'I Don't Like Bullies': NC Committee Advances Bar Reforms  

By Hayley Fowler

A North Carolina legislative committee tasked with probing the state bar's grievance process signed off on a slate of recommendations Wednesday that would slash the bar's appointment powers, as a committee co-chair recalled the "begging" that prompted the proposals and the "bullying" that followed them.

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Novo Nordisk Unit Says Ex-Exec's Poor Work Dooms Bias Suit

By Abigail Harrison

By the time she was fired, a finance director of Novo Nordisk unit NNE Inc. had been falling short of company expectations while the pharmaceutical giant was preparing to get a multibillion-dollar drug facility off the ground, NNE's counsel told a North Carolina federal court Wednesday.

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NC Judge Backs Feds In Red Wolf Designation Suit

By Tom Lotshaw

A North Carolina federal judge ruled that U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials reasonably rejected an environmental group's attempt to secure stronger protections for an experimental population of endangered red wolves in the Tar Heel State.

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Veterans Say Synchrony Arbitration Order Defies MLA

By Sydney Price

Synchrony Bank customers said a North Carolina federal judge erred when directing them to arbitrate claims accusing the bank of promoting a misleading 0% interest rate for veterans, arguing the order contains several misinterpretations of the Military Lending Act.

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High Court Appears Skeptical Of Trump's Birthright Order

By Katie Buehler

The U.S. Supreme Court seemed dubious Wednesday of President Donald Trump's attempt to limit birthright citizenship, with the majority of justices struggling to see how the administration's argument was supported by the constitutional text. 

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4th Circ. Upholds Prior Settlement Bars Clear Touch TM Suit

By Adam Lidgett

The Fourth Circuit on Wednesday ruled that it won't undo a lower court's decision tossing interactive technology products company Clear Touch Interactive Inc.'s federal intellectual property claims against a former reseller, saying the case was blocked by an earlier settlement agreement between the parties.

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GAO Denies Protest Over $16.7M Corps Facility Contract

By Ganesh Setty

The U.S. Government Accountability Office upheld the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' selection of a $16.7 million proposal to provide facility maintenance services, finding that the protester's arguments didn't rise beyond disagreement with the Corps' conclusions.

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DC Circ. Asked To Vacate FERC Pipeline Extension Approval

By Ganesh Setty

Environmental advocacy organizations have taken their challenge over a $524 million natural gas pipeline extension to the D.C. Circuit, seeking to vacate an amended certificate of public convenience and necessity from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

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Bondi Out As Attorney General After Contentious Time At DOJ

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump announced on Thursday Attorney General Pam Bondi will be leaving her post. 

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Goldstein Allowed To Move Out After Marriage Falls Apart

By Jared Foretek

A Maryland federal judge on Thursday allowed SCOTUSblog founder Thomas Goldstein to relocate for the duration of his home confinement, after Goldstein's attorneys said his marriage had fallen apart and it no longer "makes sense" for Goldstein and his wife to share a residence.

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Raskin Blasts DOJ Bid To Shield Attys From State Bar Probes

By Courtney Bublé

Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, said Thursday the U.S. Department of Justice's endeavor to preempt state bar investigations of department attorneys is a "get out of jail free" card.

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DLA Piper, Vax Refuser Reach Deal To End Religious Bias Suit

By Patrick Hoff

DLA Piper has struck a deal to wrap up a Christian former employee's lawsuit claiming he was fired for refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccine because of his religious beliefs, an Illinois federal judge said Thursday.

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Feds Say Habeas Ruling Could Spur More 'Illegal Orders'

By Jared Foretek

The Trump administration has asked the Fourth Circuit to reverse a district ruling that upheld a standing order from Maryland federal judges barring immediate removal or transfer of immigrant detainees, arguing the ruling sets a dangerous precedent for district court standing orders.

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Schneider Wallace Fights Uphill For Bigger Cut Of $75M Fees

By Bonnie Eslinger

A California federal magistrate judge appeared skeptical Thursday about Schneider Wallace Cottrell Kim LLP's bid to increase its cut of a $75.4 million fee award for representing plaintiffs in a $228.5 million Sutter Health antitrust deal, saying lead counsel Constantine Cannon LLP's allocation of $1.4 million to Schneider Wallace seems fair.

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Puerto Rico Bankruptcy Stymies Paul Weiss, ACLU Fee Bids

By Carolyn Muyskens

American Civil Liberties Union and Paul Weiss attorneys who successfully eased restrictions on voting by mail in Puerto Rico during the COVID-19 pandemic cannot collect fees for their work because they were discharged in Puerto Rico's bankruptcy proceeding, the First Circuit has ruled.

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Process Server ABC Legal Inks $2.5M Deal Over Cyber Breach

By Ben Adlin

Seattle-based ABC Legal Services LLC, which bills itself as the nation's largest network of legal process servers, would pay $2.5 million under a tentative deal to settle workers' putative class action claiming a 2024 cyberattack exposed their personal information, the plaintiffs told a Washington federal court Wednesday.

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Roundup

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

By Laura Stewart Liberty

The past week in London has seen data giant Sportrader face action from software company Altenar over alleged market abuse, Mexican billionaire Ricardo Pliego sue a man who allegedly defrauded him out of $415 million, and Warner Bros. bring a copyright claim against a YouTuber who leaked set footage of the upcoming Harry Potter series. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K. 

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