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From: White Collar Law360 <news@law360.com> To: < Subject: Roger Stone's Fine, Supervision Term Also Lifted By Trump Date: "Cue, 14 Jul 2020 08:00:08 +0000 , ,,l_aw360 White Collar WHITE COLLAR Tuesday, July 14, 2020 Gtfollow Law360 TOP NEWS ; t2,Law360 Practice Groups of the Roger Stone's Fine, Supervision Term Also Lifted By Trump Year The details of Republican political operative Roger Stone's commutation came to light Monday, showing that President Donald Trump wiped out Stone's supervised release and fine along with his prison sentence. 1 document attached I Read full article » Berman Resists Talking Motives For Ouster In New Transcript Former Manhattan U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman resisted attempts by members of the House Judiciary Committee to get him to speculate on the possible reasons for his controversial ouster last month, according to a transcript of last week's closed-door congressional hearing made public on Monday. Transcript attached l Read full article » LAW FIRMS Have Too Many Cases? Judge Leon Doesn't Want To Hear It Bleichmar Fonti A government attorney wanted U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon to Boies Schiller consider deadlines she faces in other cases before he issues a scheduling Brannock & Humphries order in a suit over a sex trafficking law, but the D.C. federal judge offered no Buckley LLP sympathy Monday, firing back that the administration has the staff to help her meet the deadlines. Crowell & Moring Read full article » Davis Wright Tremaine Dressman Benzinger Weinstein Atty Defends Press Tactics That Sparked Gag Order Duane Morris Harvey Weinstein lawyer Donna Rotunno said Monday she had no choice but Epstein Becker Green to take her advocacy to the press during his sex assault trial, even though the FeganScott practice eventually prompted a judge to enter a gag order against her team Fenwick & West during jury deliberations. Foley & Lardner Read full article » Gibson Dunn Weinstein Accusers Call $19M Class Deal 'A Cruel Hoax' Goodwin Several of Harvey Weinstein's accusers have lodged their opposition to the Greenberg Traurig proposed $18.9 million settlement the Hollywood producer and convicted Hagens Berman rapist reached to end a putative class action in New York alleging he sexually Hill Ward Henderson abused dozens of women, on Monday calling the deal "a cruel hoax" that would benefit Weinstein more than his accusers. Hogan Lovells 3 documents attached I Read full article » Hutchinson Black Jackson Lewis DOJ Shuts Down Websites Shilling 'False' COVID-19 Vaccines Keller Rohrback A Kentucky federal judge on Monday ordered the shutdown of a series Kirkland & Ellis of related websites and a Facebook page offering preregistration for a Kupferstein Manuel EFTA00032951 nonexistent COVID-19 vaccine in exchange for $100 worth of bitcoin after the Latham & Watkins Louisville man prosecutors claim is behind the scam agreed to a preliminary Lewis Brisbois injunction. Marie A. Mattox PA 2 documents attached I Read full article » McDermott Will SUPREME COURT REVIEW Morris Nichols Feature O'Melveny & Myers Paul Hastings The Sharpest Dissents From The Supreme Court Potter Anderson Term Pryor Cashman The majority of this term's dissents came from the court's right- Rheingold Giuffra leaning justices, and many of their sharpest critiques stemmed from Scott & Corley suits over Trump administration policies. Here, Law360 looks at Seward & Kissel some of the fieriest. Seyfarth Shaw Read full article » Todd & Weld Feature Whistleblower Law Collaborative Wigdor LLP The Chattiest Justice Of The Term Is ... WilmerHale One justice again stood out as the chattiest member of the Supreme Court this term. But that jurist's talk was tempered when COMPANIES the coronavirus pandemic forced the court to close its doors and American Bar Association conduct remote oral arguments, which were livestreamed for the Associated Press first time in history. Booking.com BV Read full article » Boston University Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Feature Network The Funniest Moments Of The Supreme Court's Chevron Corp. Term Deloitte Touche Electronic Frontier Foundation Justice Stephen Breyer conjured up a baffling hypothetical involving a Roman emperor, Chief Justice John Roberts stepped up his Ernst & Young LLP game on popular slang, and a toilet flushed loudly as a Latham & Facebook Inc. Watkins lawyer discussed constitutional rights. Here, Law360 Fossil Group Inc. highlights the most mirthful moments from this past term's U.S. HCP Inc. Supreme Court arguments. Institute for Justice Read full article » Integreon Managed Solutions Inc. KPMG International PUBLIC INTEGRITY Law Enforcement Employees Benevolent Association NY Police Union Boss Charged With Defrauding Annuity Fund Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. Manhattan federal prosecutors on Monday accused the head of a New York City law enforcement union of defrauding members by raiding the union's LexisNexis Group retirement fund. Linkedln Corp. Read full article » Morgan Stanley NantKwest Inc. LEGAL ETHICS Netflix Inc. New York City Bar Association Panama Papers Attys Fight Netflix Bid To Nix Defamation Suit Novartis AG The attorneys whose now-defunct firm Mossack Fonseca was involved in the Panama Papers scandal asked a California federal judge to reject Netflix's Outokumpu bid for dismissal of a suit alleging its movie "The Laundromat" was PricewaterhouseCoopers defamatory. International Ltd. 2 documents attached I Read full article » Questcor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. RELX PLC HEALTH Spartan Race Inc. Thomson Reuters Corp. EFTA00032952 6th Circ. Won't Overturn Pill Mill Operator's Conviction Twitter Inc. The Sixth Circuit on Friday upheld the conviction of a Michigan man for University of Southern California running an opioid pill mill, saying a jury instruction did not wrongly lead jurors Washington Post Co. to think that the standard required by "reasonable doubt" was lower than it actually is. GOVERNMENT AGENCIES Opinion attached I Read full article » Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Mallinckrodt Aims To Nix Medicaid FCA Suit Over Acthar Gel Commodity Futures Trading The government is wrongly conflating fraud with a regulatory disagreement, Commission