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From: New York Law360 <news-alt@law360.com> To: Subject: Harvard, NYU Law Reviews Biased Against White Men, Suit Says Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2018 07:31:30 +0000 tlaw360 New York NEW YORK Wednesday, October 10, 2018 Law360 TOP NEWS c lAaw360 Pro Say Podcast Hoops Recruit's Dad Tells Jury Cash Wasn't Only Factor The father of former University of Louisville recruit Brian "Tugs" Bowen told a Manhattan jury Tuesday that the hoops powerhouse was the right place for his son regardless of cash payments he received, as lawyers for three men accused of funneling illegal secret payments from Adidas to the basketball dad pushed the narrative that they had no criminal intent. Read full article » Harvard, NYU Law Reviews Biased Against White Men: Suit The law reviews at Harvard Law School and the New York University School of Law discriminate against white men when selecting their members and which articles they will publish, according to a pair of suits filed in Massachusetts and New York federal courts. Read full article » Listen to our new podcast here Ex-Goldman CEO Aide Accused In Wine Theft Leaps To Death LAW FIRMS A former assistant to the CEO of Goldman Sachs who was expected to plead guilty on Tuesday to stealing $1.2 million in rare wines from his former Alston & Bird employer was found dead at a Manhattan hotel that afternoon in an apparent Arnold & Porter suicide. Read full article » Belkin Burden Brown Law Firm Royal Park Can't Revive $3.7B RMBS Suit, NY Court Rules Cassin & Cassin A New York appellate court said Tuesday that a lower court was right to toss Royal Park Investments SA/NV's $3.7 billion suit accusing four major banks Clifford Chance of committing fraud in connection with the sale of residential mortgage- Cravath Swaine backed securities, finding the Belgian bank did not have standing to bring Davis Polk negligence and fraud claims. Read full article » Donnelly Conroy 2nd Circ. Mulls Unsettled McDonnell Issues In Guinean Case Dorsey & Whitney A convicted former Guinean mining minister's attorney told an appeals court Fried Frank panel on Tuesday that the Supreme Court's McDonnell ruling should apply to Greenberg Traurig foreign bribery law, leading one appellate judge to muse that the Second Hengeler Mueller Circuit has yet to limit the ruling to specific laws. Read full article Jones Day INSURANCE Kellogg Hansen Kennedys CMK Insurer Must Pay $1.2M In Tainted Milk Row, 2nd Circ. Told Kent Beatty Harleysville Worcester Insurance Co. on Tuesday urged the Second Circuit to Korein Tillery uphold a ruling that it is entitled to reimbursement from Wesco Insurance Co. Latham & Watkins for nearly $1.2 million Harleysville shelled out defending and settling two suits accusing a trucking company of delivering contaminated milk to a dairy plant, LeClairRyan saying that Wesco forfeited its primary arguments. Read full article » Lee Litigation Group Loeb & Loeb SECURITIES & WHITE COLLAR Manatt Phelps EFTA00032964 Meister Seelig & Fein Ex-Marks Paneth Accountant Charged In $2M IP Scheme Morgan Lewis Federal authorities in Florida have arrested the former managing partner of a Manhattan accounting firm on charges he defrauded investors of $2 million Moskowitz LLP through a sham intellectual property company he created. Read full article » Nexsen Pruet Nijman Franzetti Shareholder Fires Back At Dismissal Bids In 6D Global Suit Norton Rose Fulbright A 6D Global Technologies Inc. shareholder on Friday swatted back at a trio of Ogletree Deakins dismissal bids in New York federal court, deriding "feeble attempts" by the company, its former directors and a private equity firm's CEO to escape Otterbourg PC claims that they allowed the digital marketing company's share price to be Pinsent Masons manipulated. Read full article » Riker Danzig Robbins Geller PRODUCT LIABILITY Sidley Austin Starbucks Sued Over White Chocolate Energy Drink Labeling Spolzino Smith A New York Starbucks customer is suing the coffee chain in Manhattan Sullivan & Cromwell federal court, claiming it has deliberately deceived customers by selling white Tarter Krinsky chocolate-flavored energy drinks that do not contain white chocolate. Read Weil Gotshal full article » Willkie Farr INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY COMPANIES Instagram Art Show Was Fair Use, Richard Prince Says Adidas AG Visual artist Richard Prince is pushing to end copyright litigation over his