Analysis

LaGuardia Airport Runway Collision: What We Know So Far

By Linda Chiem

A late Sunday runway collision between an Air Canada passenger jet and a fire truck marked the first deadly accident at LaGuardia Airport in more than three decades, federal and state officials said, raising troubling questions about air traffic control procedures at one of the busiest airports serving the New York metropolitan area.

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High Court Doubts Legality Of Late-Arriving Ballot Laws

By Katie Buehler

The U.S. Supreme Court appeared skeptical Monday of Mississippi's law allowing state election officials to count mail-in ballots that arrive up to five days after Election Day, with the justices divided ideologically over whether historical practices or legislative history should control the outcome of the case.

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NJ Judges Name US Atty In Apparent End To Leadership Fight

By Jake Maher

The New Jersey federal court on Monday appointed a career federal prosecutor to serve as U.S. attorney for the Garden State in what appears to end a lengthy standoff between district judges and the U.S. Department of Justice over leadership of the office.

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Sen. Mullin Of Oklahoma Confirmed To Be DHS Secretary

By Courtney Bublé

The Senate voted 54-45 on Monday night to confirm Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., to be secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, just a little over two weeks after Kristi Noem was ousted.

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11th Circ. Upholds Florida's Ban On Lab-Grown Meat

By Carolina Bolado

The Eleventh Circuit on Monday rejected a food technology company's bid to block Florida's ban on lab-grown chicken, ruling that the federal Poultry Products Inspection Act does not preempt the state law because the statute governs production standards and ingredients, not whether a state may ban a product outright.

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DOD Schools' Can't Escape Suit Over Book And Lesson Ban

By Madeline Lyskawa

The U.S. Department of Defense must face litigation seeking to restore hundreds of books and lessons on race and gender that were pulled from the DOD school system under the Trump administration after a Virginia federal judge refused to dismiss the case.

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Civil Rights Attys Sanctioned After Admitting AI Errors

By Dorothy Atkins

A Utah federal judge sanctioned two solo practitioners Monday who represent a disabled teenager's parents in their civil rights lawsuit against a school district for filing a brief with two artificial intelligence-generated errors, ordering them to complete ethics training but declining additional fee sanctions, because they "sincerely" accepted their responsibility.

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Justices Won't Hear Fight Over 2020 Election Voting Machines

By Matthew Santoni

The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday that it won't decide if two Pennsylvania county leaders had standing to sue Dominion Voting Systems over allegations that voting machines used during the 2020 election weren't secure.

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Judge Clears Way For Hearing On Fulton County Ballot Raid

By Chart Riggall

A Georgia federal judge will allow Fulton County to move forward with its bid to force the U.S. Department of Justice into court this week to back up the evidence behind its January raid on the county's election office, when it seized 2020 ballots.

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Ga. Panel Backs Fulton Co. In Fight Over GOP Board Seats

By Chart Riggall

Fulton County, Georgia's commission doesn't have to seat Republican nominees to its elections board, a state appellate court ruled, reversing a trial court's order holding the commission in contempt for its refusal to comply with a mandamus order.

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SEC's Atkins Promises Changes To Adviser Pay-To-Play Rule

By Jessica Corso

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Paul Atkins indicated Monday that his agency plans to loosen the rules around political contributions made by investment advisers, saying that current regulations present a "trap for the unwary."

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Calif. Sues To Stop Trump's 'Power Grab' To Restart Pipeline

By Lauren Berg

California slammed as a "breathtaking power grab" the U.S. Department of Energy's order directing Sable Offshore Corp. to restart a pipeline in Southern California that was shuttered in 2015 following a massive oil spill, asserting in a lawsuit Monday that the order is a "stunning usurpation" of state authority. 

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US Pays TotalEnergies $1B To Abandon Offshore Wind Leases

By Keith Goldberg

The Trump administration said Monday that it would pay TotalEnergies nearly $1 billion to give up a pair of offshore wind leases in exchange for the French energy giant sinking the cash into U.S. oil and gas development.

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Pa. AG Tells Justices He Must Intervene In Grid Fight

By Ganesh Setty

Pennsylvania's attorney general urged the U.S. Supreme Court to let him intervene in Third Circuit proceedings after a panel allowed a utility's transmission line project to proceed, saying it'd "stripped" Pennsylvania of its right to regulate state land use.

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High Court Won't Hear Calif. Border Hospital Medicaid Fight

By Gianna Ferrarin

The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday it would not consider a case challenging California's exclusions of hospitals in neighboring states from supplemental federal payments going to providers that serve Medi-Cal beneficiaries.

