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HHS Policy Changes, Supreme Court Rulings, and the DOJ-HHS False Claims Act Working Group
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Seventh Circuit Affirms Summary Judgment for University in Professor’s Race Bias Suit Saud v. DePaul University, 154 F.4th 563 (7th Cir. 2025), involved a former university professor’s claim of race discrimination in...more
In a recent decision that reinforces creditor protections against serial bankruptcy filers, the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of California granted in rem stay relief under Section 362(d)(4) of the...more
Court: Business and Consumer Court of Maine, Cumberland County - In this matter, Stephan Co. (“Stephan”) filed a motion to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction. The plaintiff, Jan Cuthbertson (“Plaintiff”), lives in...more
Future amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure may make it easier to use remote witness testimony in federal civil trials. The Advisory Committee in charge of proposing Civil Rules amendments recently signaled that...more
The landscape of wage enforcement in California has fundamentally changed with the enactment of Senate Bill 261 (SB 261), a law designed to eliminate the otherwise questionable strategy of ignoring wage judgments. ...more
In a trio of rulings on Nov. 6, 2025, the Federal Circuit delivered a clear message: discretionary denial of Inter Partes Review (IPR) petitions is unreviewable on appeal. The court will not interfere with the U.S. Patent and...more
When discussing complex employment issues, an employer would be wise to take steps to ensure that communication is protected from disclosure and remains confidential, preventing it from becoming discoverable in future...more
On October 6, 2025, the United States Supreme Court denied certiorari in Syngenta Crop, LLC v. Nemeth, passing on an opportunity to clarify its prior decision in Mallory v. Norfolk Southern and address whether Pennsylvania’s...more
Litigation today moves fast – and so does data. Legal teams are expected to manage vast and ever-changing volumes of information while maintaining compliance, protecting client confidentiality, and staying ready for whatever...more
In February 2025, we wrote about the new Texas Business Court and factors to consider in determining whether to file your next construction suit in Texas’ new court. Since then, the Texas Legislature has expanded the Texas...more
In a recent Tennessee Court of Appeals decision, Nowaczyk v. Daniels Construction (Nov. 4, 2025), a contractor tried to disqualify the trial judge because the judge happened to live in the same neighborhood as a potential...more
On August 4, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York granted Metropolitan Commercial Bank’s motion to dismiss a complaint by the plan administrator for the Voyager Wind-Down Debtor for failure to...more
The American Cyanamid test remains the standard test in Jersey for interim injunctions. However, a more exacting 'Cyanamid Plus' test may be applied in exceptional cases, particularly where the interim relief would...more
In Summer 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit issued a strongly worded decision in In Re: FirstEnergy Corporation (No. 24-3654)—confirming the core concept that internal investigations conducted by counsel...more
The New Jersey Attorney General’s Office has announced that Lyft has paid off the $19.4 million it owed to the state for misclassifying drivers as independent contractors....more
You know the emergency response is not good when you get a call at 4:30 a.m. telling you to turn on CNN. On January 5, 2020, a Z&D Tour Bus carrying 59 passengers on board rolled over on the Pennsylvania Turnpike in...more
A trial court imposed a $10,000 sanction on attorneys for conducting juror research on a social media platform in a $174 million lawsuit. Elliot Weld, Alston & Bird Sanctioned $10K For LinkedIn Juror Research – Law360 (Oct....more
Private mediation has become a fixed feature of the litigation cycle, driven by crowded court dockets, the rising costs of trial, and encouragement from the judiciary. Ironically, even with instant communication tools,...more
On October 30, the Colorado Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of a putative class action complaint seeking medical monitoring, holding that the representative plaintiff lacked standing because mere exposure to ethylene...more
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a district court’s construction of a claim, finding that the plain and ordinary meaning of a disputed term was redefined by the patentee under principles of...more
The September 2025 edition of our Texas Round-Up focuses on developments in cases involving jurisdiction and pleadings....more
As our readers are aware, California Invasion of Privacy Act (“CIPA”) lawsuits have recently dominated headlines in the California consumer privacy space. Most, if not all, of these lawsuits involve defendants that operate...more
In Alvarado v. Wal-Mart Associates, Inc., issued by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on September 30, 2025, the court clarified the scope of awards under California Code of Civil Procedure Section 998....more
The Trump Administration has declined to respond to a Supreme Court petition by the two ousted Democratic NCUA board members who are asking for the court to consider their case....more
False advertising plaintiffs must prove consumer confusion and often rely on market surveys to support their contentions. But like any litigants relying on such surveys, they obviously will want to claim privilege and/or work...more