JURIST

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The first was that the companies violated anti-terrorism statute 18 U.S.C. §§ 2333(a) & (d)(2). The plaintiffs also brought claims against the companies under Florida common law, claiming negligent infliction of emotional distress and wrongful death. The plaintiffs made two arguments.

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JURIST

JANUARY 1, 2021

Pregnant workers at companies with more than 15 employees will be guaranteed some accommodations including extra restroom breaks and decreased standing requirements. The legal age to buy tobacco, hemp and vape products will be raised from 18 to 21 in accordance with a federal law passed in 2019.

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Law 360

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Directors and officers at The Beauty Health Company hid bad news about a defective skin care device for 18 months, leading to stock price drops, analyst downgrades and a securities class action when the truth was finally revealed, a shareholder alleges in a new Delaware Chancery Court complaint.

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JURIST

JUNE 15, 2021

The US Supreme Court declined Monday to take up an appeal by a group of oil companies challenging a California state court ruling permitting two California cities to sue for damages related to climate change, meaning the case will be heard in state court.

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JURIST

AUGUST 11, 2022

The notice reads: Consumers today likely give a wide range of personal information about themselves to companies, including their movements, prayers, friends, menstrual cycles, web-browsing, and faces, among other basic aspects of their lives. The FTC’s rule making authority is sourced in Section 18 of the FTC Act, passed in 1975.

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Law 360

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

federal jury was still deadlocked Friday after roughly 18 hours of deliberation over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac shareholders' claims that the Federal Housing Finance Agency improperly amended stock purchase agreements to allow the U.S. Department of the Treasury to sweep up the companies' net profits.

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JURIST

MAY 21, 2022

” The new sanctions come days after the last round of sanctions went into effect on May 18. Frank is the founder of two of the largest seafood companies in Europe, the Russian Fishery Company (RFC) and Russian Crab (RC).

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 3, 2024

This week, we highlight petitions that ask the court to consider, among other things, who should pay – oil companies or the government – to clean up contamination from that pollution. In MRP Properties Company, LLC v. 2251(a) , 18 U.S.C. 2252A , and 18 U.S.C. United States 23-638 Issue : Whether, to comply with 18 U.S.C.

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Law 360

AUGUST 23, 2023

An Amazon marketplace merchant on Wednesday was handed an 18-month prison sentence for his role in an alleged scheme to fix the prices of DVDs and Blu-ray discs on the site, and three of his companies were hit with a combined $344,000 in criminal fines, according to prosecutors.

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JURIST

AUGUST 1, 2021

For repeated failures, the penalty can go up to 18 million rubles. The action against Google and WhatsApp form part of a larger crackdown on social media companies. On Friday, the Tagansky District Court registered a protocol against WhatsApp for the same offence under Part 8 of Article 13.11 of the Administrative Offenses Code.

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Law 360

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Australia's Hancock Prospecting said Friday it has acquired an 18% stake in Azure Minerals Ltd., a sign that the Gina Rinehart-owned mining company could be looking to thwart SQM's deal to buy Azure for $900 million.

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FDA Law Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

the “Gree Companies”), an appliance manufacturer and two of its subsidiaries that were involved in the manufacturing, marketing, and sale of dehumidifiers. According to the government, these companies knew as early as 2012 that their dehumidifiers were defective, in that they could overheat and catch fire. and Gree USA Inc.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Private video game consumers Tuesday filed an antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft alleging the company’s intended purchase of Activision Blizzard, Inc. , 18 ), which “ prohibits mergers and acquisitions where the effect ‘may be substantially to lessen competition, or to tend to create a monopoly.'”

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MARCH 25, 2024

18, 2024), plaintiff was riding in the passenger seat of a car when the car crashed into fencing and construction materials located in the right lane of the street. Plaintiff settled with the driver of the car and the driver’s insurance company, and she executed a release. Patton & Taylor Enterprises, LLC , No.

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JURIST

MARCH 31, 2022

A California judge has approved video game company Activision Blizzard’s settlement Tuesday with the U.S Within the settlement, which was first announced in September, Activision Blizzard agreed to create an $18 million fund to compensate employees who experienced sexual harassment and gender-based discrimination.

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Law 360

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The final two defendants in a scheme to bribe employees, steal sensitive company information and target clients' competitors on Amazon's marketplace were sentenced Friday, including a New York resident and merchant consultant who received 18 months in prison and was ordered to pay $64,000 in fines and restitution.

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LawSites

APRIL 1, 2024

To create this new product, Lex Machina added more than 18 million state court records to the more than 9 million federal and state court records it already had. Federal court cases filtered to show only those with a company headquartered in Canada. Litigation Footprint adds another 18 million state cases to that total.

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JURIST

JUNE 17, 2022

The UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO) Wednesday announced Southwark Crown Court’s sentencing of two company directors to 11 years’ imprisonment on charges of conspiracy to defraud and misconduct in a green investment scheme.

