Fox Rothschild Beats RICO Suit From 2 Former Clients

By Rose Krebs

A New Jersey federal judge has tossed federal racketeering and state law claims lodged against Fox Rothschild LLP by two former clients who accused the firm of "knowingly and willfully robbing their immigration clients."

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Apple Can't Duck DOJ Monopolization Lawsuit

By Bryan Koenig

A New Jersey federal judge refused Monday to let Apple duck the U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit accusing the company of monopolizing smartphone markets, crediting DOJ allegations about the restrictions Apple imposes on iMessage, smartwatch compatibility, mobile wallets, cloud gaming and more.

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TD Bank Suit Doesn't Link Data Sharing To Harm, Judge Says

By Sydney Price

TD Bank has escaped a proposed class action alleging it wrongfully shared customers' personal information with Meta Platforms Inc. for marketing purposes, with a judge ruling that the plaintiff failed to allege what sensitive financial information belonging to him was improperly disclosed.

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DOJ Allowed To Protect Antitrust Probe Of Fragrance Market

By Matthew Perlman

A New Jersey federal court on Monday granted the U.S. Department of Justice permission to intervene in a case against several fragrance companies after enforcers said they need to protect an ongoing criminal probe of the industry over a conspiracy to reduce competition.

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NutriBullet Dodges Suit Over Exploding Blender Injury

By Mike Curley

A New Jersey federal judge on Monday threw out a woman's suit alleging her NutriBullet blender was defective, resulting in it exploding and cutting her, finding her expert's opinion unreliable and irrelevant to the facts in the case.

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Data Brokers Can't Escape NJ Judicial Privacy Law Actions

By Jake Maher

Data security company Atlas Data Privacy Corp. has won the go-ahead to proceed with dozens of lawsuits based on the judicial privacy measure Daniel's Law against a group of data brokers in New Jersey federal court.

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High Court Turns Away Fired Christian Workers' Vax Bias Case

By Grace Elletson

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to review a Third Circuit ruling that shuttered Christian workers' suits claiming a healthcare system illegally fired them for opposing its COVID-19 vaccine mandate, despite the workers' assertions that the opinion improperly constricted their religious rights.

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NJ Senate Confirms 17 New Superior Court Judges

By Jake Maher

The New Jersey Senate approved a slate of new judges for the state trial court on Monday, confirming partners from firms around the state as well as in-house attorneys for Rutgers and the state Legislature.

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DOJ Says Over 300 Charged In $14.6B Healthcare Fraud Sting

By Mark Payne

A healthcare fraud operation conducted by federal and state law enforcement groups netted more than 300 defendants in a slew of schemes amounting to $14.6 billion in potential false claims, the Justice Department announced Monday.

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9 Charged With Cyberfraud In Aid Of North Korea

By Julie Manganis

Eight Chinese and Taiwanese nationals and a New Jersey resident have been charged in a cyberfraud scheme on behalf of North Korea, in which they allegedly posed as American information technology workers to get remote jobs with U.S. Fortune 500 companies and one defense contractor, federal prosecutors in Massachusetts announced Monday.

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Feds Defend Authority To End NY Congestion Pricing Deal

By Linda Chiem

The U.S. Department of Transportation has told a Manhattan federal judge that courts cannot handcuff it to now-disfavored policies of earlier administrations, while New York transportation agencies maintain that the federal government is grasping at illusory legal arguments to justify trying to shut down congestion pricing.

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Law Firm Aims To Exit Lowenstein Sandler Suit Over Affidavit

By Adrian Cruz

Trif & Modugno LLC asked a New Jersey state judge to dismiss Lowenstein Sandler LLP's claims against the firm as part of its legal battle with a cannabis dispensary, saying the claims fail because Lowenstein Sandler did not file an affidavit of merit.

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Roundup

4 Arguments Sessions Bias Attys Should Watch in July

By Amanda Ottaway

The Third and Sixth Circuits are scheduled to hear a quartet of oral arguments in July as a fired bus driver, professor, human resources executive and school dean each plan to argue that their terminations violated federal anti-bias law. Here, Law360 looks at those cases. 

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Brief

Judge Hits Pause On Civil RICO Suit Against NJ Power Broker

By Ryan Harroff

A New Jersey judge has entered a consent order pausing a real estate developer's civil racketeering suit against influential South Jersey businessman George Norcross III, holding the parties' dispute in stasis until an appeal over the dismissal of a related criminal indictment can be resolved.

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Rite Aid Cleared To Sell Thrifty Ice Cream For $19.2M In Ch. 11

By Clara Geoghegan

National pharmacy chain Rite Aid can sell its ice cream brand Thrifty for $19.2 million, more than doubling the opening price of a Chapter 11 auction, after a New Jersey bankruptcy judge on Monday rejected a losing bidder's request to reopen the auction.

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Series

Adapting To Private Practice: From US Rep. To Boutique Firm

My transition from serving as a member of Congress to becoming a partner at a boutique firm has been remarkably smooth, in part because I never stopped exercising my legal muscles, maintained relationships with my former colleagues and set the right tone at the outset, says Mondaire Jones at Friedman Kaplan.

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Senate Passes Budget Bill, Rebuking National Injunctions

By Courtney Bublé

The Senate voted 51-50 on Tuesday to pass the budget reconciliation bill, including various provisions that seek to greatly restrict the use of nationwide injunctions, which Republicans heavily criticized after district courts repeatedly stalled parts of President Donald Trump's agenda with the legal maneuver.

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The Top In-House Hires Of June

By Michele Gorman

Legal department hires over the past month included high-profile appointments at Microsoft, Guess and U.S. Steel. Here, Law360 Pulse looks at some of the top in-house announcements from June.

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Law Firm Mergers Hit A Near-Record Low In First Half

By Aebra Coe

The number of law firm mergers and acquisitions involving at least one U.S.-based law firm announced in the first half of 2025 landed at 34, down 42% from last year's first half results and marking a near-decade low.

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South African Investors Say Ga. Atty Kept Escrowed Funds

By Kelcey Caulder

Four companies whose members are South African real estate investors have accused a now-disbarred Georgia attorney and his law firm in Georgia federal court of refusing to return funds he agreed to receive, hold and disburse on their behalf.

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Democracy Forward Boosts Appellate Bench With Latest Hires

By Alison Knezevich

The legal organization Democracy Forward announced a new round of hires Tuesday, adding a group that includes appellate practitioners with significant experience at the U.S. Department of Justice and major law firms.

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Willkie Lands Orrick Energy Leader In Houston

By Madison Arnold

The global head of Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP's energy and infrastructure group has moved his practice to Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in Houston, Willkie announced Tuesday.

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US Attorney Picks Include Alina Habba And Senator's Son

By Courtney Bublé

The president sent 14 U.S. attorney nominations to the Senate on Tuesday, including Alina Habba, the president's former counselor and personal attorney, for the District of New Jersey and Arch Capito, the son of Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., for the Southern District of West Virginia.

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Axing Lit Funding Tax Proposal Gives Relief But Fears Remain

By Ryan Boysen

Litigation funders are breathing a sigh of relief after a provision to impose a 41% punitive tax on the $16 billion industry was stripped Tuesday from the massive federal spending bill, but many think the episode is just the prelude to further battles with corporate opponents.

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