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April 15, 2025
Phillies Say Stats Co. Halted Contract Amid Exclusivity Suit
The Philadelphia Phillies added a breach claim to a lawsuit that accuses the owners of a baseball statistics and analytics program of trying to sell a system it was hired to develop exclusively for the Major League Baseball team.
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April 14, 2025
Covington, Latham Guide In Lowe's $1.3B Artisan Design Buy
Lowe's, advised by Covington & Burling LLP, has entered a definitive agreement to buy Dallas-based interior finishing company Artisan Design Group for more than $1.3 billion, expanding the reach of the American home improvement retail giant's professional services, dubbed Lowe's Pro, Lowe's announced Monday.
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April 14, 2025
BofA Ordered To Pay FDIC $540M For Underpaid Premiums
A Washington, D.C., federal court has ruled that Bank of America must pay the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. more than $540 million plus interest for underpaying its deposit insurance premiums, ending an eight-year-long case whose resolution was delayed in light of the U.S. Supreme Court's Loper Bright decision overturning federal agency rulemaking deference.
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April 14, 2025
4th Circ. Partly Backs $3.8M Award In 'Dickensian' Lease Row
The Fourth Circuit on Monday partly affirmed and partly vacated a $3.8 million costs and fees award stemming from a soured lease agreement for a commercial building in Baltimore, potentially concluding more than 14 years of what the panel described as "Dickensian litigation."
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April 14, 2025
7th Circ. Won't Transfer Honeywell Pension Suit To NC
The Seventh Circuit turned down Honeywell's bid to transfer a retiree's proposed class action alleging pension plan miscalculations from Illinois to North Carolina, finding the aerospace manufacturer's request for extraordinary appellate court relief was not justified.
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April 14, 2025
4th Circ. Asked To Rethink Credit Union's Liability In Scam
A metal fabricator asked the full Fourth Circuit to rethink a panel decision finding a credit union cannot be held liable for a scammer's use of its services to swindle the fabricator out of $560,000, saying the majority should have deferred to the district court's findings about the scheme.
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April 14, 2025
FTC Joins DOJ In Targeting Anticompetitive Regulations
The Federal Trade Commission launched a public inquiry Monday to look into reducing regulations that are hindering competition, following a similar move by the U.S. Department of Justice last month.
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April 14, 2025
Ex-GC's Retaliation Claim Survives Early Exit Bid In ADA Case
A North Carolina federal judge has ruled that a former associate general counsel at a historically Black college in North Carolina can pursue a retaliation claim, but not a discrimination claim, in her Americans with Disabilities Act suit alleging she was fired after seeking accommodation for her disability.
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April 14, 2025
Military Voters Say Ballots Should Count In NC High Court Race
Military and overseas voters registered in North Carolina are mounting a constitutional challenge to a Republican judge's efforts to discount their ballots, filing a federal lawsuit Monday just as the Democratic incumbent lost her bid to halt the ballot corrections process.
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April 11, 2025
NC Judge Keeps Bulk Of Win In High Court Ballot Fight
North Carolina's highest court on Friday largely let stand a lower appeals court ruling siding with the Republican challenger in the state's still-undecided Supreme Court race, declining to throw out ballots based on incomplete registrations but still drawing scathing rebukes from two justices who said their colleagues were rushing to a decision "in the dark of night."
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April 11, 2025
Real Estate Recap: Private Credit, CMBS, Algorithmic Pricing
Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including fresh takes on the rise in private credit, a surge in commercial mortgage-backed securities, and the wave of algorithmic pricing laws in the rental market.
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April 11, 2025
GAO Backs Feds' Setback, Co-Location Terms In Lease Deal
The U.S. Government Accountability Office said the General Services Administration reasonably set colocation and setback requirements in a request for lease proposals to house several agencies in one Wilmington, North Carolina, building, denying a protest that challenged the terms as unnecessary and overly restrictive.
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April 11, 2025
3M Fights 4th Circ. Bid To Undo Removal Of PFAS Suits
Lawsuits accusing 3M Inc. of "forever chemical" contamination of Maryland and South Carolina waterways should be kept in federal court, the company has argued, urging the Fourth Circuit to decline the states' request for full panel review.
