'Cheap' Judge Tentatively Trims Fees But OKs $65M Snap Deal

By Craig Clough

A California federal judge who previously described himself to the parties as "cheap" may have lived up to the descriptor Wednesday by tentatively granting final approval to Snap's $65 million securities settlement while indicating he'd likely give a 5% "haircut" to the investor plaintiffs' requested attorney fees.

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SolarEdge Inks $55M Investor Deal Over Europe Sales Claims

By Craig Clough

A group of SolarEdge Technologies Inc. investors have asked a New York federal judge to approve a $55 million preliminary settlement they reached with the company and two of its top executives, saying it would be a "highly favorable resolution" of their claims that the company misrepresented the demand for solar energy products in Europe.

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Mass. Justices Reject Additional Rules For Punitive Damages

By Chris Villani

Massachusetts' highest court on Wednesday rejected a bid by Philip Morris USA Inc. to impose rules aimed at curbing big-dollar punitive damages awards, declining to wipe out or further reduce a verdict against the tobacco company that was already slashed from $1 billion to $56 million.  

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Bayer 'Natural' Vitamin Buyer Classes Affirmed By 9th Circ.

By Craig Clough

A split Ninth Circuit on Tuesday upheld a federal district court's certification of New York and California classes of consumers who bought Bayer Healthcare multivitamin gummies that were allegedly labeled falsely as "natural," finding the company "demands more" from the plaintiffs at this stage of the litigation than certification requires. 

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Lockheed Birth Defect Trial Judge 'Disappointed' By Attys

By Cara Salvatore

A Florida federal judge said Tuesday he's "puzzled and disappointed" in counsel who appear "unprepared" on the eve of trial in a suit by children who blame their birth defects on Lockheed Martin's chemical handling practices at an Orlando defense system manufacturing and research facility.

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Hagens Berman, Others Seek To Co-Lead PFAS Fire Gear Suit

By Dorothy Atkins

Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP and four other firms have urged a Montana federal judge to appoint them as co-lead class counsel in PFAS firefighter gear litigation by cities and municipalities against 3M, Dupont and others, arguing they were the first to file suit, which inspired multiple "copycat" actions.

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Yelp Stiffed Calif. Workers On Boot-Up Time, Suit Says

By MJ Koo

Yelp failed to pay hourly workers for the minutes they spent waiting for their work computers to boot up before they could clock in for each shift, a former worker alleged in a proposed class action in California state court.

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LinkSquares Settles Sales Reps' OT Suit On 1st Day Of Trial

By Carolyn Muyskens

Legal tech company LinkSquares Inc. and inside sales representatives who claimed they were misclassified as overtime-exempt reached a settlement to avoid a jury trial that was set to begin in Boston federal court Tuesday.

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Frontier Pays Flight Attendants Only While In Air, Suit Says

By MJ Koo

Frontier Airlines underpaid flight attendants by compensating them only for time spent in the air while requiring hours of unpaid work before and after each flight, according to a proposed class action filed in New Jersey federal court.

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Workers Get 'One More Chance' In General Mills Bias Suit

By Chart Riggall

A Georgia federal judge Wednesday warned General Mills plant workers claiming they were subjected to racist harassment that they've got one last chance to bring their proposed class action up to his standard before he tosses it for good.

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Fast Food Parent Co. Wants Out Of Workers' Tobacco Fee Suit

By Kelcey Caulder

The parent company of Arby's, Dunkin' and other fast-food chains urged a Georgia federal court to toss the remaining claims in a class action alleging employees in its health plan were unlawfully charged more for using tobacco, pointing to the U.S. Supreme Court's 2024 Loper Bright ruling.

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Workers' Attys Get $940K As $4.7M Tobacco Deal Approved

By Patrick Hoff

A Virginia federal judge on Wednesday awarded $940,000 in attorney fees to class counsel who secured a $4.7 million settlement with food distributor Performance Food Group over claims that it unlawfully charged tobacco users an extra fee for health benefits.

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2nd Circ. Amends Revival Of Mortgage-Backed Securities Suit

By Kellie Mejdrich

The Second Circuit on Wednesday pulled back from a holding that mortgages underlying a union pension fund's mortgage-backed securities investments that tanked during the financial crisis were plan assets under federal benefits law in a proposed class action that the appellate court revived in March against Wells Fargo and Ocwen.

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Alston & Bird Says Goliath Investors Can't Claim Malpractice

By Carolina Bolado

Alston & Bird LLP urged a Florida federal court on Wednesday to toss a malpractice suit claiming the firm facilitated a $328 million cryptocurrency scam at Goliath Ventures Inc., arguing that the proposed class of Goliath investors who brought the suit were never clients of the firm.

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Tesla Wants Out Of Investor Suit Over Its Self-Driving Goals

By Emilie Ruscoe

Automaker Tesla Inc. seeks to shed a proposed investor class action alleging the company overstated its success developing autonomous driving technology, arguing that it had already defeated "nearly identical allegations" in a California federal court and before the Ninth Circuit.

