TikTok Cuts Deal As 1st Social Media Bellwether Trial Begins

By Dorothy Atkins

TikTok reached an eleventh-hour settlement late Monday in the first bellwether trial over claims that social media harms young users' mental health, cutting the deal days after Snap settled and leaving Meta and YouTube as the sole defendants as jury selection began Tuesday.

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Ford Can't Ditch Claims Of Faulty F-150 Transmissions

By Hailey Konnath

An Illinois federal judge refused to side with Ford on drivers' claims that it sold certain F-150 trucks with defective 10-speed automatic transmissions, finding that, at this stage in the litigation, a Massachusetts driver has adequately alleged a violation of his state's consumer protection law.

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Chancery Keeps Alive Jefferies Claims In EV Co. SPAC Suit

By Jeff Montgomery

Aiding and abetting and breaches of fiduciary duty claims went forward in Delaware Chancery Court on Tuesday against Jefferies LLC in connection with the $1.4 billion take-public blank check company merger of electric vehicle company Electric Last Mile Solutions Inc.

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US Bancorp Shells Out $250K To End Workers' 401(k) Suit

By Katryna Perera

U.S. Bancorp has agreed to pay $250,000 to end a class action by participants in the company's employee 401(k) plan alleging the plan paid excessive recordkeeping fees in violation of federal benefits law. 

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11th Circ. Scrutinizes Royal Caribbean's Defeat Of 401(k) Suit

By Kellie Mejdrich

The Eleventh Circuit zeroed in Tuesday on whether a lower court had enough evidence to hand Royal Caribbean a pretrial win in a suit brought by cruise ship workers who alleged they lost 401(k) savings because of shoddy target-date investment funds.

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Full 11th Circ. Will Rehear Seafood Co. Workers' ESOP Suit

By Kellie Mejdrich

The full Eleventh Circuit will rehear a proposed class of seafood company workers' bid to revive mismanagement allegations against their employer and an employee stock ownership plan trustee, the court said Tuesday, after a three-judge panel affirmed dismissal of the case in October.

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Butterball Worker Wants Full 4th Circ. To Rehear Wage Case

By Irene Spezzamonte

Fourth Circuit precedent establishes that state wage and hour laws are not preempted by federal law, a Butterball turkey catcher argued, urging the full appeals court to revisit a panel's decision denying his bid to revive his wage suit.

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Tyson Worker Fights To Keep Bulk Of OT Suit Alive

By Irene Spezzamonte

Tyson Foods Inc. shouldn't dodge a proposed class action accusing the company of flouting meal and rest break requirements and not paying workers correctly, a worker told a Washington federal court Monday, arguing that she supported her claims well enough at this stage of the litigation.

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Investor Group Battles PG&E's $100M Wildfire Suit Deal

By Emlyn Cameron

A faction of the proposed class members in a securities class action targeting Pacific Gas & Electric Co. have asked the California federal judge overseeing the case to deny a settlement of claims that the company misled investors about its safety practices ahead of deadly wildfires in the past decade.

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Iowa Can't Block Schwab's Antitrust Deal, 5th Circ. Told

By Katryna Perera

A group of investors who settled with The Charles Schwab Corp. in an antitrust suit over the financial services company's merger with TD Ameritrade has urged the Fifth Circuit to dismiss an appeal filed by the state of Iowa, which had previously objected to the settlement's lack of monetary benefit to the class and proposed attorney payouts.

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Judiciary Panel Gets Earful On Legal Financing, Subpoenas

By Jeff Overley

Plans to overhaul federal rules involving recusal and subpoenas fueled spirited debate Tuesday before a judiciary panel, as prominent lawyers outlined forceful views on transparency in third-party litigation funding as well as relaxed policies for serving court documents and obtaining trial testimony.

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Autodesk Investor Suit Over Internal Controls Axed For Good

By Katryna Perera

A California federal judge has dismissed, for good, a class action alleging that software company Autodesk misled investors on its financial metrics and internal controls, finding that there is nothing actionable or misleading about the three remaining challenged statements in the suit.

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9th Circ. Affirms Ripple's Early Win On Registration Claim

By Emilie Ruscoe

The Ninth Circuit won't revive class action claims alleging cryptocurrency company Ripple Labs sold the digital token XRP in an unregistered securities offering, upholding in its decision Tuesday a lower court's finding that the claims are time-barred.