Mallinckrodt ARD LLC told a Massachusetts federal court Monday, urging a Federal Communications judge to toss False Claims Act claims centering on its pricey H.P. Acthar Gel Commission drug, which treats infantile spasms and other conditions. Federal Trade Commission Memorandum attached I Read full article Food and Drug Administration Internal Revenue Service SPORTS & BETTING New York Attorney General's Office California Couple Cops To 'Varsity Blues' Charges U.S. Attorney's Office A California couple will plead guilty to charges in the "Varsity Blues" college U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth admissions scandal, becoming the 27th and 28th parents to admit their guilt Circuit in the high-profile case in a pair of plea agreements filed late Friday. U.S. Department of Homeland 2 documents attached I Read full article » Security U.S. Department of Justice EXPERT ANALYSIS U.S. District Court for the Central District of California 5 Compliance Lessons From Novartis' FCPA Settlement U.S. District Court for the District of Novartis' parallel settlements with the U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Massachusetts Securities and Exchange Commission to resolve criminal Foreign Corrupt U.S. District Court for the Northern Practices Act allegations emphasize risk points for life sciences companies, District of California especially for repeat offenders, say attorneys at Paul Hastings. U.S. District Court for the Southern Read full article » District of New York Opinion U.S. District Court for the Western Criminal Contempt Charges In Donziger Case Are Excessive District of Kentucky We are deeply troubled by many aspects of a New York federal judge's U.S. House of Representatives criminal contempt case against human rights attorney Steven Donziger, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office including extraordinary and unfair pretrial home confinement, say retired U.S. U.S. Securities and Exchange District Judges Nancy Gertner and Mark Bennett. Commission Read full article » U.S. Senate U.S. Supreme Court Alleged ICO Fraud Highlights Compliance Considerations Parallel U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission fraud charges connected with NAC Foundation's digital currency offering draw attention to the use of undercover agents in financial crime investigations, the risk of retaining questionable service providers, and heightened securities law scrutiny in the space, says Casey O'Neill at Fenwick. 2 documents attached I Read full article » Associates Can Prioritize Biz Development Despite Pandemic Although many traditional business development activities are on hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic, associates should seize the unique opportunities of this time to cultivate business by strengthening their personal and professional relationships, and developing new ones, says Jeremy Schneider at Jackson Lewis. Read full article » LEGAL INDUSTRY EFTA00032953 Deloitte Expands Legal Business Services Unit To US Deloitte is stepping up its alternative legal business service offerings in the U.S. with the launch of a new practice that will offer legal management consulting and technology services to companies, the Big Four accounting firm announced Monday. Read full article » Many In Atty Ranks Down About The Future Of Their Industry Less than half of attorneys and legal industry professionals feel positive about the future of the industry, according to a new survey by mentoring organization MOSAIC Collective, with the biggest concerns being technology, economic uncertainty and the industry's ability to adapt to change. Read full article » Facebook Vies To Keep Gibson Dunn Probe Out Of Discovery Facebook urged a California federal magistrate judge Monday to reject efforts by users suing over the Cambridge Analytica scandal to review a Gibson Dunn-led investigation, saying the law firm's look into possible misbehavior by some Facebook developers is largely protected by attorney-client privilege. Read full article » Boies Schiller Adds Bankruptcy Attys In NY, London Boies Schiller Flexner LLP has added the former head of derivatives bankruptcy strategy at Lehman Brothers Holdings and the former executive director of distressed special situations at Nomura International PLC to its New York and London offices, respectively, the firm announced Monday. Read full article » Foley & Lardner Can Foreclose On $29M Condo Loan Foley & Lardner has standing to foreclose on a $29 million loan for a condominium development, a Florida appeals court has ruled, after finding that the law firm was the successor in interest to the loan servicer under an asset management agreement. Read full article » 'Grim Reaper' Atty Blasts Fla. Gov.'s Virus 'Inaction' In Appeal A Florida attorney who has made waves appearing as the Grim Reaper across the state during the COVID-19 pandemic blasted Gov. Ron DeSantis for his inaction as he urged a state appeals court to revive his case asking the courts to impose beach closures and a statewide stay-at-home order. Read full article » Legal Startup Says Westlaw Wants 'Monopoly' Over Law Texts A legal research startup called ROSS Intelligence fired back Monday at a copyright lawsuit filed by Westlaw owner Thomson Reuters, accusing the bigger company of seeking "a monopoly over access to public legal texts." Read full article » Interview 15 Minutes With Spartan Race's General Counsel Spartan Race in mid-June held its first U.S. event since the outbreak of the coronavirus, though the competition was "extremely modified" to ensure safety, said general counsel Deanna Sheridan. Here, she explains some of the biggest challenges her organization is facing and how she envisions future obstacle race course events will look. Read full article » EFTA00032954 JOBS Search full listings or advertise your job opening Attorney NYC ELITE FULL SERVICE SMALL FIRM U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission SEEKS PARTNERS Washington. District of Columbia Schoen Legal Search New York, New York White Plains boutique seeks associate MID TO SENIOR LEVEL PARTNER TRACK litigator (3-7 yrs) CORPORATE ASSOCIATE KLR Davis www.dunnington.com White Plains, New York New York, New York Not sure if your firm subscribe? Ask your librarian. We hope you found this message to be useful. 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