NJ Contractor Tells 3rd Circ. One-Man Rule Voids CBA

By George Woolston

A New Jersey contractor told a Third Circuit panel Wednesday that it isn't obliged to negotiate over a successor collective bargaining agreement with union-represented sheet metal workers, arguing it no longer employs any workers represented by the union.

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Cognizant Granted Some DHS Docs In Visa Fraud Case

By Elliot Weld

A New Jersey federal judge has ordered the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to confer with attorneys for Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. on how much to broaden a search for materials related to two types of visas, in a case brought by a former executive alleging the company defrauded the government through its visa applications.

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NJ Judge Suspended Over Pro-Police 'Likes' On Facebook

By Madison Arnold

A New Jersey municipal court judge was hit with a two-month suspension without pay beginning Wednesday after an advisory committee took issue with his Facebook activity indicating support for pro-police movements, political candidates, individual lawyers and law firms.

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Apple Can Shield Info In NJ TikTok Addiction Suit

By Jonathan Capriel

A New Jersey state court will allow Apple Inc. to inject itself into the state attorney general's high-profile lawsuit accusing TikTok of designing features that harm and cause addiction in children, allowing the manufacturer of the iPhone to argue, away from public view, that certain content in the lawsuit should be redacted.

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NJ Man Cops To Dodging $2M Tax Bill On Real Estate

By Kat Lucero

A New Jersey man linked to an intricate pension plan scheme involving refunds from the Dutch government pled guilty to evading more than $2.4 million in U.S. taxes by concealing ownership of more than $5.5 million in real estate, the U.S. Department of Justice said Wednesday. 

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Novo Nordisk Wants Hospital Sanctioned For Insulin Pen Suit

By Aaron Keller

Novo Nordisk Inc. has asked a Connecticut federal judge to sanction Griffin Health Services Corp. for suing the pharmaceutical company after settling a separate insulin pen contamination lawsuit, saying the hospital's complaint left out five important facts that could point blame back toward its own staff.

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Cheesesteak Icon Asks 3rd Circ. If Loper Bright Slices Sentence

By Carla Baranauckas

Counsel for a Philadelphia cheesesteak shop owner seeking a lighter sentence for paying employees off the books told the court Wednesday that he has asked the Third Circuit to consider how the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark decision striking longstanding agency deference framework might affect his case.

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1st Circ. Upholds Block On Trump's Education Dept. Job Cuts

By Chris Villani

The First Circuit on Wednesday rejected a bid by President Donald Trump to greenlight massive job cuts at the U.S. Department of Education, finding that the administration had not provided enough evidence to overturn a block put in place by a Massachusetts federal judge.

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Calif. Won't Get Insulin Pricing Case Sent Back To State Court

By Hailey Konnath

The New Jersey federal judge overseeing multidistrict litigation accusing Express Scripts, CVS Caremark and other pharmacy benefit managers of conspiring to fix the prices of insulin on Wednesday refused to ship a case brought by the state of California back to state court.

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Brief

NJ Mayor Expands False Arrest Suit Against US Atty

By Carla Baranauckas

Mayor Ras Baraka of Newark, New Jersey, on Wednesday added a false light count to his defamation and malicious prosecution complaint against interim U.S. Attorney Alina Habba over his May 9 arrest outside an immigration detention center.

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Series

Law School's Missed Lessons: Supporting A Trial Team

While students often practice as lead trial attorneys in law school, such an opportunity likely won’t arise until a few years into practice, so junior associates should focus on honing skills that are essential to supporting a trial team, including organization, adaptability and humility, says Lucy Zelina at Tucker Ellis.

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Skadden Foundation Chief Exits, Urging Pro Bono 'Courage'

By Lauren Berg

The executive director of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP's Fellowship Foundation, which funds public interest legal work, announced her resignation Wednesday, two months after the firm struck a deal with President Donald Trump to avert an executive order that could have interfered with its business.

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DOJ Alumni Aid Group Launches Pro Bono Legal Network

By Ryan Boysen

Justice Connection, a group founded by former U.S. Department of Justice attorneys in response to the Trump administration's ongoing purge of the department, has launched a pro bono legal network to represent DOJ attorneys being "unfairly targeted" by the administration.

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FTC Fights Attys Who Want State Bar Input On Ethics Worries

By Bryan Koenig

The Federal Trade Commission doesn't want staff attorneys to be able to seek state bar association guidance if they dispute the legality of an instruction, arguing in a fight with the FTC's union that seeking such guidance would gum up the gears of commission work.

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Scalia Invoked Against Trump's Citizenship Stance At 9th Circ.

By Rachel Riley

A panel of Ninth Circuit judges scrutinized the Trump administration's take on the citizenship clause as the government argued Wednesday to preserve the president's push to curb birthright citizenship, with one judge suggesting the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia would've rejected the attempt to read "beyond the mere words" of the 14th Amendment.

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6th Circ. Pick Quizzed On Experience, Ties To Conservatives

By Courtney Bublé

The first batch of judicial nominees of President Donald Trump's second administration had their hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, during which a Sixth Circuit nominee fielded questions about litigants' obligation to follow court orders and her connection to Leonard Leo-affiliated groups following Trump bashing the former Federalist Society executive.

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MoFo Can't Escape Perkins Coie's 'Taint' In IP Suit, Court Told

By Adrian Cruz

Biometric security company FaceTec told a California federal judge that Morrison & Foerster LLP should be barred from representing identity verification platform Jumio in a patent suit, arguing that its participation is "tainted" by the actions of disqualified co-counsel Perkins Coie LLP.

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High Court Told 'Categorical' Right To Counsel Must Persist

By Cara Salvatore

A criminal defendant's right to consult with counsel during an overnight trial recess is "clear and categorical," a man who didn't receive that right has told the U.S. Supreme Court in preparation for his Sixth Amendment case to be heard before the justices.

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Analysis

What To Know About Trump's Shake-Up At Copyright Office

By Ivan Moreno

The firing of Shira Perlmutter by President Donald Trump as the head of the U.S. Copyright Office has introduced uncertainty into the agency's operations, including whether a previously unannounced report on artificial intelligence will ever be released, and set up a fight regarding the president's power to remove and replace whoever he wants without congressional input.

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Titan Of The Plaintiffs Bar: Bernstein Litowitz's Salvatore Graziano

By Sydney Price

When Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP's Salvatore Graziano made the switch from prosecution to securities litigation in the '90s, he realized he had an uphill battle ahead of him.

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