The Michigan Supreme Court on Friday punted 3M Co.'s challenge to state regulations limiting PFAS in tap water to a lower court to address subsequent regulatory developments and answer whether the company should have pursued an administrative appeal before suing.
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Mich. Justices Kick PFAS Rule Challenge Back To Panel

By Carolyn Muyskens

The Michigan Supreme Court on Friday punted 3M Co.'s challenge to state regulations limiting PFAS in tap water to a lower court to address subsequent regulatory developments and answer whether the company should have pursued an administrative appeal before suing.

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Grand Rapids Moves Social Equity Fee Dispute To Fed. Court

By Jonathan Capriel

The city of Grand Rapids, Michigan, is looking to push into federal court a state lawsuit filed by cannabis companies looking to upend the fees, fines and residency requirements of the municipality's social equity program, arguing Friday that their claims all touch on federal issues.

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Mich. Justices Ax Bid To Sue Pizza Delivery Driver's Employer

By Danielle Ferguson

The Michigan Supreme Court on Friday dismissed an appeal from a woman who argued her settlement with a Jet's Pizza delivery driver who rear-ended her did not bar vicarious liability claims against his employer, while a dissenting justice called on the court to rethink the "counterintuitive" rule that prohibited her claims.

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Mich. Atty Says Ex-Mentee Wanted Hush Money Before Suing

By Emily Sawicki

A name partner who was sued by a former associate of the firm on allegations that he sexually harassed her, has filed a countersuit claiming the attorney first sought hush money before launching her claims.

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AGs Back Fight Against End Of Venezuelans' Protected Status

By Rae Ann Varona

The attorneys general of 18 states urged a California federal judge on Friday to postpone the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's early termination of deportation protections for more than 500,000 Venezuelans, saying DHS Secretary Kristi Noem gave no sound reason for ending the temporary protections.

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Roundup

Real Estate Recap: NAR Suits, Tariff Tactics, Betting On Texas

By Real Estate Authority Staff

Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including a look at widespread antitrust litigation surrounding the National Association of Realtors broker rules, the role contracts may play in combating a trade war, and the implications for real estate if casinos come to the Lone Star State.

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LITIGATION

Driver, Ex-Employer Settle After BIPA Retroactivity Ruling

By Celeste Bott

A distributor of fire sprinklers and other fire protection products has settled a lawsuit from one of its former delivery drivers who claimed the company's timekeeping violated Illinois' biometric privacy law, in the wake of the presiding judge determining that a legislative amendment limiting damages doesn't apply to the dispute.

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Fired MGM Worker Seeks Atty Fees After COVID Vax Trial Win

By Carolyn Muyskens

A former MGM Grand Detroit casino worker who was fired for refusing to get a COVID-19 vaccination has asked a judge to award attorney fees and pre- and post-judgment interest on top of a Detroit jury's $133,000 verdict in his favor.

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Jailed Developer Dropped From RICO Foreclosure Suit

By Grace Dixon

A Michigan federal judge dropped a developer from a suit alleging a racketeering scheme stripped homeowners of their foreclosed homes' surplus equity, finding the harm they allege is not tied closely enough to a bribery scheme the developer later pled guilty to.

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SIXTH CIRCUIT

Dem AGs Back NLRB In Appeal Over Board Functionality

By Emily Brill

Nearly two dozen Democratic attorneys general have backed the National Labor Relations Board in a Sixth Circuit fight over the agency's ability to adjudicate unfair labor practice cases, saying workers' rights under labor law would be trampled if the agency is restrained from performing its duties.

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Ohio, PBMs Say High Court Ruling Didn't End Pricing Appeal

By Matthew Perlman

Ohio state enforcers have told the Sixth Circuit an appeal in their case accusing Express Scripts and Prime Therapeutics of driving up prescription drug prices was not resolved by a U.S. Supreme Court decision dealing with federal versus state jurisdiction.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

National Lawyers Guild Slams Trump's Perkins Coie Order

By Rachel Riley

The Seattle Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild denounced President Donald Trump's recent executive order revoking Perkins Coie LLP's security clearances, saying on Monday the decision "exemplifies his complete disregard for the rule of law and his contempt for core American democratic values."

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GOP Sens. Escalate Fight With ABA Over 'Leftist' Statements

By Courtney Bublé

A group of Senate Republicans are once again going after the American Bar Association, which they claim has become a "leftist" organization, and announced Monday they will disregard ABA ratings on judicial nominees and encouraged the Trump administration and their colleagues to do the same.

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Paul Hastings Reelects Chair, Managing Partner To 2nd Terms

By Tracey Read

Paul Hastings LLP Chair Frank Lopez and Managing Partner Sherrese Smith have been reelected to their second three-year terms, the firm said Monday.

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Judge Who Shot Wife Gets Mistrial As Jury Hangs On Murder

By Gina Kim

A California judge declared a mistrial Monday in the murder trial of Orange County Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Ferguson, who shot and killed his wife in their Anaheim Hills home in 2023, after jurors said they remained at an impasse over whether he was guilty of second-degree murder.

