NC Coastal Erosion Spurs Call For Proactive Flood Coverage

By Hayley Fowler

North Carolina's governor and the state insurance commissioner are calling on Congress to pass a bill that would cover homes on the brink of collapsing into the ocean under the National Flood Insurance Program — a problem currently plaguing the state's shoreline, where coastal erosion has claimed 27 homes along the Outer Banks since 2020.

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Camp Lejeune Plaintiffs Say Feds' Overlong Briefs Risk Delays

By Mike Curley

Attorneys representing Camp Lejeune toxic water litigants are urging a North Carolina federal court to expedite the upcoming set of bellwether cases, saying the government shouldn't be allowed to cause delay through unnecessary and excessive briefs that together are longer than "Moby Dick."

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NC, Utah Attorneys General Launch Nationwide AI Task Force

By Matt Perez

Democratic North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson and Republican Utah Attorney General Derek Brown have announced the formation of a nationwide artificial intelligence task force in collaboration with developers OpenAI and Microsoft, as well as the Attorney General Alliance, a nonprofit group of bipartisan state attorneys general.

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Ex-Va. City Atty Tells 4th Circ. FMLA Doesn't Immunize Officials

By Irene Spezzamonte

The Family and Medical Leave Act doesn't contemplate qualified immunity, a former Virginia city assistant attorney told the Fourth Circuit on Thursday, arguing that a municipal attorney cannot appeal a federal court's decision to let his FMLA suit go to trial.

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King & Spalding, Atty Move To End Bias Suit At 4th Circ.

By Grace Elletson

King & Spalding LLP and an attorney who complained that she didn't apply to a summer associate program as a straight, white woman because the firm sought diverse applicants have agreed to end her bias case, according to a filing in the Fourth Circuit.

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4th Circ. Again Denies Man's Bid For Deportation Relief

By Rae Ann Varona

The Fourth Circuit has again refused to revive a Mexican native's bid for deportation relief, saying his Virginia conviction for receiving stolen property is still a crime involving moral turpitude despite a change in how ambiguous laws should be interpreted.

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Roundup

Real Estate Recap: Public RMBS Revival?

By Real Estate Authority Staff

Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission veteran's view into how public offerings of residential mortgage-backed securities could return for the first time since financial crisis-era reforms.

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Smith Anderson Adds Fox Rothschild Land Use Duo

By Abigail Harrison

Smith Anderson Blount Dorsett Mitchell & Jernigan LLP has welcomed land use duo Robin Tatum as partner and Catherine Hill as counsel, expanding the firm's land use practice in its office in Raleigh, North Carolina, where it is based. The lawyers, who are joined by paralegal Amanda Ball, arrive from Fox Rothschild LLP.

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Analysis

UK Firms Drive Transatlantic Appetite For M&A Dealmaking

By Aebra Coe and Chris Villani

The merger announced Monday between British legal giant Ashurst LLP and American law firm Perkins Coie LLP is the latest in a spate of deals driven, in part, by an appetite among global firms to gain a strong presence in the U.S.

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'Astounding' Holland & Knight Conduct Drives Liability Ruling

By Ryan Boysen

Holland & Knight LLP has forfeited a malpractice lawsuit in Alaska by refusing to turn over information to a Native American tribal corporation, with a state judge entering a default judgment as a sanction and calling the firm's conduct "a head scratcher" and "astounding."

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Brief

ABA Decries Lawmaker Calls For Impeachments Of Judges

By Courtney Bublé

The American Bar Association said on Monday it's "alarmed" by lawmakers' interest in impeaching judges just because they don't like their rulings.

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Judge Orders Grand Jury Docs Released In Comey Case

By Brandon Lowrey

A Virginia federal magistrate judge Monday ordered the disclosure of all grand jury materials related to the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey, saying government misconduct may have tainted the grand jury proceedings.

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DOJ Backs White House's Military Lawyer Transfers

By Courtney Bublé

A newly released legal opinion from the U.S. Department of Justice says the Trump administration is allowed to detail military lawyers to serve as immigration judges and special assistant U.S. attorneys in the District of Columbia.

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Senator Slams Trump For 'Blowing Up' Wis. US Atty Process

By Courtney Bublé

Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., accused President Donald Trump on Monday of skirting the process to nominate U.S. attorneys in Wisconsin with his pick of a failed Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate for the office that covers Milwaukee.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court and Delaware Supreme Court last week had a dense slate of fiduciary duty battles, merger-process challenges, post-bankruptcy fights and a series of cases probing the limits of fraud pleading, credible-basis inspections and board-level disclosure duties.

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Law School Admission Council Pushes To Toss Antitrust Suit

By Andrea Keckley

The Law School Admission Council is continuing its push to toss a proposed class action accusing it of fixing application fees with its member schools, saying in a Pennsylvania federal court filing last week that the applicant's opposition to its dismissal motion "entirely fails to engage with the incoherence at the core of his case."

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Holyoak Leaves FTC For Interim U.S. Atty In Utah

By Bryan Koenig

Melissa Holyoak left the Federal Trade Commission on Monday to become Utah's interim U.S. attorney, leaving the FTC down to two commissioners, both Republicans, in the Trump administration's latest use of interim U.S. attorney appointments.

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