A University of Georgia athlete has ended his efforts in federal court to earn another year of eligibility to play college baseball, dropping his antitrust lawsuit against the NCAA following the ruling in a similar case that was not favorable to the athlete, his attorney said.
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Ga. Baseball Player Shutters NCAA Eligibility Suit

By Elaine Briseño

A University of Georgia athlete has ended his efforts in federal court to earn another year of eligibility to play college baseball, dropping his antitrust lawsuit against the NCAA following the ruling in a similar case that was not favorable to the athlete, his attorney said.

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Ga. Judicial Ethics Watchdog Shuffles Members

By Emily Johnson

Georgia's Supreme Court has moved a member of the state's 10-person judicial ethics watchdog to its investigative panel to replace a judge who has stepped down, and filled the vacated seat on the hearing panel.

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Revived Bill To Add Judges Teed Up For Another House Vote

By Courtney Bublé

The House Judiciary Committee voted out of committee three bills on Wednesday along party lines, including legislation to add more federal judgeships that the federal judiciary says are needed desperately but has become subject to partisan fighting.

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Ga. Clinic Bilked Federal Healthcare Programs, FCA Suit Says

By Chart Riggall

A Georgia federal judge has unsealed a whistleblower lawsuit against a respiratory clinic accusing it of using unlicensed medical personnel, bilking Medicare and Medicaid by submitting thousands of fraudulent claims, and pushing its patients into unnecessary treatment to milk them for cash.

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POLICY & REGULATION

PTAB Bar Urges Congress, Lutnick To Protect USPTO Workers

By Dani Kass

The PTAB Bar Association is calling on intellectual property leaders in Congress, along with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, to spare the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office from Trump administration initiatives to freeze hiring and require in-person work.

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REAL ESTATE & DEVELOPMENT

GSA Publishes, Then Pulls List Of Properties It Could Dispose

By Charlie Innis

The U.S. General Services Administration on Wednesday removed a list of 440 properties that it considered inessential and said warranted disposal — including several courthouses and buildings used as headquarters for various agencies — the day after announcing it had identified them as "non-core assets."

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LITIGATION

Globetrotters, Ex-Player Agree To End Sex Harassment Suit

By Grace Elletson

The Harlem Globetrotters agreed to resolve a former basketball player's suit claiming she was sexually harassed by the team's general manager, who declined to renew her contract after she rejected his romantic advances, according to a filing Wednesday in Georgia federal court.

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Airplane Parts Makers Say Fatal Crash Order Invites 'Chaos'

By Ryan Harroff

A pair of airplane parts makers have urged the North Carolina Supreme Court to reverse the dismissal of their appeal in a fatal crash case, arguing that the lower appellate court "usurped" the justices' authority by tossing the appeal despite an active stay order from the high court.

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ELEVENTH CIRCUIT

Fla. Chiropractor Bilked State Farm For $2.7M, 11th Circ. Told

By David Minsky

State Farm urged an Eleventh Circuit panel on Wednesday to find that it had shelled out $2.7 million to an unscrupulous Florida chiropractor who paid kickbacks for medically unnecessary claims, arguing that the provider should be held liable for fraud under a theory that he violated a state licensure exemption.

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PEOPLE

Bradley Arant Adds Parker Hudson Bankruptcy Ace In Atlanta

By Emily Johnson

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP has brought on a Parker Hudson Rainer & Dobbs LLP partner, who is based in Atlanta, to strengthen its bankruptcy and creditors' rights practice.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

DOJ's Absence Felt At ABA Conference On White Collar Crime

By Carolina Bolado

Officials from the U.S. Department of Justice were conspicuously absent Wednesday from the American Bar Association's annual white collar crime conference, leaving organizers scrambling to fill empty panel seats and practitioners guessing as to what the Trump administration's enforcement priorities will be.

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Wilson Sonsini Latest Firm To Announce Beijing Closure

By Tracey Read

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC confirmed Wednesday that it will reduce its presence in Greater China by shutting down its Beijing office.

