Holders of the No. 1 and No. 2 slots on last year's list have traded places.

       

“I'll give you 90 minutes, Lee Circuit Judge Rachael Loukonen said ahead of closing arguments. “Go outside, and I suggest the parties think very hard about their true positions on this case."

       

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Philip Talmadge of Talmadge/Fitzpatrick in Seattle, representing the families of individuals who died after ordering and intentionally ingesting the product, contended at the hearing that sodium nitrite is "an invariably fatal poison" that Amazon knowingly "marketed" and delivered to vulnerable consumers.

       

The panel found that Union Carbide, which operated a West Virginia plant that exposed nearby residents to a cancer-causing gas, was responsible for paying for medical monitoring for the lead plaintiff, even though she didn't allege she had cancer.

       

Some firms are buying the bounce, while others await a true transactional rebound.

       

With the EU Data Act, penalties are determined by member states which means not only does the expense of fines vary state by state, but so does the level of enforcement.

       

“The court finds that default judgment is inappropriate here because plaintiff has failed to show that the unchallenged facts in the complaint constitute a legitimate cause of action, U.S. District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman of the Northern District of Illinois said.

       

With their terms set to expire Dec. 31, 2026, these Georgia appellate judges must soon decide whether to run to retain their seats on the bench.

       

"We are, in fact, in the midst of a constitutional crisis. Even the current administration must confess that it is determined to push the bounds of legal and constitutional norms,” the report states.

       

"Frankly, class actions were generally invented to try and help consumers, because there's no other way to vindicate your rights other than as a group," Brian Glasser of Bailey Glasser, lead trial counsel for the class, said. "[The class representative], Rose Chadwick, couldn't go out there and bring a lawsuit like this."

       

Manmeet "Mani" Walia says Siltstone Capital was supportive of his plans to launch his own company—but then suddenly changed its mind.

       

Bahrenberg said the Bivens case represents an increased willingness to revisit questions of agency that previously enjoyed deference under the so-called Chevron doctrine.

       

If Shira Perlmutter proves her firing was motivated by release of her report on copyrights and artificial intelligence, the panel said, “that would be a grave intrusion by the President into the constitutional powers of a coordinate branch of government.

       

"A prevailing party only gets 'its' attorney fees, but Robert did not have any. Hoffmann Brothers, which did not sign the settlement agreement, paid every cent for him," Judge David R. Stras, who authored the opinion, said. "Without any fees of his own, he has nothing to recover."

       

"The Court agrees with [Lisa] Cook's argument that preventing her from discharging her duties as a Federal Reserve Governor ... itself constitutes irreparable harm remediable only by her reinstatement," U.S. District Judge Jia M. Cobb wrote in a preliminary injunction order restoring Cook's access to her office and blocking President Donald Trump's attempted firing of Cook.

       

"Loyalty, patience, and long-term thinking matter. That applies to how you build your career and how you litigate cases. Don't panic if success isn't immediate. Chop wood, carry water. Keep your head down and do the work. The results will come."

       

Stop running pilot after pilot with different tools but failing to move beyond testing. Start with business outcomes. Redesign processes and guardrails. Rethink pricing models. And then, with clarity of purpose, choose the tools that enable the future of legal work.

       

“Cahill historically has not had a significant presence in D.C., said Herb Washer, but "a big part of the growth opportunity are the kinds of practices that we can build in D.C."

       

Kathryn Ruemmler spoke out a day after Congress released a trove of Epstein documents, including a 2019 will listing her as "successor executor."