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Analysis

SEC Leaves Meme Coin Fraud For Other Cops To Chase

By Aislinn Keely

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission staff's decision to say that so-called meme coins are beyond the agency's purview is a welcome change from past practices, experts say, but the devil is in the details when it comes to policing fraud and helping consumers recover when projects go bust.

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Del. Bar Panel OKs Corp. Law Bill To Curb Class Suits, Fees

By Jeff Montgomery

A key panel of the Delaware's State Bar Association overwhelmingly approved on Monday a pending bill to put new constraints on corporate stockholder lawsuits, over objections that the measure will snuff out shareholder protections from conflicted boards and corporation controllers.

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High Court Will Review Colo.'s Conversion Therapy Ban

By Katie Buehler

The U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday that it will review a challenge to Colorado's ban on licensed therapists providing conversion therapy to transgender minors, in a case that asks whether the state's law is a permissible regulation of professional conduct or an unconstitutional restriction of speech.

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2 Firms Sued After Cyber Thief Steals $442K From Estate

By Ryan Harroff

Law firms SutterWilliams LLC and Allender & Allender PA were hit with a negligence and malpractice suit after a cybercriminal allegedly used spoofed email accounts to trick an attorney at the latter firm into handing over $442,600 from the sale of a late Pennsylvania sheriff's deputy's house in Florida.

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Paul Hastings Adds Kirkland Atty As Global M&A Co-Chair

By Tracey Read

Paul Hastings LLP has hired a third global co-chair for its mergers and acquisitions practice who was one of the youngest M&A partners in the world to have announced well over $1 trillion in deals, the firm said Monday.

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Hagens Berman Comms With Ghosting Client Kept Privileged

By Ryan Boysen

Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP doesn't have to turn over texts and emails with a client who disappeared from a putative class action against Apple and Amazon, a Washington federal judge has ruled, despite the tech giants' accusations that the firm lied about those communications.

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J. Crew Wins Confirmation Of Ex-GC's Arbitration Loss

By Lauren Berg

A New York federal judge confirmed an arbitrator's ruling Monday that found J. Crew hadn't fired its former legal chief, Maria DiLorenzo, in retaliation for her complaints about colleagues' discriminatory comments about her hearing loss.

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Clerks May Seek Political Jobs On 'Case-By-Case Basis'

By Emily Sawicki

Individual federal judges may determine whether their clerks may seek political posts while employed by the judiciary, the Judicial Conference of the United States' Committee on Codes of Conduct now recommends, months after issuing guidance advising clerks to hold off seeking such roles until their clerkships end.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

A&O Shearman

Allender & Allender

Arete Law Group

Bass Berry

Bernstein Burkley

Bernstein Litowitz

Beveridge & Diamond

Cleary Gottlieb

Clifford Chance

Covington & Burling

Cravath Swaine

DJC Law

Davis Wright Tremaine

Deborah Gordon Law

Dorsey & Whitney

Dykema

Flannery Georgalis

Fox McKenna

Goodman Kalahar

Hagens Berman

Harvey Kruse

Hunton Andrews

Jackson Lewis PC

K&L Gates

Kienbaum Hardy

Kirkland & Ellis

Latham & Watkins

Lewis Brisbois

Littler Mendelson

McAlpine PC

McGinn Montoya

Michigan Auto Law

Miller Canfield

Miller Cohen

Miller Cohen Peterson Young

Olsman MacKenzie

Orrick Herrington

Paul Hastings

Pearman Law Firm

Perkins Coie

Proskauer Rose

Redgrave LLP

Rothman Gordon

Rule Garza

Schenk & Bruetsch

Seyfarth Shaw

Sidley Austin

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Snell & Wilmer

Stikeman Elliott

Taft Stettinius

Torys

Varnum LLP

Warner Norcross

Weil Gotshal

Wigdor LLP

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

3M Co.

AbbVie Inc.

Alliance Defending Freedom

Amazon.com Inc.

Amcor PLC

American Bar Association

American Civil Liberties Union

American Federation of Labor & Congress of Industrial Organizations

Apple Inc.

Cantor Fitzgerald LP

Constellation Brands Inc.

Express Scripts Holding Co.

Fluresh LLC

Global Growth LLC

Human Rights Campaign

Humana Inc.

J. Crew Group Inc.

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Jet's America Inc.

Jones Lang LaSalle Inc.

Kellanova Co.

MGM Grand Hotel LLC

Marcus & Millichap Inc.

Mars Inc.

Migration Policy Institute

National Association of Realtors

Newmark Group Inc.

Optum Inc.

Rocket Mortgage LLC

Space Exploration Technologies Corp.

Tesla Inc.

UCLA School of Law

United Auto Workers

Verizon Communications Inc.

Wells Fargo & Co.

Welltower Inc.

White Castle Management Co.

Wynn Resorts Ltd.

Zillow Group Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

California Attorney General's Office

Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies

Colorado Supreme Court

Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Executive Office of the President

Federal Trade Commission

Illinois General Assembly

Illinois Supreme Court

Internal Revenue Service

Judicial Conference of the United States

Michigan Legislature

Michigan Supreme Court

National Labor Relations Board

New York Attorney General's Office

Ohio Attorney General's Office

U.S. Agency for International Development

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

U.S. General Services Administration

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Supreme Court

U.S. Tax Court

Wayne County, Michigan