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  • October 03, 2025

    Gov. Lamont May Testify In Ex-Conn. Budget Official's Trial

    Former Connecticut budget official Konstantinos Diamantis on Friday told a panel of potential jurors that he plans to call Gov. Ned Lamont to testify in his federal corruption trial, setting up a possible courtroom showdown between Diamantis and the elected official who removed him from his post before he was indicted.

  • October 03, 2025

    Combs Gets 50 Mos. For Prostitution As Court Cites Violence

    A Manhattan federal judge sentenced Sean "Diddy" Combs to 50 months in prison Friday, after a jury found him guilty of transporting two former girlfriends for prostitution, citing "massive" evidence of violent attacks the hip-hop icon inflicted over a decade.

  • October 03, 2025

    The Roberts Court At 20: How The Chief Is Reshaping America

    Twenty years after John Roberts became the 17th chief justice of the United States, he faces a U.S. Supreme Court term that's looking transformative for the country and its institutions. How Justice Roberts and his colleagues navigate mounting distrust in the judiciary and set the boundaries of presidential authority appear increasingly likely to define his time leading the court.

  • October 03, 2025

    4 Criminal Law Cases To Watch As Justices Return

    A slate of upcoming arguments will offer the U.S. Supreme Court the opportunity to weigh criminal defendants' ability to pursue claims of double jeopardy, secure sentencing relief and confer with trial counsel during overnight pauses in their testimony.

  • October 03, 2025

    Why The Criminal Defense Bar Will 'Learn A Lot' This Term

    The U.S. Supreme Court's docket is packed with cases that hinge on issues of criminal law, teeing up a term that could affect the U.S. Sentencing Commission's powers and clarify where the justices stand on procedural and constitutional questions of criminal law, experts say.

  • October 02, 2025

    Jury Clears T-Mobile In Tower Builder's $20M Contract Suit

    T-Mobile owes nothing to a cell tower company that sought more than $20 million over claims the wireless carrier broke a contract that allegedly guaranteed the company rights to develop 100 tower sites, a Washington state jury said in a verdict Thursday.

  • October 02, 2025

    Wrongful-Death Damages Cap Case Remanded To Trial Court

    A state appellate panel on Thursday cosigned a Georgia Supreme Court opinion ordering a trial judge to reexamine whether a $7.2 million jury award in a medical malpractice case should be reduced to $350,000, saying it incorrectly applied the high court's precedent.

  • October 02, 2025

    Ad Tech Judge Sees 'Tension' In Google's Economist

    A Virginia federal judge told Google's economics expert Thursday that there's "tension" in his assertions that remedies for the company's advertising placement technology monopolies must be narrowly tailored to block the particular anticompetitive findings won by the U.S. Justice Department.

  • October 02, 2025

    NC Chief Judge Scolds Medical Supply Co.'s 'Rude' Demand

    A North Carolina federal judge on Wednesday threw out a medical supply company's suit over COVID-19 test kit profits based on the Chinese citizenship of one party, adding that the plaintiff's impatience with the court amid a judge shortage was "rude."

  • October 02, 2025

    Peach State Panel Tosses $500K Verdict In Peach Picking Spat

    The Georgia Court of Appeals ordered a new trial in a case where a jury awarded $500,000 worth of punitive damages to a peach grower who said his crop was ruined by another farmer, ruling that inadmissible evidence about their settlement talks was "likely significant" in securing the verdict.

  • October 02, 2025

    Polish Airline's Boeing 737 Max Fraud Suit Bound For Trial

    A Washington federal judge on Thursday teed up for trial LOT Polish Airlines' suit alleging Boeing duped it into leasing defective 737 Max jets that were later grounded after two deadly crashes overseas, saying a jury should consider whether Boeing misrepresented risks about the jets to airline customers.

  • October 02, 2025

    11th Circ. Vacates $17M Award In Venezuelan Artifacts Case

    The Eleventh Circuit on Wednesday vacated a $17 million award for a man who sued Venezuela for taking his collection of Simón Bolívar artifacts, ruling that a motion for default judgment should have been entered against the country when it failed to appear at a bench trial.

  • October 02, 2025

    Fed. Circ. Affirms Cutting $10M Med Device IP Verdict To $1

    The Federal Circuit on Thursday said a lower court had properly reduced to $1 what had been a $10 million patent infringement verdict against Intuitive Surgical Inc., saying any amount between the two figures "would require improper guesswork," given the lack of evidence on damages.

