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October 03, 2025
Feds Accuse NC Farmers Of $8.5M 'Straw Producer' Crop Plot
The U.S. government accused a family farm of engaging in a roughly $8.5 million scheme to inflate crop insurance payouts, alleging in North Carolina federal court that its owner used family members as "straw producers" who had "no legitimate insurable interest in the crops insured."
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October 03, 2025
Calif. Bar Launches Randomized Client Trust Fund Audits
Attorneys in California should be on the lookout for notifications from the state bar regarding client trust fund compliance reviews, as the organization kicks off a five-week mandatory review program during which a small cross-sample of Golden State lawyers will be asked to open their books.
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October 03, 2025
6th Circ. Won't Revive Religious Rehab Group's Land Use Suit
The Sixth Circuit refused to rescue a faith-based rehabilitation operator's claims that a Tennessee county unlawfully wielded land use laws to keep it from buying a new site, finding that the group's move to a nearby county was not a substantial burden on its religious exercise.
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October 03, 2025
Insurer Fends Off Bad Faith Claim Over $1.8M Crash Award
A man injured in a car crash cannot bring a bad faith action against the other driver's insurer, a Florida federal court ruled, finding that the insurer's prompt tender of its policy limits to the man means it is protected under Florida's statutory "safe harbor" provision.
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October 03, 2025
DC Circ. Split On Challenge To IRS-ICE Info-Sharing Deal
D.C. Circuit judges seemed split Friday over whether an information-sharing agreement between immigration authorities and the IRS complies with taxpayer privacy protections, with one judge noting during oral arguments that the government immigration arm requesting the tax information appears unauthorized to make the requests.
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October 03, 2025
The Roberts Court At 20: How The Chief Is Reshaping America
Twenty years after John Roberts became the 17th chief justice of the United States, he faces a U.S. Supreme Court term that's looking transformative for the country and its institutions. How Justice Roberts and his colleagues navigate mounting distrust in the judiciary and set the boundaries of presidential authority appear increasingly likely to define his time leading the court.
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October 03, 2025
Madigan Must Report To Prison As Ordered, 7th Circ. Says
The Seventh Circuit on Friday denied former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan's request to stay his impending surrender to serve a seven-year prison sentence for bribery and wire fraud as he appeals that conviction.
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October 03, 2025
NC Couple Say State Bungled Replacement Home Project
A married North Carolina couple have hit the state government and a general contractor with a Fair Housing Act and an Americans with Disabilities Act suit, alleging in North Carolina federal court that the defendants' replacement for their hurricane-damaged home is inaccessible for wheelchair use.
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October 03, 2025
4 Criminal Law Cases To Watch As Justices Return
A slate of upcoming arguments will offer the U.S. Supreme Court the opportunity to weigh criminal defendants' ability to pursue claims of double jeopardy, secure sentencing relief and confer with trial counsel during overnight pauses in their testimony.
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October 03, 2025
Why The Criminal Defense Bar Will 'Learn A Lot' This Term
The U.S. Supreme Court's docket is packed with cases that hinge on issues of criminal law, teeing up a term that could affect the U.S. Sentencing Commission's powers and clarify where the justices stand on procedural and constitutional questions of criminal law, experts say.
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October 03, 2025
Justices Agree To Hear Freight Broker Negligence Case
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to address conflicting appellate court decisions on whether federal law shields freight brokers from state-based negligence and personal injury claims.
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October 02, 2025
Dozens Of Localities Say Feds Can't Withhold Disaster Funds
A coalition of nearly 30 localities led by San Francisco and Santa Clara County, California, have sued the Trump administration over "unlawful" threats to withhold $350 million in funding for disaster and emergency response, claiming the government has placed conditions on the funding that exceed its authority.
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October 02, 2025
DHS Blocked From Pulling $233M In Funds From States
A Rhode Island federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from reallocating $233 million in federal funds away from a coalition of Democratic-led states, the same day an appropriation for the funds was set to expire.
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October 02, 2025
FDA OKs New Generic Abortion Pill, Drawing Conservative Ire
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a second generic version of the abortion medication mifepristone, prompting outrage from anti-abortion groups and conservative politicians.
