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  • April 11, 2025

    Live Nation, Ticketmaster Can't Nix Consumer Antitrust Suit

    A California federal judge Friday denied a bid from Live Nation and Ticketmaster to toss an antitrust case from consumers alleging monopolization of the concert ticketing market, following a tentative ruling issued earlier this week while finding a recent antitrust win for Amazon doesn't translate to the case before him.

  • April 11, 2025

    Attorney Owners Of Pot Co. Accused Of $46M RICO Scheme

    A Florida-based real estate lender is suing two attorneys with civil rights law firm Loevy & Loevy in New York federal court, alleging they engaged in racketeering in connection with more than $46 million in loans intended to fund cannabis facilities they own in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

  • April 11, 2025

    Crypto Firm To Pay SEC Fine Over False Client Claims

    Cryptocurrency firm Nova Labs Inc. has agreed to pay $200,000 to settle a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit claiming it falsely touted client relationships with Nestle and other large businesses in an effort to sell crypto mining devices tied to the so-called Helium network.

  • April 11, 2025

    2nd Circ. Tosses Mid-Case Appeal In Asbestos Coverage Row

    A Second Circuit panel dismissed on Friday a mid-case appeal in a dispute over coverage for hundreds of asbestos-related lawsuits, saying that resolving certified questions, including whether an insurer must defend a suit that doesn't name its policyholder, won't substantially advance the litigation.

  • April 11, 2025

    Family Should Face Charges In $81M Tax Scheme, US Says

    The U.S. government urged a New York federal court not to trim its complaint against the former shareholders of a family holding company accused of participating in an $81 million tax scheme, saying the family illegally avoided paying capital gains on its sale of the company.

  • April 11, 2025

    SEC, Ripple Put 2nd Circ. Case On Ice To Confirm Resolution

    Blockchain firm Ripple Labs and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission told the Second Circuit to put their respective appeals on ice as they seek commission approval for an agreement to end the landmark enforcement action.

  • April 11, 2025

    Miami Art Dealer Arrested, Accused Of Selling Fake Warhols

    A Miami art dealer was charged in Florida federal court for allegedly selling fake Andy Warhol artwork to his gallery clients, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida announced Thursday.

  • April 11, 2025

    Did DOJ Bless A Crypto Free-For-All? Think Again, Attys Say

    The Justice Department's move to scale back cryptocurrency enforcement and dissolve its crypto fraud investigations unit isn't exactly a "get-out-of-jail-free card" for industry players who commit crimes using digital assets, experts say.

  • April 11, 2025

    Off The Bench: A Wait On NIL Settlement, Done Deal In Soccer

    In this week's Off The Bench, the big NCAA name, image and likeness settlement still needs more work, a long-awaited settlement between U.S. Soccer and a prominent sports promotion company is completed, and a resolution of the conflict between Northwestern University and its football players is a step closer.

  • April 11, 2025

    Nursing Home Owner Gets 3 Years For $39M Tax Fraud

    A New Jersey federal judge sentenced a nursing home operator to three years in prison for a $39 million employment tax fraud scheme involving care centers he owned across the country, a term three times as long as what prosecutors had requested.

  • April 11, 2025

    Ex-Abercrombie CEO Declared Unfit For Trial Due To Dementia

    New York federal prosecutors and lawyers for former Abercrombie & Fitch Co. CEO Michael Jeffries have determined he is suffering from dementia and is currently unfit to stand trial on sex trafficking charges, according to a court filing.

  • April 11, 2025

    Weber Gallagher Opens In Long Island With 7 Pillinger Attys

    Weber Gallagher Simpson Stapleton Fires & Newby LLP has opened an office in Long Island, New York, with seven attorneys and three other legal professionals from Pillinger Miller Tarallo LLP.

  • April 11, 2025

    Rakoff Quips 'I Love Trials' Before Palin-NYT Libel Rematch

    Manhattan U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff took up legal questions Friday ahead of a retrial for former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin in her suit accusing The New York Times of maliciously defaming her, cheerfully noting that an earlier verdict was erased.

  • April 11, 2025

    Taxation With Representation: Norton Rose, Ropes & Gray

    In this week's Taxation With Representation, Capri Holdings sells Versace to Prada, Woodside Energy sells a liquefied natural gas terminal stake to Stonepeak, crypto infrastructure firm Ripple acquires prime brokerage platform Hidden Road, and Bain Capital takes a stake in Lincoln Financial.

