Justices Deny Trump's Bid To Send Nat'l Guard To Chicago

By Rae Ann Varona & Katie Buehler

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the Trump administration cannot deploy National Guard troops into Chicago to aid federal immigration enforcement, saying President Donald Trump didn't show he was permitted to federalize the National Guard under a statute he had relied on.

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20 Years Later: How A Pink House Reshaped Takings Law

By Aaron Keller

The U.S. Supreme Court's 2005 holding in the controversial eminent domain case Kelo v. New London remains intact despite multiple challenges to urban development projects, but its unpopularity has spurred most states to spend the past 20 years reshaping their land-taking laws.

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Fast-Track Court Fights Shaped Immigration Litigation In 2025

By Britain Eakin

The U.S. Supreme Court’s use of the emergency docket drove 2025’s biggest immigration decisions, with the justices stepping in repeatedly to stay nationwide injunctions, greenlight key parts of President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda, and in some cases preserve due process rights. Here, Law360 looks at the year’s key immigration decisions.

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Notable North Carolina Laws Passed In 2025

By Abigail Harrison

In 2025, North Carolina state legislators reacted to the brutal death of a Ukrainian refugee that garnered national attention by quickly drafting and passing a bill that retooled criminal law and shifted how judicial officers do their jobs. Another headline-grabbing law siphoned $6 million from free civil legal aid following concerns from GOP lawmakers that grant money was spent on "leftist groups."

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Notable Pennsylvania Legislation Of 2025

By Matthew Santoni

Pennsylvania's much-delayed 2025 budget bill contained some big public-policy changes like ending a carbon cap-and-trade program, offering an $800 income tax credit and providing stopgap funding for mass transit, even as its domination of the state Legislature's time prevented much else from passing, attorneys told Law360 in reviewing major laws that passed in the last year.

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Top New Jersey Cases Of 2025

By George Woolston

New Jersey courts saw some history-making litigation come to a close over the course of 2025, including the largest environmental settlement ever achieved by a single state and the first clergy abuse trial verdict since the statute of limitations on child sexual abuse claims was extended. Another notable development was the state's federal bench exercising a rarely used authority to reject President Donald Trump's pick for interim U.S. attorney.

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Top Delaware Chancery Cases Of 2025: A Year-End Report

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court closed out 2025 amid a period of institutional uncertainty, as landmark cases addressing fiduciary duty, executive compensation, board oversight and the limits of equitable power unfolded against the backdrop of sweeping legislative changes to the Delaware General Corporation Law.

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The Court Cases That Defined Sports Law In 2025

By Alex Lawson

From a landmark settlement that looks to reshape the future of college athletics to an eye-popping victory for a golf legend, the sports legal world was teeming with cases that commanded attorneys' attention throughout 2025.

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NFL's Chiefs Moving To $3B Stadium In Kansas

By Isaac Monterose

The Kansas City Chiefs are leaving their longtime home in Missouri to play in a new, $3 billion stadium in Kansas City, Kansas, that state's governor and the NFL team announced.

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CFPB Shifts Focus To Debanking, Intentional Discrimination

By Katryna Perera

To align with objections set by the Trump administration, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is turning its attention to "debanking" moving forward and has closed all open investigations that were based on disparate impact liability or unintentional discrimination.

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OCC Wants 'Heightened Standards' Only For Biggest Banks

By Sarah Jarvis

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency on Tuesday said it is moving to amend its heightened standards guidelines for insured national banks to decrease the number of lenders subject to the toughest standards from 38 to eight.

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Biggest Energy & Environmental Court Decisions Of 2025

By Keith Goldberg and Juan-Carlos Rodriguez

Two U.S. Supreme Court rulings that erected stricter boundaries on federal environmental reviews and permitting highlighted an action-packed 2025 for energy and environmental litigation. Here, Law360 looks back at this year's most consequential court decisions in energy and environmental law.

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Philly Joins MDL Against Drug Cos., PBMs Over Insulin Prices

By Bonnie Eslinger

Philadelphia on Tuesday sued drug manufacturers Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisk and Sanofi, along with several pharmacy benefit managers, joining multidistrict litigation in New Jersey federal court accusing the companies of illegally inflating the price of insulin.

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11th Circ. Asked To Rehear Pregnancy Center Vandalism Case

By Carolina Bolado

A Florida woman convicted of vandalizing crisis pregnancy centers across the state asked the Eleventh Circuit Monday to reconsider a ruling affirming her conviction, arguing that she should not have been prosecuted under a conspiracy statute for violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act.

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Dem Sens. Blast Idea Of Charging Value-Based Patent Fees

By Elliot Weld

A group of Democratic U.S. senators has asked Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick not to move forward with a proposed overhaul of the U.S. patent fee system that reportedly would implement fees based on a patent's value, saying such changes would create a "prohibitive bar to innovation for start-ups and other small-to-mid-size businesses."

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Mass. Panel OKs $300M Real Estate Transfer Fee Hike

By Sanjay Talwani

Massachusetts would double its real estate transfer fees under a bill advanced by a legislative committee that would raise an estimated $300 million annually to fund affordable housing and climate mitigation efforts.

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Federal Agencies Urge 9th Circ. To Lift Layoff Freeze

By Braden Campbell

The U.S. government urged the Ninth Circuit to stay a court order barring agencies from laying off workers through next month under the shutdown deal, saying the court intruded on federal labor panels' territory and the funding resolution didn't bar layoffs agencies had in the works.

