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From: New York Law360 <news-alt@law360.com> To: Subject: AGs, Carvers' Cooperation Won't Stem Robocall Litigation Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2019 08:05:03 +0000 aw360 New York NEW YORK Tuesday, August 27, 2019 G Follow Law360 TOP NEWS rl' aw360 Pro Say Podcast Analysis AGs, Carriers' Cooperation Won't Stem Robocall Litigation A new information-sharing partnership between major phone carriers and attorneys general across the country is expected to expedite the tracking and prosecution of robocall scammers and the networks that enable them, but questions remain about how it will work in practice, experts said. Read full article » NY Judge Dodges Most Of Ex-Clerk's Bias, Retaliation Suit A New York state judge has beaten a former chief clerk's allegations that he was bullied for being gay, but not his claim that he was illegally demoted after reporting that she kept improperly meddling in the administration of criminal Listen to our new podcast here matters while her husband was Staten Island's district attorney, according to a recent federal court ruling. LAW FIRMS Opinion attached I Read full article » Aidala Bertuna Alston & Bird Religious Parents Can't Get Freeze On NY Vaccination Law A New York state judge has denied a bid from a group of parents to block a Arnold & Porter recent law repealing a religious exemption to mandatory vaccinations in Baker Botts Empire State schools, finding they haven't shown they are likely to eventually Ballard Spahr succeed in the case. Boutin Jones Decision attached I Read full article » Bryan Cave Cadwalader Wickersham NY Extends Clock For Bringing Martin Act Suits To 6 Years Clyde & Co New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed into law on Monday a bill that brings back a six-year time window for the state's attorney general to bring financial Cohen & Frankel LLP fraud claims under the Martin Act, undoing a landmark decision from the Davis Polk state's highest court that had held a three-year statute of limitations applied. Debevoise & Plimpton Bill attached I Read full article » Duval & Stachenfeld Eagan Avenatti Dollar Stores Will Pay $1.2M For Selling Expired Products Epstein Becker Green Dollar General, Family Dollar and Dollar Tree have agreed to pay $1.2 million Eversheds Sutherland in fines after an undercover investigation caught the discount retailers selling expired drugs and useless motor oil, New York Attorney General Letitia Freshfields Bruckhaus James announced Monday. Friedman Suder Read full article » Gair Gair Gibson Dunn INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY Goldstein & Russell Goodwin Shuttered Golf Co. Owner Must Pay Rival $8.9M In Patent Suit Greenberg Traurig EFTA00018860 The owner of a shuttered golf company must pay a rival nearly $8.9 million Harris Beach for infringing a golf bag patent, a New York federal judge has ruled, almost 10 Hodgson Russ years after he stashed the company's money in a personal bank account and Kahn Swick declared bankruptcy. 1 document attached I Read full article » Kennedys Law LLP Kirkland & Ellis EMPLOYMENT Kobre & Kim Kennedys Beats Appeal In Client Poaching Suit Levi & Korsinsky An attorney failed to establish that a Kennedys lawyer poached his clients in Littler Mendelson a freight business dispute, as he didn't back up his "bald assertions" that his Lowenstein Sandler former clients were fed lies, a New Jersey state appellate court held Monday. Manatt Phelps Read full article » McDermott Will SECURITIES & WHITE COLLAR Meunier Carlin Morgan & Morgan December Insider-Trading Trial Set For Ex-SAC Capital Exec Orrick Herrington Former SAC Capital portfolio manager Richard Lee will stand trial on insider Paul Weiss trading charges beginning Dec. 9, a Manhattan federal judge said Monday, Quinn Emanuel scheduling a swift conclusion in a six-year-old case that has been reshaped Reed Smith by changes in controlling law. Robbins Geller Read full article » Serrins & Associates Avenatti Gets May Trial Date In Calif. Embezzlement Case Sidley Austin Michael Avenatti will get his day in court next spring, a California federal Skadden judge decided Monday, scheduling a May 19 trial date in the government's Snell & Wilmer embezzlement case against the embattled attorney. Sullivan & Cromwell Read full article » Thompson Hine Harvey Weinstein Again Denies Charges, Trial Moved To 2020 Troutman Sanders A New York state judge on Monday delayed the criminal trial of disgraced film Venable LLP mogul Harvey Weinstein until January, after Weinstein pled not guilty to a Vinson & Elkins new indictment accusing him of predatory sexual assault. Wachtell Lipton Read full article » Watson Farley Zebra Gets Investor Suit Over $3.5B Motorola Buy Sent To Ill. Willkie Farr A New York federal judge has transferred a proposed class action brought by Zuckerman Spaeder Zebra Technologies Corp. investors over the data technology