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RJ Reynolds Owes Transplant Patient $675K Over Smoking

By Cara Salvatore

A Florida jury awarded $675,000 on Tuesday over a longtime Newports smoker's lung disease and transplant, much less than the $14 million requested by plaintiffs against R.J. Reynolds.

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Kratom Buyers Call Co.'s Products Addictive, Dangerous

By Mike Curley

A group of kratom product buyers is suing 7Tabz Retail LLC in California federal court, launching the latest suit alleging kratom companies are pushing an addictive drug without warning buyers about the danger.

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Facebook Users' Suit Over Hacked Accounts Tossed, For Now

By Dorothy Atkins

A California federal judge tossed with leave to amend Monday a proposed class action alleging Meta lets hackers take over users' Facebook accounts while profiting from users' data, finding that the consumers fail to allege a viable contract breach, but allowing them another shot at amending their theory of liability.

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Lasik Provider Can't Shake Wiretap Claims In Tracking Row

By Allison Grande

The operator of a laser eye surgery website must face a proposed class action alleging it illegally shared patients' confidential medical information with Meta, a California federal judge ruled, finding that the plaintiff could continue to press allegations under state and federal wiretap law.

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Under Armour Faces Class Action Over Alleged Data Breach

By Jared Foretek

Under Armour was hit with a proposed class action claiming that it failed to stop — and notify customers of — a massive data breach that compromised roughly 72 million email addresses and over 191 million customer records.

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SF Giants Accused Of Charging 'Junk Fees' On MLB Tickets

By Gina Kim

The San Francisco Giants for years lured consumers into buying tickets to ball games by unlawfully charging undisclosed "junk fees" that aren't revealed until checkout, after pressuring them with a countdown clock, alleges a proposed class action filed Monday in California federal court.

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Brief

Sonesta Dupes Consumers With Hidden Hotel Fees, Suit Says

By Carolyn Muyskens

Sonesta International Hotels Corp. deceptively tacks on fees to room prices late in the booking process, according to a putative class action filed in Massachusetts federal court.

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Shein Moves To Toss Artist's 'Misguided' Copyright, RICO Suit

By Rae Ann Varona

Shein urged a California federal court to toss a proposed copyright and racketeering class action that accuses the fast-fashion online retailer of using sophisticated algorithmic systems and artificial intelligence to steal artists' works, chiding the suit's bid to equate Shein with a criminal enterprise as "fanciful and severely misguided."

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Creators Say Snap Bypassed YouTube Safeguards To Train AI

By Adam Lidgett

Snapchat has been hit with a proposed class action in California federal court by YouTubers who claim the social media platform wrongfully scraped copyrighted videos to train its artificial intelligence model.

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Progressive Urges 4th Circ. To Decertify Car Valuation Class

By Hayley Fowler

Progressive told the Fourth Circuit to undo class certification of auto insurance customers in North Carolina challenging how it calculates adjustments for total loss claims, citing the court's decision last year in a "materially identical case" in which certification was reversed.

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6th Circ. Revives Rocket's Arbitration Bid In Spam Call Suit

By Sydney Price

The Sixth Circuit determined that a homeowner using online resources to research his mortgage refinancing options consented to a mandatory arbitration provision with Rocket Mortgage LLC when he navigated to its site through a third-party affiliate, reversing a decision from a Michigan district court that denied arbitration.

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Mortgage Statements Class Action Tossed, For Now

By Emilie Ruscoe

Bank of New York Mellon and a mortgage servicing company no longer face class action claims that they unfairly sought to collect on second mortgages following a bankruptcy discharge, a Boston federal judge has determined, finding that the suit didn't show that the firms were required to send borrowers periodic statements showing that they still owed money.

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Homebuyers Say Rocket Mortgage Illegally Inflated Prices

By Isaac Monterose

A proposed class of homebuyers accused Rocket Companies Inc. and its subsidiaries in Michigan federal court of illegally hiking home prices by sending business leads to real estate agents who pushed clients to use Rocket's "disadvantageous" financing services for purchases.

