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March 18, 2024
Ohio Court Backs School Board's Win In Race, Sex Bias Suit
An Ohio state appeals court affirmed the Dayton Board of Education's early win in a race and sex bias suit brought against it by a Black former administrator, agreeing with the lower court that she failed to present any direct evidence of discrimination related to her departure.
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March 18, 2024
Joann Hits Ch. 11 With $1B Secured Debt, Creditor Deal
Fabric retailer Joann Inc., better known as Joann Fabrics, filed for bankruptcy in Delaware on Monday with $1 billion in secured debt and an agreement with its creditors to trim $505 million from its balance sheet.
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March 15, 2024
Judge Asks Colo. Why Grocery Merger Case Can't Wait
A state judge in Denver has asked Colorado enforcers why they need to have a hearing on their bid to block Kroger's planned $24.6 billion purchase of fellow grocery store giant Albertsons before other hearings in challenges from federal enforcers and Washington state.
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March 15, 2024
Ohio Obstetrician Keeps Trial Win In Suit Over Baby's Death
An Ohio state appeals court has refused to overturn a trial win for an obstetrician accused of medical malpractice in the delivery of an infant who died shortly after birth, finding that the parents aren't allowed to question the doctor about whether his hospital privileges were pulled following the death.
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March 15, 2024
Ohio Ambulance Co. Says HR Firm Botched Tax Returns
An Ohio ambulance company accused its human resources management firm of failing to accurately prepare and submit amended tax returns that would have allowed the company to claim pandemic-era tax credits, according to a complaint filed in an Ohio federal court.
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March 15, 2024
LA Billing Scandal Atty's Estate Can't Revive Fee Dispute
The estate of an Ohio attorney who was accused of participating in a highly publicized billing settlement scandal involving the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power has lost two probate court bids to recoup fees from the late attorney's former colleagues, with an appeals panel determining the court lacked jurisdiction.
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March 15, 2024
Snack Co. Workers Get Cert. In Ohio Wage Suit
An Ohio federal judge preliminarily certified a collective of food distribution workers on claims that they had to perform work before clocking in and during breaks without pay, saying they proved that the company's policies were applied universally.
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March 14, 2024
IP Forecast: Internet Archive Fights Vinyl Copyright Case
A California federal judge will hear arguments next week over whether the Internet Archive can toss accusations from record labels that describe its project for a free, digitized library of 78 rpm records as a "wholesale theft of generations of music." Here's a look at that case, plus all the other major intellectual property matters on deck in the coming week.
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March 14, 2024
Buyers Want Goodyear, Michelin Price-Fixing Suits Combined
Tire buyers who have accused Goodyear, Michelin, Bridgestone and others of working together to fix the price of replacement tires have asked a New York federal court to consolidate the dozen lawsuits that have piled up against the tire manufacturers.
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March 14, 2024
Publisher Must Face Privacy Claims Over Meta Pixel Tool
An Ohio federal judge has ruled that the publisher of The Toledo Blade and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette can't duck a proposed privacy class action alleging that the newspapers shared the video-viewing history of their website users with Facebook's parent company, Meta Platforms Inc., without their permission.
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March 14, 2024
Norfolk Southern Must Face Most Derailment Suit Claims
Norfolk Southern must face the bulk of the claims in consolidated suits brought over a train derailment and subsequent chemical spill in East Palestine, Ohio, a federal judge ruled in a spate of opinions that also kept intact most of the rail giant's third-party claims against a chemical company and two railcar leasing firms.
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March 14, 2024
Most States Fall Short In Disclosing Justices' Finance Reports
The vast majority of state supreme courts make it exceedingly difficult for the public to get information about justices' financial entanglements, and the information they do give out is often scant at best, according to a report released Thursday.
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March 14, 2024
Biden Comes Out Against $14.9B US Steel-Nippon Merger
President Joe Biden came out in opposition of U.S. Steel's planned $14.9 billion merger with Japan's Nippon Steel Corp. on Thursday, echoing lawmakers who have expressed concerns about the sale of an American institution to a foreign power.
