The National Law Journal

Supreme Court Will Begin New Term Dogged by Old Issues

6th Circuit Judge Readler Cautions Against Shaming Lawyers Over Election Challenges

Judge Strikes Down Missouri Law Requiring Sex Offenders To Display 'No Candy' Sign

Charles Toutant reports: The volume of lawsuits?filed against employers by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission took a surprising drop in 2024, according to an analysis by attorneys at Seyfarth Shaw. Only 96 suits were filed nationwide in the 2024 fiscal year, which ended on Sept. 30, Seyfarth said in?its report. A tight financial picture could be part of the reason for the plunge in suits filed, the Seyfarth report said. The agency requested a $26 million increase in funding, but the $455 million Congress approved for 2024 was the same level as 2023. Meanwhile, the agency was saddled with an inventory of cases from the previous year's filing surge, the report said. Aside from finances, the Seyfarth analysis shows that workplace harassment, based on characteristics such as sex or race, remains a high priority. In April, the EEOC released an updated?Workplace Guidance to Prevent Harassment, which updated prior publications by addressing harassment in virtual work environments. And in June, the commission released?antiharassment guidance?targeting employers in the construction industry. Enforcement actions over harassment spiked in 2024, said Andrew Scroggins, a labor and employment attorney at Seyfarth. For the third straight year, the agency filed hostile-workplace suits in the double digits, the report said. ???????? ?????? ?????????? ??????????: https://lnkd.in/e_39vntx

Avalon Z. reports: Commodities exchange KalshiEx may resume offering derivative contracts that allow Americans to place money on which political party they believe will gain control of Congress after the November elections, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled Wednesday. The appeals court rejected the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's bid to stop KalshiEx from offering its "Congressional Control Contracts." The three-judge panel said the federal agency failed to show the contracts would incentivize political misinformation or have other negative consequences on the election. "In short, the concerns voiced by the Commission are understandable given the uncertain effects that Congressional Control Contracts will have on our elections, which are the very linchpin of our democracy," wrote Judge Patricia Millett, joined by Judges?Cornelia Pillard and Florence Pan. "But whether the statutory text allows the Commission to bar such event contracts is debatable, and the Commission has not substantiated that risks to election integrity are likely to materialize if Kalshi[Ex] is allowed to operate its exchange during the pendency of this appeal," Millett continued. ???????? ?????? ?????????? ??????????: https://lnkd.in/erKDAGdA

Via Sulaiman Abdur-Rahman: Prosecutors on Wednesday filed a public document explaining why the superseding indictment of former President Donald Trump, in their view,?complies with the U.S. Supreme Court's presidential-immunity doctrine in his election-interference criminal case. "The defendant asserts that he is immune from prosecution for his criminal scheme to overturn the 2020 presidential election because, he claims, it entailed official conduct," the office of Special Counsel Jack Smith wrote in a 165-page brief filed Wednesday afternoon. "Not so. Although the defendant was the incumbent President during the charged conspiracies, his scheme was fundamentally a private one." U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan allowed Smith's office to file the?oversized brief?on the public docket with numerous redactions. The office previously filed the brief under seal Sept. 26. "At its core, the defendant's scheme was a private criminal effort," Smith's team argues in the unsealed brief. "Although his multiple conspiracies began after election day in 2020, the defendant laid the groundwork for his crimes well before then." The?unsealed document?blacks out the names of numerous witnesses in Trump's election-interference case. Smith alleges that the evidence in the case demonstrates Trump knew his election fraud claims were false "because he continued to make those claims even after his close advisors … told him they were not true." The redactions make it unclear who those high-level advisers were. ???????? ?????? ?????????? ??????????: https://lnkd.in/e_wHf4Xm

'Stock Car Monopoly'?: Winston Lawsuit Alleges NASCAR Anticompetitive Scheme

Ken Paxton and guns at the State Fair: The Texas Supreme Court, which normally declines meritless petitions with a single-page order, took the time to school Paxton on what his office got wrong in how it requested an emergency injunction. Read the full story from reporter Adolfo Pesquera here: https://lnkd.in/gGpuJjZH

ICYMI. The State Bar of Texas cited disciplinary actions against 13 attorneys in its September disciplinary report. A LaPorte attorney resigned rather than face 29 complaints that were pending. https://lnkd.in/gAsmbMqR

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, which had the top spot in the first half of 2024, trailed Kirkland & Ellis slightly, having completed 153 deals globally totaling $362.1 billion.