  • April 10, 2025

    2nd Circ. Says Investor Can't Join $250M Sri Lanka Bond Suit

    The Second Circuit on Thursday held that a U.S.-based investor can't intervene in a lawsuit between the Sri Lankan government and Hamilton Reserve Bank over more than $250 million in foreign bonds, finding that the investor failed to show how his property interest in the bonds overlapped with the bank's claims.

  • April 10, 2025

    Bakery Sellers Seek $2M Award From Buyer After Deal Sours

    Three companies have hit a bakery investment firm with a lawsuit over its sale of a string of Koffee Kup bakeries in Northeastern states, saying in a Connecticut federal court brief that they are due $2 million under an arbitration award.

  • April 10, 2025

    NY AG Calls For 'Common-Sense' Rules In Crypto Legislation

    New York Attorney General Letitia James sent a letter to leaders of both chambers of Congress on Thursday urging them to ensure that any crypto legislation includes strong guardrails to protect consumers, national security and market stability.

  • April 10, 2025

    Live Nation Cites Amazon's Win In Urging Nix Of Antitrust Suit

    An attorney for Live Nation Entertainment and Ticketmaster urged a California federal judge Thursday to rethink his tentative opinion to keep alive an antitrust case alleging monopolization of the concert ticketing market, saying the judge did not consider a recent Ninth Circuit decision in favor of Amazon that "maps 100%" to the case.

  • April 10, 2025

    Ex-Trump Attys Seek To Block Jan. 6 Info In Mich. Ethics Case

    Attorneys accused of violating ethics rules amid their involvement in a legal challenge to Michigan's 2020 presidential election results and supporting President Donald Trump's election fraud theories have urged the Michigan Attorney Discipline Board's hearing panel not to accept evidence or witnesses regarding the events of Jan. 6, 2021, arguing they are "completely irrelevant."

  • April 10, 2025

    Ready Capital Brass Face Suit Over Real Estate Loan Losses

    Executives and directors of real estate finance company Ready Capital Corp. were hit with a shareholder derivative suit alleging they failed to disclose that the company's nonperforming commercial real estate loans were damaging its bottom line and would force it to take "aggressive action" to preserve its finances.

  • April 10, 2025

    Fox Can't Depose LinkedIn Founder In $2.7B Smartmatic Case

    A New York state judge Thursday denied Fox News' request to depose LinkedIn founder and Democratic donor Reid Hoffman about his investment in Smartmatic, but allowed limited questioning of his adviser as part of the voting company's $2.7 billion defamation case stemming from false claims that it helped rig the 2020 election.

  • April 10, 2025

    Dechert Tax Pro Jumps To Whiteford In NY

    Whiteford Taylor & Preston LLC has added an experienced transactional tax attorney from Dechert LLP as a partner to its practice in New York, the firm announced.

  • April 10, 2025

    No Plan To Trim Do Kwon Case After Crypto Memo, Feds Say

    A U.S. Department of Justice memo outlining the Trump administration's cryptocurrency policy and enforcement priorities has not prompted prosecutors to alter their $40 billion criminal fraud case against Terraform founder Do Kwon, a government lawyer told a Manhattan federal judge Thursday.

  • April 10, 2025

    NY Fines Block $40M For Cash App Compliance Failures

    Jack Dorsey's financial technology firm Block Inc. said Thursday that it will pay a $40 million penalty to New York regulators over allegedly lax anti-money laundering procedures on its payments platform Cash App following a multistate settlement in January over similar alleged violations.

  • April 10, 2025

    Yahoo Privacy Feature Actually Invades Privacy, User Says

    Yahoo secretly collects users' data for targeted advertising purposes, according to a proposed class action that alleges the company has been tracking user activity across websites and apps without their consent.

Expert Analysis

  • Perspectives

    Accountant-Owned Law Firms Could Blur Ethical Lines

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    KPMG’s recent application to open a legal practice in Arizona represents the first overture by an accounting firm to take advantage of the state’s relaxed law firm ownership rules, but enforcing and supervising the practice of law by nonattorneys could prove particularly challenging, says Seth Laver at Goldberg Segalla.

  • Ch. 11 Ruling Confirms Insurer Standing Requirements

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    A New York bankruptcy court's recent decision in the Syracuse Diocese's Chapter 11 case indicates that insurers have misread the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2024 ruling in Truck Insurance Exchange v. Kaiser Gypsum and that federal standing requirements remain unaltered, say attorneys at Lowenstein Sandler.

