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Privacy regulators from California, Connecticut and two other states said Tuesday that their behind-the-scenes enforcement work will soon yield public actions that focus not only on established topics such as consumer opt-outs and transparency, but also fresh issues like harms stemming from artificial intelligence and ensuring fines are more than just "a cost of doing business."

A New York federal judge Tuesday found that a Nike patent covering how sneakers are made is invalid and overturned a jury's verdict finding that Lululemon owed $335,450 for infringing it, holding that the patent's claims were obvious.

Agri Stats Inc. has agreed to stop producing benchmarking reports for protein processors — or change how it puts them together — as part of proposed settlements ending three cases alleging price fixing in the chicken, pork and turkey industries, according to motions for preliminary approval filed Tuesday.

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission's enforcement chief said Tuesday that the agency plans to give entities a "clear path" to avoiding cases if they self-report issues early but warned the agency plans to staff up to pursue fraud and manipulation, including in burgeoning prediction markets.

Before taking inactive status late last year, U.S. District William H. Alsup presided over historic litigation in California's Northern District for 26 years, arriving at his San Francisco chambers every weekday before dawn to prepare for the day's work.

Georgia lawmakers gave final approval to legislation that would allow state securities regulators within the secretary of state's office to force fraudsters to repay damages directly to investor victims.

A D.C. federal judge declined to grant a preliminary injunction to a shareholder advocacy group suing Chubb for excluding its climate-related proposal from Chubb's yearly proxy materials, ruling Tuesday it hasn't shown the proposal falls outside U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission regulations exempting proposals involving issues related to a company's ordinary business operations.

Ford asked a Michigan federal court Monday to proceed with a breach of contract suit it brought against solar battery maker Sol-Ark over confidential technology Sol-Ark allegedly revealed in patent applications, arguing it is "demonstrably incorrect" that Sol-Ark came up with the technology on its own.

Federal Reserve Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle Bowman signaled Tuesday that changes could be on the horizon for a set of longstanding rules that limit banks' lending to their own executives and other insiders, identifying them as an upcoming target for reconsideration.

Students pursuing financial aid fixing claims against Cornell University and several other elite schools can proceed as a class if they tap different lead counsel, since misrepresentations regarding one firm's purportedly contingent casework caused a significant trust impairment, an Illinois federal judge said Tuesday.

An Arizona federal judge has agreed with Apache tribal members and environmental groups that a stay should remain in place as they await a Ninth Circuit decision on their legal fight to block the transfer of 2,500 acres to a copper mining company.

A dead rodent in a burrito bowl delivery, a mix-up with vodka seltzer in the wrong cans and the Toys R Us brand taking on a Connecticut vape shop are among Law360's list of strange cases suitable for April Fool's Day.

The former CEO of medical marijuana company Parallel, the scion to the Wrigley gum fortune, has, for now, beaten a lawsuit accusing him of lying about share prices to lure executive talent, with an Atlanta federal judge slamming the suit as "threadbare" and "devoid of even the most basic facts" about the company.

A data privacy firm suing a Czech website operator over its alleged violations of a New Jersey anti-harassment law for public servants is fighting a bid to send the dispute to arbitration in Prague, arguing that its claim would effectively be extinguished in the European capital.

The Third Circuit said Tuesday that further review was needed in the case of a Dominican national facing deportation to hash out whether his removal could be canceled based on federal law protecting immigrants from abuse from lawful permanent residents or citizens.

The Delaware Chancery Court dismissed a stockholder derivative lawsuit accusing B. Riley Financial Inc. insiders and directors of breaching their fiduciary duties over hundreds of millions of dollars in losses tied to the failed Franchise Group investment, ruling that the claims amounted to an impermissible hindsight critique of a risky business decision.

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board rightly invalidated claims of two related Manufacturing Resources International Inc. patents for cooling electronic displays, the Federal Circuit affirmed Tuesday.

A Delaware federal court rejected an investor's bid to escape litigation aimed at enforcing a $60 million arbitral award favoring the current owner of the Royal Mansour Hotel in Casablanca, pointing to a Third Circuit decision that reversed an earlier ruling by the lower court.

A split Fourth Circuit panel sided with a trio of pharmaceutical manufacturers Tuesday that opposed a West Virginia law addressing drug delivery in the 340B program, saying the law attempted to reshape the "contractual bargain" Congress makes with private parties through its spending powers.

Actor Kevin Spacey has reached a deal ending a lawsuit accusing him of repeatedly sexually assaulting and harassing a massage therapist during three appointments in 2016, with a federal judge dismissing the case Tuesday.

Novartis must face a False Claims Act suit alleging it improperly had doctors prescribe its multiple sclerosis drug, a New York federal judge said Monday, finding the relator plausibly pled scienter by bringing evidence that the company "kept meticulous track" of how many prescriptions doctors wrote for the drug.

A Fifth Circuit panel pushed back on two men's contention that their convictions in a $158 million healthcare scheme should get thrown out, asking Tuesday how the evidence the jury heard wasn't enough to uphold the convictions.

The parent company of U.S. Anesthesia Partners Inc. remains in the crosshairs of a private antitrust suit accusing it of trying to monopolize Texas anesthesia services, while a federal judge dismissed for now claims against an affiliate that he said was too far removed from the alleged rollup strategy.

Pharmaceutical giants Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech have asked a Delaware federal judge to dismiss lawsuits seeking to recover royalties from sales of their respective COVID-19 vaccines, which plaintiff Bayer claims were made possible via infringement of its patent.

A Washington, D.C., federal judge Tuesday granted a historical preservation nonprofit's request for a preliminary injunction halting President Donald Trump's plans to turn the White House's East Wing into an "enormous" 89,000-square-foot ballroom, saying "unless and until Congress blesses this project through statutory authorization, construction has to stop!"

A Texas appellate court said a trial court erred when it overruled objections the Texas A&M University System raised over an expert report filed for healthcare liability claims brought by a football player who suffered an ankle injury.

A New York federal judge ended a false advertising lawsuit brought by a manufacturer of commercial grade fire shutters that accused a rival of misrepresenting its products as meeting flame and heat testing standards, saying the competitor's marketing was "literally true."

A New York federal judge on Tuesday said that The Procter & Gamble Co. must face a trimmed class action alleging that it falsely claims its Metamucil fiber supplement is healthy despite the presence of lead, finding that the claims aren't barred by federal law.

Former FBI agents who say they were illegally fired for working on the investigation into President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss filed a proposed class action in D.C. federal court Tuesday accusing the government of unconstitutional "political retribution."

The Federal Trade Commission said Tuesday that it supports the Florida Supreme Court's recent decision to end the American Bar Association's longstanding accreditation monopoly, agreeing with the finding that it is "not in Floridians' best interest for the ABA to be the sole gatekeeper" in deciding who sits for the bar exam.

Republican lobbyist Brian Ballard was "exceptionally angry" and blocked former Florida Congressman David Rivera's number after Rivera insinuated Ballard was tied to a $50 million consulting agreement Rivera signed with the U.S. affiliate of Venezuela's state-owned company, Ballard testified Tuesday in federal court.

The U.S. Department of Labor's recent proposal to give retirement plan fiduciaries legal cover to select a broader range of investments aims to reduce ERISA litigation, but attorneys on both sides of the bar say they expect the rule to face legal challenges if finalized as proposed.

Prince Harry in a rare public appearance Tuesday added his voice to those calling for stronger laws to protect both children and adults from having their data misused and privacy invaded online, arguing that a pair of recent "historic" verdicts in social media addiction litigation emphasized how digital platforms are "being built to exploit, not protect."

A Washington woman accused produce supplier Sun Commodities Inc. of providing contaminated cucumbers to her Celebrity Summit cruise ship, alleging that she was hospitalized with a salmonella infection due to eating them in salad during a 2024 voyage.

A New York federal judge has ruled that Quantum BioPharma Ltd. can pursue most of its lawsuit accusing the brokerage arms of the Royal Bank of Canada and the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce of spoofing the biopharmaceutical company's stock, finding that Quantum plausibly alleged that the scheme occurred and that the banks acted recklessly.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board on Tuesday put out a call for public feedback on how it should prioritize its regulatory and enforcement efforts over the next five years, including a request for input on what role artificial intelligence should play in its efforts to police auditors.

New dominoes fell as part of auto parts maker First Brands' bankruptcy, with three foreign subsidiaries of the company hitting Chapter 11 in Texas. Meanwhile, the owner of an upscale California mall and a residential real estate investment firm based in central New York sought bankruptcy protection following foreclosures. And a concrete truck supplier in Texas launched its own bankruptcy, saying immigration enforcement has weighed down its business.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is urging the Federal Circuit to reject a British bookmaker's challenge to a review panel's revival of DraftKing's challenge to one of its patents, saying any constitutional challenges have to fail.

A New Jersey federal judge has trimmed class claims from a suit alleging payroll processing company ADP mismanaged employees' retirement savings, while also granting a partial win to the plaintiffs keeping claims over payments to an ADP subsidiary's plan alive.

A Black man on Mississippi's death row told the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday that state courts failed at his 2006 trial to properly address his objections to the prosecution's peremptory juror strikes, which he said were racially motivated.

The former head of a Kaman Corp. subsidiary and one of his associates will pay over $165,000 to settle claims they improperly utilized nonpublic information ahead of the aircraft component maker's $1.8 billion sale to a private equity firm.

In this month's review of defamation fights, Law360 highlights a new suit against Unilever by an ousted member of a Ben & Jerry's board, as well as Afroman's defeat of a case by Ohio police officers after a raid of the comedic rapper's home.

Property owners don't need to have specific knowledge of a sex trafficking victim's exploitation to be complicit in their forced prostitution, the Eleventh Circuit ruled, in the process reviving claims against two Atlanta-area hotels where three teenage girls were allegedly forced into sex work.

Wearable technology company Whoop Inc. announced Tuesday that it hit a $10.1 billion valuation after wrapping its latest funding round led by Goodwin Procter LLP, securing $575 million in investor commitments.

DePuy Synthes is urging the full Federal Circuit to review a circuit panel's decision reviving patent infringement litigation against it, saying the panel majority undermined the court's en banc EcoFactor decision on when to admit expert testimony.

Three Democratic senators have asked U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to provide information on Elon Musk's possible involvement in the rollback of the Corporate Transparency Act, saying the department's moves allow entities tied to the billionaire to operate in obscurity.

The Ninth Circuit on Monday refused Apple's bid to reconsider part of a panel decision in Epic Games Inc.'s favor that largely affirmed an injunction blocking Apple from charging developers "prohibitive" commissions on iPhone app purchases made outside its payment systems, declining to clarify what fees Apple can charge.

The 2016 outcome of a robocall blocker's lawsuit in the Northern District of Illinois bars the same company from pursuing similar claims that it filed against Synchrony Financial in Connecticut, a federal judge has ruled in tossing the latest case for good.

Technology-driven automotive platform Carvix Inc. on Tuesday unveiled plans to go public by merging with special purpose acquisition company Crown Reserve Acquisition Corp. I in a deal that values it at an implied enterprise value of $1 billion and was built by three law firms.

A Massachusetts federal judge ruled Tuesday that the Trump administration has broad authority to mass terminate parole, but failed to justify canceling parole for hundreds of thousands of noncitizens who used a government app to be admitted to the U.S.

An Illinois federal court Tuesday tossed a proposed class action from guests accusing luxury hotel chains of using software provided by Amadeus IT Group to exchange future occupancy information, finding that exchanging information on its own does not violate antitrust law.

The New Jersey Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared skeptical that a TJX Cos. employee can recover up to the full $2 million limit in his employer's auto policy with Zurich American Insurance Co., rather than its $15,000 limit for underinsured motorists.

A British company must pay Lockheed Martin-owned helicopter manufacturer Sikorsky more than $15.1 million to cover lost profits from the delayed sale of two helicopters, a Connecticut federal judge has ordered, nearly four years after a bench trial over a botched sale agreement.

Six creditors have asked a Texas bankruptcy judge to withhold approval from senior living facility investor and operator Inspired Healthcare Capital's current bid to hire Raymond James & Associates Inc. in the company's Chapter 11.

A New York federal judge on Tuesday ruled Teladoc Health Inc. cannot escape an investor suit over its declining user base and increased advertising budget, saying the departure of its former chief executive in 2024 could indicate the company knew it was misleading shareholders about its financial state.

Wells Fargo has been denied an early exit from a finance manager's disability bias lawsuit, with a North Carolina federal judge saying Tuesday her complaint contained sufficient allegations to survive dismissal.

An Illinois state appeals court panel won't upset a jury verdict that cleared a gynecologist from claims alleging her medical negligence caused nerve damage during a long procedure, finding the trial court wasn't wrong in its evidentiary or jury decisions.

A Seventh Circuit panel admonished an attorney and former chief federal immigration judge for submitting a brief citing two nonexistent cases and a false quotation, saying while such errors can be "tell-tale signs" of AI hallucinations, her denial she used AI is "plausible" and the court won't consider further sanctions.

Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., a top Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, is looking for assurances from the newly installed secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Markwayne Mullin, that he will honor his apparent pledge to rescind a policy that allows immigration agents to enter private property without a judicial warrant.

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, joined Senate Democrats to attack the Federal Communications Commission's decision to approve the planned $6.2 billion tie-up of broadcast chains Nexstar and Tegna at the staff level without a vote by the regulatory body.

The U.S. Trustee said Tuesday that the contested Chapter 11 case of defunct telecommunications company FTE Networks Inc. should be thrown out because the debtor failed to file basic required documentation and still hasn't paid some statutory fees, among other alleged shortcomings.

Major insurance companies including Aetna, Cigna, Humana and UnitedHealth must face claims they conspired to reduce reimbursements to healthcare providers, a Massachusetts federal judge ruled Monday, finding that the doctors' allegations could constitute antitrust violations.

A Tenth Circuit panel has denied qualified immunity to an officer who shot an unarmed Black man, finding in a reversal that the officer's "use of force was unreasonable," allowing a civil rights case brought by the man's family to go to trial.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection violated federal contracting law when it awarded a $641 million contract to construct waterborne barriers in the Rio Grande Valley without conducting a competitive bidding process, a joint venture told the U.S. Government Accountability Office on Monday.

A D.C. Circuit panel sided Tuesday with the Federal Maritime Commission as it defended a regulation governing how it will consider whether an ocean shipping company unreasonably refused to deal with would-be shippers, rejecting a trade group challenge and concluding the agency rightly baked rate analysis into its considerations.

The Federal Circuit on Tuesday affirmed TikTok Inc. prevailing in a patent infringement suit brought by video technology developer 10Tales that alleged the app's "For You" feature copied its invention covering a digital "recommendation system."

In our inaugural Law360 Transportation Tracker, a New York district court walloped the Trump administration's effort to cancel Manhattan's congestion pricing, the federal government continued its assault on California's vehicle emissions regulations, and Boeing investors scored class certification in 737 Max-related securities fraud litigation.

A 3D concrete printing company misclassified equipment operators as exempt employees and failed to pay them overtime wages, according to a proposed collective action filed in Colorado federal court.

The U.S. Department of Justice is seeking judicial enforcement of a divestment order, an unprecedented action for the agency that ushers in a new phase for the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, one in which judicial proceedings complement administrative oversight and presidential divestment orders may be enforced through litigation, says attorney Sohan Dasgupta.

Counsel for Office Properties Income Trust, a national office space owner and leasing company, told a Texas bankruptcy judge Tuesday a deal the debtor struck with a group of creditors is poised to clear remaining objections to its plan to cut $700 million of debt in Chapter 11.

A Massachusetts federal judge overstepped his authority in ordering the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to provide deportees being sent to so-called "third" countries where they have no prior ties an opportunity to challenge their destinations, the Trump administration told the First Circuit.

Biogen Inc. said Tuesday that it has agreed to acquire Apellis Pharmaceuticals Inc. in a cash transaction valued at about $5.6 billion, with four law firms steering the transaction focused on key therapies for kidney and eye disorders.

A California federal judge has ordered that a case brought by Reddit Inc. claiming Anthropic PBC improperly gathered user content to train its large language models be sent back to state court, finding that each of Reddit's allegations have extra elements that defeat federal preemption.

The second iteration of the qualified opportunity zone program, effective Jan. 1, 2027, will introduce new tax incentives for rural real estate development, but these benefits can only be realized if proper governance is a priority, including clear documentation and securities law compliance, says Coni Rathbone at VF Law.

A California bankruptcy judge on Tuesday blessed a fee-sharing deal between the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fresno and the state's other Catholic organizations, saying it could pay a firm representing all of them in a state court appellate case.

The owner of a now-defunct metal fabrication and construction company will have to shell out $2.5 million in damages in a case seeking unpaid wages, a Colorado federal judge has ruled, agreeing with a magistrate judge's recommendation to enter default judgment but disagreeing that theft damages were not necessary.

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP-advised private markets investment shop StepStone Group on Tuesday revealed that it closed its structured solutions vehicle with $3.1 billion in tow, which will be used to invest primarily in private market secondaries.

In rehearing Clippinger v. State Farm, the Sixth Circuit can align itself with the recent drumbeat of other circuits rejecting class certification of auto total loss claims and set standards that apply to similar claims brought under homeowners and other types of insurance policies, say attorneys at Jackson Walker.

Days before the start of a bench trial between a Denver landlord and defunct law firm Moye White LLP in state court the two parties reached a settlement, ending the litigation where the landlord accused the firm of owing almost $4 million.

The U.S. International Trade Commission is the latest venue to take up InterDigital's globe-spanning dispute against Chinese TV manufacturers Hisense Co. Ltd. and TCL Technology Group Corp., claiming the companies are importing TVs from the U.S. that infringe InterDigital's video coding patents.

A Missouri appeals court on Tuesday upheld a jury's decision to sharply reduce a $3 million verdict awarded to a former BNSF truck driver injured in a rail yard collision, ruling that the trial court properly allowed jurors to consider whether the driver himself was also at fault.

The foreign representative for Cannabist Company Holdings Inc., a purveyor of cannabis products, has hired attorneys from Richards Layton & Finger PA and Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP to help the debtor obtain U.S. recognition of its Canadian insolvency while it works to sell or shutter its operations.

The Ninth Circuit's recent decision in Kalbers v. U.S. Department of Justice confirms that Rule 6(e) provides robust protections when documents are in the government's possession only through a grand jury subpoena, emphasizing for companies the importance of careful labeling from the outset of an investigation, say attorneys at Cooley.

The American Academy of Pediatrics and more than a dozen environmental and public health groups are calling on the D.C. Circuit to vacate the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's repeal of Biden-era limits on mercury and air toxins, saying the move will jeopardize children's health across the country.

A Michigan federal judge has allowed a trio of lawyers to withdraw from representing an attorney accusing her former mentor of sexual harassment and her former law firm of retaliation.

A Massachusetts federal judge on Tuesday again pushed off a deadline for public colleges in 17 states to provide seven years of detailed admissions data to the U.S. Department of Education, as two organizations representing private schools seek to join a legal challenge to the new survey.

Steptoe LLP has hired an international arbitration veteran from Vinson & Elkins LLP who helped secure a $1.47 billion award for Iraq to join the firm as a partner in its international disputes practice in Houston.

