A Pennsylvania bank that agreed to pay a $3 million settlement to resolve the U.S. Department of Justice's allegations of discriminatory lending practices has asked a federal judge to reject a request by fair housing advocacy groups to continue court oversight to ensure the bank's compliance with the settlement terms.
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Pa. Bank Fights Court Oversight After $3M Redlining Deal

By P.J. D'Annunzio

A Pennsylvania bank that agreed to pay a $3 million settlement to resolve the U.S. Department of Justice's allegations of discriminatory lending practices has asked a federal judge to reject a request by fair housing advocacy groups to continue court oversight to ensure the bank's compliance with the settlement terms.

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UAE Prisoner Voluntarily Drops Suit Against Ex-Dechert GC

By Emily Sawicki

A Jordanian lawyer imprisoned in the United Arab Emirates has permanently dropped a Philadelphia civil suit seeking discovery against Dechert LLP's former general counsel in the U.S. over what the law firm's leadership knew of alleged human rights abuses committed by a former partner.

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Airbnb Wants Out Of Pittsburgh House Party Shooting Suit

By Matthew Santoni

Airbnb said it has resolved all but one of a group of lawsuits brought against it after a 2022 mass shooting at a party at a Pittsburgh house rented through the app, and has renewed its objections to the last remaining claims from the family of a shooting victim.

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Court Says Insider Trading Rules Unscathed By Loper Bright

By Matthew Santoni

A U.S. Supreme Court ruling that curtailed deference to agency interpretations of law did not undermine the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's rules against insider trading, a Pennsylvania federal court ruled Friday.

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Cigna Denies Responsibility For Alleged Health Data Breach

By P.J. D'Annunzio

Cigna has asked a Pennsylvania federal judge to throw out class claims by health plan members alleging it failed to protect their private data, arguing they didn't show how their sensitive information was intercepted from the insurer's websites.

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LITIGATION

States Blast Trump Admin Over $6.8B Education Fund Freeze

By Lauren Berg

A coalition of states sued the Trump administration Monday over its decision to freeze $6.8 billion in congressionally appropriated educational program funding, leaving schools scrambling ahead of the new school year, the same day the U.S. Supreme Court allowed mass U.S. Department of Education layoffs to move forward.

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States Back Domestic Violence Groups In DOJ Grant Fight

By Crystal Owens

Nearly two dozen states are backing a group of domestic violence coalitions in their bid to block the Trump administration from imposing restrictions on grants by the Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women, saying the funding is critical to their ability to fulfill their public safety obligations.

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Brief

Masimo Corp. Settles Investor Suit Over Revenue Disclosures

By Carla Baranauckas

Masimo Corp. has settled proposed class claims alleging the health technology firm misrepresented the company's finances and plans to investors, according to a filing in Southern California federal court.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

State Law Challenges In Enforcing Arbitration Clauses

In recent cases, state courts in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and New Jersey have considered or endorsed heightened standards for arbitration agreements, which can mean the difference between a bilateral arbitration and a full-blown class action in court, says Fabien Thayamballi at Shapiro Arato.

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DOJ Actions Signal Rising Enforcement Risk For Health Cos.

The U.S. Department of Justice's announcement of a new False Claims Act working group, together with the largest healthcare fraud takedown in history, underscore the importance of sophisticated compliance programs that align with the DOJ's data-driven approach, say attorneys at Debevoise.

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How Attys Can Use AI To Surface Narratives In E-Discovery

E-discovery has reached a turning point where document review is no longer just about procedural tasks like identifying relevance and redacting privilege — rather, generative artificial intelligence tools now allow attorneys to draw connections, extract meaning and tell a coherent story, says Rose Jones at Hilgers Graben.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Keesal Young Accuses Stradley Ronon Of Unfair Poaching

By Emma Cueto

Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young has been hit with allegations from California firm Keesal Young & Logan that it unfairly poached both shareholders and associates from the firm, allegedly conspiring with the departing attorneys to violate their agreements with the firm and costing Keesal Young $2.5 million in annual profits.

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Trump Admin Fires 17 More Immigration Judges, Union Says

By Hailey Konnath

The Trump administration has fired 17 more immigration judges, bringing the total of immigration judges that have either been terminated, transferred or accepted retirement offers since January to 103, according to an announcement made Tuesday by the union that represents them.

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Wisconsin Judge Says Actions Were Part Of Judicial Duties

By Adrian Cruz

The Wisconsin state judge accused of helping an immigrant living in the country illegally avoid arrest objected to a federal judge's recommendation not to have her indictment dismissed, arguing Tuesday that her actions were lawful and that accepting the recommendation would set a dangerous precedent.

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Advocates Turn To Florida High Court For Bondi Ethics Probe

By Madison Arnold

A group of attorneys, law professors and former judges asked the Florida Supreme Court on Tuesday to order the Florida Bar to investigate U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi for alleged unethical conduct.

