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A Texas appeals court has kept intact a motion for sanctions against a man who accused a law firm of barratry, saying Wednesday the motion was based on "ancillary conduct" and therefore not subject to the state's anti-SLAPP law.

Executives of a now-bankrupt data intelligence company face U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission claims that they conspired with one of the company's biggest customers on a so-called round-trip accounting scheme to overstate the company's revenue and become a more attractive target for a special purpose acquisition company.

A California federal judge gave Teva permission to update its antitrust suit accusing Corcept Therapeutics of using patent system abuse, bribes and exclusive dealing to block generic competition to its cortisol disorder treatment while refusing to let Teva add another specialty pharmacy as a defendant.

President Donald Trump announced Wednesday evening that he would be nominating Colin McDonald, associate deputy attorney general, for the newly created assistant attorney general for fraud role.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced Wednesday it has hired a Treasury Department lawyer with BigLaw experience to serve as the derivatives regulator's new general counsel.

Pharmaceutical giant Aventis Inc. is ineligible for a favorable tax treatment on its securitization of financial assets, the U.S. Tax Court ruled Wednesday, finding the company did not comply with statutory requirements and failed to show it was not the beneficial owner of the assets.

Enbridge Energy Inc. is looking to pause a shutdown order of a segment of its Line 5 pipeline that runs through Wisconsin tribal lands pending its Seventh Circuit appeal, arguing to a Wisconsin district court that a cutoff would cause disproportionate economic harm and energy shortages.

Crypto investors suing billionaire Mark Cuban and his former NBA team the Dallas Mavericks over their alleged promotion of the collapsed exchange Voyager have asked a Florida federal judge to transfer their claims to Texas, a month after the judge dismissed the claims on personal jurisdiction grounds.

TEKsystems Inc. engaged in misleading and coercive actions when it provided an arbitration pact to technology recruiters seeking unpaid overtime nearly two years after they lodged their suit, the Ninth Circuit ruled Wednesday, affirming a California federal court decision.

Canned food producer Del Monte told a New Jersey bankruptcy judge Wednesday a settlement it reached with groups of secured and unsecured creditors is the best way forward for the business to close on a sale of its assets and get a Chapter 11 plan confirmed.

Kansas and Colorado grain farmers and the company they use to ship their grain to the West Coast sued Union Pacific in Kansas federal court for allegedly using a "secret" fee illegally hidden from federal rail regulators to stop the plaintiffs from using a cheaper alternative rail line.

A Texas bankruptcy judge on Wednesday rejected a Massachusetts-based real estate investment trust's request for final approval of its $125 million in Chapter 11 financing, saying it would leave the debtor bound by too many terms of default.

A medical provider for correctional facilities, a physician and two jail officers told a Georgia federal court they should not face a lawsuit seeking to hold them liable for a former sheriff's excessive force, pointing to a two-year statute of limitations.

A Chinese national was sentenced to 46 months in prison Tuesday in California federal court for participating in a global network that tricked 174 victims lured in from dating apps into pouring money into fake digital asset investments, and ultimately laundering $36.9 million in cryptocurrency proceeds to scam centers overseas.

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has found again that MSN Laboratories failed to show that a drug patent owned by Bausch Health Ireland Ltd. was invalid, after the Federal Circuit told the board to take another look last year.

Chemicals company Arxada on Wednesday was awarded more than $50 million in damages and expenses in its lawsuit in Delaware's Court of Chancery claiming the owner of a company it bought took its trade secrets with his family to form a competitor.

A Los Angeles investor claimed in a state lawsuit that he was defrauded out of $100,000 by a cannabis business owner and brokers who sold him shares in a dispensary without warning him that its tax debt was nearly $150,000.

The Seventh Circuit on Wednesday raised some misgivings about a novel settlement ending multidistrict litigation over Clearview AI's collection of biometric facial data online, but also pressed an attorney for those objecting to the deal to offer alternatives they'd deem fair, given the risk of the company going bankrupt and class members receiving no payout at all.

Krispy Kreme has agreed to a $1.6 million settlement to resolve a consolidated proposed class action that accused the doughnut chain of failing to protect current and former employees' personal information from a November 2024 data breach, according to a filing in North Carolina federal court.

New Jersey suppliers can't rely on an exemption for the construction industry to avoid complying with the state's Earned Sick Leave Law, an appellate panel found Wednesday as a matter of first impression, finding the law only allows builders to claim the exemption to the law.

The First Circuit backed the dismissal of an ex-Boston cop's retaliation suit claiming the department shared her disciplinary records with prospective employers because of her accusations that police leaders buried her claims of rape by a fellow officer, ruling she hadn't provided any evidence of bias.

Connecticut lawmakers will consider forcing social media companies to display mental health warning labels and file state reports detailing the numbers of youth users, parental consent figures and average daily screen time statistics, Gov. Ned Lamont and Attorney General William M. Tong said in a Wednesday statement.

A Georgia appeals court has ruled that a clerical error that led to an old jury list being used to summon potential jurors was not an error warranting a new trial in an aggravated child molestation case.

A former member of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is among a trio of academics pressing the agency to write rules cracking down on insider trading at foreign companies that trade on U.S. exchanges, urging action before a congressionally-mandated deadline runs out in March.

Two Cherokee Nation entities say an Arkansas federal court "struck out on its own" when it dismissed claims over the revocation of an Arkansas-issued gambling license, telling the Eighth Circuit that the decision sets a dangerous precedent that will haunt the state as it seeks multimillion-dollar investors.

A Manhattan federal judge won't toss a lawsuit alleging the nonprofit producer of TED Talks unlawfully disclosed to third-party trackers the personally identifiable information of consumers who made accounts to watch videos on its website and app, saying the consumers have adequately alleged the disclosures violate the Video Privacy Protection Act.

The FBI raided Fulton County, Georgia's election operations center Wednesday, a move that comes amid efforts by the federal government to find evidence to support President Donald Trump's assertion that widespread voter fraud led to his loss in the 2020 election.

A New York federal court's recent decision in Leone v. ASP Isotopes adopted the unusual posture of simultaneously denying a motion to dismiss and certifying claims to proceed as a class action, and its unique scheduling carries certain procedural and substantive implications, say attorneys at Labaton Keller.

A New Jersey federal judge has given final approval to a $7.5 million settlement to end claims that AMAG Pharmaceuticals Inc. knew its preterm-birth prevention drug Makena was ineffective when it first marketed it, along with $2.5 million to class counsel in attorney fees.

Class counsel for Duke University retirees who secured a $2.35 million settlement with the school over claims they were underpaid retirement benefits nabbed $775,500 in attorney fees after a North Carolina federal judge signed off on the deal.

The Sixth Circuit has upheld a Tennessee federal court's decision denying a national clothing retailer's bid for coverage for COVID-19 pandemic-related costs, ruling the lower court conducted its "choice of law" analysis correctly and that Tennessee and Pennsylvania laws bar coverage.

A deadly car accident underpinning a lawsuit against a North Carolina-based vape and smoke shop occurred several miles away from the store's grounds, so exclusions in the shop's commercial insurance policy preclude coverage, the insurer's counsel told a North Carolina state appeals court Wednesday.

Struggling auto parts maker First Brands Group urged a Texas bankruptcy judge Wednesday to let it borrow $48 million advanced by Ford, General Motors, Harley-Davidson and other customers, saying it needs the funds to stay afloat after running out of debtor-in-possession financing.

A Texas bankruptcy judge Wednesday allowed a wind farm owner in North Texas to access cash collateral, which would enable the company to operate during Chapter 11 proceedings and move to pursue an asset sale as a going concern.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Wednesday denied a debt collection agency's request to stay a Third Circuit decision that found the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act does not support claims against employees who share work passwords.

A Florida state appeals court on Wednesday reversed class certification for a group of Medicare-contracted businesses suing USAA Casualty Insurance Co. over allegations the insurer sidestepped its obligation to pay automobile injury claims and passed them on to so-called secondary payers.

The Fifth Circuit held Tuesday that domestic insurers can't compel arbitration or establish federal jurisdiction by relying on foreign insurers' involvement in a surplus line policy in which each insurer has its own agreement with the purchaser.

A woman who was sent to prison for violating allegedly unconstitutional bans on social media and pornography consumption during her lifelong parole for endangering the welfare of a child may proceed with her civil suit, New Jersey's highest court ruled Wednesday in a partial reversal.

Non-U.S. companies can contain legal risks related to foreign terrorist organizations by deliberately structuring operations to demonstrate that any interactions with cartel-affected environments is incidental, constrained and unrelated to advancing harm on the U.S., says David Raskin at Nardello & Co.

The founders of Fairlife brand milk can't be held liable in a California proposed class action accusing the company of making false claims about humane cow treatment, a federal judge ruled, saying the suit failed to point to any examples of intentional acts they made directed to the state.

An insurer accused a law firm and a collection of medical providers and professionals of engaging in a scheme to defraud insurers through sham lawsuits and inflated medical bills, telling a New York federal court that the defendants have enriched themselves "at the expense of justice, equity and human dignity."

Integrated development and manufacturing organization company Cellares, which focuses on the large-scale manufacturing of cell therapies, on Wednesday announced that it closed a $257 million funding round, bringing the South San Francisco, California-based company's total capital raised to $612 million.

The Missouri judge overseeing former DNA testing company 23andMe's bankruptcy agreed to give final approval to two class action settlements totaling $53.25 million on Wednesday, overruling a handful of objections from class members.

Ten former NFL players suing the league's disability plan for denying them benefits were turned down for class certification on Wednesday by a Maryland federal judge, who said the group failed to show the commonality of the proposed class' claims.

Colorado residents filed a proposed class action Tuesday in federal court against two fuel station operators, alleging the companies distributed gasoline contaminated with diesel fuel to major gas stations in early January that caused more than $5 million in damage to their vehicles.

Two recent orders from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission affecting the PJM Interconnection and Southwest Power Pool regions offer the first glimpse into how FERC will address the challenges of balancing resource adequacy, grid reliability and fair cost allocation for expansions to accommodate artificial intelligence-driven data centers, say attorneys at Husch Blackwell.

A Sixth Circuit panel appeared unmoved Wednesday by Michigan Technological University's effort to undo a former professor's pregnancy bias win but also skeptical of resurrecting additional bias and pay disparity claims that had been trimmed from the case prior to trial.

The U.S. attorney for the Middle District of Florida, Gregory Kehoe, along with an assistant U.S. attorney have been threatened with sanctions by a federal judge for the methods their office used in defending the mandatory detention of noncitizens.

Crowell & Moring LLP is expanding its California team, bringing in an intellectual property attorney most recently with biotechnology firm Grail as a partner in its Orange County office in Irvine.

A New Jersey municipal judge accused of berating children and threatening their families with deportation during truancy hearings admitted Wednesday that after listening back to the proceedings that he could have done better, but defended the intention behind his conduct.

Do artificial intelligence tools have any practical judicial applications? In this Expert Analysis series, state and federal judges explore potential use cases for AI in adjudication and beyond.

A crypto-focused subsidiary of financial services group Nomura has applied to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to establish a national trust bank headed by its legal chief.

Several progressive prosecutors have launched a new group to hold accountable federal officials who "exceed their lawful authority," amid a growing backlash to the Trump administration's immigration crackdown and the recent killing of two protesters by immigration agents in Minneapolis.

The U.S. Supreme Court's upcoming ruling in Anderson v. Intel, addressing alternative assets in defined contribution plans, coupled with the U.S. Department of Labor's recently proposed regulation on fiduciary duties in selecting alternative investments, could alleviate the litigation risk that has impeded wider consideration of such investments, say attorneys at Ropes & Gray.

A Pennsylvania federal judge has adopted a special master's recommendation that a lawyer who lost her malicious prosecution case against several Blank Rome LLP attorneys and an aviation parts company should pay fees covering the defendants' bid to sanction her over alleged deposition conduct.

A New York bankruptcy judge approved more than $32 million in professional fees for firms working on the latest bankruptcy from Spirit Airlines, including about $13 million for restructuring adviser FTI Consulting Inc. and $12.9 million for debtor counsel Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP.

ArentFox Schiff LLP on Wednesday announced the launch of a group geared toward advising companies focused on advancing wellness, preventive health care and the longevity of life.

An Oregon federal court dismissed LegitScript's counterclaims accusing PharmacyChecker.com of making false statements about the legality of importing prescription drugs, in a suit accusing the pharmacy accreditation provider of blacklisting the price checking website.

A public interest group, backed by other public interest petitioners, is asking the D.C. Circuit to transfer to the First Circuit the challenges to the Federal Communications Commission's latest prison phone rate order, arguing the court is already deeply familiar with the dispute and best positioned to resolve it.

Werner Enterprises said Wednesday it has purchased privately held dedicated trucking company First Enterprises Inc., known as FirstFleet, for about $245 million in cash, and will separately purchase about $38 million worth of real estate from the company.

Increased billing rates and strong demand helped drive another financially successful year for the U.S. legal industry in 2025, according to survey results released Wednesday.

The former acting chief of the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division's Appellate Section has joined Washington Litigation Group, a boutique firm that is involved in several high-profile matters, including a lawsuit challenging the president's renaming of the Kennedy Center, and successfully challenged the appointment of Alina Habba as acting U.S. attorney in New Jersey.

A solo practitioner in North Carolina whose law license was suspended for alleged tax crimes and trust account problems told the Fourth Circuit on Wednesday not to reciprocate the punishment, arguing his due process rights were violated and the underlying facts don't support disciplining him.

2025 was a roller coaster for the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation, with the panel canceling one hearing session due to the absence of new MDL petitions, yet also issuing rulings on more new MDL petitions than in 2024 — making it clear that MDLs are still thriving, says Alan Rothman at Sidley Austin.

Several Connecticut Supreme Court justices on Wednesday appeared uneasy with the thought of a mesothelioma patient's estate and widow receiving a "double recovery" from private settlements and worker compensation law payments in an illness involving both workplace and at-home asbestos exposure sources.

Toronto-based legal technology company Dye & Durham Ltd. announced Tuesday that it has temporarily increased the number of directors on the board to eight and appointed Allen Taylor, president of consulting and advisory firm GTD Partners and a prior observer to the board.

Ropes & Gray LLP has expanded its offerings in New York with the addition of three attorneys, one each from Debevoise, Paul Weiss and Wachtell Lipton.

The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.'s program backstopping the nation's private-sector pension plans reported another year of healthy finances, with an end-of-fiscal-year surplus of more than $64 billion, the agency said.

Employees moving from one Turkish company to another has led to a $5.5 million defamation lawsuit between the CEOs of their American affiliates, according to a complaint filed in a federal court in Pennsylvania.

In this month's review of class action appeals, Mitchell Engel at Shook Hardy discusses five rulings from October and November, and identifies practice tips from cases involving consumer fraud, oil and gas leases, toxic torts, and wage and hour issues.

All signs point to an acceleration in digital asset product and service innovation throughout 2026, and while questions of first impression still need to be addressed, some legal issues will be clarified, spurring developments namely on the tokenization and stablecoin fronts, say attorneys at Skadden.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Maritza Dominguez Braswell at the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado discusses why having a sense of how generative AI tools behave, where they add value, where they introduce risk and how they are reshaping the practice of law is key for today's judges.

Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP guided Union Pacific Railroad Co. on its $85 billion acquisition of Norfolk Southern, along with advising Ansys on a purchase valuing the software company at $35 billion, earning the firm a spot among 2025 Law360 Mergers & Acquisitions Groups of the Year.

Latham & Watkins LLP's real estate practice group provided guidance to Meta and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board on two separate, multibillion-dollar data center joint venture partnerships, earning the firm a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Real Estate Groups of the Year.

Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP's tax practice guided several major cases and deals this past year, including representing drugmaker Amgen Inc. in one of the largest transfer pricing cases litigated last year, earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 Tax Groups of the Year.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP's acumen in structured finance helped it push a number of high-value deals across the finish line last year — including a multibillion-dollar financing package in connection with the acquisition and restructuring of Metronet by KKR and T-Mobile — earning the firm a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Complex Financial Instruments Groups of the Year.

Last year, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP advised the Gateway Development Commission on the $16 billion Hudson River tunnel replacement project and advised New York City on the Manhattan construction contract for its $13 billion Borough-Based Jails Program to replace the Rikers Island complex, earning a spot among the 2025 Law360 Construction Groups of the Year.

McDermott Will & Schulte attorneys advised Northwell Health hospital and health system through its integration with Nuvance Health and represented Lee Equity Partners and Solaris Health in the $1.9 billion sale of Solaris to Cardinal Health Platform, The Specialty Alliance, earning it a spot among the 2025 Law360 Healthcare Practice Groups of the Year.

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP in 2025 notched wins in novel bankruptcy issues, fending off a Brazilian telecommunication group's bid to ditch its Chapter 15 for Chapter 11 and representing the successful buyer of 23andMe's assets, earning it a spot among the 2025 Law360 Bankruptcy Groups of the Year.

Robins Kaplan LLP told a New Jersey federal court Wednesday that a suit over fees the firm collected in multidistrict litigation over blood pressure medication should be thrown out, saying it "parrot[s]" claims from earlier suits that were already dismissed.

Lambda Legal, the civil rights nonprofit that advocates for LGBTQ+ people and everyone living with HIV, on Wednesday named a former deputy general counsel for WeWork and compliance leader at Reuters to head its legal department, effective Feb. 9.

The Federal Trade Commission's move to reopen and set aside an administrative order against Rytr shows that the FTC is serious about executing on the administration's Artificial Intelligence Action Plan, and won't stand in the way of businesses offering AI products with pro-consumer, legitimate uses, say attorneys at Reed Smith.

A bankrupt Alaska-based airline landed its first Chapter 11 motion approvals in Delaware on Wednesday, with a U.S. Trustee's Office attorney noting that "this case has some unusual qualities to it," including an absence of revenue.

As federal prosecutors are two weeks into detailing SCOTUSblog founder Thomas Goldstein's storied descent into the world of high-stakes poker during his tax fraud trial in Maryland, Hollywood producers are gearing up to tell the same story on-screen.

Miller & Martin PLLC announced that an attorney who previously served as vice president of government relations at the University of Georgia and Civil Division chief for the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Georgia has joined the firm's Atlanta office.

Increased activity in litigation involving health care law and the False Claims Act has prompted a Philadelphia attorney to move her practice to Holland & Knight LLP after nearly 20 years at Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP.

A veteran antitrust litigator at the U.S. Department of Justice left the federal government to join Duane Morris LLP as a partner, the firm has announced.

The Federal Circuit declined to revive trade secret theft claims Wednesday brought by a MasterCard unit against two former McKinsey consultants, agreeing with a lower court that the company had failed to identify the alleged trade secrets with enough specificity.

The Delaware Supreme Court on Wednesday probed how far employers can go in enforcing noncompete and nonsolicitation clauses tied to lucrative equity awards, pressing both sides in a dispute between Fortiline Inc. and Patriot Supply Holdings Inc. and a group of former executives on whether companies should be able to recover damages for alleged breaches even when lower courts have found the underlying restraints unenforceable.