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October 02, 2025
Wrongful-Death Damages Cap Case Remanded To Trial Court
A state appellate panel on Thursday cosigned a Georgia Supreme Court opinion ordering a trial judge to reexamine whether a $7.2 million jury award in a medical malpractice case should be reduced to $350,000, saying it incorrectly applied the high court's precedent.
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October 02, 2025
Landlords Will Pay $141M To Exit RealPage Rent Pricing Case
Renters have struck over $141 million in deals with landlord companies that were accused of using property management software RealPage's algorithms to fix rent prices and are now asking a Tennessee federal court to give those settlements its blessing.
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October 02, 2025
Biz Org Says DC Circ. Must Rethink T-Mobile's Privacy Fine
The Chamber of Commerce is throwing its weight behind T-Mobile and Sprint as they ask the full D.C. Circuit to rethink the appellate court's decision not to knock out $92 million in fines the telecoms were slapped with for selling users' sensitive location data even after they knew it was being used inappropriately.
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October 02, 2025
Citing Injunction Ruling, Judge Grants Class Cert. In TPS Suit
A California federal judge on Thursday certified three nationwide classes of immigrants from Honduras, Nicaragua and Nepal who claimed in litigation that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem unlawfully terminated their temporary protected status designations, citing the U.S. Supreme Court's decision limiting lower courts' use of nationwide injunctions.
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October 02, 2025
Full 5th Circ. To Rehear Bid To Void DOT Airline Fees Rule
The full Fifth Circuit Thursday vacated a panel's January ruling that allowed for the redo of a Biden-era rule requiring airlines to more clearly disclose add-on fees upfront and agreed to consider a request from airlines that the rule itself be wiped off the books entirely.
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October 02, 2025
Feds Say Tribes In Ore. Casino Dispute Misconstrued Ruling
The U.S. Department of the Interior has asked a D.C. federal judge to approve its motion for summary judgment and to oppose three tribes' bid for a win in a suit over the agency's decision to take land into trust for another tribe's casino project.
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October 02, 2025
9th Circ. Rebuffs Flagstar's Escrow Interest Preemption Bid
The Ninth Circuit said Thursday that Flagstar Bank still owes a class of mortgage borrowers more than $9 million for unpaid escrow interest under a California law, ruling that a recent U.S. Supreme Court preemption case didn't upset circuit precedent on the issue.
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October 02, 2025
Ad Tech Judge Sees 'Tension' In Google's Economist
A Virginia federal judge told Google's economics expert Thursday that there's "tension" in his assertions that remedies for the company's advertising placement technology monopolies must be narrowly tailored to block the particular anticompetitive findings won by the U.S. Justice Department.
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October 02, 2025
Colo. Healthcare Nonprofit Sues Gov. Over Medicaid Cuts
A Colorado healthcare nonprofit seeks a court order to reverse a recent executive order from Gov. Jared Polis which cut state Medicaid spending to pediatric behavioral therapy and autism therapy services.
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October 02, 2025
University Asks Court To Shield Religious Hiring Practices
A private Christian university has urged a Seattle federal judge to find that a Washington antidiscrimination law infringes on its First Amendment rights to only hire job candidates who share its religious views, pursuing a pretrial win in its case against the state attorney general's office.
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October 02, 2025
FERC Issues Trump-Ordered Rule To Phase Out 53 Regs
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has finalized a rule to phase out dozens of its regulations, making it the first, and apparently only, federal agency to fully comply with an executive order to sunset energy-related rules.
Expert Analysis
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A Look At Robinson-Patman Enforcement In The MLM Industry
The Federal Trade Commission's recent focus on price discrimination in high-profile speeches and litigation suggests a renewed interest around Robinson-Patman Act enforcement, particularly in multilevel marketing, making it an apt time for direct sellers to audit their pricing, say Katrina Eash at Winston & Strawn and Juliet Belling Warren and Branko Jovanovic at Edgeworth Economics.
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A Former PTAB Judge Weighs The End Of Remote Hearings
Former Patent Trial and Appeal Board Judge Amanda Wieker, now at McGuireWoods, examines the costs and benefits of the PTAB's impending in-person hearing requirement, and offers suggestions for making the most out of this new regime.
