NJ Judges End Habba's Tenure, Bondi Removes Replacement

By Jake Maher

The New Jersey federal district court brought Alina Habba's run as interim U.S. attorney to an end Tuesday by not extending her tenure in the temporary role past 120 days.

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Ethics Appeal Over Columbia Letter Nixed As Judge Joins USDA

By Emily Sawicki

In its first decision of 2025, the Judicial Conference's conduct committee on Tuesday dismissed a challenge to the Seventh Circuit Judicial Council's decision to toss ethics claims against a U.S. Court of International Trade judge who threatened not to hire law clerks from Columbia University over the school's handling of Israel protests.

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Fiat Chrysler Denies Misleading Court Over Settlement Delays

By Danielle Ferguson

Fiat Chrysler told a Michigan federal judge on Monday that changes to management and internal procedures are in part to blame for the continued delay in submitting documents to finalize a deal resolving allegations that the automaker sold vehicles with engines prone to catching fire, urging the court not to sanction the company.

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Bipartisan Bill Aims To Protect Judges From Rising Threats

By Lauren Berg

Representatives Lucy McBath, D-Ga., and Michael McCaul, R-Texas, on Tuesday reintroduced legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives to better protect state and local judges from threats and violence that are "becoming increasingly more common" against the judiciary.

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Amazon Pushes Back On FTC's Trial Time Extension Bid

By MJ Koo

Amazon has urged a Washington federal court to reject the Federal Trade Commission's bid to extend the agency's trial time in a lawsuit over automatically recurring Prime subscriptions, calling the proposal both unfair and baseless.

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YSL Defense Atty Indicted On Tip-Off, Drug Smuggling Counts

By Chart Riggall

A Georgia attorney part of the defense team in the long-running Young Slime Life racketeering case was indicted on charges that she helped smuggle drugs to her jailed client, and in another case, told a shooting suspect to ditch his cellphone before he was picked up by police.

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Ga. Justices Hand Atty Six-Month Suspension Over Lapse

By Emily Johnson

A longtime Georgia attorney who warned that "'heads' would 'roll'" over a client's allegedly unpaid bill of $2,701 was given a six-month suspension that can only be lifted upon a behavioral health professional's evaluation, after the Georgia Supreme Court found he failed to provide his client with a timely financial accounting.

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Judge Nixes 'Ghost' Lawyer's Suit Against Ex-Employee, Atty

By Phillip Bantz

A Florida judge has tossed a lawsuit that an attorney accused of ghosting and defrauding his clients brought against his former paralegal and a legal malpractice lawyer alleging they conspired to steal his clients and trash his reputation.

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Sandoz Loses 'Nonsense' Bid To Avoid DOJ Deal In AGs' Case

By Bryan Koenig

A Connecticut federal judge has given dozens of state attorneys general a small but important win in a sprawling price-fixing litigation against generic-drug makers, applying previous admissions of criminal wrongdoing and flatly rejecting "ridiculous" efforts by Sandoz, Taro Pharmaceuticals and a former Sandoz official to avoid that application.

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Ex-J&J Atty Slams Bid To Dismiss Her Bias, Retaliation Suit

By Rose Krebs

A former Johnson & Johnson data privacy lawyer is urging a New Jersey federal court to keep alive her racial bias suit, arguing the pharmaceutical giant's dismissal bid is based on flawed legal arguments.

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Fubo Streamers Get Own Attys In Disney Suit

By Jared Foretek

DiCello Levitt and Lite DePalma have won out over Bathaee Dunne in a battle to represent FuboTV subscribers suing Disney over ESPN streaming rates, with a judge saying he had "grave doubts" that Yavar Bathaee could adequately represent the plaintiffs after Bathaee undercut their case in a status conference.

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Ch. 11 Judge Escapes Energy Drink Co. Founder's Bias Suit

By Madison Arnold

A Florida bankruptcy judge was freed Tuesday from a suit alleging he was biased while presiding over the Chapter 11 case of the company behind Bang energy drinks. 

