Analysis

Companies In Limbo Over Calif. Climate Disclosure Laws' Fate

By Keith Goldberg

Companies that do business in California are stuck in no-man's-land as the Golden State implements sweeping laws requiring disclosure of financial risks tied to climate change, at the same time the Ninth Circuit is poised to decide whether to block the laws.

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Judge Wants Action On FEMA Disaster Mitigation Funds Delay

By Julie Manganis

A Massachusetts federal judge Friday ordered the Trump administration to step up its pace in restoring a disaster mitigation funding program, nearly three months after he ordered it to do so.

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7th Circ. Scraps Use-Of-Force Injunction In Protesters' Suit

By Celeste Bott

The Seventh Circuit has vacated what it deemed a "constitutionally suspect" injunction that media and peaceful protesters won against federal immigration officials as the Trump administration's immigration enforcement crackdown unfolded last year in Chicago, criticizing how the lower court handled the plaintiffs' bid to dismiss their own case.

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DOJ Forges Ahead With Law Firm EO Appeals At DC Circ.

By Lauren Berg

The U.S. Department of Justice on Friday moved ahead with filing appeals at the D.C. Circuit to defend executive orders issued by President Donald Trump targeting four law firms, just three days after the agency backtracked on its decision to drop the fight.

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Florida Bar Rescinds Claim Agency Is Investigating Halligan

By Jack Karp

The Florida Bar said Friday that it is not investigating controversial former interim U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Lindsey Halligan, walking back a previous assertion it had made in a letter to a nonprofit that it was probing Halligan's actions.

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Pa. High Court Snapshot: AG Powers, Gun Parts, CEO Bonus

By Matthew Santoni

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court this month will revisit a ruling on the state attorney general's power over civil suits brought by county-level district attorneys in a case stemming from the Philadelphia and Pittsburgh district attorneys' objections to a $26 billion opioid settlement.

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Fla. Man Will Be Resentenced Under First Step, 11th Circ. Says

By Carolina Bolado

The Eleventh Circuit on Thursday ordered a Florida man convicted of a string of armed robberies to be resentenced under the First Step Act, citing a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last year that allows for some retroactive application of the 2018 criminal justice reform law.

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Colo. House OKs Fiscal Info Requirement For Ballot Measures

By Sanjay Talwani

Colorado ballot measures that would increase state expenditures without identifying corresponding revenues to pay for them would be required to explain what government operations would receive reduced funding as a result under legislation passed Friday by the state House of Representatives.

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Treasury Scores Early Win In DOGE Data Sharing Suit

By Katherine Smith

Two labor unions and a retirees group that claimed Department of Government Efficiency personnel were allowed to access Treasury Department computer systems can't proceed with their lawsuit, a D.C. federal judge ruled, finding they failed to establish that the agency's decisions can be considered a final agency action.

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Comerica Didn't Steal Fed Benefits Interest, Judge Finds

By Emilie Ruscoe

A Michigan federal judge has dismissed a proposed class action accusing Comerica Bank and the federal government of improperly withholding interest on prepaid debit card accounts used to distribute Social Security and other benefits, ruling recipients have no property right to those earnings.

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SEC Ordered To Release Info On Text Messaging Sweeps

By Jessica Corso

A Florida federal judge has harshly criticized the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's litigation tactics as an "acute embarrassment" to the agency as he ordered it to turn over information about the penalties imposed on financial institutions whose employees discussed business information on their personal devices.

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Treasury Regs Clarify $1,000 Payments To Trump Accounts

By Anna Scott Farrell

The U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service proposed tax guidance Friday for people considering the government's offer to make $1,000 contributions under a new type of individual retirement accounts for children known as Trump accounts.

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Bank Beats Sanctions Bid In Jail Debit Card Fees Suit

By Sydney Price

Central Bank of Kansas City has been ordered to produce more documents related to a prepaid debit card program for formerly incarcerated people in an excessive fee class action, but will not face monetary sanctions for its failure to comply fully with a previous court order.

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Oregon Passes Bill To Limit Out-Of-State Bank Interest Rates

By Jon Hill

Oregon lawmakers have approved legislation opting it out of a federal law that lets state-chartered banks export their home-state interest rates nationwide, advancing a measure similar to one in Colorado that is tied up in Tenth Circuit litigation. 

