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8th Circ. Pick Joins List Of Personal Attys Elevated By Trump

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump's latest appellate pick has served as the president's personal attorney and bills himself as "an attorney and strategist who fights for conservative values" on his LinkedIn profile.

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Disqualification Bids Mount For Trio Leading NJ US Atty Office

By Carla Baranauckas

A New Jersey criminal defendant who previously challenged the legality of former interim U.S. Attorney Alina Habba's appointment has now moved to disqualify the three assistant U.S. attorneys overseeing the office, aligning himself with a growing bloc of defendants saying the leadership structure violates federal appointment laws.

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Harvard Docs Get Censored Articles Permanently Restored

By Chris Villani

The Trump administration agreed to maintain the court-ordered restoration of articles penned by Harvard Medical School researchers that contained references to the LGBTQ+ community after they had previously been scrubbed from a government-hosted website.

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DOJ Ends Oversight Of Cleveland Police After 11 Years

By Parker Quinlan

The U.S. Department of Justice and the city of Cleveland provided notice on Thursday to an Ohio federal judge that the two agencies intend to end a binding agreement signed over a decade ago to provide federal oversight to the city's police department.

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Washington Justices' Input Sought On Prosecutorial Immunity

By Ben Adlin

A Seattle federal judge said he intends to send a certified question to the Washington Supreme Court as part of a lawyer's racial discrimination suit against Snohomish County judges and prosecutors, giving parties a week to weigh in on what exactly the question should be.

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No Verdict Thursday In Goldstein Case

By Jared Foretek

The jury in SCOTUSblog founder Thomas Goldstein's tax evasion trial broke for the weekend on Thursday without reaching a verdict.

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BANKING & SECURITIES

SEC Rejects Call To Halt Consolidated Audit Trail Spending

By Jessica Corso

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has told Citadel Securities LLC that it will not act immediately to stop the operators of a market surveillance database from spending money collected under an old funding plan nixed by the Eleventh Circuit.

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JPMorgan Pans Trump's 'Woefully Inadequate' Debanking Suit

By Jon Hill

JPMorgan Chase on Thursday removed President Donald Trump's $5 billion "debanking" lawsuit to Florida federal court, saying it plans to fight for dismissal of the case as it rolled out a Jones Day legal team that includes Trump's former Solicitor General Noel Francisco.

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Warren Seeks Treasury, Fed Pledge Of No Bitcoin Bailout

By Rick Archer

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., is asking the U.S. Treasury and Federal Reserve to provide a written pledge not to bail out cryptocurrency markets in the face of sliding bitcoin prices, saying such a move would disproportionately benefit billionaires.

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ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL

Calif. EV Waiver Fight Faces 'Significant' Hurdles, Judge Says

By Dorothy Atkins

A California federal judge appeared open Thursday to tossing at least some claims by California and other states challenging the Trump administration's efforts to repeal Clean Air Act waivers, saying during a hearing that certain claims face "a significant challenge" following the Ninth Circuit's Center for Biological Diversity v. Bernhardt ruling.

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FERC Won't Restore Ban On Pipeline Work During Appeals

By Keith Goldberg

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Thursday stood by its elimination of a rule barring construction activities on gas infrastructure projects when approvals are being challenged, saying that burgeoning U.S. energy demand justifies the move.

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HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES

Judge Denies Mylan And Aurobindo's Bid To Escape Trial

By Jonathan Capriel

A Connecticut federal judge has once again rejected generic-drug makers' bid to escape a multistate lawsuit accusing them of engaging in an overarching antitrust conspiracy, saying the evidence supports the need for a jury trial on whether the companies colluded to fix prices and divvy up markets for dozens of generic drugs.

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Texas Suit Says Sanofi Paid Kickbacks For Prescriptions

By Spencer Brewer

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued Sanofi-Aventis US LLC in state court Thursday, accusing the pharmaceutical company of paying kickbacks to providers so they would prescribe Sanofi's drugs.

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Texas Panel Unsure Midwife Can Escape Abortion Order

By Spencer Brewer

A Texas appellate court pushed back on a midwife's assertion that a court order blocking her from providing abortions flouted the state's rules of civil procedure, saying Thursday she wasn't facing the lawsuit "for doing appendectomies."