  • October 02, 2025

    Ill. Panel Backs Whistleblower's $3.5M Retaliation Verdict

    An Illinois appellate panel on Wednesday affirmed a $3.5 million verdict for a man who claimed he was unlawfully fired from a southern Illinois hospital system for reporting Medicare and Medicaid fraud and abuse, saying jurors saw evidence he and others faced retaliation when they "called attention to what they believed to be unlawful conduct." 

  • October 02, 2025

    Toshiba Seeks Trial Time Limits In $500M Hydro Plant Case

    Toshiba Corp. urged a Michigan federal judge on Wednesday to set time limits for a trial over claims that one of its units botched a $500 million upgrade to a power plant owned by DTE Electric Co. and Consumers Energy, saying the complicated case is one that "cries out" for such constraints.

  • October 02, 2025

    Experts Flag Rare Cooperation Level In Conn. Corruption Case

    Former Connecticut state budget official Konstantinos Diamantis faces jury selection Friday for charges of soliciting and accepting bribes connected to school construction projects, plus likely testimony from three construction company leaders who swiftly signaled their cooperation with the government in a manner some local experts found unique.

  • October 02, 2025

    J&J Must Pay $10M In Punitive Damages After Asbestos Loss

    A Connecticut state court judge has hit Johnson & Johnson with $10 million in punitive damages after a jury sided with a builder who alleged the company's baby powder caused his terminal cancer, adding the amount to an existing $15 million verdict.

  • October 02, 2025

    Judge Sets Google IP Bench Trial For Magistrate

    A Manhattan federal judge ruled that a magistrate judge can preside over a bench trial on Google's equitable defenses to infringement claims, rejecting an argument from the owner of location tracking patents that said the referral was unconstitutional. 

  • October 02, 2025

    Judge Nixes Pegasystems Shareholder Suits Over $2B Verdict

    A Massachusetts state court has dismissed a pair of investor lawsuits against Pegasystems officials that had sought to hold them responsible for a $2 billion verdict in a trade secrets case, finding no evidence of bad faith on the part of the software company's board.

  • October 01, 2025

    Tornado Cash Boss Seeks Acquittal After Partial Mistrial

    Tornado Cash's Roman Storm on Tuesday urged a New York federal court to acquit the cryptocurrency tumbler co-founder of enabling more than $1 billion in money laundering transactions, as questions remain even among government officials about criminal liability for software developers of open-source privacy tech.

  • October 01, 2025

    Pa. Court Affirms 53-Year Sentence In Baby's Drug Death

    A woman sentenced to up to 53 years in prison for the fentanyl-related murder of her newborn was rightfully convicted, the Pennsylvania Superior Court said Wednesday, finding that via her breast milk or by other means she undoubtedly contributed to her child's demise because drugs were all over her home.

  • October 01, 2025

    Economist Says Google's Ad Tech Fix Enough To Boost Rivals

    Google's expert economics witness urged a Virginia federal judge Wednesday not to break up the search giant's advertising placement technology business, arguing the company's counterproposal would free up rivals without the "market reengineering" threatened by the Justice Department's proposed remedies.

  • October 01, 2025

    Prosecutors, Defense Face Confrontation Crisis After Smith

    As state courts grapple with the U.S. Supreme Court's broadened application of the Sixth Amendment's confrontation clause, unwary prosecutors and defense attorneys could easily end up in an evidentiary bind.

  • October 01, 2025

    Judge Orders Contempt Proceedings After $3.7M IP Judgment

    A Washington federal judge has agreed to open contempt proceedings against the leaders of a company that was hit with a $3.7 million judgment in a suit over fire-resistant construction assembly product patents.

  • October 01, 2025

    Ill. Jury Awards $67M In Panera Truck Crash Case

    An Illinois jury has awarded $67 million to the families of two people who were killed and a man who was severely injured in a 2018 crash where a car hit a Panera Bread truck and then struck a third vehicle head-on.

Expert Analysis

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    Being A Professional Wrestler Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Pursuing my childhood dream of being a professional wrestler has taught me important legal career lessons about communication, adaptability, oral advocacy and professionalism, says Christopher Freiberg at Midwest Disability.

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    Law School's Missed Lessons: Adapting To The Age Of AI

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    Though law school may not have specifically taught us how to use generative artificial intelligence to help with our daily legal tasks, it did provide us the mental building blocks necessary for adapting to this new technology — and the judgment to discern what shouldn’t be automated, says Pamela Dorian at Cozen O'Connor.