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NJ Utility Dept. Approves Historic Solar Program Expansion

By George Woolston

New Jersey's utility regulator took a number of actions this week aimed at expanding clean energy generation in the state, including the approval of the largest-ever expansion of the Garden State-run Community Solar Energy Program.

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NJ Trade Groups Fight Outgoing Admin's Environmental Rules

By Isaac Monterose

Two New Jersey trade groups said Friday that they are challenging land use rules designed to mitigate the effects of climate change that were finalized on Gov. Phil Murphy's last day in office.

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FDA Vaccine Chief Prasad To Exit Agency For 2nd Time

By Mark Payne

Dr. Vinay Prasad, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's top vaccine regulator, will leave the agency in the coming weeks, FDA Commissioner Marty Makary said Friday.

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9th Circ. Mulls Whether Politics Tainted DOJ Trans Care Probe

By Hannah Albarazi

A Ninth Circuit panel on Friday grappled with where to draw the line between a legitimate law enforcement investigation and a politically motivated crusade, as the U.S. Department of Justice sought to revive a subpoena against a telehealth provider of gender-affirming medical care.

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DC Circuit To Hear Appeal On Idaho Abortion Law Subpoena

By Mark Payne

The anti-abortion group National Right to Life Committee Inc. must turn over communications the group had with Idaho legislators over a state law that criminalizes adults who help minors travel out of state for abortions, a group of abortion rights advocates told the D.C. Circuit this week. 

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Mass. Judge Told Vax Committee Must Be Fairly Balanced

By Gianna Ferrarin

A key federal vaccine committee remains subject to statutory requirements that its membership be fairly balanced, a Massachusetts federal judge heard from both U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and medical organizations challenging his overhaul of the group.

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Feds Say Delay Of Millions In Salmon Funds May Harm Tribes

By Crystal Owens

The federal government is urging a district court to deny an emergency bid by two Washington tribes that would temporarily block millions in tribal hatchery grants to 27 Pacific Indigenous nations, arguing that the only harm in the dispute would be in delaying the awards to the eligible tribes.

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Polymarket Pushes For Block On Mich. Gambling Enforcement

By Tom Lotshaw

Polymarket US urged a Michigan federal judge to block the Great Lakes State from initiating any illegal gambling enforcement action against it, saying its prediction market exchange falls entirely under the purview of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

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Cities Seek Broader Ban On Feds' Transpo Grant Conditions

By Linda Chiem

A coalition of cities and counties led by Fresno, California, have asked a California federal court to expand an injunction stopping the Trump administration from imposing "impermissibly vague" conditions requiring compliance with immigration and diversity, equity and inclusion policies in order to receive federal transportation and other grants.

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Analysis

Experts See Immunity Defense Reset After NJ Transit Ruling

By Carla Baranauckas

The U.S. Supreme Court's unanimous ruling Wednesday that New Jersey Transit isn't an arm of the state clarified a key limit on sovereign immunity, with experts telling Law360 that the court's emphasis on corporate form and formal liability could change how states structure and defend their state-created, quasi‑governmental entities.

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NY Appeals Court Won't Revive Section 8 Protections

By Grace Dixon

A New York state appellate court confirmed that a New York Human Rights Law provision outlawing source-of-income discrimination is unconstitutional, allowing landlords to decline to rent to prospective tenants with Section 8 rental vouchers.

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Gov't Settles Affordable Housing Dispute With NY Village

By Isaac Monterose

The federal government has agreed to settle its affordable housing suit against a New York village that was accused alongside a local county of failing to comply with a 2018 agreement that required the village and the county to build or rehabilitate 62 affordable housing units within seven years.

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DOJ Faces 'Serious Questions' In $68M Colony Ridge Deal

By José Luis Martínez

A Texas federal judge told an attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice on Friday that he has "serious questions regarding the nature" of a proposed $68 million settlement the agency and the state of Texas reached with Colony Ridge Development.

