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August 11, 2025
Paxton Seeks Calif.'s Help With Quorum-Breaker Warrants
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton asked a California state court on Friday to enforce arrest warrants against six members of the Texas House of Representatives who are among more than 50 Democrats who left the state in protest of a Republican redistricting plan.
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August 11, 2025
9th Circ. Says LA Men Have Ammo In Gun Rights Class Action
The Ninth Circuit found Monday that a Los Angeles gun licensing policy that allowed only judges or law enforcement agents to carry concealed weapons was unconstitutional in light of a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision, reviving a proposed class action brought by three men who were arrested for violating the policy.
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August 11, 2025
AGs Target Voice Providers In 'Operation Robocall Roundup'
A bipartisan coalition of 51 attorneys general from across the U.S. is sending warning letters to 37 voice service providers to demand action against illegal robocalls, alleging they flouted Federal Communications Commission rules, according to an announcement Monday.
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August 11, 2025
Amazon Must Reveal Research Funding Info In Antitrust Suits
A Washington federal judge is forcing Amazon to provide a group of consumers with information regarding the company's alleged ties to antitrust researchers, saying the plaintiffs have presented records suggesting it "has communicated with or funded" various academic authors cited by its expert economist in three related cases.
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August 11, 2025
Judge Rules NYC Can Enforce Kava Cafe Shutdowns
A Manhattan federal judge has ruled that New York City public health and safety officials were within their authority to issue shutdown orders to restaurants that served kava, a federally unregulated psychoactive plant derivative.
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August 11, 2025
Tulsa Says Settlement Moots High Court Jurisdiction Bid
Tulsa is asking the Supreme Court to deny a petition by an Oklahoma attorney that looks to undo his conviction stemming from a speeding ticket issued on tribal lands, arguing it seeks review of a broader jurisdictional question that the municipality and the Creek Nation have already resolved.
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August 11, 2025
House Lawmakers Probe Antitrust In Sports Broadcasting
The U.S. House Judiciary Committee is looking into sports broadcasting antitrust concerns, requesting briefings from the country's four largest sports leagues and saying that the 1961 law governing their telecast agreements has expanded an antitrust "blind spot" in today's sports media rights market.
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August 11, 2025
Gov'ts Mull Gross Basis Tax For Services In UN Convention
A number of developing countries argued Monday that gross basis taxation is the easiest-to-administer option for overcoming inequitable transfer pricing rules within a protocol on taxing cross-border services in the United Nations framework convention on international tax cooperation.
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August 11, 2025
Liberty Mutual Nabs FCPA Declination, Will Disgorge $4.7M
Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. will avoid prosecution under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and disgorge nearly $4.7 million over bribes paid by employees of its Indian subsidiary, the U.S. Department of Justice said Monday, in the first FCPA declination since President Donald Trump paused prosecutions under the law.
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August 11, 2025
Trump Delays China Tariff Hikes Again, Until November
President Donald Trump delayed higher tariff rates on Chinese imports Monday another 90 days, hours before the duties were set to jump Tuesday, according to media accounts.
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August 11, 2025
Ex-Ill. Speaker's 'False Hope' Won't Delay Prison Sentence
Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan must begin serving his seven-year bribery and wire fraud prison sentence as ordered in October, a federal judge has ruled, finding that Madigan "clings to false hope" in arguing his forthcoming appeal to the Seventh Circuit will present an issue substantial enough to overturn his entire conviction.
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August 11, 2025
DHS Cuts Biden Age-Out Protections For Noncitizen Children
The Trump administration reversed a Biden-era policy aimed at protecting some children of temporary visa holders from losing their status and facing deportation when they turn 21.
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August 11, 2025
EPA Cancels Union Contracts Under Trump Order
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has canceled its collective bargaining agreements in line with President Donald Trump's directive to dozens of agencies to stop recognizing their workers' unions, which he said was to protect national security.
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August 11, 2025
Nestle Faces Suit Over Alleged Child Labor In Supply Chain
A human rights group is claiming Nestle has known of child labor being used throughout its West African cocoa supply chain and yet still marketed its "zero tolerance to child labor" policy in a new suit moved to D.C. federal court Friday.
