Newman's Own, Avatar End $2M Cookie Contract Fight

By Brian Steele

Avatar Foods and Newman's Own have pulled their dueling claims in a Connecticut federal lawsuit arising from the breakdown of the companies' co-packing agreement to produce cream-filled sandwich cookies, court records show.

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5th Circ. Rejects Gov't Bid To Revisit Home Distilling Ban

By Kat Lucero

The Fifth Circuit denied the U.S. government's request for the full court to review a three-judge panel's April opinion finding the tax code's ban on distilling whiskey at home unconstitutional after another appeals court's opposite conclusion affirmed the ban.

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Restaurant's Attys Sanctioned After Sushi Chef's Deposition

By Emily Brill

A Connecticut restaurant's attorneys must pay $7,000 to a sushi chef's attorneys after bringing the chef's ex-manager onscreen during a remote deposition in a wage lawsuit, a Connecticut federal judge ruled Wednesday, saying sanctions are warranted for conduct that can reasonably be interpreted as an intimidation tactic.

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Insurance Cos. Score Dismissal Of Zepbound Coverage Case

By Kellie Mejdrich

A D.C. federal judge Wednesday agreed to toss a proposed class action against CVS Caremark and CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield from a worker who challenged coverage denials for Zepbound to treat sleep apnea, holding an exclusion in his employee health plan that the companies administered complied with federal benefits law.

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Fla. Panel Says Policy Breach Verdict Didn't Bar Bad Faith Suit

By Danielle Ferguson

A Florida appellate panel on Wednesday revived a restaurant owner's claims that its insurer acted in bad faith in not resolving a claim over losses from a roof collapse before the contract dispute went to trial, finding the extra-contractual damages the company sought had not yet been litigated.

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Utah Urges Court To Reject Bid To Halt Kratom Ban

By Jonathan Capriel

Utah officials are urging a federal judge to reject a bid to halt the enforcement of a state law reining in psychoactive products derived from the kratom leaf, saying that the "void-for-vagueness" argument brought by the kratom interests opposing the law is unfounded.

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Susman Godfrey Beats, Seward & Kissel Matches Milbank Pay

By Tracey Read

At least four more firms have joined the associate pay raise bandwagon, with Seward & Kissel LLP matching the salary scale recently set by Milbank LLP, and Susman Godfrey LLP exceeding it.

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Judicial Noms Say Biden Won, But Critics Fault Their Caveats

By Courtney Bublé

Three district court nominees on Wednesday said President Joe Biden won the 2020 election, a departure from other judicial nominees in the second Trump administration, but court watchers on the left took issue with how they couched those statements.

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Camp Mystic Fights Sanctions Over 'Burn In Hell' Atty Remark

By Lynn LaRowe

Camp Mystic and parents of a girl killed in flooding there last summer faced off Wednesday over whether the camp should be sanctioned because its attorney said a plaintiff's lawyer would "burn in hell" and for other alleged misconduct in litigation over flooding deaths at the Texas camp.

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Ga. Federal Judge Faces 2nd Set Of Impeachment Articles

By Kelcey Caulder

A Georgia congressman has filed articles of impeachment against a federal judge who was reprimanded for having sex with a police officer in her Atlanta chambers within earshot of staff, the second lawmaker this week to do so. 

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Unions Rally As 5 Shops Approach Contract Deadline

By Andrea Keckley

Legal service providers across New York City gathered in City Hall Park on Wednesday afternoon as five unions represented by the Association of Legal Advocates and Attorneys approach their deadlines for a new contract at the end of the month.

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'Anti-ICE Vigilantes': DOJ Says Law Clerks Aided Noncitzens

By Lauren Berg

Two state court clerks in Utah are facing criminal charges after federal prosecutors say they acted as "self-appointed anti-ICE vigilantes" by helping noncitizens leave the courthouse by a back door to evade arrest by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to the newly unsealed case.

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Morgan & Morgan Atty Again Blocked From Harvard Suit

By Carolyn Muyskens

A Massachusetts judge rebuffed a Morgan & Morgan PA attorney's second attempt to appear in a lawsuit over the theft of body parts from a Harvard Medical School morgue, saying he would not reconsider his earlier decision to bar the attorney over an incident in a separate court involving fake AI-generated case citations.

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