ST. LOUIS — In light of a federal judge in Missouri’s decision to send back to state court a case in which objectors are seeking to halt a $7.25 billion nationwide Roundup settlement, the Missouri state court judge who granted preliminary approval of the settlement issued a memorandum order on June 23 saying that “the Court believes it may be in the best interest of the case to delay the final approval hearing” and inviting any party that wants to be heard at the final approval hearing to file a brief stating its position on a delay.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court granted a petition for a writ of certiorari, vacated the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals’ affirmance of a murder-for-hire conspiracy conviction and remanded for further consideration in light of the government’s position that the Federal Wiretap Act does not contain a clean-hands exception allowing prosecutors to use a secretly recorded FaceTime call in which the petitioner allegedly discussed paying two people to kill individuals who had criticized or threatened her.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Canadian litigation technology startup Legion LegalTech Corp. on June 23 asked a federal court in the District of Columbia to restore its access to Anthropic PBC’s newest large language model to prevent destruction of its business while it challenges the government’s directive suspending foreign access to the artificial intelligence model.

NEW YORK — The Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals determined that undisputed facts defeat a landlord insurer’s argument that a lessee’s insurance policy intended to name the landlord as an additional insured and named the insured’s manager only in error, affirming a lower federal court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of the lessee’s insurer in the landlord insurer’s lawsuit seeking a declaration that the lessee insurer has a duty to defend and indemnify the landlord in an underlying trip-and-fall lawsuit.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A federal judge in the District of Columbia on June 22 set aside and vacated the 2025 Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) system and related notices, which were created in response to an executive order (EO) to verify the citizenship and immigration status of voters, as “contrary to law, arbitrary and capricious, in excess of statutory authority, and without observance of procedure required by law.”

CHICAGO — A Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel affirmed a lower court’s reduced attorney fee award to a church in its lawsuit against Chicago regarding a parking ordinance, agreeing with the lower court that the church’s limited success in the case was reason to reduce the attorney fee award, even though the church’s claims were related to each other.

RICHMOND, Va. — The Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held June 22 that a lower federal court committed no reversible error when it entered summary judgment in favor of a homeowners insurer in the insurer’s lawsuit disputing coverage for underlying general negligence and social host liability claims arising from a car accident following a “beer Olympics” drinking party that was held at the insured’s home, agreeing with the lower court that the insurer has no duty to defend or indemnify.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) on June 22 published an ad hoc committee’s decision dismissing a Canadian investor’s application for annulment of a split tribunal’s refusal to award him damages for the loss of indirect holdings in Serbia allegedly worth 87.5 million euros, finding that the tribunal properly explained its reasoning and did not exceed its powers and ordering the investor to pay Serbia’s attorney fees and the arbitration costs.