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  • March 16, 2026

    PFAS Judge Again Declines Recusal Over DuPont, 3M Ties

    A Connecticut federal judge again declined to recuse himself in a perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances lawsuit, dismissing the plaintiffs' concerns that his former law clerk's representation of several DuPont-related defendants as well as his daughter's employment at a firm representing co-defendant 3M would affect his ability to remain impartial.

  • March 13, 2026

    States To Head Live Nation Antitrust Trial After Feds Settle

    Over two dozen states and the District of Columbia are forging ahead with monopolization claims against Live Nation in Manhattan federal court after the federal government unexpectedly agreed to settle with the live entertainment giant after a week of trial.

  • March 13, 2026

    6th Circ.: Mich. Island Can Regulate Ferry Fares, Not Parking

    The Sixth Circuit has partly lifted a lower court order blocking a northern Michigan island from enforcing a new ferry ordinance, ruling the city can regulate ferry rates while the case proceeds but likely cannot control parking prices at mainland parking lots.

  • March 13, 2026

    6th Circ. Affirms Denial Of Atty's Theft Deduction

    An attorney who led an investment partnership whose principals were criminally prosecuted for fraud is not entitled to tax deductions for theft loss related to the fallout, the Sixth Circuit ruled, saying there was no evidence that the principals intentionally fleeced him.

  • March 13, 2026

    First Brands OK'd For Walbro Unit $50M Going Concern Sale

    A Texas bankruptcy judge Friday approved the sale of First Brands' small engine part group Walbro as the car parts giant continues stakeholder talks in hopes of charting a consensual course out of Chapter 11.

  • March 13, 2026

    Kroger Agrees To Pay $17M In Drug Copay Inflation Case

    Kroger pharmacy customers reached a $17 million settlement with the grocer resolving allegations that it inflated their copays for insured prescriptions, according to a motion for preliminary approval of the deal filed in Ohio federal court.

  • March 13, 2026

    Taxation With Representation: Paul Hastings, Duane Morris

    In this week's Taxation With Representation, uniform maker Cintas Corp. acquires workwear company UniFirst Corp., Controlled Thermal Resources Holdings Inc. plans to go public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company, and a Shell USA Inc. subsidiary sells Jiffy Lube International Inc. to Monomoy Capital Partners.

  • March 12, 2026

    Court Told To Keep Holtec Suit Alleging Fraud Scheme Paused

    Defendants urged a New Jersey state court to reject Holtec International's bid to lift a stay holding it back from pursuing fraud claims against its former general counsel and others for allegedly embezzling more than $700,000 from the company, arguing that keeping the suit on pause will serve judicial efficiency.

  • March 12, 2026

    Kalshi Appeals Ohio Ruling On Sports Contracts To 6th Circ.

    Kalshi plans to ask the Sixth Circuit to overturn a lower court's refusal to grant it an injunction that would shield its sports betting contracts from scrutiny in Ohio.

  • March 12, 2026

    CFTC Takes 1st Steps Toward Prediction Market Regulations

    The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission opened the door Thursday to promised prediction market regulation, calling for public feedback on what such rules might look like while laying out the staff's view on the current rules that the platforms should follow in order to offer betting on sports and other events.

  • March 11, 2026

    Uber Must Fork Over Internal Docs In FTC Subscription Fight

    A California magistrate judge ordered Uber to produce numerous internal documents to the Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday in litigation accusing the ride-share giant of enrolling consumers into its paid subscription service without consent, after the FTC accused the company of stonewalling discovery and producing only 72 documents totaling 179 pages.

  • March 11, 2026

    Huffy Moves To End Action Over Recalled Tonka Trucks

    Two consumers who filed a proposed class action over recalled Ride-On Tonka Dump Trucks have failed to state valid legal claims, said a motion filed Monday by Huffy Corp., which additionally argued that a 50-state class would be unmanageable.

  • March 11, 2026

    Ohio Hospital Defeats DaVita's Dialysis Discrimination Suit

    An Ohio hospital and its health benefit plan did not discriminate against patients with end-stage renal disease by eliminating in-network coverage for dialysis, a federal court ruled, finding that dialysis provider DaVita Inc. failed to show the plan intended to harm participants.

  • March 11, 2026

    Counterclaims Trimmed In $4.5M Call Center Suit

    A Colorado federal judge Tuesday dismissed two of the four counterclaims from a group of companies that alleged an outsourcing company providing call center services generated false service requests, leading to a termination of the master services agreement.

