Zoox Stockholders Push For Amazon Ex-Exec's Texts, Emails

By Jarek Rutz

A pair of Zoox Inc. stockholders have asked the Delaware Chancery Court to force Amazon.com Inc. to provide additional documents in litigation challenging its $1.3 billion acquisition of the self-driving vehicle startup, arguing that a former Amazon executive's communications could shed light on particulars of the allegedly conflict-tainted deal.

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Bard And AngioDynamics Resolve 11-Year Patent Dispute

By Ryan Davis

A Delaware federal judge on Tuesday closed the book on a vascular port patent dispute between C.R. Bard and AngioDynamics that had been pending for over 11 years, citing a settlement after the Federal Circuit invalidated Bard patents that a jury said AngioDynamics infringed.

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Skechers Controllers Accused Of Unfair $9.4B 3G Buyout

By Jarek Rutz

A Detroit pension fund is challenging the $9.4 billion take-private sale of Skechers U.S.A. Inc. to 3G Capital in Delaware Chancery Court, alleging the footwear company's controlling stockholders engineered an unfair deal that favored themselves at the expense of minority investors.

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NJ Justices Probe Daniel's Law Notification Requirement

By George Woolston

The New Jersey Supreme Court on Tuesday questioned whether a notice requirement in the state's judicial privacy law is enough to ensure that any person or entity that can be held liable under the law acted with negligence.

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Brief

Mich. AG Joins Fair Housing Laws Fight Against HUD Guidance

By Elizabeth Daley

Michigan's attorney general spoke Tuesday about joining 15 states and the District of Columbia in a California federal suit claiming the Trump administration undermines enforcement of fair housing laws by threatening to halt funding for local government programs protecting people discriminated against for gender and sexual orientation, among other things.

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Chancery Tosses Weapons Co. Suit, Says Claims Belong In NC

By Jarek Rutz

A Delaware Chancery Court judge on Tuesday dismissed a weapons analytics company's suit seeking to force one of its founders to litigate a stock valuation dispute in Delaware, ruling that the claims belong in a parallel North Carolina action and stem from a different contract than the company asserted.

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BlockFills Can Tap Into Lender Cash For Now In Ch. 11

By Vince Sullivan

Bankrupt cryptocurrency company BlockFills received interim authority to use the cash collateral of its secured lenders Tuesday as it began its pursuit of a customer-led restructuring in Delaware bankruptcy court.

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3rd Circ. Upholds 8-Year Bid In Lottery Scam Targeting Elderly

By Elizabeth Daley

A Jamaican sentenced to more than eight years in prison for leading a lottery scam in New York City that fleeced at least eight elderly people of hundreds of thousands of dollars cannot escape his judgment, the Third Circuit said, upholding a district court's decision.

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Edwards Beats Heart Valve IP Suit Just Before Trial

By Elliot Weld

A Delaware federal judge has ruled in favor of Edwards Lifesciences Corp. in a patent infringement suit brought against it by rival Aortic Innovations LLC, finding that the term "frame" as it appears in the patent claims lacks written description.

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Avoid The Unexpected When Drafting License Agreements

The Delaware Court of Chancery's recent decision in Commave v. Zevrain raises several practice points for attorneys drafting commercial contracts, underscoring the importance of considering anti-assignment provisions, specific exclusions and potential carveouts when drafting license agreements or other commercial contracts, say attorneys at Hogan Lovells.

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How DExit, Mandatory Arbitration Could Alter IPO Outlook

As companies continue to leave Delaware and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission begins allowing companies to implement mandatory arbitration provisions, these developments could have a major impact on the initial public offering, securities class action, and directors and officers insurance landscapes, says Walker Newell at Arthur J. Gallagher & Co.

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Opinion

3rd Circ. Must Reject EEOC's Flawed Equal Pay Theory

To avoid illogical outcomes, the Third Circuit, in Cartee-Haring and Marinello v. Central Bucks School District, should refute the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s recently filed amicus brief in support of the plaintiffs’ bias claims based on pay compared with one single co-worker, say Allan King at Littler and Stephen Bronars at Edgeworth Economics.

