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From: New York Law360 <news-alt@law360.com> To: Subject: Cravath's Ties To NYU Not Enough For New Trial, Judge Says Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2019 07:17:32 +0000 aw360 New York NEW YORK Wednesday, July 3, 2019 Law360 TOP NEWS ;.,Law360 Pro Say Podcast ;`,'NYU.jpg Listen to our new podcast here LAW FIRMS Arrowood LLP Barclay Damon Berger Montague Calhoun & Lawrence Chaffetz Lindsey Cooley Cravath Swaine DLA Piper Dentons Emery Celli Faruqi & Faruqi Fenwick & West Foley & Lardner Cravath's Ties To NYU Not Enough For New Trial, Judge Says Foster Pepper A New York federal court ruled that a former judge who rejoined Cravath Freidin Brown Swaine & Moore LLP after tossing out a $358 million ERISA class action Freshfields Bruckhaus against New York University was not biased in NYU's favor, rejecting university workers' bid for a new trial. Furniss Davis Order attached I Read full article Gadow Tyler Garvey Schubert States Reach $6M Deal With LexisNexis Over Withheld Fees Gibson Dunn LexisNexis Risk Solutions Inc. agreed on Tuesday to pay $5.8 million to Glasser & Glasser resolve a suit in Florida federal court brought by various states and a city Goldman Ismail Greenberg Traurig EFTA00032583 alleging that the data and analytics company wrongfully withheld fees from Hagens Berman law enforcement agencies when reselling their automobile crash reports. Hangley Aronchick Read full article » Heiberger & Associates Ed Sheeran Trial On Hold For 9th Circ. Led Zeppelin Ruling Hilliard & Shadowen LLP A Manhattan judge has put off a September jury trial over whether Ed Jomarron Lopez Sheeran's "Thinking Out Loud" infringes Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get It On," saying Tuesday that a coming decision by the full Ninth Circuit in a copyright Kaufman & Canoles appeal involving Led Zeppelin may be informative. Kenny Nachwalter Read full article » Kessler Topaz Kramer Levin Fake Mont. Cattle Rancher Cops To Fraud, Will Repay $43M Labaton Sucharow A Montana man told a Manhattan federal judge Tuesday he lied about his family's assets, including falsely claiming to own cattle and a ranch, to borrow Lee Litigation Group $43 million from lender Third Eye Capital Corp. Levin & Glasser Read full article » LevinCyphers Lewis Brisbois 2nd Circ. Revives Chinese Woman's Belated Asylum Bid Littler Mendelson A split Second Circuit panel on Tuesday paved the way for a woman who Loeb & Loeb was forced by the Chinese government to have an abortion two decades ago to qualify for asylum based on that experience, excusing her entire asylum Mayer Brown application from the one-year filing deadline because of her recent Miller Law Offices conversion to Christianity. Morgan Lewis Opinion attached I Read full article » Motley Rice Much Shelist NYC Doc Convicted In $2M Opioid Scheme Gets 5 Years Mukasey Frenchman A New York doctor was sentenced on Tuesday to five years in prison for Norton Rose prescribing nearly 1 million oxycodone pills to patients who didn't actually need them in exchange for cash, reaping $2 million in the process. Nussbaum Law Group PC Read full article » Outten & Golden Pearl Cohen POLICY & REGULATION Pierce Bainbridge Pryor Cashman 25 State AGs Urge CFPB Not To Roll Back Overdraft Rule Putney Twombly Attorneys general representing half the states in the nation signed on to a Monday letter urging the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau not to alter Quinn Emanuel its overdraft rule, as the agency carries out a mandatory 10-year review of Rivkin Radler the regulation due to be completed this November. Robbins Geller Letter attached I Read full article » Satterlee Stephens Schiff Hardin Cuomo Wants NY To Probe Facebook Housing Advertisers Schlichter Bogard New York Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Monday announced plans for Shearman & Sterling the state's Department of Financial Services to investigate advertisers that allegedly prevent certain protected groups from seeing their housing ads on Shepherd Finkelman Facebook. Silver Miller Read full article >> Sperling & Slater Spiritus Law INSURANCE Sullivan & Cromwell Taus Cebulash 2nd Circ. Agrees Recycling Bin Not A 'Vehicle' Under Policy The Law Offices of Neal Brickman The Second Circuit on Tuesday upheld a New York federal judge's ruling that a wheeled recycling bin does not qualify as a vehicle in a policy dispute Troutman Sanders between an insurer