Analysis

The Firms That Won Big At The Supreme Court

By Jack Karp

This U.S. Supreme Court term featured high-stakes oral arguments on issues including presidential power, immigration and voting regulations. Here's a look at the law firms that argued the most cases and how they fared.

Read full article » | Save to favorites »

Analysis

Breaking Down The Vote: The High Court Term In Review

By Jack Karp

The U.S. Supreme Court's stark ideological divisions were on full display this term, particularly as it issued long-awaited rulings in the last few days of June. Here, Law360 dives into the numbers behind this court term.

Read full article » | Save to favorites »

Analysis

The Year Donald Trump Won Big At The High Court

By Katie Buehler

The Supreme Court's conservative supermajority and President Donald Trump largely aligned this year on issues of executive power, resulting in a series of decisions that significantly expanded presidential authority.

Read full article » | Save to favorites »

Analysis

The Sharpest Dissents From The Supreme Court Term

By Cara Bayles

The sharpest dissents this term often involved the president, and pitted conservative and liberal justices against each other on core constitutional issues and questions about the limits to executive power, with nearly a quarter of cases being decided squarely along ideological lines.

5 documents attached | Read full article » | Save to favorites »

4th Circ. Says Fired CIA Officers Must Be Allowed To Appeal

By Madeline Lyskawa

A split Fourth Circuit panel on Thursday affirmed an order requiring the CIA and Office of the Director of National Intelligence to allow intelligence officers who were fired for their involvement with DEI and accessibility-related assignments to appeal their terminations. 

Opinion attached | Read full article » | Save to favorites »

Amazon Beats ADA Bias Claim, But Not Class Retaliation

By Rae Ann Varona

A New York federal judge Thursday tossed an Amazon warehouse worker's classwide disability discrimination claim against the e-commerce giant, but refused to dismiss her putative class claim that Amazon in effect retaliates against workers who request disability-related accommodations.

Order attached | Read full article » | Save to favorites »

6th Circ. Won't Rethink NLRB Injunction Standard Shift

By Emily Brill

The Sixth Circuit is standing by its decision to make it more difficult for National Labor Relations Board officials to win injunctions compelling employers to bargain, rejecting on Thursday an agency official's petition for a rehearing.

Order attached | Read full article » | Save to favorites »

11th Circ. Finds Scant Evidence In Miami Cop's Race Bias Suit

By Anne Cullen

The Eleventh Circuit on Thursday upheld a win for Miami in a Black police officer's race discrimination lawsuit, finding no evidence her skin color played a role in the city's decision to demote, transfer and suspend her due to problems in her internal investigatory work.

Opinion attached | Read full article » | Save to favorites »

NFL, Ex-Coach Ordered To Meet Amid Discovery Fight

By Alex Lawson

A New York federal judge has ordered attorneys litigating former Miami Dolphins coach Brian Flores' proposed racial discrimination class action against the NFL to hold an in-person meeting to resolve numerous discovery disputes that are bogging down the case.

1 document attached | Read full article » | Save to favorites »

CORRECTED: NJ Judge Keeps Ex-Executive's Bias Suit Alive

By Carla Baranauckas

A New Jersey state judge denied without prejudice the State Ethics Commission's bid to dismiss a former University Hospital executive's discrimination suit and rejected her cross‑motion for partial summary judgment, but reserved decision on the hospital's motion to toss portions of the case.

2 documents attached | Read full article » | Save to favorites »

Brief

Settlement Talks Stall In Wage Suit Against Auto Parts Maker

By MJ Koo

Wage and hour claims brought by workers who accused an auto parts manufacturer of requiring off-the-clock work are headed to trial after settlement talks broke down, a North Carolina federal court said.

Read full article » | Save to favorites »

NLRB Official Expands Proposed Unit At Wash. Hospital

By Tim Ryan

A National Labor Relations Board official has approved a petition for pharmacists at a Washington state hospital to vote on unionizing, although he agreed with the hospital that the bargaining unit must include additional pharmacists the union had not sought to represent.

Decision attached | Read full article » | Save to favorites »

Ga. Court Revives Electrocution Suit Against Engineering Firm

By Y. Peter Kang

A Georgia appeals court on Thursday revived a lineman's electrocution injury suit against Burns & McDonnell Engineering Co., finding the engineering firm owed him a duty of care over its role coordinating power outage planning at a Georgia Power substation.

Opinion attached | Read full article » | Save to favorites »

Fired NCUA Democrats Say Slaughter Ruling Is On Their Side

By Jon Hill

Democrats who sued after President Donald Trump booted them from the National Credit Union Administration's board have signaled they will keep seeking reinstatement, pressing ahead after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the president can fire most federal regulators at will.

Motion attached | Read full article » | Save to favorites »

Seyfarth Adds Fox Rothschild Employment Atty In San Fran

By Grace Elletson

Seyfarth Shaw has bolstered its labor and employment group with a veteran litigator from Fox Rothschild, bringing on an attorney who plans to utilize his platform at Seyfarth to continue defending employers in expansive bias and wage and hour class actions.

Read full article » | Save to favorites »

Troutman Pepper Duo Joins Littler In NY

By Matt Perez

Littler Mendelson PC, which primarily deals with the management side of employment and labor law, announced on Wednesday the hiring of a duo from Troutman Pepper Locke LLP specializing in independent contractor matters.

