Analysis

What To Watch As Justices Take On 'Skinny Label' Case

By Ryan Davis

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday on whether to permit a patent suit over a generic heart drug using a so-called skinny label, a case with ramifications for the drug industry that could shape patent disputes more broadly and other legal areas. Here's what to watch for.

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Analysis

Meta Seeks A Rally As Instagram Addiction Suit Losses Mount

By Chris Villani

After a run of litigation losses, Meta Platforms Inc. will have to rethink its strategy in and out of court in an effort to beat back suits from coast to coast claiming that it is illegally hooking kids on Instagram, experts said, with everything from aggressive litigation to a global settlement on the table.

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Pentagon Can Escort Reporters Amid Appeal, DC Circ. Says

By Rae Ann Varona

The U.S. Department of Defense may continue requiring journalists to be escorted when on Pentagon premises while it challenges a district court's order barring its new press restrictions, the D.C. Circuit ruled Monday, saying the department will likely succeed in arguing the escort requirement didn't violate the order.

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Justices To Weigh DOL's In-House H-2A Fine Power

By Britain Eakin

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to review whether the U.S. Department of Labor can levy $580,000 in penalties via its in-house court against a New Jersey farm for alleged violations of the H-2A temporary visa worker program.

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9th Circ. Affirms Calif. Officials' Immunity In Pollution Suit

By Craig Clough

The Ninth Circuit on Monday affirmed a lower court's ruling that a citizen cannot sue two California officials over alleged groundwater contamination due to their sovereign immunity, brushing off a dissenting judge's warning the opinion could allow state facilities to "pollute willy-nilly."

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North Dakota Drug-Pricing Law Blocked In Pharma Fight

By Hailey Konnath

A North Dakota federal judge on Monday blocked the state's new drug-pricing law, agreeing with pharmaceutical companies that while the law purports to "protect the underdogs," it illegally interferes with the federal drug-pricing regime.

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Supreme Court Lets Texas Use New Congressional Map

By José Luis Martínez

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday overturned a lower court's preliminary injunction blocking Texas' redrawn congressional map, effectively clearing the state to use the newly drawn districts in November's midterm elections.

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2nd Trump Judicial Nominee Questioned Over Fla. State Case

By Courtney Bublé

For the second time in a year, a judicial nominee for a Florida federal court is under scrutiny for allegedly presiding over a state level case involving President Donald Trump while being considered for a federal judgeship.

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White House Ballroom Suit Will Continue, Preservationists Say

By Lauren Berg

The National Trust for Historic Preservation said Monday it will not drop its lawsuit over the Trump administration's plans to turn the White House's East Wing into an 89,000-square-foot ballroom, despite a shooting incident at a gala the president attended this weekend.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court this past week tackled a fresh mix of deal litigation, procedural disputes and fiduciary duty claims, with several rulings and filings underscoring the court's continued focus on contractual precision, forum enforcement and the limits of stockholder challenges.

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RNC, Pa. GOP Want To Fight Suit Seeking Open Primaries

By Matthew Santoni

State and national Republican groups sought a Pennsylvania court's permission to intervene in a lawsuit challenging the state's two-party, closed-primary election system, arguing Monday that closed primaries help the party get the best, most "energizing" Republican candidates nominated for the general election.

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DOJ's Blanche Says Scrutiny Is On Crypto Crimes, Not Coders

By Aislinn Keely

Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche on Monday reiterated his commitment to his April 2025 directive instructing U.S. Department of Justice staff to focus their resources on bad actors rather than the creators of the crypto tools they use, saying attorneys representing crypto software developers "should feel very comfortable communicating" with his office to ensure prosecutors comply with the memo.

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OCC Moves To Block Illinois' Limits On Card Swipe Fees

By Jon Hill

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has moved to block Illinois from enforcing its landmark swipe-fee law against national banks, issuing emergency rules that open a new front in an ongoing battle over the state's effort to curb merchant payment-processing costs.

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Trump SPAC, Ex-CEO Clash Over $2M In Fees

By Jarek Rutz

A Delaware Chancery Court hearing Monday laid bare a procedural fight over whether a Trump-linked SPAC must immediately pay disputed legal fees to its former CEO or can withhold them while seeking review of a magistrate's ruling.