and a Manhattan co-op over a gas line ruptured by the Vanek Vickers bin. Weil Gotshal Order attached I Read full article » Wilkofsky Friedman Wilson Sonsini 2nd Circ. Revives Insurers' Fight Over Truck Crash Coverage Wittels Law The Second Circuit has thrown out a win for Country-Wide Insurance Co. in a dispute with United Financial Casualty Co. over coverage for a truck driver Wolcott Rivers EFTA00032584 involved in a three-vehicle crash, saying a lower court improperly concluded COMPANIES that UFCC waited too long to disclaim liability coverage. Altman Weil Inc. 1 document attached I Read full article » Apartment Investment & CONSUMER PROTECTION Management Co. Banco Bradesco SA Barilla Dodges Nationwide Class Claims Over Sauce Labels Bank of America Corp. Nationwide class claims in a suit over "no preservatives" labels on Barilla Barilla Holding SpA America Inc. pasta sauces cannot proceed, after an Illinois federal judge said on Tuesday it would be unmanageable because of differences among the Bats Global Markets Inc. various states' fraud and consumer protection laws. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Order attached I Read full article » Center Blaqwell Inc. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CHX Holdings Inc. Citigroup Inc. Calif. Business Owner Claims NBA Stole His $50M App Idea Country-Wide Insurance Co. A California man is suing the National Basketball Association in New York Ditech Holding Corp. federal court for $50 million, claiming the league stole his idea for an online Facebook Inc. app that would give fans prizes if they correctly predicted how their favorite stars would perform. Fannie Mae Complaint attached ! Read full article » Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. Freddie Mac MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT Glenmark Pharmaceuticals JPMorgan Chase & Co. Ticket Biz Seeks $378K In Atty Fees After Rival's Sanctions LexisNexis Group Lawyers who successfully represented Broker Genius Inc. in securing a $4.5 Los Angeles Lakers million verdict and effectively shutting down a rival over pilfered technology have asked a New York federal court to award their client more than Merck & Co Inc. $378,000 in attorney fees and costs for what the company spent on a Metropolitan Museum of Art contempt bid. NASDAQ OMX Group Inc. 1 document attached I Read full article » National Basketball Association New York University EMPLOYMENT Par Pharmaceutical Companies, Inc. 2nd Circ. Sends Home Care Worker's Wage Suit To Arbitration RELX PLC The Second Circuit ruled Tuesday that a New York City home health care Statoil ASA provider can push claims that it stiffed a worker on overtime and premium pay into arbitration, saying a trial court misinterpreted a mandatory arbitration Vornado Realty Trust clause in a collective bargaining agreement. Wells Fargo & Co. Decision attached i Read full article » Witkoff Group iFinex Inc. Columbia Univ. Workers Fight To Keep ERISA Suit Alive A class of roughly 24,000 current and former Columbia University workers hit GOVERNMENT AGENCIES back at the school's bid to exit a suit claiming it mishandled their retirement Consumer Financial Protection savings, saying their plans were saddled with high record-keeping fees and Bureau that the university knew the plans contained imprudent funds. Equal Employment Opportunity Memorandum attached I Read full article » Commission European Union SECURITIES & WHITE COLLAR Federal Trade Commission Food and Drug Administration Blockchain Biz Accused Of Inflating Token Value In $3M Sale Hudson River Park Trust A blockchain company's unfounded hype and conduct artificially inflated its token value to raise close to $3 million in a token sale, only to see its value New York Attorney General's Office plummet by 90% about a month later, a cryptocurrency investment fund told Securities and Exchange a New York federal court. Commission Complaint attached I Read full article » U.S. Attorneys Office U.S. Department of Homeland BANKRUPTCY Security EFTA00032585 Ditech Wins Approval For $52M Bid Protections In Ch. 11 Sale U.S. Department of Housing and A New York bankruptcy judge on Tuesday approved more than $52 million in Urban Development bid protections for the stalking horse bidders for Ditech Holding Corp.'s U.S. Department of Justice mortgage origination and servicing businesses after consumers and the U.S. U.S. Supreme Court Trustee said the company had satisfied their objections. United States Bankruptcy Court for Read full article » the Southern District of New York United States District Court for the BANKING Northern District of Illinois Brazilian Bank To Pay $14.5M To End Investor Suit Over Bribes United States District Court for the Southern District of New York Investors in Brazilian bank Banco Bradesco SA asked a New York federal court on Monday to give the initial green light to a $14.5 million cash settlement to end a stock-drop suit against the bank for allegedly artificially inflating its securities prices by hiding a tax bribery scheme. 1 document attached I Read full article » Investors Fight Exchanges' Appeal Bid In 'Flash Boys' Suits The pension funds behind litigation inspired by the high-frequency trading expose "Flash Boys" asked a New York federal judge on Monday not to send their latest dismissal phase victory up to the Second Circuit. 1 document attached I Read full article » ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL Statoil, Texaco Units Want Brakes Kept On $16 Award Action A Statoil unit and a Texaco subsidiary have asked a New York federal court to keep on ice their litigation seeking to enforce roughly $1 billion in arbitral awards against Nigeria's state-owned oil company, pointing to related litigation in the West African country. document attached I Read full article » REAL ESTATE & DEVELOPMENT NYC Real Estate Week In Review Loeb & Loeb and Goldberg Weprin were among more than half a dozen law firms guiding the largest New York City real estate deals that hit public records last week, most of which were for residential condo units in Manhattan. Read full article » PEOPLE Cooley Nabs Fenwick & West's International Trademark Whiz Cooley LLP's newest litigation department partner, a recruit from Fenwick & West LLP, has made his name taking brands international and wrestling with trademark laws in every corner of the world to do so. Read full article » Pierce Bainbridge Tries To Nix Ex-Partner's 'Rambling' Action Litigation boutique Pierce Bainbridge blasted former partner Donald Lewis' wrongful termination suit as a "rambling, raging screed, full of scandalous and prejudicial matter" in a brief filed Monday asking a New York state court to dismiss the action. 2 documents attached I Read full article » Real Estate Rumors: Nexus, Aimco, Meridian Developer Nexus is said to have landed $41 million in financing for a California hotel, real estate investment trust Aimco could fetch more than $44 EFTA00032586 million with the sale of a Chicago apartment tower, and Meridian Properties reportedly picked up two Brooklyn rental buildings for $35.25 million. Read full article » Bitfinex Returns $100M To Tether Amid NY AG Proceeding Bitfinex has repaid $100 million of up to $700 million loaned to it by Tether, the cryptocurrency exchange announced Tuesday, as the companies wrangle with the New York attorney general over the nature of the initial credit facility. Read full article » EXPERT ANALYSIS High Court Weakens State Laws For Liquor Retailers The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Tennessee Wine & Spirits Retailers Association v. Thomas does not end the three-tier distribution system that has guided alcohol beverage laws since the end of Prohibition, but it does erode superficial jurisdictional boundaries for retail licensing, says Robert Lewis of Spiritus Law. Opinion attached I Read full article » LEGAL INDUSTRY Analysis Why BigLaw Isn't As Jazzed About Merging In 2019 There's been a noticeable decline in U.S. law firm combinations so far in 2019 compared with recent years — and a total absence of major mergers by big firms. Here's a look at what's behind the slump. Read full article » Justice Ginsburg Says She 'Lucked Out' Of BigLaw Career Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Tuesday that she "lucked our in that she became the second woman on the U.S. Supreme Court rather than a commercial litigator after rampant gender inequality in the legal profession in the 1950s and '60s steered her away from private practice. Read full article » Cooley Hid Conflict While Helping Launch Company, Suit Says Attorneys for Cooley LLP failed to tell a New Jersey chemist that the firm had previously worked with his partner, then represented the partner's interests at the expense of the chemist's while they launched a new company, according to a lawsuit filed Monday in Massachusetts state court. 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