  • Poetic Justice? Drake's 'Not Like Us' Suit May Alter Music Biz

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    Drake v. Universal Music Group, over Kendrick Lamar's diss track "Not Like Us," represents a pivotal moment in the intersection of music, law and corporate accountability, raising questions about the role of record labels in shaping artist rivalries and the limits of free speech, says Enrico Trevisani at Michelman & Robinson.

  • The Post-Macquarie Securities Fraud-By-Omission Landscape

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    While the U.S. Supreme Court's 2024 opinion in Macquarie v. Moab distinguished inactionable "pure omissions" from actionable "half-truths," the line between the two concepts in practice is still unclear, presenting challenges for lower courts parsing statements that often fall within the gray area of "misleading by omission," say attorneys at Katten.

  • AI Will Soon Transform The E-Discovery Industrial Complex

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    Todd Itami at Covington discusses how generative artificial intelligence will reshape the current e-discovery paradigm, replacing the blunt instrument of data handling with a laser scalpel of fully integrated enterprise solutions — after first making e-discovery processes technically and legally harder.

  • Managing Transatlantic Antitrust Investigations And Litigation

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    As transatlantic competition regulators cooperate more closely and European antitrust investigations increasingly spark follow-up civil suits in the U.S., companies must understand how to simultaneously juggle high-stakes multigovernment investigations and manage the risks of expensive new claims across jurisdictions, say lawyers at Paul Weiss.

  • When Innovation Overwhelms The Rule Of Law

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    In an era where technology is rapidly evolving and artificial intelligence is seemingly everywhere, it’s worth asking if the law — both substantive precedent and procedural rules — can keep up with the light speed of innovation, says Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner.

  • Engaging With Feds On Threats To Executives, Employees

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    In an increasingly polarized environment, where companies face serious concerns about how to protect executives and employees, counsel should consider working with federal law enforcement soon after the discovery of threats or harassment, says Jordan Estes at Gibson Dunn.

  • Imagine The Possibilities Of Openly Autistic Lawyering

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    Andi Mazingo at Lumen Law, who was diagnosed with autism about midway through her career, discusses how the legal profession can create inclusive workplaces that empower openly autistic lawyers and enhance innovation, and how neurodivergent attorneys can navigate the challenges and opportunities that come with disclosing one’s diagnosis.

  • Why Trump's FTC May Not U-Turn On Robinson-Patman

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    The Federal Trade Commission's recent revival of Robinson-Patman Act enforcement may well be here to stay under the Trump administration — albeit with some important caveats for businesses caught in the government's crosshairs, say attorneys at Reed Smith.

  • 4 Keys To Litigating In An Active Regulatory Environment

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    For companies facing litigation influenced by government regulatory action — a recent trend that a politically charged atmosphere will exacerbate — there are a few principles that can help to align litigation strategy with broader public positioning in the regulatory and oversight context, say attorneys at Jenner & Block.

  • Series

    Documentary Filmmaking Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Becoming a documentary filmmaker has allowed me to merge my legal expertise with my passion for storytelling, and has helped me to hone negotiation, critical thinking and problem-solving skills that are important to both endeavors, says Robert Darwell at Sheppard Mullin.

  • Litigation Funding Disclosure Debate: Strategy Considerations

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    In the ongoing debate over whether courts should require disclosure of litigation funding, funders and plaintiffs tend to argue against such mandates, but voluntarily disclosing limited details about a funding arrangement can actually confer certain benefits to plaintiffs in some scenarios, say Andrew Stulce and Marc Cavan at Longford Capital.

  • Gas Contract Fight Holds Lessons On Force Majeure Clauses

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    Ongoing litigation over gas deliveries during Winter Storm Uri underscores the need for precision and foresight when negotiating force majeure clauses in contracts — particularly in the energy sector, where climate-related disruptions and market volatility are inevitable, but often unpredictable, say attorneys at Spencer Fane.

  • Justices Likely To Stay In ERISA's Bounds On Pleadings

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    The arguments in Cunningham v. Cornell showed the U.S. Supreme Court's willingness to resolve a circuit split regarding Employee Retirement Income Security Act pleading standards by staying within ERISA's confines, while instructing courts regarding what must be pled to survive a motion to dismiss, says Ryan Curtis at Fennemore Craig.

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