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Litigation Inspiration: How To Respond After A Loss

Every litigator loses a case now and then, and the sting of that loss can become a medicine that strengthens or a poison that corrodes, depending on how the attorney responds, says Bennett Rawicki at Hilgers Graben.

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Trump Admin To Probe Harvard's Student Visa Program

By Chris Villani

The State Department said Wednesday it is opening an investigation into Harvard University's eligibility to host international students and professors on visas, the Trump administration's latest salvo in its legal battle with the elite school.

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Analysis

Spurning Outsiders, Trump Expands Role In Picking Judges

By Cara Bayles

President Donald Trump is tightly controlling judicial nominations in his second term, eschewing guidance from mainstream groups and instead relying on close advisers and vetting candidates himself.

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How A County's 'Holistic' Approach Reduced Violent Crime

By George Woolston

A meeting with Atlantic City business leaders at the start of Atlantic County Prosecutor William Reynolds' tenure in 2022 helped establish the guiding light to his office's community-first approach to prosecution centered on rehabilitation and reducing recidivism.

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NYLAG Union Is Latest ALAA Shop To Reach Tentative Deal

By Andrea Keckley

Another one of the several Association of Legal Advocates and Attorneys unions that went on strike in New York City last week announced on Tuesday that it has reached a tentative agreement with its managers.

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Apple Tells 9th Circ. Birthright Ruling Scraps Epic's Injunction

By Dorothy Atkins

Apple Inc. told the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday that the U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling in litigation challenging President Donald Trump's birthright citizenship executive order means that a nationwide injunction and civil contempt order in Epic Games Inc.'s antitrust case over Apple's App Store policies cannot stand.

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American Arbitration Assoc. Looks To Duck Monopoly Claims

By Matthew Perlman

The American Arbitration Association urged an Arizona federal court Tuesday to toss a case accusing it of monopolizing the market for consumer arbitration services, saying the proposed class action hasn't come close to pleading predatory pricing.

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Bird Marella And Bioscience Client Accused Of $87M Fraud

By Emily Sawicki

An investment group that includes a "Toy Story" screenwriter is suing a Culver City, California-headquartered bioscience company and its Bird Marella attorneys in California state court, accusing them of manipulating the valuation of a company whose acquisition they funded, in order to defraud investors of $87 million.

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Analysis

Takeaways From The US Attorney Role Tumult In New Jersey

By Jake Maher

The U.S. Attorney's Office in New Jersey was thrown into turmoil Tuesday with a leadership dispute that remained open Wednesday, teeing up a battle between the White House and the Garden State's senators on Capitol Hill.

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Sen. Collins Opposes Bove For 3rd Circ. Over Bias Concerns

By Courtney Bublé

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, will oppose the confirmation of Emil Bove to the Third Circuit, and Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, has also indicated her likely opposition.

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Firm Can't Arbitrate After Filing Suit, 4th Circ. Says

By MJ Koo

A Maryland law firm and a debt buyer cannot force a debt collection dispute into arbitration, the Fourth Circuit ruled Wednesday, finding they waived their right to arbitrate when they filed their own collective action.

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Wash. Counties Can Sue State Over Public Defense Funding

By Marco Poggio

A Washington state appeals court has ruled that a coalition of counties has standing to sue the state to force it to provide adequate funding for indigent defense services, saying the coalition had shown that it had been harmed by the current funding system.

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Senate Confirms Another Missouri Judge

By Courtney Bublé

The Senate voted 49-47 on Wednesday evening to confirm assistant U.S. Attorney Zachary Bluestone to serve on the Eastern District of Missouri.

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Chicago Defense, Civil Liberties Icon Tom Durkin Dies At 78

By Brandon Lowrey

Thomas Durkin, a celebrated criminal and civil rights lawyer, has died after a brief illness with lung cancer at the age of 78. Those who knew him remembered him as a brilliant lawyer who cared deeply for his fellow human beings and battled unwaveringly against what he saw as abuses of power.

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