Conn. Law Office To Secure Convicted Atty's Travel

By Aaron Keller

Bradley Law Group's Bridgeport, Connecticut, office building will secure a $300,000 bond allowing suspended attorney and former state Sen. Dennis A. Bradley Jr. to travel to a family wedding in the Dominican Republic as he awaits sentencing on campaign-related wire fraud charges, a federal judge determined Friday.

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Anti-SLAPP Law Doesn't Tank Firm Breakup Case, Judge Says

By Andrea Keckley

A Connecticut trial attorney and his new firm cannot invoke the state's anti-SLAPP law to dismiss claims brought by his former law partner, a state court judge held Thursday in one of multiple lawsuits stemming from Connecticut Trial Firm LLC's dissolution less than two years after it gained prominence with a record-setting personal injury verdict.

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Conn. Says CFTC Rehashing Failed Sports Contract Position

By Ganesh Setty

Connecticut has criticized the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's bid in Connecticut federal court to block the state from regulating prediction market platforms' sports-related offerings, noting the same presiding judge already denied Kalshi's motion seeking such relief.

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Cannabis Wholesaler Settles Conn. AG's Consumer Claims

By Brian Steele

A wholesaler that allegedly supplied Connecticut stores with high-potency cannabis products has agreed to settle a state enforcement action for $2 million and a promise not to operate without a license, according to a stipulated judgment Thursday.

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Cities Ask Justices To Undo Texas-DOJ Immigration Rule Deal

By Britain Eakin

Democracy Forward Foundation and several cities asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to stay a district court's approval of a deal Texas and the Trump administration struck to vacate a Biden-era rule allowing immigration courts to temporarily close cases.

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Analysis

'A Moral Hazard': Kalshi Drug Trial Bets Spark Ethical Qualms

By Chris Villani

Kalshi Inc. opening prediction markets for clinical drug trials has raised a host of compliance concerns for attorneys, including the risk of insider trading among the wide swaths of stakeholders in the know about the trials, as well as the danger of compromising the trials themselves.

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Amazon Can't Push Back FTC Antitrust Trial

By Bryan Koenig

A Washington federal judge refused Friday to delay the Federal Trade Commission antitrust trial accusing Amazon.com Inc. of creating an artificial pricing floor in online retail, forcing the company to try to navigate a potential timing overlap in parallel state court litigation from the California attorney general.

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DirecTV, AGs Can't See Nexstar-Tegna Benefits Yet

By Bryan Koenig

A California federal magistrate judge refused to make Nexstar and Tegna explain how their $6.2 billion merger will boost local news against streaming competition and accelerate technological transition, rejecting as premature a motion to compel from DirecTV and the bipartisan coalition of state attorneys general challenging the deal.

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Brief

Logistics Cos. Can't Pause Tobacco Fee Suit

By Grace Elletson

A Connecticut federal judge on Friday shut down two logistics companies' bid to stay discovery in a case claiming they didn't properly reimburse employees who paid a health plan fee for tobacco use, ruling a pause wasn't warranted given the suit's history.

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Judge Backs Purdue Trusts, Orders Sackler Filings Withdrawn

By Clara Geoghegan

Members of the Sackler family broke terms of settlement agreements in Purdue Pharma's Chapter 11 plan, a New York bankruptcy judge has ruled, directing them to end state court litigation and title challenges on a Connecticut property.

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Conn. Insurers Should Prepare To Explain Premium Hikes

As of Jan. 1, Connecticut insurers must provide a reasonable explanation for personal risk insurance premium increases upon policyholder request, and thus should familiarize themselves with a recent bulletin that prescribes the details, say attorneys at Troutman.

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Squire Patton, Holland & Knight Report Data Breaches

By Jake Maher

Squire Patton Boggs LLP and Holland & Knight LLP were hit with cyberattacks exposing sensitive information, according to disclosures filed this week.

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Up Next At High Court: Criminal Sentences & Video Privacy

By Katie Buehler

The U.S. Supreme Court will close out its October sitting by hearing oral arguments in two cases that ask what level of deference federal district courts should give to commentary interpreting the federal sentencing guidelines, and what purchases are protected under a video consumer privacy statute.

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DOJ Aims To 'Attack Fraud From All Angles' Via New Division

By Sarah Jarvis

The U.S. Department of Justice's new fraud division has issued fresh guidance on its prosecution methodology, with the division's head directing prosecutors to seize assets before indictments and pursue upward variances in sentencing guidelines in some cases as part of a stated push to use the division's "full arsenal of criminal statutes" in combating fraud.

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Ill. Judge Lays Out Doc Demands For DOJ Misconduct Probe

By Lauraann Wood

An Illinois federal judge asked the government Friday to turn over six months of communications and certain other records as she investigates in-court inaccuracies Chicago prosecutors offered while prosecuting six anti-immigration protesters, rejecting its request to seal a filing in the process.

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Atty With False AI Citation Filings Ordered To Pay $39K

By Bonnie Eslinger

A New York federal judge who imposed case-terminating sanctions on an attorney who submitted filings with false citations generated by artificial intelligence ordered him on Friday to pay nearly $39,000 to lawyers who uncovered the problematic AI use, noting he had given them the "runaround" when they tried to collect directly.

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Grassley Attacks Dems' Claims Of Rule-Breaking Over Hearing

By Courtney Bublé

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, clapped back at Democrats for their accusations that Republicans broke Senate rules during a hearing last week at which former special counsel Jack Smith appeared.

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Calif. Jurists' Atty Tips: 'Emulate Lincoln,' 'Don't Be Boring'

By Bonnie Eslinger

Three current and former Northern California federal judges and one Morrison Foerster LLP partner during a Federal Bar Association panel discussion Thursday gave attorneys tips on "courtroom persuasion," including knowing the judges, keeping things interesting and, like the nation's 16th president, getting quickly to the winning point.

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Brief

Legal Services NYC Gets $2.5M To Build Novel Resource Hub

By Tracey Read

Legal Services NYC announced Friday that it has been awarded a $2.5 million grant from the New York State Interest on Lawyer Account Fund to create a first-of-its-kind statewide knowledge-sharing platform to help legal advocates spend more time seeking justice for low-income clients.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

The new federal fraud division is threatening faster action and broader targets under a new enforcement policy announced recently. And the SEC warned shareholder advocacy groups that join forces could face legal scrutiny in the future. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.​

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP and Alston & Bird LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Sixth Circuit overturned a pivotal decision in multidistrict opioid litigation that had dramatically expanded claims against the nation's largest pharmacy benefit managers.

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Roundup

UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

By Megan Norcott

The past week in London has seen PrivatBank sue its former oligarch owner, building materials provider Kingspan face a €100 million ($112 million) claim over Grenfell Tower cladding and energy giants VaroPreem and Viaro Energy become embroiled in an intellectual property row.

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In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Law360

For those who missed out, here's a look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the most buzz on Law360 last week.

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