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September 19, 2025
NFL Warns Arb. Ruling Could Disrupt Sports Dispute Process
The NFL has asked the Second Circuit for a rehearing on its finding that the league provides arbitration "in name only" because its process lacks neutrality, arguing that the decision will disrupt long-standing procedures across professional sports and undermine a league's authority to resolve disputes.
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September 19, 2025
11th Circ. Backs Insurer In Damaged Blood Plasma Suit
The Eleventh Circuit backed an insurer's early win in a coverage dispute over $820,000 in blood plasma that was declared a total loss thanks to a shipping holdup, holding that the "plain language" of its policy clearly excluded claims for delays.
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September 19, 2025
Ga. Bank Pushes To Go After Law Firm Over Ex-Client's Fraud
A Georgia bank that lost more than $8 million through bogus loan transactions is urging a Peach State appellate court to revive a claim of negligent misrepresentation against law firm Stanley Ersey & Buckley LLP, saying the trial court got it wrong when it relied on "boilerplate disclaimers" from the firm to toss the claim.
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September 19, 2025
DC Circ. Sides With FERC On Puerto Rican Gas Pipeline
The D.C. Circuit on Friday unanimously rejected challenges to a liquefied natural gas pipeline in Puerto Rico built after hurricanes battered the island's electrical grid, saying the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's decision not to stop the project fell under its unreviewable enforcement discretion.
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September 19, 2025
Union's $3.5M OT Pension Suit Win Overturned At 3rd Circ.
The Third Circuit overturned Friday a pipe fitters and plumbers union local's $3.5 million win in a dispute with a commercial real estate company over pension contributions related to overtime hours, holding that the parties' collective bargaining agreements didn't obligate the employer to pay additional benefits.
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September 19, 2025
Fla. Bar Must Conduct Bondi Ethics Probe, State Justices Told
An attorney has doubled down on his attempt to force the Florida Bar into investigating U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi for alleged unethical conduct, arguing to the state Supreme Court that the bar has a clear legal duty to do so.
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September 19, 2025
Fla. Judge's Resignation Ends 'Dad Jokes' Ethics Case
The Florida Judicial Qualifications Commission has tossed an ethics case targeting a former state court judge over "dad joke" remarks that discipline authorities referred to as "grossly inappropriate," saying the judge's subsequent departure from the bench justifies the dismissal.Â
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September 19, 2025
Off The Bench: Briefings On Trans Ban, New Kalshi Conflicts
In this week's Off The Bench, the U.S. Supreme Court receives initial briefs from West Virginia and Idaho regarding their bans on gender identity-based participation in school sports, Kalshi is taken to court by another state over its event contract offerings, and Washington, D.C.'s National Football League team takes a major step toward returning to its namesake city.
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September 19, 2025
Trump Asks High Court To Lift Block On Trans Passport Ban
The Trump administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to lift a nationwide order requiring the U.S. Department of State to issue passports to transgender and nonbinary individuals that reflect their gender identity, arguing the mandate wrongly compels the government to express speech it disagrees with.
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September 19, 2025
Michigan Justices To Weigh Enbridge Pipeline Tunnel Dispute
The Michigan Supreme Court agreed Friday to hear challenges to state regulators' approval of an Enbridge Energy LP plan to construct a miles-long tunnel for a petroleum pipeline underneath a Great Lakes shipping corridor.
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September 19, 2025
Mich. Top Court Again Backs Retroactive Auto Reform Limits
The Michigan Supreme Court on Friday reversed a lower state appellate panel's decision in a dispute over whether no-fault reforms enacted in 2019 apply to policies that "straddled" the reform effective dates, pointing to the top court's earlier finding that such policies are subjected to post-reform increased limits for liability.
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September 19, 2025
2nd Circ. Lets Students Facing Removal Stay Free, For Now
The Second Circuit on Friday declined to revisit its earlier decisions that allowed two foreign students facing deportation, allegedly for their pro-Palestinian advocacy, to stay out of detention, rejecting the Trump administration's bid to find it lacks jurisdiction over their cases.
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September 18, 2025
Ill. Justices Reverse Therapist's Fee Win Against Regulator
Illinois' financial and professional regulator should not be ordered to pay attorney fees in connection with a therapist's successful bid to shield his notes from a doctor's administrative reinstatement hearing, the state's highest court ruled Thursday.
