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October 09, 2025
ADA Doesn't Stop At Prison Gates, 3rd Circ. Says In Reversal
The Third Circuit ordered a lower court to accept an incarcerated man's amended Americans with Disabilities Act lawsuit against a Pennsylvania prison that he says denied him proper medical treatment when a spinal cord injury left him paralyzed in his cell.
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October 09, 2025
Nissan, Drivers Reach Deal To End Faulty Brake Claims
Nissan North America Inc. and drivers on Thursday reached a settlement in principle in Tennessee federal court that would end multistate claims alleging the automatic braking systems in certain Nissan vehicles would sometimes trigger and cause the cars to stop suddenly, creating an unpredictable hazard.
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October 09, 2025
Fla. High Court Hears Ex-Marvel CEO's Punitive Damages Bid
The former CEO of Marvel Entertainment on Thursday urged the Florida Supreme Court to revive his punitive damages claim over the secret collection of his wife's DNA in connection to a hate letter campaign, arguing his client was wrongfully held to a higher burden in order to establish the claim.
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October 09, 2025
San Antonio Abandons Out-Of-State Abortion Travel Appeal
The city of San Antonio on Thursday conceded defeat in its request for court approval to go forward with a program that included funding for out-of-state travel for abortions, handing a victory to the state's attorney general.
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October 09, 2025
Mich. Justices Mull Tort Damages Bar For Nonresident Drivers
Members of Michigan's Supreme Court on Thursday expressed reservations about an intermediate appellate court's decision that nonresidents who fail to carry Michigan insurance for a vehicle they regularly drive in the state can recover tort damages after a car accident.
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October 09, 2025
Judge Seeks NCAA Ruling's Impact On Tenn. Player's Suit
With an appeal by the NCAA over an injunction permitting Vanderbilt University quarterback Diego Pavia to continue playing football tossed out by the Sixth Circuit last week, a Tennessee federal judge has given the NCAA and a former college basketball player until Oct. 30 to explain how the ruling affects a separate challenge to the organization's eligibility rules.
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October 09, 2025
Jenn Mascott Of WH Counsel's Office Confirmed To 3rd Circ.
The Senate voted 50-47 on Thursday to confirm Jenn Mascott, currently serving in the White House Counsel's Office, to the Delaware seat on the Third Circuit.
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October 09, 2025
Tort Report: Nuked 'Nuclear Verdict' Stays, Texas Justices Say
The fate of a "nuclear verdict" that was used to jump-start tort reform campaigns across the country and a settlement of a suit over a Kiss guitar technician's death lead Law360's Tort Report, which compiles recent personal injury and medical malpractice news that may have flown under the radar.
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October 09, 2025
Texas Justices Weigh $26M Fracking Water Pipeline Verdict
The Texas Supreme Court pushed Equinor Energy LP on Thursday to explain how language in a contract gave it the right to seek water for fracking from other sources, asking why the company should get out of a $26 million verdict.
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October 09, 2025
Whistleblower Asks High Court To Revive NASA Fraud Case
A whistleblower is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to revive a False Claims Act suit accusing a NASA contractor of overbilling, arguing that the Sixth Circuit wrongly let the government dismiss the case without considering the whistleblower's time and money commitment.
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October 09, 2025
Fed. Circ. Gets Shutdown Extension For Newman Response
The D.C. Circuit on Thursday gave the judges on the Federal Circuit an extension until after the government shutdown ends to respond to Federal Circuit Judge Pauline Newman's request for the rehearing of a decision upholding the dismissal of her suit against the colleagues who suspended her.
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October 09, 2025
Fed. Circ. Backs PTAB Wins For Samsung In Earpiece Cases
The Federal Circuit on Thursday shot down appeals of a series of Patent Trial and Appeal Board decisions that found claims across three patents covering earpieces and attached microphone technology invalid.
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October 09, 2025
Florida Says Its Immigration Law Doesn't Preempt Federal Law
Florida asked the Eleventh Circuit on Thursday to overturn a block on a state law that criminalizes the entry of unauthorized immigrants into the state, arguing that there is no preemption of federal immigration law.
