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July 14, 2025
States Back Domestic Violence Groups In DOJ Grant Fight
Nearly two dozen states are backing a group of domestic violence coalitions in their bid to block the Trump administration from imposing restrictions on grants by the Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women, saying the funding is critical to their ability to fulfill their public safety obligations.
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July 14, 2025
J&J Unit Follows Fed. Circ. Win With Schizophrenia Drug Suits
Johnson & Johnson's Janssen subsidiaries have sued Sun Pharma for patent infringement in federal courts in New Jersey and Delaware over the generics maker's plans to market its versions of Janssen's Invega Sustenna drug last week, following Janssen beating a patent challenge for the schizophrenia drug in the Federal Circuit.
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July 14, 2025
DraftKings Escapes Mobile App Patent Suit In NJ
A New Jersey federal judge tossed claims that DraftKings copied patented features of its sports betting and fantasy game mobile application, ruling that the complaint from WinView Inc. failed to describe the alleged infringement.
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July 14, 2025
CFTC Must Pay $3M In Atty Fees As Sanctions In Forex Case
A New Jersey federal judge ordered the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Friday to pay back over $3.1 million in attorney fees to a foreign exchange company after dismissing the regulator's case for bad-faith sanctionable behavior.
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July 14, 2025
Supreme Court Clears Way For Education Dept. Layoffs
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday lifted a Massachusetts federal judge's order halting massive job cuts at the U.S. Department of Education, allowing the Trump administration to move forward with firing nearly 1,400 employees.
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July 14, 2025
End Of NJ Municipal Court Official's Harassment Suit Upheld
A former New Jersey municipal court administrator cannot sue the state Administrative Office of the Courts in a sexual harassment case because she was never an employee of the office, the state Appellate Division said Monday in a published opinion.
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July 14, 2025
Aetna, CVS Can't Dodge $21M Payment Battle, Lab Says
A Pennsylvania-based medical laboratory has told a Connecticut federal court its lawsuit against Aetna and its owner, CVS Health Corp., sufficiently accused the companies of failing to pay $20.6 million in invoices.
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July 14, 2025
Kirkland, Wachtell Guide $17.5B Waters-BD Life Sciences Deal
Waters Corp. and Becton Dickinson and Co., or BD, said Monday they will combine BD's Biosciences and Diagnostic Solutions unit with Waters in a $17.5 billion deal using a Reverse Morris Trust structure, in a deal steered by Kirkland & Ellis LLP and Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz.
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July 11, 2025
Midyear 2025: A Glimpse At Sports Betting Enforcement
The first half of 2025 saw a flurry of activity in the enforcement of sports betting rules, with two NBA veterans finding themselves at the center of a federal gambling probe, two mixed martial arts fighters receiving lengthy suspensions, and Shohei Ohtani's disgraced interpreter catching a 57-month prison sentence for theft.
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July 11, 2025
Parents Of Gay Teen File Suit Alleging Death Was No Suicide
Attorneys for the family of a New Jersey teenager whose 2015 death was deemed a suicide said Friday that they had filed a suit believed to be the first filed under a 34-year-old state constitutional amendment, demanding that New Jersey officials turn over evidence so the family can privately investigate her death as murder.
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July 11, 2025
Real Estate Recap: NYC Zombies, Nashville Tax, Hospo Deals
Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including attorney insights into New York City's zombie building scene, a BigLaw specialist's view of Nashville's rise in property taxes, and the firms that guided the top hospitality deals in the first half of 2025.
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July 11, 2025
Success Tricking FDA Shouldn't Protect Merck, Justices Told
Physicians asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review a decision immunizing Merck & Co. from antitrust claims over submissions it made to federal regulators over its mumps vaccine, arguing the Third Circuit went far beyond its peers in holding that deceiving the government isn't illegal if the deception worked.
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July 11, 2025
3rd Circ. Nixes Rehire Of Welch's Worker In Harassment Fight
The Third Circuit on Friday vacated an order instructing Welch's to rehire a worker who was accused of using gender-based slurs toward a co-worker, saying an arbitrator needed to clarify whether she'd determined that sexual harassment occurred.
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July 11, 2025
State Dept. Defends Visa Revocations For Anti-Israel Protests
A senior U.S. Department of State official testified Friday that a series of high-profile visa and green card revocations were based on participation in campus protests or other acts that "fostered a hostile environment for Jewish students" and included expressions of support for terrorist organizations.
