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February 24, 2024
Up Next At High Court: Social Media Laws & Bump Stocks
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments related to three big-ticket cases this week in a pair of First Amendment challenges to Florida and Texas laws prohibiting social media platforms from removing content or users based on their viewpoints and a dispute over the federal government's authority to ban bump stocks.
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February 23, 2024
US Trustee Objects To Rite Aid Disclosure Statement
The U.S. Trustee's Office has flagged what it called "objectionable" proposals from Rite Aid to hold post-confirmation votes on some Chapter 11 plan releases, as well as shortening senior secured voting and preemptively deeming unsecured creditors as detractors.
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February 23, 2024
Rutgers Law Students Rip Classmate's Bias Suit Subpoenas
A pair of Rutgers Law School students asked a New Jersey state court to shut down subpoenas they received as part of a classmate's suit accusing the school of antisemitic bias for opening a disciplinary investigation against him after he spoke out against the same pair of students for allegedly spreading antisemitism.
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February 23, 2024
Ex-Professor Atty Hits NJ University With Retaliatory Firing Suit
New Jersey City University has been slammed with a lawsuit in state court from an attorney and former professor who claims he was demoted and then fired in retaliation for reporting that a former university official allegedly sexually harassed a student.
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February 23, 2024
ACLU Kicks Off Clemency Project To Reduce NJ Incarceration
The American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey has launched a new initiative aimed at reducing sentences for incarcerated victims of domestic violence and people facing extreme trial penalties, advocating for a framework that calls on the governor to holistically consider injustices facing those groups of people when making decisions on clemency.
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February 23, 2024
Ex-Software Co. Worker Axed For Unpaid Wage Ask, Suit Says
A software company fired an 86-year-old employee after he complained that he was not paid for months of work, the worker alleged in a lawsuit filed in New Jersey state court, saying his former employer owes him more than $16,000 in unpaid wages and $32,000 in damages.
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February 22, 2024
YouTube Privacy Judge 'Flummoxed' By Kids' Liability Theory
A California federal judge indicated Thursday that she's open to trimming a revived proposed class action alleging Google and companies that host child-friendly YouTube channels illegally collected children's data from targeted ads, expressing concerns about the requested relief and saying she's "flummoxed" by the consumers' belated liability theory against the channels' owners.
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February 22, 2024
NYC Doc Charged Over $20M Lab-Fraud Kickback Scheme
A federal grand jury in New Jersey has returned an indictment charging a medical doctor with receiving kickbacks in exchange for ordering medically unnecessary tests from lab companies that submitted roughly $20.7 million in false Medicare claims, the U.S. Department of Justice announced.
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February 22, 2024
3rd Circ. Won't Protect AbbVie's Atty-Client Communications
The Third Circuit has denied AbbVie Inc.'s bid to block a Pennsylvania federal court's order to turn over attorney communications from a patent case allegedly cooked up just to extend the company's monopoly on a testosterone drug, but the appellate court's explanation remained under seal Thursday.
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February 22, 2024
Fire Product Makers Try To Move PFAS Suit To Fed. Court
A group of chemical companies that produce fire suppressants are seeking to move to federal court a suit brought by the Connecticut attorney general looking to rein in the use of PFAS chemicals, saying they are entitled to a federal forum to exercise a "government contractor" defense.
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February 22, 2024
AI Software Co. Hasn't Actually Developed AI, Suit Says
Software and data engineering company Innodata Inc. has been hit with a proposed class action alleging its stock price dropped more than 30% after a financial research firm published a report saying its promised artificial intelligence technology is "smoke and mirrors" and that its marketing claims are like "putting lipstick on a pig."
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February 22, 2024
Bumble Reaches $315K Settlement In Criminal Screening Case
Dating app company Bumble has agreed to pay $315,000 and change its business practices to settle claims brought by New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin that it failed to disclose its criminal background-check screening policies.
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February 22, 2024
NJ Public Defender Gets Partial Win In Atty's Bias Case
A New Jersey state judge on Thursday tossed several allegations against the state's Office of the Public Defender in a suit brought by a former employee alleging that she was forced to resign because of discrimination and a hostile work environment, ruling that she failed to provide the state agency with proper notice of her complaint.