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August 11, 2025
NTIA Urged To Let States Decide On 'Anchor' Funding
The U.S. Department of Commerce should defer to states as they decide what qualifies as an "anchor" institution for purposes of federal broadband deployment grants, two advocacy groups said Monday.
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August 11, 2025
Fired PGA Tour Reporter Says Vaccine, Mask Objections Legit
A former PGA Tour on-air talent, who was terminated for not complying with COVID-19 protocols, has told a Florida federal court that a trial is the appropriate vehicle through which to analyze whether her religious objections were "bona fide," and that the question cannot be addressed at the summary judgment stage.
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August 11, 2025
Terraform Founder Set To Plead Out Of $40B Fraud Case
Terraform founder Do Kwon is on track to enter a guilty plea in his $40 billion criminal fraud case, a Manhattan federal judge said Monday, in an order that comes ahead of a scheduled 2026 trial and amid weeks of talks between his lawyers and prosecutors.
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August 11, 2025
FCC Republican Names Senior Legal Adviser
A Republican on the Federal Communications Commission on Monday named an FCC lawyer and Wiley Rein LLP alum as her new senior legal adviser.
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August 11, 2025
Feds, Wind Farm Backers Cross Swords Over Permitting Halt
The U.S. government and opponents of the Trump administration's halt of wind farm project reviews have made their cases to a Massachusetts federal judge as to why they should prevail in litigation challenging the legality of the moratorium.
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August 11, 2025
Losing Bidder On Mass. Pike Plazas Wants Docs Released
A fuel company that lost out to Blackstone-backed Applegreen on a 35-year contract to operate highway service plazas in Massachusetts asked a state court judge to order transportation officials to turn over records of the procurement and bidding process.
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August 11, 2025
NY Judge Won't Unseal 'Redundant' Maxwell Grand Jury Docs
A New York federal judge on Monday denied the Trump administration's bid to unseal grand jury transcripts and exhibits in the prosecution of Ghislaine Maxwell, who is appealing a 20-year prison sentence for trafficking teenage girls for sex offender and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, concluding that the materials contain almost nothing new.
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August 11, 2025
Trump Cites 'Sweeping' Power In Harvard Foreign Student Suit
The Trump administration asked a Massachusetts federal judge to reject Harvard University's efforts to block a ban on the school's enrollment of foreign students, arguing that the president is acting well within his power and Harvard has no standing to sue.
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August 08, 2025
FERC's Policy Work Was A Mixed Bag For Departing Chair
Outgoing Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Chairman Mark Christie touted the agency's work to encourage gas infrastructure development during his tenure, but lamented its failure to advance electricity policies aimed at lowering transmission costs and ensuring there's enough power supplying the nation's grid.
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August 08, 2025
Trump Admin Threatens To Take Harvard's Patents
The U.S. Department of Commerce on Friday threatened to invoke the government's so-called march-in rights to take control of patents owned by Harvard University, accusing the Ivy League institution of not meeting its obligations tied to federally funded research.
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August 08, 2025
Greystar Cuts Deal To Exit DOJ's RealPage Price-Fixing Suit
Greystar Management Services LLC has reached an agreement to resolve rent price-fixing claims brought by the U.S. Department of Justice, which has gone after several landlords allegedly using algorithms to coordinate rent prices, and will cooperate in the case against RealPage, the agency announced Friday.
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Trump's Legal Battles
States, federal employee unions, various advocacy groups and several individuals have filed over 220 lawsuits challenging the Trump administration's implementation of executive orders and other initiatives. Law360 has created a database of those lawsuits, separated into categories based on their subject matter.
Expert Analysis
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How To Navigate NYC's Stricter New Prenatal Leave Rules
On top of the state's prenatal leave law, New York City employers now face additional rules, including notice and recordkeeping requirements, and necessary separation from sick leave, so employers should review their policies and train staff to ensure compliance with both laws, say attorneys at BakerHostetler.
