Trials

  • July 09, 2025

    Red Cross Vax Refuser Decries Firing Over Religious Beliefs

    A former nurse for the American Red Cross suffered physically and economically after she was fired from the organization for not receiving the COVID-19 vaccine, counsel for the nurse told a Detroit federal jury Wednesday, arguing that, in the United States, the Red Cross should not be the arbiter of sincerely held religious beliefs.

  • July 09, 2025

    Sandoz, Buyers Defend $275M Deal Amid State Objections

    Counsel for consumers, insurers and others urged a Pennsylvania federal court on Tuesday to approve Sandoz and its subsidiaries' $275 million deal settling claims it conspired with other companies to fix some generic drug prices, with Sandoz separately calling states' objections "a paternalistic desire to control private class action settlements."

  • July 09, 2025

    ABA Says Unlawful Discriminatory Jury Selection Breaks Rule

    Lawyers may not knowingly engage in unlawful juror discrimination under the cover of "legitimate advocacy," the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility said in a formal opinion released Wednesday, finding that doing so violates prospective jurors' equal protection rights.

  • July 09, 2025

    DHS Used Pro-Israel Sites To Target Activists, Official Testifies

    A mid-level U.S. Department of Homeland Security official told a Massachusetts federal court on Wednesday that the agency relied in part on pro-Israel websites that post dossiers on individuals deemed to support Palestine to identify potential targets for visa and green card revocations.

  • July 09, 2025

    2nd Circ. Upholds Bookkeeper's Conviction In $7M IRS Fraud

    The Second Circuit has affirmed the conviction of a moving company's top bookkeeper for his role in a scheme that paid movers off the books and bilked the IRS of $7.7 million in taxes, defending a lower court's decisions to allow testimony from a cooperating witness and other evidence.

  • July 09, 2025

    Antitrust Enforcers Beat Google, Try Meta And Keep Going

    When U.S. District Judge Leonie M. Brinkema held on April 17 that Google was liable for illegally monopolizing two out of three advertising placement technology markets targeted by the U.S. Department of Justice, her ruling contributed to potentially one of the most consequential convergences of antitrust enforcement in recent memory.

  • July 09, 2025

    Ohio Man Gets 5 Years For Trafficking Fake 'US-Made' Armor

    An Ohio federal judge sentenced a 70-year-old man to five years in prison and $5.2 million in restitution for smuggling in Chinese body armor and selling it as domestically made, certified products to American law enforcement agencies.

  • July 08, 2025

    Split 9th Circ. Axes Illegal Reentry-After-Removal Conviction

    A split Ninth Circuit on Tuesday undid a Dominican man's conviction for unlawfully re-entering the U.S. after previously being removed, saying the federal government failed to prove he ever escaped border agents' surveillance near the U.S.-Mexico border.

  • July 08, 2025

    Breaking Down Stewart's Nonstop Discretionary Denial Orders

    Acting U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Coke Morgan Stewart inundated the patent community in May and June with dozens of rulings altering the landscape of discretionary denials at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Here, Law360 goes through what you should know.

  • July 08, 2025

    Product Liability Cases To Watch In 2nd Half Of 2025

    The fate of a $2.5 billion punitive damages award against Ford and looming bench verdicts in the first PFAS trials brought by a state are among the cases that product liability attorneys will be following closely in the second half of 2025.

  • July 08, 2025

    Omnicare, CVS Tab In FCA Case Increases To $949M

    A New York federal judge on Monday raised a False Claims Act judgment against Omnicare and CVS to a combined $949 million following a jury's finding that they submitted millions of false prescription claims for long-term care patients.

  • July 08, 2025

    CME Says Investors Shouldn't Get $2B Over Trading Changes

    A class of CME Group members seeking more than $2 billion over allegedly broken promises to preserve their exclusive floor trading rights following a demutualization should lose their case because they're not entitled to something their decades-old contracts never contemplated, counsel for the exchange operator told an Illinois jury Tuesday.

  • July 08, 2025

    Del. Judge Cuts Co-Plaintiff From $57M Refined Coal IP Suit

    A co-plaintiff alongside Midwest Energy Emissions Corp. cannot share in a $57 million award from a jury that found patents on technology for refining coal to reduce mercury emissions from power plants were infringed, with a Delaware federal judge ruling on Tuesday the other company lacks standing.

