A Missouri jury hearing the latest trial over cancer claims related to Monsanto's glyphosate pesticides heard Thursday that a Monsanto-funded researcher was able to change the course of a prestigious international panel weighing the chemical's carcinogenicity.
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Monsanto-Funded Researcher Influenced Panel, Jury Hears

By Cara Salvatore

A Missouri jury hearing the latest trial over cancer claims related to Monsanto's glyphosate pesticides heard Thursday that a Monsanto-funded researcher was able to change the course of a prestigious international panel weighing the chemical's carcinogenicity.

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Deere Says No Monopoly, Seeks End Of Right-To-Repair Suit

By Mike Curley

Deere & Co. is pushing to end a suit from the Federal Trade Commission and five states alleging it violated the Sherman Act by restricting access to its repair tools and services, saying it doesn't participate in the repair market so it can't have a monopoly.

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Split 5th Circ. OKs Acting NLRB GC's Drop Of Teamsters Case

By Beverly Banks

A divided Fifth Circuit panel again blessed the National Labor Relations Board's order that supported a former acting general counsel's withdrawal of an unfair labor practice complaint against two Teamsters locals, analyzing the dispute on remand from the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Mich. Farmers Must Bring New Suit To Challenge Crop Policy

By Hope Patti

A group of Michigan dry-bean farmers can't challenge the Federal Crop Insurance Corp.'s reapproval of a crop revenue insurance program after remand, a federal court ruled, saying the farmers must initiate a new suit to challenge a remanded agency decision.

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LITIGATION

Texas Justices Keep Court Orders On $3.4B Water Pipeline

By Spencer Brewer

A Texas appeals court mostly kept intact court orders barring a groundwater company from interfering with several leases as a part of a $3.4 billion pipeline venture to supply water to San Antonio, finding in a Thursday opinion the company was undercutting its lessee.

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Fla. AG Says Letter To Cops Doesn't Rise To Contempt

By Carolina Bolado

Florida's attorney general told a federal judge on Thursday that a letter he sent to law enforcement agencies saying he could not force them to comply with a temporary restraining order blocking enforcement of a state law criminalizing the entry of unauthorized immigrants did not rise to the level of civil contempt.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Opinion

Courts Must Revitalize Robust Claim Construction

Two Federal Circuit decisions from earlier this year illustrate the rarity of robust claim construction and the underused reverse doctrine of equivalents — a dual problem that prevents courts from clearly delineating and correctly cabining the scope of rights conferred by patent claims, say attorneys at Klarquist Sparkman.

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Series

Brazilian Jiujitsu Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Competing in Brazilian jiujitsu – often against opponents who are much larger and younger than me – has allowed me to develop a handful of useful skills that foster the resilience and adaptability necessary for a successful legal career, says Tina Dorr of Barnes & Thornburg.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Analysis

3 Takeaways From The Judgments On Trump's Law Firm EOs

By Aebra Coe

Three federal judges have now weighed in on President Donald Trump’s executive orders targeting law firms, with each ruling in favor of the firms and deeming the orders unconstitutional. Here are three takeaways from the combined 227 pages of those judges’ conclusions.

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DOJ Sidelines ABA From Vetting Trump's Judicial Picks

By Kevin Penton

The Justice Department plans to direct judicial nominees away from a long-standing vetting process by the American Bar Association, labeling it an "activist organization," according to a Thursday letter by Attorney General Pamela Bondi.

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Harvard Taps Paul Weiss High Court Litigator For Board

By Hailey Konnath

Kannon Shanmugam, a Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP partner and veteran U.S. Supreme Court litigator, has been selected to join the Harvard Corp. governing board, according to an announcement made Thursday.

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Analysis

Tariff Rulings Undercut Trump's Trade Authority, Dealmaking

By Dylan Moroses

U.S. trading partners have inadvertently found new leverage in tariff negotiations with the Trump administration after federal courts found several of the president's duties were improperly imposed, raising larger questions about future tariff authorization in the midst of a global trade spat.

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Influencer Hits Akin With Malpractice Suit Over Boxing Deal

By Lynn LaRowe

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP and one of its Texas-based partners allegedly failed to understand California law in handling a financial dispute between a social media influencer and the company that hired him to participate in an amateur boxing competition, according to a complaint filed Wednesday in a Lone Star State federal court.

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For-Profit School Sued Over Thompson Coburn Leak Notices

By Emily Sawicki

A for-profit college operator is facing a proposed class action in Alabama federal court, alleging it failed to properly secure its data and notify students in a timely manner that its law firm, Thompson Coburn LLP, had been hit with a cyberattack causing a data breach of sensitive records.

