Client Who Sent Money To Fraudster Wins Suit Against Firm

By Matt Perez

An optometrist who claims a fraudster infiltrated her lawyer's email system and tricked her into wiring $90,586 to an incorrect account has won a lawsuit against Mancini Provenzano & Futtner LLC after a Connecticut state court judge found the firm was negligent in failing to secure its system.

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Judge Backs Conn. Utility's $2M Enviro Penalty In Rate Hike Row

By Brian Steele

An Avangrid Inc. unit must suffer a roughly $2 million annual penalty for failing to remediate pollution at the defunct English Station power plant in New Haven, Connecticut, a judge has ruled as part of a broader order that upholds most of the state utility regulator's decision to slash a requested $131 million rate hike.

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Connecticut Wants Retailers' Hemp Law Challenge Tossed

By Sam Reisman

The state of Connecticut has asked a federal judge to toss a lawsuit by nearly a dozen hemp retailers challenging statutes designed to regulate hemp-derived products with high levels of THC, saying the retailers' lawsuit is deficient in multiple ways.

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Justices Set Deadline In Birthright Citizenship Injunction Row

By Rae Ann Varona

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday gave states and organizations challenging President Donald Trump's executive order aimed at limiting birthright citizenship until early next month to address Trump's request for the high court to limit three federal judge's injunctions that preliminarily blocked the order's implementation across the U.S.

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US Trustee Pans Pump Co.'s $9M Asbestos Insurance Deal

By Emily Lever

The U.S. Trustee's Office has challenged a proposed $9 million settlement between a Chapter 7 trustee for a bankrupt Connecticut pump company and two insurers, saying the agreement nonconsensually deprives third parties of their asbestos-related personal injury claims against the insurance carriers.

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Md. Judge Joins Calif. In Reversing Federal Workers' Firing

By Lauren Berg

A Maryland federal judge has ordered the reinstatement of thousands of probationary employees who were abruptly fired from 18 federal agencies, saying the Trump administration's lack of required notice left states "scrambling" to pick up the pieces.

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11th Circ. Again Upholds Fla. Ban On Under-21 Gun Sales

By Lauren Berg

Florida's law banning sales of firearms to anyone under 21 is constitutional, a divided Eleventh Circuit ruled Friday on en banc review, finding that America's 18- to 20-year-olds have had their gun rights checked since the nation's founding.

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Brief

Conn. City, Worker Settle Teamsters Union Membership Suit

By Aaron Keller

A Connecticut city has settled a public works employee's claim that he was fired for joining a local Teamsters union after pressure from the mayor and other bosses to invoke a 2018 U.S. Supreme Court case that allows government employees to avoid paying union dues.

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Roundup

Real Estate Recap: Waldorf Reno, DEI Scrubbing, CFIUS Risk

By Real Estate Authority Staff

Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including a chat with the legal team behind the 10-year renovation of Manhattan's iconic Waldorf Astoria, how real estate companies are dropping mention of diversity, equity and inclusion from public filings, and increasing scrutiny by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States.

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Why A Rare SEC Dismissal May Not Reflect A New Approach

While the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's pending dismissal of its case against Silver Point is remarkable to the extent that it reflects a novel repudiation of a decision made during the prior commission, a deeper look suggests it may not represent a shift in policy approach, say attorneys at Weil.

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A Judge's Pointers For Adding Spice To Dry Legal Writing

U.S. District Judge Fred Biery shares a few key lessons about how to go against the grain of the legal writing tradition by adding color to bland judicial opinions, such as by telling a human story and injecting literary devices where possible.

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20 Law Firms Face EEOC Demands For DEI Employment Info

By Jack Karp

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has written to 20 law firms seeking information about their diversity, equity and inclusion-related employment practices, the agency announced Monday.

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Dentons Merger Brings Firm To The Turks And Caicos

By Andrea Keckley

Dentons says it is set to become the first global law firm to establish a presence in the Turks and Caicos, announcing Monday that it plans to combine with island firm Griffiths & Partners.

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Pillsbury Lands 14 Int'l Trade Attys From Curtis

By Rose Krebs

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP announced Monday that it has added a 14-attorney team, including three partners, from Curtis Mallet-Prevost Colt & Mosle LLP to strengthen its international trade practice and help clients navigate tariffs, supply chains and other issues.

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Judge Questions DOJ Timing Of Deportations After Injunction

By Britain Eakin

U.S. Chief District Judge James Boasberg admonished the Trump administration Monday for its seeming noncompliance with an oral order to turn around flights carrying Venezuelans who were deported under a presidential proclamation invoking the 1798 Alien Enemies Act.

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Judge Ikuta's Sr. Status Plans Give Trump 9th Circ. Opening

By Courtney Bublé

U.S. Circuit Judge Sandra Segal Ikuta of the Ninth Circuit will be taking semi-retired status upon confirmation of her successor, a court representative confirmed to Law360 on Monday.

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DC Judge Holds Off Ruling On Immigration Legal Aid Funds

By Ali Sullivan

A D.C. federal judge on Monday held off on deciding whether to order the Trump administration to continue funding programs that give noncitizens access to legal aid and information, as requested in a lawsuit from nonprofit groups, noting that other court orders in separate lawsuits have mandated that federal funds keep flowing.

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Houston Midwife Arrested In Texas' 1st Criminal Abortion Case

By Catherine Marfin

A Houston-area midwife has been arrested after an investigation by the Texas attorney general's office for allegedly providing illegal abortions, Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Monday, the first such criminal charges brought since the state issued its near-total abortion ban.

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Littler Elects 6 New Members To Board Of Directors

By Tracey Read

Littler Mendelson PC has elected six new members to its 19-member, 2025 board of directors, the management-side employment and labor law firm announced Monday.

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Ex-Seton Hall Law Worker Avoids Jail In Embezzlement Case

By Carla Baranauckas

A former employee of Seton Hall University School of Law was sentenced Monday to two years of probation with one year of electronic monitoring for her guilty plea in an embezzlement scheme that defrauded the school of $1.3 million over 13 years.

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Seeger Weiss Atty Tapped To Lead Depo-Provera Plaintiffs

By Carolina Bolado

A Florida federal judge on Sunday selected Christopher Seeger of Seeger Weiss LLP to lead the team representing plaintiffs in the multidistrict litigation claiming Pfizer Inc. failed to adequately warn patients and doctors about the risk of brain tumors associated with the hormonal contraceptive drug Depo-Provera.

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