Justices Mull Courts' Authority To Hear Vets' Benefits Suit

By Madeline Lyskawa

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday appeared split on whether the Veterans' Judicial Review Act bars federal district courts from presiding over constitutional challenges to statutes affecting veterans' benefits, with justices questioning both sides' interpretation of the law's no-review clause.   

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Afghan Allies Fear For Lives While Stuck In Immigration Limbo

By Britain Eakin

Under the Trump administration’s travel and visa restrictions, Afghans who helped U.S efforts against the Taliban and were promised a pathway to America face uncertainty about their survival and their chances of being reunited with family members. Nearly a year into the imposition of those restrictions, Law360 looks at how Afghans are coping.

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Feds, SpaceX Say Groups Lack Standing To Block Land Swap

By Ganesh Setty

SpaceX and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are urging a Texas federal court to toss a lawsuit challenging their South Texas land swap deal, each noting the wildlife refuge land at issue is already generally closed to the public.

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Aerosonic Wins $116.8M In Joby Aero Air Data Probe IP Trial

By Elliot Weld

A Florida federal jury has awarded $116.8 million to aviation manufacturer Aerosonic LLC in its case alleging Joby Aero Inc. stole intellectual property related to air data probes.

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Supreme Court Won't Take Up DOD Workers' Vax Bias Suit

By Patrick Hoff

The U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to review a suit alleging the U.S. Department of Defense unlawfully refused religious requests for exemptions from COVID-19 prevention protocols, leaving in place a Fifth Circuit ruling that workers hadn't tied their beliefs to masking and testing policies.

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High Court Turns Away Delta Pilots' Military Leave Bias Suit

By Kellie Mejdrich

The U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to hear former Delta Air Lines pilots' challenge to an Eleventh Circuit ruling that grounded their suit alleging the airline pushed them out of their jobs for taking military leave.

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Justices Pass On Former Air Marshal's Disability Bias Suit

By Grace Elletson

The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to probe a Fourth Circuit ruling that upheld the dismissal of a former air marshal's disability bias suit, which claimed the government improperly required her to transfer positions rather than accommodate her vision issues.

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Supreme Court Won't Hear Venezuela Rig Seizure Case

By Caroline Simson

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to review a D.C. Circuit opinion ordering Venezuela's state-owned oil company to face long-pending allegations of unlawfully seizing an Oklahoma-based oil drilling company's rigs.

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US Pushes For Reelection Of Int'l Radio Board Chief

By Christopher Cole

U.S. telecom regulators are urging their foreign counterparts to reelect the leader of a key global treaty-making body and have nominated another U.S. candidate for a top post in the organization ahead of a meeting next month in Qatar.

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4th Circ. Upholds Order For US To Admit Afghan Families

By Jared Foretek

A Fourth Circuit panel has declined to stay a federal district judge's order clearing the way for the families of seven Afghans who fought for and alongside the U.S. military to enter the country, rejecting the State Department's argument that the families' visa petitions fall within the consular nonreviewability doctrine.

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Prediction Market Case Tests Novel Insider Trading Theory

The government's argument in its case against a soldier accused of using classified information to bet on Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro's capture would represent a sea change in how insider trading wire fraud has been prosecuted for decades, says Alex Blanchard at Holland & Knight.

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Why Importers Should Assess IEEPA Refund Claims Now

Businesses that wait for direction from U.S. Customs and Border Protection or the courts before seeking refunds of their finally liquidated International Economic Emergency Procedure Act duties in court may find them out of reach as the earliest potential limitation deadlines are approaching, says Samuel Finkelstein at LMD Trade Law.

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Judge Clevenger's Intellect Defined His Time On Fed. Circ.

By Dani Kass

Newly retired Federal Circuit Judge Raymond Clevenger has an "exceptionally keen intellect" that allowed him to spot holes or new paths in cases that the parties or fellow panel members hadn't explored, his former colleagues told Law360.

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Sotomayor Warns Judges: Don't Scare Your Jurors

By Brandon Lowrey

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Monday criticized an Alabama trial court judge who frightened a pool of prospective jurors by ordering the arrest of a latecomer to jury selection, saying in a statement accompanying a denial of certiorari in the case that fear can undermine a defendant's right to an impartial jury.

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Quinn Emanuel Seeks $750K After Defeating Buzbee Suits

By Lynn LaRowe

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP is seeking nearly $750,000 in attorney fees after defeating claims in Texas state court that it conspired with rapper Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter to retaliate against prominent Houston plaintiffs attorney Tony Buzbee and two of his former clients.

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9th Circ. Pauses Rogoff's Return As Seattle US Atty

By Jack Karp

The Ninth Circuit has put on hold a Washington federal judge's decision to reinstate Roger Rogoff as Seattle's top federal prosecutor, a post Rogoff held for less than an hour before he was fired by President Donald Trump.

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Jackson Walker Deal Stalled By Standing Issue, Trustee Says

By Lauren Berg

The U.S. Trustee's Office told a Texas federal judge that its settlement with Jackson Walker LLP to disgorge fees from cases touched by scandal is on ice while a bankruptcy judge examines the watchdog's standing to seek such relief.

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Eckert Seamans Says Data Breach Harm Is Only Speculative

By James Boyle

Pittsburgh-based law firm Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott LLC told a Pennsylvania federal judge on Friday a pair of proposed class actions claiming damages from a data breach at the firm have not made specific complaints of actual harm caused by the breach and should be dismissed.

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