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The privacy expert probing 23andMe's proposed sale of customers' genetic data in bankruptcy told a Missouri federal judge Wednesday that he couldn't determine the deal wouldn't violate state privacy laws and recommended the company be required to obtain consent from its customers before handing over the data.
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23andMe Ombudsman Not Confident Sale Is Âé¶¹´«Ã½ful

By Ben Zigterman

The privacy expert probing 23andMe's proposed sale of customers' genetic data in bankruptcy told a Missouri federal judge Wednesday that he couldn't determine the deal wouldn't violate state privacy laws and recommended the company be required to obtain consent from its customers before handing over the data.

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Reed Smith Pushes For 2nd Circ. Stay In $102M Award Fight

By Emily Sawicki

Still seeking to represent prebankruptcy owners of international shipping company Eletson Holdings Inc., Reed Smith LLP has asked the Second Circuit to stay a bankruptcy proceeding and a district court action, arguing the reorganized Eletson, now allegedly under common control with a former adversary, has launched a "calculated effort" to seize the company's privileged client information.

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Fla.-Based Med Spa Chain Files For Ch. 11 After Expansion

By Vince Sullivan

Contour Spa LLC, a Florida-based chain of fat-burning med spas, filed for Chapter 11 protection after a rapid expansion and a sprawling and decentralized operational system led to financial challenges that ate into revenues.

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Philly Suburb Retirees Sue Ch. 9 Receiver Over Asset Sale

By Yun Park

A committee of retired city employees sued the Chapter 9 receiver overseeing the city of Chester, Pennsylvania's municipal bankruptcy, arguing that by requiring water system assets be sold to a publicly owned entity, the receiver is forgoing private bids that could generate an extra $270 million for the city's creditors. 

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CHAPTER 11

Ch. 11 Creditors Seek Sanctions In $57M Conn. Mortgage Feud

By Aaron Keller

An unsecured-creditor committee has asked a Connecticut federal bankruptcy judge to sanction a successor to an entity that lent $57 million to the bankrupt real estate and building companies behind a luxury Newtown apartment complex, saying the successor hasn't provided details about the mortgage or several reserves earmarked within it.

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Fla. Doc Sues In Del. Alleging Multistate Group Conspiracy

By Jeff Montgomery

A Florida doctor and emergency room companies serving departments in Texas, Florida and Oklahoma have sued multiple entities in Delaware's Court of Chancery allegedly involved in an elaborate private equity-tied scheme to duck bans on the corporate practice of medicine.

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Pa. Panel Says Borough Didn't Break Âé¶¹´«Ã½ In Condemning Mall

By Isaac Monterose

A Pennsylvania appellate panel affirmed a decision backing the borough of West Mifflin's condemnation of a local mall, rejecting the property owner's argument that its due process rights were violated.

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3rd Circ. Will Reconsider Shipbuilder's Ch. 11 Reopening Bid

By Matthew Santoni

The Third Circuit said Thursday that it will reconsider whether to reopen Congoleum Corp.'s 2003 Chapter 11 bankruptcy so the bankruptcy court, not a district court, can say whether Congoleum affiliate Bath Iron Works should share liability for cleaning up a polluted New Jersey river.

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PEOPLE

Kirkland & Ellis Adds Former Ropes & Gray Deals Atty In NY

By Andrea Keckley

Kirkland & Ellis LLP said Wednesday it has welcomed a corporate partner from Ropes & Gray LLP to its New York office, touting her experience with major deals in sectors such as financial services, software, healthcare, industrials, consumer products and retail.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Attacks On Judicial Independence Tend To Manifest In 3 Ways

Attacks on judicial independence now run the gamut from gross (bald-faced interference) to systemic (structural changes) to insidious (efforts to undermine public trust), so lawyers, judges and the public must recognize the fateful moment in which we live and defend the rule of law every day, says Jim Moliterno at Washington and Lee University.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Âé¶¹´«Ã½360

For those who missed out, here's a look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the most buzz on Âé¶¹´«Ã½360 last week.