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has invalidated the entirety of an Optronic Sciences LLC pixel structure device patent, while finding that challenger BOE Technology Group Co. was only able to show that some claims in a separate patent were invalid.

The first paraquat Parkinson's disease mass tort case set to be tried in Philadelphia was resolved Tuesday night on the eve of trial, according to the court.

A New Jersey lawyer urged the Eleventh Circuit on Wednesday to revive his suit accusing the Florida Board of Bar Examiners of violating the dormant commerce clause by charging out-of-state attorneys disproportionately high fees to sit for the Florida bar exam.

Solar panel company Sunrun Inc. misclassified its sales representatives as independent contractors in violation of Massachusetts workers' compensation law, a coalition of advocacy groups alleged in a complaint filed in state court.

A Massachusetts attorney convicted of attempting to bribe a Boston-area police chief to endorse his client's pot shop license has been disbarred, according to a notice released by the state's bar this week.

Legal industry advisory firm Baretz & Brunelle LLC announced an initiative focusing on better understanding the commercial impact of generative artificial intelligence in legal services, with inaugural partners that include the Ford Motor Co., Microsoft and CrowdStrike.

Withers announced Tuesday that it has launched an employment practice on the East Coast, welcoming three former Outten & Golden PC lawyers who have advised executives across a wide range of industries.

The Third Circuit reinstated a suit Wednesday from a job applicant who said a trucking company illegally rejected him because of a past armed robbery conviction, ruling that a Pennsylvania law that sets guardrails on the consideration of criminal histories in hiring applies to his case.

A record 59 law firm combinations were completed in 2025, 21 of which involved the largest 200 firms by revenue, according to statistics released by SurePoint Legal Insights, formerly Leopard Solutions, on Tuesday.

A group of 150 hospitals suing generic-drug makers for alleged price fixing in multidistrict litigation should hand over data on their drug purchases, the drugmakers have told a Pennsylvania federal court, arguing they don't sell directly to the hospitals and therefore have no records themselves.

Ropes & Gray LLP-advised private equity shop Equality Asset Management announced Wednesday that it wrapped its second fund with $575 million in investor commitments.

The Third Circuit on Wednesday pressed attorneys defending Quest Diagnostics Inc.'s pretrial defeat of a proposed class action from workers who alleged that their 401(k) savings were drained by underperforming investment funds, spotlighting the parties' disagreement over whether the lab company followed its own investment policy statement.

The U.S. Trustee's Office announced a 10-member creditor's committee including Amazon in the bankruptcy of luxury department store chain Saks Fifth Avenue and proposed an organizational meeting to take place Thursday.

Prosperity Bancshares Inc. has agreed to acquire Stellar Bancorp Inc. and its bank subsidiary in a transaction valued at about $2 billion, the companies said on Wednesday.

Shannon Wind LLC, the owner of a wind farm in North Texas, has tapped Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP to oversee the bankruptcy it began Sunday with $108 million in debt, ailing from the long-term consequences of a winter storm in the Lone Star State.

A Manhattan federal jury on Wednesday convicted a Washington state man of meticulously faking grades to boost the value of big-dollar trading cards, including an iconic Michael Jordan rookie card, to rip off buyers seeking collectibles in prime condition.

A Washington appeals panel won't force state cannabis regulators to revoke a dispensary's license at the request of another dispensary that wished to open in the same area, saying the board rightly found that the license was not subject to forfeiture.

High school athletes in Michigan will now be allowed to profit off their name, image and likeness after state authorities unveiled a policy change to expand and emphasize "personal branding activities" for students.

Germany's top civil court has ruled that a patent holder has not breached European Union antitrust laws by seeking an injunction against a mobile phone company amid the pair's failure to negotiate a license agreement on FRAND terms.

Eleventh Circuit judges expressed doubts Wednesday about a partnership's effort to restore its $20.7 million tax deduction for donating a conservation easement, saying the U.S. Tax Court had found that the partnership's managers thought the land was actually worth far less.

A disability services nonprofit has agreed to pay $76,500 to settle a suit accusing it of failing to pay call center employees for work before shifts and during unpaid meal breaks and of miscalculating their overtime, the workers told a Virginia federal court.

Self-driving automobile tech company Waabi on Wednesday announced that it secured $750 million of new funding and unveiled a partnership with Uber that will be used to develop and deploy robotaxis.

Carter Ledyard & Milburn LLP announced Tuesday that it has chosen an employment litigator who joined the firm in 2023 to lead the firm.

The transition from steady pay as an associate to dealing with the financial nuances of being an equity partner calls for great diligence in how young attorneys manage their finances.

Insurance defense firm Brown Sims PC has elected a Houston-based shareholder to serve as the firm's president, its first change in the top leadership role in a quarter century.

January is National Mentoring Month. Law360 heard from attorneys who are in Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP’s firmwide mentorship program about its top benefits.

Student accommodation developer Unite Group said Wednesday its £723 million ($997 million) acquisition of rival Empiric has now been completed after the scheme of arrangement became effective to create a student housing giant with a £10.5 billion combined portfolio.

Checkbox, a legal technology company that developed intake and matter management software for in-house teams, secured a $23 million Series A funding round on Wednesday.

Plans to overhaul federal rules involving recusal and subpoenas fueled spirited debate Tuesday before a judiciary panel, as prominent lawyers outlined forceful views on transparency in third-party litigation funding as well as relaxed policies for serving court documents and obtaining trial testimony.

The Sixth Circuit on Tuesday ruled that Ohio's lawsuit accusing pharmacy benefit managers of driving up prescription prices through rebate schemes belongs in federal court, saying in an opinion recommended for publication that the suit imposes liability on conduct undertaken at the direction of a federal officer.

A former attorney at the Colorado public defender's office told a state court Tuesday that it underpays and overworks its employees and fired him for complaining about it, though the office responded that the reality of balancing public defenders' workloads is more nuanced than the study he cited suggested.

Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. has agreed to shell out $40 million to put to rest U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission allegations the company and several former executives committed accounting and disclosure fraud, according to announcements made Tuesday.

The co-founder and board members of cryptocurrency-associated data cloud platform Cere Network were sued in California federal court Tuesday over an alleged pump-and-dump scheme where they secretly sold over $41 million in Cere tokens on various exchanges and misappropriated investor funds.

Airbus is putting profits over the wellbeing of flight crews and passengers by refusing to take simple actions that could mitigate the potential for engine contaminants to leak into cabin air through the plane manufacturer's air system design, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday in New York federal court.

The operator of a laser eye surgery website must face a proposed class action alleging it illegally shared patients' confidential medical information with Meta, a California federal judge ruled, finding that the plaintiff could continue to press allegations under state and federal wiretap law.

An Illinois federal judge refused to side with Ford on drivers' claims that it sold certain F-150 trucks with defective 10-speed automatic transmissions, finding that, at this stage in the litigation, a Massachusetts driver has adequately alleged a violation of his state's consumer protection law.

U.S. Bancorp has agreed to pay $250,000 to end a class action by participants in the company's employee 401(k) plan alleging the plan paid excessive recordkeeping fees in violation of federal benefits law.

Former Google engineer Linwei Ding's counsel wrapped his defense case Tuesday, questioning a technical expert who told a California federal jury that the documents taken by Ding related to artificial intelligence supercomputers wouldn't allow someone to replicate Google's technology and had minimal value to competitors.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has reversed course on allowing shareholders with less than $5 million in holdings to publicize information about their proxy ballot proposals through the agency, saying it will object to such voluntary submissions going forward.

Shein urged a California federal court to toss a proposed copyright and racketeering class action that accuses the fast-fashion online retailer of using sophisticated algorithmic systems and artificial intelligence to steal artists' works, chiding the suit's bid to equate Shein with a criminal enterprise as "fanciful and severely misguided."

A premium deal price and lack of a competitive alternative justified the Court of Chancery's rejection of an injunction barring banking company Comerica Inc. from moving ahead with a $10.9 billion acquisition by Fifth Third Bancorp, a Delaware vice chancellor said in a letter decision released late Monday.

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP said Monday it is boosting its privacy and information security practice with the addition of a former 23andMe attorney in California and a former Facebook attorney in Texas.

Venezuela on Monday urged the D.C. Circuit not to summarily toss its challenge to the enforcement of a $1 billion arbitral award issued to three Exxon Mobil subsidiaries, arguing that an issue left open by the circuit court in a previous, parallel decision warrants taking a closer look.

The Federal Aviation Administration for years ignored repeated warnings of close calls and mismanaged high-volume helicopter and commercial jet traffic at one of Washington, D.C.'s busiest airports, as the National Transportation Safety Board on Tuesday flagged "systemic failures" that led to January 2025's midair collision.

UBS AG has asked a Connecticut state court to throw out former trader Tom Hayes' lawsuit that alleges the bank scapegoated him for Libor-rigging, arguing the case doesn't belong in the state and improperly seeks to punish the bank for cooperating with prosecutors.

A group of investors who settled with The Charles Schwab Corp. in an antitrust suit over the financial services company's merger with TD Ameritrade has urged the Fifth Circuit to dismiss an appeal filed by the state of Iowa, which had previously objected to the settlement's lack of monetary benefit to the class and proposed attorney payouts.

Aiding and abetting and breaches of fiduciary duty claims went forward in Delaware Chancery Court on Tuesday against Jefferies LLC in connection with the $1.4 billion take-public blank check company merger of electric vehicle company Electric Last Mile Solutions Inc.

Four members of Congress have introduced a bill that would protect language access at federal agencies for millions of people in the United States with limited English, saying an executive order by President Donald Trump declaring English as the official U.S. language wrongly minimizes multilingual services.

Bankrupt self-driving vehicle technology development company Luminar Technologies can move forward with a pair of asset sales that will net the Chapter 11 estate $142.54 million in proceeds after a Texas bankruptcy judge agreed to approve the transactions once the company submits finalized orders.

A split Ninth Circuit panel on Tuesday held Blue Shield of California did not abuse its discretion in declining to cover an adolescent's stay at a mental health treatment facility, rejecting arguments on appeal that the insurer wrongly went against the recommendations of treating physicians.

A developer in Park County asked a Colorado Court of Appeals panel Tuesday to overturn a district court ruling prohibiting the company from building a waste transfer station despite approval from the county commissioners.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said the environmental groups challenging the agency's "project accounting" method for triggering air pollution review at industrial facilities lack the standing to pursue their fight, claiming that the challengers identified no harm at all from the agency's denial of their reconsideration bid

A former Starbucks vice president who oversaw new equipment testing claims the company terminated her for raising concerns about the debut of the "Siren" drink-making system, including that maggots spawned in the machine without proper cleaning, according to a lawsuit launched Monday in Washington state court.

A California federal judge has dismissed, for good, a class action alleging that software company Autodesk misled investors on its financial metrics and internal controls, finding that there is nothing actionable or misleading about the three remaining challenged statements in the suit.

The Sixth Circuit determined that a homeowner using online resources to research his mortgage refinancing options consented to a mandatory arbitration provision with Rocket Mortgage LLC when he navigated to its site through a third-party affiliate, reversing a decision from a Michigan district court that denied arbitration.

Bank of New York Mellon and a mortgage servicing company no longer face class action claims that they unfairly sought to collect on second mortgages following a bankruptcy discharge, a Boston federal judge has determined, finding that the suit didn't show that the firms were required to send borrowers periodic statements showing that they still owed money.

Officials leading construction of the $16 billion Gateway Tunnel project connecting New York and New Jersey said Tuesday that they are preparing to shut down construction next week unless the Trump administration restores funding.

The Ninth Circuit won't revive class action claims alleging cryptocurrency company Ripple Labs sold the digital token XRP in an unregistered securities offering, upholding in its decision Tuesday a lower court's finding that the claims are time-barred.

Jersey Shore motel owners told a Garden State appellate panel on Tuesday that it should apply strict scrutiny to their argument that a municipal ordinance prohibiting anyone under the age of 21 from booking a motel room during prom season is unconstitutional.

A vice president in charge of sales at Applied Medical testified Tuesday in a California federal trial over his company's antitrust claims against Medtronic, and said the overwhelmingly positive feedback Applied received from surgeons who used its advanced bipolar devices often didn't result in sales.

Law360 is looking for avid readers of our publications to serve as members of our 2026 editorial advisory boards.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has settled three separate insider trading cases this week for a total of $1 million, entering agreements with a trader who was allegedly tipped off about a $3 billion acquisition and another who had already pled guilty to insider trading.

A Manhattan federal jury on Tuesday weighed charges against a Washington state man accused of duping buyers of pricey sports trading cards by faking their condition, after prosecutors said "a mountain of evidence" proves the defendant ran a lucrative forgery operation.

After launching a "sweeping dragnet" of immigration arrests in California, the Trump administration is subjecting people to "dangerous conditions and pervasive abuses" at a detention center in the Mojave Desert as part of its broader plan to intimidate and deport immigrants, according to a lawsuit filed in California federal court.

A California federal judge tossed with leave to amend Monday a proposed class action alleging Meta lets hackers take over users' Facebook accounts while profiting from users' data, finding that the consumers fail to allege a viable contract breach, but allowing them another shot at amending their theory of liability.

The Sixth Circuit on Monday determined that a trial court should not have blocked a Kentucky law requiring sex offenders to use their legal names on social media, ruling a lawsuit alleging the law amounts to a violation of freedom of speech needs a more "demanding, comprehensive" review.

Progressive told the Fourth Circuit to undo class certification of auto insurance customers in North Carolina challenging how it calculates adjustments for total loss claims, citing the court's decision last year in a "materially identical case" in which certification was reversed.

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires has named Kalyan Deshpande to serve as the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's chief judge.

Citigroup moved Tuesday to compel arbitration of a former high-ranking director's sexual harassment and workplace discrimination claims, filing a petition in Texas federal court the day after the former executive sued the bank in New York.

The Texas attorney general told a state court that a Delaware-based nurse practitioner and the organization she operates have shipped abortion pills to Texas, saying Tuesday that the defendants have publicly acknowledged that they send abortion pills to the Lone Star State.

Two Seventh Circuit judges on Tuesday pressed a Ballard Spahr LLP attorney to address why his firm didn't secure in writing that an investment fund would foot the legal bills of one of its officers, as the law firm is arguing to the appellate court that it has a valid claim to legal fees in the fund's bankruptcy proceedings based on an oral agreement.

A Georgia Court of Appeals panel backed early wins Tuesday for SK Battery America Inc. and its contractors on a Peach State battery plant in a suit over a construction worker's fatal fall on the job, holding that the worker "assumed the risk of his injuries" by not tying himself to a safety line.

A Delaware bankruptcy judge said Tuesday he was prepared to approve the sale of most of defunct mineral supplier US Magnesium's assets to the state of Utah, overruling an objection that the $30 million transaction would prevent a magnesium plant from reopening.

At the start of what many healthcare attorneys hope will be a busy year, public biotechs are raising cash, signaling a thawing public market and potentially fertile ground for IPOs.

A report issued by the U.S. Government Accountability Office found that U.S. Customs and Border Protection sometimes failed to provide proper medical oversight for certain people in its custody, violating its own policies and guidance for medical care.

A Pennsylvania appeals court on Tuesday affirmed a $2.5 million verdict in a medical malpractice suit accusing a doctor of causing a woman's death from a blood clot in her lungs, saying certain hearsay evidence didn't taint the jury's verdict.

An Illinois state appeals court has refused to overturn a sentence of life without parole for a man who claims his attorney failed to present an expert at trial to prove that he had "the mind of a juvenile" when he murdered two people.

A Manhattan federal judge on Tuesday named a former Vermont corrections commissioner and ex-CIA officer to take the reins of New York City's troubled Rikers Island jail system as a "remediation manager," after yearslong efforts to clamp down on incidents of excessive force against the jail population.

If a West Virginia federal court's decision to give four football players another year of eligibility is left standing, scores of student-athletes will be emboldened to use last-minute litigation to skirt National Collegiate Athletic Association rules and secure more playing time, the NCAA's counsel told the Fourth Circuit on Tuesday.

A group of Wisconsin homeowners is asking the Seventh Circuit to revive its claims that local political jurisdictions of the Menominee Indian Tribe joined forces to increase the homeowners' tax burden, arguing a lower court was wrong to dismiss the case.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Tuesday that it is seeking the public's input on the health effects from fluoride in water, which it could use to develop changes to the standards for safe levels.

A driver must repay a trucking company's insurer the $4 million it paid toward a $10 million settlement of suits stemming from a fatal multivehicle crash, a Georgia federal court ruled Tuesday, finding that the driver and trucking company were joint tortfeasors for purposes of contribution.

A faction of the proposed class members in a securities class action targeting Pacific Gas & Electric Co. have asked the California federal judge overseeing the case to deny a settlement of claims that the company misled investors about its safety practices ahead of deadly wildfires in the past decade.

Northwood Space Corp., a California-based company that provides infrastructure for space missions, said Tuesday that it has raised $100 million in its latest funding round, co-led by investors Washington Harbour Partners and Andreessen Horowitz.

A steelworker injured in a fatal explosion last year at the Braeburn Alloy Steel plant outside Pittsburgh has filed a negligence suit against the company that owns the plant, its subsidiaries and a pair of equipment companies, according to a complaint filed in Pennsylvania state court.

Investors guided by Highfields Capital told a Connecticut federal court that Teva Pharmaceuticals can't escape their claims that its alleged collusion with other drugmakers to artificially inflate the price of generic drugs also inflated stock prices, reasoning that Teva executives falsely attributed the company's performance to factors other than the alleged price-fixing.

An Ohio appeals court on Monday declined to reinstate claims against a psychiatrist alleging he misdiagnosed a patient, leading to his death following a standoff with police, finding he has immunity under state law.

The Delaware Supreme Court on Tuesday affirmed a lower court ruling requiring insurers to cover a $28 million settlement paid by Harman International Industries Inc. to resolve stockholder litigation over its $8 billion sale to Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., rejecting arguments that the payment amounted to a prohibited postdeal "bump-up" in merger consideration.

The makers of Loctite and Liquid Nails told a New York federal court that the Federal Trade Commission will be unable to show their planned $725 million merger will hurt competition for construction adhesives.

A Delaware bankruptcy judge ruled Tuesday that Viasat unit Inmarsat Global Ltd. violated the automatic stay of telecommunications group Ligado Networks LLC's Chapter 11 case when it sued Ligado and AST SpaceMobile Inc. last month in New York, ordering the state court case over a spectrum rights deal to be dismissed.

Notwithstanding renewed policy and doctrinal attention to patent injunctions, the Federal Circuit's December decision in Wonderland v. Evenflo signals that the era of easily obtained patent injunctions has not yet arrived, say attorneys at King & Wood.

