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  5th Circ. Says SEC's In-House Court Is Unconstitutional

  By Jon Hill

  A Fifth Circuit panel ruled Wednesday that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's use of in-house courts ...(read more)

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  Not 'Fake Equal Pay': Soccer CBA Hailed As Game-Changer

  By Max Jaeger

  The U.S. Women's National Soccer Team is finally on equal footing with their male counterparts thanks to landmar...(read more)

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• Judge Albright Only Got More Popular In 2021

  By Dani Kass

  The Western District of Texas maintained its stronghold on patent litigation last year, and attorneys were given a deeper look at how cases play out in the hotspot after the Waco division's sought-after sole judge presided over a series of jury trials that led to a verdict.

• Even With Pandemic, Patent Suit Filings Held Steady In 2021

  By Ryan Davis

  The COVID-19 pandemic doesn't seem to have put a damper on new patent lawsuit filings, which effectively stayed the same in 2021 as the year before, with attorneys suggesting the increased role of litigation funding for patent disputes is driving a steady pace of cases.

• 7th Circ. Throws Out $11M Fee Award For Bernstein Litowitz

  By Hailey Konnath

  The Seventh Circuit on Wednesday vacated an $11 million fee award for Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP's work on a $45 million settlement between waste disposal company Stericycle and its shareholders, finding that the district court "did not give sufficient weight" to points raised in a class member's objection.

• Steve Wynn Gambles On Who's A Foreign Agent Under FARA

  By Hannah Albarazi

  Former casino mogul Steve Wynn's decision to fight the Justice Department's civil suit alleging he failed to register as a foreign agent of China over a Trump-era lobbying effort is a sign that the GOP megadonor is betting that a court will find he didn't violate the Foreign Agents Registration Act, experts tell Law360.

• Balwani Shut Down $96M Investor's Due Diligence, Jury Told

  By Bonnie Eslinger

  A hedge fund manager testified Wednesday in the fraud trial of former Theranos executive Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani that before his firm and its affiliates invested $96.1 million he tried to do thorough due diligence, but Balwani rejected his requests to speak with two of the company's notable business partners.

• Many SF Walgreens Opioid Scripts Had Red Flags, Judge Told

  By Dorothy Atkins

  An economist hired by the city and county of San Francisco testified in a bellwether opioid bench trial Wednesday that he identified "red flags" raising suspicions about the legitimacy of more than half of the opioid prescriptions Walgreens distributed between 2006 and 2020 in San Francisco.

• AG Moves To Bolster High Court Security Amid Leaked Draft

  By Lauren Berg

  Attorney General Merrick B. Garland on Wednesday denounced threats of violence directed at U.S. Supreme Court justices and took steps to address security at the high court in the wake of a leaked draft opinion that indicated the court could be poised to overturn Roe v. Wade.

• Ill. Man Gets 1 Year For Smuggling To Pakistan Nuke Agency

  By Gina Kim

  A Chicago tech executive was sentenced to one year in federal prison in Illinois federal court on Wednesday after pleading guilty last year to smuggling computers and equipment from the United States to a nuclear research agency of the Pakistani government without a license from the U.S. Department of Commerce.

• Senate Confirms Biden's NY And Calif. Trial Court Judge Picks

  By James Arkin

  The U.S. Senate on Wednesday confirmed three of President Joe Biden's trial court picks, backing two judges in California and one nominee in New York.

• 5 Indicted For Alleged China-Run Spying On Activists

  By Stewart Bishop

  Four intelligence officers from China's Ministry of State Security and a U.S. academic have been indicted over an alleged espionage scheme that targeted Chinese pro-democracy activists, Taiwanese independence advocates and others in the U.S. considered to be adversaries of China's communist party.

• Del. Plaintiffs Firms Pan Proposed Corporate Law Changes

  By Jeff Montgomery

  Several prominent plaintiffs firms in Delaware have voiced opposition to proposed changes in the state's vaunted corporation law that would grant officers more liability protections, arguing that the revisions are at best unnecessary and at worst could encourage unsavory or careless business behavior.

• Twitter Is No State Actor, 9th Circ. Says In Trump Tweets Case

  By Lauren Berg

  The Ninth Circuit on Wednesday refused to revive a claim that Twitter violated the First Amendment rights of a Donald Trump supporter by preventing comments on the former president's tweets and suspending his account, saying the social media platform isn't a state actor and can't be held liable for alleged constitutional violations.