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A Free Exercise 'Blueprint' In Colo. Abortion Reversal Order

By Mark Payne

A Colorado federal judge's decision to allow medication abortion "reversals" on free exercise grounds could serve as a model for other lawsuits meant to legitimize a practice that is outside the standard practice of medicine.

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Analysis

Medicaid Cuts May Worsen Incarceration-Linked Death Risks

By Hannah Albarazi

A new public health investigation reveals an association between incarceration and elevated risk of early death, not only for people who have been behind bars but for entire communities. Experts caution that impending disinvestment in Medicaid could worsen outcomes in vulnerable populations.

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Approach The Bench: Justice Wecht On Judicial Campaigns

By Cara Bayles and Steven Trader

If running for judicial office often requires walking the line of being a sitting jurist and a politician, Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice David Wecht is no stranger to that tightrope.

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5th Circ. Says Texas Voter ID Law Is Legally Sound

By Spencer Brewer

A Fifth Circuit panel upheld a Texas law that requires voters to provide an identification number when voting by mail, finding the law complies with the Civil Rights Act and that the state designed it to combat mail-in ballot fraud.

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States Win Ruling To Shield FEMA Disaster Prevention Funds

By Julie Manganis

A Massachusetts federal judge on Tuesday temporarily barred the Trump administration from redirecting more than $4 billion in funds allocated by Congress for natural disaster mitigation efforts toward other Federal Emergency Management Agency programs.

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Pa. Court Says State Can Suspend DUI Suspect's License

By Elizabeth Daley

In a precedential ruling, Pennsylvania's Commonwealth Court has found that a state law stripping those suspected of DUI of their driver's licenses for one year if they refuse to be tested for intoxicating substances is constitutional, despite a driver's contrary assertions.

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Tenn. Executes Man With Intellectual Disability For 3 Murders

By Marco Poggio

Tennessee on Tuesday executed Byron Black, who the state conceded had an intellectual disability and should have been removed from death row, for a 1988 triple murder.

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Ghislaine Maxwell Slams Feds' Bid To Unseal Grand Jury Docs

By Lauren Berg

Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for trafficking children for late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, urged a New York federal judge Tuesday to deny the government's bid to unseal grand jury transcripts, saying release of the sealed materials could jeopardize the appeal of her 2021 conviction.

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Fired NCUA Officials Urge DC Circ. To Return Them To Board

By Jon Hill

Two top credit union regulators fired by President Donald Trump are asking the D.C. Circuit to let them go back to work while it reviews a lower-court decision reinstating them, arguing their service is needed to prevent a painful impending snapback in interest-rate limits for federal credit unions.

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Tornado Cash Jury Still Out, SEC Leader Backs Privacy Tech

By Stewart Bishop

Jury deliberations in the money laundering and sanctions trial of Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm continued Tuesday with no verdict, one day after a top securities regulator championed the legitimacy of privacy-protecting technologies, much like defense claims about the cryptocurrency tumbler.

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NY Loses Bid To Move Climate Superfund Suit Upstate

By Juan-Carlos Rodriguez

The federal government's lawsuit challenging New York's climate change Superfund law will proceed in the New York City court where it was filed, rather than in a judicial district closer to the state capitol as the state had requested, a judge said.

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Feds Aim To Shut Off Kids' Challenge To Trump Energy Orders

By Juan-Carlos Rodriguez

A lawsuit filed by youths alleging that President Donald Trump's energy policy directives harm their future by exacerbating climate change should be dismissed because their claims can't be addressed by courts, the federal government said Monday.

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Challenge To GOP Enviro Grant Cutoff Can Proceed, Judge Told

By Jared Foretek

Attorneys for environmental infrastructure grant recipients told a D.C. federal judge Tuesday that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's own emails show that a proposed class action challenging the blanket termination of a climate justice and resilience grant program can move forward despite Congress' recent recission of "unobligated" funds.

