Analysis

Justices' Birthright Ruling Leaves Little Room For Congress

By Britain Eakin

The U.S. Supreme Court's 5-4 holding Tuesday that President Donald Trump's executive order limiting birthright citizenship is unconstitutional did more than invalidate the policy, it effectively foreclosed Congress from trying to implement the executive order through legislation, experts told Law360.

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Justices Strike Down Trump's Birthright Citizenship Order

By Katie Buehler

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday thwarted President Donald Trump's attempt to limit birthright citizenship to babies born to parents with permanent ties to the United States, finding the 14th Amendment cannot be read that narrowly — a decision dissenting justices fear will jeopardize the country's future.

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Justices Will Hear Challenges To Semiautomatic Rifle Bans

By Aaron Keller and Celeste Bott

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday accepted Second Amendment challenges to semiautomatic rifle bans in Cook County, Illinois, and the state of Connecticut, combining two cases to decide whether the Constitution guarantees the right to possess AR-15-style weapons.

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High Court Scraps Caps On Coordinated Campaign Spending

By Katie Buehler and Jeff Overley

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down federal limits on political party spending in coordination with individual candidates, agreeing with a Republican-led challenge that the caps violate the First Amendment.

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Trump Nominates Just Confirmed La. Judge For 5th Circ.

By Courtney Bublé

Judge Anna St. John has been on the federal bench for less than four months, and now she's being put forth for a higher court.

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Supreme Court To Hear Ohio Prayer Group Zoning Case

By Nate Beck

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear claims that the city of University Heights, Ohio, used its zoning code to prevent a man from holding a prayer gathering in his home, in a case that seeks to test the limits of municipal powers over the exercise of religion.

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Fla. Judge Sues Gov. To Force Appointment Of Replacement

By Carolina Bolado

A recently retired Florida judge sued Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday, saying the governor is violating the state constitution by failing to appoint someone to fill the judge's vacated appellate seat.

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NJ Assembly Passes Litigation Funding Disclosure Bill

By Jake Maher

The New Jersey Assembly passed a bill requiring the disclosure of third-party litigation funding arrangements on Tuesday by an overwhelming margin after similar pending legislation in the state Senate received pushback from trial lawyers and litigation finance representatives.

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Colorado Justices Reject Redistricting Ballot Measures

By Benjamin Morse

The Colorado Supreme Court rejected two proposed ballot initiatives that would have temporarily replaced the state's current congressional map for the 2028 and 2030 elections, finding the measures improperly bundled multiple subjects into a single question for voters.

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Ariz. Voter Purge Remand Paused Pending High Court Appeal

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

A district judge in Arizona has halted a remanded portion of a voting rights dispute in the state over voter roll purges until the U.S. Supreme Court can rule on a petition it agreed to hear from the Republican National Committee.

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SEC Explores Rules For Novel ETFs As Filings Surge

By Aislinn Keely

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday called for input on its oversight of "novel exchange-traded funds" as it contemplates potential rule updates to address the surge of unusual product filings, including those seeking to hold event contracts and crypto.

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Vice Chancellor Zurn Confirmed For Del.'s Supreme Court

By Rose Krebs

Delaware Vice Chancellor Morgan T. Zurn was confirmed Tuesday by the state's Senate to serve a 12-year term on Delaware's highest court, filling a seat that will be vacated by Justice Karen L. Valihura in July.

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CFPB's Slimmer Small-Biz Data Rule Cements End To 2 Suits

By Katryna Perera

Kentucky banks and a lender trade group have dropped their parallel lawsuits over the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's Biden-era small business loan reporting requirements, citing the agency's scaled-back version of the requirements that went into effect Tuesday.

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Warren Asks Capital One If CFPB Pick Had Role In Ending Suit

By Jon Hill

A key Democratic senator is calling on Capital One to say whether its executive Brian Johnson, who is now President Donald Trump's pick to run the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, had any role in getting the agency to drop a major lawsuit against the bank last year.

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Analysis

FERC Future Fuzzy After High Court's Agency Firings Ruling

By Keith Goldberg

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission faces an uncertain future following the U.S. Supreme Court's blockbuster ruling that presidents have unlimited authority to fire members of independent agencies, which creates new risks for an energy industry that's used to regulatory continuity at FERC.

