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From: Public Policy Law360 <news-q@law360.com> To: 1 > Subject: Judges Call Emergency Meeting After Stone Sentencing Swap Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 09:24:03 +0000 aw360 Public Policy PUBLIC POLICY These Award-Winning Lawyers and Law Students SET THE BAR for Excellent Writing Law360 Proudly Sponsors The Burton Awards. LIVE, Wed. 2119 1 p.m. EST Wednesday, February 19, 2020 ;IFollow Law360 TOP NEWS „Law360 Practice Groups of the Judges Call Emergency Meeting After Stone Sentencing Swap Year A national association of federal judges has scheduled an emergency meeting for Wednesday afternoon to discuss interference from the Trump administration and Attorney General William P. Barr in politically sensitive cases, following the sentencing upheaval in the criminal case against Trump ally and longtime Republican political operative Roger Stone. Read full article » Kan. Judge Sanctioned For Sexual Harassment To Resign A Kansas federal judge informed President Donald Trump on Tuesday that he planned to step down, giving notice five months after he was reprimanded amid allegations he sexually harassed judiciary employees, had an affair with a felon and routinely showed up late to court. 2 documents attached I Read full article » LAW FIRMS Aidala Bertuna USPTO Walks Back Trademark Email Rule Akin Gump The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has modified a controversial new rule Austin LLP that requires trademark owners to post their email addresses on a public database, aiming to mollify concerns that the rule could help stammers. BakerHostetler 1 document attached Read full article Bradley Arant Bruce S. Rogow PA Trump Commutes Ex-III. Gov. Blagojevich's 14-Year Sentence Buschel & Gibbons President Donald Trump commuted Rod Blagojevich's 14-year prison Cleary Gottlieb sentence Tuesday, clearing the way for the former Illinois governor to leave Clifford Chance prison about four years before his scheduled release date. Cohen Milstein Read full article » Cooch and Taylor Gov't Waives Contracting Laws To Speed Up Border Wall Cooley The Trump administration said Tuesday that it will waive federal procurement Cravath Swaine laws to speed up construction of a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, citing DLA Piper high levels of unauthorized border crossings and drug trafficking. Dentons Notice attached I Read full article » Earthjustice Epstein Becker Green EPA Internal Watchdog Says Mexico Border Program Failing Fenwick & West Fisher Phillips EFTA00032341 The internal watchdog arm of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Fox Rothschild released a report on Tuesday that criticized the regulator for shortcomings in Gibson Dunn monitoring and implementing a bilateral program with Mexico aimed at Gray Reed protecting the environment along the border. Report attached I Read full article » Gunderson Dettmer Hogan Lovells DC Circ. Wary That House Can't Sue Prez Over Funding Rows Honigman LLP The D.C. Circuit hammered the Trump administration Tuesday over its position that the House of Representatives could never sue the executive Hull Barrett branch over funding disputes, slinging out a series of hypotheticals to test the Jenner & Block argument. Jones Day Read full article » Kellogg Hansen Keogh Law Ltd. BANKING & SECURITIES Kilpatrick Townsend NCLA Backs Adviser's 11th Circ. Challenge Of SEC Judges Kirkland & Ellis The New Civil Liberties Alliance has thrown its support behind another Latham & Watkins challenger to the constitutionality of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Lawyers' Committee for Civil Commission's administrative law judges, this time in the Eleventh Circuit. Rights Petition attached I Read full article » Levi & Korsinsky Linklaters Bloomberg Proposes Wall Street Tax, Student Debt Relief Littler Mendelson Democratic presidential hopeful Michael Bloomberg unveiled a plan Tuesday Lynn Pinker that would impose a 0.1% tax on all financial transactions and make it easier for college students to obtain student-loan debt relief. Maduegbuna Cooper 1 document attached I Read full article » Manatt Phelps McDermott Will ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL McGuireWoods Morgan Lewis SC Remains In Fight Against Offshore Seismic Testing Morris James A federal judge on Tuesday kept South Carolina in litigation challenging oil- Morris Nichols and gas-related seismic testing off the Atlantic Coast and President Donald Trump's pro-drilling executive order, saying the state's case resembles Morrison & Foerster litigation in Alaska where a judge invalidated portions of that executive order. Munger Tolles Memorandum attached I Read full article » Munsch Hardt Orrick Enviros Say Species Are At Risk Under New Water Rule Paduano & Weintraub The Trump administration illegally ignored the potential impact to endangered Porter Wright species of a new water regulation that narrows the federal government's Reed Smith permitting authority under the Clean Water Act, environmental groups said Tuesday. Richards Layton Notice attached I Read full article » Ropes & Gray Rudman & Winchell HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES Sanford Heisler Shearman & Sterling GOP States Urge High Court To Skip ACA Row — Or Nuke Law Sidley Austin If the U.S. Supreme Court agrees to hear an appeal by Democratic officials to Siebman Forrest protect the Affordable Care Act, it should find that the law is unconstitutional, Silicon Legal Strategy Republican state attorneys general told the high court in a new petition. Petition attached I Read full article » Skadden The Consumer Protection Firm IP & TECHNOLOGY Underwood Perkins Vinson & Elkins Al Offers 'Substantial' Pros At USPTO, But Not Without Risks Weil Gotshal The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has been experimenting with using White & Case artificial intelligence during examinations, and while there are "substantial" WilmerHale benefits to such automation, a report released Tuesday said it raises risks about due process and labor. Wilson Sonsini EFTA00032342 Report attached I Read full article » COMPANIES EMPLOYMENT AT&T Inc. Albertsons Companies LLC Restaurant Groups Can't Upend NYC Fair Workweek Law Allergan PLC A New York judge on Tuesday held that New York City's Fair Workweek Law Alvarez & Marsal Holdings LLC requiring fast-food businesses to give employees a two-week advance notice American Bar Association of work schedules is valid, rejecting a challenge by several restaurant industry groups that claimed it was preempted by state law. B.C. Strategy Ltd. Read full article » Bipartisan Policy Center Boston Heart Diagnostics Corp. COMPETITION Boy Scouts of America Breckenridge Pharmaceutical Inc. NY Won't Appeal T-Mobile/Sprint Merger Challenge Loss CTIA A contingent of state-level enforcers challenging T-Mobile's purchase of Sprint has lost one of its leaders, as New York's attorney general said her Center for Biological Diversity office will not appeal a New York federal court ruling refusing to block the Cisco Systems Inc. planned $56 billion merger. Conference of State Bank Read full article » Supervisors Court Square Capital Partners LP Former Teva Exec Calls AGs' Price-Fixing Claims 'Threadbare' DISH Network LLC A former Teva executive has urged a Pennsylvania federal judge to toss Defenders of Wildlife price-fixing accusations against her from a coalition of 44 state attorneys general as part of multidistrict litigation alleging industrywide price-fixing by Deutsche Telekom AG generic-drug makers, blasting the claims as "threadbare." EisnerAmper LLP Brief attached I Read full article » Facebook Inc. Financial Times Group Ltd. CYBERSECURITY & PRIVACY Google Inc. Hilton Worldwide Inc. Texas Judge Rules Huawei Contracting Ban Is Constitutional Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. A Texas federal judge has tossed Huawei's challenge to a law barring federal agencies from buying products made by the Chinese telecommunications ISN Software Corp. equipment giant, ruling Tuesday that the ban does not unconstitutionally Imperva Inc. punish the company. International Business Machines Opinion attached I Read full article » Corp. International Franchise Association 11th Circ. Pressed To Reconsider Shrinking TCPA's Reach Johnson & Johnson A consumer who lost her appeal alleging Hilton Grand Vacations violated the Lannett Company, Inc Telephone Consumer Protection Act with millions of automated telemarketing Linkedln Corp. calls asked the Eleventh Circuit to reconsider the ruling, arguing in a brief last week that the decision bucks Congress' intent. Los Angeles Times Petition attached I Read full article » Mylan NV Natural Resources Defense Internet Providers Sue Maine Over Data Privacy Restrictions Council Several national trade groups representing internet service providers are New Civil Liberties Alliance suing state officials in Maine federal court over a consumer privacy law New Jersey State Bar Association enacted in 2019, saying it ventures far afield of its stated goal of protecting New York State Bar Association users' sensitive data. New York University Complaint attached I Read full article » Nike Inc. Northeastern University INTERNATIONAL TRADE Novartis AG US Sanctions Russian Energy Broker Over Venezuela Ties PG&E Corp. The Trump administration on Tuesday sanctioned a subsidiary of Russian Parker Drilling Company energy giant Rosneft for continuing to broker sales of Venezuelan oil in Pennsylvania Bar Association defiance of a U.S. commercial embargo against the Venezuelan government. Pfizer Inc. Read full article » Pogue Construction ITC To Probe Economic Effect Of Renewable Energy In Mass. EFTA00032343 The U.S. International Trade Commission is investigating the impact of PricewaterhouseCoopers renewable energy imports on Massachusetts' economy, according to a International Ltd. Federal Register notice to be published Wednesday. Purdue Pharma LP 2 documents attached I Read full article Rocket Software Inc. TAX San Francisco 49ers Sierra Club EU Adds Cayman Islands, 3 Others To Tax Haven Blacklist Southern Environmental Law The European Union Tuesday added the Cayman Islands and three other Center jurisdictions to the list of countries it considers uncooperative on tax matters, ending days of speculation about which territories would be on the updated Stats LLC blacklist. Sutter Health 4 documents attached I Read full article » T-Mobile US Inc. Teva Pharmaceutical Industries BANKRUPTCY Ltd. Texas Public Policy Foundation Boy Scouts Of America Driven To