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Feds Approve Minnesota's Plan To Combat Medicaid Fraud

By Mark Payne

Minnesota may soon receive the release of $243 million in deferred Medicaid funds after the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services approved the state's updated plan to combat Medicaid fraud, Minnesota state health officials told a federal court last week.

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FTC Stays Focused On Healthcare, Launches Task Force

By Matthew Perlman

The Federal Trade Commission announced it is launching a new task force with staff from across the agency to coordinate healthcare policy approaches and initiate investigations meant to help protect patients, healthcare workers and American taxpayers.

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Sotomayor Rips Cert Denial In Texas Journalist's Arrest Suit

By José Luis Martínez and Spencer Brewer

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to take up a citizen journalist's suit alleging Laredo, Texas, police violated her free speech rights by arresting her for asking for undisclosed details of a suicide and vehicle crash, with Justice Sonia Sotomayor's dissent of the denial calling the decision a "grave error."

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DC Circ. Told It Must Put A Stop On Nexstar-Tegna Merger

By Nadia Dreid

The Federal Communications Commission broke the law when it waived the 39% ownership cap that limits broadcasters to a certain share of the national market in order to approve Nexstar's $6.2 billion acquisition of Tegna, according to two new appeals.

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Snap Says Texas Child Harm Suit Would Limit DHS, FDA Work

By José Luis Martínez

Snap Inc. has moved Texas' lawsuit over Snapchat's alleged harms to minors into federal court, arguing that the case targets conduct tied to its work with federal agencies to deliver public health and safety messaging to teens.

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Roundup

Injury Law Roundup: Meta Atty Uses Jane Doe Plaintiff's Name

By Y. Peter Kang

A Meta attorney's gaffe and Mark Zuckerberg's testimony in the closely watched social media addiction bellwether trial, and an announced $7.25 billion settlement by Bayer over Roundup weedkiller claims, lead Law360's Injury Law Roundup.

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Senators Push Bill To Ban Sports Bets On Prediction Markets

By Elaine Briseño

A bipartisan pair of senators are looking to shutter sports contracts on prediction market platforms such as Kalshi and Polymarket, introducing a bill Monday to clarify that these types of offerings are under the jurisdiction of state gambling laws, not the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

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Tenn. Regulators To Challenge Kalshi Win At 6th Circ.

By Aislinn Keely

Tennessee regulators are asking the Sixth Circuit to review an order barring them from taking action against Kalshi's sports contracts, marking the latest event contract dispute to reach an appeals court.

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Judge Unlikely To Halt Evictions In Md. Condo-County Dispute

By Jared Foretek

A Maryland federal judge signaled that he likely wouldn't block Prince George's County from evicting condo owners whose buildings have been without heat since December, but also said he likely wouldn't dismiss the residents' claims that the county — by assisting a nearby homeless encampment — has created numerous problems at the complex.

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Ind. Tax Board Cuts Vacant Building Value Due To Demo Cost

By Michael Nunes

The Indiana tax board said that a vacant property purchased to be made into a medical research facility should have its assessed value reduced to account for the cost of demolition.

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New Wash. Laws Create NLRB Stand-In, Ban Noncompetes

By Rachel Riley

Wash. Gov. Bob Ferguson signed employment bills on Monday establishing a fallback framework for the state to oversee certain private-sector labor disputes in the case that the National Labor Relations Board's jurisdiction is scaled back by the federal government and expanding the state's restrictions on noncompete provisions to an outright ban.

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Chicago Can't Ditch Airline Group's Sick Leave Law Challenge

By Irene Spezzamonte

An organization representing the largest U.S. airlines supported its claims that Chicago's new paid sick leave law could affect air carriers' business, an Illinois federal judge said, keeping alive the group's challenge to the law.

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FTC's Meador Says Breakups Not So 'Extreme'

By Bryan Koenig

Federal Trade Commission member Mark R. Meador continued Monday to vouch for corporate breakups as a remedy in antitrust conduct cases, maintaining in Washington, D.C., remarks that structural fixes are often the "cleanest" option, one that can be presented to increasingly skeptical judges as the only statutory pathway.

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Brief

FCC Adds Foreign Routers To Nat'l Security Risk List

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission on Monday added foreign-made routers to a list of consumer electronics gear that cannot be sold on the U.S. market without specific authorization.

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High Court Won't Review Mortgage Firm's $8M CFPB Fine

By Jon Hill

The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to take up a now-shuttered mortgage services firm's yearslong fight against a nearly $8 million Consumer Financial Protection Bureau judgment, rebuffing an appeal tied in part to the agency's past leadership structure.

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Wash. OKs Cash Transaction Rounding Rules As Penny Fades

By Rachel Riley

Washington adopted a law on Monday allowing cash retail transactions to be rounded to the nearest nickel increment, providing clarity for Evergreen State merchants in the wake of the federal government's decision to stop making pennies last year.

