Apple was slapped with a proposed class action in San Jose federal court last week that accuses the Big Tech giant of misleading users about the security of its app store vetting protocol and failing to shield them from cryptocurrency theft through "pig butchering" scams.

       

3M's RICO suit said the actions of the three lawyers—Glenn Hammond in Kentucky, Johnny Givens in Mississippi and Mike Martin in Texas—"far exceeded the bounds of lawful, zealous advocacy."

       

       

"The district court's final judgment here was silent about the disposition of the defendant's counterclaims. After that omission was identified, the parties and the district court proposed four separate solutions. That number suggests some clarification might be helpful to parties and district courts," the per curiam opinion said.

       

The Third Circuit, in a complicated five-year old case, avoided the merits of two groups of appeals from an order confirming the debtor's reorganization “Plan. In In re Boy Scouts of America (BSA), the majority used statutory mootness, while a concurring judge would have used equitable mootness to dodge the issue of nonconsensual third-party releases in the Plan and Confirmation Order.        

Posing as firm IT departments, hackers are initiating remote sessions and encrypting or exfiltrating client data.

       

New Jersey is set to obtain $124.5 million from the settlement and has overall collected $1.3 billion in settlement funds involving the opioid crisis.

       

A New York judge agreed to step down at the end of 2025, rather than defend against charges he made offensive and inappropriate comments to prosecutors and court staff for more than a year, and even after he had been cautioned by a judicial misconduct watchdog.

       

First Choice Women's Resource Center claims the subpoena from New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin has chilled its First Amendment rights and disrupted its associations with donors.

       

“I had some very light and breezy conversations with the White House liaison group for the State Department, and all of a sudden, it just caught fire, said the director of the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations.

       

"There's no other defense lawyer that has created scheduling issues that even come close to the scheduling conflicts that you created,” Judge Daniel Anders told Gary Samms at a June 13 hearing.

       

After Harvard submitted a proposed order for preliminary injunction late last week, asking the court to block the administration's attempts to ban the school from admitting international students, U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs said she would issue a ruling by next week after hearing arguments from both sides on Monday.

       

"My clients' lives have been upended in so many ways; we are confident that, had we been given an opportunity to conduct discovery, we would have proven all claims pled, including civil RICO," Jordan Redavid, a partner at Fischer Redavid in Florida, said on behalf of an attorney, health care professionals, and pilots.

       

The complaint, filed in federal court, seeks to declare unconstitutional the Trump administration's intimidation against lawyers and law firms and to enjoin the government from enforcing its policy.

       

The assailant was immediately taken into custody. The Office of Court administration said the matter is under investigation, but the attack appeared targeted.

       

"What we announce today is both momentous and insufficient, the culmination of years of tumultuous negotiations and legal battles all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court," Connecticut Attorney General William Tong said. "Today, every single attorney general, representing all states and territories nationwide, has signed onto an historic settlement that permanently ends the Sacklers' control over Purdue and their ability to ever sell opioids again, and forces the company and the family to pay $7.4 billion for their role in igniting one of the most devastating public health crises in American history."

       

"It is never too early to consider your leadership style. Leadership is not a one-size fits all approach and you have to find a style that feels authentic to you while ensuring it is effective to align others around you who may come from different backgrounds or life experiences. It will inevitably involve some trial and error—so practice early and often."

       

"We have no intention of accepting the bribe offered by Boeing as restitution," a father who lost his 21-year-old son in the March 2019 crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 told the Justice Department.

       

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit may determine if a 2024 amendment of the Illinois Biometric Privacy Act can be applied retroactively.

       

A shift from commoditized products liability work—where much of the science is settled, billing rates are often compressed, and settlement values can be fairly predictable—to more high-stakes, bet-the-company-type litigation, has inspired top firms to take on more work in this space.