The Supreme Court on Friday eliminated a 40-year-old precedent known as Chevron deference, a doctrine that empowered federal regulators to interpret unclear laws. Reporters Robert Iafolla and Courtney Rozen offer insight into what comes next for the administration, the courts, regulated industry, and their lawyers.

Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom is Big Law’s top mergers and acquisitions legal adviser in the first half of this year, as deals in energy and health care boosted volumes.

Law clerks and interns for federal Judge Xavier Rodriguez recently spent weeks poring over evidence from a high-profile trial on challenges to Texas’ voting and election laws, and then summarized key testimony for the court’s official findings of fact and conclusions of law.

Lawyers for Jan. 6 Capitol rioters are gearing up for a fight to wipe out convictions and lower sentences, after the US Supreme Court narrowed a criminal obstruction law used in more than 200 cases.

3M Co. and its Aearo Technologies LLC subsidiary have settled with several insurers to obtain $120 million toward a $6 billion global personal injury settlement with service members who used the companies’ combat earplugs, according to a court filing.

Jason Gersting has joined Snell & Wilmer as a partner in its intellectual property practice group in Orange County, California, the firm said Tuesday.

Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom is Big Law’s top mergers and acquisitions legal adviser in the first half of this year, as deals in energy and health care boosted volumes.

Activists launched 219 campaigns in Q2, but it may not be enough to keep up with 2023’s record-breaking pace. More campaigns were launched in 2023 than in any year since at least 2017. But two business sectors appear poised to give 2024 a shot to beat last year’s total.

Law clerks and interns for federal Judge Xavier Rodriguez recently spent weeks poring over evidence from a high-profile trial on challenges to Texas’ voting and election laws, and then summarized key testimony for the court’s official findings of fact and conclusions of law.

Anglo American Plc is considering options to push ahead with a sale of its coal business after an explosion at its flagship Australian mine, including the possibility of selling individual assets or excluding the damaged operation from a potential deal.

AstraZeneca Plc escaped a lawsuit from shareholders over its $3 billion sale of biotech firm Viela Bio Inc., after a judge ruled on Tuesday that the complaint failed to show the pharmaceutical company was Viela’s controlling shareholder at the time.

A Frequency Therapeutics Inc. investor failed to persuade the First Circuit Tuesday to revive a class action lawsuit alleging the regenerative medicine company willfully misrepresented the progress of a hearing-loss drug.

A Supreme Court decision this week involving federal curbs on misinformation on social media sites bolsters the case for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, a civil rights group told a federal appeals court.

An Education Department rule that bars discrimination against children based on their gender identity in schools that receive federal funding was preliminarily blocked by another federal district court on Tuesday.

The Regents of the University of California, as part of its deal to purchase two San Francisco hospitals, must commit to keeping healthcare affordable and accessible for ten years, including devoting $10 million annually to charity care, according to a Tuesday settlement agreement with California Attorney General Rob Bonta.

A Black physician failed to revive her suit alleging a Chicago public hospital discriminated against her by paying her less than other non-Black physicians.

Disability discrimination claims brought against Total System Services LLC on behalf of one of its employees by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission should go to trial, a federal court magistrate judge said.

An Alaska gold mine set to begin operations is in the crosshairs of a legal complaint on the grounds that the federal government didn’t take the required hard look before permitting it.

The Supreme Court on Friday eliminated a 40-year-old precedent known as Chevron deference, a doctrine that empowered federal regulators to interpret unclear laws. Reporters Robert Iafolla and Courtney Rozen offer insight into what comes next for the administration, the courts, regulated industry, and their lawyers.

Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom is Big Law’s top mergers and acquisitions legal adviser in the first half of this year, as deals in energy and health care boosted volumes.

Law clerks and interns for federal Judge Xavier Rodriguez recently spent weeks poring over evidence from a high-profile trial on challenges to Texas’ voting and election laws, and then summarized key testimony for the court’s official findings of fact and conclusions of law.

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Lawyers for Jan. 6 Capitol rioters are gearing up for a fight to wipe out convictions and lower sentences, after the US Supreme Court narrowed a criminal obstruction law used in more than 200 cases.

AstraZeneca Plc escaped a lawsuit from shareholders over its $3 billion sale of biotech firm Viela Bio Inc., after a judge ruled on Tuesday that the complaint failed to show the pharmaceutical company was Viela’s controlling shareholder at the time.