a devastating gut disease to premature babies but "muddied the waters" instead of sounding a clear warning, leaving doctors without crucial information while caring for an infant who ultimately died from the illness, his mother's attorney told an Illinois federal jury Monday.

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FTC Gets $725M Liquid Nails Deal Blocked

By Matthew Perlman

A New York federal court has sided with the Federal Trade Commission and blocked Loctite maker Henkel's planned $725 million acquisition of fellow construction adhesive brand Liquid Nails, following a bench trial in Manhattan last month.

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Mangione's NY State Trial Postponed After Federal Guilty Plea

By Frank G. Runyeon

A New York state judge Monday delayed Luigi Mangione's September trial on second-degree murder charges after he pled guilty Friday in federal court to fatally stalking UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

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University Settles Fired General Counsel's ADA Suit

By Grace Elletson

A North Carolina university has struck a deal to end an associate general counsel's suit claiming she was fired in retaliation for seeking a notetaker and to work remotely four days a week to help manage her disabilities, staving off a trial that was scheduled to begin on Wednesday.

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Justices Won't Reconsider Verizon's $47M FCC Fine

By Nadia Dreid

The U.S. Supreme Court is not interested in reconsidering how it worded its June opinion upholding the Federal Communications Commission's authority to issue monetary penalties, despite Verizon arguing that the ruling left it between a rock and a hard place concerning the $47 million fine it already paid.

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Paramount Wants AGs, WGA To Pay $1.9B Merger Suit Bond

By Bryan Koenig

Paramount Skydance Corp. put a price tag Monday on waiting until next year to close its planned $110 billion purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery, asking a California federal judge to impose an approximately $1.9 billion bond requirement on the Democratic attorneys general and the Writers Guild of America challenging the deal.

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Papa John's Workers Get Approval For $5M No-Poach Deal

By Matthew Perlman

A Kentucky federal court gave its final approval for a $5 million settlement in a case over Papa John's past use of "no-poach" provisions in its franchise agreements, sweeping aside previous concerns as well as objections raised by a handful of workers.

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Medtech Group Faults Fed. Circ. Trade Secret Timing Rule

By Ivan Moreno

A medical technology trade group and a University of Texas law professor are urging the full Federal Circuit to revisit a decision that wiped out Insulet Corp.'s trade secret win against EOFlow Co. Ltd. after finding the suit untimely, reversing a $452 million jury verdict that had been reduced to $59.4 million.

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Medtronic Rival Seeks Injunction After $382M Antitrust Win

By Bonnie Eslinger

Medical device company Applied Medical Resources Corp. has urged a California federal judge to issue final judgment and impose a permanent injunction against Medtronic Inc. that would block contracts a jury found were used to illegally maintain a monopoly over a surgical device, saying that would end Medtronic's "exclusionary conduct and restore competition."

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HP Shareholders Seek Final OK For Derivative Suit Deal

By Katryna Perera

Stockholders who accused HP's top brass of misleading investors about sales and profits within the company's supplies division have asked a California federal judge to grant final approval to a deal that will require HP to adopt and maintain certain corporate governance reforms for at least four years.

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2 Firms To Lead Skechers Investor Suit Over $9.4B 3G Deal

By Sydney Price

Saxena White PA and Labaton Keller Sucharow LLP's client will lead a suit in Delaware Chancery Court alleging Skechers' founder and family used their majority voting power to push through the company's $9.4 billion take-private sale to private equity giant 3G Capital.

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Willkie Adds Jackson Walker Energy Pro In Texas

By Lynn LaRowe

Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP announced Monday that it has deepened its energy and infrastructure bench in Texas with a partner who joined from Jackson Walker LLP.

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How 2 SEC Financial Report Initiatives May Clash In Practice

The Securities and Exchange Commission’s near-simultaneous launch of a new unit to investigate fraud by accounting and audit professionals and its proposal to let public companies file less frequent financial reports sets up possible conflicts for issuers and their financial reporters that demand immediate strategic attention, say attorneys at Bracewell.

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Whiskey Business: Parsing The 9th Circ. Jack Daniel's IP Toss

The Ninth Circuit's recent ruling in VIP Products v. Jack Daniel's, holding a toy did not tarnish the whiskey maker's trademarks, gives fact-finders great latitude by showing that there may exist no categories of per se tarnishing content, says attorney Sara Gold.

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Law Firms See Revenue, Demand Grow In First Half Of 2026

By Anna Sanders

Despite rising expenses driven by artificial intelligence and return to office mandates, the legal industry is performing well in 2026, with U.S. law firms recording a double-digit jump in revenue and strong growth in demand so far this year, according to new survey results from Citi Global Wealth at Work's Law Firm Group.

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Morgan & Morgan Sues Fla. Bar Over Celebrity Ad Ban

By Carolina Bolado

Personal injury giant Morgan & Morgan PA has sued the Florida Bar, claiming a bar rule that bans any use of a celebrity's voice or image in lawyer advertising violates the First Amendment.

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3 NY Injury Firms Get Uber's RICO Suit Tossed

By Lauren Berg

A New York federal judge threw out Uber Technologies Inc.'s lawsuit accusing three personal injury law firms of conspiring with physicians and exploiting passengers to pursue fake or exaggerated injury claims in order to strongarm settlement payouts from the ride-hailing giant.

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Nussbaum-Linked Firms' Ch. 11s Tossed For Bad Faith

By Ben Zigterman

A New York bankruptcy judge has dismissed the Chapter 11 cases of two commercial real estate law firms headed by Mark J. Nussbaum, finding their petitions were filed in bad faith and that the cases instead belonged in an assignment for the benefit of creditors process in New York state court.

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Chattah Can't Serve As Acting Nevada US Atty, 9th Circ. Says

By Emma Cueto

The Ninth Circuit on Monday upheld a lower court ruling that Nevada's top prosecutor was not put in place lawfully and was barred from overseeing the criminal cases giving rise to the appeal, the latest state where courts have shut down attempts by the Trump administration to fill U.S. attorney vacancies without Senate confirmation.

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Clifford Chance Pushes To Send Clawback Suit To Arbitration

By Ryan Boysen

Clifford Chance LLP wants a high-profile partner pay dispute sent to arbitration, accusing two ex-partners who claim they're facing a $6 million clawback demand of "gamesmanship" by filing suit in New York federal court.

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NYCBA Cautions Against Recording Nonclient Calls

By Emily Sawicki

New York City attorneys who have been granted permission may ethically use artificial intelligence to record, transcribe and summarize conversations with nonclients, according to the latest ethics guidance by the New York City Bar Association Monday, which added that just because they can doesn't mean they should.

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