  • July 08, 2025

    Aviation Co. Asks Justices To Clarify TM Jury Trial Rights

    A personal airplane manufacturer involved in a trademark dispute with a luxury charter-plane company has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to determine whether parties in infringement cases forfeit their right to a jury trial when seeking an accounting of profits as the monetary remedy instead of damages.

  • July 08, 2025

    Ex-ComEd CEO Should Get 6 Years In Prison, Prosecutors Say

    Chicago federal prosecutors said Monday that former Commonwealth Edison CEO Anne Pramaggiore, convicted alongside three others for falsifying books and records in a yearslong scheme to bribe former Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan, should serve nearly six years behind bars, while Pramaggiore said she should receive a sentence of probation.

  • July 08, 2025

    Harvard Prof Testifies Of Fear After Foreign Student's Arrest

    A Harvard University philosophy professor who has lived in the United States as a legal immigrant for nearly 30 years testified in Massachusetts federal court Tuesday that after seeing video of the arrest of Tufts University graduate student Rümeysa Öztürk in March, he was so fearful of the same fate, he canceled a trip to Germany to visit his dying brother.

  • July 08, 2025

    Conn. Atty Convicted In Shooting Denied Bond, For Now

    The Connecticut Appellate Court will not immediately allow former Cramer & Anderson LLP partner Robert L. Fisher Jr. to be released on bond while he challenges his March manslaughter conviction for shooting an attacker in his law firm's parking lot, but it will review a lower court's decision to keep him jailed.

  • July 08, 2025

    Calif. Bar Seeks 30-Day Suspension For Ex-Exec's Misconduct

    The California State Bar Court has recommended a 30-day "actual" suspension for its onetime executive director, who last year was found culpable for a "significant ethical violation" in making misrepresentations to the State Bar Board of Trustees regarding his 2014 visit to Mongolia, which allegedly cost thousands of dollars in bar funds.

  • July 08, 2025

    Medical Co. Wants High Court To Review Rushed Patent Case

    A medical device maker has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear it out on claims that a North Carolina federal judge rushed the case to trial and violated the Fifth Amendment right to due process by shortening the amount of time for discovery.

  • July 08, 2025

    3rd Circ. Probes Constitutionality Of NJ Judicial Privacy Law

    A Third Circuit panel on Tuesday dug into the constitutionality of a New Jersey judicial privacy statute, with data brokers, a data protection company and the state debating whether the law provides a vital safeguard or imposes too-burdensome restrictions on the publication of publicly available information.

  • July 08, 2025

    'Tornado Cash' Trial Judge Curbs Talk Of North Korea WMDs

    A Manhattan federal judge on Tuesday sharply limited the extent to which prosecutors may mention North Korea's alleged efforts to obtain weapons of mass destruction as they seek to convict a crypto engineer who allegedly facilitated big-dollar transactions for the secretive dictatorship.

  • July 08, 2025

    Amazon Wants To Challenge Class Cert. Bid On The Stand

    Amazon has asked a Washington state federal judge to let it interrogate the expert witness backing a bid for class action status covering tens of millions of consumers, arguing that an evidentiary hearing, with cross-examination, is needed in the antitrust litigation accusing it of keeping online retail prices artificially high.

  • July 08, 2025

    The Biggest Copyright Rulings Of 2025: A Midyear Report

    Two California judges were the first to deliver crucial rulings about what constitutes fair use in training generative artificial intelligence models — a question expected to test the boundaries of the copyright doctrine amid the emergence of the groundbreaking technology. Here is Law360's list of the biggest copyright decisions so far this year.

  • July 08, 2025

    Fed. Circ. Won't Revive EcoFactor Thermostat Patent Claims

    The Federal Circuit on Tuesday refused to revive a series of EcoFactor Inc. patents related to energy-efficient smart thermostats, backing Patent Trial and Appeal Board findings that Google showed the patents were invalid.

  • July 08, 2025

    After Conviction Upheld, Bridge Fraudster Gets Time Served

    A government contractor whose wire fraud conviction was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court was resentenced to time served in Pennsylvania federal court on Tuesday.

Expert Analysis

  • 5 Ways To Create Effective Mock Assignments For Associates

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    In order to effectively develop associates’ critical thinking skills, firms should design mock assignments that contain a few key ingredients, from messy fact patterns to actionable feedback, says Abdi Shayesteh at AltaClaro.

