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  SEC's Gensler Steps Up Calls For Tougher Crypto Regulations

  By Tom Zanki

  U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler said Monday his agency is collaborating with commodit...(read more)

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  Dechert Loses Battle With ENRC Over SFO Leaks

  By Christopher Crosby

  The former head of white collar crime at Dechert LLP leaked Eurasian Natural Resources Corp.'s confidential info...(read more)

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• FCA Intrigue Intensifies As High Court Again Invites DOJ Input

  By Jeff Overley

  The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday sought the U.S. solicitor general's views for the second time this year on the amount of detail required in False Claims Act lawsuits, making crystal clear its interest in a long-standing circuit split.

• Amber Heard Denies Poop Prank In Depp Defamation Trial

  By Lauren Berg

  Actress Amber Heard on Monday denied defecating in the bed she shared with ex-husband Johnny Depp as a prank, telling a Virginia jury hearing the "Pirates of the Caribbean" actor's $50 million defamation suit that the contested stool was produced by Depp's Yorkshire terrier Boo.

• Doctors' Opioid Data Kept From Walgreens Stores, Judge Told

  By Bonnie Eslinger

  Walgreens tracked the prescription habits of doctors but didn't make the database available to stores because it might "cloud" the judgment of a pharmacist filling a prescription, a judge heard in recorded testimony Monday in a bellwether trial over claims that Walgreens and others illegally fueled San Francisco's opioid epidemic.

• Counties Bungled $875M Ask After Opioid Trial, Judge Told

  By Eric Heisig

  A Stanford University professor told a judge Monday that three pharmacy chains should pay a small fraction of the roughly $875 million that two Northeast Ohio counties seek for the role a jury found the pharmacies played in the opioid crisis, arguing that the plaintiffs' experts botched some calculations.

• Tesla Loses TRO Bid In IP Theft Suit Against Engineer

  By Dorothy Atkins

  A California federal judge refused Monday to issue a temporary restraining order against an ex-Tesla engineer accused of stealing trade secrets related to Tesla Inc.'s "Project Dojo" supercomputer technology, telling Tesla's counsel the electric vehicle maker's TRO bid lacks evidence and that "I'm not invading a man's privacy just because you're worried."

• SEC Probe Lingers As Trump's Social Media SPAC Eyes Deal

  By Tom Zanki

  The special purpose acquisition company acquiring former President Donald Trump's social media platform said Monday it expects to complete its merger in the second half of 2022, assuming a regulatory investigation into the transaction doesn't derail the deal.

• Chancery OKs Small Investor For $1B Straight Path Class Suit

  By Jeff Montgomery

  A retail investor with shares worth less than $600 emerged Monday as class representative for a Delaware Chancery Court suit asserting as much as $1 billion in damages to stockholders in an allegedly unfair sale of Straight Path Communications in 2017, while a $1.6 billion fund failed to secure court approval as co-lead plaintiff.

• Calif.'s 'Women On Boards' Law Struck Down After Bench Trial

  By Craig Clough

  A California state court judge has issued a bench trial verdict holding that a state law requiring publicly held corporations to place a minimum number of women on their boards violates the Golden State's constitution, finding the landmark measure runs afoul of its equal protection clause prohibiting sex discrimination.

• DOJ To Lodge Charges Over Using Crypto To Evade Sanctions

  By Elise Hansen

  A D.C. federal magistrate judge signed off on the Justice Department's criminal prosecution of an individual for allegedly using cryptocurrency to help customers evade U.S. sanctions, according to documents filed in D.C. federal court.

• Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

  By Leslie A. Pappas

  Elon Musk kept himself in the spotlight with a cold-feet tweet, a Delaware municipality defended its ordinance on the disposal of fetal tissue, and a law firm got taken to task for leaving too many details out of a court filing. In case you missed any of it, here's a wrap-up of the news last week out of Delaware Chancery Court.

• Trial Looms For Ex-Perkins Coie Atty Accused Of Lying To FBI

  By Justin Wise

  Veteran cybersecurity attorney and ex-Perkins Coie LLP partner Michael Sussmann is set to face trial this week for allegedly hiding his affiliation with Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign when he approached investigators in the run-up to the 2016 election about potential ties between then-candidate Donald Trump and a Russian bank.

• Attrition Rates Higher For Diverse Attys, ABA Finds

  By Kevin Penton

  About two of every 10 Black or Asian attorneys left their law firms in 2020, with incremental increases in diversity figures for the legal workforce coming up against the challenge of retaining attorneys after they are hired, according to an American Bar Association study released Monday.