The Teamsters once again must face Yellow Corp.'s allegations that the union drove the trucking company into bankruptcy by holding up a corporate restructuring, with a Tenth Circuit panel reviving Yellow's $137 million breach-of-contract lawsuit against the union Wednesday.
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10th Circ. Revives Yellow's $137M Suit Against Teamsters

By Emily Brill

The Teamsters once again must face Yellow Corp.'s allegations that the union drove the trucking company into bankruptcy by holding up a corporate restructuring, with a Tenth Circuit panel reviving Yellow's $137 million breach-of-contract lawsuit against the union Wednesday.

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American Airlines Workers' Attys Seek $8M In ESG Battle

By Kellie Mejdrich

Class counsel representing American Airlines workers who prevailed on claims their employer violated federal benefits law by allowing an unchecked emphasis on environmental, social and governance factors in their employee retirement plan asked a Texas federal court for $7.9 million in fees.

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Pharmacy Groups Urge 8th Circ. To Back Ark. PBM Limits

By Gianna Ferrarin

A pair of pharmacy trade groups is urging the Eighth Circuit to allow Arkansas to enforce a law barring pharmacy benefit managers from owning pharmacies, arguing the law is a rational response to "abusive" PBM practices.

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CenterPoint To Pay $800K To End 401(k) Fee Suit

By Patrick Hoff

Houston-based utility company CenterPoint Energy will pay $800,000 to resolve a proposed class action claiming its $2.6 billion employee retirement plan was saddled with excessive recordkeeping fees, according to a Texas federal court filing.

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LITIGATION

Celgene Inks $239M Investor Deal Over Drug Pipeline Claims

By Katryna Perera

Celgene Corp. has agreed to a $239 million settlement with investors to resolve claims that the biopharmaceutical company hyped up its share price by failing to disclose timeline and growth problems with two of its drugs, ending the case after seven years of litigation and with a January 2026 trial date looming.

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Dish Network Wants To Toss 401(k) Fund Suit

By Irene Spezzamonte

A class action accusing Dish Network of mismanaging retirement funds is rootless and evidence doesn't support its claims that the company acted imprudently, the entity told a Colorado federal court, seeking a pretrial win.

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Judge Demands Facts In Pa. Medicaid-Paid Abortion Ban Case

By P.J. D'Annunzio

A Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court judge on Wednesday repeatedly asked healthcare providers at oral arguments to show her facts on why a statewide ban on Medicaid-funded abortions was unconstitutional, often remarking that the case was short on evidence to support making changes to the coverage exclusion.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

AI Litigation Tools Can Enhance Case Assessment, Strategy

Civil litigators can use artificial intelligence tools to strengthen case assessment and aid in early strategy development, as long as they address the risks and ethical considerations that accompany these uses, say attorneys at Barnes & Thornburg.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Lawmakers Rip Judges Over Anonymous High Court Criticism

By Ryan Boysen

Two Republican lawmakers have asked Chief Justice John Roberts to rein in judges who've anonymously criticized the U.S. Supreme Court's flurry of "shadow docket" rulings, but a full-on investigation appears unlikely.

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Atty Exits Bankruptcy Case Amid Judge Romance Fallout

By Emily Sawicki

The embattled wind-down trustee for defunct life insurance bond seller GWG Holdings in a Houston Chapter 11 case has resigned from the role amid the fallout from her secret romance with a then-bankruptcy judge in the Southern District of Texas.

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Trump Taps Ex-Kansas AG Deputy For DOJ Legal Policy Role

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump has nominated Dan Burrows, a White House official and former chief deputy attorney general of Kansas, to be assistant attorney general for the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Legal Policy.

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Goldstein Loses Bid To Trim Tax Charges Before Trial

By Jared Foretek

A Maryland federal judge Thursday handed SCOTUSblog co-founder Tom Goldstein a series of losses on pre-trial motions aimed at trimming the 22 federal tax charges he'll face at trial next year, ruling that many of the motions involved factual disputes fit for trial and keeping the government's case intact.

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Tom Girardi's Brother, Bankruptcy Trustee Settle Legal Fees

By Lauren Berg

The brother of disgraced attorney Tom Girardi and the trustee for their now-defunct law firm, Girardi Keese, have reached an agreement resolving John Girardi's claim seeking legal fees for cases he worked on after leaving the firm, the trustee told the California bankruptcy court.

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Atty Ordered Detained After Harassment Of BigLaw Attys

By Spencer Brewer

A Texas federal judge on Thursday ordered U.S. marshals to put an attorney accused of cyberstalking other attorneys at BigLaw firms in jail until trial, saying the attorney has continued to make harassing online posts while on pretrial release and didn't attend mandatory mental health treatment.

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Judge Mehta 'Still Digging Out' From Google, Oath Keepers

By Bryan Koenig

U.S. District Judge Amit P. Mehta said Thursday he is still playing catch-up from a period during which his time was spent with virtually nothing but the Google search case and the prosecution of Oath Keepers charged with sedition and other crimes from the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol.

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DOJ Gives Comey Seized Materials, Balks At Grand Jury Docs

By Lauren Berg

The U.S. Department of Justice Thursday informed a Virginia federal court that it has handed over to former FBI Director James Comey materials seized under years-old search warrants, but it will challenge a magistrate judge's order to produce grand jury materials.

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Ex-DOJ Staffer Cleared After Tossing Sandwich At CBP Officer

By Elaine Briseño

A D.C. federal jury on Thursday found former U.S. Department of Justice employee Sean Dunn, who threw a Subway sandwich at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer, not guilty of misdemeanor assault.

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2nd Circ. Orders New Look At Trump's Hush Money Case

By Aaron Keller

In a published opinion, the Second Circuit on Thursday ordered a federal district judge to take a fresh look at President Donald Trump's attempt to move his New York hush money conviction to federal court, citing the U.S. Supreme Court's 2024 presidential immunity ruling as grounds for reconsidering the case.

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Miss. Judge, US Atty Nominees Held Up In Committee

By Courtney Bublé

Consideration of judicial and U.S. attorney nominees for Mississippi has stalled in committee over tensions between senators that are unrelated to the nominations, according to the Senate Judiciary Committee chair's office.

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U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Texas

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U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit

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U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

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U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

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