Keller Williams To Pay $20M To Settle Antitrust Claims

By Celeste Bott

Keller Williams Realty has agreed to pay $20 million to resolve claims that it participated in a decades-long conspiracy to fix real estate broker commissions and inflate home prices, according to a proposed class of homebuyers who are asking an Illinois federal judge to grant preliminary approval to the deal.

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Walgreens Says Audio Recording Refutes Shareholders' Claim

By Celeste Bott

Walgreens told an Illinois federal judge Tuesday that newly discovered evidence warrants revisiting a decision allowing shareholders' claim over an executive's allegedly false statement to move forward, saying an audio recording shows "no basis to conclude the actual statement was false or misleading when made."

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United Says Pilot's Vax Accommodation Should End Dispute

By Lauraann Wood

United Airlines has urged an Illinois federal judge to hand it a pretrial win over a pilot's accusation that the airline failed to properly handle his religious-based COVID-19 vaccination exemption request, arguing he received an accommodation that should be considered reasonable and defeat his claims.

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Gov't Pushes For Greystar Antitrust Settlement Approval

By Isaac Monterose

The federal government pushed back against public comments that criticized its proposed antitrust settlement with landlord Greystar Management Services LLC, telling a North Carolina federal court Wednesday to approve the proposed settlement because it does enough to resolve its claims.

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Cresco Again Seeks Toss Of THC Potency False Ad Suit

By Mike Curley

Cresco Labs Inc. is once again pushing for dismissal of a proposed class action alleging that it deliberately mislabels its cannabis oil products to get around Illinois THC possession limits, saying the plaintiff's claims are clearly preempted by state law.

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Law360 Seeks Members For Its 2026 Editorial Boards

Law360 is looking for avid readers of our publications to serve as members of our 2026 editorial advisory boards.

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Analysis

2 Killings Are Reshaping ICE Strategy. States Also Have Plans.

By Carla Baranauckas

The killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis in separate immigration enforcement episodes have become a fresh catalyst for state lawmakers who are moving on legislation to limit federal agents' tactics or deepen cooperation with them, despite looming constitutional fights over how far states can go.

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HPE Backs DOJ Bid For Final Merger Deal Approval

By Bryan Koenig

Hewlett Packard Enterprise has endorsed the Justice Department's bid for final approval of a controversial settlement permitting the $14 billion purchase of Juniper Networks, telling a California federal judge that Democratic state attorneys general have nothing but "vague and inaccurate accusations" that the deal was improper.

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Judge Won't Revive Price Discrimination Suit Against Juul

By Matthew Perlman

An Illinois federal court refused on Wednesday to reconsider a ruling tossing a gas station distributor's lawsuit accusing Juul Labs of giving a rival wholesaler a better deal on e-cigarettes, saying it is still unclear why the distributor removed key allegations from its last complaint.

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Co. Can't Limit Punitive Damages For Ill. Dehumidifier Fire

By Mark Payne

A dehumidifier manufacturer lost its bid to limit the punitive damages sought by property owners and their insurer for damage they say was caused by a product defect when an Illinois federal court ruled Tuesday the owners' punitive damages are for the total damage, not just the deductible for their uninsured loss.

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FERC Says Rejection Of PJM Grid-Planning Change Was Sound

By Keith Goldberg

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has defended its rejection of a plan that PJM Interconnection, a regional transmission organization, brokered with transmission owners to make grid-planning decisions without the approval of the regional grid operator's members committee, saying the plan would undermine the independence of PJM.

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GM Brings Design Patent Suits Over Alleged Car Part Copies

By Adam Lidgett

General Motors has launched a trio of lawsuits in both Michigan and Illinois federal courts, accusing a host of companies of infringing the auto giant's design patents by selling copies of its car parts.

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Sinclair To Pay $175K For Lost Texts In Price-Fixing MDL

By Emily Sawicki

A Chicago federal judge has approved a joint stipulation by which Sinclair Broadcast Group agreed to pay $175,000 after it was sanctioned for failing to preserve text message data from more than 50 company-issued cellphones amid discovery in multidistrict litigation over an alleged unlawful price-fixing scheme.

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Pet Treat Maker, Ex-Workers Score OK For $975K Wage Deal

By Benjamin Morse

An Illinois federal judge preliminarily approved a $975,000 settlement to resolve a proposed class and collective action alleging a pet product manufacturer failed to pay its employees for the time they spent putting on and removing personal protective equipment, according to a court filing.

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Series

Law School's Missed Lessons: Practicing Resilience

Resilience is a skill acquired through daily practices that focus on learning from missteps, recovering quickly without internalizing defeat and moving forward with intention, says Nicholas Meza at Quarles & Brady.

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Paul Weiss' Karp Steps Back After Epstein Email Revelations

By Hailey Konnath and Aebra Coe

Longtime Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP chair Brad S. Karp has resigned from his leadership role, the firm announced Wednesday, a move that comes after the U.S. Department of Justice released numerous emails between Karp and Jeffrey Epstein.

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Baker McKenzie To Downsize Business Professional Jobs

By Tracey Read

Baker McKenzie, which has a legal services hub in Tampa, Florida, is in the process of downsizing business professionals' jobs, a firm spokesperson confirmed to Law360 Pulse on Wednesday.

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Ex-DLA Piper Partner Aims To Toss Claim He Raped Associate

By Jack Karp

Allegations that an ex-DLA Piper partner raped a former Boston-based associate in Delaware in 2022 should be tossed since the Massachusetts state court the case was filed in has no jurisdiction over the Delaware claim, according to the accused former partner.

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Goldstein Accountant Admits Tax Return Errors

By Jared Foretek

A star government witness and the top outside accountant for SCOTUSblog founder Thomas Goldstein and his law firm admitted to making mistakes on Goldstein's tax returns and offering the grand jury erroneous testimony, under cross-examination in the U.S. Supreme Court lawyer's tax fraud trial Wednesday.

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Analysis

Clemency Was 'Broken' Long Before Trump. Can It Be Fixed?

By Phillip Bantz

President Donald Trump has transformed what has historically been a bureaucratic process for seeking federal pardons and commutations into a more freewheeling affair with few clear rules — and no easy solutions for reform, experts say.

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Wachtel Missry Settles Liability In $26M Atty Malpractice Case

By Emily Sawicki

A dispute over who is liable for a former Wachtel Missry LLP partner's alleged exploitation of an elderly client has been settled on the eve of trial, while the Brooklyn federal judge declined to consider recusing himself despite "inadvertently" meeting with the firm's founding partner before the matter was fully put to rest.

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Ex-Fox News Host Decries Judge Pick's Arbitration Stance

By Courtney Buble

Gretchen Carlson, a former Fox News anchor and a leading advocate for ending forced arbitration of sexual harassment and assault in the workplace, has come out against a federal judicial nominee for Louisiana for her past comments on the issue.

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Trump Bid To Move NY Appeal Faces 'Fatal' Error, Judge Says

By Frank G. Runyeon

A Manhattan federal judge on Wednesday repeatedly aired doubts that President Donald Trump can upend the pending New York state appeal of his hush-money conviction by moving the case to federal court.

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