  • March 11, 2026

    6th Circ. Upholds Ax Of Hospital Security Guard's Wage Suit

    A former security guard for a Tennessee hospital did not plausibly allege that lunch periods were compensable work time under federal wage law, the Sixth Circuit ruled, affirming the dismissal of his proposed class action claiming that automatic deductions for meal breaks cost him overtime pay.

  • March 11, 2026

    Davis Polk, Paul Hastings Steer $5.5B Cintas, UniFirst Merger

    Uniform maker Cintas Corp., advised by Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, announced plans on Wednesday to acquire Paul Hastings LLP-led workwear company UniFirst Corp. in a cash and stock deal that boasts an enterprise value of roughly $5.5 billion, a move that comes just months after Cintas lobbed an unsolicited takeover offer at its competitor.

  • March 10, 2026

    Judge Fumes As Live Nation Antitrust Trial Remains In Limbo

    The status of Live Nation Entertainment's antitrust trial and proposed settlement over federal and state government claims of anticompetitive conduct remained up in the air Tuesday amid pushback by several states, while the Manhattan federal judge overseeing the case upbraided the parties for keeping him out of the loop about negotiations.

  • March 10, 2026

    Justices Advised To Keep Law Clear In 'Skinny Label' Case

    Several intellectual property groups have urged the U.S. Supreme Court to use a case involving "skinny labels" on generic drugs to set clear guidelines on what constitutes induced patent infringement, saying the outcome has implications beyond pharmaceuticals.

  • March 10, 2026

    6th Circ. Says Waiver Sinks Laid Off Dow Worker's Bias Suit

    The Sixth Circuit has waved away an argument that a woman who was laid off by a Dow Chemical unit could still bring race and gender discrimination claims against the company because she didn't know what the release she signed in order to get her severance meant.

  • March 10, 2026

    Judge Says Noncitizen's Habeas Petition Isn't Reviewable Yet

    An Ohio federal court tossed a Mexican national's habeas petition alleging due process violations over his immigration detention and an immigration court's bond denial, finding the Immigration and Nationality Act contains "sharp" jurisdictional limits.

  • March 10, 2026

    Pot Exclusion Blocks Coverage For Explosion Suit

    An Oregon federal judge has ruled in favor of a Liberty Mutual unit, finding that it owes no coverage to defendants in a suit over a fatal gas leak explosion because of the marijuana exclusion in the policy.

  • March 09, 2026

    Ohio Judge Won't Shield Kalshi's Sports Contracts

    An Ohio federal judge declined to block Kalshi's sports event contracts from state gambling regulators' scrutiny in a Monday order that found the wagers don't appear to be swaps under the exclusive jurisdiction of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

  • March 09, 2026

    DOJ Official Calls Live Nation Deal Win-Win As AGs Press On

    The Justice Department's midtrial settlement with Live Nation on Monday created an instant rift with more than two dozen state attorneys general who vowed to press forward instead of accepting a deal that requires online ticketing technology to be open-sourced and forces the company to divest control over at least 13 amphitheaters.

  • March 09, 2026

    6th Circ. Upholds Dismissal Of Detroit Teacher's Bias Suit

    A former Detroit teacher has failed to persuade the Sixth Circuit to reopen her claims that school administrators treated her differently because of her Jewish faith and punished her for posting about a student assault in a teachers' Facebook group.

  • March 09, 2026

    6th Circ. Denies Immunity In Ohio New Year's Shooting

    The Sixth Circuit has denied qualified immunity to an Ohio police officer accused of fatally shooting a man through a privacy fence as the man fired celebratory gunshots into the air on New Year's Day 2022, ruling the jury must decide whether the man posed an immediate threat.

Expert Analysis

  • Series

    Knitting Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Stretching my skills as a knitter makes me a better antitrust attorney by challenging me to recalibrate after wrong turns, not rush outcomes, and trust that I can teach myself the skills to tackle new and difficult projects — even when I don’t have a pattern to work from, says Kara Kuritz at V&E.

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    The Biz Court Digest: Welcome To Miami

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    After nearly 20 years in operation, the Miami Complex Business Litigation Division is a pioneer upon which other jurisdictions in the state have been modeled, adopting many innovations to keep its cases running more efficiently and staffing experienced judges who are accustomed to hearing business disputes, say attorneys at King & Spalding.

