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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
Aerospace Co. Workers' 401(k) Suit Lacks Details, Judge Says
An aerospace technology company dodged a proposed class action Friday alleging its employee retirement plan was loaded with costly and underperforming investment options, with a California federal judge finding the workers leading the suit needed to provide more information about supposedly comparable plans.
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March 21, 2025
Unlockd To Take Google Antitrust Battle To 9th Circuit
Defunct advertising app maker Unlockd is hoping the Ninth Circuit will revive its antitrust suit accusing Google of allowing the then-up-and-coming business to build a reliance on Google platforms and then cutting it off once it became a threat.
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March 21, 2025
Littler Selects Longtime Calif. Litigator To Lead Fresno Shop
Labor and employment firm Littler Mendelson PC has tapped a longtime litigator to be the new head of its office in Fresno, California.
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March 21, 2025
Musk Atty Spiro Evading Subpoena, Twitter Investors Say
A class of investors suing Elon Musk over allegations he tried to smear Twitter to lower the price of his $44 billion acquisition of the site says one of Musk's Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP attorneys and close advisers has refused to accept service of a subpoena to be deposed and should be served by alternative means.
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March 21, 2025
4th Circ. Revives TM Fight Over 'Westmont' Retirement Homes
A Virginia federal court incorrectly concluded that there could be no likelihood of confusion between two companies that operate retirement communities with the name "Westmont" because they are on opposite sides of the U.S., the Fourth Circuit said in remanding the case and ordering a more comprehensive analysis on potential consumer confusion.
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March 21, 2025
Taxation With Representation: Cravath, Paul Weiss, Cooley
In this week's Taxation With Representation, Google acquires Wiz, QXO Inc. acquires Beacon Roofing Supply, and the Boston Celtics are bought by a group led by private equity firm co-founder William Chisholm.
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March 21, 2025
Gov't Backs GEO To Have Full 9th Circ. Mull $23.2M Wage Row
A Ninth Circuit panel disregarded Congress' wishes when it ordered the GEO Group to pay $23.2 million because it needed to pay detainees in a work program under Washington state's minimum wage, the government said, backing the company's bid for rehearing.
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March 20, 2025
Judge OKs $51.75M Clearview AI Deal Despite AG Objections
An Illinois federal judge Thursday granted final approval to Clearview AI's $51.75 million settlement resolving multidistrict litigation challenging the company's practice of automatically collecting biometric facial data online, rejecting objections from 22 state attorneys general and the District of Columbia.
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March 20, 2025
Trump Rescinds Paul Weiss Order After Firm Strikes Deal
President Donald Trump on Thursday announced he will rescind an executive order suspending security clearances held by Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP employees after the law firm agreed to not adopt DEI hiring practices and to provide $40 million worth of pro bono services to support administration initiatives.
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March 20, 2025
'Careless People' Author Can Testify In Meta Addiction MDL
Meta Platforms Inc. on Thursday failed to block the deposition of the former executive behind the tell-all memoir "Careless People," with a California magistrate judge giving plaintiffs the green light to depose her in multidistrict litigation over social media platforms' allegedly addictive designs.
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March 20, 2025
Nippon Calls Consumer Suit Over US Steel Merger 'Baseless'
Nippon Steel Corp. has urged a California federal court to throw out a consumer suit over its blocked $14.9 billion merger with U.S. Steel Corp., calling it yet another "in a long line of baseless lawsuits" over a merger of public companies that they have "no standing to challenge in the first place."
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March 20, 2025
Media Matters Says X Can't Restrict Dispute To Texas
A nonprofit media watchdog wants to preserve its California federal lawsuit challenging social media site X's efforts to pursue defamation claims in Texas federal court, telling a Texas federal judge that X failed to adequately argue for an anti-suit injunction.
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March 20, 2025
9th Circ. Judge Takes Aim At Calif. Gun Ruling On YouTube
A Ninth Circuit judge on Thursday took to YouTube to issue a dissent over the court's decision to ban in California all high-capacity magazines for weapons, a move that several of his fellow judges lamented as "wildly improper" and said they needed to address "lest the genre proliferate."