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September 18, 2025
Delaware Judge Calls For Civility After 'Annus Horribilis'
In a rare postscript to her bench ruling this week, a Delaware vice chancellor lamented what she observed as a breakdown in the state bar's civility and mutual respect over the past "annus horribilis," comments that have since drawn cautious support and resonance with several in the First State's legal community.
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September 18, 2025
Ga. Panel Lifts Bar On Mom's Suit Over Accidental Shooting
The Georgia Court of Appeals has revived a woman's wrongful death suit over her son's accidental shooting while in training as a security guard, overturning a lower court's ruling that her claims were preempted by a liability release in a workers' compensation settlement.
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September 18, 2025
Alaska Asks Justices To End Feds' Subsistence Fishing Regs
The state of Alaska is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to step into its dispute with the federal government and Native American groups over fishing regulations in its navigable waters, challenging a Ninth Circuit ruling that barred the state from opening part of the Kuskokwim River to all fishers.
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September 18, 2025
Fed. Circ.'s PTAB Prior Art Ruling Risks Havoc, Justices Told
The Federal Circuit created a "jumbled mess" when it ruled that the filing date of a patent application dictates whether it can be used as prior art to invalidate a later patent, rather than the date the application was published, Lynk Labs Inc. has told the U.S. Supreme Court.
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September 18, 2025
Texas Court Says Citizen Can't Intervene To Uphold Pot Law
The citizen sponsor of a voter-approved marijuana decriminalization ordinance cannot intervene in the deal struck between the state attorney general and city of Elgin that declared the ordinance void, a Texas appeals court ruled, saying the advocate doesn't have standing.
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September 18, 2025
Conn. Justice 'Embarrassed' By State's Atty Discipline Rules
A Connecticut Supreme Court justice said Thursday that he was "embarrassed" by the "terribly unclear" ethics rules at the center of an attorney discipline case, appearing sympathetic to the argument that a trial court should have entertained the lawyer's constitutional challenge to the grievance process.
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September 18, 2025
DC Circ. Judge Says PJM Monitor May Have 'Hint Of Paranoia'
The D.C. Circuit didn't seem so sure Thursday morning that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission was flouting the rules by denying an independent market monitor access to its liaison committee meetings, with one judge saying the monitor seemed to be exhibiting a "hint of paranoia."
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September 18, 2025
7th Circ. Judge Wary Of Ex-Firefighter's Free Speech Position
A Seventh Circuit judge on Thursday said an attorney for a former Chicago firefighter seeking to revive a suit claiming he was unlawfully fired for a series of memes and other statements posted on Facebook seemed to be making a "hyperbolic" argument that public employers cannot regulate speech outside the workplace.
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September 18, 2025
Wash. Panel Calls Gas Station Co.'s Insurance Delay Risky
Whether gas station operator Gull Industries Inc. is entitled to legal defense costs from Granite State Insurance Co. in long-running litigation over the company's environmental liability may ultimately boil down to timing, Washington state appellate judges suggested at a hearing Thursday.
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September 18, 2025
2nd Circ. To Weigh EFTA's Scope In NY's Citi Wire Fraud Case
The Second Circuit has granted Citibank's request for an appeal in its fight with New York Attorney General Letitia James over the bank's response to incidents of online wire transfer fraud, agreeing to review whether key federal consumer protections for electronic payments apply to wire transfers initiated over the internet.
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September 18, 2025
Fed. Circ. Hears 'Settled Expectations' Are 'Lawless' In IP Feud
SanDisk Technologies Inc. and its former parent have become the latest challengers at the Federal Circuit to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's discretionary denial practices, taking aim at its acting director's holdings that patent owners eventually have the right to assume their patents won't be challenged.
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September 18, 2025
Split Court Shields Mich. City From Teen's Drowning Suit
The city of South Haven, Michigan, is immune from the claims of the estate of a man who drowned while swimming in Lake Michigan because the estate failed to establish that an exception to governmental immunity applied, a divided state appeals court ruled.
Expert Analysis
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7th Circ. FLSA Notice Test Adds Flexibility, Raises Questions
In Richards v. Eli Lilly, the Seventh Circuit created a new approach for district courts to determine whether to issue notice to opt-in plaintiffs in Fair Labor Standards Act collective actions, but its road map leaves many unanswered questions, says Rebecca Ojserkis at Cohen Milstein.
