Colo. Justices Affirm Uninsured Motorist Rule For Insurers

By Zach Dupont

The Colorado Supreme Court unanimously decided Monday to affirm a more-than-20-year-old ruling that an insurer must plead its defenses "as soon as practicable" to participate in litigation between its insured and an uninsured motorist.

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DC Circ. Says Developer Lacks Standing In FAA Airport Row

By Benjamin Morse

The D.C. Circuit tossed a Colorado developer's challenge to Federal Aviation Administration letters warning that proposed housing near a city-operated airport could threaten federal grant obligations, finding the developer lacked standing because it could not show the city would approve the project without the letters.

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Colo. Justices Allow Gun, Drug Evidence From Car Sweep

By Parker Quinlan

The Colorado Supreme Court on Monday ruled that evidence discovered during a car search conducted by police cannot be suppressed as part of a drug and weapons possession trial in state court because the search was justified under a legal exception for vehicle searches.

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Federal Agencies Say Cactus FOIA Search Was Reasonable

By Zach Dupont

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Department of the Interior told a Colorado federal court that sending more than 7,000 pages of records in response to a Freedom of Information Act request from a conservation nonprofit regarding the proposed delisting of hookless cacti from the endangered species list was reasonable. 

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AI Mapping Co. Says Rival's Copyright Suit Is Too Vague

By Rachel Konieczny

An artificial intelligence mapping software company sought to throw out a competitor's lawsuit accusing it of copying thousands of the firm's property maps, telling a Colorado federal judge the competitor never identified which maps had allegedly been infringed.

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TriZetto, Infosys Fight Each Side's CEO Deposition Bids

By Ivan Moreno

Cognizant TriZetto Software Group and Infosys Ltd. have filed dueling motions to block depositions of each other's top executives in a trade secret lawsuit over allegations that Infosys misused confidential access to TriZetto's healthcare software to build competing products.

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Judge Limits Google's Access To Search Rival's Data

By Bryan Koenig

A D.C. federal judge imposed limits on the data Google can access from would-be rivals seeking its search data and syndicated search results, agreeing with the U.S. Department of Justice that the company can't access every piece of information submitted to a technical committee overseeing its monopolization remedies.

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EPA Beats States' $7B Solar Grant Cancellation Suit In Wash.

By Rachel Riley

A Washington federal judge sided with the Environmental Protection Agency on Monday in a multistate challenge of the U.S. government's cancellation of a Biden-era solar energy grant program, concluding she cannot resolve the dispute because it involves contractual questions that the Tucker Act delegates to the Court of Federal Claims.  

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Utah Backs 10th Circ. Review Of Ute Split-Estate Fight

By Crystal Owens

Utah and two of its counties are asking the Tenth Circuit to grant the Ute Indian Tribe permission to file an interlocutory appeal on whether split estate lands are Indian Country, saying that final resolution of the issue will allow a half-century of litigation to end.

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30-Year Foreign Service Leader Joins Squire Patton In DC

By Jack Rodgers

Squire Patton Boggs LLP has hired the State Department's former acting assistant secretary for Near East Affairs, who was also the first U.S. special envoy for Yemen and throughout his more-than-30-year career with the agency held posts in Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Iraq and other countries.

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Brief

Holland & Knight Taps Real Estate Partner To Lead Portland

By Tracey Read

Holland & Knight LLP has elevated a real estate and business attorney who helped launch the firm's Seattle location to executive partner of its Portland, Oregon, office.

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Milbank Raises Associate Pay Scale, Topping Out At $455K

By Kevin Penton

Milbank LLP is increasing associate pay by $10,000 to $20,000 annually, with new salary floors of $235,000 and pay reaching as high as $455,000 for more experienced attorneys, according to the firm.

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Dentons Brings On K&L Gates Litigation Duo In Miami

By Madison Arnold

Dentons US LLP has expanded its commercial litigation capabilities in Miami with a duo from K&L Gates LLP.

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Titan Of The Plaintiffs Bar: Arias Sanguinetti's Mike Arias

By Joyce Hanson

When she was team captain with a track and field scholarship at the University of Southern California in the 1990s, Nicole Haynes was in good health and rarely had to see a doctor. So when she got a bad stomachache and her friends encouraged her to visit the USC health center, Haynes said she didn't have the right words to explain why her experience with Dr. George Tyndall had felt so invasive and wrong.

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Bipartisan Bill Would Modernize Court Records Systems

By Matt Perez

U.S. Sens. John Kennedy, R-La., and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., on Tuesday jointly introduced the Open Courts Act, which they said would modernize the court records systems PACER and CM/ECF.

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BigLaw Could Tap PE Money For Advantage In Talent Wars

By Ryan Boysen

BigLaw firms may soon partner with private equity to gain an edge in the talent wars, potentially reshaping the U.S. legal industry despite fears that the shift could corrode firms' cultures.

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Senate Confirms Montana, Kansas Judges

By Courtney Bublé

The Senate confirmed judges Tuesday for Montana and Kansas, one of whom was the first judicial nominee of the second Trump administration to receive a "not qualified" rating from the American Bar Association.

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Dem AGs Slam Climate Science Removal From Judicial Guide

By Jack Karp

The federal judiciary's decision to strike a chapter on climate change from its guide to scientific evidence is misguided, partisan and "will impede the judiciary's ability to pursue truth," according to a Tuesday letter from nearly two dozen Democratic state attorneys general.

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Exclusive

Cooley Launches Global Hearings Practice As Scrutiny Rises

By Daniel Moritz-Rabson

Cooley LLP has established a global hearings and inquiries practice to help companies prepare comprehensive strategies as they face increased regulatory scrutiny across multiple jurisdictions, the firm exclusively told Law360 on Tuesday.

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DOJ Won't Move Forward With $1.8B Fund, Blanche Confirms

By Courtney Bublé

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche told lawmakers Tuesday, "we're not moving forward" with the controversial $1.8 billion settlement fund.

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NC Dem Lawmakers Introduce Gov't Transparency Bills

By Emily Sawicki

Democratic lawmakers in North Carolina on Tuesday introduced a trio of bills focused on governmental transparency, including a proposal to reform an "increasingly partisan and secretive" judicial standards commission and another to reinforce separation of powers, blocking the state's general assembly from infringing on the governor's authority.

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Attys Worried Where ICE Will Draw Line In Asylum Crackdown

By Britain Eakin

Immigration attorneys are bracing for heightened scrutiny after the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said it would crack down on attorneys filing fraudulent asylum claims, expressing fears that the agency could blur the line between fraud and legitimate advocacy.

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