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Trump's RFK Jr. Pick For HHS Draws Its Share Of Critics - Law360
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The nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — well-known for his opposition to vaccines — as the secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is President-elect Donald Trump's latest controversial pick for his administration, and one that could disrupt the U.S. Food and Drug...
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Judge Floats Musk Hypo As AT&T Exec Seeks Acquittal - Law360
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An Illinois federal judge posed a hypothetical to federal prosecutors Thursday asking whether it would be a bribery violation if Elon Musk donated heavily to support a presidential candidate who would likely reward him if he wins, as he weighs a former AT&T executive's attempt to avoid a...
14h ago
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3rd Circ. Wary Of Easing Cheesesteak Shop Owner's Sentence - Law360
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Third Circuit judges seemed mostly skeptical of overturning an extension to the prison sentence of a Philadelphia cheesesteak shop owner who admitted to paying employees off the books, saying during oral arguments it was unclear whether the employees should be considered co-conspirators in the tax fraud.
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Oakland Airport Must Stop Using 'San Francisco Bay' In Name - Law360
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The Port of Oakland must stop using "San Francisco Bay" in its international airport's new name, a federal magistrate judge in California ruled Tuesday, saying in a trademark infringement suit that travelers might be confused into thinking the Oakland airport is affiliated or associated with San...
on Wed, 10AM
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'Oh, Come On': 5th Circ. Doubts Intuit Ads Misled Consumers - Law360
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The Fifth Circuit on Monday seemed skeptical that the company behind TurboTax duped customers into thinking they could file their tax returns for free, with judges engaging in a lengthy back-and-forth with the Federal Trade Commission over how noticeable disclosures on the ads had to be for the...
on Nov 5
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NLRB Balks At Apple's Interrogation Rethink At 5th Circ. - Law360 Employment Authority
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The National Labor Relations Board urged the Fifth Circuit to reject Apple's push to protect employers' speech rights by loosening the board's interrogation test and affirm a ruling that the company illegally cracked down on a unionization drive at a Manhattan store.
on Oct 30
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News and analysis on legal developments including litigation filings, case settlements, verdicts, regulation, enforcement, legislation, corporate deals, and business of law.
on Oct 29
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Legal News & Analysis on Litigation, Policy, Deals : Law360
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News and analysis on legal developments including litigation filings, case settlements, verdicts, regulation, enforcement, legislation, corporate deals, and business of law.
on Oct 29
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How Big Crash Verdict Revealed Blueprint For Suing Amazon - Law360
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A rare $16.2 million verdict against Amazon recently awarded by a Georgia jury is proof that a blueprint of sorts now exists for pinning liability on the retail giant in crash cases involving independent contractors, according to a veteran attorney who helped win the case.
on Oct 28
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Boeing Judge Wants DEI Monitor Pick Info Before Plea Ruling - Law360
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The Texas federal judge overseeing prosecutors' criminal case against The Boeing Co. on Tuesday said he needs more information on a provision of the proposed plea deal regarding how the U.S. Department of Justice would select an independent monitor in compliance with the agency's diversity and...
on Oct 18
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Feds Target Crypto Manipulation, Wash Trades In Novel Action - Law360
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Massachusetts federal prosecutors announced charges against 18 individuals and cryptocurrency firms on Wednesday in a first-of-its-kind set of actions targeting alleged manipulation of digital asset markets through wash trading and other tactics.
on Oct 17
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Fed. Circ. Mulls Trade Dress Fight Over Pink Hip Devices - Law360
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A Federal Circuit panel wrestled Tuesday with arguments from a German medical supplier that "late-breaking research" shows why the appearance of the color pink in a part of hip joint implants is not as functional as the company used to claim in the marketplace.
on Oct 10
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Kohl's Beats Investor Class Action Over Activist Bid, For Now - Law360
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A Wisconsin federal judge has dismissed an investor class action alleging that Kohl's attributed positive financial results to executives' strategic planning instead of unrelated, pandemic-related factors in an attempt to defeat an activist at a board meeting, finding that the investors have...