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NJ Justices Skeptical Of Retroactivity Defense In Bond Suit

By Carla Baranauckas

New Jersey Supreme Court justices on Monday appeared skeptical of arguments by a group of major banks that a 2023 amendment to the state's False Claims Act is a substantive change that cannot be applied retroactively to long-running litigation over alleged bond-rate manipulation.

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Energy And Ag Groups Push For Biofuel Waiver Reform

By Gautama Mehta

Twenty groups from the agricultural and energy industries urged Congress to tighten requirements for a biofuel blending exemption for small refineries and lift seasonal restrictions on the sale of higher-ethanol gasoline, saying the changes would bring regulatory certainty to a volatile market.

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Wyoming's Latest Near-Total Abortion Ban Blocked

By Lauren Berg

A Wyoming judge has blocked enforcement of the latest effort by state lawmakers to enact a rigid anti-abortion law, after the Wyoming Supreme Court in January struck down the state's previous near-total ban on abortion. 

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DOJ Says Wash. 340B Drug Law Is Preempted In Novartis Suit

By Ben Adlin

The U.S. Department of Justice waded into a dispute between pharmaceutical giants and the state of Washington on Monday, arguing that federal law preempts a new state law that expands discounts that drugmakers must provide under the federal 340B Drug Pricing Program.

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Justices Won't Take Up Parents' School Gender Identity Suit

By Carolina Bolado

The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to take up a Florida couple's appeal of an Eleventh Circuit ruling affirming the dismissal of their suit alleging school officials violated their rights as parents by allowing their teenager to express their gender identity at school.

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Google Takes USPTO 'Settled Expectations' Fight To High Court

By Ryan Davis

Google asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to review the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's policy of using the age of patents as a reason to refuse to review them, saying the "unprecedented and unsupported action" exceeds the office's authority.

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4th Circ. Rejects Equestrians' Bid To Revive SafeSport Suit

By David Steele

The Fourth Circuit has ruled that the U.S. Center for SafeSport, as a private entity, can legally enforce rules and impose sanctions against Olympic sport participants, denying an appeal by three former equestrian federation members contesting punishments for allegations of abuse.

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Ga. Panel Backs Denial Of Coin-Operated Games License

By Kelcey Caulder

A Georgia appeals court has upheld a trial court's conclusion that coin-operated amusement machines owned by Idlewood Food Mart would violate a city ordinance barring such machines within 100 yards of a church, rejecting the business's bid for a green light to install the machines.  

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DC Circ. Questions Alstom's Shot At Brightline Rail Deal

By Jared Foretek

A panel of the D.C. Circuit Monday questioned how competitive Alstom actually was in its bid to build train sets for Brightline West's forthcoming high-speed rail project between Las Vegas and Southern California, as the locomotive manufacturer argued it would have had a shot if not for a Buy America waiver granted to rival bidder Siemens.

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United CEO Touts Merger Benefits Despite American Rebuff

By Linda Chiem

United Airlines' chief executive pressed the merits of a mega airline merger Monday, while also confirming recent reports that he had approached American Airlines about exploring a potential combination, and that American shut the door on any such talks.

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Colo. Justices Say Car Rental Cos. Don't Qualify As Insurers

By Hope Patti

Car rental companies that offer supplemental insurance through their own carriers cannot be deemed insurers of customers who purchase that coverage through rental agreements, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled Monday in a case against Hertz Corp.

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Va. To Allow Tax Breaks For Affordable Housing Conversions

By Zak Kostro

Virginia will allow local governments to provide partial property tax exemptions for eligible building conversions to provide affordable housing under a bill signed by the governor.

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HUD Wants To Nix 'Gender Identity' From Its Regulations

By Isaac Monterose

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development proposed a rule that aims to get rid of "references to 'gender' and 'gender identity' from HUD regulations, or remove and replace it with 'sex,'" according to a proposed rule in the Federal Register.

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Developer Fights NC County's Data Center Moratorium

By Grace Dixon

The developer behind a planned data center project in Chatham County, North Carolina, has filed suit in state court challenging a yearlong moratorium on permitting for data centers, arguing that the provision violated state law governing moratoria on development approvals.

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Penn Wins Freeze On EEOC Subpoena For Jewish Staff Info

By Anne Cullen

A federal judge agreed Monday to pause enforcement of a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission subpoena for information on the University of Pennsylvania's Jewish employees during an appellate review, calling the heated dispute "a matter of great public interest."