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How 2nd Circ. Cannabis Ruling Upends NY Licensing
A recent Second Circuit decision in Variscite NY Four v. New York, holding that New York's extra-priority cannabis licensing preference for applicants with in-state marijuana convictions violates the dormant commerce clause, underscores that state-legal cannabis markets remain subject to the same constitutional constraints as other economic markets, say attorneys at Harris Beach.
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Parenting Skills That Can Help Lawyers Thrive Professionally
As kids head back to school, the time is ripe for lawyers who are parents to consider how they can incorporate their parenting skills to build a deep, meaningful and sustainable legal practice, say attorneys at Alston & Bird.
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Enablement Standard Insights From Fed. Circ. Agilent Ruling
The Federal Circuit's recent enablement standard decision in Agilent v. Synthego underscores three critical takeaways for patent practitioners, including reaffirmation that the enablement inquiry under Section 102 of the Patent Act is distinct from the inquiry under Section 112, say attorneys at MoFo.
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Class Actions At The Circuit Courts: September Lessons
In this month's review of class action appeals, Mitchell Engel at Shook Hardy discusses seven decisions pertaining to attorney fees in class action settlements, the predominance requirement in automobile insurance cases, how the no mootness exception applies if the named plaintiff is potentially subject to a strong individual defense, and more.
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Teaching Trial Advocacy Makes Us Better Lawyers
Teaching trial advocacy skills to other lawyers makes us better litigators because it makes us question our default methods, connect to young attorneys with new perspectives and focus on the needs of the real people at the heart of every trial, say Reuben Guttman, Veronica Finkelstein and Joleen Youngers.
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The Crucial Question Left Unanswered In EpicentRx Decision
The California Supreme Court recently issued its long-awaited decision in EpicentRx Inc. v. Superior Court, resolving a dispute regarding the enforceability of forum selection clauses, but the question remains whether private companies can trust that courts will continue to consistently enforce forum selection clauses in corporate charters, says John Yow at Yow PC.
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5 Key Steps To Prepare For Oral Arguments
Whether presenting oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court or a local county judge, effective preparation includes the same essential ingredients, from organizing arguments in blocks to maximizing the potential of mock exercises, says Allison Rocker at Baker McKenzie.
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Maryland High Court Ruling Clarifies Claim Assignment
In its recent opinion in Featherfall Restoration, the Maryland Supreme Court reemphasized a policyholder's ability to assign a claim despite the presence of general liability policy language requiring an insurer's written consent, nevertheless highlighting the importance of specific wording, say attorneys at Bradley Arant.
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Why EpicentRx Ruling Is A Major Win For Business Certainty
The California Supreme Court's recent decision in EpicentRx v. Superior Court removes a significant source of uncertainty that plagued commercial litigation in California by clarifying that forum selection clauses shouldn't be invalidated solely because the selected forum lacks the right to a jury trial, say attorneys at Clark Hill.
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9th Circ. Finding That NFTs Are Goods Will Change TM Law
The Ninth Circuit's recent ruling in Yuga Labs v. Ripps establishes that NFTs have real, commercial value under U.S. federal trademark law, a new legal precedent that may significantly influence intellectual property enforcement and marketplace policies regarding digital assets going forward, say attorneys at Wilson Elser.
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Adapting To Private Practice: From Texas AUSA To BigLaw
As I learned when I transitioned from an assistant U.S. attorney to a BigLaw partner, the move from government to private practice is not without its hurdles, but it offers immense potential for growth and the opportunity to use highly transferable skills developed in public service, says Jeffery Vaden at Bracewell.
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Union Interference Lessons From 5th Circ. Apple Ruling
The Fifth Circuit's recent holding that Apple did not violate the National Labor Relations Act during a store's union organizing drive provides guidance on what constitutes coercive interrogation and clarifies how consistently enforced workplace policies may be applied to union literature, say attorneys at Proskauer.
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3 Rulings Show Hurdles To Proving Market Manipulation Fraud
Three recent conviction reversals from New York federal courts highlight the challenges that prosecutors face in establishing fraud and market manipulation allegations, suggesting that courts are increasingly reluctant to find criminal liability when novel theories are advanced, say attorneys at WilmerHale.
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Drafting M&A Docs After Delaware Corp. Law Amendments
Attorneys at Greenberg Traurig discuss how the March and June amendments to the Delaware General Corporation Law affect the drafting of corporate and M&A documents, including board resolutions, governing documents, and books and records demands.