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2nd Circ. Backs NY Gas Appliance Ban In Split With 9th Circ.

By Lauren Berg

New York City and the Empire State can enforce their laws effectively banning fossil-fuel appliances in new buildings, the Second Circuit ruled Tuesday, splitting from the Ninth Circuit in rejecting trade groups and unions' arguments that the statutes run afoul of federal law.

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Eversource, Avangrid Say Conn. Grid Law Is Unconstitutional

By Aaron Keller

Eversource Energy and Avangrid have accused Connecticut officials of violating the U.S. Constitution's supremacy, takings and contracts clauses by enacting a 2025 state law that forces utilities to participate in a regional power grid, arguing the state cannot meddle with their two-decade-old, federally approved voluntary memberships.

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Justices Skip Pork Case Over Alito, Kavanaugh Objections

By Julie Manganis

The U.S. Supreme Court said Tuesday it will not review a challenge to a Massachusetts law restricting the sale of pork produced in tightly confined spaces, though Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Samuel Alito were in favor of hearing the case.

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Analysis

Remedies, Not Suits: How FTC Approaches Health Mergers

By Yeji Jesse Lee

The Federal Trade Commission has not sued over any healthcare provider mergers since President Donald Trump's return to the White House. Attorneys at the American Health Law Association annual meeting say that's not a signal that the agency is backing off.

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Health Attys Talk Cooperation In Gov't Fraud Investigations

By Gianna Ferrarin

For attorneys defending healthcare clients hit with grand jury subpoenas and other enforcement actions investigating potential cases of fraud, cooperation with federal prosecutors is key.

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Ex-NC Gov. Faces Deposition Bid In COVID Bar Closure Suit

By Abigail Harrison

A group of bar owners has asked a North Carolina state court to let it depose former Gov. Roy Cooper and his top health and human services official while in office as it attempts to show COVID-19-era executive orders forcing bar closures violated the owners' constitutional rights.

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Trump Loses Bid To Remove Copyright Office Leader For Now

By Ivan Moreno

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to let the Trump administration remove U.S. Copyright Office leader Shira Perlmutter for now, leaving in place a D.C. Circuit order that allows her to keep leading the office while her lawsuit challenging her firing proceeds.

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DC Judge Blocks DoD Escort Rule For NYT Reporters

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

A D.C. federal judge on Tuesday preliminarily blocked the U.S. Department of Defense from enforcing its rule requiring reporters to be escorted at all times inside the Pentagon.

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Last 'Big 6' Advertiser Settles FTC Group Boycott Claims

By Bryan Koenig

The Federal Trade Commission announced a settlement Tuesday resolving claims that Havas Media Group USA LLC colluded with other advertising agencies to demonetize "disfavored political viewpoints" using brand safety standards, making Havas the last of the industry's "Big Six" to cut deals in the sweeping campaign against alleged censorship of conservatives.

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SAG-AFTRA Wants House Panel To Advance AI Deepfakes Bill

By Elliot Weld

The president of actors union SAG-AFTRA spoke to a congressional subcommittee Tuesday to press the need for a bill to allow for the removal of deepfakes from the internet, framing the advent of digital replicas of people as a fundamental alteration in the methods of human interaction that cannot be ignored by lawmakers.

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Rail Group Says DC Train Car 'Border Fee' Rule Preempted

By Jared Foretek

The nation's largest railroad trade group told a federal judge on Monday that Washington, D.C.'s 60-cent fee for every railcar entering the district violates the dormant commerce clause, federal law and the city's own Administrative Procedure Act.

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Texas Court Sends 4 Asbestos Suits Out Of MDL Court

By Spencer Brewer

A Texas appeals court on Tuesday found that multiple families of people who died following diagnoses of asbestos-related malignancies can remand their cases back to the courts they initially filed in, saying the multidistrict litigation rules do not apply to their cases.

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Catholic Group's Land Use Case Headed Back To 6th Circ.

