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SUITS GALORE - Among the latest COVID-19-induced class actions: Food delivery apps like Uber Eats and GrubHub are the target of a civil antitrust suit that alleges they're driving up prices amid the pandemic; two class actions allege Six Flags has unlawfully continued to automatically charge monthly and season pass holders despite closing its amusement parks through mid-May; and attorneys on both coasts have filed a class action against Southwest Airlines alleging it failed to provide reimbursements for flights canceled as a result of the coronavirus.

SLOWING – The number of law students nationwide has declined 25% since The Great Recession, and Asian Americans have posted the single biggest enrollment decline among any racial or ethnic group in that time, according to a study by California Supreme Court Associate Justice Goodwin Liu and 2019 Yale Law School graduates Miranda Li and Phillip Yao. Karen Sloan reports that without a boost in enrollment, the number of Asian American lawyers in the U.S. will stagnate by 2030 after four decades of growth.

IN-PERSON – A federal judge in D.C. is set to hear arguments today over a TRO sought by immigration lawyers to halt in-person proceedings in the nation's immigration courts. Immigration judges and lawyers have protested the decision to have the courts, which are run by the DOJ, continue with hearings during the pandemic, saying it puts them and their clients at risk. Attorneys with Cleary have joined the case on the side of the immigration lawyers and are asking for the proceedings to be temporarily halted while DOJ officials draft and implement policies "to enable hearings to proceed remotely and safely."