Agency Says Klehr Harrison Testimony Allowed In NFL Case

By Elaine Briseño

A sports management company on Wednesday argued that a Pennsylvania federal court's previous sanction orders permit the testimony it is seeking from two Klehr Harrison Harvey Branzburg LLP attorneys who represented defendants in a lawsuit over an alleged attempt to poach former Detroit Lions wide receiver Kenny Golladay as a client.

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Amtrak Worker Admits To Part In $11M Benefits Fraud Scheme

By Matthew Santoni

A New Jersey-based Amtrak employee has pled guilty to participating in a conspiracy to defraud the passenger railroad's health plan for an estimated $11 million in benefits, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey announced Wednesday.

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$8M Penalty Sought In Par Funding Exec's Racketeering Case

By Anna Scott Farrell

A cash advance company's ex-financial officer, who once worked as both an accountant and a competitive food eater, should pay $8 million to the federal government after admitting he helped run a $404 million racketeering scheme, federal prosecutors told a Pennsylvania court.

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NRA President's Attys Want Out Of Election-Inspection Case

By Matthew Santoni

The lawyers representing the recently elected president of the National Rifle Association in a contract dispute stemming from investigations of the 2020 election are asking a Michigan federal court to excuse them from the case, after their client allegedly heard from his codefendant and stopped talking to them.

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Class Counsel Get $6M Fees In Corteva Benefits Info Suit

By P.J. D'Annunzio

Attorneys handling a retirement benefits class action against chemical companies Corteva Inc. and DuPont have been awarded approximately $6 million in fees and just over $389,000 to cover litigation costs, according to a Pennsylvania federal judge's order.

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Trump Nominates Ex-Personal Atty Emil Bove For 3rd Circ.

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday he is nominating Emil Bove, his former criminal defense attorney who served as acting deputy attorney general, for the Third Circuit.

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3rd Circ. Pauses J&J Unit Appeal In Talc Study Libel Case

By Carla Baranauckas

The Third Circuit on Wednesday granted a bid by Johnson & Johnson's talc liability unit to stay briefing in its appeal seeking to revive a libel case over a scientific article linking talcum power to mesothelioma.

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FTC Orders Divestitures Before $35B Synopsys-Ansys Merger

By Hailey Konnath

The Federal Trade Commission said Wednesday that software companies Synopsys and Ansys will be required to divest certain assets, including Synopsys' optical software tools and Ansys' power consumption analysis tool, in order to move forward with their planned $35 billion merger.

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'Zero Effort': Judge Rips Feds' Retrieval Of Asylum-Seeker

By Rae Ann Varona

A Maryland federal judge on Wednesday slammed the Trump administration for showing "zero effort" to facilitate the return of a 20-year-old Venezuelan asylum-seeker sent to a Salvadoran prison and for having "utterly disregarded" an order for updates on its efforts.

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Texas Lawyer Fined $6K For Fake AI Citations In ERISA Suit

By Craig Clough

An Indiana federal judge on Wednesday fined a Texas attorney $6,000 for filing three separate briefs using generative artificial intelligence that included fake citations in an ERISA case, imposing a personal sanction that was less than half the $15,000 fine a magistrate judge recommended.

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Tariffs Spur Law Firms To Brace For Trade Disputes Surge

By Caroline Simson

President Donald Trump's unveiling of broad tariffs in his second term has prompted the law firms that specialize in international disputes to ramp up their preparedness for an expected onslaught of cases, a task that hasn't been made easier by the administration's constantly evolving approach to trade issues.

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Ex-Texas Solicitor General Accused Of Harassment In Suit

By Madison Arnold

A new lawsuit from a onetime executive assistant at Stone Hilton PLLC alleges various forms of misconduct at the firm and claims that one of its founders resigned from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's office amid sexual harassment allegations.

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International Trade Court Strikes Down Trump's Tariffs

By Lauren Berg

The International Emergency Economic Powers Act does not give the president the "unbounded authority" to impose tariffs on goods from nearly every country in the world, the U.S. Court of International Trade ruled Wednesday, handing a win to small businesses and states challenging some of President Donald Trump's steep tariffs.

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Elon Musk Is Leaving White House Role, Trump Admin Says

By Hailey Konnath

Billionaire Elon Musk is ending his work with President Donald Trump and the federal Department of Government Efficiency, a White House official confirmed Wednesday evening.

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Judge Won't Stop Ex-Copyright Office Director's Firing

By Ali Sullivan

A D.C. federal judge on Wednesday declined to stop the Trump administration from ousting the former director of the U.S. Copyright Office, saying the recently fired official had not shown she would be irreparably harmed absent the court's intervention.

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High Court's Bid To Save Fed Independence May Backfire

By Jon Hill

The U.S. Supreme Court has signaled it may expand President Donald Trump's power to summarily fire independent agency officials while keeping the Federal Reserve in a league of its own, but legal experts say that carveout may still leave the central bank's independence on shaky ground.

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Ex-Benghazi Investigator Sworn In As Interim NorCal US Atty

By Dorothy Atkins

A longtime Los Angeles attorney and former investigator into the 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans was appointed on Tuesday as interim U.S. attorney in California's Northern District, where he'll be allowed to serve up to 120 days pending Senate confirmation.

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5 Federal Circuit Clashes To Watch In June

By Ryan Davis

The Federal Circuit will hear cases in June that include an attempt to revive and expand a discarded $64 million trade secrets judgment against Goodyear, and a dispute between drugmakers Acorda and Alkermes that asks when licensees who pay royalties on expired patents can get a refund in arbitration.

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Titan Of The Plaintiffs Bar: Cohen Milstein's Benjamin Brown

By Madison Arnold

Benjamin D. Brown of Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC helped cement his reputation as a respected thought leader in his field last year when he wrapped up multiple career-defining cases, including a landmark $375 million settlement in a wage suppression class action brought against Ultimate Fighting Championship, earning him a place among Law360's 2025 Titans of the Plaintiffs Bar.

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