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  • April 09, 2025

    9th Circ. Won't Restore Competing TM Claims In Vitamin Row

    The Ninth Circuit on Wednesday refused to revive competing trademark infringement claims between a pair of vitamin and supplement companies, backing a lower court's finding that neither party was able to prove their case.

  • April 09, 2025

    Country's Largest Egg Producer Discloses DOJ Price Probe

    Cal-Maine Foods Inc., which bills itself as the country's largest producer and distributor of fresh shell eggs, on Tuesday became the first company to disclose being targeted by a U.S. Department of Justice civil probe into spiking egg prices.

  • April 09, 2025

    FDA Slow To Act On Hemp And Vapes, Congress Hears

    Federal health officials' inaction on flavored vapes and hemp-derived consumables has led to a proliferation of loosely regulated products, members of a U.S. House of Representatives committee heard on Wednesday.

  • April 09, 2025

    Ga. Beverage Co. Worker Says Pregnancy Got Her Fired

    A former operations manager for a Georgia commercial beverage service company sued the company for pregnancy discrimination Tuesday, making good on an alleged invitation by her boss to "file a claim" if she had a problem with her abrupt firing last year.

  • April 09, 2025

    Ex-Mars Executive Faces Forfeiture Bid In $28M Fraud Case

    The U.S. Department of Justice wants the former global price risk manager of a subsidiary of candy maker Mars Inc. to forfeit a Connecticut home plus accounts at three financial firms to help offset $28 million in alleged fraud proceeds.

  • April 08, 2025

    Bigelow Tea Buyer Class Wins $2.36M In Trial Over 'USA' Label

    A California federal jury found Tuesday that R.C. Bigelow committed fraud and violated the state's Consumer Legal Remedies Act by placing a label on some tea products touting it as "Manufactured in the USA 100%," awarding a class of聽Golden State tea buyers聽$2.36 million in damages.

  • April 08, 2025

    Starbucks Tears Into Missouri AG's 'Defective' DEI 麻豆传媒suit

    Starbucks urged a Missouri federal judge to toss a suit from the state's attorney general claiming the company employs diversity quotas that discriminate against white and male applicants, arguing the state hasn't presented any evidence that its diversity, equity and inclusion policies have negatively affected Missourians.

  • April 08, 2025

    Pepsi, Frito-Lay Fight Pricing Claims From Stores

    Pepsi and Frito-Lay have asked to toss a case accusing them of illegally charging Walmart, Target and other chain stores less for chips than smaller retailers, saying the stores bringing the case fail to make a direct comparison of sales to the different outlets.

  • April 08, 2025

    Wash. Co. Liable For Hack Involving 19K Workers, Suit Says

    A Washington-based seafood producer has been hit with a proposed class action in federal court over a data breach that allegedly exposed the private information of more than 19,000 employees to hackers.

  • April 08, 2025

    McCarter & English Fights DQ Bid In NJ Food Biz Quarrel

    McCarter & English LLP pushed back on a disqualification bid from a New Jersey food industry executive in federal court this week, arguing that the plaintiff is attempting to "fabricate" a previous attorney-client relationship to demand disqualification.

  • April 08, 2025

    Farmworkers Fight To Keep Wages Collective Suit Standing

    A North Carolina federal judge should reject three farms' attempts聽to detangle a collective and snag an early win in a suit accusing them of failing to reimburse farmworkers for travel and visa expenses, the workers said, standing by claims they said are timely and well-supported.

  • April 07, 2025

    Split 5th Circ. Undoes Injunction On Texas Strip Club Fee 麻豆传媒

    The Fifth Circuit on Monday reversed an injunction barring the Texas comptroller from enforcing a state law imposing fees on strip clubs that allow on-site alcohol consumption, saying in a split unpublished opinion that a Houston club challenging the law was bound by a 2011 decision that upheld the law.

  • April 07, 2025

    Bigelow Emails Spill The Tea About 'USA' Label Lies, Jury Told

    An attorney for a class of tea consumers suing R.C. Bigelow over a "Manufactured in the USA 100%" label that has already been found to be false told a California federal jury during closing arguments Monday that internal emails show that executives were either reckless or intentionally misled the public.

  • April 07, 2025

    Snyder's-Lance Looks To Ax Proposed Class Wage Claims

    The company that makes Snyder's pretzels asked a North Carolina federal judge Monday to deny a Pennsylvania employee's bid to represent a class of workers from 12 states in a wage lawsuit, arguing she can't sue under the laws of the 11 states she doesn't live or work in.

  • April 07, 2025

    Bakery Oil Trial Begins With Split Over Formulas' Secrecy

    Pittsburgh commercial bakery supplier Mallet & Co. told a federal jury Monday that a partner-turned-rival enticed former employees to help it start a competing business, Synova, in the field of release agents, or the oils and lubricants that keep baked goods from sticking to their pans.

  • April 07, 2025

    Agriculture Insurer Says Agent Error Cost It Fed. Reinsurance

    A Texas insurance company has taken aim at its insurance agent, claiming that clerical errors cost the company over $1 million after applications for reinsurance were belatedly submitted to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Federal Crop Insurance Corp. amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • April 07, 2025

    Agri Stats Pushes Back Against DOJ Doc Bid In Antitrust Case

    Agri Stats Inc. has told a Minnesota federal court that a U.S. Department of Justice motion seeking documents is just an effort to delay the government's case accusing the data firm of helping chicken, pork and turkey producers share competitively sensitive information.

