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  Law Grad Employment Remains High As BigLaw Drives Hires

  By Aebra Coe

  Class of 2025 law school graduates posted near-record high employment rates, with large law firms hiring more gr...(read more)

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  Cyclospora Outbreak Sends Struggling Salad Chain To Ch. 11

  By Rick Archer

  The operators of the restaurant chain Salad and Go have filed for Chapter 11 protection in a Texas bankruptcy co...(read more)

• New Mexico Says Blanche, DOJ Blocked Epstein Ranch Probe

  By Lauren Berg

  The state of New Mexico asked a Washington, D.C., federal court Wednesday to force the U.S. Department of Justice to hand over unredacted Jeffrey Epstein investigative files, saying it needs the materials for its own investigation of alleged crimes at the late sex offender's Santa Fe County ranch.

• Senate Version Of Kids' Online Safety Legislation Clears Panel

  By Allison Grande

  A key U.S. Senate committee Wednesday advanced four legislative proposals designed to shield children from online harms presented by addictive design features and artificial intelligence-powered chatbots, setting up a clash with a package of digital safety bills that has already passed the House but that several senators have blasted as "toothless."

• Senate Dems Grill Trump's Judge Picks For 5th Circ., Alabama

  By Nadia Dreid

  Senate Democrats on Wednesday dug into two judges nominated by the president to serve in Alabama district court and on the Fifth Circuit over their careful answers about who won the 2020 election and one's history of advocating against a ban on forced arbitration for workplace sexual harassment and assault claims.

• UN Worker Died In 'Needless' Boeing Crash, Ill. Jury Hears

  By Lauraann Wood

  Boeing should pay substantial damages to the family of a former United Nations engineer who had a "magnetism" that spread light and comfort to others before he died in a "needless" and preventable plane crash aboard Ethiopian Air Flight ET302, Illinois federal jurors heard Wednesday.

• Unread Arbitration Emails Are Unenforceable, 9th Circ. Rules

  By Jeff Overley

  Arbitration agreements sent to workers aren't arbitration agreements assented to by workers, the Ninth Circuit held Wednesday, rejecting assertions from medical supplies giant Thermo Fisher Scientific that its arbitration-related emails — even if never read — sufficed to keep an ex-employee's proposed class action out of court.

• How Plaintiffs Won A $604M Verdict Against CH Robinson

  By Spencer Brewer

  Roland Christensen of Arnold & Itkin LLP said that for the life of him, he couldn't understand why C.H. Robinson didn't cut a deal offered by the families of victims who burned to death following an 18-wheeler crash.

• Stewart Says Patent System 'Crisis' Fueled USPTO Changes

  By Ryan Davis

  Coke Morgan Stewart, the deputy director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office who left the agency last week, said in an interview with Law360 this week that new limits on patent challenges and other policy changes she helped lead were driven by a sense that the patent system was in "a pretty significant crisis."

• Kansas Judge Permanently Blocks Abortion Care Restrictions

  By Gianna Ferrarin

  A Kansas state court has permanently enjoined a slew of restrictions on abortion care, including requirements that providers disclose patients' reasons for seeking an abortion to the state and inform patients about abortion pill "reversal" treatments the court said were "unlikely to be biologically plausible."

• NYC's Food Apps Data Law Goes Too Far, 2nd Circ. Says

  By Lauren Berg

  A New York City law that would require DoorDash, GrubHub and other delivery apps to share customer data with the restaurants fulfilling food orders violates the First Amendment, the Second Circuit ruled Wednesday.

• Chancery Sets Hybrid Interest Formula In Alexion Merger Fight

  By Jarek Rutz

  The Delaware Chancery Court has adopted a hybrid method for calculating prejudgment interest in the long-running merger dispute between Shareholder Representative Services LLC and Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc., rejecting both sides' competing approaches.

• JBS To Pay $31M In Pilgrim's Pride Investors' Control Suit

  By Sydney Price

  Brazil-based meat giant JBS SA agreed to pay $31 million to shareholders of its subsidiary Pilgrim's Pride Corp. to settle a suit accusing JBS, its affiliates and its Pilgrim's board appointees of unfairly increasing JBS' clout and access to dividends and tax benefits at the expense of minority shareholders of Pilgrim's.

• Takeda Says Rebates, Subsidies Cut $885M IBS Drug Verdict

  By Bryan Koenig

  Takeda Pharmaceuticals battled with a class of health plans over whether a Massachusetts federal jury's $885 million antitrust verdict against the drugmaker for conspiring to delay generic competition to anticonstipation drug Amitiza should be reduced by rebates the drugmaker paid and Medicare subsidies that reduced the health plans' costs.