The father of a U.S. Navy lieutenant who died during an aviation training mission alleges Northrop Grumman Corp. lied to the Navy about the safety of its advanced Hawkeye aircraft despite receiving hazard reports on engine failures dating back to 2015.
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Late Navy Lt.'s Dad Says Northrop Lied About Aircraft Safety

By Rae Ann Varona

The father of a U.S. Navy lieutenant who died during an aviation training mission alleges Northrop Grumman Corp. lied to the Navy about the safety of its advanced Hawkeye aircraft despite receiving hazard reports on engine failures dating back to 2015.

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11th Circ. Affirms RaceTrac Win In Worker's FMLA Bias Fight

By Chart Riggall

A split Eleventh Circuit panel has upheld RaceTrac Petroleum's early win in a Family and Medical Leave Act lawsuit filed by a former engineer, finding she never medically certified her abrupt leave from the company, which itself had legitimate business reasons for eliminating her position shortly after she returned to work.

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Combat Arms Earplugs Settlement Moves To Final Resolution

By Jonathan Capriel

More than 249,000 U.S. service members who claimed they suffered permanent hearing loss due to 3M's allegedly faulty combat earplugs have signed onto the $6 billion settlement, boasting "more than 99%" participation, according to a Tuesday announcement by the company.

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Texans Change Owners One Month After Son's Suit Dropped

By David Steele

Daniel Calhoun "Cal" McNair, whose father, Bob, was co-founder and owner of the NFL's Houston Texans until his death in 2018, assumed ownership of the franchise Tuesday from his mother, Janice, following approval from his fellow team owners at their annual league meeting in Orlando.

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ELEVENTH CIRCUIT

11th Circ. Considers Reviving Urologist's Sex Bias Suit

By Kelcey Caulder

A urologist who alleged gender discrimination led to her removal from the University of Florida's urology department urged the Eleventh Circuit on Tuesday to overturn a district court decision freeing the university and two clinic doctors from claims levied against them in her sex bias suit.

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Student Focused On Claims, Not Classes, 11th Circ. Suggests

By Chart Riggall

Two of three judges on an Eleventh Circuit panel raised doubts Tuesday that Atlanta's Morehouse School of Medicine had failed to accommodate a disabled student, suggesting the student had failed his classes not because of inadequate note-taking services, but because he was too busy preparing to sue the school.

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LITIGATION

MLS Team Owners Discriminate Under One Entity, Coach Says

By David Minsky

A Black coach has urged a New York federal court to not dismiss his race bias lawsuit against the MLS, saying he's suing the correct entity because the teams that he alleged discriminated against him are not independent and are members of one organization.

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Golf Pro Out Of Bounds In Atty Fee Stay Bid, 11th Circ. Told

By Peter McGuire

Media companies have urged the Eleventh Circuit to reject pro golfer Patrick Reed's bid to block their award of attorney fees after defeating the player's defamation suit alleging that journalists' criticism of his recruitment to the Saudi-backed LIV Tour hurt his health and career.

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PEOPLE

Pierson Ferdinand Lands Global Dispute Attys

By Madison Arnold

Pierson Ferdinand LLP, the breakaway law firm launched by former FisherBroyles LLP attorneys, has picked up a pair of partners experienced in international disputes who will be based in New York, Washington, D.C., and Miami.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Series

Spray Painting Makes Me A Better Lawyer

My experiences as an abstract spray paint artist have made me a better litigator, demonstrating — in more ways than one — how fluidity and flexibility are necessary parts of a successful legal practice, says Erick Sandlin at Bracewell.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Approach The Bench: Justice Stewart Blasts Partisan Races

Ohio Supreme Court Justice Melody Stewart has some choice words for a colleague who chose to challenge her reelection bid rather than run for the seat he occupies now.

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Sedgwick Judge Rips Attys 'Playing Games' In Clawback Trial

By Dorothy Atkins

A California federal judge presiding over the Sedgwick LLP trustee's bid to claw back $1.1 million from two ex-partners overruled defense objections to Sedgwick's financial statements, asking, "How am I supposed to do this without numbers?" and telling counsel, "You're playing games with me on this, because I need to see numbers."

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In Abortion Case, Gorsuch Frets 'Rash' Of National Injunctions

By Katie Buehler

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch renewed his criticisms of nationwide injunctions Tuesday, saying a Texas judge's universal order limiting access to popular abortion medication mifepristone turned a potentially small legal challenge into a national debate.

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Trailblazing SEC Commissioner Roberta Karmel Dies At 86

By Jessica Corso

Roberta Karmel, a well-regarded legal scholar who pushed back against early-career sexism to become the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's first female commissioner, died over the weekend at the age of 86, according to the law school where she taught for decades.

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Meridian Capital Taps Former Top Regulator As New CEO

By Henrik Nilsson

Meridian Capital Group announced Tuesday that it has appointed top banking executive and former financial regulator Brian Brooks as its CEO and chairman amid a breakdown in the firm's relationship with Freddie Mac.

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Calif. Atty Tapped To Be RFK Jr.'s Running Mate

By Jack Karp

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Tuesday that a Silicon Valley lawyer will be his running mate as the pair make a longshot bid for the White House this year.

