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June 30, 2025
High Court Rejects Challenge To NM Nuke Storage Site
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday said a mineral owner could not challenge the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's approval of a temporary nuclear waste storage facility in New Mexico.
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June 30, 2025
Justices Say Another Biofuel Waiver Case Fits In DC Circ.
Following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision that the D.C. Circuit was the proper venue for challenges to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's denial of biofuel waivers to small refiners, the high court on Monday granted summary disposition in another pending case on the same subject.
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June 30, 2025
Justices Rebuff American Airlines' Bid To Revive JetBlue Pact
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rebuffed American Airlines' bid to revive its codeshare agreement with JetBlue in Boston and New York.
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June 30, 2025
Justices Pass On Exxon Mobil $14M Clean Air Act Dispute
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to review an en banc Fifth Circuit opinion that upheld $14.25 million in air pollution fines against Exxon Mobil Corp.
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June 27, 2025
Feds Use Fortress-Backed NPE Suit To Encourage Injunctions
The federal government acted in line with the administration's strong pro-patent owner policies when, seemingly out of nowhere, it stepped into a little-known Texas patent case and promoted injunctions for nonpracticing entities, attorneys say. But there are suggestions that it may not be so random, as the patent owner may have ties to the nominee for U.S. Patent and Trademark Office director.
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June 27, 2025
Paxton Names Morgan Lewis Partner Texas Solicitor General
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP partner William Peterson will serve as Texas' new solicitor general while the state's outgoing solicitor general, Aaron Nielson, will head to the University of Texas School of Law as a tenured professor, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Friday.
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June 27, 2025
Texas Justices OK Methodist Church's Suit Against SMU
The Texas Supreme Court found the United Methodist Church has the right to sue Southern Methodist University over its attempted split, but in a Friday opinion drew short of saying the university filed false paperwork as part of the breakup.
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June 27, 2025
Real Estate Recap: Compass, Tariffs, Opportunity Zones 2.0
Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including attorney insights into the Compass v. Zillow lawsuit, tariff disruption and a potential update to the opportunity zone program.
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June 27, 2025
Texas Justices Say Paxton Can Keep Jan. 6 Records
The Texas Supreme Court found that Attorney General Ken Paxton does not have to cough up his communications during and after the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, saying in a Friday opinion only the state's high court may issue orders compelling executive officers to certain actions.
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June 27, 2025
After Dobbs, States Become Battleground For Abortion Rights
Three years ago, when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the precedent set by Roe v. Wade, it did more than end nearly five decades of federal constitutional protection for abortion; it also fractured the legal landscape of reproductive rights, shifting the authority to regulate the procedure to individual states, and leading to legal uncertainty for courts, physicians and patients.
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June 27, 2025
Full 5th Circ. To Hear Planned Parenthood Atty Immunity Row
The full Fifth Circuit will rehear a panel's decision concluding that Planned Parenthood is entitled to attorney immunity in a whistleblower suit accusing the organization of improperly billing Medicaid programs.
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June 27, 2025
Party City To Send Liquidation Plan Out For Creditor Vote
A Texas bankruptcy judge on Friday gave Party City permission to send its liquidation plan out for a vote after the retailer agreed to give parties with claims racked up during the Chapter 11 case more time to opt out of proposed cuts to their recoveries.
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June 27, 2025
Texas Justices Give Uri MDL Plaintiffs Chance To Replead
The Texas Supreme Court on Friday said that thousands of plaintiffs in a multidistrict litigation stemming from winter storm Uri in 2021 could replead their gross negligence claims against transmission and distribution utility providers, giving them a chance to revive their long-running dispute over the crippling winter storm.
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June 27, 2025
Kirkland, Akin Advise On $1.5B DNOW, MRC Deal
DNOW Inc. has agreed to acquire MRC Global Inc. in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $1.5 billion including debt, a deal that will combine two major distributors of energy and industrial products.
