Analysis

High Court's Med Mal Ruling Won't Spark Rise In Suits

By Y. Peter Kang

The U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling that a Delaware medical malpractice statute can't be enforced in federal court won't cause a noticeable rise in cases, experts said, but it could lay the groundwork for other cases involving conflicting procedural state laws.

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More Push In The 'Push-Pull' As DOJ Targets 'Gamesmanship'

By Bryan Koenig

The U.S. Department of Justice continues to build its task force targeting "gamesmanship" that it says BigLaw attorneys for major companies, especially technology platforms, are using to obstruct antitrust investigations — an effort that has been welcomed by some practitioners and questioned by others.

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High Court Unlikely To Walk Back MLB's Antitrust Privilege

By David Steele

Baseball's status as the lone sport exempt from federal antitrust laws is likely to evade U.S. Supreme Court scrutiny, with legal experts saying that only an extraordinary challenge could make justices even consider it.

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Feds' Wind Farm National Security Claim Faces Skepticism

By Keith Goldberg

Federal courts aren't buying the Trump administration's argument that construction of offshore wind farms should be halted for national security reasons, with some judges suggesting that the government isn't making its claim in good faith.

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Trio Leading US Atty Office Raises 'Red Flag' For Judge

By Carla Baranauckas

The same federal judge who disqualified President Donald Trump's former personal counsel Alina Habba as New Jersey's top federal prosecutor asked the government Friday to explain why the "triumvirate of attorneys" now supervising the office was any more legitimate.

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1st Circ. Says Mass. Residents' Zoning Suit Lacks Standing

By Isaac Monterose

The First Circuit backed the dismissal of a suit filed by residents of a Massachusetts town who sued over the local planning board's proposed high-density multifamily zoning district, ruling that they lacked standing to sue.

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Dems Push For Another Round Of Jack Smith Testimony

By Courtney Bublé

Following former special counsel Jack Smith's congressional appearance, Democrats are looking for him to return once he is able to speak about the second volume of his report on President Donald Trump's retention of classified documents after he left office.

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USDA Defends SNAP Pilot In Colo. Legality Challenge

By Zach Dupont

The U.S. Department of Agriculture told a federal judge that Colorado's request for an injunction restricting it from enforcing a new pilot project for Supplemental Nutrition Act Program recipients should be rejected because the state has not suffered any actual harm.

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Mass. Judge Seeks Input On Kalshi Sports Ban

By Julie Manganis

A Massachusetts state court judge said Friday he is still grappling with how to craft an order barring prediction market Kalshi from promoting sports-related event offerings in the state without infringing on the rights of existing contract holders, asking counsel for the company and the Massachusetts Office of the Attorney General for help hammering out the details.

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Voter Groups Ask To Renew Halt On Ga.'s Food & Water Ban

By Chart Riggall

Voting rights groups asked a federal judge Thursday to reinstate an injunction against Georgia enforcing a ban on handing out food and water to voters in line outside of polling places, arguing a recent Eleventh Circuit opinion vacating the injunction didn't undermine any of their substantive arguments.

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OCC Won't Delay Trump Family-Tied Co. Bank Charter Review

By Rae Ann Varona

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency's head, Jonathan Gould, on Friday refused to delay a review of crypto firm World Liberty Financial's national trust bank application, rebuffing concerns by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., that President Donald Trump's close ties to the company pose a conflict of interest.

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Conservative Org. Contests SEC's Delay Bid In Data Tool Case

By Jessica Corso

The conservative think tank leading the case against the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's market oversight tool known as the consolidated audit trail has asked a Texas federal judge not to delay legal proceedings any further while the agency works to change the tool.

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Warren Tells CFPB's Vought To Heed His Boss On Credit Cards

By Jon Hill

A top Democratic senator on Friday pointedly challenged the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to follow through on President Donald Trump's credit card affordability concerns, questioning whether its current chief is "disregarding" White House wishes.

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DC Circ. Backs FERC In Oil Pipeline Pricing Dispute

By Elaine Briseño

The D.C. Circuit on Friday denied a petition challenging the method used by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to determine the value of oil flowing through an Alaskan pipeline, finding the agency correctly considered inflation and other factors.

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Trump Admin's EV Infrastructure Funding Pause Vacated

By Rachel Riley

A Seattle federal judge said Friday that President Donald Trump's administration overstepped its statutory powers and broke federal law by abruptly freezing approved funding for new electric vehicle charging infrastructure last year, vacating the program's suspension and siding with 20 states and environmental groups who challenged the move.

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$7B Grain Belt Power Line Project Can Move Forward In Ill.

