NYC Man Forfeits Full Jury By Harassing Foreman, Court Says

By Elizabeth Daley

A man convicted of possessing weapons and forgery devices after police found guns and 2,513 blank credit cards hidden in his wall can't have a mistrial after harassing a jury foreman, leaving 11 jurors to decide his fate, New York's highest court said in a matter of first impression.

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SEC, Virtu To Settle Customer Data Suit For $2.5M

By Sarah Jarvis

Virtu Financial Inc. has agreed to pay the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission $2.5 million for allegedly failing to safeguard customer information, according to a Friday proposed final order that would end the regulator's two-year-old suit against the broker-dealer.

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'Housewives' Star Says Revenge Porn Talks Were Coerced

By Chart Riggall

Former "Real Housewives of Atlanta" star Brit Eady accused Bravo and the show's production company of blackmailing her into discussing a "disgusting" revenge porn incident where in front of a live event audience, a cast member showed a graphic image falsely attributed to Eady.

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Roundup

Real Estate Recap: REIT Reporting, Defining Water

By Real Estate Authority Staff

Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including reactions from real estate attorneys in two areas primed for deregulation.

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CFPB Inks $1.75M MoneyLion Deal Over Military Lending

By Katryna Perera & Jon Hill

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau reached a $1.75 million settlement with MoneyLion Technologies Inc. to end a Biden-era enforcement action in New York federal court that accused the fintech lender of overcharging military service members.

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Judge Won't Sink Conn. Water Permit Suit Against Pike Fuels

By Keith Goldberg

A Connecticut federal judge on Friday kept alive an environmental group's lawsuit against Pike Fuels over alleged permit violations at a bulk storage and fuel terminal, rejecting the company's arguments that the case should be dismissed because it sold the terminal.

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NY Judge Says Patent Suit Against Google Should Be Tossed

By Elliot Weld

A New York federal magistrate judge recommended Friday that a location-tracking patent infringement suit against Google be dismissed after the patent owner defied a court order to appear at a bench trial on affirmative defenses last month, saying his insistence he'd complied with all court orders was "bewildering, to say the least."

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11th Circ. Can't Hear $3M Worker-Poaching Dispute

By Carolina Bolado

The incomplete resolution of an abandoned civil conspiracy claim sank twin appeals Friday in a worker-poaching suit that saw a Florida federal jury award more than $3 million in damages to a New York insurance brokerage after finding a competitor interfered with its business.

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2nd Circ. Won't Revive NY Teamsters Worker's Pension Suit

By Kellie Mejdrich

The Second Circuit refused Friday to revive a New York Teamsters worker's proposed class action challenging his pension plan's fees and investments, backing a lower court's holding that his claims weren't detailed enough to keep the case in court.

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Applied Therapeutics Investors Get 1st OK For $15M Deal

By Emilie Ruscoe

Biopharmaceutical company Applied Therapeutics Inc. and its investors have received initial approval of a deal that will end claims related to a 2024 new drug application, including a cash settlement of $15 million.

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FINRA Fines Nomura $625K Over Short Selling Rule Breaches

By Emilie Ruscoe

A broker-dealer unit of Japanese financial services company Nomura Group has agreed to pay $625,000 to end Financial Industry Regulatory Authority claims tied to its compliance with short-selling regulations.

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SPAC Veterans Back Infinite Eagle's Filing For $300M IPO

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Infinite Eagle Acquisition, the 10th blank check company led by Jeff Sagansky and Harry Sloan, has filed plans to raise up to $300 million in its initial public offering.

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GAO Says Army Response To Audit Deal Protest Was Fair

By Tom Lotshaw

The U.S. Government Accountability Office denied an Ernst & Young LLP protest that challenged the scope of a corrective action the Army undertook to reconsider an accounting services award worth up to $250 million, concluding that the Army acted reasonably.

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BNY Mellon Cleared By Jury Of Unjust Enrichment Claim

By Elliot Weld

A New York federal jury has cleared Bank of New York Mellon of allegations of unjust enrichment from a contractor who claimed his investment valuation model had been misappropriated.

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Firm Wants Lender's Attys To Bear Blame In $16.2M Loan Suit

By Brian Steele

Willinger Willinger & Bucci PLLC is responsible for any damages suffered by a New York lender that relied on falsified documents to approve a $16.2 million loan to the development arm of a Connecticut housing authority, Pullman & Comley LLC said in seeking to shift the blame away from itself.

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E-Cig Companies, NYC Agree On $1K Fines For Flavored Vapes

By Jonathan Capriel

New York City has settled claims with two e-cigarette wholesalers that have agreed to stop pushing flavored vapes within the five boroughs and to pay $1,000 fines for future violations, while litigation continues against other companies that are accused of flooding the market with illegal products.

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Opinion

Despite Deputy AG Remarks, DOJ Can't Sideline DC Bar

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche’s recent suggestion that the D.C. Bar would be prevented from reviewing misconduct complaints about U.S. Department of Justice attorneys runs contrary to federal statutes, local rules and decades of case law, and sends the troubling message that federal prosecutors are subject to different rules, say attorneys at HWG.

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Bonus Spotlight

Texas Boutique Giving Associates Bonuses Of Up To $135K

By Tracey Read

Texas complex commercial litigation boutique Vartabedian Hester & Haynes LLP announced Friday that it will reward associates with additional year-end bonuses of up to $135,000 by Dec. 31, while more firms said they'd match or exceed the prevailing BigLaw scale.

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Atty Had 6 AI Tools Check Each Other, Yet Fakes Still Cited

By Andrea Keckley

A California federal judge has sanctioned a solo practitioner representing the plaintiffs in a proposed wage and hour class action against clothing brand Vuori Inc. after he admitted to using about a half-dozen artificial intelligence tools to prepare a motion.

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Fenwick & West Must Face New Claims In FTX Crypto MDL

By Madison Arnold

A Florida federal judge signed off on a bid to file new claims against Fenwick & West LLP by victims of the infamous FTX Trading Ltd. cryptocurrency scam after they argued that new information had emerged about the firm's alleged role in the trading platform's collapse.

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Google Calls Rumble's Judge Recusal Bid 'Cynical Maneuver'

By Rae Ann Varona

Google argued Friday that a California federal judge need not recuse himself from YouTube rival Rumble's antitrust suit despite his friendship with Google's top in-house litigation chief, saying Rumble's push for the recusal was a "cynical maneuver" for its Ninth Circuit appeal of a summary judgment loss.

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Ex-Gordon Rees Atty Reprimanded For Mistakes Blamed On AI

By Rose Krebs

An Alabama bankruptcy judge won't sanction Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLC for a filing submitted by one of its former lawyers that contained mistakes blamed on artificial intelligence, but has reprimanded the attorney and ordered her to notify her clients about the reprimand.

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Worker Says Morgan & Morgan Fired Her Over Fraud Concern

By Irene Spezzamonte

Injury law firm Morgan & Morgan PA fired a case manager after she voiced a concern about fraudulent client hospital records she said the firm gave to opposing counsel to snag more favorable settlements and failed to pay overtime, according to a suit in California state court.

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Tort Report: Ga. Injury Suits Surge Ahead Of Tort Reform

By Y. Peter Kang

Word of a big surge in Georgia injury lawsuits ahead of tort reform legislation and a $66 million Atlanta nightclub shooting judgment lead Law360's Tort Report, which compiles recent personal injury and medical malpractice news that may have flown under the radar.

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Ex-US Trustee Director's Firing Appeal Tossed, For Now

By Clara Geoghegan

The former head of the U.S. Department of Justice's bankruptcy watchdog program had her appeal challenging her abrupt firing dismissed, at least for now, while a federal agency mulls questions around executive power in separate cases.

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DOJ Will Speed Some Classified Discovery In Bolton Case

By Jared Foretek

Federal prosecutors agreed Friday to accelerate their classified discovery timeline in the prosecution of John Bolton, as a Maryland federal judge pressed them to move faster.

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Ga. Justices Spell Out How Atty Ads Can Be Misleading

By Emily Johnson

The Georgia Supreme Court has updated the State Bar of Georgia's rule that prohibits attorneys from misleading the public in advertising their services, defining how lawyers' messaging in ads could run afoul of the state's rule and possibly lead to disbarment.

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DC Judge Backs Local Grand Jury's Federal Indictment Power

By Jared Foretek

Following a D.C. federal judge's Thursday ruling that the city's unique legal structure allows prosecutors to bring indictments from local grand juries to federal court, a District of Columbia man on Friday asked the court to stay the ruling for five business days.

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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 Clyde & Co. face a claim from Yorkshire firm GWB Harthills, a property developer previously investigated over suspected bribery and corruption sue the general counsel and solicitor to HM Revenue and Customs, and sportswear giant Gymshark bring an intellectual property claim against its co-founder's rival company, AYBL. 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 Sue Reisinger

This week's edition of GC Cheat Sheet explores which top legal officers take home the most money and why. And the general counsel of SolarWinds Corp. can finally leave its data breach regulatory problems behind after the Securities and Exchange Commission dropped its unprecedented case against the company and its chief information security officer.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Kellogg Hansen Todd Figel & Frederick PLLC leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a D.C. federal judge rejected a Federal Trade Commission suit accusing Meta Platforms of illegally monopolizing social media through its purchases of WhatsApp and Instagram.

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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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