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March 27, 2025
Alibaba Investors' Attys Awarded $108M In IPO Settlement
A New York federal judge on Thursday granted final approval to Alibaba Group's $433.5 million settlement with investors suing the company over alleged misstatements about its exclusivity practices and its planned initial public offering of a fintech affiliate, awarding the investors' attorneys 25%, or roughly $108 million.
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March 27, 2025
Standing Emerges As Key Front In ERISA Health Fee Battles
The recent dismissal of a suit brought by former Wells Fargo workers who claimed high prescription drug costs violated federal benefits law shows the ability to establish standing emerging as a key stumbling block for Employee Retirement Income Security Act suits alleging excessive health fees, experts say.
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March 27, 2025
UPS, Workers To Take Military Leave Suit To Mediation
United Parcel Service and a class of employees alerted a Washington federal court that they intend to mediate the workers' lawsuit accusing the company of failing to pay drivers on short-term military leave while paying those who take time off for jury duty and other short-term absences.
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March 27, 2025
3rd Circ. Says Pension Law OKs Suits To Enforce Settlements
A Teamsters pension fund can go after a bankrupt dairy business's affiliates for the $39 million that the business owes the fund under the terms of a settlement, the Third Circuit ruled Thursday, saying the fund has a viable cause of action under the Multiemployer Pension Plan Amendments Act.
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March 27, 2025
9th Circ. Won't Stay Injunction Compelling Fed. Worker Rehire
A split Ninth Circuit panel has refused to block an injunction compelling the Trump administration to reinstate about 16,000 probationary employees to six federal agencies, saying the administration will likely lose its argument that the agencies weren't acting on an order from above when they fired the workers.
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March 26, 2025
Sotomayor Urges Caution On Nondelegation Doctrine Revamp
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor cautioned her colleagues during oral arguments Wednesday against using a challenge to the Federal Communications Commission's administration of a broadband subsidy program as a way to resurrect the long-dormant nondelegation doctrine. Several conservative justices, however, seemed willing to disregard that admonition.
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March 26, 2025
Coalition Says Trump Admin Flouted Federal Rehiring Order
The Trump administration responded to an injunction compelling it to rehire over 15,000 fired probationary employees by placing them on leave, not bringing them back to work, a coalition of advocates for the workers told a California federal judge Wednesday, saying the administration hasn't complied with the injunction.
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March 26, 2025
Yellow Corp. Says It Reached Ch. 11 Plan Deal With Creditors
A Delaware bankruptcy judge agreed Wednesday to delay his decision on $6 billion of contested claims in Yellow Corp.'s Chapter 11 after attorneys for the defunct trucking group said they reached a plan settlement.
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March 26, 2025
Del. Justices Seek Reasons To Revive Raytheon Incentive Suit
Delaware's chief justice pressed a stockholder attorney Wednesday to provide more justification for resurrecting a Chancery Court suit claiming the company didn't seek stockholder approval for allegedly unfair changes to a multimillion-dollar RTX Corp. incentive plan.
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March 26, 2025
Pa. Panel Says Summer Camp Doesn't Make Worker Seasonal
An injured "excursion director" for a Pennsylvania campground can't be considered a seasonal employee — and thus entitled to less in workers' compensation — based solely on the camp's summer operations, a state appellate court ruled Wednesday.
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March 26, 2025
Governor Quickly Signs Delaware Corporate Law Revision Bill
Delaware's governor has promptly signed into law closely watched legislation that has been described as an overhaul of the First State's corporation law.
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March 26, 2025
Alerus Evades Challenge To $7.2M Employee Stock Plan Sale
A California federal judge cut employee stock ownership plan trustee Alerus Financial loose from a proposed class action brought by telecommunications company workers who claimed they got shortchanged when their shares were sold in a $7.2 million deal, saying they failed to connect Alerus to the sale.
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March 25, 2025
Ex-Masimo CEO Slams Bid To DQ His Hueston Hennigan Attys
Joe E. Kiani, founder and ex-CEO of Masimo Corp., has urged the Delaware Chancery Court to reject the medical technology company's bid to disqualify his attorneys from Hueston Hennigan LLP in its lawsuit over Kiani's quest for a $450 million payout, saying the request is being "weaponized for tactical gain."