By Celeste Bott

The Illinois Supreme Court on Friday allowed Grain Belt Express LLC to move forward with plans to stretch a high-voltage direct current transmission line across nine southern Illinois counties as part of a $7 billion power supply project, reversing a lower court that said the company behind the project hadn't properly shown that it could finance it.

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Mich. AG Sues Major Oil Co. 'Cartel' Amid Fight With DOJ

By Sarah Jarvis

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel filed an antitrust suit in federal court against BP, Shell, Chevron, Exxon and the American Petroleum Institute on Friday, claiming they conspired to maintain market dominance by steering money away from renewable energy and using a bevy of other tactics including intimidation and information suppression.

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Green, Tribal Orgs. Fear Utah Lawmaker 'Attack' On Monument

By Joyce Hanson

Environmental and tribal groups have warned that Utah's Republican members of Congress are planning to launch an "attack" against the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument as they seek to overturn a resource management plan designed to protect the public land as an ecological and cultural resource.

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Enviros Seek Quick Win In Mont. National Forest Logging Row

By Crystal Owens

A group of environmental nonprofits is asking a federal district court for a summary judgment win in their challenge to a plan to clear-cut 12,331 acres in Montana's Flathead National Forest, saying the project's biological opinion does not reflect the litany of construction that is already underway adjacent to the property.

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Ill. Justices Deem Permits 'Irrelevant' To Pollution Exclusion

By Celeste Bott

Whether emissions are allowed under a permit is "irrelevant" when determining whether a commercial general liability policy's pollution exclusion applies to a claim made over those emissions, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled Friday.

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4th Circ. Maroons Copyright Fight Over Pirate Ship Pics

By Theresa Schliep

The Fourth Circuit on Friday relieved for good North Carolina's government from a long-running copyright infringement suit over photos and videos of a famous pirate shipwreck, saying a lower court was wrong to revive the claims in the case, which at one point went to the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Lawmakers Float Bill To Track Content Used In Training AI

By Elliot Weld

A bill introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives would give musicians, artists, writers and copyright holders the ability to determine if their works were used to train artificial intelligence without their permission.

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Contractor Indicted For Giving National Defense Info To Reporter

By Madeline Lyskawa

A Maryland man accused of unlawfully transmitting and retaining classified national defense information was indicted by a federal grand jury one week after FBI agents seized electronic devices from a Washington Post journalist's home as part of their investigation.

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News Rating Org. Latest To Fight 'Ideological' FTC Subpoena

By Bryan Koenig

News rating organization NewsGuard became the latest group to challenge a Federal Trade Commission subpoena looking for censorship of conservative viewpoints, asking the agency to quash information demands it said was born of FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson's "ideologically motivated effort to censor and otherwise discriminate" against it.

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Brief

FCC Considers Revoking Texas Radio Station Licenses

By Corey Rothauser

The Federal Communications Commission has designated for hearing a proposed transfer of control involving three Texas radio stations, citing substantial questions about unauthorized foreign control, misrepresentations, and lack of candor that could ultimately lead to license revocation.

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Truckers Can't Lift Calif. Immigrant Driver's License Freeze

By Linda Chiem

A federal judge rejected a local trucking group's bid to force California to lift its freeze on immigrant truck driver's licenses, saying the Golden State cannot run afoul of federal mandates in a way that would jeopardize highway funding or risk the state's licensing program getting decertified altogether.

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Judge Blocks DOJ Anti-Diversity Conditions On Police Grants

By Brandon Lowrey

A California federal judge has blocked the U.S. Department of Justice from withholding community policing grants from a group of cities and counties that refuse to scrap their diversity programs and certify compliance with all of President Donald Trump's executive orders, saying those conditions directly conflict with the law that created the grants.

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Instacart, DoorDash, Uber Can't Block NYC's Delivery Laws

By Irene Spezzamonte

Two New York federal judges rejected requests by delivery companies Instacart, DoorDash and Uber to halt New York City laws regulating tipping options, minimum wage and disclosure requirements, saying that the companies didn't support their arguments that the laws violate the First Amendment and federal preemption principles.

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DOJ Alumni Back Maurene Comey In Effort To Keep Suit Alive

By Rose Krebs

U.S. Department of Justice alumni and a group that includes attorneys, law professors and former judges have filed briefs supporting former Manhattan federal prosecutor Maurene Comey's call for a New York federal court to reject the DOJ's bid to dismiss a suit over her firing.

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DC, States Back Flowers Foods Driver In High Court Arb. Case

By Benjamin Morse

Whether a worker qualifies for an arbitration exemption depends on what they do, not on the legal structure of their work, 14 states and the District of Columbia told the U.S. Supreme Court, backing a driver for Flowers Foods seeking to keep his wage suit out of arbitration.

