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A pregnant doctor who fears she will be denied a COVID-19 vaccination, along with a coalition of medical associations, sued Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in Massachusetts federal court on Monday challenging his directive recommending against the shot for pregnant women and children.
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Pregnant Doc, Medical Orgs. Sue To Block RFK's Vax Directive

By Hannah Albarazi

A pregnant doctor who fears she will be denied a COVID-19 vaccination, along with a coalition of medical associations, sued Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in Massachusetts federal court on Monday challenging his directive recommending against the shot for pregnant women and children.

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Ex-Leerink Banker Can't Get Redo On Unpaid Bonuses Claim

By Emmy Freedman

A Massachusetts federal judge declined on Monday to rethink partially tossing a former Leerink Partners employee's suit alleging she was cheated out of millions of dollars in bonuses, rejecting the worker's argument that new evidence should change the court's mind.

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Says NLRB Can't Dictate Business

By Matthew Santoni

The publisher of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette told the Third Circuit Monday that the National Labor Relations Board was impermissibly dictating business decisions for the struggling newspaper when it ruled the paper's contract proposals were unacceptable and made in bad faith.

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LITIGATION

Law Firm, Worker Seek Pre-Trial Wins In Pregnancy Bias Suit

By Emmy Freedman

A personal injury law firm told a New Mexico federal court Monday that a legal assistant was pushed out not because she was pregnant but because she was a poor performer, while the former employee argued the firm reneged on its promise to pay her in exchange for quitting.

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MLB Pension Plan Says Spouse Of 7 Weeks Doesn't Qualify

By Emily Brill

Major League Baseball's pension plan doubled down Monday on its argument that a woman who married a retired Cincinnati Reds pitcher seven weeks before he died cannot collect surviving spouse benefits, saying marriages must last a year for spouses to qualify.

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Settlement Unlikely In Airline Group's Colo. Sick Leave Suit

By Zach Dupont

An airline lobby and the state of Colorado told a federal court last week that a settlement "appears unlikely" in the airline group's case claiming the state's sick leave law is preempted by federal law.

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Aetna's Trade Law Claim Lacks Merit, Air Ambulance Cos. Say

By Aaron Keller

Six out-of-state air ambulance companies suing Aetna in Connecticut federal court claiming violations of the federal No Surprises Act say they shouldn't be forced to face the insurer's Connecticut Unfair Trade Practices Act counterclaim because their billing practices were for a time allowed by federal law.

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BANKRUPTCY

AIG Pays $6M For Fire In Chinese Exile Guo's NYC Apartment

By Aaron Keller

AIG Property Casualty Co. has paid more than $6 million to a company once owned by Chinese exile and since-convicted fraudster Miles Guo after a fire damaged his former residence in New York City's Sherry-Netherland Hotel, an exclusive co-op across the street from Central Park, a court filing indicates.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

FMLA Expansion Sees State Progress Despite Federal Barriers

Recent legislative efforts to expand the Family and Medical Leave Act reflect workers' growing demand for work-life balance, but as federal proposals continue to face significant hurdles, states have stepped in, creating a labyrinth of leave laws and compliance headaches for multistate employers, say attorneys at FordHarrison.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Wis. Judge Can't Slip ICE Arrest Case, Magistrate Judge Says

By Hailey Konnath

The Wisconsin judge accused of helping an immigrant living in the country illegally avoid arrest shouldn't be able to get her indictment dismissed just yet, a federal magistrate judge recommended Monday, rejecting her argument that judicial immunity shields her from the case.

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DOJ Wants Md. Federal Judges' Immigration Orders Blocked

By Jack Karp

A Maryland federal court standing order temporarily staving off the deportation of detained noncitizens who file habeas petitions is barred by a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that federal judges do not have authority to issue universal injunctions, according to the Trump administration.

