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.
The Trump administration, in an abrupt reversal, has changed its mind on its decision to walk away from appealing its courtroom losses over executive orders targeted at four Big Law firms.
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.
A divided US Supreme Court sided for the moment with parents in a dispute over a California policy limiting transgender student disclosure.
A sharply divided US Supreme Court halted the redrawing of a Republican-held congressional district in New York City in a decision likely to keep the seat safely in GOP hands in the November election.
Sen. Thom Tillis said he’ll hold up key Senate business until he gets answers from the Department of Homeland Security about the scope of its operations in his state.
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.
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The federal government wants to recruit attorneys after a year of cutting staff in nearly every agency.
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.
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.
Hogan Lovells’ upcoming merger with Cadwalader will nearly double its New York-based revenue, putting that office nearly on par with its highest-grossing centers.
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A Dallas County judge’s order that kept polls open until 9 p.m. Central time, two hours later than planned, is halted for now, the Texas Supreme Court ruled Tuesday night.
Immigration officers “grossly abused” their authority when they arrested an immigrant with youth deportation protections for “undefined reasons,” a New York federal judge ruled Tuesday.
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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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