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October 03, 2025
4 Criminal Law Cases To Watch As Justices Return
A slate of upcoming arguments will offer the U.S. Supreme Court the opportunity to weigh criminal defendants' ability to pursue claims of double jeopardy, secure sentencing relief and confer with trial counsel during overnight pauses in their testimony.
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October 03, 2025
$1T Tesla Pay Proposal Sets Ambitious Goals For Musk
A massive pay proposal for Tesla CEO Elon Musk contains performance metrics that would make it tough for Musk to pull in the maximum pay available, even if the deal gets a green light from shareholders in November. Here are four things about the $1 trillion pitch that have caught attorneys' attention.
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October 03, 2025
Why The Criminal Defense Bar Will 'Learn A Lot' This Term
The U.S. Supreme Court's docket is packed with cases that hinge on issues of criminal law, teeing up a term that could affect the U.S. Sentencing Commission's powers and clarify where the justices stand on procedural and constitutional questions of criminal law, experts say.
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October 03, 2025
8th Circ. Won't Review Teachers' Union Taxpayer Ruling
The full Eighth Circuit will not review a split panel decision ruling that taxpayers could challenge a Minnesota school district's paid leave policy that allows teachers to take paid time off to work for their union.
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October 03, 2025
Justices Agree To Hear Freight Broker Negligence Case
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to address conflicting appellate court decisions on whether federal law shields freight brokers from state-based negligence and personal injury claims.
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October 03, 2025
Supreme Court Takes Up Cuba Seizure Law Cases
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to consider two cases seeking clarity on a federal law enacted in 1996 that allows U.S. victims of property seizures by the Cuban government to seek damages from entities that subsequently used the property.
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October 02, 2025
Wrongful-Death Damages Cap Case Remanded To Trial Court
A state appellate panel on Thursday cosigned a Georgia Supreme Court opinion ordering a trial judge to reexamine whether a $7.2 million jury award in a medical malpractice case should be reduced to $350,000, saying it incorrectly applied the high court's precedent.
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October 02, 2025
Biz Org Says DC Circ. Must Rethink T-Mobile's Privacy Fine
The Chamber of Commerce is throwing its weight behind T-Mobile and Sprint as they ask the full D.C. Circuit to rethink the appellate court's decision not to knock out $92 million in fines the telecoms were slapped with for selling users' sensitive location data even after they knew it was being used inappropriately.
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October 02, 2025
11th Circ. Denies Stay In Settled Employee Stock Plan Suit
Two Eleventh Circuit judges denied a joint request to briefly pause and remand a proposed class-action lawsuit over control of equity in a stock ownership plan pitting a Georgia-based consulting firm and its employees against plan participants, despite the parties announcing a settlement has been reached.
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October 02, 2025
Citing Injunction Ruling, Judge Grants Class Cert. In TPS Suit
A California federal judge on Thursday certified three nationwide classes of immigrants from Honduras, Nicaragua and Nepal who claimed in litigation that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem unlawfully terminated their temporary protected status designations, citing the U.S. Supreme Court's decision limiting lower courts' use of nationwide injunctions.
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October 02, 2025
Full 5th Circ. To Rehear Bid To Void DOT Airline Fees Rule
The full Fifth Circuit Thursday vacated a panel's January ruling that allowed for the redo of a Biden-era rule requiring airlines to more clearly disclose add-on fees upfront and agreed to consider a request from airlines that the rule itself be wiped off the books entirely.
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October 02, 2025
Ohio High Court Says Death Row Clemency Not Reviewable
A man convicted of murdering two people who had his death sentence commuted by the governor of Ohio to life in prison without parole can't have that sentence thrown out even though it was unavailable when he committed his crimes, the Ohio Supreme Court said Thursday, holding that courts have no say over the governor's clemency power.
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October 02, 2025
9th Circ. Rebuffs Flagstar's Escrow Interest Preemption Bid
The Ninth Circuit said Thursday that Flagstar Bank still owes a class of mortgage borrowers more than $9 million for unpaid escrow interest under a California law, ruling that a recent U.S. Supreme Court preemption case didn't upset circuit precedent on the issue.
