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From: White Collar Law360 <news@law360.com> To: • Subject: Toyota Probed Possible Bribes To Top Thai Judges Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2021 07:44:32 +0000 c)...aw360 White Collar WHITE COLLAR Tuesday, March 30, 2021 Gtfollow Law360 TOP NEWS ;11" Law360 Exclusive Toyota Probed Possible Bribes To Top Thai Judges More than six months before Toyota disclosed concerns to U.S. authorities ;;Law360 Rising Stars about possible foreign bribery in Thailand, the automaker launched its own investigation into whether its consultants paid off Thai judges and government officials in an effort to overturn a $350 million import tax judgment related to its Prius cars, according to company documents and sources familiar with the matter. Read full article » 2nd Circ. Won't Lift Donziger's House Arrest Before Trial The Second Circuit refused Friday to overturn rulings keeping Chevron foe Steven Donziger in home confinement while he awaits a May trial, rejecting his arguments that he's not a flight risk since he's been home for over a year over a contempt charge that has a maximum six-month sentence. Order attached I Read full article » LAW FIRMS EDNY To Increase Resources Amid Asian Hate Crime Spike The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York said Monday Aidala Bertuna that it's doubling the size of the civil rights section in its criminal division, as Caldwell Cassady law enforcement grapples with the pronounced spike in anti-Asian hate Cohen & Gresser crimes amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Cole Schotz Read full article » Cravath Swaine Crowell & Moring Justices Won't Hear Request To Make Clinton Be Deposed DLA Piper The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a conservative group's petition Davis Polk for the justices to revive its demand that Hillary Clinton face deposition over her use of a private email server as secretary of state. Fick & Marx Read full article » Gordon & Rees Haddon Morgan Feds Seize Websites Posing As COVID-19 Vaccine Makers Kaufman Dolowich U.S. authorities have seized seven websites that masqueraded as places Kirkland & Ellis where people could learn information about COVID-19 vaccines, warning that fraudsters are exploiting interest in the injections to lure victims into divulging Latham & Watkins personal data. Law Offices of Joseph A. 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Selendy & Gay Order attached I Read full article » Seward & Kissel Seyfarth Shaw Man Accused Of Threatening Flynn Judge Reaches Plea Deal Spence & Becker A New York man will plead guilty to charges that he threatened to assault and Susanin Widman murder a D.C. federal judge who oversaw the criminal case of President Weil Gotshal Donald Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn, a federal prosecutor revealed on Monday. White & Case Read full article » Wilkinson Stekloff Williams & Connolly Weinstein Accusers Get Case Paused To Attempt Mediation Wilmer Hale A New York federal judge on Monday stayed a sexual assault case against convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein, after the four women filing suit told the COMPANIES judge they were taking their claims against the disgraced movie mogul to Amazon.com Inc. mediation. American Arbitration Association Proposed Rule attached I Read full article » American Bar Association American Civil Liberties Union SECURITIES Apple Inc. Ex-Engine Maker Execs Can't Ditch SEC's Fraud Suit Bank of America Corp. An Illinois federal judge on Monday refused to toss a U.S. Securities and Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica Exchange Commission lawsuit accusing an alternative-energy engine Inc. maker's former executives of engaging in an accounting fraud scheme that Boston Scientific Corp. inflated company revenues by $25 million. C.R. Bard Inc. Opinion attached I Read full article » Chevron Corp. Deutsche Bank AG BANK FRAUD Dick's Sporting Goods Inc. Facebook Inc. Ex-Madoff Funds Can't Ditch Deutsche Bank's Contract Fight A New York federal judge on Friday denied a bid by former Bernie Madoff Georgetown University feeder funds to end Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.'s lawsuit accusing them of International Business Machines breaching a 2011 agreement to sell the bank's bankruptcy claims that were Corp. once worth $1.6 billion, finding that the bank's allegations are sufficient to Johnson & Johnson proceed. Judicial Watch Inc. 2 documents attached I Read full article » Kinney Recruiting LLC LexisNexis Group TRIALS Madison Square Garden Entertainment Group LLC Architect In Tribal Bribery Suit Has Designs On Quick Trial Marriott Vacations Worldwide Corp. An architecture firm owner accused of bribing the former chairman of a Massachusetts tribe said Friday that new tax charges filed against his co- Marvell Technology Group Ltd. defendant shouldn't delay