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October 09, 2025
Top Texas Court Halts Execution In Shaken Baby Case
Texas' top criminal court on Thursday paused the execution of a man convicted of killing his daughter under the discredited "shaken baby syndrome" theory, ordering a trial court to consider whether a recent ruling in another capital case involving the same theory could justify granting a new trial.
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October 09, 2025
Tire-Maker Takes 13 Revived Asbestos Suits To NC High Court
Continental Tire is asking North Carolina's top court to review whether more than a dozen workers' compensation cases linked to alleged asbestos exposure at one of its factories should carry on, saying the claimants cannot skirt the results of a bellwether trial.
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October 09, 2025
7th Circ. Denies Rehearing In Harley-Davidson Warranty Case
The Seventh Circuit again affirmed the dismissal of customers' challenge to terms and conditions in Harley-Davidson's motorcycle warranties that limit coverage when third-party parts are used.
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October 09, 2025
Patient Asks 4th Circ. To Revive Faulty Ethicon Stapler Suit
A surgery patient is asking the Fourth Circuit to reinstate his suit against Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Ethicon Endo-Surgery LLC over faulty staples used in his procedure, saying the district court was wrong to deny his request to extend an expert deadline after he finally narrowed down the type of stapler used.
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October 09, 2025
Mich. Justices Urged To Restore Diminished Capacity Defense
A lawyer for a man awaiting trial for murder told the Michigan Supreme Court on Thursday that a jury deserves to hear that his client was mentally ill and possibly suffering from delusions, urging the court to lift a decades-old bar on so-called diminished capacity evidence.
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October 09, 2025
7th Circ. Nominee Taibleson Advances To Full Senate
The Senate Judiciary Committee advanced on party lines the nomination of Rebecca Taibleson, a federal prosecutor in Wisconsin, to serve on the Seventh Circuit, as well as four district judicial nominees and five U.S. attorney nominees.
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October 09, 2025
False-Statement Case Puts Comey In Rare Company
Former FBI director James Comey is the latest addition to the relatively short list of government officials who have been criminally charged over the past several decades with making false statements to Congress.
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October 09, 2025
Anti-Union Firm Joins Fight Against Calif. Cannabis Labor Law
An anti-union group has thrown its weight behind a cannabis retailer's challenge to a California law that requires marijuana businesses to sign labor peace agreements with unions, arguing before the Ninth Circuit that the law is preempted by the National Labor Relations Act.
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October 09, 2025
Ga. Panel Revives Broad & Cassel Malpractice Claims
The Georgia Court of Appeals has partially revived a legal malpractice suit filed against Broad & Cassel LLP over allegations that one of its partners blew an auto dealership's lawsuit in the midst of a mental health crisis, ruling that the claims may not have been filed too late after all.
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October 09, 2025
Brokerage Urges 10th Circ. To Revive NAR Antitrust Suit
A residential brokerage startup has pushed the Tenth Circuit to reinstate its permanently dismissed antitrust suit against the National Association of Realtors and multiple brokerages, which were accused in Utah federal court of conspiring against the startup because it offered lower buyer-broker commission fees.
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October 09, 2025
2nd Circ. Says Immigration Board Ignored Torture Evidence
The Board of Immigration Appeals glossed over evidence and failed to justify its decision to overturn an immigration judge who granted an El Salvador man protection from removal under the Convention Against Torture, a Second Circuit panel said.
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October 09, 2025
6th Circ. Says Facebook Posts About Firm Not Defamation
The Sixth Circuit has declined to revive a defamation suit over social media posts alleging an unethical connection between a New Jersey-headquartered law firm and members of the Flint, Michigan, city council.
Expert Analysis
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Series
Playing Baseball Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Playing baseball in college, and now Wiffle ball in a local league, has taught me that teamwork, mental endurance and emotional intelligence are not only important to success in the sport, but also to success as a trial attorney, says Kevan Dorsey at Swift Currie.
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3rd Circ. Bias Ruling Offers Safety Policy Exception Lessons
The Third Circuit's decision in Smith v. City of Atlantic City, partially reinstating a religious bias suit over a policy requiring firefighters to be clean-shaven, cautions employers on the legal risk of including practical or discretionary exceptions in safety procedures, say Joseph Quinn and Mark Schaeffer at Cozen O'Connor.
