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Civil Rights

Judge rejects Tulsa Race Massacre survivors’ reparations claim

Constitutional Law

6th Circuit panel believes law banning transgender care for minors is likely constitutional

Law Firms

Twitter challenges Wachtell’s ‘gargantuan’ success fee for work before Elon Musk takeover

Criminal Justice

Efforts underway to help formerly incarcerated people find and maintain jobs

Prosecutors

Federal prosecutors team up with St. Louis circuit attorney to tackle backlog of criminal cases

Health Law

Employers not liable for spread of COVID-19 to workers’ homes, California high court says

Intellectual Property Law

Twitter threatens rival Meta with legal action over popular new app Threads

Ethics

Pro-Trump lawyer retires from law practice, leading state bar to drop ethics cases against him

Ethics

Lawyer censured for ‘testi-lied’ remark about witness testimony

U.S. Supreme Court

Supreme Court will decide whether SEC enforcement actions violate right to jury trial

Internet Law

Judge curbs US effort to battle disinformation on social media; will ruling withstand appeal?

Criminal Justice

Federal judge’s ‘people like you’ comments don’t require sentence reversal, 7th Circuit says

Law Firms

McElroy Deutsch accuses former CFO of stealing millions from firm, also faults his attorney wife

Judiciary

Judge accused of lip-syncing racy songs in chambers and in bed in TikTok videos

Education Law

Harvard legacy admissions challenged in Education Department complaint

U.S. Supreme Court

SCOTUS will decide whether subjects of domestic-violence restraining orders can be banned from gun ownership

U.S. Supreme Court

Chemerinsky: SCOTUS ruling on Indian Child Welfare Act is win for Native Americans, but key issues remain unresolved

National Security

Lost Trust: US intelligence community must make reforms, change culture to regain public faith

Criminal Justice

Suspended lawyer accused of trying to frame attorney father now charged with his murder

Legal History

A Framework for Reparations: Scholars worked years to develop detailed, ‘feasible’ plan

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