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Fed. Circ. Revives Trump Tariffs As It Weighs Appeal

By Natalie Olivo

The Federal Circuit temporarily reinstated President Donald Trump's global tariffs Thursday, a day after the U.S. Court of International Trade held that an emergency law did not give the president "unbounded authority" to impose the measures.

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Trump Pardons Twice-Convicted Former Conn. Governor

By Brian Steele

President Donald Trump has pardoned former Connecticut Gov. John G. Rowland, a one-time chairman of the Republican Governors Association, who resigned from office in 2004 and served two stints in prison for corruption and lying to federal election officials.

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Investors Allege Manhattan Firm Aided $43M Ponzi Scheme

By Emma Cueto

A pair of investors filed suit against New York-based Moritt Hock & Hamroff LLP and two of its former attorneys on Thursday, alleging that the midsize firm and the attorneys, who have since departed for Saul Ewing LLP, lied on behalf of a client who has since been charged with running a $43 million Ponzi scheme.

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Ex-Atty's Death In Colo. Jail Sparks Suit Over Medical Neglect

By Craig Clough

The family of a disbarred attorney imprisoned for felony theft sued three members of the medical staff at the prison where he died, alleging in Colorado federal court Wednesday their neglect resulted in Steven Bachar dying from cardiac arrest after he asked for days for proper medical attention.

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Trump Names 4 Jurists, State AG Official For Fla. Judgeships

By Lynn LaRowe

President Donald Trump this week announced his nominations of four judges and a top official in the Florida Attorney General's Office to fill district judgeships in the Sunshine State's Middle and Southern Districts.

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Calif. Justices Propose Tweaking Rules For Bar Examiners

By Emily Sawicki

The California Supreme Court has proposed changes to the administration of the state's troubled bar exam, circulating a slate of amendments designed to clarify the role of the Committee of Bar Examiners, including spelling out its duty to review and approve all questions used in the exam.

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Titan Of The Plaintiffs Bar: Grant & Eisenhofer's Beth Graham

By Tracey Read

Elizabeth "Beth" Graham, a San Francisco-based principal at Grant & Eisenhofer PA and a member of its executive committee, played a key part in negotiating a $600 million settlement in April 2024 for plaintiffs in litigation arising from the 2023 Norfolk Southern train derailment, earning her a spot among Law360's 2025 Titans of the Plaintiffs Bar.

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COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

American Association for Justice

American Bar Association

American Civil Liberties Union

American Civil Liberties Union of Florida

Americans for Immigrant Justice

Bayer AG

Chevron Corp.

Cornell University

Deere & Co.

Education Corporation of America

FaZe Clan Inc.

First Liberty Institute

Florida Immigrant Coalition

Florida Legal Services Inc.

Gilead Sciences Inc.

Learning Resources Inc.

Monsanto Co.

Norfolk Southern Corp.

SRI International Inc.

Southeastern University

Steuben Foods Inc.

The Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

The Linde Group

United Food & Commercial Workers International Union

United Natural Foods Inc.

LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

A&O Shearman

Akin Gump

Almanza Blackburn

Arnold & Itkin

Barnard Iglitzin

Barnes & Thornburg

Blank Rome

Boies Schiller

Burg Simpson

Bush Ross

Cadwalader Wickersham

Clark Hill

Galen & Davis

Grant & Eisenhofer

Henderson Franklin

Hodgson Russ

Holland & Knight

Holland Holland Edwards

Husch Blackwell

Jenner & Block

Jones Day

Kirkland & Ellis

Klarquist Sparkman

Kline & Specter

Kopelowitz Ostrow

L'Abbate Balkan

Latham & Watkins

Lieff Cabraser

McCarter & English

Milbank LLP

Milberg Coleman

Morgan Lewis

Moritt Hock

Motley Rice

Paul Weiss

Perkins Coie

Pittman Dutton

Proskauer Rose

Quarles & Brady

Saul Ewing

Schneider Wallace Cottrell Konecky LLP

Seila Law

Sidley Austin

Simmons Hanly

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Skadden Arps

Snell & Wilmer

Strauss Borrelli

Susman Godfrey

Terrill Firm PC

Thompson Coburn

Upchurch & Yates

Williams & Connolly

Willkie Farr

WilmerHale

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

California Supreme Court

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Executive Office of the President

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Crop Insurance Corp.

Federal Election Commission

Federal Trade Commission

Florida Attorney General's Office

Illinois Attorney General's Office

Minnesota Attorney General's Office

National Labor Relations Board

New York Supreme Court, New York County

Risk Management Agency

South Florida Water Management District

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Michigan

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

U.S. Customs and Border Protection

U.S. Department of Agriculture

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

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

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

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

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

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

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

U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

United States District Court for the District of Colorado

United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Wisconsin Department of Justice

World Health Organization