An assistant county prosecutor in Georgia has been suspended after filing a document that contained fabricated case citations reportedly caused by generative artificial intelligence amid a criminal defendant's bid for a new trial following a criminal murder conviction, according to a letter prosecutors filed Tuesday.

A New York federal judge tossed a proposed securities class action that accused real estate investment trust and lender Arbor Realty Trust Inc. of misleading investors about its lending and underwriting practices, ruling Tuesday that the proposed class failed to show how the REIT misled investors.

The Eleventh Circuit on Tuesday denied a request from environmental nonprofits to allow a lower court's order halting operations of a Florida immigrant detention facility, saying in a split decision that new issues were improperly raised for the first time.

The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in Berk v. Choy may appear to be a run-of-the-mill reminder that a federal procedural rule trumps its state counterpart, but it could inspire more challenges to state-created prerequisites to filing medical malpractice lawsuits, say attorneys at Decof Mega.

Emboldened by changes Microsoft and Amazon agreed to make changes to their cloud services, Britain's competition enforcer on Tuesday said it has now launched an investigation into Microsoft's business software over concerns about its licensing practices and the integration of artificial intelligence.

An Illinois federal court refused to certify a class of State Farm policyholders who accused the insurer of systematically undervaluing claims for totaled vehicles by applying a so-called typical negotiation adjustment, saying individualized issues predominated.

The Beasley Allen Law Firm asked a New Jersey federal court on Monday to hold off on disqualifying it from talc litigation against Johnson & Johnson while it appeals the disqualification order which it called "unprecedented and incorrect."

The Fifth Circuit on Tuesday declined to compel the U.S. Department of Justice to criminally prosecute Boeing for defrauding safety regulators, saying it lacks jurisdiction to upend the government's $1.1 billion nonprosecution agreement with Boeing, and that prosecutors adequately consulted the 737 Max crash victims' families.

Dechert LLP announced Tuesday it has brought on a former Squire Patton Boggs LLP practice leader who focuses on national security compliance and cross-border investment reviews to help lead its national security group.

A New Jersey appeals court gave former acting U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Alina Habba another chance to pursue an anti-abusive litigation motion against an attorney suing her for malicious prosecution on Tuesday.

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency said Tuesday that it is dropping its requirements for large banks to keep contingency plans for handling severe financial stress scenarios, finalizing the withdrawal of guidelines that date back to the Obama administration.

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC announced Tuesday it has added a former assistant White House counsel, most recently the chief legal officer of the now shuttered Unity Biotechnology Inc., as the latest in-house attorney to join its general counsel in residence program.

A Virginia federal judge has overturned the sale of an immigration bond company found liable for predatory lending practices, ruling the transaction knowingly violated the terms of an $811 million judgment entered just days before the deal was signed.

With the evolution of the alternative dispute resolution industry, Dario Higuchi, CEO of California-based Signature Resolution, thinks the time is right to take Signature's brand of ADR to the East Coast.

A split Pennsylvania appeals court on Tuesday reinstated an injury suit against Caterpillar Inc. and an equipment rental company from a New Jersey worker who was injured by an excavator, finding the companies hadn't sufficiently shown that the suit belongs in the Garden State instead.

An Ohio federal judge sent a gambling loss recovery suit lodged against Kalshi, Robinhood Markets, Webull Corp. and other prediction market companies back to an Ohio state court, ruling its claims do not hinge on a federal question.

A majority of federal judges surveyed by Northwestern University researchers reported using at least one artificial intelligence tool in their judicial work, though only 17% use the technology weekly and just 5% reported daily use.

More than 70 Republican lawmakers from both the House and Senate have urged the U.S. Supreme Court to review an appellate court decision that upheld New York state's public nuisance statute, which allows lawsuits against gun manufacturers that cause public harm.

A group of North Carolina lawyers is opposing the U.S. Department of Justice's proposed rule allowing the attorney general to review state-level ethics complaints against the department's attorneys, saying such a change would undercut the Tar Heel State's ability to regulate government lawyers.

A Texas federal judge tossed a former L3Harris engineer's suit claiming he was fired for his Christian beliefs, faulting him for failing to hand over his presuit U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission bias charge in order to show his claims were properly exhausted.

Nixon Peabody LLP has added a civil and criminal business litigation and trial attorney from Godfrey & Kahn SC to its complex disputes practice as a partner in Providence, Rhode Island.

Norton Rose Fulbright announced Monday that it has tapped a New York partner to co-lead its U.S. business group as the firm focuses on its ability to guide clients through complex multijurisdictional transactions.

A Pennsylvania federal judge said Tuesday that the University of Pennsylvania must comply with a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission subpoena for information on Jewish members of its campus community, greenlighting a request that comes as part of an EEOC investigation into allegations of antisemitism.

Similar to the way the transfer portal changed how many NCAA men’s basketball teams are built, artificial intelligence use in the legal industry is changing BigLaw’s lateral hiring market and creating a field where midmarket firms that develop their talent will hold an edge in the legal profession's next era, says Michael Ott at Ice Miller.

Attorneys at Wilson Elser consider the spate of litigation over the past year, spurred by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s focus on alleged religious discrimination at universities, and corporate diversity, equity and inclusion practices, and how it may affect the attempts to assert privacy rights against the agency's broad subpoena powers.

A Georgia federal judge freed the city of Atlanta and its former inspector general from a lobbyist and city contractor's suit accusing them of illegally issuing subpoenas for the lobbyist's bank records to bolster a frivolous corruption probe.

Insurance defense firm Chartwell Law Offices LLP announced Tuesday that it has combined with the Bassett Firm in Dallas, bringing on the firm's entire 41-member staff, including the firm's founder and 13 other attorneys.

Last week's landmark verdict in K.G.M. v. Meta Platforms Inc., along with other recent verdicts that apply product liability theories to online services that rely on algorithmic design and user engagement features, make it clear that companies must evaluate digital product design through a litigation lens, say attorneys at Arnold & Porter.

Pinterest and its top brass have been hit with a proposed class action in California federal court accusing them of failing to disclose to investors the effect U.S. tariffs were having on the social media company's business and advertising revenues, leading to a stock price drop when the truth came to light.

Sports retailer Mountain Sports LLC received confirmation Tuesday from a Delaware bankruptcy judge of its Chapter 11 liquidation plan after unsecured creditors backed the plan.

The Federal Circuit on Tuesday partially reinstated Tesla's challenge to a Charge Fusion Technologies vehicle charging patent, throwing out part of a Patent Trial and Appeal Board decision that found the automobile company failed to show some of the claims were invalid.

The founding partner of a trusts and estates law firm lost his bid to have the North Carolina Business Court order the firm to notify thousands of clients of his departure and hand over their contact information, with the judge ruling the lawyer failed to show he suffered irreparable harm.

A worker's suit accusing a production supervisor at a packaging company of firing him after he reported violations for unpaid overtime should have stayed alive, the Fourth Circuit ruled, saying a Virginia federal court erroneously ruled that he couldn't support his claim and he fraudulently joined an in-state supervisor.

Arizona and its top lawmakers are asking a district court to stay a dispute on remand from the Ninth Circuit over state legislation that allows for ineligible voter roll purges until the U.S. Supreme Court weighs in on the overall litigation.

Executives and board members at a mechanical engineering company defeated a class action claiming top brass were illegally compensated for helping refinance an employee stock ownership plan, with a Georgia federal judge ruling that workers hadn't shown that management concealed the shares they owned.

Pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly & Co., advised by Kirkland & Ellis LLP, on Tuesday announced plans to acquire daytime sleepiness-focused pharmaceutical company Centessa Pharmaceuticals PLC, led by Goodwin Procter LLP, in a deal worth up to $7.8 billion.

Early-career and senior attorneys alike said they believe artificial intelligence could replace responsibilities usually performed by junior lawyers, causing concern among some early-career legal professionals about their future job prospects, a new Law360 Pulse survey found.

There's been a notable vibe shift around artificial intelligence in the legal industry as firms and corporate legal departments push for widespread adoption of AI tools. Here's what the latest Law360 Pulse survey found.

Attorneys who frequently use artificial intelligence tools are starting to feel less positive and more neutral about the technology's adoption in the legal industry, a trend that might be driven by lawyers developing more realistic expectations about AI's capabilities.

Seventy percent of attorneys at law firms report using artificial intelligence at least once a week as part of their jobs, a sharp increase from 2025, according to the latest survey from Law360 Pulse.

The Internal Revenue Service can assess and collect restitution against a former attorney who served prison time in connection with $7 billion in tax fraud, making the amount immediately due and payable, the Seventh Circuit ruled, saying it was the first circuit court to address the issue.

A Denmark-based biotechnology firm filed for Chapter 7 liquidation Tuesday in Delaware with more than $10 million in debt after its prospective cancer vaccine failed to measure up under testing and win regulatory approval last year.

A California federal judge has vacated sanctions imposed on Kern County's attorney in a suit alleging the county and state law enforcement illegally destroyed 500 acres of legal hemp owned by Apothio LLC, saying a magistrate judge didn't follow the proper rules in imposing those sanctions.

A Pennsylvania court can't withhold or redirect restitution owed to a victim in a criminal case to cover fines and court costs the victim owes in other cases, a state appellate court ruled Tuesday.

Junior associates can better develop the legal, business and interpersonal skills they need for long-term success by approaching their firms’ learning and development programs armed with five tips for getting the most out of these resources, says Lauren Hakala at Reed Smith.

Holland & Knight LLP has hired a Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP partner, who has joined in Washington, D.C. to co-lead its team focused on federal interagency review work related to foreign investment, and industrial security matters.

Data center platform Digital Realty has said it closed its first U.S. hyperscale data center fund with $3.25 billion in equity commitments with Kirkland & Ellis LLP advising.

An Ohio judge on Tuesday dismissed a jury weighing charges that two former FirstEnergy Corp. executives bribed a utility regulator to help secure a controversial $1.3 billion bailout for two of the company's nuclear plants, after the jury reported an impasse following more than a week of deliberations.

The recent antitrust lawsuit against OhioHealth by the U.S. Justice Department and Ohio attorney general shows that federal and state enforcers are closely examining the competition issues in the healthcare sector, including restrictive contracts and antisteering practices, say attorneys at Freshfields.

The Federal Circuit's recent decision in Range of Motion v. Armaid may come to be seen as a seminal opinion for potentially exposing and entrenching the Federal Circuit's movement away from its previous framework for identifying obvious noninfringement cases, says Nicholas Nowak at Nowak IP Group.

Artificial intelligence's impact on the legal profession dominated much of the conversation as more than 2,000 attendees and over 100 vendors gathered last week at McCormick Place in Chicago for the American Bar Association Techshow 2026. Here are five highlights from the event.

A Teamsters pension fund has filed a class action in the Delaware Chancery Court seeking to block a planned share reclassification by Clearway Energy Inc., alleging the deal would entrench the company's controlling stockholder while stripping public investors of voting power.

A Florida businessman denied charges in Manhattan federal court Tuesday that he showered former New York City Police Department School Safety Division commander Kevin Taylor with cash for pushing city officials to award him an $11 million "panic alert" contract.

Linklaters LLP said on Tuesday that it has promoted 37 lawyers to its partnership across its global platform, with just over a third based in London.

The Office of the Comptroller the of Currency's updates to its final rule on national bank chartering, effective April 1, may augur a showdown between the OCC, states and traditional banking institutions over both the authority of national trust banks to engage in nonfiduciary activities under the National Bank Act, and the scope of federal preemption, says Audrey Carroll at Stinson.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP has hired a former Clifford Chance LLP attorney as a debt finance partner in the firm's complex securitizations practice.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that a Colorado ban on therapy intended to change a minor's sexual orientation amounts to viewpoint discrimination against a Christian therapist.

McCormick & Company Inc. said Tuesday it has agreed to acquire Unilever's foods business at a $44.8 billion value to create a global ingredients powerhouse, in a deal steered by four law firms.

Norton Rose Fulbright has strengthened its global litigation and disputes platform with a team of lawyers from Texas boutique Tillotson Johnson & Patton, including a Dallas-based partner who will serve as the firm's U.S. head of appellate.

Artificial intelligence is forcing law firms in the U.K. and elsewhere to rethink how junior lawyers are trained, deployed and hired as use of the technology gathers pace, creating demand for new skills at entry level.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday ordered state agencies to strengthen guardrails for all contracts connected to generative AI tools, highlighting what he sees as risks to free speech, voting rights and mass surveillance, while at the same time encouraging statewide adoption of safe forms of the technology.

A pair of U.S. district judges Monday implored litigants to take more time to walk those deciding their disputes through the complex data privacy, artificial intelligence and other technological issues underpinning claims, cautioning that acting otherwise is likely to result in bored juries and discarded legal briefs.

A New York federal judge Monday issued an injunction blocking T-Mobile from running advertisements stating that consumers could save more than $1,000 a year by switching to the carrier, agreeing with Verizon that T-Mobile is pushing a false message and an "apples-to-oranges comparison."

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. urged a California federal judge to order a dozen states and Washington, D.C., to take corrective measures after they publicly filed thousands of pages of confidential documents related to the company's planned $14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks Inc.

A group of affiliated natural gas liquid entities operating in western Texas challenged damages claims worth over $400 million against them on Monday in Texas Business Court, saying that the method to calculate the damages amount is not up to par with state law.

While the Federal Trade Commission isn't interested in "telling companies how to run their businesses," the agency will continue to police online hazards facing children and adults online, including those that may be caused by the way that websites are designed, and could impose more "extreme" remedies when necessary, Republican Commissioner Mark Meador said Monday.

A law firm overbilled, underworked and generally dropped the ball in a fraud suit brought by a cannabis cultivator and manufacturer against ex-business partners, the company told a California state court, saying it's seeking at least $500,000 from the firm.

The Second Circuit on Monday granted a renewed motion by victims injured in some terrorist attacks in Israel and their families to reinstate their $644 million jury judgment from 2015 over the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority, finding a 2019 law applies retroactively and creates jurisdiction for the trial court.

The Trump administration Monday urged the Ninth Circuit to pause a lower court's declaration that immigration judges have the authority to hear detained immigrants' bond requests, slamming the ruling as a "frontal assault" on the government's authority to detain immigrants and arguing it's creating "judicial chaos" across the country.

A Minneapolis hospital system must face claims that an obstetrician violated her standard of care during delivery causing permanent impairment to a child's right arm and hand, a Minnesota appeals court ruled on Monday, saying the trial court improperly disqualified the parents' expert witnesses.

A New York federal judge on Monday tossed a putative securities class action accusing Warner Bros. Discovery and its top brass of misleading investors about its negotiations over NBA broadcast rights, finding the company's statements were either true, inactionable or made obvious by widespread media coverage.

A New York federal judge Monday sentenced the founder of "orgasmic meditation" company OneTaste to nine years in prison for her role in a forced labor conspiracy, according to an announcement from the U.S. Department of Justice.

A Fifth Circuit panel seemed open to reviving a class action accusing glasses retailer Eyemart Express LLC of selling sensitive personal health information to social media giant Meta, asking Monday why dismissal was appropriate given the complexity of the case.

Jaguar Land Rover cannot, for now, push out of court a proposed class action over claims Range Rover brakes have a defect that causes premature wear, a New Jersey federal judge has ruled, possibly giving some credence to the drivers' claims that the arbitration clause was "buried" within the 525-page vehicle handbook.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up the appeal of a former Chicago Transit Authority employee whose retaliation lawsuit was dismissed by the Seventh Circuit as a sanction for spoiling evidence.

Match and its dating platform subsidiary OkCupid settled a civil suit Monday by the Federal Trade Commission alleging they shared millions of users' photos and other data with an artificial intelligence company specializing in facial recognition technology, known as Clarifai Inc., without giving users the chance to opt out.

Drugmakers, industry groups, hospitals and scholars have urged the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold a decision letting a patent suit proceed over a generic drug using a so-called "skinny label," saying the generics company is seeking unwarranted special protections that would upend patent law.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury's illicit finance watchdog called Monday for banks to step up monitoring for Medicare and Medicaid fraud, issuing new guidance on flagging suspicious activity, which came as officials also moved to incentivize financial crime reporting with new draft rules to offer tipster rewards.

Burford Capital Ltd. says it is contemplating taking its $16 billion fight with Argentina into international arbitration after the Second Circuit wiped out a judgment the litigation funding firm had won against the nation in New York federal court, sending its stock prices tumbling.

Massachusetts' highest court found Monday that a man convicted of murdering one man and trying to kill another should have his convictions vacated because the trial court improperly prevented the jury from hearing statements from the surviving victim.

Seattle-area "bikini barista" espresso stand owner Alan Tagle routinely underpaid employees, threatened to cut their hours for missed sales goals and pocketed their tips on slow days, counsel for a class of workers told a Washington state judge Monday during opening arguments in a bench trial.

Del Monte Foods has urged a New Jersey bankruptcy judge to deny a lender group's request to certify a settlement order for direct appeal to the Third Circuit, arguing that the group's challenge to the Chapter 11 deal should play out in district court instead.

Stumptown Coffee Corp.'s failure to address a critical flaw in its product packaging for commercial flights caused an "explosion" of scalding hot coffee on an Alaska Airlines plane that left a pregnant flight attendant with permanent scars on her chest, according to a lawsuit filed Friday in Seattle federal court.

The Michigan Supreme Court has agreed to review a case next term to determine whether a prosecutor's use of an expert to mitigate inconsistent testimony from a child victim of sexual assault crosses a line to propping up the child's credibility in front of a jury.

The Colorado Department of Human Services must disclose aggregate child-abuse hotline statistics from each of three residential child care facilities over a three-year period to two news organizations that requested the information, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled Monday.

U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal is demanding answers from U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Paul Atkins about the sudden resignation of the regulator's enforcement director and whether her departure was related to cryptocurrency cases, including one touching on the Trump family's ventures.

Pennsylvania National Mutual Casualty Insurance Co. has no obligation to cover a $2.2 million judgment won by a man alleging he was exposed to lead-based paint at a Baltimore property where he resided when he was a child, a Maryland federal judge has ruled.

A panel of the Fifth Circuit wanted counsel for a group of passengers who sued cybersecurity company CrowdStrike Inc. after their flights were delayed or canceled during a crippling IT outage to explain who else could get sued under their liability theory, weighing Monday whether the Airline Deregulation Act bars the claims.

The trade organization American Property Casualty Insurance Association is urging North Carolina's justices to reverse an order adverse to a pair of insurers in a $50 million COVID-19 coverage fight, arguing in an amicus brief that the order permits the "absurd" result of one of the state's statutes and its case law applying nationwide.

A lawyer urging the U.S. Supreme Court to find that federal courts that have sent a dispute to arbitration do not automatically have jurisdiction to confirm or vacate a subsequent award faced heavy skepticism Monday from the justices, who called his argument during oral arguments "odd" and "peculiar."

Democrats across both chambers of Congress are demanding that the agencies overseeing prediction markets and the ethics of government workers tell federal employees they can't trade on events if their jobs give them an edge.

A Florida federal court refused to certify a class of consumers in a case accusing Health First Inc. of locking in patients and blocking competition from rival hospital systems, after finding a number of issues, including potential differences between proposed class members.

