At least three lawsuits have been filed against the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power over the Palisades wildfire, while nearly 30 name Edison over the Eaton wildfire.

       

In a case that was remanded back by the Supreme Court, a U.S. district court found the toy was a parody that did not infringe on Jack Daniel's trademark, but still tarnished the whiskey brand, noting “human consumption and canine excrement do not mix.

       

As an immigration raid in Newark, New Jersey, is widely condemned by community leaders, there are some questions about what constitutes due process during such raids.

       

Jeffrey Finnell's appointment as the SEC's new acting general counsel was announced Friday, alongside a slate of officials to fill out top positions at the agency.

       

Spain's capital is positioning itself as a key player in the global arbitration landscape, attracting increasing attention from international dispute resolution professionals.

       

On Tuesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld an NLRB order directing Macy's to pay union members for "direct or foreseeable pecuniary harms” stemming from an unlawful lockout of workers after a strike, pursuant to the board's 2022 Thryv v. NLRB opinion.        

The question now facing the justices is whether religious schools must be eligible to participate in a state's publicly funded charter school system.

       

The circuit court said that to properly plead a False Claims Act case against HCL Technologies, the workers need to show the company shirked a duty to pay more taxes than it did. But HCL has no obligation to pay taxes on higher salaries they hadn't paid, the circuit said.

       

"It's not a surprise that the Justice Department is going to be changing its position in voting rights cases and embracing more of the position of those who've fought against attempts to use the Voting Rights Act to expand minority participation," said one election law scholar.

       

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Energy-related executive orders President Donald Trump signed in the early days of his presidency reflect his hope to "unleash" U.S. hydrocarbon production while at the same time, pause government disbursements for clean energy projects.

       

Critics of the guidance said it effectively prevented banks from holding digital assets in custody and evaded normal commission rulemaking. Congress passed a measure repealing the guidance in May but former President Joe Biden vetoed it.

       

In this week's Legal Speak episode, Patrick Smith talks with author and small-firm guru RJon Robbins about the history of law as a business, whether that has become more of a focus lately and whether, regardless of what attorneys say, the law has always been a business like any other.

       

Loeb & Loeb, which launched a Beijing office in 2008, has been playing the long game and is now outgunning the likes of Skadden, Kirkland and Davis Polk for work on U.S. IPOs issued by Asia-based companies.

       

The Commission for Lawyer Discipline asked the Texas Supreme Court to drop its case against Ken Paxton, but the attorney general wants the court to do more than accept a nonsuit with prejudice.

       

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"While the jury is still out on whether the DOJ's whistleblower awards pilot program will lead to more employees skipping over internal organizational hotlines to report directly to the DOJ and other agencies, some organizations should be concerned," said Laura Jacobus, executive director of ethics, compliance and training at Mitratech.

       

The action has been discontinued on undisclosed terms but the civil rights attorney-turned-mayoral-candidate's complaint called the suspension troubling, given his history of litigation against the microblogging platform.

       

The Justice Department rescinded job offers to dozens of law school students who were set to join the agency this year, while attorneys already in the government are worried about the risk of losing their jobs.

       

The company's newly filed proxy praised Horacio Gutierrez for a range of accomplishments, including settling a legal brawl with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.