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April 07, 2025
Litigation Firms Back Perkins Coie In Suit Over Trump Order
A slew of midsize and small litigation firms took up Perkins Coie LLP's cause in its legal battle against an executive order from President Donald Trump targeting the BigLaw firm, arguing Monday in an amicus brief that the order is "anathema" to the justice system.
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April 07, 2025
11 States Tell 6th Circ. To Ax Mich. Conversion Therapy Ban
Eleven U.S. states led by Iowa and South Carolina urged the Sixth Circuit to strike down Michigan's ban on conversion therapy for minors, saying the law censors therapists' speech.
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April 04, 2025
Real Estate Recap: 'Gold Card,' ESG, Tokenization
Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including insights into the latest EB-5 investment rush, the tightrope real estate companies are walking with environmental, social and governance factors, and how tokenization can apply to the real estate sector.
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April 04, 2025
Justices Told To Keep 'Century-Old Status Quo' On Birthright
States, immigrant advocacy groups and expectant mothers urged the U.S. Supreme Court Friday to reject President Donald Trump's bid to restrict nationwide court orders prohibiting implementation of his executive order aimed at limiting birthright citizenship, arguing that maintaining the long-held understanding of the right won't cause any harm.
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April 04, 2025
21 States Say Trump Order Will Disenfranchise Millions
Attorneys general from California, Washington. New York and 18 other states have filed federal lawsuits to block President Donald Trump's executive order on voting, saying it is an unconstitutional power grab that would make it harder for millions of eligible people to vote.
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April 04, 2025
6th Circ. Says Fiat Chrysler Engineers' Claims Are Preempted
The Sixth Circuit said Friday that federal law bars Fiat Chrysler engineers from pursuing state-based claims alleging they lost wages and benefits after being transferred in connection to an illicit bribery scheme involving former United Auto Workers officials and company executives.
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April 04, 2025
NIH Wants Prompt 1st Circ. Review Of Agency's Grant Caps
The National Institutes of Health is seeking a quicker path to appeal a ruling that blocked its cap on research grant costs, asking a Boston federal judge on Friday to make permanent the preliminary injunction that put the agency's cost-cutting plans on hold.
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April 04, 2025
Jury Must Hear Law School Remote Learning Disability Suit
A Michigan federal judge on Friday said a jury should determine whether it was reasonable for Wayne State University to deny a blind student's request to attend classes virtually because it claimed doing so would alter the curriculum, noting that the school went entirely online during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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April 04, 2025
Pot Investor Can't Force Sales Of Products In Contract Row
A Michigan state judge on Friday denied a cannabis investor's motion for an order forcing the sale of stored product while a dispute with his business partners plays out, finding the investor hasn't shown he's likely to succeed — particularly as much or all of the suit may end up in arbitration.
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April 04, 2025
Mich. Justices Order More Arguments In Lilly Insulin Case
Michigan's highest court will hear a second round of oral arguments on a state investigation of Eli Lilly & Co.'s insulin prices, a case that centers on a consumer protection law's safe-harbor provision.
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April 04, 2025
Morgan Properties Nabs $501M Midwest Multifamily Portfolio
Morgan Properties purchased a 3,054-unit portfolio of multifamily assets across the Midwest from Trilogy Real Estate Group for $501 million, the multifamily community owner announced Friday.
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April 04, 2025
6th Circ. Allows Tenn. Gas Plant Pipeline To Proceed
The Sixth Circuit on Friday rejected conservation groups' challenges to federal and state Clean Water Act approvals to a Kinder Morgan unit's pipeline that would serve a Tennessee Valley Authority natural gas-fired power plant in Cumberland City.
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April 04, 2025
Mich. Top Court Preview: Hospital Liability, Suit Deadlines
The Michigan Supreme Court this month will consider whether it should end employers' ability to contractually shorten limitations periods for workers to sue and will examine if a Corewell Health hospital can be liable for the acts of an independent physician.
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April 04, 2025
Toshiba Fights Claims Over Alleged Hydro Plant Defects
A Toshiba Corp. unit has urged a federal judge to dismiss claims that it botched a $560 million contract to upgrade a hydroelectric plant owned by the Michigan utilities Consumers Energy Co. and DTE Electric Co., arguing the two companies inspected Toshiba's work and deemed it satisfactory.
