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It's true that Jennifer Bennett is undefeated at the U.S. Supreme Court, but it's also an understatement. Bennett's five wins, including two recent ones, were all unanimous decisions. They showed that the plaintiffs bar can still persuade a conservative supermajority. And they turned the tide after a spree of decisions keeping workers and consumers out of court.
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June 15, 2026
The Seventh Circuit on Monday said the former Commonwealth Edison CEO and an ex-lobbyist convicted of conspiring to funnel jobs and payments to allies of ex-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan are entitled to a new trial, but not acquittal, after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling invalidated the legal theories behind those convictions.
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June 15, 2026
A kratom drink maker is asking the Tenth Circuit to block Utah's law reining in psychoactive products derived from kratom leaf, arguing that the statute's ban on mixing kratom with any "nonkratom substance" is preempted by federal law.
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June 15, 2026
The Fourth Circuit on Monday vacated an order certifying a class of Anheuser-Busch employees in a lawsuit alleging the brewing giant failed to pay the workers for pre- and post-shift work, finding that the class is currently too broad to justify certification.
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June 15, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision last week to curtail private litigation against investment funds may have little impact on active litigation, but attorneys say it cuts off an avenue investors have recently used to assert control over boards and could have ripple effects on how courts interpret federal securities laws.
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June 15, 2026
The Senate voted 48-43 on Monday evening to confirm Justin Smith, who represented the president in the defamation and sexual abuse cases brought by writer E. Jean Carroll, to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.
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June 15, 2026
The Ninth Circuit has granted federal prosecutors' request to voluntarily dismiss their appeal of no-prison sentences for an Estonian duo who pled guilty to a wire fraud conspiracy in connection with a $577 million cryptocurrency-mining Ponzi scheme.
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June 15, 2026
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board didn't err when invalidating claims of a Medmix Switzerland AG patent used in the dentistry industry, the Federal Circuit said Monday.
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June 15, 2026
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Monday asked the Texas attorney general to respond to a bid by a tech industry group and a student advocacy group seeking to reinstate an order blocking a Texas law that requires app store owners to verify users' ages and block minors from downloading apps without parental consent.
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June 15, 2026
Six Flags Over Georgia must face a wrongful death action filed by the husband of a former "scare actor" who died when she fell out of a cargo van during Halloween festivities at the park, a Georgia appeals court ruled Monday.
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June 15, 2026
CareFirst is arguing that a Virginia federal judge created a new standard for monopolization claims when he dismissed claims from the company's antitrust suit challenging Johnson & Johnson's protection of its immunosuppressive drug Stelara, arguing he misread a Fourth Circuit decision in ruling that monopolization requires a showing of specific intent.
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June 15, 2026
A split 11th Circuit upheld a block on Georgia campaign finance rules that allow "select incumbent officials" and some major party candidates to raise and spend unlimited funds despite limits that apply to other candidates.
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June 15, 2026
An Illinois appellate panel has thrown out a $60 million jury verdict awarded to a mother claiming Mead Johnson's infant formula caused her premature baby to develop a fatal gut disease, saying the trial court erred in finding the company owed a duty to warn the mother and not just the infant's doctors, and allowing prejudicial evidence about Mead Johnson's profits.
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June 15, 2026
A Tenth Circuit ruling that upheld a $14 million jury verdict finding the city of Denver liable for its police officers' unconstitutional force against protesters during the city's 2020 Black Lives Matter protests can remain undisturbed, a U.S. Supreme Court justice said Monday.
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June 15, 2026
The right to self-defense applies to Colorado workers who lawfully exercise the right in response to an unprovoked attack at work even when an employer has a "don't chase or confront" policy, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled Monday.
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June 15, 2026
A Michigan state appeals court has affirmed a trial court decision that resolved a decades-long shareholder dispute between a real estate development firm and its ex-CEO by ordering the company to buy out the former executive's original $25,000 investment plus 7% interest.
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June 15, 2026
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe is asking the D.C. Circuit to dismiss its appeal to a decision that found its efforts to shut down the Dakota Access Pipeline were premature after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issued a new environmental impact statement for the project last month.
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June 15, 2026
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Monday dissented from his colleagues' refusal to review the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals' reversal of a capital murder conviction, saying the decision ran afoul of the Supreme Court precedent on when prosecutors can comment on criminal defendants' refusal to testify in their own defense.
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June 15, 2026
President Donald Trump has announced that he plans to appoint Sullivan & Cromwell LLP partner James M. McDonald to lead the Southern District of New York. Here are three things to know about the BigLaw lawyer. Here are three things to know about him.
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June 15, 2026
The 2002 title transfer of a Washington, D.C., property resulting from the merger of a partnership and a limited liability company was subject to the district's real estate recordation and transfer taxes, an appeals court ruled, affirming a $6 million assessment.
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June 15, 2026
A confidential Latham & Watkins LLP report prepared for Seton Hall University concerning allegations of sexual abuse against former Archbishop Theodore McCarrick is at least partly protected by attorney-client privilege, a New Jersey appellate court ruled Monday.
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June 15, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide if noncitizens subject to removal proceedings because of criminal convictions or alleged ties to terrorism are entitled to bond hearings if they're detained for an "unreasonably prolonged" period of time during immigration proceedings.
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June 15, 2026
An oilfield driller who received a fixed salary alongside variable day rates was paid on a salary basis and therefore was exempt from federal overtime requirements, the Fifth Circuit held, reversing a lower court's ruling in a collective action against oilfield services giant SLB.
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June 15, 2026
The Second Circuit rejected a request for rehearing by Wells Fargo and Ocwen, which asked the court to reconsider its decision to revive a federal benefits lawsuit accusing them of mishandling home loans tied to union employee pension fund investments.
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June 15, 2026
Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont on Monday announced that he has selected Chief Judge Melanie L. Cradle of the Connecticut Appellate Court to serve on the state supreme court, and Judge Superior Court Judge W. Glen Pierson to replace Judge Cradle as the intermediate appellate court's leader.
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June 15, 2026
A district court judge has awarded Indigenous corporations $1.8 million in attorney fees in a dispute over rules regulating subsistence fishing in the Kuskokwim River, saying Alaska waited too long to argue a sovereign immunity defense in the case that ended in the U.S. Supreme Court.