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Grassley Rejects Dems' Push For 2nd Hearing On Emil Bove

By Courtney Bublé

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, on Tuesday rebuffed the request from Democrats on his committee for the whistleblower who made claims regarding Third Circuit nominee Emil Bove to testify and said the committee will proceed with the vote on Bove's nomination Thursday.

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SEC Drops Bribery Suit Against Ex-Cognizant Execs

By Lauren Berg

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission told a New Jersey federal court Tuesday that it will drop its lawsuit against the former president and chief legal officer of Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. over an alleged bribery scheme, after the U.S. Department of Justice dropped a related criminal case.

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Analysis

High Court Term Yields Gains For Criminal Defendants

By Marco Poggio

The U.S. Supreme Court addressed several contentious issues this term, with the conservative majority prevailing in numerous high-profile cases. Yet, in a notable trend, the court also issued multiple rulings favorable to criminal defendants, including expanding prisoners' rights in civil lawsuits and reinforcing due process protections in capital cases.

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Funding 'Crisis' Jeopardizes Indigent Defense, Judiciary Says

By Courtney Bublé

The judiciary rang the alarm on Tuesday that funding has been exhausted for the private attorneys who represent indigent federal criminal defendants, and this predicament is expected to last for three months.

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2 NY Legal Services Shops Go On Strike, More Could Follow

By Andrea Keckley

Two member shops of the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys — a union that represents thousands of public interest attorneys and advocates in the New York City metro area — commenced strikes Tuesday, with deadlines for others looming later this week as the ALAA hopes its sectoral bargaining strategy will lead to better contracts.

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Jeanine Pirro's $11M Net Worth Revealed In Disclosure

By Courtney Bublé

Former judge and Fox News host Jeanine Pirro, nominee for U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, has a net worth of over $11 million, according to a financial disclosure obtained by Law360 on Monday.

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Judge Denies Early Win For Family Of Atty Seeking 9/11 Fees

By Jared Foretek

A D.C. federal judge denied an early win for the estate of a 9/11 families attorney suing the firm that contracted him over fees Tuesday, lambasting the contracts at the center of the litigation for their lack of clarity and suggesting that a trial might be the only way to discern their meaning.

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Analysis

The Biggest IP Agency Developments Of 2025: Midyear Report

By Theresa Schliep

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the U.S. Copyright Office have not been spared from the Trump administration's shake-ups and changes across the federal government in the first half of the year.

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Court Reporters Defend Suit Saying Group Coerces Dues

By Bryan Koenig

A pair of court reporters defended their New Jersey federal court proposed class action accusing the National Court Reporters Association of anticompetitively conditioning needed certification on expensive membership with the group, arguing the NCRA can't try to argue that membership and certification are one and the same.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Crowell & Moring

DeForest Koscelnik

Debevoise & Plimpton

Dechert LLP

Dilworth Paxson

Fenwick & West

Garrett & Tully

Gibbons PC

Gimbel Reilly

Goldstein Mehta

Goodrich & Geist

Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani

Hagens Berman

Hilgers Graben

Hueston Hennigan

Jones Day

Keesal Young

Kirsch & Niehaus

Kreindler & Kreindler

Labaton Keller

Levi & Korsinsky

Lewis Brisbois

Manatt Phelps

Mayer Brown

Miller & Chevalier

Montgomery McCracken

Morrison & Foerster

O'Melveny & Myers

Perkins Coie

Public Interest Law Firm

Quinn Emanuel

Robbins Geller

Saul Ewing

Schlichter Bogard

Schulte Roth

Seeger Weiss

Shapiro Arato

Stapleton Segal

Stinson LLP

Stradley Ronon

Strang Bradley

Tanenbaum Keale

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

AT&T Inc.

Airbnb Inc.

American Civil Liberties Union

Apple Inc.

Best Egg

CVS Health Corp.

Cato Institute

Chevron Corp.

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp.

Democracy Forward Foundation

Drummond

ESSA Bancorp Inc.

Gruma SAB de CV

Masimo Corp.

National Fair Housing Alliance

National Women's Law Center

New York Legal Assistance Group Inc.

Norfolk Southern Corp.

Oak Street Health Inc.

Ohio State University

Pfizer Inc.

Relativity ODA LLC

Service Employees International Union

Temple University

The Cigna Group

The Florida Bar

The Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

The Walt Disney Co.

Uber Technologies Inc.

University of Virginia

Upgrade Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives

California Attorney General's Office

City and County of San Francisco, California

Executive Office of the President

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Florida Supreme Court

Library of Congress

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

National Labor Relations Board

New Jersey Supreme Court

Oklahoma Attorney General's Office

Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals

Patent Trial and Appeal Board

Pennsylvania Supreme Court

Rhode Island Attorney General's Office

U.S. Attorney's Office

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York

U.S. Copyright Office

U.S. Department of Education

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

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

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

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

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Senate

U.S. Sentencing Commission

U.S. Supreme Court

US Office of Management and Budget

United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama