U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told the First Circuit a Boston federal judge's decision to freeze his vaccine committee appointments lacks a legal foundation and has left the government paralyzed when it comes to vaccine policy.
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RFK Jr. Urges 1st Circ. To Reinstate His Vaccine Advisers

By Carolyn Muyskens

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told the First Circuit a Boston federal judge's decision to freeze his vaccine committee appointments lacks a legal foundation and has left the government paralyzed when it comes to vaccine policy.

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Meta's Newspaper Analogy Doesn't Sway Instagram Judge

By Carolyn Muyskens

Meta faced some pushback from a Massachusetts state judge for comparing Instagram's design to a newspaper publisher's decisions about what to put on the front page, as the company pushed to end the state's lawsuit over alleged harm to youth from social media use.

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Mass. Top Court Blocks Income Tax Cut From Ballot

By Sanjay Talwani

A proposal to cut Massachusetts' income tax rate from 5% to 4% over three years was blocked from the November ballot by the state's top court Thursday, which said it contained significantly misleading information.

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Feds Must Still Restore 'Truthful History' In Parks Amid Appeal

By Lauren Berg

The Trump administration cannot delay restoring information about climate change, slavery and Indigenous history to National Park Service sites by the nation's 250th anniversary while it pursues an appeal, a Massachusetts federal judge ruled on Thursday.

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Migrant Group Drops Claims Over Martha's Vineyard Flights

By Tom Lotshaw

A network of migrant-led groups told a Massachusetts federal judge it agreed to dismiss its claims against a company accused of participating in a scheme to fly migrants to Martha's Vineyard.

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ENFORCEMENT

FTC, Amazon Must Answer Attorney-Client Privilege Questions

By Emily Sawicki

The Washington federal judge handling the Federal Trade Commission's antitrust case against Amazon asked both parties to provide more information about how he should consider attorney-client privilege when reviewing documents to resolve discovery disputes in the case.

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DirecTV, AGs Tell 9th Circ. Not To Curb Nexstar-Tegna Block

By Bryan Koenig

DirecTV and a coalition of state attorneys general urged the Ninth Circuit not to narrow a district court preliminary injunction blocking Nexstar's purchase of Tegna, arguing the only way to preserve competition while the case proceeds is a full block, not one restricted to 31 overlapping broadcast markets.

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LITIGATION

Perplexity AI Limits Research Tool's Functions, Users Claim

By Hailey Konnath

A pair of Perplexity AI users has filed a proposed class action claiming the artificial intelligence company lures customers into fixed-term contracts and then "dramatically" decreases the services those customers can access midway through their subscription terms without notice.

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Blackstone's LivCor Cuts $7M Rent-Fixing Deal With 9 States

By Dorothy Atkins

Blackstone subsidiary LivCor LLC has agreed to pay North Carolina, California and seven other states $7 million in penalties to resolve allegations against it in a sprawling antitrust lawsuit alleging major landlords used software company RealPage to fix rent prices, according to documents filed in North Carolina federal court Thursday.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Class Actions Have Entered The Fight Over Prediction Markets

While disputes brought by states over the regulation of prediction markets have claimed most of the headlines, class actions brought by ordinary citizens, particularly in Kentucky and Massachusetts, represent another avenue to challenge the legality of the prediction markets themselves, says Laura Chiu at DarrowEverett.

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Series

Founding An Autism Academy Made Me A Better Lawyer

Starting a nonprofit autism school with no building, no funding model and no guarantee that families would trust us taught me the importance of mission, patience and purpose — lessons that sharpened my practice and showed how meaningful work outside the office can make lawyers better, says Phillip Russell at Ogletree Deakins.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Attorney Reprimanded In $256M Defamation Case

By Rachel Rippetoe

A former Conrad & Scherer LLP managing partner must pay an Alabama coal company's attorney fees after being publicly reprimanded by an Alabama federal judge, who found he lied to the court and paid witnesses to change their testimony in his repeated lawsuits against the company.

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NJ Firm Accused Of 'Double-Dipping' On Pelvic Mesh Fees

By Daniel Connolly

Four women allege in a recently filed lawsuit that a New Jersey law firm overcharged them on legal fees related to a settlement in pelvic mesh litigation, and the recent lawsuit also relates to a long-running conflict between lawyers who formerly worked together.

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Justices Seek Input On NJ State Bar Diversity Challenge

By George Woolston

The U.S. Supreme Court has asked the federal government to weigh in on a Garden State appellate court's decision that approved a New Jersey State Bar Association system for fostering diversity in its leadership that was accused of being discriminatory.

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Blanche, Pirro Can't Be DQ'd From Trump DC Shooting Case

By Craig Clough

A D.C. federal judge held Monday that the man accused of attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner can't disqualify U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro and acting Attorney General Todd Blanche from prosecuting him because of their presence at the dinner.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court this past week handled disputes involving executive compensation, take-private transactions, books and records demands, tender offers and alleged insider misconduct.

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Consovoy McCarthy

Covington & Burling

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Epstein Becker

FBT Gibbons

Fitch Law Partners

Foley Hoag

Jones Day

King & Spalding

Kropf Moseley

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Morgan Lewis

Morrison & Foerster

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Nagel Rice

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Ogletree Deakins

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Robins Kaplan

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Starnes Davis

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Amazon.com Inc.

American Academy of Pediatrics

Anthropic PBC

Democracy Forward Foundation

Drummond

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Equity Residential

Fidelity National Financial Inc.

Francisco Partners

GameStop Corp.

Getty Images Holdings Inc.

Google LLC

Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc.

Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey

Instagram Inc.

Itochu Corporation

Johnson & Johnson

Kalshi Inc.

Lawyers for Civil Rights

Massachusetts Teachers Association

Meta Platforms Inc.

Mid America Apartment Communities Inc.

NBCUniversal Media LLC

National Parks Conservation Association

New Jersey State Bar Association

Nexstar Media Group Inc.

Optimum

Pioneer Institute Inc.

RealPage Inc.

Reddit Inc.

SIG Susquehanna

Tegna Inc.

The DIRECTV Group Inc.

The Trade Desk Inc.

Union of Concerned Scientists

Verizon Communications Inc.

WideOpenWest Finance LLC

YouTube Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Connecticut Attorney General's Office

Delaware Court of Chancery

Federal Communications Commission

Federal Trade Commission

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

National Park Service

New Jersey Supreme Court

Occupational Safety and Health Administration

Superior Court of Massachusetts

U.S. Attorney's Office

U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts

U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of the Interior

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

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

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

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

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

U.S. Secret Service

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama