Ex-Utility Regulator's $2,500 Fine Suit Meets Skeptical Judge

By Aaron Keller

A Connecticut judge appeared skeptical Wednesday of former Public Utilities Regulatory Authority chair Marissa P. Gillett's bid to keep alive a lawsuit challenging a $2,500 open records commission fine, pushing Gillett's lawyer to concede that because the authority tendered payment, the ex-chairperson was no longer personally on the hook.

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Witness Against Fugitive Conn. Budget Official Gets Probation

By Brian Steele

A witness who testified that she hired the daughter of fugitive Konstantinos Diamantis under pressure was sentenced Wednesday to two years of probation after cooperating with the FBI and admitting to one count of conspiring to bribe the former Connecticut budget official.

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Guo Daughter Says Ch. 11 Trustee Misreads Powers

By Hilary Russ

The daughter of Chinese exile Miles Guo said that the Chapter 11 trustee who controls her father's bankruptcy estate is conflating two separate sections of the Bankruptcy Code, and she again urged the U.S. Supreme Court to resolve an alleged circuit split and reverse orders that placed $23 million in yacht sale proceeds plus a $37 million escrow into her father's estate.

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Ex-Avangrid Atty Who Raised Bribery Concerns Fights Firing

By Brian Steele

The chief compliance officer of an Avangrid unit lost his job because he cooperated with a federal regulator's audit and refused to downplay a bribery matter involving a Maine-based offshoot, according to a whistleblower lawsuit in Connecticut state court.

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Analysis

Attys Ensure Voters' 'Right To Be Heard' In Midterm Elections

By James Boyle and Lynn LaRowe

From BigLaw attorneys and solo practitioners to university professors, thousands of attorney volunteers turned out for Tuesday's midterm elections to ensure American voters' ballots would be counted.

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State AG Race Wins Set To Give Dems Control Of Most Offices

By Madison Arnold

Democrats are poised to oversee a majority of state attorneys general offices around the country after Tuesday's elections saw the party hang on to all of its existing seats and flip control of five offices from the Republicans, according to unofficial election results.

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2nd Circ. Told To Not Expand Antitrust Patent Fraud Standing

By Bryan Koenig

A pharmaceutical industry trade group has backed Bristol-Myers Squibb and its Celgene subsidiary in the Second Circuit, warning that health plans asking the appeals court to reinstate a proposed class action against the companies are seeking to expand who can bring antitrust cases alleging fraudulently obtained patents.

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AGs Say Taro's $200M MDL Deal Doesn't Bar Their Claims

By Bryan Koenig

Dozens of state attorneys general urged a Connecticut federal judge Tuesday not to let Taro Pharmaceuticals block a swath of their price-fixing claims with a $200 million settlement it struck with plaintiffs in separate multidistrict litigation, arguing the claims and plaintiffs are too separate to bind one another.

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DOD Says It Has Resumed Wind Project Reviews

By Madeline Lyskawa

The U.S. Department of Defense urged an Oregon federal judge to reject renewable energy backers' claim that the Pentagon has continued its unlawful freeze on reviewing proposed wind energy projects, saying reviews have resumed at every stage.

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Feature

4 Argument Sessions For Benefits Attys To Watch In Nov.

By Kellie Mejdrich

JPMorgan Chase & Co. will defend its win in a 401(k) forfeiture suit at the Ninth Circuit, Aetna will ask the Second Circuit to push a multiemployer health plan's suit into arbitration, and the Tenth Circuit hears from pharmacy benefit managers who want an opioid nuisance battle moved to federal court. Here, Law360 looks at four arguments that benefits attorneys may want to keep an eye on in November.

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Brief

State AGs Tell Congress $17B Meta Deal Didn't Go Far Enough

By David Aaro

A bipartisan coalition that includes nearly every state attorney general is urging Congress to pass legislation designed to further improve online protections for minors, just two months after a $17 billion multistate settlement was reached with Meta.

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Opinion

The Invisible AI Danger That May Undermine Legal Profession

A public database tracking cases involving hallucinations generated by artificial intelligence recently surpassed 2,200 entries, but the bigger risk underlying attorneys’ use of such tools is that they will slowly surrender their judgment to AI and lose analytical skills, says Massachusetts District Court Associate Justice Brian Palmucci.

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Gibson Dunn Set To Bring On 120 Lawyers From Weil

By Daniel Moritz-Rabson and Marialuisa Taddia

Gibson Dunn is set to hire the U.S. and London-based private funds teams from Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, bringing on 120 attorneys in the largest group move reported since Weil's management committee recommended last week that the firm wind down operations.

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Analysis

Midterm Dem Wins To Scramble Lit Funding Legislative Efforts

By Ryan Boysen

Litigation funders can rest easy, for now, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce will need to rethink its approach after last night's midterm elections saw Democrats rout Republicans, scrambling a yearslong effort for federal regulation of litigation finance that's so far relied on Republicans.

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Goldstein Ordered To Pay Trimmed $1M Forfeiture

By Nadia Dreid

Former SCOTUSblog publisher Tom Goldstein was hit with a $1 million forfeiture order Wednesday by a Maryland federal judge in the wake of his tax and mortgage fraud trial, where the appellate advocate was convicted on a dozen charges.

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DOJ Says Epshteyn Will Answer ABA Service Motion

By Jared Foretek

Trump advisor Boris Epshteyn will answer for himself why he has allegedly been evading subpoenas in the American Bar Association's legal challenge to the administration's law firm targeting campaign, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Wednesday.

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Holland & Hart Cost Ex-Client $23M Stake In Co., Suit Says

By Zach Dupont

Holland & Hart LLP and two of its attorneys were accused of malpractice in Colorado state court Tuesday by a former client who claims the attorneys failed to inform her that a wealth transfer plan with her then-husband left her iced out of the couple's most valuable asset.

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DOJ Accused Of Unlawfully Ending Crime Victim Agreement

By Tom Lotshaw

The National Crime Victim Law Institute has accused the U.S. Department of Justice in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims of unlawfully terminating a $500,000 cooperative agreement aimed at strengthening legal support for disabled crime victims in the wake of an executive order against diversity, equity and inclusion programs.

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Former DOJ Officials See Mixed Results In Midterm Races

By Chris Villani

The 2026 midterm elections included bids for office by several former U.S. Department of Justice officials and nominees for the federal bench, with one race a dead heat and several others decided as of early Wednesday.

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