North Carolina's top court on Wednesday seemed reluctant to provide an off-ramp to the parent company of a technology business and one of its executives in a lawsuit alleging they conspired to devalue the majority member's stake and ferret assets to avoid paying distributions.
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NC Justices Probe Tech Parent Co.'s Bid To Escape Fraud Suit

By Hayley Fowler

North Carolina's top court on Wednesday seemed reluctant to provide an off-ramp to the parent company of a technology business and one of its executives in a lawsuit alleging they conspired to devalue the majority member's stake and ferret assets to avoid paying distributions.

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Judge OKs Settlement In Eye Care Data Breach Class Action

By Abigail Harrison

A North Carolina Business Court judge granted preliminary approval in a class action settlement Wednesday, after hearing from counsel on both sides that the eye care provider subject to the data breach couldn't shoulder the cost of extended litigation.

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NC Court Says NFL Player Firms Must Arbitrate Profit Dispute

By Elaine Briseño

A North Carolina appeals court on Wednesday instructed two sports management firms to arbitrate their dispute over profits generated by representing NFL athletes through their joint comprehensive football sports agency, affirming that their agreement included a valid arbitration clause.

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Canadian Cos. Tossed From NC Hydrovac Hot Mud Burn Suit

By Mike Curley

A North Carolina federal judge has dismissed a group of Canadian companies from a suit alleging they made a hydrovac that malfunctioned and injured a natural gas worker, saying they don't have enough ties to the state for the court to have jurisdiction.

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1st Circ. Questions Trump Admin On NIH Indirect Cost Cuts

By Mark Payne

A First Circuit panel seemed poised on Wednesday to uphold a district court decision finding that the Trump administration lacks the authority to cap indirect costs for research grants at the National Institutes of Health. 

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FOURTH CIRCUIT

4th Circ. Faults BIA's Use Of Wrong Standard In Removal Case

By Tom Lotshaw

A Fourth Circuit panel ordered the Board of Immigration Appeals to reconsider whether a Mexican man's application to cancel a removal order was properly denied for failing to disclose an alias provided to immigration officials years earlier.

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POLICY & REGULATION

Lumbee Act Faces Senate Scrutiny Amid Tribal Identity Debate

By Crystal Owens

Generations of ancestors and lawmaker allies have come and gone as the Lumbee Tribe has sought federal recognition, its chairman told the U.S. Senate Indian Affairs Committee on Wednesday, arguing that legislation for the status has been introduced 13 times and its passage is long overdue.

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PEOPLE

Ex-US Atty, AUSA Pair Joins Baker Donelson In Raleigh

By Christine DeRosa

A former U.S. attorney and a former assistant U.S. attorney have jumped from K&L Gates LLP to Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC in North Carolina.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

AI Litigation Tools Can Enhance Case Assessment, Strategy

Civil litigators can use artificial intelligence tools to strengthen case assessment and aid in early strategy development, as long as they address the risks and ethical considerations that accompany these uses, say attorneys at Barnes & Thornburg.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Mamdani Taps Ex-FTC Chief Lina Khan For NYC Transition

By Lauren Berg

New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani on Wednesday named an all-woman transition team, including former Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan, who attracted the ire of tech giants and corporations by spearheading the Biden administration's aggressive antitrust enforcement.

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Fired E-Biz Execs Sue Jackson Walker Over Judge's Romance

By Adrian Cruz

A pair of former executives at e-commerce company Volusion LLC have hit Jackson Walker LLP with the latest in a series of suits accusing the firm of legal malpractice stemming from the undisclosed romance between a former partner and a Texas bankruptcy judge.

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Senate Confirms Jones Day Partner To 9th Circ. Bench

By Courtney Bublé

The Senate voted 52-45 on Wednesday to confirm Eric Tung, a partner at Jones Day, as a judge on the Ninth Circuit.

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Judge Slams DOJ's 'Indict First' Strategy In Comey Case

By Jared Foretek

Federal prosecutors were given just over 24 hours to hand over all of the grand jury materials and anything seized under years-old warrants in the James Comey case when a Virginia federal judge said Wednesday that the government appeared to be pursuing an "indict first, investigate last" strategy.

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Robbins Geller's 'Eye-Watering' $28M Fee Bid Cut To $10.4M

By Katryna Perera

A California federal judge has rejected a $28 million attorney fee request from Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd as part of a $150 million investor settlement with Zoom, calling it an "eye-watering figure," and saying the firm can collect about $10.4 million instead.

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Fed. Judiciary Tackles Design, Need For AI Evidence Rules

By Jack Karp

Federal judiciary members wrestled Wednesday with the appropriate parameters of a proposed rule that would govern machine-generated evidence, while questioning the need for another proposed rule dealing with so-called deepfake evidence.

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After Spending Blitz, Pa. Judicial Election Turnout Booms

By James Boyle

Months of focused campaigning and an unprecedented blitz of spending on television ads helped serve to double the number of Pennsylvania voters who turned out on Tuesday to cast ballots over whether to grant new 10-year terms to three Democratic members of the state's Supreme Court.

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Mass. Justices Consider Raises To Address Counsel Shortage

By Julie Manganis

Justices on Massachusetts' highest court grappled at a hearing Wednesday with its ability to address an ongoing shortage of attorneys willing to represent indigent defendants, after lawyers in two of the state's busiest counties stopped taking cases in May in protest over the low pay compared with other states.

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Jackson Walker LLP

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Jones Day

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Milberg Coleman

Moore & Associates LLP

Morrow Porter

Nelson Mullins

Pettey & Partrick

Robbins Geller

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Smith Anderson Blount Dorsett Mitchell & Jernigan

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Amazon.com Inc.

American Civil Liberties Union

American Public Health Association

Association of American Medical Colleges

Association of American Universities Inc.

Brennan Center for Justice

Fifth Third Bancorp

Instagram Inc.

Mears Group Inc.

Meta Platforms Inc.

National Football League Players Association

New York Foundling Inc.

Public Counsel

United Way Worldwide Inc.

Yale University

Zoom Video Communications Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Committee for Public Counsel Services

Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians

Echota Cherokee Tribe

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Judicial Center

Federal Trade Commission

Los Angeles Superior Court

Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina

National Institutes of Health

New York Supreme Court, New York County

Shawnee Tribe

U.S. Army

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia

U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of the Interior

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

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina

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

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

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

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court