Justices Urged To Hear Mich. Tax Foreclosure Case

By Danielle Ferguson

A property owner has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on her case alleging a Michigan county improperly kept the excess proceeds of her tax-foreclosed home sale, arguing the justices should settle a conflict among circuits and calling the state's process to claim such proceeds too restrictive.

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Mich. Panel Tosses Black Deputy Wardens' Race Bias Suit

By Carolyn Muyskens

A Michigan appellate panel has spared the state's corrections agency from a discrimination lawsuit filed by two Black deputy wardens who said they were passed over for warden roles that went to white colleagues.

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USDA Can't Curb SNAP Benefits As States Fight Data Demand

By Dorothy Atkins

A California federal judge on Wednesday preliminarily blocked the U.S. Department of Agriculture from withholding potentially billions of dollars in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefit funds from states that refuse to turn over highly sensitive personal information on millions of SNAP food assistance benefit recipients.

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Mich. Energy Cos. Say 12 Jurors Too Many In Hydro Plant Trial

By Danielle Ferguson

Michigan utility companies that allege a Toshiba unit botched a $500 million plant upgrade have told a federal judge that Toshiba's request for 12 jurors in an upcoming trial is unreasonable, but said they would work with the unit when it comes to setting time limits for the weekslong trial.

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Ill. Judge Tosses Law Firm's $36M Pandemic Loan Fraud Suit

By Tom Lotshaw

An Illinois federal judge dismissed a Michigan law firm's $36 million whistleblower suit against dozens of automotive dealerships, ruling that the information underpinning its claims of pandemic loan fraud was already publicly available.

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Judge Asked To Ground Military Training Flight Plan In Mich.

By Carolyn Muyskens

A conservation group has asked a federal judge to halt a proposed expansion of Air National Guard training flights in Michigan, saying the low-level flights will disturb a treasured destination for trout fishing.

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States Battle Trump Admin To Recover Solar Program Funds

By Juan-Carlos Rodriguez

Attorneys general from across the country are suing the Trump administration for allegedly violating the Constitution and federal law by canceling a $7 billion program providing solar equipment to low-income households.

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La Colombe Workers' $450K Wage Deal Gets Final OK

By Gina Kim

La Colombe's hourly paid production workers have received final approval of a $450,000 settlement with the coffee chain, which was accused of failing to pay them for time spent donning and doffing protective equipment before and after their shifts, according to an order by a Pennsylvania federal judge.

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6th Circ. Backs Air Force's Win In Ex-Worker's Race Bias Suit

By Patrick Hoff

The Sixth Circuit refused to reopen a former military salesman's lawsuit alleging the Air Force repeatedly disciplined him and threatened to fire him because he's a Black man, ruling the civilian worker hadn't provided enough evidence to keep his claims in court.

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US Trustee Pushes For Examiner In First Brands' Ch. 11

By Clara Geoghegan

The Office of the U.S. Trustee has urged the swift appointment of an examiner to probe car parts group First Brands' Texas bankruptcy, echoing a creditor's call for an independent investigation into over $2 billion in unaccounted funds.

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Series

Traveling Solo Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Traveling by myself has taught me to assess risk, understand tone and stay calm in high-pressure situations, which are not only useful life skills, but the foundation of how I support my clients, says Lacey Gutierrez at Group Five Legal.

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Federal Courts To Scale Back Operations Amid Shutdown

By Ryan Boysen

The federal court system has run out of money and will scale back operations beginning Monday as a result of the ongoing government shutdown, possibly leading to case delays.

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Loan Forgiveness Overhaul May Chill Legal Aid Work

By Alison Knezevich

Civil legal services groups and public defenders say the Trump administration's proposed change to the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program would politicize the initiative and make it harder to recruit attorneys to jobs that pay less than the private sector.

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Utah Fires Motley Rice From Opioid Case

By Jack Karp

The state of Utah has fired Motley Rice LLC from representing it in long-running litigation over the opioid crisis, a spokesperson for the Utah attorney general's office confirmed to Law360 Pulse on Friday.

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Bolton Pleads Not Guilty To Mishandling Documents

By Jared Foretek

Former National Security Advisor John Bolton pled not guilty to charges that he illegally retained and shared classified national defense information Friday, a day after federal prosecutors unsealed an 18-count indictment against the former appointee of President Donald Trump who has become a critic of his administration since.

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Mintz Says Ex-Client Owes $2M 'Success Fee' For Patent Work

By Julie Manganis

Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC says a former client is refusing to pay a nearly $2.2 million "success fee" for the firm's work on multiple patent infringement matters that generated millions of dollars in recoveries, according to a complaint filed on Friday in Massachusetts federal court.

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Liberty Mutual Attys Face Sanctions Bid Over Citation Errors

By Emily Sawicki

A St. Louis federal court is weighing whether to sanction Liberty Mutual Personal Insurance Company's lawyers after they submitted a motion containing citation errors and then, after a warning, "somehow" submitted a second motion with the same types of mistakes.

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Ga. Judge Resigns After DUI Arrest Outside Fla. Strip Club

By Chart Riggall

A Georgia Superior Court jurist who led the state's Council of Superior Court Judges stepped down from the bench Thursday after his driving under the influence arrest last week outside a Jacksonville, Florida, strip club.

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Atty Quits Ga. Bar's 'Facade' Committee On Client Solicitation

By Chart Riggall

A Georgia attorney resigned Friday as head of the state bar's committee on attorney-client solicitation, accusing the bar of not even "reaching for a garden hose" while unlawful solicitation of accident victims has spread "like wildfire" across the Peach State.

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Roundup

Injury Law Roundup: Uber Wins Bellwether Sex Assault Trial

By Y. Peter Kang

In our inaugural Injury Law Roundup, juries in the Golden State were busy as Uber won a closely watched sexual assault trial and Johnson & Johnson got crushed with a near $1 billion verdict in a talc case, while Boies Schiller Flexner LLP admitted to an artificial intelligence gaffe in a sex-assault-related case. Here, we put Law360 readers on notice of what's been recently trending in personal injury and medical malpractice news.

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UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

By Max Austin

This past week in London has seen Johnson & Johnson hit with a £1 billion ($1.34 billion) claim for allegedly selling contaminated baby powder, Carter-Ruck bring a claim against the Solicitors Regulation Authority, and Hewlett Packard file a probate claim against the estate of Mike Lynch.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

Exxon was hit with a proposed class action alleging its new program to enable automated proxy voting for retail investors is intended to stifle shareholder dissent. Meanwhile, a new survey found that nearly two-thirds of in-house legal departments think they will rely less on outside legal service providers because of generative artificial intelligence. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Caldwell Cassady & Curry PC and Miller Fair Henry PLLC lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a California federal jury found Samsung must pay nearly $445.5 million for infringing four wireless communication patents.

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In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Law360

For those who missed out, here's a look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the most buzz on Law360 last week.

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