on Oct 4
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Bed Bath & Beyond Investors Lose Bid For Class Cert. - Law360
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A D.C. federal judge has refused to certify a class of Bed Bath & Beyond investors in a suit alleging they were misled by company executives, saying that while the investors met many certification requirements, certification cannot be granted because the market for the company's stock was...
on Oct 1
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Sen. Bill Would Curb ESG Factors In Retirement Fund Choices - Law360
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A bill in the Senate would prohibit asset managers from prioritizing environmental, social and governance, or ESG, factors over financial gain when selecting retirement investments.
on Sep 30
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A Jury Found Them Not Guilty. They're Still Serving Life - Law360
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Despite a federal jury acquitting Terence Richardson and Ferrone Claiborne for the murder of a Virginia police officer nearly 25 years ago, the two men remain in prison for the crime. But with new evidence and a new lawyer, they're hoping to reverse the fraught, state-level guilty pleas that a...
on Sep 28
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GMU Law School Set To Lose Nearly $40M By 2025 - Law360
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George Mason University's Antonin Scalia Law School will have incurred more than $38 million in losses over five years by the end of its 2025 fiscal year, according to budget projections shared with the wider university's board of visitors at a meeting Thursday.
on Sep 27
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Texas Supreme Court Leaves State Fair Gun Ban Intact - Law360
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The state's high court rejected Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's attempt to toss out the State Fair of Texas' new policy prohibiting fairgoers from carrying handguns, finding in a late Thursday opinion that, as a private entity, the State Fair has the right to determine if people carry guns...
on Sep 27
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NY Appeals Court Casts Doubt On $489M Trump Judgment - Law360
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Judges on a New York state appeals court expressed skepticism Thursday of a $489 million civil fraud judgment against Donald Trump, his sons, companies and their executives, raising the prospect that the fine awarded to the attorney general could be reduced or vacated.
on Sep 26
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BREAKING: NY Appeals Court Casts Doubt On $489M Trump Judgment - Law360
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Judges on a New York state appeals court expressed skepticism Thursday of a $489 million civil fraud judgment against Donald Trump, his sons, companies and their executives, raising the prospect that the fine awarded to the attorney general could be reduced or vacated.
on Sep 26
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Senate Bill Wants CBP To Share More On Counterfeit Products - Law360
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A new bill in Congress would expressly give U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents the ability to share more "nonpublic information" about allegedly counterfeit products with "any other party with an interest in the merchandise."
on Sep 26
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Ex-NBA Star Tells Jury He Was Duped By Ga. Businessman - Law360
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Former NBA superstar Dwight Howard told a Manhattan federal jury Thursday that an Atlanta businessman tricked him into making a $7 million investment that he thought was going toward the purchase of a women's professional basketball franchise, a promise that turned out to be "a slap in the face."
on Sep 26
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Fox Exec Must Show Cell Data In Smartmatic Defamation Suit - Law360
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A Florida state court judge has ordered a Fox News board member to turn over cellphone data in connection to a New York defamation lawsuit over unfounded reports that Smartmatic USA Corp.'s voting systems helped rig the 2020 election, finding the phone may contain relevant information to the case.
on Sep 25
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Neurosurgeon Deems Judge Newman's Brain 'Entirely Normal' - Law360
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A third doctor has found that suspended U.S. Circuit Judge Pauline Newman, 97, is not cognitively impaired and that there's no reason to keep her off the bench, according to a report released by her attorneys Tuesday.
on Sep 25
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Coinbase, Execs Must Face Investor Suit Over Business Risks - Law360
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A New Jersey federal judge on Thursday declined to dismiss a consolidated investor class action against Coinbase and its executives over disclosures the cryptocurrency exchange made about certain business risks it faced, although he trimmed certain allegations deemed to be, among other things,...