A D.C. federal judge will consider delaying arguments in a suit against the Trump administration for gutting the Digital Equity Act while a D.C. Circuit challenge to cuts to environmental grant programs plays out.

A century-old nonprofit organization, community center and event venue in a city just north of Detroit is seeking Chapter 11 Subchapter V relief, after its home city sued the group to stop a sale of its property as it faced declining revenues and increased expenses.

Yale New Haven Health Services Corp. on Monday asked a Connecticut state judge to strike seven of 10 counts from a lawsuit accusing a doctor of using his own sperm to impregnate a fertility patient, saying it was not foreseeable in 1981 that technology might some day reveal the doctor's actions.

A Washington federal judge on Monday tossed antitrust class action claims lodged against out-of-state multifamily landlords that were accused of running a rent price-fixing scheme that used property management software company Yardi Systems' technology, ruling that the court lacks personal jurisdiction over the out-of-state defendants.

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X Corp. has argued that a ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court last week that an internet service provider couldn't be held liable for its customers pirating music should allow it to escape copyright infringement claims in Tennessee federal court from a group of music publishers.

A Delaware bankruptcy judge Monday diverted a $100 million settlement payment that bankrupt telecom company Ligado Networks owed to satellite operator Inmarsat into escrow after Ligado alleged Inmarsat breached the deal.

A California federal judge has blocked broadcast giants Nexstar and Tegna from combining operations in their $6.2 billion merger while a legal challenge from DirecTV moves forward, saying the satellite TV company showed irreparable harm could occur from the deal.

In the first three months of 2026, executive orders and other regulatory actions by the Trump administration have taken on products with "Made in America" labeling, called for the increased manufacture of the herbicide ingredient glyphosate, and addressed what e-cigarette flavors could receive the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's approval, among others.

Patent quality advocacy group Askeladden LLC has backed X Corp.'s Federal Circuit challenge to a loss of more than $175 million that it saw in a patent infringement suit, saying the patented claims at issue should have been found invalid to begin with.

A proposed class action claiming Kimberly-Clark Corp. polluted a Connecticut town's water and soil with toxic "forever chemicals" failed to allege plausible facts tying the contamination or any injuries to the paper goods maker, relying instead on assumptions and guesswork, a federal judge has ruled in dismissing the case.

The Sixth Circuit won't reverse Financial Industry Regulatory Authority sanctions against the owner of a consulting company who argued he'd been unfairly ruled against by a self-regulatory organization he never joined, though the judges stopped short of weighing the petitioner's constitutional challenges to the FINRA findings.

A Maryland man was charged with hacking cryptocurrency exchange Uranium Finance and taking $53 million, and using money to buy rare Pokemon and Magic: The Gathering trading cards, as well as a piece of the Wright brothers' original plane that Neil Armstrong took to the moon.

A Michigan federal judge on Friday freed Comerica Bank from claims that it unlawfully profited from a government benefit debit card program it administered by keeping the interest generated by the funds, finding that two contractual agreements invalidate the cardholders' claims to the earnings.

A New York federal judge on Sunday declined to dismiss a lawsuit brought by National Grid seeking to force 40 other parties accused of polluting Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal to pay their share of the Superfund cleanup costs.

A New York federal judge declined Monday to let Swiss Re's American unit escape a suit claiming it kept an underperforming investment fund in its retirement plan and failed to utilize forfeited cash, ruling the workers behind the case showed the company may have made shoddy management decisions.

A vehicle identification system patent owner wants the U.S. Supreme Court to review the Federal Circuit's reversal of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's decision allowing the company to amend claims in two patents challenged by rideshare giant Lyft.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's headcount hit a decade low in fiscal year 2025, and some who remain are concerned that key institutional knowledge may have been lost, according to a new report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office.

A patent monetization firm has sued a litigation funder and law firm Susman Godfrey LLP in Texas federal court, seeking to vacate an arbitration award that it says was riddled with errors.

Toronto-based TD Bank has moved to New Jersey federal court two suits from hedge funds that invested in First Horizon Corp. alleging TD Bank is liable for their losses due to statements it made about the likelihood of regulatory approval of the banks' merger, arguing the suits both raise federal questions that belong in federal court.

Expedia has sought to escape a suit over the carbon monoxide poisoning deaths of three young women at a Belize resort allegedly due to a poorly installed water heater, telling a Massachusetts federal court it had no duty to warn customers about potential dangers at the hotels listed on its website.

A company that develops data centers in space said Monday that it has raised $170 million in its Series A fundraising round, becoming a unicorn startup with a $1.1 billion overall valuation.

The False Claims Act's whistleblower provisions are unconstitutional, drugmaker Eli Lilly has told the U.S. Supreme Court, asking it to overturn a Seventh Circuit decision upholding a $183 million trial win for a whistleblower who claimed the drug company hid how much it charged for Medicaid-covered drugs.

Federal and state court decisions show that the statutory regime for each category of intellectual property promises continuity after the owner's death, but the law does not provide a succession framework for how those rights are to be exercised, says Erin Daly at Daly Law & Strategy.

Spartan Securities and other defendants sued by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission over an alleged penny stock fraud petitioned the Eleventh Circuit Monday for a full court rehearing of a panel decision affirming a $1 million judgment in favor of the SEC.

The federal government urged a New York federal court to toss allegations that the Trump administration is using a surveillance system to find viewpoints it doesn't like and use the threat of immigration enforcement to suppress speech, arguing the unions behind the suit lack standing to bring their claims.

A Georgia federal judge has ordered a proposed class of General Mills factory workers who say they were subjected to years of racist abuse to rewrite and condense their complaint with the goal of avoiding the "prospect of unbridled fishing expeditions" as the suit goes on.

Utah expanded a corporate and individual income tax credit for employer-provided child care to apply to off-site facilities under a bill signed by the governor.

A Fifth Circuit panel pushed multiple compounding pharmacies to explain why they should get to compound lucrative drugs used for weight loss, including Ozempic, saying Monday that its options if it sides with the pharmacies are "tough pills to swallow."

An eye doctor and his wife asked the Fifth Circuit to overturn a U.S. Tax Court decision from last year that affirmed Internal Revenue Service penalties and payments associated with their ophthalmology practice's microcaptive insurance arrangements.

BNSF Railway Co. asked a Montana federal court Monday to throw out a lawsuit alleging it let dust from asbestos-containing vermiculite accumulate at its rail yard in Libby, Montana, arguing that a recent Ninth Circuit case showed the claims are preempted by federal law and blocked by the common carrier exception.

A group of detainees who performed kitchen work in California county jail can't snag class certification in their suit accusing the county and a correctional services company of forcing them to work without pay, a federal judge ruled on Monday.

Linguists' suit accusing Global Linguist Solutions of violating the False Claims Act by performing work under U.S. Army contracts meant for small business subcontractors consists of recycled allegations that have been public for years, the joint venture told the Fourth Circuit.

The Delaware Chancery Court's docket this past week featured disputes involving globally recognized companies, high-dollar contract fights, revived claims from the state's high court and the resolution of a closely watched de-SPAC case.

The Eleventh Circuit backed the dismissal of a lawsuit accusing Airbus America of bias and retaliation from a Black former manufacturing engineer, saying that even though he established a "prima facie case of race discrimination and retaliation," he didn't show the company lacked a legitimate reason for his termination.

A Nevada federal judge says the federal government didn't violate the Endangered Species Act in approving a more than 7,100-acre lithium mining project that conservation groups argue will drive a rare wildflower into extinction, finding the decision was not arbitrary or capricious under recent Supreme Court precedent.

Auto parts maker First Brands is asking a Texas bankruptcy judge for rapid approval of a proposed $25 million sale of several of its filter and windshield wiper brands, saying it has no going-concern offers and that the businesses are bleeding customers and value.

The leader of a creditor litigation trust in Steward Health Care's bankruptcy case has launched an adversary proceeding in Texas bankruptcy court against Aetna Health, saying the insurer has refused to pay $6.36 million owed to hospitals formerly owned by Steward.

A man incarcerated for defrauding the U.S. Department of Defense who was also once featured on "America's Most Wanted" urged the Fourth Circuit on Friday to revive his whistleblower complaint accusing major defense contractors of price gouging, saying the government cannot drop the suit just because it intervened as a plaintiff.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday appeared sharply skeptical that a former Twitter employee convicted of emailing a falsified document to FBI agents from his Seattle home could be prosecuted in San Francisco, with several justices questioning the federal government's justification for bringing the case where none of the charged conduct occurred.

A Pennsylvania federal judge has upheld a $17,000 trademark infringement judgment against industrial fastener company Peninsula Components after it was found liable for using its competitor Penn Engineering & Manufacturing Corp's "PEM" name in Google Ads, ruling that the defendant presented no compelling reason to erase the verdict.

Multistate cannabis giant Tilray owes more than $11 million in royalty payments for using Bob Marley's brand in connection with marijuana products, according to a new lawsuit filed in Delaware Chancery Court.

An Illinois federal judge has decided to give class treatment to a West Monroe Partners employee's claim that the consulting firm shortchanged workers by at least $50 million when it bought up their stock.

Bai Brands permanently defeated a putative class action alleging it deceived consumers into thinking its beverages contained "no artificial sweeteners" despite being sweetened with erythritol, after a New York federal judge found no evidence of how reasonable consumers would define "artificial."

ESPN moved to intervene in a proposed class action accusing World Wrestling Entertainment of a "bait and switch" streaming scheme, telling a Connecticut federal court the case cannot proceed because subscribers agreed to arbitrate their claims and waived any right to sue as a class.

A lawyer told Florida jurors in a federal trial Monday that an AIG unit owes him more than $1 million in costs for defending a sports memorabilia company's former CEO against securities violations, saying the insurer broke a contract to pay his firm for legal services.

The Michigan Supreme Court has agreed to review an internal tussle between chambers of the state Legislature over nine bills that were passed in 2024 but have not made it to the governor's desk.

The Atlanta-based Taylor Duma LLP is set to close Tuesday following what firm leadership said was an exhaustive effort to keep the firm in business, a move that comes after a string of high-profile departures over the last year, including the loss of a former name partner and its onetime managing partner.

The Colorado Supreme Court will determine whether Netflix's streaming video services are tangible personal property subject to sales tax, the justices said Monday, agreeing to review a state appeals court ruling in favor of the state Department of Revenue.

The Second Circuit refused Monday to revive a Catholic New York judge's suit claiming he was unlawfully barred from entering his courthouse after his request to avoid a COVID-19 vaccine mandate on religious grounds was rejected, ruling he isn't covered by a federal anti-discrimination statute.

A top staffer from the Senate Appropriations Committee has joined the public policy practice at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP to assist clients amid an increasingly fractured political environment.

Casino-focused real estate investment trust VICI Properties said Monday that it has agreed to pay $144.4 million to buy two casinos and two hotels in a sale-leaseback deal that comes as part of Indigenous-owned Pure Casino Entertainment's acquisition of casino operator Gamehost Inc.

A paralegal with the Mecklenburg County District Attorney's Office in Charlotte has been fired over criminal charges including felony death by vehicle following a Saturday collision, according to the office.

A D.C. federal judge requested additional briefing Monday from the Trump administration before deciding whether to toss the U.S. Department of Defense's revised rules restricting journalists' access to the Pentagon but said some new allegations from reporters read like the revisions came from a Franz Kafka novel.

The Federal Trade Commission pushed back against a bid from U.S. Anesthesia Partners to avoid facing trial on claims that it monopolized the market through a rollup strategy, saying the company celebrated its ability to dramatically increase prices.

Two former Federal Trade Commission officials have launched a Washington, D.C., law firm to represent consumers, becoming the latest attorneys to start their own practice after leaving the federal government.

Private equity shop Inflexion on Monday announced that it closed its seventh buyout fund above target at its hard cap of €4.5 billion ($5.2 billion).

An Illinois federal judge on Friday rejected an insurer's bid for summary judgment in a suit seeking coverage for a $20 million settlement of biometric privacy claims, saying disputes remain over whether it waived an exclusion by failing to raise it in earlier litigation or if the company's change in strategy prejudiced the plaintiffs enough to bar its application.

Wilentz Goldman & Spitzer PA expanded its workers' compensation team with a counsel bringing more than 25 years of experience, coming from Pellettieri Rabstein & Altman.

New York's proposed Oracle Act could if passed force a high-stakes showdown over event contracts in the prediction markets as well as state gambling laws, and legal practitioners should closely monitor litigation, parallel developments in other states, Commodity Futures Trading Commission rulemaking and congressional action, says Linda Goldstein at CM Law.

Flex said Monday it will acquire Electrical Power Products Inc., an Iowa-based maker of electrical power control and protection systems, in an all-cash deal valued at about $1.1 billion.

Laffey Bucci D'Andrea Reich & Ryan has accused a former name partner in a Pennsylvania state court suit of misdirecting more than $1.3 million in referral and case fees through a secret agreement with another firm and misusing the plaintiffs firm's resources for personal expenses, including an affair with a client.

An online investment advisory firm that offered clients the chance to copy the trading activity of well-known business and political figures will pay a $500,000 administrative fine and restitution to resolve a complaint that Massachusetts securities regulators brought alleging misleading social media ads.

Lowenstein Sandler LLP announced Monday that it has opened an office in Delaware by bringing on the former leader of Polsinelli PC's bankruptcy and restructuring practice.

Private equity giant Blackstone, led by Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, revealed Monday that it wrapped its sixth life sciences fund after securing $6.3 billion of capital commitments, marking what the firm says is the largest private life sciences fund ever raised.

Eli Lilly and Co. has agreed to a partnership with artificial intelligence-driven drug discovery company Insilico that could be worth up to $2.75 billion, amid an expanding category of collaboration fueled by pharmaceutical giants seeking accelerated paths to new treatments.

Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP has named a founding member of the firm's Atlanta office as the new leader of the location, where he'll serve alongside two newly appointed deputy managing partners.

A New York federal judge has upheld a $70 million compensatory damages verdict for the TriZetto Group in a long-running trade secrets fight against Syntel Inc., while also cutting punitive damages to about $140 million and awarding TriZetto more than $12 million in attorney fees.

A pair of Texas judges told attorneys at an American Bar Association Techshow panel in Chicago that they should talk with opposing counsel if they have concerns about relevant data not being produced in litigation before involving the court in the dispute.

A Delaware federal judge has affirmed a $34 million verdict against Alcon and related entities for infringing patents covering medical devices to treat glaucoma, disagreeing that Sight Sciences Inc. had failed to show the accused product meets the limitations of the patent claims.

A former assistant attorney general for the state of Alaska told a Pennsylvania disciplinary board Monday that she had fallen under the influence of a "career con woman" when she was caught shoplifting more than $1,000 worth of shoes, but took responsibility for her actions in her request to get her law license back.

A Pennsylvania federal judge has rejected GE Appliances' request to toss most of a suit alleging that one of its stove ranges was defectively designed and led to a fire when it was accidentally turned on, finding that a jury could reasonably agree with the plaintiff's experts' assessment of events.

A man serving life in prison for a 1998 Louisiana murder was unfairly denied a writ of certiorari by the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, despite the fact that his co-defendant had his conviction vacated when bringing up the same favorable evidence, dissenting justices said.

Legal software firm Aderant announced Monday its Onyx software has been certified as meeting SOC 2 Type 2, a data security and privacy standard developed by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

The New Jersey Supreme Court has imposed a three-year suspension on an attorney who had a Colorado law practice as a reciprocal discipline for ethics violations related to her conduct representing a client in Colorado legal matters, including having practiced law while suspended.

Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP announced Monday it has welcomed a four-member Baker McKenzie team with experience in tax and transfer pricing to the firm's New York office.

An ex-Yale student suing the university and a sexual assault accuser engaged in "repeated and escalating" litigation misconduct including violating anonymity orders and withholding key information from numerous courts, warranting dismissal as a punishment, a Connecticut federal judge has ruled in tossing the case.

The recent spotlight on the potential for artificial intelligence platforms to serve as a source for discoverable information is especially important for financial institutions to understand, as the industry navigates increasingly complex regulatory expectations and AI tools become embedded in investigative efforts, say attorneys at Jackson Lewis.

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP sought dismissal of a consolidated data breach action in New York federal court Friday due to the plaintiffs' alleged lack of relationship with the firm and inability to identify any cognizable damages.

Eversheds Sutherland announced Monday that it has hired a trio of Houston lawyers from BakerHostetler, one of whom will serve as the office's co-managing partner.

Shumaker Loop & Kendrick LLP added a partner to its litigation and disputes and technology, data privacy, cybersecurity and AI service lines from Galloway Johnson Tompkins Burr & Smith.

A Florida federal judge is ordering state and federal U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials to facilitate attorney access for noncitizens detained at the informal Everglades detention facility, finding that there are several existing barriers preventing confidential attorney-client communications.

A pair of Florida-based data-broker companies were hit with a proposed class action in Colorado state court, alleging they violated a state telemarketing privacy law by listing thousands of Colorado residents' cellphone numbers in their commercial people-search directories without consent.

Four Nationwide units have no duty to defend a marker manufacturer in an underlying suit by a competitor alleging it colluded with former employees to use trade secrets and other proprietary information, a Pennsylvania federal judge ruled.

Home services platform Angi Inc. failed to pay employees for off-the-clock work performed to meet "aggressive" sales quotas and other performance metrics, according to a proposed collective action filed in Colorado federal court.

The top judge of the Delaware Chancery Court on Monday rejected Elon Musk's bid to force her off three high-profile cases involving stockholders and Tesla, but reassigned the litigation anyway, citing concerns that intense public attention could undermine confidence in the proceedings.

A Johnson & Johnson subsidiary urged a New Jersey federal court to order a former associate director to submit to a court-supervised forensic inspection of any device or account in which she could have stored confidential information it claims she downloaded in order to start her own competing company.

The recent Delaware Supreme Court ruling in Travelers v. Blackbaud shows that cyberinsurance is moving into a second maturity phase, in which insurers will increasingly attempt to recover their payments from vendors and insureds will face new pressure to justify cyber incident reimbursements, say Steven Teppler at Mandelbaum Barrett and Jade Davis at Shumaker.

The U.S. Supreme Court's recent opinion in Cox Communications Inc. v. Sony Music Entertainment, which concerned the boundaries of contributory copyright infringement for internet service providers, dramatically lessens both the risk that an ISP will be held contributorily liable and, relatedly, the incentives an ISP may have to help combat online copyright infringement, say attorneys at Debevoise.

The U.S. Supreme Court reviewed a ruling that precluded a Chapter 13 debtor from suing a Mississippi company. The Roman Catholic diocese in Albany, New York, announced a $148 million settlement with survivors of childhood abuse. And members of Congress introduced a new bill aimed at curbing forum shopping.

Staged implementation of California's Responsible Textile Recovery Act, establishing the state's first extended producer responsibility program for apparel and textile articles, has begun — and companies that review their data readiness, contracts and exposure risks now will be best prepared when the act comes into full effect, says Thierry Montoya at FBT Gibbons.

New Jersey's new U.S. attorney, Robert Frazer, brings decades of trial experience and a reputation for being a "lawyer's lawyer" to the task of running the office after a year of questions over its leadership, former colleagues told Law360 Pulse.

