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August 01, 2025
NC Brewery Pares Partnership Rift With Music Operator
An Asheville brewery has whittled down a live music operator's lawsuit over their sunk partnership to form an entertainment venue after a North Carolina Business Court judge ruled the pair had no fiduciary relationship.
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July 31, 2025
Compass Minerals Investors Get Final OK For $48M Deal
A Kansas federal judge on Thursday granted final approval to a $48 million settlement between salt producer Compass Minerals International and investors who claim they were harmed by the company's failure to maintain sufficient production levels at its Canadian mine.
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July 31, 2025
Walnut Co. Says Firm Misled Court To Lead Super Micro Case
A Hagens Berman client who lost the fight against Universal Investment to lead investor claims against Super Micro Computer has blasted the fund's opposition to its bid for a California federal judge to reconsider the denial, arguing Universal's attorneys from聽Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP have a "documented history" of "misleading courts."
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July 31, 2025
Tyson Says Interference Claim 'Lays Bare' Burford's Greed
Tyson Foods urged an Illinois federal judge on Thursday to reject Burford Capital's bid to ditch allegations聽that the litigation funder improperly thwarted a near-final price-fixing settlement with Sysco Corp., arguing the counterclaim "lays bare" Burford's systematic effort to obtain a greater investment return.
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July 31, 2025
Insurer Avoids Businesses' COVID-19 Coverage Claims
A property insurer for numerous restaurants, bars and other small businesses owes no coverage for their consolidated business interruption claims related to the COVID-19 pandemic, an Illinois federal court ruled, looking to the laws of Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota and Tennessee.
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July 31, 2025
NYSE Parent May Buy Enverus For $6B, Plus More Rumors
A Milwaukee-based advisory firm is in late talks for a stake sale at a $1 billion valuation, Black Rock Coffee Bar files confidentially for an initial public offering at a similar value, and the Intercontinental Exchange is in talks to buy Enverus for $6 billion. Here, 极速赛车 breaks down these and other notable rumors from the past week.
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July 30, 2025
Honest Co.'s $27.5M Investor Deal Gets Final OK
An investor class action against The Honest Co. Inc., the "clean lifestyle" brand founded by actress Jessica Alba, has gotten a final nod for a $27.5 million deal to end claims that the company did not disclose certain negative business trends ahead of its 2021 initial public offering.
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July 30, 2025
6th Circ. Unsure It Can Toss Papa John's Leaked Audio Suit
The Sixth Circuit grappled Wednesday with the fate of a lawsuit that the founder of Papa John's brought against a marketing agency alleging it leaked comments that led to his resignation, with one judge questioning the appellate court's jurisdiction to decide if a valid confidentiality agreement existed.
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July 30, 2025
Celsius Cans Accidentally Filled With Vodka Drink, Recall Says
Alcoholic beverage company High Noon said Tuesday it accidentally got shipped some Celsius energy drink cans, filled them with vodka seltzer and shipped them to retailers in several states, in a recall notice that was also published by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
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July 30, 2025
Cinemark Calls Suit Alleging Exaggerated Beer Size Meritless
Cinemark USA Inc. asked a Texas federal court to toss a proposed class action alleging that the movie theater company ripped off thirsty moviegoers by advertising 24-ounce beer cups that in reality only contained 22 ounces, saying the plaintiff failed to allege damages over $5 million.
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July 30, 2025
Blue Bell Class Seeks Settlement Records In Derivative Suit
Attorneys for a Blue Bell Creameries USA Inc. stockholder class sought a Delaware Court of Chancery order compelling access to records concerning a $60 million settlement of liability claims after a deadly ice cream contamination incident in 2015.
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July 30, 2025
Texas Senate Again Approves Ban On Hemp-Derived THC
Texas state senators on Wednesday once again gave approval to a legislative proposal to ban products with THC derived from hemp.聽
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July 30, 2025
Wiggin And Dana Adds Real Estate Partner From Polsinelli
Law firm Wiggin and Dana LLP said Vasiliki Yiannoulis-Riva has joined as partner from Polsinelli PC in its real estate, environmental, construction and facilities department.
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July 30, 2025
4th Circ. Backs Farm Worker's $2.5M Award For Amputation
The Fourth Circuit affirmed a $2.5 million jury verdict favoring a former North Carolina farm worker who lost his lower leg to a grain silo auger, finding the farm tried to raise new arguments on appeal that were never before the district court.
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July 29, 2025
Ex-United Food President Can't Ditch Investor's Suit
A New York federal judge has rejected a motion for judgment on the pleadings brought by the former president of United Natural Foods Inc. in a proposed securities fraud class action, finding shareholders have sufficiently shown at this point that the former executive had control and culpable participation in allegedly misleading statements.
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July 29, 2025
Jack Daniel's Toy TM Win Violates Free Speech, 9th Circ. Told
The maker of a dog toy parodying Jack Daniel's iconic whiskey bottle has urged the Ninth Circuit to reverse a finding that its "Bad Spaniels" toy tarnishes Jack Daniel's mark, arguing the ruling constitutes unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination over "mild poo jokes" that weren't similar to famous Jack Daniel's marks.
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July 29, 2025
Fight Over End To Migrant Parole May Be Moot, 1st Circ. Hints
The First Circuit grappled Tuesday with whether the Trump administration could elect to abruptly end a Biden-era immigration parole program, even as it appeared to acknowledge that as a practical matter, the measure could die of attrition before the question is answered.
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July 29, 2025
$32M Verdict Holds Up In Curaleaf Pot Farm Dispute
A Michigan federal judge on Tuesday said he was "waving goodbye" to a years-old case as he denied Curaleaf units' bid to unravel a $32 million verdict in favor of a marijuana farm that alleged the companies breached a sales contract, finding the jury had enough evidence to support its decisions.
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July 29, 2025
3rd Circ. Says DOL H-2A Case Should Have Been In Fed. Court
A New Jersey farm was entitled to have a federal court weigh in on the U.S. Department of Labor's allegations that it flouted H-2A visa program requirements, the Third Circuit ruled Tuesday, finding the DOL improperly relied on in-house administrative proceedings to impose over $580,000 in fines.
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July 29, 2025
Hershey Tries To Sink Suit Over Spicy Chip Blamed For Death
The Hershey Company has asked a Massachusetts federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit brought by the family of a teen who died after participating in a viral social media trend dubbed the "One Chip Challenge," which involved consuming an extremely spicy tortilla chip, saying the product is legal and includes "prominent warning labels."
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July 29, 2025
USDA Seeks End To Pa. Suit Over $13M Food Aid Cut
The U.S. Department of Agriculture wants a federal judge to throw out a lawsuit filed by Pennsylvania's governor accusing the USDA of haphazardly cutting off $13 million in food aid that supports local farmers.
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July 29, 2025
Worker Caused Own Drunk Driving Death, Conn. Court Told
A woman who died in a drunk driving crash after an allegedly mandatory wine tasting event at the Connecticut restaurant where she worked is responsible for her own death because she drank too much and failed to obey traffic laws, the defendants in her estate's lawsuit said in their answer to the complaint.
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July 29, 2025
Jones Day Hires Former Pharma Co. Counsel In DC
Jones Day has hired a former Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP partner, who has also worked in-house at two pharmaceutical companies and with the