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Ill. High Court Won't Grant Posthumous Innocence Certificate

By Elizabeth Daley

The Illinois Supreme Court denied a posthumous certificate of innocence for a man who spent over two years in prison for drug charges due to Chicago police corruption, finding Friday that the certificate is a "personal statutory right" that cannot survive the petitioner's death.

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Heart Valve Deal Was Blocked Over Innovation Concerns

By Matthew Perlman

The D.C. federal court ruling earlier this month that upended a deal for Edwards Lifesciences Corp. to purchase JenaValve Technology Inc. was based on concerns that the deal would reduce innovation by eliminating competition for a heart valve treatment that's still being developed, according to a ruling unsealed on Friday by the judge who issued it.

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Live Nation Antitrust Judge Wants To 'Punt' On State Claims

By Pete Brush

A federal judge in Manhattan asked Friday whether federal and state authorities accusing Live Nation of stifling competition in live entertainment would consent to staying the state law claims and focus on federal claims in an upcoming trial so it won't end up "lasting five years."

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Providers Oppose Credit Bureaus' Medical Debt Appeal

By Mark Payne

A proposed class of medical providers and collection agencies accusing Equifax, Experian and TransUnion of colluding to exclude medical debt under $500 from consumer credit reports is opposing a bid by the credit bureaus to expedite an appeal of a ruling that denied dismissal of the claims.

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Split 4th Circ. Sides With Feds In DHS Grant Termination Row

By Britain Eakin

A split Fourth Circuit panel ruled Friday that a district court did not abuse its discretion in finding a challenge to the federal government's termination of a citizenship preparation grant program likely belongs in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.

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DJI Challenges Broad FCC Ban On Sales Of Its Drones

By Corey Rothauser

Drone-maker DJI has petitioned the Federal Communications Commission to reconsider a December decision the company says effectively bars many of its products from being marketed, sold or imported into the U.S., arguing the agency exceeded its authority and violated the company's constitutional rights.

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EU To Suspend US Tariff Countermeasures Another 6 Months

By Dylan Moroses

The European Union will suspend tariff countermeasures covering more than €93 billion ($110 billion) of U.S. goods another six months after President Donald Trump backed down from tariff threats this week in reaching a preliminary agreement on U.S. security interests in Greenland, an official said Friday.

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Japan Adopts Global Min. Tax Tweak Exempting US Cos.

By Josh White

Japan approved changes to its minimum corporate tax regime to exempt U.S. companies from key aspects of the international rules following the renegotiation of Pillar Two, the Japanese government said Friday.

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Massachusetts Macy's Store Overvalued, Tax Board Says

By Maria Koklanaris

A Macy's store in Massachusetts was overvalued by a local assessor, the state's Appellate Tax Board said Friday, reducing assessed values for the store for years 2020-2022.

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Judge Imposes Higher Bar To Deport Professors And Students

By Ganesh Setty

The Trump administration will now face a higher evidentiary burden to deport certain noncitizens after a Massachusetts federal court ruled it violated professors' and students' free speech rights for trying to remove them for their Palestinian advocacy.

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Ethiopian TPS Holders Sue To Halt Status Termination

By Elaine Briseño

Ethiopian immigrants on Friday sued for emergency relief to stop the Trump administration from ending their temporary protected status next month, arguing discrimination fueled the decision and ignored the armed conflict and humanitarian crises in their country.

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Attys Say ICE Flouting Order Barring Noncitizens' Removal

By Britain Eakin

Attorneys for asylum seekers, who are a part of a class the government is barred from deporting until their immigration cases conclude, told a Maryland federal judge that the Trump administration keeps deporting class members anyway.

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DC Judge Says Visa Selectees' Travel Ban Suit Is Moot

By Gina Kim

A D.C. federal judge on Friday nixed a lawsuit alleging the Trump administration illegally suspended visa processing under a program aimed at diversifying the immigrant community in the United States, noting the statutory expiration of the visas after Sept. 30 has rendered their claims moot.

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Brief

Feds Appeal Ruling On ICE Detainee Bond Hearings

By Carolyn Muyskens

The government is appealing a Massachusetts federal court's finding that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees whom the agency apprehended in the state are entitled to a bond hearing.

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Ex-Mass. Pol's Sister Cops To Obstructing Benefit Fraud Case

By Carolyn Muyskens

The sister of a former Massachusetts state senator pled guilty to attempting to interfere in a grand jury investigation into the politician's allegedly fraudulent collection of unemployment benefits, federal prosecutors announced Friday.

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Convicted Ex-Budget Official Gives Up Conn. Law License

By Brian Steele

With a second corruption trial looming, former Connecticut school construction official Konstantinos Diamantis has agreed to give up his license to practice law in the state and waive his ability to reapply to the bar.