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Challenge To DOL Views On Rollover Advice Dropped In Texas

By Kellie Mejdrich

Insurance agents, their firms and an industry group agreed to drop a suit challenging the U.S. Department of Labor's 2020 interpretation on how fiduciary duties apply in rollover investment advice situations, which comes after the agency adjusted its regulations in March to reflect how litigation developments had changed policy.

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Texas Business Court Weighs Boeing Bid To End Union Suit

By Spencer Brewer

The Boeing Co. told a Texas Business Court judge Monday that Southwest Airlines' union cannot tie its members' economic losses to the aircraft manufacturer's misconduct alleged by the union after regulators grounded the 737 Max aircraft, saying state law bars the suit from going forward.

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Ex-Federal Workers Seek Reinstatement In Md. Federal Court

By Emily Brill

The Trump administration disguised ideologically motivated firings as routine layoffs, then pushed workers into a broken system to challenge their discharges, a group of laid-off federal workers alleged, asking a Maryland federal judge to deem the layoffs unconstitutional and reinstate the workers to their former positions.

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AGs Say Live Nation Fix Can't Wait On DOJ Deal Approval

By Bryan Koenig

Live Nation Entertainment Inc. sparred with state attorneys general expected to seek a forced Ticketmaster sale after winning a New York federal jury antitrust verdict, with the company seeking to delay the breakup fight until after the judge reviews a separate U.S. Department of Justice settlement, and the enforcers preferring parallel proceedings.

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Colo. AG Agrees To Pause Enforcement Of Landmark AI Law

By Hailey Konnath

Colorado Attorney General Philip Weiser has agreed not to enforce a new Centennial State law requiring "clear and conspicuous notice" of artificial intelligence use while state lawmakers complete rulemaking and contemplate potentially replacing the law, according to a notice filed in xAI's case challenging the measure.

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Fed. Privacy Bill Favors Biz Over People, Calif. Agency Says

By Allison Grande

The California Privacy Protection Agency is the latest to speak out against a recent congressional proposal to establish a federal data privacy framework that would wipe out more stringent state protections, arguing Monday that this approach would be a "significant step backward" in efforts to shield consumers from data misuse.

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Chipmaker Says Chinese Military Co. Label Lacks Evidence

By Madeline Lyskawa

A Chinese chipmaker has told a D.C. federal judge that the U.S. Department of Defense lacks evidence to support labeling the company a Chinese military company, saying its products are designed solely for civilian commercial and industrial uses.

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Wife Seeks Return Of SUV Where ICE Agent Shot Renee Good

By Elizabeth Daley

The wife of a woman fatally shot in her family SUV by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Minneapolis is asking that the vehicle be returned, claiming that since the federal government isn't investigating the shooting, the state should be allowed crime scene access.

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Fed. Circ. Spurns Crocs' Rehearing Bid In ITC Appeal

By Elliot Weld

The Federal Circuit on Monday declined to rehear a mixed appeal from Crocs Inc. seeking an import ban against companies it claims were importing footwear that infringes its trademarks.

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Trade Court Again Finds China Chlorine Duty Review Lacking

By Jack McLoone

The U.S. Court of International Trade on Monday ordered the U.S. Department of Commerce to try again to justify its use of Romania as a surrogate for determining market prices of a Chinese pool chemical for purposes of an antidumping order.

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House OKs Bill Letting CBP Share Counterfeit Shipment Data

By Ivan Moreno

The U.S. House passed a bill Monday that would allow U.S. Customs and Border Protection to share detailed shipment information with brands, online marketplaces and logistics companies when agents suspect imports are counterfeit.

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Democratic Sen. Presses Retail Giants On Tariff Refund Plans

By Dylan Moroses

The top Democrat on the U.S. Senate small business committee sent letters last week to major retailers and shipping carriers asking whether they planned to pass on to consumers tariff refunds they receive.

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Brief

Indian Solar Cells Face Steep Early US Duties

By Jack McLoone

Indian solar cells entering the U.S. are facing potential triple-digit antidumping duties, while those cells from Laos and Indonesia could be hit with lower duties, after the imports from all three countries were preliminarily found Monday to be sold at unfair prices.

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Commerce Probes Pipes From Austria, Taiwan, UAE For Duties

By Jack McLoone

The U.S. Department of Commerce said Monday that it has opened an investigation into whether imports of pipes known as oil country tubular goods from Austria, Taiwan and the United Arab Emirates are being sold in the U.S. at unfair prices.