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Chief Justice Says Personal Attacks On Judges 'Got To Stop'

By Katie Buehler

Chief Justice John Roberts on Tuesday condemned the personal attacks on federal judges that have become increasingly common during President Donald Trump's second term in office — and that are often launched by the president himself — and defended the daily work of the judiciary. 

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Deals In Jackson Walker-Judge Affair A 'Dilemma,' Judge Says

By José Luis Martínez

A Texas federal judge ordered three of Jackson Walker LLP's former bankruptcy clients Tuesday to explain by next month what would happen to money from potential vacaturs or sanctions against the law firm if the estates close after their contested deals get approved.

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NJ Judge Boots Prosecutor, Orders US Atty Trio's Testimony

By Jack Karp

A New Jersey federal judge on Monday questioned whether Alina Habba is still running the New Jersey U.S. Attorney's Office during a heated hearing where the jurist tossed a supervisory prosecutor from his courtroom and ordered testimony from the trio of attorneys who assumed Habba's responsibilities.

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Reed Smith Launches In Boston With 12 Attys From 7 Firms

By Tracey Read

Reed Smith LLP has launched its first office in Boston with 12 lawyers from White & Case, Goodwin Procter, McDermott Will & Schulte, Morrison Foerster, Kirkland & Ellis, Weil Gotshal & Manges and K&L Gates, the firm announced Tuesday.

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'No Disrespect' But Law Prof Mom Not SBF's Atty, Judge Says

By Lauren Berg

A federal judge in Manhattan cautioned retired Stanford Law School professor Barbara Fried, the mother of convicted FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, that she cannot make filings on behalf of her son in his bid for a new trial, saying she has not filed an appearance with the court.

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Indiana Firm Drops Quintairos Prieto 'Mass Exodus' Suit

By Adrian Cruz

Less than a month after suing Quintairos Prieto Wood & Boyer PA for allegedly causing a "mass exodus" of attorneys, Indiana-based Kopka Pinkus Dolin PC has chosen to dismiss the matter, according to a recent court filing.

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Comer Subpoenas AG Bondi Over Epstein Investigation

By Courtney Bublé

Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., chair of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, issued a subpoena on Tuesday for Attorney General Pam Bondi over the committee's investigation into the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

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Senate OKs Conservative Think Tank GC As Louisiana Judge

By Courtney Bublé

The Senate voted 51-45 on Tuesday to confirm Anna St. John, president and general counsel of the Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute, as a U.S. district judge for the Eastern District of Louisiana.

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IP Atty Appeals Order Requiring OK To File EDTX Patent Suits

By Lauren Berg

Intellectual property attorney William Ramey is asking the Federal Circuit to overturn a Texas district judge's sanctions order requiring him to seek the court's permission before filing patent suits in the future, saying the judge relied on the wrong evidence in finding the attorney failed to conduct presuit investigations.

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Lawmakers Want More Oversight For Antitrust Settlements

By Matthew Perlman

Democratic lawmakers proposed legislation Tuesday that would give courts more power to review settlements reached in government antitrust cases, after the U.S. Department of Justice recently cut a pair of controversial deals, including with Live Nation last week.

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NJ Justices Create Attorney Readmission Board

By Jake Maher

New Jersey's highest court announced Tuesday it formally established a new body charged with overseeing readmissions of disbarred lawyers through changes to the state's standards for attorney conduct.

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Pot Co. Escapes Potency Suit, Judge Warns Plaintiff Firm

By Jonathan Capriel

MariMed and other cannabis companies beat claims they intentionally mislabeled their products to sidestep Illinois THC potency limits, with a federal judge highlighting the string of consumer-led suit losses and warning counsel to "heed the strong and universal concerns about the plausibility of their legal theories."

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Analysis

Prediction Markets Have Opened Compliance 'Pandora's Box'

By Phillip Bantz

The burgeoning prediction market has exploded the definition of what qualifies as confidential corporate information that employees could misuse for personal gain, leaving companies scrambling to update internal policies and guidelines, compliance experts say.

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