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Human Rights Suit Against Chiquita Brands Gets Trial Date

U.S. District Judge Kenneth Marra of the Southern District of Florida ordered the banana company to stand trial in January 2024 for allegedly financing paramilitary death squads in Colombia.
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Perdue Farms Scoops up Longtime Logistics Company CLO as Compliance Chief

Catherine Muldoon spent nearly two decades at BDP International before her most recent stint as general counsel for Baldor Specialty Foods.
2 minute read

Daily Business Review

Broward Judge Awards $9.9M in Attorney Fees and Costs After $33M Salmon Settlement

"If I go to the grocery store, and I'm buying salmon, my assumption is that the prices that I'm paying are the result of a competitive marketplace," said Roger Mandel, a shareholder at Jeeves Mandel Law Group, who is not involved in the litigation.
4 minute read

National Law Journal

As Antitrust Enforcement Booms, Attorneys Eye AI and ESG as Emerging Targets

The Biden administration is ramping up antitrust investigations against Big Tech and other industry sectors. Meanwhile, attorneys are eyeing climate change and artificial intelligence as potential areas of future antitrust litigation.
5 minute read

Litigation Daily

Litigators of the Week: Covington Team Gets a Directed Verdict in First Trial Over Heavy Metals in Baby Food

Phyllis Jones, Michael Imbroscio, David Sneed and their colleagues at Covington & Burling convinced a federal judge in Texas to pull the plug on a trial against The Hain Celestial Co. last week due to a lack of expert evidence on general causation.
8 minute read

The Recorder

Why Bayer's New Roundup Appeal Is Different: 'Monsanto Is a Very Aggressive Litigator'

Lead plaintiffs lawyers in the Roundup multidistrict litigation called Bayer's Feb. 8 petition before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit an "orchestrated" appeal.
5 minute read

Law.com

Accidents Will Happen? Judge Says Insurer Must Defend Builder Accused of Violating 'Tree-Cutting Statute'

"In the court's view, the allegations here are broad enough to reasonably sketch a claim that Partington had a mistaken but reasonable belief that it was authorized to cut the trees," the court said. "Such a claim would be for property damage arising out of an occurrence, meaning it would be a 'loss [that] fits the expectation of protective insurance reasonably generated by the terms of the policy,' thus triggering Nautilus's duty to defend."
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

The New Gray Zone? A Potentially New Approach to Attorney-Client Privilege in Internal Investigations for Current Employees Who Have Given Notice

The First Department's holding in 'BDO' is one that corporations and outside counsel conducting internal investigations and considering potential privilege issues should keep in mind.
6 minute read

Daily Business Review

Hurricane Ian's Estimated Agriculture Damage Tops $1B

A soon-to-be-released report will estimate Florida's agriculture industry sustained about $1.07 billion in damages from Hurricane Ian, with growers…
4 minute read

Daily Business Review

As Population Increases and Available Land Shrinks, Land Conservation Efforts Are Key

"There's a competition for land in Florida. There's 1,000 people a day moving to Florida. We are the fastest-growing state in the country. And if we want to protect a little bit of what's native, we need to be on it," said Dean Saunders, a Florida expert in land conservation and a land broker.
3 minute read

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