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Red State AGs Back La. Bid To Halt Eased Abortion Pill Rules

By Zak Kostro

A coalition of 21 Republican state attorneys general, led by Nebraska, urged a federal judge to grant Louisiana's bid to block the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's 2023 rules easing access to the abortion drug mifepristone, arguing that the policy undermines states' authority to enforce their own abortion laws and imposes a "pocketbook injury" on states.

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Prisoners Slam 'Unacceptable' Delay In Ga. Trans Care Suit

By Chart Riggall

A group of transgender Georgia prisoners has accused state officials of dragging their heels in implementing a court order requiring the correctional system to resume hormone therapy treatments, asking a federal judge to force the state to begin notifying class members imminently.

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IP & TECHNOLOGY

Squires Accepts 8 PTAB Cases, Walks Back 7 Merits Referrals

By Theresa Schliep

A bulk summary order from U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires granted eight petitions for America Invents Act patent challenges while denying 14 others, including seven that he had previously accepted for merits-based review.

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TRANSPORTATION & INFRASTRUCTURE

Delta, Aeromexico Urge 11th Circ. To Void DOT Split Order

By Linda Chiem

Delta Air Lines and Aeromexico urged the Eleventh Circuit to void a U.S. Department of Transportation order directing them to dismantle their joint venture, saying the agency had offered contrived reasoning and scant evidence for purported anticompetitive effects.

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REAL ESTATE

Property Co. Denies Connection To Hawaii Temple Access Suit

By Crystal Owens

A property management company is looking to escape a challenge by a group of Native Hawaiians over access to an ancient Indigenous temple, arguing its alleged wrongful conduct is not called out with any specificity in the complaint.

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NM Lawmakers OK Longer Redevelopment Property Tax Break

By Zak Kostro

New Mexico would extend a property tax exemption period for eligible redevelopment projects under a bill approved by state lawmakers and headed to the governor.

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EMPLOYMENT & BENEFITS

NYC Pension Funds Sue AT&T Over Proxy Proposal Exclusion

By Sarah Jarvis

Several New York City pension funds have sued AT&T over what they say is the illegal exclusion of their shareholder proposal requesting a corporate diversity report from the telecom giant's corporate ballot, following an indication that regulators would allow the exclusion.

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COMPETITION

5th Circ. Pauses Order Scrapping FTC Merger Filing Overhaul

By Rae Ann Varona

The Fifth Circuit on Thursday granted the Federal Trade Commission's emergency motion to pause a Texas federal judge's ruling that threw out the agency's overhaul of premerger reporting requirements.

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Live Nation Says Judge Should Have Cut More Of DOJ's Case

By Matthew Perlman

Live Nation urged a New York federal court on Thursday to further pare down the government's antitrust case against the company, saying a ruling earlier in the week should have nixed additional allegations involving the promotion services it provides to major concert venues.

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CONSUMER PROTECTION

Gov'ts, Nonprofits Push To Block Trump's Student Loan Rule

By Joyce Hanson

States, cities and nonprofit groups urged a Massachusetts federal judge to overturn the U.S. Department of Education's new rule allowing it to bar some organizations from seeking public service student loan forgiveness, saying the rule is illegal and must be vacated.

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INTERNATIONAL TRADE

Analysis

Takeaways From US-India Interim Trade Deal

By Dylan Moroses

Trade tensions between the U.S. and India have cooled off after a deal to reduce U.S. tariffs was reached this month, but questions remain about how the interim agreement will materialize and influence future negotiations. Here, Law360 examines several takeaways from the interim deal and efforts toward a broader deal arrangement.

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Brief

Commerce Orders Duties On Paper Folders From Cambodia

By Jack McLoone

Paper file folders imported into the U.S. from Cambodia will be subject to a countervailing duty order following affirmative determinations by the U.S. Department of Commerce that these imports are benefiting from harmful subsidies and damaging U.S. domestic industry, Commerce said Thursday.

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TAX

French Court Approves Budget With Corporate Tax Hikes

By Kevin Pinner

France's government can proceed with enacting its budget, which includes taxes targeted at corporations and wealthy individuals, after it largely passed muster before the country's constitutional court Thursday.

