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October 09, 2025
Former California Solicitor General Joins WilmerHale In SF
WilmerHale is expanding its appellate team, announcing Thursday it is bringing in the former California solicitor general as a partner in its San Francisco office starting in early December.
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October 08, 2025
Trump Tariffs Unconstitutional, Watchdog Tells Justices
Either President Donald Trump doesn't have authority to impose tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, or the law is unconstitutional, the nonprofit group Consumer Watchdog told the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday, urging the justices to affirm lower court rulings deeming those measures unlawful.
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October 08, 2025
FCC Tells Justices 5th Circ. Used Jarkesy To Gut Enforcement
The Fifth Circuit erroneously used a major U.S. Supreme Court decision curtailing U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission trials to "severely impair" Federal Communications Commission enforcement in the telecommunications industry, the FCC said in a petition urging the justices to resolve a new circuit split.
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October 08, 2025
5th Circ. Wary Of TitleMax Affiliate's Aim To Skip Usury Case
A Fifth Circuit panel appears skeptical of a TitleMax affiliate's argument that it should get to escape the Pennsylvania Department of Banking and Securities usury case alleging the affiliate breached state law, saying Wednesday the proceedings looked like typical state police power.
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October 08, 2025
Fed. Circ. Hesitant To Review DOD Contract Cost Appeal
A Federal Circuit judge appeared reluctant Wednesday to review an Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals' decision over the proper way to calculate the cost Pratt & Whitney paid for commercial engine parts, pointing to precedent that goes against the government's position.
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October 08, 2025
Senate IP Leader Plans Push To Pass Patent Eligibility Bill
Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., the leader of the Senate's intellectual property subcommittee, said Wednesday that before he leaves Congress in just over a year, one of his primary goals will be to advance his long-gestating bill to make more inventions eligible for patents.
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October 08, 2025
4th Circ. OKs Verdict In Gang Case Despite Bad Translations
The Fourth Circuit said Wednesday that a court translator's errors during trial don't merit overturning the convictions of three men on gang-related racketeering conspiracy and other charges.
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October 08, 2025
Utah Tribe Appeals Denial To Fight $16M Ovintiv Air Deal
The Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation is appealing a federal district court decision that denied its intervention to challenge a $16 million Clean Air Act consent decree between the U.S. government and Ovintiv USA Inc.
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October 08, 2025
Pa. Court Says New Murder Trial Can't Rely On Witness Video
The Pennsylvania Superior Court has asked a lower court to revisit its grant of a new trial for a man convicted of a 1976 murder, saying it wrongly relied on video testimony from a witness who claimed police bribed him with sexual liaisons while in custody in order to frame an innocent man.
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October 08, 2025
Ga. Panel Upholds $250K Award Over False Murder Claims
The Georgia Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court's denial of a new trial for a man hit with a $250,000 verdict after falsely claiming that an attorney murdered his own wife, rejecting the man's claims that damages weren't properly pled in the complaint filed against him.
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October 08, 2025
NJ Court Partially Revives Worker's Suit Over Truck Collision
A New Jersey appeals panel on Wednesday partially reinstated a worker's negligence claim against a wine company, finding there were questions about its relationship to the worker's employer and whether it owed him a duty of care.
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October 08, 2025
Chiquita Victims Urge 11th Circ. To Revive Claims Over Killings
Family members of victims of paramilitary violence in Colombia asked the Eleventh Circuit Wednesday to revive their claims against Chiquita Brands International Inc. executives, arguing they had provided enough information to show the killings were committed "under color of law" as required by the Torture Victim Protection Act.
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October 08, 2025
Mich. Justice Unsure Gov. Exempt From 1-Year Claim Deadline
Michigan's chief justice said Wednesday she was "struggling" with an immigration legal assistance group's contention that a one-year notice deadline for claims against the state doesn't apply to suits against the governor.
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October 08, 2025
Immigration Judges Can Reject Stipulations, BIA Rules
The Board of Immigration Appeals has backed an immigration judge's decision to reject an agreement between the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and a Honduran transgender woman seeking to avoid deportation, holding that judges are free to accept or reject such agreements.