Almost two-thirds of U.S. finance leaders are unwilling to wait longer than 60 days before imposing penalties for late payments on invoices, with those creditors likely to enforce payment discipline amid rising bankruptcies and squeezed cash flow, a new survey found.

Education technology company Illuminate Education's recent settlements with three states and the Federal Trade Commission over state privacy law claims following a student data breach are some of the first of their kind, suggesting a shift in enforcement focus to how companies handle student data and highlighting the potential for coordinated enforcement actions, say attorneys at Wilson Sonsini.

An insurer for a company that provided security at a North Carolina apartment complex where a resident was fatally shot doubled down on counterclaims that a pair of Allied World insurers withheld critical information leading up to a settlement with the resident's estate.

Apple was sued Tuesday by a company claiming it was induced into developing technology allowing for high-fidelity imaging in a smartphone that Apple then stole for use in iPhones.

Sonesta International Hotels Corp. deceptively tacks on fees to room prices late in the booking process, according to a putative class action suit filed in Massachusetts federal court.

Tyson Foods Inc. shouldn't dodge a proposed class action accusing the company of flouting meal and rest break requirements and not paying workers correctly, a worker told a Washington federal court Monday, arguing that she supported her claims well enough at this stage of the litigation.

The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in the medical malpractice suit Berk v. Choy, holding that a Florida procedural requirement does not apply to medical malpractice claims filed in federal court, is likely to encourage eligible parties to file claims in federal court, speed the adjudicatory process and create both opportunities and challenges for litigators, says Thomas Kroeger at Colson Hicks.

As digital assets experience increased regulatory clarity, institutional adoption and technological maturity, in-house legal leaders must build strong policies this year and stay engaged with the evolving market to help their companies seize the opportunities of the digital asset era while managing the risks, say attorneys at Foley & Lardner.

The Trump administration told the First Circuit a Massachusetts federal judge overstepped by granting a "sweeping injunction" that required it to provide due process to a certified class of noncitizens facing removal to third countries they have no ties to.

A Pennsylvania federal judge Tuesday largely refused to dismiss Mylan Pharmaceuticals' antitrust lawsuit accusing Sanofi of unlawfully maintaining a monopoly in the market for injectable insulin glargine.

Fourth Circuit precedent establishes that state wage and hour laws are not preempted by federal law, a Butterball turkey catcher argued, urging the full appeals court to revisit a panel's decision denying his bid to revive his wage suit.

An Iowa church seeking approval for the religious use of a psychedelic has told the D.C. Circuit that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration continues to drag its feet on the organization's application for a religious exemption to the Controlled Substances Act.

Snapchat has been hit with a proposed class action in California federal court by YouTubers who claim the social media platform wrongfully scraped copyrighted videos to train its artificial intelligence model.

A California federal judge explained his reasoning for refusing to block further integration between Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Juniper Networks, while Democratic attorneys general challenge the Justice Department's controversial settlement permitting the merger.

Under Armour was hit with a proposed class action claiming that it failed to stop — and notify customers of — a massive data breach that compromised roughly 72 million email addresses and over 191 million customer records.

Norton Rose Fulbright-advised Vention, which makes artificial intelligence-powered software and hardware for automation and robotics, on Tuesday revealed that it has secured $110 million in new financing.

A Colorado attorney told a state court that a former associate he mentored for several years secretly solicited firm clients, misused confidential information and set up a competing practice while still employed.

Pennsylvania Superior Court has ruled that a lower court properly granted summary judgment in favor of Offit Kurman and two of its lawyers in a legal malpractice case.

Trading platform Kalshi is expanding its policy efforts amid battles with state gaming regulators and tribes with a new office in Washington, D.C. and government relations specialists, including a former Amazon executive who spent close to a decade with the Mississippi Attorney General's Office.

The four BigLaw firms that sued the White House and Justice Department over executive orders against them related to the clients they represent have asked the D.C. Circuit that the cases be "partially consolidated" amid the government's appeals of its losses, while maintaining the ability to file individual response briefs.

The parent company of New Pacific Airlines filed for Chapter 11 protection in Delaware on Monday along with several affiliates, listing about $65.7 million of debt and saying its regional Alaskan flight routes proved to be financially unsustainable in the years after the COVID-19 pandemic.

The full Eleventh Circuit will rehear a proposed class of seafood company workers' bid to revive mismanagement allegations against their employer and an employee stock ownership plan trustee, the court said Tuesday, after a three-judge panel affirmed dismissal of the case in October.

The U.S. Supreme Court’s Ellingburg v. U.S. decision from last week, holding that mandatory restitution is a criminal punishment subject to the Sixth Amendment, means that all challenges to restitution are now fair game if the amount is not alleged in the indictment, say Mark Allenbaugh at SentencingStats.com and Doug Passon at Doug Passon Law.

The U.S. Tennis Association urged the Eleventh Circuit on Tuesday to reverse a $9 million jury award handed to a player who said she was sexually assaulted by her coach, arguing there's no evidence a USTA manager was required to report a prior incident.

New York has told the Second Circuit that a federal judge wrongly concluded that a state law barring the release of radioactive materials into the Hudson River was federally preempted.

Florida law firm Hoffman & Hoffman PA can't escape a $35 million lawsuit accusing the firm of interfering with the proposed purchase of a telecommunications company by representing to the buyer that the firm's software developer client owned a larger claim to the company than he actually did.

A former New Jersey state court judge urged a federal court to reconsider the dismissal of her federal civil rights claims against a municipality and its police director, arguing that the court wrongly imposed an excessive evidentiary bar and misread a record of constitutionally deficient internal affairs investigations.

Last quarter in Pennsylvania, a Superior Court ruling underscored the centrality of careful policy drafting and judicial scrutiny of exclusionary language, and another provided practical guidance on the calculation of attorney fees and interest in bad faith cases, while a proposed bill endeavored to cover insurance gaps for homeowners, says Todd Leon at Marshall Dennehey.

A proposed class of homebuyers accused Rocket Companies Inc. and its subsidiaries in Michigan federal court of illegally hiking home prices by sending business leads to real estate agents who pushed clients to use Rocket's "disadvantageous" financing services for purchases.

A former Wells Fargo director has asked the Fourth Circuit not to scrap his $22.1 million Americans with Disabilities Act verdict, arguing the bank failed to address one of his state law claims on appeal and can't rewrite how the jury weighed conflicting evidence and testimony.

A split Third Circuit panel reinstated a religious bias suit claiming Geisinger Medical Center illegally required workers who opposed its COVID-19 vaccine mandate to undergo nasal testing, saying the employees should have been allowed to explore whether a chemical in the nasal swabs made that accommodation unreasonable.

Akerman LLP has turned to one of its healthcare partners to serve in a newly formalized role of pro bono counsel.

A hands-free headlamp company sought Monday to stop infringement of its patent by foreign online retailers selling knockoff versions of its product to U.S. customers.

Mountain Lake Acquisition Corp II, a blank-check company led by Axos Financial board chair Paul Grinberg, began trading Tuesday after pricing an upsized $313.2 million initial public offering.

Italy's newly effective artificial intelligence law means U.S. companies operating in Italy or serving Italian customers must now meet EU AI Act obligations as well as Italy-specific requirements, including immediately enforceable criminal penalties, designated national authorities and sector-specific mandates, say attorneys at Portolano Cavallo.

Williams & Connolly LLP took three False Claims Act cases to trial in three months, won an FCA case that had reached the Supreme Court and defeated antitrust litigation brought by the New York attorney general, earning a spot among the 2025 Law360 Healthcare Groups of the Year.

Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP is helping guide Keurig Dr Pepper Inc. in its $18.4 billion planned acquisition of Netherlands-based global coffee and beverage company JDE Peet's and guided obesity drug developer Metsera Inc. when it was acquired by Pfizer Inc., earning a spot among the 2025 Law360 Mergers & Acquisitions Groups of the Year.

Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP's leveraged finance and private credit attorneys have continued to guide headline-grabbing deals in the midst of complex regulatory and tumultuous economic conditions, including financing Nexstar's proposed $6.2 billion mega-merger of television broadcasters, earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 Complex Financial Instruments Groups of the Year.

Otterbourg's bankruptcy attorneys spent 2025 pushing the frontiers of their practice, helping secure the dismissal of Johnson & Johnson's talc unit's bankruptcy plan and achieving confirmation of Purdue Pharma LP's $7.4 billion Chapter 11 plan — earning a spot among the 2025 Law360 Bankruptcy Groups of the Year.

A retired Illinois state judge's temporary reappointment to the bench has been canceled after he penned a MAGA-tinged column railing against "draconian Covid lockdowns," "Fauci lies" and "lawfare" against President Donald Trump, which a local bar association called "wildly inappropriate."

A California federal judge has awarded nearly $600,000 to a man who claimed he was fired without cause by Curaleaf Inc. after a jury found that the company failed to properly investigate allegations that he was dishonest when he sought reimbursement for a dinner with other employees.

Both the managing partner and chair of Fox Rothschild LLP will start new terms in those positions in the spring, when a firm co-chair will join the leadership team to prepare for a possible transition to serving the role independently.

The family members of two Trinidadian men killed in a U.S. boat strike in the Caribbean Sea sued the federal government in Massachusetts federal court Tuesday, claiming the attack was an unlawful extrajudicial killing.

Major League Baseball's ticketing and media company urged a New York federal court to toss a proposed class action alleging fans' tickets disappeared from the MLB Ballpark app, noting there are no claims the app malfunctioned or suffered a security breach.

Minneapolis law firm leaders are looking to support their staffs, embrace their community and continue to offer pro bono legal aid to immigrants in the aftermath of federal agents killing an intensive care unit nurse this past weekend.

A team of 10 attorneys, including partners, associates and a special counsel, has joined the Newark-based litigation boutique Tanenbaum Keale LLP from Connell Foley LLP, Tanenbaum Keale announced Tuesday.

A Second Circuit panel appeared split Tuesday on whether an anti-abortion group challenging a New York state law that bars employers from penalizing workers based on their reproductive health decisions has standing to challenge the law as unconstitutional.

Ballard Spahr LLP has joined a growing number of law firms to add marketing and business development executives to their C-Suites, announcing the hiring of Cooley LLP's marketing director to lead a team of more than 50 business professionals.

Eversheds Sutherland has added a former partner who left the firm for his last role as a special counsel with the Internal Revenue Service and rejoins as a partner in the Washington, D.C.-based tax group, the firm announced Tuesday.

Manufacturer Corning on Tuesday said it has reached an up to $6 billion deal to supply Meta with fiber optic cable components for use on data center projects.

Algorithmic pricing lawsuits have proliferated in rental housing, hotels, health insurance and equipment rental industries, and companies should consider emerging risk factors when implementing business strategies this year, say attorneys at Hunton.

A Florida jury awarded $675,000 on Tuesday over a longtime Newports smoker's lung disease and transplant, much less than the $14 million requested by plaintiffs against R.J. Reynolds.

An Eleventh Circuit panel suggested Tuesday that procedural hurdles could stymie an insurance company's bid to get out of defending an Atlanta-area motel from sex trafficking claims that led to the motel being hit with a $40 million verdict last summer.

An insurer said it owes no additional coverage to a Wyndham hotel franchisee that was ordered to pay the hotel chain over $4 million for settling an underlying sex trafficking suit, telling a Pennsylvania federal court that payment is limited to $100,000.

The Eleventh Circuit zeroed in Tuesday on whether a lower court had enough evidence to hand Royal Caribbean a pretrial win in a suit brought by cruise ship workers who alleged they lost 401(k) savings because of shoddy target-date investment funds.

The San Francisco Giants for years lured consumers into buying tickets to ball games by unlawfully charging undisclosed "junk fees" that aren't revealed until checkout, after pressuring them with a countdown clock, alleges a proposed class action filed Monday in California federal court.

A Long Island school district is asking a federal district court to alter its judgment dismissing a challenge to New York's ban on the use of Indigenous imagery, saying the district faces an "imminent and actual threat" of federal Civil Rights Act enforcement if it complies with the state law.

TikTok reached an eleventh-hour settlement late Monday in the first bellwether trial over claims that social media harms young users' mental health, cutting the deal days after Snap settled and leaving Meta and YouTube as the sole defendants as jury selection began Tuesday.

Snack-maker Kellanova doesn't have to arbitrate a promotion dispute with a Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers union local, the Sixth Circuit ruled, finding the dispute isn't arbitrable under an expired collective bargaining agreement.

Leonard Green & Partners LP, advised by Kirkland & Ellis LLP, has announced it closed its inaugural investment program focused on single-asset continuation funds sponsored by third-party private equity managers, with $3.6 billion of commitments.

A federal judge in Pennsylvania has reprimanded two attorneys in a copyright infringement suit for filing a motion to dismiss that contained at least eight false case citations generated by artificial intelligence.

A Nevada solar project and a Texas wind farm both sought bankruptcy protection, as did three Brooklyn apartment complexes and a cryotherapy chain headquartered in the Lone Star State.

Former Venable LLP partner Elizabeth Manno has joined Holland & Hart's intellectual property litigation practice in the firm's Denver office, bringing her experience in patent litigation and complex technology cases.

Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP has added a partner from Sidley Austin LLP to strengthen its capacity to advise private equity funds, asset managers and other clients about corporate transactions.

European regulators on Tuesday signed off on a proposed $2.6 billion buyout of Australian self-storage company National Storage REIT by Brookfield Asset Management and GIC, in a deal advised by Ashurst LLP and Clayton Utz.

The Delaware Chancery Court has dismissed a former partner of a major accounting firm's lawsuit challenging the company's decision to strip him of equity status after he announced plans to retire, holding that the governing partnership agreement gave the firm's board unfettered discretion to do exactly that.

A group of kratom product buyers is suing 7Tabz Retail LLC in California federal court, launching the latest suit alleging kratom companies are pushing an addictive drug without warning buyers about the danger.

Comcast is on the hook for $240 million after a federal jury in Pennsylvania found that the telecommunications giant infringed one patent on voice recognition technology, but cleared it on another patent.

After a pivotal year for the legal industry, lawyers and their clients face an evolving litigation finance landscape in 2026 that will be shaped by developments ranging from new policies governing patent lawsuits to the reemergence of appellate monetization funding, says Jeffery Lula at GLS Capital.

The Federal Circuit on Tuesday turned down Google's challenge to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's policy of denying patent reviews based on the owner's "settled expectations," marking the latest failed case disputing the agency's changes to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.

A Baltimore attorney found personally responsible for paying a client's unpaid taxes owes only part of the debt, a federal magistrate judge said, finding the attorney owed $1.9 million rather than the $3.3 million sought by the government.

Sidley Austin LLP has hired two longtime WilmerHale intellectual property attorneys, one of whom represented Dropbox Inc. in a case accusing the company of infringing patents, to its new team in Washington, D.C., as partners.

An Eighth Circuit panel has refused to reinstate a lower court's injunction barring federal immigration agents from retaliating against peaceful protesters in Minneapolis, ruling that it is unlikely to survive an appeal from the Trump administration.

Summize, a provider of contract lifecycle management software, announced Tuesday the raising of $50 million to further expand its product capabilities, team and global customer base.

The longtime general counsel for Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft will move to Dentons on Feb. 2, becoming the latest high-profile attorney to depart the firm before a projected merger.

GigCapital9 Corp., the latest special purpose acquisition company led by serial SPAC sponsor Avi Katz, began trading publicly Tuesday after pricing its $220 million initial public offering.

Massachusetts' top appellate court ruled Tuesday that a former employee of a Boston community college was entitled to whistleblower protections for reporting that the college had not told the U.S. Department of Education about an alleged sexual assault, even though he shared in the reporting responsibility.

FAT Brands Inc., the owner of Fatburger and Johnny Rockets, and affiliates have filed for Chapter 11 protection in a Texas bankruptcy court with $1.45 billion in funded debt, felled by an unsustainable debt load and flagging liquidity.

The U.S. Department of Justice has cleared NRG Energy Inc.'s $12 billion acquisition of 18 natural gas-fired power plants from LS Power in a cash-and-stock deal guided by White & Case LLP, Milbank LLP and Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP.

The Competition and Markets Authority sought permission from the Court of Appeal on Tuesday to challenge a decision that criticized and revised the £70 million ($96 million) in fines it issued to Pfizer and Flynn Pharma for excessive pricing.

The receiver overseeing the finances of the 924-unit Success Village Apartments has asked a Connecticut court to allow it to borrow $6 million from the state Department of Housing, which the agency has already approved, "to eliminate the many tax and utility liens" on the property.

Chinese sports equipment giant Anta Sports said Tuesday it has agreed to buy a 29% stake in Puma for €1.5 billion ($1.8 billion), which will make it the German athletic apparel maker's largest shareholder.

Chamelio has raised a $10 million seed round as it seeks to build out an artificial intelligence platform to help in-house teams centralize multiple tasks, the legal technology startup told Law360 Pulse exclusively Tuesday.

Britain's antitrust enforcer told Société LDC SA of France and Gressingham Foods, a breeder of ducks in England, on Tuesday not to integrate their poultry businesses as it carries out an investigation into the deal, which was completed in December.

Samsung and litigation outfit Demaray have agreed to settle litigation over a pair of semiconductor patents, according to an order Monday in Texas federal court that dismissed the initially $4 billion case, for good, two years after a jury cleared Samsung.

A California federal judge Monday tossed a certified class of shareholders' lawsuit that accused DocuSign and its top brass of misleading investors about the software company's postpandemic growth prospects, saying an amendment would not fix the investors' "misleading and confusing" complaint.

A former high-ranking director at Citigroup says she was "debased and humiliated" by false workplace rumors that she pursued sexual relations with a superior in order to secure a promotion, alleging in a lawsuit filed in New York federal court on Monday that persistent misogynistic culture at the investment bank forced her out of a job.

A California federal judge appeared skeptical Monday about dismissing school districts' claims that social media companies harmed them by getting their students addicted to their platforms, telling defense counsel that the case poses "classic" factual disputes for a jury, and setting the first bellwether trial in the multidistrict litigation for June 15.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is looking for an early victory on certain claims against an investment adviser and its managing partner accused of engaging in an illicit short-selling scheme, arguing the managing partner's online messages and his own admission that he'd made a "poor business decision" support a finding in its favor.

An Indiana Superior Court judge and his wife were shot by a man standing on their front porch, through their closed front door, according to an affidavit, which noted that the suspected shooter was connected to a man with pending charges in the judge's courtroom.

Washington Supreme Court Justice Raquel Montoya-Lewis, the first Native American to win statewide office in the Evergreen state, announced Monday that she wouldn't seek reelection to the high court this year and would instead step down at the end of 2026 to focus on writing books and teaching.

A Florida jury heard in closing arguments Monday that R.J. Reynolds should pay $14 million for 14 years of pain and suffering endured by a lung transplant patient who was smoking heavily by the 1970s.

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel's antitrust lawsuit against fossil fuel companies opens a new front in climate change tort litigation, and is a riposte to red states using antitrust law to target pro-climate actions by companies.

Amazon.com Inc. has agreed to pay $309 million on top of $570 million already paid out to customers to resolve a proposed class action accusing the e-commerce giant of shortchanging customers on refunds for returned items, according to the customers asking a Washington federal judge to approve the settlement.

Netflix's proposed $82.7 billion purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery's studios and HBO streaming businesses risks being a "killer non-acquisition," Sen. Mike Lee has reportedly told the media giants' chief executives, expressing concern that a likely lengthy merger review could leave Warner Bros. in a weakened state.

Jocko Fuel misleads consumers into thinking its chocolate protein shakes are made with "just premium protein and functional ingredients" that are tested for safety, despite the fact that the shakes are at risk of containing unsafe levels of cadmium, according to a proposed class action filed Monday in New York federal court.

The Eleventh Circuit declined Monday to fast-track an appeal aimed at halting a new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule on clean-energy home improvement loans, rebuffing the rule's trade group challenger as the agency separately defended the Biden-era measure.

Fintiv Inc. has hit back at Apple's request that a Georgia federal court either dismiss or transfer its trade secrets and racketeering case against the tech giant to Texas federal court, arguing that moving the case isn't appropriate "just because Apple likes a particular judge."

Puerto Rico's professional baseball league on Monday urged the U.S. Supreme Court not to disturb the sport's century-old exemption from antitrust law, arguing that the justices have rejected similar challenges to the shield time and time again.

A Texas federal judge signed off on a $2 million settlement between Austin-based Whole Foods and its employees, resolving a class action in which the company was accused of mismanaging employee 401(k) accounts by failing to negotiate for lower administrative fees.

Kaiser Permanente nurses walked off the job Monday at more than two dozen hospitals and clinics in California and Hawaii, adding about 30,000 workers to the swelling ranks of healthcare employees on strike across the country.

Amazon and nitrous oxide manufacturer Miami Magic took advantage of a "legal loophole" by selling flavored laughing gas products they claimed were for culinary use rather than recreational inhalation, according to a Seattle federal lawsuit from a Georgia man who alleged that his daily use of nitrous oxide caused him serious harm.

Investors have asked the Eighth Circuit to revive a securities class action against medical device manufacturer Medtronic, arguing that a Minnesota federal court wrongly dismissed the case in October for failure to state a claim.

A California federal magistrate judge expressed skepticism on Monday about a "cat's paw" theory pressed by a former BlackBerry executive who claims CEO John Giamatteo sexually harassed her before he landed the top job, calling the idea that Giamatteo could have manipulated a superior to orchestrate the plaintiff's firing "odd."

On the third go around in the Tenth Circuit, a class led by Chieftain Royalty Co. on Monday had its $17.3 million attorney fee award unanimously affirmed for a settlement resolving a gas well royalty dispute, despite objections from two class members.

Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits LLC urged a California federal judge Friday to give it key material from the Federal Trade Commission's successful challenge to the Kroger-Albertsons merger, sparring with the FTC on arguments that the agency is contradicting itself in a price discrimination lawsuit.

An Eastern District of Texas jury has decided that Taiwan-based electronics company AUO Corp. and Chinese TV maker Hisense did not infringe two Phenix Longhorn LLC display patents, in a rare defense verdict for Taiwanese and Chinese companies in the Texas district's Marshall division, according to defense counsel.

A Minnesota federal judge on Monday considered whether to preliminarily block the Trump administration from sending thousands of immigration enforcement officers to the state, questioning if the surge is a coercive federal act in violation of state sovereignty.

Generic-drug makers sought to defeat a bid to certify proposed classes comprising thousands of pharmacies that indirectly purchased and resold generics at the center of sprawling price-fixing litigation, telling a Pennsylvania federal court Monday that certification would result in an "unmanageable trial."

Masimo has urged a California federal court to turn down Apple's request for relief from its $634 million trial loss in the companies' patent infringement fight over the Apple Watch, arguing that the company has made "extraordinarily untimely" attempts to change the meaning of "patient monitor."

A Long Island town has told a New York intermediate appellate court that the state's cannabis law cannot preempt localities from enforcing their zoning policies when it comes to allowing where marijuana stores can be located.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is pushing the full Federal Circuit to grant Comcast's request for review of a panel's denial of its attempt to transfer a patent infringement suit from Texas to Pennsylvania, while the patent owner says the panel decision should stay intact.

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has invalidated most of the claims that TikTok challenged in a media programming patent it was accused of infringing in federal district court, but let one challenged claim stand.

A pair of Republican lawmakers is backing President Donald Trump's push for the U.S. Supreme Court to end birthright citizenship, filing an amicus brief Friday claiming that the Fourteenth Amendment doesn't automatically grant citizenship to all children born on U.S. soil.

A Michigan federal judge ruled on Saturday that the U.S. Department of Justice cannot preemptively block the state from filing climate-related claims against the fossil fuel industry, adding there's no precedent for such a move being allowed in the long history of state litigation against national industry groups.

A minority group of secured lenders of bankrupt fruit company Del Monte Foods Corp. said in a Friday adversary complaint that other lenders benefited from the company's Chapter 11 financing package without sharing those benefits as required by prepetition loan documents.

Heavy-duty truck manufacturers on Monday accused California officials of trying to delay litigation over a 2023 agreement that would saddle manufacturers with stringent state emissions standards and stiff penalties for noncompliance in the coming years.

This edition of Law360's overview of emerging copyright and trademark trends delves into a Fifth Circuit decision that tests the territorial boundaries of copyright law, and a dispute over "stream-ripping" on YouTube that has artificial intelligence companies weighing in.

Citadel Securities is pressing for the return of $119 million it argues was unlawfully collected to fund a key market surveillance database known as the consolidated audit trail, telling the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission the collection of the fees violated an Eleventh Circuit decision.

The Chapter 7 trustee overseeing the bankruptcy of pump manufacturer Nash Engineering Co. has demanded a $59.7 million placeholder payment from a sprawling array of family members and trusts connected to the company's owners, saying the myriad defendants need to be stopped from hiding assets from creditors.

A Colorado regulatory agency lacked the authority to approve a tariff limiting Xcel Energy's liability from a man's personal injury claim, the Colorado Supreme Court held Monday in a ruling that also rejected an appellate court's finding that the tariff does not extend to non-Xcel customers.

A federal judge has ruled that Delta Air Lines customers alleging their travel was disrupted by the 2024 CrowdStrike outage can pursue some claims that were previously dismissed, but blocked them from reraising others.

An Eighth Circuit panel denied the Trump administration's push to secure arrest warrants for five people it accused of unlawfully disrupting a church service to protest immigration enforcement operations in Minneapolis after a federal judge refused to issue them.

Conservation groups and an Alaskan tribe are seeking to void a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers permit to expand gold mining operations at the headwaters of the Johnson River, arguing that the agency violated a slew of environmental laws regarding potential effects to Cook Inlet beluga whales.

A divided Colorado Supreme Court on Monday ruled that if a defendant requests an involuntary intoxication defense in a criminal case, the trial court does not need to consider the possible presence of multiple intoxicants — such as a joint laced with another substance — to deny the defense, only that a defendant knowingly ingested one.

A Texas jury slapped a stone supplier with a $46 million verdict, finding that a truck driver who ran over and killed a man in DeWitt County in 2019 was driving on behalf of the company at the time of the accident.

A proposed class of Fubo subscribers is opposing a bid from Disney to force them to arbitrate their claims in an antitrust case alleging streaming services pay inflated rates to carry ESPN and other sports channels.

A Minnesota appeals court on Monday affirmed a lower court's decision not to toss the state's lawsuit alleging that Exxon Mobil Corp., Koch Industries Inc. and the American Petroleum Institute concealed the climate change risks of fossil fuels.

A South Carolina federal judge declined for now Fluor Corp.'s request to block all evidence and testimony related to a suicide bombing at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan and employee retaliation from an upcoming trial over accusations that the company overcharged the military.

The chief investment and financial officer of a college sports database service, alleged to have falsely accused his ex-business partner of embezzling millions of dollars, can't sidestep a lawsuit against him after a North Carolina Business Court judge ruled he could be sued in the Tar Heel state.

Online broker-dealer Interactive Brokers LLC and an investor have asked a Connecticut federal judge to give an initial nod to a $5 million deal to end decade-long class action negligence claims surrounding an allegedly faulty algorithm that liquidated short-sold securities.

The U.S. Supreme Court's upcoming review of a pair of cases questioning the validity of the Federal Communications Commission's penalty authority could have ripple effects that further delineate the Internal Revenue Service's authority to impose penalties.

T-Mobile and Sprint have failed to persuade the D.C. Circuit to reconsider their challenge to $92 million in Federal Communications Commission fines over the carriers' past sale of consumers' location data.

Emirati conglomerate Al Habtoor Group said Monday that it will step up an investment treaty dispute against Lebanon over an alleged $1.7 billion in losses to its investments in hotels, real estate and other sectors in the country, saying it has "no other alternative."

A Colorado company subjects all its tractor-trailer drivers to the same illegal policy of considering them overtime-exempt under federal law, a group of migrant workers said, urging a Colorado federal court to greenlight a collective.

Bob's Discount Furniture Inc. on Monday revealed plans to sell nearly 19.5 million shares of its common stock at an estimated $17 to $19 per share via an initial public offering, allowing the Connecticut-based retailer to potentially raise $350 million, assuming midpoint estimates.

An Illinois federal jury sided with the Chicago Transit Authority on Monday over a former employee's claim that he was illegally terminated for noncompliance with the agency's COVID-19 vaccine mandate after the agency flatly rejected his religion-based exemption request without meaningfully trying to accommodate it.

Google asked a New York federal judge to cut out a wide swath of antitrust claims from multidistrict litigation targeting its advertising placement technology dominance, assailing in separate briefs allegations from a class of website publishers and from the Daily Mail and Gannett.

A Ninth Circuit panel temporarily paused a Nevada federal court's discovery order in wage suppression lawsuits against UFC after the mixed martial arts organization said the order violated attorney-client privilege and the First Amendment.

A proposed class action's allegations that Anthem Health Plans maintains inaccurate mental health directories known as ghost provider networks aren't true and are "legally deficient," the insurer and its parent company, Elevance Health Inc., argued while urging a Connecticut federal court to toss the suit.

A proposed class action on behalf of the families of roughly 10,000 nursing home residents who died early in the COVID-19 pandemic cannot proceed against New Jersey officials over their response, the Third Circuit has ruled, finding the officials are protected through qualified immunity.

Nursing home operator Genesis Healthcare secured approval of a $1 billion asset sale, Roomba-maker iRobot received confirmation of its bankruptcy plan, and Saks got the go-ahead to begin liquidating online inventory.

Norcold's unsecured creditors committee has urged a Delaware bankruptcy judge to not approve the $13 million sale of the recreational vehicle fridge distributor's assets, alleging that a nondebtor affiliate's credit bid would sell valuable causes of action and leave the debtor administratively insolvent.

A wind farm owner in North Texas has filed for Chapter 11 protection with $108 million in debt, saying a winter storm in 2021 put it on a path to conflict with a partner in a defunct hedging agreement, with the partner eventually installing leaders to restructure the debtor.

A Washington federal court has largely rejected efforts by child sex abuse survivors to broaden coverage for a $21 million settlement resolving claims against a Kiwanis International-affiliated boys foster home, but found that limited coverage may be available under a Chubb unit's policies.

The Senate Agriculture Committee said Monday that it will postpone its markup of a bill to regulate crypto markets to Thursday in light of the weekend's winter storm, while Democrats submitted proposals to insert ethics language and ensure appointments to the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

An Idaho federal magistrate judge dismissed two of three claims brought against Smith & Wesson Corp. by silencer manufacturer Gemini Technologies Inc., which had alleged the gun manufacturer negotiated the purchase of the company in bad faith.

The Eleventh Circuit on Monday upheld MetLife's denial of accidental death benefits to a federal government worker who died days after she broke her leg and ankle exiting a vehicle, finding the insurer's exercise of an exclusion for contributing underlying physical illnesses wasn't arbitrary or capricious.

A fractional aircraft ownership company is liable for federal excise taxes, the U.S. Department of Justice told the Sixth Circuit, arguing that the company failed to establish any statutory or equitable defense while urging the appellate judges to affirm a lower court's ruling.

A woman is suing Elon Musk's xAI in California federal court, alleging that it not only failed to implement safeguards against users making sexually explicit deepfakes of women without their permission but has also openly advertised and monetized it as a feature.

American Express Co. has asked a New York federal judge to grant the first green light to a $17.5 million settlement reached with consumers who claimed the credit card company's so-called antisteering rules caused non-Amex cardholders to pay higher charges, after a New York federal jury ordered Amex to pay $12 million to one class of consumers.

A former Navy SEAL-turned-internet storyteller has asked the Delaware Chancery Court to unwind a reorganization of the company he started and strip a onetime business partner of control rights, alleging the deal was procured through fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty and the concealment of material facts about company finances and a key podcast licensing agreement.

The Federal Circuit on Monday declined to reconsider its decision affirming a trademark tribunal's finding that NBA star LeBron James and his company own the rights to the phrase "More Than An Athlete."

Procter & Gamble has been hit with a proposed class action in Illinois federal court alleging that certain Tampax Pearl tampons allegedly contain unsafe levels of lead that can directly enter the bloodstream, even though the personal care products are marketed as safe from contamination.

A Florida state appeals court sided with officials over invalidating more than 70,000 signatures collected for a potential ballot initiative that would legalize recreational cannabis in the Sunshine State, saying emailed directives handed down to county election supervisors regarding petition verification weren't unlawful.

Vehicle electrification has moved battery system supply chains from a background component into the center of the automotive universe — and for legal teams, battery validation is now a driver of contractual disputes, regulatory exposure and even shareholder litigation, say Samuel Madden at Secretariat Advisors and Vanessa Miller at Foley & Lardner.

An Illinois federal judge Friday dismissed several claims in a putative class action lawsuit alleging Abbott Laboratories falsely advertised its toddler drinks sold under the Similac brand as nutritionally proper for children ages 12 months to 36 months, but largely allowed the parents' complaint to move forward.

A New Jersey state appeals panel ruled Monday that despite a valid arbitration pact, a worker who said security logistics company Brink's failed to take action when colleagues called her gendered slurs may still be entitled to her day in court.

A defunct construction business owes the International Painters and Allied Trades Industry Pension Fund about $1.6 million, a Fourth Circuit panel said Monday, affirming a lower court's decision that the fund's lawsuit seeking payment was filed on time.

Target Corp., 3M Co., UnitedHealth Inc. and General Mills Inc. are among dozens of Minnesota-based companies that signed a statement Sunday calling for an "immediate de-escalation of tensions" after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers fatally shot a person in Minneapolis over the weekend.

A Texas man charged with illegally possessing a gun as a regular cannabis user told the U.S. Supreme Court that the government had no more right to disarm him than it had to restrict the gun use of people who drank on the weekends.

Handbag and leather goods brand Dooney & Bourke Inc. violated a Washington State law by sending email blasts offering repeated "last chance" sales with just "hours left" for consumers to purchase advertised products, according to a lawsuit recently removed to federal court.

The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent holding in Barrett v. U.S. that the double jeopardy clause bars separate convictions for the same act under two related firearms laws places meaningful limits on the broader practice of stacking charges, a reminder that overlapping statutes present prosecutors with a menu, not a buffet, says attorney David Tarras.

In 2026, financial institutions face a wave of more prescriptive cybersecurity legal requirements demanding clearer governance, faster incident reporting, and stronger oversight of third-party and AI-driven risks, making it crucial to understand these issues before they materialize into crises, say attorneys at Sidley.

A South Carolina drug company has launched a proposed class action against major pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk, alleging it engaged in anticompetitive behavior to prolong its monopoly against generic competition for the GLP-1 drug Victoza.

King & Spalding LLP announced Monday that it has added five attorneys from Burr & Forman LLP to its healthcare practice, as firms across the country look to boost their capabilities in the sector.

The Third Circuit on Monday declined to reconsider its decision blocking Alina Habba from serving as acting U.S. attorney for New Jersey, denying the Justice Department's petition for rehearing and leaving intact a decision that sharply curtailed the government's use of creative maneuvers to install interim federal prosecutors.

A Chicago federal judge on Monday denied Foley & Lardner LLP's bid for an early win against claims brought by a former summer associate who said discrimination led to the firm's decision to rescind a job offer after she publicly supported Palestinians amid Israel's war with Hamas.

A suspended attorney who was previously disbarred and jailed for a job-selling scheme within the Pennsylvania Auditor General's office in the 1980s can't sue a state fund for compensating his clients after he allegedly siphoned money from their trust account, the Third Circuit ruled Monday.

Mining company USA Rare Earth Inc. on Monday announced that it is set to receive $3.1 billion of new funding through collaborations with the U.S. government and a private investment in public equity funding commitment, in deals shaped by three law firms.

Secured lenders of Office Properties Income Trust filed a Chapter 11 adversary suit in Texas bankruptcy court, saying the debtor's entry into debtor-in-possession financing agreements with a separate group of secured lenders violates a prepetition intercreditor agreement and could deprive the suing creditors of significant payments.

Although the Second Circuit's decision last year in Romanova v. Amilus Inc. did not involve artificial intelligence, its formulation of relevant fair use factors provides a useful guide for lower courts examining AI cases in 2026, demanding close attention from legal practitioners on both sides of these disputes, say attorneys at Cleary.

Lexington Insurance Co. ignored a helmet designer's repeated requests for coverage in a lawsuit alleging that product defects caused a helmet to come off a motorcycle rider's head during a collision, the manufacturer told a California federal court.

D.C.-based government software contractor Opexus is facing a class action alleging that its negligence allowed two former employees — both of whom had been convicted for hacking previously — to copy more than 1,800 U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission files onto USB drives and take the data.

A private plane connected to Texas-based litigation firm Arnold & Itkin LLP overturned and caught fire Sunday night as it attempted to take off from a Maine airport, killing at least six people on board, according to authorities and public records.

Parties' use of artificial intelligence and blockchain technologies will continue in 2026, and international arbitrators will be called upon to evolve by building expertise in blockchain functionality, cryptography and decentralized finance protocols, and understanding the power and limitations of large language models, say attorneys at Cleary.

O'Melveny & Myers LLP announced Monday that it added a corporate dealmaker to its Newport Beach, California, office from the Los Angeles office of Proskauer Rose LLP.

Bressler Amery & Ross PC has picked a new leadership duo for its commercial litigation group, tapping a Florida-based insurance expert and a trial attorney in New Jersey with experience working on high-profile cases, including litigation against New York City over claims stemming from the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

A former California judge said a count of a federal indictment accusing him of sexual assault should be tossed since the alleged victim viewed him as a friend.

About four-fifths of law school summer associate recruiting in 2025 happened through employer-sponsored channels, as opposed to more traditional law school-sponsored channels, with recruiting also happening increasingly early, according to research unveiled Monday by the National Association for Law Placement.

A group of 35 attorneys general sent a letter to xAI, an arm of the social media network formerly known as Twitter, to demand stronger action curtailing its Grok chatbot from altering pictures on its site to be sexually explicit or revealing.

A proposed class of Coffeyville, Kansas, residents on Monday sued the company behind an oil refinery and fertilizer facility, saying it has been in repeat violation of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency consent decrees as it continues to pollute the environment and, thus, drive up environmental damage and cancer rates.

A New Jersey state appeals court revived a challenge to a state law allowing people to smoke in casinos Monday, giving the United Auto Workers another chance to argue that the law harms the casino employees it represents by exposing them to secondhand smoke.

The U.S. government has urged the nation's high court to reject an appeal from a computer scientist over whether an image created by an artificial intelligence system he developed can qualify for copyright protection, arguing that existing law clearly limits copyrights to human authors.

Cumulus Media has urged the Second Circuit not to lift a New York federal judge's order blocking Nielsen from conditioning access to its nationwide radio ratings data on the purchase of local market data while the ratings company appeals the ruling.

Eversheds Sutherland has combined its data, research and technology teams to form a 20-person innovation department in the U.S. focused on leveraging artificial intelligence and other technologies in legal work and client services, the firm said Monday.

Saks Global Enterprises LLC, the parent company of luxury department store chain Saks Fifth Avenue, entered Chapter 11 less than two weeks ago, but its road to insolvency stretches back more than a year.

A tech company that developed self-service applications for remote data collection from smartphones has launched a seven-count suit in Delaware's Court of Chancery accusing a product reseller of copying the application's functions and features and marketing competing versions.

A North Carolina federal judge on Monday gave her final seal of approval to a $2.35 million settlement ending claims that Duke University shorted former employees by millions of dollars by using decades-old mortality tables to calculate retirement benefits.

London-based legal technology startup Orbital, which develops artificial intelligence for real estate law, raised $60 million in a Series B funding round, according to an announcement on Monday, with the new capital earmarked for U.S. and U.K. growth and expanded product adoption.

The managing shareholder at Yukevich Marchetti Fischer & Zangrilli PC recently decided to close the firm and move the attorneys and staff to Tucker Arensberg PC's Pittsburgh office after the death of one founding partner and the retirement of two others.

Meat-substitute maker Beyond Meat Inc. is facing a proposed investor class action alleging it concealed its struggles to turn a profit, hurting investors as it eventually acknowledged quarterly losses that included a $77 million write-down.

With the rapid adoption of artificial intelligence, a striking shift is occurring in how corporations handle data privacy and governance as some 90% of organizations say they have expanded their privacy programs, according to a new study from tech giant Cisco Systems Inc.

Holland & Knight LLP attorneys advised AdventHealth on its multimillion-dollar outpatient acquisitions, Evernorth Health Services' $3.5 billion investment in Shields Health Solutions and Palomar Health on its strategic partnership with the University of California San Diego, earning it a spot among the 2025 Law360 Healthcare Groups of the Year.

As dealmakers navigated geopolitical risk and shifting trade policy in 2025, Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz was consistently called on to advise on high-stakes, strategic megadeals, including a massive railway merger, earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 Mergers & Acquisitions Groups of the Year.

Ropes & Gray LLP's finance team led Arcline Investment Management through a first-ever emergency communications infrastructure securitized notes offering and secured a deal between chipmaker Wolfspeed and its creditors that involved slashing $4.6 billion of debt, placing the firm among the 2025 Law360 Complex Financial Instruments Groups of the Year.

Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP's bankruptcy attorneys tackled some of the most talked-about cases in 2025, with work that included spearheading First Brands' more than $10 billion Chapter 11 and confirming Steward Health Care's plan, putting the team among the 2025 Law360 Bankruptcy Groups of the Year.

BMW drivers have filed a proposed class action in New Jersey federal court alleging it knowingly sold certain BMW and Mini Cooper, Clubman and Countryman vehicles from 2014 through 2021 containing faulty engine oil filter housing parts that prematurely fail while limiting the warranty period to avoid repair costs.

The Connecticut Supreme Court ruled Monday that a trial court conducted the right assessment in deciding that a wrongful death suit over a devastating call center fire belonged in the Philippines, in a defeat for the estate administrator for 29 people who were killed.

Management-side labor and employment firm Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC has elected one of its San Francisco shareholders as one of the firm's two managing directors and selected another two to join its board of directors.

Zenas BioPharma has asked a Massachusetts federal judge to toss a putative investor class action targeting pre-initial public offering statements about the company's spending, saying it didn't hide that it had ramped up investment in research and development.

Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC strengthened its transactional resources in the Pittsburgh office with the recent addition of an attorney who previously served as the top in-house attorney for PNC Capital Markets LLC.

Google LLC and Alphabet Inc. have asked a California federal judge to preliminarily approve a $68 million class action settlement that would resolve long-running claims that Google Assistant-enabled devices recorded users' conversations without consent.

Pool equipment maker Hayward Holdings Inc. has reached a nearly $20 million deal with its investors to settle claims that it failed to properly disclose its struggles with ballooning inventory and lowered demand.

To convert casually interested restaurant patrons into satisfied, repeat customers, a good waiter relies on four service-oriented habits that proactive attorneys can borrow to cultivate lasting client relationships, say attorneys at Maynard Nexsen.

White & Case LLP has hired a Crowell & Moring LLP partner whose first role in private practice was with the firm, bringing decades of experience in energy regulatory matters as a former attorney adviser at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to the team, according to a Monday announcement.

Canadian gold producer Allied Gold said Monday it has agreed to be bought by Zijin Gold International in an all-cash deal valued at about CA$5.5 billion ($4 billion).

The Florida Bar has decided to not discipline former U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., who was briefly President Donald Trump's pick for attorney general, despite the House ethics committee's findings that Gaetz regularly paid for sex, including with a minor.

Notwithstanding the winter storm that slammed several states over the weekend, litigators will clash at the Fourth Circuit this week on whether NCAA eligibility rules violate antitrust law, or federal law preempts North Carolina's ability to regulate e-cigarette sales.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ditched a Fourth Circuit ruling that affirmed habeas corpus relief for a Maryland man convicted of attempted murder, saying the appeals court overstepped federal habeas limits by second-guessing a state court's decision.

A Louisiana doctor has dropped his legal malpractice suit against New Jersey firm Porzio Bromberg & Newman PC after the firm moved to dismiss the suit, though the doctor left open the possibility of continuing to pursue claims.

The U.S. Labor Department supported Siemens Corp.'s request that the Third Circuit affirm the dismissal of a proposed class action alleging the technology company's use of millions in forfeited 401(k) funds violated federal benefits law, agreeing with a lower federal court that the allegations reached beyond ERISA's scope.

A pet product manufacturer has agreed to pay $975,000 to resolve a proposed class and collective action alleging the company failed to pay its employees for the time they spent putting on and removing personal protective equipment, according to settlement papers filed in Colorado federal court.

The emergence of an apparent “pardon shopping” marketplace, in which attorneys treat presidential pardons as a market product, may invite investigative scrutiny of counsel and potential criminal charges grounded in bribery, wire fraud and other statutes, says David Klasing at The Tax Law Offices of David W. Klasing.

The bankrupt parent of the failed Silicon Valley Bank on Monday made its case to the Second Circuit that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. lost the right to assert setoff arguments in a fight over $1.9 billion in bank funds by failing to make the argument in SVB's Chapter 11 case.

A primary insurer owes reimbursement of defense costs for several underlying lawsuits brought against a property owner and construction company that were additional insureds, another carrier told a New York federal court, arguing that the primary insurer previously agreed to offer coverage but reneged without reason.

A California-based healthcare technology company has sued in Delaware Chancery Court, accusing a longtime business partner of secretly stealing its proprietary rewards technology, then attempting to terminate their contract years early after building a competing product in-house.

A staffing company cannot escape a lawsuit that nearly 40 nurses brought alleging they were not properly paid while temporarily working at Kaiser Permanente facilities in California during a 2023 strike, a Colorado federal magistrate judge has ruled, finding the healthcare workers sufficiently backed up their allegations.

A District of Columbia federal judge on Monday granted the California Gaming Association's amicus brief bid to oppose a California Indian tribe's potential dismissal motion against another tribe's fight with the federal government over a $700 million casino project in Vallejo, California.

Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP announced Monday that it has brought on a partner in Houston from Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP who brings particular expertise advising clients across the energy industry.

Quantum computing company IonQ said Monday it has agreed to purchase U.S. semiconductor maker SkyWater Technology in a cash-and-stock transaction with a total equity value of approximately $1.8 billion.

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP-advised engineering firm Leidos on Monday unveiled plans to acquire private equity-backed consulting and engineering services platform Entrust Solutions Group, led by Ropes & Gray LLP, in a $2.4 billion all-cash deal.

My move to private practice has reaffirmed my belief in the value of adaptability, collaboration and strategic thinking — qualities that are essential not only for successful client outcomes, but also for sustained professional satisfaction, says Dabney O’Riordan at Fried Frank.

A Massachusetts federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from terminating the legal status of more than 8,400 migrants who were invited to stay in the U.S. while awaiting green cards under a family reunification program.

Geico will pay $900,000 to settle several suits, all accusing the insurance company of not paying call center workers for preshift and postshift work, after a Georgia federal judge gave the deal final approval.

The Delaware Chancery Court wrapped up the week with a slate of high-stakes deal challenges, governance rulings and oversight decisions, including an emergency bid to block a $10.9 billion bank merger, a state Supreme Court reversal reshaping stockholder agreement litigation and a major opinion allowing sexual misconduct oversight claims to proceed.

Investors in a Long Beach, California, cannabis dispensary are suing the company's principals, saying they have not turned over a 5% ownership stake in exchange for their $250,000 investment and may be using the funds inappropriately.

Forgent Power Solutions, a manufacturer serving industrial and data center customers, said Monday that it expects to raise an estimated $1.5 billion in an upcoming initial public offering advised by Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP and Latham & Watkins LLP.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury is canceling $21 million in contracts with consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton after a massive leak at the Internal Revenue Service that included President Donald Trump's tax returns, the department said Monday.

Corporate law firm Haynes Boone announced Monday the promotion of two long-time attorneys to co-lead its fund finance practice group, as several other lawyers simultaneously departed for Paul Hastings.

Intellectual property management platform Tradespace Inc. announced on Monday that it has raised $15 million in Series A funding to scale its artificial intelligence-native IP platform.

Gold and silver producer Gold Resource Corp. on Monday announced plans to be bought by Canadian-based mining company Goldgroup Mining Inc. in a $372 million deal.

2026 may prove to be a critical year for drug pricing in the U.S., with potential major shifts including several legislative initiatives moving forward after being in the works for years, and more experimentation on the horizon concerning GLP-1s and Section 340B pricing, say attorneys at Manatt.

The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to review a Federal Circuit decision upholding the removal of a Georgia-based Social Security judge who was accused of on-the-job misconduct and shoddy work.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ordered the Michigan Supreme Court to rethink ordering a man convicted of murder to pay the victim's funeral expenses under a restitution law enacted years after the slaying.

French industrial and financial company Chargeurs said Monday that it has decided to sell its surface protection business Novacel to KPS Capital Partners LP for approximately €230 million ($273 million) in a deal guided by Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider what criteria consumers need to meet in order to sue under the federal Video Privacy Protection Act, accepting a challenge to a ruling that said a Paramount digital newsletter subscriber could not bring a lawsuit.

Czech billionaire Daniel Křetínsky said Monday that he plans to buy French electronics retail group Fnac Darty in an approximately €1.1 billion ($1.3 billion) deal as he looks to further expand his European empire.

Private equity firm CVC said Monday that it plans to buy hedge fund Marathon Asset Management LP in a cash and equity deal of up to $1.2 billion to boost its credit products in the U.S.

WilmerHale announced Monday it welcomed back a former attorney who stepped away from the firm three years ago to serve in the chief counsel's office at U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control, where he advised agency leaders on enforcement of emergency economic powers legislation, the constitutional implications of imposing sanctions and other matters.

A group of approximately 15 to 20 fund finance lawyers have left Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP and Haynes Boone to launch a Charlotte, North Carolina, office for Paul Hastings LLP, marking the third time a large law firm has set up shop in the banking hub in recent months.

A former manager of an illegal sports betting ring testified Friday in the obstruction of justice trial of former MLB star Yasiel Puig, telling a California federal jury that a man whom a previous witness said Puig at one point owed hundreds of thousands of dollars to was the gambling operation's biggest bookie.

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.

A Seattle federal judge said Friday that President Donald Trump's administration overstepped its statutory powers and broke federal law by abruptly freezing approved funding for new electric vehicle charging infrastructure last year, vacating the program's suspension and siding with 20 states and environmental groups who challenged the move.

A California federal judge refused Thursday to toss a proposed class action alleging Rivian and its top brass misled investors about its 2023 production capabilities and demand for electric vehicles, rejecting Rivian's arguments that the securities claims cannot proceed in light of the Ninth Circuit's recent Sneed v. Talphera ruling.

The same federal judge who disqualified President Donald Trump's former personal counsel Alina Habba as New Jersey's top federal prosecutor asked the government Friday to explain why the "triumvirate of attorneys" now supervising the office was any more legitimate.

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency's head, Jonathan Gould, on Friday refused to delay a review of crypto firm World Liberty Financial's national trust bank application, rebuffing concerns by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., that President Donald Trump's close ties to the company pose a conflict of interest.

Torture and terror survivors and their families who have won monetary judgments against North Korea asked a Washington, D.C., federal judge to order a cryptocurrency project to pay nearly $250 million for allegedly laundering North Korean hacker funds they say should have been frozen and seized for the plaintiffs' compensation.

A top Democratic senator on Friday pointedly challenged the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to follow through on President Donald Trump's credit card affordability concerns, questioning whether its current chief is "disregarding" White House wishes.

Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including how the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development may be shifting focus, what President Donald Trump's executive order on investment in single-family homes means for Wall Street, and a look at some of the mistakes made by real estate attorneys.

A California federal jury has determined that World Aquatics illegally boycotted International Swimming League events in violation of federal antitrust law, but awarded just $1 in damages, in a verdict returned Friday.

The Illinois Supreme Court on Friday ordered state trial courts to consider allegations of police use of excessive force when deciding whether to provide a self-defense jury instruction in police battery cases.

A unit of consumer health products company Kenvue has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to hear its class certification challenge in litigation over Neutrogena's "oil-free" face wash labels, arguing circuit courts are "openly and intractably" divided over whether expert testimony must be admissible for certification and the split has "immense practical consequences."

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has sued Lottery.com, several of its executives and the former CEO of a blank check company, alleging they participated in a scheme to enhance the gambling platform's fiscal performance for the financial benefit of the involved insiders.

Government prosecutors urged a Seattle federal judge to impose a $35 million forfeiture judgment on a software startup's former executive following his wire fraud conviction, arguing that Nevin Shetty's quick loss of the money in a cryptocurrency collapse doesn't change the fact that he stole it.

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel filed an antitrust suit in federal court against BP, Shell, Chevron, Exxon and the American Petroleum Institute on Friday, claiming they conspired to maintain market dominance by steering money away from renewable energy and using a bevy of other tactics including intimidation and information suppression.

Major equity investors in collateralized loan obligations have been sued in Connecticut federal court over claims that they colluded to force corporate leveraged-loan borrowers to accept higher interest rates during the phaseout of the London Interbank Offered Rate, or Libor.

A D.C. Circuit panel revived a lawsuit Friday accusing pharmaceutical companies of aiding a Hezbollah-linked militia's terrorism in Iraq, saying the victims behind the case have adequately alleged that the companies' participation was conscious and voluntary.

Baseball's status as the lone sport exempt from federal antitrust laws is likely to evade U.S. Supreme Court scrutiny, with legal experts saying that only an extraordinary challenge could make justices even consider it.

Investors in a $93 million Miami real estate development scheme are protesting a proposal by the receiver of the company's estate to hire her own law firm, increase the receiver fees and go after recipients of fraudulent transfers, claiming the proposal will increase costs and decrease transparency.

Levi & Korsinsky LLP will lead a proposed class of investors accusing mining company Tronox Inc. of issuing misleading statements about the demand for titanium dioxide and other products, a Connecticut federal judge said.

Federal courts aren't buying the Trump administration's argument that construction of offshore wind farms should be halted for national security reasons, with some judges suggesting that the government isn't making its claim in good faith.

Cases concerning illnesses stemming from the herbicide paraquat and talcum power are kicking off 2026 in Philadelphia's mass tort system, pitting corporate powerhouses like Chevron, Syngenta and Johnson & Johnson against the city's perceived plaintiff-friendly juries.

Volvo drivers filed a proposed class action in New York federal court Thursday alleging that the automotive giant sold more than 400,000 vehicles with defective rearview camera systems that don't operate properly or disappear from the dashboard display while the car is in reverse.

The top brass of toy company Hasbro Inc. have been hit with a shareholder suit alleging they misled investors about the company's strategy for its popular Magic: The Gathering brand, leading to stock price declines as it was revealed that the game's signature cards were being overprinted.

The Sixth Circuit won't resuscitate investor claims against the company now known as Bread Financial Holdings Inc., finding that the suit didn't show how shareholders were misled or defrauded leading up to a corporate spin-off that ended in bankruptcy.

The state of Connecticut's attempt to collect $13.2 million in taxes from the estate of a healthcare executive and a hospital's potential liability for releasing a mental health patient who later killed his girlfriend are two of the top cases on the Connecticut Supreme Court's January and February docket. Here are the highlights of the court's fourth term of its 2025-2026 season.

An Illinois state appeals court has ruled that an urgent care center found liable at trial for medical negligence was entitled to have the $2.92 million verdict reduced by the amount its co-defendants agreed to pay in a high-low deal reached just before the verdict was reached.

A proposed class of medical providers and collection agencies accusing Equifax, Experian and TransUnion of colluding to exclude medical debt under $500 from consumer credit reports is opposing a bid by the credit bureaus to expedite an appeal of a ruling that denied dismissal of the claims.

Law360 Employment Authority covers the biggest employment cases and trends. Catch up this week with coverage on how an interaction between a United Auto Workers member and President Donald Trump at a Michigan Ford plant could be a lesson for employers and unions on how to handle political speech in the workplace, a look at five trends among paid leave laws that took place in the United States in January and how the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act could land before the U.S. Supreme Court after the Fifth Circuit granted en banc review to a case challenging whether the law was validly enacted.

The conservative think tank leading the case against the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's market oversight tool known as the consolidated audit trail has asked a Texas federal judge not to delay legal proceedings any further while the agency works to change the tool.

Not since the Civil War has the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in as few cases as it will this term — the latest milestone for the court's shrinking docket, and one attorneys say might have more to do with the high court's culture than its expanding emergency appeals caseload.

