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President Trump's administration said it is suing four Democratic-led states to prevent them from enforcing "burdensome and ideologically motivated" laws and pursuing lawsuits against the fossil fuel industry over the harms caused by climate change, our colleague Nate Raymond reports. The DOJ in a pair of lawsuits argued that recent laws that New York and Vermont adopted requiring oil companies to contribute billions of dollars into funds to pay for damage caused by climate change were unconstitutional. New York alone hopes to raise $75 billion through its "superfund" law, which the DOJ called a "transparent monetary-extraction scheme" designed to fund the state's infrastructure projects with money from out-of-state businesses. The DOJ also launched two preemptive cases seeking to stop Hawaii and Michigan from filing planned lawsuits against major oil companies over climate change, cases the administration said would imperil domestic energy production. |
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- Microsoft has hired Jenner & Block, which is fighting back against the Trump administration's legal industry crackdown, switching in a shareholder case from Simpson Thacher, which chose to settle with the White House. Court documents did not give a reason for the change.
- U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Marvin Isgur has been cleared of wrongdoing over allegations that he failed to report that another judge in his court, former U.S. Bankruptcy Judge David Jones, had been in an undisclosed romantic relationship with an attorney at the law firm Jackson Walker.
- U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers' contempt ruling against Apple has created a major new legal headache for the iPhone maker and also requires it to write a check to its adversary in the case: "Fortnite" maker Epic Games. Gonzalez Rogers said Apple must pay legal fees to Epic's legal team, led by Cravath, for the many months the lawyers spent fighting Apple for information about its compliance with an earlier injunction.
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"I just don't understand how that can be fair use."
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—U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria in San Francisco, who appeared skeptical of Meta Platforms' argument that it can legally use copyrighted works without permission to train its artificial intelligence models. Chhabria grilled lawyers for both sides in the case over Meta's request for a ruling that it made "fair use" of books by Junot Diaz, comedian Sarah Silverman and others to train its Llama large language model. The fair use question hangs over several lawsuits brought by authors, news outlets and other copyright owners against companies including Meta, OpenAI and Anthropic. |
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- U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema in Alexandria, Virginia, is set to hear from the DOJ about what remedies it thinks she should impose on Google to restore competition in the digital advertising market, the next phase in blockbuster antitrust litigation against the technology giant.
- Institutional Shareholder Services, a proxy adviser that informs shareholders how to vote on corporate ballot measures, will ask a D.C. Circuit panel to uphold a lower judge's order against a new SEC regulation over proxy advice. The agency has since dropped its appeal, but the National Association of Manufacturers jumped in to defend the ruling.
Court calendars are subject to last-minute docket changes.
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- The Trump administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in its bid to strip temporary protected status for more than 300,000 Venezuelan migrants, a move that would clear the way for their deportation.
- The CFPB has joined with industry groups in asking a federal court to scrap regulations blocking medical debts from consumer credit reports. The CFPB joined two industry groups representing banks, credit unions and credit bureaus in asking a Texas judge to strike down the rule, saying the CFPB had exceeded its legal authority and violated laws governing the crafting of regulations.
- U.S. District Judge William Shubb in Sacramento has granted preliminary approval to the NCAA's $49.3 million settlement with volunteer baseball coaches who said they were owed compensation for years of unpaid work. The settlement will benefit hundreds of baseball coaches who were volunteers at Division I schools from 2018 to 2023.
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- Sidley hired lawyers from A&O Shearman in D.C. and New York, including regulatory and enforcement partner Barbara Stettner and finance partner Chris Jackson.
- Simpson Thacher hired Laura Brett in New York as leader of its advertising advisory and litigation practice. Brett previously was vice president of the national advertising division of BBB National Programs. (Simpson Thacher)
- Weil added New York-based partner Nili Moghaddam to its complex commercial litigation practice. She most recently was at Boies Schiller. (Weil)
- Linklaters brought on Matthew Hodgson as an arbitration partner and head of public international law in London. He previously was at A&O Shearman. (Linklaters)
- Sheppard Mullin picked up tax and executive compensation partner Jared Whalen in Houston from Kirkland. (Sheppard Mullin)
- Massumi + Consoli launched a real estate practice with partners James Morrissey and Kyle Johnson in New York. They previously were at Brown Rudnick. (Massumi + Consoli)
- Beveridge & Diamond added seven lawyers in San Francisco office environmental law firm Barg Coffin Lewis & Trapp. (Beveridge & Diamond)
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DC Wolf, Paul Helms and Caitlyn Campbell of McDermott focus on guidance for companies in the era of artificial intelligence and suggest preparing a plan to address manipulative short-selling of their securities. Read more. |
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