A flurry of lawsuits were filed this week by state attorneys general in response to the Biden administration’s recent changes to Title IX of the Education Amendments Act, but experts say one suit challenging the rollback in protections for those accused of sexual assault may bring additional litigation. Over the past…

Several attorneys from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Department of Justice have landed at law firms in Washington, D.C., this week, including Sidley Austin, Mitchell Sandler and Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel, in the latest string of firm hires from the federal government this election year. The most recent hires…

A federal appeals court reversed a $1.6 billion judgment against IBM Corp., concluding the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas erred in its interpretation of a breach of contract claim. IBM is represented on appeal by the Clement & Murphy firm, Alexandria, Virginia and by Yetter Coleman…

A railroad conductor who sued a security company for negligence after he was injured in a knife attack was awarded $3 million, but asked the court to reduce the jury’s verdict. John Edward Farley, a 39-year-old conductor, was attacked at the Trinity Railway Express T&P station in Fort worth on…

A U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit judge seemed skeptical Wednesday of a new Medicare drug price negotiation program meant to lower prescription costs, which pharmaceutical manufacturers and related groups across the country are challenging as unconstitutional. “This is challenging to a novel, unprecedented drug-price setting program in…

After a team from LaRocca, Hornik, Greenberg, Kittredge, Carlin & McPartland moved to withdraw their representation of former President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in a pregnancy discrimination lawsuit, U.S. Magistrate Judge Katharine H. Parker of the Southern District of New York on Wednesday summoned all the parties to a conference…