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  • New York said on Wednesday that it will use a new version of the bar exam for lawyers' admission to practice starting in July 2028. The revamped bar exam, developed by the National Conference of Bar Examiners, will become the licensing test for about 14,000 law school graduates who sit for New York's exam each year. New York licenses more lawyers each year than any other jurisdiction. The decision to adopt the new test was made by the New York Court of Appeals, the state’s highest court, and brings New York in line with 29 other states and jurisdictions that have announced the switch to NextGen, which will begin rolling out in July 2026. The National Conference of Bar Examiners provides the current version of the bar exam used by nearly all U.S. states. The NextGen bar exam is the first major redesign of the national lawyer licensing test in 25 years. The National Conference of Bar Examiners began developing it in 2021 with the goal of creating a test that emphasizes legal skills and relies less on the memorization of laws. States can choose to switch to the NextGen bar exam as early as July 2026 or as late as July 2028. The National Conference of Bar Examiners will stop offering its current exam following the February 2028 administration. Karen Sloan has more https://reut.rs/428UrWW 

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  • Kroger has agreed to pay $110 million to resolve a lawsuit by the state of Kentucky alleging the supermarket chain's pharmacies helped fuel a deadly opioid epidemic by flooding its communities with hundreds of millions of doses of addictive painkillers. The settlement was announced by Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman, whose state had opted to not participate in a broader $1.4-billion deal Kroger finalized last year that resolved similar claims by 30 states as well as counties, municipalities and Native American tribes. In a lawsuit filed in state court in February, Coleman had alleged that Kroger's more than 100 Kentucky pharmacies had been responsible for over 11% of all opioid pills dispensed in the state from 2006 to 2019, or about 444 million opioid doses. The lawsuit alleged Kroger should have known based on the suspiciously high numbers and other red flags that the drugs were being diverted for illicit purposes, and should have taken measures to stop shipments and refuse to fill suspicious prescriptions. Read the full story to find out more ➡️ https://reut.rs/3C5wxkn 

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  • Rap mogul Jay-Z on Jan. 8 asked a judge in Manhattan to dismiss a lawsuit accusing him and fellow rapper Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs of raping a 13-year-old girl during a party in 2000, and to sanction the Houston attorney who filed the case. Jay-Z accused the lawyer, Tony Buzbee, of multiple inaccuracies in the complaint, and of failing to investigate the allegations before filing the lawsuit. Buzbee's lawsuit, which initially named just Combs and later added Jay-Z as a defendant, alleged that the unnamed girl was drugged and raped by both men at a party hosted by Combs following the MTV Music Awards in 2000. Combs and Jay-Z have denied the allegations. Read more: https://reut.rs/4fTaeML 

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  • Nearly five years after Blue Cross Blue Shield agreed to pay $2.7 billion in one of the largest U.S. antitrust class action settlements ever, a handful of law firms involved in the case are still fighting over their share of the attorney fees. A trio of small law firms claims that Louisiana-based Pendley, Baudin & Coffin never paid them their dues from Pendley's portion of a $667 million fee award allocated to the more than 30 plaintiffs' firms in the case, according to complaints made public by an Alabama federal judge who oversaw the antitrust litigation. Subscribe to The Afternoon Docket: https://reut.rs/4aVlZjE

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  • A sense of anger thrums throughout the lawsuit by U.S. Steel and Nippon Steel against rival steel maker Cleveland-Cliffs, its CEO and the president of the United Steelworkers union, in a case that plaintiffs claim could yield billions of dollars in damages for allegedly subverting their now-scuttled merger.   Filed Jan. 6 in federal court in Pittsburgh, the 93-page complaint contains terms such as ‘Thuggish tactics,’ ‘Campaign of lies,’ ‘Xenophobic,’ and ‘Befitting a mafia boss.’ It alleges that the defendants violated the Sherman Antitrust Act and the federal law against racketeering in opposing Nippon Steel’s $14.9 billion bid for U.S. Steel.   Ohio-based Cleveland-Cliffs’ offer to buy U.S. Steel was previously rejected by the company, despite adamant union support. 'I’m not aware of any other (cases) like this,' Freshfields antitrust partner Andrew Ewalt, who is not involved in the dispute, told Reuters columnist Jenna Greene. 'It’s outside the mainstream.'   Still, if the plaintiffs (and their army of lawyers from five major firms) were to prevail, the implications for the merger review process – where it’s not uncommon for complaining competitors to lobby against regulatory approval of their rivals’ deals or for conditions to be imposed – could be significant.   President Joe Biden last week blocked Japanese-owned Nippon’s acquisition of U.S. Steel on national security grounds. In a separate petition against the government, the companies argue the president’s decision was motivated by politics rather than legitimate security concerns, and that their due process rights were violated. Read more https://reut.rs/3PqkeSG

