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Retired Justice Stephen Breyer is not ready to hang up his robe -- at least not completely. Breyer began a two-day stint on Wednesday as a visiting judge at the Boston-based 1st Circuit, the appeals court he served on before joining the nation's highest court three decades ago, our colleague Nate Raymond reports. "Just walking around this morning looking at the harbor from the court, I thought, well, it's old home week. Here we are," Breyer told a packed courtroom. "And it's terribly nice, terribly nice." Breyer stepped down from the high court in 2022 following the confirmation of President Joe Biden's pick Ketanji Brown Jackson. Breyer is following in the footsteps of his friend and former colleague David Souter, a New Hampshire native who frequently sat on 1st Circuit panels after leaving the Supreme Court in 2009. He last did so in March 2020. Breyer's cases include a challenge to an ordinance approved by Bar Harbor, Maine, that limits the number of cruise ship passengers who can come ashore to 1,000 per day. |
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- Justice Samuel Alito said he spoke to Donald Trump by phone on Tuesday to recommend a former law clerk for a job in a government position. Alito said he and Trump did not discuss the U.S. president-elect's legal woes.
- Jay-Z on asked a federal judge in Manhattan to sanction Houston attorney Tony Buzbee, who filed a lawsuit accusing the rap mogul and fellow rapper Sean "Diddy" Combs of raping a 13-year-old girl during a party in 2000. Buzbee called the sanctions bid a "frantic filing" that "reeks of desperation."
- ZwillGen, a law firm that focuses on technology and privacy law, opened an artificial intelligence division with the acquisition of attorneys and data scientists from small firm Luminos.Law.
- Meta hired Ethan Davis, a former King & Spalding partner and senior DOJ official from Donald Trump's first presidential administration, to manage its worldwide litigation strategy.
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That's the number of acres of Alaskan refuge available for leasing by oil and gas drillers at a planned U.S. auction this month. Alaska sued the Biden administration for what it calls violations of a Congressional directive to allow oil and gas development in a portion of the federal Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The lawsuit said curbs on surface use and occupancy make it "impossible or impracticable to develop" 400,000 acres of land the Interior Department intends to auction. |
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"Thuggish tactics." "Campaign of lies." A sense of anger thrums throughout the 93-page lawsuit by U.S. Steel and Nippon Steel against rival steel maker Cleveland-Cliffs, its CEO and the president of the United Steelworkers union. Claiming antitrust and RICO violations for allegedly subverting their now-scuttled merger, the plaintiffs say damages could run in the billions of dollars. But making the claims stick could prove tricky, Jenna Greene writes in "On the Case." |
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"This is the most significant free speech case in at least a generation."
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- Many U.S. courts have postponed hearings amid the nationwide day of mourning for the late President Jimmy Carter. A memorial service will be held today at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. Carter's four years in office were marked by a record number of women and people of color being named to serve on the federal bench, making him the first president to significantly diversify the judiciary.
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- Google failed to persuade a federal judge to dismiss a privacy class action claiming it collected personal data from people's cell phones after they switched off a button to stop the tracking, paving the way for a possible August trial.
- The DOJ will not make public for now Special Counsel Jack Smith's report on Donald Trump's retention of classified records, citing the ongoing prosecutions of two associates of the president-elect. AG Merrick Garland plans for now to publicly release only the first section of the report related to Trump's efforts to subvert the 2020 presidential election.
- Bankrupt prison healthcare company Wellpath received court approval to spin off its behavioral health division to a group of its lenders. The lender group will acquire Wellpath Recovery Solutions in exchange for canceling about $375 million of Wellpath's debt.
- JP Morgan filed two lawsuits over its investment in fintech Viva Wallet, the latest twist in a legal dispute between the two sides over how to value the Greek business.
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- Winston hired Miami-based transactions partner Juan Delgado from Sidley Austin. (Winston)
- Morrison & Foerster added executive compensation and benefits partners Crescent Chasteen and Rachel Smith in the firm's Boston office. They were previously at Goodwin. (Morrison & Foerster)
- K&L Gates hired Fei Shen as a partner in its IP practice. Shen joins the firm's Orange County, California, office from Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton. (K&L Gates)
- Eckert Seamans added Brian Lynch as a member to its business counseling practice group. He joins the firm's Boston office from Rudolph Friedmann. (Eckert Seamans)
- Clara Feldman joined Blank Rome as chair of its new luxury brands practice in New York. She previously had her own boutique firm. (Blank Rome)
>> More moves to share? Please drop us a note at LegalCareerTracker@thomsonreuters.com.
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Last year was a busy one for state regulatory agencies and legislatures as they addressed workers' compensation rates and laws. Alan Brackett and Noah Borer of Mouledoux, Bland, Legrand & Brackett recap some of the changes set to take effect this year. Read today's Attorney Analysis. |
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