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  Pregnant DLA Piper Atty Recounts Firing: 'This Feels Wrong'

  By Pete Brush

  A former associate who claims DLA Piper unlawfully fired her after she announced she was pregnant told a Manhatt...(read more)

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  3rd Circ. Backs Kalshi In Prediction Markets Battle With NJ

  By George Woolston

  A split Third Circuit panel on Monday backed a lower court's order blocking New Jersey from enforcing a sports g...(read more)

• HHS Must Face States' Suit Over RFK's 'Dramatic Overhaul'

  By Dorothy Atkins

  A Rhode Island federal judge rejected Tuesday the government's bid to toss a group of states' lawsuit challenging Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s "dramatic overhaul" of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, criticizing the government for rehashing jurisdictional arguments the court already rejected and finding the states' claims are plausible.

• DC Circ. Skeptical Ex-Steward CEO Could Skip Sen. Appearance

  By Courtney Bublé

  A D.C. Circuit judge told the attorney for the embattled former CEO of Steward Health Care on Tuesday that she couldn't comprehend how his client could invoke his Fifth Amendment rights without showing up to his scheduled appearance before a Senate committee.

• 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.

• 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 termination after she announced she was pregnant, but the BigLaw firm countered that she was fired for "repeated mistakes" and other on-the-job shortcomings.

• 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.