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March 20, 2025
LA Hit With Sanctions Request In Encampment Sweep Lawsuit
Homeless residents accused the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office of hiding documents they requested in their suit challenging the constitutionality of encampment sweeps, asking a California federal court for case-ending sanctions for the second time in two weeks.
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March 20, 2025
'Epic Self-Own': Lively Says Baldoni Libel Suit Hikes Damages
Blake Lively urged a New York federal judge on Thursday to toss Justin Baldoni's claims that she defamed him with sexual harassment allegations, saying the law prohibits such retaliatory libel suits and that he has committed an "epic self-own" that will put him on the hook for additional damages.
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March 20, 2025
Calif. Panel Doubts Byron Allen's $100M McDonald's Suit
A California appeals panel expressed skepticism Thursday at an attempt by Byron Allen's television companies to revive their $100 million lawsuit accusing McDonald's of lying in a 2021 pledge to spend more advertising money on Black-owned media.
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March 20, 2025
State AGs Want 11th Circ. Redo Of FCC Robocall Reg Ruling
Attorneys general from more than half the states and Washington, D.C., are urging the full Eleventh Circuit to reverse a panel decision that nixed a federal rule restricting the use of comparison shopping sites to generate robocall leads.
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March 20, 2025
Mariah Carey Gifted Legal Win In 'Christmas' Song IP Suit
A California federal judge on Wednesday tossed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Mariah Carey and others over her song "All I Want For Christmas Is You" and sanctioned the two songwriters who sued for filing a summary judgment motion with "frivolous legal arguments" and "irrelevant and unsupported statements of fact."
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March 20, 2025
9th Circ. Won't Renew Consumers' Amazon 'Buy Box' Suit
A Ninth Circuit panel has declined to revive a consumer antitrust suit against Amazon, ruling on Thursday the plaintiffs have failed to show they were injured by the e-commerce company's practices incentivizing third-party sellers to use its logistics services with the "Buy Box" feature.
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March 20, 2025
Fox Sues Mexico Media Cos. For $13M Over Broadcast Deal
Fox and its streaming service Tubi have filed suit against a group of Mexican media companies in California federal court alleging they breached contracts over soccer-related broadcasting rights and failed to pay $13 million owed for sublicense agreements.
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March 20, 2025
Judge Denies CFPB's Bid To Pause Experian Dispute Case
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau can't pause its dispute-handling claims against credit reporting giant Experian to give the agency's new acting director time to review the case, a California federal judge said.
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March 20, 2025
MoFo Adds 4 BraunHagey Corporate Attys In San Francisco
Morrison Foerster LLP announced Thursday that it has continued adding corporate attorneys from BraunHagey & Borden LLP, bringing a team of venture capital specialists to its San Francisco office, two as partners and two as associates.
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March 20, 2025
No 1st Circ. Appeal For 'Varsity Blues' Guilty Plea, Judge Says
A judge in the "Varsity Blues" college admissions case won't allow a former attorney and television executive to seek First Circuit review of his order rejecting claims that a U.S. Supreme Court ruling invalidates the legal underpinnings of the former executive's guilty plea, according to a Thursday decision.
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March 20, 2025
Medical Malpractice Insurers Ink $1.3B Merger Deal
Physician-owned medical malpractice insurer The Doctors Company has agreed to acquire ProAssurance Corp. in a deal valued at approximately $1.3 billion, in what the company said will create a combined entity with approximately $12 billion in assets.
Expert Analysis
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Opinion
We Must Allow Judges To Use Their Independent Judgment
As two recent cases show, the ability of judges to access their independent judgment crucially enables courts to exercise the discretion needed to reach the right outcome based on the unique facts within the law, says John Siffert at Lankler Siffert & Wohl.
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Class Actions At The Circuit Courts: March Lessons
In this month's review of class actions appeals, Mitchell Engel at Shook Hardy discusses three federal appellate court decisions and identifies practice tips from cases involving antitrust allegations against coupon processing services, consumer fraud and class action settlements.
