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DOJ Likely Crossed Line With Mangione Remarks, Judge Says

By Ryan Boysen

Top officials at the U.S. Department of Justice are in hot water for linking alleged insurance CEO killer Luigi Mangione to left-wing terrorism and potentially violating his right to a fair trial, a New York federal judge said Wednesday as she threatened sanctions for future violations.

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Rikers Detainees File Class Action Over Solitary Confinement

By Marco Poggio

A group of detainees are accusing the New York City Department of Correction of systematically violating the state's landmark law restricting solitary confinement, saying in a state court in a proposed class complaint they have been locked in their cells for up to 24 hours a day at Rikers Island despite the ban, a lawyer told Law360 on Wednesday.

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DHS Barred From Tying Disaster Aid To Immigration Agenda

By Lauren Berg

The Trump administration unlawfully attached conditions to emergency service funding that required states to cooperate with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's immigration enforcement, a Rhode Island federal judge ruled Wednesday, agreeing with a multistate coalition that the conditions are unconstitutional, arbitrary and capricious.

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NYC Housing Bribe Case Winding Down As Another Trial Set

By Pete Brush

A Manhattan federal judge on Wednesday teed up a trial for a Bronx assistant public housing superintendent accused of taking $14,000 in bribes, as an anti-corruption sweep targeting 70 workers at the New York City Housing Authority inched toward an end.

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States Say Ed Dept. Must Face Suit Over Mental Health Cuts

By Mark Payne

A group of 16 states led by Washington has asked a federal judge not to let the U.S. Department of Education escape the states' claims that the agency violated federal law by discontinuing mental health grants given to public schools to help students cope with school shootings.

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AGs Slam Capital One's $425M Deal As Unfair To Consumers

By Craig Clough

New York Attorney General Letitia James and 17 other attorneys general are opposing a proposed $425 million settlement between Capital One and a putative consumer class alleging the bank deceptively advertised its 360 Savings accounts, telling a Virginia federal court the deal "fails to adequately redress" the harms caused by the scheme.

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Gunmakers Ask 2nd Circ. For Another Chance At Liability Law

By Y. Peter Kang

The Second Circuit has been asked to reconsider its recent ruling that upheld a New York public nuisance statute allowing claims specifically against gun manufacturers that cause public harm, saying the decision flouts a federal law shielding those companies from the criminal misuse of guns.

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Ex-Bank Compliance Execs' Whistleblower Suit Tossed

By Katryna Perera

A New York federal judge has dismissed whistleblower and discrimination claims brought by former Shinhan Bank America compliance executives against the bank, finding that they failed to follow the required administrative steps before filing suit and haven't demonstrated that the bank was aware of their allegedly whistleblower-protected activity, among other things.

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Athletes Say NCAA's Dismissal Bid Rehashes Old Arguments

By Elaine Brise帽o

A group of Division I athletes looking to be classified as employees filed a succinct reply chiding the NCAA and several prestigious universities for their "hundreds of pages" of "repetitive, overlapping" arguments that rehash points already made in Pennsylvania federal court.

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SEC Gets $7M Default Insider Trading Win Against UK Trader

By Stewart Bishop

A Manhattan federal judge on Wednesday ordered a British-Lebanese trader to pay over $7.7 million, stemming from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's insider trading allegations, months after the defendant avoided extradition from the U.K. on parallel criminal charges.

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NY Appeals Court Backs Drug Co.'s $6.5M Contract Case Win

By Adam Lidgett

A New York state appeals court won't disturb a finding that a South Korean logistics firm owes $6.5 million for breaching a deal allowing it to license and sell a RedHill Biopharma Ltd. COVID-19 treatment in the country.

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Execs Breached Danish Deal In $2B Tax Case, Court Says

By Anna Scott Farrell

Three men claiming to be pension plan executives who struck a civil settlement with the Danish taxing authority over their role in a $2 billion tax fraud scheme breached their settlement agreement, a New York federal court found, saying the men had not paid back the amount they promised.

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Smoke Shop Avoids Sanctions But Must Actually Talk To Tribe

By Jonathan Capriel

Retailers accused by the Cayuga Nation of running an unauthorized cannabis shop won't be sanctioned for allegedly failing to turn over daily sales records, which they had destroyed for years, but a New York federal court has ordered them to produce those records going forward and is requiring both sides to confer in good faith "by actually speaking to each other."

