U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined the court's two most conservative members Wednesday to suggest laws that differentiate based on transgender status should be subject to the lowest level of judicial review, providing guidance to lower courts that will likely make it harder for litigants to vindicate trans rights.
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High Court Concurrences Signal Hard Battle For Trans Rights

By Katie Buehler

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined the court's two most conservative members Wednesday to suggest laws that differentiate based on transgender status should be subject to the lowest level of judicial review, providing guidance to lower courts that will likely make it harder for litigants to vindicate trans rights.

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NY High Court Lifts Block On NYC Shifting Retiree Healthcare

By Emily Brill

New York's highest court lifted an injunction Wednesday that had blocked New York City from switching retired city employees' health insurance provider, ruling that the city never promised its retirees that it would keep them on a Medicare supplemental plan.

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BofA Judge Doubts Class Certification Bid In Unpaid PTO Suit

By Dorothy Atkins

A California federal judge doubted Wednesday whether a named plaintiff can adequately represent a proposed class of Bank of America employees who claim they weren't paid for unused vacation time when they left the bank, observing during a hearing that her individualized issues "could make her very differently situated."

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POLICY & REGULATION

Brief

Senate Panel Sets Vote On Trump Nominees For EEOC, DOL

By Kellie Mejdrich

A Senate panel announced on Wednesday a June 26 vote that will affect who will chair the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Trump administration's picks to lead the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division and employee benefits arm.

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LITIGATION

InnovAge IPO Investors Get Initial OK Of $27M Settlement

By Sydney Price

A Colorado federal judge has preliminarily approved a $27 million settlement between InnovAge Holding Corp., its underwriters and a class of stockholders accusing the senior-health care company of making misleading statements in an initial public offering that later caused stock prices to tank after a government audit exposed the falsehoods.

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NLRB Asks 3rd Circ. To Hold Post-Gazette In Contempt

By Emily Brill

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette hasn't restored the health insurance it offered its union-represented staff before switching their insurance provider without the union's consent, even though the Third Circuit ordered it to do so, National Labor Relations Board prosecutors told the appellate court, asking it to hold the newspaper in contempt.

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NJ Judiciary Hit With Pregnancy Bias Suit From Court Exec

By Lynn LaRowe

A court executive has claimed that the New Jersey judiciary is guilty of retaliating and discriminating against her by allegedly reducing her pay raise because she went on maternity leave, according to a new state complaint.

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Alphabet, Investors Face Judge's Questions Over $500M Deal

By Lauren Berg

A California federal judge has questions about an investor settlement with Google's parent company, Alphabet Inc., which agreed to earmark half a billion dollars over the next 10 years to overhaul its global compliance structure to resolve claims against company leaders of anticompetitive and monopolistic practices.

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Brief

Law Firm Inks $21K Deal To End Paralegal's OT Suit

By Emmy Freedman

A personal injury law firm will pay nearly $21,000 to resolve a paralegal's lawsuit accusing the firm of misclassifying her as exempt from earning overtime and failing to compensate her for the five to 10 additional hours she worked each week, a filing in Georgia federal court said.

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Union Urges Del. Justices To Refloat BofA Benefit Card Suit

By Jeff Montgomery

Delaware's chief justice pressed an attorney for Bank of America stockholders Wednesday to "drill down to the bad faith" during an appeal for revival of a Chancery Court suit accusing the company of intentionally prioritizing profits over compliance in managing unemployment benefit cards during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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PEOPLE

Nixon Peabody Adds 25-Year Kilpatrick Employment Atty

By Jack Rodgers

Nixon Peabody LLP has hired a former Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP attorney, who has spent some 25 years at his prior firm representing clients on employee benefits compliance and other employee compensation and corporate matters, the firm recently announced.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Series

Law School's Missed Lessons: Teaching Yourself Legal Tech

New graduates often enter practice unfamiliar with even basic professional software, but budding lawyers can use on-the-job opportunities to both catch up on technological skills and explore the advanced legal and artificial intelligence tools that will open doors, says Alyssa Sones at Sheppard Mullin.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

'Absolutely Disgusting': Litigant's Stashed Gum Irks Judge

By Hailey Konnath

A Florida federal judge admonished a plaintiff for sticking her chewed gum to a courtroom table, leading to a federal prosecutor getting the gum stuck to her skirt later, calling it "absolutely disgusting" and saying he "never dreamed" he would have to "write an order like this."

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9th Circ. Backs 'Legitimate' Bar Membership Admission Rules

By Lauren Berg

The Ninth Circuit on Friday tossed a challenge to local rules in district courts in the circuit requiring lawyers to be bar members in the state where the court is located in order to seek general admission, saying admission rules aren't unconstitutional and there are several "legitimate reasons" for the rule.

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In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Law360

For those who missed out, here's a look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the most buzz on Law360 last week.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton and Andrea Keckley

WilmerHale leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Federal Circuit vacated a $300 million patent infringement jury verdict against Apple, based on instructions by a Texas federal judge that the appellate court panel determined to be erroneous.

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Feature

Current And Former GCs Urge Law Grads To 'Rise Up'

By Michele Gorman

From sharing details about being part of the first class of female graduates at Washington and Lee University School of Law to explaining how a middle-school teaching job led to obtaining a law degree, five commencement speakers — all current or former general counsel — recently shared their wisdom for the next generation of attorneys.

