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September 23, 2024
Kroger Fights FTC's Bid To Move Constitutionality Case
Kroger is fighting to keep its challenge to the Federal Trade Commission's in-house courts in Ohio federal court, pushing back against the agency's effort to get it paused or moved to Oregon, where the FTC's case against the company's merger with Albertson's is already playing out.
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September 23, 2024
Class Gets Cert In Suit Over Dave's Killer Bread Protein Claims
A California federal judge on Friday granted class certification to a group of consumers alleging that Dave's Killer Bread and Flowers Foods violated U.S. Food and Drug Administration labeling regulations by leaving out required protein content information, finding that the consumers had standing.
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September 23, 2024
DOL Says It Can Set Higher Wages For H-2A Workers
The U.S. Department of Labor told a Florida federal court that its final rule increasing foreign agricultural workers' salaries ensures that H-2A visa holders don't adversely affect the wages of other workers, rejecting farm groups' arguments that the department lacked the authority to do so.
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September 23, 2024
Chicago's DoorDash Fee Claims Get Two-Year Limit
An Illinois federal judge on Friday pared down a lawsuit brought by the city of Chicago accusing DoorDash of using various deceptive practices to fool customers into paying higher prices, holding that claims under the city's municipal code that accrued more than two years before the city filed suit are time-barred.
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September 23, 2024
Insurer Can't Escape Toddler Injury Suit Over Dollar Tree Mints
A Missouri federal judge tossed an insurer's bid to escape coverage of underlying litigation alleging a toddler suffered severe esophageal injuries after swallowing freshening drops sold by Dollar Tree, writing that the carrier's "broad interpretation" of its total pollution exclusion "yields an absurd result."
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September 23, 2024
Trade Commission Spares Chinese Wine Bottles From Duties
The U.S. International Trade Commission found that Chinese glass wine bottles that are subsidized by Beijing are not harming U.S. producers, sparing the imports from steep countervailing duties from the U.S. Department of Commerce.
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September 20, 2024
JBS Unit Owns Abandoned 'Pollo Picú' TM, 1st Circ. Says
JBS USA unit To-Ricos Ltd. has the right to use the "Pollo Picú" trademark in its sale of poultry products, the First Circuit ruled Thursday, finding that the poultry company established that the mark had been abandoned by the previous trademark owner.
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September 20, 2024
Wash. Strikes Deal With Wild Fish Groups To End ESA Row
Two conservation groups have struck an agreement with Washington state to drop a claim that some of its hatchery programs are unlawfully imperiling protected wild salmon on the Lower Columbia River, though the groups will continue to pursue similar claims against Oregon and the National Marine Fisheries Service.
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September 20, 2024
Domino's Execs Concealed Store Closure Woes, Investor Says
Domino's is facing a proposed class action filed Friday in Michigan federal court by an investor who says the pizza chain overhyped plans to launch more than 1,100 stores across the globe over a four-year period while concealing that a major franchisee faced significant hurdles with store openings and closures.
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September 20, 2024
Family Dollar Must Face Arkansas AG's Rodent Infestation Suit
Family Dollar can't escape a lawsuit by the Arkansas attorney general seeking damages for knowingly selling products potentially contaminated by rodents, both dead and alive, at a warehouse in West Memphis, a state judge has ruled.
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September 20, 2024
Delta Air Lines Hit With Passenger Suit Over Hot Coffee Burns
A Delta Air Lines Inc. passenger, who suffered second-degree burns due to a cup of "excessively hot" coffee spilled onto her lap by an allegedly negligent flight attendant, filed suit against the airline, claiming the flight crew downplayed the severity of her injuries.
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September 20, 2024
NC Governor Defends Bar Closures During COVID
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper urged the state's highest court to overturn a decision finding he violated the constitutional right to make a living and the equal protection of bar owners with his COVID shutdown order, arguing the decision was reasonable given how the virus was spreading.
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September 20, 2024
H-2A Wage Rule Blocked In La. For Sugarcane Farms
A Louisiana federal judge said Thursday the U.S. Department of Labor likely didn't have the authority to raise wages for H-2A farmworkers, temporarily blocking the rule from applying to sugarcane farms in Louisiana.