company's $3.45 billion buy of a Motorola division, sending the case to Illinois, where COMPANIES Zebra is headquartered. A.W. Chesterton Co. Order attached I Read full article » Aegerion Pharmaceuticals Inc. American Civil Liberties Union MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS American International Group Inc. Amgen Inc. 5 Firms Shape Amgen's $13.4B Celgene Drug Buy Apollo Commercial Real Estate Amgen will shell out $13.4 billion in cash to snap up Celgene's psoriasis and Apple Inc. psoriatic arthritis drug, a deal shaped by five law firms that is aimed at lessening competition concerns with Bristol-Myers Squibb's Celgene BB&T Corp. takeover. BlackBerry Ltd. Read full article » Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. Brookfield Properties Corp. BANKRUPTCY CBRE Group Inc. Celgene Corp. US Trustee Skeptical As Aegerion Creditors OK Ch. 11 Plan Aegerion Pharmaceuticals Inc. has reported that the overwhelming majority Center for Constitutional Rights of its creditors have approved its Chapter 11 plan, while a government Chicago Bridge & Iron Co. NV bankruptcy watchdog said he was awaiting proof the vote was set up fairly. Citigroup Inc. 2 documents attached I Read full article » Columbia Sportswear Co. Community Bank EFTA00018861 CONTRACTS ConocoPhillips Co. Credit Suisse Group AG Conoco Details Venezuela Service Efforts In $8.75B Award Suit Deutsche Bank AG ConocoPhillips on Monday outlined its attempts to serve Venezuela with a Dollar General Corp. suit seeking to enforce an $8.75 billion award, responding to a New York Dollar Tree Inc. federal court order that asked for details on its efforts. -I document attached I Read full article ” Dynamex, Inc. Eaton Vance Corporation TAX Enterprise Holdings Inc. Equifax Inc. NY Urges Justices To Skip Designer Edelman's Tax Challenge Goldman Sachs Group Inc. New York's tax department has told the U.S. Supreme Court it shouldn't hear HP Inc. designer Sam Edelman's challenge to its taxation of intangible income of dual Habib Bank Ltd. residents without an offsetting credit because there's no conflict with court precedent. Hearst Corp. Brief attached I Read full article >> International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes IMMIGRATION JPMorgan Chase & Co. Landau Uniforms Inc. 20 State AGs Challenge Trump Rule To Detain Migrant Kids Levi Strauss & Co. California and 19 other states announced Monday that they will sue the LexisNexis Group Trump administration over its move to eliminate a 20-day limit on the Linkedln Corp. detention of immigrant children, claiming it ignores standards of care Los Angeles Times established in a decades-old settlement agreement. Read full article » Major Lindsey & Africa Manulife Financial Corp. ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL Marsh & McLennan Companies Inc. Investor Suit Over CB&I Failed Nuke Projects Trimmed Microsoft Corp. Engineering and construction firm Chicago Bridge & Iron Co. NV dodged one Morgan Stanley of four fraud claims brought by investors over its "disastrous" acquisition of Nardello & Co. Shaw Group Inc. and the decline of its nuclear business Friday when a New York federal judge ruled it time barred. New York Times Co. Order attached I Read full article » New York University Nike Inc. REAL ESTATE & DEVELOPMENT PNC Financial Services Group Inc. Paypal Holdings Inc. NYC Real Estate Week In Review Point72 Asset Management LP Jeffrey Zwick, Keusch Law and Ballard Spahr were among more than half a RELX PLC dozen law firms that steered the largest New York City real estate deals that Rent-A-Center Inc. hit public records last week, a group of transactions led by a $95 million Brooklyn deal. S&P Global Inc. Read full article » S.A.C. Capital Advisors LP SVB Financial Group Real Estate Rumors: Brookfield, RREEF, III. Condo Complex Shaw Industries Group Inc. A Brookfield Properties venture has reportedly landed $807 million in State Bar of California financing for the Crown Building in Manhattan, Deutsche Bank arm RREEF is said to have paid $178 million for a Florida industrial property and an Illinois Sterling National Bank residential condo complex is for sale and could be converted to apartments. Tax Foundation Read full article » The Bank of New York Mellon Corp. PEOPLE The Kraft Heinz Co. The Sherwin-Williams Co. Gibson Dunn Grabs Banking Partner From Debevoise Trader Joe's Co. Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP has swiped a new partner from Debevoise & University Bancorp Inc. Plimpton LLP's banking team, with Matthew Biben now co-chairing Gibson Dunn's financial institutions practice group in New York. Vornado Realty Trust Read full article » Westinghouse Electric Co. LLC EFTA00018862 EXPERT ANALYSIS Yahoo! Inc. Zebra Technologies Corp. Investment Company Act Circuit Split Exposes Mutual Funds iFinex Inc. The Second Circuit's opinion in Oxford University Bank v. Lansuppe Feeder that mutual fund investors can bring private actions to rescind contracts they GOVERNMENT AGENCIES allege violate the Investment Company Act creates an unconventional circuit California Supreme Court split, and poses litigation risk for mutual funds, say attorneys at Goodwin. Chicago Department of Aviation Opinion attached I Read full article European Union Federal Reserve System The Growing Trend Of State Transfer Pricing Scrutiny Federal Trade Commission Taxpayers that are prepared with contemporaneous, Internal Revenue Code Section 482-compliant documentation supporting the arm's-length nature of Georgia Department of Revenue their transactions will be in the best position to defend against the Internal Revenue Service increasingly aggressive and coordinated state taxing authority attacks on National Labor Relations Board intercompany transaction pricing, say attorneys at Eversheds Sutherland. New York Attorney General's Office Read full article » New York State Department of Financial Services LEXIS PRACTICE ADVISOR New York State Department of Using Clawback Provisions For Employee Incentive Pay Taxation and Finance An employer's ability to use clawback or forfeiture provisions in employee New York State Unified Court compensation agreements depends on applicable state wage-and-hour laws. System Jeffrey Ruzal and Carly Baratt at Epstein Becker review the types of incentive North Carolina Department of compensation often subject to such provisions and provide drafting Revenue considerations for incentive compensation agreements. Rhode Island Division of Taxation Read full article » Securities and Exchange Commission LEGAL INDUSTRY State of Rhode Island Department of Revenue Analysis Texas Supreme Court As Demand For Contract Attys Grows, Firms Outsource Risk U.S. Attorney's Office As the federal government and states like California split over who might U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the qualify as independent contractors, law firms and businesses are turning to legal services agencies to provide a layer of protection between themselves Southern District of New York and their hired legal help. U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Read full article » Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals for the Georgia Says It's Not Trying To Copyright Law Itself Second Circuit The state of Georgia has filed its opening shot in a U.S. Supreme Court case U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third over whether annotations to legal texts can be protected under copyright law, Circuit stressing it was not asking the justices to rule that "the law can be U.S. Department of Homeland copyrighted." Security Read full article » U.S. Department of Justice U.S. District Court for the Central Texas Free Speech Law Doesn't Apply In Fed. Court: 5th Circ. District of California A Texas free speech law that contains a provision to bring an early end to U.S. District Court for the Eastern lawsuits aimed at curbing public participation is in conflict with the Federal District of New York Rules of Civil Procedure and therefore cannot be used in federal court, the Fifth Circuit has ruled. U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Read full article » U.S. District Court for the Western Skadden GC: Craig Defied Calls To Register As Foreign Agent District of New York Skadden general counsel Lawrence Spiegel told a Washington, D.C., federal U.S. Supreme Court jury Monday that his former colleague Gregory Craig had repeatedly defied calls to register his work for the Ukrainian government because it would cause him and others at the law firm to lose out on future potential job opportunities with the U.S. government. Read full article » EFTA00018863 Vinson & Elkins Atty Tapped For Texas High Court A seat on the Texas Supreme Court that will soon be vacated by a justice who has been confirmed to the federal bench will be filled by a former state appellate judge and current Vinson & Elkins LLP attorney, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said Monday. Read full article » Former Bryan Cave Partner Appointed Cred General Counsel Cryptocurrency lending and borrowing company Cred has hired as its general counsel an attorney who previously served as head of Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP's fintech practice, the company announced on Monday. Read full article » Interview 15 Minutes With AIG's General Counsel When people ask Lucy Fato how she spends her time as the general counsel at AIG, she says she connects dots for others within the finance and insurance corporation to complete tasks more quickly and efficiently. Here, she shares the importance of her law firm experience, a lesson about leadership, and how she helped Tilda Swinton win an Oscar. Read full article » JOBS Search full listings or advertise your job opening Insurance Coverage Associate M&A Associate Hunton Andrews Kurth Perkins Coie LLP New York. 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