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Md. Senate OKs Service Station Conversion Tax Break

By Michael Nunes

Maryland's political jurisdictions would be allowed to grant property tax credits for service stations converting to other uses under a bill passed unanimously by the state Senate.

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IMMIGRATION

Constitution Condemns Immigration Bond Ruling, Judge Says

By Britain Eakin

A California federal judge has vacated a Board of Immigration Appeals precedential decision that stripped immigration judges of the authority to grant or hear bond requests from detained immigrants, excoriating the Trump administration for openly defying a federal court.

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Minn. Court Weighs Civil Liberties In Refugee Detention Case

By Ganesh Setty

Constitutional concerns took center stage during a hearing in Minnesota federal court on Thursday on whether to continue blocking the Trump administration from further detaining any of the roughly 5,600 refugees in Minnesota who have not yet secured their green card.

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Coalition Asks Court To Back Probe Into IRS-ICE Data Sharing

By Kevin Pinner

More discovery is needed into the IRS' data-sharing agreement with Immigration and Customs Enforcement in light of the tax authority recently admitting to breaching its terms, a coalition challenging the agreement told a D.C. federal court in seeking a remand.

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WHITE COLLAR

Ex-ComEd VP Turned Fed Witness Gets Probation For Bribery

By Celeste Bott

An Illinois federal judge Thursday sentenced a former Commonwealth Edison executive to probation for his role in the utility's scheme to bribe ex-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, saying a noncustodial sentence was justified as his undercover recordings and testimony helped win corruption convictions against Madigan and his former colleagues.

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NY Judge Rejects 1st Amendment Challenge In FARA Case

By Ganesh Setty

A New York federal court refused to toss an indictment accusing an ex-Central Intelligence Agency analyst of aiding the South Korean government without proper registration, rejecting her position that criminal enforcement under the Foreign Agents Registration Act chills protected speech.

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Ex-LA Atty Faces Possible Suspension Over Billing Scandal

By Adrian Cruz

A California Bar Court said that former Los Angeles chief deputy city attorney James Patrick Clark should be suspended from practicing law for at least two years due to his role in a high-profile customer billing scandal.

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Judge Hesitant To DQ Prosecutor In Fla. Foreign Agent Case

By Carolina Bolado

A Florida federal judge seemed hesitant Thursday to disqualify a federal prosecutor in the criminal case against a former Florida congressman and a lobbyist accused of failing to register as foreign agents for Venezuela but chided the U.S. Attorney's Office for not providing more information to rebut the bias accusations and "put this to rest."

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NATIVE AMERICAN

Feds Look To Revive Sex Abuse Ruling Over Native Status

By Crystal Owens

The U.S. is asking the Tenth Circuit for an en banc rehearing on its decision to vacate the 30-year prison sentence of a New Mexico man convicted of sexually abusing an Indigenous girl, telling the court that its error is one of exceptional importance.

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Brief

Native Villages Drop $70M Alaskan Broadband Grant Fight

By Nadia Dreid

After almost two years of battling it out in Alaska federal court, two Native Alaskan villages have come to terms with the U.S. Department of Agriculture to end their fight with the agency over $70 million in broadband funds.

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TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Eutelsat Seeks Fast-Track C-Band Relocation Payments

By Nadia Dreid

As the Federal Communications Commission makes plans to auction off part of the upper C-band, Eutelsat thinks the agency should use its auction of the lower part of the band as a guide, particularly when it comes to paying satellite operators to clear out quickly.

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FCC Floats Nearly $200K Fine On Dahua For Late Filing

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission will seek an almost $200,000 fine against Zhejiang Dahua Technology Co. for allegedly failing to file paperwork detailing its subsidiaries and affiliates going back three years under a U.S. national security program.

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Electronics Cos. Fight 'Heavy-Handed' Next-Gen TV Mandate

By Christopher Cole

As the Federal Communications Commission looks to coax the broadcast industry into adopting next-generation TV on a wider scale, a key electronics industry group has re-upped concerns that officials might move too fast.

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CANNABIS

Religious Org. Backs Psychedelic-Using Church At 10th Circ.

By Mike Curley

An entheogenic religious organization is urging the Tenth Circuit to maintain an order blocking Utah County and Provo City, Utah, from prosecuting a church for its use of psilocybin, saying the state's religious protections shouldn't depend on whether the prosecutors consider the religion "legitimate."

