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Sports betting giant DraftKings Inc. and purchasers of certain nonfungible tokens it offered have gotten a judge's final sign-off for their $10 million deal ending claims the tokens ran afoul of securities laws.
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DraftKings' $10M Deal With NFT Buyers Gets Final Green Light

By Emilie Ruscoe

Sports betting giant DraftKings Inc. and purchasers of certain nonfungible tokens it offered have gotten a judge's final sign-off for their $10 million deal ending claims the tokens ran afoul of securities laws.

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Crypto Co., NBA Arm Strike $7M Deal Over NFT Privacy Claims

By Katryna Perera

Users of the nonfungible token marketplace known as NBA Top Shot asked a California federal judge Thursday to grant the first green light to a $7.05 million settlement they reached with the marketing arm of the NBA and a cryptocurrency company that will resolve a class action over privacy concerns related to the marketplace.

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MSG Makes Play For $1.5M Fees In Oakley Dispute

By Alex Lawson

Madison Square Garden is seeking $1.5 million in attorney fees from former New York Knicks player Charles Oakley, laying out the efforts it took to uncover Oakley's efforts to destroy text messages connected with his long-running assault and battery suit against the arena.

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Lloyd's, Loan Provider Settle $3M Pitcher Coverage Feud

By Elaine Brise帽o

Lloyd's of London underwriters and loan service provider RockFence Baseball LLC have settled their dispute over coverage for the $3.16 million loan of a former Minnesota Twins pitcher, after a California federal judge ordered the parties into arbitration in January 2024.

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Witness' Use Of 'Fraud' Doesn't Cancel TV Sports Exec's Verdict

By Julie Manganis

The First Circuit rejected arguments by a former executive at the cable channel for the Boston Red Sox and Boston Bruins that a witness' use of the word "fraud" and testimony about his lavish spending tainted the jury that convicted him of a fake invoice scheme.

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INVESTIGATIONS & REVIEWS

West Ham Star Cleared Of Spot-Fixing Matches

By Jamie Lennox

The Football Association said Thursday that an independent panel has cleared West Ham United player Lucas Paquetá of four spot-fixing charges linked to allegations that he had deliberately received yellow cards in four Premier League matches.

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GAMING

NY Gaming Commission Can't Escape Tribal Lottery Row

By Crystal Owens

A federal judge denied a renewed bid by the New York State Gaming Commission to dismiss a challenge by the Cayuga Nation that looks to block the entity from operating lottery games on the tribe's self-proclaimed reservation, saying the commissioners failed to establish a lack of equity jurisdiction.

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LITIGATION

11th Circ. Says 'Urban Cowboy' Can Amend Taken Horses Suit

By Kelcey Caulder

A divided Eleventh Circuit on Thursday granted a Georgia man whose horses were seized by Atlanta-area authorities a fresh shot at amending a lawsuit over the seizure, with the majority saying the lower court wrongly found that amending the suit was futile under the Fifth Amendment's takings clause.

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Injured Motocross Rider's Negligence Suit Teed Up For Trial

By Elaine Brise帽o

A Florida federal judge has denied summary judgment in a lawsuit accusing a motocross event organizer of negligence after an accident at a Supercross Championship race left a professional rider paralyzed, ruling issues of material fact still exist regarding the reach and applicability of the waivers he signed.

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Conn. Atty Pins Failed Redaction On Tech In Gunmaker Suit

By Emily Sawicki

A third party's ability to bypass redactions and view protected documents was due to a software issue, a Connecticut civil litigator has told a federal judge, urging the court not to authorize sanctions for what he said was a "good faith" effort at redacting filings amid his dueling lawsuits with gunmaker Sig Sauer.

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1st Circ. Denies Marathon Bomber's Bid To DQ Trial Judge

By Chris Villani

The First Circuit on Thursday denied a request by convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to have the judge who presided over his 2015 trial removed from conducting a probe into whether some of the jurors who sentenced him to death were biased.

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DEALS

Deals Rumor Mill

NYSE Parent May Buy Enverus For $6B, Plus More Rumors

By Al Barbarino

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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EXPERT ANALYSIS

What To Know About NCAA Deal's Arbitration Provisions

Kathryn Hester at Jones Walker discusses the key dispute resolution provisions of the NCAA's recently approved class action settlement that allows for complex revenue sharing with college athletes, breaking down the arbitration stipulations and explaining how the Northern District of California will handle certain enforcement, administration, implementation and interpretation disputes.

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Series

Playing Soccer Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Soccer has become a key contributor to how I approach my work, and the lessons I’ve learned on the pitch about leadership, adaptability, resilience and communication make me better at what I do every day in my legal career, says Whitney O’Byrne at MoFo.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Legal Job Sector Continued 5-Month Growth Streak In July

By Tracey Read

For the fifth straight month, the U.S. legal industry experienced job growth, adding 600 positions in July, according to preliminary data released on Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Brief

Test-Taker's Collapse At NY Bar Exam Sparks Criticism

By Anna Sanders

New York bar-takers were allegedly forced to continue the test after witnessing a Fordham University School of Law graduate suffer a medical incident and receive CPR while she took the exam, according to the school and accounts posted online by people who said they were present.

