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March 22, 2025
Up Next At High Court: Non-Delegation & Clean Air Fights
The U.S. Supreme Court will return to the bench Monday to hear arguments in a dispute that could revive a long-dormant separation of powers principle and trigger a regulatory power shift.
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March 21, 2025
4th Circ. Won't Pause Order To Reinstate Federal Workers
The Fourth Circuit on Friday refused to pause a Maryland federal judge's restraining order requiring the reinstatement of thousands of probationary workers who were fired from 18 federal agencies.
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March 21, 2025
11th Circ. Declines To Disturb Tesla Crash Suit Dismissal
The Eleventh Circuit on Friday affirmed a Florida federal court's dismissal of a Tesla battery deflect suit brought by the father of a teenager killed in a crash, ruling there is no evidence the teen would have survived but for the lack of a fire retardant in the car's batteries.
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March 21, 2025
7th Circ.'s Sykes' Top Rulings Before Senior Judge Transition
Chief U.S. Circuit Judge Diane Sykes of the Seventh Circuit has let her voice be heard on major issues that faced courts during her time at the top, writing important rulings that have advanced biometric privacy litigation, kept Wisconsin's mandatory bar membership intact and curbed a "copyright troll" from crowding dockets with questionable suits.
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March 21, 2025
Judge Vows To Find Out If Deportation Order Was Violated
A D.C. federal judge demanded to know how the Trump administration understood his verbal order that deportation flights headed to El Salvador be turned back last week, vowing to "get to the bottom of" whether his order was violated and what the consequences will be, in a hearing Friday.
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March 21, 2025
Divisive Del. Corporate Law Bill May Get Compromise Tweak
A Delaware state representative reported active interest Friday in possible "opt-in" requirements for proposed changes to the section of Delaware's general corporation law pertaining to potentially conflicted business transactions and controlling investors.
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March 21, 2025
DC Circ. Won't Halt Revamp Of Public Safety Spectrum
The D.C. Circuit has denied requests from two sheriffs' groups and the San Francisco transit system to delay the Federal Communications Commission's order revamping the 4.9 gigahertz spectrum band, which is heavily used by public safety organizations.
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March 21, 2025
Immigration Suits You May Have Missed: A Roundup
Litigation developments in immigration cases have been dominating the news cycle, including cases over deportations of Venezuelans, a pro-Palestinian activist's habeas petition and a challenge to a Biden-era asylum rule. With cases moving at lightning speed, Law360 is providing a rundown of developments that may have been missed over the past week.
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March 21, 2025
Fed. Circ. Revives Blood Pump Patent Suit Against J&J Unit
The Federal Circuit on Friday reinstated a blood pump patent suit by a unit of Swedish medical device company Getinge AB against a Johnson & Johnson MedTech subsidiary, faulting a Massachusetts federal judge's claim construction that led the parties to stipulate that there was no infringement.
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March 21, 2025
Iraq Urges Supreme Court To Uphold $120M Immunity Ruling
Iraq has urged the U.S. Supreme Court not to take up a petition asking it to clarify parts of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act's commercial activity exception, as it looks to avoid a $120 million judgment issued to a Pennsylvania defense contractor following a dispute over a two-decade-old contract.
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March 21, 2025
NC Top Court Revives Constitutional Claim In Forced Vax Suit
The North Carolina Supreme Court Friday partially revived a family's lawsuit alleging a 14-year-old was given a COVID-19 vaccine without his parents' consent, saying a federal law that shields certain activity aimed at resolving the spread of disease during a public health emergency covers tort injuries, not state constitutional violations.
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March 21, 2025
Gibson Gets Infringement Finding Plus $1 In Guitar TM Retrial
A Texas federal jury on Friday found that a Florida-based guitar maker infringed Gibson Brands Inc.'s trademarks on shapes of some of its famous guitars like the Flying V and Explorer but handed Gibson $1 after finding that it delayed bringing its claims.
