Monsanto Starts First Roundup Trial Since High Court Ruling

By Cara Salvatore

A Missouri jury heard opening arguments Tuesday in the first Roundup cancer trial since the U.S. Supreme Court weighed in on the matter, with a lawyer for three plaintiffs saying Monsanto minimized decades of ominous testing, ghostwrote scientific papers and engineered a dubious EPA approval.

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Aldi Sued Over Online Order Delivery Fees By SNAP Users

By Gina Kim

Aldi illegally charges ancillary, nonfood-related delivery, expedited fulfillment and convenience fees to customers who use SNAP-EBT benefits to buy grocery items online through Instacart or Aldi Express, alleges a proposed consumer protection class action filed Monday in California state court. 

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DEA Judge Pauses Marijuana Rescheduling Over GAO Report

By Sam Reisman

A U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration administrative law judge on Tuesday paused consideration of a pending proposal to reclassify marijuana after opponents of cannabis reform said a recent U.S. Government Accountability Office report found that regulators did not articulate the reasoning behind their recommendation to loosen restrictions on marijuana.

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Baker Botts Atty Disputes Inventor's Claim Of Defamation Deal

By Madison Arnold

A Baker Botts LLP patent attorney is pushing back on an inventor's claim that they reached a settlement agreement in the inventor's defamation suit in Florida federal court.

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Cove Soda Can't Nix Suit Over 'No Artificial Sweeteners' Label

By Jonathan Capriel

Zero-sugar probiotic soda brand Cove Drinks Inc. can not escape claims it misled consumers into thinking its products contained only natural sweeteners, a California federal judge has ruled, saying it's too early in the litigation to determine if the ingredient at issue is indeed artificial.

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CBP Bars Indonesian Palm Oil With Possible Illicit Labor Ties

By Dylan Moroses

Imported palm oil products from two Indonesian companies will be barred from entering the U.S. because of suspected ties to forced labor, Customs and Border Protection announced Tuesday.

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Worker Says Pilgrim's Pride Should Face 401(k) Fund Suit

By Zach Dupont

A Pilgrim's Pride Corp. employee has told a Colorado federal judge that the comparators used to allege the company kept a riskier and worse performing contract within its retirement savings plan are sufficient to survive the company's dismissal bid, according to a response brief.

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Commodities Firm Looks To Nix $22M Soybean Award Suits

By Joyce Hanson

A Swiss commodities firm has asked a Florida federal court to toss litigation filed by a U.S. logistics company to enforce a $22 million arbitral award stemming from a soybean meal purchase dispute, calling the suit improper in light of ongoing litigation in England.

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Feds Say Pot Co. CEO Lied About Business To Get PPP Loans

By Mike Curley

The federal government is urging a California federal judge not to throw out its suit seeking to recoup $2.5 million in PPP loans from the CEO of a group of cannabis companies, saying she hasn't denied that she sought the loans despite knowing her business was federally illegal.

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Ex-Worker Urges 4th Circ. To Revive Wage, Retaliation Claims

By Benjamin Morse

A former worker at a sports bar in North Carolina urged the Fourth Circuit to revive her wage, retaliation and emotional distress claims, saying that a lower court improperly kept surviving claims from a jury and dismissed another on a ground that she did not have a chance to address.

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EB-5 Visa Fees More Than Double For Individual Investors

By Elaine Briseño

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced increased filing fees Tuesday for the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program — more than double for individual investors — saying the higher price tag is needed to close a $48.4 million annual funding gap.

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Groups Say Calif. Biogas Credits Incentivize More Methane

By Gautama Mehta

Four environmental groups accused California regulators of violating state law by allowing factory farm biogas producers to receive carbon credits — a practice they said is notionally aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions but in reality incentivizes more methane production.

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Cleaning Cos. Urge Colo. Judge To Toss EEOC's Bias Suit

By Rachel Konieczny

Two commercial cleaning providers accused by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission of illegally favoring Latin American applicants urged a Colorado federal judge to toss the agency's lawsuit, contending the commission failed to show the companies refused to hire non-Hispanic workers.

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FDA Bill Shows Risk Of Inexact Statute Text, Post-Loper Bright

A recent House bill to amend the Food and Drug Administration's drug preclusion framework reveals the increased importance of precision when drafting statutory rules in a post-Loper Bright landscape, as several minor errors in the text could lock in unintended results that will be difficult to repeal, say attorneys at Venable.

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3rd Circ. Affirms Thomson Reuters' Westlaw AI Copyright Win

By Ivan Moreno

The Third Circuit on Tuesday upheld Thomson Reuters' victory against Ross Intelligence Inc. in the first U.S. appellate ruling to address whether artificial intelligence training can be fair use of copyrighted material, upholding a Delaware federal court's decision that the startup infringed Westlaw headnotes by using material derived from them to develop an AI-powered legal search tool.

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11th Circ. Won't Pause Sanctions Against Trump In IRS Case

By Jack McLoone

An Eleventh Circuit panel refused Tuesday to pause a district court's sanctions order barring President Donald Trump and others from citing the agreement he made to settle his $10 billion suit against the Internal Revenue Service while they appeal the order.

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DC Circ. Weighs Limits On Boasberg's Contempt Inquiry

By Jared Foretek

A top Justice Department official told an en banc D.C. Circuit panel that a district judge should refer former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem for contempt over the 2025 deportation flights to El Salvador and move on, saying the judge had no authority to wrap others into his inquiry.

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Jack Smith Says He Won't Be Intimidated By Trump Threats

By Courtney Bublé

Former special counsel Jack Smith testified on Tuesday he "will not be silenced" by threats of prosecution by the president or others.

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Richards Layton Atty's Chancery Nomination Advanced

By Rose Krebs

A Delaware senate committee Tuesday advanced the nomination for a Richards Layton & Finger PA director to serve as a vice chancellor on the nationally important Chancery Court, with him vowing to continue the court's esteemed legacy for corporate law jurisprudence.

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