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A Michigan man will be given a new trial after a split state appeals panel on Thursday found that because a trial judge failed to swear in the jury that convicted him of criminal sexual conduct, a structural error occurred with the proceeding.
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Sex Abuse Verdict Tossed Because Jury Wasn't Sworn In

By Parker Quinlan

A Michigan man will be given a new trial after a split state appeals panel on Thursday found that because a trial judge failed to swear in the jury that convicted him of criminal sexual conduct, a structural error occurred with the proceeding.

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6th Circ. Doubts Union Failed Fire Chief Accused Of Threats

By Carolyn Muyskens

A federal appellate panel appeared unlikely based on oral arguments Thursday to revive a suit by a former fire chief at a Michigan paper mill who allegedly threatened coworkers but claimed that the United Steelworkers shirked its representation duties by failing to fight the company's decision to fire him.

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Mich. Justices Say Employer Suit Limits Must Be Reasonable

By Carolyn Muyskens

The Michigan Supreme Court held Thursday that employment agreements that limit how much time employees have to sue their employer must be examined for reasonableness before they are enforced by courts.

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Mich. Home Caregivers Ask State Court To Stop Union Vote

By Beverly Banks

Two Michigan laws that classify home caregivers as public employees who can unionize violate the First Amendment, caregivers alleged in a complaint, urging a state court to issue an injunction preventing the certification of a union representation election.

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POLICY & REGULATION

Judge Questions Gov't Objection To Shielding FEMA Funds

By Julie Manganis

A Massachusetts federal judge Thursday questioned the Trump administration's assertion that it has not redirected funds allocated by Congress for natural disaster mitigation efforts toward other Federal Emergency Management Agency programs, even as the government was objecting to states' narrow request to protect the funds for now.

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LITIGATION

Insurer Avoids Businesses' COVID-19 Coverage Claims

By Ganesh Setty

A property insurer for numerous restaurants, bars and other small businesses owes no coverage for their consolidated business interruption claims related to the COVID-19 pandemic, an Illinois federal court ruled, looking to the laws of Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota and Tennessee.

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6th Circ. OKs Toss Of Trustee Removal Bid In Union Fund Row

By Irene Spezzamonte

A Sixth Circuit panel on Thursday upheld an Ohio federal court's decision finding that a trade union, three trustees of a union benefit fund, and a fund participant cannot remove two other trustees they accused of self-dealing, saying they failed to show they would face irreparable harm.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Series

Playing Soccer Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Soccer has become a key contributor to how I approach my work, and the lessons I’ve learned on the pitch about leadership, adaptability, resilience and communication make me better at what I do every day in my legal career, says Whitney O’Byrne at MoFo.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Legal Job Sector Continued 5-Month Growth Streak In July

By Tracey Read

For the fifth straight month, the U.S. legal industry experienced job growth, adding 600 positions in July, according to preliminary data released on Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Brief

Test-Taker's Collapse At NY Bar Exam Sparks Criticism

By Anna Sanders

New York bar-takers were allegedly forced to continue the test after witnessing a Fordham University School of Law graduate suffer a medical incident and receive CPR while she took the exam, according to the school and accounts posted online by people who said they were present.

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DC Panel Calls For Former DOJ Official Clark's Disbarment

By Phillip Bantz

The majority of a Washington, D.C., lawyer ethics panel has called for the disbarment of Jeffrey Clark, a White House official and ally of President Donald Trump, over his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

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NJ Court Will Mull Legality Of Habba's US Atty Appointment

By Lauren Berg

If Alina Habba was illegally appointed acting U.S. attorney in New Jersey, a pair of defendants in a drug trafficking case are not entitled to dismissal of the indictment, but it "appears appropriate" that Habba would be barred from prosecuting them, a federal judge ruled Friday.

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Politics And Privacy Laws Collide 5 Years After Salas Shooting

By Jack Karp

Five years after a disgruntled litigant killed a New Jersey federal judge's son at their home, experts and judges disagree over whether the judicial privacy laws enacted following the shooting are doing much to protect jurists, while political leaders' heated rhetoric makes for an even more dangerous landscape for judges.

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Analysis

Wheeling & Appealing: Midyear Highlights For Every Circuit

By Jeff Overley

In this special edition of Wheeling & Appealing, we're spotlighting key decisions and developments in every circuit court during the first half of 2025, while also previewing August's most intriguing oral arguments, including a remarkably "fierce" showdown between Edible Arrangements and 1-800-Flowers with millions of dollars in attorney fees on the line.

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1st Circ. Doubtful Of Trump's Stance On Birthright Citizenship

By Chris Villani

The First Circuit on Friday seemed inclined to say that the children of unauthorized immigrants are citizens if they were born on U.S. soil, citing both the 14th Amendment and a subsequent U.S. Supreme Court ruling and pushing back on an argument by President Donald Trump's administration.

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Brief

Ex-Copyright Chief Appeals Denial Of Reinstatement Bid

By Elliot Weld

The former head of the U.S. Copyright Office will appeal a D.C. federal judge's denial of her request to be immediately reinstated to her former position after she was fired by President Donald Trump while her suit remains pending.

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NY Law Mandating Judicial Fine Declared Unconstitutional

By Madison Arnold

A New York state appeals court has declared unconstitutional a statute that mandates a judge forfeit $1,000 to a plaintiff if the judge refuses to issue a writ of habeas corpus.

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Monthly Merger Review Snapshot

By Matthew Perlman

The U.S. Department of Justice abandoned its challenge of a corporate travel management deal, while lawmakers are calling for scrutiny of the agency's recent decision to settle a different case, and the Federal Trade Commission agreed to nix the requirements placed on a pair of oil and gas deals.

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The Top In-House Hires Of July

By Michele Gorman

Legal department hires over the past month included high-profile appointments at Warner Bros. Discovery, Deutsche Bank and Kroger. Here, 极速赛车 Pulse looks at some of the top in-house announcements from July.

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UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

By Max Austin

This past week in London has seen several telco giants hit with a trademark claim, a collapsed hotel company sue a property investor in an ongoing dispute over a decades-old hotel sale, and two litigation funders square off against each other.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

Department store retailer Dillard's has asked for a special shareholder's vote on Aug. 19 on management's plan to move its incorporation from Delaware to Texas, becoming the latest company to join the so-called DExit trend.

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极速赛车's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP and Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP lead this week's edition of 极速赛车 Legal Lions, after a Ninth Circuit panel affirmed Epic Games Inc.'s 2023 antitrust jury trial win, along with an injunction requiring Google to open its Google Play Store to rivals.

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In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On 极速赛车

For those who missed out, here's a look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the most buzz on 极速赛车 last week.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Arnold & Porter

Ashurst LLP

Baker & Hostetler

Boies Schiller

Burns Bair

Bush Gottlieb

CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang

Clifford Law Offices

Consovoy McCarthy

Covington & Burling

Cravath Swaine

Crowell & Moring

DLA Piper

DWF LLP

David Boies

Dentons

DiCello Levitt

Dinsmore & Shohl

Faegre Drinker

Flood & Flood

Freeman Mathis

Freeths LLP

Freshfields

Gibson Dunn

Greenberg Traurig

Harrison LLP

Hogan Lovells

Holwell Shuster

Horwich Farrelly

Howes Percival

Jones Day

K&L Gates

Keystone Law

Kilpatrick Townsend

Kirkland & Ellis

Knights Solicitors

Lanier Law Firm

Latham & Watkins

Law Offices of Todd M. Friedman

MFG Solicitors

Marcotte Law PLLC

McDermott Will & Emery

McGuireWoods

Mills & Reeve

Mishcon de Reya

Morgan Lewis

Morrison & Foerster

Munger Tolles

Nabarro LLP

Pierce Atwood

Pinsent Masons

Quinn Emanuel

Robbins Alloy

Rudy Exelrod

Seyfarth Shaw

Shapiro Arato

Sidley Austin

Skadden Arps

Starr Butler

Stevens & Bolton

Stranch Jennings

Taft Stettinius

Tarter Krinsky

Taylor Rose

Trethowans LLP

Tucker Ellis

Vorys

Wachtell Lipton

Ward Hadaway

Webb Law Group APC

Williams Mullen

Willkie Farr

WilmerHale

Winston & Strawn

gunnercooke LLP

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

1-800-Flowers.com Inc.

7-Eleven Inc.

AT&T Inc.

