Fitch Even claimed it filed the declaratory action so the court could “declare the rights and other legal relations under federal patent law, but the defendants alleged the firm was attempting to litigate the same issues currently pending in a separate suit filed in the Circuit Court of Cook County.

Smart glasses and wearable AI company Solos Technology Ltd. has moved to disqualify Morgan, Lewis & Bockus as defense counsel for two rival eyewear companies in a patent-infringement lawsuit that also names Meta Platforms Inc. as a defendant.

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A law professor who tracks judicial selection said that nominations tend to move more slowly in big states like Texas, where activists have been asking for more action in the face of Democratic opposition.

“Virtually all of our clients at our firm are interested in this, and the firm has thousands of clients, said Aaron Cummings, a shareholder at Brownstein.

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."