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Subject: Cravath's Ties To NYU Not Enough For New Trial, Judge Says
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## Cravath's Ties To NYU Not Enough For New Trial, Judge Says

A New York federal court ruled that a former judge who rejoined Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP after tossing out a $358 million ERISA class action against New York University was not biased in NYU's favor, rejecting university workers' bid for a new trial.

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States Reach $6M Deal With LexisNexis Over Withheld Fees LexisNexis Risk Solutions Inc. agreed on Tuesday to pay $5.8 million to resolve a suit in Florida federal court brought by various states and a city

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alleging that the data and analytics company wrongfully withheld fees from law enforcement agencies when reselling their automobile crash reports.

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## Ed Sheeran Trial On Hold For 9th Circ. Led Zeppelin Ruling

A Manhattan judge has put off a September jury trial over whether Ed Sheeran's "Thinking Out Loud" infringes Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get It On," saying Tuesday that a coming decision by the full Ninth Circuit in a copyright appeal involving Led Zeppelin may be informative.

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## Fake Mont. Cattle Rancher Cops To Fraud, Will Repay $43M

A Montana man told a Manhattan federal judge Tuesday he lied about his family's assets, including falsely claiming to own cattle and a ranch, to borrow $43 million from lender Third Eye Capital Corp. Read full article »

## 2nd Circ. Revives Chinese Woman's Belated Asylum Bid

A split Second Circuit panel on Tuesday paved the way for a woman who was forced by the Chinese government to have an abortion two decades ago to qualify for asylum based on that experience, excusing her entire asylum application from the one-year filing deadline because of her recent conversion to Christianity.

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## NYC Doc Convicted In $2M Opioid Scheme Gets 5 Years

A New York doctor was sentenced on Tuesday to five years in prison for prescribing nearly 1 million oxycodone pills to patients who didn't actually need them in exchange for cash, reaping $2 million in the process. Read full article »

## POLICY & REGULATION

## 25 State AGs Urge CFPB Not To Roll Back Overdraft Rule

Attorneys general representing half the states in the nation signed on to a Monday letter urging the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau not to alter its overdraft rule, as the agency carries out a mandatory 10-year review of the regulation due to be completed this November.

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## Cuomo Wants NY To Probe Facebook Housing Advertisers

New York Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Monday announced plans for the state's Department of Financial Services to investigate advertisers that allegedly prevent certain protected groups from seeing their housing ads on Facebook.

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## INSURANCE

## 2nd Circ. Agrees Recycling Bin Not A 'Vehicle' Under Policy

The Second Circuit on Tuesday upheld a New York federal judge's ruling that a wheeled recycling bin does not qualify as a vehicle in a policy dispute between an insurer and a Manhattan co-op over a gas line ruptured by the bin.

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## 2nd Circ. Revives Insurers' Fight Over Truck Crash Coverage

The Second Circuit has thrown out a win for Country-Wide Insurance Co. in a dispute with United Financial Casualty Co. over coverage for a truck driver

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involved in a three-vehicle crash, saying a lower court improperly concluded that UFCC waited too long to disclaim liability coverage.

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## CONSUMER PROTECTION

## Barilla Dodges Nationwide Class Claims Over Sauce Labels

Nationwide class claims in a suit over "no preservatives" labels on Barilla America Inc. pasta sauces cannot proceed, after an Illinois federal judge said on Tuesday it would be unmanageable because of differences among the various states' fraud and consumer protection laws.

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## INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

## Calif. Business Owner Claims NBA Stole His $50M App Idea

A California man is suing the National Basketball Association in New York federal court for $50 million, claiming the league stole his idea for an online app that would give fans prizes if they correctly predicted how their favorite stars would perform.

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## MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

## Ticket Biz Seeks $378K In Atty Fees After Rival's Sanctions

Lawyers who successfully represented Broker Genius Inc. in securing a $4.5 million verdict and effectively shutting down a rival over pilfered technology have asked a New York federal court to award their client more than $378,000 in attorney fees and costs for what the company spent on a contempt bid.

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## EMPLOYMENT

## 2nd Circ. Sends Home Care Worker's Wage Suit To Arbitration

The Second Circuit ruled Tuesday that a New York City home health care provider can push claims that it stiffed a worker on overtime and premium pay into arbitration, saying a trial court misinterpreted a mandatory arbitration clause in a collective bargaining agreement.

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## Columbia Univ. Workers Fight To Keep ERISA Suit Alive

A class of roughly 24,000 current and former Columbia University workers hit back at the school's bid to exit a suit claiming it mishandled their retirement savings, saying their plans were saddled with high record-keeping fees and that the university knew the plans contained imprudent funds.