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March 21, 2025
2nd Circ. Affirms Union Funds' Early Win In Oil Co. Audit Fight
The Second Circuit affirmed Friday an early win for a group of Teamsters local union benefit funds in a dispute against a heating oil transportation company, backing a lower court's action to force compliance with the union local's audit of contributions for covered work by the company's truck drivers.
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March 21, 2025
NC Panel Weighs Judge's Bid To Toss Votes In Top Court Race
The North Carolina state appeals court grappled Friday with whether voters can be held accountable for the mistakes of election officials as they weighed the merits of Republican candidate Judge Jefferson Griffin's election protests in the still-undecided state Supreme Court race.
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March 21, 2025
La.'s First Nitrogen Execution Reflects Broader Method Shift
At a time when many states are reassessing the use of lethal injections in capital punishment, Louisiana's recent use of nitrogen gas to execute a death row prisoner points to a shift in states' exploration of alternative methods, with even death by firing squad on the table.
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March 21, 2025
1st Circ. Affirms Hold On Education Dept. Teacher Grant Cuts
The First Circuit on Friday kept in place a Massachusetts federal judge's temporary block on $250 million in cuts to teacher training grants that were targeted by the Department of Education over their ties to diversity initiatives.
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March 21, 2025
La. Town Tells 5th Circ. No Arbitration For Hurricane Claims
A Louisiana town seeking hurricane damage coverage urged the Fifth Circuit to uphold a Louisiana district court's decision finding an arbitration clause unenforceable, noting the Louisiana Supreme Court explicitly said it disagreed with a recent Fifth Circuit ruling that had ordered arbitration under similar circumstances.
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March 21, 2025
Cigna Wants Fees After Being Cleared In Payment IP Row
Cigna has urged a Texas federal court to award it legal fees in a case where it was cleared of infringing a card payment patent, saying the patent owner was trying to get the court to rule that a Federal Circuit ruling on the same patent in another case was wrong.
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March 21, 2025
Off The Bench: Celts Sold, Tennis 'Cartel,' DraftKings In Deep
In this week's Off The Bench, two BigLaw titans help steer the record sale of a prestigious NBA franchise, tennis pros heap damning antitrust allegations on the sport's leadership, and DraftKings remains mired in a dispute over its use of baseball players' likenesses to promote their gambling offers.
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March 21, 2025
DC Circ. Won't Let Apple Intervene For Google Search Fix Trial
A D.C. Circuit panel on Friday rejected Apple's appeal seeking to participate in the remedy trial for the U.S. Department of Justice's search monopolization case against Google next month.
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March 21, 2025
Mass. Court Shields Welfare Workers From Child Harm Claims
Massachusetts' highest court said Friday that child welfare workers are immune from civil claims stemming from a fatal incident in which children were left unattended at a foster home overnight, saying the oversight shortcomings didn't directly cause the harm.
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March 21, 2025
Judge Accused Of Bias Expresses Regret Over MDL Remarks
The chief judge of the Eleventh Circuit has dismissed a judicial ethics complaint alleging that a Florida federal judge had shown impermissible bias in favor of women leading the multidistrict litigation over the hormonal contraceptive drug Depo-Provera, after the judge said she "regrets any misunderstanding" and took steps to address the issue.
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March 21, 2025
3rd Circ. Takes On NJ Judicial Privacy Law's Constitutionality
The Third Circuit has granted requests by several data brokers to review a lower court judge's ruling that New Jersey's judicial privacy and security measure, known as Daniel's Law, is constitutional.
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March 21, 2025
Conn. Firm Appeals Client's Win In Suit Over Email Scam
The Connecticut law firm Mancini Provenzano & Futtner LLC says it will appeal a negligence verdict won by a client after a fraudster infiltrated one of its attorney's emails and tricked the client into wiring $90,586 to an incorrect account.
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March 21, 2025
Gas Co. Retirees Urge 11th Circ. To Revive Pension Suit
Retirees of gas and electric utility Southern Company Services Inc. urged the Eleventh Circuit to revive their proposed class action alleging that their employer's outdated mortality tables lowered their pension payouts, arguing that a lower court wrongly tossed the dispute.
