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Special Master Delays High-Stakes Report on $75M Class Action Fee Request

A special master looking into potential overbilling in a $75 million attorney fee request has delayed the findings of a report he said could have “serious and far-reaching adverse ramifications” for plaintiffs firms in the case and “for the practice of the plaintiffs' class action bar.”
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National Law Journal

What to Know About Civil Division Nominee Jody Hunt

Hunt will face the Senate Judiciary committee Wednesday for his nomination hearing.
5 minute read

National Law Journal

DOJ Fought DEA Data Request Before Announcing Opioid Task Force

Before U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced last week that the federal government might bring legal actions against opioid companies, Department of Justice lawyers were in court fighting over a drug distribution database that could aid ongoing settlement talks.
5 minute read

National Law Journal

Meet the Cohen Milstein Lawyer Behind The #InclusionRider

Frances McDormand endorsed the contractual provisions during the Oscars Sunday night.
9 minute read

National Law Journal

MDL Sought for Bitcoin Cases Dismissed Under SCOTUS Decision

Plaintiffs firm Edelson PC has asked a federal judicial panel to consolidate class actions brought over the 2014 collapse of the bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox after a federal judge last year dismantled its case under the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Bristol-Myers Squibb v. Superior Court of California.
5 minute read

National Law Journal

Former Trump Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort Faces September Trial

Manafort pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a five-count superseding indictment returned last week.
4 minute read

National Law Journal

Missouri Supreme Court Hears Venue Arguments in Talc Case

At issue is whether the St. Louis judge overseeing the case, abused his discretion in allowing a plaintiff who originally sued in St. Louis County Circuit Court, located in Clayton, Missouri, to go to trial in the city of St. Louis.
6 minute read

National Law Journal

Judge Upholds Contempt for Va. Attorney Who Refused to Stand for Deposition

Matthew LeFande was held in contempt by a magistrate judge last year for "obstructing the administration of justice."
3 minute read

National Law Journal

Jeff Sessions on 2nd Circuit's LGBT Ruling: Judges Must Have 'Read the New York Times'

Sessions criticized the Second Circuit's decision Monday that employment discrimination against LGBT people is illegal.
3 minute read

National Law Journal

Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Challenging Trump's 2-for-1 Regulations Executive Order

U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss wrote the plaintiffs, two advocacy groups and a union, did not have standing to bring the challenge, but his opinion may not be the end of the case.
3 minute read

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