Ch. 11 By Sex Abuse Claims The New York Times Co. Citing a $150 million — and rising — burden of settlements with victims of Thoma Bravo LLC alleged sexual abuse, the Boy Scouts of America sought Chapter 11 Ticketmaster Entertainment, Inc. protection in Delaware early Tuesday, proposing a long-term "mass tort" compensation structure similar to that used for asbestos claims. TitleMax Read full article » TransPerfect Global Inc. Twitter Inc. IMMIGRATION USA Today International Corp. United States Telecom Association DHS, USCIS Sanctioned For Wrongly Removing Immigrants Venmo LLC The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services have been sanctioned for violating a preliminary Yahoo! Inc. injunction in California federal court after they failed to warn a class of young YouTube Inc. immigrants that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement was removing ZTE Corp. five of its members from the country. Zeughauser Group LLC Order attached i Read full article ” GOVERNMENT AGENCIES Dems Slam Plan To Send Tactical Agents To 'Sanctuary' Cities Administrative Conference of the Top House Democrats on Tuesday slammed the Trump administration's United States plans to send Border Patrol officers with tactical training to cities that limit Bureau of Citizenship and local cooperation with federal immigration authorities, in an escalation of the Immigration Services administration's battle against so-called "sanctuary policies. California Public Utilities Letter attached I Read full article » Commission Centers for Medicare & Medicaid WHITE COLLAR Services Consumer Financial Protection Trump Pardons Ex-NYPD Chief Kerik On Tax Fraud Conviction Bureau President Donald Trump on Tuesday pardoned former New York Police Delaware Court of Chancery Department commissioner and onetime Homeland Security chief nominee Equal Employment Opportunity Bernard B. Kerik, who was convicted of tax and other crimes. Commission Read full article » European Commission TELECOMMUNICATIONS European Union Executive Office of the President Starks Says FCC's Latest Diversity Data Falls Short Federal Bureau of Investigation The FCC has released a fresh round of data on the demographics of Federal Bureau of Prisons broadcast station owners, prompting Democratic FCC Commissioner Federal Communications Geoffrey Starks to criticize a lack of movement on increasing diversity since Commission the agency studied the subject five years ago. Federal Trade Commission Report attached I Read full article » Fish and Wildlife Service EXPERT ANALYSIS Illinois General Assembly Illinois Supreme Court EFTA00032344 Opinion Internal Revenue Service Trump Is Right About Stone Sentencing, For Wrong Reasons International Trade Commission President Donald Trump weighed in on Roger Stone's sentencing in an Massachusetts Division of Banks inappropriate way — and caused quite a commotion within the U.S. Department of Justice as a result — but he nonetheless was right to find the National Marine Fisheries Service sentencing guidelines' recommendation shocking, say criminal defense New York Attorney General's Office attorney Alan Ellis and sentencing consultant Mark Allenbaugh. New York State Department of Read full article » Financial Services Securities and Exchange BIPA May Apply To Clearview Al's Creation Of Biometric Data Commission The resolution of recent cases in which IBM and Clearview Al created facial Social Security Administration geometries from photographs they obtained from social media will show the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers extent to which the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act applies to these new technologies and uses of biometric data outside Illinois, say Al U.S. Attorney's Office Fowerbaugh and Karen Borg of Porter Wright. U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Read full article » District of Delaware U.S. Court of Appeals for the Consumer Finance Poised For Greater Scrutiny From States Eleventh Circuit As state-level regulators step up consumer finance oversight to fill the void U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth created by more restrained federal regulation in this area, financial Circuit institutions should keep an eye on developments and agencies in several key U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third states, say attorneys at Hogan Lovells. Circuit Read full article » U.S. Customs and Border Protection What Health Care FCA Trends Tell Us About The Year Ahead U.S. Department of Defense The U.S. Department of Justice showed more initiative in directly bringing U.S. Department of Health and health care-related False Claims Act cases despite a decrease in qui tarn Human Services filings last year, and as scrutiny of the industry continues to rise, several sectors deserve to be watched carefully this year, say attorneys at Epstein U.S. Department of Homeland Becker. Security Read full article » U.S. Department of Justice U.S. District Court for the District of LEGAL INDUSTRY Delaware U.S. District Court for the District of Analysis Maine ABA Says Industry Regs Need A Rethink, But Will It Matter? U.S. District Court for the District of The passage of a revised American Bar Association resolution intended to South Carolina encourage a new look at legal industry