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August 06, 2024 | Corporate Counsel

Hyper-Aggressive FTC Turns High Beam on Auto Industry's Sales Culture

The agency's latest target is vehicle-service-contract marketer CarShield, which agreed to pay $10 million to resolve allegations of deceptive sales practices.
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August 06, 2024 | National Law Journal

'Johns Hopkins Preyed on Black Women': Ben Crump Reps Henrietta Lacks Estate

"Mrs. [Henrietta] Lacks's cells were obtained through breach of a relation of trust and confidence," the complaint alleges. "HeLa cells are Mrs. Lacks's cells, taken by physicians in whom she had placed her trust without her consent or knowledge and for no therapeutic purpose."
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August 06, 2024 | National Law Journal

Sizing Up a Potential Trump Presidency, Some Big Law Practices Turn to Political Crystal Ball

"I feel like I'm being looked to as a political prognosticator," said one Hogan Lovells regulatory partner.
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August 06, 2024 | The American Lawyer

Amid Big Law Focus on Performance, Law Firms Hit by Wave of Employment Claims

"I do think we've seen an uptick in claims coming from attorneys who historically may have made progress toward partner," but they're not getting promoted, noted one law firm consultant.
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August 05, 2024 | National Law Journal

FBI 'Pressure on Companies'?: DOJ Launches New Whistleblower Awards Program

Having 120 days to self-report corporate wrongdoing for a nonprosecution agreement "puts pressure on companies," Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer partner Jane Norberg said. "This puts pressure on doing internal investigations quickly."
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August 05, 2024 | National Law Journal

Supreme Court Rejects Missouri's Lawsuit to Stop Trump's New York Sentencing

The high court's order stated that Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito Jr. would have allowed Missouri to pursue its lawsuit related to the criminal case against Trump but would otherwise have not disturbed the sentencing or gag order at this time.
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August 05, 2024 | National Law Journal

Judge Rules Google Violated Federal Antitrust Law

"Importantly, the court also finds that Google has exercised its monopoly power by offering supracompetitive prices for general search text ads. That conduct has allowed Google to earn monopoly profits," wrote U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta of Washington, D.C.
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August 05, 2024 | National Law Journal

Judicial Council Upholds Dismissal of Complaint Against Judges Who Vowed Not to Hire Columbia Law Clerks

"The subject judges have chosen to boycott the hiring of future graduates of the university as a means to implement their hiring discretion," wrote Priscilla Richman, chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. "While reasonable jurists may disagree about the effectiveness of their method and whether it is justified, the judges have not engaged in misconduct."
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August 05, 2024 | National Law Journal

Arguing Class Actions: Ringing the Bellwether—A Better Approach to Complex Multidistrict Litigation

Arguing Class Actions is a monthly column by Adam J. Levitt for the National Law Journal.
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August 04, 2024 | National Law Journal

'If Just One of Them Had Run for Sheriff'

"Of course, anything useful can be abused, and federalism is no exception," U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch writes in his forthcoming book. "The cry of 'states' rights' was used to justify slavery and Jim Crow laws and to defy federal civil rights legislation."
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