By Susan Smiley

A Michigan federal judge on Monday refused to reconsider her denial of partial summary judgment for Catholic Healthcare International in its land use suit over Genoa Township's denial of a permit for a religious campus but certified the denial for immediate interlocutory appeal to the Sixth Circuit in an effort to accelerate resolution of the long-running litigation.

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SpaceX, Feds Say Texas Is Proper Venue For Land Swap Suit

By Ganesh Setty

A D.C. federal court on Tuesday ordered expedited briefing over motions by SpaceX and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service seeking to transfer to the Southern District of Texas a lawsuit from environmental groups challenging their land-exchange deal there.

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Justices Won't Hear MSPB Case After Slaughter Decision

By Sarah Jarvis

The U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday denied a former Merit Systems Protection Board member's bid to review a D.C. Circuit decision upholding her firing from the agency, following a Monday high court decision finding that presidents have unlimited authority to fire members of independent agencies.

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Trump Public Loan Forgiveness Rule Is Unlawful, Judges Find

By Rae Ann Varona

Federal judges in Massachusetts and Washington, D.C., on Tuesday struck down a U.S. Department of Education rule that effectively narrowed which public service workers could receive student loan forgiveness, saying the department had issued limitations on qualifying employers outside its rulemaking authority.

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NC City Beats Ex-Paralegal's Besmirched Reputation Suit

By Hayley Fowler

A North Carolina city's characterization of how a fired paralegal allegedly misused city resources is not enough to sustain her suit accusing the city of trampling on her reputation and using her as a scapegoat for her boss's misdeeds, a federal judge said in throwing out the case.

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Apple Gets High Court Review Of Epic Case Sanctions

By Bryan Koenig

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to take up Apple's challenge to a California federal court contempt order against it for violating a ban, won by Epic Games, on company policies that barred app developers from steering users to outside payment options.

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Egg Producers Settle Collusion Claims From DOJ, States

By Matthew Perlman

State and federal enforcers have reached settlements with Cal-Maine, Versova and Hickman's Egg Ranch over claims that the egg producers inflated prices by colluding to manipulate benchmarking rates.

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AIDS Group Says Cigna-Owned Express Scripts Hurts Patients

By Nadia Dreid

AIDS Healthcare Foundation says its nonprofit wellness centers are going to be run out of business if Cigna-owned pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts isn't stopped from using its muscle in the market to steer pharmacy patients toward specialty pharmacies it's affiliated with.

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DOJ Defends Live Nation Deal As Boosting Competition Sooner

By Bryan Koenig

The Justice Department offered its formal defense of the controversial midtrial settlement that allowed Live Nation to keep its Ticketmaster subsidiary, telling a New York federal judge the deal frees up artists and venues much faster than any remedy state attorneys general could achieve through their jury win.

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DOJ Says Mich. Climate Antitrust Claims Are Barred

By Melanie Dorsey

The U.S. Department of Justice has weighed in on Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel's antitrust lawsuit against some of the world's largest oil companies, arguing much of the state's case is legally barred because Michigan is improperly attempting to regulate climate change through state antitrust law. 

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Atlas Data's Daniel's Law Notices Not Spam, Judge Rules

By Emily Sawicki

A New Jersey federal court has found that Atlas Data Privacy Corp.'s flurry of thousands of takedown notices do not constitute a "spam attack," dismissing counterclaims brought by database providers alleging that the company was abusing a New Jersey judicial privacy law in violation of state and federal statutes.

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11th Circ. Says Atlanta Officer Can't Undo $21M Taser Verdict

By Kelcey Caulder

The Eleventh Circuit on Tuesday upheld a $21 million verdict against an Atlanta Police Department officer whose shocking of a man with a Taser left him paralyzed from a resulting fall, keeping intact a $20 million compensatory damages award and a previously-slashed $1 million in punitive damages.

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Broker Dropped From Fatal Fla. Turnpike U-Turn Crash Suit

By Linda Chiem

The estate of one of three people killed in a Florida Turnpike collision last year has dropped C.H. Robinson from its negligence lawsuit after the freight broker said it didn't even arrange the shipment and wasn't connected to the trucking company or driver involved in the accident.