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September 20, 2024
Employment Authority: DOL's Strategies After Chevron Ruling
Law360 Employment Authority covers the biggest employment cases and trends. Catch up this week with coverage on how effective the U.S. Department of Labor's tactics have been after the U.S. Supreme Court nixed the Chevron doctrine, the Federal Trade Commission's challenge to a proposed merger between Kroger and Albertsons highlights the overlap between labor law and antitrust enforcement and a look at the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's enforcement efforts on the nation's newest civil rights laws.
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September 20, 2024
5th Circ. Reverses Insurer's Early Win In Silo Damage Dispute
The Fifth Circuit reversed an insurer's early win in a coverage dispute with an agricultural cooperative over damage to two grain silos, instead finding that questions remained about whether wind and weather damage because of faulty construction qualified as property damage under the policy.
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September 20, 2024
Entrepreneur Says Partners Stiffed Him On Testing Site Deal
A Pittsburgh entrepreneur says he had a deal with three Omaha, Nebraska-based businessmen to help them open COVID-19 testing labs in Ohio and Pennsylvania in the early days of the pandemic, but is still owed $2 million, according to a lawsuit filed Friday in Pennsylvania state court.
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September 20, 2024
Panera Can't Delay Trial Over Shook Hardy Attys' Schedule
A Pennsylvania federal judge denied Panera Bread's repeated requests to delay a wrongful death trial, finding the restaurant chain will not be prejudiced if its desired Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP counsel cannot attend, as "plenty" of Shook Hardy lawyers can stand in, the judge said.
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September 19, 2024
Safeway Touts Bogus Wine Discounts For Members, Suit Says
Safeway faces a proposed false advertising class action filed Wednesday in California federal court alleging it advertises bogus, limited-time offers of discounted prices on wine sold at its stores for its rewards program members, which misleads customers into thinking they're scoring a bargain.
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September 19, 2024
Wash. Justices Strike Down County's Rural Winery Regs
The Washington State Supreme Court has struck down an Evergreen State county's regulations for wineries and tasting rooms on rural land near Seattle, saying Thursday the local government violated long-term planning and land use law by downplaying potential environmental consequences of the rules before passing them.
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September 19, 2024
Food Safety Org Says EPA Stalling On Sharing Pesticide Info
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is illegally failing to provide important records about how it assesses pesticides' ecological impact and human health risks, the Center for Food Safety said in a new lawsuit.
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September 19, 2024
Hormel Foods Can't Beat Retirement Fund Management Suit
Hormel Foods Corp. can't avoid a proposed class action claiming it failed to remove high-cost investment options with poor return rates from its $1.2 billion retirement plans, with a Minnesota federal judge ruling the worker leading the suit identified suitably comparable funds that performed better.
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September 19, 2024
Tyson Foods Hit With Greenwashing Suit For 'Net-Zero' Claim
Tyson Foods Inc. has been slapped with a complaint by the Environmental Working Group in D.C. Superior Court, accusing the country's second-largest meat company of falsely claiming it will be net-zero by 2050 and misrepresenting its industrial beef products as "climate-smart."
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September 19, 2024
Tupperware Gears Up For Lender Fight Over Ch. 11 Plans
Iconic food storage brand Tupperware received a Delaware bankruptcy judge's approval Thursday to keep its bank account systems operating as it prepares to fight off objections to most of its first-day motions next week from a group of secured lenders looking to dismiss its Chapter 11 bankruptcy and foreclose on its assets.
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September 19, 2024
Feds Defend At-Sea Monitoring Rule Despite Chevron Demise
The federal government is defending its power to require fishermen to partially fund the cost of compliance monitors aboard their ships, arguing to the D.C. Circuit that the demise of the so-called Chevron deference doesn't change the fact that federal law authorizes the at-sea monitoring rules.
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September 19, 2024
Nantucket Festival Owner Says Rival Exploiting Discovery
The longtime operator of a wine and food festival on Nantucket says a competitor who started a similarly named event is now trying to take advantage of a court order by making "improperly broad and harassing discovery requests" to further undermine her business.
Expert Analysis
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Fed. Circ. Ruling Creates New Rule For Certification Marks
The Federal Circuit's decision last month in Bureau National Interprofessionnel du Cognac v. Cologne & Cognac Entertainment is significant in that it establishes a new standard for assessing evidence of third-party uses of a certification mark in deciding whether the mark is famous, say Samantha Katze and Lisa Rosaya at Manatt.
