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The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday held that the Constitution's supremacy clause cannot shield the federal government from Federal Tort Claims Act suits, in the process reviving a Georgia woman's claim over an FBI raid aimed at a gang member but mistakenly carried out at her home.
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Justices Limit FTCA Defense In FBI Raid Case

By Chart Riggall

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday held that the Constitution's supremacy clause cannot shield the federal government from Federal Tort Claims Act suits, in the process reviving a Georgia woman's claim over an FBI raid aimed at a gang member but mistakenly carried out at her home.

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Locals Approve $3B Plan To Lure NHL Team Back To Atlanta

By Nate Beck

Officials in Forsyth County, Georgia, north of Atlanta, have signed off on a $3 billion mixed-use plan anchored by an arena, which developers hope will draw a professional hockey team back to the region.

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Green Groups Call Utility's Rate Freeze 'Smoke And Mirrors'

By Chart Riggall

A coalition of environmental groups on Thursday challenged Georgia's utility commission's planned agreement with Georgia Power to freeze utility rates for the next three years, alleging that the "smoke and mirrors" deal hides rate increases until after the commission's first elections in years.

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ENFORCEMENT

Conn. Adviser Banned After $9.2M Fraud, Prison Sentence

By Ryan Harroff

The Connecticut Department of Banking banned an investment adviser from practicing his craft in the Constitution State following his sentence to 87 months in prison and a $9.2 million restitution payment for a Georgia fraud case.

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LITIGATION

Ga. Financial Biz Lodges Trade Secrets Suit Against Rival

By Christine DeRosa

Atlanta Deferred Exchange Inc. has sued Deferred Inc. and a former employee who now works for the rival company, claiming they infringed trademarks and lifted trade secrets to bolster the competing financial advisory and consultancy business.

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Fantasy Sports Site Claims Ex-Director Took IP To DraftKings

By Rachel Riley

Fantasy sports platform PrizePicks is suing its former social media director in Washington federal court over his lateral move to DraftKings, accusing him of taking the company's "most closely guarded" marketing trade secrets to the competitor by downloading those documents to his personal ChatGPT account before his departure.

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Econo Lodge Hit With Trafficking Suit In Ga. Federal Court

By Kelcey Caulder

Econo Lodge has been sued in Georgia federal court by an unnamed plaintiff who alleges she was repeatedly trafficked for sex as a minor at one of the chain's hotels in College Park, Georgia, from 2014 through the end of 2016.

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Unifi Aviation Sued For Firing Ga. Worker After FMLA Approval

By Kelcey Caulder

The largest aviation ground handling service in North America has been sued in Georgia federal court by a woman who alleges she was pressured to speak with a male manager about her reproductive issues after requesting medical leave, then fired once that leave was approved.

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Insurer Says Hair Relaxer Maker Not Covered In Cancer Suits

By Elizabeth Daley

An insurer told a Georgia federal court that it had no duty to defend a hair relaxer and beauty products manufacturer in underlying litigation filed by people who alleged that chemicals in hair relaxer products the company produced caused them to develop cancer and suffer bodily injuries.

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PEOPLE

Brief

Ogletree Launches Workforce Analytics Group

By Kevin Penton

Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC has launched a new practice group that will focus on using data-driven tools to advise employers on various workforce compliance and risk assessment matters.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Attacks On Judicial Independence Tend To Manifest In 3 Ways

Attacks on judicial independence now run the gamut from gross (bald-faced interference) to systemic (structural changes) to insidious (efforts to undermine public trust), so lawyers, judges and the public must recognize the fateful moment in which we live and defend the rule of law every day, says Jim Moliterno at Washington and Lee University.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Âé¶¹´«Ã½360

For those who missed out, here's a look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the most buzz on Âé¶¹´«Ã½360 last week.

