Incumbents Reelected In Michigan Supreme Court Race

By Susan Smiley

Michigan Supreme Court Justices Megan Cavanagh and Noah Hood appear to have won reelection Tuesday, preserving the six-justice Democratic majority on the high court.

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Mich. Voters Approve Limits On Utility Campaign Donations

By Melanie Dorsey

Michigan voters approved a statewide ballot proposal Tuesday restricting campaign contributions from certain regulated utilities and government contractors,while Ann Arbor voters opposed a separate measure establishing a municipal electric utility that could eventually replace DTE Energy as the city's electricity provider.

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Michigan Judge Blocks Election Pollbook Deletion Rule

By Melanie Dorsey

A Michigan Court of Claims judge has permanently blocked enforcement of a state rule requiring local election officials to delete electronic pollbook records shortly after elections, ruling that the requirement violates Michigan law because it demands the destruction of information that must be preserved for 22 months.

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Mich. Voters Reject Constitutional Convention

By Melanie Dorsey

Michigan voters rejected a ballot proposal Tuesday to convene the state's first constitutional convention in more than six decades, closing the door to a sweeping review of the state's governing document that could have reshaped laws on taxation, elections, education and reproductive rights. 

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Ga. Adopts Farming Tax Break, Mich. Limits Utility Donations

By Gautama Mehta

Voters in seven states were set to decide closely watched environmental ballot measures, including whether California should speed up environmental reviews, if Colorado should codify a "right to natural gas," and if Michigan should tighten campaign finance restrictions on the utility industry.

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Tribe Says Pipeline Harm Statement Shouldn't Be Dismissed

By Joyce Hanson

A Native American tribe has asked a D.C. federal judge not to strike its natural resources director's statement about potential harm the Army Corps of Engineers will cause by allowing Enbridge Energy to reroute 41 miles of a pipeline around the tribe's lands.

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Mass. Judge Nixes Feds' Bid To Stay Grant Termination Ruling

By Julie Manganis

A Massachusetts federal judge on Tuesday rejected the Trump administration's request to stay her judgment that it cannot terminate already-awarded federal grants based solely on the president's current priorities, and chided the government for intentionally slow-walking the case.

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Michigan Appeals Court Affirms Cold Case Conviction

By Susan Smiley

The Michigan Court of Appeals agreed with convicted murderer Douglas Michael Laming's claim that his counsel in a 2024 trial was ineffective for failing to request jury instructions regarding accomplice testimony, but affirmed his conviction, ruling that the oversight was unlikely to have altered the trial's outcome.

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Ex-Hospital Worker Can't Get Out Of Bias Settlement

By Melanie Dorsey

A Michigan federal judge has ordered a former William Beaumont Hospital employee to honor a settlement resolving her pregnancy discrimination lawsuit, rejecting her attempts to narrow the agreement to exclude potential medical malpractice claims involving her minor child and allowing her attorneys to withdraw amid a breakdown in their relationship.

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AI Co. Suno Seeks Toss Of Musicians' Claims It Copies Styles

By Ben Adlin

Artificial intelligence music service Suno Inc. urged a Massachusetts federal judge to throw out a proposed class action accusing the company of copying musicians' identifying attributes, arguing that U.S. copyright law does not protect a musician's artistic style.

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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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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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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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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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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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