Justices Remove Bar On Venezuelan Removals

By Katie Buehler

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled the Trump administration can move forward with its removal of alleged Venezuelan gang members from the United States under the Alien Enemies Act, vacating a D.C. federal judge's order that had temporarily blocked President Donald Trump's invocation of the 1798 wartime law.

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Justices' Slack Ruling 'Forecloses' Palantir Shareholder Suit

By Jessica Corso

Palantir Technologies Inc. has escaped a proposed class action accusing it of deceiving investors about its growth potential, with a Colorado federal judge ruling that his hands were tied by a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that "likely foreclosures" certain shareholder lawsuits against companies that go public via a direct listing.

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NCAA's $2.8B NIL Deal Sent Back For 'Fixes' Amid Objections

By Dorothy Atkins

A California federal judge declined Monday to immediately approve the National Collegiate Athletic Association's $2.78 billion name, image and likeness deal, giving counsel a week to propose "fixes" that address objections raised by some athletes, including ex-Seattle Seahawks linebacker Benjamin Burr-Kirven and gymnast and social media influencer Olivia Dunne.

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Meta May Not Scroll Past 'Clever' Instagram Addiction Suit

By Chris Villani

Meta Platforms Inc. may struggle to convince Massachusetts' top court to dismiss a suit claiming it illegally hooks kids on Instagram, according to experts, who credit the state's attorney general for a creative legal strategy to thwart web platforms' usual defenses.

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1st Circ. Won't Pause Block Of Unrelated Country Deportation

By Lauren Berg

The First Circuit on Monday declined to stay a Massachusetts federal judge's order blocking the Trump administration from removing immigrants to countries where they have no prior ties without first providing them with notice of where they are being sent and a "meaningful" opportunity to raise any safety concerns.

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WHO Cancer Report May Spark Gasoline Toxic Torts

By Keith Goldberg

A recent report from the World Health Organization linking automobile gasoline to cancer could spawn toxic tort lawsuits similar to the costly, and sometimes losing, battles that energy companies have had to fight over exposure to gasoline components and additives.

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Chancellor Asks About High Court Case In $2.1B SPAC Row

By Jeff Montgomery

A Delaware vice chancellor wondered Monday why neither side of a derivative suit over the $3 billion take-public merger of battery maker Microvast Holdings Inc. spoke about a recent state supreme court case relevant to the dispute.

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Starbucks Asks To Dump Investors' 'Triple Shot' Strategy Suit

By Lauren Berg

Starbucks has urged a Seattle federal judge to toss a consolidated proposed class action alleging that the coffee chain made overly positive projections for its "Triple Shot Reinvention" strategy that hurt investors when the financial results didn't bear out the company's optimism, saying the plaintiffs haven't shown that Starbucks made any false statements.

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Pot Co. Lied About Prerolled Joint Costs, Investor Claims

By Mike Curley

An investor in cannabis company Canopy Growth Corp. is suing in New York federal court, alleging that the company misled him and other investors about the costs of a prerolled joint product and vape devices, leading to a 27% stock drop when the truth came out.

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Drug Buyers, Generics Cos. Fight Over Bellwether Litigation

By Bryan Koenig

Generic drug buyers vied Friday with the pharmaceutical companies they've accused of price-fixing over how to shape the first rounds of long-gestating Pennsylvania federal court litigation that the plaintiffs want heard in separate consecutive trials and that the drugmakers want combined.

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Conn. Judge Pauses 'Staggering' Hospital Data Subpoena

By Ryan Harroff

A Connecticut judge temporarily paused a subpoena seeking what a health nonprofit called "a staggering amount" of confidential patient data by a proposed class of Constitution State residents accusing Hartford HealthCare Corp. of monopolizing the state's healthcare industry, stating that the court must review the subpoena first.

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Drivers Say Amazon Attys Covertly Contacted Class Members

By Emmy Freedman

Amazon's attorneys should be sanctioned for coercing potential collective members in a wage and hour case to provide testimony without properly filling them in on the litigation, delivery drivers told a Washington federal court.

