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From: New York Law360 <news-alt@law360.com> To: Subject: DOJ Beats Gizmodo FOIA Suit Over Trump Wiretap Docs Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2019 07:54:13 +0000 it_aw360 New York NEW YORK Thursday, April 4, 2019 Follow Law360 TOP NEWS `',Law360 Pro Say Podcast DOJ Beats Gizmodo FOIA Suit Over Trump Wiretap Docs The U.S. Department of Justice acted within the law when it told Gizmodo Media Group LLC that the agency couldn't confirm or deny the existence of records related to alleged wiretapping of President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign, a New York federal judge ruled Wednesday. Read full article » Ex-Long Island Pol Pleads Guilty To Tax Evasion Scheme A former Long Island councilman pled guilty Wednesday to tax fraud in connection with a scheme to divert funds from a law firm he worked for to a company he had sole control over. Read full article » Listen to our new podcast here Appraisal 'Inappropriate' In Geico Coverage Suit: 2nd Circuit LAW FIRMS Geico can't appraise damage to a vehicle at the center of a proposed class 1-800-Law-Firm action alleging that the insurance company unlawfully undervalues totaled Aaronson Rappaport vehicles, the Second Circuit ruled Wednesday, finding appraisal inappropriate to resolve policy interpretation disputes. Abrams Fensterman Read full article » Adam Leitman Allen & Overy NY Firm Escapes Claims Of Shady Debt Collection Practices Arguedas Gassman A New York law firm did not violate federal debt collection laws or state BakerHostetler deceptive practices laws when it sued a man for $50,000 owed to a nursing Ballard Spahr home, but it's too soon to say whether it ran afoul of a legal ethics statute, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. Brown Rudnick Read full article » Bryan Cave Call & Jensen POLICY & REGULATION DLA Piper Davis Wright Tremaine House Says Private Email Off-Limits In Collins Case Foley Hoag The U.S. House of Representatives has urged a New York federal court to adopt a broader interpretation of the Constitution's speech or debate clause Glancy Prongay than the government has presented in its insider trading case against U.S. Godosky & Gentile Rep. Christopher Collins, implying prosecutors overstepped their bounds in Gutride Salter seizing legislative materials. Hausfeld Read full article » Hooper Lundy SECURITIES & WHITE COLLAR Jones Day Jorge Guttlein & Associates Rakoff Asked To Bar Fair Market Claim In Insider Trading Case Kase & Druker Katten Muchin EFTA00032913 Prosecutors shouldn't be allowed to tell jurors that the stock market is King & Spalding supposed to be a "level playing field," counsel for a former analyst set to Klee Tuchin stand trial for allegedly tipping off friends to an $11 billion merger told U.S. Latham & Watkins District Judge Jed S. Rakoff on Tuesday. Read full article » Lazer Aptheker CONSUMER PROTECTION Meister Seelig & Fein Meriwether & Tharp Arizona Hit With Suit Over Ginseng Labels On Green Tea Miller Law Offices Buyers of Arizona tea filed a proposed class action against the beverage Orrick Herrington company Tuesday, claiming its "Green Tea with Ginseng and Honey" drinks Parness Law Firm do not actually contain ginseng. Podhurst Orseck Read full article » Proskauer Rose INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY Quinn Emanuel Rivkin Radler Pinduoduo Wants Out Of Investor Suit Over Counterfeit Goods Robbins Arroyo Pinduoduo Inc. said Tuesday that investors suing the e-commerce company Ropes & Gray for allegedly misrepresenting its ability to quell the third-party sale of Rosen Law Firm PA counterfeit goods on its platform are simply trying to twist securities laws "into an all-purpose insurance for investors." Sanford Heisler Sharp Read full article » Scott + Scott Seyfarth Shaw TeeFLii, 2 Chainz's '24 Hours' Copies '90s Song, Suit Says Skadden TeeFLii and 2 Chainz's hit 2014 song "24 Hours" copied its music from Robin Smith Villazor S.' 1993 song "Back It Up," the owners of the older song have alleged in a Squire Patton Boggs copyright infringement suit. Read full article » Stroock & Stroock White & Case EMPLOYMENT Willkie Farr WilmerHale WTA Gender Pay Spat With Madrid Tournament Reopened The Women's Tennis Association has another chance to stop a