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July 11, 2025
3rd Circ. Revives Benicar MDL Fees Suit Against NJ Law Firm
The Third Circuit on Friday revived a proposed class action against Mazie Slater Katz & Freeman LLC attorneys that claims they took excessive fees from plaintiffs' settlements in multidistrict litigation over the blood pressure drug Benicar, remanding the dispute for the district court to determine whether it has jurisdiction over the case.
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July 11, 2025
Gun Group's NJ Nuisance Law Case Paused Amid State Action
A New Jersey federal judge has put the National Shooting Sports Foundation's lawsuit against the Garden State on hold, finding that the group's challenges to a state law — holding gunmakers and sellers liable for crimes committed with their products — are also being raised by one of its members in a related state enforcement action.
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July 11, 2025
NJ Libel Suit Against 'Legal Edutainer' Tossed For Good
A New Jersey federal judge on Friday tossed for good claims that a self-proclaimed online "legal edutainer" defamed the founder of a company that aims to help celebrities in mental health crises, finding that the complaint failed to remedy earlier complaints' pleading defects.
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July 11, 2025
Merck's $10B Pulmonary Power Play Is Among Its Top 5 Deals
When Merck agreed to purchase respiratory disease-focused Verona Pharma PLC for $10 billion, it became one of Merck's largest deals ever, and the pharmaceutical giant made clear that its bet on a potentially transformative pulmonary therapy was much more than a speculative pipeline acquisition.
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July 11, 2025
Dem States Drop Bid To Block Machine Gun Trigger Returns
Sixteen Democrat-led states and the District of Columbia told a Maryland federal judge Friday that they are dropping their motion to block the federal government from returning forced-reset triggers for guns to their owners, following declarations from the government and others that they would not distribute the products into states where possession is illegal.
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July 11, 2025
Bove Faults 'Heavy-Handed' Jan. 6 Cases
Third Circuit nominee Emil Bove, who is currently serving in the U.S. Department of Justice, in his post-hearing questionnaire obtained by Law360 on Friday, drew what he says is a distinction between condemning violence against law enforcement officers and over-prosecution of Jan. 6 rioters.
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July 11, 2025
NJ Atty's Bias Suit Against McCarter & English Gets Trimmed
A New Jersey state judge has largely narrowed the scope of a former McCarter & English LLP attorney's anti-veteran discrimination and whistleblower retaliation lawsuit against the firm, but allowed certain claims under a federal veterans rights law to proceed.
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July 11, 2025
Ex-Judge Pushes Back Against NJ's Stance On Her Conduct
A former workers' compensation judge has pushed back in her suit over her removal after the state of New Jersey said her conduct around discovery raises safety concerns of individuals she has targeted, telling a state court it's New Jersey that has engaged in harassing conduct.
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July 11, 2025
Litigation Funder Can't Escape Crash Loans Suit, Court Told
A married couple suing a litigation funding firm and multiple law firms, alleging they steered the couple into high-interest loans, told a New Jersey state court that they adequately pled fraud and urged the court not to dismiss their case against the funder.
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July 11, 2025
Taxation With Representation: Davis Polk, Kirkland, Cassels
In this week's Taxation With Representation, Merck buys U.K. drugmaker Verona Pharma, CoreWeave acquires fellow data center company Core Scientific, Royal Gold acquires Sandstorm Gold and Horizon Copper, and Italian food company Ferrero buys WK Kellogg.
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July 10, 2025
$33M Sonos Appeal Has Fed. Circ. Asking: What's Up, Alsup?
A Federal Circuit panel struggled Thursday to piece together the different interpretations of what U.S. District Judge William Alsup decided before upending Sonos Inc.'s $32.5 million jury verdict against Google LLC, with one judge claiming disbelief that there could be such a "fundamental disconnect" between the companies' understandings.
Expert Analysis
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E-Discovery Quarterly: Recent Rulings On Metadata
Several recent rulings reflect the competing considerations that arise when parties dispute the form of production for electronically stored information, underscoring that counsel must carefully consider how to produce and request reasonably usable data, say attorneys at Sidley.
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The 3rd-Party Bankruptcy Release Landscape After Purdue
In its Purdue Pharma ruling prohibiting nonconsensual third-party releases, the U.S. Supreme Court did not comment on criteria to render a third-party release consensual, opening a debate in the bankruptcy courts on the permissibility of opt-out versus opt-in releases, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.