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Ex-DOJ Employees Fight Gov't Bid To Toss Their Firing Suit

By Bonnie Eslinger

An ex-assistant U.S. attorney and two other former Justice Department employees urged a Washington, D.C., federal court on Tuesday to deny the government's motion to dismiss their lawsuit claiming they were unlawfully fired, arguing an internal government employment board isn't appropriate for their cases and is controlled by President Donald Trump.

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Federal Prison Workers Seek Block On CBA Cancellation

By Braden Campbell

The union that represents employees of the Federal Bureau of Prisons asked a Connecticut federal judge to unwind the cancellation of their collective bargaining agreement, saying the agency's reasons for ending workers' union rights don't add up.

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Blackstone's LivCor Latest To Settle Rent Price-Fixing Claims

By Hailey Konnath

LivCor LLC, a subsidiary of Blackstone, has agreed to a proposed settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice that would resolve allegations the landlord used RealPage's revenue management software to fix rent prices, according to a proposed consent decree filed in North Carolina federal court Tuesday.

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Top International Trade Developments Of 2025

By Dylan Moroses

Importers faced novel levels of uncertainty in 2025 as President Donald Trump introduced several new tariff actions during his second term, including some that prompted importers to challenge a law used to authorize duties that had never been used before. Here, Law360 examines the year's top international trade developments.

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Chicago Mayor Allows $16.6B Budget Without Head Tax

By Maria Koklanaris

Chicago's mayor said Tuesday that he will neither sign nor veto the City Council's $16.6 billion budget, which does not contain the $33-per-employee monthly tax on larger employers he sought, meaning it will take effect without his signature.

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Trump Admin Beats Chamber Suit Over $100K H-1B Visa Fee

By Rae Ann Varona

A Washington, D.C., federal judge on Tuesday refused to block the Trump administration's new $100,000 H-1B visa fee, ruling in the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's lawsuit challenging the fee that President Donald Trump has "broad authority" to restrict noncitizens' entry.

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DHS Finalizes Rule Shifting H-1B Odds To Higher Earners

By Britain Eakin

The Trump administration finalized changes to the H-1B lottery Tuesday, unveiling a final rule it said will favor higher-paid and higher-skilled positions and tamp down on employers exploiting the program to hire low-wage workers and depress the wages of U.S. workers.

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DHS Ordered To Restore $233M Grants To 'Sanctuary' States

By Chris Villani

A Rhode Island federal judge ordered the Trump administration to reinstate $233 million in funding to immigration "sanctuary jurisdictions," finding the U.S. Department of Homeland Security had illegally terminated the grants for political reasons.

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Farm To Pay $1M To Settle Claims It Favored Foreign Workers

By Ben Adlin

Washington state apple and hops producer Cornerstone Ranches and associated companies will pay $1 million to resolve claims by Attorney General Nick Brown that the farm fired local agricultural workers in favor of hiring temporary, foreign employees, according to a consent decree announced by the attorney general's office on Tuesday.

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Michigan AG Launches Probe Into Native Boarding Schools

By Crystal Owens

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has opened a criminal investigation into Native American boarding schools and other institutions that once operated in the state.

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Alaska Fights Feds, Tribes In High Court Fishing Regs Row

By Crystal Owens

Alaska is fighting opposition to its Supreme Court bid to reverse a Ninth Circuit order that barred it from opening part of the Kuskokwim River to all fishers, telling the justices that the U.S. and tribal associations are urging them to "just look the other way."

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Google Not A Common Carrier, Think Tanks Tell Ohio Judges

By Nadia Dreid

Right-leaning institutions are lining up behind Google before an Ohio appeals court to argue that the state is trying to "skirt the First Amendment" by fighting to have the internet titan classified as a common carrier and a lower court was right to rebuff the attempt.

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3 Key Trends For The Legal Industry In 2025

By Tracey Read

Executive orders, updated office attendance policies and private equity interests were three top issues that shaped the industry this year.

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ITC Atty's 1st Kids' Book Imagines A Santa-Less Christmas

By Dani Kass

Michelle Klancnik, assistant general counsel at the U.S. International Trade Commission, spends her days looking into when imports should be banned for violating intellectual property rights, but outside work, she​'s focused on one big question: What would happen if Santa took a year off?

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Ex-Oura CEO Pushes To DQ Quinn Emanuel In Firing Suit

By Emily Sawicki

The onetime CEO of fitness tracker company Oura Health is pushing to disqualify Quinn Emanuel from representing the smart ring maker in his compensation suit, telling a San Francisco federal judge that he shared confidential information when he consulted with the firm about his claims prior to filing suit.

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NYC Bar Issues Opinion On AI Use For Recording Client Calls

By Tracey Read

The New York City Bar Association's Professional Ethics Committee has issued an opinion addressing how the New York Rules of Professional Conduct impacts the use of artificial intelligence tools to record, transcribe and create summaries of conversations in audio and video calls between attorneys and their clients.

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Hub Hires: Cooley, Morgan Lewis, Nixon Peabody

By Chris Villani

The end of the year marked the beginning of new chapters for plenty of Boston attorneys, as Cooley added more than 30 professionals to its life sciences team, Morgan Lewis snagged an intellectual property partner, and Nixon Peabody beefed up its cybersecurity practice.

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