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The Recorder

Appeals Court Halts San Francisco's Soda Health Warnings

The city of San Francisco tasted a bitter defeat on Tuesday, at least temporarily, as a federal appeals court put a hold on its plans to label sugary-drink ads with health warnings.
10 minute read

New York Law Journal

Dias v. PS Brothers Gourmet, Inc.

Over $1.4 Million Awarded to Five Food Service Workers in Minimum Wage Dispute
2 minute read

The Recorder

Association Des Eleveurs de Canards et dOies du Quebec v. Becerra

9th Cir.; 15-55192 The court of appeals reversed a judgment and remanded. The court held that federal law did not preempt California state law banning…
3 minute read

National Law Journal

This SCOTUS Brief Is Good Enough to Eat. But Will Justices Bite?

Cake artists represented by Baker Botts included roughly three dozen mouthwatering photos in their Masterpiece Cakeshop amicus brief to make a point: Designing special occasion cakes is an expressive art.
9 minute read

New York Law Journal

Surdu v. Madison Global, LLC

Wage Settlement Preliminarily Approved Balancing Risks Against Size of Recovery
3 minute read

National Law Journal

Ex-Jones Day Associate Is Trump's Pick for USDA General Counsel

Stephen Vaden, a former Jones Day associate in Washington who was on the Trump administration's landing team at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, is now in line to lead the agency's legal team. Vaden, a Yale Law School graduate, has regularly spoken on administrative law and regulatory issues, and he formerly was an associate for several years at Squire Patton Boggs.
27 minute read

New York Law Journal

Sandoval v. Philippe North American Restaurants, LLC

Class Settlement Approval Denied; Proposed Release Was Overbroad, Unreasonable
2 minute read

New York Law Journal

Judge Slashes Fees, Offers Primer on Billing, in Cookbook Case

A New York federal judge has more than halved attorney fees due to an Ethiopian cookbook author who was wrongly sued for copyright infringement, finding that her defense counsel billed "excessive" hours for often straightforward work.
4 minute read

Daily Business Review

A $150 Billion Misfire: How Forecasters Got Irma Damage So Wrong

Twenty miles may have made a $150 billion difference.Estimates for the damage Hurricane Irma would inflict on Florida kept mounting as it made its devastating sweep across the Caribbean. It was poised to be the costliest U.S. storm on record. Then something called the Bermuda High intervened and tripped it up.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Parks v. Tyson Foods, PICS Case No. 17-1356 (E.D. Pa. Aug. 17, 2017) Leeson, J. (10 pages).

Defendant was not entitled to attorney fees in Lanham Act trademark dispute because neither the way plaintiff litigated the case nor the disparity in strength between the parties' position was "exceptional" enough to merit attorney fees. Request denied.
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