Crash and Burn: Hindenburg Makes it Happen

FOIAengine: EARLY WARNINGS ABOUT ACTIVIST SHORT SELLERS Hindenburg Research takes its name from an infamous event that happened 86 years ago when a German airship crashed and burned in New Jersey as it completed a transatlantic crossing.  The company’s...

Banking Bedlam

During a perilous time for banks across the globe, First Mid Bancshares, Inc. announced its acquisition of Blackhawk Bancorp in a 100%...

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...

Big Bet on Brain Implants: Elon Musk, Cyborgs, and FOIA

FOIAengine REVEALS QUESTIONS ABOUT NEURALINK Elon Musk, no stranger to controversy, took the stage a little over three months...

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Banking Bedlam

During a perilous time for banks across the globe, First Mid Bancshares, Inc. announced its acquisition of Blackhawk Bancorp in a 100%...

Jet Token Takes Off onto NASDAQ Capital Markets

Jet Token announced that it will go public in a SPAC acquisition valued at $105 million. The company will be listed on...

NewGen is Reborn as First Fertility in SPAC Deal

Fertility services company NewGenIvf Limited announced its plan to go public via a SPAC acquisition valued at $50 million. The combined company...

Honeycomb Generates Buzz via SPAC Merger

SPACs are back with a flurry of activity. Among the latest deals, Global Graphene Group announced that its subsidiary Honeycomb Battery Company...

SPACs are Back: Data Shows Activity Ahead

Reports of SPACs’ demise are greatly exaggerated. A trio of recent deals demonstrate the persistence of SPACs as companies continue to go public despite...

Crash and Burn: Hindenburg Makes it Happen

FOIAengine: EARLY WARNINGS ABOUT ACTIVIST SHORT SELLERS Hindenburg Research takes its name from an infamous event that happened 86...

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...

Analytics Show Trademark, Patent Filings Dominate Court Actions in Emerging Online Sports Betting Sector

In 2022, the United States sports betting and iGaming industry set a record with $7.5 billion in revenue, according to the American...

Anti-Counterfeit Suits Dominate Professional Sports Litigation

Major professional sports leagues play a significant role in Americans’ leisure activities and in popular culture. The leagues and teams are large...

Emerging Litigation Podcast

PODCAST: The Cannabis Employment Law Patchwork with Keya Denner

Maryland and Missouri are the latest states to legalize recreational cannabis for people 21 and older. Voters came out in favor of legalization in the November 2022 midterms, bringing the total recreational jurisdictions to 22 states and...

The New European Unified Patent Court with Marianne Schaffner and Thierry Lautier

The European Union’s new Unified Patent Court is an international body set up by participating EU Member States to deal...

Reimagining the Administration of Justice with Qudsiya Naqui of Pew Charitable Trust

Before COVID-19 came to America in early 2020, “going to court” literally meant putting on your shoes and walking into...

Modernizing Our Court System (but Don’t Attend Trial from Your Car) with Hon. Scott Schlegel

The judicial system is overburdened for a number of reasons, and greater efficiency is a must if court systems are...

Greatly Exaggerated: The Impact of Bankruptcy on Mass Torts with Jennifer Hoekstra

When large companies face massive mass tort litigation, one way they can survive is to file for bankruptcy protection and reorganize. ...

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Plaintiff Sues United States After Air Force Base Trainings Cause Contaminated Groundwater

Plaintiff Mary J. O’Brien filed suit against defendant United States on Monday in the District of Kansas. O'Brien's lawsuit alleges that her...

Court: Mexican Medical Supplies Manager’s Bribery Case Belongs in Mexico

A judge has ruled that Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social’s (IMSS) case against Zimmer Biomet Holdings Inc. must proceed south of the...

FCC Opposes Certiorari in City’s Broadband Provider Fee Case

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Ill. Court Ends Dentistry’s Bid to Reconsider COVID-19 Insurance Case

A Northern District of Illinois judge issued an opinion Sunday denying motions to amend the complaint and reconsider the dismissal of a...

UCSD Health to Pay Nearly $3M Over Medicare False Claims Allegations

According to a press release issued Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), University of California San Diego Health, the academic...

Court Details Injunction Requirements in Farm Labor Survey Suit

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NRx Hit with Securities Class Action after COVID-19 Drug Fails to Secure FDA Approval

A complaint lodged against clinical-stage small molecule pharmaceutical company NRx and its CEO and CFO accuses the defendants of securities fraud in...

Juice Company Ordered to Destroy Product and Sanitize Facilities in Consent Decree

On Thursday, the Eastern District of Washington issued a Consent Decree of Permanent Injunction in a lawsuit filed by the United States...

Kinross and Feds Settle 2015 Gold King Mine Blowout CERCLA Suit for $90M

The consent decree filed last Friday, if approved, will resolve all claims between several federal agencies, Sunnyside Gold Corporation, and its Canadian...

Cryptocurrency

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...

Private Suit Follows SEC Action Against Genesis Capital

In the wake of a similar suit brought by regulators, a group of investors has filed a class action complaint against...

FOIA

Crash and Burn: Hindenburg Makes it Happen

FOIAengine: EARLY WARNINGS ABOUT ACTIVIST SHORT SELLERS Hindenburg Research takes its name from an infamous event that happened 86...

Big Bet on Brain Implants: Elon Musk, Cyborgs, and FOIA

FOIAengine REVEALS QUESTIONS ABOUT NEURALINK Elon Musk, no stranger to controversy, took the stage a little over three months...

Clash of the Titans: Elon Musk Battles a FOIA Activist

FOIAengine REVEALS A GROWING LEGAL FEUD Sometimes FOIAengine sends us in an unexpected direction as we scan for trends and early...