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On Friday, lawyers in the multidistrict litigation over aqueous film-forming foam announced the Tyco settlement, which would compensate 12,000 public water systems nationwide with contaminated drinking water supplies.        

The firm was able to withstand the exit of 26 partners who moved to Goodwin Procter in the first quarter.        

The high court determined that Judge Robert P. Ruehlman, a retired judge sitting by assignment on the Jackson County Court of Common Pleas, General and Domestic Relations Division, was disqualified from presiding over “Jackson v. Ward,” concluding that an objective observer would conclude that he was prejudiced against the litigant.        

The court determined that until the Indiana General Assembly determined otherwise, it holds that “gender” in Title 9 of the state statutory scheme means “sex.”        

Investors can bring such suits only when such omissions create “misleading half-truths,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote for a unanimous court.