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Marcia Fudge retired from government service in March. Before joining the Biden administration in 2021, she represented Northeast Ohio in the U.S. House of Representatives.        

Simmons Hanly Conroy, based in the St. Louis metropolitan area, allegedly filed sham lawsuits and scripted witness testimony, according to plastic pipe manufacturer J-M Manufacturing.        

“Here, the communications between Ms. Carter and Wake Forest are more aptly characterized as isolated or attenuated, and are insufficient to give rise to jurisdiction,” Justice Cleo E. Powell said in the May 9 opinion.        

UTP—represented by White & Case; Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan; and Kohn, Swift & Graf—is seeking more than $150 million in damages against Pratt.        

“A district court has broad discretion and inherent authority to manage its docket. That’s what it did here, much to the apparent dismay of the Fifth Circuit,” U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman said.