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The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments over whether to revive a New Jersey crisis pregnancy center operator's bid to block the state's attorney general from investigating whether it deceived clients into believing it offered abortions. Here's what to know: |
- The justices will hear an appeal by First Choice Women's Resource Centers of a lower court's ruling that the Christian faith-based organization must first contest New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin's subpoena in state court before bringing a federal lawsuit challenging it.
- First Choice, which has five locations in New Jersey, has argued that it has a right to bring its case in federal court because it was alleging a violation of its federal rights to free speech and free association under the First Amendment.
- Crisis pregnancy centers provide services to pregnant people with the goal of preventing them from having abortions. Such centers do not advertise their anti-abortion stance, and abortion rights advocates have called them deceptive.
- The case provides a test of the ability of state authorities to regulate these businesses.
- First Choice is represented by Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative legal group that has brought other cases on behalf of anti-abortion plaintiffs including an effort to restrict distribution of the abortion pill that has since been taken over by Republican states.
- On Monday, in a separate case, the 2nd Circuit upheld a ruling allowing crisis pregnancy centers to continue telling women about an unproven treatment to reverse the effects of the abortion pill mifepristone, blocking efforts by New York's attorney general to crackdown on what she has called false and misleading statements. ADF also represents the plaintiffs in that case. Read the 2nd Circuit opinion here.
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- The 2nd Circuit will consider whether a school district violated a mother's constitutional rights by not disclosing to her that her 12-year-old child had elected to use a preferred name and gender-neutral pronouns to avoid "outing" the student's gender identity. Read the lower court decision.
- The 5th Circuit will consider whether to overturn a currently-stayed injunction that blocks Texas from enforcing a Republican-backed election security law enacted in 2021 that bars "vote harvesting." Read the order.
- The 7th Circuit will consider whether to extend its administrative stay which put a temporary stop to the release of several hundred immigrants in ICE custody. U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Cummings ruled in October and November that ICE violated a 2022 consent decree by conducting warrantless arrests in the Chicago area. ICE argues that the lower court rulings unlawfully restricted their operations.
- The 9th Circuit will hear the government's appeal of a preliminary injunction that ordered it to reverse millions of dollars in cuts to mental health services for school children. Read the lower court order here.
- U.S. District Judge Richard Stearns in Boston will consider whether to permanently block the Trump administration from diverting more than $4 billion from a grant program designed to protect communities against natural disasters. Stearns previously issued a preliminary injunction preventing the government from spending money allocated to the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program for other purposes.
- Cleveland Guardians pitchers Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz are due in Brooklyn federal court for a hearing in a case accusing them of rigging bets on their pitches.
- SEC Chairman Paul Atkins will ring the opening bell and deliver remarks at the NYSE.
- The heads of the Federal Reserve, FDIC and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency will testify before the House Financial Services Committee.
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- Legal technology firm Fastcase sued its rival Alexi, accusing the company of breaching a data licensing agreement, misappropriating trade secrets and infringing trademarks as it vied to scale up an AI-powered research platform for lawyers. Read more here.
- Moves: Energy and infrastructure partner Jamal Lama returned to Gibson Dunn from Ares Management ... Squire Patton Boggs hired patent litigation trial partner Soumitra Deka from DLA Piper … Life sciences transactions partner George Jenkins moved to Arnold & Porter from Covington & Burling … Greenberg Traurig hired private equity partners Robert Graham from Katten Muchin Rosenman and Francesco Castaldi from Kirkland & Ellis.
- New partners: Dechert elevated 17 attorneys to partnership.
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—That's how much Starbucks has agreed to pay to settle claims by New York City that it violated a local law requiring fast food businesses to give workers predictable and stable schedules. The settlement, which caps a three-year investigation by the city, is the largest involving a worker protection law in New York City's history, according to Mayor Eric Adams' office. Read more here. |
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"Your client's sort of laissez-faire attitude towards the respondents is probably what got the jury upset."
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—U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor to Cox Communications attorney Joshua Rosenkranz during oral arguments on Monday. Some justices, like Sotomayor, appeared to agree with record labels that Cox was particularly lax in addressing user copyright infringement. But the justices also questioned whether holding Cox liable for failing to cut off infringers could impact a wide range of innocent internet users. Read more about the oral arguments here. |
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- The 3rd Circuit ruled that Alina Habba, a former personal lawyer to President Trump, was unlawfully appointed as the top federal prosecutor in New Jersey and disqualified her from supervising cases. Read the opinion.
- Former immigration judge Tania Nemer filed a lawsuit claiming she was wrongfully fired by the Trump administration which she says relied on an "unjust" belief that the president can legally discriminate against federal workers based on their sex, national origin and political affiliation. Read the complaint.
- Costco sued the U.S. government to ensure it will receive refunds if the U.S. Supreme Court rejects President Trump's bid for sweeping authority to impose tariffs.
- Lawyers representing Venezuela, refiner Citgo Petroleum and its parent companies have filed appeals before the 3rd Circuit challenging an order last week from a Delaware judge that authorized the sale of PDV Holding's shares. Read more here.
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