An Israeli smart packaging company can't enlarge a North Carolina Business Court contract breach suit, a judge ruled Monday, saying the amendment would "wholly transform" the case and prejudice defendant Sealed Air Corp.
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Israeli Co. Can't Expand Contract Breach Suit Over $25M Deal

By Abigail Harrison

An Israeli smart packaging company can't enlarge a North Carolina Business Court contract breach suit, a judge ruled Monday, saying the amendment would "wholly transform" the case and prejudice defendant Sealed Air Corp.

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Mass. Judge Says States Can Fight Planned Parenthood Cuts

By Julie Manganis

A Massachusetts federal judge on Monday chided a Trump administration lawyer for continuing to argue that a coalition of states lacks standing to seek to block what it says is the effective defunding of Planned Parenthood, even as it only just received a lengthy list of new requirements for Medicaid reimbursement.

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Justices Refuse Drug Price-Fixing Class Action

By Abigail Harrison

The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday that it will not review the Fourth Circuit's decision to back the dismissal of a proposed class action accusing drugmakers of conspiring and inflating the price of a medication for Huntington's disease.

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LITIGATION

PJM Says FERC Wrongly Nixed Grid Planning Change

By Keith Goldberg

PJM Interconnection has told the D.C. Circuit that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission wrongly rejected a plan the regional grid operator brokered with transmission owners to make grid planning decisions without the approval of its members committee.

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Naval Architect Says 4th Circ. Got No-Poach Ruling Right

By Madeline Lyskawa

A former naval engineer accusing shipbuilders of conspiring to suppress industry wages has told the U.S. Supreme Court that their petition for review of a Fourth Circuit decision reviving her proposed class action rests on a rule the panel never adopted.

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Justices Won't Review Doctor's Conviction For Reusing Devices

By Abigail Harrison

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a petition from a North Carolina physician seeking to revisit the Fourth Circuit's decision to back her conviction for healthcare fraud.

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REAL ESTATE & DEVELOPMENT

DOJ Looks To Settle RealPage Rent Price-Fixing Claims

By Isaac Monterose

The federal government filed a proposed final judgment on Monday that aims to settle antitrust claims accusing property management software company RealPage Inc. and multiple landlords of conspiring to use RealPage's revenue management software to fix rent prices.

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Judge Lets FERC's $1B Market Manipulation Case Proceed

By Keith Goldberg

A North Carolina federal judge on Monday declined to block the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission from imposing nearly $1 billion in enforcement penalties against an energy efficiency aggregator, saying the company hasn't shown its constitutional rights have been violated.

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NC Landowners Assert Right To Fight Gas Facility Rezoning

By Abigail Harrison

A group of landowners fighting the development of a liquid methane gas storage facility told a North Carolina state appeals court that they were deprived of their rights under state law because some neighboring properties were not properly notified of the rezoning.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

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The Law Firm Merger Diaries: Making The Case To Combine

When making the decision to merge, law firm leaders must factor in strategic alignment, cultural compatibility and leadership commitment in order to build a compelling case for combining firms to achieve shared goals and long-term success, says Kevin McLaughlin at UB Greensfelder.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Bonus Spotlight

Weil Matches Year-End And Special Bonuses For Associates

By Anna Sanders

Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP on Tuesday joined a cadre of other firms in matching the BigLaw standard for this year's associate bonuses.  

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Judges Decline Invites To Senate Hearing On Impeachment

By Courtney Bublé

Two federal judges, both of whom Republicans are looking to impeach, declined to testify before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing next week on the impeachment of "rogue" judges, a source familiar with the situation told Law360 on Tuesday.

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DOJ Official Sues Over Firing For Epstein Talk On Hinge 'Date'

By Alison Knezevich

A longtime official at the U.S. Department of Justice who was fired after he was secretly recorded discussing the Epstein files has sued the agency and U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi in D.C. federal court.

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Democrats Seek Documents On Emil Bove's DOJ Tenure

By Courtney Bublé

Senate Democrats are turning to public records requests to learn more about the controversial tenure of U.S. Circuit Judge Emil Bove while he served at the U.S. Department of Justice, claiming that they're being "stonewalled" by the department.

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$255K In Fees To Google For 'Frivolous' Ramey Case Upheld

By Ryan Davis

The Federal Circuit on Tuesday affirmed a California judge's decision that a client of embattled intellectual property firm Ramey LLP must pay nearly $255,000 in fees and sanctions for bringing a "frivolous" patent suit against Google, finding the award to be "entirely proper."

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Fla. Law Student Expelled For Antisemitic Post To Be Reenrolled

By David Minsky

A Florida federal judge has ordered the reinstatement of a law school student who was expelled after he was investigated over antisemitic posts on social media, saying the university didn't prove his speech "constituted a true threat." 

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Texas Law Firm, Atty Reach Tentative Deal In Age Bias Suit

By Rose Krebs

An attorney who sued a Houston-based law firm alleging she was fired in retaliation for having complained about age discrimination has reached "a tentative agreement" to resolve the matter, according to a filing in Illinois federal court.

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Husch Blackwell Blasts Ex-Firm Atty's ERISA Suit

By James Boyle

A former Husch Blackwell LLP partner's claim that the firm violated federal law by withholding monthly retirement account contributions misidentified the funds in question as participant contributions, when they were, in fact, contributions from the firm's year-end profit-sharing program.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

A&O Shearman

Akeel & Valentine

Arnold & Porter

Berger Montague

Blank Rome

Cohen Milstein

Cravath Swaine

Crowell & Moring

Disparti Law Group

Gibson Dunn

Godfrey & Kahn

Greenberg Traurig

Gupta Wessler

Hagens Berman

Handley Farah

Holwell Shuster

Husch Blackwell

Jackson Lewis PC

Jenner & Block

K&L Gates

Lockridge Grindal

Mark S. Zaid PC

McGuireWoods

Milbank LLP

Moore & Van Allen

Munger Tolles

Nixon Peabody

Paul Hastings

Perkins Coie

Pillsbury Winthrop

Ramey LLP

Reed Smith

Robinson Bradshaw

SBSB Eastham

Sabatini Law Firm PA

Sanford Heisler

Schaerr Jaffe

Smith Anderson Blount Dorsett Mitchell & Jernigan

Steptoe LLP

The Brough Law Firm PLLC

UB Greensfelder

Weil Gotshal

Wiley Rein

WilmerHale

Wise Law Firm PLC

Wright & Talisman

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Dominion Energy Inc.

Enbridge Inc.

General Dynamics Corp.

Google LLC

H. Lundbeck A S

Harvard University

Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc.

MSP Recovery

Netflix Inc.

PJM Interconnection LLC

RealPage Inc.

Sealed Air Corp.

Southern Coalition for Social Justice

U.S. Chamber of Commerce

YouTube Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

California Attorney General's Office

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Food and Drug Administration

Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office

U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

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

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

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

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

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

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

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court