The Federal Trade Commission’s lawsuit seeking to block the $24.6 billion merger presumes “that consumers are walled off from any other sources for groceries and have no alternative but to buy all their needs from either Kroger or Albertsons alone,” according to an amicus brief filed Friday by Alabama, Georgia, Iowa and Ohio.       

Nasdaq’s complaint accuses an unnamed company of misappropriating the financial services company’s data and undermining its business by selling the stock feeds at a discount       

The copyright claim says EBSCO Industries’ 1995 book on Kansas State football used stories and photos from the papers that were part of a project that had been set aside.       

After a long career in the retail clothing industry, Laurel Krueger is taking the legal reins of one of the largest players in manufactured housing.       

Edward Taibi spent nearly 17 years at Perelman’s MacAndrews & Forbes Inc., leading more than 20 acquisitions and numerous divestitures.       

Also, new trusts, tax partners move to growing East Coast offices of Womble Bond Dickinson, Kilpatrick Townsend.       

Despite a division in one of the two panels of judges to reinstate religious discrimination lawsuits against a Wisconsin hospital system, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit aligned with its sister court’s decisions over the COVID-19 vaccine mandate.       

Rashida La Lande and the company did not immediately respond to inquiries from Law.com seeking an explanation for her resignation.       

“You can look at us and say we’re a Midwest firm, and why wouldn’t our next locations be Chicago or Cleveland, but in today’s marketplace, from a technological standpoint, the practice has gotten smaller in that respect,” said Baker Sterchi Cowden & Rice managing partner Scott Kreamer.       

Megan Belcher succeeds Natalie Maciolek, who left Kohler in August 2023 after more than a decade with the Wisconsin-based plumbing products manufacturer.