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October 17, 2025
Justices Urged To Review Circ. Split Over SEC Disgorgement
A man accused by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission of participating in a $6 million pump-and-dump scheme is calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to review a circuit split that he says has created "intolerable confusion" over when the agency can collect disgorgement.
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October 17, 2025
Real Estate Recap: Lenders' Inner Circle, '25 Hospitality Deals
Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including a look at the real estate deal dynamics influencing the choice of lender counsel, and the law firms that guided the 10-figure hospitality mergers and acquisitions to date in 2025.
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October 17, 2025
Boeing Sued Over 737 Crash In South Korea That Killed 179
The Boeing Co. has been hit with a negligence suit in Washington state court by the families of 14 people killed in the December crash of a 737 at a South Korean airport, facing accusations that the "antiquated" 1960s-era electrical and hydraulic systems resulted in a "massive failure" of the plane and the deaths of 179 people.
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October 17, 2025
Newsmax To Build Crypto Reserve With Bitcoin, Trump Coin
Newsmax Inc. plans to purchase up to $5 million worth of bitcoin and President Donald Trump's meme coin in the coming year, joining the ranks of public companies adding cryptocurrency to their strategic reserve.
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October 17, 2025
Ex-SEC Officials Support Activist Investor Before High Court
Two former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission members are among those calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold the ability of investors to sue funds over contracts that violate federal securities laws, saying that the SEC does not have the resources to go after every alleged wrongdoer.
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October 17, 2025
Workday Says Ex-Atty Doesn't Have A Valid Fraud Claim
A former in-house attorney for Workday Inc. cannot pursue his claim alleging the company made fraudulent promises about his compensation, Workday has told a California federal judge, saying the attorney is trying to impermissibly repackage a breach of contract claim into a tort claim.
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October 17, 2025
Robbins Geller To Steer REIT Investors' Suit Over $787M Deal
Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP will lead a proposed class of investors in real estate investment trust Broadmark Realty Capital Inc. who claim they were misled by executives from the REIT ahead of a $787 million merger with Ready Capital Corp. in 2023.
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October 17, 2025
Phoenix Suns Minority Owners End Suit, Shift To Countersuit
Minority owners of the NBA's Phoenix Suns on Friday dropped their Delaware Court of Chancery lawsuit seeking to obtain certain company documents, but said they are now focused on asserting counterclaims of mismanagement and misconduct in a suit filed earlier this week by majority owner Mat Ishbia.
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October 17, 2025
Federal Courts To Scale Back Operations Amid Shutdown
The federal court system has run out of money and will scale back operations beginning Monday as a result of the ongoing government shutdown, possibly leading to case delays.
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October 17, 2025
USPTO Head To Take Over Patent Review Institution Decisions
John Squires, director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, said Friday that he will now make all decisions on whether to institute America Invents Act reviews of patents, including on the merits of the challenge and discretionary issues, in a major overhaul of the review system.
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October 17, 2025
Artists Ask To Certify Classes In Google AI Copyright Suit
A group of artists and writers who claim their copyrights were infringed when Google used their works to train its artificial intelligence model asked a California federal judge to grant them class certification.
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October 17, 2025
MGA Fights New Trial On Damages In Doll TM Case
Toy maker MGA Entertainment wants to appeal a California federal judge's decision calling for a new jury trial to consider whether to award punitive damages to hip-hop moguls Clifford "T.I." Harris and Tameka "Tiny" Harris over a line of dolls called L.O.L. Surprise O.M.G.
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October 17, 2025
Covington Adds Former IRS Special Counsel In DC
Covington & Burling LLP has grown its tax practice in Washington, D.C., with the addition of a former special counsel in the Office of Chief Counsel at the Internal Revenue Service.
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October 17, 2025
Utah Fires Motley Rice From Opioid Case
The state of Utah has fired Motley Rice LLC from representing it in long-running litigation over the opioid crisis, a spokesperson for the Utah attorney general's office confirmed to Law360 Pulse on Friday.
