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By Diana Novak Jones, Mike Scarcella and Sara Merken |
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Attorney Harmeet Dhillon. REUTERS/ Mike Blake |
A small conservative law firm founded in California could have an outsized impact in D.C. when Donald Trump returns to the White House, our colleague David Thomas reports. Trump has tapped two partners from Dhillon Law Group for key legal posts: David Wharrington as his White House counsel and firm founder Harmeet Dhillon as his nominee to lead the Justice Department's civil rights division. Dhillon Law Group, which has grown to a dozen partners since its 2006 founding, handles a mix of constitutional law and business cases. Dhillon and Warrington represented Trump before the congressional committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. The firm has also represented Elon Musk's X, the Republican National Committee and the National Association for Gun Rights. |
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- The Florida Bar is poised to replace its "diversity and inclusion" policy with a more general policy focused on "the quality of legal services" amid pressure from the Florida Supreme Court to curb its DEI efforts.
- The U.S. Senate spurned President Biden's nomination of National Labor Relations Board Chair Lauren McFerran for a new term, enabling President-elect Donald Trump to cement Republican control of the agency soon after taking office.
- Students for Fair Admissions, a group founded by affirmative action opponent Edward Blum, is suing the U.S. Air Force Academy in federal court in Colorado. The lawsuit, filed by the conservative firm Consovoy McCarthy, challenges the academy's consideration of race and ethnicity in admissions.
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That's the termination fee Albertsons is seeking from rival grocer Kroger after two different courts on Tuesday blocked their $25 billion proposed merger, finding the combination would eliminate competition and lead to higher prices. Albertsons also asked for billions in damages in a breach of contract lawsuit alleging Kroger failed to take "any and all actions" to get the deal approved. |
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An already-vicious battle between Fox Corp's streaming subsidiary Tubi and mass arbitration pioneer Keller Postman reached new heights of vitriol on Tuesday. Keller Postman filed a motion to disqualify and sanction Tubi's lawyers at Jenner & Block, asserting that Jenner breached California ethics rules by engaging an ex-FBI agent to interview nearly two dozen Keller clients who had dropped their demands for arbitration against Tubi. Jenner told Alison Frankel on Wednesday that it did nothing wrong – and that interviews with onetime arbitration claimants prove Tubi's allegations that Keller Postman filed frivolous arbitration demands without informed consent from its clients. |
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"Justice delayed is justice denied."
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—An unsigned majority ruling in the 5th Circuit, which lamented how long it took the en banc court to rule after oral argument in a matter involving Exxon. The divided appeals court rejected the company's bid to overturn a $14.25 million civil penalty that a judge imposed in a 13-year-old lawsuit over air pollution at its Baytown, Texas, crude oil refinery. A three-judge panel in 2022 upheld the penalty. |
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- The 6th Circuit is scheduled to take up challenges by major broadband trade groups to a new FCC rule addressing data breach reporting requirements for telecommunications service providers.
- In San Jose, California, U.S. District Judge Eumi Lee will weigh Apple's bid to dismiss a consumer lawsuit accusing it of unlawfully monopolizing the market for cloud storage on its mobile devices, forcing the iPhone maker's customers to pay artificially high prices.
- U.S. District Judge Mary Rowland in Chicago will meet with the lawyers in the hair relaxer products liability litigation for a discussion about evidence collection and sharing. Thousands of Black women claim hair relaxers gave them cancer.
Court calendars are subject to last-minute docket changes.
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- The Biden administration urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reject efforts by oil companies and Republican state attorneys general to prevent state and local governments from pursuing lawsuits accusing the fossil fuel producers of deceiving the public about climate change.
- The U.S. Supreme Court sidestepped a decision on whether to allow shareholders to proceed with a securities fraud lawsuit accusing artificial intelligence chipmaker Nvidia of misleading investors about how much of its sales depended on the volatile cryptocurrency market.
- A 9th Circuit ruling said HHS overstepped its authority when it boosted Medicare reimbursements to hospitals in low-wage areas to help them recruit and retain staff. The 2-1 court panel found that HHS's 2020 policy shift ran afoul of the law governing Medicare.
- A California federal judge said users of Tinder and other Match Group-owned dating apps who accused the companies of deceptively hooking consumers must pursue their claims in individual arbitrations rather than a federal court class action.
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- Morrison Foerster added partners Peter Fusco, Jae Zhou and Frank Paz to its emerging companies and venture capital practice in New York. The trio joined from Goodwin Procter. (Reuters)
- Foley & Lardner added IP partner Brian Tomkins in the firm's New York office. Tomkins was previously at Lerner David. (Foley & Lardner)
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The energy industry is navigating a shift in focus to digital and sustainable technologies, making for new challenges that include litigation risk in the climate, cybersecurity and corporate espionage sectors, write Lauren Varnado and Matthew Richardson of Brown Rudnick. Read today's Attorney Analysis. |
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