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NJ, DuPont To Face Off In Landmark PFAS Trial Series

By George Woolston

New Jersey and chemical manufacturing giant E.I. DuPont de Nemours will square off Monday over the contamination at a former Salem County manufacturing facility in a first-of-a-kind series of trials that environmental attorneys expect will impact "forever chemicals" litigation across the country.

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Feds Want Ex-McKinsey Exec To Serve Time For Obstruction

By Dorothy Atkins

Prosecutors urged a Virginia federal judge Thursday to sentence a disbarred, former senior McKinsey & Co. partner to one year in prison for obstructing an investigation into the consulting giant's work with opioid-manufacturer Purdue Pharma, while defense counsel pushed for probation so that he can return to his home in Thailand.

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Insurer Owes $3.8M For Honda Airbag Class Counsel Costs

By Hope Patti

A Tokio Marine unit must pay over 5.4 million Canadian dollars ($3.8 million) for class counsel fees that Honda Canada Inc. incurred in underlying class actions over airbag deficiencies, but is off the hook for CA$2.9 million in settlement administration costs, a Canadian court affirmed.

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Families Rip DOJ Bid To Ditch Boeing 737 Max Criminal Case

By Linda Chiem

The U.S. Department of Justice might back down from criminally prosecuting Boeing over the deadly 737 Max crashes and save the American aerospace giant from a high-profile trial in Texas next month under a tentative deal that attorneys for crash victims' families decried Friday as offensive and "morally repugnant."

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Fla. Gov. Says He Will Veto Bill To Expand Death Damages

By Y. Peter Kang

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has said he will veto a bill recently passed by Florida lawmakers to repeal a statute limiting pain-and-suffering damages in fatal medical malpractice cases, saying a veto will prevent a flood of lawsuits against healthcare providers.

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9th Circ. Mulls DOJ Shield Of Jones Day VW Documents

By Linda Chiem

A Ninth Circuit panel on Friday questioned whether it could force the U.S. Department of Justice to hand over confidential Volkswagen documents it obtained through a grand jury subpoena that were part of Jones Day's internal investigation into the automaker's 2015 emissions-cheating scandal.

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Pot Farm Can't Challenge Colo. Regulators' Alleged Inaction

By Mike Curley

A Colorado state judge has dismissed a cannabis farm's suit alleging that state regulators haven't sufficiently cracked down on illegal operators, saying the farm isn't challenging a final agency action that is subject to judicial review.

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Parents Sue Colgate Over Alleged Dangers Of Fluoride Rinse

By Mike Curley

A proposed class of buyers of oral rinses is suing Colgate-Palmolive Co., alleging it misleadingly advertises its Hello Kids Fluoride Rinse as safe despite the U.S. Food and Drug Administration considering it too dangerous for children under 6 years old.

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Trucking Co. Worker Says Tobacco Surcharge Violates ERISA

By Mike Curley

An employee of Marten Transport Ltd. is suing the trucking company in Wisconsin federal court, alleging that a tobacco surcharge in its health plan violates federal antidiscrimination law.

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Driver Fights Sanctions For Trading Vehicle In FCA Suit

By Danielle Ferguson

Drivers alleging Fiat Chrysler sold vehicles with defectively designed interior trim on door panels told a Michigan federal judge that one of its lead plaintiffs doesn't deserve sanctions for trading in his vehicle, saying the trade-in was a snap decision and wasn't done to prevent the automaker from inspecting the vehicle.  

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Ex-Womble Bond Atty Heads To Chicago With Shook Hardy

By James Boyle

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP has expanded its Chicago office with the recent addition of an attorney with nearly 40 years of experience representing clients in mass tort matters and commercial disputes.

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Reading Tea Leaves In High Court's Criminal Law Decisions

The criminal justice decisions the U.S. Supreme Court will announce in the coming weeks will reveal whether last term’s fractured decision-making has continued, an important data point as the justices’ alignment seems to correlate with who benefits from a case’s outcome, says Sharon Fairley at the University of Chicago Law School.

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$38M Law Firm Settlement Highlights 'Unworthy Client' Perils

A recent settlement of claims against law firm Eckert Seamans for allegedly abetting a Ponzi scheme underscores the continuing threat of clients who seek to exploit their lawyers in perpetrating fraud, and the critical importance of preemptive measures to avoid these clients, say attorneys at Lockton Companies.

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American Arbitration Assoc. Accused Of Pro-Corp. Monopoly

By Bonnie Eslinger

The American Arbitration Association monopolizes the market for consumer arbitration and is "an unfair forum where consumers lose" to corporate defendants, according to a proposed consumer class action filed in Arizona federal court.

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Justices Keep Pause On Some Venezuelan Removals

By Ali Sullivan and Katie Buehler

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday reasserted that the Trump administration cannot remove from the country alleged Venezuelan gang members who are currently detained in northern Texas under the Alien Enemies Act while they challenge the president's invocation of the 1798 wartime law.

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DOJ's Privilege Claim Questioned In Abrego Garcia Case

By Ali Sullivan

A Maryland federal judge said Friday that the Trump administration had provided scant explanation for invoking state secrets privilege to shield information in litigation challenging the removal of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador.

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DC Circ. Judges Skeptical Of Blockade On 蜜桃视频 Mass Layoffs

By Jon Hill

A D.C. Circuit panel majority Friday sounded inclined to lift lower court restrictions on what the Trump administration contends is its lawful push to "radically downsize" the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, potentially clearing the way for mass layoffs of its staff.

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Jackson Walker Criticizes JC Penney Fee Suit As 'Money Grab'

By Emily Sawicki

Jackson Walker LLP wants out of a fee suit brought by former client J.C. Penney, arguing that the bankrupt department store's wind-down debtors entered claims as a "leverage play and a money grab" after learning that a firm partner had engaged in a yearslong undisclosed relationship with a Texas bankruptcy judge.

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Criminal Case Dropped Against Girardi In Illinois

By Christine DeRosa

An Illinois federal judge has nixed the criminal charges against disbarred attorney Tom Girardi after the government's move to dismiss the case, citing his age and conviction in California.

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Trump Calls On Justices To Stay Block Of Gov't Restructuring

By Beverly Banks

President Donald Trump asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to pause a California federal judge's order temporarily halting agencies from implementing an executive order to plan reorganizations and reductions in force, claiming the lower court's decision has caused confusion and wasted taxpayer dollars.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

An SEC enforcement officer has told business leaders to expect more empathy from the agency, as well as fewer outside compliance monitors. And an ousted ATF chief counsel is fighting back by co-founding a boutique law firm to defend federal workers in employment battles.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Hogan Lovells and the Fomby Law Firm lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that courts must weigh the full sequence of events — not just the instant a threat arises — when deciding if police used excessive force.

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In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Law360

For those who missed out, here's a look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the most buzz on Law360 last week.

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