on Sep 6
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Actors Say AI Co. ElevenLabs Cloned Their Voices - Law360
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Two professional audiobook narrators have sued speech synthesis software company ElevenLabs Inc. in Delaware federal court, saying the company used generative artificial intelligence to clone their voices without consent or compensation and is now profiting by letting customers use their voice...
on Sep 4
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Nvidia Illegally Scraped Videos To Train AI, YouTuber Says - Law360
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Artifical intelligence technology titan Nvidia Corp. has been collecting millions of YouTube videos without creators' permission and using them to train its deep-learning AI software, according to a proposed class action filed Wednesday in California federal court.
on Aug 31
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RELX Hit With Proposed Greenwashing Class Action - Law360 Employment Authority
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RELX PLC has been hit with a proposed class action by a former employee alleging the information and analytics company retaliated against him and committed securities fraud by making various business decisions that contradicted its investor disclosures and public-facing statements.
on Aug 30
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Mars Wrigley Must Face False Ad Suit Over 'Real Cheese' - Law360
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Snack maker Mars Wrigley could not escape claims it falsely advertised its Cheddar Cheese Combos as being made with "real cheese," after a New York federal judge ruled that consumers' adequately showed they paid a premium for inferior "cheese substitute."
on Aug 30
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Punchbowl News Gets Win In TM Spat With Punchbowl Inc. - Law360
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A California federal judge has ruled there is no likelihood of confusion between a publication called Punchbowl News and a greeting card and event planning company named Punchbowl Inc., justifying the dismissal of the latter's trademark infringement claims, according to a summary judgment order.
on Aug 26
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3 Hurdles Facing Worker-Side Attys Looking To Tackle AI Bias - Law360 Employment Authority
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The growing use of artificial intelligence in hiring and other workplace decisions has the plaintiffs bar playing catch-up as attorneys try to track down workers who have been harmed by AI tools and figure out how and when the technology is being used. Here are the three biggest obstacles for...
on Aug 23
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Judge Wary Of Paxton's Bid To 'Annihilate' Houston Nonprofit - Law360
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A Texas state judge indicated Thursday that he was hesitant to allow Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to file a suit seeking to take away an immigrant-led nonprofit's corporate charter, telling attorneys that Paxton was asking him "to go zero to 100" by seeking "annihilation" of the entity.
on Aug 16
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Playing Dungeons & Dragons Makes Me A Better Lawyer - Law360
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Playing Dungeons & Dragons – a tabletop role-playing game – helped pave the way for my legal career by providing me with foundational skills such as persuasion and team building, says Derrick Carman at Robins Kaplan.
on Aug 15
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JDs Linked To Higher Pay For Chief Compliance Officers - Law360
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Chief compliance officers with law degrees earn much more — sometimes as much as nearly $300,000 more — compared with those without the degree, according to a recent report.
on Aug 14
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Tougher 'Spectrum Screen' Would Spur Competition, FCC Told - Law360
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To make room for at least a fourth competitor in the wireless industry, advocacy groups want the Federal Communications Commission to further tighten limits on the holdings of the three biggest holders of commercial spectrum.
on Aug 13
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Health Tech Co. Beats Investor Data Platform Fraud Claim - Law360
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A healthcare technology company has escaped an investor suit challenging the existence of a data platform it touted, as a Connecticut federal judge found a former employee's assertions at the center of the proposed class action weren't enough to show the company knowingly misled investors about...
on Aug 5
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NFL Sacks $4.7B Sunday Ticket Verdict With Post-Trial Win - Law360
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A California federal judge on Thursday overturned a Los Angeles jury's $4.7 billion verdict against the National Football League for violating antitrust laws with its Sunday Ticket television package, granting the league a post-trial win by finding that the plaintiffs' damages experts presented...
on Aug 2
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Paramount Defaulted On Co. Sale Doc Demand, Chancery Told - Law360
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Paramount Global has "completely defaulted" on obligations to provide documents sought by a shareholder investigating controller Shari Redstone's alleged self-interested "usurpation" of the media company's sale opportunities, a stockholder attorney told a Delaware Court of Chancery magistrate Wednesday.
