Bayer, which owns Monsanto, announced this month a proposed $7.25 billion settlement, its second attempt to resolve the Roundup litigation through a class-action agreement.

The New Jersey suit follows others filed by the DOJ against Los Angeles, New York City and the State of New York, and the state of Minnesota, against sanctuary policies that limit cooperation with federal immigration authorities.

Until recently, Irene Liu was a lecturer and executive-in-residence at the University of California Berkeley School of Law and an AI adviser to the California Senate.

The complaint, filed Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, was brought by Todd R. Snyder, the court-appointed plan administrator overseeing Terraform's wind-down trust and its Kirkland & Ellis legal counsel.

In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court broadly interpreted the Federal Tort Claims Act's exception for lawsuits against the U.S. Postal Service.

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed that Sarah and Grant Palmquist should get a do-over in their case against the maker of allegedly spoiled baby food in Texas state court, resolving a thorny procedural question in the couple's favor.

"The implication is that plaintiffs themselves—several purchasers of Apple Watches—are the source for the carbon-credit debunking analyses," U.S. District Judge Noe l Wise for the Northern District of California said. "Plaintiffs failed to allege that the methodology underlying their work is accepted in any scientific circles, or that anyone else—scientist or otherwise—has endorsed the accuracy of their work."

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"Opt-out mechanisms can look like they are working on the surface while quietly falling short behind the scenes," Norton Rose Fulbright wrote in a client advisory.

Monsanto's opening brief, filed on Monday, urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a 2025 decision by a Missouri Court of Appeals, arguing that federal law preempts claims that it failed to warn about the cancer risks posed by its Roundup herbicide's active ingredient, glyphosate.

Another FOIA lawsuit seeking information on records of the Trump administration's deals with nine law firms was filed last week. And two other FOIA lawsuits filed last year requesting similar records are proceeding in court.

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche announced the immediate firing of James Hundley as interim U.S. attorney of the Eastern District of Virginia after the district's federal judges unanimously appointed Hundley under 28 U.S.C. § 546(d) to an office previously led by a disqualified prosecutor who pursued criminal cases against two of President Donald Trump's political adversaries.

H&M had argued the plaintiff's claim of having independently tested the origin of the clothes was a "logical impossibility."

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Simone Wuhe, 60, notified Choice that she will exit after the franchising giant hires her successor.

Ian Freeman and his co-conspirators opened and operated accounts at financial institutions in the names of various churches, including the Shire Free Church, the Church of the Invisible Hand, the Crypto Church of New Hampshire and the NH Peace Church.

“The whole competitive landscape has changed now, a King & Spalding Brussels partner said.

Atlanta Judicial Circuit Judge Shermela J. Williams has resigned from the Fulton County Superior Court amid an ongoing ethics investigation.

While court systems issued closure alerts through Monday for New York City, upstate courts appear largely unaffected. Criminal court arraignments across New York City will open at 2 p.m., and any NYC family court emergency applications will be heard in criminal court.

The president put Netflix on the hot seat as the Justice Department scrutinizes whether it should greenlight the company's proposed $82 billion purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery's studio and streaming assets.