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September 26, 2025
Del. Suit Alleges Fast-Break Betrayal In NBA Team Bid Plan
RAJ Sports Holdings LLC is accusing co-CEOs of Panda Express and their family trust of breaching an exclusivity and confidentiality agreement by exiting a nearly completed deal to buy the NBA's Portland Trail Blazers and joining forces with another multibillion-dollar bidder.
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September 26, 2025
Mass. Pot Shop Shareholders Say Investor Trying A Freezeout
A group of shareholders who collectively control approximately 90% of Massachusetts cannabis producer and dispensary chain Atlantic Medicinal Partners Inc. say another investor is trying to steal the business out from under them, according to a complaint filed in state court.
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September 26, 2025
Employment Authority: Female Workers Quit Without WFH
Law360 Employment Authority covers the biggest employment cases and trends. Catch up this week with a look at government data showing how employers' back-to-work push led to a dip in female workers' ranks, three wage and hour tips for employers to follow if they want to implement a uniform or dress code policy and a preview on a case in the D.C. Circuit that is set to consider the National Labor Relations Board's Cemex test.
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September 26, 2025
Dr. Evil Gets Brief Callout In Del. Take-Public Merger Suit
Attorneys for a blank-check company that claimed at least $30 million in damages in Delaware's Court of Chancery after an alleged take-public merger breach on Friday branded the accused breacher's $2.1 billion counterclaim as being "worthy of Dr. Evil in the 'Austin Powers' movies."
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September 26, 2025
Fitch Even Sues Litigation Funder CEO, Ex-Client For $1.2M
Chicago-based law firm Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery LLP has brought a lawsuit in Illinois federal court against a former client and the CEO of a litigation funder, saying it is owed more than $1.2 million in legal fees for the firm's work on a patent infringement case the ex-client filed against Samsung.
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September 26, 2025
Off The Bench: NCAA Mostly Beats Trans Suit, Faces Another
In this week's Off The Bench, the NCAA beat the majority of claims over its former transgender policy, but faced a new lawsuit in New York, along with the State University of New York, stemming from its current ban of transgender athletes competing in women's sports.
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September 26, 2025
9th Circ. Halts Vegas Newspaper Ruling For High Court Appeal
The Ninth Circuit has stayed its ruling that a long-standing arrangement between the Las Vegas Sun and the Las Vegas Review-Journal is unlawful while the Sun appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court to preserve the pact.
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September 26, 2025
Mich. High Court To Revisit Wrongful Death Tolling Rule
The Michigan Supreme Court said on Friday it would weigh whether a required notice period for medical malpractice claims extends the time wrongful death plaintiffs may wait to sue, revisiting a question it decided in 2004.
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September 26, 2025
Trump Media Seeks End To Merger Fee Fight After Arbitration
In the wake of a favorable arbitration award, counsel for Donald Trump's social media company told a New York state judge Friday that it would seek to bar further litigation in a fee dispute with a company that helped launch Truth Social in an $875 million merger.
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September 26, 2025
GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week
Tech industry giant Oracle will monitor the U.S. operations of social media platform TikTok after a deal turns 80% of the formerly Chinese-owned subsidiary over to a U.S.-based joint venture. And a new compensation study of large company general counsel finds steady growth since 2020, although it still trails pay for chief financial officers.
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September 26, 2025
Freshfields, Simpson Thacher Guide Oracle's $18B Bond Offer
Software giant Oracle Corp. has priced an $18 billion investment-grade bond offering, a move that comes as the company has ramped up spending to manage increasing demand for artificial intelligence.
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September 26, 2025
TikTok, Chinese Co. Resolve $845M IP Fight Before Trial
TikTok and a Chinese company that accuses it of stealing trade secrets for a video-editing tool and infringing copyrights related to the tool informed a California federal judge Friday that they've reached a settlement in principle, avoiding a jury trial that was set to begin next month.
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September 26, 2025
Advertisers, Publishers Can Expand Google Ad MDL Markets
A New York federal judge on Thursday allowed publishers and advertisers in multidistrict litigation over Google's advertising placement technology to expand their claims to cover a worldwide scope, like the U.S. Department of Justice's successful similar case, finding it would not prejudice the tech giant.