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February 22, 2024
B. Riley Stands By Franchise Group Deal After Internal Review
B. Riley Financial reaffirmed its commitment to the $2.6 billion take-private deal for Franchise Group Inc. despite the misconduct of former Franchise Group CEO Brian Kahn, saying on Thursday that its audit committee determined through a nine-week internal review that B. Riley had no knowledge of or involvement in the misconduct.
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February 21, 2024
TD Bank Customers Seek OK On $32.2M Overdraft Fee Deal
A class of TD Bank customers asked a New Jersey federal judge Wednesday for her preliminary approval of a $21.97 million deal over allegedly improper overdraft fees in debit card transactions, plus $10.25 million in reductions to outstanding balances for accounts that were closed with amounts due to the bank.
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February 21, 2024
'No Theft' Of Eagles Lyrics, Trio Says As NY Trial Opens
Three men accused of trying to sell stolen draft lyrics from the classic Eagles album "Hotel California" told a New York state judge presiding over their criminal bench trial on Wednesday that there was "no theft" and that prosecutors owed them an apology.
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February 21, 2024
3rd Circ. Finds Art Supply Co. Illegally Fired Temp. Worker
The Third Circuit backed a National Labor Relations Board decision that found an art supply company illegally let go of a Black temporary worker who raised complaints about racism in the workplace, saying Wednesday there was enough evidence to uphold the board's conclusions.
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February 21, 2024
Justices Squabble Over Emergency Review Of EPA Smog Plan
The U.S. Supreme Court's liberal wing denounced during oral argument Wednesday their colleagues' decision to consider the merits of four related emergency requests to prevent the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from implementing a plan to reduce cross-state pollution without first getting lower court input.
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February 21, 2024
SPAC Boom Costs Auditor $2M In PCAOB Fine
New Jersey-based auditing firm WithumSmith+Brown PC was sanctioned with a $2 million fine Wednesday by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, which accused the company of taking on more work than it could handle as the market for special purpose acquisition companies boomed.
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February 21, 2024
CoStar, Hotel Giants Accused Of Data-Driven Price-Fixing
Hilton, Hyatt and other big name hotel operators are the target of a proposed class action alleging they colluded with hospitality industry analytics firm CoStar Group Inc. to fix prices in luxury hotel markets in Seattle and other major U.S. cities, according to a suit filed in Washington federal court.
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February 21, 2024
Rite Aid Gets OK To End Former Queens Store Lease
Rite Aid Corp. was given permission Wednesday to reject a lease and sublease for a former store in Queens, New York, after a New Jersey bankruptcy judge found that doing so would benefit the debtor's estate.
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February 21, 2024
Scammer Freed By Trump Indicted On New Charges
A previously convicted scammer whose sentence was commuted by former President Donald Trump has been indicted by a grand jury on new charges that he began running multiple rackets, including a fraudulent aid-for-Ukraine scheme, shortly after leaving prison, New Jersey's top federal prosecutor said.
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February 21, 2024
3rd Circ. Kicks Data Privacy Suit Against Penn To State Court
A proposed class action alleging that the University of Pennsylvania violated the state's privacy law must head back to state court, the Third Circuit ruled Wednesday, rejecting arguments that the university health system acted as a federal officer by operating an online patient portal.
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February 21, 2024
Novel Ruling Finds NJ Prosecutor Conflict Doesn't DQ Office
Addressing a case of first impression, a New Jersey appellate panel turned to case law in other states in concluding Wednesday that a supervising prosecutor's personal conflict does not automatically disqualify the entire office.
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February 21, 2024
Rutgers Seeks Trim Of Suit Alleging Antisemitic Discrimination
Rutgers University is seeking to pare down a law student's lawsuit alleging antisemitic discrimination by asking a New Jersey state court to strike nearly 60 paragraphs of allegedly irrelevant allegations from the complaint and to dismiss claims against the law school and several individual defendants.
Expert Analysis
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Data-Driven Insights Are Key To Attracting Today's Clients
As law firm growth slows and competition for clients increases, modern firms must rely on robust data analytics to develop the sector-based expertise and industry insights that clients increasingly prioritize in relationships with counsel, says Lavinia Calvert at Intapp.
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In Arbitration, Consider The Influence Of State Laws
A California appellate court's recent refusal, based in state law, to compel arbitration in Barraza v. Tesla illustrates the importance of understanding substantive and procedural differences between state arbitration law and the Federal Arbitration Act — and when those distinctions can alter case outcomes, says Richard Mason at MasonADR.
