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“If you violate your permit by failing to effectively invest in compliance, we will hold you accountable," said Zachary Ogaz, general counsel of the New Mexico Environment Department.

       

Final approval of Philips' $25 million settlement was granted last week by U.S. District Senior Judge Joy Flowers Conti of the Western District of Pennsylvania.

       

Final approval of Philips' $25 million settlement was granted last week by U.S. District Senior Judge Joy Flowers Conti of the Western District of Pennsylvania.

       

Charlotte Bennett will continue her Manhattan Supreme Court suit against New York State, her attorneys said.

       

Osman Nawaz spent more than 14 years at the SEC before joining Gibson Dunn as a partner.

       

The Eighth Circuit noted several problems with the defendants' reliance on a pop-up window during contract signing, including a lack of information on where an agreement's arbitration clause may be, how many clicks were needed to find it, and whether their website changed.

       

Texas appellate attorney Raffi Melkonian, who has been called the Dean of Appellate Twitter, said he began seeing more ads, bots and hateful content on X in recent years, to the point that he said he has blocked dozens of accounts a day.
       

As record live event attendance continues to climb post-pandemic, so does the need for proactive safety measures. To defend against liability claims, a venue owner or operator must take pre- and post-accident steps to establish the venue acted with the safety of its guests in mind and bolster a defense that it acted within a reasonable standard of care.

       

Peter Bergan joins the firm after over three years at Loeb & Loeb in Chicago.

       

"To be honest, you're cutting it close on time if you haven't already looked at it because the new administration is right around the corner," Littler Mendelson shareholder Jorge Lopez said.

       

Steptoe's revamped associate compensation model, which takes effect in January, will have three full-time billable hour budget options for associates with coinciding compensation scales.

       

"Get out from behind your desk. Build your book of business and make relationships you can bank on. As you build yourself, you will build your team."

       

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit dismissed the victims' lawsuit, saying U.S. courts lack personal jurisdiction to hear the claims against the Palestine Liberation Organization or the Palestinian Authority because the foreign actors' alleged conduct giving rise to liability occurred outside the United States.

       

The Nevada Supreme Court heard oral arguments this week about an Uber-backed ballot measure that would impose a 20% cap on contingency fees in all civil cases, the strictest in the nation.

       

Robert Van Nest of Keker, Van Nest & Peters told the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California that OpenAI will file a multidistrict litigation petition to consolidate eight pending copyright suits.

       

The proposed classes are comprised of Maryland and Kansas residents who received a claim payment that was reduced by a projected sold adjustment based on the valuation report from Mitchell International Inc., a third party that develops software for auto insurance companies to use for claims management. Both classes accused the defendant of breach of contract and breach of the covenant of good faith and fair dealing.

       

“I do look forward to providing more clarity where we can provide more clarity ... remembering that we're a regulatory agency with an enforcement arm, not an enforcement agency that doesn't have a regulatory arm, said Republican Securities and Exchange Commissioner Hester Peirce.

       

The judgment from Superior Court Judge Thomas LaConte of Passaic County follows seven days of arbitration with Michael Young of JAMS, who found that Fisk Holdings violated the covenant of good faith and fair dealing in trying to cheat its chief financial officer out of the full value of her award.

       

A spokesperson for Monsanto said in a statement that the company believes the “cross-examination regarding risks factors for [the plaintiffs] injury was appropriate given the evidentiary record in this case. The spokesperson called the plaintiffs' decision to seek a mistrial “unusual and telling.