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UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

By Max Austin

This past week in London has seen Tottenham Hotspur FC kick off against Manchester United co-owner Ineos Automotive following a soured sponsorship deal, Acer and Nokia clash over patents for video coding technology, and two investors reignite litigation against the founders of an AI exercise bike business that unlawfully pocketed $1.2 million in investments to fund their own lifestyles. Here, Âé¶¹´«Ã½360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

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IRS, Âé¶¹´«Ã½ Firm Settle $790K Worker Credit Refund Suit

By Anna Scott Farrell

The Internal Revenue Service settled a lawsuit seeking more than $790,000 in pandemic-era worker tax credits by a law firm that had claimed the agency was delaying paying out, according to a dismissal order Friday by a Pennsylvania federal court.

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7 Willkie Partners Join Cooley Over Trump EO Deal

By Aebra Coe

Seven partners have left Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, including both managing partners of the firm's San Francisco office, to join Cooley LLP, reportedly over their former employer's decision to strike a deal with the Trump administration related to a potential executive order.

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Jackson Walker, Ex-Judge Facing Class Action Over Romance

By Catherine Marfin

A former bankruptcy judge and Jackson Walker LLP have been hit with another lawsuit over the judge's secret romance with a former firm partner, this time a proposed class action from a group of bondholders of financial company GWG Holdings Inc.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

Compliance experts say corporate leaders with business interests south of the border are worried about possible terrorism-related charges under the Trump administration for inadvertently working with the cartels. Meanwhile, the head of Glass Lewis pushed back against allegations from some lawmakers concerning the firm's "expansive, opaque and ideologically driven influence" on companies. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.​

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Beltway Moves: Torridon Âé¶¹´«Ã½, MoFo, V&E

By Alison Knezevich

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo headed to Torridon Âé¶¹´«Ã½ PLLC this week in one of the latest high-profile moves in the Washington, D.C., legal industry over the first half of June.

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Grassley Budget Bill Calls For More Use Of Injunction Bonds

By Courtney Bublé

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has released his portion of the budget reconciliation text, which would bolster the use of injunction bonds to raise the stakes for plaintiffs seeking to halt White House initiatives.

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Âé¶¹´«Ã½360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

The Institute for Justice, Mitchell Shapiro Greenamyre & Funt LLP, Spears & Filipovits LLC and attorney Lisa Lambert lead this week's edition of Âé¶¹´«Ã½360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Constitution's supremacy clause cannot shield the federal government from Federal Tort Claims Act suits.

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Akerman Seeks To Move Malpractice Suits From Medical Cos.

By Madison Arnold

Akerman LLP has asked to have two malpractice cases from medical laboratories moved from Palm Beach County to Miami-Dade County, where the firm's related unpaid fees case against Rennova Health Inc. is being litigated.

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Former NJ Deputy AG Claims Office Fired Him For His ADHD

By Beverly Banks

A former deputy attorney general who worked on environmental cases for New Jersey accused the state of retaliating against him when he sought accommodations for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and later terminated him for his disability.

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2nd Circ. Won't Rehear Trump Appeal Of $5M Assault Verdict

By Cara Salvatore

The full Second Circuit refused Friday to revisit President Donald Trump's challenge to writer E. Jean Carroll's $5 million sexual assault finding against him, with two judges dissenting.

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Ex-Attorney Cops To Tax Evasion In Massachusetts

By Anna Scott Farrell

A former attorney pled guilty to tax evasion in a Massachusetts federal court Friday after prosecutors accused him of transferring money to his wife to hide his earnings and using his business accounts to pay for guns and jewelry.

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Wash. High Court Suspends Atty Amid Delays In Bar Probe

By Rachel Riley

The Washington State Supreme Court has suspended an Evergreen state attorney's legal license, at the state bar association's request, for allegedly stalling disciplinary investigations into her work representing student families in two federal lawsuits against school districts.

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The Âé¶¹´«Ã½ Firm Loophole: How Debt Cos. Snare NC Consumers

By Daniel Connolly

A view of Carolina Legal Services' website as it appeared in 2019. The law firm has since closed. (Obtained via the Wayback Machine, a project of the Internet Archive.)