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April 03, 2025
6th Circ. Narrows Who Is 'Consumer' Under Video Privacy Law
A decades-old federal privacy law aimed at protecting people's video rental history doesn't cover a Paramount digital newsletter subscriber who says his data was unlawfully shared with Meta Platforms, a split Sixth Circuit ruled Thursday, determining the law only protects subscribers of audiovisual materials.
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April 03, 2025
Tribes, Great Lakes Group Seek Appeal Of Enbridge Decision
Four tribes and a Great Lakes water protection group have asked the Michigan Supreme Court for leave to challenge a state public service commission decision as well as a subsequent appeals panel ruling that both favor Enbridge Energy's Line 5 tunnel project.
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April 03, 2025
Forge Ahead On Broadband Deployment Funds, States Say
A bipartisan group of legislators from 28 states called on the Trump administration not to disrupt the rollout of $42.5 billion in federal funds for broadband projects targeted to unserved areas around the country.
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April 03, 2025
Ex-Coach Accused Of Hack Sued By 11 More Women Athletes
Eleven more women have sued the University of Michigan and its former assistant football coach indicted last month for illegally obtaining students' personal photos and digital information, at least the fifth suit filed by the alleged victims of the widespread hack.
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April 03, 2025
RI Judge Hits Pause On Billions In Health Grant Funding Cuts
A Rhode Island federal judge on Thursday barred the Trump administration from moving forward, for now, with the termination of billions of dollars in grants supporting state public health programs.
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April 03, 2025
$10M Heritage Pharma Price-Fixing Deal Gets Final OK
A Connecticut federal judge granted final approval to a $10 million deal between Heritage Pharmaceuticals Inc., its parent company Emcure Pharmaceuticals Ltd. and Emcure's founder Satish Mehta to resolve claims from a coalition of states accusing them of conspiring with other companies to inflate generic drug prices.
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April 03, 2025
6th Circ. Backs $10M Gas Royalty Judgment Against Antero
A Sixth Circuit panel affirmed an Ohio district court ruling holding that Antero Resources Corp. underpaid a class of Buckeye State landowners $10 million by improperly deducting costs from their natural gas royalties.
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April 03, 2025
Insurer Says It Has No Duty To Defend Mich. City In Tax Fight
Insurance company Argonaut said in a federal court complaint Wednesday that it shouldn't have to pay to defend Ann Arbor, Michigan, in a lawsuit alleging that the city's decades-old stormwater drainage charges are an unlawful tax, pointing to the public official liability and financial loss exclusions in the city's policy.
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April 03, 2025
Mich. High Court Kicks Stalled-Bill Dispute To Appeals Court
The Michigan Senate won't get an immediate hearing at the state's highest court on the Michigan House's refusal to send passed legislation to the governor for signature, the court said late Wednesday.
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April 02, 2025
Perkins Coie Urges Court To End Trump's 'Assault' On Firm
Perkins Coie LLP on Wednesday asked a D.C. federal judge to permanently block enforcement of President Donald Trump's "unconstitutional assault" on the firm and the rule of law, filing a summary judgment bid the same day the federal government pushed for the firm's suit to be tossed.
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April 02, 2025
NIH Sued By Researchers Over 'Ideological Purge' On Grants
The American Public Health Association and others sued the federal government in Massachusetts federal court on Wednesday over the cancellations of billions of dollars worth of National Institutes of Health research grants on such issues as gender identity, diversity, vaccine hesitancy and climate change, claiming the "ideological purge" is illegal.
Expert Analysis
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Fishing Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Atop the list of ways fishing makes me a better lawyer is the relief it offers from the chronic stress of a demanding caseload, but it has also improved my listening skills and patience, and has served as an exceptional setting for building earnest relationships, says Steven DeGeorge at Robinson Bradshaw.
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A Healthier Legal Industry Starts With Emotional Intelligence
The legal profession has long been plagued by high rates of mental health issues, in part due to attorneys’ early training and broader societal stereotypes — but developing one’s emotional intelligence is one way to foster positive change, collectively and individually, says attorney Esperanza Franco.
