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• February 25, 2026

  Taft Adds 5-Person IP Team From McAndrews Held

  Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP announced on Wednesday that it has hired a group of four attorneys and one patent agent from McAndrews Held & Malloy Ltd. in the Chicago, Minneapolis and West Palm Beach, Florida, offices.

• February 25, 2026

  9th Circ. Rules K-12 Mental Health Grants Must Continue

  The U.S. Department of Education must fund K-12 mental health grants given to public schools to help students cope with school shootings, the Ninth Circuit ruled, denying the agency's emergency request to pause a lower court's permanent injunction pending an appeal. 

• February 25, 2026

  Budtender Alleges Dispensary Gives Tips To Managers

  A proposed class of budtenders is suing an Illinois dispensary and its management company, saying they violate state and federal labor law by pooling tips and distributing them to managers as well as the budtenders.

• February 25, 2026

  Live Nation Judge Not 'Inclined' To Delay Trial For Appeal

  A Manhattan federal judge said Wednesday he is likely to deny counsel for Live Nation's request to appeal rulings sending the government's monopolization claims to trial, after antitrust regulators called that request a "desperate plea" for a delay.

• February 24, 2026

  7th Circ. Questions Keeping 5 NEC Suits In Federal MDL

  A Seventh Circuit panel seemed hesitant Tuesday to back an Illinois federal court's finding that several Pennsylvania-based necrotizing enterocolitis suits should stay in multidistrict litigation involving similar cases, as one judge suggested that supporting the lower court's fraudulent joinder analysis could put district judges in a "tough spot."

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