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Feature

Meet FDA Chief Counsel Sean Keveney

By Dan McKay

The new top attorney at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, described as a "tremendous technical lawyer," rose through the ranks as a federal prosecutor before helping lead President Donald Trump's confrontation with elite universities this year.

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Fla. Biz Won't Sell Knockoff Weight Loss Drugs After AG Deal

By Brian Steele

A string of Florida companies and their owner have agreed to stop selling what Connecticut authorities called "bootleg" GLP-1 weight loss drugs nationwide and enter into a $300,000 settlement, records in a consumer protection enforcement action show.

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USPTO Urges Fed. Circ. To End Motorola's Fintiv Appeal

By Adam Lidgett

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office stood by its acting leader's decision to shut down Motorola's challenge to various Stellar patents at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, saying all of Motorola's appellate arguments at the Federal Circuit should be rejected.

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Ex-USPTO Heads, Judges Oppose Anti-Patent Thicket Bill

By Elliot Weld

A pro-innovation group composed of former U.S. Patent and Trademark Office officials and former Federal Circuit judges on Tuesday asked Congress to oppose a bill introduced last month that would limit so-called patent thickets used by pharmaceutical companies to restrict the production of generic counterparts to their drugs.

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NAB Says Streamers' Success Makes 39% Cap Outdated

By Christopher Cole

The broadcast industry's top lobbying group said marketplace changes call for the Federal Communications Commission to lift the 39% cap on national TV audience share.

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FCC Asked To Reconsider Paramount-Skydance Deal

By Nadia Dreid

The Federal Communications Commission needs to rethink its decision to greenlight Skydance Media's controversial $8 billion acquisition of Paramount Global, a third-party firm has told the agency, arguing it never addressed "substantial evidence in the record" that Paramount was talking to President Donald Trump on the sidelines.

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Feds Float Long-Awaited Drone Rule For Beyond Line Of Sight

By Linda Chiem

The Trump administration on Tuesday proposed a long-awaited rule that would allow commercial drones to be flown beyond an operator's visual line of sight, paving the way for drones to be used for longer-range purposes like fighting wildfires and inspecting infrastructure.

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Foreign Service Union Seeks Early Win In State Dept. EO Case

By Beverly Banks

A union representing thousands of foreign service workers called on a D.C. federal judge to determine that President Donald Trump went too far with an executive order gutting collective bargaining rights for federal workers, alleging the directive violates the First Amendment.

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Ex-Officer Says LAPD Withheld Info In Military Leave Bias Suit

By Irene Spezzamonte

A former Los Angeles Police Department officer claiming he was passed over for a promotion because of his military status said he has not received the records he requested containing information about similarly situated employees. 

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Advocacy Org. Wants FTC's Full, Dropped Pepsi Complaint

By Bryan Koenig

The Federal Trade Commission's price discrimination complaint against Pepsi could become public after all, despite the agency dropping the lawsuit, after a New York federal judge on Tuesday permitted an advocacy group to intervene in the case in order to seek the full, unredacted filing.

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Korean War Vet's Widow Sues Feds For Wrongful Death

By Kelcey Caulder

The widow of a Korean War veteran has sued the federal government, alleging that staff at Georgia's Carl Vinson VA Medical Center caused her husband's death by failing to care for him properly while he was a patient at its community living center.

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Gas Breaks Can't Justify Russian Fertilizer Duties, Fed. Circ. Told

By Dylan Moroses

The federal government improperly concluded that EuroChem's Russian imports to the U.S. were subject to countervailing duties because of natural gas subsidies those products benefited from, counsel representing the company told the Federal Circuit during oral arguments Tuesday.

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Swiss President Hustles To DC To Address 39% Tariff

By Natalie Olivo

Swiss President Karin Keller-Sutter traveled Tuesday to Washington, D.C., for trade talks with the White House after Switzerland was hit with a 39% tariff on exports to the United States.

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Law Profs Urge 11th Circ. To Toss Judge-Shopping Sanctions

By Madison Arnold

A group of seven law school professors is urging the Eleventh Circuit to toss a sanctions ruling against three attorneys for judge shopping, arguing that federal law does not forbid the practice and citing the "potentially chilling effect the order will have on counsel, especially those involved in pro bono representation."

