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- Judge Robert Conrad, the director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts said the judiciary currently estimates it could sustain operations only through October 3. Read the memo here.
- Amid shutdown threats in recent years, the judiciary had projected that it could sustain operations for several weeks by relying on fees and other available balances, should a lapse in congressionally authorized appropriations take place.
- Conrad acknowledged the short duration was a "very sharp change" from how the courts were able to sustain paid operations for the entirety of a five-week shutdown that began in December 2018 during President Trump's first administration. But he said tight budgets in recent years had reduced the availability of balances that could fund paid operations during a shutdown.
- The memo was issued a day after Trump scrapped a meeting with top congressional Democratic leaders to discuss government funding, raising the risk of a partial government shutdown. Lawmakers are at odds over so-called discretionary funding, which accounts for about one-quarter of the roughly $7 trillion federal budget.
- Nate Raymond has more on what a partial shutdown could mean for the judiciary.
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- A trial will begin in Kansas state court in a case brought by the Center for Reproductive Rights challenging the state's restrictions on abortion access. A judge in 2023 blocked a state law requiring healthcare providers to tell patients that medication abortion can be reversed and that abortion is linked to breast cancer while litigation plays out, finding it violated doctors' right to free speech and patients' right to abortion, which the state's highest court recognized in 2019.
- U.S. Magistrate Judge J. Mark Coulson in Baltimore will hold a settlement conference in a lawsuit filed by the family of Henrietta Lacks, a woman whose tissue cells were taken from her body in the 1950s without her consent. The family accused Novartis and Viatris of unlawfully profiting from the use of the "HeLa" cells to create drugs that have been "integral to their market presence" without paying or gaining permission from her estate. Read the complaint.
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Court calendars are subject to last-minute docket changes. |
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- A greater share of large U.S. bankruptcy cases are being filed in Dallas and Fort Worth courthouses, with the Northern District of Texas surpassing busy courts in New York and New Jersey over the past twelve months. Dietrich Knauth has more.
- Humana is on the hook to pay more than $32 million to attorneys for a tipster who won a $90 million settlement from the insurance giant on behalf of the U.S. government, even as another case threatens to wipe out the federal whistleblower provision that allowed for the payouts. Read this week's Billable Hours.
- Former top federal defender Kathryn Nester has been tapped to represent Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old accused of murdering Charlie Kirk earlier this month. Find out more.
- Moves: Sarah Kahn, co-chair of DLA Piper's aerospace, defense and government services transactional practice, moved to Sheppard Mullin … Holland & Hart added commercial litigation partner Daniel Graham from Perkins Coie … Trial partner Seth Rokosky joined Duane Morris from Gibson Dunn.
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That's how much Amazon will pay in fines and redress to Prime subscribers to settle the FTC's case alleging the retail juggernaut signed users up for the subscription without their consent and made it difficult to cancel. Read more here. |
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"If our judicial officers are not making decisions based on the law and the facts in a case before them, but instead are making decisions based out of fear for their family's safety, that means our entire judicial system is going to start to unravel."
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—Colorado Supreme Court Chief Justice Monica Márquez at a virtual event. Márquez detailed how she and her fellow justices were flooded with threats in 2023 after ruling against President Trump. Read more here. |
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- A group of 18 former U.S. Federal Reserve officials, Treasury secretaries and other top economic officials who served under presidents from both parties urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reject President Trump's petition to allow his unprecedented attempt to fire Fed Governor Lisa Cook to stand. Read the amicus brief here. Cook herself has also asked the high court to reject Trump's attempt to fire her. More on that here.
- Google said it has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to halt key parts of a judge's order that would force major changes to its app store Play, as it prepares to appeal a decision in a lawsuit brought by "Fortnite" maker Epic Games. Read more here.
- Sean "Diddy" Combs' "commercial voyeurism" does not qualify as prostitution, his defense lawyer argued on Thursday in urging a judge to set aside a jury's verdict finding the hip-hop mogul guilty on prostitution charges. Read more about the hearing here.
- The DOJ filed lawsuits against California, New York, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania for not providing their voter registration lists to the department. Read more here.
- U.S. District Judge William Alsup in California preliminarily approved a landmark $1.5 billion settlement in a copyright class action brought by a group of authors against Anthropic over the use of their work in its AI training. Read more here.
- Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI sued rival OpenAI in California federal court for allegedly stealing its trade secrets to gain an unfair advantage in the race to develop AI technology. Read the complaint.
- Forty elite private U.S. universities have convinced U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis in Illinois to dismiss a lawsuit that accused them of conspiring to overcharge for tuition by including the assets of noncustodial parents in determining financial aid. Read the opinion.
- U.S. District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald dismissed "all remaining claims" in a slew of antitrust litigation accusing large banks of conspiring to rig Libor, an interest rate benchmark that once underpinned hundreds of trillions of dollars of transactions, at investors' expense. Read more here.
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Lawmakers asked major U.S. companies, including Apple, Amazon and JPMorgan to explain why they are hiring thousands of foreign workers on H-1B visas while cutting other jobs. Here's a quick summary: |
- Republican Senator Chuck Grassley and Senator Dick Durbin, a Democrat, asked 10 major employers for detailed information on the number of H-1B workers they employ, the wages they are paid, and whether American workers have been displaced in the process.
- "With all of the homegrown American talent relegated to the sidelines, we find it hard to believe that Amazon cannot find qualified American tech workers to fill these positions," the senators wrote to Amazon CEO Andy Jassy. Read more.
- The Trump administration's plan to dramatically raise fees for H-1B visas to as much as $100,000 could also impact other sectors, including engineering, medicine, and academia.
- The influential American Medical Association warned that the high fees could choke off the international physician pipeline. "With the U.S. already facing a shortage of doctors, making it harder for international medical graduates to train and practice here means patients will wait longer and drive farther to get care," said AMA President Bobby Mukkamala. Find out more here.
- The planned regulation, posted on Tuesday, would change an existing lottery process to obtain the visas if demand surpasses supply in a given year, creating wage tiers where higher-paying jobs would have a better chance of being selected. More on that here.
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Jaime Jones, Joseph McNally and Joseph LoCascio of Sidley Austin examine the emerging circuit split on what it means for a claim for healthcare reimbursement to have "resulted from" an anti-kickback statute violation for False Claims Act purposes. Read today's Attorney Analysis. |
Additional writing by Shruthi Krishnamurthy. |
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