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  • January 02, 2025

    3rd Circ. Again Remands Honduran Woman's Removal Order

    The Third Circuit on Thursday again remanded a Honduran woman's removal order challenge back to the Board of Immigration Appeals, saying the agency made mistakes when considering whether she rebutted a presumption that an immigration hearing notice was delivered to her.

  • January 02, 2025

    Comcast Foe Fails To Resurrect Patent Case Over Xfinity App

    The full Federal Circuit on Thursday denied a request to look at a decision overturning a Delaware federal jury's infringement verdict in favor of a small California company that has been suing Comcast over patent claims for the past five years.

  • January 02, 2025

    Monsanto Appeals $175M Roundup Verdict In Pa.

    Bayer AG unit Monsanto has asked the Pennsylvania Superior Court to overturn a Philadelphia jury's award of $175 million to a man who claimed Roundup weedkiller caused his cancer, arguing that a court officer coerced the jury into coming up with a verdict that was not based on science.

  • January 02, 2025

    Bankrupt Pa. City Must Remit Casino Revenue, County Argues

    Pennsylvania's Delaware County has asked the Third Circuit to undo a bankruptcy court's ruling that the financially ailing city of Chester is excused from paying the county revenue from gambling taxes because of the city's Chapter 9 proceedings, despite an ordinance mandating that the county get a cut of the money.

  • January 02, 2025

    Feds Ink $1B Supply Deal With Constellation Nuke Plants

    The U.S. General Services Administration said Thursday it has cut the largest energy procurement deal in its history after purchasing 10 million megawatt-hours of electricity from Baltimore-based Constellation New Energy Inc. in combined energy contracts totaling more than $1 billion.

  • January 01, 2025

    Trump Begins 2nd Term With At Least 45 Judge Seats To Fill

    Incoming President Donald Trump will take office Jan. 20 with 45 seats on the federal bench to fill. Currently, there are 39 empty seats on U.S. district and circuit courts and 6 pending vacancies due to announced retirements and plans to take senior status, three of which opened on Dec. 31 and another that opened Jan. 2.

  • January 01, 2025

    Personal Injury, Medical Malpractice Cases To Watch In 2025

    A pending U.S. Supreme Court ruling over the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives' rule on so-called ghost guns and Pennsylvania's top court's possible invalidation of a government injury damages cap are among the cases injury and malpractice attorneys will be following in 2025.

  • January 01, 2025

    Copyright & Trademark Policy And Trends To Watch In 2025

    Congress has its sights set on cracking down on deepfakes this year with a pair of proposals aimed at establishing uniform protections for individuals nationally, and intellectual property attorneys are watching Illinois, which has become a go-to place to pursue online counterfeiters. Here are Law360's picks for the copyright and trademark policies and trends to watch this year.

  • January 01, 2025

    Product Liability Cases To Watch In 2025

    Cases that attorneys will be keeping an eye on in the coming year involve Monsanto and a circuit rift over preemption regarding Roundup cancer claims, as well as mass torts over claims that social media harm minors' mental health.

  • January 02, 2025

    3M, Meta MDLs Top General Liability Cases To Watch In 2025

    Courts across the country are expected to weigh in on a number of important issues this year in general liability insurance cases, led by a multidistrict litigation coverage suit in Delaware against Facebook that raises similar issues seen in opioid coverage battles. Here, Law360 looks at the top cases to watch this year.

  • January 01, 2025

    Energy Cases To Watch In 2025

    Federal courts will be addressing disputes that could reshape the authority of several U.S. energy regulators and subsequently impact the future of power development in the nation. Here are the biggest lawsuits on Law360’s radar that energy attorneys must watch in 2025.

  • January 01, 2025

    Food & Beverage Cases To Watch In 2025

    Food and beverage attorneys have no shortage of interesting issues to follow in 2025, from Albertsons turning on Kroger after their proposed $25 billion merger was blocked, to new state laws covering the life cycle of single-use packaging, and claims over heavy metals and "forever chemicals" contaminating food.

  • January 01, 2025

    Pa. Legislation To Watch: Noncompetes, Funding Solutions

    A new Pennsylvania law restricting noncompete agreements for certain healthcare workers has left some employment law attorneys with questions, while perennial public transit funding issues signal that revenue-generating regulations could appear on next year's legislative agenda.

