Corporate

  • December 02, 2024

    Chancery OKs $21M Deal To End Gene Co. Class Suit

    A $21 million settlement of stockholder challenges to a blank check company's take-public merger with clinical data and genomics company Sema4 Holdings in July 2021 won Delaware Court of Chancery approval Monday, with nearly $4.1 million carved out for attorney fees.

  • December 02, 2024

    GoodRx Inks $25M Deal With Users Over Alleged Data-Sharing

    A proposed class alleging GoodRx breached privacy laws by sharing users' sensitive health data with advertisers asked a California federal judge Friday for preliminary approval of a proposed $25 million settlement with the company, saying it still leaves the potential for additional recoveries from co-defendants Meta Platforms, Google and Criteo Corp.

  • December 02, 2024

    X Escapes Former Twitter Security Head's Firing Suit

    A New Jersey federal judge has sent a former Twitter security chief's suit claiming he was fired for protesting massive budget cuts to arbitration, ruling that the claims fail under the provisions of the company's arbitration agreement.

  • December 02, 2024

    Pa. Justices To Weigh Asbestos Suits For Defunct Co.'s Parent

    The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania will take up an appeal over whether a case can pierce the corporate veil to turn tort claims against a dissolved company into claims against its parent company.

  • December 02, 2024

    Musk Asks Court To Halt OpenAI's Conversion To For-Profit

    Elon Musk sought a preliminary injunction asking a California federal court to stop OpenAI from transitioning into a for-profit enterprise, arguing the plaintiffs and the public would be harmed whether as competitors, donors, investors, consumers, taxpayers, citizens or "simply as people" worried about AI rushing unsafe products into the marketplace.  

  • December 02, 2024

    JPMorgan, Tesla Agree To End $162M Suit Over Musk Tweet

    JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Tesla told a New York federal judge on Monday the parties have agreed to voluntarily end JPMorgan's suit alleging Tesla owes it $162 million over expired stock warrants after Tesla CEO Elon Musk mulled taking the company private in an August 2018 tweet.

  • December 02, 2024

    Chancery OKs $345M Fee Award For $55B Musk Pay Fight

    Delaware's chancellor approved a $345 million attorney fee award Monday in the case that scuttled Tesla CEO Elon Musk's 10-year, $55.6 billion compensation plan, rejecting the plaintiff's bid for $5.6 billion in freely tradable company shares and declining to reinstate Musk's proposed pay.

  • December 02, 2024

    Healthcare Biz Atty Rejoins Dentons As Partner In Dallas

    Dentons announced Monday that an attorney who spent years in-house in the healthcare industry has rejoined the firm as a partner in Dallas to enhance its efforts servicing clients in health insurance regulation and other healthcare matters.

  • December 02, 2024

    'Malicious' Intent Testimony Nixed From Blank Rome Suit

    A Pennsylvania federal judge on Monday prohibited certain expert witnesses from opining on the alleged "malicious" intent an aircraft parts maker, represented by Blank Rome LLP, had when suing a onetime defense attorney who defected to the plaintiffs bar.

  • December 02, 2024

    The Top In-House Hires Of November

    Legal department moves in the last month included high-profile announcements at CSX Corp., Cohen & Steers Inc. and Pershing Square Holdings Ltd., including two general counsel joining boards of directors. Here, Law360 Pulse looks at some of the top in-house appointments from November.

  • December 02, 2024

    Australia Passes Public Country-By-Country Reporting

    Multinational businesses with large operations in Australia are required to publicly disclose information about their operations in tax havens as designated by the government under a country-by-country reporting law that lawmakers adopted following a two-year saga over concerns about the data's confidentiality.

  • December 02, 2024

    Bankrupt Dental Co. To Repay Customers $4.8M, NY AG Says

    Dental telehealth company SmileDirectClub has agreed to pay $4.8 million in refunds to customers who were improperly charged after the company went bankrupt and shut down in 2023, according to a settlement announced Monday by New York Attorney General Letitia James.

  • December 02, 2024

    Ex-Parexel Worker Says Vax Rule Lacked 'Informed Consent'

    A former employee of clinical research firm Parexel International says the company's COVID-19 vaccine requirement was a breach of contract because she and other workers did not have the option of giving informed consent for what she calls an "experimental medical treatment," according to a lawsuit filed in Massachusetts state court.

