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Wisconsin voters will choose a new justice for the state's top court today in a race that offers an early referendum on Donald Trump's presidency, with abortion rights, labor rights and election rules all potentially in the balance, our colleague Joseph Ax reports. The campaign has become the most expensive judicial contest in U.S. history. More than $80 million has been spent by the candidates, the state parties and outside groups, including more than $20 million by Trump ally Elon Musk and his affiliated political groups, according to a tally from New York University's Brennan Center.
Liberal Susan Crawford, a county judge, and conservative Brad Schimel, a former Republican state attorney general and also a county judge, are vying for a seat on the court that currently has a 4-3 liberal edge. The race is technically non-partisan. The court is likely to issue critical rulings on voting rights and election rules ahead of the 2026 midterms and the 2028 presidential race, when Wisconsin is expected to remain a central battleground. |
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That's the debt disclosed by U.S. restaurant chain Hooters, which filed for bankruptcy in Texas. The company is seeking to address its debt by selling all company-owned restaurants to a franchisee group operated by the company's founders, our colleague Dietrich Knauth reports. Hooters and other casual dining restaurants have struggled in recent years due to inflation, high costs of labor and food, and declining spending by cash-strapped American consumers. |
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"There are lots of hard questions in this area — vegan restaurants, hospitals — lots of hard questions."
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—U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, at a hearing over expanding a religious exemption from the Wisconsin state's unemployment insurance tax. Some of the justices raised questions about the consequences of expanding the exemption, including whether a vegetarian restaurant owned by a religiously affiliated employer who does not believe in eating meat would get an exemption, and how the law would apply to religiously affiliated hospitals. |
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- The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case over the legality of a 2019 federal statute meant to facilitate lawsuits against Palestinian authorities by Americans killed or injured in attacks in Israel and elsewhere.
- Immigrant rights groups will 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.
- In D.C. federal court, lawyers for the nonprofit U.S. Institute of Peace will ask U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell to block the organization's new Trump-appointed leadership from transferring property away from the group while its lawsuit is pending. Howell on March 20 declined to temporarily bar Trump's Department of Government Efficiency from taking over the organization.
Court calendars are subject to last-minute docket changes.
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- The 9th Circuit denied a request by the DOJ to pause a lower court's decision blocking President Trump's ban on transgender people serving in the military.
- U.S. District Judge Edward Chen in San Francisco blocked the Trump administration from stripping deportation protections for some Venezuelan immigrants, writing that officials' characterization of the migrants as criminals "smacks of racism."
- Nokia settled a worldwide patent dispute with Amazon over the tech giant's alleged misuse of Nokia's streaming video technology in Prime Video and Twitch streaming services.
- In a change of course, the DOJ pulled out of a lawsuit challenging a Republican-backed Georgia election law as discriminatory, abandoning a position it took under the Biden administration.
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- Former Independent U.S. Senator Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona is joining Hogan Lovells as a senior adviser in its global regulatory and intellectual property practice group. (Reuters)
- Davis Polk added structured finance lawyer Ryan McNaughton as a partner in New York, moving over from Cadwalader. (Davis Polk)
- Duane Morris hired trial partner John Cooke in the firm's Chicago office. Cooke was previously a deputy chief in the criminal division of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Illinois. (Duane Morris)
- Troutman Pepper Locke added Daniel Valenti as a New York-based real estate partner from Goulston & Storrs. (Troutman)
- Ian McGinley joined Sidley as a securities enforcement and regulatory partner in New York. He was most recently the director of enforcement for the CFTC. (Sidley)
- Stanislav Kalminsky left Goodwin to join Winston & Strawn as a partner in the firm's transactions department in Los Angeles. (Winston)
>> More moves to share? Please drop us a note at LegalCareerTracker@thomsonreuters.com.
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Over the last decade hackers have stolen billions of dollars in cryptocurrencies. Davis+Gilbert's Joseph Cioffi, Massimo Giugliano and Adam Levy look at the factors courts have considered to determine who owns what when crypto goes missing. Read today's Attorney Analysis. |
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