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April 23, 2025
Ƶ Walks Away From Horizon Credit Card Suit
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Wednesday dropped another Biden-era enforcement action, this time pulling the plug on a Pennsylvania federal court lawsuit over what the agency had previously alleged was a deceptive and abusive membership credit card program that took in tens of millions of dollars in consumer fees.
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April 23, 2025
Fed. Circ. Won't Revive Minority Farmer COVID Debt Relief Suit
The Federal Circuit declined to revive claims by socially disadvantaged farmers who said the government owes them millions of dollars after repealing a coronavirus pandemic-era debt relief program, ruling Tuesday the farmers failed to show the government had a mutual intent to enter a binding contract.
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April 23, 2025
3rd Circ. Backs Health Network In Suit Over Malpractice Case
The Third Circuit on Wednesday declined to reinstate a retired lawyer's case against the Rothman Institute Orthopedic Foundation for not giving him an affidavit of merit to support medical malpractice claims against different healthcare providers, with the panel ruling the institute did not interfere with his ability to seek legal recourse.
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April 23, 2025
No Trade Secret Trial Do-Overs In Chocolate Moonshine Suit
A Pennsylvania chocolatier and her company can't get second chances in a lawsuit accusing them of stealing a rival and former spouse's recipe for Chocolate Moonshine fudge, after a federal judge ruled Tuesday that her ex had proved the value of his secret recipe and the court had not harmed the defense's case by blocking discussion of their divorce.
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April 23, 2025
Genetic Testing Co., Marketer Settle FCA Case For $6M
A genetic testing company, marketing firm, and their top executives have agreed to pay $6 million to resolve the government's allegations that they billed Medicare for unnecessary medical tests, in violation of the False Claims Act.
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April 23, 2025
Railcar Co. Owes Nothing In $600M Ohio Derailment Deal
A federal jury on Wednesday freed a railcar company from Norfolk Southern Corp.'s suit seeking a contribution to a $600 million settlement with individuals and businesses impacted by a train derailment and chemical spill in a small Ohio village two years ago.
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April 23, 2025
US Sues Gas Co. That Overbilled Pa. Prison By $4M
The federal government is seeking more than $4 million in civil penalties after an El Paso, Texas, man pled guilty to defrauding the Federal Bureau of Prisons by inflating natural gas invoices to a Pennsylvania prison.
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April 23, 2025
Pa.'s McNees Wallace Lands Offit Kurman Recruiting Pro
Pennsylvania-based Mid-Law firm McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC has tapped a former recruitment manager for Offit Kurman Attorneys At Law to oversee expansion efforts as the firm experiences a jump in growth with seven lateral hires since January.
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April 23, 2025
Saladworks Operator Must Face Worker's Unpaid OT Suit
A Pennsylvania-based franchisee of fast-casual salad eatery Saladworks cannot escape a proposed collective action accusing it of misclassifying assistant managers as overtime-exempt, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, rejecting the company's argument that there aren't enough assistant managers to support a collective.
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April 22, 2025
Customer Sues Amazon Over Burns From Heating Pad
A woman who suffered second-degree burns and an infection after a heating pad bought on Amazon malfunctioned is looking to hold the online retailer responsible in Washington federal court for the product manufactured by a third party.
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April 22, 2025
Ohio Derailment Not Caused By Texas Hurricane, Rail Co. Says
Railcar company GATX Corp. told a federal jury Tuesday that after three weeks of testimony, only a single witness had advanced Norfolk Southern's theory that a 2017 hurricane in Texas caused the hidden damage to a GATX-owned car that would eventually set off the 2023 derailment in East Palestine, Ohio.
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April 22, 2025
Judge Approves Prospect Medical's Pa. Hospitals' Closure
A Texas bankruptcy judge on Tuesday approved Prospect Medical Holdings' request to close two Pennsylvania hospitals after the bankrupt operator was unable to secure another entity to run the hospitals despite support from government and community organizations to keep them open.
