Partners at Troutman Pepper and Locke Lord this week voted in favor of the law firms merging, according to a joint statement Thursday.

The full Sixth Circuit on Thursday declined to touch limits on coordinated spending between political parties and federal candidates in a closely-watched campaign finance case brought by Republicans that appears teed up for review by the US Supreme Court.

The Missouri secretary of state must change his voter-guide statement for an abortion rights measure on the November ballot, a state judge said Thursday in a decision siding with the campaign behind the amendment.

The federal judge presiding over the 2020 election-interference prosecution against Donald Trump set a series of deadlines in the coming weeks for the next phase of the immunity fight, rejecting a more protracted schedule from the former president’s lawyers.

An Illinois federal judge recused herself from a settled antitrust class action brought by homeowners over realtor commission payments.

Adobe Inc.’s top lawyer Dana Rao, who was central to establishing its artificial intelligence strategy and led it through a failed antitrust battle, is leaving the company.

The head of the United Steelworkers said Nippon Steel Corp. needs to rework its deal for United States Steel Corp. to win the union’s support and suggested the American company’s board consider replacing its CEO, as President Joe Biden prepares to block the transaction.

A California federal judge sought clarity on how the NCAA’s $2.8 billion settlement designed to resolve antitrust claims would be distributed, along with consideration of scholarship limit claims, as she questioned attorneys for about three hours Thursday.

The operators of Broadway’s Gershwin Theater discriminated against an employee on the basis of her gender and sexual orientation and failed to respond appropriately to her complaints about mistreatment from her supervisor, a federal lawsuit said.

U.S. Law Week summarizes selected splits among U.S. federal courts of appeals each month.

Forecasters anticipate a monthly report on US employment will show a bounce in hiring and a tick lower in the unemployment rate in August, marking a stabilization after the July data sparked a growth scare in financial markets.

A union that represents cargo handlers at ports from Houston to Boston concluded a two-day meeting in New Jersey with nearly 300 delegates saying they’d back a strike if their labor contract expires before a deal is reached with port employers.

A California federal judge sought clarity on how the NCAA’s $2.8 billion settlement designed to resolve antitrust claims would be distributed, along with consideration of scholarship limit claims, as she questioned attorneys for about three hours Thursday.

Partners at Troutman Pepper and Locke Lord this week voted in favor of the law firms merging, according to a joint statement Thursday.

The Phoenix office of Dorsey & Whitney added Dawn Meidinger as regulatory partner, C.W. Ross as mergers and acquisition partner, and Norm James as of counsel in its regulatory affairs group, the firm announced Thursday.

The US has sanctioned two more vessels along with two related shipping companies in its latest effort to block Russian liquefied natural gas exports from the Arctic.

By any stretch of the imagination, the US is one of the world’s biggest coal producers. Even after declining by about half since 2008, output last year was still about 527 million metric tons, the fourth-biggest total globally. And yet you could keep all of America’s coal boilers and blast furnaces going until Thanksgiving in 2025 with the reserves of solid fuel that Chinese industries have built up in the last couple of years.

Former US President Donald Trump pledged to rescind unspent funding from Democrats’ signature climate law in the most definitive remarks yet on his intentions for the Inflation Reduction Act.

A California federal judge sought clarity on how the NCAA’s $2.8 billion settlement designed to resolve antitrust claims would be distributed, along with consideration of scholarship limit claims, as she questioned attorneys for about three hours Thursday.

The operators of Broadway’s Gershwin Theater discriminated against an employee on the basis of her gender and sexual orientation and failed to respond appropriately to her complaints about mistreatment from her supervisor, a federal lawsuit said.

The City of Los Angeles on Thursday convinced the Ninth Circuit to vacate the class certification of Black Lives Matter protesters in the activist group’s 2020 lawsuit over alleging excessive police force.

Lewis & Clark College couldn’t shake a breach of contract claim stemming from a former graduate student’s disability-related complaint.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a three lawsuits against two restaurants and an airline, charging that they allowed hostile work environments to fester, the agency announced Thursday.

President Joe Biden’s latest plan to pare down student debt burdens was temporarily blocked by a federal district court in Georgia on Thursday, the most recent in a series of court setbacks to the president’s 2020 campaign pledge.