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How Proposed FAA Rule May Streamline Drone Operations
The Federal Aviation Administration's recent proposed rule on autonomous drone delivery operations offers a more streamlined approach, by shifting away from the current pilot-centered framework and placing safety and operational responsibility at the level of the operator's organization, say Amanda Losacco and Jessica Monahan at Cozen O'Connor.
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What To Expect From 401(k) Plan Alternative Assets Order
The executive order this month making it easier for retirement plans to invest in alternative assets, including private equity, real estate and digital assets, marks a watershed moment for democratizing access to private markets, but the U.S. Department of Labor's anticipated formal rulemaking will also be impactful, say attorneys at Simpson Thacher.
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The Future Of Lab-Test Regs After FDA Rescinds Rule
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently rescinded its laboratory-developed tests rule in response to a Texas federal court decision this spring, reinforcing a separation of authority between the FDA and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and calling into question the FDA's role in overseeing such tests without congressional action, say attorneys at Venable.
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How AI Is Easing Digital Asset Recovery In Fraud Cases
In combination with recent legislation and a maturing digital asset infrastructure, artificial intelligence tools are making it easier to recover stolen assets, giving litigants a more specific understanding of financial fraud earlier in the process and making it economically feasible to pursue smaller fraud claims, says Solomon Shinerock at Lewis Baach.
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Fleeing Or Just Leaving Quickly? 2nd Circ. Says It Depends
The Second Circuit’s recent U.S. v. Bardakova decision adopted a new approach for determining whether a defendant who commits a crime in the U.S., and then leaves and remains abroad, intends to avoid prosecution — making it more difficult to argue against the fugitive disentitlement doctrine in most cases, say attorneys at MoloLamken.
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Sanctions Considerations For Reentering The Syrian Market
Reentering or opening new markets in Syria, now that the Trump administration has revoked certain long-standing sanctions and export controls, necessitates increased due diligence and best practices capable of adapting to a changing local environment as well as future changes in U.S. law, say attorneys at Nixon Peabody.
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What 2 Profs Noticed As Transactional Law Students Used AI
After a semester using generative artificial intelligence tools with students in an entrepreneurship law clinic, we came away with numerous observations about the opportunities and challenges such tools present to new transactional lawyers, say professors at Cornell Law School.
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Despite SEC Reset, Private Crypto Securities Cases Continue
While the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission under the Trump administration has charted a new approach to crypto regulation, the industry still lacks comprehensive rules of the road, meaning private plaintiffs continue to pursue litigation, and application of securities laws to crypto-assets will be determined by the courts, say attorneys at Skadden.
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State AGs Are Turning Up The Antitrust Heat On ESG Actions
Recent antitrust developments from red state attorneys general continue a trend of environmental, social and governance scrutiny, and businesses exposed to these areas should conduct close examinations of strategy and potential material risk, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.
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Crypto Custody Guidelines Buoy Both Banks And Funds
A statement released last month by banking regulators — highlighting risks that the agencies expect banks holding crypto-assets to mitigate — may encourage more traditional institutions to offer crypto-asset safekeeping and thereby offer asset managers more options for qualified custodians to custody crypto-assets for their clients, say attorneys at Dechert.
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Top Takeaways From Trump's AI Action Plan
President Donald Trump's AI Action Plan represents some notable evolution in U.S. policy, including affirmation of the administration's trend toward prioritizing artificial intelligence innovation over guardrails and toward supporting greater U.S. private sector reach overseas, say attorneys at WilmerHale.
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Navigating Executive Perk Enforcement Under Trump Admin
While the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission recently signaled a softer approach to executive perks, companies should remain vigilant due to the bipartisan and lengthy nature of executive perquisite cases and Chairman Paul Atkins' previous support for disclosure requirements, say attorneys at Gibson Dunn.
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Ill. Toxic Tort Jurisdiction Law Raises Constitutional Concerns
Illinois' S.B. 328, purporting to broaden state courts' jurisdictional reach over out-of-state corporations, is presented as a measure aimed at facilitating recovery in toxic tort cases, but the legislation raises significant due process and dormant commerce clause issues, say attorneys at Alston & Bird.