Conn. Top Justice Nominee Touts Tech, Defends Salary Stance 

By Brian Steele

Connecticut Supreme Court interim Chief Justice Raheem L. Mullins heard praise for his technology advocacy and pushback for his outspoken stance on judicial salaries Wednesday from the state legislature's Joint Committee on Judiciary, which is considering his nomination to the high court's top spot for a full eight-year term.

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Alex Jones Asks Conn. Justices To Review Sandy Hook Case

By Aaron Keller

Infowars host Alex Jones has asked Connecticut's highest court to review a $1.44 billion judgment for calling the Sandy Hook school massacre a "hoax," arguing his trial judge violated the state and federal constitutions by skipping causation, jumping straight to a default liability judgment and adding damages without proof.

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J&J Seeks To Defeat $30M Punitive Bid After Conn. Talc Trial

By Jonathan Capriel

Johnson & Johnson has blasted a bid requesting that it pay $30 million in punitive damages on top of a $15 million jury award to a real estate developer who allegedly contracted mesothelioma from the company's talc, telling a Connecticut state court that, "at most," it should pay $5 million.

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Prospect Seeks To Move Conn. Hospital Sale Suit To Texas

By Rick Archer

National hospital chain Prospect Medical Holdings on Wednesday told a Connecticut federal judge that its recent Texas bankruptcy filing means a suit over a collapsed $435 million deal to sell its Connecticut-based hospitals belongs in Texas bankruptcy court.

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Logistics Cos. Say Workers' Tobacco Fee Suit Filed Too Late

By Mike Curley

A pair of logistics companies are asking a Connecticut federal court to throw out a proposed class action alleging they violated federal law by not fully reimbursing employees who paid an additional tobacco-use fee on their healthcare, saying all the claims in the suit are barred by statutes of limitation.

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Justices Seem Willing To Reopen Cornell Workers' ERISA Suit

By Kellie Mejdrich

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed inclined to revive a federal benefits lawsuit from Cornell University workers alleging their retirement plan was mismanaged and charged excessive fees, with several justices appearing open to arguments that the Second Circuit overreached when it shut down the case.

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Conn. Lawmaker Proposes Bill Legalizing In-Flight Gambling

By Ryan Harroff

A new Connecticut bill that would legalize sports betting on flights taking off from or landing in the Constitution State was referred to the state General Assembly's joint committee on general law Wednesday, one of multiple new measures aimed at regulating the state's emerging sports wagering industry.

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Judge Won't Toss Bulk Of Chrysler Minivan MDL Claims

By Carolina Bolado

A Michigan federal judge has declined to significantly pare back multidistrict litigation over a risk of spontaneous explosion in certain Chrysler plug-in hybrid minivans, denying Chrysler's bid to toss fraud and other claims.

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Sotomayor Halts 2nd Circ. Ruling In Landmark Graft Case

By Elliot Weld

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor halted a decision from the Second Circuit on Wednesday that would have set up a second trial against four men whose convictions were overturned in a landmark 2023 high court ruling in which the justices narrowed certain types of public corruption cases.

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Billionaire Debtor's Daughter Loses Appeal Over Jet Sale

By Vince Sullivan

The daughter of bankrupt billionaire Miles Guo on Tuesday lost her appeal of a Connecticut bankruptcy judge's ruling that the $10 million she reaped from the sale of a private jet is the property of her father's estate because he was the beneficial owner of the plan.

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5 Litigation Funding Trends To Note In 2025

Lawyers and their clients must be prepared to navigate an evolving litigation funding market in 2025, made more complicated by a new administration and the increasing overall cost of litigation, says Jeffery Lula at GLS Capital.

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The 2025 In-House Counsel Satisfaction Survey

Law360 Pulse asked in-house counsel about their jobs, workplace and career prospects. Find out how satisfied corporate lawyers are with their schedules, hours, work-life balance, opportunities for advancement and more.

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BigLaw Firms Report Record Lobbying Revenues For 2024

By Alison Knezevich

Several BigLaw firms pulled in record federal lobbying revenues in 2024, and now the change at the White House and in Congress has lobbyists gearing up for another busy year.

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Chutkan Says Trump's Pardon Can't 'Whitewash' Jan. 6 Terror

By Lauren Berg

President Donald Trump's pardon of defendants accused of participating in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol "cannot whitewash the blood, feces and terror that the mob left in its wake," U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan wrote Wednesday in an order dismissing one such case.

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Ex-Solicitor General Prelogar Joins Harvard Law

By Katie Buehler and Jeff Overley

Former U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth B. Prelogar, acclaimed for her oral advocacy in the U.S. Supreme Court's biggest cases during the Biden administration, has temporarily joined Harvard Law School, where she will teach a class called "Changing Paradigms in the Supreme Court," Law360 confirmed Wednesday.

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DOJ Aims To Prosecute Local Officials Who Impede Removals

By Britain Eakin

The U.S. Department of Justice instructed its staff to investigate and take enforcement actions against state and local officials who interfere with the Trump administration's plans to deport unlawfully present immigrants, according to an internal agency memo.

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Kirkland Adds 5 Skadden Attys As Firm Plans Philly Launch

By James Boyle

National law firm Kirkland & Ellis LLP has announced plans for a new Philadelphia office to be helmed by a civil litigator who is one of five attorneys moving their practices to the firm from Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP.

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Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds Slam Baldoni Atty's 'Media Blitz'

By Rachel Scharf

Counsel for celebrity couple Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds told a New York federal judge that Justin Baldoni's attorney from Liner Freedman Taitelman & Cooley LLP has violated ethical rules with an "all-out media blitz" during their thorny litigation over the movie "It Ends With Us."

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Kentucky, New Mexico Federal Judges To Take Senior Status

By Lynn LaRowe

Chief U.S. District Judge Danny C. Reeves of the Eastern District of Kentucky and U.S. District Judge James O. Browning of the District of New Mexico announced this week that they are taking senior status over roughly the next year.

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Case Removal Rules Aimed At Fairness, Ex-Atty Tells 5th Circ.

By Catherine Marfin

Several Fifth Circuit judges seemed keen Wednesday to clarify what activity in state court would bar litigants from removing their cases to federal court, as the full appeals court reconsidered a remand order for a Houston firm's poaching suit.

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Committee's Trump Probe Subpoenas Are Moot, Willis Says

By Emily Johnson

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has urged a Georgia state court to quash a bid to enforce subpoenas from a state Senate committee investigating her handling of the prosecution of President Donald Trump, arguing the subpoenas are moot because "the old special committee no longer exists."

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