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October 02, 2025
NC Court Rejects McGuireWoods' Immunity In Defamation Suit
A North Carolina appellate court dismissed an interlocutory appeal by McGuireWoods and a former partner in a defamation case over statements about an investigation into the onetime CEO of a managed care organization during a press conference, reiterating its opinion that the statements were "too far afield" to be considered part of a judicial proceeding.
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October 02, 2025
Peach State Panel Tosses $500K Verdict In Peach Picking Spat
The Georgia Court of Appeals ordered a new trial in a case where a jury awarded $500,000 worth of punitive damages to a peach grower who said his crop was ruined by another farmer, ruling that inadmissible evidence about their settlement talks was "likely significant" in securing the verdict.
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October 02, 2025
8th Circ. Won't Rehear Worker's Wrongful THC Firing Case
The Eighth Circuit on Wednesday declined to review its decision affirming a win for Peco Foods Inc. against a worker who claims he was wrongfully fired after testing positive for THC, keeping in place a panel ruling that Arkansas' at-will employment doctrine allowed for the termination.
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October 02, 2025
9th Circ. Says DOL Benefits Board Must Redo Atty Fees
The Ninth Circuit Thursday vacated a U.S. Department of Labor Benefits Review Board decision awarding a National Steel and Shipbuilding Co. worker $145,500 in fees and costs because his injury claims were still disputed when he settled, with a dissent saying apportioning the success of the settlement is impractical.
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October 02, 2025
University Asks Court To Shield Religious Hiring Practices
A private Christian university has urged a Seattle federal judge to find that a Washington antidiscrimination law infringes on its First Amendment rights to only hire job candidates who share its religious views, pursuing a pretrial win in its case against the state attorney general's office.
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October 02, 2025
Fla. Appeals Court Seeks Higher Guidance On Pot Smells
A man searched by police officers due to a marijuana odor emanating from a car he was sitting in cannot have the fact that drugs were found in his sock be suppressed, a Florida state appeals court affirmed while asking the state's highest court to clarify whether police could search him today under such circumstances.
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October 02, 2025
Mich. Panel Says Probationer's Text Barrage Wasn't Stalking
A Michigan appeals panel has ordered the acquittal of a man who was convicted of stalking for incessantly texting his probation officer's work cell phone at all hours of the day and night about probation-related matters, saying "rambling" messages are not a crime.
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October 02, 2025
7th Circ. Bucks SEC Request To Pause Cboe Case
The Seventh Circuit has rejected a bid by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Cboe Exchange Inc. to postpone upcoming oral arguments in a case challenging the SEC's ability to regulate certain Cboe software, telling the parties the arguments will go forward as planned while they discuss a possible deal to end the suit.
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October 02, 2025
Alito Pauses 5th Circ. Order On Child's Return To Venezuela
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday temporarily paused a split Fifth Circuit decision that said a Texas asylum seeker's 7-year-old daughter can be returned to Venezuela, which was set to take effect Friday.
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October 02, 2025
11th Circ. Vacates $17M Award In Venezuelan Artifacts Case
The Eleventh Circuit on Wednesday vacated a $17 million award for a man who sued Venezuela for taking his collection of Simón Bolívar artifacts, ruling that a motion for default judgment should have been entered against the country when it failed to appear at a bench trial.
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October 02, 2025
No Pay Owed To Flooring Co.'s Fired CEO, 11th Circ. Says
The Eleventh Circuit won't revive a suit from the former CEO of flooring manufacturer Interface Inc. claiming he was bilked out of a severance package after allegedly going on a drunken tirade at a company function, ruling Thursday that the executive's appeal impermissibly tried to advance a new reading of his contract.
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October 02, 2025
2nd Circ. Says Co. Can't Stop NY Property Sale In SEC Suit
The Second Circuit tossed a company's appeals Thursday over a Sag Harbor, New York, property linked to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's $26 million investment fraud suit against an alternative investment principal.
Expert Analysis
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Attacks On Judicial Independence Tend To Manifest In 3 Ways
Attacks on judicial independence now run the gamut from gross (bald-faced interference) to systemic (structural changes) to insidious (efforts to undermine public trust), so lawyers, judges and the public must recognize the fateful moment in which we live and defend the rule of law every day, says Jim Moliterno at Washington and Lee University.
