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N.Y. federal court’s jury system upheld despite ‘troubling’ racial disparities

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The 2nd Circuit said the way the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York identifies prospective jurors was prone to “troubling” racial disparities but that a defendant had failed to prove it caused the systematic underrepresentation of Black and Hispanic or Latino people as eligible jurors. Nate Raymond has more.

U.S. Circuit Judge Beth Robinson said in Thursday’s opinion on behalf of a three-judge panel that those disparities have worsened over the last three decades. Robinson said “there may come a time where persistent disparities, sufficiently proven to be caused by the district’s jury selection process, can no longer be tolerated.” Read the opinion.

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JetBlue, Spirit say lawyers don’t deserve credit for scrapped merger

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JetBlue and Spirit are pressing a judge not to reward a group of law firms that sued to block the airlines’ proposed $3.8 billion merger. The airlines abandoned their merger in March, after a judge sided with the DOJ in a separate lawsuit, ruling that the combination would harm consumers. But does that mean private antitrust plaintiffs shouldn’t get credit? And how much cash is at stake?

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Do Boar’s Head customers who didn’t get sick deserve a payout?

After Boar’s Head last week recalled 7 million pounds of deli meat potentially tainted with listeria, the company was hit with a class action on behalf of consumers who say they overpaid for the products. It’s the latest in a spate of class actions that if successful, Jenna Greene in her latest column writes, could change the food safety landscape by deterring companies from issuing broad recalls of potentially tainted products.

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