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The White House announced on Friday that the US and Mexico reached a deal that it deemed sufficient to keep from levying the threatened 5% tariffs on Mexican goods that was set to take effect today. As details of that deal have emerged, however,...By: Robins Kaplan LLP

In Great Hill Equity Partners IV, LP v. SIG Growth Equity I, LLLP, 80 A.3d 155 (Del. Ch. 2013), the Delaware Court of Chancery held that the privilege existing with respect to communications between the target’s counsel and its officers, directors...By: Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

A New York federal court recently dismissed a putative class action alleging that a line of dog food products was improperly labeled as “natural” where the plaintiff alleged that the products contained only trace amounts of glyphosate, an herbicide....By: Morrison & Foerster LLP - Class Dismissed

Jobs Report Friday again! Lots to look for in the numbers this month, especially considering the economic uncertainty that’s defined the past few weeks....By: Robins Kaplan LLP

The City of St. Petersburg, Florida is one of the latest municipalities to incorporate the concepts of sustainable construction, sometimes referred to as "green building", into the requirements of their municipal code. ...By: Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP

It’s not uncommon for construction contracts to include indemnity provisions requiring the indemnitor (typically, the lower-tiered party) to “defend, indemnify and hold harmless” the indemnitee (typically, the higher-tiered party) from third-party...By: Wendel, Rosen, Black & Dean LLP

In Shareholder Representative Services LLC v. RSI Holdco, LLC, No. 2018-0517-KSJM, 2019 WL 2290916 (Del. Ch. May 29, 2019), the Delaware Court of Chancery reaffirmed that a target company may protect its pre-merger privileged communications in a...By: Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

The British Columbia Supreme Court in MRC Total Build Ltd. v F&M Installations Ltd., 2019 BCSC 765 [MRC Total Build] recently considered an application by a general contractor to stay proceedings commenced by a subcontractor and refer the matter to...By: Bennett Jones LLP

Rad and D’Aprile, Inc. v. Arnell Construction Corp, No. 502464/14, 2019 BL 131606 (NY. Sup. Ct. April 3, 2019) - In June of 2001, Arnell Construction Corp. (“Arnell”) entered into a prime contract to build two sanitation garages in Brooklyn for the...By: Pepper Hamilton LLP

In Shareholder Representative Services LLC v. RSI Holdco, LLC, the Delaware Court of Chancery held that the sellers of a target corporation retained the right to assert attorney-client privilege over pre-merger communications with the target...By: Pepper Hamilton LLP