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  • June 10, 2026

    J&J Hit With $32M Verdict In LA Baby Powder Cancer Trial

    A Los Angeles jury Tuesday awarded $32 million to the family of a woman who died of mesothelioma and who said she used Johnson's Baby Powder on herself and her children for decades, finding the product was a substantial factor in causing her illness. 

  • June 10, 2026

    Molina Says Its Warnings Doom Suit Over Guidance Cuts

    Health insurance provider Molina Healthcare and two of its executives urged a California federal court to dismiss a shareholder suit accusing them of misleading investors about medical costs and internal controls before repeatedly slashing the company's 2025 earnings guidance, arguing that the nature of its business makes costs unpredictable.

  • June 10, 2026

    Calif., Others Sue Ed Dept. Over Special Education Grant Cuts

    California and other states sued the U.S. Department of Education in federal court Tuesday alleging it canceled special education service grants supporting students with disabilities for "political reasons," and rejected their applications for using "equity-related language" that comply with the General Education Provisions Act requiring proposals to ensure equitable access.

  • June 10, 2026

    Eos 'Natural' Lip Balm Has Synthetic Ingredients, Suit Says

    A proposed class of consumers is suing eos Products LLC in California federal court, alleging that although it markets its lip balms as "100% Natural & Organic," they actually contain two synthetic ingredients.

  • June 10, 2026

    IP Notebook: Cox's Reach, 'Top Gun' Appeal, 'Lazy' Videos

    This round of Law360's review of emerging copyright and trademark issues looks at the ripple effects from the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on secondary copyright liability and highlights looming high court bids over "Top Gun" and Roberto Clemente's likeness on commemorative license plates.

  • June 10, 2026

    9th Circ. Grants Family Stay On Removal Amid Policy Conflict

    A divided Ninth Circuit en banc panel has issued a stay protecting a Peruvian family from deportation amid their appeal of a removal order, finding that further en banc briefing and oral argument made clear that such relief is warranted.

  • June 10, 2026

    Container Cos. Sued For Alleged Price-Fixing Scheme

    Shipping container buyers filed a proposed class action over an alleged conspiracy among the world's largest container manufacturers to limit production and raise prices during the COVID-19 pandemic, on the heels of a criminal indictment last month.

  • June 10, 2026

    Jury Ups Philanthropist, Ex-Pitcher Crash Verdict To $198M

    A California jury added $22 million in punitive damages Wednesday to a $176 million verdict against a philanthropist and a former MLB pitcher found responsible for a car crash that killed two children.

  • June 10, 2026

    Acadia Pharma Must Face Investors' Drug Approval Claims

    Acadia Pharmaceuticals must face investors' class action claims it misstated the likelihood that it would get regulatory approval to market its psychosis drug pimavanserin for expanded use, a California federal judge determined, finding a key question about a regulator's directions should be decided by a jury.

  • June 10, 2026

    Manatt Healthcare Pro Jumps To Crowell & Moring In LA

    A Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP healthcare regulatory partner has joined Crowell & Moring LLP's Los Angeles office, the firm announced Wednesday.

  • June 10, 2026

    $50M Atkore PVC Price-Fix Deal Receives Ill. Judge's Early OK

    A $50 million settlement between Atkore Inc. and end users who claimed the polyvinyl chloride pipe maker participated in a price-fixing scheme during the height of the pandemic has cleared its first hurdle, receiving a judge's initial blessing Wednesday in an Illinois federal court.

  • June 10, 2026

    User Says 'Nature's Ozempic' Can't Keep Weight Loss Promise

    A proposed class of supplement buyers is suing the makers of Metabolism Ignite in California federal court, saying the supplements, advertised as "Nature's Ozempic," can't match the effectiveness of the name-brand medication that the advertisers compare it to.

  • June 10, 2026

    DLA Piper Hires Ex-Investment Company GC In Palo Alto

    DLA Piper has brought on an emerging growth and venture capital partner in Palo Alto, California, whose most-recent role was working as the first general counsel and chief commercial officer of an investment company.

  • June 10, 2026

    San Diego Vacancy Tax Ballot Measure Heading For Defeat

    A ballot measure in San Diego to tax vacant homes, with an additional cost for empty homes owned by corporations, appeared heading for defeat with most ballots counted.