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DC Panel Calls For Former DOJ Official Clark's Disbarment

By Phillip Bantz

The majority of a Washington, D.C., lawyer ethics panel has called for the disbarment of Jeffrey Clark, a White House official and ally of President Donald Trump, over his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

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NJ Court Will Mull Legality Of Habba's US Atty Appointment

By Lauren Berg

If Alina Habba was illegally appointed acting U.S. attorney in New Jersey, a pair of defendants in a drug trafficking case are not entitled to dismissal of the indictment, but it "appears appropriate" that Habba would be barred from prosecuting them, a federal judge ruled Friday.

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Politics And Privacy Laws Collide 5 Years After Salas Shooting

By Jack Karp

Five years after a disgruntled litigant killed a New Jersey federal judge's son at their home, experts and judges disagree over whether the judicial privacy laws enacted following the shooting are doing much to protect jurists, while political leaders' heated rhetoric makes for an even more dangerous landscape for judges.

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Analysis

Wheeling & Appealing: Midyear Highlights For Every Circuit

By Jeff Overley

In this special edition of Wheeling & Appealing, we're spotlighting key decisions and developments in every circuit court during the first half of 2025, while also previewing August's most intriguing oral arguments, including a remarkably "fierce" showdown between Edible Arrangements and 1-800-Flowers with millions of dollars in attorney fees on the line.

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1st Circ. Doubtful Of Trump's Stance On Birthright Citizenship

By Chris Villani

The First Circuit on Friday seemed inclined to say that the children of unauthorized immigrants are citizens if they were born on U.S. soil, citing both the 14th Amendment and a subsequent U.S. Supreme Court ruling and pushing back on an argument by President Donald Trump's administration.

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Brief

Ex-Copyright Chief Appeals Denial Of Reinstatement Bid

By Elliot Weld

The former head of the U.S. Copyright Office will appeal a D.C. federal judge's denial of her request to be immediately reinstated to her former position after she was fired by President Donald Trump while her suit remains pending.

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NY Law Mandating Judicial Fine Declared Unconstitutional

By Madison Arnold

A New York state appeals court has declared unconstitutional a statute that mandates a judge forfeit $1,000 to a plaintiff if the judge refuses to issue a writ of habeas corpus.

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Monthly Merger Review Snapshot

By Matthew Perlman

The U.S. Department of Justice abandoned its challenge of a corporate travel management deal, while lawmakers are calling for scrutiny of the agency's recent decision to settle a different case, and the Federal Trade Commission agreed to nix the requirements placed on a pair of oil and gas deals.

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The Top In-House Hires Of July

By Michele Gorman

Legal department hires over the past month included high-profile appointments at Warner Bros. Discovery, Deutsche Bank and Kroger. Here, 极速赛车 Pulse looks at some of the top in-house announcements from July.

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UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

By Max Austin

This past week in London has seen several telco giants hit with a trademark claim, a collapsed hotel company sue a property investor in an ongoing dispute over a decades-old hotel sale, and two litigation funders square off against each other.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

Department store retailer Dillard's has asked for a special shareholder's vote on Aug. 19 on management's plan to move its incorporation from Delaware to Texas, becoming the latest company to join the so-called DExit trend.

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极速赛车's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP and Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP lead this week's edition of 极速赛车 Legal Lions, after a Ninth Circuit panel affirmed Epic Games Inc.'s 2023 antitrust jury trial win, along with an injunction requiring Google to open its Google Play Store to rivals.

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In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On 极速赛车

For those who missed out, here's a look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the most buzz on 极速赛车 last week.

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COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

1-800-Flowers.com Inc.

7-Eleven Inc.

AT&T Inc.

AXA XL Ltd.

Abbott Laboratories

Adobe Inc.

Air Products & Chemicals Inc.

Airbnb Inc.

Amazon.com Inc.

American Bar Association

American Civil Liberties Union

American Express Global Business Travel

American Motorcyclist Association

Amneal Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Ancestry

Aramark

BASF SE

BCE Inc.

BDO LLP

BJC HealthCare

Balfour Beatty PLC

Beyond Meat Inc.

Boston Bruins

Boston Red Sox

Boy Scouts of America

CVS Health Corp.

Charter Communications Inc.

Chegg Inc.

Chevron Corp.

Cox Communications Inc.

Davies Group Ltd.

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd.

Delta Corp. Ltd.

Democracy Forward Foundation

Deutsche Bank AG

Dick's Sporting Goods Inc.

Dollar Tree Inc.

Donna Karan Co. LLC

Downtown Music Holdings LLC

DraftKings Inc.

EE Ltd.

EQT Corp.

ESPN Inc.

Edgeworth Economics LLC

Edible Arrangements LLC

Eli Lilly & Co.

Enerpac Tool Group Corp.

Epic Games Inc.

Euronext Amsterdam NV

Exxon Mobil Corp.

Federal Bar Association

Federalist Society

Foot Locker Inc.

Fordham University

GE HealthCare Technologies Inc.

Global Payments Inc.

Goal Group Ltd.

Google LLC

Green Bay Packers Inc.

