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A group of 25 Democrat-led states sued the Trump administration on Tuesday challenging the cuts to SNAP benefits, also known as food stamps. Read the complaint.
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Today, the states will urge U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani in Boston to order the USDA to use $6 billion in contingency funds to pay for the SNAP program, which costs about $8 billion monthly.
- The states are seeking a TRO that would allow SNAP benefits to be administered in November.
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The USDA's shutdown plan, released last month, had cited the contingency funds as being available to continue funding SNAP benefits during a government shutdown. But last week the department updated its website to say no benefits would be issued on November 1 as scheduled, stating "the well has run dry."
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At stake is whether more than 41 million low-income Americans will receive their November benefits, which would mark the first time payments have lapsed due to a government shutdown in the program's 60-year history.
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Several leading medical organizations will urge U.S. District Judge Brian Young in Boston to not allow the Trump administration to pause during the government shutdown a lawsuit against U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Department of Health and Human Services, arguing that current policies on COVID-19 vaccines pose an imminent threat to public health.
- Former FBI Director James Comey faces a deadline to file additional legal challenges to the criminal case accusing him of making false statements to Congress.
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Magellan Diagnostics' former chief operating officer Hossein Maleknia is slated to be sentenced after agreeing to plead guilty to U.S. charges that he helped distribute the company's lead-testing devices without reporting a malfunction that caused the products to generate inaccurately low results.
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Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy is scheduled to speak with Stanford University Provost Jenny Martinez at Stanford Law School in Palo Alto, California.
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There is a growing list of law schools where students have formed clubs or organizations dedicated to AI, including Harvard, Stanford and the University of Pennsylvania. Read more about how law students are bracing for the future.
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Florida, which has the nation’s fourth-largest lawyer population and 12 law schools, now has a menu of a dozen options to curtail or eliminate the ABA’s role in attorney admissions. Read more about it here.
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Gibson Dunn said it teamed up with the Anti-Defamation League to launch a coordinated effort to provide free legal services to victims of antisemitism. Read more here.
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Moves: Duncan Speller, co-chair of Willkie’s international arbitration practice, moved to Duane Morris as co-chair of the international disputes group … Nelson Mullins added international arbitration partner Lena Serhan from White & Case … Frost Brown Todd added real estate partner Beth Freemal from Chavez Properties where she was general counsel … Barnes & Thornburg elected 16 new partners.
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The U.S. Supreme Court signaled that it is actively debating how to interpret the wording of a law that limits when a president can use members of the National Guard in a challenge to Donald Trump's bid to dispatch troops to the Chicago area. Read more here.
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At least two judges on a 2nd Circuit panel considering whether Argentina must pay investors $16.1 billion after seizing control of state-owned oil company YPF in 2012 questioned whether the case belonged in the United States. Read more about the arguments here.
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U.S. Customs and Border Patrol commander-at-large Gregory Bovino won’t have to appear before a judge in Chicago after the 7th Circuit paused her order directing him to come to court every weekday to answer questions about the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in the city.
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