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  • September 16, 2025

    DC Circ. Asked To Look At ADA Injunction In Segregation Case

    Washington, D.C., wants the D.C. Circuit to narrow an injunction commanding the district to help people in Medicaid-funded nursing homes move out of those facilities and into less restrictive forms of care, as the litigation approaches its 15th birthday.

  • September 16, 2025

    Athletes' NCAA Eligibility At Stake In Pavia Case, 6th Circ. Told

    Attorneys for both the NCAA and for Vanderbilt University football player Diego Pavia acknowledged to a Sixth Circuit panel Tuesday that the court fight over his eligibility to play this season would all but certainly become a debate over the future of all NCAA eligibility rules.

  • September 16, 2025

    Detainees Urge Justices To Ax Early Appeal In GEO Wage Row

    Immigrant detainees urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reject GEO Group's bid for a ruling allowing government contractors to promptly challenge adverse rulings on derivative sovereign immunity, saying it would "dramatically expand" the number of nonfinal judgments that can be immediately appealed.

  • September 16, 2025

    Disbarment Of No-Show Lawyer Among Ga. Discipline Rulings

    A Georgia criminal defense attorney was disbarred Tuesday by the state's high court on charges that he pocketed $5,000 from a client's mother, no-showed for a series of hearings and delayed a trial for more than a year after not so much as speaking to the defendant he was representing.

  • September 16, 2025

    Colo. Justices Say Min. Wage Claims Have Shorter Deadline

    The Colorado Supreme Court ruled that the shorter statute of limitations under the state's Wage Claim Act applies to the Colorado Minimum Wage Act, finding the acts should be construed together because they share the common purpose of recovering unpaid wages.

  • September 16, 2025

    CVS Caremark Takes $290M Overbilling Judgment To 3rd Circ.

    CVS's pharmacy benefits manager will appeal a judgment against the company that was recently increased from $95 million to $290 million in a suit alleging it overbilled Medicare Part D-sponsored drugs, according to a notice of appeal filed in Pennsylvania federal court.

  • September 16, 2025

    Wash. Charitable Limits Don't Apply To Firefighter House Sale

    The Seattle Black Firefighters' Association is not a charitable organization, the Washington Court of Appeals said, affirming a lower court ruling that found the house the association occupies is not subject to charitable purpose restrictions.

  • September 16, 2025

    Indiana Justices Reinstate $6M Verdict In Bus Stop Death Suit

    The Indiana Supreme Court has reinstated a $6 million verdict in favor of the mother of a man who died after he fell under an IndyGo Public Transportation bus, finding the video evidence does not establish as a matter of law that his own negligence contributed to his death.

  • September 16, 2025

    SEC Blasts Thrivent's Attempt To 'Upend' FINRA Oversight

    The Securities and Exchange Commission is defending its refusal to amend three long-running arbitration rules adopted by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority at the request of financial services organization Thrivent, urging the D.C. Circuit to reject the company's appellate petition and leave FINRA's arbitration rules as they are.

  • September 16, 2025

    California AG Bonta Names New State Solicitor General

    California Attorney General Rob Bonta has promoted a veteran attorney in the state's Department of Justice to become the state's new solicitor general.

  • September 16, 2025

    Fed. Circ. Brushes Off Wig Grip Patent Case

    The Federal Circuit on Tuesday refused to revive a wig grip apparatus patent owner's suit accusing a California hair replacement service of infringement, agreeing with how the lower court interpreted a key patent phrase.

  • September 16, 2025

    Wilcox Urges Justices Not To Pick And Choose Firing Fights

    If the U.S. Supreme Court steps in to review the legality of former Federal Trade Commission leader Rebecca Slaughter's firing before the D.C. Circuit does, it should also intervene to consider former National Labor Relations Board member Gwynne Wilcox's firing, Wilcox told the justices.

  • September 16, 2025

    For Cahill Atty, Rare Disease Pro Bono Work Is Personal

    John MacGregor of Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP didn't have any experience in healthcare law before taking on a pro bono client that supports people with a rare form of epilepsy. MacGregor's son is one of them.

  • September 16, 2025

    ​​​​​​​8th Circ. Questions Minn. Contractor Law's Vagueness

    The Eighth Circuit on Tuesday questioned trade groups challenging a Minnesota independent contractor misclassification law about the level of scrutiny to apply to the statute and seemed unconvinced that the law is unconstitutionally vague.