  • June 09, 2026

    Jury Urged To Add $21M To $176M Crash Verdict

    Counsel for a family that lost two children in a car crash urged a jury Tuesday to add $21 million in punitive damages to last week's $176 million compensatory verdict against a philanthropist and a former Major League Baseball pitcher found responsible.

  • June 09, 2026

    Judge Pans Uber's 'Nonstop' Discovery Violation In FTC Fight

    A California federal magistrate judge refused Tuesday to give Uber more time to produce data to the Federal Trade Commission in litigation alleging the ride-hailing company dupes consumers into its paid subscription service, saying during a hearing that Uber "has been in nonstop violation" of the court's April 10 data production deadline.

  • June 09, 2026

    Anthropic, Other Tech Giants Get Authors' Copyright Suit Split

    A group of writers, including Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist John Carreyrou, will have to pursue their claims of copyright infringement against Anthropic, Apple, Google, Perplexity AI, Nvidia and xAI in separate lawsuits, a California federal judge ruled, siding with the tech giants.

  • June 09, 2026

    Sunday App Sneaks Restaurant Payment Fee, Suit Says

    Sunday App, a restaurant payment platform that lets diners pay for meals through a QR code, has been blindsiding consumers by hiding a mandatory platform fee "until the last possible moment" in the payment process, alleges a proposed class action lodged in California state court.

  • June 09, 2026

    Phillips 66 Workers Seek $4M Atty Fees In $12.5M Wage Deal

    Phillips 66 employees who reached a $12.5 million settlement to resolve their wage-and-hour class action over unpaid don-doff time and missed breaks have asked a California federal judge to grant their attorneys' request for about $4.17 million in fees, highlighting the work they've spent in the eight-year litigation on a contingency basis.

  • June 09, 2026

    9th Circ. Says UPS Wage Suit Arbitration Order Is 'Clear Error'

    The Ninth Circuit directed a district court on Tuesday to vacate an order that forced a former UPS driver to arbitrate her wage claims against the shipping solutions chain, saying the lower court committed "clear error" by refusing to determine the basis for its authority to compel arbitration.

  • June 09, 2026

    9th Circ. Grants Rare Rehearing In Kat Von D Tattoo Fight

    The Ninth Circuit agreed Tuesday to take the rare step of having a larger panel rehear a copyright dispute over Kat Von D's Miles Davis tattoo, vacating a ruling that upheld the celebrity tattoo artist's trial win.

  • June 09, 2026

    Kalshi To Start Requiring Employer Info For Certain Markets

    Prediction market platform Kalshi Inc. announced on Tuesday that it will start requiring users to verify their employer before they can trade on certain markets, and will further implement features allowing users to directly report suspicious trading activity.

  • June 09, 2026

    Agensys Sues Biopharmas For Alleged Trade Secret Theft

    Agensys Inc. filed a trade secret misappropriation suit in California federal court Tuesday against a U.S.-based cancer research firm and two alleged Chinese affiliates, claiming they stole confidential information for oncology antibodies developed at Agensys and that the theft was "willful and malicious."

  • June 09, 2026

    Former XAI Engineer Says He Was Fired Over Safety Warnings

    A former engineer at Elon Musk's xAI claims he was fired after repeatedly raising concerns about safety, discriminatory bias and other risks associated with the artificial intelligence company's chatbot Grok, according to a lawsuit lodged Tuesday in California state court.

  • June 09, 2026

    Calif. Judge Blocks DOJ's Bid For Trans Patients' Medical Info

    A California federal judge ordered Stanford Medicine hospital not to disclose medical information belonging to trans adolescents who received gender-related care in response to a Texas grand jury subpoena, and blocked the U.S. Department of Justice from taking further steps to obtain their patient records.

Expert Analysis

  • Vax Ruling Offers Employer Tips For Handling Political Speech

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    A California appeals court's recent decision in Rademacher v. ABC, rejecting a "General Hospital" actor's suit alleging he was terminated for opposing a vaccine policy, demonstrates the importance of the employer's process, including neutral policies, documentation, and evidence of who knew what and when, say attorneys at Krevolin Horst.

  • PowerSchool Data Breach Ruling Underscores PE Liability

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    The recent California federal court decision in PowerSchool, where Bain Capital was unable to dismiss claims relating to a data breach based in part on Bain's preinvestment activities, is an important addition to the line of cases addressing investor liability for acts of a portfolio company, says Mark Kelley at MoloLamken.

  • What Prop 65 Listings For Welding Fumes, Drugs Mean For Cos.

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    With California poised to add welding chemicals and three medications to its list of known carcinogens under Proposition 65, businesses must assess risks from nontraditional pharmaceutical dispensing, occupational and environmental exposures to welding operations, and downstream exposures from the manufacture of both types of substances, says Gregory Berlin at Alston & Bird.

  • 3 Disgorgement Questions Linger After Justices' SEC Ruling

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    While the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in Sripetch v. U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission avoided placing new limits on the SEC’s disgorgement powers, it passed over several questions, including whether the commission can seek disgorgement when returning the money to investors isn't possible, says David Slovick at Kopecky Schumacher.

  • Checking For AI Errors Is Now A Two-Way Street

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    A handful of recent federal and state cases demonstrate the importance of checking for errors generated by artificial intelligence not only in your own court submissions, but also your opponent's, as well as when catching opposing counsel's AI mistakes could result in an award for attorney fees, says Tamara Barago at Hollingsworth.

  • Green Card Memo Warps Long-Standing Adjustment Process

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    A recent policy memorandum that treats a nonimmigrant visa holder’s decision to seek adjustment of status in the U.S., rather than at a U.S. consulate, as an adverse factor reinterprets existing discretionary frameworks, compounds risks for applicants required to apply abroad and changes practitioner approaches to application preparation, says attorney Jack Jrada.

  • Celebs May Need Federal Protection To Fight Voice Deepfakes

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    Deepfakes and digital replicas are increasingly misappropriating celebrities' voices for commercial purposes, but unless federal right of publicity protections are developed, celebrities are left to rely on ill-equipped trademark and state law, say attorneys at Brown Rudnick.

  • Series

    The Biz Court Digest: Shoring Up Corporate Law In Maryland

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    Launched more than 20 years ago to improve complex corporate adjudication, Maryland's Business and Technology Case Management Program has been a solid success in some areas, but there always is room for improvement, says Bill Krulak at Miles & Stockbridge.

  • State Enviro Agencies Give Cosmetics Regulation A Makeover

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    As state oversight of cosmetics rapidly expands, the new statutes and regulations governing these products are being implemented by environmental agencies rather than consumer product regulators, requiring manufacturers, distributors and retailers to reevaluate their supply chains and procedures, say attorneys at Baker Botts.

  • How End Of SEC 'Gag Rule' Affects Free Speech Certiorari Bid

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    The Securities and Exchange Commission's recent rescission of the so-called gag rule, which forbade defendants in settlements from denying the SEC’s allegations, may sway the outcome of a petition to the Supreme Court in a case challenging the rule on First Amendment grounds, say attorneys at Troutman.

  • Perfectus Settlement Illuminates DOJ's Tariff Fraud Strategy

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    The Department of Justice's recent False Claims Act settlement with Perfectus Aluminum illustrates the government's continuing interagency focus on customs and tariff enforcement, and the related criminal indictment provides insight into conduct enforcers may associate with tariff evasion schemes, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.

  • Product-Or-Content Question Is Pivotal In AI Litigation

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    A growing range of civil cases against OpenAI address the question of whether the output of a generative artificial intelligence system is a product, subject to traditional tort doctrine, or third-party content — and the framing courts adopt will shape software liability well beyond AI, says David Meldofsky at Lawsuit Informer.

  • Citron Founder Verdict Tests Reach Of 'Half-Truth' Fraud

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    A California federal jury's conviction this week of Citron founder Andrew Left may be remembered less as a conventional manipulation prosecution than as a case about how far the "half-truth" doctrine can reach when applied to modern market speech, says Elisha Kobre at Sheppard.

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    Competing At Poker Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Playing poker in male-dominated rooms taught me to treat skepticism as background noise when my opponents seem to underestimate me, to apply pressure when it matters and to adapt without losing strategic discipline — skills that are all indispensable in restructuring and insolvency matters, says Alexis Gambale at Pashman Stein.

  • Why IPR Slowdown Has Not Led To More Patent Litigation

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    Despite sustained strength in patent application filings and a decline in inter partes review and post-grant review, 2026 has not seen the anticipated surge in patent litigation in district courts and at the U.S. International Trade Commission, potentially due to four reasons, say attorneys at Sterne Kessler.

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