a jury trial, telling a federal judge that bad publicity Match Group Inc. from the case is killing his business. McDonald's Corp. Motion attached I Read full article » Microsoft Corp. Miramax Film Corp. Deal Eyed In Fight Over Virtual Pittsburgh Court Access Pfizer Inc. A civil rights watchdog said Monday it was giving a Pennsylvania state judge Power Solutions International Inc. three weeks to show he was complying with a new order mandating virtual access to criminal proceedings in Pittsburgh before potentially dropping a PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP lawsuit accusing him of unconstitutionally shutting the public out of hearings. State Bar of California Read full article » Steelcase Inc. EFTA00019089 HEALTH The Walt Disney Co. Thomson Reuters Corp. Insys Brass Knew Opioid Scripts Were Bogus, 1st Circ. Told Toyota Motor Corp. A group of convicted Insys Therapeutics Inc. executives knew when they Twitter Inc. bribed doctors to prescribe opioids that some of the powerful drugs would go United Auto Workers to people who didn't need them, federal prosecutors told the First Circuit in a bid to reinstate part of a landmark guilty verdict. VirnetX Holding Corporation Brief attached I Read full article » YouTube Inc. GOVERNMENT AGENCIES NJ Judge Won't Toss Health Plan Enrollment Fraud Claims California Supreme Court A former union official, a shell company founder and an accountant must face a lawsuit over an alleged scheme to defraud an autoworkers' health benefits Centers for Disease Control and fund out of millions of dollars, according to a New Jersey federal judge. Prevention Opinion attached I Read full article 0 Central Intelligence Agency Federal Bureau of Investigation EXPERT ANALYSIS Financial Crimes Enforcement Network Safeguarding Privileged Communications In A Remote World International Monetary Fund With the pandemic ushering in remote collaboration tools, counsel must Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe revisit fundamentals of the attorney-client privilege and the work-product New York City Police Department doctrine, study cases involving email and other recent technologies, and follow 10 best practices to protect confidentiality, say attorneys at DLA Piper. New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct Read full article » Pennsylvania Supreme Court U.S. Attorney's Office Law360 U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts LEGAL INDUSTRY U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York Bonus Spotlight U.S. Attorney's Office for the 4 More BigLaw Firms Pay Another COVID-19 Bonus Southern District of New York Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, Ropes & Gray LLP, Morgan Lewis & Bockius U.S. Court of Appeals for the First LLP and Linklaters LLP will be distributing spring and fall bonuses to their Circuit associates for work during the pandemic, the firms confirmed Monday. 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District of New York Read full article » U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania EFTA00019090 IMF Beats Suit Filed By Own Legal Team Thanks To Immunity U.S. District Court for the Western A D.C. federal judge has granted the International Monetary Fund's request District of Washington to dismiss a suit filed by its longtime legal counsel challenging the validity of U.S. Securities and Exchange an arbitral award for legal fees, finding that the IMF is immune from the suit. Commission Read full article » U.S. Supreme Court United Nations ROSS Can't Toss IP Suit Claims It Stole Westlaw Content United States District Court for the Legal research startup ROSS Intelligence can't dismiss copyright claims from District of Colorado Thomson Reuters that the former illegally copied huge swaths of the Westlaw database to create a competing service, a Delaware federal judge ruled World Bank Group Monday. World Health Organization Read full article » Atty Recruiter Says Ex-Firm's Suit Targets Biz He Built Alone An attorney recruiter battling his former employer over alleged trade secret theft told a Texas federal court Friday he built his Asia-focused business "from the ground up" and should see the claims against him thrown out. Read full article » Suspended Atty Wants Court Review Of Calif. Bar Speech Rule An attorney suspended from practicing law in California has petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to review whether a state bar may punish him for statements deemed false but also found to be harmless, arguing that the decision to suspend him places unconstitutional limits on advocacy speech from lawyers. Read full article » JOBS Search full listings or advertise your job opening Not sine if your firm suhraibes? Ask your librarian. We hope you found this message to be useful. However. if you'd rather no receive future entails of this son. you may unsubsctibe here. 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