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Trump Hit With Gag Order In NY Criminal Trial After Threats

By Frank G. Runyeon

The New York judge overseeing Donald Trump's hush money case on Tuesday imposed a limited gag order on the former president, barring him from speaking publicly about jurors or witnesses and limiting what he can say about any attorneys in the case, prosecutors, court staff or their families.

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Ex-DOJ Official Clark's Atty Discipline Hearing Begins In DC

By Ali Sullivan

D.C. Bar authorities told a Washington, D.C., ethics panel on Tuesday that former U.S. Department of Justice official Jeffrey Clark attempted to leverage the DOJ to overturn the 2020 presidential election based on a lie, while Clark's attorney denounced the ethics charges against his client as "absurd."

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Fox Rothschild Wants Gag Order To Silence Atty's 'Bombast'

By Tracey Read

Fox Rothschild LLP has doubled down on its request for a gag order against an attorney pursuing a malpractice suit against the firm over allegedly mishandled immigration work, telling a New Jersey federal court that the attorney's "bombast and recklessness needs to end."

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Legal Aid Union Fights Subpoena Over Palestine Resolution

By Andrea Keckley

The New York Civil Liberties Union on Monday backed the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys in its fight against a subpoena from the U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce following the union's adoption of a resolution in support of the Palestinian cause.

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Ex-CLO Must Arbitrate Firing Suit Against Gambling Co. GAN

By Rose Krebs

Online gaming and sports betting company GAN Ltd. has won its bid in California federal court to force its former chief legal officer into arbitration over claims in his wrongful firing complaint alleging his termination was motivated in part by his whistleblowing and objections to a hostile work environment.

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Girardi Fraud Trial Moved To Aug. 6

By Emily Lever

A California federal judge has agreed to postpone disgraced California plaintiffs attorney Tom Girardi's trial to Aug. 6, setting the proceedings to begin 16 months later than originally required at the outset of the case.

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Meta, Porn Stars Fight Over Fate Of OnlyFans Suit

By Bryan Koenig

Meta traded barbs with adult entertainment performers about how to end a suit claiming the social media giant conspired with OnlyFans to boost the risqué platform over competitors, with the performers fighting to drop their California federal court allegations in a way that they could still be refiled.

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Judge Declines 'Mini-Trial' Over Fees In 'Reply All' TM Suit

By Andrew Karpan

A federal magistrate judge in Brooklyn has awarded nearly $1.1 million in legal fees to Spotify's Gimlet Media while calling out "the extensive finger-pointing and mutual accusations" from a software company and its lawyers over who owes fees after bringing a failed trademark suit targeting the "Reply All" podcast.

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Ailing Health Co. Steward Owes Attys $600K, Firm Says

By Julie Manganis

A small Boston law firm that represented Steward Health Care System in a variety of cases says the beleaguered healthcare provider has strung it along with promises to pay fees that now total more than $600,000.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Alger Law APC

Aylstock Witkin

Baker Donelson

Balestriere Fariello

Ballard Spahr

Bracewell LLP

Burnham & Gorokhov

Caldwell Carlson

Chiesa Shahinian

Clifford Chance

Crowell & Moring

Dewey & LeBoeuf

Dobrowski Stafford

Drew Mosley LLC

Ellis George

FisherBroyles

FordHarrison

Fox Rothschild

Gagliano Law Offices

Garcia & Artigliere

Girardi & Keese

Greenbaum Rowe

Hogan Lovells

Hughes Hubbard

Hugo Parker

Jeffer Mangels

Kelley Drye

Kenney & Sams

Kirkland & Ellis

Legare Attwood

Levy Ratner

Littler Mendelson

Marx & Marx

Milberg Coleman

NechelesLaw

O'Melveny & Myers

Perlman Bajandas

Pierson Ferdinand LLP

Pillsbury Winthrop

Proskauer Rose

Quinn Emanuel

Sedgwick LLP

Shullman Fugate

T. A. Blackburn Law PLLC

Tanenbaum Keale

Tarolli Sundheim

Thomas & LoCicero

Wilentz Goldman

Wolf Greenfield

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

3M Co.

AMB Sports & Entertainment LLC

Alliance Defending Freedom

Apple Inc.

Associated Press

Binance.US

Bitfury Group Ltd.

Brooklyn Law School

Buck Institute for Research on Aging

Cerberus Capital Management LP

Coinbase Global Inc.

Collins Aerospace Inc.

Conde Nast Publications Inc.

Federal National Mortgage Association

Freddie Mac

GAN Ltd.

Gannett Co. Inc.

George Washington University

Gimlet Media LLC

Google LLC

Harvard University

Houston Texans

Instagram Inc.

LinkedIn Corp.

Meridian Capital Group LLC

Meta Platforms Inc.

New York Civil Liberties Union

New York University

Northrop Grumman Corp.

OneWest Bank Group LLC

PGA TOUR Inc.

RaceTrac Petroleum

Smurfit-Stone Container Corp.

Spotify Technology SA

Steward Health Care System LLC

The District of Columbia Bar

The Florida Bar

The Golf Channel LLC

United Auto Workers

YouTube Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Committee on Education and the Workforce

Commonwealth of Massachusetts

European Union

Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

Federal Housing Finance Agency

Food and Drug Administration

Manhattan District Attorney's Office

New Jersey Attorney General's Office

Office of the Comptroller of the Currency

Ohio Supreme Court

Permanent Court of Arbitration

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California

U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. Navy

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Supreme Court

 



 



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