on Jul 26
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Texas Judge Says SpaceX Will Likely Win NLRB Challenge - Law360
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A Texas federal judge explained Tuesday why he blocked a case against SpaceX from proceeding before the National Labor Relations Board, saying he thinks the company is likely to win its constitutional challenge to the agency's structure.
on Jul 24
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Quinn Emanuel Barred From Repping X In Scraping Case - Law360
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Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP can no longer represent social media giant X Corp. in the company's lawsuit against Bright Data Ltd., with a California federal judge finding the law firm violated its duty of loyalty to Bright Data after previously representing it in a "substantially...
on Jul 16
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Judge Keeps Most Of TM Suit Against Musk's X Corp. Intact - Law360
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Elon Musk's Twitter rebrand X Corp. suffered a setback Monday when a Florida federal judge kept intact most of a trademark infringement complaint by X Social Media LLC, an advertising agency for attorneys, with only one claim dismissed from the suit.
on Jul 16
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Vicor Hit With Short Sellers' Suit Over Partnership Disclosure - Law360
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Several short sellers have sued power systems manufacturer Vicor Corp. claiming the company misled the market when it announced it would enter a significant partnership with one of its major customers, but later told investors the partnership would never come to fruition, damaging short sellers.
on Jul 15
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Nasdaq Says It's Immune To SPAC's 'Racial Animus' Claims - Law360
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The Nasdaq Stock Market has asked a Brooklyn federal judge to toss claims it "arbitrarily and capriciously" derailed a minority-led special purpose acquisition company's plans, arguing in a Wednesday filing that it's immune to such claims as a self-regulatory organization.
on Jul 11
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Ex-NBA Player Pleads Guilty In Betting Scandal - Law360
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Former NBA player Jontay Porter pled guilty to a federal charge in Brooklyn on Wednesday for his part in an illegal sports betting scheme, admitting that he withdrew from games to ensure winning bets for men he owed a gambling debt.
on Jul 11
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Domino's Hit With BIPA Suit Over AI Voiceprint Collection - Law360
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Domino's Pizza customers hit the restaurant chain with a proposed class action in Illinois federal court Wednesday alleging it secretly collects voiceprints through its artificial intelligence ordering system, saying the pizza chain uses the data to enhance the technology and to boost sales.
on Jul 10
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Armstrong Teasdale Resisted Diversity, Ex-DEI VP Says - Law360
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Armstrong Teasdale LLP's former vice president of diversity, equity and inclusion claims the law firm hired her to help it cultivate a more diverse workplace, but then blocked her attempts to make recommendations and improvements before wrongly firing her, according to a lawsuit recently filed...
on Jul 8
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'Who Does That?' 7th Circ. Pans Walmart's Price Audit Theory - Law360
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The Seventh Circuit on Wednesday revived a class action accusing Walmart of systematically posting lower prices on shelves than it actually charges, rejecting the retailer's argument that the onus is on customers to keep track of prices as they're juggling various distractions during checkout.
on Jul 5
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Texas Court Puts FTC's Noncompete Ban On Hold - Law360
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A Texas federal judge on Wednesday put the Federal Trade Commission's rule banning noncompete agreements on hold for a challenge of the regulation being brought by tax preparation company Ryan LLC and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
on Jul 4
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$18M Hoodie Blanket Verdict Stands Despite New Design Test - Law360
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The Federal Circuit's newly revised test for proving that a design patent is invalid as obvious does not warrant a new trial following an $18.4 million verdict in a dispute between rival makers of wearable hoodie blankets, an Arizona federal judge ruled Friday.
on Jul 2
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House Panel Cans Vote On Data Privacy, Kids' Safety Bills - Law360
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The House Energy and Commerce Committee unexpectedly scrapped plans to discuss nearly a dozen bills Thursday morning, including a closely watched proposal to create a federal data privacy framework that has faced backlash from House leadership, consumer advocates and other stakeholders.
on Jul 1