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Mass. Justices Back Records Petition, Reject Pay Proposal

By Julie Manganis

Massachusetts' highest court said on Monday it saw no immediate reason to block a ballot measure that would expand the state's public records law to cover both the Legislature and governor, yet it found a second initiative tying lawmaker stipends to performance improperly steps on state Senate rules.

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Md. Judge Says Feds Must Continue Green Card Processing

By Ganesh Setty

The Trump administration must continue to adjudicate the permanent residency applications of individuals from countries subject to President Donald Trump's travel bans, a Maryland federal court has ruled, barring U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services from implementing an indefinite hold.

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New Wave Of Migrant Parole Cancellations To Go On, For Now

By Carolyn Muyskens

A Massachusetts federal judge on Monday declined to stop the Trump administration from issuing new notices ending parole for noncitizens who used a government app to enter the U.S., despite claims that the government is circumventing an earlier court order that reinstated their parole.

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Judge Says Afghans Can Press Claims Over Asylum Delays

By Tom Lotshaw

A California federal judge said four Afghan nationals can continue to pursue some claims challenging delayed decisions on their asylum applications and a Trump administration policy that paused asylum application processing.

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Board Says DACA Alone Can't End Removal Proceedings

By Britain Eakin

The Board of Immigration Appeals ruled that an immigration judge mistakenly relied solely on the deportation protection afforded by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program to terminate the removal proceedings of a Mexican DACA recipient.

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Feds Fight Illinois' Bid To End Suit Over Immigrant Protections

By Celeste Bott

The federal government pushed back Friday on Illinois' bid to dismiss its challenge to two state laws allowing private parties to sue civil immigration officers and barring civil immigration arrests at courthouses, insisting it has standing to sue over its "sovereign injury" because the statutes unconstitutionally regulate the federal government's immigration enforcement.

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Groups Challenging Fast-Track Somali Removals Drop Suit

By Britain Eakin

A Minnesota law firm and human rights group that accused the Trump administration of unlawfully fast-tracking removal proceedings for nondetained Somali immigrants voluntarily dropped their lawsuit Monday, about two weeks after a D.C. federal judge found they likely lacked standing.

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Top Court Won't Hear Former Ohio Speaker's Bribery Appeal

By Cara Salvatore

The U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to hear an appeal by former Ohio House of Representatives Speaker Larry Householder after he was convicted and sentenced to 20 years in prison for his role in the $1.3 billion FirstEnergy nuclear bailout scandal.

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7th Circ. Says Overwhelming Evidence Backs Madigan Verdict

By Celeste Bott

The Seventh Circuit affirmed the conviction of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan on bribery, conspiracy and wire fraud charges on Monday, saying sufficient evidence supports the jury's finding and there was no prejudicial error in the lower court's jury instructions that warranted unwinding his 7.5-year prison sentence.

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Texas Rep. Says Rivera Wanted Political Change In Venezuela

By Carolina Bolado

U.S. Rep. Pete Sessions, R-Texas, told jurors in Florida federal court on Monday that his meetings with Venezuelan officials set up by former Florida Congressman David Rivera were part of a larger attempt to negotiate an exit for then-Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and usher in free and fair elections for the country.

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Feds, Oklahoma Look To End Tribal Gaming Compact Fight

By Joyce Hanson

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt and the federal government have asked a D.C. federal court to hand them a win in a long-running lawsuit over tribal gambling compacts, arguing that the four tribal nations suing them fail to show that they violated the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act.

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FCC Subsidy Overhaul Plan In Works, Top GOP Rep. Says

By Christopher Cole

House lawmakers are drafting a reform bill for the Federal Communications Commission's broadband subsidy programs that could be introduced in just a few weeks, a key Republican said Monday.

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Utilities Ask FCC Not To Raise 6 GHz Device Power Levels

By Nadia Dreid

The Federal Communications Commission should reject all calls to raise the power limit that devices are allowed to operate at in the 6 gigahertz band, says an organization that represents utilities.

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NTIA Chief Says No Way To 'Contract Out' Of BEAD Rules

By Christopher Cole

The federal official in charge of a multibillion-dollar broadband deployment program on Monday reinforced the U.S. Commerce Department's stance that providers receiving grants will not be given leeway on network performance or other contract obligations.