Read full article » | Save to favorites »

Hall Benefits Law Adds Exec Comp Pro From Trucker Huss

By Kellie Mejdrich

Hall Benefits Law has hired an executive and equity compensation practice group leader from Trucker Huss, bringing in a practitioner with more than three decades of experience advising employers about benefit plan designs and their tax implications as the firm expands in Sacramento, California.

Read full article » | Save to favorites »

Series

Choral Singing Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Singing in the New York City Bar Chorus — a hobby partly inspired by the late U.S. District Judge Richard Owen, who infused my clerkship year with opera music — has improved my legal career by refining my abilities to listen, exude confidence and develop emotional intelligence, says Bonnie Baker at Friedman Kaplan.

Read full article » | Save to favorites »

How 6th Circ. Tightened NLRB Injunction Standard

The Sixth Circuit's recent ruling in Kerwin v. Trinity Health Grand Haven Hospital, dissolving a Section 10(j) injunction obtained by the National Labor Relations Board against an employer that refused to bargain, will make it harder for the NLRB to obtain injunctions while prosecuting unfair labor practice proceedings, say attorneys at Bass Berry.

Opinion attached | Read full article » | Save to favorites »

Blank Rome Sued Over Breach Allegedly Affecting 57K People

By Steven Lerner

An attorney with Blank Rome LLP was tricked into uploading sensitive files to an external Google Drive account, allegedly exposing private information belonging to more than 57,000 individuals, according to a proposed class action accusing the law firm of inadequate cybersecurity safeguards and delayed breach notification.

Complaint attached | Read full article » | Save to favorites »

Richards Layton Faces Possible Sanctions Over AI Errors

By Rose Krebs

Richards Layton & Finger PA and one of its attorneys have been directed by the Delaware Court of Chancery to show why they should not be sanctioned for a brief submitted with "hallucinated legal propositions" generated by artificial intelligence and for not taking steps to remediate those errors.

Order attached | Read full article » | Save to favorites »

Partnership Docs Sealed In Clifford Chance Clawback Spat

By Ryan Boysen

A federal judge has sealed the partnership agreements that two ex-Clifford Chance LLP practice group heads who jumped to Sidley Austin LLP included in their lawsuit challenging a nearly $6 million clawback demand, after Clifford Chance claimed the tactics put it at a competitive disadvantage. 

2 documents attached | Read full article » | Save to favorites »

Murdaugh Fights Clerk's Bid To Ax Jury-Tampering Suit

By Emily Sawicki

A former court clerk found to have interfered in Alex Murdaugh's murder trial cannot escape civil claims over the tampering, the disgraced attorney told a South Carolina federal court, stating in an opposition that the clerk cannot argue her way out of the state Supreme Court's finding that she tampered with the jury.

Brief attached | Read full article » | Save to favorites »

DOJ Looks To Block ABA's Trump Adviser Subpoenas

By Jack Karp

The American Bar Association cannot demand documents and deposition testimony from a Trump adviser in its lawsuit over the Trump administration's executive orders targeting law firms, since any communication between a presidential adviser and the chief executive is privileged, the government has told a New York federal court.

Brief attached | Read full article » | Save to favorites »

Roc Nation Calls Out Alleged AI Citations In Fat Joe Case Brief

By Andrea Keckley

Roc Nation LLC has told a New York federal judge that plaintiff Terrance Dixon's opposition brief filed in a pending Rule 11 sanctions fight should be struck down in part because it includes what the company alleges are fabricated quotations attributed to real judicial decisions.

Letter attached | Read full article » | Save to favorites »

Kasowitz Sued Over College Antisemitism Settlement Fees

By Adrian Cruz

A group of Columbia University students who reached a settlement with the school over alleged antisemitism on campus accused Kasowitz LLP of wrongfully taking over $6 million from the deal and engaging in "self-dealing and misappropriation."

Complaint attached | Read full article » | Save to favorites »

Split 5th Circ. Backs Bond Hearings For Immigrant Detainees

By Ganesh Setty

The Fifth Circuit has limited its recent decision permitting the federal government to subject unauthorized immigrants to mandatory detention without bond, finding such individuals are still entitled to an eventual bond hearing under their Fifth Amendment due process rights.

Opinion attached | Read full article » | Save to favorites »

GOP Bill Would Cement DOJ Fraud Division In Federal Law

By Courtney Bublé

A pair of House Republicans are looking to put a congressional stamp of approval on the new fraud division in the U.S. Department of Justice.

Bill attached | Read full article » | Save to favorites »

Judge Says No To Amicus On Attorney Privilege In FTC Case

By Nadia Dreid

A defense bar advocacy group will not get a chance to weigh in on the FTC's antitrust case against Amazon over allegations the e-commerce behemoth used attorney-client privilege to hide evidence from discovery after a Washington federal judge declined to hear from the group.

Order attached | Read full article » | Save to favorites »

Nadine Menendez's Attys Rebuked For Medical Disclosures

By Carla Baranauckas

A New York federal judge rebuked Nadine Menendez's attorneys on Monday for publicly filing a request to delay her surrender date that included "extensive intimate details" of her medical condition, calling the disclosure "astonishing" and ordering the parties to refile a redacted version by Wednesday.

2 documents attached | Read full article » | Save to favorites »

Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court last week handled disputes involving arbitration, corporate control, advancement rights, freeze-out mergers and insolvent company wind-downs.

Read full article » | Save to favorites »