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March 28, 2025
SEC Dismisses Kraken, Consensys, Cumberland Crypto Suits
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed to dismiss crypto-focused enforcement actions against Kraken, Consensys and Cumberland DRW, solidifying a series of resolutions the firms announced earlier this month as the SEC charts a new path on crypto policy.
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March 27, 2025
Illinois Atty Faces Indefinite Suspension For Ignoring Appeal
A relatively new lawyer in Illinois who failed to meet appellate briefing deadlines and ignored an order to explain why should be suspended until the state high court can assess her fitness to practice, an attorney conduct watchdog panel recommended.
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March 27, 2025
Fitch Even Sues Ex-IP Client In Effort To End Malpractice Case
Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery LLP has launched a lawsuit asking an Illinois federal court to declare that the co-founder of a former client isn't the inventor behind a prenatal test patent, which the firm said would put a stop to a malpractice case against it in state court.
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March 27, 2025
Sentencing 'ComEd Four' Key For Closure, Ill. Judge Says
A former Commonwealth Edison executive and three lobbyists will be sentenced in July for conspiring to bribe former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, a federal judge said Thursday, rejecting the assertion that he'd be "reckless" to proceed before determining how a recent U.S. Supreme Court false-statement ruling impacts their case.
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March 27, 2025
Feds Allowed To Weigh In On MultiPlan Pricing MDL
The federal government will be allowed to appear in multidistrict antitrust litigation targeting MultiPlan's out-of-network reimbursement rates to offer input on the legal framework for analyzing claims involving the joint use of algorithms, a practice it says poses "a growing threat" to free market competition.
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March 27, 2025
DOJ's Antitrust Unit Targeting Anticompetitive Regulations
The U.S. Department of Justice launched a task force on Thursday aimed at eliminating state and federal laws and regulations that are hindering competition, with an initial focus on key sectors including housing, food and transportation.
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March 27, 2025
Full 7th Circ. Urged To Review Law Prof's Retaliation Suit
The full Seventh Circuit was asked on Thursday to revisit a panel's ruling reviving a retaliation claim from a law school professor at the University of Illinois in Chicago who was disciplined for including a redacted racist slur on an exam, saying the opinion "raises, without answering, questions of exceptional importance that will have sweeping implications for university officials."
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March 26, 2025
Ƶ Moves To Rip Up Settlement Of 'Radical' Redlining Case
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau asked Wednesday for an Illinois federal judge to throw out its recent settlement of a redlining lawsuit that was filed during the first Trump administration, a case the agency's new chief is now denouncing as unjust and wrong.
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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
Republicans Stump For Ƶ Overhaul As Democrats Balk
Republicans on the House Financial Services Committee sought Wednesday to boost legislation aimed at reining in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, proposals that Democrats slammed as out of touch when the agency is already facing evisceration.
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March 26, 2025
Atty's Falsehoods In Key Docs Aided $23M Fraud, Suit Says
A pair of investment funds and two investors have hit a lawyer with professional malpractice and misrepresentation claims in Illinois federal court, accusing him of making false statements in solicitation documents to help their since-convicted managing member carry out a $23 million fraud.
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March 26, 2025
Ill. Justices Hold WestRock Unit To $5M Superfund Coverage
The Illinois Supreme Court won't hear a WestRock Co. subsidiary's petition for review of an appeals decision affirming that one of its insurers had no duty to cover environmental cleanup costs at a now-shuttered paper mill while another insurer already paid its applicable coverage limit.
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March 26, 2025
Walgreens Receipt Standing Fight Set For Illinois' Main Stage
Illinois' top court on Wednesday accepted Walgreens' request to review an intermediate appellate panel's ruling affirming class certification in an Arizona customer's proposed class lawsuit targeting overdisclosed debit card numbers.
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March 26, 2025
2 Class Actions Over Cannabis Cos.' Product Labels Dropped
The plaintiffs who were leading two proposed class actions in Illinois federal court alleging that cannabis companies have mislabeled their products to get around Illinois state law have dropped their cases.