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October 08, 2025
Welder Asks Fla. High Court To Revive Whistleblower Claims
A welder mechanic asked the Florida Supreme Court on Wednesday to revive his whistleblower retaliation claims against his former employer, Gulf Power Co., arguing that state law requires only that he reasonably believed a violation of law or regulation occurred, not that he have to prove an actual violation.
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October 08, 2025
FirstEnergy Investors Seek Clarity On 6th Circ. Privilege Order
FirstEnergy investors asked the Sixth Circuit Wednesday to clarify a recent ruling blocking them from accessing internal investigation documents in a lawsuit over a $1 billion bribery scandal, arguing that the company is holding up depositions due to its misreading of the court's opinion.
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October 08, 2025
3rd Circ. Upholds Ruling In Debt Collector's Trade Secrets Suit
A Third Circuit let stand a ruling that work passwords are not trade secrets and that the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act is inapplicable to workplace policy violations in an appeal from a debt collection company suing two former employees.
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October 08, 2025
3rd Time's The Charm? The Tax Court's Odyssey In Medtronic
A U.S. Tax Court judge has been sent back to the drawing board once again in the long-running transfer pricing litigation brought by Medtronic, raising questions about how much weight the court must give to IRS transfer pricing regulations and how much authority it has to go its own way.
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October 08, 2025
5th Circ. Says Some NOLA Rental Rules Are Unconstitutional
A Fifth Circuit panel partially revived a proposed class action filed by homeowners and two companies challenging New Orleans' short-term rentals regulations, ruling in a published opinion that some of the regulations are unconstitutional.
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October 08, 2025
The Legal Advocacy Behind Fan Fiction's Biggest Site
A nonprofit that appears on the docket as a friend of the court in some of the most important copyright cases at the U.S. Supreme Court and federal appeals courts is also responsible for running one of the largest fan fiction sites on the internet.
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October 08, 2025
High Court Open To Allowing USPS 'Campaign Of Terror' Suit
The U.S. Supreme Court appeared likely Wednesday to let a Texas woman pursue claims that U.S. Postal Service workers engaged in an alleged "racially motivated harassment campaign," with several justices doubting that a federal tort law immunized the service from being held liable for intentional delivery failures.
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October 08, 2025
Mich. Justices Weigh Axing Slip-And-Fall Visitor Categories
A Michigan Supreme Court justice said Wednesday she is "troubled" by a longstanding practice that calls for different standards of care for different types of property visitors in slip-and-fall cases, asking why volunteers and those coming to do business should be treated differently, as the court considers a pair of cases that could upend decades-old precedent.
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October 08, 2025
11th Circ. Urged To Keep Ga.'s E-Commerce Regs On Ice
Internet trade group NetChoice urged the Eleventh Circuit Wednesday to leave in place an injunction that for more than a year has kept Georgia from enforcing new requirements on e-commerce platforms, arguing the state's law tries to push past a regulatory "ceiling" already imposed by federal law.
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October 08, 2025
7th Circ. Backs DePaul In Ex-Instructor's Race Bias Suit
The Seventh Circuit on Wednesday upheld DePaul University's win over a former religious studies instructor's suit claiming he wasn't rehired because he's Arab American, finding he couldn't overcome the school's explanation that he was let go because of allegations he'd sexually assaulted a student.
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October 08, 2025
Trump Admin Cites Shutdown In Bid For CFPB Case Delay
Amid growing calls for the full D.C. Circuit to revisit a recent panel ruling that would allow mass layoffs at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the Trump administration is asking for a pause in the case until after the government shutdown is over.
Expert Analysis
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Examining TCPA Jurisprudence A Year After Loper Bright
One year after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Chevron deference in Loper Bright v. Raimondo, lower court decisions demonstrate that the Telephone Consumer Protection Act will continue to evolve as long-standing interpretations of the act are analyzed with a fresh lens, says Aaron Gallardo at Kilpatrick.