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October 17, 2025
Steptoe Hires Corporate, Energy, Transactions Partner
Steptoe LLP has hired the former lead land use and real estate counsel for Florida's almost $3 billion I-4 ultimate highway reconstruction project, who has joined the firm's Washington, D.C., transactions practice to continue working with energy, infrastructure and real estate development matters.
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October 17, 2025
GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week
Exxon was hit with a proposed class action alleging its new program to enable automated proxy voting for retail investors is intended to stifle shareholder dissent. Meanwhile, a new survey found that nearly two-thirds of in-house legal departments think they will rely less on outside legal service providers because of generative artificial intelligence. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.
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October 17, 2025
Taxation With Representation: Latham, Kirkland, Wachtell
In this week's Taxation With Representation, the Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Partnership, MGX, and BlackRock's Global Infrastructure Partners acquire Aligned Data Centers from Macquarie Asset Management and co-investors; Rayonier Inc. and PotlatchDeltic Corp. merge to create a timber and wood products giant; and a Lone Star Funds affiliate acquires industrial processing equipment provider Hillenbrand Inc.
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October 16, 2025
Ripple Pays $1B For Treasury Management Co. GTreasury
Crypto exchange Ripple announced Thursday that it entered a deal to acquire treasury management systems provider GTreasury for $1 billion.
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October 16, 2025
Smartmatic Faces FCPA Indictment In Philippine Bribery Case
A Florida federal grand jury on Thursday returned a superseding indictment that adds charges against Smartmatic, which wasn't previously a party to prosecutors' case accusing former executives at the voting machine company of bribing an elections official in the Philippines to secure contracts.
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October 16, 2025
Privacy Compliance Needs 'Kindergarten Rules,' Atty Says
Panelists at a Los Angeles conference on the intersection of technology and entertainment tackled the issue of privacy and data laws Thursday, with one participant telling the crowd that helping clients avoid legal entanglements in those areas involves applying "kindergarten rules."
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October 16, 2025
Library Services Co. Accused Of Layoff Without Proper Notice
A Georgia company that identifies as the largest supplier of library content, software and services to public and academic libraries in the U.S., terminated at least 300 employees without proper notice as part of a mass layoff without meeting a federal 60-day notice requirement, according to a proposed class action.
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October 16, 2025
Justices Told Presidential Firing Limits Rely On 'Soured' Logic
President Donald Trump and a cadre of supporters have urged the U.S. Supreme Court to wipe out what remains of a 90-year-old ruling that empowers Congress to prohibit the president from firing certain agency officials at will, arguing the decision was flawed when originally issued and is now well past its prime.
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October 16, 2025
US Chamber Sues To Block Trump's $100,000 H-1B Visa Fee
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce sued the Trump administration on Thursday to block a planned increase in the cost of highly coveted H-1B visas, saying the proposed $100,000 fee would have a "devastating effect" on American businesses, particularly those in the tech, healthcare, higher education and manufacturing sectors.
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October 16, 2025
X, Musk Settle Former Executives' Severance Suit
Three former Twitter executives have settled their lawsuit claiming they were deprived of millions of dollars in severance benefits following Elon Musk's takeover of the social media company, according to a filing Thursday in California federal court.
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October 16, 2025
China's Crackdown On Rare Earth Minerals Spooks Importers
In the latest trade salvo between the U.S. and China, stricter Chinese export controls on critical earth minerals that many U.S. manufacturers rely on are causing concern for businesses, which may have difficulty diversifying supply chains for the rare materials.
Expert Analysis
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Opinion
SEC Arbitration Shift Is At Odds With Fraud Deterrence
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's recent statement allowing the use of mandatory arbitration by new publicly traded companies could result in higher legal costs, while removing the powerful deterrent impact of public lawsuits that have helped make the U.S. securities markets a model of transparency and fairness, say attorneys at Labaton Keller.
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Better Crypto Insurance Is Attainable Amid Regulatory Shifts
With regulatory clarity improving and insurance carriers taking an increasingly constructive approach, crypto industry participants can improve their insurance coverage and pricing if finance, legal and compliance teams take specific steps, say Walker Newell and Jacob Sawyer at Woodruff-Sawyer.