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States Say USDA Added Illegal Strings To Food Assistance

By Carolyn Muyskens

A group of 20 states and the District of Columbia sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture on Monday over what the coalition called unlawful and coercive new conditions on funding for programs like school lunches and food assistance.

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Arts Groups May Post DOGE Deposition Videos, Court Says

By Lauren Berg

Scholarly groups seeking the reversal of $175 million of Trump administration cuts to grants for writers can repost online videos of depositions they took of former Department of Government Efficiency personnel, a federal judge in Manhattan ruled Monday, saying the depositions centered on "public officials acting in their official capacities."

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Anthropic Says DOD Security Risk Label Is Unconstitutional

By Hailey Konnath

Anthropic PBC has doubled down on its push for an order blocking the Trump administration from labeling it a supply chain risk to national security, telling a California federal court the executive branch was punishing "a major company for the sin of expressing its views on a matter of profound public significance."

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DOJ Says Block On Sen. Kelly's Demotion Must Be Reversed

By Tom Lotshaw

The Trump administration told the D.C. Circuit a court order shielding U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., a retired Navy captain, from a demotion for telling service members they don't have to follow illegal orders was "gravely wrong" and threatens military discipline.

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US Pushes WTO Changes Over 'Untenable' State Of Int'l Trade

By Jack McLoone

The World Trade Organization is poorly addressing the "untenable and unsustainable" state of international trade, the U.S. said Monday, suggesting a slate of what it called "member-driven" changes ahead of the WTO's biennial ministerial meeting.

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Democratic AGs Demand IEEPA Tariff Refund Legislation

By Jack McLoone

A group of Democratic state attorneys general pushed congressional leaders to enact legislation that would require timely refunds of all duties levied under the now-invalidated International Emergency Economic Powers Act tariffs, including interest.

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Brief

Commerce Seeks Inclusion Requests For Auto Part Tariffs

By Dylan Moroses

The U.S. Department of Commerce announced Monday that it will accept new recommendations on goods to include under the tariff regime for auto part imports.

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IRS Concedes To Partnership's $48M Easement Deduction

By Kat Lucero

A partnership will be entitled to all of a $48.3 million tax deduction for donating a Louisiana conservation easement amid allegations that the IRS improperly backdated documents to impose civil fraud penalties and circumvent the statute of limitations, according to a decision entered Monday in the U.S. Tax Court.

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ND Law Firm Can't Justify Equitable Tolling, IRS Tells 8th Circ.

By Kat Lucero

A North Dakota law firm that got the U.S. Supreme Court to revive its day-late levy challenge has failed to prove that it deserved equitable tolling of its statute of limitations, the IRS told the Eighth Circuit on Monday.

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IRS Lacks Solid Plan To Audit Large Partnerships, TIGTA Says

By Kevin Pinner

The IRS has no solid strategy for auditing large partnerships, resulting in markedly fewer audits as partnerships proliferate and compliance efforts that go nowhere, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration said in a report.

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NY Hotel That Housed Asylum-Seekers Hits Ch. 11

By Emily Lever

A hotel north of New York City that had agreed to provide long-term shelter for asylum-seekers, and was subsequently sued by a municipality for doing so, has filed for Chapter 11 protection, listing between $1 million and $10 million worth of assets and liabilities.

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Judge Halts Trump Administration's Refugee Detention Policy

By Julie Manganis

A Massachusetts federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from enforcing what the court said is likely an unlawful policy shift mandating detention for refugees who have not applied for legal permanent residency within a year of arrival.

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Ex-Fla. Rep Paid To Secretly Lobby For Maduro, Jurors Told

By David Minsky

A prosecutor told a Florida federal jury Monday that former congressman David Rivera and a political consultant conspired to secretly lobby for deposed Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in violation of the law, saying they were paid to help influence U.S. official policy toward the South American country without approval.

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Dems Probe GEO Group Over DHS Contracts Kickback Claims

By Madeline Lyskawa

Rep. Robert Garcia demanded answers from GEO Group Inc. on Monday in response to claims that outgoing Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's de facto chief of staff retaliated against the company for refusing to pay a kickback on new or renewed contracts.

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High Court Denies Chinook Nation's Path To Recognition

By Crystal Owens

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a Washington Indigenous nation's petition that could have led to federal recognition in a centuries-old struggle to regain the status after it was stripped by the George W. Bush administration.

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FCC Urges Justices To Reject Repeal Of Penalty Power

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to keep the agency's monetary penalty powers intact, saying the agency's current practice does not deny targets of fines their right to a jury trial and is not binding until a court orders payment.

