A proposal to strip New Jersey’s highest judge of the power to fill the appellate court benches would “delay justice and harm the public,” Chief Justice Stuart Rabner said in prepared remarks Friday.

An enigmatic concurring opinion by an unlikely group of justices could be a sign that at least some Supreme Court members aren’t ready to topple the so-called administrative state.

Georgetown Law’s Adam Levitin lauds the Supreme Court case affirming the CFPB’s legality, a result that keeps scores of rules and enforcement mechanisms in place protecting consumers and even the financial services industry.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) is calling on US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito to recuse himself from the cases before the court that involve the 2020 election and the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol.

Tim Spangler has joined McDermott Will & Emery as a partner in its transactions practice group in the firm’s Silicon Valley and Orange County, California offices, the firm said Friday.

Kroger Co. and Albertsons Cos. defeated the Federal Trade Commission’s efforts to force the supermarket giants to produce documents on their plans to divest stores as part of their $25 billion tie-up.

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Boeing investors rejected three shareholder proposals Friday that asked the company to issue reports about how its lobbying activities squared with its commitments to reduce carbon emissions, adopting an emissions-reduction target and a report about gender and minority pay gaps.

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Raiffeisen Bank International’s top executives received the backing of its largest shareholder after a series of setbacks to their efforts to extract value from the lender’s troubled Russian unit.

The <-bsp-bb-link state="{"bbHref":"bbg://securities/8168415Z%20US%20Equity","_id":"0000018f-8701-de3b-adcf-dfa38e6a0000","_type":"0000016b-944a-dc2b-ab6b-d57ba1cc0000"}">Oklahoma Public Employees Retirement System approved the extension of investment contracts with BlackRock Inc., a decision that comes after a judge paused the state’s anti-ESG law targeting the company.

Delaware companies scored a big win in McRitchie v. Zuckerberg when the Chancery Court clearly defined and limited Delaware’s “firm-specific” fiduciary duties of the board, effectively taking the wind out of the sails of related shareholder litigation and proposals.

Georgetown Law’s Adam Levitin lauds the Supreme Court case affirming the CFPB’s legality, a result that keeps scores of rules and enforcement mechanisms in place protecting consumers and even the financial services industry.

Boeing investors rejected three shareholder proposals Friday that asked the company to issue reports about how its lobbying activities squared with its commitments to reduce carbon emissions, adopting an emissions-reduction target and a report about gender and minority pay gaps.

A dispute over IVF coverage for a gay New York couple will serve as an early test case for the extent to which plaintiffs can rely on a federal workplace bias law to challenge how an employer grants fertility benefits.

Goulston & Storrs’s Brian Carrozza, Baker Donelson’s Courtney Hudson, and stage’s Megan Senese explain that lateral partner integration requires firms to provide a business development liaison who will help the new partner with a first-year road map.

A Maine man failed a second time to convince a federal court to enjoin a local school board from enforcing its policies that would prevent him from targeting specific teachers by name in his comments at future public board meetings.

Chubb shareholders voted against proposals Thursday asking the company to issue a report detailing the carbon footprint of companies it works with and another study revealing pay-equity gaps.

A proposal to strip New Jersey’s highest judge of the power to fill the appellate court benches would “delay justice and harm the public,” Chief Justice Stuart Rabner said in prepared remarks Friday.

An enigmatic concurring opinion by an unlikely group of justices could be a sign that at least some Supreme Court members aren’t ready to topple the so-called administrative state.

Georgetown Law’s Adam Levitin lauds the Supreme Court case affirming the CFPB’s legality, a result that keeps scores of rules and enforcement mechanisms in place protecting consumers and even the financial services industry.

A pediatric geneticist convicted of sexually abusing a minor owes $357,000 in taxes after wrongfully deducting his legal fees as business expenses, the Tenth Circuit affirmed Friday.

A jury reasonably convicted a former federal official for concealing his financial indebtedness to a friend and government contractor to whom he steered IT contracts worth tens of millions of dollars, the D.C. Circuit affirmed Friday.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) is calling on US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito to recuse himself from the cases before the court that involve the 2020 election and the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol.