Musk Tells Jury 'Biased' Judge Forced His Twitter Buy

By Bonnie Eslinger

Elon Musk testified Wednesday in a California federal trial over Twitter investors' claims that the billionaire tanked the company's stock to get a better deal and said he paid the full $44 billion offer price because the Delaware Chancery judge overseeing litigation over the sale was "extremely biased" against him.

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Meta Seeks Bench Trial, Not Jury, In Mental Health MDL

By Jonathan Capriel

Facebook and Instagram's parent company has had a change of heart when it comes to facing a jury on claims they caused underage users to become addicted to their platforms, resulting in emotional harm, telling the California federal judge overseeing the multidistrict litigation that they would now prefer a bench trial.

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Social Media Addiction Fed Girl's Conflict With Mom, Jury Told

By Craig Clough

A UCLA psychiatrist testified Wednesday in a landmark bellwether trial over allegations that using Instagram and YouTube harm children's mental health, saying that a girl's social media addiction contributed to friction with her mother.

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Volkswagen Sued Over Direct-To-Consumer Scout EV Offers

By Rae Ann Varona

Volkswagen offering to sell new electric Scout vehicles directly to customers is a "blatant" breach of its legal and contractual obligations to dealerships, two dealerships alleged in a putative class action filed in Virginia federal court that claims Volkswagen has already made at least $15 million from online reservation deposits on Scout's website.

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Split 4th Circ. Shields Musk From USAID Deposition, For Now

By Rae Ann Varona

The Fourth Circuit on Wednesday ruled that Elon Musk and two former U.S. Agency for International Development officials will not, for now, have to testify in litigation ex-employees filed accusing the billionaire of illegally dismantling the foreign aid agency, saying no "extraordinary circumstances" justified the depositions.

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Analysis

1988 Privacy Law, New Tracking Tech: Supreme Court Steps In

By Allison Grande

The U.S. Supreme Court will soon hear a dispute over a decades-old video data privacy law, a matter that's expected to have major implications for not only the crush of litigation brewing under the statute but also for similar disputes involving the application of older statutes to the unanticipated capabilities of modern technology.

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Analysis

Wheeling & Appealing: The Latest Must-Know Appellate Action

By Jeff Overley

If this month's circuit calendars were a March Madness bracket, we'd struggle to pick the top-seeded showdown. Big Pharma against the False Claims Act, or big business against President Donald Trump's visa fees? A big bank's view of "human life wagers," or en banc review in a State Farm class action?

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Workers Challenging Trump DEI Firings Seek Class Status

By Grace Elletson

Former federal workers who claimed they were illegally fired after President Donald Trump ordered the elimination of diversity, equity and inclusion positions in the government urged a D.C. federal judge to award them class certification, arguing the firings impacted thousands of employees.

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Retirees' TIAA Rollover Advice Fee Suit Trimmed

By Kellie Mejdrich

A New York federal judge on Wednesday narrowed a proposed class action alleging the Teachers Insurance Annuity Association of America and its affiliates violated federal benefits law by coercing retirees into higher-cost managed accounts, holding individual retirees lacked standing to sue on behalf of participants in thousands of other plans.

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Construction Co. Hammers Out Deal In 401(k) Fee Suit

By Grace Elletson

A construction company has agreed to settle a suit claiming it stood by while its retirement plan was overcharged in management fees, causing workers to lose out on millions of dollars in savings, according to a California federal court filing.

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Cushman & Wakefield Ignored 401(k) Climate Risks, Suit Says

By Lauren Berg

Cushman & Wakefield mismanaged its employee retirement plan by ignoring "glaring red flags" in its selection of an underperforming fund that exposed investors to climate-related risks, according to what the plaintiff's counsel called a "first-of-its-kind" class action that accuses the commercial estate firm of violating the Employee Retirement Income Security Act.

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Zantac Investor Class Action Time-Barred, Pa. Judge Rules

By Jonathan Capriel

The maker of heartburn and acid reflux relief tablet Zantac has defeated a securities fraud class action claiming the company hid for decades the cancer risks associated with the drug, causing a stock price drop when the truth was revealed, after a Pennsylvania federal judge ruled Wednesday that the claims were untimely.

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Veterans Fight BofA Interest Suit Dismissal Recommendation

By Sydney Price

Three veterans told a North Carolina federal court Tuesday that a magistrate judge was wrong to recommend tossing their proposed class action accusing Bank of America of violating an interest cap law for military service members, arguing their claims under the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act are unambiguous.

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CVS Beats Antitrust Suit Over 340B Drug Program, For Good

By Gina Kim

CVS Health Corp. permanently defeated a proposed antitrust class action alleging it forced hospitals in a discount drug program to use its third-party administrator for savings, when a Pennsylvania federal judge ruled Tuesday that hospitals aren't required to contract with CVS and can pick Walgreens or other participating pharmacies to contract with.

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$7.25B Nationwide Roundup Deal Gets First Approval

By Emily Field

A Missouri state court on Wednesday gave a preliminary nod of approval to a settlement that could pay up to $7.25 billion over 21 years to resolve current and future claims across the U.S. that weed killer Roundup causes non-Hodgkin lymphoma, two weeks after the deal was announced.

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Ill. Health System Can Take Privacy Case To 7th Circ.

By Joyce Hanson

An Illinois federal judge has refused to reconsider his decision to dismiss a privacy suit over tracking tools that purportedly share a health system's private patient information with Meta Platforms Inc., but he ruled the Chicago-area nonprofit can appeal to the Seventh Circuit.

