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March 18, 2025
Feds Reject 'Absurd' Defense In Harvard Body Parts Case
Federal prosecutors in Pennsylvania have blasted an "absurd argument" that a stolen-goods law doesn't criminalize buying and selling body parts stolen from cadavers donated to the Harvard Medical School's morgue.
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March 17, 2025
Private Equity Billionaire Greenlighted As Pentagon's No. 2
Private equity billionaire Stephen Feinberg was confirmed as deputy defense secretary on Friday by a 59-40 vote in the U.S. Senate.
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March 17, 2025
Yale Says Researcher's Omissions Doom $28M Incubator Suit
Yale University told a Connecticut state court that it sufficiently pled its counterclaims against a researcher who accused it of destroying his "life's work" by unplugging an incubator filled with $28 million in grants and private money's worth of genetic materials, arguing the researcher lied to get his job.
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March 17, 2025
Ex-Haiti Mayor Hid Atrocities To Secure Green Card, Jury Told
The former mayor of a remote Haitian town led a rampage of violence against political opponents and then lied about the hand he played in the deaths and torture to get into the United States with a green card, a Justice Department lawyer told a Boston federal jury Monday.
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March 17, 2025
Feds Defend Prof's Deportation As Arnold & Porter Withdraws
Government lawyers told a Massachusetts federal judge Monday they did not disobey a court order halting the deportation of a Brown University doctor and professor with an H-1B visa, as a team of Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP lawyers who lobbed that claim abruptly withdrew from the case.
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March 17, 2025
Foreign Students Can't Be Deported For Speech, Suit Says
Two Cornell University graduate students and a Cornell professor sued the Trump administration to block parts of two executive orders they say restrict pro-Palestinian speech and put international students and scholars at risk of deportation.
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March 14, 2025
Trump Revokes Paul Weiss Security Clearances
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP became the third law firm to have workers' security clearances suspended by President Donald Trump, who signed the executive order Friday, citing the firm's DEI hiring practices and the decision by a former attorney there to assist the Manhattan district attorney's investigation of Trump.
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March 14, 2025
Justices Set Deadline In Birthright Citizenship Injunction Row
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday gave states and organizations challenging President Donald Trump's executive order aimed at limiting birthright citizenship until early next month to address Trump's request for the high court to limit three federal judge's injunctions that preliminarily blocked the order's implementation across the U.S.
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March 14, 2025
11th Circ. Again Upholds Fla. Ban On Under-21 Gun Sales
Florida's law banning sales of firearms to anyone under 21 is constitutional, a divided Eleventh Circuit ruled Friday on en banc review, finding that America's 18- to 20-year-olds have had their gun rights checked since the nation's founding.
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March 14, 2025
PTAB Explains Why It Invalidated Moderna's COVID Vax Patents
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has unsealed its decisions finding that Pfizer and BioNTech had shown that all the challenged claims of two Moderna COVID-19 vaccine patents are invalid, saying the success of the vaccine didn't outweigh strong evidence that the inventions were obvious.
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March 14, 2025
Real Estate Recap: Waldorf Reno, DEI Scrubbing, CFIUS Risk
Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including a chat with the legal team behind the 10-year renovation of Manhattan's iconic Waldorf Astoria, how real estate companies are dropping mention of diversity, equity and inclusion from public filings, and increasing scrutiny by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States.
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March 14, 2025
Md. Judge Joins Calif. In Reversing Federal Workers' Firing
A Maryland federal judge has ordered the reinstatement of thousands of probationary employees who were abruptly fired from 18 federal agencies, saying the Trump administration's lack of required notice left states "scrambling" to pick up the pieces.
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March 14, 2025
Biotech Wins Dismissal Of Investor Fraud Claims
A Boston federal judge on Friday dismissed a proposed investor class action against biotech Aldeyra Therapeutics Inc., ruling that the lawsuit's facts tend to support innocent explanations for executives' statements about its two drug prospects.