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March 13, 2024
6th Circ. Kills Orders On Calculating Delivery Driver Costs
A Sixth Circuit panel has swept away rulings from courts in two separate states — one that sided with pizza delivery drivers and another that sided with the restaurants — over how drivers should be reimbursed for using their cars to make deliveries, saying they both got it wrong.
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March 13, 2024
6th Circ. Told Woman Helped Life Partner Avoid $3M In Taxes
The federal government justifiably sold off the property of a woman who paid for it with money from her dead long-term life partner, the U.S. government told the Sixth Circuit on Wednesday, saying the purchase helped her partner skirt more than $3 million in tax liabilities.
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March 13, 2024
FTC Bid To Block Kroger's $25B Albertsons Deal Set For Aug.
An Oregon federal court has scheduled an August hearing on the Federal Trade Commission's challenge of Kroger's planned $24.6 billion purchase of fellow grocery store giant Albertsons, a deal also under attack by state enforcers in Washington and Colorado.
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March 13, 2024
FERC Can't Change Power Auction Results, 3rd Circ. Rules
The Third Circuit has wiped out the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's tweak to the results of an electricity capacity auction run by the nation's largest regional grid operator, saying it amounted to retroactive rate-making in violation of the filed-rate doctrine.
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March 13, 2024
Ohio Slams Justice's Bid To Keep Partisan Label Suit Alive
Ohio Supreme Court Justice Jennifer Brunner's effort to keep alive her suit challenging a new rule requiring certain judicial candidates in the state to have their political party affiliations listed on general election ballots did nothing to fix her complaint of numerous fatal flaws, the Ohio secretary of state has said.
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March 13, 2024
Online University, Workers To Settle Wage Suit For $110K
Employees of an online university based in Ohio asked a federal judge to sign off on a $110,000 deal ending their claims that the school stopped paying them for hours they had worked.
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March 12, 2024
Tire Cos. Seek Exit From Salmon-Harming Chemical Suit
A dozen tire companies are asking a California federal judge to toss a suit claiming a rubber additive is harming protected salmon, arguing that the litigation stretches the Endangered Species Act "beyond its breaking point" and that regulation of the substance belongs with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, not in courts.
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March 12, 2024
MV Realty Says NC AG Is Working For Real Estate Industry
Embattled Florida-based real estate company MV Realty told the North Carolina Supreme Court the state's attorney general is "wielding the power of the state under the guise of consumer protection" to shut down the business at the behest of "entrenched real estate brokerage interests."
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March 12, 2024
DC Circ. Questions MPLX Alternatives In FERC Decision
D.C. Circuit judges on Tuesday pressed attorneys for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on the agency's decision allowing crude oil transportation company MPLX to charge market rates on its Ozark Pipeline, questioning in particular how much capacity would be available on other lines if shippers needed an alternative to supracompetitive pricing.
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March 12, 2024
NTSB Slams Order To Allow Hands-On Train Parts Inspection
The National Transportation Safety Board objected to a federal magistrate judge's order compelling it to let a rail car leasing firm and a chemical company physically inspect parts of the Norfolk Southern train that derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, last year, arguing its own investigation could be harmed.
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March 12, 2024
Ohio Atty Disbarment Sparks Call For Criminal Rule Change
The Ohio Supreme Court on Tuesday disbarred an attorney convicted of joining her boyfriend in the sexual abuse of his young daughter, rejecting as too lenient a state ethics board's recommendation that the attorney be suspended, and resurfacing a call for criminal justice reform from one justice of the court.
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March 12, 2024
6th Circ. Won't Revive Mich. Mall's Faulty Parking Lot Suit
A general contractor is not liable for a Michigan parking lot that began to fail "mere months" after construction, the Sixth Circuit said, finding the company did not violate its contract with outlet mall chain Tanger.
Expert Analysis
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Challenging Standing In Antitrust Class Actions: Timing
The early resolution of Article III standing disputes in antitrust class actions can result in sizable efficiencies, but some litigants and courts are improperly relying on the Amchem and Ortiz U.S. Supreme Court cases to defer standing issues until after ruling on plaintiffs' class certification motions, say Michael Hamburger and Holly Tao at White & Case.
