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Ballard Spahr LLP

CEMA-ingly Endless Litigation: Brown v. Old Navy Turns 1-Year-Old

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Today marks the one-year anniversary of the Washington Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Old Navy, LLC, 567 P.3d 38 (Wash. 2025). In response to a certified question from the U.S. District Court for the Western District of...more

Offit Kurman

Jury Awards Employee $22.5 Million For Employer’s Improper Denial of Pregnancy Accommodation Request

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When dealing with injured, sick, or pregnant employees, employers must exercise extreme diligence when denying an accommodation request; it is not as clear-cut as it might appear....more

Morgan Lewis

Comparative Perspectives on Employment Class Actions in France and the United States

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There is an evolving landscape of class actions in France. This Insight explores how France’s expanding framework may develop in response to the maturity and influence of the long-established US model as related to labor and...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

White House Task Force Redirects Resources to Newly Established National Fraud Enforcement Division

n March 16, 2026, President Trump issued an Executive Order establishing the White House “Task Force to Eliminate Fraud” (Task Force), an interagency body charged with coordinating a government-wide strategy to combat “fraud,...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

“This Is the Beginning”: DOJ Signals Intensifying Health Care Fraud Enforcement in California

Recent U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and California Attorney General enforcement activity sends a clear signal that California health care entities that interact with government programs—in particular the hospice and home...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Sometimes It Pays to Fight the Fee Fight: Ninth Circuit Slashes $8.5M FCA Fee Award

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In fee-shifting cases, it can be tempting to treat a post-judgment attorney’s fee demand or motion as an unpleasant but largely unavoidable addition to litigation. Especially after a hard-fought merits battle, defendants may...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Virginia Enacts New Restrictions on Non-Compete Agreements

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On March 5, 2026, we previously advised that Virginia’s Senate Bill 170 introduces new limitations on the enforceability of restrictive covenants by protecting employees who are terminated without cause. Effective April 13,...more

Epstein Becker & Green

Virginia Approves SB170: Expanded Restrictions on Enforcement of Noncompetes Take Effect July 1, 2026

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As we reported last month, Virginia lawmakers passed Senate Bill 170 imposing additional restrictions on employee noncompetes in the Commonwealth....more

Fish & Richardson

USPTO, DOJ Statement of Interest Supports Injunctive Relief

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Recently, the USPTO and DOJ (“Agencies”) jointly filed a statement of interest (“Statement”) under 28 U.S.C. § 517 to provide their views on considerations relevant to assessing whether courts should grant permanent...more

Butler Snow LLP

Nickelodeon Teaches Sound-Alike Trademarks

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My kids recently watched an episode of Nickelodeon’s teen sitcom Sam & Cat, starring Jennette McCurdy and Ariana Grande. Yes, it really was my kids who turned it on. I was in the other room working....more

Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC

A Major Court Win for Businesses — But BIPA Compliance Still Matters

A federal appeals court just handed businesses a significant victory in Illinois biometric privacy litigation, but companies still face important obligations under Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). On...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Key Health Care Enforcement Trends Under the Trump Administration: FCA, Data Analytics, and Emerging Risk Areas

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A panel of former federal prosecutors and current health care law practitioners identified key trends in health care enforcement by the Trump administration at the ABA White Collar Crime Institute in March 2026. These trends...more

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Massachusetts Federal Court Tees Up Broader Preliminary Injunction of ACTS Survey

A federal court in Massachusetts has again halted the U.S. Department of Education’s (ED) Admissions and Consumer Transparency Supplement (ACTS) survey admissions data collection for an expanded group of colleges and...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Incentives for Whistleblowers Remain, Even When the Government Declines a Case

Mortgage lenders and other entities submitting claims for payment to the federal government should take note of recent case law from the Ninth Circuit emphasizing how private litigants continue to drive litigation under the...more

Vedder

Anti-SLAPP Update: Federal Judges Increasingly Agree That Fee-Shifting Applies in Federal Court

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Late last month, the U.S. Southern District of New York issued a pair of decisions finding that the fee-shifting provision of New York’s anti-SLAPP law, N.Y. C.R.L. § 70-a, applies in federal court....more

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Raising The Bar: Ohio Moves To Increase Tort Damages Caps For The First Time In Two Decades

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The Ohio Legislature is advancing bills that would significantly raise caps on noneconomic and punitive damages in tort cases, with future increases tied to inflation....more

Carlton Fields

Florida Appeals Court Decisions Week of April 6 - 10, 2026

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U.S. Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals - Dish Network v. Fraifer - copyright infringement - Hayes v. OWCP - Black Lung Benefits Act, “year” - Faulk v. Dimerco Exp - § 1983, racial discrimination, improper arguments,...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Maine enacts law restricting medical debt collection

On April 6, Maine Governor Janet Mills signed into law LD 2129, which prohibits medical debt collectors from placing liens on a consumer’s principal residence or garnishing their wages. The law also bars courts from making,...more

Perkins Coie

Catalyst Theory Cannot Rescue a Plaintiff That Lost on the Merits: Third District Affirms Denial of Attorney Fees in CEQA Case

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The “catalyst theory” of California law governing attorney’s fees sometimes allows a plaintiff to obtain fees even in the absence of a favorable judgment, if the plaintiff can show that the lawsuit was the catalyst for a...more

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Seventh Circuit Holds BIPA’s 2024 Damages Amendment Applies Retroactively

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In 2024, the Illinois General Assembly amended the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA”) to clarify that an individual cannot seek recovery for multiple alleged violations of BIPA when those violations concern...more

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BIPA Bellwether: Seventh Circuit Finds Damages Limitation Retroactive

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Last week, the Seventh Circuit gave a significant victory to defendants facing claims under the Illinois Biometric Privacy Act (“BIPA”), holding that a 2024 amendment limiting damages available to a prevailing plaintiff...more

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

BIPA Amendment Precluding Per-Scan Recovery Held Retroactive

In Clay v. Union Pacific Railroad Co., the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit predicted that the Illinois Supreme Court would hold that the legislature’s amendment to the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy...more

Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP

The Precedent: Federal Circuit Allows Patent Damages Theory Based on Virtual Machine Usage in Exafer Ltd. v. Microsoft Corp.

In Exafer Ltd. v. Microsoft Corp., the Federal Circuit reversed the district court’s decision to exclude Exafer’s damages expert’s report and vacated summary judgment for Microsoft based on the absence of a remedy....more

Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP

The Precedent: Federal Circuit Affirms Nonobviousness and Upholds Damages Methodology in Willis Electric Co. v. Polygroup Ltd.

In Willis Electric Co. v. Polygroup Ltd., the Federal Circuit affirmed the denial of judgment as a matter of law on obviousness and denial for a new trial on damages in a dispute over pre‑lit Christmas trees....more

Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani

New Executive Order Prohibits Federal Contractors from Engaging in DEI Through Employment and Procurement Activities

On March 26, 2026, President Trump signed Executive Order 14398, entitled Addressing DEI Discrimination by Federal Contractors, requiring federal agencies to add contractual language in all federal contracts prohibiting...more

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