  • April 07, 2025

    Ore. Distillery Hits Ch. 11 After Demand Drop, Supply Glut

    Oregon whiskey distillery House Spirits Distillery LLC has filed a streamlined Chapter 11 for businesses with small debt loads in Delaware, saying a post-COVID drop in alcohol demand mixed with a glut of inventory had hampered its financial health.

  • April 07, 2025

    Starbucks Asks To Dump Investors' 'Triple Shot' Strategy Suit

    Starbucks has urged a Seattle federal judge to toss a consolidated proposed class action alleging that the coffee chain made overly positive projections for its "Triple Shot Reinvention" strategy that hurt investors when the financial results didn't bear out the company's optimism, saying the plaintiffs haven't shown that Starbucks made any false statements.

  • April 07, 2025

    Kroger Says State AGs' Strategy Dooms Merger Row Fees Bid

    Kroger and Albertsons have urged an Oregon federal judge not to grant legal fees to the attorneys general who challenged their now-nixed $24.6 billion merger alongside the Federal Trade Commission, arguing U.S. Supreme Court precedent clearly requires more than a temporary court block to win costs.

  • April 07, 2025

    Monthly Merger Review Snapshot

    The Federal Trade Commission sued to block GTCR BC's planned purchase of a medical device coatings company, the Justice Department's antitrust case against Live Nation survived a dismissal bid and a New York state court found a ski mountain deal hurt competition. Here, 麻豆传媒360 looks at the major merger review developments from March.

  • April 07, 2025

    Grocers Say Colo. AG Can't Fish For More 'No-Poach' Claims

    Kroger and Albertsons have accused Colorado's attorney general of going on a "fishing expedition" as they wait for a ruling on a claim that the grocers brokered an illegal "no-poach" agreement during a 2022 grocery store strike, in a motion asking a Colorado state court to quash document requests into a February strike.

  • April 07, 2025

    Ex-AG Lynch Exits $10B McDonald's Bias Case Ahead Of Trial

    Paul Weiss partner and former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch is stepping away from McDonald's defense in Byron Allen's $10 billion bias lawsuit against the fast food giant, just months before the case is slated to go to trial.

  • April 07, 2025

    Fla. Judge Halts State's New Criminal Penalties For Migrants

    A Florida federal court has temporarily barred the Sunshine State from enforcing its new law criminalizing the entry of unauthorized migrants into the state, saying the law is likely preempted by the federal Immigration and Nationality Act.

  • April 07, 2025

    Goldberg Segalla Adds Hospitality, Retail Atty In Palm Beach

    Litigation firm Goldberg Segalla LLP said it has added retail and hospitality attorney Jason R. Hepperly to its office in West Palm Beach, Florida.

Expert Analysis

  • 3 Patent Considerations For America's New Quantum Hub

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    Recent developments signal an incredibly bright future for Chicago as the new home of quantum computing, and it is crucial that these innovators 鈥 whose technology has the potential to transform many industries 鈥 prioritize intellectual property strategy, says Andrew Velzen at聽McDonnell Boehnen.

  • Navigating A Potpourri Of Possible Transparency Act Pitfalls

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    Despite the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network's continued release of guidance for complying with the Corporate Transparency Act, its interpretation remains in flux, making it important for companies to understand potentially problematic areas of ambiguity in the practical application of the law, say attorneys at Sidley.

  • Fed. Circ. Ruling Creates New Rule For Certification Marks

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    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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    After Chevron: Conservation Rule Already Faces Challenges

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    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.

  • A Preview Of AI Priorities Under The Next President

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    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.

  • How Companies Are Approaching Insider Trading Policies

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    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.

  • How Methods Are Evolving In Textualist Interpretations

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    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 麻豆传媒.

  • The Fed. Circ. In August: Secret Sales And Public Disclosures

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    Two recent Federal Circuit rulings 鈥 Sanho v. Kaijet and Celanese International v. ITC 鈥 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.

  • Employer Arbitration Lessons From Calif. Consumer Ruling

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    Although a California state appeals court鈥檚 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 麻豆传媒.

  • Why Attorneys Should Consider Community Leadership Roles

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    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.

  • Firms Must Offer A Trifecta Of Services In Post-Chevron World

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    After the U.S. Supreme Court鈥檚 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.

  • 5 Tips To Succeed In A Master Of 麻豆传媒s Program And Beyond

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    As lawyers and recent law school graduates begin their Master of 麻豆传媒s 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.

  • Series

    Being An Opera Singer Made Me A Better 麻豆传媒yer

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    My journey from the stage to the courtroom has shown that the skills I honed as an opera singer 鈥 punctuality, memorization, creativity and more 鈥 have all played a vital role in my success as an attorney, says Gerard D'Emilio at GableGotwals.

  • How 麻豆传媒 Firms Can Avoid 'Collaboration Drag'

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    麻豆传媒 firm decision making can be stifled by 鈥渃ollaboration drag鈥 鈥 characterized by too many pointless meetings, too much peer feedback and too little dissent 鈥 but a few strategies can help stakeholders improve decision-making processes and build consensus, says Steve Groom at Miles Mediation.

  • What BIPA Reform 麻豆传媒 Means For Biometrics Litigation

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    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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