Down the Rabbit Hole with Sam Bankman-Fried

FOIAengine:  As Trial Looms, a Private Investigator Pursues the SEC It’s been a tough couple of months for Sam Bankman-Fried.  He’s stewing in jail, facing 155 years in prison, while lawyers, accountants, and other experts rack up $700 million in fees from...

Sweet Deal: Smuckers Gobbles up Hostess Brands

In a major turnaround for Hostess, J. M. Smucker Co. announced it will acquire the maker of Twinkies in a deal valued at $5.6...

Analytics Reveal Trends in NLRB Litigation

Created in 1935 with the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is responsible for enforcing US Labor...

Soaring Airport Contraband: ScanTech Goes Public

As air travel rebounds from pandemic lows, ScanTechIdentification Beam Systems, LLC announced that it will be going public via a SPAC deal with Metro-Atlanta, Georgia, and...

M&A

Analytics

Sweet Deal: Smuckers Gobbles up Hostess Brands

In a major turnaround for Hostess, J. M. Smucker Co. announced it will acquire the maker of Twinkies in a deal valued at $5.6...

Soaring Airport Contraband: ScanTech Goes Public

As air travel rebounds from pandemic lows, ScanTechIdentification Beam Systems, LLC announced that it will be going public via a SPAC deal with Metro-Atlanta, Georgia, and...

Wolfspeed Zooms into Deal with MACOM as EV Adoption Accelerates

As electric vehicle adoption accelerates worldwide, Wolfspeed announced it will divest its radio frequency business to MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings for $75...

AI Goes to War: AeroVironment Acquires Tomahawk Robotics

Like an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie come to life, defense contractor AeroVironment announced its $120 million acquisition of Tomahawk Robotics, a leader in AI-enabled robotic...

SPACs on Life Support as HDL Therapeutics goes Public

Biotech firm HDL Therapeutics announced that it will go public via a SPAC acquisition that values the company at $480 million. According to the...

Down the Rabbit Hole with Sam Bankman-Fried

FOIAengine:  As Trial Looms, a Private Investigator Pursues the SEC It’s been a tough couple of months for Sam...

Sweet Deal: Smuckers Gobbles up Hostess Brands

In a major turnaround for Hostess, J. M. Smucker Co. announced it will acquire the maker of Twinkies in a deal valued at $5.6...

Analytics Reveal Trends in NLRB Litigation

Created in 1935 with the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is responsible for enforcing US Labor...

Soaring Airport Contraband: ScanTech Goes Public

As air travel rebounds from pandemic lows, ScanTechIdentification Beam Systems, LLC announced that it will be going public via a SPAC deal with Metro-Atlanta, Georgia, and...

Emerging Litigation Podcast

Natural Gas Bans, Bans on Bans, and the Ninth Circuit with Gary Toman

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recently struck down Berkeley, California's ban on natural gas infrastructure in new buildings. The court ruled unanimously that the ban violates federal law. This subject is important as we will likely...

Manufacturing Supply Chain Investigation Risks with Jennifer M. Driscoll

Challenged by the pandemic, war, trade conflicts, natural disasters, consumer demand, and inflationary pressures, the global supply chain has drawn heightened scrutiny...

The IRS and Rules About Rules with Jeff Luechtefeld

The IRS closed more than 72,000 appeals last year and its Chief Counsel's Office received more than 65,000 cases. That's a...

Clearing the Hurdles in International Discovery with Ben Daniels

There are no borders when it comes to commerce, which means there are no borders when it comes to business disputes and...

The Light and Dark Sides of Auto-GPT with Jason Epstein

Auto-GPT is a new generative artificial intelligence application which autonomously “self-prompts” to engage beyond a human-chatbot discussion. This takes us into a...

Around Law Street

Propane Co. Faces Hazardous Substances Environmental Complaint

On September 2, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) filed a civil complaint in the Middle District of Florida against Ferrellgas,...

Judge Issues Opinion in Lenovo, Motorola Antitrust Suit Against InterDigital Over Purported FRAND Failure

On Wednesday, Judge Leonard P. Stark of the District of Delaware issued a memorandum opinion regarding InterDigital’s motion to dismiss Lenovo and...

An Inside Look at FTC Enforcement Actions in the Last Five Years

Since its inception in 1914, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the nation's consumer protection watchdog with antitrust oversight, has shapeshifted as its...

Bank Sues Watermelon Grower and Buyers in Contract Action

OneSouth Bank filed a breach of contract suit against Herman Curt Titshaw, a watermelon grower, for allegedly defaulting on a loan and...

Citing New Evidence, Surviving Family Members Sue Feds, Raytheon and Lockheed Martin Over 1996 TWA Crash

An amended complaint filed in Massachusetts federal court on Monday has accused the United States Department of Defense, the United States Navy,...

Addimmune Goes Public in Bid to Cure HIV

American Gene Technologies International announced that it is spinning off it’s HIV-focused gene therapy company Addimmune in a SPAC deal that values the enterprise...

Lyft, Uber Sued For Infringing Driver-Matching Technology

Lyft and Uber were sued on Friday in the Western District of Texas for patent infringement relating to their respective websites and...

Geico Alleges New York Physician Operating Fraudulent No-Fault Billing Scheme

Geico filed a complaint Wednesday in the Eastern District of New York against a physician for allegedly operating an insurance fraud...

Three Lawsuits Claim Leading Supplier of Pork Violated the Sherman Antitrust Act

On Tuesday, three separate complaints were filed by popular restaurant chains in the Southern District of Florida against major pork industry companies,...

Cryptocurrency

Down the Rabbit Hole with Sam Bankman-Fried

FOIAengine:  As Trial Looms, a Private Investigator Pursues the SEC It’s been a tough couple of months for Sam...

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...

FOIA

Down the Rabbit Hole with Sam Bankman-Fried

FOIAengine:  As Trial Looms, a Private Investigator Pursues the SEC It’s been a tough couple of months for Sam...

Hedge Funds Laser Focused on Pharma

FOIAengine Identifies 57 New FOIA Requests to FDA Hedge funds and other financial institutions made 57 Freedom of Information...

Republicans Playing the Oppo Game

FOIAengine Looks at Opposition Research on the Right In the shadowy world of political opposition research, sometimes the game looks like...