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Ghosting In BigLaw: Why Better Feedback Habits Are Needed
Not giving assignments or constructive criticism to junior associates can significantly affect their performance and hours, potentially leading them to leave the firm, but partners can prevent this by asking the right questions and creating a culture of feedback, says Rachel Patterson at Orrick.
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Rebuttal
Law Needs A Balance Between Humanism And Formalism
A recent Law360 guest article rightly questions the pretextual pseudo-originalism that permits ideology to masquerade as judicial philosophy, but the cure would kill the patient because directness, simplicity and humanness are achievable without renouncing form or sacrificing stare decisis, says Vanessa Kubota at the Arizona Court of Appeals.
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Short Message Data Challenges In E-Discovery
As short message platforms increasingly dominate work environments, lawyers face multiple programs, different communication styles and emoji in e-discovery, so they must consider new strategies to adapt their processes, says Cristin Traylor at Relativity.
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Big Oil Certiorari Denial May Alter Climate Change Litigation
The U.S. Supreme Court's Monday decision not to review a handful of forum disputes in oil industry climate change litigation means that similar cases may face less corporate-friendly state courts, and insurers may see greater defense and damages exposures from Big Oil clients, say Dennis Anderson and Deepa Sutherland at Zelle.
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Opinion
Thomas Report Is Final Straw — High Court Needs Ethics Code
As a recent report on Justice Clarence Thomas' ongoing conflicts of interest makes evident, Supreme Court justices should be subject to an enforceable and binding code of ethics — like all other federal judges — to maintain the credibility of the institution, says Erica Salmon Byrne at Ethisphere.
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The Power Of Product Warranties In TM Suits Over Resales
In recent cases, trademark owners have successfully used product warranty coverage as a material difference exception to defeat unauthorized resellers who claim they are protected by the first sale doctrine — but the application of the exception may be less clear than courts assume, say Leigh Taggart and David Roulo at Honigman.
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Joint Representation Ethics Lessons From Ga. Electors Case
The Fulton County district attorney's recent motion to disqualify an attorney from representing her elector clients, claiming a nonconsentable conflict of interest, raises key questions about representing multiple clients related to the same conduct and highlights potential pitfalls, say Hilary Gerzhoy and Grace Wynn at HWG.
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Lawyer Discernment Is Critical In The World Of AI
In light of growing practical concerns about risks and challenges posed by artificial intelligence, lawyers' experience with the skill of discernment will position them to help address new ethical and moral dilemmas and ensure that AI is developed and deployed in a way that benefits society as a whole, says Jennifer Gibbs at Zelle.
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Opinion
8th Circ. Judge Is Right — Climate Suits Should Be Federal
While the Eighth Circuit recently ruled that Minnesota v. American Petroleum Institute, a climate change lawsuit, belongs in state court, a concurring opinion from one judge on the panel offers a convincing argument that questions involving alleged climate liability can only be resolved at the federal level, says former Maine Attorney General Andrew Ketterer.
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Opinion
It's Time For Lawyers To Stand Up For Climate Justice
The anniversary this week of the Deepwater Horizon disaster offers an opportunity for attorneys to embrace the practice of just transition lawyering — leveraging our skills to support communities on the front lines of climate change and environmental catastrophe as they pursue rebuilding and transformation, says Amy Laura Cahn at Taproot Earth.
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Don't Forget Alumni Engagement When Merging Law Firms
Neglecting law firm alumni programs after a merger can sever the deep connections attorneys have with their former firms, but by combining good data management and creating new opportunities to reconnect, firms can make every member in their expanded network of colleagues feel valued, say Clare Roath and Erin Warner at Troutman Pepper.
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NJ's Natural Resource Damage Order May Be Helpful For Cos.
A recent New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection order clarifying its natural resource damage enforcement practices may finally provide regulated companies with long-sought guidance to assess environmental liability at contaminated sites in a reasonable and cost-effective manner, say attorneys at Archer & Greiner.
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Without Stronger Due Diligence, Attys Risk AML Regulation
Amid increasing pressure to mitigate money laundering and terrorism financing risks in gatekeeper professions, the legal industry will need to clarify and strengthen existing client due diligence measures — or risk the federal regulation attorneys have long sought to avoid, says Jeremy Glicksman at the Nassau County District Attorney’s Office.