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Verizon, State Street Say Pension Annuity Suit Claims Fall Flat

By Kellie Mejdrich

Verizon Communications and its independent fiduciary State Street urged a New York federal judge to toss a proposed class action from Verizon retirees who challenged the conversion of their federally regulated pension benefits into annuity insurance contracts, arguing the allegations lacked standing and failed to state a claim.

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AT&T Wants 401(k) Forfeiture Suit Tossed

By Jared Foretek

AT&T has asked a California federal judge to throw out an employee's suit regarding forfeited employer 401(k) contributions, arguing it has the right to determine how the abandoned funds are used as the plan sponsor.

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Snyder's-Lance Looks To Ax Proposed Class Wage Claims

By Emily Brill

The company that makes Snyder's pretzels asked a North Carolina federal judge Monday to deny a Pennsylvania employee's bid to represent a class of workers from 12 states in a wage lawsuit, arguing she can't sue under the laws of the 11 states she doesn't live or work in.

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Whole Foods To Settle Bonus Manipulation Suit

By Patrick Hoff

Whole Foods has agreed to resolve a lawsuit claiming the grocery chain rigged an employee bonus program to reduce payouts to workers, according to a filing in D.C. federal court.

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SolarEdge Claims Get Tossed Again In Second Try

By Katryna Perera

A New York federal judge has once again tossed certain claims in a securities class action accusing SolarEdge Technologies Inc. of misrepresenting the demand for its solar energy products in Europe, but he gave investors the chance to file a third amended complaint.

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Ford Says Drivers Can't Sue Over Rare As 'Meteorite' Defect

By Danielle Ferguson

Ford Motor Co. has urged a Michigan federal court to toss a class action alleging the automaker failed to fix through a recall a defect in its SUVs that can cause fires under the hood, arguing the vehicle owners cannot bring claims based on a defect it called "almost as rare as being struck by a meteorite."

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Drivers Defend Class Action Over Ford Engine Fire Defect

By Jonathan Capriel

Ford shouldn't be allowed to evade claims that it sold hybrid electric vehicles with defective engines that could spontaneously stall and catch fire, drivers told a Michigan federal judge, saying the automaker's solutions require them to continue driving "dangerous vehicles" that could undergo "a spontaneous catastrophic engine failure"

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Sig Sauer Says Gun Optics Recall Prevented Harm

By P.J. D'Annunzio

Gunmaker Sig Sauer has asked a Pennsylvania federal judge to toss a proposed class action filed against it over a recall involving battery-powered firearm optics, claiming the plaintiff decided to initiate litigation despite not suffering any negative effects from it.

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Judge Ends Mercedes Wheel Suit, 'Wondering' What Defect Is

By Chart Riggall

Mercedes-Benz USA LLC defeated a putative class action Monday claiming the company used defective wheels that caused customer tire blowouts, as a Georgia federal judge said the "shapelessness" of the suit left him "wondering what defect is even being alleged."

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Coinbase Accused Of Scam Prevention Shortfalls

By Corey Rothauser

A California man has filed a proposed class action seeking to hold cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase liable for failing to implement safeguards against fraudsters who run "pig-butchering" scams.

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Bigelow Emails Spill The Tea About 'USA' Label Lies, Jury Told

By Craig Clough

An attorney for a class of tea consumers suing R.C. Bigelow over a "Manufactured in the USA 100%" label that has already been found to be false told a California federal jury during closing arguments Monday that internal emails show that executives were either reckless or intentionally misled the public.

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Autotrader Website 'Tester' Can't Carry Privacy Suit

By Allison Grande

A California federal judge has tossed a proposed class action accusing Autotrader of unlawfully sharing website visitors' search queries with third parties, finding that the plaintiff didn't suffer an actionable injury because her expectations were met when she visited the website to "test" for privacy violations.

