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The Tenth Circuit backed the U.S. Department of Labor's win in an enforcement case against a defunct construction firm and its owner alleging retirement plan mismanagement, ruling Tuesday that a Utah federal court properly ended the case after the defendants' repeated failures to respond to court orders.
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10th Circ. Backs DOL Win In Construction Co. Retirement Suit

By Kellie Mejdrich

The Tenth Circuit backed the U.S. Department of Labor's win in an enforcement case against a defunct construction firm and its owner alleging retirement plan mismanagement, ruling Tuesday that a Utah federal court properly ended the case after the defendants' repeated failures to respond to court orders.

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Amazon Worker Says Military Class Ruling Needs Reopening

By Emmy Freedman

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to weigh in on a case that would have had an impact on a former Amazon employee's request for class status in her military leave suit, the worker told a New York federal court, saying it should reopen her suit and approve class treatment.

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Nev. Pension Plan Urges 9th Circ. To Ax DOJ Military Bias Suit

By Irene Spezzamonte

Pension credits bought by military service members aren't an accrued benefit under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act, Nevada's public employee retirement system argued, urging the Ninth Circuit not to revive the U.S. Department of Justice's suit alleging the state and system overcharged employees for the credits.

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Ill. Judge Questions Standing In Biogen Antitrust Suit

By Lauraann Wood

An Illinois federal judge seemed skeptical Tuesday that health benefit plans accusing Biogen of impairing competition for its multiple sclerosis drug, Tecfidera, have standing to bring their lawsuit under decades-old precedent allowing only direct purchasers to recoup damages.

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LITIGATION

Match.com Settles Reverse Spinoff Suit For $30M In Del.

By Jeff Montgomery

A mediator-recommended, $30 million settlement proposal has tentatively ended a five-year Delaware Court of Chancery stockholder challenge to the fairness of Match.com's 2019 reverse spinoff from the Barry Diller-controlled IAC/Interactive.

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First Republic Brass Beat Investor Suit Over Bank Failure

By Katryna Perera

A California federal judge dismissed for good a shareholder suit against the former directors and officers of now-failed First Republic Bank and its auditor over the lender's 2023 collapse, finding that the plaintiffs failed to first exhaust their required administrative remedies and, therefore, the court does not have jurisdiction to hear the case.

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Target, Campbell's End Chicken-Price Fix Suit With Mar-Jac

By Gina Kim

Target Corp. and The Campbell's Co. are the latest broiler chicken purchasers to permanently end their price-fixing claims Monday against poultry processor giant Mar-Jac Inc. in a decade-old sprawling antitrust litigation claiming broiler chicken producers acted in concert to limit chicken production to raise prices and exchange sales volume information with each other.

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Atty Accuses City Of 'Game-y' Tactics In Race Bias Settlement

By Hayley Fowler

A North Carolina employment attorney accused the city of Charlotte in federal court Tuesday of being "game-y" by trying to change a Black fire chief's racial bias settlement after both sides agreed to certain terms, saying she wouldn't make him sign something that didn't reflect those promises.

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PEOPLE

Ex-Fidelity Associate GC Returns To Mayer Brown In Chicago

By Jack Rodgers

Mayer Brown LLP has rehired the former co-chair of its practice focused on retirement benefit matters, who returns to the firm after helping to lead a team of attorneys at Fidelity Investments responsible for health and retirement plan litigation.

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Longtime Reed Smith Employment Pro Joins Fisher Phillips

By James Boyle

An attorney who has focused his career on advising clients on employment and labor matters recently moved his practice to Fisher Phillips' Pittsburgh office after 13 years with Reed Smith LLP.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

What Parity Rule Freeze Means For Plan Sponsors

In light of a District of Columbia federal court’s recent decision to stay litigation challenging a Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act final rule, as well as federal agencies' subsequent decision to hold off on enforcement, attorneys at Morgan Lewis discuss the statute’s evolution and what plan sponsors and participants can expect going forward.

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Del. Corporate Âé¶¹´«Ã½ Rework May Not Stem M&A Challenges

While Delaware's S.B. 21 introduced significant changes regarding controllers and conflicted transactions by limiting what counts as a controlling stake and improving safe harbors, which would seem to narrow the opportunities to challenge a transaction as conflicted, plaintiffs bringing shareholder derivative claims may merely become more resourceful in asserting them, say attorneys at Debevoise.

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Calif. Bar Exam Fiasco Shows Why Attys Must Disclose AI Use

The recent revelation that a handful of questions from the controversial California bar exam administered in February were drafted using generative artificial intelligence demonstrates the continued importance of disclosure for attorneys who use AI tools, say attorneys at Troutman.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Ex-Judges Urge High Court To Protect Right To Counsel

By Cara Salvatore

A group of six high-profile retired judges urged the Supreme Court to protect criminal defendants' right to consult with counsel during overnight trial recesses, saying a current "patchwork" of practices in this area is bad for judges as well as defendants.

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Analysis

DOJ's Focus On Cartels Raises Compliance Risks For US Cos.

By Phillip Bantz

U.S. corporations with business interests south of the border are increasingly worried about exposure to terrorism-related criminal charges under the Trump administration for inadvertently working with cartels linked to major business sectors throughout Mexico, from energy and manufacturing to financial services, compliance experts tell Âé¶¹´«Ã½360.