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High Court Water Permit Ruling Lacks Specificity
The enforcement impact of the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in San Francisco v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency may not be significant, because while the ruling makes clear that certain water permit provisions must instruct permittees on how to achieve stated goals, it doesn’t clarify the level of necessary instruction, says Daniel Deeb at ArentFox Schiff.
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Opinion
Firms Must Speak Up After Trump Orders: An Associate's View
Rachel Cohen at Skadden discusses why she is helping to organize a movement of BigLaw associates urging their firms to stand up for the rule of law after the Trump administration’s moves against Covington, Perkins Coie and Paul Weiss.
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How Calif.'s Wildfire Insurance Crisis Might Affect Texas
Attorneys at Munsch Hardt examine the implications of California's wildfire insurance crisis for Texas, including potential shifts in coverage availability, regulatory differences and how the insurers in the second-largest U.S. state may react to a major wildfire event.
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Calif. Antitrust Bill Could Alter Enforcement Landscape
If enacted, a recently proposed California bill that would strengthen the state’s antitrust law could signal a notable shift in the U.S. enforcement environment, but questions remain about the types of cases the state could pursue, whether other states will follow suit and more, say attorneys at DLA Piper.
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Series
Performing Stand-Up Comedy Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Whether I’m delivering a punchline on stage or a closing argument in court, balancing stand-up comedy performances and my legal career has demonstrated that the keys to success in both endeavors include reading the room, landing the right timing and making an impact, says attorney Rebecca Palmer.
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Bias Suit Shows WNBA Growing Pains On Court And In Court
A newly filed disability discrimination and retaliation lawsuit against the Los Angeles Sparks is the latest in a series of employment discrimination disputes filed by WNBA professionals, highlighting teams' obligation to meet elevated workplace expectations and the league's role in facilitating an inclusive work environment, say attorneys at Michelman & Robinson.
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Unpacking The Illicit E-Cigarette Crackdown By State AGs
A bipartisan coalition of attorneys general for nine states and the District of Columbia announced a coordinated effort to curb illicit electronic cigarette sales, illustrating the rising prominence of state attorneys general using consumer protection laws to address issues of national scope, especially when federal efforts prove ineffective, say attorneys at Troutman.
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Investor Essentials For Buying Federally Owned Property
Investors and developers can take advantage of the Trump administration's plan to sell government-owned real estate by becoming familiar with the process and eligible to bid, and should prepare to move quickly once the U.S. General Services Administration posts the list of properties for sale, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.
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Series
Adapting To Private Practice: From SEC To BigLaw
As I adjusted to the multifaceted workflow of a BigLaw firm after leaving the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, working side by side with new colleagues on complex matters proved the fastest way to build a deep rapport and demonstrate my value, says Jennifer Lee at Jenner & Block.
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The Revival Of Badie Arbitration Suits In Consumer Finance
Plaintiffs have recently revived a California appellate court's almost 30-year-old decision in Badie v. Bank of America to challenge arbitration requirements under the Federal Arbitration Act, raising issues banks and credit unions in particular should address when amending arbitration provisions, say attorneys at Orrick.
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How Trump's Crypto Embrace Is Spurring Enforcement Reset
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's recent willingness to step away from ongoing enforcement investigations and actions underscores the changing regulatory landscape for crypto under the new administration, which now appears committed to working with stakeholders to develop a clearer regulatory framework, say attorneys at Sheppard Mullin.
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Making The Case For Rest In The Legal Profession
For too long, a culture of overwork has plagued the legal profession, but research shows that attorneys need rest to perform optimally and sustainably, so legal organizations and individuals must implement strategies that allow for restoration, says Marissa Alert at MDA Wellness, Carol Ross-Burnett at CRB Global, and Denise Robinson at The Still Center.
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What Trump's Order Means For The Legal Status Of IVF
An executive order signed by President Donald Trump last month signals the administration's potential intention to increase protections for in vitro fertilization services, though more concrete actions would be needed to resolve the current uncertainty around IVF access or bring about a binding legal change, says Jeanne Vance at Weintraub Tobin.