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  Pregnant DLA Piper Atty Fired For 'Sloppy' Work, Jury Told

  By Pete Brush

  A former trademark associate told a Manhattan federal jury Monday that DLA Piper "blindsided" her with terminati...(read more)

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  Justices To Mull Courts' Authority To Hear Vets' Benefits Suits

  By Madeline Lyskawa

  The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to review a U.S. Army veteran's suit challenging the limit on disability...(read more)

• RFK Jr. Tweaks HHS Vaccine Policy Panel Membership Criteria

  By Lauren Berg

  U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is making changes to a key federal vaccine advisory panel's charter, according to a renewal notice the agency published Monday, after a Massachusetts federal judge last month declared Kennedy's committee picks "appear distinctly unqualified."

• 1st Circ. Suggests It May Resurrect AdTech Wiretap Case

  By Carolyn Muyskens

  A panel of the First Circuit appeared receptive Monday to reinstating federal wiretap claims leveled against a Massachusetts healthcare system over its use of online tracking tools, despite arguments that such a ruling could cripple the industry amid an influx of similar cases nationwide.

• Top Court Paves Way To Wipe Out Pol's Bribery Conviction

  By Cara Salvatore

  The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday vacated an appeals court's decision to uphold the conviction of a pardoned former Cincinnati council member for bribery and attempted extortion, effectively greenlighting federal prosecutors' motion to toss the case.

• Justices Clear Path For DOJ To Dismiss Bannon's Conviction

  By Cara Salvatore

  The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday vacated an appeals court's order upholding Steve Bannon's conviction over his nonresponse to a congressional subpoena investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection, clearing the way for the Justice Department to dismiss his indictment.

• Justices Remand State Secrets Dispute In FBI Spying Case

  By Allison Grande

  The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday sent back to the lower court a long-running putative class action over the FBI's alleged surveillance of Muslims in Southern California, a dispute the federal government has argued threatens to undermine vital protections for state secrets. 

• Justices Vacate Grande ISP Case After Cox Copyright Ruling

  By Ivan Moreno

  The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday directed the Fifth Circuit to reconsider a copyright verdict against Grande Communications Networks, vacating the lower court's ruling and sending the case back for further review following the justices' decision last month sparing another internet service provider from liability for its customers' music piracy.

• Mass. Judge Blocks Trump's 'Chaotic' College Data Collection

  By Chris Villani

  A Massachusetts federal judge has blocked the Trump administration's bid to collect seven years' worth of race and gender admissions data at colleges and universities, ruling the "rushed and chaotic manner" in which the government's order unfolded violated the law.

• ABA, Ex-Judges And Many More Back BigLaw In EO Appeal

  By Dorothy Atkins

  Numerous bar associations, 239 former judges, 21 states, lawmakers and dozens of other amici curiae have thrown their weight behind BigLaw firms in the Trump administration's consolidated D.C. Circuit appeal seeking to revive executive orders targeting the firms, broadly arguing that the orders are an affront to foundational constitutional rights.

• 9th Circ. Upholds Biden Ariz. National Monument Proclamation

  By Crystal Owens

  A Ninth Circuit panel has upheld a lower court's dismissal of a challenge to former President Joe Biden's proclamation that established an Indigenous site in the Grand Canyon region as a national monument, saying that any claims of economic harm stemming from future higher energy costs are too speculative.

• Progressive Org. Rolls Out $3M Anti-Trump High Court Push

  By Courtney Bublé

  President Donald Trump does not have any vacancies on the U.S. Supreme Court, but a progressive court advocacy organization is not waiting for a justice's departure to launch a multimillion-dollar campaign opposing a possible Trump pick.

• Justice Alito Treated For Dehydration After Federalist Event

  By Courtney Buble

  U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito felt ill during a Federalist Society event last month and was seen by a doctor "out of an abundance of caution," the high court announced on Friday.

• Former Air Force Sgt. Cops To Charges In $37M Fraud Scheme

  By Tom Lotshaw

  A former U.S. Air Force master sergeant pled guilty to three criminal charges tied to a bid-rigging scheme that duped the government out of at least $37 million, according to federal prosecutors.