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April 11, 2025
NC AG Can't Shield Most Merger Review Docs, Judge Holds
The North Carolina Attorney General's Office can't shield a host of internal records pertaining to its review of a 2019 hospital merger at the center of a compliance case, a state court judge has said, finding "only a few" records constitute protected attorney-client communications or work product.
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April 11, 2025
Landlords Look To Exit DOJ's RealPage Antitrust Case
The residential building owners accused by federal and state enforcers of violating antitrust law through their use of RealPage's software to set rental prices told a North Carolina federal court it's not against the law for companies to use the same software.
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April 11, 2025
Duke, UNC Football Players Sue NCAA Over Eligibility Waivers
Four football players from Duke and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill filed two separate lawsuits in North Carolina Business Court on Friday after the NCAA denied their requests for another year of eligibility, adding to the growing list of plaintiffs protesting the organization's eligibility rules.
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April 11, 2025
NC Judge Whittles PVC Pipe Co.'s Trade Secrets Suit
A state court judge has scaled back PVC pipe-maker Atkore International Inc.'s suit accusing a former high-level executive of taking valuable information to a competitor, greenlighting the company's claim for trade secrets' theft but rebuffing its noncompete as unenforceable.
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April 11, 2025
Outlet Chain Says NC Court Ruling Allows COVID Coverage
A retail outlet chain asked a North Carolina state court to find it had coverage for more than $50 million in pandemic losses, citing a recent state Supreme Court ruling holding that the insuring phrase "direct physical loss" included loss of property use due to COVID-19 public health orders.
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April 11, 2025
4th Circ. Says Noncitizen Can't Evade Removal Over Theft
The Fourth Circuit said petit larceny is a crime of moral turpitude that makes a noncitizen ineligible to avoid deportation, holding there was "solid ground" to deny a Mexican national's attempt to evade removal based on her 2011 conviction for petit larceny.
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April 11, 2025
Ex-BofA Worker Seeks Class Status Over Unpaid PTO
Bank of America applies the same nationwide policy of not paying unused vacation time when employees part ways with the company, a former lending officer said, urging a California federal court to grant her case class certification.
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April 11, 2025
Camp Lejeune Plaintiffs Challenge Gov't Expert Site Visit
Veterans and family members suing the federal government over injuries from toxic drinking water at Camp Lejeune have urged a North Carolina federal judge to exclude information from an expert's February visit to the base, arguing it was made after a court deadline.
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April 10, 2025
NC Justices Asked To Weigh In On Pot Burden Of Proof
A man convicted of drug trafficking is asking the North Carolina Supreme Court to weigh in on the charges against him for selling cannabis, saying the state failed to show that it wasn't legal hemp at trial.
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April 10, 2025
Whole Foods Sues CBL, Transformco Over Asbestos In Store
Whole Foods Market Group Inc. is suing entities connected to real estate investment trust CBL Properties and retail company Transformco for more than $1 million, alleging that the companies are liable for an "ill-fated and injurious" redevelopment project that created asbestos in a North Carolina Whole Foods store.
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April 10, 2025
CSX Accused Of Punishing Workers For FMLA Leave
Railroad giant CSX Transportation Inc. discourages and punishes its employees who miss work under the Family and Medical Leave Act through an attendance point system and scare tactics, according to a federal lawsuit filed by a conductor in North Carolina.
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April 10, 2025
Mental Health Co. Workers Challenge Unpaid-Training Ruling
A group of workers told a North Carolina federal court Thursday that they were employees of a residential mental health company before they started their initial training, urging the court to reconsider its ruling that they didn't need to get paid for that time.
Expert Analysis
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5 Keys To Building Stronger Attorney-Client Relationships
Attorneys are often focused on being seen as the expert, but bonding with clients and prospects by sharing a few key personal details provides the basis for a caring, trusted and profoundly deeper business relationship, says Deb Feder at Feder Development.
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Notable Q4 Updates In Insurance Class Actions
In a continuation of trends in property and casualty insurance class actions, last quarter insurers struggled with defending the merits and class certification of sales tax and fee suits, and labor depreciation cases, but succeeded in dismissing privacy class actions at the pleading stages, says Mathew Drocton at BakerHostetler.