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Attys, Advocates Call DOJ Pot Rule Historic Shift For Feds

By Mike Curley

Legal strategies are evolving quickly in the wake of last week's "historic" rescheduling of state-legal medical cannabis, as a group of attorneys and advocates gathered Monday to evaluate the trade-offs of dispensaries now being able to register like pharmacies with the feds and the potential effect on industry investments and trade.

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Greenberg Traurig Hires 6 From Holland & Knight In DC

By Alison Knezevich

Six attorneys and advisers from Holland & Knight LLP, including a leader of its federal government affairs practice group, have jumped to Greenberg Traurig LLP in a move Greenberg Traurig's chairman called "a transformative moment" for the firm's presence in Washington, D.C.

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What DOL Proposal Signals For 401(k)s, Alternative Assets

The U.S. Department of Labor recently published a highly anticipated proposed rule that could establish more defined pathways for 401(k) plan fiduciaries to consider investment options with greater alternative asset exposure, and help fund sponsors and investment managers develop such options, say attorneys at Cleary.

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Building A Persecution Case After Justices' Asylum Ruling

The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in Urias-Orellana v. Bondi raises the bar for overturning agency findings in federal court, changing how practitioners handling asylum and removal defense cases need to think about building a factual record and formulating arguments on appeal, say attorneys at Lai & Turner and Farzaneh Law.

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SEC's Enforcement Slowdown May Raise Oversight Questions

After six months of enforcement activity, it's clear that fiscal year 2026 will see an unprecedented decline in U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement activity relative to past years, but whether the SEC will be viewed as sufficiently policing the securities markets at the end of the fiscal year is more uncertain, say attorneys at Covington.

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Opinion

New Legislation May Be Necessary To Fix Flawed Cox Ruling

The U.S. Supreme Court's opinion in Cox v. Sony erroneously limited the doctrine of contributory copyright infringement and effectively eliminated such liability for internet service providers, and the most viable option to remedy the damage is to codify the pre-Cox common law of contributory copyright infringement, says Michael Cicero at Mavacy.

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How Food, Beverage Claims May Preview Cosmetic Litigation

Class action litigation targeting cosmetics and personal care products is accelerating, with a playbook that comes from the food and beverage industry — and the defenses that succeeded, and failed, in past class actions offer a critical road map for beauty and personal care brands, say attorneys at Crowell.

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ABA Settles Scholarship Suit After Disavowing Racial Criteria

By Grace Elletson

The American Bar Association struck a deal to end a suit claiming a scholarship program for racial and ethnic minorities discriminated against white applicants, in line with a vow it made last year that its programs would be race-neutral, according to a filing Monday in Illinois federal court.

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Reed Smith Targeted In Eletson Gas Ownership Fracas

By Caroline Simson

Reed Smith LLP and two of its partners are facing a $262 million lawsuit in a long-running and bitter dispute over ownership of an international gas shipping company, as well as other issues that remain unresolved following the vacatur of an underlying $102 million arbitral award for fraud.

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Alabama Justices Toss Case Over Atty's AI-Hallucinated Briefs

By Lauren Berg

The Alabama Supreme Court tossed an appeal and sanctioned a Mobile, Alabama, attorney for filing "grossly deficient" briefs that contained multiple inaccurate legal citations that the justices attributed to artificial intelligence "hallucinations."

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Justices Deny Ramey Appeal Of Sanctions In Google IP Case

By Ryan Davis

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to review $255,000 in sanctions on embattled attorney William Ramey and a client for bringing what a California judge said was a frivolous patent suit against Google, turning down his appeal arguing the decision used the wrong legal standard.

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Analysis

How A Rush To Trial Paid Off With A Rare FCPA Acquittal

By Phillip Bantz

A defense strategy to fast-track the trial in a yearslong criminal foreign bribery case against a Mexican businessman in Texas appeared to backfire when he was convicted and sent to prison last year, but the gamble ultimately paid off when a judge permanently tossed the case earlier this month.

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Toss Of Atty's LVMH Claim 'Problematic,' 2nd Circ. Judge Says

By Pete Brush

A Second Circuit judge said Monday that he is having a "hard time" understanding how the firing of a LVMH lawyer wasn't connected to her earlier harassment allegations, indicating a willingness to revive retaliation claims against the luxury goods giant.

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