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Series
After Chevron: Conservation Rule Already Faces Challenges
The Bureau of Land Management's interpretation of land "use" in its Conservation and Landscape Health Rule is contrary to the agency's past practice and other Federal Land Policy and Management Act provisions, leaving the rule exposed in four legal challenges that may carry greater force in the wake of Loper Bright, say Stacey Bosshardt and Stephanie Regenold at Perkins Coie.
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A Preview Of AI Priorities Under The Next President
For the first time in a presidential election, both of the leading candidates and their parties have been vocal about artificial intelligence policy, offering clues on the future of regulation as AI continues to advance and congressional action continues to stall, say attorneys at Mintz.
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How Companies Are Approaching Insider Trading Policies
An analysis of insider trading policies recently disclosed by 49 S&P 500 companies under a new U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission rule reveals that while specific provisions vary from company to company, certain common themes are emerging, say attorneys at Gibson Dunn.
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How Methods Are Evolving In Textualist Interpretations
Textualists at the U.S. Supreme Court are increasingly considering new methods such as corpus linguistics and surveys to evaluate what a statute's text communicates to an ordinary reader, while lower courts even mull large language models like ChatGPT as supplements, says Kevin Tobia at Georgetown Law.
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The Fed. Circ. In August: Secret Sales And Public Disclosures
Two recent Federal Circuit rulings — Sanho v. Kaijet and Celanese International v. ITC — highlight that inventors should publicly and promptly disclose their inventions, as a secret sale will not suffice as a disclosure, and file their patent applications within a year of public disclosure, say Sean Murray and Jeremiah Helm at Knobbe Martens.
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Employer Arbitration Lessons From Calif. Consumer Ruling
Although a California state appeals court’s recent arbitration ruling in Mahram v. Kroger involved a consumer transaction, the finding that the arbitration agreement at issue did not apply to a third-party beneficiary could influence how employment arbitration agreements are interpreted, says Sander van der Heide at CDF Labor Law.
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Why Attorneys Should Consider Community Leadership Roles
Volunteering and nonprofit board service are complementary to, but distinct from, traditional pro bono work, and taking on these community leadership roles can produce dividends for lawyers, their firms and the nonprofit causes they support, says Katie Beacham at Kilpatrick.
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Firms Must Offer A Trifecta Of Services In Post-Chevron World
After the U.S. Supreme Court’s Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo decision overturning Chevron deference, law firms will need to integrate litigation, lobbying and communications functions to keep up with the ramifications of the ruling and provide adequate counsel quickly, says Neil Hare at Dentons.
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5 Tips To Succeed In A Master Of Laws Program And Beyond
As lawyers and recent law school graduates begin their Master of Laws coursework across the country, they should keep a few pointers in mind to get the most out of their programs and kick-start successful careers in their practice areas, says Kelley Miller at Reed Smith.
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Series
Being An Opera Singer Made Me A Better Lawyer
My journey from the stage to the courtroom has shown that the skills I honed as an opera singer – punctuality, memorization, creativity and more – have all played a vital role in my success as an attorney, says Gerard D'Emilio at GableGotwals.
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How Law Firms Can Avoid 'Collaboration Drag'
Law firm decision making can be stifled by “collaboration drag” — characterized by too many pointless meetings, too much peer feedback and too little dissent — but a few strategies can help stakeholders improve decision-making processes and build consensus, says Steve Groom at Miles Mediation.
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What BIPA Reform Law Means For Biometrics Litigation
A recently signed Illinois law amending the Biometric Information Privacy Act limits defendants' liability exposure on a per-scan basis and clarifies that electronic signatures constitute a valid written release, establishing additional issues that courts will need to address in future BIPA litigation, say attorneys at Faegre Drinker.
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Fed. Circ. Resolves Post-AIA Question On Prefiling Activity
For more than a decade, patent attorneys have worried about what the America Invents Act means for specific prefiling activities, but two recent Federal Circuit decisions suggest the enumerated prefiling activities in Section 102(a)(1) will not affect validity if done within a year of filing the application, says Howard Skaist at Berkeley Law.
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Opinion
Litigation Funding Disclosure Key To Open, Impartial Process
Blanket investor and funding agreement disclosures should be required in all civil cases where the investor has a financial interest in the outcome in order to address issues ranging from potential conflicts of interest to national security concerns, says Bob Goodlatte, former U.S. House Representative for Virginia.