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September 26, 2025
Trump Announces 100% Tariff On Drug Imports Starting Oct. 1
President Donald Trump announced a slew of new Section 232 tariffs to be imposed beginning Oct. 1, including a 100% tariff on drug imports and new rates for semi trucks, kitchen cabinets, bathroom vanities and upholstered furniture.
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September 26, 2025
Operator Of NBA's Suns Says Doc Suit Is For Buyout Leverage
Phoenix Suns franchise operator Suns Legacy Holdings LLC has pushed back in Delaware Chancery Court against two minority owners seeking access to company records, responding that the demands are aimed at pressuring a higher-priced buyout from the NBA team's majority owner, Mat Ishbia.
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September 26, 2025
Taxation With Representation: De Brauw, Hengeler Mueller
In this week's Taxation With Representation, power grid operator TenneT Holding sells a stake in its German transmission business to institutional investors, Pfizer Inc. acquires biotechnology company Metsera Inc., and Dutch brewer Heineken NV buys most of Costa Rica's FIFCO beverage and retail operations.
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September 26, 2025
Cherokee Nation Cos. Appeal Gaming License Suit To 8th Circ.
Two Cherokee Nation entities are looking to the Eighth Circuit to overturn an Arkansas federal court decision that dismissed their challenge to a voter-approved referendum that revoked a gambling license in the state.
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September 26, 2025
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
This past week in London has seen Sanjeev Gupta’s Liberty OneSteel sue its collapsed former lender Greensill Capital, television personality Janice Dickinson hit ITV with a personal injury claim after falling over while appearing on “I’m a Celeb …”, and energy investor Blasket bring fresh litigation against Spain amid a row over a $416 million arbitration award. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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September 25, 2025
DOJ Unveils New 'Affirmative Litigation' Civil Division Branch
The U.S. Department of Justice Thursday announced its newly created "Enforcement & Affirmative Litigation Branch," part of which will be dedicated to going after states, municipalities and private entities that impede federal immigration enforcement or profit from "false and misleading claims" about gender transition.
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September 25, 2025
Trump Blesses Deal To Transfer TikTok To $14B US Co.
President Donald Trump Thursday signed an executive order greenlighting a proposed deal that transfers the majority of TikTok's U.S. operations to a new U.S.-based joint venture, saying that the divestiture adequately addresses national security concerns.
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September 25, 2025
Is Uber Liable For Sex Assault? Bellwether Goes To Calif. Jury
A woman who said she was sexually assaulted by her Uber driver deserves compensatory and punitive damages from the ride-hailing giant, her lawyer told a California jury in a bellwether trial Thursday, while Uber's lawyer denied negligence and said it's not required to "guarantee that nothing bad is ever going to happen."
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September 25, 2025
Google VP Says Ad Tech Breakup Is 'Possible'
The Google executive responsible for its advertising placement technology business told a Virginia federal judge Thursday that the company previously determined that a breakup was doable, even as he argued that the U.S. Department of Justice is mischaracterizing recent considerations of what that would look like.
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September 25, 2025
Paramount Taps Latham Antitrust Pro, Ex-Asst. AG As CLO
Paramount Skydance Corp. announced Thursday that a Latham & Watkins LLP antitrust and competition attorney, who was head of the U.S. Department of Justice's antitrust unit during President Donald Trump's first term, has been tapped to be its new chief legal officer.
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September 25, 2025
Ex-Highland CEO Tells High Court Judge's Novels Show Bias
The founder and president of hedge fund Highland Capital Management has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on a bankruptcy judge's refusal to recuse herself from proceedings involving the company after she published two novels that he says contain veiled commentary about the case.
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September 25, 2025
$8.9B Deal For Health Tech R1 RCM Draws Del. Chancery Suit
Four stockholders of healthcare revenue management venture R1 RCM Inc. challenged the company's take-private deal in Delaware's Court of Chancery Thursday, alleging that the private equity and allies who won the $8.9 billion, November transaction lined up an unfairly low, $14.30 per share price.
Expert Analysis
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Adapting To Private Practice: From ATF Director To BigLaw
As a two-time boomerang partner, returning to BigLaw after stints as a U.S. attorney and the director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, people ask me how I know when to move on, but there’s no single answer — just clearly set your priorities, says Steven Dettelbach at BakerHostetler.
