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WHAT WE'RE WATCHING

'THIS IS AN EARTHQUAKE' - Social media quickly exploded Monday night after an unprecedented leak showed the U.S. Supreme Court has circulated a draft opinion that would overturn two key abortion rights precedents. The draft acquired by Politico was written by Justice Samuel Alito, and would overturn Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. The decision would cap off Mississippi's defense of its ban on abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, a case that eventually morphed into a call to overturn the two landmark decisions. The news quickly lit up social media as legal experts chimed in on how this potential ruling may affect the court's legitimacy. "This is an earthquake—for what it portends for the future not only of Roe, but of *all* implied fundamental rights, and for the stunning breach of the court's norms of confidentiality. And whatever you think of the leak, the former has *everything* to do with the latter," tweeted Steve Vladeck of the University of Texas School of Law.

PARDON THE INTERRUPTION  - The momentum in favor of the insurance industry in COVID-19 business interruption litigation has picked up speed in recent weeks. As we note in the latest Law.com Litigation Trendspotter column, another federal appeals court, as well as the first two state high courts in the U.S., issued rulings last month rejecting policyholders' claims that COVID-19 caused "direct physical harm or damage" to their properties. With the majority of federal appeals courts siding with insurers in these cases, state and federal courts now have a more solid blueprint to follow in these cases than they did even six months ago. But at least one federal court has refused to consider the matter entirely settled, creating a small sliver of hope for insureds in some of these matters.

WHO GOT THE WORK?℠ - Martin R. Martos II and Gabrielle Winslow of Fox Rothschild have stepped in to defend iRobot Corporation in a pending consumer class action. The suit, filed March 10 in Illinois Northern District Court by Frankfort Law Group, contends that iRobot knowingly sold defective Roomba vacuums to consumers and charged consumers $59 for a repair kit that did not remedy the defect. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Martha M. Pacold, is 1:22-cv-01290, Toolis v. iRobot Corporation.  >> Read the filing on Law.com Radar and check out the most recent edition of Law.com's Who Got the Work?℠ column to find out which law firms and lawyers are being brought in to handle key cases and close major deals for their clients.