Greencore Group PLC

HSBC Holdings PLC

Harvard University

Hess Corp.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.

Honeywell International Inc.

Intelsat SA

JELD-WEN Inc.

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Johnson & Johnson

Juniper Networks Inc.

KKR & Co. Inc.

LVMH Moet Hennessy

Lawyers for Civil Rights

Lex Machina Inc.

Liberty Mutual Insurance Group

Live Nation Entertainment Inc.

Louis Dreyfus Holding B.V.

MS Amlin PLC

Macrae Inc.

Madison Square Garden Entertainment Corp.

Major League Baseball Inc.

Mediterranean Shipping Co. SA

Meta Platforms Inc.

Metronet

Minnesota Twins

Morgan Stanley

Munchkin Inc.

NBC Sports Group

NFL Enterprises LLC

National Basketball Association Inc.

National Collegiate Athletic Association

New Mountain Capital LLC

New York Knicks

New York Legal Assistance Group Inc.

New York Racing Association Inc.

New York State Bar Association

New York Stock Exchange LLC

Norfolk Southern Corp.

Northern Trust Corp.

Nova Biomedical Corp.

Novo Nordisk A S

Orient Overseas Container Line Ltd.

Ozone Networks Inc.

PGA TOUR Inc.

Palantir Technologies Inc.

Paramount Global

Philadelphia Eagles

Pioneer Natural Resources Co.

Pivot Bio Inc.

ProAssurance Corporation

Quantum Energy Partners

Reddit Inc.

Reebok International Ltd.

Repligen Corporation

Restoration Hardware Holdings Inc.

SES SA

Sage Therapeutics Inc.

Sanofi

Skydance Media LLC

Solventum

Southwest Airlines Co.

Spectrum Management Holding Co.

Steves & Sons Inc.

Sunoco LP

Supernus Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Sysmex Corp.

Take-Two Interactive Software Inc.

Tesla Inc.

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.

The Bank of New York Mellon Corp.

The Charles Schwab Corp.

The District of Columbia Bar

The Doctors Co.

The Football Association Ltd.

The Kraft Heinz Co.

The Kroger Co.

Therium Capital Management Ltd.

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.

Toys R Us Inc.

Tricon Energy Inc.

Twitter Inc.

Union Pacific Corp.

Universal Music Group NV

Verizon Communications Inc.

Verve Therapeutics Inc.

Virgin Media Inc.

Vivendi SA

Volkswagen AG

Vuori Inc.

WHP Global

Warner Bros. Discovery Inc.

Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.

Wipfli LLP

Workday Inc.

Worldpay LLC

Yang Ming Marine Transport Corp.

LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Arnold & Porter

Ashurst LLP

Baker & Hostetler

Barclay Damon

Berman Tabacco

Blackstone Chambers

Boies Schiller

Buchanan Ingersoll

Bursor & Fisher

Bush Gottlieb

CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang

Consovoy McCarthy

Covington & Burling

Cravath Swaine

Crowell & Moring

DAC Beachcroft

DLA Piper

DMR Law

DWF LLP

David Boies

Dentons

Dinsmore & Shohl

Faegre Drinker

Fick & Marx

Flood & Flood

Foley Hoag

Freeths LLP

Freshfields

Gibson Dunn

GrayRobinson

Greenberg Traurig

Hannafan & Hannafan

Harrison LLP

Hecker Fink

Hogan Lovells

Holwell Shuster

Horwich Farrelly

Howes Percival

Jones Day

Jones Walker

K&L Gates

Keystone Law

Kilpatrick Townsend

King & Spalding

Kirby McInerney

Kirkland & Ellis

Knights Solicitors

Koch Garg

Latham & Watkins

Law Offices of Todd M. Friedman

Lee & Ziegler

MFG Solicitors

McDermott Will & Emery

Mills & Reeve

Mishcon de Reya

Morgan Lewis

Morrison & Foerster

Munger Tolles

Nabarro LLP

Paul Hastings

Pearson Doyle

Petrillo Klein

Pierce Atwood

Pinsent Masons

Quinn Emanuel

Reed Smith

Robbins Alloy

Rudy Exelrod

Seyfarth Shaw

Shapiro Arato

Sidley Austin

Skadden Arps

Stevens & Bolton

Stranch Jennings

Sullivan & Cromwell

Tarter Krinsky

Taylor Rose

Trethowans LLP

Tucker Ellis

Wachtell Lipton

Ward Hadaway

Webb Law Group APC

Wigdor LLP

Williams Mullen

Willkie Farr

WilmerHale

Winston & Strawn

gunnercooke LLP

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives

Bureau of Labor Statistics

Companies House

Competition and Markets Authority

European Commission

Federal Communications Commission

Federal Trade Commission

Food and Drug Administration

Judicial Conference of the United States

Library of Congress

National Indian Gaming Commission

National Labor Relations Board

New Jersey Attorney General's Office

New York State Gaming Commission

New York Supreme Court, New York County

Office of the Comptroller of the Currency

U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts

U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission

U.S. Copyright Office

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. District & Bankruptcy Courts of Southern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

UK High Court

US Office of Management and Budget