Major League Baseball and its teams have defeated a proposed class action claiming they systematically prevented older scouts from obtaining jobs, with a New York federal judge ruling the plaintiffs failed to show their ages were the reason they weren't hired.

A New York federal court has dismissed a proposed class action alleging that a state-run mortgage lender and servicer schemed to inflate interest calculations in foreclosure cases after finding that all the lead plaintiff's claims were time-barred.

A North Carolina county was accused in state court of violating public records law by either not producing — or producing in an inadequate manner — records related to the presence of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance (PFAS) pollution in and around the county landfill.

Bracewell LLP has hired a Norton Rose Fulbright appellate partner who focuses his practice on energy regulatory and environmental-related appeals before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the firm announced Monday.

At this year's SEC Speaks, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Paul Atkins unveiled his ambitious A-C-T agenda — advance, clarify and transform — to align the federal securities regulatory regime with modern markets, illustrating that the conference was not merely a status update but an action plan, say attorneys at Perkins Coie.

A Manhattan federal jury on Monday awarded $8.4 million to a New York University professor and former Cognizant Technology Solutions employee who claimed he was fired in retaliation for alleging the information technology company engaged in systematic hiring bias.

A group of consumers told the Ninth Circuit on Friday that they were dropping the appeal of a dismissal of their suit over kratom products that they said were as addictive as opioids.

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP has named a seasoned trial lawyer with a congressional investigations practice as co-managing partner of the firm's Washington, D.C., office.

As the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission insists it will be the primary cop for the growing expanse of prediction markets, experts said the agency is signaling that its first line of defense will be the internal enforcement programs of registrants like Kalshi.

A Boston landlord is entitled to unpaid rent for a restaurant near Fenway Park, a state court judge found in a colorful order that cited "Game of Thrones" and largely ignored the testimony of attorneys called as witnesses for each side who sounded like "bunkered belligerents."

Eagle Pharmaceuticals Inc. and its former executives have agreed to pay $9.5 million to settle investor claims that they carried out a fraudulent "channel stuffing" scheme to inflate the revenue of one of the company's brand-name medications.

Deloitte lost its bid to avoid a June trial in a dispute over the accounting firm's handling of a $77 million share repurchase and planned charitable transfer that allegedly led to an unexpected tax bill for Boston-area developers and philanthropists William and Joyce Cummings.

Top Chinese law firm King & Wood announced Monday that it has strengthened its North American platform by launching affiliated offices in Vancouver and Los Angeles.

The rapid adoption of artificial intelligence by corporate legal departments is forcing a long-overdue reset of the relationship between inside and outside counsel, and introducing a significant opportunity to shed frustrating inefficiencies and strengthen collaboration for firms willing to embrace the shift, says Intel Chief Legal Officer April Miller Boise.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a plea by a Dallas real estate developer to hear a challenge to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's ability to seize the assets of alleged fraudsters before a trial can take place.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday said it would not take up the case of an Ohio man seeking to have his rape conviction overturned because a juror admitted to potentially being biased but was still allowed to serve during his trial.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected Agilent Technologies' bid to revive patents on the gene-editing tool CRISPR, which centers on the burden of proof in establishing prior art.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to review a Sixth Circuit decision that greenlit Enbridge Energy LP's lawsuit challenging Michigan's decision to revoke an easement for the company's controversial Line 5 oil and gas pipeline.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a former Quest Diagnostics Inc. compliance officer's bid for review of the dismissal of a long-running False Claims Act suit against the lab testing company.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to review a Ninth Circuit decision that a district court lacked authority to second-guess U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service's denial of a U visa holder's bid to become a lawful permanent resident.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take a Washington cattle ranch's petition that challenged the immovable-property rule's application to tribal sovereign immunity in an effort to revive its dispute over rights to land along the Stillaguamish River.

The U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to review Joseph "Tiger King" Maldonado's murder-for-hire conviction on the basis of the Netflix documentary star's claim that a judge failed to properly examine several witnesses' post-trial recantations.

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear a former aide to Atlanta's district attorney's challenge to the dismissal of her bias suit, teeing up the question of whether the district attorney's office should've been allowed to argue that her position was exempt from anti-discrimination law.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up an appeal challenging a Ninth Circuit ruling that upheld a multimillion-dollar default judgment based largely on statements defendants made in trademark applications.

The U.S. Department of Labor unveiled a proposal Monday to expand access to alternative investments, like private equity and digital assets, in retirement plans by establishing a safe harbor process for fiduciaries to follow when deciding where retirees' savings go.

Wholesale restaurant food distributor Sysco said Monday it has agreed to acquire Jetro Restaurant Depot at a total enterprise value of approximately $29.1 billion, in a deal steered by at least five law firms.

Permanent TSB confirmed on Monday that private equity houses Lone Star and Centerbridge have shown interest in a takeover after the government-owned Irish lender put itself up for sale in October.

For those who missed out, here's a look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the most buzz on Law360 last week.

The courts are emerging as the forum to hold social media giants accountable for their algorithms now that two multimillion-dollar jury verdicts determined the platforms are harming the mental health of young people, after years of being unchecked by Congress.

An attorney for Lockheed Martin employees blasted the aerospace giant's in-house retirement investment funds in Maryland federal court Friday, arguing that it failed in its fiduciary duty to change course when its investment arm kept fees high and consistently underperformed a market full of comparable options.

Bank of America agreed to pay $72.5 million to put to rest a proposed class action alleging the bank helped facilitate Jeffrey Epstein's sex crimes, according to a motion for preliminary approval of the deal filed in New York federal court Friday.

A California federal judge has shaved off a year from convicted ex-Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes' 11-year and three-month prison sentence for securities fraud due to recent sentencing guideline amendments, reducing her time behind bars by one year, instead of the two years she requested, amid objections by prosecutors.

A Michigan appellate court on Thursday confirmed the sentence and conviction of a Farmington Hills man who doused his ex-girlfriend with gasoline and lit her on fire, dismissing his argument that a lower court did not properly communicate the risks of representing himself.

A former executive for AEG Presents on Friday testified that his former employer's ticketing system was subpar to that of Live Nation's Ticketmaster, as counsel for the latter portrayed the live entertainment giant's dominant position in the market as a natural result of its superior services to clients.

Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including attorney insights into a pivotal moment for private credit, industry perspective on undervalued multifamily markets and a look at the litigation over immigration detention center projects.

Former Timeshare Exit Team customers who claim the now defunct firm's insurers failed to defend it from a consumer protection class action that yielded a $630 million deal have suggested that a Seattle federal judge request clarity from the Washington State Supreme Court on certain coverage questions.

Segway successfully pushed into arbitration claims that it built an electric scooter with a dangerous defect that caused the handlebars to collapse mid-ride, after a Pennsylvania federal judge ruled the buyer failed to opt out of a "shrinkwrap" agreement on the scooters' packaging.

The Texas Supreme Court on Friday turned down a bid to revive claims that power plant companies' negligent handling of equipment and staff harmed electric consumers during a deadly winter storm in 2021.

An energy trader who reported to prison this year told a Texas federal court Friday he does not oppose entry of a more than $7.7 million civil judgment in favor of his former employer, as long as it's credited against the restitution he was ordered to pay by the federal government in separate proceedings.

Honda's collision avoidance system, while not "perfect," should not be considered defective under industry standards, an attorney for the automaker's U.S. arm told a California federal court jury Friday during closing arguments in a class action over claims by 100,000-plus drivers that the system caused dangerously abrupt stops.

A Minnesota federal judge has ordered U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to restore attorney access at the Whipple detention facility in Minneapolis in an order torching the government for legal misstatements and discrediting a key government witness.

A former Williams & Connolly LLP clerk has been posting confidential firm information — including client information and work email exchanges — and he's threatening to "keep leaking" the materials, which he called "a fun read," according to a suit filed in District of Columbia Superior Court.

The National Creditors Bar Association is not pleased with the Federal Communications Commission's plans to pass new rules that would require companies to make sure their foreign call center operators speak "American Standard English," saying the agency has no power over foreign employees.

Networks see local TV stations as little more than "cash cows" and are "sucking the lifeblood out of television stations" by demanding increasingly higher fees in exchange for allowing them to air network content, a pair of media advocacy groups have told the Federal Communications Commission.

The Texas Supreme Court on Friday declined to review a case brought by passengers injured in a car crash during a trip arranged through Uber Technologies Inc.'s app, leaving intact a lower court ruling rejecting their liability claims and finding that the company's drivers are independent contractors under state law.

Seven years ago, New York enacted an ambitious plan to minimize greenhouse gas emissions. But with few pertinent regulations on the books, Law360 takes a look at why that plan may not come to fruition despite a successful lawsuit challenging the state’s lack of action to date.

A Tulsa, Oklahoma, man has agreed to settle U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission claims that he defrauded investors out of $7.8 million in connection with two investment funds he launched as a college student.

Uber is once again fighting efforts to frame it as a transportation provider that owes a duty of safety to passengers, telling the California federal court overseeing multidistrict litigation over sexual assault liability that it only operates a technology platform.

Parents bringing deceptive labeling claims against Colgate-Palmolive can pursue accusations that the company misleadingly markets certain fluoride mouthrinses as though they are safe for kids of all ages, but parents targeting kids' toothpaste have read too much into the product labels to proceed plausibly, an Illinois federal judge said Friday.

A Georgia state appellate court on Friday kept alive the Energy and Policy Institute's lawsuit alleging the Georgia Public Service Commission and one of its commissioners violated the state's public records law, affirming a lower court ruling.

Investors in LuxUrban Hotels Inc. seek an initial nod for their $3 million deal to end claims the bankrupt hotel-leasing business mischaracterized its portfolio growth and its financial results, leading to a trading price crash after it was revealed it lied about inking a certain Manhattan lease.

Starbucks has agreed to pay $325,000 to settle a proposed class action in Florida federal court brought by employee health plan participants and their beneficiaries alleging lapses in the coffee chain retailer's post-employment medical insurance notices.

A group representing inventors and entrepreneurs is supporting Dolby's bid to have the U.S. Supreme Court review a Federal Circuit dismissal of the company's appeal of a Patent Trial and Appeal Board proceeding it won, citing the importance of knowing which parties are behind a patent challenge.

A California federal judge on Thursday approved Google's nonmonetary deal resolving allegations it sells consumers' personal data in fast-paced digital ad auctions without their consent, but slashed class counsel's $128 million fee request to $21.8 million due to their "speculative" settlement-value estimates, "limited success" and numerous billing "errors and inefficiencies."

The U.S. Department of Justice published the identifying information of more than 100 survivors of Jeffrey Epstein, information that Google has continued to republish despite survivors' pleas to "take it down," according to a proposed class action filed in California federal court.

A subsidiary of sustainable metal and glass packaging company Ardagh Group has received Chapter 15 recognition in New York of its restructuring proceedings pending in Luxembourg, over an objection from payment-in-kind noteholders.

The $50 million consulting contract that former Florida Congressman David Rivera signed with the U.S. affiliate of Venezuela's state-owned oil company was ultimately funded and controlled by the Venezuelan parent company, the attorney who drafted the document said Friday at Rivera's trial on charges of failing to register as a foreign agent.

Verizon won't be able to build a 100-foot monopole in Pittsburgh after a Pennsylvania state court panel said that a local council was within its rights to revoke the permission it had given the mobile behemoth after it failed to get the requisite permits.

Public interest and labor groups banded together with cable and satellite groups Friday to try convincing the D.C. Circuit that the Federal Communications Commission can't waive its 39% national audience cap to let the $6.2 billion merger of Nexstar and Tegna Inc. move forward.

Philadelphia Phillies third baseman Alec Bohm has sued his parents, alleging they mismanaged his finances by siphoning millions from his Major League Baseball earnings accounts to cover their own expenses.

The ranking member of the House Financial Services Committee asked the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City to share more information about its decision to grant crypto firm Kraken Financial access to Fed payment rails, including what limits it imposed on the new type of tailored master account.

Law360 Employment Authority covers the biggest employment cases and trends. Catch up this week with coverage on how a recent First Circuit decision shines a light on how a performance improvement plan can run afoul of the law in light of a worker-friendly U.S. Supreme Court ruling, the high court's review of an exemption to federal arbitration requirements for interstate transportation workers and Washington's new statute allowing state agencies to fill in if the National Labor Relations Board is hampered in enforcing federal labor law.

Delaware Superior Court has largely allowed a set of lawsuits against Juul Labs Inc. to move forward, rejecting the company's bid to dismiss claims brought by more than a thousand plaintiffs who say they were misled about the risks of its e-cigarettes.

A Rhode Island federal judge on Friday rebuffed Mayer Brown LLP's bid for $21 million in attorney fees for representing the commercial trucking industry's lead trade group in long-running litigation over the state's truck tolling program, saying the American Trucking Associations ultimately was not the "prevailing party."

The Federal Reserve has narrowly granted its permission for Morgan Stanley to turn its European Union banking arm into a unit of its insured U.S. bank, a move that sharply divided the central bank's board amid concerns about straining the federal bank safety net.

State Farm policyholders scored preliminary approval of a $15.6 million settlement in Arkansas federal court Friday, resolving claims the insurer systematically undervalued totaled vehicles, almost a year after a civil jury found State Farm violated its contract to pay "actual cash value" of the cars by applying typical negotiation adjustments.

The Texas Supreme Court on Friday granted a petition to review a finding that an insurance company has the right to collect a $4 million subrogation lien from workers who were injured in a plywood mill explosion.

A California federal judge has refused to throw out a lawsuit accusing a pair of telehealth companies of making copies of Eli Lilly's obesity and type 2 diabetes drugs but agreed to trim the case.

A panel of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a New York judge's $16 billion judgment against Argentina arising from its nationalization of the country's largest oil and gas exploration company, saying Friday Argentine law doesn't obligate the country to comply with YPF SA's corporate bylaws.

Meta Platforms Inc. read and stored the messages of WhatsApp users' in violation of the law and of promises that the communications would only be viewable by the sender and recipient of the messages, according to a putative class action filed in California federal court.

Pasture-raised eggs producer Vital Farms was hit with a proposed shareholder class action Friday in Texas federal court alleging the company misled investors about a software system rollout that disrupted shipments to retailers and triggered a stock drop when its impact was revealed.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced Friday that it is walking away from a case accusing restaurant franchisor FAT Brands of running an illegal $27 million personal loan scheme to fuel its former CEO's lavish lifestyle as the public company foundered.

The top brass of protein-shake maker BellRing Brands Inc. face a shareholder derivative suit in Delaware federal court, alleging they misled investors about the sales growth of "convenient nutrition" products like energy bars and protein powders, causing the company's stock price to fall when the truth was revealed.

Las Vegas hotel guests are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review a Ninth Circuit ruling that refused to revive their proposed class action accusing casino-hotel operators of using software from Cendyn Group to illegally inflate room rates.

The U.S. Supreme Court will close out its March oral arguments session by hearing a nationwide class' blockbuster challenge to President Donald Trump's limited view of birthright citizenship, as well as a dispute over federal courts' authority to confirm or vacate arbitration awards in cases they've formerly overseen.

The Delaware Supreme Court upheld a ruling Friday in favor of hedge fund Armistice Capital, backing the dismissal of a lawsuit accusing the firm of insider trading on information it had obtained in its position as a minority stakeholder of a pharmaceutical company.

An Oklahoma National Guard member told a Georgia federal court his business partners violated federal law by trying to boot him from their company after he was called up for duty and by starting a new venture when they couldn't get rid of him.

A Berkshire Hathaway unit serving as primary insurer for a commercial property owner can't escape an excess insurer's allegations that it mismanaged settlement discussions preceding and following a $3 million jury verdict in a worker injury dispute, a Florida federal court ruled Friday.

The U.S. International Trade Commission is launching an investigation into claims by an Arizona-based solar company accusing nearly 50 companies of importing solar cells into the U.S. that infringe one of its patents.

The North Carolina Business Court saw an unexpected shakeup with one judge's retirement, rendered a pivotal decision in a first-of-its-kind climate change case against Duke Energy and oversaw a trial between the feuding owners of a commercial bed skirt company.

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany, New York, has agreed to pay $148 million as part of a settlement reached with a committee of sexual abuse claimants in its Chapter 11, it announced Friday.

A New Jersey federal judge has adopted the recommendation of a magistrate judge who said Skull Shaver's patent infringement case against The Cut Buddy over electronic razor technology could move to North Carolina federal court.

The Fifth Circuit upheld a healthcare information technology provider's win over a Black former manager's lawsuit claiming she was fired for complaining that a white male colleague was treated better, saying she couldn't overcome the company's rationale for letting her go.

A Massachusetts franchise of Berkshire Hathaway's real estate unit alleged in a state court complaint Friday that the former sales manager of two offices outside Boston "acted as a corporate pied piper" to lure 21 colleagues to a competitor.

Florida community bank First National Bank of Pasco told a federal judge that two former executives who claim they were fired for blowing the whistle on banking law violations were actually fairly terminated, and one of the plaintiffs did not even participate in the alleged whistleblowing.

The federal judiciary has been asked not to move forward with a plan to add to amicus brief disclosure requirements designed to curb "dark money" groups from bankrolling amicus briefs, after rules committee chairs pulled the recommendation over concerns of a possible chilling effect.

A Second Circuit panel rejected an inmate's argument that he was wrongly kept on house arrest for more than a year too long given that he had early release credits, finding in a reversal that such First Step Act reductions cannot be used to shorten time on supervised release.

A New York federal judge on Friday mostly tossed a real estate investment trust's $50 million suit against the New York City Health and Hospitals Corp. and the NYC Economic Development Corp. over the design of a proposed floodwall for a downtown Manhattan life sciences campus project.

Fiber manufacturer The Lycra Co. has recruited an experienced team of bankruptcy attorneys from Linklaters LLP and Haynes Boone to guide it through a prearranged Chapter 11 restructuring.

Electronic door-locking systems in dozens of Audi models intermittently fail to lock or unlock, according to a proposed class action in California federal court, in which a driver alleged the defect once left his infant son trapped in the back seat of his car.

A Georgia appellate court must reconsider its opinion that Uber was required to collect and remit millions in sales taxes on behalf of drivers and customers who used its app before the Wayfair decision, the state's highest court said.

European Union antitrust chief Teresa Ribera had a word of caution Friday for competition enforcers who let political considerations influence their enforcement decisions, arguing in Washington, D.C., remarks that enforcement should remain stable against shifting political winds.

The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has ruled that the execution of a man can move forward despite the high court agreeing that the man's attorneys did not do enough to impeach a jailhouse informant who was the prosecution's star witness.

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has ruled against a pair of Nobel Prize-winning scientists in a patent dispute over who was the first to invent key aspects of the gene-editing technology CRISPR, siding again with a rival team from the Broad Institute and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

A Missouri lawyer convicted of helping perpetrate a $22 million tax scheme is asking to stay out of prison while she appeals, telling a North Carolina federal court that she believes her appeal could be successful on grounds that her indictment was obtained unconstitutionally.

