Hot hot hot topics: The Tipline for 3 May 2018

The mid-Atlantic region of the US seems to have gone directly from early spring to mid-summer, as temperatures jumped from near-freezing lows last weekend to an expected high in the 90s today. We have a story on Bruce Hoffman’s latest remarks on the “hot topics” of common ownership and data, plus one senator’s letter-writing campaign on mergers, and a judge’s scolding of lawyers in one of the biggest class actions in the US.