"You had to really have a vision of what was happening here," solo practitioner Michelle Holmes said. "This idea that people got fired over complaining about a porta-potty in the parking lot, nobody could really see the First Amendment component of the case. ... I really dug deep and I could see what the case was about."

"What is the violation of your client's own rights?," Justice Andrew A. Pinson asked appellant counsel during oral arguments Tuesday.

"We don't just run into court and file these lawsuits. I wrote to the defendants six years ago and asked them to correct the record and apologize. I think, if they had corrected the record and set it straight six years ago, it's hard for me to imagine that we would have brought this lawsuit at all," defamation attorney Megan Meier said about a false report published about her client.

Can a company's trade secrets misused abroad give recourse on the extraterritoriality of the Defend Trade Secrets Act? Yes, said the 7th Circuit in an important new case in which a claim under the DTSA was asserted.

Hardee's is urging the court to reject a test that permits Americans with Disabilities Act claims to go to a jury if the firing of a disabled employee for having violated workplace policy is "inextricably linked" to the worker's disability.

The judgment centered on a 2004 antitrust investigation launched two competition chiefs ago.

The program will provide subsidized CoCounsel products for legal aid organizations, as well as an innovation initiative among a select number of legal aid nonprofits hoping to implement artificial intelligence.

"It's that outpouring of emotion that I am particularly interested in finding, because those people tend to be the most strident in deliberations and frequently for the plaintiff," Jill Leibold, a senior jury consulting adviser with IMS Legal Strategies, said.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Benjamin Cheeks and Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Serena Murillo will join four other California judicial nominees awaiting U.S. Senate confirmation votes in the final months of Joe Biden's presidency.

The suit is the first of its kind against a provider of artificial intelligence, but similar suits have been filed against social media giant Meta Platforms Inc., which owns Facebook and Instagram, and the parent companies of TikTok, Snapchat and YouTube.

Los Angeles Dodger Shohei Ohtani whacked the ball into the stands on Sept. 19, becoming the only player in MLB history to hit 50 home runs and steal 50 bases in the same season. The ball sold at auction Tuesday for $4.3 million.

"We do want to be part of the plaintiffs bar and help train other attorneys ... because we believe that the more good work that we do and that we help others do helps all of our clients and helps raise the bar," Andrew Ranks said. "Our 'Cruz' verdict has resulted in other great settlements for other attorneys. It's a rising tide for everybody."

The Massachusetts ruling accepts a legal defense from Monsanto that has, until recently, found little success. But the company recently gained new traction on the argument with a win in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

"I'm not necessarily recommending to my clients just yet to modify their restrictive covenant programs based on some theoretical risk that the NLRB will find them unenforceable as a general proposition," employment lawyer Joshua L. Weiner said.

"Every day we're advancing and with AI here and coming, I think we're going to have all kinds of challenges," the chief justice nominee told the panel.

Counsel for the plaintiff included Meier Watkins Phillips Pusch founding partners who formed their defamation law boutique in 2023 following the $787.5 million Fox News settlement with Dominion Voting Systems.

Canoo filed suit in 2022 alleging that DD Global, one of its largest shareholders, must disgorge the $61 million in alleged profits accrued from the sale of some 35 million Canoo shares in 2021.

The state attorney general is authorized on request by the Office of Cannabis Management to bring a proceeding against any person who violates the cannabis law.

"We've gone from a (relatively) certain world centered around a notification that required objective information only to one that is much more murky and perhaps subject to the interpretation of rules by a particular attorney at the agency or manager at the agency," Scott Sher, a partner at Paul Weiss, says.

Counsel for shareholders, said Larry Ellison's plans for NetSuite post-acquisition should have been disclosed to the special committee considering the deal.