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## SECURITIES & WHITE COLLAR

## Blockchain Biz Accused Of Inflating Token Value In $3M Sale

A blockchain company's unfounded hype and conduct artificially inflated its token value to raise close to $3 million in a token sale, only to see its value plummet by 90% about a month later, a cryptocurrency investment fund told a New York federal court.

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## BANKRUPTCY

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## COMPANIES

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## Ditech Wins Approval For $52M Bid Protections In Ch. 11 Sale

A New York bankruptcy judge on Tuesday approved more than $52 million in bid protections for the stalking horse bidders for Ditech Holding Corp.'s mortgage origination and servicing businesses after consumers and the U.S. Trustee said the company had satisfied their objections.

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## BANKING

## Brazilian Bank To Pay $14.5M To End Investor Suit Over Bribes

Investors in Brazilian bank Banco Bradesco SA asked a New York federal court on Monday to give the initial green light to a $14.5 million cash settlement to end a stock-drop suit against the bank for allegedly artificially inflating its securities prices by hiding a tax bribery scheme.

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## Investors Fight Exchanges' Appeal Bid In 'Flash Boys' Suits

The pension funds behind litigation inspired by the high-frequency trading expose "Flash Boys" asked a New York federal judge on Monday not to send their latest dismissal phase victory up to the Second Circuit.

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## ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL

## Statoil, Texaco Units Want Brakes Kept On $16 Award Action

A Statoil unit and a Texaco subsidiary have asked a New York federal court to keep on ice their litigation seeking to enforce roughly $1 billion in arbitral awards against Nigeria's state-owned oil company, pointing to related litigation in the West African country.

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## REAL ESTATE & DEVELOPMENT

## NYC Real Estate Week In Review

Loeb & Loeb and Goldberg Weprin were among more than half a dozen law firms guiding the largest New York City real estate deals that hit public records last week, most of which were for residential condo units in Manhattan.

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## PEOPLE

## Cooley Nabs Fenwick & West's International Trademark Whiz

Cooley LLP's newest litigation department partner, a recruit from Fenwick & West LLP, has made his name taking brands international and wrestling with trademark laws in every corner of the world to do so.

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## Pierce Bainbridge Tries To Nix Ex-Partner's 'Rambling' Action

Litigation boutique Pierce Bainbridge blasted former partner Donald Lewis' wrongful termination suit as a "rambling, raging screed, full of scandalous and prejudicial matter" in a brief filed Monday asking a New York state court to dismiss the action.

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## Real Estate Rumors: Nexus, Aimco, Meridian

Developer Nexus is said to have landed $41 million in financing for a California hotel, real estate investment trust Aimco could fetch more than $44

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million with the sale of a Chicago apartment tower, and Meridian Properties reportedly picked up two Brooklyn rental buildings for $35.25 million.

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## Bitfinex Returns $100M To Tether Amid NY AG Proceeding

Bitfinex has repaid $100 million of up to $700 million loaned to it by Tether, the cryptocurrency exchange announced Tuesday, as the companies wrangle with the New York attorney general over the nature of the initial credit facility.

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## EXPERT ANALYSIS

## High Court Weakens State Laws For Liquor Retailers

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Tennessee Wine & Spirits Retailers Association v. Thomas does not end the three-tier distribution system that has guided alcohol beverage laws since the end of Prohibition, but it does erode superficial jurisdictional boundaries for retail licensing, says Robert Lewis of Spiritus Law.

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## LEGAL INDUSTRY

## Analysis

## Why BigLaw Isn't As Jazzed About Merging In 2019

There's been a noticeable decline in U.S. law firm combinations so far in 2019 compared with recent years — and a total absence of major mergers by big firms. Here's a look at what's behind the slump.

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## Justice Ginsburg Says She 'Lucked Out' Of BigLaw Career

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Tuesday that she "lucked our in that she became the second woman on the U.S. Supreme Court rather than a commercial litigator after rampant gender inequality in the legal profession in the 1950s and '60s steered her away from private practice.

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## Cooley Hid Conflict While Helping Launch Company, Suit Says

Attorneys for Cooley LLP failed to tell a New Jersey chemist that the firm had previously worked with his partner, then represented the partner's interests at the expense of the chemist's while they launched a new company, according to a lawsuit filed Monday in Massachusetts state court.

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## Wilson Sonsini Blasts Zetia Buyers' Bid For More Docs

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati has assailed a motion to hand over more documents in a multidistrict litigation against generic-drug maker Zydus over antitrust claims, telling a Virginia federal court it has already provided plaintiff drug buyers with 3,600 pages.

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