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July 22, 2025
Justices Urged To Hear Ill. Freight Broker Negligence Fight
A man who was injured in an Illinois trucking accident urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to address conflicting court decisions on whether federal law shields freight brokers from state-based negligence and personal injury claims, saying broker and logistics giant C.H. Robinson cannot evade liability.
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July 22, 2025
CME E-Trading Was Open Before Data Center, Jury Hears
Chicago Mercantile Exchange members were using electronic trading connectivity tools alongside nonmembers and paying equal access fees for at least a decade before the exchange opened a data center that some members alleged violated their contractual floor exclusivity and access rights, an Illinois jury heard Tuesday.
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July 22, 2025
Power Cos., PJM Back FERC Auction Rerun Decision
Power producers and PJM Interconnection LLC told the D.C. Circuit Monday the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission was right to let PJM rerun an electricity capacity auction with an inflated reliability requirement after the Third Circuit ruled changes to it were retroactive ratemaking.
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July 22, 2025
Lathrop GPM Adds Partner To Chicago Office
Lathrop GPM LLP has added a new Chicago-based partner to its tort, insurance and environmental practice group, the firm announced Monday, saying her practice primarily focuses on defending clients against product liability claims and claims involving exposure to toxic substances and transportation-related injuries.
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July 22, 2025
Greenberg Traurig Adds State And Local Tax Pro From EY
Greenberg Traurig is bringing on a former principal in EY's national tax practice as a shareholder in the firm's Chicago office to advise on state and local tax matters.
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July 22, 2025
Chicago Federal Courthouse Evacuated Over Man With Knife
The Everett McKinley Dirksen U.S. Courthouse in downtown Chicago was evacuated Tuesday afternoon after a man with a knife entered the courthouse lobby, forcing an hourslong lockdown.
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July 22, 2025
Longtime Sidley Global Finance Atty Jumps To Paul Hastings
Paul Hastings LLP announced Tuesday that it has grown its asset-backed finance platform by bringing on a former Sidley Austin LLP global finance partner in Chicago.
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July 21, 2025
Sinclair Stations Clear Up FCC's Kid TV Enforcement
Sinclair Broadcast Group stations that aired Hot Wheels commercials during a children's Hot Wheels program in violation of Federal Communications Commission rules are settling with the agency after their owner inked a deal allowing the parent company to avoid a $2.6 million fine.
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July 21, 2025
Copyright And TM Cases To Watch In The Second Half Of 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court will evaluate contributory liability in a $1 billion copyright case involving internet service providers, and the Federal Circuit will assess the latest attempted trademark registration testing the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's comfort with profanity. Here are the copyright and trademark cases to watch for the rest of the year.
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July 21, 2025
Traders' Floor Rights Were 'Essential' In CME Shift, Jury Hears
Chicago Mercantile Exchange leaders wanted to honor and preserve longtime floor traders' exclusive access rights as they explored demutualization due to electronic trading's unclear future at the time, but discussions never addressed plans for members in the event of a total technological takeover, Illinois jurors heard Monday.
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July 21, 2025
Walgreens Accused Of Failing To Provide Meal, Rest Breaks
Walgreens flouted Washington state law and Seattle's wage theft ordinance by failing to provide employees with meal and rest breaks and then automatically deducting time for breaks that workers never took, a former pharmacy employee said in a proposed class action in federal court.
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July 21, 2025
Ex-Judges Call SAP Hypocritical In 'Self-Serving' Fintiv Appeal
Retired Federal Circuit Judges Randall Rader and Kathleen O'Malley are urging their former court to reject SAP America Inc.'s challenge to how the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is implementing new policies, saying the agency is acting within its limits and that SAP is selfishly contradicting arguments it previously made at the U.S. Supreme Court.
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July 21, 2025
States Say Noncitizen Benefit Restrictions Are Creating Chaos
A coalition of 20 Democratic-led states and the District of Columbia sued the Trump administration on Monday for "upending" noncitizens' access to publicly funded programs like Head Start and food banks.
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July 21, 2025
Ex-ComEd CEO Gets 2 Years For Burying Madigan Bribes
The former CEO of Commonwealth Edison and later Exelon Utilities was sentenced to two years in prison Monday for a scheme to pay millions to associates of ex-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan to secure his support for major energy legislation, and for hiding the nature of those payments to circumvent the company's internal accounting controls.
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July 18, 2025
Law360 Names 2025's Top Attorneys Under 40
Law360 is pleased to announce the Rising Stars of 2025, our list of more than 150 attorneys under 40 whose legal accomplishments belie their age.
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July 18, 2025
Ill. Man Gets New Murder Trial Due To Improper Evidence
An Illinois state appeals court has reversed a murder conviction for a man for a second time after finding the lower court incorrectly allowed evidence of unrelated crimes to be brought up at trial.
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July 18, 2025
CME Exec Defends Traders' Membership Values On The Stand
CME Group CEO Terry Duffy testified on Friday that a data center the company built to accommodate electronic trading did not violate rights promised to members when they were asked to vote on a demutualization he characterized as a "windfall for every single person who owned membership on the exchange."
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July 18, 2025
Off The Bench: Latest NASCAR Win, Trans Athlete Fights Ban
In this week's Off The Bench, Michael Jordan's racing team fails to bounce back right away from a tough defeat in its battle with NASCAR, a transgender woman fights a last-minute expulsion from a college women's track and field event, and a football player sees his window to playing an extra college season slammed shut by the NCAA and the Seventh Circuit.
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July 18, 2025
Mattel Says Overseas Counterfeiters Ripping Off Uno Game
Barbie and Hot Wheels maker Mattel Inc. has filed counterfeiting claims in Illinois federal court against foreign retailers that the company says are selling knockoff versions of its popular Uno card game.
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July 18, 2025
7th Circ. OKs FBI Withholding Of Ex-Atty's Informant Records
The Federal Bureau of Investigation did not violate the Freedom of Information Act by providing only some of the documents former lawyer Joel Brodsky requested related to his work as a confidential informant on corruption and murder investigations, the Seventh Circuit found on Friday, ruling that the FBI had properly justified its rationale.
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July 18, 2025
Trump Asks Supreme Court To Decline Early Tariff Challenge
President Donald Trump's administration urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reject a request from Illinois-based toy makers to hear their challenge against the White House's global tariffs, arguing the justices should not "leapfrog" parallel proceedings in circuit courts.
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July 18, 2025
Acreage And Verano Seek Dismissal Of THC Potency Suits
Cannabis giants Acreage and Verano this week urged Illinois federal judges to dismiss a pair of putative consumer class actions alleging the companies sold products with unlawfully high levels of the psychoactive cannabinoid THC.
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July 18, 2025
Judge Unsure Of Alternatives To Nationwide Birthright Ruling
A Massachusetts federal judge on Friday wrestled with how the government would implement any alternatives to a nationwide block on President Donald Trump's order limiting birthright citizenship and what type of decision would comply with recent high court precedent.
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July 17, 2025
21 States Fight ACA Rule They Say Guts Health Coverage
A 21-state coalition led by the attorneys general of California, Massachusetts and New Jersey sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Thursday, challenging a new Trump administration rule they say unlawfully undermines access to healthcare under the Affordable Care Act.
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July 17, 2025
'Troubling': Dems Press Ƶ Over Nixed Navy Federal Order
U.S. Senate Democrats are demanding answers from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau over its decision to cancel a $95 million enforcement order against Navy Federal Credit Union, slamming the "abrupt reversal" as a betrayal of military families.
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 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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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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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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How Crypto Firms Should Approach Patchwork Of State Laws
The Money Transmission Modernization Act was designed to create uniformity across state digital regulations, but the reality remains far from consistent — as demonstrated by the patchwork of laws in states like Texas, Vermont, New York and California — so as state legislatures convene in the coming weeks, crypto firms should watch closely for developments that could shape the regulatory landscape, say attorneys at Paul Hastings.
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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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The Political Branches Can't Redefine The Citizenship Clause
The U.S. Supreme Court’s Wong Kim Ark opinion and subsequent decisions, and the 14th Amendment’s legislative history, establish that the citizenship clause precludes the political branches from narrowing the definition of citizen based on how a parent’s U.S. presence is categorized, says federal public defender Geremy Kamens.
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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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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.
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How Design Thinking Can Help Lawyers Find Purpose In Work
Lawyers everywhere are feeling overwhelmed amid mass government layoffs, increasing political instability and a justice system stretched to its limits — but a design-thinking framework can help attorneys navigate this uncertainty and find meaning in their work, say law professors at the University of Michigan.
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10 Issues To Watch In Aerospace And Defense Contracting
This year, in addition to evergreen developments driven by national security priorities, disruptive new technologies and competition with rival powers, federal contractors will see significant disruptions driven by the new administration’s efforts to reduce government spending, regulation and the size of the federal workforce, say attorneys at Thompson Hine.
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Class Actions At The Circuit Courts: February Lessons
In this month's review of class action appeals, Mitchell Engel at Shook Hardy discusses five federal appellate court class certification decisions and identifies practice tips from cases involving breach of life insurance contracts, constitutional violations of inmates and more.
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Defense Strategies For Politically Charged Prosecutions
Politically charged prosecutions have captured the headlines in recent years, providing lessons for defense counsel on how to navigate the distinct challenges, and seize the unique opportunities, such cases present, says Kenneth Notter at MoloLamken.
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Series
Competitive Weightlifting Makes Me A Better Lawyer
The parallels between the core principles required for competitive weightlifting and practicing law have helped me to excel in both endeavors, with each holding important lessons about discipline, dedication, drive and failure, says Damien Bielli at VF Law.