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

FCC Satellite Co. Action Starts New Chapter For Team Telecom

The Federal Communications Commission's recent settlement with satellite company Marlink marks a modest but meaningful step forward in how the U.S. regulates foreign involvement in its telecommunications sector, proving "Team Telecom" conditions are not limited to companies with substantial foreign ownership, says attorney Sohan Dasgupta.

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Opinion

SNAP Rule Confusion Risks A Compliance Crisis

Recent Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program food restriction waivers pose a compliance crisis for legal practitioners advising food retailers, amid higher costs and lack of a coherent national standard, says Tyson-Lord Gray at Yeshiva University’s Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.

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NLRB May Not See Employer-Friendly Changes Anytime Soon

Despite the long-awaited confirmation of a new National Labor Relations Board general counsel and two new board members, slower case processing, the NLRB's changing priorities and an unofficial rule about a three-member majority may prevent NLRB precedent from swinging in businesses' favor this year, says Jesse Dill at Ogletree.

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A Potential Shift In FDA's Approach To Drug Trial Design

Recent guidance released by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration clarifying how Bayesian approaches — which combine prior knowledge with new data — may be used in clinical trials reflects the agency's continued interest in innovative trial designs that may accelerate drug approvals, say attorneys at Alston & Bird.

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Should Prediction Markets Allow Trading On Nonpublic Info?

Recent trading activity, such as the Polymarket wager on the U.S. capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, has raised questions about whether some participants may be engaging in trading that is based on material nonpublic information, and highlights ongoing uncertainty about how existing derivatives and anti-fraud rules apply to event-based contracts, say economic consultants at the Brattle Group.

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Locations, Permits And Power Are Key In EV Charger Projects

To ensure the success of public electric vehicle charging infrastructure projects, developers, funders, site hosts and charge point operators must consider a range of factors, including location selection, distribution grid requirements and costs, and permitting and timeline impacts, says Levi McAllister at Morgan Lewis.

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US-Ukraine Reconstruction Fund Tax Exemptions Uncertain

Tax provisions in the bilateral agreement to establish the U.S.-Ukraine Reconstruction Investment Fund, which recently announced it is accepting applications, are so broad and imprecise as to leave uncertainty regarding whether and when tax exemptions will apply to investors' income, say attorneys at Avellum and Debevoise.

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Opinion

Bridging The Bench And Bars To Uphold The Rule Of Law

In a moment when the judiciary faces unprecedented partisan attacks and public trust in our courts is fragile, and with the stakes being especially high for mass tort cases, attorneys on both sides of the bench have a responsibility to restore confidence in our justice system, say Bryan Aylstock at Aylstock Witkin and Kiley Grombacher at Bradley/Grombacher.

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Series

Trivia Competition Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Playing trivia taught me to quickly absorb information and recognize when I've learned what I'm expected to know, training me in the crucial skills needed to be a good attorney, and reminding me to be gracious in defeat, says Jonah Knobler at Patterson Belknap.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

McGlinchey Stafford Files Ch. 7 With Over $10M In Liabilities

By Lauren Berg

New Orleans-based firm McGlinchey Stafford PLLC, which announced last month that it's winding down operations after more than half a century, filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy with more than $10 million in liabilities owed to former staff and attorneys, workplace vendors, financial institutions and other creditors.

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Judge Nixes DOJ Fine In ICE Case, But Blasts 'Radio Silence'

By Hailey Konnath

A Minnesota federal judge said Friday that a U.S. Department of Justice attorney won't be fined after an immigrant's identification documents were finally returned to him, yet she tore into the DOJ's excuses and said she will "not tolerate what happened here: disobedience and radio silence from the government."

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Analysis

Deportation Policy Pushes Texas Federal Bench To The Brink

By Courtney Bublé

Texas has suffered through a shortage of judges for its federal courts for a while now, but the recent influx of immigration cases is pushing the system to the brink.

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Michigan Federal Judge Faces State's 'Super Drunk' Charge

By Bonnie Eslinger

A Michigan federal judge facing trial on drunken driving charges crashed his car on the night he was arrested, registered a 0.27% blood alcohol level and told a state trooper who asked him to recite the alphabet, "A, B, C, D, F, U," according to a police report recently made public.

