Trump’s About-Face in Law Firm Fights Casts Pall Over ABA Suit
Justice Department lawyers are heading to court today to defend President Donald Trump’s attacks on law firms after the administration backtracked on a move to drop out of those fights.
Justice Department lawyers are heading to court today to defend President Donald Trump’s attacks on law firms after the administration backtracked on a move to drop out of those fights.
President Donald Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS should reinforce several lessons that extend well beyond this case: Taxpayer privacy is fundamental. Courts have tools to preserve fairness when structural conflicts arise. Presidential proximity to litigation decisions can heighten those conflicts. And policy choices about investment, access, and oversight have real-world consequences.
House Republicans are seeking to advance a legislative package intended to improve the safety of children and teenagers online, but lingering disagreements underscore continued challenges they face for passage.
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The IRS decision to move over a thousand of its human resource and IT employees to help with tax filing season is causing “chaos,” union president Doreen Greenwald said Tuesday.
Companies are watching to see if a bellwether lawsuit accusing Meta’s Instagram and Google’s YouTube of knowingly designing a product that harms children will force them to add guardrails around algorithms and other code deployed by online platforms.
Homeland Security Secretary
The operator of Rivers Casino Des Plaines in Illinois convinced a federal court to dismiss most of a proposed class action over an August 2023 data breach that exposed the personal information of tens of thousands of employees and customers.
The US Supreme Court appeared open to broadening the circumstances in which criminal defendants can challenge sentencing conditions despite having signed plea agreements waiving their appellate rights.

Justice Department lawyers are heading to court today to defend President Donald Trump’s attacks on law firms after the administration backtracked on a move to drop out of those fights.
Fixing on legislators’ word choice when they wrote the law, a US appeals court last week became the first to say workers bringing sexual harassment claims can keep their entire lawsuit out of arbitration and in the public eye.
A pivotal court decision rooted in two separate, but now linked, federal cases has fundamentally changed the strategic landscape for the consolidated antitrust lawsuits against Google’s advertising business.
A legal fight between BMW and a non-practicing entity reveals that every cross-border patent dispute may now carry global consequences.
President Donald Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS should reinforce several lessons that extend well beyond this case: Taxpayer privacy is fundamental. Courts have tools to preserve fairness when structural conflicts arise. Presidential proximity to litigation decisions can heighten those conflicts. And policy choices about investment, access, and oversight have real-world consequences.
The expression, “Fake it ‘til you make it” is enduring career advice often given with good intentions, but the approach can eventually undermine the very confidence it was meant to build.
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