lawsuit COMPANIES challenging its policy that male and female winners be paid the same Amazon.com Inc. amounts after a Spanish tournament operator reneged on plans to dismiss Amerex Group Inc. the suit, a New York federal judge has ruled. Bank of America Corp. Read full article » BuzzFeed Inc. MLB Says Umpire Can't Discuss Racial Bias Suit With Media CCC Information Services Inc. Major League Baseball is asking a New York federal court to deny an Citigroup Inc. umpire's motion for clearance to speak with the media about his racial Elliott Management Corp. discrimination claims against the league, saying the court can't judge if his Epic Records statements cross a legal line until he says them. Facebook Read full article » Geico COMPETITION Gizmodo Media Group LLC Global Atlantic Financial Group Ltd. Attys Shouldn't Get $300M Slice Of Forex Deal, Objector Says JPMorgan Chase & Co. The sole objector to a $300 million fee award for the firms that scored an Kobalt Music Group Ltd. investor class billions of dollars in settlements from banks in the sweeping Linkedln Corp. forex scandal is asking the Second Circuit to cut that award by $112 million. Read full article )> Long Island Power Authority Major League Baseball Inc. BANKRUPTCY Miramax Film Corp. Morgan Stanley Sizmek Can Pay Workers As It Fields Ch. 11 Purchase Bids National Fuel Gas Co. Bankrupt advertising tech firm Sizmek Inc. received court approval National Grid PLC Wednesday to continue paying its domestic employees for the next three weeks as it works on selling substantially all its assets, which the company's New York City Bar Association lawyers say have fielded interest from more than two dozens parties. New York University EFTA00032914 Read full article » Northeastern University IMMIGRATION PacifiCorp Pine Brook Partners LLC 2nd Circ. Revives Man's Bid To Pause His Deportation Case Rocket Fuel Inc. The Second Circuit gave a Mexican citizen a second shot to stop his S&P Global Inc. deportation, finding Wednesday that he is not required to prove that his U visa application for victims of crimes will be processed in a "reasonable" Sony Music Entertainment Inc. amount of time in order to postpone his removal proceedings while the Spotify Technology SA application is pending. StubHub Inc. Read full article » The Sherwin-Williams Co. The Valspar Corporation ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL Twitter Inc. Long Island Power Authority Can't Shake $100M Sandy Suit Vector Capital LP Long Island's public power utility and its contractor must face negligence VVTA Tour Inc. claims brought by property owners over an estimated $100 million in damage Wynn Resorts Ltd. caused by electrical equipment left fully energized while Hurricane Sandy YouTube Inc. clobbered the Rockaway Peninsula, a New York state judge has ruled. eBay Inc. Read full article » GOVERNMENT AGENCIES FERC Won't Reconsider NY Pipeline Authority Ruling Bureau of Citizenship and The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission relied on a recent D.C. Circuit Immigration Services decision Tuesday when it upheld its conclusion that New York state environmental regulators waived their authority to deny a Clean Water Act Federal Aviation Administration permit for a $455 million natural gas pipeline project by blowing a one-year Federal Bureau of Investigation deadline. Federal Energy Regulatory Read full article » Commission Hoopa Valley Tribe REAL ESTATE & DEVELOPMENT Internal Revenue Service Massachusetts Gaming Seyfarth Steers Mack-Cali's $487M Sale Of Office, Flex Assets Commission Mack-Cali said Wednesday it closed the sale of its office and flexible space New York State Department of portfolio, bringing in $487.5 million as the Seyfarth Shaw LLP-led real estate Environmental Conservation investment trust looks to focus its attention on waterfront office and residential spaces. New York State Department of Read full article » Taxation and Finance Securities and Exchange Atty Suspended For Urging Client's Tenant To Kill Himself Commission A real estate attorney who encouraged a tenant of his client to kill himself and Solicitors Regulation Authority who burst into an arbitration hearing, snapping pictures and making threats, U.S. Attorneys Office has been suspended from practicing law for four months, according to