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Boies Schiller Partner Faces Possible Sanctions For AI Errors

By Emily Sawicki

A Boies Schiller Flexner LLP partner must explain why he should not face monetary sanctions for filing a brief containing artificial intelligence-generated citation errors amid his representation of women who allege the Church of Scientology harassed them for reporting convicted actor Danny Masterson's sexual assaults.

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Epstein's Advisers Ink $35M Deal With Sex Trafficking Victims

By Katryna Perera

A class of victims of Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking scheme has asked a New York federal judge to grant the first OK in a settlement reached with Epstein's lawyer and accountant, who allegedly aided him in the scheme.

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Va. Judges Name New US Atty, But Blanche Says 'You're Fired'

By Lauren Berg

The federal judges in the Eastern District of Virginia on Friday unanimously appointed veteran litigator James W. Hundley to serve as interim U.S. attorney, a decision immediately met with derision from Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who purported to fire Hundley in a social media post.

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Class Attys Allege Lead Counsel Is Hoarding $75M Sutter Fees

By Dorothy Atkins

Schneider Wallace Cottrell Kim LLP has urged a California federal magistrate judge to enforce the $75.4 million fee award in Sutter Health's $228.5 million deal resolving a decade-long antitrust fight, arguing lead counsel Constantine Cannon LLP "unilaterally" and "arbitrarily" cut SWCK's fees by nearly $800,000 while boosting its own.

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Beasley Allen Can't Pause NJ Talc DQ Order, Judge Rules

By George Woolston

The Beasley Allen Law Firm can't delay an order disqualifying it from representing hundreds of women who claim their ovarian cancer was caused by Johnson & Johnson's talcum powder while it seeks review from the New Jersey Supreme Court, a state judge ruled on Friday.

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Fake Attys, Judges, Hearings: DOJ Alleges Immigration Scam

By Hailey Konnath

A group of Colombian immigrants scammed clients out of $100,000 by pretending to be immigration lawyers at a fake firm and orchestrating phony hearings in which they pretended to be judges and federal agents, complete with fake judicial robes and uniforms, federal prosecutors in New York said Friday.

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6th Circ. Chief Judge To Take Senior Status

By Courtney Bublé

Chief Sixth Circuit Judge Jeffrey Sutton announced on Friday that he will take senior status on Oct. 1 after more than 20 years on the bench.

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Judiciary Preps Training On National Injunction Limits

By Courtney Bublé

Seven months after the budget reconciliation bill was enacted, the federal judiciary is making progress on the provisions to rein in what Republicans deem abuse of nationwide injunctions targeting the Trump administration's initiatives.

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Analysis

Valve's Anti-Troll Law Win Could Open New Doors

By Dani Kass

The first jury verdict in the U.S. finding a patent owner violated state law meant to curb bad faith patent suits had unique circumstances that will be hard to repeat, but attorneys say Tuesday's decision still has them considering the little-used laws more closely.

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Florida AG Defends $100K Teaching Side Gig Amid Scrutiny

By Jake Maher

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has been on defense amid scrutiny over a reported $100,000-per-year teaching gig at the University of Florida law school, just as he sought to roll out a new anti-corruption unit.

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Attys Regret Unnoticed ChatGPT Errors In Conn. Court Filings

By Tracey Read

Attorneys ordered to explain errors in two January Connecticut Supreme Court briefs said ChatGPT altered legal arguments that counsel did not notice when they asked the artificial intelligence software to help limit duplicate passages, meet word count rules and format the filings.

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Brief

2nd NJ Defendant Joins Bid To Disqualify US Atty Leadership

By Carla Baranauckas

A second defendant in a New Jersey federal criminal case on Friday joined a pending bid to disqualify the three assistant U.S. attorneys overseeing the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey, escalating a constitutional challenge to the office's leadership structure.

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Beltway Moves: Baker McKenzie, Armstrong & Bradylyons

By Alison Knezevich

The deputy assistant attorney general of the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division returned to Baker McKenzie, while two former DOJ fraud prosecutors launched a new white collar boutique, in some of the latest legal industry happenings in Washington, D.C.