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Comparing Antitrust Outlooks Amid Google Remedy Review
As the U.S. Justice Department mulls potential structural remedies after winning its recent case against Google, increased global scrutiny of Big Tech leaves ex post and ex ante antitrust approaches ripe for evaluation, say Nishant Chadha at the Indian School of Business and Manisha Goel at Pomona College.
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Election Could Bring Change In Weather For Offshore Wind
Under another Trump administration, the offshore wind sector would encounter substantial headwinds, as Trump's policy track record emphasizes fossil fuel dominance and environmental rollbacks, while a Harris victory would likely further entrench the pro-renewable energy stance taken by the Biden administration, say attorneys at Jones Walker.
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Striking A Balance Between AI Use And Attorney Well-Being
As the legal industry increasingly adopts generative artificial intelligence tools to boost efficiency, leaders must note the hidden costs of increased productivity, and work to protect attorneys’ well-being while unlocking AI’s full potential, says Ed Sohn at Factor.
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Empathy In Mediation Offers A Soft Landing For Disputes
Experiencing a crash-landing on a recent flight underscored to me how much difference empathy makes in times of crisis or stress, including during mediation, says Eydith Kaufman at Alternative Resolution Centers.
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Series
Being An Artist Makes Me A Better Lawyer
My work as an artist has highlighted how using creativity and precision together — qualities that are equally essential in both art and law — not only improves outcomes, but also leads to more innovative and thoughtful work, says Sarah La Pearl at Segal McCambridge.
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How Judiciary Can Minimize AI Risks In Secondary Sources
Because courts’ standing orders on generative artificial intelligence and other safeguards do not address the risk of hallucinations in secondary source materials, the judiciary should consider enlisting legal publishers and database hosts to protect against AI-generated inaccuracies, say attorneys at Lankler Siffert & Wohl.
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Newly Acquired Information Can Be Key In Drug Label Cases
The question of whether federal law preempts state law claims is often central in pharmaceutical labeling cases, like the Fosamax litigation now before the Third Circuit — but parties must also consider whether there is newly acquired information to justify submitting a proposed labeling change in the first place, say attorneys at Arnold & Porter.
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3rd. Circ. Ruling Shows Employers Where To Put ADA Focus
A recent Third Circuit decision in Morgan v. Allison Crane & Rigging, confirming that the Americans with Disabilities Act protects some temporarily impaired employees, reminds employers to pursue compliance through uniform policies that head off discriminatory decisions, not after-the-fact debates over an individual's disability status, says Joseph McGuire at Freeman Mathis.
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How Attorneys Can Break Free From Career Enmeshment
Ambitious attorneys can sometimes experience career enmeshment — when your sense of self-worth becomes unhealthily tangled up in your legal vocation — but taking the time to discover and realign with your core personal values can help you recover your identity, says Janna Koretz at Azimuth Psychological.
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Where Can Privacy Plaintiffs Sue When Injury Is Online?
Website owners need to understand wiretapping laws to understand whether they may be sued for activity tracking in California or Pennsylvania courts, where the statutory damages for violations of half-century-old laws can be substantial — and a recent Third Circuit decision suggests establishing specific jurisdiction is not as easy as 1-2-3, say attorneys at Crowell & Moring.
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Lawyers With Disabilities Are Seeking Equity, Not Pity
Attorneys living with disabilities face extra challenges — including the need for special accommodations, the fear of stigmatization and the risk of being tokenized — but if given equitable opportunities, they can still rise to the top of their field, says Kate Reder Sheikh, a former attorney and legal recruiter at Major Lindsey & Africa.
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Opinion
Judicial Committee Best Venue For Litigation Funding Rules
The Advisory Committee on Civil Rules' recent decision to consider developing a rule for litigation funding disclosure is a welcome development, ensuring that the result will be the product of a thorough, inclusive and deliberative process that appropriately balances all interests, says Stewart Ackerly at Statera Capital.
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The Strategic Advantages Of Appointing A Law Firm CEO
The impact on law firms of the recent CrowdStrike outage underscores that the business of law is no longer merely about providing supplemental support for legal practice — and helps explain why some law firms are appointing dedicated, full-time CEOs to navigate the challenges of the modern legal landscape, says Jennifer Johnson at Calibrate Strategies.