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March 26, 2025
AGs Seek 1st OK For $39M Apotex Deal In Price-Fixing Case
A coalition of 50 state attorneys general on Wednesday asked a Connecticut federal judge to accept a $39.1 million deal settling claims that pharmaceutical company Apotex Corp. schemed with others to fix generic-drug prices, with 70% earmarked for a restitution fund and 30% for consumer notices and attorney fees.
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March 26, 2025
Honigman Gains New Insurance Recovery Partner In Chicago
Business law firm Honigman LLP announced Wednesday the addition of a policyholder-side insurance and reinsurance recovery litigation partner, who left Reed Smith to join its Chicago office.
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March 26, 2025
Sysco Can't Tap Out Of $50M Price-Fix Deal With JBS
Sysco can't back out of a $50 million agreement it made with JBS for the meat producer to exit sprawling litigation accusing it of working to fix the price of poultry, beef and pork, even though Sysco has since signed away its interest in the antitrust claims, a federal court has ruled.
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March 26, 2025
Ill. Attorney Accused Of Spending Client's Settlement Funds
A state's attorney in Illinois is facing disciplinary proceedings for allegedly misusing a former client's settlement funds while he was still in private practice and doctoring a bank statement to cover his tracks.
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March 26, 2025
Worker Says Koch Foods Fails To Pay For Off-Clock Tasks
Koch Foods refused to pay workers for the time they spent putting on and taking off protective gear, and it deducted money from their paychecks if they needed items replaced during a workweek, a proposed class action filed in Illinois federal court said.
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March 26, 2025
Illinois Supreme Court Denies Co.'s BIPA Coverage Appeal
The Illinois Supreme Court left intact an intermediate appellate panel's decision relieving two Liberty Mutual units of covering a home decor company in its underlying dispute with employees who said its timekeeping practices are in violation of the state's biometric data privacy law.
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March 26, 2025
Trump Admin Asks Justices To End 'Fiscal Micromanagement'
The U.S. Department of Education asked the Supreme Court on Wednesday to vacate a Boston federal judge's order reinstating $250 million in teacher training grants that the Trump administration targeted for cuts, saying the case presents an ideal vehicle to put a stop to "district-court fiscal micromanagement" of the executive branch.
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March 25, 2025
Trump's DEI Certification Mandate Meets Skeptical Ill. Judge
An Illinois federal judge weighing recent executive orders restricting federal diversity, equity and inclusion programs appeared highly skeptical of their requirement that organizations certify compliance with anti-discrimination laws, saying the government's silence on what could violate those laws seems to be what imposing a chilling effect "is all about."
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March 25, 2025
7th Circ. Says Wendy's Couldn't Foresee Or Prevent Shooting
The Seventh Circuit on Tuesday affirmed a legal win for Wendy's in a suit brought by a customer who was shot in his car in the drive-thru lane, saying the unprovoked shooting was not foreseeable.
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March 25, 2025
Mondelez, Ghost Beat Suit Over Candy-Flavored Energy Drink
An Illinois federal judge has tossed out parents' claims that Mondelez and energy drink maker Ghost illegally deceive consumers into thinking Ghost's "Sour Patch Kids"-flavored beverages are suitable for children, saying no reasonable adult consumer would interpret the labels that way.
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March 25, 2025
Dem State AGs Back Preserving Biden-Era Parole Programs
More than a dozen Democratic state attorneys general are urging a Massachusetts federal judge to preserve humanitarian parole programs for immigrants from Afghanistan, Ukraine, Cuba and other countries, backing noncitizens from those countries and U.S.-based sponsors in their challenge to the Trump administration's block on the programs.
Expert Analysis
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John Deere Penalty Shows Importance Of M&A Due Diligence
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's recent $10 million penalty against John Deere underscores the risks of not conducting robust preacquisition due diligence and not effectively integrating a new subsidiary into the existing compliance framework, say attorneys at Ropes & Gray.
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Series
Collecting Art Makes Me A Better Lawyer
The therapeutic aspects of appreciating and collecting art improve my legal practice by enhancing my observation skills, empathy, creativity and cultural awareness, says attorney Michael McCready.
