Jerry Sandusky Says Accuser Recanted Molestation Claim

By P.J. D'Annunzio

Convicted child molester and former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky is set to appear in court next month for a hearing in which he will argue that one of his accusers has allegedly recanted his abuse claims.

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Hospital Wants Saul Ewing Client To Stop Contacting Nurses

By Matthew Santoni

A whistleblower in a False Claims Act case against a Pittsburgh-area hospital tried to solicit complaints from her co-workers — allegedly at the urging of her attorneys at Saul Ewing LLP — despite rules against ex parte communication with employees of represented parties, the hospital's lawyers said this week.

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Uber Beats Defamation Claims In Philly RICO Fight

By James Boyle

A Pennsylvania federal judge on Thursday tossed Philadelphia personal injury firm Simon & Simon PC's counterclaim accusing Uber and FedEx of sham litigation, extortion and abuse of process in response to the companies' ongoing RICO lawsuit against the firm.

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Youth Basketball Tournament Escapes Hotel Antitrust Claims

By P.J. D'Annunzio

A Pennsylvania federal judge has dismissed a proposed antitrust class action accusing U.S. Junior Nationals Inc., an organizer of national-level girls basketball tournaments, of requiring its participants to stay in overpriced hotels, ruling that the plaintiff failed to show a market the organization monopolized.

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3rd Circ. Backs Conviction, Life Term For Carjacking 'Spree'

By Parker Quinlan

The Third Circuit on Thursday upheld the conviction and life sentence of a New Jersey man for a carjacking "spree," ruling that the trial court correctly barred evidence related to the arresting officer's past drunken-driving conviction.

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Google Beats Cert. Bid Over User Tracking In Safari Browser

By Rae Ann Varona

A Delaware federal court denied class certification Thursday in a long-running litigation over allegations that Google bypassed privacy settings on Apple's Safari browser to track users without consent, saying the plaintiffs failed to show that the encryption keys Google destroyed would have provided a reliable way of identifying class members.

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DC Circ. Says Challenges To Pa. Power Plant Orders Can Wait

By Tom Lotshaw

A D.C. Circuit panel granted the Trump administration's push to pause consolidated cases challenging orders that blocked a Pennsylvania power plant from retiring while litigation over similar orders involving a Michigan power plant play out.

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States' Suit Says HHS Terms Threaten Family Planning Dollars

By Rachel Riley

Twenty-three states launched a lawsuit in Maryland federal court Thursday challenging the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' new conditions on federal funding for family planning services that they say would require recipients end support for "gender ideology," abandon diversity programming and drive patients toward parenthood and marriage.

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Taekwondo Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Taekwondo has taught me to recognize when to fight for a position and when to focus on finding a solution, and that the best outcomes are often achieved by solving problems — all of which has improved my work as a bankruptcy lawyer, mediator and Subchapter V trustee, says Amy Denton Mayer at Berger Singerman.

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Inside The $150M Immigration Contract That Wasn't

By Daniel Connolly

The leader of a small Houston-based law firm says she was "blindsided" by an announcement from the federal government that her 24-attorney shop had won a $150 million no-bid contract to represent thousands of immigrant children in deportation proceedings.

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ABA Faces Uphill Battle To Remain As Law School Accreditor

By Emma Cueto

The American Bar Association council responsible for accrediting law schools is fighting on multiple fronts to retain its status as a nationwide accreditor, fending off challenges at both the federal and state levels.

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Dems Say DOJ Opinion Aims To Foil Oversight Of White House

By Courtney Bublé

With midterm elections right around the corner, Senate Democrats are worried the new legal opinion from the U.S. Department of Justice could let the Trump Administration obstruct congressional oversight of the White House.

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Google Users' Atty Fee To Be In 'Realm' Of $147M, Judge Says

By Bonnie Eslinger

A California federal judge indicated Thursday that he won't give the full $147 million in fees sought by lawyers who won a $425 million class action verdict against Google for unlawfully collecting user information, but he said their "really excellent lawyering" deserves an amount "within that realm."

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Womble Bond Asks To Drop Dutch Software Client Over Rift

By Hayley Fowler

Womble Bond Dickinson is looking to pull its representation of a Dutch software company after five years of a bitter trademark battle, citing a "fundamental disagreement" that has allegedly made it impossible for the firm to move forward as counsel of record.

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