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March 14, 2025
1st Circ. Asked To Look At Takeda Invoice Fraud Conviction
The husband of a former Takeda Pharmaceuticals vice president is appealing his fraud conviction and 2½-year prison term over a $2.3 million bogus invoice scheme, according to a Friday notice filed to the First Circuit.
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March 14, 2025
Mass. Court Won't Lift Default Over Discovery Failures
A California aerospace firm can't get a do-over after repeatedly defaulting on discovery obligations in a Massachusetts lawsuit over an unpaid bill from a tax consultant, the state's intermediate-level appeals court said on Friday.
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March 14, 2025
Mass. Justices Say Transit Agency Not Immune In Assault Suit
Massachusetts' highest court said Friday that the public transit agency in Greater Boston is not immune from claims that it negligently hired and retained a bus driver with an alleged known history of anger management issues who later beat up a customer and left him with a traumatic brain injury.
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March 13, 2025
Trump Asks Justices To Limit Pauses Of Birthright Order
President Donald Trump asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to limit three nationwide court orders prohibiting the implementation of his executive order aimed at limiting birthright citizenship, arguing that the coast-to-coast injunctions upended the judicial process and are trying to micromanage the executive branch.
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March 13, 2025
Housing Advocacy Groups Sue Over HUD Grant Cuts
A coalition of advocacy organizations filed a proposed class action in Massachusetts federal court Thursday against the Trump administration over the termination of dozens of grants to programs targeting housing discrimination.
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March 13, 2025
Karen Read Loses Double Jeopardy Bid In Federal Court
Karen Read, the Massachusetts woman who stands accused of killing her boyfriend with her SUV, will not be able to avoid a retrial in state court after a federal judge on Thursday denied her bid to escape two charges that jurors supposedly rejected during deliberations.
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March 13, 2025
Cemetery Arborist Cuts Deal To Resolve SEC Fraud Claims
The former arborist for a Boston-area cemetery has agreed to pay nearly $400,000 to resolve claims by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that he convinced co-workers, friends and his church community to invest in the foreign currency exchange market while falsely promising extravagant returns, according to federal court filings Thursday.
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March 13, 2025
Boston Firm, IT Vendor Settle Fight Over Data
Melick & Porter LLP has settled a suit accusing its former IT vendor of holding the Boston law firm's computer systems and data hostage during the transition to a new provider.
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March 13, 2025
Senate Stablecoin Bill Advances With Democrats Divided
The Republican-led U.S. Senate Banking Committee advanced its stablecoin framework Thursday with the help of Democrats who broke from ranking member Sen. Elizabeth Warren's opposition, while a separate bill on what is being called debanking passed along party lines.
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March 13, 2025
SEC Drops Dealer-Registration Case Criticized By Hedge Fund
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is dropping its claim that a Boston hedge fund should have registered as a broker-dealer, abandoning a case that the defense had argued overstepped the law and would subject more firms to federal oversight.
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March 13, 2025
Mass. Judge Of 'Varsity Blues' Case To Take Senior Status
Massachusetts U.S. District Judge Nathaniel M. Gorton, who oversaw hundreds of trials over the course of three decades, including the "Varsity Blues" college admissions cases, plans to take senior status at the end of May.
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March 13, 2025
States Sue To Halt Cuts At Education Dept.
A group of 21 Democratic attorneys general sued the Trump administration Thursday in an effort to halt mass layoffs at the Department of Education, calling it an illegal move that will wreak havoc on states' educational systems.
Expert Analysis
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Why K-Cup Claims Landed Keurig In Hot Water With SEC
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's recent settlement with Keurig Dr. Pepper for making incomplete statements regarding the recyclability of K-cup pods highlights the importance of comprehensive corporate disclosures, particularly with respect to ESG matters, say attorneys at BCLP.
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Notable Q3 Updates In Insurance Class Actions
Total loss valuation cases and labor depreciation cases dominated the past quarter of insurance class actions, with courts continuing to reject challenges to condition adjustments in the former, and a pro-insured trend persisting in the latter, say attorneys at BakerHostetler.