Agri-Mark Inc. Instagram-themed art exhibit, arguing he was allowed to display largely Altman Weil Inc. unaltered versions of other artists' images because he used them in "a Amazon.com Inc. radically different aesthetic context." Read full article » American Bar Association MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT Ampal-American Israel Corp. Barilla Holding SpA Nicki Minaj Didn't Return Rental Clothes, NY Stylist Claims Barnes & Noble Inc. A professional stylist accused rap star Nicki Minaj in New York state court on Bayer AG Friday of failing to pay for $73,000 worth of clothes and styling services, Bloomberg saying he was now facing "serious financial hardship" because she stiffed CVC Capital Partners him. Read full article » Chicago Bar Association EMPLOYMENT Credit Suisse Group AG Delek Drilling Bloomberg Workers Seek $13.8M In Costs, Fees In OT Suit Deutsche Bank AG A class of Bloomberg LP help desk representatives have told a New York Equifax Inc. federal judge they are entitled to $13.77 million in attorneys' fees and costs in their suit alleging the company wrongfully excluded them from overtime pay, First Republic Bank the same day the parties sought final approval of a settlement in the case. Fordham University Read full article » Goldman Sachs Group Inc. HSBC Holdings PLC III. Atty Accused Of Defaming EB-5 Fund To Chinese Investors HighQ Solutions Ltd. The U.S. Immigration Fund LLC has sued an Illinois attorney, his business partner and a Hong Kong consulting firm for fraud and defamation in New Honeywell International Inc. York state court, alleging they defrauded the EB-5 center out of millions by Instagram Inc. making false statements about the center to Chinese investors seeking EB-5 Intel Corp. visas and inducing them to withdraw their capital from the fund. Read full article » International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes BANKRUPTCY JPMorgan Chase & Co. Kraft Foods Inc. FIKA's Proposed $11M Sale To Ch. 11 Lender Approved LexisNexis Group FIKA, a bankrupt New York City coffee chain inspired by Swedish coffee Linkedln Corp. culture, inched forward Tuesday in its bid to sell the business to its secured Lone Star Funds lender in Chapter 11 for roughly $11.4 million and remain in operation. Read full article » M&T Bank Corp. EFTA00032965 Ampal Reaches $150M Deal To Resolve Gas Row With Egypt Mayo Foundation for Medical Bankrupt Ampal-American Israel Corp. has reached a $150 million deal to Education and Research resolve several arbitrations involving Egypt and two state-owned oil and gas Microsoft Corporation companies — one of which resulted in a $1.033 billion arbitral award against Monsanto Co. Egypt — stemming from a terminated natural gas deal, according to Morgan Stanley documents filed in New York bankruptcy court. Read full article » National Basketball Association CORRECTED: Ex-Exec Of Modi Jewelry Co. Seeks Access To National Collegiate Athletic D&O Coverage Association The ex-president of a company owned by billionaire jeweler Nirav Modi on New York Post Thursday asked a New York bankruptcy court for an order allowing one of his New York Times Co. company's directors and officers insurance to pay for his legal defense, New York University saying the policy proceeds are not estate property. Correction: A previous version of this story incorrectly identified the individual filing the motion. The Noble Energy, Inc. error has been corrected. Read full article » Signature Bank Square Inc. BANKING Starbucks Corporation The Bank of New York Mellon NCUA Seeks Sub To Bring RMBS Suit Against Deutsche Bank Corp. The National Credit Union Administration has urged a New York federal judge U.S. Bancorp to allow the substitution of a new plaintiff to pursue claims against Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. over a number of residential mortgage-backed UBS AG securities trusts, arguing that this swap would address standing issues United Nations Commission on highlighted in a similar suit brought by the agency against U.S. Bank. Read International Trade Law full article » UnitedLex Corp. Wells Fargo & Co. ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNMENT AGENCIES High Court Won't Review NY Honeywell Cleanup Fight Bureau of Citizenship and The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to resurrect a suit by upstate Immigration Services New York residents against Honeywell International Inc. that accused the company of exposing them to "hazardous concentrations of toxic vapor" Delaware Court of Chancery during a cleanup of Onondaga Lake. Read full article » Federal Bureau of Investigation Federal Election Commission REAL ESTATE & DEVELOPMENT Illinois Supreme Court Internal Revenue Service NYC Real Estate Week In Review International Chamber of More than a dozen law firms landed work on the largest New York City Commerce transactions for which deeds were filed last week, with Loeb & Loeb LLP helping Bank of New York Mellon Corp. land a $352 million purchase of an National Credit Union office building one block north of One World Trade Center. Read full article » Administration Securities and Exchange Real Estate Rumors: FPA, Pentaurus, Mautner-Glick Commission FPA Multifamily has reportedly bought an Illinois apartment complex for $65 U.S. Attorneys Office million, real estate investment firm Pentaurus is said to have picked up 60 U.S. Department of Justice Florida town homes for $13 million, and Mautner-Glick has reportedly bought U.S. Environmental Protection two New York residential and retail buildings for $19 million. Read full article Agency U.S. Supreme Court EXPERT ANALYSIS United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York Defamation In Litigation: A Primer On Privileges In NY Under New York law, statements made in court and other litigation-related communications are, in most cases, privileged. But these privileges have limits, and it behooves litigants — particularly those inclined to speak publicly about their cases — to be aware of them, says Jonathan Bloom of Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP. Read full article » Opinion Trump Family Tax History: A Professional Evaluation EFTA00032966 From his perspective as a tax defense attorney for the past 30 years, Steve Moskowitz of Moskowitz LLP weighs in on the allegations of past tax impropriety by the Trump family. Read full article » Knowledge Management: An Unsung Hero Of Legal Innovation As technology evolves, law firms are increasingly looking for ways to improve communication, transparency and service for their clients. Firms should put knowledge management at the core of their value proposition to create a competitive advantage, says Rob MacAdam at HighQ. Read full article » LEGAL INDUSTRY Gains Stall For Female Partners In Numbers, Salaries The number of female equity partners at top law firms has barely budged in more than a decade, with few signs of women making significant inroads into the upper tiers of management or earning as much as men, according to a report from the National Association of Women Lawyers. Read full article » Justice Kavanaugh Not Shy At 1st Supreme Court Arguments Justice Brett Kavanaugh got off to a quick start at the U.S. Supreme Court following a rocky confirmation battle over sexual misconduct claims that divided the nation, asking numerous questions Tuesday at his first pair of oral arguments just days after he was sworn in as President Donald Trump's second appointee to the high court. Read full article » When A Justice's Vote Is Pivotal, Politics Rules: Study A closely divided high court is more likely to hand down decisions that were determined on ideological grounds and were intended to reshape the law, rather than relying on legal precedent, new research shows. Read full article Dorsey & Whitney Names New Managing Partner Minneapolis-based Dorsey & Whitney LLP on Tuesday named Bill Stoeri, a trial lawyer who has worked at the law firm for more than 30 years, as its new managing partner starting next year. Read full article » Feature Chicago Courts Join Judiciary's Sex Harassment Reckoning After disciplining a judge for allegedly sexually harassing a prosecutor, Chicago's court system this month is set to hold its first-ever training on sexual harassment for all of its nearly 400 judges, part of a growing trend in state courts as they grapple with #MeToo. Read full article » Adidas Taps Bayer US Legal Head For New General Counsel The former head of legal for Bayer U.S. has been appointed general counsel of Adidas AG, the Germany-based sportswear manufacturer said Tuesday. Read full article » Interview 15 Minutes With Barilla's Americas General Counsel General counsel of the Americas for Barilla Group, Talita Erickson, recently spoke to Law360 about what she looks for in outside counsel, what she thinks about the billable hour, and the recent regulations that have had the most impact on her business. 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