A Michigan federal judge on Thursday allowed a class of Benton Harbor residents a chance to pursue $25 million from the city's insurer over toxic lead levels in municipal water, citing the city's inability to pay settlements and the residents' risk of a "Pyrrhic victory" if they prevail at trial.

A Florida federal judge recommended denying a request by a university basketball player to expedite an injunction allowing her to play a fifth season, finding the National College Athletic Association wasn't inconsistent with denying eligibility.

A federal judge rejected a local trucking group's bid to force California to lift its freeze on immigrant truck driver's licenses, saying the Golden State cannot run afoul of federal mandates in a way that would jeopardize highway funding or risk the state's licensing program getting decertified altogether.

The D.C. Circuit on Friday denied a petition challenging the method used by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to determine the value of oil flowing through an Alaskan pipeline, finding the agency correctly considered inflation and other factors.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday filed to dismiss an enforcement action against Gemini Trust Company, solidifying a deal the parties reached in September over the crypto exchange's now-shuttered lending program.

The D.C. federal court ruling earlier this month that upended a deal for Edwards Lifesciences Corp. to purchase JenaValve Technology Inc. was based on concerns that the deal would reduce innovation by eliminating competition for a heart valve treatment that's still being developed, according to a Friday opinion by the judge who issued the ruling.

A judge in Manhattan said Friday that jury selection for the federal murder trial of Luigi Mangione over the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson will begin Sept. 8, but the rest of the trial schedule is dependent on whether prosecutors are allowed to seek the death penalty.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta on Friday asked the Ninth Circuit to shut down the Trump administration's emergency approvals for Sable Offshore Corp.-owned onshore pipelines, calling it another "unlawful power grab" that violates the Administrative Procedure Act.

Cartiva Inc. was sued Thursday in Pennsylvania federal court by a woman who claims that she was injured by a recalled defective toe implant device and that the company has concealed its safety data from regulators and medical providers.

A Washington state judge appeared somewhat open Friday to a Seattle-based flight attendant's bid to certify a worker class based on allegations that Alaska Airlines failed to provide adequate breaks, but suggested the plaintiff's wage claims may be beyond the court's reach because of underlying questions about a union agreement.

Attorneys for asylum seekers, who are a part of a class the government is barred from deporting until their immigration cases conclude, told a Maryland federal judge that the Trump administration keeps deporting class members anyway.

The U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling that a Delaware medical malpractice statute can't be enforced in federal court won't cause a noticeable rise in cases, experts said, but it could lay the groundwork for other cases involving conflicting procedural state laws.

Meme coin launchpad Pump.Fun defeated a sanctions bid on Friday over allegations it permitted crypto tokens on its platform that threaten individuals suing it, but a Manhattan federal judge said the bid could be renewed if the harassment starts up again.

The Fourth Circuit on Friday relieved for good North Carolina's government from a long-running copyright infringement suit over photos and videos of a famous pirate shipwreck, saying a lower court was wrong to revive the claims in the case, which at one point went to the U.S. Supreme Court.

A Florida appellate judge has strongly criticized the lack of a selective publication system for the state's appeals courts, which he said creates an overreliance on unsigned per curiam decisions that can lead to inconsistent applications of law across the state.

A Comerica Inc. activist investor sued in Delaware's Court of Chancery Friday for an emergency temporary restraining order to block the company from closing Feb. 1 on a proposed $10.9 billion, all-stock acquisition by Fifth Third Bancorp, branding the terms as "fire sale" and tainted by fiduciary breaches.

A Pennsylvania federal judge granted final approval Friday for a $200 million deal resolving employee benefits plans' claims against Sun Pharmaceutical and Taro Pharmaceuticals in the sprawling price-fixing litigation against generic-drug makers, while again ensuring the claims from dozens of state attorneys general remain untouched by the settlement.

A Connecticut municipal risk financing agency filed a declaratory action in federal court demanding coverage from Munich Reinsurance America Inc. for negligence litigation set for trial this year concerning the alleged sexual abuse of a former public school student.

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has found that Samsung was able to show that a pair of Pictiva OLED patents are invalid, including one patent that accounted for $92.6 million of an infringement verdict against the South Korean electronics giant.

The Illinois Supreme Court denied a posthumous certificate of innocence for a man who spent over two years in prison for drug charges due to Chicago police corruption, finding Friday that the certificate is a "personal statutory right" that cannot survive the petitioner's death.

The Illinois Supreme Court on Friday allowed Grain Belt Express LLC to move forward with plans to stretch a high-voltage direct current transmission line across nine southern Illinois counties as part of a $7 billion power supply project, reversing a lower court that said the company behind the project hadn't properly shown that it could finance it.

The foreign representative overseeing the defunct Brazilian auto parts maker Proema Automotiva SA has asked a New York bankruptcy court for permission to obtain discovery from 19 people and entities in its Chapter 15 hunt for assets.

Whether a worker qualifies for an arbitration exemption depends on what they do, not on the legal structure of their work, 14 states and the District of Columbia told the U.S. Supreme Court, backing a driver for Flowers Foods seeking to keep his wage suit out of arbitration.

Two former Epsilon Data Management LLC employees convicted for their roles in selling data to mail scammers who preyed on the elderly and vulnerable asked the Tenth Circuit to overturn their convictions Friday, while the panel questioned the government's conspiracy case against Epsilon's former business manager.

The D.C. Circuit on Friday reluctantly ended a 16-year-old lawsuit brought by the descendants of a Hungarian Jewish art collector seeking the return of a priceless art collection looted by the Nazis, saying they could not show that the artwork had been expropriated.

Coinbase and its top brass have again urged a New Jersey federal judge to toss a class action alleging the cryptocurrency exchange misled investors about its regulatory risks and bankruptcy concerns, arguing investors were given enough notice about a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission investigation and that new Third Circuit rulings undercut the suit's claims.

Veteran bankruptcy attorney Jeffrey T. Testa, a partner at McCarter & English LLP, has been appointed as Chapter 11 trustee in the bankruptcy of fundraising tech company Flipcause.

Understaffing by Choice Hotels forced workers to skip meal and rest breaks and accrue overtime that the company never properly paid, said a former employee's proposed class and collective action filed Thursday in Washington federal court.

A lawyer for former CytoDyn CEO Nader Pourhassan — the man convicted in December of securities fraud and insider trading — said that the executive's journey at the company began with a "desire to help people." That journey ended Friday at a hearing in a Maryland federal courtroom with a 30-month prison sentence.

A Florida appeals court on Friday reversed the denial of a motion to toss part of a medical malpractice suit against an obstetrician and his employer, finding that the husband who brought the suit over the wrongful death of his wife from a uterine tumor failed to give proper presuit notice.

The Illinois Supreme Court left a physician's medical malpractice trial win intact on Friday despite a juror's "surrender" note stating the individual was siding with the defense only to end otherwise deadlocked deliberations, saying the trial court handled both the deadlock and the jury's postverdict polling correctly.

Two New York federal judges rejected requests by delivery companies Instacart, DoorDash and Uber to halt New York City laws regulating tipping options, minimum wage and disclosure requirements, saying that the companies didn't support their arguments that the laws violate the First Amendment and federal preemption principles.

Two Second Circuit judges expressed oftentimes conflicting interpretations of the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act during a case hearing Friday, engaging in a lengthy debate hinged on what claims the arbitration shield can keep in court.

A New York bankruptcy judge has signed off on an agreement between the disputed head of telecommunications company FTE and its board of directors to take their dispute over control of the company and its Chapter 11 case to Nevada court.

For the Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP attorneys advising The Interpublic Group of Companies Inc. on its blockbuster merger with Omnicom Group Inc., reaching the finish line came with an unusual antitrust concession: a Federal Trade Commission agreement aimed at the politics of ad placement.

The government is appealing a Massachusetts federal court's finding that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees whom the agency apprehended in the state are entitled to a bond hearing.

An Atlanta-based aerospace and information technology company has been hit with a proposed collective action in Georgia federal court over allegations that it failed to properly calculate pay rates when paying overtime to its air traffic controllers.

Corporate leaders of bankrupt medical device maker Zynex Inc. said late Thursday that they were aware of the federal arrests and indictments of the company's former CEO and chief operating officer earlier in the week, but that they are no longer employed by the business and have been removed from any position they previously held.

An Ohio appeals court on Friday reinstated a woman's malpractice claim against a hospital where she underwent spinal surgery, saying she didn't need an expert to address the alleged negligence of a staffer in handing the wrong tool to her surgeon.

As artificial intelligence increasingly becomes a core driver in drug discovery, it is critical for drug companies to adapt their drafting strategies to the unique features of AI-generated inventions, and to pay particularly close attention to enablement standards, says Sanandan Malhotra at Novo Nordisk.

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to take up a suit challenging target-date fund offerings in two Intel employee 401(k) plans gives benefits attorneys hope that clarity is coming on whether meaningful benchmarks are required to plead that investment underperformance breached fiduciary duties under federal benefits law.

To safeguard against unnecessary deaths in custody, courts and policymakers should clarify that incarcerated individuals’ constitutional right to medical care also includes access to sufficient information about their medical conditions, lifting current restrictions that can lead to crucial information being withheld, says Jaehyun Oh at Jacob Fuchsberg Law.

The daughter of billionaire Alexander Vik has pulled a federal lawsuit against Deutsche Bank after a state court ordered a pause on litigation in Norway, but left open the possibility that she could refile her request for an anti-suit injunction barring the German multinational bank from suing her.

The owner of the Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project can immediately access $5 million of a $10 million debtor-in-possession loan, a Delaware bankruptcy judge ruled on Friday, as the company hopes to quickly sell the Nevada power plant in its second Chapter 11.

The Third Circuit's January lineup will find Citizens Bank and Quest Diagnostics attempting to fight off bids from former employees to revive suits over their compensation.

Telecommunications firm Veon Ltd. has received preliminary approval of its $19.97 million settlement with shareholders who accused the company of defrauding investors by not disclosing it had paid bribes in Uzbekistan, potentially ending a more than decade-long of litigation related to the claims.

A group of environmental nonprofits is asking a federal district court for a summary judgment win in their challenge to a plan to clear-cut 12,331 acres in Montana's Flathead National Forest, saying the project's biological opinion does not reflect the litany of construction that is already underway adjacent to the property.

The enforcement of arbitral awards against sovereign states is one of the most contentious and rapidly evolving areas in international arbitration, with three defining issues on the 2026 horizon: the scope of sovereign immunity, assignability of rights, and availability of fraud and corruption defenses, say attorneys at Cleary.

Voting rights groups asked a federal judge Thursday to reinstate an injunction against Georgia enforcing a ban on handing out food and water to voters in line outside of polling places, arguing a recent Eleventh Circuit opinion vacating the injunction didn't undermine any of their substantive arguments.

News rating organization NewsGuard became the latest group to challenge a Federal Trade Commission subpoena looking for censorship of conservative viewpoints, asking the agency to quash information demands it said was born of FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson's "ideologically motivated effort to censor and otherwise discriminate" against it.

Four recent complaints claiming that employees pay unreasonable premiums for voluntary benefit programs contribute to a trend in Employee Retirement Income Security Act class actions targeting employers and benefits consultants over such programs, increasing scrutiny of how the programs are selected, priced and administered, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.

Investment platform Linqto is seeking final court approval of its disclosure statement and Chapter 11 plan. Home solar company PosiGen is seeking approval of its disclosure statement and solicitation procedures. RV refrigerator maker Norcold and lidar developer Luminar are seeking approval of their asset sales.

Launching and sustaining a law firm requires skills most law schools don't teach, but every lawyer should understand a few core principles that can make the leap calculated rather than reckless, says Sam Katz at Athlaw.

A split Fourth Circuit panel ruled Friday that a district court did not abuse its discretion in finding a challenge to the federal government's termination of a citizenship preparation grant program likely belongs in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision this month in Bost v. Illinois State Board of Elections broadens standing for candidates challenging state election rules, marking a welcome shift from other decisions that have impeded access to federal courts, says Daniel Tokaji at the University of Wisconsin Law School.

The Federal Circuit on Friday ruled that a patent covering tire pressure monitoring was invalid for obviousness, overturning a jury verdict putting Autel Intelligent Technology Corp. Ltd. on the hook for $6.6 million that was overruled by a Texas federal judge for different reasons.

The Trump administration will now face a higher evidentiary burden to deport certain noncitizens after a Massachusetts federal court ruled it violated professors' and students' free speech rights for trying to remove them for their Palestinian advocacy.

The priorities outlined in the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority's recently released annual oversight report focus on the organization's core mission of protecting investors, with AI being the sole new topic area, but financial firms can expect further reforms aimed at efficiency and modernization, say attorneys at Armstrong Teasdale.

A Florida appeals court on Friday upheld manslaughter-related convictions for a man accused of driving drunk and killing another motorist with his vehicle, rejecting his argument that prosecutors didn't prove he was the operator of a truck that caused the wreck.

The U.S. Department of Commerce hit imported slag pots from China with countervailing and antidumping duties Friday after the U.S. International Trade Commission had found the dumped and subsidized imports were causing material injury to domestic industry.

The full Ninth Circuit won't reconsider an appellate panel's recent decision refusing to revive a proposed antitrust class action alleging Google's terms suppresses competition by locking out rival maps products and jacking up developer costs up to 1,400%, according to a brief order issued Thursday.

Drone maker DJI has petitioned the Federal Communications Commission to reconsider a December decision the company says effectively bars many of its products from being marketed, sold or imported into the U.S., arguing the agency exceeded its authority and violated the company's constitutional rights.

A convicted embezzler who accused her attorneys of botching her defenses in criminal and civil cases cannot rely on a longer six-year statute of repose for breach of contract claims to overcome her delay in filing a legal malpractice case, an intermediate Massachusetts appellate court said Friday.

A vegan protein company has asked the Delaware Chancery Court to block what it describes as a deeply unfair capital call that would dramatically dilute its ownership stake in a mineral-processing venture, accusing its majority partner of engineering a squeeze-out through bad-faith governance and below-market pricing.

A North Carolina appeals court should uphold the suspension of a former state court judge's law license over alleged misconduct at his law firm and on the bench, the state bar said, arguing the disciplinary board acted within its power and had sufficient evidence to revoke his license.

Cohn & Dussi LLC is breaking into South Florida after more than three decades headquartered in Boston, bringing on a pair of partners to help grow the firm's first expansion outside of Massachusetts.

Data shows that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's seemingly unlimited authority to levy monetary penalties on market participants has diverged far from the federal securities laws' limitations, but three reforms can help reverse the trend, say David Slovick at Kopecky Schumacher and Phil Lieberman at Vanderbilt Law.

The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in three cases and issued opinions in three others this week, with oral arguments on President Donald Trump's attempt to fire Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook taking center stage. Here, Law360 Pulse takes a data-driven dive into the week that was at the high court.

A Long Island school district is facing a federal Civil Rights Act violation for complying with New York's ban on the use of Indigenous mascots and imagery in public schools.

Philadelphia-based Saul Ewing LLP has expanded its professional executive team with the recent addition of a chief marketing officer, who plans to use his more than 20 years of business development experience to guide the firm's growth strategy.

The Georgia state appeals court has reversed a medical malpractice trial win for an OB/GYN, finding the trial court was wrong in not dismissing a potential juror who worked as an attorney for the doctor's medical insurer for cause, a ruling that led the former patient to use a peremptory strike to remove the lawyer from the panel.

The EEOC voted to retract major harassment and discrimination protections as civil rights advocates protested. And Goldman Sachs denied rumors it was easing out its prominent chief legal officer despite the lingering stigma over her association with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Offit Kurman Attorneys At Law is growing its Texas team, bringing in two tax litigators from Houston boutique Zerbe Miller Fingeret Frank & Jadav LLP as principals in its new Dallas office.

The Federal Communications Commission has designated for hearing a proposed transfer of control involving three Texas radio stations, citing substantial questions about unauthorized foreign control, misrepresentations, and lack of candor that could ultimately lead to license revocation.

The U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision in Berk v. Choy restricts the application of certain state laws in diversity actions in federal court — and while the ruling concerned affidavit requirements in medical malpractice suits, it may also affect the use of anti-SLAPP statutes in federal litigation, says Travis Chance at Brownstein Hyatt.

A Massachusetts state court judge said Friday he is still grappling with how to craft an order barring prediction market Kalshi from promoting sports-related event offerings in the state without infringing on the rights of existing contract holders, asking counsel for the company and the Massachusetts Office of the Attorney General for help hammering out the details.

Dechert LLP announced Friday it is bringing aboard 20 partners from McDermott Will & Schulte spanning litigation, intellectual property and other practice areas in six cities across the country, including for upcoming firm offices in Chicago and Dallas.

As baby boomers get older and develop more intense healthcare needs, attorneys in the prime of their careers are increasingly pressed to also provide care to their elderly parents.

A Pennsylvania federal judge has given final approval to a $675,000 settlement of claims that former Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP allegedly spent money meant for attorneys' retirement accounts to stay afloat, and awarded one-third of that amount to The Barton Firm LLP and The Garner Firm Ltd.

U.S. Department of Justice alumni and a group that includes attorneys, law professors and former judges have filed briefs supporting former Manhattan federal prosecutor Maurene Comey's call for a New York federal court to reject the DOJ's bid to dismiss a suit over her firing.

Judges from Colorado, Louisiana and Texas on Friday launched the Judicial Artificial Intelligence Consortium, a judge-only educational forum focused on the use of AI in the courts.

2ND EDITING/Q -- A mediated deal on corporate governance reforms and a fee and expenses award have tentatively settled a consolidated Delaware Court of Chancery derivative suit targeting oversight and disclosure failures involving a "hydrafacial" skin treatment device that cost The Beauty Health Co. at least $63.2 million to manage.

Williams & Connolly LLP leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court held in a unanimous opinion that restitution is a criminal punishment subject to the Constitution's ban on increasing punishment retroactively.

Technology mergers and acquisitions surged in 2025 as buyers chased artificial intelligence capabilities, data infrastructure and cybersecurity assets, with total values nearly doubling in the North American market, according to a recent report from Morrison Foerster LLP.

With a second corruption trial looming, former Connecticut school construction official Konstantinos Diamantis has agreed to give up his license to practice law in the state and waive his ability to reapply to the bar.

A Georgia gas company facing a lawsuit over its role in a gas line explosion counts as an additional insured under its subcontractors' excess insurance policy, a unanimous Seventh Circuit panel has ruled, upholding a lower court's decision.

In the coming week, attorneys should watch for a summary judgment hearing in a former BlackBerry Corp. executive's discrimination and harassment suit. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.

A Texas federal court will not force OpenAI Inc. to hand over its source code in an antitrust case from Elon Musk's X Corp. over the artificial intelligence company's deal to integrate ChatGPT on Apple devices.

Following former special counsel Jack Smith's congressional appearance, Democrats are looking for him to return once he is able to speak about the second volume of his report on President Donald Trump's retention of classified documents after he left office.