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Level Up Lawyers' Business Development With Gamification
With employee engagement at a 10-year low in the U.S., there are several gamification techniques marketing and business development teams at law firms can use to make generating new clients and matters more appealing to lawyers, says Heather McCullough at Society 54.
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Mallory Ruling Leaves Personal Jurisdiction Deeply Unsettled
In Mallory v. Norfolk Southern Railway, a closely divided U.S. Supreme Court recently rolled back key aspects of its 2017 opinion in Daimler AG v. Bauman that limited personal jurisdiction, leaving as many questions for businesses as it answers, say John Cerreta and James Rotondo at Day Pitney.
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5 Ways Firms Can Rethink Office Design In A Hybrid World
As workplaces across the country adapt to flexible work, law firms must prioritize individuality, amenities and technology in office design, says Kristin Cerutti at Nelson Worldwide.
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C-PACE Laws Offer Boost For Sustainable Development
As more emphasis is placed on energy-efficient infrastructure and sustainability projects, state laws establishing property assessed clean energy financing — known as C-PACE in the commercial context — have become increasingly relevant to project developers' capital stacks, say attorneys at Frost Brown.
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Opinion
Bar Score Is Best Hiring Metric Post-Affirmative Action
After the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling striking down affirmative action admissions policies, law firms looking to foster diversity in hiring should view an applicant's Multistate Bar Examination score as the best metric of legal ability — over law school name or GPA, says attorney Alice Griffin.
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Piecing Together The Blockchain Evidentiary Hurdles
There are common challenges to introducing blockchain evidence at trial and a lack of uniformity in evidentiary codes at the state and federal levels means litigants must carefully navigate the uncertain blockchain puzzle, says Brett Sager at Ehrenstein Sager.
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Ghosting In BigLaw: How To Come Back From Lack Of Feedback
Junior associates can feel powerless when senior colleagues cut off contact instead of providing useful feedback, but young attorneys can get back on track by focusing on practical professional development and reexamining their career priorities, says Rachel Patterson at Orrick.
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Would Biden Airline Service Order Raise 'Major Questions'?
President Joe Biden's recent pledge to require airlines to compensate passengers for delays and cancellations could run afoul of the U.S. Supreme Court's recently expounded "major questions" doctrine — but that will depend on what kind of action the administration takes, and how federal courts choose to apply the doctrine, says Roger Clark at Signature Resolution.
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Opinion
States Must Fight Predatory Real Estate Listing Agreements
As momentum against long-term real estate listing agreements continues to grow, states should take action to render existing agreements unenforceable and discourage future unfair and deceptive trade practices in real estate, says Elizabeth Blosser at the American Land Title Association.
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Steps To Success For Senior Associates
Excerpt from Practical Guidance
Adriana Paris at Rissman Barrett discusses the increased responsibilities and opportunities that becoming a senior associate brings and what attorneys in this role should prioritize to flourish in this stressful but rewarding next level in their careers.
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What 6th Circ. Ruling May Portend For PFAS Coverage Cases
The Sixth Circuit's recent decision in Admiral Insurance v. Fire-Dex, rejecting the insurer's attempt to avoid coverage, shows that federal courts may decline to resolve novel PFAS state-law issues, and that insurers may have less confidence than originally intimated in the applicability of the pollution exclusion to PFAS claims, say attorneys at Hunton.
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How To Avoid A Zombie Office Building Apocalypse
With national office vacancy rates approaching 20%, policymakers, investors and developers will need to come together in order to prevent this troubling trend from sucking the life out of business districts or contaminating the broader real estate market, say Ryan Sommers and Robyn Minter Smyers at Thompson Hine.
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Legal Profession Must Do More For Lawyers With Disabilities
At the start of Disability Pride month, Rosalyn Richter at Arnold & Porter looks at why lawyers with disabilities are significantly underrepresented in private practice, asserting that law firms and other employers must do more to conquer the implicit bias that deters attorneys from seeking accommodations.
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Ohio Tax Talk: Building On Federal Affordable Housing Credit
Ohio's soon-to-be-implemented low-income housing tax credit could significantly affect the state's affordable housing landscape and influence tax-credit deal financing for these projects, though Senate changes may have dampened the new credit's immense potential, say Raghav Agnihotri and Rachael Chamberlain at Frost Brown.