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Two U.S. judges temporarily blocked key parts of President Trump's executive orders targeting Jenner & Block and WilmerHale as the prominent law firms challenged the president in court, while Skadden cut a deal with the White House to avoid a similar directive. "Considering the firm-wide effects of the executive order, it threatens the existence of the firm," U.S. District Judge John Bates in D.C. said of the order targeting Jenner & Block. U.S. District Judge Richard Leon, who is handling the WilmerHale case, called Trump's order retaliatory. Read more about where the cases stand. Jenner & Block and WilmerHale sued Trump's administration on Friday, escalating a clash between the president and a large swath of the legal profession. At a White House event the same day, Trump said Skadden agreed to dedicate $100 million in free legal services to mutually agreed projects benefiting veterans and other groups. The firm also committed to what Trump called merit-based hiring and retention of employees. |
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- Jay Clayton of Sullivan & Cromwell, nominated as the U.S. attorney in Manhattan, reported receiving more than $6.7 million from the firm since the start of 2024, according to an ethics disclosure. Other financial disclosures from some of President Trump's top legal nominees showed attorney pay at Jones Day, Sidley and Skadden.
- Federal appeals judge William Pryor–a conservative whom President Trump considered a potential candidate for a U.S. Supreme Court nomination during his first term–said impeaching judges was not the way to address court rulings with which parties disagreed.
- The SEC is beginning to bring on officials with billionaire Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency. In an email seen by Reuters, SEC staff were informed the DOGE task force had contacted the SEC, and that they would be treated as SEC staff for purposes of network, system and data access.
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That's the national average score on the multiple-choice section of February's bar exam–the lowest since the National Conference of Bar Examiners began giving the Multistate Bar Exam in 1972. The national conference attributed the MBE decline to California's adoption of its own bar exam this year, which took the state's numbers out of the calculation, and to lower results among repeat test takers, our colleague Karen Sloan reports. |
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A bitter battle is unfolding in Delaware Chancery Court, where grocery chains Kroger and Albertsons are seeking to fault the other for the failure of their $25 billion merger. In a countersuit filed this week, Kroger accuses Albertsons of engaging in a "surreptitious scheme" to undermine its regulatory strategy, while Albertsons says its erstwhile partner pursued an "indefensible" strategy to win antitrust approval of the deal. Jenna Greene has more in On the Case. |
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- Today, the U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear a bid by an arm of a Catholic diocese in Wisconsin for a religious exemption from the state's unemployment insurance tax in the latest religious rights case to reach the justices. President Trump's administration is supporting the Catholic Charities Bureau and four entities that the bureau oversees in the appeal.
- On Tuesday, immigrant rights groups are slated to urge U.S. District Judge Richard Stearns in Boston to block the Trump administration from ending temporary protections against deportation for thousands of Haitian and Venezuelan migrants living in the U.S.
- On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments in South Carolina's bid to cut off public funding to Planned Parenthood in a case that could bolster efforts by conservative-leaning states to deprive the reproductive healthcare and abortion provider of government money.
- On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Mary McElroy in Providence, Rhode Island, is set to consider, at the request of several nonprofits, whether to block the Trump administration from freezing billions of dollars already approved by Congress as part of the Biden-era Inflation Reduction Act and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
- On Friday, former U.S. Congressman George Santos and federal prosecutors face a deadline to submit sentencing memoranda ahead of Santos' April 25 sentencing date on fraud and identity theft charges. Santos pleaded guilty last year to the charges, which stemmed from inflating fundraising numbers and faking donor names to qualify for financial and logistical support from the Republican party during the 2022 election cycle.
Court calendars are subject to last-minute docket changes.
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- Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil will remain behind bars in Louisiana at least until a U.S. judge decides whether the Palestinian activist should challenge his imprisonment in a federal court there or in New Jersey.
- President Trump, for now, can remove Democratic members from two federal labor boards, the D.C. Circuit ruled, handing the president a victory in his efforts to bring independent federal agencies under his control.
- U.S. District Judge Andrew Carter in Manhattan rejected billionaire Elon Musk's bid to dismiss a lawsuit claiming he defrauded former Twitter shareholders by waiting too long to disclose his initial investment in the company.
- President Trump's administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court to allow his use of a 1798 law to swiftly deport alleged Venezuelan gang members as part of his hardline approach to immigration, arguing that courts must not encroach on the president's national security authority.
- U.S. District Judge Zahid Quraishi in Trenton, New Jersey, ordered a J&J unit to pay the U.S. government $1.64 billion after a jury found it liable in a whistleblower lawsuit for illegally promoting the HIV drugs Prezista and Intelence.
- Entrepreneur Charlie Javice was convicted of defrauding JPMorgan Chase into buying her college financial aid startup Frank for $175 million in July 2021. Javice and co-defendant Olivier Amar were each convicted on all four counts they faced: securities fraud, wire fraud, bank fraud and conspiracy.
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In recent years, the U.S. has seen a significant surge in the adoption of state-level data privacy laws. With the number of those laws now at 20 and counting, they have sought to impose additional and heightened requirements on certain types of data and specific data processing activities, writes Sara Jodka of Dickinson Wright. Read today's Attorney Analysis. |
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