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Protecting Sensitive Court Filings After Recent Cyber Breach
In the wake of a recent cyberattack on federal courts' Case Management/Electronic Case Files system, civil litigants should consider seeking enhanced protections for sensitive materials filed under seal to mitigate the risk of unauthorized exposure, say attorneys at Redgrave.
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DOJ Chemical Seizure Shows Broad Civil Forfeiture Authority
The U.S. Department of Justice’s recent seizure of meth precursor chemicals en route from China to Mexico illustrates the U.S. government's powerful jurisdictional reach to seek forfeiture of cartel-related assets, and company compliance programs must take note, say attorneys at White & Case.
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NC Banking Brief: All The Notable Legal Updates In Q3
There were several impactful changes to the financial services landscape in North Carolina in the third quarter of the year, including statutory updates, enforcement developments from Office of the Commissioner of Banks, and notable mergers, acquisitions and branch expansions, say attorneys at Moore & Van Allen.
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NY Banking Brief: All The Notable Legal Updates In Q3
Of note in the third quarter of the year, New York state regulators moved forward on their agendas to limit abuse of electronic banking, including via a settlement with stablecoin issuer Paxos and a lawsuit against Zelle alleging insufficient security measures, says Chris Bonner at Barclay Damon.
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Gauging SEC Short-Sale Rules' Future After 5th Circ. Remand
Though the Fifth Circuit recently remanded to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission two Biden-era rules requiring disclosure of securities lending and short-sale activity in order to consider the rules' cumulative economic impact, it's possible they will get reproposed, meaning compliance timelines could change, says Scott Budlong at Barnes & Thornburg.
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Judging Figure Skating Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Judging figure skating competitions helps me hone the focus, decisiveness and ability to process complex real-time information I need in court, but more importantly, it makes me reengage with a community and my identity outside of law, which, paradoxically, always brings me back to work feeling restored, says Megan Raymond at Groombridge Wu.
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$100K H-1B Fee May Disrupt Rural Healthcare Needs
The Trump administration's newly imposed $100,000 supplemental fee on new H-1B petitions may disproportionately affect healthcare employers' ability to recruit international medical graduates, and the fee's national interest exceptions will not adequately solve ensuing problems for healthcare employers or medically underserved areas, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.
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Calif. Banking Brief: All The Notable Legal Updates In Q3
The third quarter of 2025 brought legislative changes to state money transmission certification requirements and securities law obligations, as well as high-profile accounting and anti-money laundering compliance enforcement actions by the Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, say attorneys at Ropes & Gray.
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9th Circ. Ruling May Help Pharma Cos. Avert Investor Claims
The Ninth Circuit's recent decision affirming the dismissal of a securities fraud class action alleging that Talphera deceived investors by marketing a drug with a misleading slogan should give plaintiffs pause before filing similar complaints where snappy slogans are accompanied by copious clarifying information, say attorneys at Simpson Thacher.
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What Ethics Rules Say On Atty Discipline For Online Speech
Though law firms are free to discipline employees for their online commentary about Charlie Kirk or other social media activity, saying crude or insensitive things on the internet generally doesn’t subject attorneys to professional discipline under the Model Rules of Professional Conduct, says Stacie H. Rosenzweig at Halling & Cayo.
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2 Rulings Highlight IRS' Uncertain Civil Fraud Penalty Powers
Conflicting decisions from the U.S. Tax Court and the Northern District of Texas that hinge on whether the IRS can administratively assert civil fraud penalties since the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2024 decision in SEC v. Jarkesy provide both opportunities and potential pitfalls for taxpayers, says Michael Landman at Bird Marella.
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SEC Fine Signals Crackdown On Security-Based Swap Dealers
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's recent fine against MUFG Securities is unique because it involves a non-U.S. security-based swap dealer complying with U.S. laws based on the election of substituted compliance, but it should not be dismissed as a one-off case, says Kelly Rock, formerly at the SEC.
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Junior Attys Must Beware Of 5 Common Legal Brief Mistakes
Excerpt from Practical Guidance
Junior law firm associates must be careful to avoid five common pitfalls when drafting legal briefs — from including every possible argument to not developing a theme — to build the reputation of a sought-after litigator, says James Argionis at Cozen O'Connor.