  • Ch. 11 Ruling Voiding $2M Litigation Funding Sends A Warning

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    A recent Texas bankruptcy court decision that a postconfirmation litigation trust has no obligations to repay a completely drawn down $2 million litigation funding agreement serves as a warning for estate administrators and funders to properly disclose the intended financing, say attorneys at Kleinberg Kaplan.

  • Tesla Verdict May Set New Liability Benchmarks For AV Suits

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    The recent jury verdict in Benavides v. Tesla is notable not only for a massive payout — including $200 million in punitive damages — but because it apportions fault between the company's self-driving technology and the driver, inviting more scrutiny of automated vehicle marketing and technology, says Michael Avanesian at Avian Law Group.

  • Demystifying The Civil Procedure Rules Amendment Process

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    Every year, an advisory committee receives dozens of proposals to amend the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, most of which are never adopted — but a few pointers can help maximize the likelihood that an amendment will be adopted, says Josh Gardner at DLA Piper.

  • Reel Justice: 'Sorry, Baby' Shows Need For Sensitive Voir Dire

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    In the recent film “Sorry, Baby,” the protagonist is called for jury duty while still coming to terms with a crime she recently survived, illustrating why attorneys should adopt trauma-informed practices in voir dire to minimize the retraumatization of potential jurors, says Veronica Finkelstein at Wilmington University School of Law.

  • Parenting Skills That Can Help Lawyers Thrive Professionally

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    As kids head back to school, the time is ripe for lawyers who are parents to consider how they can incorporate their parenting skills to build a deep, meaningful and sustainable legal practice, say attorneys at Alston & Bird.

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    Teaching Trial Advocacy Makes Us Better Lawyers

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    Teaching trial advocacy skills to other lawyers makes us better litigators because it makes us question our default methods, connect to young attorneys with new perspectives and focus on the needs of the real people at the heart of every trial, say Reuben Guttman, Veronica Finkelstein and Joleen Youngers.

  • The Crucial Question Left Unanswered In EpicentRx Decision

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    The California Supreme Court recently issued its long-awaited decision in EpicentRx Inc. v. Superior Court, resolving a dispute regarding the enforceability of forum selection clauses, but the question remains whether private companies can trust that courts will continue to consistently enforce forum selection clauses in corporate charters, says John Yow at Yow PC.

  • MIT Bros.' Crypto Charges Provide Fraud Test Case For Gov't

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    As U.S. v. Peraire-Bueno, involving cryptocurrency fraud charges against brothers who graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, moves forward after surviving a motion to dismiss, the case provides an early example of how the government might use the federal fraud statutes to regulate decentralized networks, say attorneys at ArentFox Schiff.

  • 5 Key Steps To Prepare For Oral Arguments

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    Whether presenting oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court or a local county judge, effective preparation includes the same essential ingredients, from organizing arguments in blocks to maximizing the potential of mock exercises, says Allison Rocker at Baker McKenzie.

  • Why EpicentRx Ruling Is A Major Win For Business Certainty

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    The California Supreme Court's recent decision in EpicentRx v. Superior Court removes a significant source of uncertainty that plagued commercial litigation in California by clarifying that forum selection clauses shouldn't be invalidated solely because the selected forum lacks the right to a jury trial, say attorneys at Clark Hill.

  • 9th Circ. Finding That NFTs Are Goods Will Change TM Law

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    The Ninth Circuit's recent ruling in Yuga Labs v. Ripps establishes that NFTs have real, commercial value under U.S. federal trademark law, a new legal precedent that may significantly influence intellectual property enforcement and marketplace policies regarding digital assets going forward, say attorneys at Wilson Elser.

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    Adapting To Private Practice: From Texas AUSA To BigLaw

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    As I learned when I transitioned from an assistant U.S. attorney to a BigLaw partner, the move from government to private practice is not without its hurdles, but it offers immense potential for growth and the opportunity to use highly transferable skills developed in public service, says Jeffery Vaden at Bracewell.

  • 3 Rulings Show Hurdles To Proving Market Manipulation Fraud

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    Three recent conviction reversals from New York federal courts highlight the challenges that prosecutors face in establishing fraud and market manipulation allegations, suggesting that courts are increasingly reluctant to find criminal liability when novel theories are advanced, say attorneys at WilmerHale.

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