Funeral Co. To Pay $2M To Resolve Workers' 401(k) Fee Suit

By Patrick Hoff

A funeral services provider will pay $2 million to settle a class action claiming it cost employees millions in retirement savings by loading its 401(k) plan with expensive funds and lofty administrative costs, according to a Friday filing in Texas federal court.

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2nd Circ. Nixes Cigna Retirees' Bid For Added Discovery

By Kellie Mejdrich

The Second Circuit refused to restart proceedings in a class action from Cigna retirees who challenged changes to their pensions, ruling Friday that a lower court was correct to hold that the ex-workers hadn't shown the insurer was disregarding orders to reform their retirement plan. 

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Howard U. Inks $1.3M Deal To Close ERISA Mortality Data Suit

By Grace Elletson

Howard University has brokered a settlement valued at $1.3 million to resolve a suit claiming it improperly used mortality data from the 80s to calculate retirees' benefit payments, causing workers to receive less money than they should have.

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Ex-Intel Workers Urge Justices To Revive 401(k) Fund Suit

By Kellie Mejdrich

Former Intel employees urged the U.S. Supreme Court to revive their suit alleging their employee 401(k) savings were dragged down by underperforming investments, arguing the Ninth Circuit's requirement that allegations of subpar funds also include a meaningful benchmark for comparison didn't align with federal benefits law.

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Ex-Workday Atty Ends Bias Suit Following Settlement Talks

By Emily Sawicki

A former in-house attorney for human resources giant Workday has agreed to drop what remains of an employment discrimination suit he launched against his former employer in 2023.

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Union Fund Says Allied Owes $427K For Left-Out Workers

By Emily Brill

A Teamsters healthcare fund has asked a New York federal judge to award it a pretrial win on claims that Allied Aviation Services Inc. owes it about $427,000, saying the airline fueling company owes the money to cover eight workers the company forgot to enroll in the fund.

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Cigna Plan Members Say HIPAA Notice Backs Privacy Claims

By P.J. D'Annunzio

A group of Cigna health plan participants who claimed the company failed to protect their private health information when it tracked their website activities told a Pennsylvania federal judge that the insurance giant should not be allowed to dodge new allegations that their HIPAA rights were violated.

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Blue Cross Licensee Seeks Exit From Claims Practices Suit

By Rachel Konieczny

A Blue Cross licensee told a Colorado federal judge that it has "no control" over Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield's provider network and therefore shouldn't have to face a treatment facilities operator's suit alleging it violated federal benefits and mental health parity laws.

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Steps To Consider As DOJ Launches Fraud Division

The establishment this month of the National Fraud Enforcement Division within the U.S. Department of Justice is a significant reorganization that suggests an increase in enforcement activity involving federally funded programs but leaves a number of important questions unanswered, say attorneys at Crowell & Moring.

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DLA Piper Clears Vote To End Verein, Unify Leadership

By Tracey Read

DLA Piper announced Friday that firm partners on both sides of the Atlantic have "overwhelmingly approved" a plan to dissolve its Swiss verein structure effective May 1.

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Judge Albright Reflects On 8 Years Shaping Patent Law

By Dani Kass

U.S. District Judge Alan Albright will be walking away from the Western District of Texas at the end of the summer, ready to head back into patent litigation work. He talked with Law360 on Friday about the rockier elements of his judgeship and lessons he'll take into private practice.

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Wigdor Sanctioned For Lying In Leon Black Rape Case

By Ryan Boysen

Prominent victims rights law firm Wigdor LLP has been sanctioned for lying to a New York federal judge while pursuing a lawsuit that claims ex-Apollo Global Management CEO Leon Black raped a teenager provided to him by convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Consovoy McCarthy PLLC, Butler Prather LLP, Bowen Painter LLC and Cannella Snyder LLC lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Fluor Corp. can be held liable for a veteran's state-based injury claims stemming from a 2016 suicide bombing in Afghanistan.

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Oregon Lawyer Ordered To Pay Attorney Fees For Use Of AI

By Matt Perez

An Oregon attorney was sanctioned by a state appellate court for filing a brief containing a fabricated list of authorities because she used generative artificial intelligence, marking the first case in the jurisdiction to present the option of awarding attorney fees as a sanction as opposed to fines payable to the court.

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Akin Can't 'Recast' Appeal As Good-Faith Effort, 9th Circ. Told

By Lauren Berg

A European winemaker slammed attempts by a U.S. importer and its Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP attorneys to "recast a frivolous appeal as a good-faith effort," saying they should have to pay monetary sanctions for pursuing what the Ninth Circuit called a "self-indulgent" appeal of a valid arbitration award.

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Analysis

One Certainty As Tariff Refunds Start: 'There Will Be Litigation'

By Chris Villani

The launch of the refund process for tariffs struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court marks the start of lengthy and multifaceted court battles as companies fight with consumers — and amongst themselves — about who gets a slice of the $166 billion pie, experts told Law360.

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Up Last At High Court: TPS, Geofence, Skinny Labels

By Katie Buehler

The U.S. Supreme Court will close out its oral argument portion of the 2025 October term by hearing a panoply of disputes over the constitutionality of geofence warrants, the existence of aiding and abetting torture claims, and the rescission of temporary protected status for hundreds of thousands of immigrants.

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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 a Hong Kong company sue the government and a COVID-19 PPE company linked to Tory peer Michelle Mone, an oligarch bring a fresh claim against a rival in a long-running feud, a rugby league club sue over a canceled mass dance event, and Visa and Mastercard hit with legal action from H&M, Eurostar, and Bang & Olufsen. 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 Sue Reisinger

In what may be a first, a federal judge has ordered BJ's Wholesale Club to put an investor's climate-related proxy proposal up for a vote of the shareholders at the company's annual meeting. And a new study shows that more in-house counsel are staying in place despite pay increases slowing amid less competition for talent.

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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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