5th Circ. Panel Weighs BP Retirees' Pension Suit Win

By Spencer Brewer

A Fifth Circuit panel wanted to know what specific misrepresentations BP Corp. North America Inc. made to about 7,000 retirees that caused them to think they were getting a sweeter retirement deal than they got, asking Wednesday which misrepresentations were the most "obvious."

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Timber Co., State Street Win Initial Toss Of $1.5B Pension Suit

By Kellie Mejdrich

A timber company and its independent fiduciary won dismissal of a proposed class action from pensioners who said the companies' choice of annuity provider for a $1.5 billion pension transfer put their retirements at unnecessary risk, after a Washington federal judge ruled that allegations failed to state a claim.

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Sentara Health Strikes $1.5M Deal In Stable Value Fund Suit

By Patrick Hoff

Virginia-based healthcare system Sentara Health will pay $1.5 million to settle a class action claiming it failed to remove an underperforming investment fund from its employee retirement plan, according to federal court filings.

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Twitter Investors Win Class Cert. In Elon Musk Fraud Suit

By Emilie Ruscoe

Investors in X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, have been granted class certification in litigation alleging tech billionaire Elon Musk secretly amassed a significant stake in the company while its stock traded at artificially depressed prices.

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4 Million Trump Accounts Established, IRS Says

By Anna Scott Farrell

More than 4 million children have been signed up for the new type of individual retirement account known as a Trump account, with more than a quarter of them eligible to receive $1,000 contributions through a pilot program, the Internal Revenue Service said.

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Union, Employer Group Beat NJ Contractor's Benefits Suit

By Emily Brill

A union and a contractors association have beaten back allegations that they coerce employers into making excessive contributions to a union benefit fund, with a New Jersey federal judge tossing a proposed class action filed by a contractor last year.

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Nike Beats Bulk Of Investor Fraud Claims Over Biz Strategy

By Katryna Perera

An Oregon federal judge has dismissed nearly all the claims in a securities class action against Nike over what investors say was a failed business strategy, finding that most of the suit's challenged statements are nonactionable corporate optimism, but she allowed one alleged misstatement about Nike's innovation pipeline to proceed.

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Fed. Circ. Tosses Attorney's Appeal To Win Back Fee Award

By Ganesh Setty

The Federal Circuit has rejected an attorney's appeal challenging a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs order to return attorney fees he'd won in a disability case after the VA later determined they were unreasonable, finding that no appellate jurisdiction exists.

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Jones Walker Adds Tax Pro Duo From Sugarman & Susskind

By Madison Arnold

Jones Walker LLP announced Wednesday that it added two new attorneys as members of its tax practice group and employee benefits team in Miami from Sugarman & Susskind PA.

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Bondi Out As Attorney General After Contentious Time At DOJ

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump announced on Thursday Attorney General Pam Bondi will be leaving her post. 

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Goldstein Allowed To Move Out After Marriage Falls Apart

By Jared Foretek

A Maryland federal judge on Thursday allowed SCOTUSblog founder Thomas Goldstein to relocate for the duration of his home confinement, after Goldstein's attorneys said his marriage had fallen apart and it no longer "makes sense" for Goldstein and his wife to share a residence.

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Raskin Blasts DOJ Bid To Shield Attys From State Bar Probes

By Courtney Bublé

Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, said Thursday the U.S. Department of Justice's endeavor to preempt state bar investigations of department attorneys is a "get out of jail free" card.

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DLA Piper, Vax Refuser Reach Deal To End Religious Bias Suit

By Patrick Hoff

DLA Piper has struck a deal to wrap up a Christian former employee's lawsuit claiming he was fired for refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccine because of his religious beliefs, an Illinois federal judge said Thursday.

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Feds Say Habeas Ruling Could Spur More 'Illegal Orders'

By Jared Foretek

The Trump administration has asked the Fourth Circuit to reverse a district ruling that upheld a standing order from Maryland federal judges barring immediate removal or transfer of immigrant detainees, arguing the ruling sets a dangerous precedent for district court standing orders.

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Schneider Wallace Fights Uphill For Bigger Cut Of $75M Fees

By Bonnie Eslinger

A California federal magistrate judge appeared skeptical Thursday about Schneider Wallace Cottrell Kim LLP's bid to increase its cut of a $75.4 million fee award for representing plaintiffs in a $228.5 million Sutter Health antitrust deal, saying lead counsel Constantine Cannon LLP's allocation of $1.4 million to Schneider Wallace seems fair.

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Puerto Rico Bankruptcy Stymies Paul Weiss, ACLU Fee Bids

By Carolyn Muyskens

American Civil Liberties Union and Paul Weiss attorneys who successfully eased restrictions on voting by mail in Puerto Rico during the COVID-19 pandemic cannot collect fees for their work because they were discharged in Puerto Rico's bankruptcy proceeding, the First Circuit has ruled.

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Process Server ABC Legal Inks $2.5M Deal Over Cyber Breach

By Ben Adlin

Seattle-based ABC Legal Services LLC, which bills itself as the nation's largest network of legal process servers, would pay $2.5 million under a tentative deal to settle workers' putative class action claiming a 2024 cyberattack exposed their personal information, the plaintiffs told a Washington federal court Wednesday.

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Roundup

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

By Laura Stewart Liberty

The past week in London has seen data giant Sportrader face action from software company Altenar over alleged market abuse, Mexican billionaire Ricardo Pliego sue a man who allegedly defrauded him out of $415 million, and Warner Bros. bring a copyright claim against a YouTuber who leaked set footage of the upcoming Harry Potter series. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K. 

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