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Feds Cite National Security As Trial Over Student Visas Begins

By Julie Manganis

A Trump administration lawyer told a Massachusetts federal judge Monday that the government's decision to revoke the visas of hundreds of college students and faculty over their pro-Palestinian speech was not viewpoint discrimination but a response to what it contends are threats to national security.

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MyPillow CEO's Attys Sanctioned Over False AI Citations

By Christine DeRosa

Two attorneys for MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell were sanctioned by a Colorado federal judge on Monday over a February brief containing nearly 30 "defective citations" after using artificial intelligence.

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Fox Rothschild Seeks To Exit NJ Case Over Litigation Funding

By Bonnie Eslinger

Fox Rothschild LLP urged a New Jersey state court on Monday to toss claims brought by a couple injured in a vehicle crash alleging they were unlawfully steered to cover medical expenses with high-interest loans from the law firm's litigation funder client, saying its involvement was limited to a "tangential, representative role."

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Calif. Justices Disbar SF Atty For Defrauding Elderly Client

By Hailey Konnath

The California Supreme Court has ordered the disbarment of a San Francisco lawyer who authorities say overcharged an elderly trust account client with advanced dementia, finding that he "repeatedly failed to uphold the most basic duties of an attorney" and is "unfit to serve as a member of the bar."

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Annoyed Fed. Circ. Judge Unsure Where To Land In Drug Row

By Nadia Dreid

An irascible Federal Circuit judge chewed out both sides of the aisle Monday morning during arguments over a generic endocrine disorder drug, and although she accused one attorney of "beating a straw man to death," the judge said she still wasn't sure how she would decide the appeal.

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More NY Public Interest Attys And Advocates Authorize Strikes

By Andrea Keckley

Eight chapters of the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys — a union that represents thousands of public interest attorneys and advocates in the New York City metro area — have voted to authorize strikes as workers hope their sectoral bargaining strategy will lead to more favorable deals with managers.

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Non-Attys Eyed To Tackle Civil Justice Gap In Ga. Pilot

By Emily Johnson

A Georgia Supreme Court committee has proposed the state start a pilot program to train non-attorneys to handle some legal tasks in evictions and other housing cases and consumer-debt matters, saying this "'assisted pro se' model" would improve rural and low-income people's access to civil legal services.

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FTC Wants More Time To Present Case Against Amazon Prime

By Gina Kim

The Federal Trade Commission asked a Washington federal judge for 10 days to put on its case-in-chief against Amazon over alleged deceptive practices that trick customers into automatically renewing Prime subscriptions, arguing the evidence at the upcoming trial would be "voluminous and complex," and lengthening the trial won't prejudice Amazon.

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Trump Orders Treasury To Restrain Solar, Wind Tax Credits

By Kat Lucero

President Donald Trump ordered the U.S. Treasury Department on Monday to begin carrying out cuts and restrictions to the solar and wind production and investment tax credits that were mandated in the budget bill Trump signed Friday.

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Analysis

Biggest Enviro Cases To Watch In 2025: Midyear Report

By Juan-Carlos Rodriguez

Law360 previews the lawsuits environmental attorneys will be watching closely during the second half of 2025, including the Trump administration's challenge to states' efforts to slow climate change, a lawsuit seeking to continue federal funding for climate change projects and product liability cases over forever chemicals in consumer goods.

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Analysis

Personal Injury & Med Mal Cases To Watch In 2nd Half Of 2025

By Y. Peter Kang

The social media addiction multidistrict litigation against the biggest tech companies and a U.S. Supreme Court case regarding state medical malpractice lawsuit requirements are among the cases injury and malpractice attorneys will be following closely in the second half of 2025.

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Roundup

CORRECTED: 3 Bias Arguments Sessions To Watch In July

By Amanda Ottaway

The Third and Sixth Circuits are scheduled to hear a trio of oral arguments in July as a fired professor, human resources executive and school dean each plan to argue that their terminations violated federal anti-bias law. Here, Law360 looks at those cases. 

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American Public Health Association

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Center for Appellate Litigation

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Communications Workers of America

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