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UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

By Max Austin

This past week in London has seen Tottenham Hotspur FC kick off against Manchester United co-owner Ineos Automotive following a soured sponsorship deal, Acer and Nokia clash over patents for video coding technology, and two investors reignite litigation against the founders of an AI exercise bike business that unlawfully pocketed $1.2 million in investments to fund their own lifestyles. Here, Âé¶¹´«Ã½360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

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IRS, Âé¶¹´«Ã½ Firm Settle $790K Worker Credit Refund Suit

By Anna Scott Farrell

The Internal Revenue Service settled a lawsuit seeking more than $790,000 in pandemic-era worker tax credits by a law firm that had claimed the agency was delaying paying out, according to a dismissal order Friday by a Pennsylvania federal court.

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7 Willkie Partners Join Cooley Over Trump EO Deal

By Aebra Coe

Seven partners have left Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, including both managing partners of the firm's San Francisco office, to join Cooley LLP, reportedly over their former employer's decision to strike a deal with the Trump administration related to a potential executive order.

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Jackson Walker, Ex-Judge Facing Class Action Over Romance

By Catherine Marfin

A former bankruptcy judge and Jackson Walker LLP have been hit with another lawsuit over the judge's secret romance with a former firm partner, this time a proposed class action from a group of bondholders of financial company GWG Holdings Inc.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

Compliance experts say corporate leaders with business interests south of the border are worried about possible terrorism-related charges under the Trump administration for inadvertently working with the cartels. Meanwhile, the head of Glass Lewis pushed back against allegations from some lawmakers concerning the firm's "expansive, opaque and ideologically driven influence" on companies. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.​

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Beltway Moves: Torridon Âé¶¹´«Ã½, MoFo, V&E

By Alison Knezevich

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo headed to Torridon Âé¶¹´«Ã½ PLLC this week in one of the latest high-profile moves in the Washington, D.C., legal industry over the first half of June.

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Grassley Budget Bill Calls For More Use Of Injunction Bonds

By Courtney Bublé

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has released his portion of the budget reconciliation text, which would bolster the use of injunction bonds to raise the stakes for plaintiffs seeking to halt White House initiatives.

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Âé¶¹´«Ã½360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

The Institute for Justice, Mitchell Shapiro Greenamyre & Funt LLP, Spears & Filipovits LLC and attorney Lisa Lambert lead this week's edition of Âé¶¹´«Ã½360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Constitution's supremacy clause cannot shield the federal government from Federal Tort Claims Act suits.

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Akerman Seeks To Move Malpractice Suits From Medical Cos.

By Madison Arnold

Akerman LLP has asked to have two malpractice cases from medical laboratories moved from Palm Beach County to Miami-Dade County, where the firm's related unpaid fees case against Rennova Health Inc. is being litigated.

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Former NJ Deputy AG Claims Office Fired Him For His ADHD

By Beverly Banks

A former deputy attorney general who worked on environmental cases for New Jersey accused the state of retaliating against him when he sought accommodations for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and later terminated him for his disability.

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2nd Circ. Won't Rehear Trump Appeal Of $5M Assault Verdict

By Cara Salvatore

The full Second Circuit refused Friday to revisit President Donald Trump's challenge to writer E. Jean Carroll's $5 million sexual assault finding against him, with two judges dissenting.

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Ex-Attorney Cops To Tax Evasion In Massachusetts

By Anna Scott Farrell

A former attorney pled guilty to tax evasion in a Massachusetts federal court Friday after prosecutors accused him of transferring money to his wife to hide his earnings and using his business accounts to pay for guns and jewelry.

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Wash. High Court Suspends Atty Amid Delays In Bar Probe

By Rachel Riley

The Washington State Supreme Court has suspended an Evergreen state attorney's legal license, at the state bar association's request, for allegedly stalling disciplinary investigations into her work representing student families in two federal lawsuits against school districts.

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The Âé¶¹´«Ã½ Firm Loophole: How Debt Cos. Snare NC Consumers

By Daniel Connolly

A view of Carolina Legal Services' website as it appeared in 2019. The law firm has since closed. (Obtained via the Wayback Machine, a project of the Internet Archive.)

