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October 02, 2025
Alito Pauses 5th Circ. Order On Child's Return To Venezuela
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday temporarily paused a split Fifth Circuit decision that said a Texas asylum seeker's 7-year-old daughter can be returned to Venezuela, which was set to take effect Friday.
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October 02, 2025
Wind Co.'s Pre-Ch. 11 Uptier Deal Draws Suit From Creditors
The official committee of unsecured creditors in the Chapter 11 of wind turbine blade maker TPI Composites has brought an adversary action against the debtor in Texas bankruptcy court, alleging a prepetition uptier transaction made preferred equity holder Oaktree a secured creditor to the detriment of unsecured noteholders.
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October 02, 2025
Judge Orders ICE To Release Dreamer Detained For 2 Months
A Texas federal judge has told U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement that it must release a Mexican national who was brought to the U.S. unlawfully as a child and is protected from removal by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
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October 02, 2025
Ch. 11 Trustee Appointed In Eventide Bankruptcy
A Texas bankruptcy judge has appointed a Chapter 11 trustee in the bankruptcy of Eventide Credit Acquisitions following a request from the official committee of unsecured creditors.
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October 02, 2025
Cajun Restaurant Chain Hits Ch. 11 Amid Consumer Shifts
Cajun restaurant chain Razzoo's filed for Chapter 11 protection in Texas bankruptcy court, citing consumer shifts since the COVID-19 pandemic began that have led to financial distress and made it necessary for the business to seek relief from onerous lease obligations and reduce its store count.
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October 02, 2025
Winston & Strawn Finance Pro Joins Norton Rose In Dallas
Norton Rose Fulbright announced Thursday that it has brought on a corporate finance partner in Dallas from Winston & Strawn LLP, a reflection of the firm's commitment to meet the demand among middle-market private equity clients for leveraged and acquisition finance legal services.
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October 02, 2025
Musk Loses Bid To Ship SEC's Twitter Suit To Texas
A U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit accusing Elon Musk of failing to timely disclose his ownership shares in Twitter will proceed in a Washington, D.C., federal court after a judge there said on Thursday that Musk's preferred forum in Texas was too backed up to take the case.
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October 02, 2025
Apple Accused Of Infringing Multiple Video Encoding Patents
Apple has been hit with a lawsuit in Texas federal court accusing the technology giant of infringing a half dozen patents covering ways to encode and decode data.
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October 01, 2025
Accellion Breach Plaintiffs Get Cert. For Narrow Subclasses
A California federal judge has agreed to allow plaintiffs to proceed with five subclasses in their dispute with Accellion over allegations the company failed to protect against cyberattacks on its file-sharing software, while finding that a lack of "cohesion" doomed their chances to certify a broader negligence class of roughly 5 million breach victims.
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October 01, 2025
Drone Maker Can't Arbitrate Minor's Suit Over Eye Injuries
A Texas federal judge on Tuesday rejected a motion to compel arbitration in a case brought by a minor who was legally blinded in one eye by a drone, finding that the minor had disavowed the arbitration agreement both when he was underage and when he turned 18.
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October 01, 2025
Eli Lilly's Drug Suit Slammed As 'Anti-Competitive' Move
Eli Lilly and Co.'s lawsuit accusing a compounding pharmacy of unlawfully selling untested weight loss drugs should be tossed because the drugmaker didn't show its advertising was deceptive or harmful, the defendant told a Texas federal court this week.
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October 01, 2025
Ex-Texans CEO Seeks $100M, Says NFL Colluded To Oust Him
The eldest son of the late Houston Texans owner Bob McNair is accusing the NFL in a $100 million New York state lawsuit of conspiring with his brother to "silence" and oust him as a board member of the family trust and as CEO of McNair Interests.
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October 01, 2025
Texas Recovery Biz Fails To Pay Legal Wages, Suit Says
Participants of several Texas-based recovery programs for addiction and other problems routinely work 40 or more hours per week at commercial facilities including a farm and sawmill, but receive only low-value "points" for their labor instead of lawful wages, according to a proposed collective and class action filed in federal court.
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October 01, 2025
DHS Accused Of Illegal Data Use In Voter Purge Lawsuit
The League of Women Voters and a group of naturalized U.S. citizens are suing to stop the Trump administration's pooling of immigrant personal data across federal agencies into centralized databases at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, saying states are using the "unreliable" systems to purge voter rolls.
