The federal court system has run out of money and will scale back operations beginning Monday as a result of the ongoing government shutdown, possibly leading to case delays.
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Federal Courts To Scale Back Operations Amid Shutdown

By Ryan Boysen

The federal court system has run out of money and will scale back operations beginning Monday as a result of the ongoing government shutdown, possibly leading to case delays.

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California AG Sues Plastic Bag Makers Over Recycling Claims

By Rae Ann Varona

California's attorney general on Friday sued three plastic bag manufacturers in state court for allegedly selling nonrecyclable plastic bags despite claiming to meet the Golden State's recyclability standards, but said four other producers agreed to stop sales in the state as part of a settlement resolving similar allegations.

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Brief

2 Deals Totaling $2.5M Advance In Meat Industry Wage Case

By Irene Spezzamonte

Two settlements can move forward in a suit brought by workers at red meat processing plants who alleged that Agri Beef Co., Indiana Packers Corp. and Washington Beef LLC engaged in a conspiracy to suppress wages, a Colorado federal judge ruled, finding the deals totaling $2.5 million are fair.

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LITIGATION

Analysis

11th Circ. Ruling Could Unravel Strict ERISA Exhaustion Rule

By Kellie Mejdrich

A recent Eleventh Circuit decision opens up a route for overturning the appellate court's strictest-in-the-nation precedent requiring administrative exhaustion of all claims brought under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, attorneys say, given that two judges in a panel concurrence advocated for such action following en banc review.

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Brief

Texas Farm Bureau Suit Alleging USDA Discrimination Stayed

By Spencer Brewer

A Texas federal judge on Thursday opted to stay the Texas Farm Bureau's suit against the USDA over the agency's alleged preferential treatment of minority farmers while a similar case plays out.

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Native Policy Roundup: $128M Protects Tribal, Farm Lands

By Crystal Owens

Despite the U.S. government moving into its third week of a shutdown, state and federal lawmakers continue to introduce — and approve — legislation toward advancing Native American rights and sovereignty. Law360 examines some of the state, federal and tribal legislation and policies introduced in the past week

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PEOPLE

Latham To Bring On 3 Restructuring Pros From Ropes & Gray

By Rose Krebs

Latham & Watkins LLP announced Friday that it will be adding three restructuring partners from Ropes & Gray LLP, including one who steered that firm's business restructuring practice.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Opinion

High Court, Not A Single Justice, Should Decide On Recusal

As public trust in the U.S. Supreme Court continues to decline, the court should adopt a collegial framework in which all justices decide questions of recusal together — a reform that respects both judicial independence and due process for litigants, say Michael Broyde at Emory University and Hayden Hall at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Loan Forgiveness Overhaul May Chill Legal Aid Work

By Alison Knezevich

Civil legal services groups and public defenders say the Trump administration's proposed change to the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program would politicize the initiative and make it harder to recruit attorneys to jobs that pay less than the private sector.

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Utah Fires Motley Rice From Opioid Case

By Jack Karp

The state of Utah has fired Motley Rice LLC from representing it in long-running litigation over the opioid crisis, a spokesperson for the Utah attorney general's office confirmed to Law360 Pulse on Friday.

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Bolton Pleads Not Guilty To Mishandling Documents

By Jared Foretek

Former National Security Advisor John Bolton pled not guilty to charges that he illegally retained and shared classified national defense information Friday, a day after federal prosecutors unsealed an 18-count indictment against the former appointee of President Donald Trump who has become a critic of his administration since.

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Mintz Says Ex-Client Owes $2M 'Success Fee' For Patent Work

By Julie Manganis

Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC says a former client is refusing to pay a nearly $2.2 million "success fee" for the firm's work on multiple patent infringement matters that generated millions of dollars in recoveries, according to a complaint filed on Friday in Massachusetts federal court.

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Liberty Mutual Attys Face Sanctions Bid Over Citation Errors

By Emily Sawicki

A St. Louis federal court is weighing whether to sanction Liberty Mutual Personal Insurance Company's lawyers after they submitted a motion containing citation errors and then, after a warning, "somehow" submitted a second motion with the same types of mistakes.

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Ga. Judge Resigns After DUI Arrest Outside Fla. Strip Club

By Chart Riggall

A Georgia Superior Court jurist who led the state's Council of Superior Court Judges stepped down from the bench Thursday after his driving under the influence arrest last week outside a Jacksonville, Florida, strip club.

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Atty Quits Ga. Bar's 'Facade' Committee On Client Solicitation

By Chart Riggall

A Georgia attorney resigned Friday as head of the state bar's committee on attorney-client solicitation, accusing the bar of not even "reaching for a garden hose" while unlawful solicitation of accident victims has spread "like wildfire" across the Peach State.

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Roundup

Injury Law Roundup: Uber Wins Bellwether Sex Assault Trial

By Y. Peter Kang

In our inaugural Injury Law Roundup, juries in the Golden State were busy as Uber won a closely watched sexual assault trial and Johnson & Johnson got crushed with a near $1 billion verdict in a talc case, while Boies Schiller Flexner LLP admitted to an artificial intelligence gaffe in a sex-assault-related case. Here, we put Law360 readers on notice of what's been recently trending in personal injury and medical malpractice news.

