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Kentucky can seek to enforce its price-gouging laws against Amazon.com sellers it accused of seeking to profit illegally from the COVID-19 pandemic last year, a federal appeals court has ruled, lifting an injunction won by a group of online merchants.
A unanimous 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel ruled Thursday that Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron’s enforcement action against the sellers did not run afoul of the U.S. Constitution’s so-called Dormant Commerce Clause, which generally bars states from regulating interstate commerce. The decision was a setback for the Online Merchants Guild, an e-retail industry group that had sought to block Cameron’s price-gouging investigation.
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Delaware Chancery Court has handed a win to the seller in a $550 million dispute over an agreement to acquire a cake decoration supplier in the early days of the pandemic, saying a dip in sales did not give the buyer reason to renege.
In one of her last rulings as a Vice Chancellor, incoming Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick on Friday ordered private equity firm Kohlberg & Company to close on its March 2020 acquisition of Decopac Holdings from another private equity firm Snow Phipps Group, represented by Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, calling the ruling “a victory for deal certainty.”
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The Supreme Court of Ohio has ruled that the city council of Columbus wrongly refused to act on a developer's controversial proposal that could result in $87 million of city money being transferred to privately-run renewable energy development funds.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated longstanding workplace bias against women, racial and religious minorities and people with disabilities while posing a series of novel legal questions that could be costly for employers, more than a dozen experts told the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on Wednesday.
During the EEOC’s first virtual public hearing, Chair Charlotte Burrows and Commissioners Jocelyn Samuels and Keith Sonderling all said the pandemic had triggered a “crisis” in the American workplace, and probed 13 witnesses about how the anti-bias agency can help.
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For Kane Kessler, a 90-year-old firm rooted in Manhattan, a flurry of new hires and a shiny new midtown office doesn’t mean a shift in the firm’s model, according to co-managing partner Jeffrey Tullman.
“We try to maintain ourselves as a midsize firm. We have no desire to grow to what I’ve always considered to be no-man’s land, which are firms that are 100 to 2 or 300 attorneys size-wise in New York,” said Tullman.
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