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Analysis

Amazon Wage Decision Resisted Policy Pressure, Experts Say

By Aaron Keller

The Connecticut Supreme Court's opinion requiring Amazon to pay warehouse workers for time spent awaiting and undergoing post-shift security screenings used basic statutory interpretation tools, not policy arguments, to reach conclusions aligned with other pro-labor laws passed by the state legislature, experts told Law360.

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Wash. Passes Bill To Outlaw Microchipping Employees

By Rachel Riley

A Washington state bill that would ban employers from forcing workers to get microchipped has cleared the state Legislature and was delivered to Gov. Bob Ferguson's desk on Thursday.

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AFSCME Seeks To Toss Colo. County's Suit Over Union Law

By Rachel Konieczny

The largest trade union of public employees asked a Colorado federal judge to throw out a county's challenge to a state law that expands county employees' right to unionize, contending that the law is constitutional and the county lacks First Amendment rights to bring its claim.

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Oil Field Tech Co. Fights OSHA Citation Review Regime

By José Luis Martínez

An industrial giant cited by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration for a job site death has filed the latest constitutional challenge to the agency's adjudication system, citing the Supreme Court's landmark decision limiting agency enforcement proceedings for civil penalties.

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Duke Energy Settles Monopoly Suit On Eve Of Jury Trial

By Hayley Fowler

Duke Energy has settled a Florida-based power provider's monopoly suit on the eve of a jury trial in North Carolina, just two months after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to review a Fourth Circuit ruling that revived the antitrust claims, according to a notice filed Friday.

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Senate Dems Float Bill To Break Up 'Meatpacking Monopoly'

By Matthew Perlman

Senate Democrats have introduced a bill to break up the country's largest meatpacking conglomerates over concerns that concentration in the beef, pork and chicken sectors has contributed to higher food prices and worse deals for farmers.

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Texas Appeals Court Halts Release Of Uvalde Shooting Records

By Spencer Brewer

A Texas appeals court flipped a court order requiring the Texas Department of Public Safety to hand over records relating to the 2022 Uvalde massacre to news organizations, saying Friday that the law enforcement agencies had done enough to evade judgment as a matter of law.

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Customs Faces Hurdles In $166B Tariff Refund Order

By Kevin Pinner

U.S. Customs and Border Protection no longer needs to immediately refund Trump administration tariffs that were struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court after the U.S. Court of International Trade loosened a previous order Friday in response to the agency warning compliance was impossible.

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Colo. Court Clarifies Real Property Gift Rules In Wills

By Zach Dupont

A Colorado Court of Appeals panel has unanimously ruled that although the use restriction of a charitable gift from a will can't be deemed void, the restrictions can be modified if the original intent of the gifted property remains.

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New Owner Can't Appeal Loss Of Tax Break, Court Says

By Sanjay Talwani

An Oregon landowner cannot appeal the property's disqualification from the state's farm use assessment because that determination was made before the owner purchased it, the state tax court said.

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Revised Millionaires' Tax Proposal Wins Wash. Gov.'s Support

By Maria Koklanaris

An amended version of a proposed tax on Washington state residents earning more than $1 million in a single year has met criteria demanded by Democratic Gov. Bob Ferguson, and he will sign it if it reaches his desk, he said Friday.

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Colo. House Passes Bill To Boost Mobile Home Tax Exemption

By Sanjay Talwani

Colorado would raise its property tax exemption for mobile homes and implement other changes recommended by a state task force under legislation passed by the state House of Representatives on Friday.

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Feds Ask 1st Circ. To Stay Third-Country Removal Ruling

By Tom Lotshaw

The Trump administration told the First Circuit it should be able to keep deporting people to countries they do not have ties to while it appeals a ruling that its policy for doing so is unlawful.

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Syrians Ask Justices To Reject Trump Admin's TPS Appeal

By Ganesh Setty

A group of Syrian nationals urged the U.S. Supreme Court to not disturb lower court decisions postponing the Trump administration's move to terminate their temporary protected status, arguing it's the over 6,000 Syrian TPS holders who'd suffer irreparable harm.

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Courts Aren't Ignoring Justices' TPS Orders, Ex-Judges Say

By Ganesh Setty

Over 175 former federal and state judges have slammed the Trump administration's claim that lower courts "flouted" interim orders from the U.S. Supreme Court in litigation involving the administration's revocation of foreign nationals' temporary protected status, saying they weren't binding.

