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October 06, 2025
Justices Skip Unpaid Texas Tech Mentor's Retaliation Suit
The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to review a former Texas Tech University graduate research assistant's suit alleging she lost an unpaid mentor position for complaining about a professor's sexual harassment, leaving intact the Fifth Circuit's finding that she wasn't technically an employee.
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October 06, 2025
High Court Wants Feds' Input On Coffee Drink TM Fight
The solicitor general has been asked by the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on a trademark case against PepsiCo Inc. launched by a company that makes nitro-brewed coffee drinks called Rise.
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October 06, 2025
High Court Won't Weigh NLRB 'Substantial Evidence' Standard
The U.S. Supreme Court will not take up an Oregon distillery's challenge to how federal courts weigh whether to affirm National Labor Relations Board decisions, declining Monday to place a case on its docket that questioned what is known as the substantial evidence standard of review.
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October 06, 2025
Justices Won't Review 5th Circ. Ending ACA Trans Policy Suit
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to review the Fifth Circuit's decision to shut down a challenge to a Biden-era interpretation of the Affordable Care Act's nondiscrimination-in-healthcare policy as also protecting against gender identity bias, which an appellate panel told a Texas court to dismiss in December.
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October 06, 2025
DJ Company Misclassified Workers, NJ Panel Rules
A New Jersey wedding DJ services company misclassified its entertainers as independent contractors rather than employees, the state appeals court ruled, affirming the state Department of Labor's $45,645 judgment against the company.
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October 06, 2025
Baseball's Antitrust Exemption Escapes High Court Review
The U.S. Supreme Court refused a request on Monday to review baseball's century-old exemption from antitrust law in a case from players accusing Major League Baseball and its teams of colluding to pay minor leaguers "poverty level" wages.
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October 06, 2025
Justices Won't Revisit Apache Land Exchange Dispute
The U.S. Supreme Court won't reconsider its decision to deny an Apache nonprofit's petition that looked to block the transfer of nearly 2,500 acres to a copper mining company it said would destroy an ancient Indigenous worship site.
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October 06, 2025
Mass. Justices Say Harvard Must Face Cadaver Theft Claims
Massachusetts' highest court on Monday reinstated claims against Harvard University over what one justice called a "ghoulish" and "macabre scheme" by its former medical school morgue manager to dissect, steal and sell body parts from donated medical research cadavers.
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October 06, 2025
Justices Won't Revive Church Shooting Claims Against Meta
The Supreme Court on Monday denied a petition from the family of a South Carolina state senator who died in the June 2015 shooting at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, leaving in place a Fourth Circuit decision finding their claims against Meta Platforms were barred by federal law.
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October 06, 2025
Justices Won't Hear Ex-Steel Co. Manager's Retaliation Suit
The U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to review a suit brought by a former steel company manager who said lower courts let his former employer use unverified misconduct allegations to shield itself from claims that he was fired for speaking out about racial bias.
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October 06, 2025
High Court Won't Revisit Packaging Co.'s Win In ADA Case
The U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to hear a former packing company worker's challenge to the dismissal of his suit claiming he was unlawfully placed on unpaid leave after he asked to be excused from climbing ladders because of an injury, letting the company's Sixth Circuit win stand.
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October 06, 2025
High Court Skips Review Of ERISA Liability For DuPont Heirs
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to consider whether DuPont heirs should be held liable for alleged Employee Retirement Income Security Act violations for inadequately funding a now-insolvent trust established in 1947 by their grandmother to pay them and their workers retirement benefits.
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October 06, 2025
Ghislaine Maxwell's Appeal Is Rejected By Supreme Court
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell's appeal of her 2021 sex trafficking conviction.
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October 06, 2025
High Court Won't Review NYC Bus Tour Antitrust Case
The U.S. Supreme Court refused on Monday to review a New York City tour bus operator's case accusing a group of rivals of combining their operations and using the partnership to squash competition for hop-on, hop-off tour bus service.
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October 06, 2025
Justices Skip Pa. GOP Challenge To Biden's Voting Order
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take on Pennsylvania GOP lawmakers' challenge to former President Joe Biden's executive order expanding "get-out-the-vote" information, letting stand a ruling that the Republican politicians did not have standing to sue over the order.
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October 06, 2025
Justices Won't Review Live Nation's Arbitration Terms
The U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to grant Live Nation's request for clarity about whether federal arbitration law covers "alternative" forms of arbitration after the Ninth Circuit found Ticketmaster's consumer arbitration agreement cannot be enforced in an antitrust case.
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October 06, 2025
Justices Deny SEC Whistleblower Award Calculation Appeal
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up two whistleblowers' case alleging the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission shortchanged them after they helped to uncover purportedly the largest fraud in Texas history, after the pair argued the agency improperly and retroactively applied a rule amendment to dilute their awards.
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October 06, 2025
Supreme Court Declines To Revisit McGirt Tribal Jurisdiction
The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a Cherokee Nation member's challenge to his conviction over a speeding ticket issued by Tulsa, Oklahoma, police on Creek land that he argues runs afoul of the court's 2020 landmark decision holding that only federal and tribal governments can prosecute Native Americans on tribal lands.
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October 06, 2025
Justices Won't Hear Coinbase's Calif. Arbitration Challenge
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a case from Coinbase over whether federal arbitration laws preempt a California high court precedent that enabled a group of users to keep the crypto exchange in court over claims it misrepresented the security of its platform.
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October 06, 2025
Justices Will Not Review Question Of Credit Union's Liability
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a petition to overturn a Fourth Circuit ruling that found banks cannot be held liable for fraudulent fund transfers made from their accounts without having "actual knowledge" that there were discrepancies between the intended beneficiary and the account receiving the deposit.
