Port Of Seattle Challenges Trump Grant Terms Targeting DEI

By Elaine Briseño

The Port of Seattle and several Washington cities and counties asked a federal judge to block the Trump administration from enforcing new grant conditions that would threaten $87 million in funding, arguing the restrictions lack clear standards of conduct.

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Prior 5th Amendment Pleadings Complicate Mylan Testimony

By Bryan Koenig

Mylan can use deposition testimony from one current and one former executive in next year's price-fixing trial, a Connecticut federal judge ruled Friday, but state attorneys general can bring up the company "pulling the strings" in the witnesses' decision to testify after originally invoking the Fifth Amendment.

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95K Contact Lens Buyers Nab Cert. In Hubble Substitution Suit

By Hailey Konnath

A California federal judge has certified a class of roughly 95,500 California contact lens purchasers who subscribed to Hubble Contacts, an online service accused of deceiving its customers by secretly substituting every customer order with its own Hubble-brand lenses.

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FCC Report Says Tribes Lack Funding For Suicide Hotline

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

A dozen states reported collecting a total of $240.5 million in fees during the 2025 calendar year to support a federal suicide hotline while seven tribal authorities said they lack a funding mechanism to do so, according to a Federal Communications Commission report.

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DOJ Appeals New Trial Order In Ex-NFL Player's Fraud Case

By Tom Lotshaw

The U.S. Department of Justice said it's asking the Fifth Circuit to review a Texas federal judge's decision to grant a new trial for a former NFL player convicted in a $328 million Medicare billing scheme.

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Accused In $91M Health Plan Scam Asks To Halt FTC Suit

By David Minsky

A woman accused of running a $91 million fraudulent health benefits scheme with her brother urged a Florida federal court on Monday to pause the Federal Trade Commission's lawsuit against her if related criminal charges proceed in court. 

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Mass. Court Affirms Doctor's Partial Win Over Insurer

By Julie Manganis

A Massachusetts doctor whose career was cut short after losing the use of his feet is entitled to damages from Paul Revere Life Insurance Co. for breach of contract and unfair settlement practices under state law, but cannot revive other claims tossed by a judge or extend the statute of limitations, an intermediate appellate court said Monday.

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Biz Groups Back Health System's Win In 401(k) Forfeiture Suit

By Patrick Hoff

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and an employee benefit administrator trade group backed a Louisiana healthcare system's win over a lawsuit challenging its use of forfeited 401(k) funds to cover employer contributions, telling the Fifth Circuit that federal regulations have greenlighted the practice for decades.

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Pot Co. Ascend Says It Had Good Reasons To Fire Executive

By Sam Reisman

Major cannabis company Ascend Wellness has urged a New York federal judge to find that a wrongful termination case brought by a former executive should be thrown out because the company documented a record of inappropriate behavior and fulfilled its duties to communicate its reasons for firing him.

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5 Firms Build Migraine-Focused TriGemX's $600M SPAC Deal

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Biotechnology company TriGemX Bio on Monday unveiled plans to go public by merging with special purpose acquisition company TCGX Acquisition Corp. in a deal built by five law firms that creates a combined company with a $600 million post-transaction equity value.

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23andMe Successor Co. Inks $6M Data Breach Deal With Calif.

By Rae Ann Varona

California and 23andMe's corporate successor have reached a $6 million settlement that, if approved, would resolve the state's allegations that the genetic testing company failed to protect customers' sensitive information in a 2023 data breach, as well as the state's objection to 23andMe's sale of genetic data during bankruptcy proceedings.

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Where DOJ's Fraud Directive May Actually Affect Enforcement

The U.S. Department of Justice’s recent directive outlining corporate fraud enforcement priorities is mostly a management document instead of a policy, but one part may actually undermine the directive's goals by leading to worse outcomes for organizational defendants and less corporate self-disclosure, says Zachary Warren at Williams & Connolly.

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A Day In The In-House Life: CHAI GC Talks Balance

On a typical day working in healthcare technology from home, Coalition for Health AI Head of Operations and General Counsel Brenton Hill shares his experience on everything from developing responsible artificial intelligence initiatives to discussing contracting strategies, all while navigating the blurred lines between home and work.

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DOJ Or Trump: Judge Asks Who Is Deciding Golf Course Plan

By Jared Foretek

Trump administration lawyers continued to insist at a hearing Monday there is no final plan to remake East Potomac Golf Course, and they changed their tune about whether one would require environmental review, despite new social media posts from the president announcing that work on the overhaul would begin "immediately."

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Wood Smith, Charlesbank Capital Ink Pioneering MSO Deal

By Emma Cueto

Insurance defense firm Wood Smith Henning & Berman has inked a deal to take investment from middle market investment firm Charlesbank Capital Partners via a managed services organization, according to an announcement Monday, the largest U.S. firm to announce such a move.

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Arizona Court Approves State's First Non-ABA Law School

By Emma Cueto

The Arizona Supreme Court has approved the state's first law school not accredited by the American Bar Association, citing the need to increase the number of lawyers per capita in the state and provide more affordable options for legal education.

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Court Denies Gov't Bid To DQ Susman Godfrey In ABA's Suit

By Andrea Keckley

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has denied the U.S. Department of Justice's bid to disqualify Susman Godfrey LLP from representing the American Bar Association in its lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's executive orders against multiple major law firms. 

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Trump Taps DOJ Official, Federal Prosecutor For Judgeships

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump on Monday nominated a senior U.S. Department of Justice attorney for a Nebraska federal judgeship and an assistant U.S. attorney for a seat on the Northern District of Indiana bench.

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Rogoff Tells 9th Circ. His Firing Furthers Trump's 'Evil' Plan

By Ben Adlin

Roger Rogoff urged the Ninth Circuit to affirm a lower judge's order reinstating him as Seattle's top federal prosecutor, asserting in a filing Friday that he's entitled to keep the court-appointed U.S. attorney position until President Donald Trump fills the role with a Senate-confirmed nominee.

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Proskauer Says It Didn't Drop Reddit To Defend Perplexity

By Lauren Berg

Proskauer Rose LLP and Perplexity AI are urging a New York federal judge to allow the law firm to represent the artificial intelligence company in Reddit's suit over alleged data scraping, balking at the social media platform's argument that its one-time law firm can't represent its current opponent.

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What The Justices Won't Hear: A Roundup Of Cert Denials

By Taylor Bowie

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up cases from Google, a U.S. Navy contractor, and other appellate hopefuls on Monday, according to an order list.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court last week blocked Cloudflare Inc. from completing a restructuring meant to preserve its founders' voting control, while Tower Semiconductor Ltd. accused Intel Corp. of backing out of a semiconductor manufacturing agreement and social media company Triller Group Inc. challenged its removal from Nasdaq.

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