AXA XL Ltd.

Abbott Laboratories

Air Products & Chemicals Inc.

Airbnb Inc.

Amazon.com Inc.

American Bar Association

American Civil Liberties Union

American Express Global Business Travel

Amneal Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Ancestry

Aramark

BASF SE

BCE Inc.

BDO LLP

BJC HealthCare

Balfour Beatty PLC

Beyond Meat Inc.

Boy Scouts of America

CVS Health Corp.

Charter Communications Inc.

Chegg Inc.

Chevron Corp.

Cincinnati Financial Corp.

Cox Communications Inc.

Davies Group Ltd.

Delta Corp. Ltd.

Democracy Forward Foundation

Deutsche Bank AG

Dick's Sporting Goods Inc.

Dollar Tree Inc.

Downtown Music Holdings LLC

EE Ltd.

EQT Corp.

Edgeworth Economics LLC

Edible Arrangements LLC

Eli Lilly & Co.

Enerpac Tool Group Corp.

Epic Games Inc.

Exxon Mobil Corp.

FCA US LLC

Federal Bar Association

Federalist Society

Foot Locker Inc.

Fordham University

GE HealthCare Technologies Inc.

Global Payments Inc.

Goal Group Ltd.

Google LLC

Greencore Group PLC

HSBC Holdings PLC

Harvard University

Hess Corp.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.

Honeywell International Inc.

Intelsat SA

International Union of Painters & Allied Trades

JELD-WEN Inc.

Johnson & Johnson

Juniper Networks Inc.

KKR & Co. Inc.

Lawyers for Civil Rights

Lex Machina Inc.

Liberty Mutual Insurance Group

Live Nation Entertainment Inc.

Louis Dreyfus Holding B.V.

MS Amlin PLC

Mackinac Center for Public Policy

Macrae Inc.

Mariani Co.

Mediterranean Shipping Co. SA

Metronet

Munchkin Inc.

National Collegiate Athletic Association

Neenah Paper Inc.

New York Legal Assistance Group Inc.

New York Racing Association Inc.

New York State Bar Association

Norfolk Southern Corp.

Northern Trust Corp.

Nova Biomedical Corp.

Novo Nordisk A S

Orient Overseas Container Line Ltd.

Ozone Networks Inc.

PGA TOUR Inc.

Palantir Technologies Inc.

Paramount Global

Philadelphia Consolidated Holding Corp.

Pioneer Natural Resources Co.

Pivot Bio Inc.

ProAssurance Corporation

Quantum Energy Partners

Reddit Inc.

Repligen Corporation

Restoration Hardware Holdings Inc.

SES SA

Sage Therapeutics Inc.

Sanofi

Skydance Media LLC

Solventum

Southwest Airlines Co.

Spectrum Management Holding Co.

Steves & Sons Inc.

Sunoco LP

Supernus Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Sysmex Corp.

Take-Two Interactive Software Inc.

Tesla Inc.

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.

The Bank of New York Mellon Corp.

The Charles Schwab Corp.

The District of Columbia Bar

The Doctors Co.

The Kraft Heinz Co.

The Kroger Co.

Therium Capital Management Ltd.

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.

Toys R Us Inc.

Tricon Energy Inc.

Union Pacific Corp.

United Steelworkers

Universal Music Group NV

Verizon Communications Inc.

Verve Therapeutics Inc.

Virgin Media Inc.

Vivendi SA

Volkswagen AG

Vuori Inc.

Warner Bros. Discovery Inc.

Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.

West Bend Mutual Insurance Co.

Workday Inc.

Worldpay LLC

Yang Ming Marine Transport Corp.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives

Bureau of Labor Statistics

Companies House

Competition and Markets Authority

European Commission

Federal Communications Commission

Federal Emergency Management Agency

Federal Trade Commission

Food and Drug Administration

Judicial Conference of the United States

Library of Congress

Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity

Michigan Legislature

Michigan Supreme Court

National Labor Relations Board

New Jersey Attorney General's Office

New York Supreme Court, New York County

Office of the Comptroller of the Currency

State of Michigan

U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission

U.S. Copyright Office

U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. District & Bankruptcy Courts of Southern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

UK High Court

US Office of Management and Budget

Wisconsin Supreme Court