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Trump Taps Atty Dropped By Biden For Eastern Ky. Fed. Court

By Ali Sullivan

President Donald Trump has announced plans to nominate former Kentucky Solicitor General Chad Meredith to serve as a judge for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky.

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NJ Court Greenlights Beasley Allen Attys In Talc Litigation

By George Woolston

A New Jersey state judge will allow two Beasley Allen Law Firm attorneys to represent a California couple in their suit accusing Johnson & Johnson of selling carcinogenic talc-based baby powder and appear pro hac vice despite the company's vehement opposition.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

A new report showed a dip in the average size of corporate legal teams over the last year, and an attorney focused on special purpose acquisition companies is predicting the Trump administration's friendly stance on cryptocurrency will spawn a wave of new cryptocurrency-related ventures going public in the coming months. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.

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Attys Face Sanctions For 'Sweeping' Copying Of Firm's Motion

By Dorothy Atkins

A California federal judge has ordered The Neil Jones Food Co.'s defense counsel to explain why she shouldn't sanction them for filing a dismissal motion that appears to plagiarize a losing motion filed by another firm in another case in the district, slamming the "sweeping copy and paste" conduct as "patently unacceptable."

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Roundup

UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

By Laura Stewart Liberty

This past week in London has seen Pogust Goodhead face legal action from mining giant BHP Group, Trainline bring a procurement claim against the Department for Transport, Sworders auction house sue Conservative peer Patricia Rawlings, and Nokia hit with a patents claim by Hisense. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

A&O Shearman

Addleshaw Goddard

Akin Gump

Arias Sanguinetti

Arias Sanguinetti Wang & Team, LLP

Barnes & Thornburg

Beasley Allen

Bingham McCutchen

Bird & Bird

Blackstone Chambers

Boni Zack

Candey Ltd.

Clyde & Co

Cohen Milstein

Coleman & Horowitt

Cooley LLP

Covington & Burling

Cozen O'Connor

DMH Stallard

DWF LLP

Dean Omar

Denlea & Carton

Dentons

Ellenoff Grossman

Faegre Drinker

Fairfield & Woods

Fieldfisher

Fisher & Phillips

Freshfields

Fridman Fels

Fried Frank

Gibson Dunn

Gordons LLP

Gowling WLG

GrayRobinson

Holland & Knight

Holtzman Vogel

Jones Day

Jubelirer Pass

Kilpatrick Townsend

Kirkland & Ellis

Latham & Watkins

Levy Firestone

Lewis Brisbois

Liddle Sheets

Littler Mendelson

Mayer Brown

McDermott Will & Emery

McGuireWoods

Milbank LLP

Mishcon de Reya

Moore Hill & Westmoreland

Morris Nichols

Nixon Peabody

O'Melveny & Myers

Paul Weiss

Perkins Coie

Pogust Goodhead

Prince Lobel

Quinn Emanuel

Reed Smith

Reynolds Porter

Rigrodsky Law

Ropes & Gray

Ross Aronstam

Scott&Scott

Seladore Legal

Sheppard Mullin

Sidley Austin

Simon Paschal

Skadden Arps

Slaughter and May

Squire Patton

Stewarts Law LLP

Stueve Siegel

Sullivan & Cromwell

Sweet James LLP

TLT LLP

Taylor Wessing

Troutman

Wachtell Lipton

Walden Macht

White & Case

Wiggin LLP

Willkie Farr

WilmerHale

Young Conaway

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Aetna Inc.

Alphabet Inc.

American Bar Association

American Civil Liberties Union

American Federation of Labor & Congress of Industrial Organizations

Apple Inc.

Assicurazioni Generali

Associated Press

Association of Corporate Counsel

Astellas Pharma Inc.

Aston Martin Lagonda Ltd.

BHP Group PLC

Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA

Bank of America Corp.

Barclays PLC

Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp.

Canaccord Genuity Group Inc.

Cantor Fitzgerald LP

Chevron Corp.

Communications Workers of America

Council for Innovation Promotion

Duke University

Exxon Mobil Corp.

Ferring Pharmaceuticals

Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc.

Getty Images Holdings Inc.

Gilead Sciences Inc.

Google LLC

Hisense Co. Ltd.

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

John Wayne Airport

Johnson & Johnson

London Stock Exchange Group PLC

Major Lindsey & Africa LLC

Microsoft Corp.

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Nav Technologies Inc.

Neil Jones Food Co.

New York Yankees

Nokia Corp.

Northeastern University

PepsiCo Inc.

Point Mortgage Corp.

Purdue Pharma LP

Red Bull GmbH

Shenandoah Life Insurance Company Inc.

State Bar of California

TC Energy Corp.

The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights

The Newspaper Guild

The PNC Financial Services Group Inc.

TikTok Inc.

Trainline

TransCanada Corporation

University of Virginia

Washington & Lee University

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

City of New York

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Employee Benefits Security Administration

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

House of Lords of the United Kingdom

National Institutes of Health

National Labor Relations Board

New Jersey Court

New Jersey State Ethics Commission

North Carolina Department of Justice

Office of the Comptroller of the Currency

U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Arizona

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of Labor

U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

UK High Court

Wage and Hour Division