Boehringer Ingelheim notched another Zantac cancer trial win in Illinois state court this week, after a jury rejected a prostate cancer patient's claim that his seven-year use of the brand-name heartburn drug played a role in his diagnosis.
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Boehringer Wins Another Zantac Cancer Trial In Illinois

By Lauraann Wood

Boehringer Ingelheim notched another Zantac cancer trial win in Illinois state court this week, after a jury rejected a prostate cancer patient's claim that his seven-year use of the brand-name heartburn drug played a role in his diagnosis.

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Carma Says Ex-CLO, President Stole Hulk Hogan Beer Ideas

By Gina Kim

Carma HoldCo Inc. has filed a $10 million lawsuit in Illinois federal court against its former president and chief legal officer, accusing them of misappropriating its trade secrets and business plans related to "Real American" beer in a partnership with wrestler Hulk Hogan after they were terminated.

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Apple, Visa And Mastercard Beat Payment Fee Collusion Suit

By Rae Ann Varona

An Illinois federal judge on Wednesday dismissed several retailers' proposed antitrust class action that accused Apple, Visa and Mastercard of scheming to restrain competition in point-of-sale transaction payment networks, saying the express terms of agreements retailers had claimed were anti-competitive showed otherwise.

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Bettors Fight To Keep Suit Over DraftKings Promos Afloat

By Alex Lawson

DraftKings customers alleging the online betting giant's advertisements fuel gambling addiction are pushing to keep their proposed class action against the company alive, throwing water on its effort to escape the lawsuit by leaning on its extensive disclaimers and fine print.

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Students Say Fee Concerns Unfounded In Aid-Fixing Case

By Matthew Perlman

Attorneys for students accusing elite universities of conspiring to limit financial aid told an Illinois federal court there's no need for the schools to look into ethical concerns raised about attorney fees by a "disgruntled" associate for one of the firms representing the proposed class.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Capital One Deal Approval Lights Up Path For Bank M&A

The federal banking regulators' recent approval of Capital One's acquisition of Discover signals the agencies' willingness to approve large transactions and a more favorable environment generally for bank mergers under the Trump administration, say attorneys at Arnold & Porter.

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Series

Playing The Violin Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Playing violin in a string quartet reminds me that flexibility, ambition, strong listening skills, thoughtful leadership and intentional collaboration are all keys to a successful legal practice, says Julie Park at MoFo.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Atlanta Atty's Death In Texas Floods Shocks Colleagues

By Emily Johnson

Josephine Hardin, an Atlanta-based Huff Powell & Bailey attorney who died last week in flash flooding in Texas, is being remembered for making colleagues "laugh out loud, come together, and think deeply about the needs of others" and making an impact as a volunteer at a local legal nonprofit.

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Analysis

Courts Face Early Push To Expand Justices' Injunction Ruling

By Katie Buehler

In the two weeks since the U.S. Supreme Court curtailed federal judges' ability to issue universal injunctions, Trump administration attorneys have begun pushing to expand the decision's limits to other forms of relief used in regulatory challenges and class actions. So far, judges don't appear receptive to those efforts. 

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Bove Faults 'Heavy-Handed' Jan. 6 Cases

By Courtney Bublé

Third Circuit nominee Emil Bove, who is currently serving in the U.S. Department of Justice, in his post-hearing questionnaire obtained by Law360 on Friday, drew what he says is a distinction between condemning violence against law enforcement officers and over-prosecution of Jan. 6 rioters.

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Analysis

DOJ Poised To Pounce On Data Security Violators

By Phillip Bantz

Companies and individuals that are not yet in compliance with the U.S. Department of Justice's sweeping, complex new national data security program should expect to face probes and potentially enforcement actions sooner than later, experts say.

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3rd Circ. Revives Benicar MDL Fees Suit Against NJ Law Firm

By Carla Baranauckas

The Third Circuit on Friday revived a proposed class action against Mazie Slater Katz & Freeman LLC attorneys that claims they took excessive fees from plaintiffs' settlements in multidistrict litigation over the blood pressure drug Benicar, remanding the dispute for the district court to determine whether it has jurisdiction over the case.

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NCAA's $2.8B NIL Deal Nets Athletes' Firms Over $455M In Fees

By Craig Clough

A California federal judge Friday approved approximately $455 million in attorney fees for class counsel in the NCAA's $2.78 billion class action settlement that, for the first time, will provide for revenue sharing with college athletes, with additional fees set to roll in annually for 10 years.

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Litigation Funder Can't Escape Crash Loans Suit, Court Told

By Jake Maher

A married couple suing a litigation funding firm and multiple law firms, alleging they steered the couple into high-interest loans, told a New Jersey state court that they adequately pled fraud and urged the court not to dismiss their case against the funder.

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Calif. Panel Says Arbitration Provider Immune From Fraud Suit

By Irene Spezzamonte

An arbitration provider is immune from a logistics company's suit accusing it of not properly vetting its arbitrators, including one who oversaw a wage and hour suit against the company, a California appeals panel ruled, affirming a lower court's decision to nix the case.

