The Supreme Court’s argument calendar for April, the final argument cycle of the term, lists only six hours’ worth of argument instead of the usual 12 cases. It’s an unusual move likely aimed at giving the justices more time to write their opinions on the Affordable Care Act challenges and other cases.

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Kessler Topaz and Prickett, Jones & Elliott, fresh from winning a record $305 million attorney fee award in the Delaware Court of Chancery, want a judge to rule that companies can’t adopt bylaws restricting shareholder suits to be filed exclusively in the Delaware court without first holding a shareholder vote.

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Shareholders Challenge Bylaws Limiting M&A Suits to Del. Chancery Court

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The 9th Circuit has revived a suit by a Stanford Ph.D. student who claims she was mistakenly put on the federal “no-fly” list and banned from returning to California after attending a conference in her home country of Malaysia. A lower court judge had ruled that the woman lost her right to sue when she voluntarily left the United States.

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Don’t like your law school grade? Then sue

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In the first federal lawsuit over Google’s recently announced privacy changes, the Electronic Privacy Information Center is suing the Federal Trade Commission, claiming that Google’s plans to streamline privacy settings for 60 different services and products beginning March 1 would violate a consent order the search giant reached with the FTC last fall. EPIC, based in Washington, D.C., wants the court to stop Google from implementing the new policy.

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Maggie Wortman pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter on Monday, bringing the meth breast milk case one step closer to its end. The California mother was charged in the death of her 6-week-old son, who died of methamphetamine toxicity in November 2010.

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Lawyers for the Los Angeles Dodgers want a federal court in Delaware to dismiss beaten fan Bryan Stow’s lawsuit against the team.

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New York state’s high court will grapple this term with the issue of whether a woman must return what her former husband claims is a multimillion-dollar windfall that she received as a result of Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme. The case arose from two attorneys’ divorce after 33 years of marriage.

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Judges to Mull Impact of Madoff on Divorce

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A Pennsylvania trial judge has found that talking on a cellphone while driving is not egregious enough to warrant punitive damages in a car accident case. The state Legislature passed a law that will ban texting while driving when it takes effect later this year, but it doesn’t outlaw talking on a cellphone.

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Halting a two-year slide, Schulte Roth & Zabel saw gross revenue inch up by 1.2 percent to $377.5 million in 2011, while profits per partner rose 5.1 percent to $2.12 million. The firm’s lawyer head count fell by 8.6 percent last year, helping to drive a 10 percent increase in revenue per lawyer.

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