  • December 02, 2024

    Shipping Industry Braces For Waves Of New Trump Tariffs

    After a holiday weekend marked by a fresh round of tariff threats from President-elect Donald Trump, the shipping and logistics industry is beginning to feel the heat, warning companies to prepare for massive upheaval if Trump follows through.

  • December 02, 2024

    Bochner Litigator Jumps To Gordon Rees In Bay Area

    Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP is deepening its California bench, bringing in a Bochner PLLC litigation and transactional attorney as a partner in its San Francisco Bay Area offices.

  • November 27, 2024

    Google Wants 9th Circ. To Undo Play Store Ruling In Epic Row

    Google has pressed the Ninth Circuit to reverse an injunction forcing it to allow third-party app distribution on its Play Store, arguing that the lower court's ruling will "directly undercut Google's efforts to compete against Apple and the iPhone."

  • November 27, 2024

    Starbucks, Baker Botts Partner Accused Of Defaming Inventor

    An executive for a patent-licensing company that's pursuing infringement litigation against numerous restaurants over a patent that lets customers place mobile orders using a real-time menu that can make personalized suggestions accused Starbucks and its Baker Botts LLP attorney in a lawsuit Wednesday of making defamatory statements about him.

  • November 27, 2024

    Prudential Website Visitors Get Class Cert. In Tracking Row

    A California federal judge has certified a class of life insurance quote seekers who are accusing Prudential Financial Inc. and its software vendor of illegally recording their keystrokes and information, finding that questions about website visitors' knowledge of this practice can be resolved on a classwide basis. 

  • November 27, 2024

    A Look Back At Years Of Zantac Litigation: Timeline

    After the U.S. Food and Drug Administration raised a red flag five years ago that heartburn drug Zantac and its generics contained levels of a chemical that could cause cancer, litigation kicked off in federal and state courts. Here, Law360 presents a timeline of the lawsuits, trials and settlements that ensued.

  • November 27, 2024

    Deloitte Posed As Consultant To Steal Vax Software, Suit Says

    An inventor has accused Deloitte Consulting LLP in New York federal court of stealing her proprietary vaccination management system and securing a multimillion-dollar government contract for rolling out COVID-19 vaccines, saying the firm colluded with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to pilfer the technology.

  • November 27, 2024

    Zurich Defeats Burlington's $750M COVID-19 Coverage Suit

    Zurich American has permanently defeated Burlington Stores' COVID-19 pandemic coverage suit after a New Jersey federal judge said the retailer's attempt to use "clever semantics to avoid dismissal" failed to demonstrate it suffered direct physical loss or damage to its property, or that virus particles physically altered objects or surfaces.

  • November 27, 2024

    Zoom Offers SEC $18M To Settle 2020 Privacy Probe

    Zoom Communications disclosed in a U.S. Securities Exchange and Commission filing that it has offered $18 million to settle an agency investigation into "various security, data protection and privacy matters," including the videoconferencing platform's encryption.

  • November 27, 2024

    Elon Musk Targets CFPB With Call To 'Delete' Agency

    Billionaire Elon Musk has called for abolishing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, writing on his social media platform X — formerly known as Twitter — that the government should "Delete CFPB" and "there are too many duplicative regulatory agencies."

  • November 27, 2024

    Citi Gets TRO On Banker Accused Of Poaching Atty Clients

    A California federal judge on Tuesday granted Citibank NA's request for a temporary restraining order against one of its former bankers who it alleges jumped to a rival with confidential information on law firm and attorney clients, but denied the request regarding a second banker as "too speculative."

  • November 27, 2024

    DOL Sued For OSHA Info In NJ Amazon Warehouse Deaths

    The U.S. Department of Labor has been hit with a lawsuit by a labor advocate seeking records related to investigations of three deaths at Amazon.com Inc.'s "notoriously hazardous warehouses" in New Jersey in 2022, saying the agency failed to comply with Freedom of Information Act deadlines.

Expert Analysis

  • Opinion

    Rental Price-Fixing Suit Against RealPage Doesn't Add Up

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    Recent government antitrust litigation against RealPage, alleging that the software company's algorithm for setting rental prices amounts to price-fixing, has failed to allege an actual conspiracy, and is an example of regulatory overreach that should be reined in, says Andrew Ketterer at Ketterer & Ketterer.