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

By Max Austin

This past week in London has seen Johnson & Johnson hit with a £1 billion ($1.34 billion) claim for allegedly selling contaminated baby powder, Carter-Ruck bring a claim against the Solicitors Regulation Authority, and Hewlett Packard file a probate claim against the estate of Mike Lynch.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

Exxon was hit with a proposed class action alleging its new program to enable automated proxy voting for retail investors is intended to stifle shareholder dissent. Meanwhile, a new survey found that nearly two-thirds of in-house legal departments think they will rely less on outside legal service providers because of generative artificial intelligence. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Caldwell Cassady & Curry PC and Miller Fair Henry PLLC lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a California federal jury found Samsung must pay nearly $445.5 million for infringing four wireless communication patents.

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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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COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Agri Beef

Aldi GmbH & Co. KG

Amazon.com Inc.

American Bar Association

Anglo American PLC

Apple Inc.

Association of Corporate Counsel

Balfour Beatty PLC

Barclays PLC

BlackRock Inc.

Burford Capital LLC

C.H. Robinson Worldwide Inc.

Co-operative Group Ltd.

Exactech Inc.

Express Scripts Holding Co.

Exxon Mobil Corp.

FedEx Corp.

FirstEnergy Corp.

Fort Point Capital

Global Infrastructure Partners

Global Logistic Properties Ltd.

Google LLC

Harvard University

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.

Hooters LLC

Iceland Foods Ltd.

Indiana Packers Corp.

Investments Ltd.

JBS USA Holdings Inc.

Johnson & Johnson

L'Oreal SA

Legal Aid Society of Cleveland

Liberty Mutual Insurance Group

LinkedIn Corp.

Lloyds Bank PLC

Macquarie Group Ltd.

Marks & Spencer

Microsoft Corp.

NPC International Inc.

National Association for Law Placement Inc.

National Consumer Law Center Inc.

National Legal Aid & Defender Association

National Westminster Bank PLC

Norfolk Southern Corp.

Ocado Ltd.

OptumRx Inc.

Pizza Hut Inc.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

Solicitors Regulation Authority Ltd.

State Bar of California

Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd.

Tesla Inc.

Tower Semiconductor Ltd.

U.S. Energy Corp.

Uber Technologies Inc.

Visa Europe

Volcano Corporation

Wm Morrison Supermarkets PLC

LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

A&O Shearman

Akin & Tate

Alston & Bird

Armstrong Teasdale

BCL Solicitors

Barclay Damon

Boies Schiller

Brett Wilson LLP

Burges Salmon

Caldwell Cassady

Cambre & Associates

Capsticks Solicitors LLP

Carter-Ruck

Cohen Milstein

Cox Byington

Dean Omar

Dickinson Wright

Downtown LA Law Group

Edmonds Marshall McMahon

Ellis Jones Solicitors

Florida Justice Institute

Foley & Lardner

Fountain Court Chambers

Freshfields

Gibson Dunn

Goldblatt & Singer

Hill Dickinson

Holland & Knight

Jenner & Block

Jones Day

Kennedys Law LLP

Kirkland & Ellis

Latham & Watkins

Laytons LLP

Leigh Day

Lowell & Associates

Matrix Chambers

McKool Smith

Michael L. Byrd & Associates

Miller Fair

Mintz Levin

Morgan Lewis

Motley Rice

Parr Brown

Pinsent Masons

Quinn Emanuel

RWK Goodman

Ropes & Gray

Rule Garza

Rynearson Suess

Sidley Austin

Signature Litigation LLP

Singleton Schreiber

Skadden Arps

Spencer Fane

Stephenson Harwood

Sterlington PLLC

Stewarts Law LLP

Stris & Maher

Summerville Firm LLC

Taylor Wessing

Travers Smith

Troutman

Trowers & Hamlins

Trucker Huss

Watson LLP

Weil Gotshal

White & Case

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Cahuilla Band of Indians

California Attorney General's Office

California Department of Justice

Chemehuevi Indian Tribe

Colorado River Indian Tribes

Competition Appeal Tribunal

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Federal Aviation Administration

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

Federal Judicial Center

Federal Reserve System

Federal Trade Commission

Food and Drug Administration

Georgia Court of Appeals

Georgia Judicial Qualifications Commission

Georgia Supreme Court

International Court of Justice

Los Angeles Superior Court

National Security Council

New York Attorney General's Office

Office of the Comptroller of the Currency

Patent Trial and Appeal Board

Secretary of State for Health and Others

Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indians

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

U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware

U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Middle District of Alabama

U.S. Department of Agriculture

U.S. Department of Education

U.S. Department of Energy

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of Labor

U.S. Department of the Interior

U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

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

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

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

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

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

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Supreme Court

UK High Court

United Nations

United States District Court for the District of Colorado

United States District Court for the District of Utah

United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio

United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio