11th Circ. Won't Reinstate Worker's ERISA Arbitration Award

By Patrick Hoff

A divided Eleventh Circuit panel refused to restore a former water treatment company director's arbitration award of about $129,000 on claims that he should've been offered severance when demoted to a consultant, saying an arbitrator erroneously decided a federal benefits law claim the worker never raised.

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AT&T Can't Escape Suit Over Pension Plan's Mortality Data

By Patrick Hoff

AT&T must face a proposed class action claiming it miscalculated married couples' pension benefits, a California federal judge ruled, saying workers leading the suit provided evidence that the telecommunications company's use of decades-old mortality data and interest rates was unreasonable.

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Hospitals Used Retirement Forfeitures For Self-Gain, Suit Says

By Grace Elletson

A North Carolina hospital system cost workers millions in savings by using forfeited matched funds in its retirement plan to cover its own contribution obligations instead of reducing plan expenses paid by employees, according to a new proposed class action filed in federal court.

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Analysis

Courts Face Early Push To Expand Justices' Injunction Ruling

By Katie Buehler

In the two weeks since the U.S. Supreme Court curtailed federal judges' ability to issue universal injunctions, Trump administration attorneys have begun pushing to expand the decision's limits to other forms of relief used in regulatory challenges and class actions. So far, judges don't appear receptive to those efforts. 

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VA Watchdog Says Burn Pit Claims Denials Still Had Errors

By Nadia Dreid

The Veterans Benefits Administration didn't do everything it was supposed to in order to fix concerns a federal watchdog had about veterans who were exposed to burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan having their benefits prematurely denied, the watchdog says.

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Mo. Halts Paid Sick Leave, Cost-Of-Living Wage Increases

By Emmy Freedman

Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe has signed a bill repealing paid sick leave benefits and yearly cost-of-living wage increases that were approved by state voters in a ballot initiative.

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2 Firms Tapped To Lead Regeneron Investor Suit

By Sydney Price

Labaton Keller Sucharow LLP and Motley Rice LLC have been named lead counsel in a proposed securities class action accusing Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. and its executives of misleading investors about its revenue prospects for its vision loss drug and inflating reimbursements.

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Atlanta Atty's Death In Texas Floods Shocks Colleagues

By Emily Johnson

Josephine Hardin, an Atlanta-based Huff Powell & Bailey attorney who died last week in flash flooding in Texas, is being remembered for making colleagues "laugh out loud, come together, and think deeply about the needs of others" and making an impact as a volunteer at a local legal nonprofit.

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Bove Faults 'Heavy-Handed' Jan. 6 Cases

By Courtney Bublé

Third Circuit nominee Emil Bove, who is currently serving in the U.S. Department of Justice, in his post-hearing questionnaire obtained by Law360 on Friday, drew what he says is a distinction between condemning violence against law enforcement officers and over-prosecution of Jan. 6 rioters.

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Analysis

DOJ Poised To Pounce On Data Security Violators

By Phillip Bantz

Companies and individuals that are not yet in compliance with the U.S. Department of Justice's sweeping, complex new national data security program should expect to face probes and potentially enforcement actions sooner than later, experts say.

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3rd Circ. Revives Benicar MDL Fees Suit Against NJ Law Firm

By Carla Baranauckas

The Third Circuit on Friday revived a proposed class action against Mazie Slater Katz & Freeman LLC attorneys that claims they took excessive fees from plaintiffs' settlements in multidistrict litigation over the blood pressure drug Benicar, remanding the dispute for the district court to determine whether it has jurisdiction over the case.

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NCAA's $2.8B NIL Deal Nets Athletes' Firms Over $455M In Fees

By Craig Clough

A California federal judge Friday approved approximately $455 million in attorney fees for class counsel in the NCAA's $2.78 billion class action settlement that, for the first time, will provide for revenue sharing with college athletes, with additional fees set to roll in annually for 10 years.

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Litigation Funder Can't Escape Crash Loans Suit, Court Told

By Jake Maher

A married couple suing a litigation funding firm and multiple law firms, alleging they steered the couple into high-interest loans, told a New Jersey state court that they adequately pled fraud and urged the court not to dismiss their case against the funder.

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Calif. Panel Says Arbitration Provider Immune From Fraud Suit

By Irene Spezzamonte

An arbitration provider is immune from a logistics company's suit accusing it of not properly vetting its arbitrators, including one who oversaw a wage and hour suit against the company, a California appeals panel ruled, affirming a lower court's decision to nix the case.

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Claims Stack Up Against Texas Judges Accused Of Tampering

By Emily Sawicki

A Texas judge embroiled in a scandal involving allegations of witness tampering has been suspended without pay following a federal indictment alleging she pressured a subordinate to withhold testimony in a separate proceeding against a local justice of the peace.

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Roundup

UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

By Laura Stewart Liberty

This past week in London has seen HS2 hit with a defamation claim by two ex-employees who blew the whistle on alleged under-reporting of costs, Craig Wright and nChain face legal action brought by its former chief financial officer over a fraud scheme, and pro-footballer Axel Tuanzebe bring a clinical negligence claim against his former club Manchester United F.C. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

Carma has accused its former chief legal officer and president of misappropriating the brand licensing company's trade secrets, filing a $10 million lawsuit in Illinois federal court. Meanwhile, T-Mobile became the latest company to end DEI programs under pressure from the Federal Communications Commission's chair. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP, Gilbert Harrell Sumerford & Martin PC and Ashbrook Byrne Kresge Flowers LLC lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Eighth Circuit vacated the Federal Trade Commission's planned "click-to-cancel" rule, which would have required companies to allow customers to ditch their subscriptions with a single click.

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In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Law360

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.

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