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October 06, 2025
Justices Deny Certiorari In Auditor's $1.5M Retaliation Suit
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear Axos Bank's petition challenging a $1.5 million award to a former auditor who claimed he was fired for whistleblowing, rejecting a matter that concerns how companies defend against such retaliation claims.
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October 06, 2025
High Court Refuses To Review Revived SAP Tying Claims
The U.S. Supreme Court denied a request on Monday from German software giant SAP to review a ruling that revived Teradata's antitrust claims over the alleged tying of software and database products.
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October 06, 2025
High Court Turns Down 6 Patent Cases At Start Of Term
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected six petitions in patent-related cases, taking some of its first actions on intellectual property matters this term.
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October 06, 2025
Justices Seek US Opinion On $419M Arbitration Question
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday requested that the federal government weigh in on Spain's petition challenging a D.C. Circuit decision laying a path to enforce some $419.45 million in arbitral awards against it, a case that the country argues raises two questions of "critical importance" for foreign sovereigns.
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October 06, 2025
High Court Passes On Halkbank's Immunity Claims
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up Halkbank's claims that it has common-law foreign sovereign immunity from criminal charges alleging the bank laundered about $1 billion in sanctioned Iranian oil proceeds.
Expert Analysis
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My Opera And Baseball Careers Make Me A Better Lawyer
Though participating in opera and the world of professional baseball often pulls me away from the office, my avocations improve my legal career by helping me perform under scrutiny, prioritize team success, and maintain joy and perspective at work, says Adam Unger at Herrick Feinstein.
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High Court ACA Ruling May Harm Preventative Care
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Kennedy v. Braidwood last week, ruling that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services secretary has authority over an Affordable Care Act preventive care task force, risks harming the credibility of the task force and could open the door to politicians dictating clinical recommendations, says Michael Kolber at Manatt.
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Opinion
Subject Matter Eligibility Test Should Return To Preemption
Subject matter eligibility has posed challenges for patentees due to courts' arbitrary and confusing reasoning, but adopting a two-part preemption test could align the applicant, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the courts, says Manav Das at McDonnell Boehnen.
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8 Ways Lawyers Can Protect The Rule Of Law In Their Work
Whether they are concerned with judicial independence, regulatory predictability or client confidence, lawyers can take specific meaningful actions on their own when traditional structures are too slow or too compromised to respond, says Angeli Patel at the Berkeley Center of Law and Business.
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Kousisis Concurrence Maps FCA Defense To Anti-DEI Suits
Justice Clarence Thomas' recent concurrence in Kousisis v. U.S. lays out how federal funding recipients could use the high standard for materiality in government fraud cases to fight the U.S. Justice Department’s threatened False Claims Act suits against payees deviating from the administration’s anti-DEI policies, say attorneys at Miller & Chevalier.
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Justices' Review Of Fluor May Alter Gov't Contractor Liability
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to review Hencely v. Fluor, a case involving a soldier’s personal injury claims against a government contractor, suggests the justices could reconsider a long-standing test for determining whether contractors are shielded from state-tort liability, says Lisa Himes at Rogers Joseph.
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Google Damages Ruling Offers Lessons For Testifying Experts
The Federal Circuit's recent decision in EcoFactor v. Google represents a shift in how courts evaluate expert testimony in patent cases, offering a practical guide for how litigators and testifying experts can refine their work, says Adam Rhoten at Secretariat.
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Series
Law School's Missed Lessons: Communicating With Clients
Law school curricula often overlook client communication procedures, and those who actively teach this crucial facet of the practice can create exceptional client satisfaction and success, says Patrick Hanson at Wiggam Law.
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One Year On, Davidson Holds Lessons On 'Health Halo' Claims
A year after the Ninth Circuit's Davidson v. Sprout Foods decision — which raised the bar for so-called health halo claims — food and beverage companies can draw insights from its finding, subsequently expanded on by other courts, that plaintiffs must be specific when alleging fraud in healthfulness marketing, say attorneys at Sidley.
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Justices' NRC Ruling Raises New Regulatory Questions
In Nuclear Regulatory Commission v. Texas, the U.S. Supreme Court avoided ruling on the NRC's authority to license private, temporary nuclear waste storage facilities — and this failure to reach the merits question creates new regulatory uncertainty where none had existed for decades, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.
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Rocket Mortgage Appeal May Push Justices To Curb Classes
Should the U.S. Supreme Court agree to hear Alig v. Rocket Mortgage, the resulting decision could limit class sizes based on commonality under Rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Evidence as opposed to standing under Article III of the U.S. Constitution, say attorneys at Carr Maloney.
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3 Judicial Approaches To Applying Loper Bright, 1 Year Later
In the year since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Chevron deference in its Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo decision, a few patterns have emerged in lower courts’ application of the precedent to determine whether agency actions are lawful, say attorneys at Husch Blackwell.
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Trending At The PTAB: Shifts In Parallel Proceedings Strategy
Dynamics are changing between the Patent Trial and Appeal Board and federal courts, with two recent discretionary denials and one Federal Circuit decision offering takeaways for both patent owners and challengers navigating parallel proceedings, say attorneys at Finnegan.
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What Businesses Need To Know To Avoid VPPA Class Actions
Divergent rulings by the Second, Sixth and Seventh Circuits about the scope of the Video Privacy Protection Act have highlighted the difficulty of applying a statute conceived to regulate the now-obsolete brick-and-mortar video store sector in today's internet economy, say attorneys at DTO Law.
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Series
Adapting To Private Practice: From US Rep. To Boutique Firm
My transition from serving as a member of Congress to becoming a partner at a boutique firm has been remarkably smooth, in part because I never stopped exercising my legal muscles, maintained relationships with my former colleagues and set the right tone at the outset, says Mondaire Jones at Friedman Kaplan.