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Gauging The Risky Business Of Business Risk Disclosures
With the recent rise of securities fraud actions based on external events — like a data breach or environmental disaster — that drive down stock prices, risk disclosures have become more of a sword for the plaintiffs bar than a shield for public companies, now the subject of a growing circuit split, say attorneys at A&O Shearman.
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How Justices' Ruling Limits Options To Challenge DHS Orders
In Riley v. Bondi, the U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled that a 30-day deadline for challenging deportation orders begins when the U.S. Department of Homeland Security issues a final administrative review order, opening the door for the government to effectively bar circuit court review in future similar cases, says Kevin Gregg at Kurzban Kurzban.
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Series
Playing The Violin Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Playing violin in a string quartet reminds me that flexibility, ambition, strong listening skills, thoughtful leadership and intentional collaboration are all keys to a successful legal practice, says Julie Park at MoFo.
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Purdue Case Could Transform Patent Obviousness Analyses
If accepted for review by the U.S. Supreme Court, Purdue Pharma v. Accord Healthcare — concerning whether Purdue's abuse-deterrent opioid formulation patents were invalid as obvious — could significantly shift how courts weigh secondary considerations in patent obviousness analyses, say attorneys at Lathrop.
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NM Cyber Ruling Will Spur Litigation As Coverage Remedy
In Kane v. Beazley, the New Mexico Court of Appeals recently found that a cyber liability provision insuring security breaches included coverage for funds transfer fraud, implicitly and incorrectly motivating policyholders to commence litigation to avoid contractual limitations on cyber coverages, say attorneys at Zelle.
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Law School's Missed Lessons: Practicing Self-Care
Law schools don’t teach the mental, physical and emotional health maintenance tools necessary to deal with the profession's many demands, but practicing self-care is an important key to success that can help to improve focus, manage stress and reduce burnout, says Rachel Leonard at MG+M.
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Texas' Cactus Ruling Clarifies 'Produced Water' Rules
The Texas Supreme Court's decision in Cactus Water Services v. COG Operating, holding that mineral interest lessees have the rights to water extracted alongside oil and gas, should benefit industry players by clarifying the rules — but it leaves important questions about royalties unresolved, say attorneys at Yetter Coleman.
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ABA Opinion Makes It A Bit Easier To Drop A 'Hot Potato'
The American Bar Association's recent ethics opinion clarifies when attorneys may terminate clients without good cause, though courts may still disqualify a lawyer who drops a client like a hot potato, so sending a closeout letter is always a best practice, say attorneys at Thompson Hine.
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How Political Divisions Are Stalling Pa. Energy Development
Despite possessing the nation's second-largest natural gas reserves and a legacy of energy infrastructure, Pennsylvania faces a fragmented and politically charged path to developing the energy resources it will need in the future, thanks to legislative gridlock, divided public opinion and competing energy interests, says Andrew Levine at Stradley Ronon.
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How High Court Ruling Can Aid Judgment Enforcement In US
In CC/Devas (Mauritius) v. Antrix, a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled that only two steps are required to keep a foreign sovereign in federal court, making it a little easier for investors to successfully bring foreign states and sovereign-owned and -controlled entities into U.S. courts, says Kristie Blase at Felicello Law.
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What High Court's Tenn. Trans Care Ruling Means Nationally
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in U.S. v. Skrmetti, upholding a Tennessee ban on gender-affirming medical care for minors, is fairly limited in scope and closely tailored to the specific language of Tennessee's law, but it may have implications for challenges to similar laws in other states, say attorneys at Hall Render.
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Justices Rewrite Rules For Challenging Enviro Agency Actions
Three recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings — Nuclear Regulatory Commission v. Texas, Oklahoma v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and EPA v. Calumet Shreveport Refining — form a jurisprudential watershed in administrative and environmental law, affirming statutory standing and venue provisions as the backbone of coherent judicial review, say attorneys at GableGotwals.
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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.