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June 17, 2025
Org. Urges 9th Circ. To OK NFL Sunday Ticket Verdict Dismissal
A legal foundation focused on promoting free enterprise principles is offering support to the NFL as the league defends a California federal judge's dismissal of a jury's $4.7 billion Sunday Ticket price-fixing award, arguing Tuesday the district court was right to correct a "gatekeeping failure" in expert testimony.
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June 17, 2025
ND Secretary Fights Tribes' 8th Circ. Voting Rights Rehearing
North Dakota Secretary of State Michael Howe is urging the Eighth Circuit to deny two Native American tribes' bid for a rehearing in their voting rights challenge, arguing their petition misinterprets the appellate court's opinions and overstates U.S. Supreme Court precedent on the issue.
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June 17, 2025
9th Circ. Says Chinook Can't Get Tribal Status From Courts
The Chinook Indian Nation can't revive its bid seeking federally recognized tribe status that would entitle it to benefits from the U.S. government after the Ninth Circuit issued an order Tuesday finding the process for federal recognition comes from the U.S. Department of the Interior, not the federal judiciary.
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June 17, 2025
Ill. Toy Makers Seek Justices' Early Review Of Trump Tariff Suit
Illinois-based toy makers challenging President Donald Trump's emergency tariffs on Tuesday requested the U.S. Supreme Court consider their case before it is reviewed by the D.C. Circuit, arguing a stay to an injunction is allowing duty collections to continue and is damaging the companies.
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June 17, 2025
Ohio High Court Allows Challenge To Duke Gas Rate Increase
Ohio's utility consumer advocate filed a timely appeal to challenge a regulator's approval of a Duke Energy Ohio Inc. rate increase for natural gas customers, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled Tuesday, denying Duke's bid to have the case dismissed.
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June 17, 2025
Sunglass Suit Tossed After 11th Circ. Nixes $40M Deal
A Florida federal judge on Tuesday threw out a proposed class action alleging Costa Del Mar Inc. misled buyers about its sunglasses' lifetime warranty, saying the court doesn't have subject matter jurisdiction over the claims.
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June 17, 2025
X, Meta Get Fed. Circ. To Back Invalidation Of Xerox Patent
X and Meta both saw their successful challenges to claims in a Xerox patent on creating profiles of website users remain intact after the Federal Circuit on Tuesday affirmed a pair of decisions from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board invalidating the claims.
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June 17, 2025
9th Circ. Backs Class Cert. In Suit Over Diabetes Drug Risk
The Ninth Circuit refused to disband a class of third-party payors who claim Takeda Pharmaceutical and Eli Lilly & Co. hid their anti-diabetes drug's bladder cancer risks, finding no issue with a lower court's analysis of expert evidence showing prescriptions fell after the risks were disclosed.
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June 17, 2025
Four More Women Appeal NIL Deal Over Title IX Objections
Four additional former and current women college athletes, including one of the most decorated lacrosse players of all time, have filed notice of their intent to appeal the NCAA's $2.78 billion name, image and likeness compensation settlement to the Ninth Circuit, objecting to the deal's disproportionately low allocation of money to women.
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June 17, 2025
11th Circ. Clears Carnival In Suit Over Sex Assault Of Teen
The Eleventh Circuit on Tuesday sided with Carnival Corp. in a suit from a passenger who sought to hold the cruise line liable for a sexual assault against her when she was 15, finding that the facts of the case didn't support the argument that it had notice of the risk of any assault.
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June 17, 2025
Justice Jackson Tops Royalties And Trip Disclosures In 2024
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackon wasn't the only member of the high court to make a stage-related debut in the past year: Justice Sonia Sotomayor had a hand in helping a Missouri theater company create a musical adaptation of one of her children's books, according to financial disclosure forms released Tuesday.
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June 17, 2025
3rd Circ. To Review AI Ruling In Fight Over Westlaw Data
The Third Circuit on Tuesday granted an interlocutory appeal from tech startup Ross Intelligence, which is challenging a ruling from a Delaware federal court that concluded it infringed copyrighted material from Thomson Reuters' Westlaw platform to create a competing legal research tool powered by artificial intelligence.
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June 17, 2025
'Is Anybody Home?': Ex-Judge Faces Ethics Case Over Delays
A former California state appellate justice whose persistent backlog subjected hundreds of cases, including some involving juveniles, to delays of four, five, even eight years is now facing a state ethics proceeding alleging neglect of duty and willful misconduct in office.