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    New York's top court rejected Donald Trump's request to halt the president-elect's sentencing for his conviction on criminal charges stemming from hush money paid to a porn star, with a decision on a possible delay now in the hands of the US Supreme Court.   The state court's decision was a setback for Trump, who now must pin his hopes of freezing the case on the nation's top judicial body, where his lawyers have made a similar emergency bid to avoid the sentencing, set for Jan. 10 at 9:30 a.m. in a Manhattan court.   Manhattan prosecutors made a filing at the Supreme Court on the morning of Jan 9., opposing Trump's bid for a stay.   ‘Defendant now asks this court to take the extraordinary step of intervening in a pending state criminal trial to prevent the scheduled sentencing from taking place - before final judgment has been entered by the trial court, and before any direct appellate review of defendant's conviction. There is no basis for such intervention,’ Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office wrote in a filing.   Trump was found guilty last May of 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up a $130,000 payment to porn star Stormy Daniels in exchange for her silence before the 2016 U.S. election about a sexual encounter she has said she had with Trump a decade earlier, which he has denied. The sentencing is set for 10 days before Trump is due to be sworn in for his second term as president. Any substantial delay would likely mean Trump would not be sentenced before his Jan. 20 inauguration. Read more https://reut.rs/406UyiR

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  • While Donald Trump has asked SCOTUS to block a looming U.S. ban on TikTok in a major free speech rights case to be argued on Jan. 10, many of his Republican allies have urged the opposite. These diverging views raise the stakes for the court, as it prepares to decide the fate of a popular social media platform used by about half of Americans in a case testing the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment protections against government abridgment of speech. Subscribe to The Daily Docket: https://reut.rs/4dsTnQ1 #tiktok #legalnews #freespeech

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  • Two groups representing the credit reporting and credit union industries have filed a lawsuit challenging a new rule adopted by President Joe Biden's outgoing administration banning the inclusion of medical debt in American consumers' credit reports. The Consumer Data Industry Association and Cornerstone Credit Union League filed the lawsuit in federal court in Sherman, Texas, on Jan. 7, shortly after the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau finalized the regulation. The trade groups say the rule violates the Fair Credit Reporting Act, which expressly permits consumer reporting agencies to report information about medical debt and authorizes creditors to consider that information. The agency said the rule would remove $49 billion in medical debts from the credit reports of about 15 million Americans. Read more: https://reut.rs/406ipzo

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    Retired liberal U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer began a two-day stint as a visiting judge on the federal appeals court in Boston on Jan. 8, the same court he served on before joining the nation's highest court three decades ago. Apple clarified on Jan. 8 that it has never sold the data collected by its Siri voice assistant or used it to create marketing profiles, just days after settling a case in which it faced such accusations. Two groups representing the credit reporting and credit union industries have filed a lawsuit challenging a new rule adopted by U.S. President Joe Biden's outgoing administration banning the inclusion of medical debt in American consumers' credit reports. Facebook owner Meta Platforms has named a former senior U.S. Justice Department official from Donald Trump’s first presidential administration to manage its worldwide litigation strategy. Here’s your legal file 👇

    Breyer returns to 1st Circuit for a bit, Apple clarifies Siri privacy stance , Industry groups sue over Biden ban on medical debt and more ➡️

    Breyer returns to 1st Circuit for a bit, Apple clarifies Siri privacy stance , Industry groups sue over Biden ban on medical debt and more ➡️

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  • Conservative Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito said he spoke to Donald Trump by phone on Jan. 7 to recommend a former law clerk for a job in a government position, adding he and Trump did not discuss the U.S. president-elect's legal woes. 'William Levi, one of my former law clerks, asked me to take a call from President-elect Trump regarding his qualifications to serve in a government position,' Alito said in a statement shared with Reuters by a spokesperson of the U.S. Supreme Court. 'I agreed to discuss this matter with President-elect Trump, and he called me yesterday afternoon,' Alito added. For stories from the legal industry, subscribe to The Daily Docket: https://reut.rs/4dsTnQ1

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