  • September 16, 2025

    Brewer Denounces Gov't Home Distilling Ban In 6th Circ.

    A brewery owner challenging the U.S. tax code's ban on home distilleries criticized the government's claim that he isn't hurt enough by the prohibition to warrant a suit, telling the Sixth Circuit that the ban prevents him from making whiskey at home and renders him ineligible for a distilling permit.

  • September 16, 2025

    9th Circ. Tosses Appeal Of Automatic Stay In Bankruptcy Case

    The Ninth Circuit threw out an appeal of an Arizona bankruptcy court order that reinstated a stay of state court litigation between a mother and daughter, finding that a lower court erred in hearing the case.

  • September 16, 2025

    Duke Strikes $2.35M Deal To Resolve Mortality Data Suit

    Duke University has agreed to pay $2.35 million to settle a proposed class action alleging the school's use of decades-old mortality tables to calculate retirement benefits shorted former employees by millions of dollars, according to a filing in North Carolina federal court.

  • September 16, 2025

    Sotomayor Warns Civics Undereducation Leads To Bad Laws

    Those looking to change the nation's laws first need to understand how they work and why they are in place, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor told a packed auditorium at New York Law School on Tuesday.

  • September 16, 2025

    Ga. Justices Won't Reinstate DA Willis To Trump Election Case

    The Georgia Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to review a lower court's ruling disqualifying Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from the 2020 Georgia election interference case against President Donald Trump and his co-defendants.

  • September 15, 2025

    FTC Dem Urges Justices Not To Disturb Her Reinstatement

    U.S. Federal Trade Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter on Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court not to block her reinstatement, arguing lower courts were correct in finding that President Donald Trump violated the law when he removed the Democrat from her post without cause.

  • September 15, 2025

    Tom Goldstein Can't Pay Attys With 'Tainted Funds,' DOJ Says

    Indicted appellate luminary Tom Goldstein cannot cover his legal bills by selling his multimillion-dollar home, because it's a "tainted asset" worth "far less" than his attorney fees, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a blistering court filing, adding that Goldstein may flee the country as his reputation and marriage collapse.

  • September 15, 2025

    Jazz Loses Bid To Block Avadel From Seeking Sleep Drug OK

    Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. cannot block Avadel CNS Pharmaceuticals LLC from seeking U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval for its sleep disorder treatment, a Delaware federal judge ruled, saying the act of seeking FDA approval is not an infringing activity that can be enjoined.

  • September 15, 2025

    Google Consumers' Attys Seek $85M In Fees For $700M Deal

    Attorneys who helped consumers reach a still-pending $700 million antitrust deal with Google in 2023 have urged a California federal judge to grant them $85 million in attorney fees, saying the settlement, reached alongside state attorneys general, was an "exceptional" result obtained in the "face of substantial litigation uncertainty."

  • September 15, 2025

    W.Va., Idaho Tell Justices Trans Sports Bans Based On Science

    West Virginia and Idaho urged the U.S. Supreme Court to rule that courts should not use subjective preferences when analyzing whether laws that ban transgender athletes from competing on sports teams different from their sex assigned at birth violate the Constitution.

  • September 15, 2025

    Bayer Urges 9th Circ. Not To Revive Tevra Flea, Tick Meds Suit

    Bayer is urging the Ninth Circuit not to grant a new trial over claims that it locked up the market for pet flea and tick treatment, saying the only evidence that rival Tevra showed a jury at trial was "highly dubious."

Expert Analysis

  • Reel Justice: 'Oh, Hi!' Teaches Attys To Return To The Statute

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    The new dark comedy film “Oh, Hi!” — depicting a romantic vacation that turns into an inadvertent kidnapping — should remind criminal practitioners to always reread the statute to avoid assumptions, meet their ethical duties and finesse their trial strategy, says Veronica Finkelstein at Wilmington University School of Law.

  • Patent Ambiguity Persists After Justices Nix Eligibility Appeal

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    The Supreme Court recently declined to revisit the contentious framework governing patent eligibility by denying certiorari in Audio Evolution Diagnostics v. U.S., suggesting a necessary recalibration of both patent application and litigation strategies, say attorneys at Skadden.