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June 27, 2025
Off The Bench: Tatis Says Loan 'Predatory,' Tennis Player Suit
In this week's Off The Bench, a Major League Baseball star wants out of a "predatory" loan from a future earnings investment company, a group of migrant workers keep alive their suit accusing companies that helped develop World Cup facilities in Qatar of exploitation and abuse, and the tennis Grand Slam tournaments may be in the crosshairs of players suing the sport's hierarchy.
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June 27, 2025
Texas Atty 'Car Wreck Clyde' Cops To Stealing Client Funds
A Houston personal injury attorney has pled guilty to fraud and conspiracy charges for bilking clients out of millions of dollars in settlement funds, the government announced Thursday.
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June 27, 2025
Former Hines Legal Chief Joins Greenberg Traurig In Houston
Greenberg Traurig LLP has bulked up its Texas real estate practice with a shareholder in Houston who most recently served as chief legal and compliance officer at Hines, a global real estate investment management firm.
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June 27, 2025
3 DOL Policy Shifts On Benefits Attys' Radar
Since President Donald Trump's administration took over in January, the U.S. Department of Labor has changed its tack on several issues related to employee benefits. Here, Law360 looks at three moves that caught lawyers' attention.
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June 27, 2025
Texas High Court Overturns $116M Verdict In Fatal Crash Suit
The Texas Supreme Court on Friday tossed a $116 million jury verdict against trucking company Werner Enterprises Inc. over a crash that killed one child and paralyzed another, ruling that even though a company driver traveled at an unsafe speed, he was not to blame for the accident.
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June 27, 2025
Justices Uphold Texas Law Requiring Porn Site Age Checks
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday said a Texas law requiring pornographic websites to verify visitors' ages could take effect, agreeing with a divided Fifth Circuit's decision to vacate an injunction while using a different standard of judicial review to evaluate the statute.
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June 27, 2025
Justices Back Task Force That Sets ACA Care Requirements
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Friday that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' secretary had authority over a preventive care task force, rejecting a constitutional challenge to an Affordable Care Act clause that requires health insurers to cover certain treatments at no cost to patients.
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June 26, 2025
Stewart Clarifies Settled Expectations In Denying Intel IPRs
Leaders at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office discretionarily denied 13 more petitions for inter partes review on Thursday, where the acting director offered more guidance on how she's deciding when a patent owner can rest on settled expectations that its patent wouldn't be challenged.
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June 26, 2025
Buyer Sanctioned For Scrapping $16M Deal With Cattle Co.
A Texas federal judge sanctioned a would-be buyer of assets for a defunct cattle trading company at the center of an alleged $161 million Ponzi scheme, saying during a Thursday hearing that the buyer should not have stalled before confessing it didn't have the funds.
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June 26, 2025
Judge Allows World Cup Forced Labor Suit To Proceed
A Colorado federal judge Thursday allowed Filipino workers alleging they were subject to abuse while building stadiums for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar to proceed with their claims.
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June 26, 2025
Suit Blaming Big Oil For Heat Wave Death Moved To Fed Court
Chevron removed to Seattle federal court a first-of-its kind wrongful death suit brought by the daughter of a woman who died during a 2021 heat wave alleging oil and gas giants — including BP PLC, ConocoPhillips and Shell PLC — knew for decades their fossil fuel products would one day "claim lives."
Expert Analysis
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Law Firm Executive Orders Create A Legal Ethics Minefield
Recent executive orders targeting BigLaw firms create ethical dilemmas — and raise the specter of civil or criminal liability — for the government attorneys tasked with implementing them and for the law firms that choose to make agreements with the administration, say attorneys at Buchalter.
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Firms Must Embrace Alternative Billing Models Or Fall Behind
As artificial intelligence tools eliminate inefficiencies and the Big Four accounting firms enter the legal market, law firms that pivot from the entrenched billable hour model to outcomes-based pricing will see a distinct competitive advantage, says attorney William Brewer.
