U.S. District Judge Loren L. AliKhan ruled in favor of five environmental organizations represented by Earthjustice, granting their motion to compel the administrative record and denying the EPA's motion for judgment on the pleadings.
The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, contends that Invoca covertly intercepts and eavesdrops on these phone conversations, thereby violating California's "wiretapping" laws.
"We could not be more pleased for the client to be part of this amazing trial team," Maynard Nexsen shareholder Susan McWilliams said in a statement. "Securing this win was a gratifying end to a long and arduous litigation."
HP in 2011 paid $11 billion to buy Mike Lynch's software company, Autonomy—a deal that turned out disastrously for the Silicon Valley giant. The question for jurors was whether Lynch and Stephen Chamberlain used accounting trickery to dupe HP into overpaying.
As a teenager, Lynch worked as a porter at a hospital, surrounded by elderly and gravely sick patients who know they'd never be discharged. He testified at his trial that the experience helped him appreciate he wasn't invincible and "realize what that arc of existence is."
"It is a bit of a vicious cycle for the rest of the industry to observe. It allows these elite firms to continue to pull away, as long as they continue to focus on those higher client value opportunities," noted one industry consultant.
Florida-based Smartmatic sued Newsmax in 2021, claiming the cable network's hosts and guests made defamatory statements after the election that implied Smartmatic participated in rigging the results.
"It is correct that the agencies are somewhat concerned that ESG collaborations can be misused. But in the grand scheme of all the other things that they are worried about it is not a top priority," said Hill Wellford, co-head of Vinson & Elkins' antitrust group.
'Obviously, we didn't know about it. The firm was doing well, everything was great,' Girardi testified when asked about ex-Girardi Keese CFO Christopher Kamon's alleged fraud. 'He was pretty clever in stealing millions of dollars.'
California-based Amgen has filed a patent infringement suit to stop Samsung Bioepis from developing bone-treatment drugs that would rival two of its top-performing products.
Agency regulation and enforcement of a law banning price gouging would be "resource-intensive work that has a very uncertain capacity to deliver a good result," said former FTC Chair William Kovacic.
Judge Milan Smith Jr. noted a disagreement between circuit courts on whether state claims arising in a bankruptcy proceeding must be lodged in federal court.
Live Nation shareholders, in a complaint, said they were misled about anti-competitive practices as well as Live Nation's compliance with government investigations, placing the company at financial and reputational risk.
Baby boomers, Gen X, millennials and Zoomers are all part of the talent mix right now, offering opportunities in the workplace, noted Husch Blackwell CEO Jamie Lawless.
A unanimous three-judge panel affirmed a lower court's finding that investors were owed reversionary interests in collateral backing the bonds, which recently matured.
According to the defendants' lawyer, the ruling delves into an area where little case law exists: "what rights you have as a property owner and speech on your own property."
Vice Chancellor Nathan Cook, in an opinion, granted Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss and their investment fund only a fraction of the $1.3 million they claimed to be owed by the founder of a magazine they invested in.
