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The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear arguments today in a bid led by two Catholic dioceses to establish in Oklahoma the nation's first taxpayer-funded religious charter school in a major test of religious rights and the separation of church and state in American education, report John Kruzel and Andrew Chung. Organizers of the proposed school, which would be considered a public school in Oklahoma, and a state school board that backs it have appealed a lower court's ruling that blocked the establishment of St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School. That court found that the proposed religious charter school would violate the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment limits on government endorsement of religion. The school's backers have argued that Oklahoma's refusal to establish St. Isidore as a charter school solely because it is religious is discrimination under the First Amendment's guarantee of free exercise of religion. The school is being challenged by the state's Republican Attorney General Gentner Drummond, who has argued that denying St. Isidore's charter status does not violate the free exercise clause. Drummond said it rather upholds the state's duty to provide secular education and ensure that public funds are not diverted to religious purposes, preserving the separation of church and state. |
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- Hannah Dugan, a Wisconsin circuit judge charged with helping a man in her court briefly evade immigration authorities, has added prominent conservative lawyer and leading U.S. Supreme Court advocate Paul Clement to her defense team.
- President Trump has directed the DOJ to mobilize law firms to defend police officers unjustly accused of misconduct free of charge, marking the latest effort to steer the work of private lawyers to his administration's ends.
- Google has added a new, conservative lead attorney to its legal team as it fights the Republican National Committee's bid to revive a lawsuit accusing the company of discrimination. Google hired Dominic Draye of Greenberg Traurig, a former solicitor general of Arizona, to work with lawyers from Perkins Coie.
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That's the overall pass rate for New York's February bar exam sitting, a drop from 42% in 2024, reports Karen Sloan. Pass rates at most large states reporting their scores declined in February. New York has the highest number of annual bar examinees in the U.S., with about 14,000. |
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"The orders will cause enduring damage to the legal profession and amici as America's future lawyers."
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—More than 1,100 law students and 51 law school organizations in a court brief supporting Susman Godfrey in its lawsuit against the Trump administration. Students from a broad array of law schools, including Ivy League and state universities across the country, signed onto the brief. Read more. |
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- U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb in D.C. is set to hold a hearing to consider requests from two groups of FBI agents to bar the Trump administration from releasing names of bureau employees who worked on the investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
- U.S. District Judge Geoffrey Crawford in Burlington, Vermont, is scheduled to hold a hearing over Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi's challenge to the legality of his arrest by immigration authorities at a citizenship proceeding.
- Google CEO Sundar Pichai is expected to take the stand at a trial in which the DOJ seeks an order forcing the company to sell off its Chrome browser and take other measures to end what a judge found was its illegal monopoly in online search.
Court calendars are subject to last-minute docket changes.
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- The U.S. Supreme Court sided with HHS in a lawsuit over hospital reimbursement rates for low income patients. A group of about 200 hospitals had challenged HHS' method for calculating the reimbursements, saying HHS was paying too little and causing rural hospitals to close.
- A coalition of more than two dozen labor unions, cities and nonprofits sued President Trump's administration, claiming that its broad federal workforce cuts were an illegal power grab.
- The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which distributes funding to PBS and NPR stations, sued the White House after President Trump sought to fire three of its five board members.
- Gilead Sciences has reached a $202 million settlement to resolve a civil fraud lawsuit accusing the company of paying kickbacks to doctors who agreed to prescribe its HIV drugs, the U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan said.
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- Kramer Levin hired former federal prosecutor Jilan Kamal as a litigation and white collar and government investigations partner in New York. The firm also brought on New York-based corporate partner Damian Petrovic from Schulte Roth.
- Latham brought back life sciences partner Kate Hillier to its Bay Area offices from Cooley. (Latham)
- Cozen O'Connor added Charles Slemp to its state attorneys general group in Richmond, Virginia. He previously was at Troutman Pepper Locke. (Cozen O'Connor)
- BakerHostetler added Brad Pensyl as a New York-based litigation partner from A&O Shearman. (BakerHostetler)
- McGlinchey Stafford hired Brandon Brown, former U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana, as a partner in its Baton Rouge office.
- Schulte Roth picked up finance partner Joseph Gambino in New York from Linklaters. (Schulte Roth)
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R. Mark Halligan of FisherBroyles walks through a 7th Circuit opinion from 2003 that he says addresses virtually every aspect of trade secrets law. Read today's Attorney Analysis. |
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