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Maryland Legislature Slashes Child Victims Act Damages Cap by More than 50%

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In 2023, the Maryland General Assembly passed the Maryland Child Victims Act of 2023 (“CVA”) to expand claimants’ ability to file and seek damages for alleged child sexual abuse cases, following the trend initiated by other...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Federal Court issues order granting universal injunction to a provisionally certified class in new birthright citizenship lawsuit

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In the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s ruling on June 27 invalidating universal injunctions as the remedy imposed by three federal district courts that had determined that President Trump’s Executive Order limiting...more

Maison Law

Unsafe Sidewalks and Walkways: Premises Liability in California Pedestrian Accidents

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The Code 1714 expands liability to include a property owner who fails to act when they knew or should have known that a repair was needed or a hazard existed. These requirements imply that a person claiming an injury due to...more

Mayer Brown

The Civil Justice Council's Final Report on Litigation Funding – Key Recommendations and Market Implications

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On 2 June 2025, the UK Civil Justice Council ("CJC") published its long-awaited Final Report on the regulation and future of litigation funding in England and Wales (the "Report"). The Report makes 58 recommendations, which...more

Lathrop GPM

South Carolina Federal Court Vacates Partial Summary Judgment Citing Abusive Litigation

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A federal court in South Carolina recently sua sponte vacated its own grant of partial summary judgment due to the abusive nature of the ongoing litigation. YGM Franchise, LLC v. Wong, 2025 WL 1549606 (D.S.C. May 30, 2025)....more

Perkins Coie

US Supreme Court Strikes Another Blow Against the Administrative State

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Key takeaways - - Federal district courts are no longer required to defer to the FCC's interpretation of statutes in civil enforcement proceedings. - Regulated entities can now challenge prior federal agency interpretations...more

Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley

FDA Human Foods Program Details 2025 Guidance Agenda: Key Topics and Priorities

If you’ve been injured in an accident in Florida, should you hire a personal injury lawyer? This is a critical question, and you need to ensure that you make the right choice. Accidents can prove incredibly expensive, and if...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Eighth Circuit Vacates FTC’s “Click-to-Cancel” Negative Option Rule

On July 8, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit vacated the FTC’s “click-to-cancel” Negative Option Rule, holding that the FTC violated the FTC Act and the Administrative Procedure Act when it finalized the...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Tax Court holds final partnership adjustment untimely, invalidates conflicting regulation

On July 2, 2025, the Tax Court issued its unanimous reviewed opinion in JM Assets, LP v. Commissioner, 165 T.C. 1. It held that the Service did not timely issue a final partnership adjustment (FPA) to JM Assets, LP (JM...more

EDRM - Electronic Discovery Reference Model

Application of Work-Product Doctrine to Materials Prepared Years After Incident

In Hall v. Baltimore Police Dept., 2025 WL 1548560 (D. Md. May 30, 2025)(Austin, J.), the Court considered whether materials created many years after the underlying incident were protected under the work-product doctrine. The...more

Lathrop GPM

Missouri Federal Court Denies Franchisor’s Request for Temporary Restraining Order for Alleged Violation of Noncompete

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A federal court in Missouri recently denied franchisor Three Dog Bakery, LLC’s request for a temporary restraining order (TRO) against its former franchisee, J.L.E.T. Enterprises SWF, LLC, and its owners, Joseph and Lynette...more

Cimplifi

Chess, Not Checkers: Negotiating from a Position of Power

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ESI protocols have become an important tool for getting parties “on the same page” regarding how discovery will be conducted. While they aren’t necessarily appropriate for every case, they are a vital tool in helping to...more

Poyner Spruill LLP

North Carolina Authorizes Probate of Electronically Stored Wills

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Recent North Carolina legislation addresses the electronic storage of attested written wills. Although electronic wills themselves are not yet fully authorized under North Carolina law, these recent statutory changes allow a...more

Holtzman Vogel Baran Torchinsky & Josefiak

IRS Enters into Consent Decree Limiting Application of Johnson Amendment; New Position Allows Churches to Endorse Candidates in...

On July 7, 2025, in National Religious Broadcasters, et al. v. Billy Long, Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Services, et al., Docket no: 6:24-cv-00311-JCB (E.D. Texas) (“NRB”), the IRS entered into a consent decree in...more

McGuireWoods LLP

Ninth Circuit: Every FLSA Opt-in Claim Must Be Sufficiently Connected to Forum State

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On July 1, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in Harrington v. Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, became the latest federal circuit to rule that the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Bristol-Meyers Squibb...more

Lerman Senter PLLC

"Click to Cancel" Rule Vacated Ahead of July 14th Deadline

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Just days before the “Click to Cancel” negative option rule was to go into effect, the Eight Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the rule in its entirety. As explained in our previous alert, the rule, which would have gone into...more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

Supreme Court Decision on Nationwide Injunctions Will Have Long-Term Impacts on Employers

At the end of its latest term last month, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a major decision regarding the ability of federal district courts to issue nationwide injunctions blocking executive branch regulations and executive...more

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

Well, It Happened: Court's Order Cites AI-Hallucinated Precedent

We've seen repeated issues where lawyers and others have been caught failing to cite check their work. In what might be a first, a judge has relied on a submission including support that doesn't exist and was likely...more

Holland & Hart LLP

Supreme Court Declines to Limit Environmental Citizen Suits

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On June 30, 2025, the Supreme Court denied industry group petitions to review and reverse two cases—one out of the Fifth Circuit and the other out of the Ninth Circuit—that could have significantly restricted the ability of...more

Proskauer - Trade Secrets

$30 Million Message: Jury Awards Substantial Punitive Damages for Trade Secret Theft

A nearly decade-long legal battle in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois recently concluded with a significant jury verdict, underscoring the potentially severe consequences of trade secret theft...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Birthright Citizenship Remains Intact Due to New Injunction: Key Points for Employers

The recent Supreme Court decision, that no single judge may block President Trump's effort to end birthright citizenship on a nationwide basis, was set to go into effect on July 27, 2025. But a court ruling in a class action...more

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Hierarchy In Family Court And The Process To Appeal

How can a family court decision be appealed? Although it is easy to obtain information regarding family laws in the UAE, people are generally unaware about the procedural aspects of the family court process. In this...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Podcast - Part I - The Do’s and Don’ts of Demonstratives

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In the first part of this special guest episode of "The Trial Lawyer's Handbook" podcast series, litigation attorney Dan Small interviews Scott Duval, managing director at FTI Consulting, to discuss the vital role of trial...more

Array

This Week in eDiscovery: A Self-Collection Warning | ‘Sufficient to Show’ Requests

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Every week, the Array team reviews the latest news and analysis about the evolving field of eDiscovery to bring you the topics and trends you need to know. This week’s post covers the period of June 29-July 5. Here’s what’s...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

From Copyright Case to AI Data Crisis: How The New York Times v. OpenAI Reshapes Companies’ Data Governance and eDiscovery...

The New York Times v. OpenAI litigation has garnered significant attention as a landmark copyright dispute; however, it has rapidly evolved into a global data privacy conflict that will inform how enterprises approach AI and...more

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