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The once low-profile elections for seats on state supreme courts have become prominent abortion battlegrounds since the U.S. Supreme Court's decision overturning Roe v. Wade, our colleague Nate Raymond reports. State supreme courts have the final word on interpreting state constitutions and new constitutional amendments, significantly raising the stakes for elections to their benches - something that in the past drew far less attention and fewer voters than presidential and other races higher on the ballot. Now, advocates on both sides of the abortion issue are targeting judicial races in Michigan and Ohio, two of the 33 states nationwide in which supreme court seats are on the ballot in the Nov. 5 election. Advocacy groups are pouring money into races in states including Montana and North Carolina, where both parties are laying the groundwork for future electoral battles to tilt the courts' makeup, and in Arizona, where two Republican-appointed justices who upheld a 1864 abortion ban hope to retain their seats. Read more about how these elections are being shaped by abortion rights battles. |
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- The growing private credit market is keeping U.S. finance lawyers busy, and a recent string of alliances between banks and non-bank lenders and an expansion into asset-based financings could drive more work their way. Sara Merken has the story.
- New York attorney regulators suspended the law license of Kenneth Chesebro, a former attorney for Donald Trump's 2020 presidential campaign, after he pleaded guilty last year to charges stemming from his efforts to overturn the former U.S. president's defeat in the state of Georgia.
- Vinson & Elkins said it is opening an office in Denver, eyeing energy, technology and real estate work in a legal market attracting other large firms.
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That's how much a Pennsylvania man allegedly made for using tips from his domestic partner to illegally trade ahead of CVS Health's $9.5 billion purchase last year of primary care provider Oak Street Health. Authorities said the man's partner, a senior Oak Street executive, shared material, nonpublic information about the planned takeover. The partner was not charged. |
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Remember the brouhaha last summer when Disney tried to force a widower out of court and into arbitration for a wrongful death claim against a restaurant that allegedly served his wife food that triggered a fatal allergic reaction? Faced with a PR nightmare, Disney eventually caved. But it's hardly the only defendant, writes Alison Frankel, to test the bounds of an arbitration clause in a consumer contract. Just ask four friends of a generous Philadelphia Eagles fan who bought tickets for a group of buddies to attend a Washington Commanders game. The friends filed a lawsuit when a railing broke and they fell to the stadium floor. Here's what the 4th Circuit had to say. |
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"You can't make war and peace at the same time."
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—Shelley Chapman, a mediator, who told a U.S. bankruptcy judge that Purdue Pharma is close to a new bankruptcy settlement with its owners, members of the Sackler family, and state and local governments that have filed lawsuits alleging that OxyContin spurred the opioid addiction crisis. Chapman also urged U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Sean Lane to extend a freeze on opioid lawsuits against the Sacklers, saying that allowing lawsuits to resume would undermine settlement talks. |
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The D.C. Circuit will hear a challenge to EPA's final rule establishing renewable fuel standards for 2023 to 2025 and amending other regulations for the Renewable Fuel Standard program. The challengers include American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers and Small Refineries Coalition. - New York City Mayor Eric Adams is due in federal court in Manhattan for a hearing on his effort to dismiss the bribery charge against him. Adams has pleaded not guilty to charges of accepting bribes and illegal campaign contributions from Turkish nationals.
- The DOJ is due to respond to Ozy Media and its founder Carlos Watson in their bid to force a federal judge to step aside from their case and throw out their securities fraud convictions. Ozy and Watson claimed the judge had a financial stake in four companies alleged to have been victims of their offenses through his investments in hedge funds managed by his former employer.
- A jury is set to hear opening statements in the trial of former U.S. Marine sergeant Daniel Penny, who is charged with fatally strangling Jordan Neely, a homeless man, with a chokehold in a New York subway car in 2023. Penny, 26, has pleaded not guilty to charges of manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide.
Court calendars are subject to last-minute docket changes.
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- A Pennsylvania state judge declined to immediately move forward with a lawsuit that seeks to stop Elon Musk's $1 million voter giveaway ahead of the election, saying he would place the lawsuit on hold while a federal court considers Musk's bid to move the case out of state court. The ruling likely frees Musk to continue the giveaway until Election Day, but Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner has filed an emergency motion to return the case to state court.
- A group of healthcare providers and women who say they were denied medical care sued Louisiana in an effort to block a law that classified mifepristone and misoprostol, the drugs used in medication abortion, as controlled substances in the state.
- Federal appellate judges signaled skepticism over whether the FCC has the authority to reinstate landmark net neutrality rules, a move that was challenged by groups representing internet service providers.
- Amazon asked a Seattle federal judge to throw out a multibillion-dollar consumer lawsuit that claims the tech company's cloud-based voice service Alexa illegally collected and recorded private conversations without consent.
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- Mayer Brown hired Sheel Patel away from King & Spalding to lead its private credit practice in New York. (Mayer Brown)
- Akin added Elina Alperovich as a New York-based private equity transactions partner. She was previously at Greenberg Traurig. (Akin)
- Leia Galasso jumped to Lowenstein Sandler from Buhler Duggal & Henry. Galasso joins as a partner in the firm's emerging companies and venture capital group in New York. (Lowenstein Sandler)
- Brown Rudnick added white collar defense partner Jonathan Richman in New York. Richman was previously with Proskauer Rose. (Brown Rudnick)
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Law firm leaders are under enormous pressure to nurture and cultivate their people, in an industry that competes on human expertise and intellectual prowess, write Lavinia Calvert of Infinite Global and Gemma Prescott of Intapp. Talent retention today looks different than it did just five or 10 years ago. Here are some considerations for winning the talent war. Read today's Attorney Analysis. | |
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