The Texas Supreme Court on Friday ordered a new trial in a suit alleging a contractor failed to properly repair a crane, saying the trial court abused its discretion by denying the contractor's bid to substitute an expert when its original choice left the state and refused to testify shortly before trial.

A Kentucky distillery that claims to be the first African American-owned company to make bourbon at its own facility in the Bluegrass State can't revive its false advertising lawsuit against another distiller claiming the same distinction, the Sixth Circuit ruled in a Thursday published opinion.

Commercial real estate information company CoStar Group Inc. updated its mass copyright infringement suit against property listing company Zillow Group Inc. on Friday, now alleging in Washington federal court that Zillow stole more than 53,000 of CoStar's copyrighted property photos.

A Michigan federal judge said Friday she is not inclined to pause a long-running sexual harassment suit again if counsel for an attorney who is suing her ex-mentor and former firm are allowed to withdraw, telling the parties, "We've been here. We've done this," as she heard arguments over a motion to exit the case.

A gun buyer leading a proposed class action alleging that Sig Sauer Inc.'s P320 pistol is dangerously defective is urging a Washington federal court not to throw out his claims, saying the presence of a trigger guard doesn't negate the complaint's claim that the gun lacks external safety features.

The Washington state attorney general accused Kalshi Friday of operating an illegal online betting platform under the guise of a prediction market, joining a growing number of states that have taken court action against the company over alleged gambling law violations.

An investor lawsuit accusing Credit Suisse of concealing its financial strains leading up to its takeover by UBS AG was trimmed by a New York federal judge, who found the suit failed to support its New Jersey racketeering claim.

When choosing U.S. data center locations, developers must carefully consider the patchwork of state and regional carbon emission pricing regimes that are layered on top of the federal permitting framework, creating compliance cost differentials that could add up to billions of dollars, say attorneys at Davis Graham.

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review a Fifth Circuit ruling that upheld an $168 million judgment in a trade secrets case, arguing the decision allowed an unjust enrichment award without proof that an IT competitor suffered any monetary harm.

Vistagen Therapeutics' current and former top brass have been hit with a derivative shareholder suit in California federal court alleging they overstated its clinical trial for a novel, anti-anxiety drug while hiding unpredictable placebo responses and other known risks, before the phase ultimately failed, causing a stock price collapse.

A coalition of states told a federal judge that the Trump administration appears to have ignored an order limiting the types of Medicaid data that can be shared with immigration officials, potentially handing over reams of "off limits" data on citizens and green card holders.

An Indiana federal judge refused to let General Motors escape a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming the business unlawfully withheld disability pay from workers who received Social Security benefits, calling GM's argument that its policy hinged on benefit eligibility rather than age premature.

Amazon.com LLP switched counsel Friday in a customer's product defect suit accusing the retail giant of selling a faulty pressure cooker that allegedly malfunctioned and caused her severe burns, substituting two Morrison Foerster LLP attorneys in place of an outgoing Perkins Coie LLP lawyer.

Bankruptcy courts this week will consider objections to the retention of Jones Day in mining company Vanderbilt Minerals' Chapter 11 case, a motion by telecommunications company Ligado to postpone a $100 million payment, and approval of an equity rights offering tied to Office Properties Income Trust's Chapter 11 plan.

For restructuring and turnaround professionals, seeking refunds following the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision invalidating tariffs imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act raises several questions about how to capture legitimate recoveries while protecting an enterprise from the consequences of its own history, says Jonny Frank and Laura Greenman at StoneTurn, and Andrew Popescu at Province.

A Second Circuit judge said Friday that a nutritional supplement company raised a new contractual theory for the first time on appeal as it tries to restore a lawsuit stemming from the acrimonious end to its relationship with cheese giant Leprino Foods Inc., but the company implored the appellate panel to consider it anyway.

A New York federal court's recent decision in Flores v. NFL, declining to compel arbitration in a class action alleging racial discrimination in the league's hiring practices, reflects courts' increasing reluctance to allow private dispute resolution for systemic discrimination claims, says Masood Ali at Segal McCambridge.

A Texas appellate court has affirmed the dismissal of a Dram Shop Act suit accusing an Arlington bar of overserving alcohol to a woman who later drove drunk and got into a fatal crash, citing the plaintiffs' "total inaction" regarding discovery over a two-year period.

Biogen Inc. and four of its executives escaped a stock drop suit Friday after a Massachusetts federal judge ruled that none of the nearly five dozen statements challenged by investors suggested that the company intentionally misled people buying its stock.

Angwin v. Superhuman Platform, filed recently in New York federal court against the parent company of Grammarly, highlights an overlooked question for any company using artificial intelligence — whether someone's identity has been used for commercial purposes without consent, possibly violating rapidly shifting state right-of-publicity laws, says Nicholas Schneider at Eckert Seamans.

A defense lawyer who donned a metallic lei and held a disco ball during closing arguments did not help an attorney and former Connecticut state senator avoid guilty verdicts Friday on wire fraud and conspiracy charges connected to a BDK Law Group party prosecutors described as a campaign launch.

A New York federal judge had choice words for WowLine Inc. in ruling that it owed an additional $233,000 in attorney fees to Dynamite Marketing after the Federal Circuit affirmed a $3.5 million infringement judgment against WowLine over a patent covering Dynamite's Wallet Ninja, finding some of its conduct "unreasonable."

A D.C. federal judge threw out a lawsuit seeking to claw back millions in gambling losses from major sportsbook operators under an old "Statute of Anne" law on the district's books, ruling that local officials clearly exempted authorized sports wagering from its recovery provisions.

Norwegian Cruise Line said Friday it has reached an agreement with Elliott Investment Management LP for a board shake-up, after the activist investor revealed a more than 10% stake in the cruise operator last month.

A Delaware federal judge has backed a jury verdict that awarded $30.5 million in patent infringement damages against Amazon to the owner of two computer network patents, but said he would not boost the damages.

In a precedential opinion Friday, a Third Circuit panel reprimanded an attorney who put his client's AI-assisted legal research into briefs without checking it, prompting one judge to remark that the punishment chosen by her colleagues wasn't harsh enough.

A D.C. federal court said Friday it does not have the authority to order New York City to issue a tax refund sought by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. in its capacity as receiver of the failed Silicon Valley Bank.

A New York federal court has tossed antitrust counterclaims lodged against Chanel by used luxury goods retailer The RealReal after the fashion house accused it of selling counterfeit handbags.

Three law firms targeted last year by President Donald Trump urged the D.C. Circuit on Friday to affirm lower court rulings that struck down executive orders restricting their ability to practice law, saying the directives blatantly violate the Constitution.

Two lawmakers have proposed new legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives to set stricter rules on which jurisdictions a company may declare bankruptcy in, saying reform is needed to curtail debtors selecting favorable venues outside their home state.

As the ACLU-NJ expands with a newly-announced political advocacy department, John Butler, the group’s first-ever leader, joined Law360 Pulse for a conversation on the organization’s new direction and his goals for the project at a time of “political turbulence.”

Inflection Point Acquisition VI, the latest special purpose acquisition company led by Chairman Michael Blitzer, began trading publicly on Friday after raising $220 million in its initial public offering, marking the largest of three SPACs to hit the public markets Friday, totaling $520 million.

A federal judge has stopped the Pentagon from dropping AI giant Anthropic from the government's supply chain, and Latham & Watkins ranked first in a survey of in-house legal leaders on which law firms are most helpful in developing business, followed by King & Spalding, Jones Day and Ropes & Gray. .

A California appellate panel has vacated an immigrant's jury-trial conviction for assault with attempt to commit rape, finding his lawyers did not tell him about a change in case law opened the door to an immigration-safe plea that there is a "reasonable possibility" he would have sought instead of trial.

Texas special Judge Roy Ferguson encourages attorneys to admit to their mistakes when submitting court filings with generative artificial intelligence-generated errors, instead of blaming associates, staff or incomplete drafts.

The U.S. Supreme Court issued two opinions and heard arguments in four cases this week, including a dispute over a state ballot-counting law that could have major implications for the coming midterm elections. Here, Law360 Pulse takes a data-driven dive into the week that was at the high court.

Halifax, Canada-based Clarke Inc. said Friday it has agreed to acquire financially struggling Ravelin Properties, another Canadian real estate investment trust, in a deal valuing the combined company at $1.7 billion and advised by Bennett Jones LLP, Voorheis & Co. LLP and Thornton Grout Finnigan LLP.

The Kansas Board of Tax Appeals properly complied with an appellate court's instructions for remand in a property tax case, the court ruled Friday, finding that the board was able to explain the weighted value it gave to leases when appraising the property.

A Louisiana federal judge has rejected an antitrust lawsuit brought pro se by a group of brokers claiming they are illegally forced to join a trio of real estate associations to access the Multiple Listing Service online home listing system.

The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration proposed more than $116,000 in penalties against two Georgia countertop manufacturers, after inspectors found workers exposed to respirable crystalline silica — an issue identified in previous investigations — and noise hazards.

A D.C. Circuit panel on Friday upheld a district judge's order invalidating Florida's state-run Clean Water Act permitting program, ruling that federal wildlife agencies unlawfully bypassed key endangered species protections when clearing it.

A Florida state judge has agreed to a public reprimand for a series of demeaning remarks, including telling public defenders to "shut up" and questioning whether a Black defendant had "chopped cotton."

The National Rifle Association and its former president reached a settlement in her Florida federal lawsuit alleging the organization misappropriated her name, image and likeness.

A Pennsylvania federal judge gave the green light to a $1.15 million deal resolving a proposed class action alleging a healthcare system misused workers' forfeited employee retirement plan funds and failed to rein in administrative fees.

Certain aerospace, defense and national security M&A transactions will require a concurrent Hart-Scott-Rodino Act filing to the U.S. Department of Defense, and practice tips for navigating this extra filing include early analysis of competitive implications of sector deals and planning for concurrent filings, say attorneys at White & Case.

Blake Rooney, who spent the past eight years as the chief information officer of Husch Blackwell LLP, announced through a LinkedIn post on Friday that he would be joining Wells Fargo & Co. as its artificial intelligence business executive for legal, public affairs and internal audit.

Houston-based personal injury and business litigation firm Sorrels Law has added two experienced trial attorneys who have handled wrongful death, sexual assault, construction law and other types of cases.

As she starts her new role as general counsel of the NAACP, Kristen Clarke told Law360 Pulse that the organization plans to turn more frequently to the courts to confront what she called the Trump administration's "aggressive attempts to roll back civil rights."

Apollo, Ares, BlackRock and other major financial companies have denied Optimum Communications' claims accusing them of "bullying" Kirkland & Ellis LLP into withdrawing as the telecommunications company's transaction counsel to get revenge for a collusion lawsuit filed in New York federal court.

Understanding the differences of scope, time frame and stakes between liability forecasts drawn up for financial reports versus those used in bankruptcy litigation is crucial for attorneys seeking to leverage economic analysis to ask the right questions, and strengthen their compliance and courtroom strategies, says Jorge Gallardo-García at Bates White.

A Delaware bankruptcy judge approved motions Friday allowing e-commerce group Food52 to send its Chapter 11 liquidation plan out for a creditor vote, overruling an objection by the U.S. Trustee's Office to the use of opt-out boxes for third-party releases.

Polsinelli PC said Thursday that it has hired a longtime McDermott Will & Schulte LLP attorney to co-lead its special situations and alternative investment practice, saying the move "further advanc[es] the firm's strategic focus on private credit, distressed investing, and complex restructuring matters."

Keith, a new artificial intelligence startup that intends to serve the United Kingdom, announced Thursday the raising of £2 million ($2.65 million) in seed funding ahead of a planned summer launch.

The past week in London has seen Apple hit back at a tech company's wireless charging patent claim, a flurry of businesses bring COVID-19 pandemic insurance claims as a key deadline draws closer and Ipulse Partners LLP file a claim against a luxury yacht company it represented in a trademark dispute. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

Retailer and consumer groups told the U.S. Supreme Court that lower courts were wrong to allow the expanded tariffs President Donald Trump installed during his first term on Chinese goods, arguing that the law utilized to take such action doesn't enable unlimited discretion to expand and increase duties without process.

A New Jersey appellate court on Friday ordered an attorney to pay $1,000 in sanctions for failing to rectify AI-hallucinated case citations pointed out to him in an appeal concerning reimbursement sought by a workers' compensation carrier.

The former CEO of The Michaels Organization, who was indicted in New Jersey's now-dismissed criminal racketeering case against South Jersey power broker George E. Norcross III, has accused former New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and other members of his office of commencing the prosecution knowing there was no probable cause.

An insurer asked an Illinois federal court to reject a drug wholesaler's bid for sanctions in a dispute over coverage for underlying opioid litigation, saying the accusations that it intentionally destroyed pertinent evidence are, "at best, based on half-truths and misstatements of fact."

A Manhattan federal jury weighed claims Friday that Cognizant Technology Solutions fired a New York University professor for complaining about hiring bias, after a lawyer for the company called him a troublesome employee who has no contemporaneous evidence of his concerns.

A New Jersey federal judge has disqualified the Beasley Allen Law Firm from representing hundreds of plaintiffs in sprawling multidistrict litigation over Johnson & Johnson's talc-based baby powder, holding that the firm violated ethics rules by collaborating with former outside counsel for J&J, a ruling the law firm has vowed to appeal.

The Lanier Law Firm, Kiesel Law LLP, Panish Shea Ravipudi LLP, Wagstaff & Cartmell LLP and Beasley Allen Law Firm lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a California state jury in a bellwether trial found Meta and Google liable for harming the mental health of a woman who says she became addicted to their social media platforms as a child.

The U.S. arm of a Danish pharmaceutical company has told a North Carolina federal judge to throw out a former director's "extraordinary and conspiratorial" lawsuit claiming he was fired for expressing concerns about his employer's use of piglets at an anniversary party.

CrossCountry Mortgage said Friday it will acquire mortgage servicing-focused real estate investment trust Two Harbors Investment Corp. for $10.80 per share in cash, with Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP advising CCM and Jones Day advising Two Harbors.

A group of nurses can proceed as a class in a suit accusing a healthcare company of excluding holiday premiums from their pay when they worked overtime, a Colorado federal judge has ruled.

A Georgia federal court granted final approval Friday to United Bank Corp.'s $2 million class action settlement ending allegations that it unlawfully ousted ex-workers from an employee stock ownership plan and cut them out of proceeds from a $23.3 million dividend.

A company operating Eddie Bauer retail stores said Friday it will increase funding for unsecured creditors in its Chapter 11 plan from $250,000 to up to $3 million after securing a deal with its lenders and creditors on how to distribute proceeds from the debtor's going-out-of-business sales.

A recent New York state court decision in a closely watched real estate dispute in WWP Mezz LLC v. WWP Mezz Investment Co. is a reminder to lenders, and a warning to borrowers, of the Uniform Commercial Code foreclosure's immense power as a lender remedy, says Joshua Wurtzel at Schlam Stone.

Jack in the Box Inc. has sued the buyer of its Del Taco business in the Delaware Chancery Court, accusing the purchaser and its affiliates of breaching key post-sale obligations tied to insurance coverage and transition services.

An Illinois federal jury has convicted a man who posted a video online threatening to kill President Donald Trump and other public officials and who told a Lake County judge presiding over his foreclosure case that he would burn the courthouse down.

An Alexander & Baldwin investor has dropped claims that the commercial real estate investment trust obscured its connections to Blackstone Real Estate in securities filings before a proposed $2.3 billion take-private deal, saying U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filings last month moot the case.

A New York federal court's recent ruling in In re: Tether and Bitfinex highlights that crypto companies should expect courts to apply conventional class action principles to novel digital asset markets, albeit with careful attention paid to the unique features of crypto trading, say attorneys at Duane Morris.

Label-maker Multi-Color Corp. got approval Friday for half of the $125 million in Chapter 11 financing it was seeking after a New Jersey bankruptcy judge signed off on a proposal that also cut the rollup of prepetition debt in half.

An Ohio federal judge tossed a former Brookfield Asset Management employee's suit claiming the company held on to lackluster investment funds in its retirement plan that cost workers millions in savings, ruling the underperformance he identified wasn't significant enough to carry the case.

Another acquisition and a longtime CEO stepping down from his role lead this roundup of recent legal technology news.

Debt financing work at the fund level has long been dominated on the lender side by attorneys from Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP, Haynes Boone and Mayer Brown LLP, but other firms are increasingly crafting formal practices and poaching fund finance stars from the more established players.

Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP said Friday it has bolstered its labor and employment practice with the addition of a former Baker McKenzie attorney in Miami.

A New York federal judge on Friday tossed a proposed class action against a healthcare company alleging mismanagement of an employee 401(k) plan, concluding that ex-workers who sued lacked standing to bring some claims while the remaining allegations weren't sufficiently backed up to state a claim for violating federal benefits law.

Two former Kirkland & Ellis LLP restructuring attorneys have joined Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP as partners in the capital structure solutions practice.

The legal industry marked the beginning of spring with another action-packed week as attorneys took on new roles and firms launched offices across the country. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.

Clinical-stage biotechnology company Transcend Therapeutics Inc., led by Kirkland & Ellis LLP, on Friday announced that it has agreed to be bought by Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. in a deal worth up to $1.225 billion.

I realize you may be judging me for watching, and actually enjoying, Hallmark Channel movies, but the escapism and storylines actually demonstrate qualities and actions that lead to an efficient, productive and positive legal practice, says Karen Ross at Tucker Ellis.

An EU court correctly interpreted rules on how competition cases are shared between national regulators and the European Commission when it upheld a cartel fine of €7.67 million ($8.83 million) against Crown Holdings Inc., an advocate general has said.

Massumi & Consoli LLP is expanding its California presence, announcing Thursday it is opening an Orange County office to satisfy growing client demand.

Lieff Cabraser's handling of a proposed class action against xAI and Winstead PC's role in establishing a first-of-its-kind infrastructure district lead this edition of Law360 Pulse's Spotlight On Mid-Law Work, recapping the top matters for Mid-Law firms from March 13 to 27.

Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis AG said Friday that it will buy Excellergy, a U.S. biotechnology company, for up to $2 billion as it seeks access to a therapy to combat allergic reactions.

English musician FKA twigs says actor Shia LaBeouf has tried to silence her with an illegal nondisclosure agreement that was included in the settlement the former couple entered to resolve her sexual battery claims, according to a new lawsuit filed in California state court.

Former city employees of Ann Arbor, Michigan, asked a federal judge Thursday to reconsider her decision to remove religious discrimination and state civil rights claims from their suit alleging religious discrimination after they were denied COVID-19 vaccine exemptions.

A California federal judge Thursday issued a preliminary injunction barring the Trump administration from labeling Anthropic as a supply chain risk to national security, calling the move a "classic illegal First Amendment retaliation" and "Orwellian."

The Second Circuit has vacated a New York man's fraud conviction, pointing to the conduct of his former counsel, who had a private conversation with the judge in which he said he was worried the defendant was engaging in "delay tactics" that could include punching the lawyer in the head.

A Nevada federal judge dismissed a shareholder derivative suit brought by groups of Catholic sisters against members of Smith & Wesson's board and senior managers over the firearm-maker's AR-15 rifles marketing, finding the plaintiffs hadn't shown it would have been futile to demand the board pursue such legal action.

