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  • July 07, 2026

    Judge Recommends Netting Sugar Arb. Awards To $3.9M

    A Florida federal magistrate judge recommended rolling an arbitration award and a related counterclaim award over broken sugar contracts into a single judgment, which would set the net amount awarded to an Illinois sugar company at $3.86 million.

  • July 07, 2026

    Grocers' Microcaptive Not Valid For Tax Benefit, 7th Circ. Told

    Chicagoland grocery chain owners were not entitled to microcaptive tax benefits because they failed to establish a bona fide in-house insurance arrangement, the government told the Seventh Circuit, saying the U.S. Tax Court correctly held that state law does not control the federal tax definition of insurance.

  • July 06, 2026

    Mich. Judge Says Pot Investment Fraud Case Can Proceed

    A Michigan federal judge refused to end an investor's securities fraud lawsuit against two cannabis executives accused of stealing $1.5 million, allowing the suit to advance toward trial while trimming some claims over marijuana's federal illegality.

  • July 06, 2026

    BakerHostetler Hires Ex-Kutak Rock Tax Credits Pro

    BakerHostetler has brought on a former Kutak Rock LLP tax credits partner to its business practice group in Chicago.

  • July 06, 2026

    Apple Hit With Ill. Biometric Privacy Suit Over Eye Scans

    A putative class sued Apple in Illinois federal court, alleging it violated Illinois' biometric privacy law, claiming that while Apple informs users it collects facial template geometry for facial recognition purposes, it doesn't disclose the scans it takes of irises or retinas and can't secure written consent the law requires.

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