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Judge Tosses Ex-Director's Suit Against Ore. Pot Commission

By Jonathan Capriel

Oregon's liquor and cannabis authority has defeated, for now, a wrongful termination lawsuit filed by its deputy director who was fired in the wake of a liquor scandal, with a federal judge saying the ex-employee's choice to retire doesn't prove the existence of some unwritten separation agreement.

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Conn. Settles $1M Fee Snafu With Pot Dispensary

By Jonathan Capriel

Connecticut's consumer protection agency has agreed to halve a $1 million fee for a marijuana dispensary, reaching a settlement that ends a dispute accusing state officials of missing a number of important deadlines, triggering the fee in the first place.

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Brief

Bipartisan Bill Eyes Boosting Cannabis Business Investment

By Sam Reisman

Members of Congress have reintroduced bipartisan legislation that would create a safe harbor for state-regulated marijuana businesses to access traditional business services without threat of federal enforcement and potentially be listed on securities exchanges.

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SEC Guidance Further Solidifies Status Of Tokenized Assets

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission recently released a statement that tokenized securities are securities governed by traditional securities laws, representing continued regulatory clarity and the development of expanded technical standards and risk management guidelines that can only improve the long-term viability of financial markets, say attorneys at Barnes & Thornburg.

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Agentic AI Use May Trigger Existing Consumer Finance Laws

As artificial intelligence agents interact more and more with payment systems, financial institutions should be cognizant of how existing consumer protection laws like the Equal Credit Opportunity Act apply when transactions are executed by automated systems rather than individuals, noting authorization and liability gaps, say attorneys at Sheppard.

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Breaking Down State Legislative Efforts In Telecom Security

As the federal government has strengthened national security safeguards for the telecommunications ecosystem, states have also asserted a role in telecom security, with variations among these regimes risking regulatory fragmentation and complicating compliance strategies, say attorneys at Hogan Lovells.

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7 Employer Tips For Handling Calif. Privacy Risk Assessments

Recent changes to the California Consumer Privacy Act require certain employers to complete detailed risk assessments before handling workforce data in many routine ways, so employers should assess whether previous risk assessments can be reused or combined, assemble a team, and create a plan of action, among other steps, say attorneys at Littler.

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Navigating Venezuelan Oil And Gas Sanctions Rollbacks

The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control has issued a series of general licenses representing the broadest easing of Venezuela-related sanctions in years, and creating significant new opportunities — but only for entities prepared to meet the rigorous conditions attached to OFAC's phased sanctions relief, say attorneys at Winston & Strawn.

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Labor & Employment Head Named Next Morgan Lewis Chair

By Tracey Read

Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP announced Monday that the global leader of its labor and employment practice was unanimously elected as the firm's next chair to take over for Jami McKeon, who will retire at the end of the year.

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Social Media Atty Sanctioned For 'Most Shameful Moment'

By Craig Clough

A California judge on Monday sanctioned an attorney for the plaintiff in a bellwether trial alleging Meta Platforms and Google's social media platforms harm children's mental health, fining him $1,100 and keeping him off the plaintiffs' steering committee for violating court rules by twice filming inside the courthouse.

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Immigration Judges To Challenge Their Firing At Fed. Circ.

By Britain Eakin

Attorneys for a pair of fired immigration judges said Monday they will ask the Federal Circuit to review a federal panel ruling that stripped them of civil service protections, warning of a dramatic expansion of presidential authority over the civil workforce.

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Day Pitney Fights DQ Over Ex-Justice's Time On Case He Heard

By Aaron Keller

Day Pitney LLP has apologized after former Connecticut Supreme Court Chief Justice Richard A. Robinson, now a firm partner, billed 15.7 hours for reviewing a since-remanded case he heard years ago as a justice, but the firm said the "error" should not disqualify its other lawyers from advancing the litigation. 

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Reed Smith Pushes To Continue Atty Depo In NJ Bias Suit

By Jake Maher

Reed Smith LLP is urging a New Jersey state trial court to allow it to resume its deposition of a former attorney suing it for gender discrimination years after the last deposition date in the wake of an appeals court decision widely expanding the scope of discovery.

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Ramey IP Attys, Client Must Pay $107K Fees In Bad-Faith Suit

By Emily Sawicki

A San Francisco federal judge has ordered three sanctioned attorneys, including Texas intellectual property lawyer William Ramey III, together with their client, to cover $107,389 in attorney fees stemming from three identical patent suits the lawyers launched and withdrew in 2024, also ordering Ramey to show cause why he should not face further sanctions.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court's docket this past week featured high-stakes disputes involving major consumer brands, a reinstated video game executive, revived noncompete and compensation claims and fresh allegations of corporate misconduct in the healthcare sector.

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