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June 17, 2025
Mich. Court Backs County's Bid For Financial Data Access
Elected commissioners in Macomb County, Michigan, won a state Supreme Court bid to gain access to the county's financial information, while the court also left in place a ruling that Macomb's prosecutor may turn to outside law firms for legal advice.
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June 17, 2025
1st Circ. Says Ex-Santander Loan Officer Can't Bypass ERISA
A former high-earning mortgage development officer for Santander Bank cannot attempt an "end run" around the Employee Retirement Income Security Act by pursuing civil claims under Rhode Island state law over her 2022 firing, a First Circuit panel has ruled.
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June 17, 2025
Fed. Circ. Undoes PTAB Win For Tech Giants On Web Patent
The Federal Circuit on Tuesday threw out the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's decision that invalidated claims in an Express Mobile patent covering ways to build a website, handing a loss to patent challengers Meta, Google and others.
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June 17, 2025
NJ Supreme Court Rejects Judicial Privacy Law Challenge
The New Jersey Supreme Court on Tuesday threw out a journalist's constitutional challenge to the judicial privacy measure Daniel's Law, finding it serves "a state interest of the highest order" in seeking to keep certain public officials out of harm's way.
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June 17, 2025
Sam's Club $310M Tobacco Tax Bill OK'd By Ill. Appeals Panel
A Sam's Club outlet in Illinois was correctly assessed $310 million for its failure to pay county tobacco taxes on cigarettes it sold to out-of-county retailers, a state appeals panel said in a judgment, reversing a circuit court decision.
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June 17, 2025
2nd Circ. Seems Inclined To Uphold FedEx Race Bias Win
A Black fired FedEx driver may not have laid out sufficient evidence to get his race discrimination and retaliation suit revived, a Second Circuit panel indicated Tuesday, with one judge saying she wasn't sure how the facts he had presented would be enough for an initial case.
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June 17, 2025
2nd Circ. Weighs Harms In Post-Pandemic School Funds Fight
The Second Circuit asked Tuesday if the federal government would be irreparably harmed if ordered to continue hundreds of millions of dollars of ongoing education-related COVID-19 pandemic recovery funding, as it mulled an order barring the Trump administration from cutting off the money.
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June 16, 2025
Asian Bar Groups Jump Into Fight Over Trump Birthright Ban
The National Asian Pacific American Bar Association and dozens of other affiliated legal organizations urged the First Circuit on Monday to uphold a Massachusetts federal judge's decision blocking President Donald Trump's executive order limiting birthright citizenship, saying the White House order is unconstitutional and would "disproportionately harm" Asian American communities.
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June 16, 2025
DOJ Says Naval Academy Admissions Policy Case Is Moot
The U.S. Department of Justice on Monday asked the Fourth Circuit to toss an appeal challenging the U.S. Naval Academy's consideration of race in admissions because the school has since changed its admissions program "so that race and ethnicity are no longer considered in any way at any point."
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June 16, 2025
NJ Justices OK Grand Jury Investigations Of Clergy Abuse
New Jersey can empanel a special grand jury to investigate allegations of clergy sexual abuse, the state Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday, saying that no case law or court rule allows a judge to prohibit a grand jury inquiry before it has even begun.
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June 16, 2025
Fed. Circ. Faults Ax Of Patent Targeted By Nintendo, Others
The Federal Circuit on Monday vacated Patent Trial and Appeal Board decisions invalidating claims in a computer security patent asserted against Nintendo, Roku and Vizio, saying the board didn't give enough weight to "substantial" licenses for the patent when finding it obvious.
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June 16, 2025
NY Seeks To Move Feds' Climate Superfund Suit Upstate
The Trump administration's lawsuit challenging New York's climate change Superfund law should be transferred from the Southern District of New York to the Northern District, where it can join a similar lawsuit lodged by several Republican-led states, New York told a federal judge.
Expert Analysis
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How Law Firms Can Counteract The Loneliness Epidemic
The legal industry is facing an urgent epidemic of loneliness, affecting lawyer well-being, productivity, retention and profitability, and law firm leaders should take concrete steps to encourage the development of genuine workplace connections, says Michelle Gomez at Littler and Gwen Mellor Romans at Herald Talent.