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October 01, 2025
First Brands Can Tap $1B DIP As It Seeks Stability In Ch. 11
A Texas bankruptcy judge Wednesday gave interim approval to car parts maker First Brands' $1.1 billion debtor-in-possession loan, freeing up $500 million in funds, after a stalled refinancing and limited liquidity pushed it to Chapter 11.
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October 01, 2025
Texas Judge Sends Mifepristone Challenge To Missouri Court
A closely watched challenge to federal approvals for the abortion medication mifepristone is moving from Texas to Missouri after a federal judge found the plaintiffs remaining in the litigation have no connection to the Lone Star State.
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October 01, 2025
OpenAI Blasts X's Suit Over Apple Deal As 'Lawfare' Campaign
Apple Inc. and OpenAI Inc. have asked a Texas federal court to toss an antitrust case from X targeting a deal to integrate ChatGPT into iPhones, with OpenAI saying X's billionaire owner Elon Musk is waging a multipronged "lawfare" campaign against it.
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October 01, 2025
Alex Jones Ch. 7 Stay Doesn't Protect Co. Assets, Judge Says
The Texas bankruptcy judge overseeing the Chapter 7 case of right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones said Wednesday the automatic stay of the bankruptcy does not extend to the assets of Jones' media company, Free Speech Systems.
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October 01, 2025
Haynes Boone Leads AI Campus REIT's Upsized $683M IPO
Fermi, a real estate investment trust co-founded by former U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry, hit a $14.8 billion valuation Wednesday in an initial public offering for the venture that aims to build power generation and data center capacity to support artificial intelligence on a Texas site, in a deal advised by Haynes Boone and Vinson & Elkins LLP.
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October 01, 2025
3 Firms Guide Rocket Merger To Close With $14.2B Valuation
Online mortgage giant Rocket has finished its all-stock purchase of rival Mr. Cooper Group with help from Paul Weiss, Wachtell and Bradley Arant, noting Wednesday the now-$14.2 billion deal has a higher price tag because stock values have risen since the merger's announcement.
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October 01, 2025
Reed Smith Lands Sidley Corporate Pro In Dallas
Reed Smith LLP expanded its global corporate group in Dallas with the addition of a new partner from Sidley Austin LLP.
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September 30, 2025
Full 5th Circ. To Revisit Trump Use Of Wartime Removal Law
The Fifth Circuit on Tuesday ordered all of its judges to revisit a split decision that found President Donald Trump's proclamation invoking the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members to be likely unlawful.
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September 30, 2025
4 Federal Circuit Clashes To Watch In October
The Federal Circuit will hear arguments next week in cases where a nearly $42 million patent win for Seagen hangs in the balance due to a later post-grant review invalidity decision and where Regenxbio is seeking to undo the invalidation of its gene therapy patent for covering a natural product.
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September 30, 2025
State Telecom Roundup: Age Verification Laws
State laws requiring that websites verify the ages of users in order to access adult content have been picking up speed in recent years. Half the country now has laws on the books that require certain platforms to confirm that users are adults, a trend proponents say will protect children and that opponents have called an attack on the right to access free speech. Here, Law360 takes a look at some of those laws.
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September 30, 2025
Texas Court Upends $13M Home Care Car-Train Crash Verdict
A Texas appeals court has vacated a $13 million verdict against a home care provider over a car-train crash that killed one of its clients and injured his wife, saying the trial court instructed the jury incorrectly and the evidence did not show that the provider's employee was acting in the course and scope of her employment.
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High Court Right-To-Counsel Case Could Have Seismic Impact
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments next week in Villarreal v. Texas about whether prohibiting testimony discussions between defendants and their counsel during an overnight recess violates the Sixth Amendment, and the eventual decision could impose a barrier in the attorney-client relationship, say attorneys at Arnold & Porter.
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Gauging SEC Short-Sale Rules' Future After 5th Circ. Remand
Though the Fifth Circuit recently remanded to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission two Biden-era rules requiring disclosure of securities lending and short-sale activity in order to consider the rules' cumulative economic impact, it's possible they will get reproposed, meaning compliance timelines could change, says Scott Budlong at Barnes & Thornburg.
