TD Bank Beats Whistleblower's Appeal For Shielded Info

By George Woolston

A New Jersey state appeals court on Wednesday backed a lower court's holding that TD Bank does not have to produce information it's seeking to shield from a whistleblower, finding that the disclosure of the information would have violated federal law.

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NJ And Town Seek Injunction To Halt ICE Detention Center

By Elaine Briseño

New Jersey and the township of Roxbury asked a federal court to halt the conversion of a warehouse to a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center, citing expected strains on local resources and the environment.

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NJ Power Broker, Atty Brother Push To End Developer's Suit

By Jake Maher

South Jersey powerbroker George Norcross and his brother, Parker McCay PA shareholder Philip A. Norcross, asked a New Jersey state court this week to toss a civil racketeering suit from a real estate developer, which closely tracked a now-dismissed criminal indictment, arguing the allegations were settled in previous litigation and are time-barred.

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NJ Car Dealer Accused Of Picking Pricey 401(k) Funds

By Carla Baranauckas

Holman Automotive Group Inc. was slapped with a proposed class action in New Jersey federal court accusing the company and unidentified plan fiduciaries of breaching their duties under ERISA by saddling employees with unnecessarily expensive retirement plan investments that allegedly drained more than $1 million from workers' savings.

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IRS, NJ Woman Settle Refund Row After High Court Loss

By Kat Lucero

The IRS and a New Jersey resident reached a settlement in a $42,000 tax refund suit in federal court nearly a year after the U.S. Supreme Court maintained the agency could eliminate her tax debt using overpayments she claims were improperly retained. 

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NJ Bank Can't Get Conversion Plan Revived On Appeal

By Katryna Perera

A New Jersey appellate court panel on Wednesday affirmed a ruling that the board of a savings-and-loan bank improperly adopted a plan to convert into a mutual savings bank to block an activist investor from gaining board seats.

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Tax Preparer Gets 12 Years In Largest-Ever COVID Tax Fraud

By Anna Scott Farrell

A New Jersey tax preparer was sentenced Wednesday to 12 years in prison and ordered to pay $55 million in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service after a jury convicted him of tax fraud in what authorities said was the nation's largest tax fraud case involving COVID-19 pandemic relief money.

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AEG, BigLaw Atty In Hot Seat As Live Nation Trial Nears End

By Stewart Bishop

Live Nation on Wednesday concluded its defense case with glowing testimony about it from the manager for rap star Drake, while the Manhattan federal judge overseeing the case said rival company AEG Worldwide and a Hogan Lovells lawyer may face sanctions for revealing confidential information about a witness.

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NC Vape Seller Defaults In FDA Suit Over Illegal Imports

By Jonathan Capriel

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration scored a big win in its bid to permanently block a North Carolina vape distributor from importing and selling illicit flavored e-cigarettes from China, with a federal judge giving the government a default win.

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No Surprises Act Bars Provider's Award Enforcement Bid

By Gianna Ferrarin

A Pennsylvania federal court declined to force an insurer to pay over $300,000 in alleged outstanding payments from an out-of-network billing dispute with a provider, finding it lacked authority to do so under the No Surprises Act.

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States Seek Time For Talks To Settle Drug Price-Fixing Suit

By Brian Steele

The states suing generic-drug manufacturers in one of three sprawling antitrust cases want a Connecticut federal judge to pause all deadlines for three months so they can focus on settling with the remaining defendants, according to a joint filing.

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Roundup

ERISA Recap: 6 Noteworthy Decisions From March

By Kellie Mejdrich

JPMorgan Chase & Co. narrowed but couldn't escape a suit from workers who said their health plan paid too much for prescription drugs, Genworth Financial Inc. unwound a class at the Fourth Circuit, and the Sixth Circuit breathed new life into proposed class actions against FedEx and Kellogg. Here, Law360 looks at these and three other notable decisions from March in ERISA cases.

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3rd Circ. Asked To Undo Atty Fees For ICE Cooperation Suit

By P.J. D'Annunzio

A former Bucks County, Pennsylvania, sheriff asked the Third Circuit on Wednesday to undo a $35,000 attorney fee award granted to groups that remanded their case over his cooperation with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, arguing the case belonged in district court because he'd effectively become a federal officer.

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JLL Lines Up $115M Retail Centers Portfolio Sale

By Isaac Monterose

JLL Capital Markets arranged the $115 million sale of a seven-property, 558,000-square-foot portfolio of grocery-anchored retail centers operating in four East Coast states, the company has announced.

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DLA Piper Offered Pregnant Atty 'Dignified' Exit, Jury Told

By Pete Brush

A former DLA Piper associate who claims she was unlawfully fired after announcing her pregnancy was offered a chance to transition out of the firm "without anyone knowing that her work was subpar," a partner told a Manhattan federal jury Wednesday.

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Spencer Fane Adds 75 Attys Through Tie-Up With Okla. Firm

By Tracey Read

Missouri-headquartered Spencer Fane LLP announced Wednesday that it plans to combine with Southwest firm Conner & Winters LLP on July 1 in its largest tie-up to date and its third already in 2026.

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DOJ's Lead Google Attys Both Leave Agency Same Day

By Bryan Koenig

The lead attorneys on both of the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division's monopolization cases against Google left the agency Wednesday or said they would be doing so.

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Mich. Federal Judge Pleads No Contest In Drunk-Driving Case

By Gina Kim

A Michigan federal judge pled no contest Wednesday to a misdemeanor drunken-driving charge in Emmet County court in connection with an incident where he crashed his Cadillac and registered a 0.27% blood alcohol level, apologizing and saying he "looks forward" to continuing his judicial service.

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ABA, State Bars Blast DOJ Proposal To Block Bar Probes

By Emily Sawicki

The American Bar Association and a chorus of state and local bar groups have come out against a proposed rule that would allow the U.S. Department of Justice to pause and review state-level ethics complaints against its attorneys, calling the proposal "unlawful and unconstitutional."

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ABA Rates Montana Judicial Pick 'Not Qualified'

By Courtney Bublé

Katie Lane, senior legal counsel at the Republican National Committee who has been tapped for a federal judgeship in Montana, is the first nominee to receive a majority "not qualified" rating by the American Bar Association in the second Trump administration.

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NY Panel Backs DLA Piper's $482K Fee Win In Malpractice Suit

By Dorothy Atkins

A New York appellate court affirmed Tuesday the dismissal of a Chinese software company's legal malpractice suit against DLA Piper, along with a $482,000 sanctions order against the company and its counsel, noting that the company's frivolous claims also drew a $635,000 sanctions ruling in "mirror" federal court litigation.

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Bondi To Skip Epstein Deposition After DOJ Cites AG Exit

By Courtney Bublé

Former Attorney General Pam Bondi will not sit for her scheduled deposition next week on the Epstein files now that she has left the role, and the Justice Department has asked the House Oversight Committee to withdraw its subpoena.

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Trump Asks NY's Top Court To Toss AG's 'Flawed' Fraud Case

By Lauren Berg

President Donald Trump on Wednesday asked New York's highest court to throw out New York Attorney General Letitia James' "deeply flawed" civil fraud judgment entirely after a lower appellate court tossed what it called an "excessive" $489 million penalty against the president, his sons and his real estate companies.

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