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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.
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October 16, 2025
Peloton Moves To Toss Investors' Revived COVID-19 Suit
Peloton has once again moved to dismiss a proposed class action lawsuit revived by the Second Circuit last month, saying that investors couldn't prove executives intentionally misled them into believing that a spike in demand during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic was sustainable.
Expert Analysis
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Rare Del. Oversight Ruling Sends Governance Wake-Up Call
An unusual ruling from the Delaware Court of Chancery recently allowed Caremark oversight claims to proceed against former executives of a company previously known as Teligent, sending a clear reminder that boards and officers must actively monitor and document oversight efforts when addressing mission-critical risks, say attorneys at WilmerHale.
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How Hyperlinks Are Changing E-Discovery Responsibilities
A recent e-discovery dispute over hyperlinked data in Hubbard v. Crow shows how courts have increasingly broadened the definition of control to account for cloud-based evidence, and why organizations must rethink preservation practices to avoid spoliation risks, says Bree Murphy at Exterro.
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More NJ Case Law On LLCs Would Aid Attys, Litigants, Biz
More New Jersey court opinions would facilitate the understanding of the nuances of the state's Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act, including on breach of the duty of loyalty, oppression, piercing the corporate veil and derivative actions, says Gianfranco Pietrafesa at Archer & Greiner.
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State False Claims Acts Can Help Curb Opioid Fund Fraud
State versions of the federal False Claims Act can play an important role in policing the misuse of opioid settlement funds, taking a cue from the U.S. Department of Justice’s handling of federal fraud cases involving pandemic relief funds, says Kenneth Levine at Stone & Magnanini.
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Pemex Bribery Charges Provide Glimpse Into FCPA Evolution
A recently unsealed indictment against two Mexican nationals for allegedly bribing officials at Pemex, Mexico’s state-owned oil company, reveals that Foreign Corrupt Practices Act enforcement is adapting to new priorities, but still remains active, and compliance programs should continue apace, say attorneys at Crowell & Moring.
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CFPB Proposal Defining Consumer Risk May Add Uncertainty
Though a recent Consumer Financial Protection Bureau proposal would codify when risks to consumers justify supervisory intervention against nonbanks, furthering Trump administration plans to curtail CFPB authority, firms may still struggle to identify what could attract supervisory designation under the new rule, say attorneys at Steptoe.
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Targeting Execs Could Hurt SEC's Probusiness Goals
While many enforcement changes under the Trump administration’s U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission have been touted by commission leadership as proinnovation and probusiness, a planned focus on holding individual directors and officers responsible for wrongdoing may have the opposite effect, say attorneys at MoFo.
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Preserving Refunds As Tariffs Await Supreme Court Weigh-In
In the event that the U.S. Supreme Court decides in V.O.S. Selections v. Trump that the president doesn't have authority to levy tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, importers should keep records of imports on which they have paid such tariffs and carefully monitor the liquidation dates, say attorneys at Butzel.
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Atkins-Led SEC Continues Focus On Private Funds
Since the change in administration, there has overall been a more accommodative regulatory stance toward private funds, but a recent enforcement action suggests that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is not backing off from enforcement in the space completely, say attorneys at Simpson Thacher.
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9th Circ. Ruling Leaves SEC Gag Rule Open To Future Attacks
Though the Ninth Circuit's recent ruling in Powell v. U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission leaves the SEC's no-admit, no-deny rule intact, it could provide some fodder for litigants who wish to criticize the commission's activities either before or after settling with the commission, says Jonathan Richman at Brown Rudnick.
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Writing Musicals Makes Me A Better Lawyer
My experiences with writing musicals and practicing law have shown that the building blocks for both endeavors are one and the same, because drama is necessary for the law to exist, says Addison O’Donnell at LOIS Law.
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How Fashion, Tech Can Maximize New Small Biz Tax Breaks
Fashion and technology companies, which invest heavily in innovation, should consider taking advantage of provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that favor small businesses, restructuing if necessary to become eligible for expanded research and experimental expenditure credits and qualified small business stock incentives, says Aime Salazar at Olshan Frome.
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Steps To Take As States Expand Foreign-Influence Bans
As efforts to curb foreign-influenced corporate political spending continue, companies should be aware of the nuances of related laws and layer an additional analysis when assessing legality of foreign engagement, say attorneys at Steptoe.
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Adapting To Private Practice: From Va. AUSA To Mid-Law
Returning to the firm where I began my career after seven years as an assistant U.S. attorney in Virginia has been complex, nuanced and rewarding, and I’ve learned that the pursuit of justice remains the constant, even as the mindset and client change, says Kristin Johnson at Woods Rogers.
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Considerations For Cos. Amid Wave Of CFPB Vacatur Bids
As some entities look to vacate prior voluntary agreements with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, there are several considerations companies should take into account before seeking to vacate their settlements in the current legal and regulatory environment, says Jasmine Jean-Louis at Goodwin.