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

A&O Shearman

Addleshaw Goddard

Akerman LLP

Bandas Âé¶¹´«Ã½ Firm

Bekiares Eliezer

Blake Morgan LLP

Blank Rome

Boies Schiller

Brabners LLP

Brown Rudnick

Brownstein Hyatt

Bryan Cave

Burr & Forman

Clyde & Co

Cooley LLP

Covington & Burling

Cramer & Anderson

DLA Piper

Davis Wright Tremaine

Debevoise & Plimpton

Dentons

Domnick Cunningham

Donnelly Conroy

Fenwick & West

Foster Garvey

Fox Rothschild

Gibson Dunn

Gillam Smith

Goldman Davis

Greenberg Traurig

Haynes Boone

Higgs LLP

Hill Kertscher

Jackson Walker LLP

Jenner & Block

Jones Day

Kabat Chapman

Keker Van Nest & Peters

Kirkland & Ellis

Latham & Watkins

Laytons LLP

Manatt Phelps

Martin LLP

Mayer Brown

McGuireWoods

Michelman & Robinson

Mitchell & Shapiro

Morgan Lewis

Morrison Foerster

Myerson Solicitors

Ogletree Deakins

Ostroff Injury Âé¶¹´«Ã½

Paul Hastings

Paul Weiss

Perkins Coie

Personius Melber

Phelps Dunbar

Pinsent Masons

Porter Hedges

Quinn Emanuel

Rabicoff Âé¶¹´«Ã½

Reed Smith

Riley Safer

Rogers Joseph O'Donnell

Searcy Denney

Setfords Solicitors

Shakespeare Martineau

Sheppard Mullin

Sher Tremonte

Sidley Austin

Simon Paschal

Skadden Arps

Spencer Fane

Spero Âé¶¹´«Ã½ LLC

Stephenson Harwood

Stinson LLP

Stoddard Firm

Stokoe Partnership Solicitors

TLT LLP

Taylor Wessing

Thompson Hine

Torridon Âé¶¹´«Ã½

Troutman

Trowers & Hamlins

Vinson & Elkins

Walker Jones

White & Case

Wiggin LLP

Wilkinson Stekloff

Willkie Farr

WilmerHale

Wilson Sonsini

Wright Hassall

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

ASUSTeK Computer Inc.

Abbott Laboratories

Allen Capital Group

Amazon.com Inc.

American Bar Association

American International Group Inc.

Associated Press

Balfour Beatty PLC

Beyond Finance Inc.

Biogen Inc.

British Broadcasting Corp.

Brown & Brown Inc.

Client Services Inc.

Discover Bank

DraftKings Inc.

Federalist Society

Glass Lewis & Co. LLC

Google LLC

Hisense Co. Ltd.

Ineos Group Ltd.

Institute for Justice

Internet Archive

Investments Ltd.

Lex Machina Inc.

LinkedIn Corp.

Macquarie Group Ltd.

Manchester United

Meta Platforms Inc.

National Hockey League

National Veterans Legal Services Program

National Women's Âé¶¹´«Ã½ Center

Natural Resources Defense Council

Nokia Corp.

North Carolina Justice Center

North Carolina State Bar

Otis Worldwide Corp.

PrizePicks

Progress Software Corp.

Severn Trent PLC

Sierra Club

The Bozzuto Group Inc.

The Cigna Group

The District of Columbia Bar

The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc.

The New York Times Co.

The PNC Financial Services Group Inc.

Unifi

United Services Automobile Association

Washington & Lee University

Washington State Bar Association

Wells Fargo & Co.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Bureau of Industry and Security

Central Intelligence Agency

Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Companies House

Connecticut Department of Banking

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Federal Judicial Center

Federal Reserve System

Federal Trade Commission

Financial Conduct Authority

Florida Supreme Court

Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport

Internal Revenue Service

Legal Services Corp.

New Jersey Attorney General's Office

North Carolina Attorney General's Office

North Carolina Department of Justice

Office of the U.S. Trade Representative

Patent Trial and Appeal Board

Social Security Administration

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

U.S. Customs and Border Protection

U.S. Department of Education

U.S. Department of Energy

U.S. Department of Justice

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

U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

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

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

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

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

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

UK High Court