Hedge Funds Target Big Pharma

FOIAengine: Requests to FDA Reveal What the Funds Are Watching New data reveals that big hedge funds were unusually active in making information requests about pharmaceutical companies to the Food and Drug Administration in the month just ended.     The...

Rock on: Kustom Entertainment Goes Public

As concert ticket sales boom to record heights, Digital Ally, Inc. announced that its subsidiary Kustom Entertainment, Inc. would go public via...

Inside America’s Biggest Federal Court

Founded in 1966, the Central District of California is the busiest and most populous judicial district in the country, containing half of...

Foreign Bribery Investigations Loom for Pfizer

FOIAengine Uncovers a Persistent Questioner. What Does He Know? Albert Bourla earns $33 million a year as the CEO of Pfizer,...

M&A

Analytics

Rock on: Kustom Entertainment Goes Public

As concert ticket sales boom to record heights, Digital Ally, Inc. announced that its subsidiary Kustom Entertainment, Inc. would go public via...

Big Oil gets Bigger: Chevron Acquires PDC

Chevron announced its all stock acquisition of PDC Energy, valuing the company at $7.6 billion, last week. According to the companies’ joint...

Noventiq Sheds Russian Roots and Joins Nasdaq

Noventiq announced it intends to list on the Nasdaq via a SPAC acquisition at $800 million enterprise value. The information technology company...

Lights, Camera, Action: Allrites Goes Public

Aiming to “democratize content,” Allrites Holdings Pte. Ltd. will be going public via an acquisition by SPAC, Aura FAT Projects Acquisition Corp....

Off and Running: Knee Treatment Biotech Regentis goes Public

In the latest of a flurry of SPAC deals, Regentis Biomaterials Ltd. announced it will be going public via an acquisition by...

Hedge Funds Target Big Pharma

FOIAengine: Requests to FDA Reveal What the Funds Are Watching New data reveals that big hedge funds were unusually active...

Inside America’s Biggest Federal Court

Founded in 1966, the Central District of California is the busiest and most populous judicial district in the country, containing half of...

Foreign Bribery Investigations Loom for Pfizer

FOIAengine Uncovers a Persistent Questioner. What Does He Know? Albert Bourla earns $33 million a year as the CEO of Pfizer,...

Big Oil gets Bigger: Chevron Acquires PDC

Chevron announced its all stock acquisition of PDC Energy, valuing the company at $7.6 billion, last week. According to the companies’ joint...

Emerging Litigation Podcast

The Value of Law Firm Technology Directors with Sam McAllister

In this episode we talk about the advantages of having technology and software development capabilities inside your law firm. Can you imagine? And we’re not just talking about someone who is adept at unjamming the printer.  

Hair Relaxer Injury Litigation with Jennifer Hoekstra

Last year the Aylstock, Witkin, Kreis & Overholtz law firm filed the first class action against L’Oréal and Softsheen-Carson for...

Persuasion as Direct and Honest Advocacy with Jack Siegal

According to studies cited in a 2019 article in Business Insider, people develop first impressions of you “even before you open your...

Intellectual Property Trial Team Diversity with Tara Trask

Diversity and inclusion initiatives aren’t just valuable for checking off compliance boxes and writing marketing copy. Those benefits are a distant second...

Electronic Fund Transfer Fraud with Brad Rustin

It’s unlikely Sen. Elizabeth Warren has a future in copywriting for the fintech industry. (That was sarcasm.) Warren, who championed the...

Around Law Street

Online Ticket Resale Marketplace Sued For Failing To Refund Tickets For Cancelled Events As Promised

On Thursday in the Central District of California, plaintiff Bruce Brouilette filed a class-action complaint against Vivid Seats LLC for failing to...

Lab Testing Provider Sues Over Unpaid COVID-19 Test Bills

On Thursday a case was filed in the District of South Carolina by Premier Medical Inc. against Resourceful Clinical Laboratory, LLC....

Inmate Files Eighth Amendment Claim for Failure to Treat Illness; Court Seals Med. Records

The United States District Court of Nevada granted a motion Tuesday to seal the medical records of plaintiff Esteban Hernandez at the...

CDW Corporation Set to Acquire Sirius Computer Solutions For $2.5B

Two powerful IT and computer solutions companies announced a deal on October 18 that will bolster their offerings in the sector.

Amended Complaint Filed in Hemp Seizure Suit

Agro Dynamics, LLC filed an amended complaint on Friday in a suit alleging that the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and...

Contract Dispute Over Dry-Eye Diagnostic Device Leads to Lawsuit

On Friday a case was removed from the San Diego County Superior Court to the Southern District of California. The case...

FCC Fines Telemarketer $10M For Robocalls Spoofing Competitor’s Number, False Allegations Against Candidate

On Wednesday, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued a fine against a San Diego-based telemarketer, Marketing Support Systems, $9,997,750 for making 47,610...

DOJ Sues Uber for Discriminatory Fees on Passengers with Disabilities

A lawsuit filed in the Northern District of California on Wednesday contends that Uber Technologies Inc. violates the Americans with Disabilities Act...

Pharmaceutical Watchdogs Sue FDA/HHS to Enjoin New Safety Standards for Canadian Prescription Drug Imports

On Monday, a group of pharmaceutical watchdogs brought suit in the District Court for the District of Columbia seeking to enjoin a...

Cryptocurrency

Facebook’s Messy Crypto Aftermath

FOIAengine: New York AG Targets Diem Association, aka Libra It was the end of January 2022, and Stuart Levey was...

Crypto Winter Drives Flurry of Court Activity for Troubled Firms

Turbulence marked 2022 for the nascent cryptocurrency industry when major exchanges, digital currencies, and lenders collapsed, causing billions of invested funds to...

FOIAengine: Requests Pointed to SBF’s Shaky World Long Before FTX Imploded

Jacob Silverman is a cryptocurrency savant and Jeopardy champion with 35,000 Twitter followers and stories to tell.  A few years ago, the 38-year-old recalled his...

How Cryptocurrency Could be Behind Growing SEC Lawsuits

Traditionally, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) enforced the nation’s securities laws against public companies and related entities...

Bitcoin Mining Enterprise Argo Sees Securities Suit After Production Slows

A lawsuit filed in the Eastern District of New York has taken aim at London, England-headquartered Argo Blockchain PLC and its directors...

FOIA

Hedge Funds Target Big Pharma

FOIAengine: Requests to FDA Reveal What the Funds Are Watching New data reveals that big hedge funds were unusually active...

Foreign Bribery Investigations Loom for Pfizer

FOIAengine Uncovers a Persistent Questioner. What Does He Know? Albert Bourla earns $33 million a year as the CEO of Pfizer,...

Facebook’s Messy Crypto Aftermath

FOIAengine: New York AG Targets Diem Association, aka Libra It was the end of January 2022, and Stuart Levey was...