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March 25, 2025
Amazon Slams 'Alternative Reading' Of ERISA In Worker Suit
Amazon on Monday urged a Washington federal court to throw out a worker's proposed class action alleging that Amazon used abandoned retirement plan funds to offset its own contributions, arguing that the suit's "alternative reading" of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act "flies in the face of" the well-established practice.
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March 25, 2025
Anthem Can't Escape Family's Mental Health Parity Claims
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield must face a Virginia family's claim that the company violated a federal benefits law by refusing to cover an adolescent girl's stay in a residential mental health facility, with a Virginia federal judge deeming the suit strong enough to survive a dismissal motion Tuesday.
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March 25, 2025
Industry Backs BlackRock Over States' 'Crippling' Coal Suit
Two leading financial industry groups are throwing their support behind BlackRock Inc. and two other asset managers fighting a state-backed antitrust suit over their coal company investments, with one group arguing that forcing the firms to divest would have "crippling effects" for tens of millions of American investors.
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March 25, 2025
Hershey Escapes Ex-Production Worker's Leave Bias Suit
Hershey defeated a former production operator's lawsuit claiming he was fired for taking time off to assist his wife with fertility treatments, a Pennsylvania federal judge ruled, saying there was nothing wrong with an internal investigation that found he was misusing the leave he'd been given.
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March 25, 2025
Media Cos. Want Docs Unsealed In X Workers' Layoff Suit
More than two dozen filings in a proposed class action alleging X unlawfully shorted laid-off workers on severance should be unveiled, several media companies told a Delaware federal court Tuesday in a bid to intervene in the case, arguing the public has a right to view those filings.
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March 25, 2025
Jenner & Block Latest BigLaw Firm Targeted In Trump Order
President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order aimed at Jenner & Block LLP, suspending security clearances for its employees and taking other actions in response to the firm's pro bono work and a former partner's role as a top deputy to former special counsel Robert Mueller.
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March 25, 2025
Mich. Residents, Some Claims Cut From Frozen Benefits Case
A Michigan federal judge has slashed a union and claimants' lawsuit alleging the state's unemployment insurance agency improperly automatically denied or clawed back payments, finding that temporary COVID-19 pandemic assistance benefits are not constitutionally protected rights and the claimants received proper notice of an end to their benefits.
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March 25, 2025
Ogletree Hires Ex-Womble Bond Atty In Phoenix
Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC announced Monday that it has expanded its offerings in Arizona with the addition of a litigator from Womble Bond Dickinson.
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March 25, 2025
Hartford HealthCare Fights Disclosure Of Antitrust Settlement
Hartford HealthCare Corp. says it cannot be forced to reveal a confidential January antitrust settlement with another Connecticut hospital at the behest of a Teamsters health plan and a public transit agency separately accusing the consortium of creating a monopoly.
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March 24, 2025
UPS Retirees Call Co.'s Class Cert. Objections 'Baffling'
Retired UPS workers who say the logistics giant bilked them on their benefits payments urged a Georgia federal judge Friday to certify a proposed class of nearly 70,000 beneficiaries and ignore the company's calls to shoot down the certification bid over its allegedly faulty math.
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March 24, 2025
Chancery OKs Paramount Global Docs Suit For Interim Appeal
Citing unsettled issues covering the use of confidential sources and pre- or post-petition evidence in stockholder books and records cases, a Delaware vice chancellor on Monday asked Delaware's Supreme Court for mid-case review of a decision that revived a Paramount Global records demand suit.
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March 24, 2025
Wells Fargo Prescription Cost Suit Axed Over Standing
Wells Fargo has beaten back allegations that it violated federal benefits law by letting workers on its healthcare plan overpay for prescription drugs, with a Minnesota federal judge ruling Monday that the ex-workers behind the proposed class action lacked standing to sue.
Expert Analysis
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3 Ways Agencies Will Keep Making Law After Chevron
The U.S. Supreme Court clearly thinks it has done something big in overturning the Chevron precedent that had given deference to agencies' statutory interpretations, but regulated parties have to consider how agencies retain significant power to shape the law and its meaning, say attorneys at K&L Gates.
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Roundup
After Chevron
Since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the Chevron deference standard in June, this Expert Analysis series has featured attorneys discussing the potential impact across 37 different rulemaking and litigation areas.