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Copyright Questions Surround AI Music Platform Suits
If recent lawsuits filed by the Recording Industry Association of America against two artificial intelligence music platform developers — who maintain that use of copyrighted works to train AI models constitutes fair use — go to trial, this novel issue will make for potentially precedent-setting decisions, says intellectual property lawyer Eric Lane.
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Promoting Diversity In The Selection Of ADR Neutrals
Excerpt from Practical Guidance
Choosing neutrals from diverse backgrounds is an important step in promoting inclusion in the legal profession, and it can enhance the legitimacy and public perception of alternative dispute resolution proceedings, say attorneys at Lowenstein Sandler.
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Series
Playing Ultimate Makes Us Better Lawyers
In addition to being fun, ultimate Frisbee has improved our legal careers by emphasizing the importance of professionalism, teamwork, perseverance, enthusiasm and vulnerability, say Arunabha Bhoumik and Adam Bernstein at Regeneron.
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Considering Chevron's End Through A State Tax Lens
States took the lead in encouraging Chevron's demise, turning away from Chevron-type deference in state tax administration ahead of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Loper Bright decision, a trend likely to accelerate as courts take a more active role in interpreting tax laws, say attorneys at Eversheds Sutherland.
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E-Discovery Quarterly: Recent Rulings On Metadata
Several recent rulings reflect the competing considerations that arise when parties dispute the form of production for electronically stored information, underscoring that counsel must carefully consider how to produce and request reasonably usable data, say attorneys at Sidley.
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Comparing Antitrust Outlooks Amid Google Remedy Review
As the U.S. Justice Department mulls potential structural remedies after winning its recent case against Google, increased global scrutiny of Big Tech leaves ex post and ex ante antitrust approaches ripe for evaluation, say Nishant Chadha at the Indian School of Business and Manisha Goel at Pomona College.
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Election Could Bring Change In Weather For Offshore Wind
Under another Trump administration, the offshore wind sector would encounter substantial headwinds, as Trump's policy track record emphasizes fossil fuel dominance and environmental rollbacks, while a Harris victory would likely further entrench the pro-renewable energy stance taken by the Biden administration, say attorneys at Jones Walker.
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Striking A Balance Between AI Use And Attorney Well-Being
As the legal industry increasingly adopts generative artificial intelligence tools to boost efficiency, leaders must note the hidden costs of increased productivity, and work to protect attorneys’ well-being while unlocking AI’s full potential, says Ed Sohn at Factor.
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Takeaways From The IRS' Crypto Doc Summons Win
A recent First Circuit decision holding that taxpayers do not have a Fourth Amendment reasonable expectation of privacy in cryptocurrency transaction records should prompt both taxpayers and exchanges to take stock of past transactions and future plans, say attorneys at BakerHostetler.
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Empathy In Mediation Offers A Soft Landing For Disputes
Experiencing a crash-landing on a recent flight underscored to me how much difference empathy makes in times of crisis or stress, including during mediation, says Eydith Kaufman at Alternative Resolution Centers.
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Being An Artist Makes Me A Better Lawyer
My work as an artist has highlighted how using creativity and precision together — qualities that are equally essential in both art and law — not only improves outcomes, but also leads to more innovative and thoughtful work, says Sarah La Pearl at Segal McCambridge.
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How Judiciary Can Minimize AI Risks In Secondary Sources
Because courts’ standing orders on generative artificial intelligence and other safeguards do not address the risk of hallucinations in secondary source materials, the judiciary should consider enlisting legal publishers and database hosts to protect against AI-generated inaccuracies, say attorneys at Lankler Siffert & Wohl.
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How Attorneys Can Break Free From Career Enmeshment
Ambitious attorneys can sometimes experience career enmeshment — when your sense of self-worth becomes unhealthily tangled up in your legal vocation — but taking the time to discover and realign with your core personal values can help you recover your identity, says Janna Koretz at Azimuth Psychological.