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High Court Declines To Review Under-21 Gun Sale Bans

By Katie Buehler

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to review the constitutionality of laws banning the sale of firearms to people under 21, once again rejecting calls to consider a question that has sharply divided the lower courts.

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Feds Can't Use DEI Order To Block Cities' Funds, Judge Rules

By Ben Adlin

A Washington federal judge Monday dealt a blow to President Donald Trump's efforts to restrict federal funds going to cities and counties that promote diversity programming and "gender ideology," ordering the administration to temporarily halt enforcement of two executive orders in several U.S. cities and counties.

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Trans Troops Class Certified Despite Representation Concerns

By Jared Foretek

A D.C. federal judge on Tuesday certified a class of military members challenging the Trump administration's ban on transgender troops, but she raised significant concerns about the proposed class counsel's ability to represent thousands of members.

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Pharma Co. Seeks Injunction Over Chinese Military Co. Label

By Madeline Lyskawa

Chinese pharmaceutical company WuXi AppTec is urging a D.C. federal court judge to block the Pentagon from enforcing its designation of the company as a "Chinese military company," arguing the listing is unsupported by facts and was imposed without due process.

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ITC's Longest-Serving Judge Plans To Depart

By Ryan Davis

MaryJoan McNamara, the U.S. International Trade Commission's longest-tenured administrative law judge, plans to step down from her post, according to people familiar with the decision.

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EU Carves Out Free Trade Partners In Revised Steel Duties

By Jack McLoone

The European Union's new tariff-free steel import quotas will take effect Wednesday, with half of the 18.3 million metric tons in annual duty-free steel imports being allocated to countries with free-trade agreements with the EU, the European Commission said Tuesday.

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ITC Funding Disclosure Rule Mostly Draws Support

By Dani Kass

The U.S. International Trade Commission's proposal to require litigation funding disclosures in intellectual property investigations received near-universal approval from those who provided feedback, receiving pushback only from an organization representing litigation funders and a nonpracticing entity.

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Brief

Canada, Germany Pledge Closer Cooperation On Chips

By Dylan Moroses

Canadian and German officials signed a joint declaration committing to work together on policy matters involving semiconductor supply chains, according to a Tuesday news release by the Canadian government.

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Calif. Will Lock In Biz Tax Credit Limit, Halve Min. Tax For LLCs

By Maria Koklanaris

California will expand its sales and use tax base to include prewritten software, make permanent its business tax credit limit and halve the $800 minimum tax for limited liability companies, under the last budget that Gov. Gavin Newsom signed as the state's chief executive.

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Mass. Justices OK $258K In Late Estate Tax Penalties, Interest

By Sanjay Talwani

Penalties and interest of more than $250,000 on a Massachusetts estate tax bill paid nearly seven years late were reasonable and lawful, the state's top court affirmed Tuesday.

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Puerto Rico Oversight Board Pitches $3B Bond Settlement

By Emlyn Cameron

Puerto Rico's Financial Oversight and Management Board pitched a $3 billion settlement package to bondholders of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, with an eye to finishing the power authority's bankruptcy, according to a news release Tuesday.

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ICE Scraps Plan For NJ Immigrant Detention Center

By Isaac Monterose

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement have decided to cancel plans to convert a New Jersey warehouse into a 1,500-bed immigrant detention center, according to a joint status report filed in federal court, saying the property will instead be sold.

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Feds Sue Mass., RI Over Tuition Breaks For Immigrants

By Julie Manganis

The U.S. Department of Justice has sued Massachusetts and Rhode Island over state laws allowing undocumented immigrants living in those states to pay in-state tuition at public colleges and universities, contending the policies have "rewarded illegal aliens who violate our nation's immigration laws."

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GEO Seeks Sanctions Over Wash. 'False' Inspection Claims

By Elaine Briseño

Prison operator GEO Group Inc. urged a Washington federal court to impose sanctions against the state for "frivolous" allegations that the company denied state health officials access to a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing facility in Tacoma.

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Judge Says BIA Must Revisit Mont. Tribe's Policing Contract

By Crystal Owens

A U.S. magistrate judge is recommending that a decision by the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs to deny a Montana tribe's bid to assume the agency's law enforcement operations on its reservation be remanded for reconsideration, saying the agency didn't give valid reasons for rejecting the request.

