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July 03, 2025
Residents Urge Judge To Redo Ruling Backing Alaska Casino
A group of Anchorage, Alaska, residents opposed to a plan to build a casino urged a federal judge to reconsider a ruling finding the Native Village of Eklutna has sovereign immunity and can't face a lawsuit seeking to block the development plan.
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July 03, 2025
Breaking Down The Vote: The High Court Term In Review
The U.S. Supreme Court once again waited until the term's closing weeks — and even hours — to issue some of its most anticipated and divided decisions.
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July 02, 2025
Unions Say Halt Of Parole Is Spreading Chaos In Workplaces
A coalition of labor unions has told the First Circuit that the abrupt termination of Biden-era humanitarian parole programs is generating "chaos in American workplaces," as workers lose their work authorization and employers are left in the lurch.
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July 02, 2025
Top Product Liability News In H1 2025
There was no shortage of big rulings, verdicts and happenings in the product liability sphere in the first half of 2025. Here, ¼«ËÙÈü³µ looks at the most significant news cross-referenced with the articles that garnered the most page views.
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July 02, 2025
Union Secures Award At Chicago Hotel In Migrant Shelter Row
A Chicago hotel must comply with an arbitration award finding it failed to employ union-represented workers while it was used as a migrant shelter, an Illinois federal judge ruled, upholding conclusions that the employer tried to evade bargaining obligations.
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July 02, 2025
The Funniest Moments Of The Supreme Court's Term
After justices and oral advocates spent much of an argument pummeling a lower court's writing talents, one attorney suggested it might be time to move on — only to be told the drubbing had barely begun. Here, ¼«ËÙÈü³µ showcases the standout jests and wisecracks from the 2024-25 U.S. Supreme Court term.
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July 01, 2025
Stockton Rush Estate Seeks To Exit OceanGate Death Suit
The estate of OceanGate founder Stockton Rush has urged a Washington state court to throw out wrongful death claims brought against the late billionaire on behalf of a French explorer, who also died aboard the Titan submersible during a June 2023 exploration of the Titanic wreckage, contending the lawsuit was filed in the wrong venue.
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July 01, 2025
The Sharpest Dissents From The Supreme Court Term
The term's sharpest dissents often looked beyond perceived flaws in majority reasoning to raise existential concerns about the role and future of the court, with the justices accusing one another of rewarding executive branch lawlessness, harming faith in the judiciary and threatening democracy, sometimes on an emergency basis with little briefing or explanation.
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July 01, 2025
Justices Face Busy Summer After Nixing Universal Injunctions
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to limit nationwide injunctions was one of its biggest rulings of the term — a finding the court is likely going to be dealing with all summer. Here, ¼«ËÙÈü³µ takes a look at the decision, how it and other cases on the emergency docket overshadowed much of the court's other work, and what it all means for the months to come.
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July 01, 2025
NJ Governor Signs Bill Hiking Tax For Online Sports Betting
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy has approved a bill that will increase the tax for online gambling and sports betting to 19.75% just hours after the measure was passed by both houses of the state's Legislature.
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July 01, 2025
Top Personal Injury, Med Mal News: 2025 Midyear Report
A U.S. Supreme Court ruling over whether personal injury claims can be brought under a RICO statute and a $7.4 billion settlement reached with the Sackler family and Purdue Pharma are among ¼«ËÙÈü³µ's top personal injury and medical malpractice cases from the first six months of 2025.
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July 01, 2025
NY Equinox Trainers Score $12M In Unpaid Wages Settlement
A New York federal court has given final approval to a $12 million settlement between upscale gym chain Equinox and its personal trainers, whose Fair Labor Standards Act lawsuit accused the company of shorting them on overtime wages.
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June 30, 2025
Aspen Hotel Investor Can't Get 2nd Go In $1M Fraud Suit
A Colorado federal judge on Monday dismissed the bulk of claims against a luxury hotel owner accused of stealing more than $1.3 million from a former investment partner, ruling that the claims have already been litigated in New York state court.
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June 30, 2025
Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court
Delaware's Supreme Court was kept busy this past week with litigants' attempts to challenge its previous decisions, as well as those of Delaware's Court of Chancery, which included an argument that the state's high court incorrectly ruled in favor of energy company Boardwalk Pipeline Partners LP by rejecting the Chancery's decision upholding class claims branding the call-in of public shares unfair. In case you missed it, here's the latest from the Delaware Chancery Court.
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June 30, 2025
Alaskan Tribe Found Immune In Residents' Casino Fight
A federal judge has found that the Native Village of Eklutna is a required party in a lawsuit by Anchorage residents who oppose the construction of a 58,000-square-foot casino, but has simultaneously ruled the tribe can't be joined in the litigation due to its sovereign immunity.
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June 30, 2025
Blackstone-Backed Cirsa Prices IPO For $2.9B Market Cap
Private equity-backed Spanish casino operator Cirsa Enterprises S.A.U. on Monday launched plans for an initial public offering that would give the company a €2.5 billion ($2.9 billion) market capitalization.
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June 30, 2025
Hyatt Selling Playa Real Estate Portfolio For $2B
Hyatt Hotels Corp. said Monday it has agreed to sell the real estate portfolio owned by Playa for $2 billion to Tortuga Resorts — a joint venture between an affiliate of private equity firm KSL Capital Partners and resort and hospitality company Rodina.
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June 30, 2025
Supreme Court Seeks US Input On $440M Cruise Line Case
The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday it wanted the U.S.'s perspective as it considers a petition seeking the reversal of a split Eleventh Circuit decision overturning a $440 million judgment against several cruise companies for allegedly "trafficking" in property seized by the Cuban government.
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June 27, 2025
Fla. Judge Walks Back Class Cert. In Chili's Data Breach Row
A Florida federal judge who previously certified a class of Chili's customers suing over a 2018 data breach declined to keep that mechanism in place Friday, finding that the revised class definition that was established after the Eleventh Circuit ordered the topic to be reexamined no longer met class certification standards.Â
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June 27, 2025
Idaho Justices Dismiss Suit Over Skier's Death On Slopes
The Idaho Supreme Court has dismissed a widow's suit against Sun Valley Co. alleging the company was negligent and liable for the death of her husband from hitting a snow machine while skiing, finding that the machine was clearly marked in keeping with state law, and the skier had assumed the risks of the sport.
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June 27, 2025
NC Biz Court Bulletin: Last-Minute Settlements Head Off Trials
Untouched by the summer slump, the North Carolina Business Court kicked off June with a sanctions order against a biogas company caught spurning court orders and a new complaint by a former NFL player accusing his longtime financial adviser of defrauding him for decades.
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June 26, 2025
Del. Justices Mull New Appeal In $1.5B Pipeline Co. Cashout
An attorney for cashed-out minority unitholders of Boardwalk Pipeline Partners LP urged Delaware's Supreme Court to consider whether a controlling investor's interests "subverted" a crucial attorney fairness opinion used to justify a 2018, $1.5 billion deal that took the company private.
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June 26, 2025
Pa. Judge Tosses Wiretapping Claims In Rivers Casino Suits
A Pennsylvania state court has dismissed the bulk of two lawsuits accusing the Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh of illegally wiretapping a guest to assist her friend's ex-husband in a child custody case, b