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For most lawyers, getting to argue before the U.S. Supreme Court is a once-in-a-lifetime event, but for a select few, it's a common occurrence. Clement & Murphy PLLC name partner Paul Clement is one of those lawyers.
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May 13, 2026
The South Carolina Supreme Court on Wednesday overturned a double murder conviction and ordered a new trial for disgraced attorney Alex Murdaugh, finding the jury in his first trial was biased by a clerk of court who allegedly sought a guilty verdict in a ploy to juice sales of her book about the trial.
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May 13, 2026
Third Circuit judges gave the Delaware Department of Labor a brief reprieve from a district court order directing it to comply with a U.S. Department of Homeland Security subpoena requesting business wage reports for an immigration enforcement investigation.
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May 12, 2026
Plaintiffs attorneys with Seeger Weiss LLP, Motley Rice LLC, Ketchmark & McCreight PC, Holland Law Firm, Williams Hart Boundas LLP and Waters Kraus Paul & Siegel have asked for a fee award of $675 million for their work on the $7.25 billion Roundup settlement with Bayer AG, according to a petition.
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May 12, 2026
Certain rules created by the National Association of Realtors should be considered conspiracy under the Sherman Antitrust Act because they encourage real estate agents to avoid showing listings with low commissions to potential buyers, a Utah-based real estate firm argued to a Tenth Circuit panel Tuesday.
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May 12, 2026
Seventh Circuit judges weighing the National Labor Relations Board's bid for an injunction requiring a truck seller to recognize a union it has twice rebuked seemed skeptical Tuesday that the company's employees face irreparable harm without it.
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May 12, 2026
The Connecticut Supreme Court on Tuesday revived a lawsuit by Eversource Energy against the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority over $17 million in infrastructure improvements, saying the parties must resolve ambiguities in the settlement agreement before proceeding.
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May 12, 2026
The D.C. Circuit didn't seem sure which way to come down Tuesday morning on the various arguments put forth by the convicted operator of the Bitcoin Fog crypto mixer in an attempt to overturn his conviction.
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May 12, 2026
The New Jersey Supreme Court held Tuesday that a man accused of killing a 94-year-old woman in a crash may present expert testimony challenging whether her death was caused by his alleged recklessness, finding in a reversal that a pretrial evidentiary hearing wasn't needed.
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May 12, 2026
A New Jersey appellate panel on Tuesday pushed back on an investor's insistence that his complaint over Bristol-Myers Squibb's $74 billion acquisition of Celgene satisfied pleading standards for securities lawsuits, echoing a trial court judge's concern that claims of disclosure requirement shortfalls sounded more in fraud than negligence.
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May 12, 2026
The leader of the U.S. Copyright Office, Shira Perlmutter, told senators Tuesday they may need to respond to the U.S. Supreme Court's March decision that narrowed contributory liability for internet service providers, saying the ruling "left a bit of a hole in the law."
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May 12, 2026
The Colorado Supreme Court seemed poised Tuesday to send back to a lower court a landowner's challenge of a quasimunicipal corporation's use of eminent domain, appearing to agree with the landowner that the trial court had discretion to grant discovery.
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May 12, 2026
The Massachusetts attorney general said on Tuesday she will allow litigation to proceed over whether the state legislature can be audited and will appoint special counsel to represent the state auditor, ending a high-profile showdown between two high-ranking elected officials.
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May 12, 2026
The Fourth Circuit ruled Tuesday that federal prosecutors can seize over $3.6 million in assets from a North Carolina man who was convicted on multiple counts of selling illegally obtained iPhones and other electronics to buyers overseas.
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May 12, 2026
A medical software company has told a California federal court that claims in a pair of health monitoring patents Apple has accused it of infringing are actually invalid, saying they only cover abstract ideas without a technological innovation to save them.
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May 12, 2026
An Illinois agency that administers financially distressed insurers' estates Tuesday urged the Seventh Circuit to revive its lawsuit seeking insurance coverage for a cyberattack during which its financial chief provided confidential login information to hackers, who used his email account to instruct employees to wire them nearly $7 million.
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May 12, 2026
A federal pipeline regulator told the Ninth Circuit on Monday it reasonably asserted jurisdiction over an oil pipeline system near Santa Barbara, California, and approved a Texas company's restart plan, saying challenges brought by California and environmental groups are unfounded.
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May 12, 2026
An Idaho federal court wrongly denied a man of Mexican descent a new trial after discovering a juror had made racially biased comments about people of Mexican ethnicity during deliberations on whether to convict him of preparing false tax returns, a split Ninth Circuit panel said Tuesday.
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May 12, 2026
A disbarred northern Michigan attorney accused of mishandling trust funds properly faced contempt sanctions for abruptly leaving a Zoom hearing and failing to comply with orders to transfer money and provide accounting, a Michigan appellate panel ruled, even as it found the trial judge later violated her Fifth Amendment rights during questioning.
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May 12, 2026
The full Fifth Circuit grappled Tuesday with whether lawmakers had to be physically present to have validly enacted the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, in a case one judge said will head to the U.S. Supreme Court if a lower court ruling barring PWFA enforcement against Texas stands.
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May 12, 2026
The D.C. Circuit appeared skeptical Tuesday that the National Labor Relations Board unfairly refused to admit certain evidence in a picketing dispute as it probed a cleaning contractor's attempt to escape a redone ruling that it punished workers over a protected protest more than a decade ago.
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May 12, 2026
A Federal Circuit panel vacated an injunction on Tuesday requiring the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to award Anders Construction a $5 million diving services contract, saying the agency properly found that the company's proposal was technically unacceptable.
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May 12, 2026
Former Fiat Chrysler labor executive Alphons Iacobelli, who was convicted for his role in a union bribery scheme, must answer hundreds of deposition questions in General Motors' sprawling civil suit, a Michigan appellate panel ruled.
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May 12, 2026
A group of consumer and environmental advocates has told the D.C. Circuit that the U.S. Department of Energy illegally substituted long-term electricity planning reserved for states with its own emergency authority to keep open a Pennsylvania power plant.
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May 12, 2026
The National Collegiate Athletic Association urged North Carolina justices to keep out of bounds a name, image and likeness lawsuit from members of a 1983 North Carolina State University championship basketball team, arguing that a lower court was right to find the suit several decades expired.
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May 12, 2026
The Sixth Circuit has ruled that a group of jail officials in Michigan should be given qualified immunity from a lawsuit alleging they ignored the medical needs of a man who was incarcerated in their facility and later died from cardiac arrest.