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Ex-Conn. Prosecutor Fights Drug Co. Bid To Appeal DQ Denial

By Matthew Santoni

Insurers Humana Inc. and Molina Healthcare Inc. urged a federal judge to turn down a group of generic-drug makers' request for an immediate trip to the Third Circuit, arguing the drugmakers' bid for a second chance to disqualify Connecticut's former assistant attorney general from an antitrust case was not qualified for an interlocutory appeal.

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Monsanto, Roundup Users Fight 'Attack' On $7.25B Deal

By Rae Ann Varona

Monsanto and a proposed class that entered into a $7.25B settlement resolving claims linking Roundup to non-Hodgkin lymphoma have urged a California federal court overseeing multidistrict litigation to reject two law firms' "baseless smear campaign" and "attack" on the pending deal, saying the deal falls outside the court's jurisdiction.

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Gore-Tex Maker Says 'Harmful' Chemicals Suit Can't Survive

By Bonnie Eslinger

W.L. Gore urged a Delaware federal judge Wednesday to toss a proposed class action claiming the company touts Gore-Tex as environmentally sound while hiding that "harmful" per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances are used to make the fabric, saying the consumers "lack any basis" to claim their garments contain the chemicals.

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Hyundai, Kia Face Claims Over Defective Charging System

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

A subsidiary of Hyundai Motor Group is facing a proposed class action in New Jersey federal court alleging it sold defective charging units and benefited financially from covering up the problems.

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GM Must Face MDL Wiretap Claims Over OnStar Devices

By Chart Riggall

A Georgia federal judge Wednesday narrowed the scope of claims filed on behalf of a proposed nationwide class of 16 million drivers whose OnStar driving data was allegedly used to spy on them, while largely preserving the wiretapping allegations at the heart of the suit.

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Rover App Shares User Info With 3rd Parties, Suit Says

By Gina Kim

Pet care app Rover shares sensitive user information like search queries, booking histories, home addresses and absence schedules with third parties like Google without consent, according to a proposed class action filed Tuesday in California federal court.   

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Paint Co. Says Injury Firm Used Stolen Data To Solicit Clients

By Abigail Harrison

A paint company has asked a North Carolina federal court to boot the opposing counsel in a putative data breach class action, accusing them of finding stolen data on the dark web and using it to solicit potential plaintiffs before victims were even notified of the breach.

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TD Bank, Airline Data Co. Accused Of Sharing Info With Govt.

By Sydney Price

TD Bank NA and airline-owned financial technology company Airlines Reporting Corp. are facing a proposed class action in Delaware federal court accusing them of funneling airfare transaction data to the government through a "secret pipeline," in violation of consumers' financial privacy rights.

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Samba TV Must Face Wiretap, Privacy Claims In Data Suit

By Jared Foretek

A California federal judge allowed invasion of privacy and Federal Wiretap Act claims against smart TV advertising company Samba TV to proceed to discovery Tuesday, ruling that a proposed class's allegations that the company collected viewing data to build viewer profiles that include their political leanings constituted actionable harm.

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Costco Says '100% Agave' Tequila Suit Belongs In Mexico

By Ben Adlin

Costco has urged a Washington federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit accusing the retailer of falsely labeling its Kirkland Signature tequila as made from pure agave, arguing that a U.S. court exercising jurisdiction over the case would interfere with Mexico's "exclusive sovereign authority to determine what is and is not 100% agave tequila."

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Poland Spring Drinkers Renew Class Cert. Bid In False-Ad Suit

By Rae Ann Varona

Purchasers of Poland Spring bottled water have again urged a Connecticut federal judge to certify proposed classes in their lawsuit that claims the former Nestle brand was actually bottling groundwater, setting a proposed class period end date after the judge initially denied their certification request for lacking a date.

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Nintendo Customers Jump In On Tariff Refund Suits

By Jack McLoone

Video game giant Nintendo stands to make "windfall profits" through refunds of President Donald Trump's now-invalidated global tariff regime since those costs were actually passed on to consumers, a proposed class action in Washington federal court said, joining the chorus of customers looking to secure tariff-related refunds.

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Immunity Bars Fla. Prepaid Tuition Suit, 11th Circ. Says

By David Minsky

The Eleventh Circuit ruled that parents' proposed class action seeking damages from the Florida Prepaid College Board over failing to provide a portion of tuition for their daughters' education cannot proceed, saying their claims are barred under sovereign immunity. 

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Judge Lets AI Copyright Claims Against Databricks Proceed

By Elliot Weld

A California federal judge has denied a bid from software and artificial intelligence firms Databricks and Mosaic ML to escape authors' allegations that their works were used to train large language models, saying the proposed class of writers had asserted a sufficient complaint.

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Natural Gas Co. Seeks Dismissal Of Unpaid Royalties Suit

By Benjamin Morse

A natural gas company urged a Colorado federal judge to dismiss a proposed class action accusing it of underpaying oil and gas royalties, arguing the complaint relies on speculation about deductions and improperly attempts to convert a handful of leases into a case covering thousands of contracts.

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Citibank Defends Arbitration Ruling In Veteran Credit Card Row

By Sydney Price

Citibank has urged a North Carolina federal court to uphold a magistrate judge's decision to pause a military consumer lawsuit accusing the bank of misleading service members about interest and fees after the Fourth Circuit determined that the arbitration agreements were enforceable.

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Feds Urge 9th Circ. To Lift Block On Calif. Border Patrol Sweeps

By Dorothy Atkins

The government urged the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday to lift an injunction barring Border Patrol from warrantless arrests and detentive stops without probable cause and reasonable suspicion, arguing that the plaintiffs lack standing, because they have "no good basis to believe they themselves will be subject to future unlawful stops."

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Colo. Tenants Say Property Firm Charged $3M In Hidden Fees

By MJ Koo

A national property management firm was hit with a proposed class action in Colorado federal court alleging that it charges tenants nearly $3 million in unauthorized fees annually for gas, common area electricity and pest control.

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Illinois Judge Sends Kalshi Gambling Suit To New York

By Katryna Perera

An Illinois federal judge transferred a putative class action accusing Kalshi Inc. of violating Illinois gambling and consumer protection laws to New York, which has consolidated similar lawsuits claiming the platform falsely markets itself as a "prediction market," when it is actually running an illegal sports gambling operation.

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Written Consent Ruling May Signal Change For Telemarketing

The Fifth Circuit's ruling in Bradford v. Sovereign Pest Control is a takedown of the Federal Communications Commission's prior express written consent regulation, and because Loper Bright empowers courts to disregard agency interpretations, Telephone Consumer Protection Act litigants now have an opportunity to challenge previously settled FCC regulations, orders and interpretations, say attorneys at Manatt.

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Law School's Missed Lessons: How To Draft Pleadings

Most law school graduates step into their first jobs without ever having drafted a complaint, answer, motion or other type of pleading, but that gap can be closed by understanding the strategy embedded in every filing, writing with clarity and purpose, and seeking feedback at every step, says Eric Yakaitis at Haug Barron.

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The 2026 Lawyer Satisfaction Survey: Where Do You Stand?

How is your work-life balance? Are you content with your compensation and opportunities for advancement at work? Take the 2026 Law360 Lawyer Satisfaction Survey and share your thoughts.

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Bar Complaint Calls Out EEOC Chair's Law Firm DEI Letters

By Grace Elletson

A legal advocacy group asked the Virginia State Bar to investigate whether U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Chair Andrea Lucas violated ethics rules by declining to investigate LGBTQ bias complaints and sending letters demanding information from law firms on their diversity, equity and inclusion practices.

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'Cheap' Judge OKs $19.5M Snap Deal Fees But 'No Bentleys'

By Craig Clough

After warning counsel who negotiated a $65 million securities settlement with Snap that he is "notoriously cheap," and in a tentative order gave a "haircut" to their $19.5 million fee request, a California federal judge talked himself out of the trim at a hearing Thursday but quipped, "No Bentleys."

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Another 'Inventing Anna' Attorney Gets Disbarred

By Emily Sawicki

A New York state appeals court has accepted the resignation of a New York City attorney amid a misconduct investigation, reportedly leaving high-profile socialite scammer Anna Sorokin without legal counsel while facing fee claims from her former lawyer, according to a Thursday notice by opposing counsel.

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DOJ Watchdog To Review Handling Of Epstein Files

By Courtney Bublé

The U.S. Department of Justice watchdog announced Thursday that it will be reviewing the department's release of the Epstein files after much bipartisan pushback that it has been slow and error-ridden.

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Ex-DA's Defamation Claims Tied To Menendez Work Risk Toss

By Rae Ann Varona

A Los Angeles County prosecutor-turned-public defender fought uphill Thursday to pursue defamation claims against a former colleague who criticized her advocacy for the release of Erik and Lyle Menendez, with a California state court judge saying that alleged comments like calling the attorney a "quisling" — or traitor — were nonactionable opinions.

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ICE Courthouse Arrest Policy Faces New Stay Bid After Error

By Adrian Cruz

Civil rights groups suing the U.S. government to block immigration courthouse arrests asked a New York federal judge to stay the enforcement of the arrest policy, arguing that government attorneys have retracted their original position on the legality of the arrests.

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Immigration Board Says Judge Glossed Over Inconsistencies

By Tom Lotshaw

An immigration judge failed to address and explain inconsistencies before finding a Cameroonian man credible and granting him withholding of removal protection, the Board of Immigration Appeals said in a decision designated as precedential.

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