High Court Skeptical Of Limiting Courts' Title VII Purview

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  Quinn Gets Dispute With Ex-Partners Bumped To Arbitration

  By Sam Reisman

  The litigators who left Quinn Emanuel last year to launch Selendy & Gay PLLC must go to arbitration to fight a c...(read more)

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  High Court To Consider Whether Title VII Covers LGBT Bias

  By Vin Gurrieri

  The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a trio of closely watched cases that hinge on whether gay and tr...(read more)

• Fisher-Price, Mattel Sued Over Deadly Rock 'N Play Sleepers

  By Dave Simpson

  Mattel Inc. and its subsidiary Fisher-Price Inc. are facing at least two putative class actions from consumers claiming negligence after the Consumer Product Safety Commission warned earlier this month that 10 infants died while in Rock 'N Play Sleepers since 2015.

• J&J And Colgate Face Latest Talc Trial Together In Calif.

  By Daniel Siegal

  Asbestos hidden for decades in talcum powder products made by Johnson & Johnson and Colgate-Palmolive gave a 61-year-old woman mesothelioma, leaving her only months to live, her attorney told a California jury Monday on the first day of trial. 

• House Panel Subpoenas Former WH Counsel In Trump Probe

  By Michael Macagnone

  The House Judiciary Committee subpoenaed former White House Counsel Don McGahn on Monday, calling him to testify and provide documents on events surrounding President Donald Trump’s alleged interference in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.

• Facebook Taps Trump State Dept. Lawyer As General Counsel

  By Michele Gorman

  Facebook has hired the U.S. Department of State legal adviser as its next general counsel, the social media giant announced Monday, as it faces unprecedented government scrutiny over a string of privacy breaches and misinformation being spread on the platform.

• Avenatti's Former Law Partner Wins Atty Fees In Contract Row

  By Lauren Berg

  A Los Angeles judge on Monday ordered Michael Avenatti to pay his former legal partner $60,000 in attorney fees after the lawyer won an order requiring Avenatti to pay him $4.85 million for work he did at their former firm Eagan Avenatti LLP.

• Sounding Like Gorsuch, Kagan Focuses On Text

  By Jimmy Hoover

  Justice Elena Kagan showed just how mainstream it has become to interpret statutes based solely on their text when she pressed a newspaper's attorney Monday to explain why the Freedom of Information Act doesn't exempt all confidential business information from public disclosure.

• AT&T, Sprint Settle '5GE' False Advertising Suit

  By Anne Cullen

  Sprint and AT&T said Monday they have agreed to settle Sprint's lawsuit seeking to stop AT&T from continuing to advertise its upgraded fourth-generation service as "5G Evolution" or "5GE."

• Trump Tees Up New Sanctions For Iran's Oil Customers

  By Alex Lawson

  The Trump administration said Monday it would soon impose sanctions on companies purchasing oil from Iran by removing waivers that had allowed certain countries to stay in business with Tehran.

• High Court Will Review Citgo's $100M Oil Spill Liability

  By Keith Goldberg

  The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday said it will review the Third Circuit's ruling that put three Citgo units on the hook for most of a $100 million-plus oil spill judgment stemming from a 2004 tanker crash, five years after refusing to examine a previous ruling in the long-running case.

• High Court Seeks SG's Take On Putnam ERISA Case

  By Emily Brill

  The U.S. Supreme Court asked for the federal government’s input Monday on Putnam Investments LLC’s challenge to a First Circuit ruling that could make it harder for companies to get Employee Retirement Income Security Act class actions thrown out of court.