FTX Recovery Trust said it will appeal after losing its bid to claw back a $650,000 bonus given to an employee of the defunct cryptocurrency exchange that was earmarked for charitable purposes.

The Iowa Supreme Court on Friday declined to reinstate a suit against a nursing home alleging its negligence caused the death of a resident from COVID-19, saying the plaintiffs failed to put up evidence that would overcome immunity conferred by state law.

A precious metals partnership notified a Colorado federal judge Tuesday of plans to move its lawsuit against FTM Wealth to state court after learning from FTM member Nathaniel Ott's lawyer that he is a Colorado citizen, in a case over an alleged tax scam that the plaintiffs say cost them $12 million.

The Federal Circuit on Friday threw out a Patent Trial and Appeal Board decision finding Guardant Health couldn't show that a University of Washington DNA sequencing patent is invalid, sending the case back to the board for another look.

A former partner at Ross Feller Casey LLP consented Friday to a three-year suspension of his license to practice in Pennsylvania after admitting that he misled clients in mass tort litigation against the makers of Roundup and Risperdal about the status of settlements.

Ethiopian immigrants on Friday sued for emergency relief to stop the Trump administration from ending their temporary protected status next month, arguing discrimination fueled the decision and ignored the armed conflict and humanitarian crises in their country.

The First Circuit backed the dismissal of a suit filed by residents of a Massachusetts town who sued over the local planning board's proposed high-density multifamily zoning district, ruling that they lacked standing to sue.

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP has hired two e-discovery experts as partners for its complex litigation strategic counseling practice in Washington, D.C., and New York City.

Five people have been charged in connection with the shooting of an Indiana Superior Court Judge and his wife at their home Sunday following an investigation involving state law enforcement in Indiana and Kentucky and federal agencies.

In this week's Taxation With Representation, Swedish private equity company EQT buys U.K. secondaries firm Coller Capital, biopharmaceutical giant GSK PLC acquires Rapt Therapeutics Inc., and fusion energy company General Fusion announces plans to go public by merging with special purpose acquisition company Spring Valley Acquisition Corp. III.

Whether emissions are allowed under a permit is "irrelevant" when determining whether a commercial general liability policy's pollution exclusion applies to a claim made over those emissions, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled Friday.

An Atlanta attorney has been disbarred by the Supreme Court of Georgia over charges that he filed a "warrantless" suit against a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs guardian and charged his client a 40% fee for a couple of hours of work in forwarding a $200,000 check to him.

The Seventh Circuit on Wednesday affirmed the Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund's win in a former accountant's lawsuit claiming he was fired because he is a Black man in his 60s, holding that the lower court didn't err in finding that poor job performance led to his termination.

The Seventh Circuit has declined to reinstate a military veteran's claims that a photo of him on patrol in Afghanistan was improperly licensed and sold as a poster by online retailers, saying the case is time-barred since the statute of limitations clock began when the photo was published and not when he discovered it.

A customer experience tech company will pay $750,000 to end a proposed class action alleging it failed to negotiate lower fees for its workers' 401(k) plan and admitted to only occasionally monitoring its investment lineup, according to a Colorado federal judge's order approving a settlement.

The Ninth Circuit has told immigration judges to reconsider their denial of a Honduran woman's bid for asylum and withholding of removal when evidence showed the Honduran government was unable or unwilling to protect her from a gang member partner's abuse.

The U.S. Department of Justice continues to build its task force targeting "gamesmanship" that it says BigLaw attorneys for major companies, especially technology platforms, are using to obstruct antitrust investigations — an effort that has been welcomed by some practitioners and questioned by others.

A $55 million Series B investment tops this roundup of recent legal technology news.

Banking giant Capital One Financial Corp. has announced plans to acquire fintech company Brex in a $5.15 billion cash-and-stock deal that was built by five law firms.

The Delaware Chancery Court has recommended dismissing a lawsuit brought by software company Daxko LLC and its parent Diamond Parent LP against a former sales executive, concluding that the sweeping noncompete agreement at the center of the dispute is unenforceable under Delaware law.

A Texas bankruptcy judge gave Saks' online affiliate permission to get the ball rolling on an inventory liquidation after the retailer said a quick sale is needed to meet its lenders' terms for allowing it to use cash collateral.

Perkins Coie LLP has hired the former assistant chief of the Defense, Industrials and Aerospace Section of the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division, who helped argue that Google had illegally maintained a monopoly over online searches.

Delta Air Lines and a food service company cheated workers at airport lounges out of wages by not paying them for time spent undergoing security checks and by denying them meal and rest breaks, a worker said in a proposed class action in California state court.

Czechoslovak Group said Friday that it has raised €3.8 billion ($4.5 billion) in its initial public offering in the largest European IPO since 2022.

This past week in London saw Travelers Insurance hit with a claim from a property buyer over a payout tied to collapsed law firm Axiom Ince, Swedish music group Pophouse Entertainment clash with the production company that helped it create the ABBA Voyage experience, and biotech company Vertex Pharmaceuticals sue rival entity ToolGen for patent infringement.

Australian trading and wealth management technology company Openmarkets unveiled plans Friday to go public by merging with special purpose acquisition company Lake Superior Acquisition Corp. in a deal with an estimated enterprise value of $300 million.

Education technology group Anthology got approval Friday for a revised Chapter 11 reorganization plan that includes a deal with unsecured creditors partially paid for by the settlement of a prepetition suit against a lender.

Construction equipment rental company EquipmentShare began trading Friday after raising $747 million at the midpoint of an expected range in an initial public offering guided by Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP and underwriters counsel Latham & Watkins LLP.

A Manhattan federal judge asked Friday whether federal and state authorities who accuse Live Nation of stifling competition in live entertainment would consent to staying state-law claims, focusing on federal claims in an upcoming trial that won't end up "lasting five years."

This was another action-packed week for the legal industry as law firms launched new practices, hired attorneys and reported record-breaking lobbying figures. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.

McDermott Will & Schulte LLP has expanded its bank regulatory platform with a New York-based transactional partner who joined from Haynes Boone.

With experiences as both a patent engineer and a lawyer, Kilpatrick's new San Francisco leader, Neslihan "Nesli" Doran-Civan, is thrilled to bridge the gap between both backgrounds in her work at the firm.

Norwegian telecoms company Telenor said it has agreed to sell its entire stake in Thailand's True Corp. for approximately 39 billion Norwegian kroner ($4 billion), marking an exit from the country after 25 years.

Apple has been hit with a competition claim in London on behalf of more than 50 million U.K. consumers who allege that the technology giant imposed fees concerning Apple Pay on financial institutions which increased banking costs by up to £1.5 billion ($2 billion).

The Sixth Circuit on Wednesday refused to reinstate a discrimination suit alleging the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department fired a Black female accountant because of her race, finding her performance reviews reflected continuous issues like missing work deadlines or making errors that took weeks to fix.

A California appellate court on Wednesday issued a landmark opinion partially resurrecting a suit accusing a Los Angeles-area landlord of illegally refusing to share various background check information with rental applicants, finding that tenants do have standing to sue under California law even if they haven't suffered any actual damages.

TikTok's Beijing-based owner, ByteDance, has sold a majority stake in the video app's U.S. operations to a new U.S.-based joint venture managed by a group of non-Chinese investors in order to comply with a congressional mandate and avoid the app's shutdown, the company announced Thursday.

The First Circuit on Wednesday refused to vacate a Boston-area pizzeria chain owner's forced labor convictions and an 8½-year prison sentence, finding adequate evidence to back the jury's findings and no error in how the court calculated his sentence.

Crypto project Mango Labs can't cancel the terms of a nearly $700,000 settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission just because the agency has pivoted away from crypto enforcement cases and left the project with "buyer's remorse," a Manhattan federal judge ruled.

A D.C. Circuit judge pressed the government on Thursday to justify a policy that effectively bars transgender people from serving in the military, questioning why Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth imposed a more stringent policy than the first Trump administration did.

Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield's decision denying coverage for a law firm employee's son to continue receiving residential mental health treatment was arbitrary and capricious, the Sixth Circuit ruled Thursday, saying the insurer needs to carry out a "full and fair review of the requested coverage."

Colorado pushed back against calls for the Tenth Circuit to grant a full court rehearing of a challenge to the state's "opt-out" law on interest rates, arguing that a recent panel decision upholding the law does not merit review by the full appeals court.

Yale University and Yale New Haven Hospital on Thursday asked a Connecticut judge to reduce a $32 million infant death verdict to just $2 million, saying damages for the loss of enjoyment of life cannot be awarded in addition to damages for the infant's death itself.

A California federal judge indicated Thursday that he's unlikely to grant Epic and Google's request to modify a permanent injunction issued after a jury found Google monopolized the distribution of apps on Android devices, saying they have to show changed circumstances, and "I haven't seen anything change, other than a deal" between the companies.

The families of three U.S. soldiers killed in a drone attack orchestrated by alleged terrorists at a military installation in Jordan sued the Islamic Republic of Iran in D.C. federal court on Thursday seeking to recover monetary damages for the deaths of their loved ones.

A California federal judge certified Thursday a class of Golden State consumers who accuse The J.M. Smucker Co. of failing to disclose risks of so-called PFAS forever chemicals in certain pet-food packaging, rejecting Smucker's arguments, among others, that PFAS exposure is too individualized for classwide resolution.

The state of North Carolina has asked a state appeals court to undo the acquittal of two men who were found to have been wrongly convicted of murder and robbery in the death of the grandfather of NBA star Chris Paul in 2002, arguing the men should instead be given a retrial.

A debt collection agency asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to pause a Third Circuit decision that found an ex-employee's sharing of a password spreadsheet didn't make for a case under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, saying the appeals court improperly narrowed the scope of the statute.

The Chicago Transit Authority put a former employee into an "impossible dilemma" and forced him to choose between honoring his Christian faith or receiving a COVID-19 vaccine when it flatly rejected his vaccination exemption request and later fired him for mandate noncompliance, Illinois federal jurors heard Thursday.

A North Carolina prosecutor can't be targeted in a race bias and retaliation suit under Title VII, as the Black assistant district attorney alleging an unlawful pay disparity isn't an "employee" under the federal statute, the prosecutor's counsel told a North Carolina federal court Thursday.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said Thursday that it has signed off on industrial loan company applications from Ford Motor Co. and General Motors Co., clearing the two automakers to open federally insured banking units over objections from community bankers.

The family and ex-wife of a former bitcoin miner CEO will pay the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission nearly $900,000 to exit the regulator's claims the CEO misappropriated $48.5 million from investors.

A Texas appeals court on Thursday pushed the son of deceased billionaire and Houston Texans founder Robert McNair to explain why a probate court has no jurisdiction over claims that he surreptitiously placed poison pill agreements into the companies he ran.

A former payday lending executive and race car driver convicted of running a fraudulent $2 billion lending scheme urged the Second Circuit on Thursday to grant him a new trial, in light of his trial counsel's criminal exposure stemming from another client's blackmail scheme.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. on Thursday finalized a rollback of its digital signage requirements, easing where and how banks must display FDIC-insured labeling online after industry criticized a prior Biden-era revamp as overly rigid and confusing for customers.

A former lawyer at SCOTUSblog founder Thomas Goldstein's firm said Thursday that Goldstein told coworkers that the more than $960,000 in cash he brought off a flight from Hong Kong — the source of which is integral to the government's case — had come from a client.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday approved a 2026 budget for the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board that includes a 9.4% decrease overall from the prior year and cuts upward of 42% for board members' compensation.

Clashes over the scope of federal preemption in personal injury cases involving freight brokers and motor carriers, the Trump administration's gutting of Biden-era vehicle emissions standards and cuts to states' transportation and infrastructure funding are among the court battles that transportation attorneys are monitoring in 2026.

Medical providers facing a racketeering suit from Allstate units pressed the New Jersey Supreme Court on Thursday to compel the insurers to arbitrate even large-scale fraud and racketeering claims tied to personal injury protection benefits under the state's no-fault statute, as the justices questioned whether that was feasible.

House Judiciary Committee staffers said Wednesday that they'd uncovered "a pattern of anticompetitive activity" in CVS Health tactics aimed at coercing independent pharmacies into avoiding working with online services the company saw as a threat to its own pharmacy and pharmacy benefit manager businesses.

The full Federal Circuit on Thursday rejected prolific inventor Gilbert Hyatt's rehearing petition asking the court to abolish the doctrine of prosecution laches, which can render a patent unenforceable based on delays by the owner during the application process.

A Federal Circuit panel on Thursday agreed with a Washington federal court's conclusion that a livestreaming patent asserted against Google covers a patent-ineligible abstract idea, finding the relevant claims were too "result-oriented."

A married couple in California has been indicted by a federal grand jury for charges related to their alleged involvement in a securities fraud and money laundering scheme involving falsely promoting and dumping shares of several public companies, including a purported rooftop solar business and a crypto mining firm, according to prosecutors.

The full Fifth Circuit pushed multiple immigrants' rights organizations to explain why a Texas law allowing the state to arrest unauthorized immigrants could not stand, asking Thursday where it says in the U.S. Constitution immigrants have a right to file for asylum.

The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has declared that the city of Chester lost the ability to single-handedly reclaim the assets of its water utility when the composition of the authority's board changed.

Counsel for car parts maker First Brands told a Texas bankruptcy judge Thursday it agreed to lift the automatic stay of its Chapter 11 case to allow certain lenders to access around $250 million of inventory collateral, under an agreement that also resolved a motion to dismiss the bankruptcies of debtor-affiliated special purpose vehicles.

A proposal to loosen restrictions on the use of federal criminal subpoenas would endanger and further traumatize victims of crime, most of whom lack legal representation to fight the invasive demands, victims' rights advocates told a federal rules advisory committee on Thursday.

Michigan county dispatchers can't be held responsible for the murder of a man by his mentally ill son, the Sixth Circuit ruled Thursday, finding that although the son told 911 he "might do something bad" an hour before the killing, the agency's "failure to act does not suffice."

The Federal Trade Commission urged a California federal court not to toss its case accusing Live Nation of deceiving customers and artists, saying the live events and ticketing giant failed to disclose the actual price of tickets and turned a blind eye to scalpers on its platforms.

Elon Musk's SpaceX is putting together a group of Wall Street investment banks for a potential IPO, Spirit Airlines is in talks with investment firm Castlelake to help lead it out of bankruptcy, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman looks to the Middle East to potentially raise tens of billions of dollars.

National litigation news outlet Courthouse News Service has voluntarily and permanently dropped claims against a Washington, D.C., Superior Court clerk and the executive officer of the D.C. courts over filing delays, with both sides agreeing to pay their own costs.

Retired U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Robert D. Drain has until Friday to mediate a conflict at the heart of a Chapter 11 plan proposed by the company behind a major porta-potty provider, with the dispute stemming from a 2024 liability management exercise that did not include a key creditor.

Shoppers accusing Amazon of failing to make required disclosures on dietary supplement product pages told a Seattle federal judge there's no need to pause their proposed class action amid possible rulemaking by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, arguing that the supposed rule change wouldn't negate the suit's claims under California law.

New securities class action filings fell overall last year, along with aggregate settlement values and attorney fees, but the emergence of tariff-related suits could present a new trend in filings in response to actions taken by the U.S. government, according to a recent National Economic Research Associates Inc. report.

The Seventh Circuit on Wednesday reversed a win for The Toro Company in a suit brought by a woman who lost a leg in an incident with a riding lawn mower, finding that one of her experts should be allowed to testify about brakes.

Expedia urged a Florida magistrate judge on Thursday to dismiss a lawsuit accusing the online travel company of trafficking in an island confiscated by the Cuban government, arguing that a simple assertion of ownership of a claim to the property is not enough to put Expedia on notice of potential violations.

A Georgia federal judge has recommended tossing a former metropolitan Atlanta deputy sheriff's suit alleging he was forced to resign because he supported the sheriff's 2024 election opponent, while also urging sanctions against the deputy's attorney for citing nonexistent cases and misstating the law.

Online trading platforms Kalshi and Robinhood have asked a Wisconsin federal judge to deny a bid by a Native American tribe to preliminarily block them from offering sports event contracts on tribal lands, arguing that stopping them would harm their businesses and customers.

A New Jersey appellate court on Thursday upheld dismissal of claims accusing Bally's Atlantic City Hotel & Casino of preventing unionized bartenders from working at a new casino bar because of their age, finding that the claims fail to show a discriminatory motive for the bar's hiring decisions.

Counsel for sexual abuse survivors on Thursday told a Louisiana bankruptcy judge they have standing to contest legal fee applications in the Chapter 11 case of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans, arguing they still have a stake in the outcome.

The Fifth Circuit is standing behind a lower court's decision throwing out a verdict of more than $75 million that plastics manufacturer Trinseo Europe GmbH won in a suit accusing a former Dow Chemical Co. employee and Kellogg Brown & Root LLC of swiping trade secrets.

Patients of Children's Hospital Colorado filed a proposed class action in Colorado state court alleging the healthcare provider is discriminating against them through its suspension of gender-affirming medical care for patients under the age of 18 amid recent federal government mandates.

A Washington federal judge agreed to broaden a preliminary injunction against the Trump administration over its political restrictions for using over $12 billion worth of federal grants, expanding the block to cover additional plaintiffs who were added to the suit.

A Washington federal judge agreed Thursday to extend a deadline for the Trump administration to make fresh determinations as to 138 public school mental health grants that the court has found were illegally canceled, but admonished the federal government for previously understating how long those reassessments would take.

The Federal Circuit on Thursday refused to reconsider decisions invalidating Merck KGaA patents on the blockbuster multiple sclerosis drug Mavenclad, turning aside the German drugmaker's claim that the court set an unjust new rule that means inventors' work can later be used against them.

Mercuria Energy Group urged the D.C. Circuit on Thursday to revive the Cypriot commodities trader's bid to enforce a since-annulled $40 million arbitral award against Poland, saying the United States' commitment to its arbitration-related treaty obligations is at stake.

The Eleventh Circuit gave new life Thursday to a sexual harassment suit from a former Telemundo employee who said she faced retribution for reporting what she alleged was her superiors' misconduct, ruling that she "unquestionably" engaged in protected activity amid "humiliating and degrading" treatment.

A Colorado-based clothing company cannot bring claims that Target infringed the company's registered copyright on several infant sleepwear products, the retail giant told a federal judge, arguing that a prior lawsuit against Target prevents the clothing company from suing it again.

Google urged a California federal judge on Wednesday to dismiss a proposed class action claiming it secretly enabled artificial intelligence tools to scan users' Gmail, Chat and Meet communications, arguing the plaintiffs don't allege their data was accessed or if they suffered any harm.

Shortly after former special counsel Jack Smith gave his first public congressional testimony on the Trump cases, in which he warned the rule of law should not be taken for granted, President Donald Trump said he should be prosecuted.

