Papa John's Hit With Investor Suit Over Slow Transformation

By Sydney Price

Papa John's has been hit with an investor's proposed class action accusing it of damaging shareholders with overhyped plans to transform the pizza company and regain market share, saying financial results issued last month revealed the transformation is taking longer than expected.

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Pilot Plane Forfeiture Over 6-Pack Is Excessive, Justices Told

By Linda Chiem

An 83-year-old bush pilot has told the U.S. Supreme Court that Alaska flouted precedent and applied a grossly disproportionate standard by saddling him with the "ills of alcohol abuse statewide" in trying to forfeit his $95,000 plane for transporting a six-pack of beer to a dry village.

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Bean-Based Pasta Should Be Duty-Exempt, Italian Co. Says

By Jack McLoone

An Italian company's bean-based pasta should have been deemed outside the scope of duty orders against dry pastas, it told the U.S. Court of International Trade on Thursday, seeking a redo of the U.S. Department of Commerce's scope investigation.

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Brief

Waffle House Tobacco Fee Suit Switches Districts In Georgia

By Kellie Mejdrich

A Georgia federal court Thursday accepted the transfer of a proposed class action against Waffle House targeting its $92-a-month employee health plan tobacco fee, which parties to the dispute had jointly requested to be shipped from an adjacent district.

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Brief

Mass. Dunkin' Owners, Temp Firms Owe $1.4M For Violations

By Julie Manganis

The owners of 20 Dunkin' franchises across eastern Massachusetts and two staffing agencies have been fined $1.46 million for multiple state labor violations, including designating store workers as independent contractors and late paychecks, the state attorney general said Thursday.

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Colo. Labor Department Nabs $1.9B Navy Food Contract

By Elaine Briseño

The U.S. Navy has awarded the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment Division a $1.9 billion contract to provide full food services at 46 U.S. Marine Corps mess halls, according to a recent announcement.

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11th Circ. Won't Toss Grouper Catch Limit Over Council Defect

By Tom Lotshaw

An Eleventh Circuit panel Thursday agreed the structure of a regional fishery management council runs afoul of the U.S. Constitution's appointments clause, but refused to throw out a challenged rule that reduced catch limits for gag grouper in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Brief

Topgolf Settles Ga. Servers' Minimum Wage Suit

By Benjamin Morse

Topgolf settled a proposed collective action accusing the chain of underpaying servers by improperly taking a tip credit, according to a Georgia federal judge's order approving the deal.

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Wash. Justices To Hear Gordon Rees Malpractice Transfer Suit

By Ben Adlin

Washington's Supreme Court will consider whether a Great American insurance unit can inherit an equipment manufacturer's legal malpractice claims against two law firms in what the insurance company has called an issue of first impression, according to a high court order published Wednesday.

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Detroit Club Must Pay $417K Fee After $6.3M Bias Verdict

By Melanie Dorsey

A Michigan federal judge has awarded more than $417,000 in attorney fees and costs to three former Detroit Club employees who won nearly $6.3 million at trial on race discrimination and retaliation claims, while rejecting the club's effort to revisit an early discovery sanctions ruling as 554 days too late. 

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NJ Judge Strikes Experts In Faegre Drinker Malpractice Suit

By Christine DeRosa

A New Jersey state judge has struck the expert reports in a legal malpractice suit against Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, barring the experts from testifying unless the Sept. 14 trial over a real estate deal gone awry is postponed.

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Most Of Corteva's IP Claims Against Inari Move Along

By Elliot Weld

A Delaware federal court Thursday kept most claims alive in a case over seed intellectual property brought by Corteva Agriscience ahead of a trial set to begin later this month.

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Series

Ballet Makes Me A Better Lawyer

A lifetime of learning and performing ballet taught me that success — whether in dance or practicing law — comes only through hours of thorough preparation, boundless energy and relentless effort, says Sharon Katz-Pearlman at Greenberg Traurig.

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Quinn Emanuel, McDermott Hit By Data Breaches

By Lauren Berg

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP and McDermott Will & Schulte LLP both recently suffered data breaches, adding to the dozens of cybersecurity incidents law firms in the U.S. have suffered in 2026.

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Analysis

Boutique Firms Emerge As Trump Admin's 'Achilles' Heel'

By Phillip Bantz

Less fearful of retribution than some of their BigLaw counterparts, small law firms are taking on an outsize role handling cases seen as adversarial to the Trump administration.

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Interview

Federal Judge Warns Threats Imperil Judicial Independence

By Carolina Bolado

U.S. District Judge Beth Bloom of the Southern District of Florida told Law360 that judges and members of the bar need to educate the public on the judiciary's important role in American democracy to combat increasing threats, speaking following the release of two reports this week that warn of safety concerns for judges and that defiance of court orders is undermining the federal judiciary's independence.

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Husch Blackwell Gets Early Win In Ex-Partner's 401(k) Suit

By Andrea Keckley

A Missouri federal court granted Husch Blackwell LLP an early win over a former employee's proposed class action alleging the firm illegally withheld retirement contributions and mismanaged its employee 401(k) plan, finding the ex-partner couldn't prove violations of federal benefits law.

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Former Girardi Keese CFO Drops Appeal Of 5-Year Fraud Term

By Emily Sawicki

The Seventh Circuit has granted onetime Girardi Keese financial chief Christopher Kamon's request to drop the appeal he lodged fighting an Illinois federal judge's order adding five concurrent years onto the 10 he is already serving for his role helping Tom Girardi, the head of the firm, steal millions from plane crash clients who settled cases in Chicago.

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Pirro Urges House Ethics Panel To Refer Crime Claims To DOJ

By Courtney Bublé

U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro has told the House Ethics Committee that as cases involving criminal misconduct come before it, her office should be involved too.

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Fox Rothschild Says Adult Day Care Suit Rehashes Claims

By Rose Krebs

Fox Rothschild LLP is urging a New Jersey state court to toss claims against the firm and one of its attorneys in a complaint related to the firm's prosecution of a fraudulent loan lawsuit that led to a $65,000 sanction against the firm.

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