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NYC Politician Seeks ICE Docs To Defend Obstruction Charge

By Britain Eakin

The ex-comptroller of New York City, Brad Lander, is urging a federal judge to require the federal government to disclose how it is using immigration holding rooms at 26 Federal Plaza in downtown Manhattan as he fights a ticket he received for allegedly obstructing federal immigration officials.

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Dems Again Push For Independent Immigration Courts

By Courtney Bublé

Democrats have again introduced a bill that would shift the immigration courts from the executive branch to an independent judiciary, following concerns that the Trump administration has "weaponized" the system.

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Health Groups Back Bid To Bar Noncitizen Benefit Restrictions

By Gianna Ferrarin

A group of public health organizations and scholars Friday urged a Rhode Island federal court to make permanent its order blocking the Trump administration from enacting a policy change basing access to a host of federally funded services on immigration status.

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Brief

Massachusetts Governor Presses Feds For ICE Arrest Data

By Carolyn Muyskens

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey on Friday demanded a comprehensive accounting of federal immigration arrests in the state, saying the available data undermines the government's claim that the sweeps were aimed at violent criminal offenders.

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Inventor Calls On Justices To End Prosecution Laches

By Adam Lidgett

Prolific inventor Gilbert Hyatt wants the U.S. Supreme Court to take up his challenge to a doctrine that can render a patent unenforceable based on delays by the owner during prosecution, saying the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is wrongly using the principle to kill applications.

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Feds Urge Supreme Court To Overturn Native Assault Rulings

By Crystal Owens

The federal government is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn two Tenth Circuit decisions that determined a pair of Native American men can be convicted of simple assault under the Major Crimes Act in cases involving more serious charges, arguing that the "senseless result" can't be reconciled with the law's plain text.

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Tribal Council Nixes Eastern Band of Cherokee Name Change

By Joyce Hanson

A resolution to change the official name of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians to "Eastern Cherokee Nation" has been rejected for now by the federally registered tribe's 15-member tribal council, whose members agreed to table the proposal until they get more community feedback.

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FCC Wants To Make It Easier To Kick People Out Of USF

By Nadia Dreid

The Federal Communications Commission wants to make it easier to boot people or entities from the Universal Service Fund, the agency's multibillion-dollar subsidy fund, if it believes they aren't following the rules they agreed to when they signed up.

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FCC Looking At Ways To Free Spectrum For New Space Uses

By Nadia Dreid

The Federal Communications Commission wants the companies working on "weird space stuff" to also have access to spectrum, according to the head of the agency, which has proposed a formal proceeding into how to meet the spectrum needs of "emergent space activities."

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Brief

FCC Plans To Cut More Red Tape Around Copper Retirement

By Nadia Dreid

The Federal Communications Commission is building on its plans to help along the telecom industry's retirement of legacy copper phone lines with a new order to be voted on later this month that would strip away certain regulatory burdens.

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Atty Who Prosecuted Trump Seeks Seat On Ga. Appeals Court

By Kelcey Caulder

A deputy district attorney who served on the team that prosecuted President Donald Trump on election interference charges has announced he will be running against incumbent Judge E. Trenton Brown III for a seat on the Georgia Court of Appeals.

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Del. Justices' Upholding Of SB 21 Gives Cos. Needed Clarity

The Delaware Supreme Court's recent unanimous decision in Rutledge v. Clearway Energy — upholding 2025 corporate law amendments enacted through S.B. 21, which clarified safe harbor protections and key terms — may help stem the DExit movement, whose proponents have claimed unpredictability in Delaware courts, say attorneys at Nelson Mullins.

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Complaint Portal Updates Prove That The CFPB Is Listening

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's recent updates to its online complaint portal not only clarify complaint pathways and strengthen identity verification, but also signal that the bureau is more willing to consider industry perspectives on its activities and change course where warranted, say attorneys at Manatt.

