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From: New York Law360 <news-alt@law360.com> To: > Subject: UN Bribery Ruling Further Defines The Limits Of McDonnell Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2019 09:24:32 +0000 ;law360 New York NEW YORK Monday, August 12, 2019 Law360 TOP NEWS ;law360 Pro Say Podcast Analysis UN Bribery Ruling Further Defines The Limits Of McDonnell The Second Circuit closed the door on defendants hoping to invoke the U.S. Supreme Court's McDonnell ruling in Foreign Corrupt Practices Act cases — a decision showing the ruling does not apply across the spectrum of corruption prosecutions as some defense attorneys had hoped. Read full article » 2nd Circ. Says McDonnell Rule Doesn't Apply In FCPA Cases The high bar for certain corruption cases the U.S. Supreme Court set in McDonnell does not apply to prosecutions under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the Second Circuit ruled Friday, affirming the conviction of a Listen to our new podcast here Chinese real estate developer for bribing United Nations officials. Opinion attached I Read full article » LAW FIRMS Advisors LLC Ex-KPMG Accountant Gets 8 Months For Inspection Plan Theft Akin Gump A Manhattan federal judge on Friday sentenced a former KPMG accountant from Texas, who admitted poaching confidential inspection plans from the Arent Fox Public Company Accounting Oversight Board and giving them to KPMG, to Armstrong Teasdale eight months in prison. Arnold & Porter Read full article » Baker Marquart Ballard Spahr NYT Wins Toss Of Arpaio's $147M Defamation Suit Christian & Barton A Washington, D.C., federal judge on Friday threw out a $147.5 million defamation suit brought by Joe Arpaio against The New York Times, saying Clark Hill the former sheriff of Arizona's Maricopa County had come "nowhere close" to Cleary Gottlieb proving a crucial aspect of his case. Consovoy McCarthy Order attached I Read full article » Constantine Cannon Cravath Swaine Epstein Dead In Apparent Suicide, As Feds Investigate Crowell & Moring Federal investigators will examine the death of Jeffrey Epstein, the financier DLA Piper charged with sex trafficking underage girls, after officials said he was found dead in his Manhattan federal jail cell on Saturday morning, derailing a Davis Polk blockbuster trial a day after a trove of documents connected to him were Davis Wright Tremaine made public. Debevoise & Plimpton 9 documents attached I Read full article » Dechert Dewey & LeBoeuf Judges Say 'We've Had It' With Attacks On The Judiciary Eisner LLP The time has come for judges to "take more aggressive action" to fight back Ellenoff Grossman against attacks on the judiciary made by President Trump and other Eversheds Sutherland EFTA00032349 politicians, Washington Supreme Court Justice Debra Stephens said Friday, Fine Kaplan speaking on a six-judge panel on the topic. Gibson Dunn Read full article » Goodwin Analysis Cisco's $8.6M Deal Shows Cost Of Ignoring Cyber Flaws Haddon Morgan Cisco's agreement to pay $8.6 million to resolve a whistleblower's allegations Haynes and Boone that it knowingly sold hackable video surveillance gear to government Hunton Andrews Kurth agencies is the first payout in a False Claims Act case brought over Jomarron Lopez cybersecurity, illustrating the growing legal risks of mishandling discovered Jones Day digital flaws. Katten Muchin Read full article » King & Spalding CYBERSECURITY & PRIVACY Kirkland & Ellis Latham & Watkins Delta Sues Software Provider Over Data Breach Law Lyman Delta Airlines sued its customer service chat provider in New York federal Law Offices of Tim Powers court Thursday, accusing it of lax digital security practices that allowed a LeClairRyan hacker to steal the personal information of more than 800,000 people. Complaint attached I Read full article » Luse Gorman Mei & Mark INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY Mitchell Silberberg Morgan Lewis Humvee Says 'Call Of Duty' TM Case Won't Cause 'Mayhem' Morrison & Foerster The automaker behind the Humvee is urging a federal court to reject claims Morvillo Abramowitz that "the world will end" if the company wins its trademark lawsuit against Munger Tolles Activision Blizzard over the appearance of the famous truck in "Call of Duty" video games. Orrick Herrington Memorandum attached I Read full article » Pardalis & Nohavicka Parker McCay NBA Star Sues Over 'Greek Freak' Mark On Hoodies, T-Shirts Patterson Belknap NBA player Giannis Antetokounmpo filed suit in New York federal court on Paul Weiss Friday against a clothing label for infringing on his "Greek Freak" and "Greek Perkins Coie Fr34K" trademarks, both nicknames the athlete said were born of his skill, Quinn Emanuel nationality and jersey number. Rogers Joseph Complaint attached I Read full article » Ropes & Gray 'Grease' Parody Writers Say Fair Use Is The One They Want Sheppard Mullin The Georgia-based comedians behind "Vape: The Musical" asked a New Skadden York federal court on Friday to declare their play eligible for protection from Stevens & Lee copyright infringement claims by the creators of "Grease," claiming their story Thompson Hine is a parody of the iconic theatrical production. Venable LLP Complaint attached I Read full article » Wargo & French SECURITIES & WHITE COLLAR Weil Gotshal Williams & Connolly Ex-Dewey CFO Urges NY Appeals Court To Toss Conviction WilmerHale Former Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP Chief Financial Officer Joel Sanders is urging Winston & Strawn a New York appeals court to throw out his fraud conviction and resulting $1 WolfBlock million fine, arguing that a slew of errors by the court, the prosecution and his former attorneys deprived him of his right to a fair trial. COMPANIES Brief attached I Read full article » AM General LLC AT&T Inc. Ex-Barbados Official Denies Money Laundering Charges Activision Blizzard Inc. A former minister for the government of Barbados on Friday denied charges Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings Inc. stemming from bribes he allegedly took for steering a state contract to an insurance company, ahead of a fall trial on conspiracy and money laundering Altice SA charges. Altice USA Read full article )> Amazon.com Inc. EFTA00032350 Charity Accused Of Iran Sanctions Violations Gets New Trial American Bar Association The Second Circuit on Friday gave a New York charity a second chance to American Civil Liberties Union fight allegations that it violated U.S. sanctions against Iran, scolding a Apple Inc. Manhattan court for allowing the government to present illegally obtained Boenning & Scattergood Inc. evidence at trial. Brigham Young University Opinion attached I Read full article » Charter Communications Inc. COMPETITION Cisco Systems Inc. Comcast Corp. Comcast, AT&T Get Sought T-Mobile/Sprint Info Locks DISH Network LLC Comcast and AT&T have persuaded a New York federal judge to impose Delta Air Lines Inc. stricter safeguards for their sensitive business information submitted in the Deutsche Telekom AG state attorneys generals' case challenging T-Mobile's purchase of Sprint, with the judge upping the level of protection from what the merging companies EisnerAmper LLP had proposed. Federal - Mogul Corporation 1 document attached I Read full article » First Capital, Inc. GNC Corp. BANKING Gerson Lehrman Group Inc. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Wells Fargo Blasts Bankrupt Fund's Bid To Probe Casino IPO Google Inc. Wells Fargo and a group of bondholders who claim they're owed nearly $900 H&R Block Inc. million have blasted a bankrupt hedge fund's request to investigate the contested Macau casino IPO at the heart of the dispute, calling the debtors Health Diagnostic Laboratory Inc. "hopelessly conflicted." Intuit Inc. 1 document attached Read full article KPMG International LexisNexis Group TAX Linkedln Corp. Milwaukee Bucks Trump Tax Return Suit Belongs In NY, State Officials Say Morgan Stanley New York officials on Friday asked a D.C. federal judge to transfer to their state President Donald Trump's suit seeking to bar enforcement of a law NASDAQ OMX Group Inc. allowing Congress access to his state tax returns, saying it lacks a D.C. National Conference of State connection. Legislatures Motion attached I Read full article » New York Times Co. OceanFirst Financial Corp. ProPublica Sues IRS To Release Emails On Private Tax Prep Philadelphia Phillies Nonprofit news organization ProPublica sued the Internal Revenue Service in Piper Jaffray Companies a New York federal court on Friday for the immediate release of documents Public Company Accounting related to the renewal of a partnership between the agency and private Oversight Board industry providers of free online tax filing services. Purdue Pharma LP Complaint attached I Read full article » QUALCOMM Inc. CAPITAL MARKETS RELX PLC Retail Industry Leaders Association 3 Firms Guide OceanFirst Bank Deals Valued At $285M Total Inc. The parent of Toms River, New Jersey-based OceanFirst Bank said Friday Rolls-Royce that it has inked separate agreements totaling roughly $285 million to acquire Sandler O'Neill & Partners LP two fellow banking companies, in deals guided by Skadden, Stevens & Lee SeaWorld Entertainment Inc. and Luse Gorman. Silver Point Capital LP Read full article » Spotify Technology SA Ellenoff-Led Blank Check Co. Nabs $300M IPO For Fintech Buy Sprint Nextel Corporation Blank check company Thunder Bridge Acquisition II Ltd. hit the market State Bar of California Friday, a day after pricing $300 million in an initial public offering the Ellenoff T-Mobile USA Inc. Grossman & Schole LLP-led company says will be used to acquire a Tenneco Inc. business in the financial technology space. Twitter Inc. Read full article » Two River Bancorp EFTA00032351 PEOPLE United Parcel Service Inc. UnitedLex Corp. EXPERT ANALYSIS Wells Fargo & Co. State Net GOVERNMENT AGENCIES How States Are Attending To Medical Balance Billing Bureau of Labor Statistics With emergency room visits involving care from out-of-network providers California Supreme Court sometimes resulting in balance bills reaching thousands of dollars, 32 states this year have taken legislative action, and those that have not are under City of Richmond, Virginia increasing pressure to do so, says Korey Clark of State Net Capitol Journal. Federal Bureau of Investigation Read full article » Federal Bureau of Prisons Federal Communications LEGAL INDUSTRY Commission Federal Judicial Center Global 20: Eversheds Sutherland Federal Trade Commission