Southwest Airlines Co. retirement plan beneficiaries pleaded sufficient facts to state claims for breach of fiduciary duty and for failure to monitor in alleging that the company and its executives failed to remove an underperforming fund that lagged its benchmark, a Texas federal judge ruled this week.

A Virginia federal judge tossed a complaint alleging data analytics company Acxiom gathers and sells individuals' personal information like their addresses, birth dates and other identifiers to its clients, ruling Wednesday the laws alleged to have been violated only protect a person's name, portrait, or picture, "not any of this other data."

A coalition of state attorneys general on Thursday mostly concluded their antitrust case against Live Nation and its Ticketmaster subsidiary, following weeks of a trial that was nearly derailed after the U.S. Department of Justice dropped out, and Live Nation kicked off its defense case with a company executive who pushed back against claims of anticompetitive conduct.

The U.S. Department of Justice has urged an Illinois federal court not to take up Tyson Foods' application of a Fourth Circuit decision in the turkey processor's bid to defeat consolidated antitrust litigation against poultry producers, saying the out-of-circuit decision conflicts with U.S. Supreme Court precedent.

The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday halted the execution of a former police officer convicted of the rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl nearly four decades ago in order to wait for results of DNA testing that could prove his innocence.

A Los Angeles 3D artist and visual effects creator accused four tech giants of failing to protect rights on millions of works by artists and designers that were used to train large-scale generative artificial intelligence systems, according to proposed class actions filed in California and Washington federal courts Thursday.

Illinois cannabis regulators are not so "incompetent on an elementary level" as to be duped into allowing Acreage Holdings Inc. and other companies to mislabel vape products in a way that lets them skirt state-imposed THC-potency limits, a federal court ruled, tossing as "baseless" a consumer-led proposed class action.

Elon Musk did not get a fair trial over claims he defrauded Twitter investors before acquiring the social media platform, the tech billionaire's lawyer told a California federal judge Thursday, saying the jury rolled a marijuana "joke" into the verdict form to mock Musk and the trial process.

A Venezuelan political opposition leader told jurors Thursday that he connected with former Florida congressman David Rivera to try to secure meetings with high-level U.S. officials in the first Trump administration, but Rivera — who is on trial for allegedly failing to register as a foreign agent — failed to deliver.

A Federal Circuit decision upholding a U.S. International Trade Commission exclusion order on the Apple Watch in a patent dispute with Masimo has again eased hurdles for patent owners aiming to make the ITC's required showing that they have domestic industry, attorneys say.

Lawmakers touched on a lot of topics during the nearly three hours Thursday they spent dissecting the Telecommunications Act, which turns 30 this year, but the one that Democrats kept dragging the hearing back to was the FCC's recent approval of the $6.2 billion broadcast merger between Nexstar and Tegna.

A Ninth Circuit judge rehearing an appeal involving a $72 million trade secret verdict against Boeing on Thursday pressed the company's counsel Donald B. Verrilli Jr. of Munger Tolles & Olson LLP to explain why the aerospace giant never previously argued the case belongs in the Federal Circuit, and Verrilli conceded he didn't know the reason.

PNC no longer faces allegations it failed to prevent a customer's losses after his employees drained nearly $205,000 from his accounts, a Philadelphia federal judge found, noting the plaintiff's estate administrator didn't properly dispute relevant facts asserted by the bank.

China-based online brokerage firm operator UP Fintech Holding Ltd. has escaped a proposed class action accusing it of misleading investors by concealing risks associated with its noncompliance with New Zealand and Chinese securities laws after a New York federal judge found the company's statements to be full and justified.

A Colorado town's fee on owners of short-term rentals does not require a vote under the state's Taxpayer's Bill of Rights, a state appeals court ruled Thursday, rejecting the argument that it raises more revenue than is needed for its stated purpose.

DraftKings and FanDuel have been hit with another lawsuit, this time in Massachusetts state court, by a consumer alleging their sports betting platforms intensify the addictive properties of gambling but the companies refuse to implement safeguards.

A Seattle federal judge dumped the bulk of a proposed consumer class action accusing the company behind Stanley mugs of selling defective lids that can leak hot liquids, ruling plaintiffs in the case failed to establish that the business had advance knowledge of the alleged defects.

A team of seasoned Paul Hastings LLP professionals is representing the official committee of unsecured creditors of restaurant franchisor FAT Brands Inc. in Texas bankruptcy court.

A Texas jury on Thursday slapped a descendant of an original Humble Oil investor with a $1.1 billion verdict — thought to be one of the largest individual-child abuse verdicts in U.S. history — in a suit over abuse of his 2-year-old stepson that caused severe brain injuries.

A New Jersey bankruptcy judge on Thursday said he wasn't ready to give final approval to a debt rollup proposed in Multi-Color Corp.'s Chapter 11 case, throwing into question one of the postpetition financing backers' willingness to fund the debtor's operations.

Hyundai Motor America Inc. can't push into arbitration a proposed class action over allegedly faulty tow wiring that can catch fire, the Ninth Circuit ruled in a split decision, rejecting as "absurd" the automaker's argument that the terms of the vehicles' subscription-based wireless service waived a driver's right to sue over defects in the rest of the SUV.

Two House committees advanced legislation Thursday that would mandate aircraft-tracking and collision-avoidance technology in some aircraft, and reinforce Federal Aviation Administration and military training and operational procedures, in response to last year's deadly midair collision between an Army helicopter and an American Airlines regional jet near Washington, D.C.

A Texas federal judge Thursday dismissed X Corp.'s sprawling antitrust suit that accused several advertisers of unlawfully boycotting the Elon Musk-owned social media company by substantially cutting back on or stopping ad purchases, saying X didn't suffer any antitrust injury.

An Eleventh Circuit panel appeared divided Thursday on whether the Trump administration can treat immigrants who didn't seek authorized entry at the border as perpetually seeking admission and subject them to mandatory detention without bond.

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority has fined a San Francisco-based broker-dealer $600,000 for allegedly failing to supervise employees' use of unapproved messaging platforms, in a type of proceeding FINRA's CEO said earlier this week would indicate a "real breakdown" in oversight.

A White & Case LLP staffer sued the law firm in New York state court Wednesday, alleging the firm's purported "hostile work environment" shielded his colleagues after they allegedly shared nude photos of him, which he claims were taken by his supervisor while he was unconscious at a firm-sponsored party.

The FBI special agent behind the bureau's seizure of 2020 election records from Fulton County, Georgia, will not have to testify in an upcoming evidentiary hearing in the county's suit seeking return of the materials, a federal judge said Thursday.

The Ninth Circuit declined Thursday to revisit a panel decision that held federally chartered banks aren't exempt from a California law requiring interest to be paid on mortgage escrow accounts, leaving Flagstar Bank on the hook for a $9 million borrower class action judgment.

The U.S. Supreme Court's upcoming review of the Trump administration's efforts to curtail the temporary protected status program loomed over a Massachusetts federal judge's hearing Thursday on the future of the protections for 5,000 Ethiopians living in the U.S.

The top antitrust attorney at the Illinois attorney general's office predicted Thursday that state enforcers will continue to pick up the pace as the Federal Trade Commission and especially the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division "become less transparent and less active."

A purported investment adviser appearing in his third adulthood fraud case received more than six years in prison on Thursday as an Illinois federal judge expressed hope that he'll "do the hard work" it will take to address the personal issues leading him to engage in such conduct.

A Maryland federal judge Thursday dismissed a proposed securities class action against Elanco Animal Health Inc. that claimed the animal pharmaceuticals company misled investors about the safety of a canine dermatitis treatment it was developing and its timeline for the medication's commercial launch.

Soccer fans impacted when people without tickets stormed a Copa America championship match at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens two years ago asked a Florida federal judge to sign off on a settlement agreement worth up to $14 million.

A Third Circuit panel rebuffed a man's attempt to argue that DNA software called TrueAllele shouldn't have been used to convict him for unlawful possession of a firearm, finding that the program was sufficiently verified as reliable under court rules of evidence.

An executive for L'Oréal USA Inc. has asked a Connecticut state court judge not to force the public disclosure of the price the company paid to acquire Federici Brands LLC, the company behind Color Wow hair care products, as part of a former Federici president's lawsuit alleging she is owed $40 million from the transaction.

The U.S. Supreme Court should continue allowing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to collect ill-gotten profits from fraudsters without having to identify any particular victims of said scheme, the agency told the high court in a case that could limit its disgorgement powers.

Joe Gibbs Racing LLC on Thursday pushed to enjoin rival NASCAR team Spire Motorsports from using confidential race data allegedly stolen by its former competition director, even as Spire denied having the information and decried the accusations as unfounded.

Three U.S. senators are backing the asbestos claimants of Bestwall in their bid to take their challenge of the Georgia-Pacific spinoff's so-called Texas two-step bankruptcy to the U.S. Supreme Court, saying the high court must close a loophole the Fourth Circuit has created that allows nonbankrupt corporations to avoid tort liability.

A provision of the Pennsylvania Workers' Compensation Act governing notice of work-related injuries does not require sole proprietors of a business to notify their insurers of their injuries within 120 days in order to be eligible for benefits, the state's highest court ruled Thursday.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ended the use of mandatory life-without-parole sentences for felony murder offenses Thursday, potentially upending the sentences of more than 1,000 incarcerated people in a case that has drawn national attention.

A criminal defendant can waive their statutory right to presentence confinement credit as a negotiated term of a plea agreement, the Colorado Court of Appeals ruled Thursday for the first time.

Ascendis Pharma missed its window to invoke a mandatory stay in California federal court based on parallel U.S. International Trade Commission proceedings, and its attempt to reset the patent litigation doesn't change that, the Federal Circuit said Thursday.

A series of putative class actions resulting from a data breach at imaging practice Triad Radiology Associates PLLC hit North Carolina Business Court this week, with a couple of the cases naming hospitals that partnered with the practice.

The Federal Trade Commission's top antitrust official said Thursday that so-called reverse acquihires appear designed solely to avoid merger reporting requirements, while noting that competition enforcers continue to scrutinize the deals that are newly popular in Silicon Valley, especially in the artificial intelligence space.

Western Bankers Capital Inc. and the estate of its operator have urged a New York federal judge to grant them an early win in a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission suit alleging they and others reaped nearly $6 million in illicit proceeds by selling unregistered penny stocks, in part because they say they were a victim of the alleged scheme.

The Bar Association of the District of Columbia has thrown its support behind Federal Circuit Judge Pauline Newman's U.S. Supreme Court challenge to the suspension imposed on her by her colleagues, saying it's doing so on behalf of those who are afraid that supporting her publicly will harm their careers.

The leaders of the Federal Trade Commission and U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division said Thursday that companies can lobby the agencies all they want, but enforcers will still make merger and conduct decisions based on the facts and the law.

A California resident alleged in Colorado federal court that a Denver-based telehealth mental health provider is providing sensitive customer data to Google without their consent in violation of federal and state privacy laws, according to a proposed class action filed Thursday.

Passengers suing BNSF Railway over a deadly train derailment in Missouri should arbitrate their claims, a federal judge ordered Thursday, rejecting arguments that an arbitrator lacked the authority to determine the constitutionality of an underlying arbitration clause.

The Eleventh Circuit pressed a white former medical waste disposal executive Thursday on whether the appellate court should revive his race bias case, asking him to square his discrimination argument with the fact that the woman who got the promotion he wanted was also white.

An Indian pharmaceutical company is accusing bankrupt New Jersey generic-drug developer InvaTech Pharma Solutions of pocketing hundreds of thousands of dollars of payments due to the Indian company that it received by mistake.

Investment firm Jump Trading and its co-founder moved for dismissal of a lawsuit from the administrator for bankrupt cryptocurrency company Terraform Labs. A New Mexico industrial building owner is appealing a New York bankruptcy judge's approval of a disclosure statement from a secured creditor. And the new owner of fundraising technology company Flipcause sought to reassure nonprofits that it would run the platform differently than its previous operator.

Lawmakers at the state and federal level stewarded legislation to rein in kratom and its derivatives, Idaho lawmakers took a stand against a proposal to legalize medical marijuana via ballot initiative, and New York legislators introduced a plan to audit the state's cannabis regulator on an annual basis. Here are the major moves in cannabis and psychedelics legislation from the past week.

A sushi chef suing a Connecticut restaurant on claims of wage-and-hour violations wants the defendant sanctioned for allowing a nonparty, who is the defendant in a separate but similar lawsuit, to attend a Jan. 19 deposition, allegedly in an attempt to gain a litigation advantage.

Upholding a foreign arbitration award against a wine importer, the Ninth Circuit on Thursday ordered its attorneys at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP to explain why they and their client shouldn't pay their opponent's attorney fees for bringing a "frivolous" and "self-indulgent" appeal.

A Massachusetts federal judge on Thursday rejected a request by an anti-abortion nonprofit and a Missouri marketing firm to dismiss claims that they tried to trick women into visiting a pregnancy "crisis" center.

A Texas appellate court has greenlighted a suit accusing a physician and two healthcare companies of misdiagnosing a patient with cancer, finding the plaintiff's expert report adequately outlined how the alleged negligence led to an unnecessary procedure.

Apple Tree Life Sciences, a biotechnology investor that filed for bankruptcy in December in a protracted feud with a Russian billionaire, asked a Delaware court on Wednesday to let it solicit bids for at least $300 million of exit financing.

Midwestern law firm McDonald Hopkins LLC must produce email communications in connection with litigation accusing Blue Cross units of a smear campaign against a clinical lab owner, an Ohio federal judge ruled, finding the documents were not protected by work product or attorney-client privilege.

The Eighth Circuit declined Thursday to reinstate a former worker's suit claiming he was fired from an Abbott Laboratories subsidiary for reporting healthcare kickback violations, ruling he couldn't sue under the Minnesota whistleblower law as a Hawaii resident.

A former executive of long-acquired oil company InterOil must pay a Swiss investor $210 million in damages and interest under a final judgment entered Thursday in Texas federal court, affirming a jury's findings last year that the executive breached agreements between the two.

Sony Music has settled its copyright infringement suit accusing the University of Southern California of infringing more than 170 of its songs to advertise the school's sports program on social media, according to an order signed off by a New York federal judge Thursday.

The Delaware Chancery Court on Thursday ruled against former flooring executive Brian Carson in his bid to force his former company to cover his legal fees, finding he was not entitled to advancement under the governing LLC agreement.

A Texas federal court tossed a crypto software developer's suit against U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi seeking protection over his forthcoming software from an enforcement action under federal money transmitting laws, finding the developer failed to show a substantial threat of prosecution.

A California federal judge has placed evidentiary guardrails on an April jury trial over Elon Musk's claims OpenAI duped him, excluding evidence on Musk's ketamine use and WilmerHale's investigation into Sam Altman's dismissal, but allowing evidence on Musk's rival startup, his romance with an ex-OpenAI boardmember and his Burning Man trip.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Thursday held that a cannabis trade association lacks standing to argue that a local court's policy of regulating medical marijuana use for treatment court participants hurts dispensary businesses, upholding a ruling that the association didn't suffer any harm itself from the policy.

The Civilian Board of Contract Appeals has said a contractor can't recover roughly $800,000 in excavation and backfill costs under a U.S. Department of Transportation retaining wall contract, noting it didn't include such underlying quantities in its bid.

A California federal judge has criticized attorneys from law firms including Boies Schiller Flexner LLP that are representing authors accusing Meta of unlawfully using copyrighted material to train its artificial intelligence models, while still allowing the authors to amend their case again.

A New Jersey appellate panel on Thursday backed the dismissal of a technology recruiter's sexual harassment and discrimination suit against Cognizant Technology Solutions and a staffing vendor, finding she worked as an independent contractor and therefore could not invoke the protections of the state's Law Against Discrimination.

Employees alleging a property management company stiffed them on overtime wages cannot proceed as a collective for now, a North Carolina federal judge has ruled, finding that the current record is insufficient to determine whether they are similarly situated.

The European Commission overstepped when it ordered Belgium to recover unlawful state aid not just from companies that received tax exemptions but from every member of their corporate groups, an adviser to the European Union's top court said Thursday.

The U.S. announced a bevy of new trade investigations this month to underpin a tariff regime intended to replace duties struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court, but questions remain about the fate of deals struck with trading partners and whether importers will face higher tariffs. Here, Law360 examines four questions on the implications of those investigations.

The market is anticipating what could be one of the largest initial public offerings ever, after reports this past week indicated that Elon Musk's SpaceX is looking to imminently raise as much as $75 billion.

An Illinois federal judge won't let a Johnson & Johnson spinoff fully escape claims that it misled consumers by marketing skincare products as "oil-free," finding the plaintiff can't pursue claims for products she didn't buy and dismissing her warranty claim but allowing the rest to proceed.

The near-future depicted in the film “Mercy” reminds attorneys that private surveillance networks are becoming central to the evidentiary ecosystem, shaping what prosecutors can obtain, what defendants must explain and what jurors may interpret as objective truth, says Veronica Finkelstein at Wilmington University.

A California jury has found that actor Kevin Spacey's absence from the final season of "House of Cards" was not due to a sex addiction sickness he was being treated for, a verdict that denies claims by the production companies behind the show that its insurers owed them around $100 million when he failed to return for the hit Netflix series' swan song.

A plaintiff who claimed he was sexually assaulted by employees at a Philadelphia jail can't sue the city because Pennsylvania law only grants a sexual-abuse exception to sovereign immunity if the victim was a minor at the time, the state's supreme court ruled Thursday.

Pennsylvania's highest court vacated a man's drug and gun crime convictions Thursday due to prejudice, finding that a witness who had no intent to testify should never have been questioned before the jury by the prosecutor.

The Federal Circuit's decision in Netflix v. DivX last month highlights the challenge of interpreting potentially misplaced modifiers in complicated technological patents, and the potential for grammatical rules to provide a default interpretation for unclear claim language, say attorneys at Knobbe Martens.

Liquor company MGP Ingredients Inc. no longer faces investor claims it concealed ballooning inventory after demand for booze dropped following the COVID-19 pandemic, as a Kansas federal judge found the shareholders failed to show the company intentionally misled the markets.

Recent statements from the White House and state governors about making data centers pay for their own power infrastructure have underlined the importance of choosing locations, generation technologies and deal structures to optimize carbon, permitting and compliance costs, say attorneys at Davis Graham.

The U.S. Trustee's Office and a group of creditors have urged a New York bankruptcy judge to reject mining company Vanderbilt Minerals' bid to retain Jones Day as counsel, arguing the law firm is conflicted because it represented the debtor's parent company prior to Vanderbilt's Chapter 11 case.

Hawaii condominium units in a Maui multiunit property are considered nonowner-occupied properties — not apartments — and should be taxed at higher rates under a county ordinance, a Hawaii appeals court affirmed.

Directors and officers of zinc battery manufacturer Eos Energy have been hit with a shareholder's derivative lawsuit accusing them of allowing the company to raise about $1 billion while concealing negative information about revenue and production issues from the market.

The Third Circuit on Thursday said the federal courts lacked jurisdiction to hear a case alleging that Harriet Carter Gifts and a third-party company violated consumers' privacy rights under Pennsylvania wiretapping law by collecting their website browsing data, ordering the lower court to remand the case to state court.

