https://www.law360.com/connecticut?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Connecticut Copyright 2025 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US Thu, 01 May 2025 21:40:59 +0000 https://www.law360.com/connecticut/articles/2333087?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/connecticut/articles/2333087 The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority announced online broker-dealer Interactive Brokers LLC will pay $400,0000 to settle claims it failed to report regulatory complaints and customer grievances regarding the functionality of its virtual platform to FINRA over an 11-year period. Thu, 01 May 2025 20:57:15 +0000 https://www.law360.com/connecticut/articles/2332943?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/connecticut/articles/2332943 A Long Island, New York, school district is appealing a decision that denied its bid to block a ban on the use of Indigenous mascots and names in public schools, while the federal government investigates the state's education department and board of regents alleging Civil Rights Act violations. Thu, 01 May 2025 19:49:01 +0000 https://www.law360.com/connecticut/articles/2333466?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/connecticut/articles/2333466 A Connecticut smoke shop and its owner must pay a record-breaking $4.93 million civil penalty after they illegally sold cannabis despite repeated inspections and product seizures, and continued to do so in spite of a court order, the state's attorney general said Thursday. Thu, 01 May 2025 17:35:20 +0000 https://www.law360.com/connecticut/articles/2333079?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/connecticut/articles/2333079 A Connecticut federal judge on Thursday refused to put a bow on the deal the state of Florida struck with Sandoz AG and related defendants in three generic drug price-fixing lawsuits, ruling from the bench in Hartford that the settlement agreement "as written" would lead to exorbitant supplemental payments in the event that other states also reach deals to release their claims. Thu, 01 May 2025 16:58:39 +0000 https://www.law360.com/connecticut/articles/2333163?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/connecticut/articles/2333163 A North Carolina trade executive's latest trip to the Second Circuit in his quest to win damages for alleged hacking by a private investigator on Dechert LLP's behalf should end like the others, with a dismissal, defense counsel argued Thursday. Thu, 01 May 2025 16:53:24 +0000 https://www.law360.com/connecticut/articles/2333268?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/connecticut/articles/2333268 A former Connecticut government employee admitted to playing a part in a $1.8 million scheme to defraud the Constitution State's Medicaid program by fraudulently billing services for children with autism that her company never provided, acting U.S. Attorney Marc H. Silverman has announced. Thu, 01 May 2025 15:38:42 +0000 https://www.law360.com/connecticut/articles/2332665?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/connecticut/articles/2332665 A coalition of states urged the First Circuit to reinstate a ruling that had blocked the Trump administration from cutting $30 million in fair housing grants, saying the federal government failed to consider the impact this decision would have on the groups' operations. Thu, 01 May 2025 14:58:54 +0000 https://www.law360.com/connecticut/articles/2332637?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/connecticut/articles/2332637 A former McCarter & English LLP client waited too long to challenge interest calculations that added more than $1 million to an attorney fee award, the firm has argued, asking a judge to reject Jarrow Formulas Inc.'s bid to reduce a March 12 judgment totaling $3.8 million. Thu, 01 May 2025 14:31:06 +0000 https://www.law360.com/connecticut/articles/2332896?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/connecticut/articles/2332896 Hometown Food Co., a portfolio company of Holland & Knight LLP-advised private equity shop Brynwood Partners, on Thursday announced plans to acquire the iconic Chef Boyardee brand from Mayer Brown LLP-led Conagra Brands Inc. in a $600 million deal. Thu, 01 May 2025 10:21:44 +0000 https://www.law360.com/connecticut/articles/2305667?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/connecticut/articles/2305667 Serving as an adjunct college professor has taught me the importance of building rapport, communicating effectively, and persuading individuals to critically analyze the difference between what they think and what they know — principles that have helped to improve my practice of law, says Sheria Clarke at Nelson Mullins. Wed, 30 Apr 2025 20:59:09 +0000 https://www.law360.com/connecticut/articles/2332667?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/connecticut/articles/2332667 Anheuser-Busch must face a jury in a multimillion-dollar contract claim surrounding its 2016 buyout of a hard seltzer product line from its inventors and their investors, a Connecticut trial court judge ruled Wednesday, partially declining the beverage giant's bid for a quick win. Wed, 30 Apr 2025 20:52:11 +0000 https://www.law360.com/connecticut/articles/2332397?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/connecticut/articles/2332397 Bankruptcy Code provisions that allow creditors who make substantial contributions to be reimbursed for costs don't cover Prospect Medical's pre-Chapter 11 investment banker, a Texas bankruptcy judge said Wednesday, rejecting a finance firm's bid for a $5 million sale fee. Wed, 30 Apr 2025 18:07:55 +0000 https://www.law360.com/connecticut/articles/2332473?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/connecticut/articles/2332473 Lego sued Veux Toys LLC in Connecticut federal court Tuesday, seeking to block the California-based toy retailer from selling figurines that are "substantially similar" to its copyrighted products, such as Spider-Man toy men. Wed, 30 Apr 2025 16:38:25 +0000 https://www.law360.com/connecticut/articles/2331295?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/connecticut/articles/2331295 As law firms are increasingly targeted in cyberattacks, claims by clients as well as nonclients against lawyers are also on the rise, increasing the scope of exposure that attorneys face in their practice, say attorneys at Wilson Elser. Wed, 30 Apr 2025 15:56:35 +0000 https://www.law360.com/connecticut/articles/2332410?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/connecticut/articles/2332410 The estate of a woman killed in a drunk driving crash after an allegedly mandatory wine tasting event at the Connecticut restaurant where she worked can pursue claims against a server and his employer, who were originally brought into the case as apportionment defendants, a state court judge has ruled after rethinking a prior decision. Wed, 30 Apr 2025 15:49:36 +0000 https://www.law360.com/connecticut/articles/2332481?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/connecticut/articles/2332481 A boutique Connecticut consumer protection law firm cannot block the IRS from collecting 2022 and 2023 payroll taxes while the firm challenges the government's alleged failure to process CARES Act payroll credit requests in 2021, the U.S. Department of Justice has argued. Wed, 30 Apr 2025 15:33:23 +0000 https://www.law360.com/connecticut/articles/2332034?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/connecticut/articles/2332034 The former manager of a Connecticut investment fund, who spent almost a year in custody in South America, pled guilty to wire fraud and money laundering charges in a scheme prosecutors say swindled $3.4 million from investors who thought he was running a conservative hedge fund with consistent returns. Wed, 30 Apr 2025 12:49:18 +0000 https://www.law360.com/connecticut/articles/2329525?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/connecticut/articles/2329525 Practitioners leaving a longtime government role for private practice — as when I departed the U.S. Department of Justice’s environmental enforcement division — should prioritize finding a firm that shares their principles, values their experience and will invest in their transition, says John Cruden at Beveridge & Diamond. Tue, 29 Apr 2025 22:47:39 +0000 https://www.law360.com/connecticut/articles/2331669?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/connecticut/articles/2331669 Second Circuit judges questioned Tuesday why the feds couldn't fine Verizon millions of dollars for location data misuse since the telecom carrier has the option of refusing to pay and demanding a jury trial if the U.S. Department of Justice comes to collect. Tue, 29 Apr 2025 20:26:03 +0000 https://www.law360.com/connecticut/articles/2331403?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/connecticut/articles/2331403 Connecticut's Office of Consumer Counsel has asked the state utilities regulator to open a probe into Avangrid Inc.'s alleged public dissemination of customer information, telling the agency in a petition that two of its natural gas subsidiaries in the state fell victim to a phishing scam.