11th Circ. Revives Royal Caribbean 401(k) Fund Suit

By Kellie Mejdrich

The Eleventh Circuit reversed a win on Monday for Royal Caribbean in a suit from cruise ship workers who alleged they lost 401(k) savings because of shoddy target-date investment funds, holding that a lower court erred in handing the cruise company an early win in a challenge to the prudence of their investment management.

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7th Circ. Reverses Alcoa Union Retirees' Lifetime Benefits Win

By Kellie Mejdrich

The Seventh Circuit reversed an Indiana federal court's decision holding that certain union retirees of aluminum giant Alcoa and their beneficiaries had a vested right to health benefits for life, finding error with the lower court's judicial estoppel analysis that formed the basis for its judgment on liability.

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Electric Co. Can't Undo Class Status In ESOP Fight

By Grace Elletson

An Arizona federal judge refused to scrap class certification for a group of workers who claimed an electrical contractor failed to properly invest millions of dollars in its employee stock ownership plan, finding the plan participants at the helm of the case are fit to lead the suit.

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Mass. Judge Vacates ACA Gender-Affirming Care Restriction

By Gianna Ferrarin

A Massachusetts federal judge handed a coalition of 21 states a win on their claim that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services unlawfully issued Affordable Care Act reforms barring marketplace plans from requiring coverage for medical procedures used in gender-affirming care.

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Rising Star: Goodwin's Benjamin Reilly

By Patrick Hoff

Benjamin "Ben" Reilly of Goodwin Procter LLP has helped New York Life Insurance Co. resolve a lawsuit alleging it mismanaged its retirement plans and represented State Street and General Electric in lawsuits challenging pension risk transfer deals, earning him a spot among the benefits law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

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Big Banks Reach $86.4M Deal In Mexican Bond-Rigging Suit

By Jon Hill

Bank of America, HSBC and other global banks have agreed to pay $86.4 million to resolve investor class claims that they conspired to fix Mexican government bond prices, according to a proposed settlement unveiled on Friday in New York federal court.

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Hospital Employees Seek Class Cert. In Retirement Funds Suit

By Rachel Konieczny

Employees of a faith-based nonprofit Colorado hospital urged a federal judge to grant class certification in their lawsuit alleging the hospital mismanaged employees' retirement funds and ultimately cost participants tens of millions of dollars.

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Protein Shake Maker Investors Sue Over Troubled Acquisition

By Katryna Perera

Consumer packaged health foods company Simply Good Foods has been hit with a class action in New York federal court over its $280 million acquisition of a plant-based protein shake company, whose integration was an "abject failure," resulting in a $200 million impairment on the acquired company's assets and a stock price drop.

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Hartford HealthCare Told To Double-Check Privilege Claims

By Aaron Keller

Hartford HealthCare has agreed to re-review 113 documents over which the hospital operator asserted attorney-client privilege in an antitrust lawsuit by a Teamsters health plan and a local Connecticut transit district, following a federal magistrate judge's concerns about a nearly 1,000-page privilege log.

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Law Firms See Revenue, Demand Grow In First Half Of 2026

By Anna Sanders

Despite rising expenses driven by artificial intelligence and return to office mandates, the legal industry is performing well in 2026, with U.S. law firms recording a double-digit jump in revenue and strong growth in demand so far this year, according to new survey results from Citi Global Wealth at Work's Law Firm Group.

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Morgan & Morgan Sues Fla. Bar Over Celebrity Ad Ban

By Carolina Bolado

Personal injury giant Morgan & Morgan PA has sued the Florida Bar, claiming a bar rule that bans any use of a celebrity's voice or image in lawyer advertising violates the First Amendment.

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3 NY Injury Firms Get Uber's RICO Suit Tossed

By Lauren Berg

A New York federal judge threw out Uber Technologies Inc.'s lawsuit accusing three personal injury law firms of conspiring with physicians and exploiting passengers to pursue fake or exaggerated injury claims in order to strongarm settlement payouts from the ride-hailing giant.

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Nussbaum-Linked Firms' Ch. 11s Tossed For Bad Faith

By Ben Zigterman

A New York bankruptcy judge has dismissed the Chapter 11 cases of two commercial real estate law firms headed by Mark J. Nussbaum, finding their petitions were filed in bad faith and that the cases instead belonged in an assignment for the benefit of creditors process in New York state court.

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Chattah Can't Serve As Acting Nevada US Atty, 9th Circ. Says

By Emma Cueto

The Ninth Circuit on Monday upheld a lower court ruling that Nevada's top prosecutor was not put in place lawfully and was barred from overseeing the criminal cases giving rise to the appeal, the latest state where courts have shut down attempts by the Trump administration to fill U.S. attorney vacancies without Senate confirmation.

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Clifford Chance Pushes To Send Clawback Suit To Arbitration

By Ryan Boysen

Clifford Chance LLP wants a high-profile partner pay dispute sent to arbitration, accusing two ex-partners who claim they're facing a $6 million clawback demand of "gamesmanship" by filing suit in New York federal court.

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NYCBA Cautions Against Recording Nonclient Calls

By Emily Sawicki

New York City attorneys who have been granted permission may ethically use artificial intelligence to record, transcribe and summarize conversations with nonclients, according to the latest ethics guidance by the New York City Bar Association Monday, which added that just because they can doesn't mean they should.

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