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Above The Law

MARCH 1, 2022

The Real USFL is described as a holding company that possesses all rights and interests in and to nearly 400 trademarks for the USFL name and logo, as well as the names and logos for 18 teams. The post Fox Sports Sued For Stepping On The Trademarks Of The Real USFL appeared first on Above the Law.

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Fordham Law News

APRIL 5, 2024

1] The good news follows after 18 months of the company’s roller-coaster Chapter 11 Bankruptcy case that presented fascinating complexities such as dollarization concerns, regulatory fines from agencies such as the SEC, and the steep decline in the value of Celsius’ CEL token. [2] 31, 2024, 6:18 PM), [link] [4] See id. [5]

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Law 360

MAY 25, 2023

owes an Arkansas natural gas company more than $18 million in compensation for failing to provide a contractually obligated amount of daily natural gas during crippling Winter Storm Uri two years ago, according to a Bear State federal judge. BP Energy Co.

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JURIST

JUNE 10, 2022

The proposed regulations would amount to a cost of roughly $180 million over the next 10 years for tobacco companies to implement the additional labels. 18% increase in annual cessation rates to break even. ” Further, it would only take a.18%

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JURIST

OCTOBER 27, 2022

UNESCO verified the war damaged 207 sites, including 88 religious sites, 15 museums, 76 buildings of historic or artistic interest, 18 monuments and 10 libraries. The report is sourced from satellite images taken from before and after the war by both the UN and private companies.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The indictment also claims that Menendez intervened to protect an Egyptian Halal-certification monopoly owned by Hana, leading the company to make a $23,000 payment towards Nadine Menendez’ mortgage and a $10,000 payment to her limited liability company (LLC).

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

The judgments — dated September 25 of 2018 and February 18 of 2020 — ordered Russia to pay $50 billion as part of an arbitration award to shareholders of Yukos. Yukos was a Russian company engaged in oil production which was owned by Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a Russian oligarch.

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Law 360

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

A Delaware judge on Friday granted an activist fund's legal team its full request for a nearly $18 million "mootness" fee as reimbursement for legal expenses, ruling that its closely watched suit challenging medical technology company Masimo Corp.'s

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Law 360

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Almost a year after being convicted by a jury on eight charges for what Manhattan federal prosecutors called a widespread, sophisticated accounting scheme, the founder of brand-licensing company Iconix Brand Group was sentenced to 18 months in prison Tuesday.

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Law 360

OCTOBER 26, 2023

A California federal judge gave the initial nod Thursday to an $18 million settlement agreement between a group of former employees and technology giants HP Inc. a deal aiming to resolve claims that the company pushed out older workers. and Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.,

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LawSites

JULY 27, 2023

On July 18, 2023, the top legal officers of three Boston-area technology companies came together for a live panel discussion about the city’s unique contributions to the legal tech landscape, which I moderated The panelists graciously agreed to allow LawNext to record the conversation, and this episode is that recording.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The Department of Justice Monday partially unsealed a 21-count indictment of China-based telecommunications company Hytera Communications Corp. The post DOJ indicts China-based company for conspiring to steal Motorola trade secrets appeared first on JURIST - News.

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Fordham Law News

APRIL 18, 2024

6] To illustrate the quantity of music pulled, if a song has ten songwriters, all from different publishing companies, but one is signed by UMG, the song must come down. [7] 18] Over the past few years, UMG and TikTok had a short-term arrangement where TikTok paid a “lump-sum minimum guaranteed payment.” [19] link] (last visited Feb.

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Law 360

JULY 10, 2023

Two insurers wrongfully failed to provide coverage for an $18 million settlement between an asset management company and a group of shareholders, the company told a Pennsylvania federal court, arguing that one insurer acted in bad faith by denying coverage and the other never provided a coverage determination.

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LawSites

JUNE 28, 2023

If you are in the Boston area, join us July 18, 5-7 p.m., for LegalTech Boston’s inaugural event — a panel discussion among three technology company chief legal officers on Boston’s unique contribution to legal tech. Matt Rowe, chief legal officer at Parallel Wireless.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

million civil penalty against digital healthcare company GoodRx for its failure “ to notify consumers and others of its unauthorized disclosures of consumers’ personal health information to Facebook, Google, and other companies” in violation the FTC’s Health Breach Notification Rule (HBNR) ( 18 CFR § 318 ) and 15 U.S.C. §

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Fordham Law News

MARCH 28, 2024

Although Rite Aid is a pharmacy and the other lawsuits involve pharmaceutical companies, we can turn to the aforementioned bankruptcy cases to predict what will happen in the Rite Aid case. 14] Purdue Pharma, the company that produces OxyContin, is commonly charged with being one of the driving forces of the opioid epidemic. [15]

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Law 360

AUGUST 7, 2023

Securities and Exchange Commission has told a Utah federal judge that its recent victory against crypto issuer Terraform Labs bolsters its arguments against another company it is suing for allegedly running an $18 million crypto fraud.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2022

for alleged improper foreign exchange transactions that led to a misstatement of the company's net income, hitting the health care company with an $18 million penalty. Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday unveiled settled charges against Baxter International Inc.

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