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Navigating The Complexities Of Cyber Incident Reporting
When it comes to cybersecurity incident response plans, the uptick in the number and targets of legal and regulatory actions emphasizes the necessity for businesses to document the facts underlying the assumptions, complexities and obstacles of their decisions during the incident response, say attorneys at Troutman Pepper.
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Litigation Inspiration: Honoring Your Learned Profession
About 30,000 people who took the bar exam in July will learn they passed this fall, marking a fitting time for all attorneys to remember that they are members in a specialty club of learned professionals — and the more they can keep this in mind, the more benefits they will see, says Bennett Rawicki at Hilgers Graben.
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Opinion
AI May Limit Key Learning Opportunities For Young Attorneys
The thing that’s so powerful about artificial intelligence is also what’s most scary about it — its ability to detect patterns may curtail young attorneys’ chance to practice the lower-level work of managing cases, preventing them from ever honing the pattern recognition skills that undergird creative lawyering, says Sarah Murray at Trialcraft.
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A Class Action Trend Tests Limit Of Courts' Equity Powers
A troubling trend has developed in federal class action litigation as some counsel and judges attempt to push injunctive relief classes under Rule 23(b)(2) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure beyond the traditional limits of federal courts' equitable powers, say attorneys at Jones Day.
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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 identifies practice tips from four recent class certification rulings involving denial of Medicare reimbursements, automobile insurance disputes, veterans' rights and automobile defects.
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How Lucia, Jarkesy Could Affect Grocery Merger Challenge
While the Federal Trade Commission is taking a dual federal court and administrative tribunal approach to block Kroger's merger with Alberstons, Kroger's long-shot unconstitutionality claims could potentially lead to a reevaluation of the FTC's reliance on administrative processes in complex merger cases, say attorneys at Saul Ewing.
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Series
Round-Canopy Parachuting Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Similar to the practice of law, jumping from an in-flight airplane with nothing but training and a few yards of parachute silk is a demanding and stressful endeavor, and the experience has bolstered my legal practice by enhancing my focus, teamwork skills and sense of perspective, says Thomas Salerno at Stinson.
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And Now A Word From The Panel: The MDL Map
An intriguing yet unpredictable facet of multidistrict litigation practice is venue selection for new MDL proceedings, and the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation considers many factors when it assigns an MDL venue, says Alan Rothman at Sidley Austin.
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7 Takeaways For Companies After Justices' Bribery Ruling
The U.S. Supreme Court’s Snyder v. U.S. decision this summer, holding that a federal law does not criminalize after-the-fact gratuities made to public officials, raises some key considerations for companies that engage with state, local and tribal governments, say attorneys at BakerHostetler.
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Why Now Is The Time For Law Firms To Hire Lateral Partners
Partner and associate mobility data from the second quarter of this year suggest that there's never been a better time in recent years for law firms to hire lateral candidates, particularly experienced partners — though this necessitates an understanding of potential red flags, say Julie Henson and Greg Hamman at Decipher Investigative Intelligence.
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What 7th Circ. Collective Actions Ruling Means For Employers
With the Seventh Circuit’s recent Fair Labor Standards Act ruling in Vanegas v. Signet Builders, a majority of federal appellate courts that have addressed the jurisdictional scope of employee collective actions now follow the U.S. Supreme Court's limiting precedent, bolstering an employer defense in circuits that have yet to weigh in, say attorneys at Jackson Lewis.
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Considering Possible PR Risks Of Certain Legal Tactics
Disney and American Airlines recently abandoned certain litigation tactics in two lawsuits after fierce public backlash, illustrating why corporate counsel should consider the reputational implications of any legal strategy and partner with their communications teams to preempt public relations concerns, says Chris Gidez at G7 Reputation Advisory.
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It's No Longer Enough For Firms To Be Trusted Advisers
Amid fierce competition for business, the transactional “trusted adviser” paradigm from which most firms operate is no longer sufficient — they should instead aim to become trusted partners with their most valuable clients, says Stuart Maister at Strategic Narrative.