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HHS Plan To Cut Immigrant Benefits Spurs Provider Questions
A recent notice from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services identifying new federal public benefit programs for which nonqualified aliens are not eligible may have a major impact on entities that participate in these programs — but many questions remain unanswered, say attorneys at Foley.
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A Simple Way Courts Can Help Attys Avoid AI Hallucinations
As attorneys increasingly rely on generative artificial intelligence for legal research, courts should consider expanding online quality control programs to flag potential hallucinations — permitting counsel to correct mistakes and sparing judges the burden of imposing sanctions, say attorneys at Lankler Siffert & Wohl and Connors.
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Strategies For ICE Agent Misconduct Suits In The 11th Circ.
Attorneys have numerous pathways to pursue misconduct claims against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in the Eleventh Circuit, and they need not wait for the court to correct its misinterpretation of a Federal Tort Claims Act exception, says Lauren Bonds at the National Police Accountability Project.
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Opinion
SEC Should Restore Its 2020 Proxy Adviser Rule
Due to concerns over proxy advisers' accuracy, reliability and transparency, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission should reinstate its 2020 rule designed to suppress the influence that they wield in shareholder voting, says Kyle Isakower at the American Council for Capital Formation.
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DOJ Consumer Branch's End Leaves FDA Litigation Questions
With the dissolution of the U.S. Department of Justice's Consumer Protection Branch set to occur by Sept. 30, companies must carefully monitor how responsibility is reallocated for civil and criminal enforcement cases related to products regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, say attorneys at Foley & Lardner.
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Surveying The Changing Overdraft Fee Landscape
Despite recent federal moves that undermine consumer overdraft fee protections, last year’s increase in fee charges suggests banks will face continued scrutiny via litigation and state regulation, says Amanda Kurzendoerfer at Bates White.
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Handling Sanctions Risk Cartel Control Brings To Mexico Port
Companies operating in or trading with Mexico should take steps to mitigate heightened exposure triggered by routine port transactions following the U.S. Treasury’s recent unequivocal statement that a foreign terrorist organization controls the port of Manzanillo, says Jeremy Paner at Hughes Hubbard.
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The Road Ahead For Digital Assets Looks Promising
With new legislation expected to accelerate the adoption of blockchain technology, and with regulators taking a markedly more permissive approach to digital assets, the convergence of traditional finance and decentralized finance is closer than ever, say attorneys at Dechert.
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Asbestos Trusts And Tort Litigation Are Still Not Aligned
A recent ruling by a New York state court in James Petro v. Aerco International highlights the inefficiencies that still exist in asbestos litigation — especially regarding the continued lack of coordination between the asbestos tort system and the well-funded asbestos trust compensation system, says Peter Kelso at Roux.
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Opinion
Closing The Chemical Safety Board Is A Mistake
The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board, which investigates the root causes of major chemical incidents, provides an essential component of worker and community safety and should not be defunded, says Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner.
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The Evolving Legal Landscape For THC-Infused Beverages
A recent Eighth Circuit ruling, holding that states may restrict the sale of intoxicating hemp-derived products without violating federal law, combined with ongoing regulatory uncertainty at both the federal and state levels, could alter the trajectory of the THC-infused beverage market, say attorneys at Pashman Stein.
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New NY Residential Real Estate Rules May Be Overbroad
New legislation imposing a 90-day-waiting period and tax deduction restrictions on certain New York real estate investors may have broad effects and unintended consequences, creating impediments for a wide range of corporate and other transactions, says Libin Zhang at Fried Frank.
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Cos. Must Tailor Due Diligence As Trafficking Risks Increase
As legislators, prosecutors and plaintiffs attorneys increasingly focus on labor and sex trafficking throughout the U.S., companies must tailor their due diligence strategies to protect against forced labor trafficking risks in their supply chains, say attorneys at Steptoe.
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Series
Creating Botanical Art Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Pressing and framing plants that I grow has shown me that pursuing an endeavor that brings you joy can lead to surprising benefits for a legal career, including mental clarity, perspective and even a bit of humility, says Douglas Selph at Morris Manning.