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April 22, 2025
J&J Ends Trade Secrets Suit Against Now Deceased Ex-Exec
Johnson & Johnson has reached a settlement with the estate of a former executive that it accused of stealing confidential files when he left the company to work for Pfizer, but who died in the middle of the litigation, the parties told a New Jersey federal court.
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April 22, 2025
Pittsburgh Firm Accused Of Botching $3M Office Rent Row
The owner of a Pittsburgh office building claims mistakes made by attorneys from Meyer Unkovic & Scott LLP cost the company more than $3.3 million in rental income and interest payments, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court Monday.
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April 22, 2025
Marketer Blasts Inventor's 'Cycle' Of Atty Fee Bids
An invention marketing firm on Tuesday asked a Pennsylvania federal judge to reject Kearney McWilliams & Davis PLLC's push for more attorney fees stemming from an inventor's case over how the company handled preparations for a product launch, arguing the court already declined to increase the number.
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April 22, 2025
NCAA Says It Can't Be Sued Over Trans Athlete's Participation
The National Collegiate Athletic Association said U.S. Supreme Court precedent should excuse it from a suit by three former collegiate swimmers over a transgender athlete's participation in a 2022 competition at Harvard University.
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April 21, 2025
DraftKings Targeted Gambling Addicts, Suit Claims
Online gambling giant DraftKings Inc. and a subsidiary have been hit with a proposed class action accusing them of engaging in a range of deceptive practices including knowingly targeting people suffering from gambling addiction and allowing those on Pennsylvania's self-exclusion gambling list to open new accounts.
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April 21, 2025
Sun Pharma Accuses Drugstores Of $10M Refund Scheme
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. told a New Jersey federal court that a group of pharmacies and their operators engaged in a criminal, years-long racketeering scheme that resulted in it paying more than $10 million in refunds for short-dated pharmaceutical products.
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April 21, 2025
NJ Atty Depo Sought For Duane Morris Malpractice Suit In Pa.
An Indian business owner has asked a New Jersey court to force a Morristown-based McElroy Deutsch Mulvaney & Carpenter LLP partner to sit for a deposition in his malpractice suit against Duane Morris LLP in Pennsylvania state court.
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April 21, 2025
Pa. Judge Facing Fraud Charges Gets Filing Delay
A Pennsylvania county judge indicted on charges that he misused unemployment relief funds to pay his law firm's employees during the pandemic succeeded Monday in having filing deadlines in his prosecution pushed back for more time to review discovery.
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April 21, 2025
Insurers Clash Over Coverage In Racetrack Injury Suit
Acuity Insurance LLC wants a Pennsylvania federal court to join two other insurers to its defense of a client accused of designing inadequate safety barriers at a Lancaster County raceway, claiming the other companies had wrongly declined coverage for subsidiaries of the insured.
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April 21, 2025
Justices Won't Review Philly Atty's 5-Year Suspension
A Philadelphia attorney's appeal of a five-year suspension deeming him a "danger to the public" will not move forward after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the case, according to orders released Monday.
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April 19, 2025
Real Estate Recap: Q1 Dealmakers, Tariff Tension
Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including the law firms that guided the 10 largest real estate deals of the first quarter, and how dealmakers and companies have been navigating uncertainty in the market.
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April 19, 2025
Up Next At High Court: Preventive Healthcare, LGBTQ Books
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in five cases this week, including disputes over the constitutionality of a task force that sets preventive healthcare coverage requirements, a school district's introduction of LGBTQ-themed storybooks and whether parties can establish standing based on harms affecting third parties.
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April 18, 2025
Temple Prof. Claims Colleague Stole From 'Rapping' Business
A faculty member at Temple University with a side job doing speaking engagements as "The Rapping Professor" claims that his partner in the business mishandled funds, according to a lawsuit filed in Philadelphia state court.
Expert Analysis
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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.
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Behind 3rd Circ. Ruling On College Athletes' FLSA Eligibility
The Third Circuit's decision that college athletes are not precluded from bringing a claim under the Fair Labor Standards Act raises key questions about the practical consequences of treating collegiate athletes as employees, such as Title IX equal pay claims and potential eligibility for all employment benefits, say attorneys at Debevoise.