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Opinion
FIFA Maternity Policy Shows Need For Federal Paid Leave
While FIFA and other employers taking steps to provide paid parental leave should be applauded, the U.S. deserves a red card for being the only rich nation in the world that offers no such leave, says Dacey Romberg at Sanford Heisler.
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Opinion
Atty Well-Being Efforts Ignore Root Causes Of The Problem
The legal industry is engaged in a critical conversation about lawyers' mental health, but current attorney well-being programs primarily focus on helping lawyers cope with the stress of excessive workloads, instead of examining whether this work culture is even fundamentally compatible with lawyer well-being, says Jonathan Baum at Avenir Guild.
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Series
Skiing And Surfing Make Me A Better Lawyer
The skills I’ve learned while riding waves in the ocean and slopes in the mountains have translated to my legal career — developing strong mentor relationships, remaining calm in difficult situations, and being prepared and able to move to a backup plan when needed, says Brian Claassen at Knobbe Martens.
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Air Ambulance Ruling Severely Undermines No Surprises Act
A Texas federal court's recent decision in Guardian Flight v. Health Care Service — that the No Surprises Act lacks a judicial remedy when a health insurer refuses to pay the amount established through an independent review — likely throws a huge monkey wrench into the elaborate protections the NSA was enacted to provide, says Mark DeBofsky at DeBofsky Law.
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Unpacking The Circuit Split Over A Federal Atty Fee Rule
Federal circuit courts that have addressed Rule 41(d) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure are split as to whether attorney fees are included as part of the costs of a previously dismissed action, so practitioners aiming to recover or avoid fees should tailor arguments to the appropriate court, says Joseph Myles and Lionel Lavenue at Finnegan.
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After A Brief Hiccup, The 'Rocket Docket' Soars Back To No. 1
The Eastern District of Virginia’s precipitous 2022 fall from its storied rocket docket status appears to have been a temporary aberration, as recent statistics reveal that the court is once again back on top as the fastest federal civil trial court in the nation, says Robert Tata at Hunton.
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Recruitment Trends In Emerging Law Firm Frontiers
BigLaw firms are facing local recruitment challenges as they increasingly establish offices in cities outside of the major legal hubs, requiring them to weigh various strategies for attracting talent that present different risks and benefits, says Tom Hanlon at Buchanan Law.
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Series
Glassblowing Makes Me A Better Lawyer
I never expected that glassblowing would strongly influence my work as an attorney, but it has taught me the importance of building a solid foundation for your work, learning from others and committing to a lifetime of practice, says Margaret House at Kalijarvi Chuzi.
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What DOL Fiduciary Rule Means For Private Fund Managers
Attorneys at Ropes & Gray discuss how the U.S. Department of Labor's recently released final fiduciary rule, which revises the agency's 1975 regulation, could potentially cause private fund managers' current marketing practices and communications to be considered fiduciary advice, and therefore subject them to strict prohibitions.
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How Associates Can Build A Professional Image
As hybrid work arrangements become the norm in the legal industry, early-career attorneys must be proactive in building and maintaining a professional presence in both physical and digital settings, ensuring that their image aligns with their long-term career goals, say Lana Manganiello at Equinox Strategy Partners and Estelle Winsett at Estelle Winsett Professional Image Consulting.
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High Court's Abortion Pill Ruling Shuts Out Future Challenges
The U.S. Supreme Court's unanimous ruling in U.S. Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine maintains the status quo for mifepristone access and rejects the plaintiffs' standing theories so thoroughly that future challenges from states or other plaintiffs are unlikely to be viable, say Jaime Santos and Annaka Nava at Goodwin.
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Emerging Trends In ESG-Focused Securities Litigation
Based on a combination of shareholder pressure, increasing regulatory scrutiny and proposed rulemaking, there has been a proliferation of litigation over public company disclosures and actions regarding environmental, social, and governance factors — and the overall volume of such class actions will likely increase in the coming years, say attorneys at Mintz.
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Firms Must Rethink How They Train New Lawyers In AI Age
As law firms begin to use generative artificial intelligence to complete lower-level legal tasks, they’ll need to consider new ways to train summer associates and early-career attorneys, keeping in mind the five stages of skill acquisition, says Liisa Thomas at Sheppard Mullin.