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No matter who wins the U.S. presidential election, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump will face one similar reality: fewer opportunities to reshape the federal judiciary, our colleague Nate Raymond reports. By the time Democratic President Joe Biden leaves office, he and Trump, his Republican predecessor, will have appointed within just eight years about half of all 890 life-tenured federal judges nationally. Trump named three U.S. Supreme Court justices to Biden's one, giving it a 6-3 conservative supermajority. Both presidents favored younger appointees overall on the judiciary, creating a generational shift on the federal bench. Thanks to these demographics, the supply of judges eligible to take "senior status" – a form of semi-retirement judges can take at 65 after 15 years of judicial service that creates a vacancy on the bench for the president to fill – is shrinking. |
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- New Hampshire Supreme Court Justice Anna Barbara Hantz Marconi was indicted on charges that she attempted to interfere with a criminal investigation into her husband, the longtime director of the New Hampshire Division of Ports and Harbors. Her lawyers said she was innocent and "did not violate any law or rule."
- A blockbuster job market for new law grads in 2023 did not alleviate racial and ethnicity disparities in employment rates, data released by the National Association for Law Placement shows. Even as the gaps narrowed for most minority groups, the employment disparity between white and Latino law grads increased from the previous year.
- Covington registered to lobby in the U.S. Congress for Actblue, the fundraising platform and political action committee used by Democratic campaigns. Actblue will respond to Republican-sponsored legislation to tighten rules for donations by credit and debit cards.
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That's around how much RTX agreed to pay to resolve federal charges it defrauded the U.S. Department of Defense into overpaying for defense systems and bribed an official in Qatar to secure business from the country's air force. The aerospace and defense company's Raytheon unit entered into two deferred prosecution agreements to resolve criminal charges filed by the DOJ in federal courts in Boston and Brooklyn. Read more. |
Short sellers pursuing securities fraud claims in Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Utah and Wyoming got two kinds of bad news in a 10th Circuit ruling issued on Monday in a case against online retailer Overstock. Alison Frankel has an analysis. |
"Companies shouldn't be able to trick you into paying for subscriptions that you don't want." |
— FTC Chair Lina Khan in an interview with Reuters, as the agency adopted a final rule requiring businesses to make it as easy to cancel subscriptions and memberships as it is to sign up. The "click to cancel" rule requires retailers, gyms and other businesses to get consumers' consent for subscriptions, auto-renewals and free trials that convert to paid memberships. Read more from the interview with our colleague Jody Godoy. |
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- U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Brendan Shannon in Delaware will hold a hearing in Tupperware's proposed bankruptcy. The Orlando-based company filed for bankruptcy protection last month, with $818 million in debt and a plan to find a buyer within 30 days.
- In the D.C. Circuit, a panel will hear arguments from airport operators alleging the TSA has not justified its decision to shift "virtually all" aviation worker screening to them. The airports in a filing said the agency had given "no consideration of the risk of catastrophic liability" imposed on them.
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Court calendars are subject to last-minute docket changes. |
- Energy company Phillips 66 owes biofuel maker Propel Fuels $604.9 million in damages for stealing Propel's trade secrets to build up its renewable-fuel capabilities, a jury in a California state court decided.
- The Nebraska Supreme Court upheld a state law allowing felons who have completed their sentences to vote, enabling thousands more people to cast ballots in the Nov. 5 U.S. presidential election.
- Novartis lost a bid to keep a generic version of its top-selling heart failure drug Entresto off the U.S. market by blocking regulators from approving it, though the generic's launch faces other legal roadblocks. Novartis said in a statement that it disagreed with the ruling and is appealing the decision.
- A team from Venable is representing SpaceX in a lawsuit in Los Angeles federal court accusing a California agency of political bias in curbing the number of Falcon 9 launches from a U.S. air base in the state.
- The U.S. Supreme Court declined to pause a new federal rule targeting carbon pollution from coal- and gas-fired power plants at the request of numerous states and industry groups in another major challenge to President Joe Biden's efforts to combat climate change. The justices denied emergency requests to halt the EPA rule while litigation continues in a lower court.
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- Redgrave added a 10-lawyer e-discovery team, including partners Robert Keeling, Ray Mangum and Kristen Knapp, from Sidley. Keeling, who was a founder and leader of Sidley's e-discovery and data analytics group, will be a member of Redgrave's executive committee. (Reuters)
- Jenner hired bankruptcy partners Doug Spelfogel in New York and Derek Wright in Chicago from Mayer Brown. Spelfogel will co-chair Jenner's bankruptcy and restructuring practice. (Reuters)
- Frost Brown Todd added D.C.-based partner Mason Clutter, who most recently was the chief privacy officer at the Department of Homeland Security. (Frost Brown Todd)
- McCarter & English combined with Connecticut IP firm Harrington & Smith. The group of six lawyers and five professional staff members includes partners Mark Harrington, Wayne Grohs and Robert Mauri. (McCarter and English)
- Polsinelli added Philadelphia-based energy partner Christine Soares from Merck, where she was a director for commercial legal and compliance issues. (Polsinelli)
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Privacy policies and privacy notices can cause fear and doubt for organizations and their compliance professionals and lawyers, but it does not have to be so, writes John Bandler of Bandler Law Firm. Read today's Attorney Analysis. | |
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