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Feds Say NY School's Native American Mascot Rebrand Illegal

By Crystal Owens

A Long Island school district is facing a federal Civil Rights Act violation for complying with New York's ban on the use of Indigenous mascots and imagery in public schools.

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Bipartisan House Bill Would Regulate Hemp-Derived CBD

By Sam Reisman

Members of Congress on Thursday unveiled a bipartisan bill to legalize and regulate the manufacture and sale of hemp-derived CBD products, while a federal ban on virtually all consumable hemp products is still due to take effect in approximately 10 months.

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Hawaii House Bill Would Legalize, Tax Cannabis

By Jaqueline McCool

Hawaii would allow adult-use cannabis sales in the state and tax the sales under a bill introduced in the state House of Representatives.

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Justices' Med Mal Ruling May Hurt Federal Anti-SLAPP Suits

The U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision in Berk v. Choy restricts the application of certain state laws in diversity actions in federal court — and while the ruling concerned affidavit requirements in medical malpractice suits, it may also affect the use of anti-SLAPP statutes in federal litigation, says Travis Chance at Brownstein Hyatt.

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5 Compliance Takeaways From FINRA's Oversight Report

The priorities outlined in the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority's recently released annual oversight report focus on the organization's core mission of protecting investors, with AI being the sole new topic area, but financial firms can expect further reforms aimed at efficiency and modernization, say attorneys at Armstrong Teasdale.

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How SEC Civil Penalties Became Arbitrary: 3 Potential Fixes

Data shows that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's seemingly unlimited authority to levy monetary penalties on market participants has diverged far from the federal securities laws' limitations, but three reforms can help reverse the trend, say David Slovick at Kopecky Schumacher and Phil Lieberman at Vanderbilt Law.

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Opinion

What Justices Got Right In Candidate Standing Ruling

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision this month in Bost v. Illinois State Board of Elections broadens standing for candidates challenging state election rules, marking a welcome shift from other decisions that have impeded access to federal courts, says Daniel Tokaji at the University of Wisconsin Law School.

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Series

Law School's Missed Lessons: How To Start A Law Firm

Launching and sustaining a law firm requires skills most law schools don't teach, but every lawyer should understand a few core principles that can make the leap calculated rather than reckless, says Sam Katz at Athlaw.

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Law Student Recruiting Moves Further Off Campus

By Emma Cueto

About four-fifths of law school summer associate recruiting in 2025 happened through employer-sponsored channels, as opposed to more traditional law school-sponsored channels, with recruiting also happening increasingly early, according to research unveiled Monday by the National Association for Law Placement.

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Fla. Bar Clears Gaetz Despite US House Ethics Report

By Courtney Bublé

The Florida Bar has decided to not discipline former U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., who was briefly President Donald Trump's pick for attorney general, despite the House ethics committee's findings that Gaetz regularly paid for sex, including with a minor.

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Texas Law Firm-Linked Plane Crashes In Maine With Fatalities

By Lynn LaRowe

A private plane connected to Texas-based litigation firm Arnold & Itkin LLP overturned and caught fire Sunday night as it attempted to take off from a Maine airport, killing at least six people on board, according to authorities and public records.

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Indiana Judge Was Shot Through Front Door, Cop Says

By Hailey Konnath

An Indiana Superior Court judge and his wife were shot by a man standing on their front porch, through their closed front door, according to an affidavit, which noted that the suspected shooter was connected to a man with pending charges in the judge's courtroom.

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Foley & Lardner Can't Dodge Pro-Palestinian Atty's Bias Suit

By Emily Sawicki

A Chicago federal judge on Monday denied Foley & Lardner LLP's bid for an early win against claims brought by a former summer associate who said discrimination led to the firm's decision to rescind a job offer after she publicly supported Palestinians amid Israel's war with Hamas.

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Minn. Judge Probes Limits Of ICE Enforcement Actions

By Ganesh Setty

A Minnesota federal judge on Monday considered whether to preliminarily block the Trump administration from sending thousands of immigration enforcement officers to the state, questioning if the surge is a coercive federal act in violation of state sovereignty.

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Full 3rd Circ. Passes On Alina Habba DQ Challenge

By Carla Baranauckas

The Third Circuit on Monday declined to reconsider its decision blocking Alina Habba from serving as acting U.S. attorney for New Jersey, denying the Justice Department's petition for rehearing and leaving intact a decision that sharply curtailed the government's use of creative maneuvers to install interim federal prosecutors.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court wrapped up the week with a slate of high-stakes deal challenges, governance rulings and oversight decisions, including an emergency bid to block a $10.9 billion bank merger, a state Supreme Court reversal reshaping stockholder agreement litigation and a major opinion allowing sexual misconduct oversight claims to proceed.

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