A group of Geico auto insurers told a Florida federal court Thursday that they are entitled to recoup $26 million from healthcare companies that they allege submitted thousands of fraudulent no-fault insurance claims for various services that were "medically unnecessary, illusory, unlawful, and otherwise nonreimbursable."

A home health company urged the Third Circuit to rethink its decision upholding a $1 million judgment against it after finding that the U.S. Department of Labor could strip third-party employers of an overtime exemption, saying the decision flouted the U.S. Supreme Court's Loper Bright ruling.

The owner of a suburban Pittsburgh grocery store told a Pennsylvania federal judge Thursday that a neighboring Walmart is in violation of a nearly 30-year-old deal not to compete for food sales, blaming a recent remodel for a drop in the grocer's sales.

A Florida state appeals court has ruled that an incarcerated man can be ordered to pay $198,000 in restitution to the state's corrections department to cover the cost of his prison sentence, and that the agency correctly calculated the total he owes.

The lead plaintiffs in a proposed class action against the former CEO of startup investment platform Linqto Texas objected to the company's proposed Chapter 11 plan late Wednesday, telling a Texas bankruptcy court the documents are missing critical information on assets that will be distributable to general unsecured creditors.

The Tenth Circuit has partially revived a case brought by one pest control company against a competitor alleging the business rival bribed employees to turn over sales data, disagreeing with a lower court that the company had not shown financial losses.

The full Fifth Circuit appeared divided Thursday on whether President Donald Trump can label any threat an "invasion" or "predatory incursion" under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act, with judges split between giving the president broad deference and those doubtful the courts have only a limited role.

Meta Platforms has told a judge that Massachusetts' attorney general should not be allowed to fill what the company said are holes in the state's Instagram addiction lawsuit with a late subpoena for records from two of its own health agencies.

An Illinois federal judge has allowed plaintiffs accusing immigration officials of using excessive force to voluntarily end their case, but first disbanded the class of media and peaceful protesters she'd certified late last year.

A Colorado federal judge Thursday gave his initial blessing to a $500,000 settlement resolving a Vitac Corp. employee's allegations that the transcription and closed captioning company didn't pay workers for preparation tasks necessary to perform their jobs, saying the immediate recovery outweighs potential future relief following expensive litigation.

A Connecticut federal judge probed the limits of his equitable powers Thursday in a sprawling generic drug antitrust enforcement action, expressing doubt that he could order the drugmaker defendants to hand over their profits while also awarding multiplied damages and imposing civil penalties.

In 2025, the Federal Circuit's increased output was not enough to keep up with its ever-growing patent case load, and patent owners and applicants fared poorly overall as the court's affirmance rate fell, says Dan Bagatell at Perkins Coie.

Marriott International Inc. has lodged multiple objections in Colorado federal court to fight class certification on a Mexican citizen's claims that it engaged in racketeering to secure cheaper labor via the J-1 visa program, arguing that numerous individualized issues exist.

Cooley LLP-advised Clorox Co. said Thursday it has agreed to acquire Jones Day-guided GOJO Industries, the maker of Purell hand sanitizer, for $2.25 billion in cash.

The Tenth Circuit wrestled Thursday with whether to revive a white former corrections officer's twice-dismissed suit accusing the Colorado Department of Corrections of creating a racially hostile environment through diversity training, with one judge questioning the impact of a recent U.S. Supreme Court that favored majority group plaintiffs.

Citing alleged failures to make news about litigation settlements public ahead of a proposed $18.3 billion company sale, a pension fund stockholder of women's health-focused tech company Hologic Inc. has sued for a Delaware Court of Chancery hold on the deal pending disclosures or damage awards.

The Delaware Chancery Court has dismissed a bid by electronics manufacturer Flex Ltd. to claw back a $48.5 million tax distribution following its 2024 spinoff of Nextracker Inc., ruling that the parties' tax agreement, not broader separation provisions, squarely allocated the disputed tax liability to Flex.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Thursday backed plans from the Trump administration, state governors and PJM Interconnection to address escalating power prices amid data center-fueled increases in electricity demand, and encouraged the nation's largest grid operator to promptly submit policy proposals.

The False Claims Act remains a powerful enforcement tool after some record verdicts and settlements in 2025, and while traditional fraud areas remain a priority, new initiatives are raising questions about its expanding application, says Veronica Nannis at Joseph Greenwald.

The Third Circuit on Thursday vacated a medical cannabis company's win in a lawsuit filed by a consultant claiming that it had stolen his trade secrets for growing marijuana samples, finding it couldn't decide the appeal because the parties' contract might have violated federal drug law.

Three Brooklyn apartment buildings — containing roughly 150 units and collectively owing about $23 million in unpaid mortgage debt, interest and fees — have filed for Chapter 11 protection in New York bankruptcy court.

The Second Circuit temporarily paused a New York federal judge's order blocking Nielsen from tying access to its nationwide radio ratings data to the purchase of local market data.

A settlement resolving Epic Games' antitrust lawsuit against Google that would replace the injunction Epic won against Google's Play Store controls has drawn pushback from the Federal Trade Commission, which is urging strict scrutiny of the agreement currently under the eye of an already skeptical California federal court judge.

The owner of a vacant lot on the Hudson River asked for a bankruptcy judge's blessing to sell the site for $45 million, a Delaware bankruptcy judge rejected Byju's Alpha founder Byju Raveendran's bid for discovery, and a rent-to-own furniture retailer sought approval for the sale of nine stores for $700,000.

A former Florida congressman will get to contest tax charges against him separately from a criminal indictment alleging he and a political consultant failed to register as foreign agents while lobbying on behalf of Venezuela's state oil company, a federal judge ruled.

A California federal court has refused to toss a proposed consumer class action alleging Google's default search agreements block competition from rival search engines that could provide more privacy or even pay users to search.

A former Mars Inc. risk executive on Thursday was sentenced to 63 months in prison and ordered pay the candy company more than $28.4 million in restitution after pleading guilty to two counts of wire fraud and one count of tax evasion surrounding a decade-long fraud scheme.

The powerful use of imagery to capture the protagonist’s experience of postpartum depression in “Die My Love” reminds attorneys that visuals at trial can persuade jurors more than words alone, so they should strategically wield a new federal evidence rule allowing for illustrative aids, says Veronica Finkelstein at Wilmington University.

Meta Platforms can't arbitrate a former engineer's suit alleging it fostered a hostile work environment that discriminated against white male employees and job applicants for hiring opportunities, promotions and bonuses, according to a minute order issued by a California state judge.

A former Amtrak employee has admitted to participating in a scheme that prosecutors claim defrauded the rail carrier out of $11 million in health benefits, making him the 10th defendant in a year to plead guilty in the case, the U.S. attorney's office in New Jersey said on Thursday.

Federal prosecutors won't retry their fraud claims against the former OpenSea manager accused of insider trading on his employer's nonfungible token platform, walking away from the case after the Second Circuit overturned the conviction last July.

A New York City nonprofit that operates homeless shelters shaved time off of employees' hours, resulting in unpaid wages and overtime, according to a proposed class and collective action complaint filed Thursday in New York federal court.

The CEO of an Atlanta-area financial advisory group has pled guilty to conducting a $380 million Ponzi scheme, which is likely the largest in Georgia history, according to prosecutors.

A former Baker McKenzie associate who was sued for defamation over a series of social media posts accusing the firm's Washington, D.C., managing partner of sexual assault has brought her own lawsuit, marking the first time she publicly detailed her allegations in court records.

A California federal judge has thrown out an artificial intelligence diagnostics company Tempus AI's patent infringement suit against medical test-maker Guardant Health, finding claims in the patents weren't patent-eligible to begin with.

A Louisiana personal injury firm has signed an agreement to take private equity investment using a managed services organization, according to an announcement Thursday, one of the few firms to openly acknowledge taking private equity money amid rising interest throughout the industry.

The American Bar Association said attorneys have a limited responsibility to convey information to former clients or successor counsel that was not within the client's file, when doing so is necessary to protect a client's interests and reasonably practicable, according to a new ethics opinion.

As political and legal landscapes continue to shift across key global jurisdictions, with Mexico and England instituting key judicial and arbitral reforms, respectively, international arbitration parties are becoming increasingly strategic in their selection of arbitral seats, say attorneys at Cleary.

A Maryland federal judge on Thursday allowed the manager of the container ship that slammed into Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge to press ahead, for now, with its request to invoke a nearly two-centuries-old maritime law to limit its liability for the 2024 wreck.

T-Mobile USA Inc. is asking a Washington federal judge to compel individual arbitration and stay a proposed class action over alleged wireless plan price hikes, arguing that customers agreed to arbitrate billing disputes and waive class claims.

Pennsylvania's highest court has adopted a balancing test for restricting a sitting judge's free speech outside the context of an election and, in doing so, affirmed the suspension of a state court judge who it said damaged the court's appearance of impartiality by making political posts on social media.

After a year of change across the payments landscape, financial services providers should expect more innovation and the pushing of regulatory boundaries, but should stay mindful that state regulators and litigation will continue to challenge the status quo, say attorneys at Troutman.

A group of state attorneys general led by Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier issued a warning letter Wednesday to climate advocacy organization Ceres claiming concerns about violations of antitrust and consumer protection laws.

Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr has appointed as the state's solicitor general a Jones Day associate who was a law clerk for the U.S. Supreme Court and two other appellate courts.

Legal industry advisory firm Baretz & Brunelle LLC announced Thursday the hiring of a senior director of innovation at Davis Wright Tremaine LLP to lead a new artificial intelligence lab under its legal innovation subsidiary LexFusion.

A Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP attorney who worked on high-profile intellectual property matters representing Google and Jane Street Group has joined Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP as partner in its newly opened San Francisco office, the firm announced Thursday.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's decision this month to order removal of warnings about the risk of suicidal thoughts from GLP-1 weight-loss drugs is premature — and from a safety and legal standpoint, the downside of acting too soon could be profound, says Sean Domnick at Rafferty Domnick.

Private equity-backed oil change operator Strickland Brothers, led by Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP, on Thursday revealed that it secured $360 million of financing to support acquisition activity and allow for continued national expansion.

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP has started a team to defend healthcare providers and others who are facing federal investigations and enforcement actions over gender-affirming care.

Fenwick & West LLP, Cravath Swain & Morrison and Whalen LLP guided Bitgo Holding's Thursday initial public offering, which valued the company at $2.08 billion with shares priced at $18, per an announcement from the fintech company.

Morrison Foerster LLP is expanding its California team, announcing Thursday it is bringing in two Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP attorneys — a mergers and acquisitions expert and a litigation ace — as partners in its Los Angeles office.

EDITING -- Amazon is pushing back against an intellectual property lawyer's effort to escape a lawsuit accusing him of conspiring with a Chinese company to sidestep a U.S. Patent and Trademark Office rule, arguing the claims were properly pled, and that the Seattle federal court is the proper venue.

An Ohio medical cannabis company has said a consolidated class action in federal court should be dismissed as it doesn't allege any of the plaintiffs' data was accessed in a data breach or that the breach could be linked to any real damages.

The Trump administration’s continuing overhaul of the Bureau of Industry and Security has created enormous practical challenges for export compliance, but it potentially also offers a once-in-a-generation opening to advocate for simplifying and rationalizing U.S. export controls, say attorneys at Gibson Dunn.

Duane Morris LLP has promoted 14 associates and special counsel across seven U.S. offices into the firm's partnership, a move that Chairman Matthew Taylor said in a statement reflected optimism for the firm's future.

Chiesa Shahinian & Giantomasi PC named leaders for its corporate and litigation groups this week, selecting a middle-market mergers and acquisitions expert and a former FINRA regulator to hold those respective roles.

Two New York men who hawked pre-initial public offering shares for fraud-ridden vendor StraightPath from "boiler room" sales floors pled guilty Thursday to fraud charges, after Manhattan federal prosecutors charged them with raising $185 million by duping customers.

A Delaware bankruptcy court Thursday gave final confirmation of a Chapter 11 plan proposed by iRobot Corp., the maker of the Roomba robot vacuum, that calls for eliminating $257 million in debt and transferring ownership of the company to its secured creditor.

King & Spalding hired an ex-McDermott Will & Schulte partner for a partner role on its real estate and funds team in New York City, the firm announced.

An attorney specializing in defending clients against product liability claims recently moved his practice to Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott LLC after more than four years with Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP.

Melissa A. DiVincenzo, recently elected chair of Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell LLP's executive committee, tells Law360 Pulse about her goals, the type of leader she intends to be, and measures she will focus on to maintain Morris Nichols' place as a stalwart Delaware firm.

Several stockholders of Dayforce Inc. have asked the Delaware Chancery Court to compel the global human resource software company to hand over internal books and records, arguing the board's handling of a $12.3 billion take-private sale to Thoma Bravo LP warrants closer scrutiny under Delaware law.

Data regarding how the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has adhered to its own civil penalty rules over the past 20 years reveals that awards are no longer determined in accordance with the guidelines imposed on the SEC by the securities laws, say David Slovick at Kopecky Schumacher and Phil Lieberman at Vanderbilt Law.

President Donald Trump on Thursday sued JPMorgan Chase in Florida state court for at least $5 billion in damages, alleging it unlawfully "debanked" him and an array of his business ventures shortly after he left office in 2021.

Opening my home to foreign exchange students makes me a better lawyer not just because prioritizing visiting high schoolers forces me to hone my organization and time management skills, but also because sharing the study-abroad experience with newcomers and locals reconnects me to my community, says Alison Lippa at Nicolaides Fink.

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A Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP commodities partner has joined Sidley Austin LLP's regulatory and enforcement practice in Washington, D.C.

The NCAA has urged the Fourth Circuit to keep hearing its appeal of a preliminary injunction letting four West Virginia University football players compete in a season that is now over, arguing that similar challenges to its eligibility rules are inevitable.

Littler Mendelson PC has elected New York shareholder William J. Anthony to serve as chair of its 19-member 2026 Board of Directors and named three new board members.

Duane Morris LLP has appointed a litigation partner to helm its Texas offices in Dallas and Fort Worth as the first managing partner of those locations transitions to an of counsel role.

In this second of a two-part series, 10 former California federal and state judges discuss the newfound need to market themselves after making the adjustment from the bench to working as neutrals.

Board members of Hawaii-based commercial real estate investment trust Alexander & Baldwin obscured their connections to Blackstone Real Estate in securities filings preceding a proposed $2.3 billion take-private deal, an investor claimed in an Illinois federal lawsuit.

Private equity-backed General Fusion on Thursday announced plans to go public by merging with special purpose acquisition company Spring Valley Acquisition Corp. III in a deal that provides the combined company a roughly $1 billion pro forma equity value and was built by four law firms.

A veteran member of the U.S. Trustee's Office who worked on high-profile Chapter 11 cases in Connecticut, including those involving Chinese exile Miles Guo and rapper 50 Cent, has joined Harris Beach Murtha Cullina PLLC.

Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor LLP announced Thursday that it has added a partner who was at Delaware firm Gordon Fournaris & Mammarella PA for more than a decade to bolster its business planning and tax group.

Legal automation company LawDroid has announced the hiring of a chief legal futurist with leadership experience at the Legal Aid Society of New York City, social justice software developer JustFix, and New York University School of Law.

A construction policy insurer agency and its owner aren't owed coverage for an underlying personal injury lawsuit, its professional liability carrier told a New York federal court, alleging a third-party lawsuit accusing the owner of fraud and misappropriating insurance funds triggered an exclusion in its professional liability policy.

Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP has hired a former White House senior adviser to former President Joe Biden who counseled the president on how to engage African American voters, civil rights organizations and other stakeholders in key battleground states, the firm announced Wednesday.

Holland & Knight LLP announced Thursday that it is launching a practice focused on the International Traffic in Arms Regulations, under the leadership of a partner who helped write them.

As the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to issue decisions in several federal postconviction cases in the coming months, the justices appear focused on restoring coherence to a system in which sentencing modification, collateral review and finality increasingly overlap, and success for practitioners will depend on strategic clarity, say attorneys at the Law Offices of Alan Ellis.

The U.S. Trustee's Office objected to the proposed sale of Norcold LLC's assets to an insider, arguing that the debtor has not shown that the proposed transaction has been conducted fairly.

A Massachusetts hotel cannot escape a $580,000 deal settling a class action and three individual wage and hour cases, the First Circuit ruled, rejecting the entity's argument that a conflict of interest arose when the plaintiffs' counsel represented both the workers in all four cases.

The Georgia Court of Appeals signaled Thursday it was unlikely to throw out a judgment the state Republican Party won against its former chairman after he allegedly botched settlement talks in an underlying suit, due largely to his failure to obtain the trial court's record.

A group of investors including a "Toy Story" screenwriter pursuing an $87 million fraud suit against a bioscience company in California state court has agreed to drop claims against a California law firm and its name partner, with the firm in turn withdrawing an anti-SLAPP motion it filed in the suit.

Utility-scale energy infrastructure developer Hecate Energy Group said Thursday that it is set to become a public company valued at $1.2 billion under a merger advised by Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP and Allen Overy Shearman Sterling LLP.

Dorsey & Whitney LLP has bolstered its Texas litigation platform and deepened its offerings to financial services clients confronting complex regulatory and enforcement challenges with a Dallas-based partner who came aboard from McGuireWoods LLP.

A Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP partner has moved to King & Spalding LLP's finance and restructuring practice group ahead of his former firm's planned merger with Hogan Lovells.

The Republican members of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission voted Thursday to retract comprehensive harassment guidelines issued during the Biden administration, after the agency's chair panned warnings from Democrats and civil rights advocates that the move erodes key worker protections.

French biotech company bioMérieux said Thursday that it has agreed to acquire medical equipment maker Accellix Inc. for approximately €35 million ($41 million) as it looks to support the growing advanced therapy market.

A Nevada solar project is seeking Chapter 11 protection in a Delaware bankruptcy court with more than $181 million in debt, saying the same technical issues that sent it into bankruptcy in 2020 have kept it from operating at full power.

A Swedish ethanol producer failed on Thursday to overturn a €47.7 million ($55.9 million) fine for colluding to maintain high prices by market manipulation after a European appeals court ruled that a competition watchdog did not presume it was guilty.

Swedish private equity shop EQT said Thursday that it will buy the U.K. secondaries firm Coller Capital for up to $3.7 billion in a bid to take advantage of the growing market for continuation vehicles as the PE sector continues to struggle to offload assets.

Private equity firm OEP Capital Advisors LP said Thursday that its subsidiary has agreed to acquire U.K. food wholesaler Kitwave Group PLC in a deal worth £251 million ($337.5 million).

Beazley, an insurer with a listing in London, said Thursday that it has batted away the latest proposed takeover offer from Zurich Insurance Group of £7.7 billion ($10.4 billion), claiming it undervalues the company.

The New Jersey Supreme Court wondered Wednesday how to manage case flow when detained or deported defendants are prevented by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement from attending their proceedings, lamenting the difficult choice of options including letting matters languish, conducting criminal trials virtually or issuing bench warrants that could complicate immigration cases.