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

A&O Shearman

Addleshaw Goddard

Akerman LLP

Baker & Hostetler

Ballard Spahr

Bandas Âé¶¹´«Ã½ Firm

Bernstein Burkley

Blake Morgan LLP

Blank Rome

Boies Schiller

Brabners LLP

Brown Rudnick

Brownstein Hyatt

Bryan Cave

Burr & Forman

Carmody MacDonald

Clement & Murphy

Clyde & Co

Cooley LLP

Covington & Burling

Cramer & Anderson

DLA Piper

Davis Wright Tremaine

Debevoise & Plimpton

Dentons

Diserio Martin

Domnick Cunningham

Donnelly Conroy

Evashavik Âé¶¹´«Ã½

Fenwick & West

Flaster Greenberg

Foster Garvey

Fox Rothschild

Genova Burns

Gibson Dunn

Gillam Smith

Goldman Davis

Goulston & Storrs

Green & Sklarz

Greenberg Traurig

Haynes Boone

Herrick Feinstein

Higgs LLP

Husch Blackwell

Jackson Walker LLP

Jenner & Block

Jones Day

Keker Van Nest & Peters

Kirkland & Ellis

Latham & Watkins

Lathrop GPM

Laytons LLP

Lewis Brisbois

Manatt Phelps

Martin LLP

Mayer Brown

McGuireWoods

Michelman & Robinson

Mitchell & Shapiro

Morgan Lewis

Morris Nichols

Morrison Foerster

Myerson Solicitors

Ostroff Injury Âé¶¹´«Ã½

Paul Hastings

Paul Weiss

Perkins Coie

Personius Melber

Pinsent Masons

Porter Hedges

Proskauer Rose

Quinn Emanuel

Rabicoff Âé¶¹´«Ã½

Reed Smith

Richards Layton

Riley Safer

Rogers Joseph O'Donnell

Ropes & Gray

Searcy Denney

Setfords Solicitors

Shakespeare Martineau

Sheppard Mullin

Sher Tremonte

Sidley Austin

Simon Paschal

Skadden Arps

Spencer Fane

Stephenson Harwood

Stinson LLP

Stokoe Partnership Solicitors

TLT LLP

Taylor Wessing

Thompson Hine

Torridon Âé¶¹´«Ã½

Troutman

Trowers & Hamlins

Vinson & Elkins

Wachtell Lipton

Walker Jones

White & Case

Wiggin LLP

Wilkinson Stekloff

Willkie Farr

WilmerHale

Wilson Sonsini

Wright Hassall

Zeisler & Zeisler

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

23andMe Inc.

ASUSTeK Computer Inc.

Abbott Laboratories

Amazon.com Inc.

American Bar Association

American International Group Inc.

Associated Press

Balfour Beatty PLC

Beyond Finance Inc.

Biogen Inc.

Brigham Young University

British Broadcasting Corp.

Brown & Brown Inc.

Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.

Chester Water Authority

Client Services Inc.

Discover Bank

Federalist Society

Glass Lewis & Co. LLC

Hisense Co. Ltd.

Ineos Group Ltd.

Institute for Justice

Internet Archive

Investments Ltd.

Lex Machina Inc.

Macquarie Group Ltd.

Manchester United

Meta Platforms Inc.

Microsoft Corp.

Monomoy Capital Partners

National Veterans Legal Services Program

National Women's Âé¶¹´«Ã½ Center

Nokia Corp.

North Carolina Justice Center

North Carolina State Bar

Occidental Petroleum Corp.

Otis Worldwide Corp.

Progress Software Corp.

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Severn Trent PLC

Shields Health Solutions

The Bozzuto Group Inc.

The Cigna Group

The District of Columbia Bar

The Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

The New York Times Co.

The PNC Financial Services Group Inc.

Trinity Industries Inc.

United Services Automobile Association

University of Iowa

University of Southern California

Washington & Lee University

Washington State Bar Association

Wells Fargo & Co.

Welsh Carson Anderson & Stowe

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Bureau of Industry and Security

Central Intelligence Agency

City of Chester, Pennsylvania

Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Companies House

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Delaware Court of Chancery

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Federal Judicial Center

Federal Reserve System

Federal Trade Commission

Financial Conduct Authority

Florida Supreme Court

Internal Revenue Service

Legal Services Corp.

New Jersey Attorney General's Office

North Carolina Attorney General's Office

North Carolina Department of Justice

Office of the U.S. Trade Representative

Patent Trial and Appeal Board

Pennsylvania Supreme Court

Social Security Administration

U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware

U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Middle District of Florida

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

U.S. Customs and Border Protection

U.S. Department of Education

U.S. Department of Energy

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. District & Bankruptcy Courts of Southern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

UK High Court

United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Connecticut

United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania