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As Donald Trump hustles to build his Cabinet, one job stands out: the attorney general who will support his agenda of mass deportations, pardoning Jan. 6 rioters and seeking retribution against those who prosecuted him over the past four years. Trump and his transition team aim to build a DOJ packed with loyalists after he is sworn in on Jan. 20. Mark Paoletta, a conservative attorney leading the planning, has already warned career department employees to be ready to support Trump's agenda or lose their jobs. "Donald Trump is coming into power for a second time armed with experience, with a chip on his shoulder and armed with a Supreme Court ruling on immunity. He is going to bend and twist and push the boundaries of presidential power anywhere and everywhere he wants to," Bradley Moss, an attorney specializing in national security law, told our colleagues Tim Reid and Sarah N. Lynch. Here's who is on Trump's short list. |
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- The U.S. Senate's Democratic majority has begun a crusade to confirm as many new federal judges nominated by President Joe Biden as possible to avoid leaving vacancies that Donald Trump could fill after taking office on Jan. 20. Nate Raymond has the story.
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office director Kathi Vidal said in a social media post that she will leave the office in mid-December ahead of the incoming Trump administration.
- Milbank, which has staked a claim in recent years as a bellwether law firm for associate compensation, has again moved first in the industry by announcing year-end bonuses up to $115,000.
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That's how much H&R Block agreed to pay to settle multiple FTC charges, including that it deceived many taxpayers into believing they could file their taxes online for free. The settlement requires the largest U.S. tax preparation service to disclose in advertising either the percentage of taxpayers eligible for free products or that a majority does not qualify. Read more. |
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As corporate defendants continue to test the limits of their power to force plaintiffs into arbitration, a California federal judge has drawn a bright red line: Parents of grade-school children can't be compelled to arbitrate privacy claims against an educational technology company merely because they sent their kids to public school. Alison Frankel has the story of Judge Rita Lin's rejection of an audacious theory asserted by ed tech company IXL. |
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"Each of the plaintiffs' minor children will be forced in every practical sense, through Louisiana's required attendance policy, to be a 'captive audience.'"
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—U.S. District Judge John deGravelles, who declared unconstitutional a Louisiana law requiring that the Ten Commandments be displayed in all public school classrooms in the state. The judge said the law conflicted with U.S. Supreme Court precedent, and violated the religious rights of people who opposed the displays. |
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- The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in a bid by Nvidia to avoid a securities fraud lawsuit accusing the AI chipmaker of misleading investors about how much of its sales went to the volatile cryptocurrency industry. The court last week grappled with a bid by Meta's Facebook to scuttle a separate federal securities fraud case.
- A Houston bankruptcy judge is holding a hearing to consider appointing a Chapter 11 trustee to oversee the insolvency of Texas plaintiffs' firm MMA, formerly known as McClenny, Moseley and Associates. A pair of hedge funds that provided MMA with more than $30 million in litigation financing are pushing for the trustee's appointment after MMA's attorneys were suspended from practice in Louisiana over their alleged mishandling of thousands of hurricane property insurance lawsuits.
Court calendars are subject to last-minute docket changes.
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- Johnson & Johnson sued the U.S. Health and Human Services Department, accusing the agency of blocking its plan to sell its psoriasis treatment Stelara and blood thinner Xarelto to some hospitals at full price before applying drug rebates. J&J said in its lawsuit that some health providers are misusing federal drug-discount program 340B.
- The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a bid by landlord groups to challenge rent stabilization laws in New York City that cap rent hikes and make it harder to evict tenants. The court also rejected a bid in a separate case to revive a novel lawsuit by 21 young people claiming the U.S. government's energy policies violate their rights to be protected from climate change.
- Sarah Palin and the New York Times have explored trying to settle Palin's defamation case against the newspaper, their lawyers said at a hearing. In the meantime, U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff in Manhattan scheduled a retrial for April after a federal appeals court tossed the case's original verdict in the Times' favor.
- The City of San Francisco convinced a federal magistrate judge to temporarily block the Port of Oakland from using "San Francisco" in the Oakland airport's name after he found that changing the name of Metropolitan Oakland International Airport to "San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport" would likely mislead consumers into thinking it is connected with the city of San Francisco.
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- Former FTX General Counsel Ryne Miller has joined law firm Lowenstein Sandler amid rekindled enthusiasm for cryptocurrencies following Donald Trump's presidential election win. (Reuters)
- Edelson PC, the firm that accused prominent plaintiffs' lawyer Tom Girardi of stealing settlement funds belonging to his clients, hired Ali Moghaddas, a California federal prosecutor who helped secure Girardi's conviction on related criminal charges in August. (Reuters)
- Freshfields hired former associate deputy U.S. attorney general Austin Evers, who helped manage the Biden DOJ's legislative response amid a GOP-led House, to co-lead its congressional investigations practice. (Reuters)
- Cadwalader added corporate partner Jaye Kasper in New York. She previously was at Kirkland. (Cadwalader)
- Foley & Lardner announced the addition of securities enforcement and litigation partner Jose Sanchez in Los Angeles from Deloitte Global, where he was Americas lead counsel and senior managing director. (Foley & Lardner)
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The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network has implemented new regulations to combat money laundering by terrorists, enemy nations and other bad actors that business and real estate professionals may not be aware of but that their clients need to comply with, writes Robert Steeg of Steeg Law Firm. Read Today's Attorney Analysis. |
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