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Claims Stack Up Against Texas Judges Accused Of Tampering

By Emily Sawicki

A Texas judge embroiled in a scandal involving allegations of witness tampering has been suspended without pay following a federal indictment alleging she pressured a subordinate to withhold testimony in a separate proceeding against a local justice of the peace.

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Roundup

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

By Laura Stewart Liberty

This past week in London has seen HS2 hit with a defamation claim by two ex-employees who blew the whistle on alleged under-reporting of costs, Craig Wright and nChain face legal action brought by its former chief financial officer over a fraud scheme, and pro-footballer Axel Tuanzebe bring a clinical negligence claim against his former club Manchester United F.C. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

Carma has accused its former chief legal officer and president of misappropriating the brand licensing company's trade secrets, filing a $10 million lawsuit in Illinois federal court. Meanwhile, T-Mobile became the latest company to end DEI programs under pressure from the Federal Communications Commission's chair. 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

Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP, Gilbert Harrell Sumerford & Martin PC and Ashbrook Byrne Kresge Flowers LLC lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Eighth Circuit vacated the Federal Trade Commission's planned "click-to-cancel" rule, which would have required companies to allow customers to ditch their subscriptions with a single click.

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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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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

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A&O Shearman

Allison Bass

ArentFox Schiff LLP

Arnold & Porter

Baker Botts

Barnes & Thornburg

Berger Montague

CMS Cameron McKenna

Cafferty Clobes

Chambliss Bahner

Clarke Willmott

Coblentz Patch

Cooley LLP

Crowell & Moring

DAC Beachcroft

DLA Piper

DWF LLP

Doyle Clayton

Epstein Becker

Fieldfisher

Flowers Davis

Fox Rothschild

Freedman Normand

Freshfields

Gateley PLC

Gibson Dunn

Gilbert Harrell

Gilbert Litigators

Gilman & Bedigian

Goldman Ismail

Greenberg Traurig

Gustafson Gluek

Hagens Berman

Hannafan & Hannafan

Herrick Feinstein

Holland & Knight

Holwell Shuster

Howard Kennedy LLP

Huff Powell

Jackson Lewis PC

Jenner & Block

Kaufman Dolowich

Keller Postman

Kennedys Law LLP

King & Spalding

Kirkland & Ellis

Kline & Specter

Korein Tillery

Latham & Watkins

Loevy & Loevy

MFG Solicitors

Manning Gross

Mayer Brown

Mazie Slater

Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

Miller Shakman

Morgan Lewis

Morrison & Foerster

Myers Law Group

Nabarro LLP

Nagel Rice

Norton Rose

Olshan Frome

Paul Weiss

Pearl Legal APC

Pomerantz LLP

Quinn Emanuel

Reynolds Porter

Robins Kaplan

Robinson Bradshaw

Scott&Scott

Seifert Zuromski

Shook Hardy

Shub & Johns

Sidley Austin

Simmons & Simmons

Simons Muirhead Burton

Spector Roseman

Stephenson Harwood

Taylor Wessing

Thompson Hine

Trowers & Hamlins

Umberg & Zipser

Wheeler Trigg

White & Case

Wilkinson Stekloff

Willenken LLP

Williams & Connolly

WilmerHale

Winston & Strawn

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Abbott Laboratories

Alphabet Inc.

American Bar Association

Anheuser-Busch Inbev SA/NV

Apple Inc.

Arcelormittal Texas HBI LLC

Atlantic Coast Conference

Axel Springer SE

Boehringer Ingelheim Corp.

Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica Inc.

British Broadcasting Corp.

Cable News Network Inc.

Capital One Financial Corp.

CapitalG Management Co. LLC

Cornell University

Credit Suisse Group AG

Discover Bank

Discover Financial Services Inc.

DraftKings Inc.

EE Ltd.

Epic Games Inc.

Google LLC

ING Groep NV

Insurance Europe Ltd.

Johnson & Johnson

LinkedIn Corp.

M&T Bank Corp.

MGA Entertainment Inc.

Major Lindsey & Africa LLC

Manchester United

MasterCard Inc.

Merck & Co. Inc.

Metronet

National Collegiate Athletic Association

National Federation of Independent Business

National Westminster Bank PLC

Norfolk Southern Corp.

PYMNTS

Pac-12 Enterprises LLC

Pfizer Inc.

Recording Industry Association of America Inc.

SCI LLC

Salesforce.com Inc.

Syngenta AG

The Coca-Cola Co.

The Episcopal Church

Tilia LLC

UBS Group AG

Veolia Environnement SA

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Federal Communications Commission

Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

Federal Reserve System

Federal Trade Commission

Financial Conduct Authority

Food and Drug Administration

New Jersey Court

New Jersey Supreme Court

Office of the Comptroller of the Currency

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

U.S. Department of Defense

U.S. Department of Education

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of Labor

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

UK High Court