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What's At Stake In High Court's Class Member Standing Case
The U.S. Supreme Court’s eventual decision in Labcorp v. Davis could significantly alter how parties prosecute and defend class actions in federal court, particularly if the court determines some proof of member standing is required before a class may be certified, say attorneys at Reed Smith.
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What Remedies Under New Admin's SEC Could Look Like
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is likely to substantially narrow the remedies it pursues over the next few years, driven by the mounting challenges it faces in court, as well as the views of its incoming chair and fellow Republican commissioners on injunctions, penalties and disgorgement, say attorneys at Milbank.
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Patent Eligibility Insights From Fed. Circ.'s Drill Bit Ruling
The Federal Circuit's recent decision in US Synthetic Corp. v. ITC addresses critical issues in patent eligibility jurisprudence, especially regarding composition-of-matter claims and Section 101 challenges, says Daniel Yannuzzi at Sheppard Mullin.
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5 Keys To Building Stronger Attorney-Client Relationships
Attorneys are often focused on being seen as the expert, but bonding with clients and prospects by sharing a few key personal details provides the basis for a caring, trusted and profoundly deeper business relationship, says Deb Feder at Feder Development.
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What SDNY Judge Can And Can't Do In Adams Case
The federal judge in the Southern District of New York overseeing the criminal case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams deferred making a decision on the government's motion to dismiss the indictment, and while he does have limited authority to deny the motion, that would ultimately be a futile gesture, says Ethan Greenberg at Anderson Kill.
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Drug Kickback Ruling Will Make FCA Liability Harder To Prove
The First Circuit's ruling in U.S. v. Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, requiring the government to prove but-for causation to establish False Claims Act liability based on violations of the Anti-Kickback Statute, raises the bar for FCA enforcement and deepens a circuit split that the U.S. Supreme Court may need to resolve, say attorneys at Baker Donelson.
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Notable Q4 Updates In Insurance Class Actions
In a continuation of trends in property and casualty insurance class actions, last quarter insurers struggled with defending the merits and class certification of sales tax and fee suits, and labor depreciation cases, but succeeded in dismissing privacy class actions at the pleading stages, says Mathew Drocton at BakerHostetler.
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Expropriation Claims After Justices' Holocaust Asset Ruling
The U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision in Hungary v. Simon, rejecting Holocaust survivors' claims against the Hungarian government under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act's expropriation exception, continues the trend of narrowly interpreting that exception and offers important guidance for future plaintiffs considering such claims, say attorneys at MoloLamken.
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Series
Racing Corvettes Makes Me A Better Lawyer
The skills I use when racing Corvettes have enhanced my legal practice in several ways, because driving, like practicing law, requires precision, awareness and a good set of brakes — complete with the wisdom to know how and when to use them, says Kat Mateo at Olshan Frome.
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Questions Remain After Justices' Narrow E-Rate FCA Ruling
The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in Wisconsin Bell, holding that requests for reimbursement from the Federal Communications Commission's E-Rate program are subject to False Claims Act liability, resolves one important question but leaves several others open, says Jason Neal at HWG.
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Opinion
Attorneys Must Act Now To Protect Judicial Independence
Given the Trump administration's recent moves threatening the independence of the judiciary, including efforts to impeach judges who ruled against executive actions, lawyers must protect the rule of law and resist attempts to dilute the judicial branch’s authority, says attorney Bhavleen Sabharwal.
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Colo. Anti-SLAPP Cases Highlight Dismiss Standard Disparity
A pair of recent decisions from the Colorado Court of Appeals highlights two disparate standards for courts evaluating anti-SLAPP motions: one that requires a court to accept the plaintiff's evidence as true and another that allows the court to assess its merits, says Jacob Hollars at Spencer Fane.
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Appealing An Interlocutory Order On Insurer Duty To Defend
A recent First Circuit decision on a motion regarding an insurer's duty to defend underlying litigation highlights how policyholders may be able to pursue immediate appeals of interlocutory orders, especially in light of other circuit courts' stances on this issue, say attorneys at Anderson Kill.
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Rethinking 'No Comment' For Clients Facing Public Crises
“No comment” is no longer a cost-free or even a viable public communications strategy for companies in crisis, and counsel must tailor their guidance based on a variety of competing factors to help clients emerge successfully, says Robert Bowers at Moore & Van Allen.