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Missouri Injunction A Setback For State Anti-ESG Rules
A Missouri federal court’s recent order enjoining the state’s anti-ESG rules comes amid actions by state legislatures to revise or invalidate similar legislation imposing disclosure and consent requirements around environmental, social and governance investing, and could be a blueprint for future challenges, say attorneys at Paul Hastings.
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Opinion
3rd. Circ. Got It Right On Cancer Warning Claims Preemption
The Third Circuit's recent, eminently sensible ruling in a failure-to-warn case against Roundup manufacturer Monsanto, holding that the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act preempts state law claims, provides a road map that other courts should adopt, says Lawrence Ebner at the Atlantic Legal Foundation.
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How Methods Are Evolving In Textualist Interpretations
Textualists at the U.S. Supreme Court are increasingly considering new methods such as corpus linguistics and surveys to evaluate what a statute's text communicates to an ordinary reader, while lower courts even mull large language models like ChatGPT as supplements, says Kevin Tobia at Georgetown Law.
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Finding Coverage For Online Retail Privacy Class Actions
Following recent court rulings interpreting state invasion of privacy and electronic surveillance statutes triggering a surge in the filing of privacy class actions against online retailers, companies should examine their various insurance policies, including E&O and D&O, for defense coverage of these claims, says Alison Gaske at Gilbert LLP.
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Avoiding Corporate Political Activity Pitfalls This Election Year
As Election Day approaches, corporate counsel should be mindful of the complicated rules around companies engaging in political activities, including super PAC contributions, pay-to-play prohibitions and foreign agent restrictions, say attorneys at Covington.
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Opinion
Congress Must Do More To Bolster ERISA Protections
As the Employee Retirement Income Security Act turns 50 this month, we applaud Congress for championing a statute that protects worker and retiree rights, but further action is needed to ban arbitration clauses in plan provisions and codify regulations imperiled by the U.S. Supreme Court’s Chevron ruling, say Michelle Yau and Eleanor Frisch at Cohen Milstein.
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Unpacking Jurisdiction Issues In 3rd Circ. Arbitration Ruling
The Third Circuit's recent ruling in George v. Rushmore Service Center could be interpreted to establish three principles regarding district courts' jurisdiction to enter arbitration-related orders under the Federal Arbitration Act, two of which may lead to confusion, says David Cinotti at Pashman Stein.
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Why Attorneys Should Consider Community Leadership Roles
Volunteering and nonprofit board service are complementary to, but distinct from, traditional pro bono work, and taking on these community leadership roles can produce dividends for lawyers, their firms and the nonprofit causes they support, says Katie Beacham at Kilpatrick.
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How NJ Temp Equal Pay Survived A Constitutional Challenge
The Third Circuit recently gave the New Jersey Temporary Workers' Bill of Rights a new lease on life by systematically dismantling multiple theories of the act's unconstitutionality brought by staffing agencies hoping to delay their new equal pay and benefits obligations, say attorneys at Duane Morris.
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Firms Must Offer A Trifecta Of Services In Post-Chevron World
After the U.S. Supreme Court’s Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo decision overturning Chevron deference, law firms will need to integrate litigation, lobbying and communications functions to keep up with the ramifications of the ruling and provide adequate counsel quickly, says Neil Hare at Dentons.
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5 Tips To Succeed In A Master Of Laws Program And Beyond
As lawyers and recent law school graduates begin their Master of Laws coursework across the country, they should keep a few pointers in mind to get the most out of their programs and kick-start successful careers in their practice areas, says Kelley Miller at Reed Smith.
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Series
Being An Opera Singer Made Me A Better Lawyer
My journey from the stage to the courtroom has shown that the skills I honed as an opera singer – punctuality, memorization, creativity and more – have all played a vital role in my success as an attorney, says Gerard D'Emilio at GableGotwals.
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How Law Firms Can Avoid 'Collaboration Drag'
Law firm decision making can be stifled by “collaboration drag” — characterized by too many pointless meetings, too much peer feedback and too little dissent — but a few strategies can help stakeholders improve decision-making processes and build consensus, says Steve Groom at Miles Mediation.