Justices Mull 5th Circ. Redo In ACA Preventive Care Fight

By Kellie Mejdrich

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday appeared skeptical of a Fifth Circuit ruling that found members of a task force setting preventive services coverage requirements under the Affordable Care Act were unconstitutionally appointed, with multiple justices suggesting kicking the case back down to the circuit court for additional arguments.

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High Court Wants SG's Input On Home Depot ERISA Case

By Grace Elletson

The nation's highest court asked the U.S. solicitor general Monday to opine on whether it should hear a retirement plan mismanagement case from Home Depot workers who say the Eleventh Circuit wrongly required them to link financial losses to alleged breaches of fiduciary duty.

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DOL Tells 5th Circ. It May Rescind Biden-Era ESG Rule

By Kellie Mejdrich

The U.S. Department of Labor told the Fifth Circuit on Monday it's considering rescinding a Biden-era rule allowing retirement fiduciaries to consider issues like climate change and social justice when choosing investments, according to filings in a suit challenging the rule from conservative states and energy companies.

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Premera's Teen Trans Policy 'Textbook' Sex Bias, Judge Says

By Greg Lamm

Premera Blue Cross discriminated based on sex against transgender teens at the center of a lawsuit alleging the insurer and health plan administrator illegally denied coverage for gender-affirming chest surgery, according to a Washington federal judge who also denied class certification because the teens' claims are not typical of class members.

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AG Accuses NJ Luxury Tower Contractors Of Labor Violations

By Nate Beck

New Jersey's attorney general on Monday announced a lawsuit against a general contractor and a group of subcontractors for shorting workers on wages and benefits during the construction of a Jersey City luxury high-rise.

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X Gets Arbitral Awards Booted From Workers' Severance Case

By Irene Spezzamonte

The arbitration awards a group of X workers tried to present to a Delaware federal court don't add anything to their suit claiming the social media platform owes them additional severance payments, the court ruled, striking them from the docket.

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Intel Retirees Seek Cert. In ERISA Suit Over Annuity Changes

By Dorothy Atkins

A proposed class of nearly 2,000 Intel Corp. retirees urged a California federal judge on Monday to certify the retirees' Employee Retirement Income Security Act claims alleging Intel relied on outdated mortality assumptions when it converted their single life annuities to a joint and survivor design, resulting in lower payouts.

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Unions Score Block On Orders To Fire Probationary Workers

By Braden Campbell

A California federal judge blocked the Office of Personnel Management from ordering federal agencies to fire probationary employees and stopped several agencies from heeding its directives, but he declined to order them to rehire the workers they've already let go.

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Trucking Co. Still Owes Most Of $10M Pension Bill, Court Told

By Carolyn Muyskens

A Michigan-based trucking company has stopped making payments toward a $10 million bill owed to a Teamsters pension fund after partially withdrawing from the plan, the fund said in a complaint filed Monday in Illinois federal court.

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Veterans Urge High Court To Ax Time Bar For Compensation

By Madeline Lyskawa

Veterans challenging an appellate court's ruling that a six-year limit applies to their claims for retroactive combat-related special compensation have told the U.S. Supreme Court that Congress's statute authorizing the compensation displaced preexisting settlement mechanisms and their statute of limitations.

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Teamsters Unit Drops Health Insurance Suit Against Mich. Co.

By Emily Brill

A Teamsters local has dropped its lawsuit against a Detroit trucking company, indicating it will no longer pursue breach-of-contract litigation in Michigan federal court over the company's alleged failure to notify workers that they needed to sign up for health insurance.

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How Proxy Advisory Firms Are Approaching AI And DEI

Institutional Shareholder Services' and Glass Lewis' annual updates to their proxy voting guidelines reflect some of the biggest issues of the day, including artificial intelligence and DEI, and companies should parse these changes carefully, say attorneys at Cahill Gordon.

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10 Soft Skills Every GC Should Master

As businesses face shifting regulatory and technological uncertainty, general counsel will need to strengthen certain soft skills to succeed, from admitting when they make a mistake to maintaining a healthy dose of dispassion, says Douglas Brown at Manatt.

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Baker Donelson Launches In NJ With 26 Epstein Becker Attys

By Jake Maher

Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC announced a major expansion into New Jersey on Monday with 26 attorneys joining the firm from Epstein Becker Green in new offices in Princeton and Iselin.

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Democrats Seek More Funds To Protect Judges From Threats

By Ryan Boysen

Two Democratic lawmakers on Monday asked U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts if more funding is needed to protect federal judges from a spike in physical threats that challenge "the viability of the rule of law itself."

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Calif. Judges Who Lost Homes Sue LA Over Palisades Fire

By Bonnie Eslinger

A California federal judge and a retired federal magistrate judge whose homes were destroyed in the Pacific Palisades wildfire have sued the city of Los Angeles over the deadly inferno, saying two water reservoirs drained by the city's water department for repairs prior to the blaze substantially caused their losses.

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Litigation Funder Accused Of Not Protecting User Data

By Emily Sawicki

Florida-based national litigation funder US Claims Capital LLC failed to protect the personal data of users ahead of a January data breach, according to a proposed class action filed in federal court in Palm Beach on Monday.

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Billionaire Attorney Sues Miami Herald, Claiming Defamation

By Carolina Bolado

Billionaire Miami attorney John Ruiz has sued the Miami Herald and two of its reporters in Florida state court, alleging they defamed him by running a report saying he and his company MSP Recovery Inc. were the targets of federal criminal and civil investigations.

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Florida Federal Judge To Take Senior Status In August

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump is gaining yet another federal judicial vacancy in his adopted state, Florida.

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Judge Purposely Shot Wife Dead, Orange County DA Sums Up

By Gina Kim

California state Judge Jeffrey Ferguson murdered his wife by drunkenly pointing a loaded gun at her during a heated argument and pulling the trigger, prosecutors said during closing arguments Monday, while defense counsel maintained he was fumbling with the gun because of a shoulder injury and it accidentally fired.

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GenapSys Fights Paul Hastings Bid To Ax Malpractice Suit

By James Mills

GenapSys Inc. is pushing back on Paul Hastings LLP's motion for summary judgment in the legal malpractice suit the gene sequencing company filed, contending it was not required to disclose the legal malpractice suit to a bankruptcy court.

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DOJ Pushes Chrome Sale To Solve Google Monopoly

By Bryan Koenig

The U.S. Department of Justice sought to shape the future of online search and artificial intelligence chatbots Monday with opening arguments pushing a D.C. federal judge to force Google to sell its Chrome browser and to "disrupt" the billions paid for default search engine status on iPhones, Firefox and more.

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