Continued growth in the U.S. and the U.K., new offices in the Czech Republic Internal Revenue Service and the Netherlands and a client-first attitude world-wide have earned National Aeronautics and Space Eversheds Sutherland a spot on Law360's Global 20 list. Administration Read full article » National Labor Relations Board Analysis New York Attorney General's Office 5 Things To Know As Trial Starts For Ex-Skadden Atty Craig Occupational Safety and Health Former Skadden partner and onetime White House counsel Gregory Craig Administration heads to trial on Monday in a convoluted case involving an analysis he wrote Securities and Exchange six years ago about an overseas criminal prosecution and alleged lies over Commission that work. Here's what attorneys should know about the case. U.S. Army Read full article » U.S. Attorney's Office Analysis U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the As LeClairRyan Folds, What Comes Next For Its Attorneys? Southern District of New York LeClairRyan's announcement that those affected by its closure wouldn't U.S. Court of Appeals for the receive COBRA health care benefits added to mounting worries expressed Second Circuit by the firm's current employees and former members, who say they don't U.S. Department of Homeland expect they'll see much or any of the capital the firm owes them. Security Read full article » U.S. Department of Justice U.S. Department of Labor LeClairRyan Beats Ex-Blood Test Exec's Malpractice Suit U.S. District Court for the Eastern A Virginia state court has thrown out a $603 million malpractice suit against District of New York LeClairRyan brought by the ex-CEO of defunct blood test company Health Diagnostic Laboratory Inc., saying her case rested on arguments that had U.S. District Court for the Southern already been heard and rejected by another court. District of New York Read full article » U.S. House of Representatives U.S. Patent and Trademark Office 2019 Snapshot Of The Legal Profession Shows Slowed Growth U.S. Senate The U.S. attorney population grew at a slower rate during the past two years U.S. Supreme Court than it has during any two-year period in the last century, according to a United Nations report released Saturday at the ABA Annual Meeting in San Francisco. Read full article » 9th Circ. Judge Warns 'Judicial Independence Is At Risk' Accepting an American Bar Association award on Friday, Ninth Circuit Judge M. Margaret McKeown told a room packed with judges and attorneys that recent attacks on judges pose a threat to the rule of law, and urged her colleagues to do more to defend judicial independence. Read full article » How Unauthorized Immigrants Are Fighting To Practice Law Utah could join a small but growing number of states that allow unauthorized immigrants to join the bar, though a looming U.S. Supreme Court case has EFTA00032352 raised new fears among both attorney hopefuls and practicing lawyers without legal status. Read full article » Why Lawyer Well-Being Can Impact Access To Justice Promoting mental health and well-being among public interest attorneys goes beyond creating healthy work environments and has a direct impact on the quality and availability of legal services accessible to low-income people, panelists said Friday at the American Bar Association's annual meeting in San Francisco. Read full article » Dems Tell Trump Tapping Scalia To Head DOL 'Alarming' More than two-dozen House Democrats have urged President Donald Trump to reconsider his nomination of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP attorney Eugene Scalia to lead the U.S. Department of Labor, a move the Democrats called "extremely alarming" because of Scalia's "patent hostility" toward workers' rights. Read full article )> Haynes And Boone's London Growth Leads To New Office Haynes and Boone LLP is relocating to larger offices in London, the Texas- based firm said Thursday, after seeing the number of partners it has in the city double in under three years. Read full article » Wash. Judges Can't Pursue Records Suit On Public's Dime The Washington Supreme Court has ruled that a group of state judges cannot appoint their own taxpayer-funded attorney in order to sue a county clerk in a dispute over digital record-keeping, saying that if the judges wanted to pursue legal action, it should be on their own dime. Read full article » GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week A surge of attorneys are moving to in-house positions in the ever-evolving cannabis space, another tech giant was hit with a proposed privacy class action and Purdue Pharma has argued that the opioid suit it is facing sets a dangerous precedent for corporate directors. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week. Read full article » In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Law360 For those who missed out, here's a look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the most buzz on Law360 last week. Read full article » Podcast Law360's Pro Say: Can Mexico Extradite The El Paso Shooter? Last week's mass shooting in El Paso killed eight Mexican citizens, leading Mexico's government to suggest that it will take the unusual step of seeking to extradite the shooter. 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