The state Solicitor General’s office wants New York’s top court to declare the ethics watchdog a lawful body. On Monday, the Solicitor General’s office filed a motion to leave to appeal the Appellate Division, Third Department’s unanimous determination on May 9 that the New York State Commission on Ethics and…

Squarespace’s $6.9 billion take-private deal, announced Monday, kicked off a flurry of work to several law firms. It was the largest announced transaction in deal value of the past week. Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom; Latham & Watkins; Paul Hastings; Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati; Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton…

A pharmaceutical manufacturer based in China is facing a monetary sanction in a New Jersey court for failing to make its CEO available for a deposition in multidisciplinary litigation over alleged cancer-causing contamination in the blood pressure drug Valsartan. Thomas Vanaskie, a former judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals…

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has called on the Federal Trade Commission to “pump the breaks” on Chevron’s proposed $53 billion purchase of fellow oil company Hess. “I’m sounding the alarm against yet another proposed Big Oil merger,” Schumer, D-New York, tweeted Sunday. “It would give Big Oil more fuel…

On Tuesday the Georgia Court of Appeals is set to hear a dispute over who has the rightful ownership over “approximately 1,000 acres of coastal marshland.” Rights to Georgia’s wetlands have been a hot topic of late, with the most high-profile dispute erupting over a company trying to open a…

A year after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against property tax collections that give the government more than it is owed, homeowners are filing a crop of lawsuits to enforce their rights under the ruling. The justices ruled 9-0 in Tyler v. Hennepin County last May that a public entity that keeps the…