  • Opinion

    FDIC's Foray Into Index Fund Rules Risks Regulatory Chaos

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    A proposed Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. rule concerning control over passive index fund investments in banks is outside the agency's remit, clashes with an existing Federal Reserve process and would inhibit competition in the index fund sector, says J.W. Verret at George Mason University.

  • Use The Right Kind Of Feedback To Help Gen Z Attorneys

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    Generation Z associates bring unique perspectives and expectations to the workplace, so it’s imperative that supervising attorneys adapt their feedback approach in order to help young lawyers learn and grow — which is good for law firms, too, says Rachael Bosch at Fringe Professional Development.

  • Opinion

    Congress Can And Must Enact A Supreme Court Ethics Code

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    As public confidence in the U.S. Supreme Court dips to historic lows following reports raising conflict of interest concerns, Congress must exercise its constitutional power to enact a mandatory and enforceable code of ethics for the high court, says Muhammad Faridi, president of the New York City Bar Association.

  • What To Make Of Dueling Corporate Transparency Act Rulings

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    Although challenges to the Corporate Transparency Act abound — as highlighted by recent federal court decisions from Alabama and Oregon taking opposite positions on its constitutionality — the act is still law, so companies should comply with their filing requirements or face the potential consequences, say attorneys at Lowenstein Sandler.

  • Series

    The Pop Culture Docket: Justice Lebovits On Gilbert And Sullivan

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    Characters in the 19th century comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan break the rules of good lawyering by shamelessly throwing responsible critical thought to the wind, providing hilarious lessons for lawyers and judges on how to avoid a surfeit of traps and tribulations, say acting New York Supreme Court Justice Gerald Lebovits and law student Tara Scown.

  • California's AI Safety Bill Veto: The Path Forward

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    California Gov. Gavin Newsom's veto of a bill that sought to impose stringent regulations on advanced artificial intelligence model development has sparked a renewed debate on how best to balance innovation with safety in the rapidly evolving AI landscape, say Bobby Malhotra and Carson Swope at Winston & Strawn.

  • To Report Or Not To Report Others' Export Control Violations

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    A recent Bureau of Industry and Security enforcement policy change grants cooperation credit to those that report violations of the Export Administration Regulations committed by others, but the benefits of doing so must be weighed against significant drawbacks, including the costs of preparing and submitting a report, says Megan Lew at Cravath.

  • With Esmark Case, SEC Returns Focus To Tender Offer Rules

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    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's recent enforcement action against Esmark in connection with its failed bid to acquire U.S. Steel indicates the SEC's renewed attention under Rule 14e‑8 of the Exchange Act on offerors' financial resources as a measure of the veracity of their tender offer communications, say attorneys at MoFo.

  • What FDIC Expansion Of Change In Bank Control Could Mean

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    A recent Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. proposal pertaining to the Change in Bank Control Act has the potential to create uncertainty around investments by mutual fund complexes in banking organizations, which represent a stable source of capital for the banking industry, say attorneys at Sullivan & Cromwell.

  • HSR Amendments Intensify Merger Filing Burdens, Data Risk

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    The antitrust agencies' long-awaited changes to premerger notification rules under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act stand to significantly increase the time and cost involved in preparing an initial HSR notification, and will require more proactive attention to data issues, says Andrew Szwez at FTI Technology.

  • What's Inside Feds' Latest Bank Merger Review Proposals

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    Recent bank merger proposals from a trio of federal agencies highlight the need for banks looking to grow through acquisition to consider several key issues much earlier in the planning process than has historically been necessary, say attorneys at Simpson Thacher.

  • State Of The States' AI Legal Ethics Landscape

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    Over the past year, several state bar associations, as well as the American Bar Association, have released guidance on the ethical use of artificial intelligence in legal practice, all of which share overarching themes and some nuanced differences, say Eric Pacifici and Kevin Henderson at SMB Law Group.

  • Cos. Should Focus On State AI Laws Despite New DOL Site

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    Because a new U.S. Department of Labor-sponsored website about the disability discrimination risks of AI hiring tools mostly echoes old guidance, employers should focus on complying with the state and local AI workplace laws springing up where Congress and federal regulators have yet to act, say attorneys at Littler.

  • How Biden Admin Has Used Antitrust Tools, And What's Next

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    The last four years have been marked by an aggressive whole-of-government approach to antitrust enforcement using a broad range of tools, and may result in lasting change regardless of the upcoming presidential election result, say attorneys at Norton Rose.

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