  • January 01, 2025

    Pa. Cases To Watch In 2025: Climate Change And Skill Games

    President-elect Donald Trump's impending return to the White House casts a new light on certain pending cases in Pennsylvania courts with federal implications, such as a suburban Philadelphia county's climate change claims against oil companies that contend the suits are preempted and the U.S. Department of Justice's entrance into monopoly allegations against University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

  • December 23, 2024

    Ex-Pharma Exec Charged With $38M Insider Trading Scheme

    A former chief science officer of pharmaceutical company Humanigen faces charges in New Jersey federal court that he dumped shares of the company before it publicly announced its potential COVID-19 drug did not receive federal approval, according to an indictment unsealed Monday.

  • December 23, 2024

    3rd Circ. Must Make Newspaper Rescind Changes, NLRB Says

    The National Labor Relations Board asked the Third Circuit to greenlight an injunction against the publisher of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette involving a yearslong negotiating dispute with a NewsGuild affiliate, seeking compliance with portions of a board decision that required the company to walk back unilateral changes.

  • December 20, 2024

    3rd Circ. Denies Challenge To Pa. Autism Settlement

    A Third Circuit panel on Friday rejected claims a settlement requiring around-the-clock care for a woman with autism is too impractical to be enforced, reversing a lower-court decision and handing a victory to the Pennsylvania woman's family.

  • December 20, 2024

    Real Estate Recap: Stats, Multifamily Tech, Pot Shop Pickle

    Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including big picture stats for commercial real estate in 2024, how one proptech company is leveraging resident data for multifamily profitability, and a conversation with a BigLaw leader about navigating New York's pot shop crackdown.

  • December 20, 2024

    Judge Found Door Market Won't Change Without Factory Sale

    A Virginia federal court has rejected Jeld-Wen Inc.'s bid to overturn a landmark order forcing it to sell a door skin factory after finding the $115 million price is fair considering the circumstances and that its rival's plan to open its own factory will not restore competition.

  • December 20, 2024

    Sports Merch Cos. Fight Penn State TM Ban And Fee Bids

    Two sports merchandise companies found to have infringed The Pennsylvania State University's trademarks slammed the school's motions for attorney fees and a ban on selling the infringing products, saying the former is based on "half-truths and misstatements" and the latter is "breathtakingly broad."

  • December 20, 2024

    Top Pa. Cases Of 2024: Elon Musk, Johnny Doc, Uber Drivers

    This year was a standout for high-profile legal battles in Pennsylvania, from a blockbuster verdict against Monsanto over its Roundup weedkiller to the Philadelphia district attorney's fight with Elon Musk over allegations that he tried to influence the 2024 presidential election with his million-dollar giveaway.

  • December 19, 2024

    NLRB, Post-Gazette Trade Barbs Over Bad Faith Bargaining

    National Labor Relations Board prosecutors and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette have squared off in dueling briefs in Pennsylvania federal court over whether the newspaper bargained in bad faith with its workers' unions and whether it should be forced back to the bargaining table.

  • December 19, 2024

    9 Charged In $20M Medicaid Fraud Linked To Philly Pharmacy

    Nine people associated with a South Philadelphia pharmacy have been charged with an alleged five-year scheme to defraud Medicare and Medicaid out of $20 million by submitting false claims for prescription reimbursement of expensive medications like HIV drugs, the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office said Thursday.

  • December 19, 2024

    3rd Circ. Says Loan Shark, Robbery Not Enough For Asylum

    The Third Circuit ruled against a Brazilian family seeking asylum following threats from a loan shark and a home invasion, saying that their status as crime victims and debtors does not constitute a particular social group eligible for asylum.

  • December 19, 2024

    DOJ Wants Time In Fubo-ESPN Streaming JV Arguments

    The U.S. Department of Justice has got something to say to the Second Circuit about an attempt from ESPN and Warner Bros. Discovery to overturn a preliminary injunction stopping them from going forward with a joint sports streaming venture that a rival says will run it out of business.

Expert Analysis

  • How Methods Are Evolving In Textualist Interpretations

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    Textualists at the U.S. Supreme Court are increasingly considering new methods such as corpus linguistics and surveys to evaluate what a statute's text communicates to an ordinary reader, while lower courts even mull large language models like ChatGPT as supplements, says Kevin Tobia at Georgetown Law.

  • Finding Coverage For Online Retail Privacy Class Actions

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    Following recent court rulings interpreting state invasion of privacy and electronic surveillance statutes triggering a surge in the filing of privacy class actions against online retailers, companies should examine their various insurance policies, including E&O and D&O, for defense coverage of these claims, says Alison Gaske at Gilbert LLP.