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Fintech Customers Sue Banks Over Synapse Collapse

By Sydney Price

Evolve Bank & Trust and Lineage Bank were hit with a consumer's proposed class action in Tennessee federal court accusing them of mismanaging their relationships with Synapse Financial, a now-bankrupt middleware fintech service that the suit says caused customers to lose $85 million.

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Mortgage Lenders, Attys Stole From NY Debtors, Suit Says

By Sydney Price

A New York homeowner filed a proposed class action in Brooklyn federal court alleging that the state's mortgage lenders, loan servicing agents and foreclosure attorneys have conspired to inflate the amounts owed on post-foreclosure sales.

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Mass. High Court Ponders 'Reasonable' Wear In Lease Dispute

By Julie Manganis

Massachusetts justices on Monday grappled with defining "reasonable" wear and tear on a rental property as they considered whether a property owner can require tenants to have their apartments professionally cleaned when moving out.

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U. Of Oregon Must Face Bias Action From Female Athletes

By David Steele

A suit accusing the University of Oregon of "glaring" inequalities in facilities, finances and resources between male and female athletes and teams will go forward, an Oregon federal judge ruled in denying the school's bid to dismiss the suit.

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Series

Law School's Missed Lessons: Be An Indispensable Associate

While law school teaches you to research, write and think critically, it often overlooks the professional skills you will need to make yourself an essential team player when transitioning from a summer to full-time associate, say attorneys at Stinson.

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Litigation Firms Back Perkins Coie In Suit Over Trump Order

By Jake Maher

A slew of midsize and small litigation firms took up Perkins Coie LLP's cause in its legal battle against an executive order from President Donald Trump targeting the BigLaw firm, arguing Monday in an amicus brief that the order is "anathema" to the justice system.

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Congressional Dems Probe Trump's Actions Against BigLaw

By Courtney Bublé

A pair of top congressional Democrats wrote to the White House and six major law firms over the weekend seeking more information about deals that multiple BigLaw firms have reached with the Trump administration and the possible fallout.

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Brown Rudnick Inks $8M Deal With Guo Ch. 11 Trustee

By Alex Wittenberg

Brown Rudnick LLP has agreed to pay nearly $8 million in a deal with the trustee overseeing Chinese exile Miles Guo's Chapter 11 case in Connecticut to settle potential claims tied to the law firm's onetime work for the convicted fraudster.

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Holland & Knight Lands 8-Atty Seward & Kissel Maritime Team

By Rose Krebs

Holland & Knight LLP announced Monday that it has added an eight-person team from Seward & Kissel LLP to bolster its asset finance group and enhance its efforts to steer clients through key shipping financing and maritime issues.

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Full DC Circ. Lifts Pause On NLRB, MSPB Reinstatements

By Tim Ryan

The full D.C. Circuit on Monday lifted a March panel decision pausing the reinstatement of National Labor Relations Board and Merit Systems Protection Board members that President Donald Trump fired, saying U.S. Supreme Court precedent blessing limitations on the president's ability to fire agency officials still stands.

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Justice Roberts Pauses Return Order In Deportation Case

By Katie Buehler

Chief Justice John Roberts hit pause Monday on a federal judge's order requiring the Trump administration to quickly bring back a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador and imprisoned there, freeing the administration from a late night compliance deadline.

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Judge Who Shot Wife Warned Against Retrial 'Press Tour'

By Gina Kim

The California judge presiding over the murder trial of an Orange County jurist who fatally shot his wife admonished him Monday for embarking on a recent "press tour," warning that he could be violating the state judicial ethics code by commenting on a pending case. 

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Littler Wants Out Of Fired Tech Exec's Bias Suit

By Grace Elletson

Littler Mendelson has asked to be cut loose from a former tech company executive's suit claiming the firm and the business worked together to retaliate against her for complaining that her boss made bigoted comments, arguing to a New York federal court that it can't be held liable for the legal advice it provided.

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