Notices by Ann Lipton (annmlipton@esq.social)

"In the first four minutes of oral arguments...Judge Robert Bruce King returned to the cats no less than three times...defendant Trent Russell in an interview with the FBI denied accessing Justice Ginsburg's medical information and 'said his cat must have walked across the keyboard.'"

Relatable tbh

https://www.law360.com/securities/articles/2445983

"large language models such as ChatGPT were consistently advising women to ask for lower salaries than men in recruitment processes,... AI tools already in use by more than half of England’s councils were downplaying women’s medical conditions, potentially resulting in unequal care"

https://www.ft.com/content/60e2a900-8999-46cc-8107-4f468f442aae

That is ... unexpected.

"Oklahoma City Mayor David Holt said he’d met with the owners of a warehouse identified by ICE who told him they were no longer going to sell or lease the facility to the agency. 'I commend the owners for their decision and thank them on behalf of the people of Oklahoma City,' Holt said."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-01-29/us-spends-hundreds-of-millions-on-warehouses-for-ice-detention-centers

New blog post! In November, I was honored to deliver the inaugural Tamar Frankel lecture at Boston University Law School. These were my remarks:

https://www.businesslawprofessors.com/2026/01/corporate-governance-authoritarianism/

Okay, I'll take them.

https://www.cnbctv18.com/market/paramount-says-warner-bros-cable-channels-are-worth-nothing-19817315.htm

Companies are going to conclude it's just easier not to hire people of color.

Which, I assume, is the point
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-doj-dei-fraud-investigations-93213d52

oh

https://www.ft.com/content/bee83769-fa41-4d18-9dc2-4a46130c72a8

The most important line here:

"But a generation of CEOs used to acting, and being treated, like small gods, seem unused to the everyday crises of running a business."

https://www.semafor.com/newsletter/12/16/2025/warner-bros-deal-puts-justice-departments-gail-slater-in-hot-seat?utm_source=nowshare&utm_medium=business&utm_campaign=FirstWord#b

lol

Naturally.

https://www.wsj.com/business/media/paramount-netflix-warner-bros-battle-ellisons-a86fe15c

New blog post (that's a from me this week!) on Commissioner Uyeda's novel interpretation of 13(d) and proxy advisors:

https://www.businesslawprofessors.com/2025/12/13d-daisy-chains/

blog post about another (spurious) "in connection with" securities opinion. This time dismissing claims by First Horizon shareholders against TD Bank, concerning TD Bank's allegedly false representations regarding a merger:

https://www.businesslawprofessors.com/2025/11/in-connection-with-strikes-again/

We call this "federalism"

"With the benefit of clarity under the federal securities laws, I hope that the Delaware legislature will revisit the prohibition of both mandatory arbitration and fee shifting with respect to federal securities law claims."

https://www.sec.gov/newsroom/speeches-statements/atkins-10092025-keynote-address-john-l-weinberg-center-corporate-governances-25th-anniversary-gala

oof
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/opinion/trump-silicon-valley-state-meda-putin.html

"Assuming a deal comes together, it is likely to rank as the largest leveraged buyout ever, not adjusting for inflation. The largest to date was the 2007 purchase of Texas utility TXU by a group of private-equity firms for around $32 billion"

Excuse you. Twitter was $44 billion.

https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/ea-private-deal-buyout-video-game-maker-808aefec

I blogged again

https://www.businesslawprofessors.com/2025/09/its-tough-to-make-predictions-especially-about-the-future-but/

Ken Paxton is appealing the preliminary injunction that stopped him from enforcing Texas's proxy advisor law:

Oh.

https://abovethelaw.com/2025/08/intel-drops-funding-hbcu-legal-pipeline/

Okay so this is kind of an obscure point but this Intel stockholder agreement with the government is drafted with the possibility in mind that a court might later determine that the US Government controls the company

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/50863/000005086325000129/a08222025formex101stockand.htm

That's not good

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/espn-will-not-air-spike-lees-docuseries-colin-kaepernick-citing-creative-2025-08-16/