This year is also the first that the overall pass rate for July applicants reached 70% since 2014, with the lowest rate of the last 10 years being 61.2% in 2018.

Acting Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Anar Rathod Patel last week denied a motion to dismiss from defendants Reata and Biogen, finding that fact questions remained.

The types of candidates a President Kamala Harris or Donald Trump put forward will depend largely on which party controls the Senate, observers say.

The state alleges this insulin pricing scheme violates the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act, constitutes unjust enrichment, and represents an unlawful civil conspiracy.

"I had this one outside counsel where every time I'd ask him to weigh in, he'd be like, 'That's a business issue,'" said Michele Kloeppel, a partner at Thompson Coburn who formerly was corporate counsel at Panera.

Friday's denials are a noticeable break from the court's decisions last term to take up, and ultimately rule in favor of, an emergency docket industry and state challenge to an EPA rule regulating air quality standards in upwind states.

"I don't want to run afoul and get a bar complaint," one attorney cautions about this type of pro bono work.

The same day the Department of Justice sued Visa, the company set aside another $1.5 billion for its U.S. litigation escrow fund.

"If respondent's colleagues had believed him, and had hired him based on his statements during the interview, it would have damaged the criminal justice system," the hearing board's report said.

The judge approached a woman on the dance floor, "inappropriately dancing and gyrating towards her," which prompted her to leave the dance floor, the Advisory Committee on Judicial Conductv said. He followed her to the women's restroom and jammed his foot in the doorway, preventing her from closing the door, saying, "wait, wait, let's take a shot [of alcohol]," the ACJC said. After multiple complaints about his behavior, the judge was asked to leave, the ACJC said.

"'Stereophonic' is undoubtedly a play based on plaintiffs' memoir 'Making Rumours' because substantial similarities exist between the two works, a reality that has been independently confirmed by those familiar with plaintiffs' book who have also had the opportunity to review the play," the complaint said.

"I've watched and been a part of Illumina growing from a startup to one of the most important and innovative companies in the world, and I'm proud to have been a part of that journey," Dadswell said in a statement.

One challenge is determining when an invitation for lunch is considered "business communication."

The firm's recently renewed 12-year lease in Portland reduced its footprint to under 30,000 square feet.

The high court finds itself under as much scrutiny as ever as it prepares to reconvene Monday for the start of the October 2024 term.

"True, some cases pursued by Trump supporters seemed frivolous from the start and were swiftly dismissed," Chad Readler said. "Yet even where cases had some potential merit, lawyers were criticized even to the point of being a target of the cancel culture movement."

A motion, first filed under seal on Sept. 25, asks the court to institute spoliation sanctions and grant curative relief.

Ellen Relkin, who filed the first case on Tuesday, predicts thousands of lawsuits after a French study in March found the contraceptive Depo-Provera had a 550% higher chance of developing brain tumors.

"Defendants require the use of private property to reflect their own message 'for the express purpose that it be observed and read by the public,' thereby depriving registered offenders of their freedom to speak in their own words or to not speak at all," wrote U.S. District Judge John A. Ross for the Eastern District of Missouri.

A spokesperson for Texas' Jackson Walker said the firm is "on track" for a record-breaking year, even as it has coped over the last year with fallout from news that a former bankruptcy partner was engaged in a romantic relationship with a former bankruptcy judge in Houston who presided over many cases involving the firm.