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Series
Racing Corvettes Makes Me A Better Lawyer
The skills I use when racing Corvettes have enhanced my legal practice in several ways, because driving, like practicing law, requires precision, awareness and a good set of brakes — complete with the wisdom to know how and when to use them, says Kat Mateo at Olshan Frome.
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The Political Branches Can't Redefine The Citizenship Clause
The U.S. Supreme Court’s Wong Kim Ark opinion and subsequent decisions, and the 14th Amendment’s legislative history, establish that the citizenship clause precludes the political branches from narrowing the definition of citizen based on how a parent’s U.S. presence is categorized, says federal public defender Geremy Kamens.
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Opinion
Attorneys Must Act Now To Protect Judicial Independence
Given the Trump administration's recent moves threatening the independence of the judiciary, including efforts to impeach judges who ruled against executive actions, lawyers must protect the rule of law and resist attempts to dilute the judicial branch’s authority, says attorney Bhavleen Sabharwal.
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Rethinking 'No Comment' For Clients Facing Public Crises
“No comment” is no longer a cost-free or even a viable public communications strategy for companies in crisis, and counsel must tailor their guidance based on a variety of competing factors to help clients emerge successfully, says Robert Bowers at Moore & Van Allen.
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How Design Thinking Can Help Lawyers Find Purpose In Work
Lawyers everywhere are feeling overwhelmed amid mass government layoffs, increasing political instability and a justice system stretched to its limits — but a design-thinking framework can help attorneys navigate this uncertainty and find meaning in their work, say law professors at the University of Michigan.
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10 Issues To Watch In Aerospace And Defense Contracting
This year, in addition to evergreen developments driven by national security priorities, disruptive new technologies and competition with rival powers, federal contractors will see significant disruptions driven by the new administration’s efforts to reduce government spending, regulation and the size of the federal workforce, say attorneys at Thompson Hine.
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Class Actions At The Circuit Courts: February Lessons
In this month's review of class action appeals, Mitchell Engel at Shook Hardy discusses five federal appellate court class certification decisions and identifies practice tips from cases involving breach of life insurance contracts, constitutional violations of inmates and more.
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Series
Competitive Weightlifting Makes Me A Better Lawyer
The parallels between the core principles required for competitive weightlifting and practicing law have helped me to excel in both endeavors, with each holding important lessons about discipline, dedication, drive and failure, says Damien Bielli at VF Law.
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NC COVID Ruling May Have Greater Coverage Implications
While the North Carolina Supreme Court's recent finding in favor of policyholders in a suit for business interruption coverage due to COVID-19 comes too late for most insureds to benefit, it should nonetheless have coverage implications far beyond COVID-19 claims, say attorneys at Robinson Bradshaw.
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Opinion
Undoing An American Ideal Of Fairness
President Donald Trump’s orders attacking birthright citizenship, civil rights education, and diversity, equity and inclusion programs threaten hard-won constitutional civil rights protections and decades of efforts to undo bias in the law — undermining what Chief Justice Earl Warren called "our American ideal of fairness," says Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner.
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Expect To Feel Aftershocks Of Chopra's CFPB Shake-Up
Publications released by Consumer Financial Protection Bureau personnel in the last days of the Biden administration outline former Director Rohit Chopra's long-term vision for aggressive state-level enforcement of federal consumer financial laws, opening the doors for states to launch investigations and pursue actions, say attorneys at Hudson Cook.
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Opinion
Inconsistent Injury-In-Fact Rules Hinder Federal Practice
A recent Third Circuit decision, contradicting a previous ruling about whether consumers of contaminated products have suffered an injury in fact, illustrates the deep confusion this U.S. Supreme Court standard creates among federal judges and practitioners, who deserve a simpler method of determining which cases have federal standing, says Eric Dwoskin at Dwoskin Wasdin.
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In-House Counsel Pointers For Preserving Atty-Client Privilege
Several recent rulings illustrate the challenges in-house counsel can face when attempting to preserve attorney-client privilege, but a few best practices can help safeguard communications and effectively assert the privilege in an increasingly scrutinized corporate environment, says Daniel Garrie at Law & Forensics.