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• June 13, 2025

  7th Circ. Won't Revive RICO Claims Against Blood Test Co.

  A group of pilots and other people required to undergo alcohol screening for their employment cannot pursue their Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act claims against a drug testing company, the Seventh Circuit ruled Friday after finding that the complaint doesn't adequately tie the plaintiffs' injuries to the alleged fraudulent scheme.

• June 13, 2025

  Stewart Releases Flood Of Discretionary Denial Decisions

  The acting U.S. Patent and Trademark Office director issued more than a dozen discretionary denial decisions on Thursday and Friday, where she ruled largely in favor of the challenger, made clear that challenges to young patents have a huge advantage and brought in a denial based on assignor estoppel.

• June 13, 2025

  Afghanistan Must Pay $15M Award To Contractor, Court Says

  A D.C. federal judge on Thursday issued a default ruling enforcing a $15.29 million arbitral award owed to an Emirati private security company that had contracted with Afghanistan to procure securities services at four of the country's international airports.

• June 13, 2025

  GM Can't Arbitrate Driver's Transmission Defect Suit

  General Motors can't rely on an arbitration clause contained in a purchase agreement between a plaintiff customer and a dealership to arbitrate his claims alleging GM made cars with a defective transmission, after a Michigan federal judge ruled Friday the clause doesn't cover GM, which wasn't a party to the contract. 

• June 13, 2025

  $1.6M Verdict Should've Been Trimmed Sooner, NJ Panel Says

  A New Jersey trial court should've reduced a $1.6 million jury verdict to $200,000 sooner in an automobile accident dispute after the plaintiff told both the trial judge and judge in the defendant's bankruptcy proceedings he would seek only $200,000, a state appeals court ruled Friday.

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