11th Circ. Backs Trash Co.'s Defeat Of Age Bias, Reprisal Suit

By Chart Riggall

The Eleventh Circuit on Thursday upheld a Georgia garbage collection company's win in a bias and retaliation suit from a former employee who said she was forced out for her role in a criminal sexual assault probe of a coworker, with the court saying that getting subpoenaed didn't qualify as protected activity.

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'Restore Coherence': Trump Admin Told To Fully Fund SNAP

By Lauren Berg

The Trump administration must fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in full this month, a Rhode Island federal judge ruled Thursday while admonishing the government for "entrenching delay" of benefits for the 42 million low-income Americans who rely on food assistance.

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Seafood Co. Workers Urge 11th Circ. To Rehear ESOP Fight

By Kellie Mejdrich

Workers for a seafood company urged the Eleventh Circuit to rethink a panel's decision in October that upheld dismissal of their suit accusing the company of employee stock ownership plan mismanagement, arguing the full court should overturn appellate precedent that led to the three-judge panel's decision.

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Health Cos. Sent Google Private Patient Data, Suit Says

By Kelcey Caulder

A group of Georgia healthcare facilities has been hit with a proposed class action in federal court accusing the providers of disclosing patients' confidential health information to Google without consent through website tracking and data collection tools.

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Ex-Ga. Atty Says Former Law Firm Violated Severance Deal

By Chart Riggall

An attorney who was disbarred in Georgia earlier this year has sued his former Atlanta-area law firm claiming that it owes him more than $70,000 for breaking his termination settlement by confiscating his files and trashing his name to his former paralegal and clients.

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Ex-Deputy Sheriff Fights To Keep Political Firing Suit Alive

By Kelcey Caulder

A former Metro Atlanta deputy sheriff alleging he was forced to resign due to his age and support for the sheriff's 2024 election opponent pushed back Wednesday against a bid to dismiss his lawsuit, arguing his claims against the sheriff as an individual are not barred by qualified immunity.

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Florida AG Tells 11th Circ. Contempt Order Was 'Dangerous'

By David Minsky

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier told the Eleventh Circuit that a lower court order holding him in civil contempt for defying an injunction blocking a state immigration law was "dangerous," saying it erodes the U.S. Constitution's separation-of-powers doctrine and diminishes his authority over law enforcement.

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Series

Mindfulness Meditation Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Mindful meditation enables me to drop the ego, and in helping me to keep sight of what’s important, permits me to learn from the other side and become a reliable counselor, says Roy Wyman at Bass Berry.

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'It's A War, Man': Trump's Deputy AG Unloads On Judges, Bars

By Jeff Overley

The U.S. Department of Justice is in "a war" with federal judges who are "not following the law," and it is separately formulating plans to block "activist, obnoxious" bar associations from assessing ethics complaints against government lawyers, a top DOJ official said Friday.

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Roundup

Up Next At High Court: Religious Rights & Gov't Contracts

By Katie Buehler

The U.S. Supreme Court will return Monday for a short week of arguments, in which the justices will consider whether state and local government officials can be held personally liable for alleged religious rights violations, and whether government contractors are entitled to immediately appeal denials of derivative sovereign immunity.

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Ex-Polsinelli Atty Agrees To Dismiss Sexual Harassment Case

By Hailey Konnath

A former Polsinelli PC equity shareholder agreed to drop her suit alleging two former partners sexually harassed her, and she was fired after reporting it, according to a notice filed Friday in Washington, D.C., federal court.

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Del. Federal Court Won't Keep Trump's Interim US Atty In Role

By Jack Karp

Delaware's federal court will not appoint the district's current interim U.S. attorney and President Donald Trump's choice for that position to remain in the role, according to a notice from the district's chief judge.

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Jeffer Mangels Hit With Pregnancy Bias Suit By Ex-Associate

By Hailey Konnath

A former Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP associate has accused the firm of discriminating against women, especially pregnant women, claiming that she was harassed throughout her pregnancy and eventually fired after she advocated for herself and pointed out the disparate treatment.