  • Avoiding Corporate Political Activity Pitfalls This Election Year

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    As Election Day approaches, corporate counsel should be mindful of the complicated rules around companies engaging in political activities, including super PAC contributions, pay-to-play prohibitions and foreign agent restrictions, say attorneys at Covington.

  • Opinion

    Congress Must Do More To Bolster ERISA Protections

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    As the Employee Retirement Income Security Act turns 50 this month, we applaud Congress for championing a statute that protects worker and retiree rights, but further action is needed to ban arbitration clauses in plan provisions and codify regulations imperiled by the U.S. Supreme Court’s Chevron ruling, say Michelle Yau and Eleanor Frisch at Cohen Milstein.

  • Unpacking Jurisdiction Issues In 3rd Circ. Arbitration Ruling

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    The Third Circuit's recent ruling in George v. Rushmore Service Center could be interpreted to establish three principles regarding district courts' jurisdiction to enter arbitration-related orders under the Federal Arbitration Act, two of which may lead to confusion, says David Cinotti at Pashman Stein.

  • Why Attorneys Should Consider Community Leadership Roles

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    Volunteering and nonprofit board service are complementary to, but distinct from, traditional pro bono work, and taking on these community leadership roles can produce dividends for lawyers, their firms and the nonprofit causes they support, says Katie Beacham at Kilpatrick.

  • How NJ Temp Equal Pay Survived A Constitutional Challenge

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    The Third Circuit recently gave the New Jersey Temporary Workers' Bill of Rights a new lease on life by systematically dismantling multiple theories of the act's unconstitutionality brought by staffing agencies hoping to delay their new equal pay and benefits obligations, say attorneys at Duane Morris.

  • Firms Must Offer A Trifecta Of Services In Post-Chevron World

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    After the U.S. Supreme Court’s Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo decision overturning Chevron deference, law firms will need to integrate litigation, lobbying and communications functions to keep up with the ramifications of the ruling and provide adequate counsel quickly, says Neil Hare at Dentons.

  • 5 Tips To Succeed In A Master Of Laws Program And Beyond

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    As lawyers and recent law school graduates begin their Master of Laws coursework across the country, they should keep a few pointers in mind to get the most out of their programs and kick-start successful careers in their practice areas, says Kelley Miller at Reed Smith.

  • Series

    Being An Opera Singer Made Me A Better Lawyer

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    My journey from the stage to the courtroom has shown that the skills I honed as an opera singer – punctuality, memorization, creativity and more – have all played a vital role in my success as an attorney, says Gerard D'Emilio at GableGotwals.

  • How Law Firms Can Avoid 'Collaboration Drag'

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    Law firm decision making can be stifled by “collaboration drag” — characterized by too many pointless meetings, too much peer feedback and too little dissent — but a few strategies can help stakeholders improve decision-making processes and build consensus, says Steve Groom at Miles Mediation.

  • Philly Project Case Renews Ongoing Fraud Theory Tug-Of-War

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    In its upcoming term, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear Kousisis v. U.S., a case involving wire fraud convictions related to Philadelphia bridge repair projects, and may once again further rein in prosecutorial attempts to expand theories of fraud beyond core traditional property rights, say Jonathan Halpern and Kyra Rosenzweig at Holland & Knight.

  • Opinion

    Litigation Funding Disclosure Key To Open, Impartial Process

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    Blanket investor and funding agreement disclosures should be required in all civil cases where the investor has a financial interest in the outcome in order to address issues ranging from potential conflicts of interest to national security concerns, says Bob Goodlatte, former U.S. House Representative for Virginia.

  • What NFL Draft Picks Have In Common With Lateral Law Hires

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    Nearly half of law firm lateral hires leave within a few years — a failure rate that is strikingly similar to the performance of NFL quarterbacks drafted in the first round — in part because evaluators focus too heavily on quantifiable metrics and not enough on a prospect's character traits, says Howard Rosenberg at Baretz+Brunelle.

  • Considering Noncompete Strategies After Blocked FTC Ban

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    A Texas district court's recent decision in Ryan v. Federal Trade Commission to set aside the new FTC rule banning noncompetes does away with some immediate compliance obligations, but employers should still review strategies, attend to changes to state laws and monitor ongoing challenges, say attorneys at Baker McKenzie.

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