  • Justices' Decision Axing Retiree's ADA Claim Offers Clarity

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    The U.S. Supreme Court's holding in Stanley v. City of Sanford that protections under Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act don't extend to retirees potentially limits liability by giving employers additional support to challenge complaints, and highlights the need for proactive policy management to mitigate risk, say attorneys at Jackson Lewis.

  • Fed. Circ. In June: Transitional Phrases In Patent Claims

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    The Federal Circuit's recent decision in Eye Therapies v. Slayback Pharma takes on the rarely addressed topic of transitional phrases in patent claims, providing some useful lessons regarding restating claim language and broadly distinguishing prior art, say attorneys at Knobbe Martens.

  • Series

    Playing Soccer Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Soccer has become a key contributor to how I approach my work, and the lessons I’ve learned on the pitch about leadership, adaptability, resilience and communication make me better at what I do every day in my legal career, says Whitney O’Byrne at MoFo.

  • What To Do When Congress And DOJ Both Come Knocking

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    As recently seen in the news, clients may find themselves facing parallel U.S. Department of Justice and congressional investigations, requiring a comprehensive response that considers the different challenges posed by each, say attorneys at Friedman Kaplan.

  • Series

    Law School's Missed Lessons: Learning From Failure

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    While law school often focuses on the importance of precision, correctness and perfection, mistakes are inevitable in real-world practice — but failure is not the opposite of progress, and real talent comes from the ability to recover, rethink and reshape, says Brooke Pauley at Tucker Ellis.

  • Eye Drop Ruling Clarifies Importance Of Patent Phrasing

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    The Federal Circuit's recent ruling in Eye Therapies v. Slayback, rejecting the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's interpretation of "consisting essentially of," highlights the importance of using clear and consistent terms throughout a patent's filing history to shield it against future challenges, says Liliana Di Nola-Baron at Panitch Schwarze.

  • Midyear Rewind: How Courts Are Reshaping VPPA Standards

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    The first half of 2025 saw a series of cases interpreting the Video Privacy Protection Act as applied to website tracking technologies, including three appellate rulings deepening circuit splits on what qualifies as personally identifiable information and who qualifies as a consumer under the statute, say attorneys at Perkins Coie.

  • How Justices' Ruling On NEPA Reviews Is Playing Out

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    Since the U.S. Supreme Court's May decision in Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. Eagle County, narrowing the scope of agencies' required reviews under the National Environmental Policy Act, the effects of the ruling are starting to become visible in the actions of lower courts and the agencies themselves, say attorneys at Saul Ewing.

  • Series

    Adapting To Private Practice: From ATF Director To BigLaw

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    As a two-time boomerang partner, returning to BigLaw after stints as a U.S. attorney and the director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, people ask me how I know when to move on, but there’s no single answer — just clearly set your priorities, says Steven Dettelbach at BakerHostetler.

  • Reverse Bias Rulings Offer Warning About DEI Quotas

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    Several recent holdings confirm that targeted or quota-based diversity programs can substantiate reverse discrimination claims, especially when coupled with an adverse action, so employers should exercise caution before implementing such policies in order to mitigate litigation risk, says Noah Bunzl at Tarter Krinsky.

  • 4th Circ. Favors Plain Meaning In Bump-Up D&O Ruling

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    The Fourth Circuit's latest denial of indemnity coverage in Towers Watson v. National Union Fire Insurance and its previous ruling in this case lay out a pragmatic approach to bump-up provisions that avoids hypertechnical constructions to limit the effect of a policy's plain meaning, say attorneys at Kennedys.

  • A Look At Key 5th Circ. White Collar Rulings So Far This Year

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    In the first half of 2025, the Fifth Circuit has decided numerous cases of particular import to white collar practitioners, which collectively underscore the critical importance of meticulous recordbuilding, procedural compliance and strategic litigation choices at every stage of a case, says Joe Magliolo at Jackson Walker.

  • High Court Cert Spotlights Varying Tests For Federal Removal

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    A recent decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to review Chevron v. Plaquemines Parish, a case involving the federal officer removal statute, highlights three other recent circuit court decisions raising federal removal questions, and serves as a reminder that defendants are the masters of removal actions, says Varun Aery at Hollingsworth.

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