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What To Know As SEC Looks To Expand Private Fund Access
As the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission considers expanding retail access to private markets, understanding how these funds operate — and the role of financial intermediaries in guiding investors — is increasingly important, say attorneys at K&L Gates.
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New DOJ Penalty Policy Could Spell Trouble For Cos.
In light of the U.S. Department of Justice’s recently published guidance making victim relief a core condition of coordinated resolution crediting, companies facing parallel investigations must carefully calibrate their negotiation strategies to minimize the risk of duplicative penalties, say attorneys at Debevoise.
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IPR Decisions Clarify Stewart's 'Settled Expectations' Factor
Recent discretionary denial decisions from U.S. Patent and Trademark Office acting Director Coke Morgan Stewart have begun to illuminate the contours of her "settled expectations" doctrine, informing when it might be worth petitioning for inter partes review if the patent at issue has been in force for a few years, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.
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4th Circ. Favors Plain Meaning In Bump-Up D&O Ruling
The Fourth Circuit's latest denial of indemnity coverage in Towers Watson v. National Union Fire Insurance and its previous ruling in this case lay out a pragmatic approach to bump-up provisions that avoids hypertechnical constructions to limit the effect of a policy's plain meaning, say attorneys at Kennedys.
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A Look At Key 5th Circ. White Collar Rulings So Far This Year
In the first half of 2025, the Fifth Circuit has decided numerous cases of particular import to white collar practitioners, which collectively underscore the critical importance of meticulous recordbuilding, procedural compliance and strategic litigation choices at every stage of a case, says Joe Magliolo at Jackson Walker.
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How Cos. In China Can Tailor Compliance Amid FCPA Shifts
The U.S. Department of Justice’s recently updated Foreign Corrupt Practices Act enforcement guidelines create a fluid business environment for companies operating in China that will require a customized compliance approach to navigate both countries’ corporate and legal systems, say attorneys at Dickinson Wright.
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SEC, FINRA Obligations In Changing AI Regulatory Landscape
Despite the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's recent withdrawal of its proposed artificial intelligence conflict rules, financial regulators remain focused on firms developing the correct AI compliance framework, as well as continuously testing and supervising them to ensure they're fit for purpose, say attorneys at Cahill Gordon.
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Opinion
DOJ's HPE-Juniper Settlement Will Help US Compete
The U.S. Department of Justice settlement with Hewlett Packard Enterprise clears the purchase of Juniper Networks in a deal that positions the U.S. as a leader in secure, scalable networking and critical digital infrastructure by requiring the divestiture of a WiFi network business geared toward small firms, says John Shu at Taipei Medical University.
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Anthropic Ruling Creates Fair Use Framework For AI Training
A California federal court’s recent ruling that Anthropic’s use of copyrighted books to train its large language model qualified as fair use provides important guidance for both artificial intelligence developers and copyright holders because it distinguishes between transformative uses and unauthorized uses involving pirated or format-shifted works, say attorneys at Ropes & Gray.
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Playing Baseball Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Playing baseball in college, and now Wiffle ball in a local league, has taught me that teamwork, mental endurance and emotional intelligence are not only important to success in the sport, but also to success as a trial attorney, says Kevan Dorsey at Swift Currie.
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Ultra-Processed Food Claims Rely On Unproven Science
Plaintiffs' arguments that ultra-processed foods are responsible for the nationwide increase in certain chronic illnesses, though a novel approach to food-based personal injury claims, depend on theories that are still being tested, say attorneys at DLA Piper.
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APA Relief May Blunt Justices' Universal Injunction Ruling
The Administrative Procedure Act’s avenue for universal preliminary relief seems to hold the most promise for neutralizing the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v. CASA to limit federal district courts' nationally applicable orders, say attorneys at Crowell.
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Ohio Banking Brief: All The Notable Legal Updates In Q2
Ohio's financial services sector saw several significant developments in the second quarter of 2025, including a case that confirmed credit unions' setoff rights, another that established contract rights between banks and cardholders, and the House passage of a digital asset bill, say attorneys at Frost Brown.
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Building Better Earnouts In The Current M&A Climate
In the face of market uncertainty, we've seen a continued reliance on earnouts in M&A deals so far this year, but to reduce the risk of related litigation, it's important to use objective standards, apply company metrics cautiously and ensure short time periods, among other best practices, say attorneys at White & Case.