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Shareholder Suit Alleges Meta, Zuckerberg Kept Status Quo Despite Increase in Online Child Sexual Predators

Due to growing concerns of infiltration by sexual predators, Meta shareholders included a proxy proposal that would require the company to implement more protections for minors on its social media platforms.
3 minute read

Law.com

Tyco Agrees to $750M Settlement Over Contaminated Drinking Water

On Friday, lawyers in the multidistrict litigation over aqueous film-forming foam announced the Tyco settlement, which would compensate 12,000 public water systems nationwide with contaminated drinking water supplies.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Troutman Pepper Kept Revenue Steady in 2023 Despite Early Lateral Departures

The firm was able to withstand the exit of 26 partners who moved to Goodwin Procter in the first quarter.
4 minute read

National Law Journal

DC Circuit Upholds Sentencing Enhancements for Jan. 6 Rioter Who Assaulted Officer

"Denney was more than prepared to commit violence at the Capitol on January 6th, even if he did not specifically plan to assault Sgt. K.K. with the PVC pipe," Judge J. Michelle Childs wrote for the court.
3 minute read

National Law Journal

FTC Urges Congress to Increase Agency's Enforcement Authority on Consumer Protection

In its report to lawmakers, the FTC criticized the Supreme Court's AMG Capital Management LLC v. FTC decision that the agency lacks authority to seek monetary remedies of restitution or disgorgement.
5 minute read

National Law Journal

Latest 'Forever Chemicals' Class Action Alleges PFAS Found in Johnson & Johnson Band-Aids

The seven-count complaint claims four types of Band-Aids are unfit for their intended purpose because they contain per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances.
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

ADM Emptied the Silo to Lure Aboard New General Counsel

Archer-Daniels-Midland says Regina Bynote Jones forfeited $3.95 million in cash and unvested equity by resigning from her last job. It removed those golden handcuffs, agreeing to make her whole.
2 minute read

National Law Journal

Morgan Lewis, Hogan Lovells, Ropes, Wiley and Cohen Milstein Add DC Laterals

Hogan Lovells hired litigators Nadira Clarke, Lily Chinn and Anne Carpenter from Baker Botts, while Morgan Lewis added R. Latane Montague, previously a leader of Hogan Lovells' transportation practice.
3 minute read

Law.com

Washington State Ban on High-Capacity Magazines Declared Unconstitutional, Law Remains Intact Pending Appeal

""Since the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, every other court that has considered a challenge to a law restricting high-capacity magazines around the country under the Second Amendment and article I, section 24 of the Washington Constitution has either rejected that challenge, or been overruled," said Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson, noting that two federal district courts have ruled against such laws, and both were stayed by higher courts.
3 minute read

National Law Journal

GOP Lawmakers Seek to Block SEC's Climate Disclosure Rule Via Legislation If Not Litigation

"When you hear Democrats accuse Republicans of being 'anti-science,' they are proving our point that this rule is about the left's climate-policy agenda, not simply standardizing disclosures," said House Financial Services Committee Chair Patrick McHenry, R-North Carolina.
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