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Judging Figure Skating Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Judging figure skating competitions helps me hone the focus, decisiveness and ability to process complex real-time information I need in court, but more importantly, it makes me reengage with a community and my identity outside of law, which, paradoxically, always brings me back to work feeling restored, says Megan Raymond at Groombridge Wu.
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$100K H-1B Fee May Disrupt Rural Healthcare Needs
The Trump administration's newly imposed $100,000 supplemental fee on new H-1B petitions may disproportionately affect healthcare employers' ability to recruit international medical graduates, and the fee's national interest exceptions will not adequately solve ensuing problems for healthcare employers or medically underserved areas, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.
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What Ethics Rules Say On Atty Discipline For Online Speech
Though law firms are free to discipline employees for their online commentary about Charlie Kirk or other social media activity, saying crude or insensitive things on the internet generally doesn’t subject attorneys to professional discipline under the Model Rules of Professional Conduct, says Stacie H. Rosenzweig at Halling & Cayo.
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What's At Stake In High Court's Ill. Ballot Deadline Case
In Bost v. Illinois State Board of Elections, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments next week on whether and when candidates for office have standing to bring prospective challenges to election laws, raising broader issues about the proper timing of federal court election litigation, say Richard Pildes and Samuel Ozer-Staton at NYU School of Law.
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2 Rulings Highlight IRS' Uncertain Civil Fraud Penalty Powers
Conflicting decisions from the U.S. Tax Court and the Northern District of Texas that hinge on whether the IRS can administratively assert civil fraud penalties since the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2024 decision in SEC v. Jarkesy provide both opportunities and potential pitfalls for taxpayers, says Michael Landman at Bird Marella.
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Junior Attys Must Beware Of 5 Common Legal Brief Mistakes
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Junior law firm associates must be careful to avoid five common pitfalls when drafting legal briefs — from including every possible argument to not developing a theme — to build the reputation of a sought-after litigator, says James Argionis at Cozen O'Connor.
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Assessing Legal, Regulatory Hurdles Of Healthcare Offshoring
The offshoring of administrative, nonclinical functions has emerged as an increasingly attractive option for healthcare companies seeking to reduce costs, but this presents challenges in navigating the web of state restrictions on the access or storage of patient data outside the U.S., say attorneys at McDermott.
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Expect DOJ To Repeat 4 Themes From 2024's FCPA Trials
As two upcoming Foreign Corrupt Practice Act trials approach, defense counsel should anticipate the U.S. Department of Justice to revive several of the same themes prosecutors leaned on in trials last year to motivate jurors to convict, and build counternarratives to neutralize these arguments, says James Koukios at MoFo.
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Texas Suit Marks Renewed Focus On Service Kickback Theory
After a dormant period at the federal level, a theory of kickback enforcement surrounding nurse educator programs and patient support services resurfaced with a recent state court complaint filed by Texas against Eli Lilly, highlighting for drugmakers the ever-changing nature of enforcement priorities and industry landscapes, say attorneys at Sheppard Mullin.
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Power To The Paralegals: How And Why Training Must Evolve
Empowering paralegals through new models of education that emphasize digital fluency, interdisciplinary collaboration and human-centered lawyering could help solve workforce challenges and the justice gap — if firms, educators and policymakers get on board, say Kristine Custodio Suero and Kelli Radnothy.
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Playing Softball Makes Me A Better Lawyer
My time on the softball field has taught me lessons that also apply to success in legal work — on effective preparation, flexibility, communication and teamwork, says Sarah Abrams at Baleen Specialty.
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Law School's Missed Lessons: Mastering Time Management
Law students typically have weeks or months to prepare for any given deadline, but the unpredictability of practicing in the real world means that lawyers must become time-management pros, ready to adapt to scheduling conflicts and unexpected assignments at any given moment, says David Thomas at Honigman.
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How Hyperlinks Are Changing E-Discovery Responsibilities
A recent e-discovery dispute over hyperlinked data in Hubbard v. Crow shows how courts have increasingly broadened the definition of control to account for cloud-based evidence, and why organizations must rethink preservation practices to avoid spoliation risks, says Bree Murphy at Exterro.