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Shutdown, Funding Crisis Leave Federal Defenders Unpaid

By Courtney Bublé

The record-long government shutdown has hindered an already dire funding situation for the federal defense community, but now the judiciary is working on requests to Congress to alleviate that.

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Analysis

How One Law Firm Got Two Big White-Collar Wins In 48 Hours

By Phillip Bantz

The white-collar team at Dykema Gossett PLLC secured back-to-back dismissals of two criminal cases in as many days last month by challenging the government's experts, flagging discovery issues and hammering on other perceived weaknesses in the prosecutions.

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Ex-Calif. Judge Seeks To Toss Sex Assault, Coverup Charges

By Craig Clough

A former California state judge on Friday moved to toss federal criminal charges alleging that he sexually assaulted a court employee and lied to investigators, saying the employee was not under his direct supervision so he could not have been acting under the "color of law" when the alleged assault occurred.

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Delaware Fee Inflation Worries Overblown, Study Says

By Jeff Montgomery

A newly published report by two Stanford University researchers asserts that high-dollar attorney fee awards in Delaware courts make up "a very small minority of cases" and are "no basis for concern," throwing cold water on growing worries about so-called fee inflation in the First State.

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Hearing Officer Clears Mass. Judge Of Aiding ICE Escape

By Julie Manganis

A hearing officer has concluded that Massachusetts state court Justice Shelley Richmond Joseph was not aware of a plan to allow a defendant to evade an ICE agent waiting at a suburban Boston court in 2018, but is recommending a public reprimand for other actions the judge took that day.

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Analysis

Justices Cast Constitutional Clouds Over Trump's Tariffs

By Dylan Moroses

Several U.S. Supreme Court justices appeared skeptical of the government's arguments seeking to salvage President Donald Trump's emergency tariffs, signaling that the high court may come down with a ruling that reinforces Congress' constitutional authority to impose tariffs.

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Fla. Atty Missed $36K Fee Deadline Over AI Use, Execs Say

By Emily Sawicki

A Canadian lawyer and a former executive for a Canadian electronics company have asked a Florida federal court to compel a sanctioned attorney to pony up $36,663 in fees imposed over artifical intelligence-hallucinated case citations he included in filings in now-dismissed federal suits, after he missed a 90-day deadline to pay.

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Letitia James Rips 'Unconstitutional Vindictive' Indictment

By Hailey Konnath

New York Attorney General Letitia James has asked a Virginia federal court to dismiss the indictment accusing her of mortgage fraud, slamming the federal charges as "unconstitutional vindictive and selective prosecution" ordered by Donald Trump in response to her successful civil litigation against the president and her outspoken criticism of him.

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Mass. Federal Judge Mark Wolf Retires After 40 Years

By Chris Villani

Senior U.S. District Judge Mark L. Wolf on Friday announced that he is retiring after more than 40 years on the federal bench, having presided over some of the most notable cases in Massachusetts federal court over the past four decades.

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DOJ Backs Trump In NY False-Records Conviction Appeal

By Emily Sawicki

The U.S. Department of Justice is throwing its support behind President Donald Trump's effort to overturn his New York criminal conviction for falsifying business records, filing a proposed amicus brief on Friday citing the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark 2024 decision "defining the contours of a president's federal constitutional immunity from criminal prosecution."

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Brief

Pension Corp. Installs EEOC Ex-Chair Dhillon As Director

By Kellie Mejdrich

The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. swore in former U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission chair and commissioner Janet Dhillon as the 17th director of the federal agency, which runs two insurance programs backstopping the nation's single and multiemployer defined-benefit pension plans.

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Roundup

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

By Max Austin

This past week in London has seen Big Technologies file fresh claims against its ousted chief executive, West Ham United FC sue Arthur J. Gallagher Insurance for breach of duty, and RSM UK face a new claim over a company's administration. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K. 

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

The federal judge overseeing Epic Games' antitrust suit against Google Inc. has doubts about their settlement deal and is asking for more evidence. And a Black McDonald's executive, who claimed he was fired for confronting his CEO over a racial comment, has lost his bias suit. 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

Latham & Watkins LLP and Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Eighth Circuit vacated a National Labor Relations Board ruling that Home Depot illegally forced out a worker who showed support for Black Lives Matter.

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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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