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To Make Your Legal Writing Clear, Emulate A Master Chef
To deliver clear and effective written advocacy, lawyers should follow the model of a fine dining chef — seasoning a foundation of pure facts with punchy descriptors, spicing it up with analogies, refining the recipe and trimming the fat — thus catering to a sophisticated audience of decision-makers, says Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner.
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Circuit Judge Writes An Opinion, AI Helps: What Now?
Last week's Eleventh Circuit opinion in Snell v. United Specialty Insurance, notable for a concurrence outlining the use of artificial intelligence to evaluate a term's common meaning, is hopefully the first step toward developing a coherent basis for the judiciary's generative AI use, says David Zaslowsky at Baker McKenzie.
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Perspectives
Trauma-Informed Legal Approaches For Pro Bono Attorneys
As National Trauma Awareness Month ends, pro bono attorneys should nevertheless continue to acknowledge the mental and physical effects of trauma, allowing them to better represent clients, and protect themselves from compassion fatigue and burnout, say Katherine Cronin at Stinson and Katharine Manning at Blackbird.
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Fed. Circ. Scrapping Design Patent Tests Creates Uncertainty
The Federal Circuit last week discarded established tests for proving that design patents are invalid as obvious, leaving much unknown for design patent applicants, patentees and challengers, such as what constitutes analogous art and how secondary references will be considered and applied, say attorneys at Sterne Kessler.
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Playing Music Makes Me A Better Lawyer
My deep and passionate involvement in playing, writing and producing music equipped me with skills — like creativity, improvisation and problem-solving — that contribute to the success of my legal career, says attorney Kenneth Greene.
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How Attys Can Avoid Pitfalls When Withdrawing From A Case
The Trump campaign's recent scuffle over its bid to replace its counsel in a pregnancy retaliation suit offers a chance to remind attorneys that many troubles inherent in withdrawing from a case can be mitigated or entirely avoided by communicating with clients openly and frequently, says Christopher Konneker at Orsinger Nelson.
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Using A Children's Book Approach In Firm Marketing Content
From “The Giving Tree” to “Where the Wild Things Are,” most children’s books are easy to remember because they use simple words and numbers to tell stories with a human impact — a formula law firms should emulate in their marketing content to stay front of mind for potential clients, says Seema Desai Maglio at The Found Word.
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The State Of Play In DEI And ESG 1 Year After Harvard Ruling
Almost a year after the U.S. Supreme Court decided Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, attorney general scrutiny of environmental, social and governance-related efforts indicates a potential path for corporate diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives to be targeted, say attorneys at Crowell & Moring.
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What The FTC Report On AG Collabs Means For Cos.
The Federal Trade Commission's April report on working with state attorneys general shows collaboration can increase efficiency and consistency in how statutes are interpreted and enforced, which can minimize the likelihood of requests for inconsistent injunctive relief that can create operational problems for businesses, say attorneys at Kelley Drye.
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When Oral Settlements Reached In Mediation Are Enforceable
A recent decision by the New Jersey Appellate Division illustrates the difficulties that may arise in trying to enforce an oral settlement agreement reached in mediation, but adherence to certain practices can improve the likelihood that such an agreement will be binding, says Richard Mason at MasonADR.
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Being An EMT Makes Me A Better Lawyer
While some of my experiences as an emergency medical technician have been unusually painful and searing, the skills I’ve learned — such as triage, empathy and preparedness — are just as useful in my work as a restructuring lawyer, says Marshall Huebner at Davis Polk.
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Exploring An Alternative Model Of Litigation Finance
A new model of litigation finance, most aptly described as insurance-backed litigation funding, differs from traditional funding in two key ways, and the process of securing it involves three primary steps, say Bob Koneck, Christopher Le Neve Foster and Richard Butters at Atlantic Global Risk LLC.
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Airlines Must Prepare For State AG Investigations
A recent agreement between the U.S. Department of Transportation and 18 states and territories will allow attorneys general to investigate consumer complaints against commercial passenger airlines — so carriers must be ready for heightened scrutiny and possibly inconsistent enforcement, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.