Texas Panel Keeps Ex-GC's Suit Over Unpaid Bonuses Alive

By José Luis Martínez

A Texas appeals court on Tuesday kept in play a suit by a dairy equipment manufacturer's former general counsel over unpaid bonuses, holding that updated anti-SLAPP rules applied to newly added claims in the suit and that the company failed to meet procedural requirements in trying to dismiss them.

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Crypto Host To Pay $6M For Using UK Miner's Equipment

By Katryna Perera

A Texas federal judge ordered a company that hosts cryptocurrency data centers to pay more than $6 million to a United Kingdom-based bitcoin mining company for illegally using its mining equipment and violating a contract between the companies.

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Texas AG Says DOGE Data Led To Fraud Investigations

By Spencer Brewer

The Texas attorney general on Tuesday announced investigations into dozens of Medicaid providers across Texas, claiming that data from the Department of Government Efficiency led to the fraud allegations.

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Analysis

March Madness Ends, But College Athlete Pay Fights Rage On

By Chris Villani

The NCAA crowned its basketball champions this week, but college sports is no closer to sorting out thorny player compensation questions, causing some university leaders to rethink their opposition to collective bargaining for athletes.

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Urban Hospitals Sue Over Lower Medicare 'Rural Floor'

By Crystal Owens

A slew of urban hospitals, including a dozen Indian Health Service entities, are asking a D.C. federal court to invalidate a two-year Health and Human Services wage index methodology for Medicare reimbursements, alleging it assigned lower adjustments for rural hospitals in their states.

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7 Can't Take Part In FCC Subsidy Programs After Convictions

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday blocked seven people convicted of crimes from participating in the agency's numerous subsidy programs that are meant to bolster telecom service throughout the United States.

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First Brands IP Sale Decision Paused For Possible New Bidder

By Emlyn Cameron

A Texas bankruptcy judge on Tuesday put off a final decision on auto parts maker First Brands' move to speedily sell several of its filter and windshield wiper brands for $25 million, saying he wanted to know whether the buyer is dead set on purchasing a bundle.

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Rivera Kept $50M Venezuela Deal Quiet, Ex-Partner Says

By Carolina Bolado

The government's star witness took the stand Tuesday in the criminal case against former U.S. Rep. David Rivera of Florida, telling jurors that Rivera and others kept a $50 million consulting contract with a unit of Venezuela's state-owned oil company quiet because of concerns about how it would be perceived in Miami.

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Google Convinces 5th Circ. To Move Antitrust Case To Calif.

By Lauren Berg

A split Fifth Circuit on Tuesday transferred from Texas to California a mobile analytics software company's case accusing Google of monopolizing mobile device search markets, agreeing with the tech giant that the district court misapplied the law when determining the case should stay in the Lone Star State.

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Fat Brands Landlords Want More Info On Lease Sales

By Rick Archer

Mall owner Simon Property Group has joined with other landlords of Fat Brands' eateries to tell a Texas bankruptcy court that the restaurant group's proposed Chapter 11 sale procedures don't give the property owners sufficient input into the sale of their leases.

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DC Court Says Haitians' Title 42 Due Process Claim Is Still Viable

By Ganesh Setty

A D.C. federal court has clarified that Haitian nationals deported by the Biden administration can still pursue their claim that the administration violated their due process rights, saying it fails only with respect to their inability to seek asylum before removal.

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Private-Credit Focused SPAC Leads Two IPOs Raising $350M

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

A pair of special purpose acquisition companies, private credit-focused ACP Holdings Acquisition and advanced technology-focused Apogee Acquisition, began trading publicly Tuesday after raising a combined $350 million in their initial public offerings.

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King & Spalding Adds Winston & Strawn Finance Duo In Texas

By Lynn LaRowe

King & Spalding LLP announced Tuesday that it has bolstered its finance and restructuring practice group with a pair of partners in Dallas who came aboard from Winston & Strawn LLP.

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Axed Trade Secret Award Cautions Against Bundling Damages

The Fifth Circuit's recent ruling in Trinseo v. Harper, vacating a $75 million jury verdict for trade secret misappropriation due to a bundled damages model, offers a strong reminder to apportion damages so a jury can award a nonspeculative figure when it credits only some alleged secrets, say attorneys at Seyfarth.

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Seeking A Policy Fix As Merger Reporting Fight Continues

A recently announced request by the Federal Trade Commission and U.S. Department of Justice for public comment on the Hart-Scott-Rodino premerger reporting requirements, as litigation challenging the commission's updated requirements continues, suggests the government's willingness to address how best to support modern merger enforcement without unduly burdening filing parties, say attorneys at Baker Botts.

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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 Manhattan federal jury Tuesday that she got positive feedback as she worked with large corporate clients and was "shocked" when she was terminated.

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Blanche Says Only Trump Knows Why Bondi's Leaving DOJ

By Courtney Bublé

Todd Blanche said on Tuesday he is now acting attorney general and no one, beyond the president, knows why Pam Bondi is out and he is in.

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Calif. Lawmakers Advance Bill To Curtail PE Role In Litigation

By Emily Sawicki

A California bill to ban corporate investors from influencing litigation strategy is heading to the state Senate, backed by bipartisan support from the Assembly.

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Top DOJ Immigration Atty Faces Ethics Complaint

By Jack Karp

The head of the U.S. Department of Justice's immigration litigation office has lied to judges, disobeyed court orders and failed to stop attorneys he supervises from engaging in misconduct in high-profile immigration cases, according to an ethics complaint filed Tuesday.

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Analysis

Habeas Orders Sharpen As Due Process Concerns Mount

By Britain Eakin

Federal judges are issuing increasingly detailed, critical and decisive orders for habeas relief in immigration cases, stepping in as what immigration experts say is a last resort check on a system viewed as having crumbling due process safeguards.

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DOJ Pushes To End Former Immigration Judge's Bias Suit

By Jake Maher

The U.S. Department of Justice moved to dismiss a former Ohio immigration judge's discrimination suit in D.C. federal court this week, calling the complaint "heavy on conclusory statements and speculation and light on allegations of fact."

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Calif. Atty Apologizes, Blames OpenCase For False Citations

By Matt Perez

A California attorney has filed a response to an order for potential sanctions over his alleged use of artificial intelligence, which resulted in false citations, saying the hallucinations appeared in a later draft after using OpenCase to perform a cite check.

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Audio

Approach The Bench: Judge Robinson On Community Court

By Cara Bayles and Steven Trader

Judge Devin Robinson's courtroom at the Red Hook Community Justice Center in Brooklyn looks and feels very different from the courthouse archetype.

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States, DC Back NY AG James In DOJ Probe Appeal

By Emily Sawicki

Backed by amici including the attorneys general of 20 states and the District of Columbia, New York Attorney General Letitia James is fighting the U.S. Department of Justice's bid to reopen an investigation into her office launched by a federal prosecutor found to have been serving unlawfully.

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