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July 19, 2024

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U.S. Supreme Court is making it harder to sue – even for conservatives

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Over its past two terms, the U.S. Supreme Court has put an end to five high-profile and politically sensitive cases emerging from one particular federal appeals court on the same basis, declaring that the litigation should not have been allowed in the first place. Read more from Supreme Court reporter Andrew Chung.

In all five cases – involving abortion rights, online free speech, federal student loans, immigration and Native American child welfare – the justices overturned rulings by the staunchly conservative New Orleans-based 5th Circuit or judges within that circuit. In doing so, the Supreme Court sent a message to the 5th Circuit, which handles appeals from federal courts in the Republican-led states of Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi, and the entire U.S. judiciary to tighten up on legal standing.

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Week in review …

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Appellate …

Prosecutors appealed the Trump classified documents case dismissal to the 11th Circuit … The 8th Circuit blocked all of Biden’s student debt relief plan … The 5th Circuit validated Mississippi’s lifetime ban on felons voting … A U.S. appeals court ordered a judge to reconsider Biden’s ESG investing rule … The 9th Circuit will reconsider a ban on felons possessing guns … X Corp (formerly Twitter) asked the 9th Circuit to block California’s content moderation law … The 10th Circuit ruled that Oklahoma is not entitled to federal family planning grants.

Legal industry …

Tom Girardi and his ex-CFO will face separate California criminal trials … To boost lawyer numbers in “legal deserts,” Arizona is adopting an apprentice plan for bar exam failers … Florida became the largest state to adopt the overhauled bar exam … A lawyer sued Morgan & Morgan, claiming “deceptive” ad practices … A prosecutor in 2017 anti-Trump protest cases faces attorney ethics charges … A study recommends that the U.S. judiciary improve workplace misconduct systems … And in this week’s Legal Fee Tracker: Lawyers want $122.5 million in an Apple securities case.

Intellectual property …

Kanye West was hit with a new copyright lawsuit over “Donda” tracks … Google settled a trademark lawsuit over Vizier software … Squishmallows maker can sue Build-A-Bear over alleged plush toy knockoffs … Skechers sued LL Bean for copying shoe design … Adidas and Thom Browne fought in a UK court over striped trademarks … And Tesla‘s UK lawsuit for 5G patents license was thrown out.

Citigroup waived ATM fees in ‘underserved’ areas. Conservatives cried foul.

A lawsuit against Citigroup for waiving its $3 out-of-network ATM fee for customers of certain credit unions and community banks, most of them minority-owned, strikes Jenna Greene as an instance of no good deed going unpunished. In her latest column, Greene looks at a proposed class action against Citi by Consovoy McCarthy, which claims the fees discriminate against customers of banks owned by people of the “wrong race” – and why the litigation boutique may face an uphill fight in making the claims stick.

Check out other recent pieces from our columnists: Alison Frankel and Jenna Greene