a New U.S. Department of Homeland York court order. Security Read full article » U.S. Department of Justice PEOPLE U.S. House of Representatives U S Supreme Court Squire Patton Boggs Grabs Litigation Partner From DLA Piper United States Bankruptcy Court for Squire Patton Boggs has boosted its global litigation practice by bringing in the Southern District of New York partner Joe Alonzo from DLA Piper to work in its New York office, the firm United States District Court for the announced Wednesday. Southern District of New York Read full article » King & Spalding Adds Stroock Insurance M&A Pro In NY A Stroock partner with an "eclectic" insurance-transactional practice has moved to King & Spalding's New York Office, he told Law360 Wednesday, citing the latter's attractiveness to private equity clients increasingly hungry for insurance-related investments. Read full article » EFTA00032915 Ex-Proskauer Tax Atty Joins Brown Rudnick's Tax Group Brown Rudnick LLP has announced that a former Proskauer Rose LLP attorney has joined the firm as a partner in its tax practice group based in New York. Read full article » LEGAL INDUSTRY Kavanaugh's Law School Gig Faces Student Backlash Students at George Mason University are demanding that the school reverse its decision to hire U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh as a law school lecturer this summer in light of decades-old sexual misconduct claims against him that surfaced during his confirmation hearing. Read full article » Senate Rules Axed To Speed Judicial, Administration Picks Senate Republicans voted to ax the chamber's nominee debate rules Wednesday, potentially opening the floodgates for dozens of President Donald Trump's trial judge and lower-level administrative nominees to be confirmed. Read full article » Ex-Jones Day Associates Hit Firm With $200M Bias Suit A group of former Jones Day associates hit the BigLaw powerhouse with a $200 million pregnancy and gender discrimination suit Wednesday, accusing the firm of systematically underpaying women, devaluing the work of female associates and pushing out lawyers who have children. Read full article » Analysis GC Missteps Loom Large In Mass. Regulator's Wynn Probe Executives in the legal division of Wynn Resorts were among those flagged in a regulator's report detailing how sexual abuse allegations against ex-CEO and Chairman Steve Wynn were swept under the rug. Here, Law360 looks at how those attorneys may have failed to serve their ultimate client, the company. Read full article » Stars, BigLaw Atty Make 'Varsity Blues' Court Debut Hollywood stars Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman, along with ex-Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP co-chair Gordon Caplan, faced a federal judge for the first time Wednesday after being charged in the "Varsity Blues" college admissions scandal, attracting a crush of media and autograph-seekers to the waterfront Boston courthouse. Read full article » Allen & Overy Atty For Weinstein Referred For Discipline An Allen & Overy attorney has been referred to a U.K. disciplinary tribunal following an investigation into alleged misconduct connected to the representation of disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein and the use of nondisclosure agreements to hush up allegations of sexual assault. Read full article » Court Staffer's Happy Hour Sparks Recusal Bid A Georgia man has asked a state court judge to remove herself from his divorce case, saying a member of the judge's staff never disclosed that she attends a monthly happy hour with a lawyer at the firm representing his ex- wife, even when she was asked. Read full article » EFTA00032916 Amazon Atty Joins StubHub As New General Counsel StubHub has snagged former Amazon attorney Stephanie Burns to be its new vice president and general counsel, the online ticket exchange company announced Wednesday. Read full article » Interview Law Firm Leaders: Bryan Cave's Mayhew And Pritchard Wednesday marks the one-year anniversary of the transatlantic merger that formed Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner. The law firm's top leaders, Therese Pritchard and Lisa Mayhew, sat down recently with Law360 to chat about the combination and the law firm's future. 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