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UNC Escapes Bias Suit From Native American Ex-Professor

By Grace Elletson

A federal judge tossed Tuesday a Native American professor's suit claiming the University of North Carolina declined to renew his contract because he was a vocal critic of the institution, ruling he failed to rebut UNC's argument that he lost his job for changing course material without permission.

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Tribes Back RI As CFTC Sues Over Kalshi Betting Ban

By Crystal Owens

Indigenous rights groups are supporting Rhode Island in a challenge by the U.S. and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission that looks to block the state's efforts to prevent prediction market platforms from offering sports-related event contracts, saying the litigation could turn decades of federal law on its head.

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FCC Plans To Build 'Superband' With Major Spectrum Auction

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission plans to vote on whether to auction 160 megahertz of spectrum for new wireless services at its July meeting, part of an envisioned "superband" of prime midband airwaves ready for commercial use by 2030.

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FCC Set To Streamline Info On Broadband 'Nutrition' Labels

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission next month will consider revamping broadband "nutrition" labels of cable service performance crafted during the Biden administration to purportedly make them less confusing, according to a Tuesday blog post.

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Dems Grill NTIA Head Over Stalled BEAD Applications

By Nadia Dreid

The BEAD program was on everyone's mind on Capitol Hill when National Telecommunications and Information Administration head Arielle Roth appeared before a House subcommittee Tuesday morning for an oversight hearing, with Democrats questioning her about when states could expect to get their money.

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Why DOE Isn't Phasing Out Appliance Efficiency Regs

While the U.S. Department of Energy recently acted on President Donald Trump's 2025 executive order requiring it to consider sunsetting many energy regulations, the DOE has not proposed phasing out efficiency standards for appliances and industrial equipment — but it could pursue other approaches to ease such requirements, say attorneys at HWG.

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Opinion

DHS' World Cup Influencer Warning Overreads Visa Law

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s reported position that foreign influencers covering the 2026 World Cup need work visas if their content is monetized runs contrary to both legislative intent and long-standing precedent that structure the visa inquiry around labor market substitution, says Jun Li at Reid & Wise.

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3 Steps For Banks As Section 1071 Rule Finally Becomes Final

Some community banks and other lenders will get some breathing room in the final Section 1071 rule exempting them from small business lending reporting duties, but other reporting institutions should update applications, systems and staff training ahead of the 2028 compliance date, says Memrie Fortenberry at Jones Walker.

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Series

Power To The Paralegals: Burnout As A Structural Problem

Law firm leadership can best retain their paralegals not by encouraging self-care, but by seeking top-down structural solutions for the quiet proliferation of responsibilities and the vicarious exposure to client trauma that particularly drive burnout in this vital role, says Erika Sneeringer at Brockstedt Mandalas.

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2 Ex-Clifford Chance Attys Say Firm Wants To Claw Back $6M

By Jake Maher

Two former practice group leaders at Clifford Chance LLP have sued in New York federal court alleging the firm is trying to claw back nearly $6 million in total from the pair after they moved to Sidley Austin LLP early this year.

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McCarter Atty Says He Didn't Know NY Law Before $20M Deals

By Brian Steele

A onetime McCarter & English LLP partner in Hartford testified Tuesday that he did not research New York's municipal contracting laws before helping two insurers enter into doomed $20 million loan repayment agreements with a Long Island town, but contended that he was under no obligation to do so.

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Uber, FedEx Slam Pa. Law Firm Counterclaims In RICO Suit

By James Boyle

Philadelphia-based personal injury firm Simon & Simon PC and its founder have failed to support a counterclaim in Pennsylvania federal court saying Uber Technologies Inc. and FedEx Corp. filed a sham litigation and abused the legal process with their ongoing RICO complaint against the firm, the companies argued Monday.

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NY State Bar Wants New Bar Exam Rules For Emergencies

By Kevin Penton

Following two recent incidents that drew scrutiny over their handling, the New York State Bar Association is calling for new standardized protocols to be followed should emergencies occur during the administration of the bar exam.

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