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Trump Fires Most Of Puerto Rico Fiscal Oversight Board

By Rick Archer

The Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico, a body managing the island's debt restructuring, announced Tuesday that President Donald Trump has terminated five of its seven members.

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4th Circ. Faults Board For Shallow Review Of Asylum Case

By Britain Eakin

The Fourth Circuit on Tuesday partially revived a Salvadoran woman's claim for asylum, finding that the Board of Immigration Appeals failed to properly assess whether she belonged to a legally protected social group.

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10th Circ. Says No Signature Needed In Asylum Appeal

By Britain Eakin

The Tenth Circuit on Tuesday revived a Salvadoran family's appeal of an immigration judge's denial of their asylum claim, ruling that the Board of Immigration Appeals wrongly rejected it over a missing signature that wasn't legally required.

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ICE Temporarily Barred From Deporting Phoenix Mother

By Britain Eakin

An Arizona federal judge temporarily barred the Trump administration from deporting a 38-year-old Phoenix woman who is a mother of three U.S. citizen children after immigration officials put her in expedited removal proceedings under a purported new policy, despite her claim of living in the U.S. for 30 years.

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Wash. Judge Questions Injunctions' Scope In Head Start Case

By Gianna Ferrarin

A Washington federal judge asked attorneys Tuesday to explain how the U.S. Supreme Court's decision concerning nationwide injunctions might impact efforts by a group of Head Start associations to halt federal directives restricting noncitizen access to the program and use of funds for diversity initiatives.

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Ex-ComEd Lobbyist Gets 1 Year For Masking Madigan Bribes

By Celeste Bott

A former lobbyist for Commonwealth Edison was sentenced to a year and a day in prison Tuesday for allowing his lobbying firm to serve as a pass-through for the utility to pay associates of ex-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan for little to no work, as it sought his support for favorable energy legislation.

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Property Co. Backs Calif. Tribe In $700M Casino Row

By Isaac Monterose

A property owner has urged a D.C. federal judge in an amicus brief to grant the Scotts Valley Band of Pomo Indians' quick win bid in the tribe's suit accusing the federal government of wrongfully blocking the tribe's $700 million casino project in Vallejo, California.

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Long Island Town Challenges Tribal Land Determination

By Crystal Owens

A Long Island town is challenging a federal government decision to place 84 acres into a restricted fee status for the Shinnecock Indian Nation, saying its effect has recognized the property as Indian Country in such a way that has destroyed the municipality's regulatory jurisdiction.

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NTIA Says States Can't Regulate Rates In Broadband Program

By Nadia Dreid

States can't make companies promise to provide low-cost options in order to get access to federal broadband infrastructure funds, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration has announced, saying that to do so would be illegal rate regulation.

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FCC Moves Ahead On Controversial Broadband Inquiry

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission said Tuesday it has launched a plan to study the deployment of broadband services across the U.S. that consumer groups have attacked as failing to account for wide gaps in adoption and affordability.

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RI Urges 1st Circ. To Toss Challenge To Pot License Regime

By Sam Reisman

Rhode Island cannabis regulators on Tuesday urged the First Circuit to uphold the dismissal of a Florida entrepreneur's challenge to the state's marijuana licensure program and to reject his bid to have the case remanded back to lower district court.

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Utah Judge Blocks 'Bad Faith' Prosecution Of Psilocybin Church

By Mike Curley

A Utah federal judge has blocked a state court prosecution of the leader of a church that uses psilocybin in its sacrament, finding the prosecution was initiated in bad faith to harass the church and its members following a ruling against the state in the federal case.

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Opinion

Calif. Must Amend Trade Secret Civil Procedure

A California procedural law that effectively shields trade secret defendants from having to return company materials until the plaintiff can craft detailed requests must be amended to recognize that property recovery and trade secret analysis are distinct issues, says Matthew Miller at Hanson Bridgett.