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Atty Who Repped Trump And Bannon Joins Brownstein Hyatt

By Jack Rodgers

Evan Corcoran, who represented President Donald Trump in his classified documents case and Steve Bannon in his contempt of Congress trial, has joined Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck LLP's Washington, D.C., office.

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Ex-DOJ Official Jeffrey Clark Returns To Trump Administration

By Alison Knezevich

Jeffrey Clark, a former U.S. Department of Justice official who is facing criminal charges in Georgia and fighting to save his law license over claims that he helped President Donald Trump try to overturn the results of the 2020 election, has returned to the federal government.

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Atty's Vanity Plate Gets Spotlight In Fatal Shooting Trial

By Brian Steele

A Connecticut prosecutor has zeroed in on the vanity license plate that was on Cramer & Anderson LLP partner Robert L. Fisher Jr.'s car when he fatally shot an attacker in June 2021, asking the defendant's character witnesses Wednesday if they knew about it, and if so, what they thought of it.

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Jury Mulling Judge's Murder Trial Hears More Arguments

By Gina Kim

With jury deliberations in the murder trial of a California judge who fatally shot his wife stretching into their sixth day Wednesday, the presiding judge allowed the prosecution and defense to make additional arguments addressing the jury's question about the willfulness requirement for second-degree murder.

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Del. Corporate Law Bill Poses 'Grave Risk,' Plaintiffs' Firms Say

By Jeff Montgomery

Five of Delaware's most active corporate litigation plaintiffs' firms have branded pending legislation aimed at curbing stockholder suits as a "dangerous and radical" measure that attacks the state's courts and will put Delaware's nationally known incorporation franchise "at grave risk."

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ABA Says Attys Victimized By Clients May Share Certain Info

By Emily Sawicki

An attorney who is a victim of a crime perpetrated by a client or prospective client may disclose client information "to the extent reasonably necessary to report a crime," the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility has found in its latest ethics opinion, released Wednesday.

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Senate Confirms Todd Blanche To Be Trump's Deputy AG

By Courtney Bublé

The Senate voted 52-46 on Wednesday to confirm Todd Blanche, one of President Donald Trump's former criminal attorneys, to be deputy attorney general.

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High Court Allows Release Of Frozen USAID Foreign Aid

By Katie Buehler

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that a D.C. federal judge can require the Trump administration to release up to $2 billion in frozen foreign aid funding, but told the judge he must clarify the scope of the government's responsibility and ensure it has enough time to comply with any deadline. 

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Adler Pollock

Arnold & Porter

Bernstein Litowitz

Bradley Arant

Brownstein Hyatt

Cadwalader Wickersham

Cleary Gottlieb

Conti Levy

Cramer & Anderson

Dentons

Eversheds Sutherland

Foley & Lardner

Friedlander & Gorris

Grant & Eisenhofer

Holland & Knight

Katten Muchin

Labaton Keller

Milbank LLP

Morris James

Moss & Gilmore

Ogletree Deakins

Parker Hudson

Paul Hastings

Paul Weiss

Poyner Spruill

Ragsdale Liggett

Richards Layton

RinLaures LLC

Rosen Hagood

Scott&Scott

Silverman Thompson

Steptoe LLP

Trenam Law

Wiley Rein

WilmerHale

Wilson Sonsini

Wolk Law Firm

Zuckerman Spaeder

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

American Bar Association

American Red Cross

Audi AG

Avco Corp.

Coinbase Global Inc.

Fortress Investment Group LLC

Georgia State University

Herschend Family Entertainment

LinkedIn Corp.

National Collegiate Athletic Association

National Rifle Association of America

Pfizer Inc.

Public Citizen Inc.

Space Exploration Technologies Corp.

State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co.

Tesla Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Executive Office of the President

Federal Aviation Administration

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Georgia Attorney General's Office

Patent Trial and Appeal Board

U.S. Agency for International Development

U.S. Army

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

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

U.S. Department of Commerce

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of Labor

U.S. Department of State

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

U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

U.S. General Services Administration

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Supreme Court

US Office of Management and Budget