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How Attorneys Can Master The Art Of On-Camera Presence
As attorneys are increasingly presented with on-camera opportunities, they can adapt their traditional legal skills for video contexts — such as virtual client meetings, marketing content or media interviews — by understanding the medium and making intentional adjustments, says Kerry Barrett.
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Patent Drafting Pointers From Fed. Circ. COVID Test Ruling
The Federal Circuit's recent decision in DNA Genotek v. Spectrum Solutions provides several best practice pointers for drafting and prosecuting patent applications, highlighting how nuances in wording can potentially limit the scope of claims or otherwise affect claim constructions, says Irah Donner at Manatt.
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Series
Baseball Fantasy Camp Makes Me A Better Lawyer
With six baseball fantasy experiences under my belt, I've learned time and again that I didn't make the wrong career choice, but I've also learned that baseball lessons are life lessons, and I'm a better lawyer for my time at St. Louis Cardinals fantasy camp, says Scott Felder at Wiley.
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Include State And Local Enforcers In Cartel Risk Evaluations
Any reassessment of enforcement risk following the federal designation of drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations should include applicable state and local enforcement authorities, which have powerful tools, such as grand jury subpoenas and search warrants, that businesses would be wise to consider, say attorneys at King & Spalding.
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Adapting To Private Practice: From Fed. Prosecutor To BigLaw
Making the jump from government to private practice is no small feat, but, based on my experience transitioning to a business-driven environment after 15 years as an assistant U.S. attorney, it can be incredibly rewarding and help you become a more versatile lawyer, says Michael Beckwith at Dickinson Wright.
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Executive Orders Paving Way For New Era Of Crypto Banking
Recent executive orders have already significantly affected the day-to-day operations of financial institutions that have an interest in engaging with digital assets, and creating informed strategies now can support institutions as the crypto gates continue to open to the banking industry, say attorneys at Spencer Fane.
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State Securities Enforcers May Fill A Federal Enforcement Gap
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission appears poised to take a lighter touch under the new administration, but state enforcement efforts are likely to continue unabated, and potentially even increase, particularly with regard to digital assets and ESG disclosures, say attorneys at Ropes & Gray.
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Firms Still Have Lateral Market Advantage, But Risks Persist
Partner and associate mobility data from the fourth quarter of 2024 shows that we’re in a new, stable era of lateral hiring where firms have the edge, but leaders should proceed cautiously, looking beyond expected revenue and compensation analyses for potential risks, say Julie Henson and Greg Hamman at Decipher Investigative Intelligence.
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Opinion
We Must Allow Judges To Use Their Independent Judgment
As two recent cases show, the ability of judges to access their independent judgment crucially enables courts to exercise the discretion needed to reach the right outcome based on the unique facts within the law, says John Siffert at Lankler Siffert & Wohl.
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The Central Issues Facing Fed. Circ. In Patent Damages Case
The en banc Federal Circuit's pending review of EcoFactor v. Google could reshape how expert damages opinions are argued, and could have ripple effects that limit jury awards, say attorneys at McAndrews Held.
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How Calif.'s Wildfire Insurance Crisis Might Affect Texas
Attorneys at Munsch Hardt examine the implications of California's wildfire insurance crisis for Texas, including potential shifts in coverage availability, regulatory differences and how the insurers in the second-largest U.S. state may react to a major wildfire event.
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Performing Stand-Up Comedy Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Whether I’m delivering a punchline on stage or a closing argument in court, balancing stand-up comedy performances and my legal career has demonstrated that the keys to success in both endeavors include reading the room, landing the right timing and making an impact, says attorney Rebecca Palmer.
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Investor Essentials For Buying Federally Owned Property
Investors and developers can take advantage of the Trump administration's plan to sell government-owned real estate by becoming familiar with the process and eligible to bid, and should prepare to move quickly once the U.S. General Services Administration posts the list of properties for sale, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.