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July 17, 2025
The Eleventh Circuit declined to revive a former Quest Diagnostics Inc. compliance officer's False Claims Act suit against the lab testing company, ruling she had failed to allege a specific claim of medical billing fraud after some 15 years of litigation.
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July 17, 2025
Stanford University was let out of all but one claim brought by subsidiaries of F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG over alleged trade secret theft, but a California federal judge allowed most claims to move forward against several Stanford professors and a startup they founded.
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July 17, 2025
A federal judge on Thursday tossed a former dentistry professor's lawsuit claiming he was fired for complaining about overheating from gowns faculty and staff were required to wear in University of Michigan's dental clinic as a COVID-19 precaution.
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July 17, 2025
A D.C. federal judge ordered the restoration of a fired Federal Trade Commission Democrat's job Thursday, setting up a D.C. Circuit clash that could go to the U.S. Supreme Court on her conclusion that President Donald Trump violated a law permitting the termination of FTC members only for cause.
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July 17, 2025
Cranfill Sumner LLP asked North Carolina's top court on Thursday to take up its case challenging a former partner's workers' compensation award, saying a lower court made a mistake in ruling his equity stake in the firm doesn't offset the amount he's owed.
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July 17, 2025
A Massachusetts federal judge overseeing a free speech trial over deportation actions targeting pro-Palestinian students and faculty said Thursday that "criticism of the state of Israel is not antisemitism," and that even the most "vile" statements, absent threats or violence, are protected by the First Amendment.
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July 17, 2025
The Dementia Society has settled a privacy lawsuit by former employees who claimed the organization spied on them by putting listening devices in their workspaces, according to a court order.
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July 16, 2025
Trucking services giant Penske Logistics LLC and an affiliate told the Fifth Circuit on Wednesday that the family of a man killed in a 2018 Texas collision cannot revive their wrongful death suit seeking to hold Penske liable for negligently hiring the unsafe motor carrier that caused the accident.
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July 16, 2025
A split Seventh Circuit on Wednesday overturned a decision granting a University of Wisconsin football player another year of eligibility, finding that the college athlete hasn't shown he is likely to succeed on his claim that the National Collegiate Athletic Association's five-year rule restrains competition in violation of federal antitrust laws.
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July 16, 2025
A former New York Police Department commissioner on Wednesday sued Mayor Eric Adams and other city officials in federal court alleging they ran the police department as a criminal enterprise that hid misconduct, paid out millions of taxpayer dollars to politically connected officers, and retaliated against him and his wife when he blew the whistle.
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July 15, 2025
A trio of reproductive and women's health care physicians were enticed to sell their practice by promises of a brighter financial future, only to be forced into providing more than a year of free labor, the doctors say in a complaint designated to the North Carolina Business Court.
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July 15, 2025
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the U.S. Copyright Office have not been spared from the Trump administration's shake-ups and changes across the federal government in the first half of the year.
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July 15, 2025
A former employee of a Texas Gulf Coast city has told a court Monday that she was fired after suggesting that the city council vote to increase taxes on land owned by Freeport LNG.
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July 15, 2025
Delta Air Lines Inc. on Tuesday agreed to pay $8.1 million to settle whistleblower claims that it paid some corporate officers and other employees beyond compensation limits the airline agreed to under a Treasury Department pandemic relief program.
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July 15, 2025
Four current or former Homeland Security Investigations supervising agents told a Massachusetts federal judge on Tuesday that orders to locate and arrest student activists whose legal status in the United States had been revoked came from higher-ups, including via memos directly from the State Department — an unusual procedure for an agency that typically deals with criminal activity.
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July 15, 2025
An Ohio federal judge has asked the state's Supreme Court to weigh in on whether the Ohio Product Liability Act annuls claims against Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. over a car accident involving their apps even though those apps don't fit the definition of a "product."
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July 15, 2025
TikTok and a Chinese company that accuses it of stealing trade secrets for a video-editing tool and infringing copyrights related to the tool have filed opposing motions for summary judgment, with the social media giant arguing that the plaintiff has not established ownership of the technology in question.
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July 14, 2025
The Ninth Circuit on Monday revived a lawsuit from an immunocompromised oral surgeon claiming Paul Revere Life Insurance Co. wrongly denied him disability benefits when he stopped working during the COVID-19 pandemic, saying a reasonable jury could find that he was unable to do his work.
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July 14, 2025
A Massachusetts federal bench trial in a suit by academic groups accusing the Trump administration of targeting for deportation noncitizens who express support for Palestinians was on hold Monday while the First Circuit considers whether certain government materials are privileged, including some that have already been discussed in open court.
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July 14, 2025
The Fifth Circuit on Monday said that a Texas law barring people under 21 from working at strip clubs and other adult businesses passes a First Amendment test, saying Monday the law helps prevent sexual trafficking and furthers a significant government interest.
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July 14, 2025
Technology company iyO Inc. has alleged in a California state court lawsuit that a former engineer gave confidential company information to the co-founder of competitor io Products Inc., which is currently facing a federal trademark lawsuit alongside its new owner, OpenAI.
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July 14, 2025
The Eleventh Circuit has rejected a Florida lawyer's request to reconsider her 75-month prison sentence for a COVID-19 loan fraud scheme.
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July 11, 2025
A California federal judge Friday approved approximately $455 million in attorney fees for class counsel in the NCAA's $2.78 billion class action settlement that, for the first time, will provide for revenue sharing with college athletes, with additional fees set to roll in annually for 10 years.
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July 11, 2025
The Fifth Circuit has ended a cleanup worker's toxic tort lawsuit against BP Exploration & Production Inc. claiming he suffered sinus issues from cleaning up the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill, saying his experts' testimony, some of which was riddled with errors, was properly ejected by the trial court.
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July 11, 2025
An Illinois federal judge gave preliminary approval for a $12.1 million class action settlement in a biometric privacy law dispute between Speedway LLC and nearly 7,700 current and former gas station employees after ordering a lower redistribution trigger for initial payments that aren't cashed.