A Connecticut federal judge denied Home Depot’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit that alleged an employee verbally accosted two Black customers and accused them of stealing from the store. “The judge gave us an opportunity to prove our case, so that’s what we’ll set out to do,” David Rosen of…

Justices Disagree in Florida Judge’s Ethics Case | Daily Business Review Page Printed From: https://www.law.com/dailybusinessreview/2024/03/21/justices-disagree-in-florida-judges-ethics-case/ Florida Supreme Court Justices. From left: Carlos Muñiz, Charles Canady, Jorge Labarga, John Couriel, Jamie Grosshans, Renatha Francis. (Courtesy photos) “We cannot overlook a legal error like this just because both parties agreed to it,”…

Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe has closed its Taipei office and is winding down its operations in Shanghai, joining a growing number of U.S. firms that have been scaling back their offerings in Asia. “These moves reflect a rebalancing of our Asia Pacific platform, including the launch of our Singapore office in 2021, to…

A shareholder filed a securities suit against Chemours in Delaware federal court on March 21, weeks after the company announced it was placing three members of its senior management team on leave for suspected tampering with financial reports. Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossman and Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check are representing the plaintiff in the case, which…

The Department of Justice’s initial focus in evaluating proposed bank mergers will be on understanding and preserving the competitive dynamics of the industry, DOJ’s antitrust chief said Thursday. Banks play a “multidimensional” role in the marketplace, Assistant U.S. Attorney General Jonathan Kanter said at an event on “revitalizing bank merger review”…

Counsel for U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez, D-New Jersey, on Thursday, indicated that the senator is still deciding whether he will appeal a federal judge’s ruling that key allegations in his indictment did not violate the Speech or Debate Clause or the separation of powers doctrine. Menendez, his wife and two…