  • What Public View Of CEO's Killing Means For Corporate Trials

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    Given the proliferation of anti-corporate sentiments following recent charges against Luigi Mangione in connection with the killing of UnitedHealthcare's CEO, attorneys who represent corporate clients and executives will need to adapt their trial strategy to account for juror anger, says Clint Townson at Townson Litigation Consulting.

  • Takeaways From DOJ Fraud Section's 2024 Year In Review

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    Attorneys at Paul Weiss highlight notable developments in the U.S. Department of Justice Fraud Section’s recently released annual report, and discuss what the second Trump administration could mean for enforcement in the year to come.

  • Artfully Conceding Liability Can Offer Defendants 3 Benefits

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    In the rare case that a company makes the strategic decision to admit liability, it’s important to do so clearly and consistently in order to benefit from the various forms of armor that come from an honest acknowledgment, says Ken Broda-Bahm at Persuasion Strategies.

  • Mentorship Resolutions For The New Year

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    Attorneys tend to focus on personal achievements or career milestones when they set yearly goals, but one important area often gets overlooked in this process — mentoring relationships, which are some of the most effective tools for professional growth, say Kelly Galligan at Rutan & Tucker and Andra Greene at Phillips ADR.

  • Series

    Coaching Little League Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    While coaching poorly played Little League Baseball early in the morning doesn't sound like a good time, I love it — and the experience has taught me valuable lessons about imperfection, compassion and acceptance that have helped me grow as a person and as a lawyer, says Alex Barnett at DiCello Levitt.

  • 5 Litigation Funding Trends To Note In 2025

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    Lawyers and their clients must be prepared to navigate an evolving litigation funding market in 2025, made more complicated by a new administration and the increasing overall cost of litigation, says Jeffery Lula at GLS Capital.

  • Managing Litigation Side-Switching During 2nd Trump Admin

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    Now that the new presidential administration is in place, the government will likely switch positions in a number of pending cases, and stakeholders should employ strategies to protect their interests, say attorneys at Covington.

  • The Fed. Circ. In 2024: 5 Major Rulings To Know

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    In 2024, the Federal Circuit provided a number of important clarifications to distinct areas of patent law – including design patent obviousness, expert testimony admissions and patent term adjustments – all of which are poised to have an influence going forward, say attorneys at Knobbe Martens.

  • Rethinking Litigation Risk And What It Really Means To Win

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    Attorneys have a tendency to overestimate litigation risk before summary judgment and underestimate risk after it, but an eight-stage litigation framework can clarify risk at different points and help litigators reassess what true success looks like in any particular case, says Joshua Libling at Arcadia Finance.

  • Public Corruption Enforcement In 2024 Has Clues For 2025

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    If 2024 activity is any indication, the U.S. Supreme Court will likely continue to rein in expansive prosecutorial theories of fraud in the year to come, but it’s harder to predict what the new administration will mean for public corruption prosecutions in 2025, says Cathy Fleming at Offit Kurman.

  • Series

    Playing Rugby Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    My experience playing rugby, including a near-fatal accident, has influenced my legal practice on a professional, organizational and personal level by showing me the importance of maintaining empathy, fostering team empowerment and embracing the art of preparation, says James Gillenwater at Greenberg Traurig.

  • Opinion

    No, Litigation Funders Are Not 'Fleeing' The District Of Del.

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    A recent study claimed that litigation funders have “fled” Delaware federal court due to a standing order requiring disclosure of third-party financing, but responsible funders have no problem litigating in this jurisdiction, and many other factors could explain the decline in filings, say Will Freeman and Sarah Tsou at Omni Bridgeway.

  • 5 E-Discovery Predictions For 2025 And Beyond

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    In the year to come, e-discovery will be shaped by new and emerging trends, from the adoption of artificial intelligence provisions in protective orders, to the proliferation of emojis as a source of evidence in contemporary litigation, say attorneys at Littler.

  • How Decline Of Deference Will Affect Trump Policymaking

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    An administrative law regime without Chevron deference may limit the Trump administration’s ability to implement new policies in the short term, but ultimately help it in the long term, and all parties with an interest in regulatory changes will have to take a fresh approach to litigation, say attorneys at Covington.

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