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Keep Rules Against Phone 'Slamming,' NY Agency Says

By Christopher Cole

New York state officials want the Federal Communications Commission to keep safeguards in place against phone service "slamming" even though the incidence of people's service being switched without their permission is fading as technology advances.

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Former US Attorney To Join Harter Secrest In Buffalo

By Christine DeRosa

The former U.S. attorney for the Western District of New York is making the move to private practice next month at Harter Secrest & Emery LLP, the firm announced Wednesday.

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Blank Rome Hires Bicoastal Pair Of Patent Attys

By Andrea Keckley

Blank Rome LLP announced Tuesday that it has welcomed two new patent attorneys to its ranks: a Los Angeles-based firm alum and a New York-based former Leason Ellis LLP lawyer.

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Analyzing AI's Evolving Role In Class Action Claims Admin

Artificial intelligence is becoming a strategic asset in the hands of skilled litigators, reshaping everything from class certification strategy to claims analysis — and now, the nuts and bolts of settlement administration, with synthetic fraud, algorithmic review and ethical tension emerging as central concerns, says Dominique Fite at CPT Group.

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Courts Keep Upping Standing Ante In ERISA Healthcare Suits

As Article III standing becomes increasingly important in litigation brought by employer-sponsored health plan members under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, several recent cases suggest that courts are taking a more scrutinizing approach to the standing inquiry in both class actions and individual matters, say attorneys at Crowell & Moring.

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Law School's Missed Lessons: Mastering Time Management

Law students typically have weeks or months to prepare for any given deadline, but the unpredictability of practicing in the real world means that lawyers must become time-management pros, ready to adapt to scheduling conflicts and unexpected assignments at any given moment, says David Thomas at Honigman.

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Dems Probing Skadden, Kirkland, Paul Weiss' Work For Trump

By Jack Karp

Top Democratic legislators are investigating whether pro bono work reportedly being performed by Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP, Kirkland & Ellis LLP and Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP for the U.S. Department of Commerce is in violation of federal law, according to letters the lawmakers sent the firms Wednesday.

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Boies Schiller Partner Admits AI Errors In Scientology Case

By Dorothy Atkins

A Boies Schiller Flexner LLP partner representing women who allege the Church of Scientology harassed them for reporting convicted actor Daniel Masterson's sexual assaults has asked a California appeals court to strike a brief containing artificial intelligence-generated citation errors, saying he "very much regrets" the errors, but they shouldn't impact his clients' case.

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ABA Says Trump's Firm Intimidation Policy Isn't Hypothetical

By Hailey Konnath

The American Bar Association on Wednesday urged a D.C. federal court not to dismiss its suit claiming the Trump administration has launched an unconstitutional campaign of intimidation against law firms, arguing that the intimidation firms have experienced isn't hypothetical or imagined, as the government contends.

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Union Says Trump Has Fired More Immigration Judges

By Braden Campbell

The union that represents the judges who hear immigration cases said the government has fired at least 16 judges without cause in recent days, adding to the dozens of judges who have left or been fired since President Donald Trump took office. 

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'Poorly Drafted' Immigration Case Dismissal Email Withdrawn

By Rae Ann Varona

The Executive Office for Immigration Review on Tuesday formally withdrew an email from May that became central to litigation challenging immigration courthouse arrests and quick dismissals of removal proceedings, saying the email, although "poorly drafted," was never policy.

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Sen. Ossoff Pushes Fed. Courts To Uphold Access To Counsel

By Courtney Bubl茅

Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., has urged the Judicial Conference to take further action to ensure that all defendants, particularly low-income ones, have access to counsel for their initial appearance in federal court.

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Bank Says It's Being Blocked From Settlement Fund Market

By Matthew Perlman

Flatirons Bank has sued Eastern Point Trust Co. in Wyoming federal court for allegedly blocking competition in the market for qualified settlement fund services by threatening baseless litigation and falsely claiming that Flatirons' platform copies its own offering.

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Ex-Mass. Judge Fined For Giving Dad $450/Hour Role In Case

By Julie Manganis

A now-former Massachusetts Probate and Family Court justice will pay a $4,000 civil penalty for appointing his father to a $450 an hour special master role in a divorce case, the State Ethics Commission said.

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Ga. Prisoner Gets 80 Years For Mailing Bombs To Court, DOJ

By Kelcey Caulder

A person incarcerated in a Georgia state prison has been sentenced to 80 years in federal custody after building and mailing bombs to a federal courthouse in Anchorage, Alaska, and the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C.

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