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Roundup

UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

By Max Austin

The last week in London saw the founders of Getir sue investment fund Mubadala for more than $700 million tied to alleged breaches during the company's restructuring, the Welsh Rugby Union face a claim by Swansea Council over a proposed takeover of Cardiff Rugby, and Euro Car Parks target the Competition and Markets Authority after it was fined by the watchdog. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

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Roundup

GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

Several pension funds in New York City sued AT&T, alleging the illegal exclusion of their shareholder proposal requesting a corporate diversity report from the telecom giant's corporate ballot. In the meantime, the DOJ said the Trump administration is investigating federal contractors and grant recipients for potentially engaging in discrimination, rather than for their DEI programs. These are among the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Wigdor LLP and Elefterakis Elefterakis & Panek lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a New York federal judge denied the NFL's bid to force a class of National Football League coaches into arbitration.

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In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Law360

For those who missed out, here's a look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the most buzz on Law360 last week.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

A&O Shearman

Actuate Law

Alston & Bird

Armstrong Teasdale

Arnold & Porter

Aylstock Witkin

Baker Botts

Baker Donelson

Baker McKenzie

Ballard Spahr

Barnes & Thornburg

Bartko Pavia

Beasley Allen

Berger Montague

Berk Brettler

Bernstein Litowitz

Boies Schiller

Bondurant Mixson

Bracewell LLP

Briglia Hundley

Bristows LLP

Brito PLLC

Brown Rudnick

Buchanan Ingersoll

CMS Cameron McKenna

Capital Law Ltd.

Cheng Cohen

Cleary Gottlieb

Clyde & Co

Competition Law Partners

Consovoy McCarthy

Constantine Cannon

Cooley LLP

Covington & Burling

Cozen O'Connor

Cravath Swaine

David Boies

Debevoise & Plimpton

Dinsmore & Shohl

Duane Morris

Elefterakis Elefterakis

Epstein Becker

Epstein Law Firm

Erin Joyce Law

Fabian VanCott

Faegre Drinker

Falcon Rappaport

Fieldfisher

Finnegan

Foley Hoag

Freedman Firm PC

Gateley PLC

Gibson Dunn

Greenberg Traurig

Guidance to Justice Law Firm

Hanna & Jarbo

Hanson Bridgett

Haynes Boone

Hogan Lovells

Holland & Hart

Horvitz & Levy

Howes Percival

Hugh James

Hughes Hubbard

James Dodge Russell & Stephens

Jenner & Block

Johnson Siebeneicher

Jones Day

Jones Walker LLP

K&L Gates

Kasowitz LLP

Keoghs LLP

Kirkland & Ellis

Knights PLC

Latham & Watkins

Leach & Walker

Lester Aldridge

London & Naor

Longhorn IP

Matthew Harris

McGovern Weems

McKool Smith

Meyler Legal

Morgan Lewis

Morrison & Foerster

Moses & Singer

Munger Tolles

Nabarro LLP

Norton Rose

O'Melveny & Myers

Ogletree Deakins

Orrick Herrington

Patterson Belknap

Paul Hastings

Penningtons Manches

Phillips Lytle

Pillsbury Winthrop

Pinsent Masons

Potter Minton

Proskauer Rose

Quinn Emanuel

Reed Longyear

Reed Smith

Reeves Amodio

Reyes Kurson

Robbins Geller

Roy Petty & Associates

Schneider Wallace

Selendy Gay

Sills Cummis

Slaughter and May

Squire Patton

Steffes Firm

Steptoe LLP

Sterne Kessler

Stinson LLP

Sullivan & Cromwell

TLT LLP

Torridon Law

Troutman

Trowers & Hamlins

Veale Wasbrough

Venable LLP

Vogel Slade

White & Case

Whiteford Taylor

Whiteman Osterman

Wigdor LLP

Wiggin & Dana

Williams & Connolly

Willkie Farr

WilmerHale

Winston & Strawn

Zimmer Law Group

Zimmerman Booher

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

A.P. Moller-Maersk

AT&T Inc.

Actuate Corporation

Alliance Defending Freedom

Alphabet Inc.

Amazon.com Inc.

American Civil Liberties Union

American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts

American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California

Amica Center for Immigrant Rights

Apache Inc.

Apple Inc.

Associa Inc.

Aurobindo Pharma Ltd.

Ballard Partners Inc.

Bayer AG

Bessemer Group Inc.

Buffalo Wild Wings Inc.

Business Insider Inc.

CBS Interactive Inc.

Calix, Inc.

Center for Biological Diversity Inc.

Center for Constitutional Rights

Center for Human Rights & Constitutional Law

Citadel Securities LLC

Coinbase Global Inc.

Commonwealth Edison Co.

Connecticut Legal Services

Consumer Technology Association

Cornell University

Cottrell Inc.

Dahua Technology Co. Ltd.

Danaher Corp.

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd.

Delta Air Lines Inc.

Democracy Forward Foundation

Eli Lilly & Co.

Eutelsat Communications SA

FTI Consulting Inc.

Federal Bar Association

Florida Power & Light Co.

Foster Wheeler AG.

Found

Future Energy Group

Gerson Lehrman Group Inc.

Google LLC

Grupo Aeromexico SAB de CV

Harvard University

Instagram Inc.

Intel Corp.

International Business Machines Corp.

International Finance Corp.

International Refugee Assistance Project

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

John Wood Group PLC

Johnson & Johnson

LexisNexis Legal & Professional

LinkedIn Corp.

Live Nation Entertainment Inc.

Los Angeles Department of Water and Power

Major Lindsey & Africa LLC

Marriott International Inc.

Masimo Corp.

Mediterranean Shipping Co. SA

Meta Platforms Inc.

Miami Dolphins

Miami Herald Media Co.

Michigan State University

Micron Technology Inc.

Microsoft Corp.

Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Co. Ltd.

Monsanto Co.

NFL Enterprises LLC

National Association of Broadcasters

National Association of Convenience Stores

National Association of Manufacturers

National Association of Social Workers

National Council of Nonprofits

National Rifle Association of America

Netlist Inc.

Nintendo Co. Ltd.

Ohio State University

Otis Worldwide Corp.

Patent Asset Management

RELX PLC

Relativity ODA LLC

Ricoh Co. Ltd.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

Sandoz International GmbH

Sanofi

SoftBank Group Corp.

Stanford University

Starbucks Corp.

State Bar of California

State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co.

Stericycle Inc.

Sutter Health

The Brattle Group Inc.

The Center for Reproductive Rights Inc.

The Economist Newspaper Ltd.

Thomson Reuters Corp.

Thryv Inc.

Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance Co. Ltd.

U.S. Chamber of Commerce

UBS Group AG

Uber Technologies Inc.

University of Southern California

Valve Corp.

Viatris Inc.

Yahoo Inc.

YouTube Inc.

easyJet plc

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

California Attorney General's Office

California Supreme Court

Central Intelligence Agency

City of New York

Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Companies House

Competition and Markets Authority

Delaware Court of Chancery

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

European Medicines Agency

European Union

Executive Office for Immigration Review

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Communications Commission

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Federal Highway Administration

Federal Judicial Center

Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

Federal Reserve System

Federal Trade Commission

Florida Public Service Commission

Food and Drug Administration

Food and Nutrition Service

Georgia Attorney General's Office

Government of Mexico

HMRC

Hawaii Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs

Internal Revenue Service

Jicarilla Apache Nation

Louisiana Attorney General's Office

Millennium Challenge Corp.

National Labor Relations Board

National Security Council

Native Village of Unalakleet

Nebraska Attorney General's Office

New Jersey Supreme Court

New York Attorney General's Office

Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia

Office of the Los Angeles City Attorney

Patent Trial and Appeal Board

Rural Utilities Service

State of Michigan

Tennessee Valley Authority

Texas Attorney General's Office

U.S. Agency for International Development

U.S. Army

U.S. Attorney's Office

U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Maryland

U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Minnesota

U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Illinois

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Ohio

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York

U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit

U.S. Customs and Border Protection

U.S. Department of Agriculture

U.S. Department of Commerce

U.S. Department of Education

U.S. Department of Energy

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of Transportation

U.S. Department of the Treasury

U.S. District & Bankruptcy Courts of Southern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii

U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

U.S. International Development Finance Corp.

U.S. Office of Personnel Management

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

UK High Court

Ukrainian Government

Unified Patent Court

United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio

Virginia Attorney General's Office