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Immigrants Sue ICE Over 'Intolerable' Calif. Detention Center

By Lauren Berg

After launching a "sweeping dragnet" of immigration arrests in California, the Trump administration is subjecting people to "dangerous conditions and pervasive abuses" at a detention center in the Mojave Desert as part of its broader plan to intimidate and deport immigrants, according to a lawsuit filed in California federal court.

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MLB Co. Seeks Exit From Lost Tickets Suit

By Ganesh Setty

Major League Baseball's ticketing and media company urged a New York federal court to toss a proposed class action alleging fans' tickets disappeared from the MLB Ballpark app, noting there are no claims the app malfunctioned or suffered a security breach.

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Judge Taps Ex-CIA, Corrections Pro To Clean Up NYC's Rikers

By Elizabeth Daley

 A Manhattan federal judge on Tuesday named a former Vermont corrections commissioner and ex-CIA officer to take the reins of New York City's troubled Rikers Island jail system as a "remediation manager," after yearslong efforts to clamp down on incidents of excessive force against the jail population.

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Key Sectors, Antitrust Risks In Pricing Algorithm Litigation

Algorithmic pricing lawsuits have proliferated in rental housing, hotels, health insurance and equipment rental industries, and companies should consider emerging risk factors when implementing business strategies this year, say attorneys at Hunton.

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State Of Insurance: Q4 Notes From Pennsylvania

Last quarter in Pennsylvania, a Superior Court ruling underscored the centrality of careful policy drafting and judicial scrutiny of exclusionary language, and another provided practical guidance on the calculation of attorney fees and interest in bad faith cases, while a proposed bill endeavored to cover insurance gaps for homeowners, says Todd Leon at Marshall Dennehey.

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ICE Violated Nearly 100 Court Orders, Minn. Judge Says

By Rae Ann Varona

The Minnesota federal court's chief judge admonished U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Wednesday for violating nearly 100 court orders concerning the Trump administration's immigration enforcement operations in Minnesota while another judge, on the same day, temporarily blocked ICE from unlawfully arresting and detaining refugees in the North Star State.

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Tobey Maguire Says He Rerouted Fee To Goldstein

By Jared Foretek

"Spider-Man" star Tobey Maguire told the jury Wednesday in Thomas Goldstein's tax fraud trial that he paid $500,000 for his legal services to another poker player the former SCOTUSblog founder owed money to, rather than Goldstein's law firm.

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Tom Goldstein Saga Could Go From Courtroom To Big Screen

By Rachel Rippetoe

As federal prosecutors are two weeks into detailing SCOTUSblog founder Thomas Goldstein's storied descent into the world of high-stakes poker during his tax fraud trial in Maryland, Hollywood producers are gearing up to tell the same story on-screen.

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Fla. Prosecutors' Detention Defense Met With Sanction Threat

By Adrian Cruz

The U.S. attorney for the Middle District of Florida, Gregory Kehoe, along with an assistant U.S. attorney have been threatened with sanctions by a federal judge for the methods their office used in defending the mandatory detention of noncitizens.

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Brief

Trump Announces Pick For New Assistant AG For Fraud Role

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump announced Wednesday evening that he would be nominating Colin McDonald, associate deputy attorney general, for the newly created assistant attorney general for fraud role.

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USPTO Seeks 'Serious Sanctions' For Chinese Co.'s 19K Apps

By Rae Ann Varona

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office says the "most serious sanctions" are warranted against a China-based company for filing more than 19,000 trademark submissions using names of U.S.-licensed attorneys who did not review the applications, saying submissions were at times filed in 3-minute intervals "or less."

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Prosecutors Form New Group To Fight Federal Overreach

By Ryan Boysen

Several progressive prosecutors have launched a new group to hold accountable federal officials who "exceed their lawful authority," amid a growing backlash to the Trump administration's immigration crackdown and the recent killing of two protesters by immigration agents in Minneapolis.

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Analysis

Trade Secret Filings Hit Record High In 2025, Report Finds

By Ivan Moreno

Trade secret litigation reached an all-time high in 2025, with more than 1,500 federal cases filed for the first time ever, according to a new report by legal analytics firm Lex Machina, which also highlights trends about damages, the busiest courts and the law firms most frequently involved.

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Law360 Seeks Members For Its 2026 Editorial Boards

Law360 is looking for avid readers of our publications to serve as members of our 2026 editorial advisory boards.

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