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How DOL Rule Would Preserve App-Based Contractor Work

The U.S. Department of Labor's proposed 2026 independent contractor rule reinforces the centrality of worker autonomy and entrepreneurial opportunity that characterize many app-based arrangements, and returns to a framework that may offer increased predictability for platforms and workers alike, say attorneys at Gibson Dunn.

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Can Trump's AI Order Override State Insurance Rules?

Although a December executive order charts a course to potentially dismantle state artificial intelligence regulations applicable to virtually any industry, the effect on the insurance industry deserves special attention because under federal law, the regulation of the business of insurance is largely delegated to the states, say attorneys at Eversheds Sutherland.

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Character.AI Case Highlights Agentic AI Liability Questions

The recently settled litigation against Character Technologies Inc. provides an early case study for exploring salient legal issues related to agentic artificial intelligence, such as tort liability, strict liability, statutory liability and contractual liability, says Samuel Mitchells at Smith Gambrell.

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Sentencing Amendments Could Spell Paradigm Shift

Three of the U.S. Sentencing Commission’s recently proposed guideline amendments would have an immediate and dramatic impact on economic offenders, resulting in significantly fewer defendants receiving sentences of imprisonment and meaningfully addressing congressional directives, say Mark Allenbaugh at SentencingStats.com and Doug Passon at Doug Passon Law.

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9th Circ. Ruling Evinces Tightening Of Nonmedical Hardship

The Ninth Circuit’s recent ruling in Vilchis-Gomez v. Bondi illustrates how a series of immigration decisions are transforming the extreme hardship defense to removal into a de facto medical necessity requirement, but practitioners can push back by continuing to assert long-standing precedents and building comprehensive records, says Abdoul Konare at Konare Law.

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Kavanaugh, Jackson Debate High Court Emergency Orders

By Katie Buehler

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh pushed back Monday against critiques that the high court is ruling in favor of President Donald Trump in emergency appeals more often than it did for prior presidents, saying people who believe those allegations have "short" memories. 

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Ex-DLA Piper Atty Alleging Rape Can't Remain Anonymous

By Lauren Berg

A former Boston-based DLA Piper associate cannot use a pseudonym to pursue a lawsuit alleging she was raped by one of the firm's former partners, a Massachusetts judge ruled, noting that she already publicly revealed her identity in a related suit against the accused attorney.

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Employment Law Cases Have Rebounded Except For FLSA

By Max Kutner

Employment law cases overall have bounced back from pandemic-era lows, especially discrimination and disability accommodation suits, though a slump has continued for Fair Labor Standards Act claims, according to a report by legal analytics provider Lex Machina.

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NJ US Atty Trio Booted In 2nd Leadership Ouster

By George Woolston

A federal judge on Monday disqualified the three assistant attorneys overseeing the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey, finding the "byzantine" leadership structure is unconstitutional.

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Brief

SCOTUSblog Founder Goldstein To Be Sentenced In June

By Emily Sawicki

SCOTUSblog founder Thomas Goldstein, currently under home confinement in Washington, D.C., after a Maryland jury convicted him on tax evasion and mortgage fraud charges, will face sentencing in June.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court's docket last week featured disputes spanning alleged forged board approvals at a telecom startup, evidence-destruction claims tied to WWE's blockbuster merger with UFC and investor scrutiny of a multibillion-dollar deal between Intel and the U.S. government.

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McGuireWoods Beats Sun Pharma's DQ Bid In NJ Suit

By George Woolston

A New Jersey federal court has denied Sun Pharmaceutical's bid to disqualify McGuireWoods LLP from representing pharmaceutical company Biofrontera in litigation over the alleged breach of a settlement agreement, ruling the firm's continued representation won't harm Sun Pharmaceutical and will avoid significant harm to Biofrontera.

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Lewis Brisbois Renews Bid To Force Paralegal To Arbitrate

By Adrian Cruz

Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP asked a Florida state judge on Friday to have a former paralegal arbitrate her defamation claims that its actions tarnished her reputation and cost her a job at another firm.

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K&L Gates IP Atty Tapped For Wash. Supreme Court Seat

By Rachel Riley

A K&L Gates intellectual property litigator will become the Washington State Supreme Court's first justice of Middle Eastern descent, Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson said Monday, announcing his pick to replace veteran retiring Justice Barbara Madsen.

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