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Brief

Neb. Bank Reaches $2.4M Deal To Settle MOVEit Breach Suit

By Joyce Hanson

A family-owned Nebraska bank has agreed to pay $2.4 million to resolve its part in a MOVEit software security incident affecting customers' personal data, according to a consumer's bid for preliminary approval of a proposed class action settlement in Massachusetts federal court.

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Philly To Pay $750K, Revamp 'Courtesy Towing' Policies

By P.J. D'Annunzio

The city of Philadelphia has agreed to pay $750,000 to resolve class claims over its "courtesy towing" program, which involves moving legally parked vehicles to other spots where they could be lost or subject to fines, according to a settlement agreement.

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Zuckerberg Denies 'Addiction' In Testimony Played To NM Jury

By Cara Salvatore

New Mexico jurors saw videotaped testimony Wednesday from Mark Zuckerberg in the state attorney general's social media mental health trial in which the Meta CEO acknowledged that "problematic use" is a well-known problem among accountholders but rejected labels like "addiction" and "habit-forming."

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Amazon Shoppers' Attys Must Explain AI Use In Botched Brief

By Rae Ann Varona

A Washington federal judge Wednesday ordered attorneys representing Amazon customers in a proposed class action alleging deceptive supplement labeling to explain whether and how generative artificial intelligence was used in a filing with errors they've since apologized for, and what "verification mechanisms" they had for the nascent technology's use.

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Google Agrees To More Android Changes In Deal With Epic

By Matthew Perlman

Google and Epic Games offered a California federal court a new proposal Wednesday to modify an injunction issued in a monopolization case over the distribution apps on Android devices, while also reaching a broader agreement on global changes to the mobile operating system.

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ICE Detainees Aren't Owed Bond Hearings, DOJ Tells 9th Circ.

By Ben Adlin

A Justice Department attorney Wednesday urged the Ninth Circuit to reverse a district judge's ruling that a Trump administration policy denying bond hearings to detainees at an ICE facility is unlawful, arguing the detainees aren't eligible to challenge their detention because they're "seeking admission" to the country.

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Judge To Await Appellate Guidance In Immigrant Bond Case

By Julie Manganis

A Massachusetts federal judge hearing a challenge to the Trump administration's policy of detaining unauthorized immigrants without bond during removal proceedings said Wednesday she is "inclined to wait" to issue a ruling until appellate courts weigh in.

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Colo. Judge Asked To Enforce Warrantless ICE Arrest Order

By Tom Lotshaw

Colorado ACLU-backed plaintiffs told a federal judge the Trump administration has repeatedly flouted a preliminary injunction that was meant to block U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from making unlawful warrantless arrests in the state.

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WWE Shareholders Seek Sanctions Over Lost Evidence

By Alex Lawson

World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. shareholders are pursuing sanctions against WWE's top brass, telling the Delaware Chancery Court that company leaders destroyed evidence regarding the terms of its 2023 merger with Ultimate Fighting Championship.

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Series

Law School's Missed Lessons: In Court, It's About Storytelling

Law school provides doctrine, cases and hypotheticals, but when lawyers step into the courtroom, they must learn the importance of clarity, credibility, memorability and preparation — in other words, how to tell simple, effective stories, say Nicholas Steverson and Danielle Trujillo at Wheeler Trigg, and Lisa DeCaro at Courtroom Performance.

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Judge Questions DOJ Stance In ABA's Intimidation Suit

By Jared Foretek

A Susman Godfrey LLP attorney told a district judge that the Trump administration's recent double-reversal on its executive orders targeting law firms proved that attorneys fighting government action face a real and ongoing threat and urged the judge not to toss a suit from his client, the American Bar Association, to end the "Intimidation Policy."

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DOJ Seeks Power To Block State Bar Probes Of Agency Attys

By Jake Maher

The U.S. Department of Justice is seeking to pause and review state-level ethics complaints against its attorneys to combat what the agency called "weaponization" of ethics processes, a proposal that drew concerns from ethics scholars for overstepping states' authorities.

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Bondi Subpoenaed To Testify On DOJ's Epstein Investigation

By Lauren Berg

The House Oversight Committee on Wednesday voted to subpoena U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to testify about the U.S. Department of Justice's investigation into deceased child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, with five Republicans joining their Democratic colleagues to compel Bondi's testimony.

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Analysis

Trump's FCA Expansion Plan Heightens Compliance Risk

By Sarah Jarvis

In light of the Trump administration's record False Claims Act enforcement haul, companies should be especially mindful of a planned expansion in the scope of enforcement and the false compliance certification risks that may bring, attorneys say.

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SEC, PCAOB Auditor Enforcement Plummeted In 2025

By Sarah Jarvis

Both the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board saw decreases in accounting and auditing enforcement activity in 2025, including sharp decreases in SEC settlements and PCAOB fines for auditing actions.

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Comey, James Urge 4th Circ. To Reject Indictment Revival Bid

By Emily Sawicki

Former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James have urged the Fourth Circuit not to revive criminal indictments filed against them last year in the Eastern District of Virginia, arguing they were fatally flawed because they were brought by a federal prosecutor who was not lawfully in that position.

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Appeals Panel Debates NJ's Duty In Prosecutor Ethics Case

By George Woolston

A New Jersey appellate panel on Wednesday weighed whether it was in the state's best interest to represent an assistant prosecutor in an ethics proceeding, questioning how a prosecutor is different from any other attorney called before the disciplinary board.

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