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The Int'l Compliance View: Everything Everywhere All At Once

Changes to the enforcement landscape in the U.S. and abroad shift the risks and incentives for global compliance programs, creating a race against the clock for companies to deploy investigative resources across worldwide operations, say attorneys at Dentons.

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Opinion

The Legal Education Status Quo Is No Longer Tenable

As underscored by the fallout from California’s February bar exam, legal education and licensure are tethered to outdated systems, and the industry must implement several key reforms to remain relevant and responsive to 21st century legal needs, says Matthew Nehmer at The Colleges of Law.

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Even As States Step Up, They Can't Fully Fill 蜜桃视频's Shoes

The Trump administration's efforts to scale down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau have prompted calls for state regulators to pick up the slack, but there are also important limitations on states' ability to fill the gap left by a mostly dormant 蜜桃视频, say attorneys at Covington.

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Opinion

Budget Act's Deduction Limit Penalizes Losing Gamblers

A provision in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that reduces the deduction for gambling losses is unfair to professional and recreational players, risks driving online activity to offshore sites, and will set back efforts to legalize and regulate the industry, says Walter Bourdaghs at Kang Haggerty.

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Opinion

Privacy Bill Must Be Amended To Protect Small Businesses

While a bill recently passed by the California Senate would exempt a company's use of legally compliant website advertising and tracking technologies from the California Invasion of Privacy Act, it must be amended to adequately protect small businesses, say attorneys at Thompson Hine.

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Noncompete Forecast Shows Tough Weather For Employers

Several new state noncompete laws signal rough conditions for employers, particularly in the healthcare sector, so employers must account for employees' geographic circumstances as they cannot rely solely on choice-of-law clauses, say lawyers at McDermott.

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WilmerHale Beats Fired Associate's Racial Bias Claims

By Lauren Berg

A Manhattan judge Wednesday threw out a former WilmerHale senior associate's lawsuit alleging he was unfairly evaluated and eventually fired because he is Black, finding that the complaint doesn't plausibly allege discriminatory comments were made about his race or that employees of other races were treated better.

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NY US Atty Faces Watchdog's Ethics Suit After Altercation

By Katherine Smith

Legal ethics watchdog Campaign for Accountability on Wednesday called for an ethics probe of acting U.S. Attorney John Sarcone III of the Northern District of New York, alleging that he made a number of deceptive claims arising from a June altercation.

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Reed Smith Faces DQ Bid In Venezuelan Airline Dispute

By Carolina Bolado

A group of shareholders who say they own half of Venezuela's Avior Airlines have asked a Florida federal court to disqualify Reed Smith LLP from representing the airline and a feuding shareholder, claiming that the engagement of the law firm was not approved by a majority of the shareholders as required by the company's bylaws.

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USPTO's Stewart Suggests Org. Is Eyeing Patent Fee Changes

By Theresa Schliep

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office acting Director Coke Morgan Stewart addressed rumors that the Trump administration is considering a new fee on the values of patents on Wednesday, saying Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is "very concerned" about the "disconnect" between the low costs of obtaining patents and their huge worth.

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5th Circ. Upholds Gun Ban For Convicted Felons

By Spencer Brewer

A Fifth Circuit panel on Wednesday shot down a felon's attempt to have a gun charge thrown out after he was found guilty of a drive-by shooting, saying a historical analog from the time of the country's founding allows for confiscation of firearms from felons.

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US Asks High Court To Decide If Drug Users Can Have Guns

By Elizabeth Daley

The Trump administration has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to resolve "a four-way circuit conflict" over whether it is legal to prevent users of drugs including marijuana, which has been legalized in some fashion in the vast majority of states, from possessing firearms.

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UC Policy Found Discriminatory Based On Immigration Status

By Rae Ann Varona

A California state appeals court has ruled that the University of California's employment policy against hiring unauthorized immigrant students who lack federal work permits is "facially discriminatory," and that the university system couldn't lean on a risk of federal enforcement for justification.

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