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Statistics Tools Chart A Path For AI Use In Expert Testimony
To avoid the fate of numerous expert witnesses whose testimony was recently deemed inadmissible by courts, experts relying on artificial intelligence and machine learning should learn from statistical tools’ road to judicial acceptance, say directors at Secretariat.
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High Court Birthright Case Could Reshape Judicial Power
Recent arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court in cases challenging President Donald Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order primarily focused on federal judges’ power to issue nationwide injunctions and suggest that the upcoming decision may fundamentally change how federal courts operate, says Mauni Jalali at Quinn Emanuel.
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Ore. High Court Ruling Widens Construction Defect Coverage
A recent Oregon Supreme Court decision, Twigg v. Admiral Insurance, dispels the myth that a contractor's liability for defective work is uninsurable if pursued as a breach of contract, say attorneys at Stoel Rives.
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Justices Hand Agencies Broad Discretion In NEPA Review
By limiting the required scope of reviews under the National Environmental Policy Act, the U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling in Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. Eagle County could weaken the review process under NEPA, while also raising questions regarding the degree of deference afforded to agencies, say attorneys at Foley Hoag.
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Series
Law School's Missed Lessons: Appreciating Civil Procedure
If you’re like me, law school’s often complex and theoretical approach to teaching civil procedure may have contributed to an early struggle with the topic, but when seen from a practical perspective, new lawyers may find they enjoy mastering these rules, says Chloe Villagomez at Foster Garvey.
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Appellate Guidance Needed On California Chatbot Litigation
There is wide variation in how courts are applying the California Invasion of Privacy Act against website owners that allegedly help third parties spy on visitors via chatbots — and the lack of appellate rulings creates uncertainty, especially as these cases move toward the summary judgment stage, say attorneys at Crowell & Moring.
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Calif. Bar Exam Fiasco Shows Why Attys Must Disclose AI Use
The recent revelation that a handful of questions from the controversial California bar exam administered in February were drafted using generative artificial intelligence demonstrates the continued importance of disclosure for attorneys who use AI tools, say attorneys at Troutman.
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The Sentencing Guidelines Are Commencing A New Era
Sweeping new amendments to the U.S. sentencing guidelines — including the elimination of departure provisions — intended to promote transparency and individualized justice while still guarding against unwarranted disparities will have profound consequences for all stakeholders, say attorneys at Blank Rome.
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Justices Widen Gap Between Federal, Calif. Enviro Reviews
While the U.S. Supreme Court's recent opinion in Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. Eagle County, Colorado, narrowed the scope of National Environmental Policy Act reviews, it may have broadened the gulf between reviews conducted under NEPA and those under the California Environmental Quality Act, say attorneys at Hanson Bridgett.
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In 2nd Place, Va. 'Rocket Docket' Remains Old Reliable
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia was again one of the fastest civil trial courts in the nation last year, and an interview with the court’s newest judge provides insights into why it continues to soar, says Robert Tata at Hunton.
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Foreign Sovereign Entities Should Heed 9th Circ. IP Ruling
After the Ninth Circuit recently held that four Chinese state-controlled companies were not immune from criminal indictment for alleged economic espionage, foreign sovereign-controlled entities should assess whether their operations and affiliation with their parent states qualify for sovereign immunity under the common law, say attorneys at Cleary.
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How Attorneys Can Become Change Agents For Racial Equity
As the administration targets diversity, equity and inclusion efforts and law firms consider pulling back from their programs, lawyers who care about racial equity and justice can employ four strategies to create microspaces of justice, which can then be parlayed into drivers of transformational change, says Susan Sturm at Columbia Law School.
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Opinion
9th Circ. Shopify Decision Gets Personal Jurisdiction Wrong
The Ninth Circuit's recent opinion in Briskin v. Shopify, rejecting the differential targeting requirement for personal jurisdiction, not only deviates from long-standing jurisprudence, but it also significantly expands the reach of internet-based claims under California law, says Matthew Pearson at Womble Bond.
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Seven County Ruling Should Trim Agency Enviro Analysis
The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. Eagle County provides needed clarity for infrastructure projects by expressly directing agencies to narrow environmental reviews, and reducing the threat of litigation if even tangential issues are not exhaustively evaluated, say attorneys at Dentons.