A judge in the Eastern District of Texas denied a bid by cryptocurrency mining company Core Scientific Inc. to move a case accusing it of infringing cryptography patents to the Western District of Texas, saying Core had not shown that it was clearly a more convenient venue.

The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday defended its authority to waive the television station ownership cap and approve the transfers at the heart of Nexstar's $6.2 billion acquisition of Tegna, telling the D.C. Circuit that the cap, as an agency rule, can be dispensed with for good cause.

A recent South Carolina legal ethics decision prohibiting attorney fee-sharing with nonlawyer owners and the advancement this week of similar state legislation in Illinois underscore the emerging divide over the rising interest in outside investment in the legal industry.

Exxon Mobil Corp. has reached a settlement with a Seattle property owner who sought to hold the company liable for cleanup costs at the site of a former gas station, according to a motion approved Thursday by a Washington federal judge.

The city of Baltimore is urging a state court to not throw out its suit against R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., Philip Morris USA Inc. and Liggett Group LLC over the environmental damage caused by nonbiodegradable cigarette filters, saying that a 1998 settlement doesn't preempt its claims.

Georgia's Judicial Nominating Commission has recommended a state court judge and a prosecutor in the DeKalb Judicial Circuit for a vacancy in the circuit's superior court after a judge resigned.

The Ninth Circuit has reinstated critical habit designations for two Arctic seal species, finding that federal wildlife officials were in line with the Endangered Species Act and were not required to consider foreign conservation efforts or habitats when establishing the regions.

After his death earlier this month at age 52, Harris Beach Murtha Cullina PLLC member Daniel J. Krisch is being remembered by his colleagues as not only a skilled lawyer and a giant of the Connecticut appellate bar, but also as a devoted father known for his keen wit.

Executives and former board members at a hand sanitizer company must face a lawsuit claiming they helped facilitate an employee stock ownership plan's $398 million purchase of overvalued company stock, with an Illinois federal judge ruling that workers adequately alleged the executives had neglected their responsibilities.

Cryptocurrency firm BlockFills secured a Delaware bankruptcy judge's permission Thursday to temporarily block a lawsuit from creditors alleging the company and three current and former executives failed to properly manage customer assets.

Waste Management of New Jersey was hit with a proposed class action in Garden State federal court alleging the smell emanating from one of its landfills is damaging neighboring properties.

Earth & Water Law LLC has hired two former government lawyers, one of whom spent nearly 40 years at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, while the other worked with federal aviation law for over 13 years.

The Federal Circuit on Thursday said it won't restore claims in an email filtering patent challenged by Unified Patents, backing a Patent Trial and Appeal Board's decision that earlier inventions rendered the claims invalid.

Commercial space company Xona on Thursday announced that it closed an oversubscribed Series C funding round after securing $170 million, which will be used in part to help build the company's new Bay Area factory.

An attorney embroiled in long-running disputes with gunmaker Sig Sauer has asked a Connecticut federal judge to rethink a ruling that permanently barred him from using a contested pistol animation to advertise his law practice, claiming the judge erred when inheriting the case following a fellow jurist's death.

A new survey in which general counsel and other in-house decision-makers rank law firms according to how well they help with business development placed Latham & Watkins LLP as number one, followed closely by King & Spalding LLP, Jones Day and Ropes & Gray LLP.

A real estate company faces a purported class action in North Carolina's Business Court accusing the firm of waiting months to notify its customers of a data breach in September and failing to disclose what kind of information was stolen.

New York's proposed CRYPTO Act would expose unlicensed digital asset operators to criminal penalties ranging from state misdemeanor charges to felony convictions, potentially marking a significant shift in how New York — already among the most aggressive crypto regulators — oversees virtual currency businesses, say attorneys at Crowell & Moring.

A Republican-led bill that would give the executive branch more authority over the installation of U.S. attorneys was advanced out of a House committee Thursday.

The U.S. Department of Justice has told a New York federal judge it mistakenly cited an Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo providing guidance for civil immigration arrests at non-immigration courts, while fighting a lawsuit challenging arrests at immigration courts.

New York-Presbyterian Hospital is forcing major health insurers to contract with it on an "all-or-nothing" basis, which is driving up healthcare costs in New York City and violates federal antitrust law, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a federal lawsuit filed Thursday.

The Second Circuit on Thursday revived a federal benefits lawsuit against Wells Fargo and Ocwen accusing the companies of mishandling home loans tied to a union pension fund's investments, overturning a lower court ruling that handed the bank and loan servicing companies a pretrial win in the proposed class action.

Weeks ahead of an anticipated May trial over discrimination and retaliation claims brought by a former Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP associate, the firm and its onetime employee are sparring over the scope of evidence that may be presented at trial.

New York's Avoiding Vexatious Overuse of Impleading to Delay Act, which takes effect next month, will require new risk management strategies from transportation companies as it attempts to drastically change the scope of third-party litigation while failing to address practical realities of civil disputes, says Steven Saal at Lucosky Brookman.

A Florida state appeals court on Wednesday revived a bid to disqualify Shutts & Bowen LLP from representing a member of a real estate business in a dispute with his fellow owners, saying a trial court improperly barred certain testimony before rejecting the disqualification motion.

Legal artificial intelligence platform Harvey grew its publicly disclosed valuation ever larger, announcing on Wednesday $200 million in new funding that values the four-year-old company at $11 billion, up $3 billion since its Series F raise three months ago.

Nixon Peabody LLP announced Wednesday that it has hired a prominent federal prosecutor who spent about two decades with the Department of Justice, including as interim U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York.

Private equity investor Advent International unveiled plans Thursday to invest up to $1 billion in "next-generation" defense technology companies, a move that comes as defense technology investments ramp up.

General Legal, a startup offering contract drafting and review services to young businesses, announced on Wednesday the raising of a combined $11.5 million in seed and pre-seed capital.

A New Jersey appellate panel on Thursday revived a government watchdog's suit over the state attorney general's office's denial of its public records request for attorney ethics training materials, ruling the trial court should have conducted an in camera review of the requested documents before dismissing the complaint.

A Washington man can not sue medical device maker Medtronic USA Inc. on allegations it sold him a spinal cord implant that malfunctioned causing greater pain, the Ninth Circuit ruled, saying he lacked expert witnesses to support his negligence claims.

The Michigan Supreme Court on Thursday has ordered a state court judge to retire on July 1 after he was convicted of domestic violence for striking his wife, while also issuing a separate order placing him on interim suspension with pay.

A Georgia federal judge castigated attorneys on both sides of a lawsuit by a documentatrian who said he was prevented from filming at the controversial Atlanta "Cop City" project, striking their "inconsistent, incomplete and at times incoherent" filings and ordering them into his courtroom to explain themselves.

Broad reasoning used by a New York federal judge in U.S. v. Heppner — to determine the criminal defendant's interactions with a generative artificial intelligence platform were not protected — mistakenly treats AI use as dispositive disclosure to a third party and adopts an unduly narrow conception of work product, say attorneys at Lankler Siffert.

The full Fourth Circuit has declined to reconsider its late February decision to revive most of the charges against two ex-Deloitte workers accused of stealing the company's trade secrets, after the workers insisted the unfavorable ruling bucked circuit and U.S. Supreme Court precedent.

Over the past several months, New York Attorney General Letitia James has brought a rapid succession of enforcement actions targeting rent stabilization abuse, unsafe housing conditions and fraudulent securities practices, signaling that the office views these problems as systemic issues warranting aggressive intervention, say attorneys at Quinn Emanuel.

With the recent influx of Florida construction defect lawsuits putting builder’s insurance carriers in the crosshairs, parties must actively seek new methods tailored to the state to compel as many subcontractors, carriers and co-insurers as possible to share the expense and risk of their defense, says Nick Richardson at Segal McCambridge.

A former Regeneron Pharmaceuticals director can proceed with her lawsuit claiming she was fired for requesting a flexible schedule to care for her daughter, a New York federal judge ruled, saying she'd sufficiently backed up allegations that doing so had violated federal disability bias law.

Amid the downturn in the private credit markets spurred by multiple high-profile bankruptcies, a New York lawsuit stemming from the collapse of First Brands provides an important case study for investors to help minimize future losses and maximize any potential recovery in the event of a private credit default, say attorneys at Bleichmar Fonti.

King & Spalding LLP announced Thursday that it has brought on a former White & Case LLP capital markets attorney as a partner in its corporate practice group in New York.

A California federal jury has cleared Netflix of allegations that it infringed a set of patents held by DivX covering video compression technology.

Almost all the 15 finalists in the American Bar Association Techshow 2026 startup competition, including the winner, pitched products that are using artificial intelligence to solve legal problems, echoing last year's event.

Choice Hotels and a hotel operator have urged a federal judge in Washington state to toss a collective and class action alleging workers were denied breaks and sick leave, arguing the complaint failed to show the hospitality giant was actually the workers' employer and improperly included claims beyond the court's jurisdiction.

Bonds Ellis Eppich Schafer Jones LLP has added a former Michael Best & Friedrich LLP attorney with deep experience in bankruptcy, restructuring and complex civil litigation as a partner in Fort Worth.

The former chair of White and Williams LLP's commercial litigation group has moved recently to Holland & Knight LLP's Philadelphia office, where she plans to grow her practice through her new firm's national platform.

Haitian nationals accusing meatpacking giant JBS USA Food Co. and a subsidiary of race-based discrimination and numerous labor violations told a Colorado federal court their lawsuit should survive JBS' dismissal bid, arguing that they've sufficiently established an employer relationship with both.

The Muscogee (Creek) Supreme Court has ordered a second status report on how the tribe's citizenship board and principal chief are complying with a decision to give citizenship to descendants of those once enslaved by the Indigenous nation.

Two partnerships that claimed tens of millions of dollars in tax deductions for protecting 530 acres in Georgia from development grossly overvalued their contributions and rightfully drew penalties from the Internal Revenue Service, the Eleventh Circuit said in affirming a U.S. Tax Court decision.

A member of a music catalog investment group has sued in the Delaware Chancery Court to force the company to turn over financial records, alleging signs of mismanagement, missed payments and potential default risks tied to high-value music deals.

A Manhattan federal judge suggested Thursday that the Trump administration should revisit its refusal to allow former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to access his country's funds to pay for his defense against narco-terrorism and trafficking charges.

Several law firms around the country, including Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP and Winston & Strawn LLP, expanded their footprints this month by either moving into larger offices or entering new markets.

O'Melveny & Myers LLP has added a director of attorney professional development who previously held similar roles at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP and Morrison and Foerster LLP, according to a Thursday announcement.

An Ohio federal judge refused to award $466,000 in attorney fees to a straight woman who convinced the U.S. Supreme Court to revive her bias suit, saying while she won her appeal she still hasn't technically won the case.

A man suing a retailer and distributor over injuries he sustained when a counterfeit lithium-ion battery exploded is asking the North Carolina Supreme Court to take up the case, saying the appeals court wrongly held that the sealed container defense blocked his claims.

Akerman LLP is testing its own proprietary artificial intelligence tool designed to help the firm's partner recruitment by evaluating whether lateral hires are likely to succeed there.

Steptoe LLP has hired a Barnes & Thornburg LLP leader in Chicago who helped found two practice groups at his old firm that are focused on financial regulatory matters.

A Delaware bankruptcy judge on Thursday stayed actions against the U.S. subsidiaries of Cannabist Company Holdings as the bankrupt Canadian company moves to sell its assets or wind them down.

The Federal Trade Commission on Thursday warned major payment companies that denying services to consumers based on their politics or religion could lead to an enforcement action, the latest move in the Trump administration's broader crackdown on so-called debanking.

Ballard Spahr LLP has moved its Delaware office to a new space in downtown Wilmington that features technology upgrades and modern fixtures, the office's leader told Law360 this week.

After outgrowing its office of the past two decades — including nearly tripling its roster in just the last three years — the Houston team at Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP recently moved to a freshly designed space twice the size of its previous office.

Defense technology company Shield AI on Thursday revealed that its valuation soared to $12.7 billion after closing a $1.5 billion Series G funding round, which will help finance the company's planned acquisition of private equity-backed defense company Aechelon Technology Inc.

A Texas federal judge entered a roughly $21.2 million judgment against a steakhouse chain and its owner in a lawsuit brought by hundreds of workers alleging unpaid wages and misappropriated tips, according to a court filing.

Holland & Knight LLP is expanding the Midtown Manhattan office it leased in 2024 with an extra 32,570 square feet as its ranks continue to grow in the Empire State, the firm confirmed Wednesday.

Corebridge Financial Inc. and Equitable Holdings Inc. said Thursday they have agreed to merge in an all-stock transaction that values the combined company at about $22 billion, in a deal steered by Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP and Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP.

The International Olympic Committee announced a ban Thursday on transgender athletes competing in women's events, a policy shift that will see Olympic hopefuls subjected to genetic testing to determine their eligibility.

A recent California federal court decision dismissing challenges to Nippon Steel's purchase of U.S. Steel underscores the longtime antitrust precedent that while the limitations of injury are critical for defendants sued under U.S. antitrust laws, showing that the harm is real is the key, says Cameron Regnery at Freeman Mathis.

The antitrust authority said Thursday that it has provisionally found that the acquisition by Associated British Foods PLC of Hovis Group Ltd. raises competition concerns in the supply of bread and other bakery products in Northern Ireland.

Steno plans to triple its investments in expansion and its litigation technology suite following a $49 million Series C funding round, the tech-enabled court reporting and litigation support services provider announced Thursday.

French construction group Vinci said Thursday that it will buy nine toll highways in India from Macquarie Group for approximately 150 billion Indian rupees ($1.6 billion) to boost its investments in mobility infrastructure.

Chemicals group Henkel said Thursday that it will buy hair care brand Olaplex in a $1.4 billion cash deal that will allow U.S. private equity firm Advent to fully exit its position.

A Super Micro Computer investor alleged in a California federal lawsuit Wednesday that the technology company failed to disclose that a large portion of its server sales were to Chinese companies in transactions that violated U.S. export controls, leading to three arrests and a significant drop in stock price.

In a split decision, the Delaware Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed with a lower court's finding that news articles containing anonymous sourcing was reliable enough to support investors' demands for records pertaining to Paramount Global's merger with Skydance Media.

Cyberattacks targeting law firms jumped in 2025, according to a new BakerHostetler report, which also highlighted recent spikes across a wide range of sectors in ransomware payments and class action lawsuits stemming from these incidents.

A New York federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a putative class action against Fidelity Investments and a Fidelity money market fund's trustees and executives, rejecting shareholders' claims for breach of fiduciary duty or unjust enrichment over the financial service company's alleged failure to convert retail-class shares to lower-cost premium-class shares.

The CEO of Oak View Group told a Manhattan federal jury Wednesday that his company didn't inform other venue owners that it was being paid to "advocate" for them to use Ticketmaster as a vendor for ticketing services, but said he still would recommend the Live Nation subsidiary anyway since it's the best in the business.

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires is exceeding the authority Congress intended to grant him in the America Invents Act for discretionarily denying patent challenges, the U.S. House of Representatives' intellectual property leader said Wednesday.

A vacation booking company's four principals must answer an Illinois class's asset citation bid as it works to collect a $47 million default judgment in a "troubling" 11-year-old Telephone Consumer Protection Act case, a federal judge ruled.

The Ninth Circuit on Wednesday held that convictions under Oregon's attempted assault statute constitute violent crimes under federal sentencing guidelines, upholding a gun-possession sentence for a felon with multiple convictions.

The Eleventh Circuit largely backed several wins by the city of Atlanta in a race bias and whistleblower suit from a former police lieutenant, ruling Wednesday that his retaliation claim "does not present a close call, or even a close call about whether there is a close call."

A California federal judge on Wednesday appointed three female partners from three law firms to co-lead multidistrict litigation over passenger sexual assault claims against Lyft Inc., two of whom are also serving as co-lead counsel in similar litigation against Uber Technologies Inc.

Two attorneys for MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell and his media company are in hot water once again as a Colorado federal judge on Wednesday ordered them to explain why they shouldn't be sanctioned for citation errors, after she previously sanctioned them for errors produced by generative artificial intelligence.

The Ninth Circuit Wednesday affirmed the conviction and 30-year prison sentence for a man who attempted to kidnap former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and assaulted her husband, holding in a published opinion that a California federal court properly resentenced him after failing to let him directly address the judge before sentencing.

House lawmakers on Wednesday voiced support for bringing blockchain technology to Wall Street securities trading if it improves settlement times and market transparency, but Democrats worried whether certain regulatory experiments could lead to less oversight for crypto securities than their traditional counterparts.

A Texas federal judge on Wednesday refused to disturb a jury verdict that cleared T-Mobile from a Dallas-based patent company's lawsuit that accused the telecommunications company of infringing its wireless communications patents, denying three posttrial motions, including motions for a new trial on infringement and invalidity issues.

A New York federal judge on Wednesday trimmed a proposed class action alleging USB Financial Services Inc. put customers' money in low-yielding "cash sweep" accounts in breach of their contract, tossing a single duplicative unjust enrichment claim but allowing the contract claims to proceed.

A U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division official said Wednesday that the agency is closely monitoring antitrust disputes over standard essential patents, aiming to ensure that proper analyses of market power are undertaken, and that most patent suits are exempted from causing antitrust liability.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's surging need for detention space — fueled by increased funding and a rapid escalation in enforcement activity — has sparked litigation from local lawmakers and advocacy groups concerned by the agency's full-throttle approach and perceived disregard for surrounding communities.

A California federal judge on Wednesday granted class certification in a shareholder case against chipmaker Nvidia that briefly went before the U.S. Supreme Court and that claims the company failed to inform investors about its reliance on the volatile crypto market.

Nexstar and Tegna have come out swinging against a "last-minute, unfounded" attempt by eight states to block the companies from continuing to co-mingle their businesses following their $6.2 billion television station merger, which closed Thursday after receiving the go-ahead from the Federal Communications Commission.

Retired Army general Michael Flynn reached a financial settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday in his Florida federal lawsuit claiming he was wrongly prosecuted for allegedly lying to the FBI during its investigation into whether Donald Trump coordinated with Russia during the 2016 election.

The company behind Ener-C sugar-free vitamin drinks falsely advertises its beverages as "all natural" despite using a synthetic ingredient derived from petroleum products, according to a proposed class action filed Tuesday in Washington federal court.

Investors in bankrupt electric vehicle company Arrival have gotten final approval for their nearly $13.3 million deal ending claims the company touted a purportedly profitable business plan as it went public via merger with a special purpose acquisition company only to scale back its projections within a year of the merger announcement.

The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling that Cox Communications is not liable for its customers' music piracy circumscribes the theories copyright owners may pursue for secondary infringement — limits that attorneys say will extend beyond internet service providers and influence litigation involving e-commerce platforms and artificial intelligence.

A Tenth Circuit panel appeared skeptical during oral arguments Wednesday of Oklahoma's arguments that federal law doesn't preempt a state law that attempts to make it a crime for unauthorized immigrants to live in the state.

Sending unsolicited text messages does not violate the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, a Florida cannabis company told an Orlando federal judge, urging for the permanent end of a proposed class action accusing the company of sending unwanted marketing messages after the lead plaintiff opted out.