regulation and increase access to U.S. District Court for the Eastern justice represents a major step forward, even in the absence of any District of Pennsylvania recommended changes on nonlawyer participation in the market, some U.S. District Court for the Eastern experts say. District of Texas Read full article » U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California These Firms Are Cleaning Up In Bull Market For VC, PE Deals U.S. District Court for the Northern Some familiar names have landed the top spots among law firms for venture District of Illinois capital and private equity deals in 2019 with increases in the work they handled, thanks to an ongoing bull market and firms' growing strategy to U.S. District Court for the Southern specialize in that kind of high-value work. District of New York Read full article » U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania Analysis U.S. Environmental Protection Texas Firms Sell Recruits On Opportunity As BigLaw Invades Agency Texas law firms are staring down a parade of national and global firms U.S. General Services entering the state's major markets whose pay offers they can't match, so Administration they're selling new hires and lateral recruits on what they say is better U.S. House of Representatives opportunity and talent development. U.S. Immigration and Customs Read full article » Enforcement Bar Exam Pass Rate Surges To 80% For First-Time Test Takers U.S. Patent and Trademark Office U.S. Senate EFTA00032345 Nearly 80% of first-time test takers who sat for the bar exam in 2019 passed, U.S. Sentencing Commission a nearly 5 percentage point increase from 2018, the American Bar U.S. Supreme Court Association said Tuesday. Read full article » Gag Order For Weinstein Attys As Jury Begins Deliberations A New York judge issued a gag order for defense counsel in Harvey Weinstein's rape trial Tuesday after the producer's lead attorney wrote an opinion piece in Newsweek that directly asked the jury to acquit him. Read full article » Judge Won't Delay Roger Stone's Sentencing A D.C. federal judge on Tuesday said she will sentence Roger Stone this week despite calls for a retrial from both the longtime Republican operative and President Donald Trump, but she noted she may delay imposing the terms until after she examines the merits of the retrial request. Read full article » Levi & Korsinsky Underpaid Female Atty, Sex Bias Suit Says A former Levi & Korsinsky LLP partner on Tuesday hit the plaintiffs' side securities firm with a sex discrimination suit alleging she was shorted on commissions and bonuses, had her cases reassigned to inexperienced male lawyers and was ultimately fired for speaking up about gender inequity. Read full article » MoFo 'Mommy Track' Bias Accusers Abandon Class Claims Two former Morrison & Foerster LLP attorneys accusing the firm of relegating them to the "mommy track" and eventually firing them after they had children have dropped their class action claims. Read full article » Fox Rothschild Looks To Sink Bulk Of Graphic Sex Bias Suit Fox Rothschild LLP and one of its former employment lawyers recently urged a New York federal judge to throw out most of a former legal aide's suit alleging the lawyer tried to rape her and sent her a slew of lewd pictures, with the attorney arguing that he engaged in a "consensual" relationship with the ex-aide. Read full article » Del. Justices Throw Out Richards Layton Malpractice Claims Acknowledging that statute of limitations laws impose harsh deadlines, the Delaware Supreme Court on Monday upheld the dismissal of a malpractice suit accusing Richards Layton & Finger PA of giving mistaken advice in 2012 and costing a software company S67 million. Read full article » DOJ Taps Kirkland Atty To Monitor Live Nation Compliance The U.S. Department of Justice moved Tuesday to name Kirkland & Ellis LLP partner Mark Filip as monitoring trustee responsible for ensuring Live Nation and Ticketmaster abide by their merger approval deal, which was tweaked after the companies allegedly violated the settlement repeatedly. Read full article )> BakerHostetler Adds Former DOJ Antitrust Official BakerHostetler said Tuesday it has hired a former official from the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division to focus on white collar and compliance issues, marking the firm's third recent hire in the competition and antitrust practice area. Read full article » EFTA00032346 Staffing Co. For Clifford Chance Strikes Deal To End DOJ Case A New York staffing firm has agreed to pay more than $27,000 to resolve the U.S. Department of Justice's claims that it discriminated against foreign and dual citizens while helping international law firm Clifford Chance LLP staff a project, according to a settlement agreement published Tuesday. Read full article » Interview 15 Minutes With The San Francisco 49ers' General Counsel As the NFL is pulled into discussions about protests during the national anthem over police brutality and racial injustice, Hannah Gordon sees it as an "intellectually stimulating exercise" for the 49ers to help facilitate national conversations. Here, she discusses her involvement in this year's Super Bowl, and the ways she has seen the role of women in sports change. 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