  • AI Evidence Rule Tweaks Encourage Judicial Guardrails

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    Recent additions to a committee note on proposed Rule of Evidence 707 — governing evidence generated by artificial intelligence — seek to mitigate potential dangers that may arise once machine outputs are introduced at trial, encouraging judges to perform critical gatekeeping functions, say attorneys at Lankler Siffert & Wohl.

  • Series

    The Law Firm Merger Diaries: Getting The Message Across

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    Communications and brand strategy during a law firm merger represent a crucial thread that runs through every stage of a combination and should include clear messaging, leverage modern marketing tools and embrace the chance to evolve, says Ashley Horne at Womble Bond.

  • How High Court Could Upend Campaign Spending Rules

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    In National Republican Senatorial Committee v. Federal Election Commission, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments about the constitutionality of coordinated party contribution spending caps, and its decision will have immediate practical effects just as the 2026 election gets underway, says Bill Powers at Spencer Fane.

  • Opinion

    Horizontal Stare Decisis Should Not Be Casually Discarded

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    Eliminating the so-called law of the circuit doctrine — as recently proposed by a Fifth Circuit judge, echoing Justice Neil Gorsuch’s concurrence in Loper Bright — would undermine public confidence in the judiciary’s independence and create costly uncertainty for litigants, says Lawrence Bluestone at Genova Burns.

  • 10 Commandments For Agentic AI Tools In The Legal Industry

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    Though agentic artificial intelligence has demonstrated significant promise for optimizing legal work, it presents numerous risks, so specific ethical obligations should be built into the knowledge base of every agentic AI tool used in the legal industry, says Steven Cordero at Akerman LLP.

  • Series

    Preaching Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Becoming a Gospel preacher has enhanced my success as a trial lawyer by teaching me the importance of credibility, relatability, persuasiveness and thorough preparation for my congregants, the same skills needed with judges and juries in the courtroom, says Reginald Harris at Stinson.

  • The Ohio Supreme Court In 2025: A Focus On Civil Procedure

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    ​​​​​​​If 2025 will be remembered for any particular theme at the Ohio Supreme Court, it might just be the justices' focus on procedural issues, including in three cases concerning, respectively, proper service, response time and pleading standards, says Bradfield Hughes at Porter Wright.

  • Series

    Law School's Missed Lessons: Practicing Client-Led Litigation

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    New litigators can better help their corporate clients achieve their overall objectives when they move beyond simply fighting for legal victory to a client-led approach that resolves the legal dispute while balancing the company's competing out-of-court priorities, says Chelsea Ireland at Cohen Ziffer.

  • Series

    The Law Firm Merger Diaries: How To Build On Cultural Fit

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    Law firm mergers should start with people, then move to strategy: A two-level screening that puts finding a cultural fit at the pinnacle of the process can unearth shared values that are instrumental to deciding to move forward with a combination, says Matthew Madsen at Harrison.

  • Why Justices Must Act To End Freight Broker Liability Split

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    The Sixth Circuit's recent ruling in Cox v. Total Quality Logistics Inc., affirming states' authority over negligence claims against transportation brokers, deepens an existing circuit split, creating an untenable situation where laws between neighboring states conflict in seven distinct instances — and making U.S. Supreme Court intervention essential, says Steven Saal at Lucosky Brookman.

  • Considerations When Invoking The Common-Interest Privilege

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    To successfully leverage the common-interest doctrine in a multiparty transaction or complex litigation, practitioners should be able to demonstrate that the parties intended for it to apply, that an underlying privilege like attorney-client has attached, and guard against disclosures that could waive privilege and defeat its purpose, say attorneys at DLA Piper.

  • NBA Gambling Probes Highlight Sports Betting's Broad Risks

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    Recent NBA gambling scandals illustrate the integrity risks arising from legal sports betting, but organizations, which must navigate a patchwork of state laws, can protect their reputations by drafting and enforcing internal policies to address betting-related risks and complying with league and institutional rules, say attorneys at Littler.

  • AG Watch: Ohio's Prediction Market Preemption Battle

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    Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost is playing a significant part in two cases involving Kalshi before the Third Circuit and the Southern District of Ohio, the latest in a growing string of court battles regarding which regulations govern prediction markets that will have notable consequences on sports gambling nationwide, say attorneys at BakerHostetler.

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