Expert Analysis
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5 E-Discovery Predictions For 2025 And Beyond
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.
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NY Plastic Pollution Verdict May Not Bode Well For Other Suits
The dismissal of New York state's public nuisance complaint against PepsiCo over pollution of the Buffalo River with the company's single use plastic bottles may not augur well for similar lawsuits filed by Baltimore and Los Angeles County, although tort law varies from state to state, say attorneys at Winston & Strawn.
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What To Expect From Federal Cybersecurity Policy In 2025
There are 12 cyber policy questions to keep an eye on as the new administration and Republican control of Congress present an opportunity to advance less regulatory approaches and revisit some choices from the prior administration, say attorneys at Wiley.
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Bid Protest Spotlight: Certification, Lateness, SBA Eligibility
In this month's bid protest roundup, Cody Fisher at MoFo examines three recent decisions from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the U.S. Government Accountability Office that address the treatment of a proposal that was timely submitted but received late, and highlight nuances of certification and small business eligibility requirements.
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How Decline Of Deference Will Affect Trump Policymaking
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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Series
Ohio Banking Brief: All The Notable Legal Updates In Q4
Ohio's banking and financial services sector saw several significant developments in the fourth quarter of 2024, including a landmark Uniform Commercial Code ruling, adjustments to the state's Homebuyer Plus Program and the launch of the state's first women-led bank, says attorney Alex Durst.
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6 Predictions For Cyber Risk And Insurance In 2025
This year is likely to bring with it some thorny and expensive cyber challenges, including increased ransomware activity, more data breach class actions and continued efforts to define business interruption loss calculations, say attorneys at Wiley.
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7 Ways 2nd Trump Administration May Affect Partner Hiring
President-elect Donald Trump's return to the White House will likely have a number of downstream effects on partner hiring in the legal industry, from accelerated hiring timelines to increased vetting of prospective employees, say recruiters at Macrae.
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Opinion
Courts Must Curb The Drug Price Negotiation Program
The Inflation Reduction Act's drug price negotiation program upends incentive structures that drive medical innovation, and courts must act appropriately to avoid devastating consequences for American healthcare and the pharmaceutical industry, says Jeff Stier at the Consumer Choice Center.
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E-Discovery Quarterly: Rulings On Custodian Selection
Several recent rulings make clear that the proportionality of additional proposed custodians will depend on whether the custodians have unique relevant documents, and producing parties should consider whether information already in the record will show that they have relevant documents that otherwise might not be produced, say attorneys at Sidley.
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Opinion
Section 230 Debates Will Continue, With Or Without TikTok
Regardless of whether TikTok is forced to shut down in the U.S. in the coming weeks, legal disputes will continue over social media platforms' responsibility under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act for harms allegedly caused by content shared on their apps, says Carla Varriale-Barker at Segal McCambridge.
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Surprise NC COVID Ruling Revises Reasonable Expectations
The North Carolina Supreme Court's recent finding in favor of policyholders in a suit for business interruption coverage due to COVID-19 shutdown orders runs contrary to most other state and federal courts' holdings on the issue, and may revitalize the reasonable expectations doctrine in the state, say attorneys at Goldberg Segalla.
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Impact Of Successful Challenges To SEC's Rulemaking Ability
In 2024, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission faced significant legal challenges to its aggressive rulemaking agenda as several of its rules were vacated by the Fifth Circuit, which could hinder the SEC's ability to enact rules extending beyond express statutory authority in the future, say attorneys at Debevoise.
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5 Transition Tools Trump Could Use To Implement His Agenda
President-elect Donald Trump will have several tools available to him to halt or otherwise claw back federal regulations promulgated during the Biden administration, including reconciliation, executive orders and memoranda, say attorneys at Gibson Dunn.
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When Judging Product Label Claims, Follow The Asterisk
A recurring question in false advertising class actions is whether misleading or ambiguous statements on a product's front label can be cured by information on the back label — but recent decisions from the Ninth Circuit suggest that a front-label asterisk can help alert consumers to seek further clarification, say attorneys at Hunton.