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APA Relief May Blunt Justices' Universal Injunction Ruling
The Administrative Procedure Act’s avenue for universal preliminary relief seems to hold the most promise for neutralizing the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v. CASA to limit federal district courts' nationally applicable orders, say attorneys at Crowell.
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Opinion
Prosecutors' Duty To Justice Sometimes Demands Mea Culpa
Two recent cases — U.S. v. Lucas and U.S. v. Echavarria — demonstrate that prosecutors’ special ethical duty to seek justice can sometimes be in tension with other obligations and incentives, but it nonetheless requires them to concede their mistakes in the interests of justice, say Eastern District of Texas law clerk Ian Stephens and Texas A&M University law professor Jemila Lea.
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Series
Law School's Missed Lessons: Skillful Persuasion
In many ways, law school teaches us how to argue, but when the ultimate goal is to get your client what they want, being persuasive through preparation and humility is the more likely key to success, says Michael Friedland at Friedland Cianfrani.
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How NY Appeals Ruling Alters Employers' Sex Abuse Liability
In Nellenback v. Madison County, the New York Court of Appeals arguably reset the evidentiary threshold in sexual abuse cases involving employer liability, countering lower court decisions that allowed evidence of the length of the undiscovered abuse to substitute as notice of an employee's dangerous propensity, say attorneys at Hurwitz Fine.
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Fed. Circ. Ingenico Ruling Pivotal For IPR Estoppel Landscape
The Federal Circuit's recent decision in Ingenico v. Ioengine brings long-awaited clarity to the scope of inter partes review estoppel, confirming that a patent challenger is not precluded from relying on the same or substantially similar prior art in both IPR and district court proceedings, so long as it is used to support a different invalidity theory, say attorneys at Irwin IP.
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Litigation Inspiration: How To Respond After A Loss
Every litigator loses a case now and then, and the sting of that loss can become a medicine that strengthens or a poison that corrodes, depending on how the attorney responds, says Bennett Rawicki at Hilgers Graben.
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Justices' Resentencing Ruling Fortifies First Step Act Tools
The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent Hewitt v. U.S. ruling clarifies that resentencing after vacatur must reflect the law in effect at the time of the new sentencing, ultimately strengthening the strategic tools available to defense attorneys under the First Step Act, says Benson Varghese at Varghese Summersett.
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The Metamorphosis Of The Major Questions Doctrine
The so-called major questions doctrine arose as a counterweight to Chevron deference over the past few decades, but invocations of the doctrine have persisted in the year since Chevron was overturned, suggesting it still has a role to play in reining in agency overreach, say attorneys at Crowell & Moring.
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Protecting Workers Amid High Court-EEOC Trans Rights Rift
In Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services and U.S. v. Skrmetti, the U.S. Supreme Court clarified that Title VII protects employees from discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, so employers should still protect against such discrimination despite the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's unclear position, says Ally Coll at the Purple Method.
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What 9th Circ. Ruling Shows About Rebutting SEC Comments
The Ninth Circuit's June opinion in Pino v. Cardone Capital suggests that a company's lack of pushback to a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission comment may be evidence of its state of mind for evaluating potential liability, meaning companies should consider including additional disclosure in SEC response letters, say attorneys at Barnes & Thornburg.
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9th Circ. Decisions Help Clarify Scope Of Legal Lab Marketing
Two Ninth Circuit decisions last week provide a welcome development in clarifying the line between laboratories' legal marketing efforts and undue influence that violates the Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act, and offer useful guidance for labs seeking to mitigate enforcement risk, says Joshua Robbins at Buchalter.
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A Word On Ensuring Precision In Patent Claim Construction
The Federal Circuit's recent decision in Express Mobile v. Meta Platforms, overruling the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's interpretation of the term "style," highlights the importance of articulating claim constructions that are as clear as possible, says Derrick Carman at Robins Kaplan.
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What 9th Circ. Cracker Barrel Ruling Means For FLSA Cert.
The Ninth Circuit's decision in Harrington v. Cracker Barrel suggests a settling of two procedural trends in Fair Labor Standards Act jurisprudence — when to issue notice and where nationwide collectives can be filed — rather than deepening circuit splits, says Rebecca Ojserkis at Cohen Milstein.