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Ex-Copyright Leader Says Firing Risks 'Inoperable' Agency

By Ivan Moreno

The fired leader of the U.S. Copyright Office has asked a D.C. federal judge to block the Trump administration's action while she challenges her termination, arguing that significant functions of the government agency could be rendered "inoperable" without judicial intervention.

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Trump Presses 2nd Circ. To Federalize Hush Money Appeal

By Stewart Bishop

Counsel for President Donald Trump on Wednesday urged the Second Circuit to take over the appeal of his New York state hush money conviction post-trial, saying a federal judge in Manhattan wrongly denied removal, and the landscape has now changed in light of the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark presidential immunity decision.

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JC Penney Blasts Jackson Walker Bid To Escape Fee Dispute

By Lynn LaRowe

J.C. Penney has called on a Texas bankruptcy court to knock down Jackson Walker LLP's bid to escape a fee suit prompted by a yearslong secret romance between a former firm partner and a onetime bankruptcy judge, saying the firm's dismissal bid is "riddled with implausibility, excuse and contradiction."

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Atty Wants 6th Circ. To Vacate Tenn. 'Gag Order' Rule Decision

By Jack Karp

If the Sixth Circuit does not undo a decision that a Nashville attorney didn't have standing to challenge a since-rescinded Middle District of Tennessee rule concerning lawyers' "extrajudicial statements," it could "be all but impossible" for lawyers to challenge similar court rules in the future, the attorney said Wednesday.

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Attys For Disney Streaming Customers Vie To Lead Settlement

By Jared Foretek

Days after announcing that they've reached a settlement with Disney, live TV streaming customers are looking to appoint Yavar Bathaee from Bathaee Dunne LLP to serve as the lead counsel in their proposed antitrust class action against the company over ESPN carriage agreement fees.

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Brief

Mass. Gov. Nominates Probate Court Justice To Appeals Court

By Julie Manganis

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey on Wednesday nominated Probate and Family Court Justice Jennifer M. Allen to the state's intermediate appellate court.

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Queens Defenders Ex-Director Charged With Embezzling

By Gina Kim

A former executive director of Queens Defenders and her husband are charged with embezzling $60,000 from the organization and spending it on personal expenses including rent for a penthouse apartment, luxury goods, vacations and teeth-whitening procedures, prosecutors say in an indictment unsealed Wednesday in New York federal court.

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DOJ Legal Policy Chief, Adviser On Judge Selections, Resigns

By Courtney Bublé

Aaron Reitz, a top U.S. Department of Justice official who works on judicial nominations, announced Wednesday he's resigning after being confirmed for the role on March 26.

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DOJ Says Newsom Can't Ask Court To Halt Guard Deployment

By Jared Foretek

The Trump administration is telling a California federal judge its decision to federalize the National Guard is unreviewable in court, calling California Gov. Gavin Newsom's effort to stop the takeover "a crass political stunt" in a new filing Wednesday.

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Fisher & Phillips

Gibson Dunn

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Hilliard & Shadowen

Hunton Andrews

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Jackson Walker LLP

James McElroy & Diehl

Jenner & Block

Jones Day

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Levitt LLP

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Mayer Brown

Miller & Chevalier

Morgan Lewis

Morris Nichols

Munger Tolles

Norton Rose

O'Melveny & Myers

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Paul & Perkins

Prickett Jones

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Sperling Kenny

Streusand Landon

Sullivan & Cromwell

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Wachtell Lipton

Wexler Boley

Womble Bond

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Agri Stats Inc.

AllianceBernstein Holding LP

Amazon.com Inc.

Biogen Inc.

Boston College

Brandeis University

Democracy Forward Foundation

ESPN Inc.

FMR LLC

First Republic Bank

Foster Farms

Foundation Building Materials Inc.

George Washington University

Hulu LLC

Illinois Brick Co.

Institute for Justice

J.C. Penney Co. Inc.

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

KPMG International

Koch Foods

LafargeHolcim Ltd.

LinkedIn Corp.

M & F Worldwide Corp.

Mar-Jac Poultry

Match Group LLC

Match.com Inc.

MetroWest Legal Services

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Pilgrim's Pride Corp.

Presidio Inc.

Sanderson Farms Inc.

Simmons Foods Inc.

State Bar of California

Target Corp.

The Carlyle Group Inc.

The DIRECTV Group Inc.

The ERISA Industry Committee

The Walt Disney Co.

Twitter Inc.

Tyson Foods Inc.

UCLA School of Âé¶¹´«Ã½

United Auto Workers

YouTube Inc.

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Arizona Supreme Court

COPRAC

California Attorney General's Office

California Supreme Court

Delaware Court of Chancery

Employee Benefits Security Administration

Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

Federal Judicial Center

Library of Congress

Manhattan District Attorney's Office

National Labor Relations Board

Office of the U.S. Trade Representative

State of Nevada

U.S. Army

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Texas

U.S. Copyright Office

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of Labor

U.S. Department of State

U.S. Department of the Treasury

U.S. District & Bankruptcy Courts of Southern District of Texas

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

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

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

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas

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

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

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

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

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court