A Florida judge recused himself from overseeing a lawsuit against Tesla over a fatal crash after a hot mic moment that Tesla said shows he had prejudged disputed issues in the case and was biased against the company and its CEO, Elon Musk, according to documents unsealed Wednesday.

A Texas federal judge agreed to dismiss claims against the ex-general counsel of a Houston-based pharmaceutical services company, who was accused of helping build a competing venture using confidential information and of destroying a hard drive containing evidence he had a duty to preserve during litigation.

A Washington state appeals court has partially revived a lawsuit brought by incarcerated people who claim their constitutional rights were violated by prison officials who used tests known to produce false positives to enforce a random drug testing policy inside state prisons.

A Third Circuit panel on Wednesday examined whether New Jersey can bar out-of-state doctors from consulting with Garden State patients via phone or video without a state license, pressing both sides on where to draw the line between protected speech and the regulated practice of medicine.

A medical supply company urged the Fourth Circuit on Wednesday to revive its suit against a U.K. company over COVID-19 test kits, arguing the Chinese citizenship of one of its members doesn't destroy a North Carolina federal judge's ability to hear the case.

Crypto lender Genesis told a New York bankruptcy judge that its parent company, crypto conglomerate Digital Currency Group Inc., should not be able to argue that it has no further obligations under a $1.1 billion promissory note meant to "backstop" its bankrupt subsidiary.

The looming July cutoff to maintain eligibility for clean electricity investment and production tax credits is sparking a dealmaking spree as smaller developers who are unable to meet the deadline begin looking to sell projects to deeper-pocketed players who can.

A California state judge has trimmed Clorox's $380 million lawsuit accusing the cybersecurity company Cognizant of enabling a "catastrophic" 2023 cyberattack by voluntarily handing over Clorox employee passwords after hackers merely asked for them, tossing an intentional misrepresentation claim but keeping the bulk of the suit alive.

Uber is "obviously" a transportation company providing rides to the public and therefore can be held liable when its drivers sexually assault customers, a passenger told the California federal court overseeing the sprawling multidistrict litigation, urging the court not to fall for the company's "misdirection."

Two taxpayer groups and a tax counsel association urged the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a woman's appeal over liabilities triggered by a fraudulent preparer, arguing the Third Circuit decision in the case misread the fraud exception in the tax assessment statute.

South Korea's Ministry of Justice said Wednesday it is preparing for U.S. hedge fund Elliott Associates to resubmit its claim accusing the government of interfering in an $8 billion merger between two Samsung affiliates in 2015, weeks after a London court set aside a previous award in the dispute.

Payken is facing a Delaware Chancery Court lawsuit alleging the blockchain-based payments company owes roughly $3.2 million after breaching a master credit agreement and failing to repay loans owed to a jointly-owned lending vehicle created to provide it with liquid assets.

A Massachusetts federal judge on Wednesday largely rejected a bid by insurers and brokers to toss claims that they colluded in a kickback scheme to steer Medicare Advantage customers to certain companies and to push away disabled individuals.

Former CEOs of bankrupt electric truckmaker Nikola Corp. can't hit pause on proposed investor class action claims they face while related claims against the company are stayed amid its bankruptcy proceedings, an Arizona federal judge has determined.

A Texas federal judge has tossed a challenge to the constitutionality of state laws barring people from carrying guns in places like bars and at sporting events, saying the Texas public's right to limit firearm access in sensitive locations does not violate the Second Amendment.

A split Fourth Circuit panel has ruled that three military families cannot blame Maryland's supreme court justices or governor after state court clerks recognized allegedly defective out-of-state judgments and issued garnishment writs freezing their bank accounts.

A California federal judge rejected Extreme Networks' bid to dismiss a suit alleging it misled investors about its financial prospects and declining client demand during the COVID-19 pandemic, saying the investors adequately pled that the cloud network equipment company engaged in a scheme to inflate revenues through so-called channel-stuffing.

Beauty retailer Ulta asked Washington federal judge this week for permission to immediately appeal a February ruling that upheld the validity of a state law barring commercial emails with false or misleading subject lines, a move that could have sweeping implications for dozens of pending lawsuits brought under the statute.

A professional liability insurer for a law firm owes no coverage for a suit against the firm's named partner alleging he coordinated with his wife to steal trade secrets from a corporate client where his wife served as an executive, a Georgia federal judge ruled Wednesday.

A New York federal judge has allowed the majority of Nut Cravings Inc.'s counterclaims in a trademark infringement suit involving pistachios to survive, letting the company continue arguing that The Wonderful Co.'s trade dress is generic and unprotectable.

Connecticut's Public Utilities Regulatory Authority on Wednesday approved the transfer of Eversource subsidiary Aquarion Co. to a new public water authority created by the state Legislature, subject to several conditions, while admitting the $2.35 billion price tag placed the deal "on the knife's edge of a public interest finding."

Starbucks is urging a Seattle federal judge to throw out a proposed class action accusing the java giant of playing up its "ethical sourcing" commitment despite supply chain labor violations, saying customers cannot sue based on mere disappointment with the company's coffee farm certification standards.

Aviation services provider Swissport USA Inc. violated Washington wage laws by depriving its employees of their overtime pay and requiring them to remain on duty throughout meal and rest breaks, according to a proposed class action filed in state court.

Heavy-duty truck manufacturers have told a California federal judge that state officials cannot be allowed to circumvent federal law and saddle manufacturers with stringent emissions standards and stiff penalties for noncompliance, saying the Golden State's regulations are unequivocally preempted.

A bipartisan pair of lawmakers said at a conference Wednesday that they plan to make a push to pass legislation aimed at establishing stronger patent rights in the coming year, including bills limiting patent challenges and setting rules on which inventions are eligible for patents.

People alleging they were detained too long at a county jail in Detroit had their suit against Wayne County and its employees dismissed Wednesday by a Michigan federal judge who found their constitutional rights weren't violated, since there wasn't a right to be released in any particular time frame.

A team of attorneys from Chipman Brown Cicero & Cole LLP and Ropes & Gray LLP is steering the Chapter 11 case of Finch Therapeutics, a company that develops treatments to improve the health of the body's microbiome.

A Michigan appellate panel has affirmed a multi-million-dollar judgment won by the city of Detroit following a bench trial, holding that developers improperly kept millions in insurance proceeds after a fire destroyed a senior housing project.

A whistleblower doctor fired from the Miami-Dade County medical examiner's office cannot recover noneconomic damages from the county because it is a sovereign entity, a Florida appeals court ruled Wednesday in a decision that undoes the bulk of an $8.73 million award.

A North Carolina federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority's in-house disciplinary process, saying the case belongs before the Fourth Circuit.

The U.S. Department of Justice is urging the Fifth Circuit to reject a healthcare provider's attempt to upend an $8.2 million judgment by arguing the False Claims Act's whistleblower mechanism is unconstitutional, saying every other appeals court has rejected such a claim.

An anime streaming service's inadequate data security allowed hackers to gain access to an alleged 6.8 million unique email addresses and exfiltrate other personal information of subscribers, according to a proposed class action in California federal court.

A Liberty Mutual unit must face most of a Connecticut woman's claims that the insurer mishandled a car crash suit she filed against its policyholder that ultimately resulted in a nearly $1.6 million judgment, a Connecticut federal court ruled.

Colorado Attorney General Philip J. Weiser said on Wednesday that state enforcers need to uphold the rule of law when it comes to antitrust enforcement because the U.S. Department of Justice is allowing lobbyists to influence outcomes.

A security company is urging an Illinois federal court to throw out a dispensary's claims that it engaged in racketeering by assisting in an illegal raid by the dispensary's former business partners, saying the complaint fails to allege what it did to further the purported scheme.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., on Wednesday asked former Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP veteran Randall Guynn, a recent addition to the Federal Reserve, to explain how he is dealing with potential conflicts of interest stemming from his previous role chairing the BigLaw firm's financial institutions group.

After nearly two hours of argument in which counsel for the founding partner of a trusts and estates law firm argued that the firm should have to notice his departure to thousands of clients, a North Carolina Business Court judge seemed a bit perplexed Wednesday as to why the parties didn't resolve the client list spat with a North Carolina State Bar ethics opinion.

A Colorado federal judge has permanently tossed a proposed class action against Paragon 28 Inc., which makes products for foot and ankle surgery, and its executives claiming that they misrepresented the company's inventory levels and key financial metrics, finding that the suit fails to plausibly plead that the defendants knowingly made the  misleading statements.

EDITING --- The Oklahoma Supreme Court denied a bid by the governor to overturn a formal opinion by Attorney General Gentner Drummond that says U.S. law prohibits the state from citing tribal members for hunting and fishing on reservation lands, saying a federal lawsuit in the dispute will settle its legality.

For the second time, pharmacy benefit managers Express Scripts Inc. and Prime Therapeutics LLC asked a Michigan federal judge on Monday to toss a price-fixing suit filed by Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, arguing that the state has no standing to file the suit.

TD Bank failed to pay employees for overtime work they did before and after their shifts, a former customer service call representative alleges in a proposed collective and class action filed in New Jersey federal court.

Ukrainian energy and gas companies have urged the D.C. Circuit to remand to district court their lawsuits seeking to enforce $242 million in arbitral awards against Russia, despite the country's pending petition before the U.S. Supreme Court that asks it to resolve a circuit split.

Binance will appeal a New York federal judge's ruling last month refusing to force users of the platform who accuse the crypto exchange of improperly selling securities to arbitrate their claims before the Singapore International Arbitration Centre.

A split Eighth Circuit panel on Wednesday sided with the Trump administration's position that it can detain noncitizens who crossed the border without authorization, no matter how long they've been in the U.S., without bond.

The Consolidated Appropriations Act enacted last month restores the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's long-standing interpretation of "same disease or condition," related to orphan drug exclusivity, resolving years of regulatory uncertainty and litigation that have discouraged rare disease research, say attorneys at Spencer Fane.

A plaintiff claiming Abbott Laboratories' preterm baby formula contributed to her infant's development of a serious gut condition told an Illinois jury Wednesday that she wouldn't have allowed her baby to consume the formula had she known it increased the risk of the infection, saying her now-teenage daughter still struggles with medical complications as a result.

A California federal judge dismissed a proposed class action against Meta over ads on its platforms impersonating financial professionals to run pump-and-dump investment schemes, saying unlike recent cases that could "disrobe" Meta of immunity under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, the plaintiffs didn't allege Meta co-created the ads.

Microbiome treatment developer Finch Therapeutics told a Delaware bankruptcy judge Wednesday that its lack of income or ability to collect on a patent judgment justified its Chapter 11 filing despite a lack of secured debts.

Lenders to Serta Simmons Bedding presented closing arguments in Texas bankruptcy court Wednesday in a trial over damages that investors excluded from the mattress maker's 2020 "uptier" deal say they should be awarded, an issue which the presiding judge expects to decide on in the next few months.

The estate of a man who murdered his mother and died by suicide allegedly because of his use of ChatGPT is urging a California federal court not to dismiss its suit against OpenAI, saying the suit doesn't run parallel to a state court case from the mother's estate.

Two Pennsylvania consumers sued DraftKings Inc., FanDuel and the NFL in state court, alleging they teamed up to create a new, highly addictive style of gambling called microbetting that has made their products far more dangerous than any other form of sports wagering.

A Delaware lender has sued a group of real estate investors and affiliated entities in Delaware Chancery Court, accusing them of defaulting on a $3.8 million mezzanine loan and then diverting collateral to avoid repayment.

Military electronics and components maker Arxis has filed plans for an initial public offering, marking the second military technology company to launch plans for a public debut this week as more aerospace and military companies seek the public markets.

Risks for community banks are heightened by the Clarity and Genius Acts, which establish stablecoin market parameters and may lead to traditional bank fund withdrawals in the long term, but a recent Senate amendment to the former bill could prevent deposit runoff, says Thomas Walker at Jones Walker.

A Florida panel reinstated a teacher's workers' compensation petition for an injury she suffered while on the job, issuing a split opinion that set aside a lower court's denial after ruling that her attempt to seek more benefits wasn't time-barred.

A California federal jury on Tuesday awarded a marketing firm owned by a self-described "digital nomad" damages totaling $3.25 million, including $1.75 million in punitive damages, after finding Monday that plant-based burger maker Impossible Foods Inc. willfully infringed its "Impossible" marks, according to counsel.

Ice Miller LLP announced Wednesday that it hired a five-attorney bankruptcy and restructuring team from Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP to help expand its recently opened office in Wilmington, Delaware.

A city housing authority and its corporate development arm have asked a Connecticut Superior Court judge to order the civil arrest of an attorney accused of funneling nearly $10 million in unauthorized loan proceeds into his lawyer trust account.

The NAACP has selected the former head of the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division as its new top lawyer, a move the civil rights organization said comes as it is "ramping up its investment in its legal advocacy efforts" and doubling down on its mission.

An executive must face a turf manufacturer's suit claiming he took confidential information with him when he jumped ship for a rival company, a Georgia federal judge ruled, but said a lack of plausible misconduct allegations meant that rival should be dismissed from the case.

Ashurst has announced the addition of a four-partner team in New York to expand its finance and restructuring capacities ahead of a proposed merger with Perkins Coie.

Lender-on-lender brawling that normally occurs out of court is increasingly unfolding in the Chapter 11 financing arena, forcing bankruptcy judges to reckon with in-court deals that use aggressive liability management tactics to promote certain investors over others.

New Jersey's judicial disciplinary body questioned a municipal judge on Wednesday about why he believed it was appropriate to berate children and threaten their families with deportation during truancy hearings.

A Florida state appeals court on Wednesday admonished a pro se litigant for using AI-hallucinated case citations in his ultimately unsuccessful appeal of a lower court ruling enforcing a settlement agreement with an investment company, with the panel citing an AI-generated limerick to get its point across.

A nicotine pouch manufacturer is asking a D.C. federal judge to force the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to review its "Zone" pouch products, claiming it spent nearly four years in regulatory limbo before the agency said the application was incomplete.

A Michigan federal judge has denied summary judgment to a retired Oakland County detective and a former state police polygraph examiner accused of helping wrongfully convict two brothers who spent 25 years in prison for first-degree murder before their convictions were vacated four years ago.

A Chicago federal judge has said a lighting manufacturing company was owed royalties for patent infringement by a rival after a bench trial, telling the parties to meet and calculate how much should be owed in enhanced damages.

Bloom Parham LLP has brought on a self-employed litigation, regulatory and appellate attorney, strengthening the Atlanta boutique with an attorney whose experience includes stints with WilmerHale and the U.S. Department of Justice.

The Second Circuit’s recent stay of a postjudgment discovery order against Argentine officials in an oil investment dispute is worth examining in its full doctrinal and practical context, as limiting enforcement efforts that pry into foreign governments' internal workings could quietly reshape the trajectory of sovereign litigation in the U.S., says Josep Galvez at 4-5 Gray's Inn.

EscapeX IP and its attorney William Ramey III want the U.S. Supreme Court to review the Federal Circuit's decision backing $255,000 in fees and sanctions for what a California federal judge found to be a frivolous patent suit against Google.

Following a recent Second Circuit ruling that the dormant commerce clause applies to marijuana, a New York federal judge Wednesday rejected state cannabis regulators' bid to dismiss a constitutional challenge to their licensure program.

The nonprofit Law School Admissions Council asked a Pennsylvania federal judge on Wednesday to throw out antitrust claims over its application-related fees, with counsel for the organization arguing that the suit failed to allege it engaged in a price-fixing conspiracy with law schools.

A Chinese-American lawyer's cultural aversion to being branded a "thief" resulted in him waiting years to fully acknowledge wrongdoing after he paid himself $1.2 million in disputed fees from a major case, his attorney told a Pennsylvania disciplinary hearing board on Wednesday.

A Delaware bankruptcy judge on Wednesday said he would approve Alaska-based airline operator Float Alaska's request for permission to sell aircraft, spare parts and an affiliate for more than $20 million.

After seeing an associate hand in his resignation earlier this year, one small California law firm decided to use an AI program rather than replacing him — and the firm’s leader said it’s led to a big boost in profits. The situation raises a question: If experienced lawyers increasingly use AI to replace low-level associates, how will new lawyers find jobs?

Federal regulators moved Wednesday to curb their authority to subject large asset managers, insurers and other nonbank firms to heightened, bank-like supervision, proposing guidelines that would reinstitute tougher standards for these too-big-to-fail designations.

Winston & Strawn LLP has asked the D.C. Superior Court to force Hunter Biden to fully respond to interrogatories in its lawsuit against the former president's son over unpaid legal bills, after Biden conducted an incomplete "hand search" of documents at issue.

The Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice are not giving up on attempting to overhaul the "insufficient" half-century-old merger notification form after its replacement was just struck down by a Texas federal judge, with the agencies now seeking public comment as they mull "a new rulemaking process."

Susman Godfrey LLP announced Wednesday that it is bucking the hyperaccelerated summer recruiting model favored by BigLaw.

A Massachusetts federal judge greenlighted U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission claims against two of three former pharmaceutical executives accused of concealing from investors the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's "harsh critiques" about a cancer drug.

An Ohio appeals court ruled that a man sentenced on a felony assault charge must serve the entirety of his mandatory two-year sentence, and he cannot be eligible for a reduction through either judicial discretion or state law.

Florida Sen. Rick Scott sued federal contractor Booz Allen Hamilton and a former employee for leaking his tax returns along with a trove of confidential tax data on President Donald Trump and other wealthy people, adding to mounting litigation over the breach.

A Tennessee federal judge has agreed to transfer to North Carolina a year-old class action in which foreign workers say a healthcare system and recruiter trapped them in punitive contracts and buried them in grueling labor, after a judge said the action could have been filed in the Tar Heel State in the first place.

Kara Westercamp, associate counsel to the president, who was nominated for the U.S. Court of International Trade, said Wednesday she regretted her past social media posts critical of Republican senators.

A driver who worked for FedEx through an intermediary entity and who is claiming the freight company owes him overtime said to a Massachusetts federal court that there is no need to hold a status conference and told it how to handle his and more than 190 similar cases.

As more firms move from simply using artificial intelligence to guiding clients on its use, Husch Blackwell LLP announced on Wednesday that its consulting arm is setting up a dedicated team to advise on the non-legal aspects of AI adoption.

FBT Gibbons LLP has added two  public finance partners, one from Bracewell LLP in Houston and another from Barnes & Thornburg LLP in Columbus, Ohio.

Juris Digital, which provides digital marketing services to law firms, announced on Tuesday its acquisition of JurisPage from Uptime Legal Systems, a provider of cloud services and legal technology to law firms.

The top appellate court in Massachusetts on Wednesday in separate opinions clarified the standard under which suits can be dismissed under the state's anti-strategic lawsuit against public participation or anti-SLAPP laws and reversed a lower court's decision to cut an attorney fee award in an anti-SLAPP case.

An insurer does not owe coverage in an antitrust suit accusing a pharmaceutical company of suppressing generic versions of the Parkinson's treatment Apokyn, a Maryland federal judge ruled, finding the dispute does not involve "securities claims" covered under the insurer's policy.