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New Federal Court Decision Holds Proposition 65 Warnings Are Not Required Where There Was No Scientific Consensus on the...

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In an important decision under California’s Proposition 65, a federal court recently ruled that businesses cannot be required to provide a product warning under Proposition 65 where there is no scientific consensus on whether...more

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Federal Court Curbs California’s Proposition 65, Giving Some Relief to Businesses Selling Products in California

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California’s Proposition 65 (“Prop 65”), is well-known to companies selling consumer products, including food and beverage items in California. It is common to see Prop 65 warning labels on everything from household...more

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Litigation Byte (April 2025 Edition)

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Delivered in digestible, insightful bites, McGlinchey’s Litigation Byte is a monthly roundup of financial services decisions and cases nationwide that impact your business....more

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Arkansas “Social Media Safety Act” Ruled Unconstitutional

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On March 31, 2025, a judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas, granted summary judgment for the plaintiff in NetChoice, LLC v. Griffin, a case in which NetChoice, an internet trade...more

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EEOC Is Permanently Enjoined From Enforcing Portions of PWFA Final Regulations and EEOC’s Title VII Guidance On Harassment in the...

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On April 15, 2025, the United States District Court for the District of North Dakota issued its decision granting partial summary judgment to the Catholic Benefits Association, on behalf of its members and the Bismarck...more

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Littler Lightbulb – March 2025 Employment Appellate Roundup

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Fourth Circuit Stays Injunction Barring Enforcement of DEI Executive Orders On March 14, 2025, the Fourth Circuit issued an order in National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education v. Donald Trump, No. 25-1189...more

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A Deadly Encounter: Court Clarifies Use of Force in Police Shooting of Mentally Ill Individual

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Key Points: Use of Deadly Force: The court upheld the police officers’ use of deadly force, which is relevant for insurance coverage in similar incidents. Municipal Liability: No liability for the defendant as there was no...more

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Ninth Circuit: Schools Cannot Add New Charges and Penalties Without Specific Notice and Meaningful Opportunity to Respond

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In a recent student discipline case not involving Title IX, the Ninth Circuit emphatically confirmed that a public school student disciplined for misconduct has a due process right to notice of the specific charges and the...more

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Reese v. ATF: Fifth Circuit Strikes Down Federal Handgun Purchase Ban for 18-to-20-Year-Olds

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On January 30, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued a landmark opinion in Reese v. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), holding that 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(b)(1) and (c)(1), which...more

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Title IX Litigation Tracker: 2024 Title IX Regulations Vacated by District Court

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The legal saga surrounding the 2024 Title IX Regulations reached a new peak earlier this month. On January 9, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky granted summary judgment in favor of the...more

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Ohio Becomes the 35th State to Enact an Anti-SLAPP Statute

If you are considering filing a defamation lawsuit or other speech-based claim, you are likely aware that your claim may be challenged based upon free-speech principles or that the defendant may claim that their conduct is...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Rebel Libertarians Aren’t at Liberty to Violate Lanham Act

In a case that required the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit to articulate the boundary between the Lanham Act and the First Amendment when the trademark in question is the name of a political party, the Court found...more

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Federal Court Declares the Corporate Transparency Act Unconstitutional

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On March 1, 2024, the US District Court for the Northern District of Alabama declared the Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”) unconstitutional, and suspended its enforcement against the plaintiffs in that case. While most...more

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Federal District Court Finds Corporate Transparency Act Unconstitutional

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The National Small Business Association (NSBA) and a small business owner (also a member of the NSBA) filed a lawsuit on Nov. 15, 2022, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama challenging the...more

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Corporate Transparency Act Ruled Unconstitutional

On March 1, 2024, a Federal District Court in Alabama held that the Corporate Transparency Act (the “CTA”) is unconstitutional. The Court reasoned that the plaintiffs were entitled to summary judgment because the CTA “exceeds...more

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Fifth Circuit stays further proceedings in CFPB appeal of summary judgment in lawsuit challenging UDAAP exam manual changes...

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Earlier this month, the CFPB filed a notice with the Texas federal district court that it is appealing to the Fifth Circuit the district court’s order granting summary judgment to a group of trade associations in their...more

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Three Point Shot - September 2023

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Welcome to Three Point Shot, a newsletter brought to you by the Sports Law Group at Proskauer. Three Point Shot brings you the latest in sports law-related news and provides you with links to related materials. In this issue,...more

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Carroll v. Trump, Redux: Why Would Congress Want to Have State Law Determine the President's Scope of Employment When the...

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The Justice Department’s invited amicus curiae brief in Blassingame v. Trump1 exposes another anomaly in treating the President’s scope of employment as a question of state tort law for purposes of the Westfall Act. In...more

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Pennsylvania Court Upholds Cross-Unit Drilling Under Act 85

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On January 24, 2023, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania held that Act 85 of 2019, which permits drilling horizontal oil and gas wells across existing drilling units, is not unconstitutional....more

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California Board Diversity Laws Struck Down by Court

In a little over a month’s time, the Superior Court of California (the “Superior Court”) struck down both AB 979 and SB 826, California’s two board diversity statutes. SB 826 required that a public company whose principal...more

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Lawyer Discipline for Discriminatory Speech - A Pennsylvania Decision Raises Questions About Maryland Rule 19-308.4(e)

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A federal judge has held that Pennsylvania’s Rule 8.4(g),1 which subjects lawyers to professional discipline for engaging in discriminatory conduct, violates both the free speech clause of the First Amendment and the due...more

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Latest Federal Court Cases - October 2021 #3

Mobility Workx, LLC v. Unified Patents, LLC, Appeal No. 2020-1441 (Fed. Cir. Oct. 13, 2021) - In this week’s Case of the Week, a panel of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit considered, and rejected, new...more

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Two Federal Judges Declare CDC COVID-19 Eviction Moratorium Unenforceable

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In Terkel v. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, No. 6:20-cv-00564 (E.D. Tex. Feb. 25, 2021) and Skyworks, Ltd. v. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, No. 5:20-cv-2407 (N.D. Ohio Mar. 10, 2021), groups of...more

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South Dakota Judge Nips Recreational Marijuana in the Bud: Holds Amendment A Unconstitutional

Last November, South Dakota voters approved Amendment A, which allowed for the recreational use of marijuana by individuals 21 years and older (and for possession of up to 1 ounce). On February 8, 2021, a South Dakota judge...more

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Seventh Circuit: Key Takeaways from Hinterberger v. City of Indianapolis

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In Hinterberger v. City of Indianapolis, the Seventh Circuit recently reminded litigants of their unyielding obligation to follow local rules. Hinterberger, --- F.3d ---, No. 19-3365, 2020 WL 3980690 (7th Cir. 2020). In that...more

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