Pentegra Agrees To Pay $48.5M After $38.8M ERISA Verdict

By Rae Ann Varona

A New York federal judge Wednesday preliminarily approved a settlement in which Pentegra Retirement Services agreed to pay nearly $10 million more than a $38.8 million jury verdict awarded to a 27,000-member class of 401(k) plan participants who challenged the plan's excessive administrative fees.

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Life Insurer Agrees To Settle Inflated Charges Suits For $45M

By Ganesh Setty

A Missouri-based life insurer agreed to pay $45 million to settle a group of proposed and certified class actions accusing it of using certain nonmortality factors, contrary to policy language, to impose higher costs on policyholders, bringing the insurer's total losses for such claims to over $94.5 million.

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NCAA, NASCAR Antitrust Challenges Permeate 2025's 1st Half

By Elaine Briseño

The first half of 2025 saw the dispute between NASCAR and two of its teams become supercharged and a judge give final approval to the disputed settlement for the NCAA name, image and likeness antitrust litigation.

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TikTok Can Arbitrate Most Sales Reps' Claims Of Unpaid OT

By Emmy Freedman

A lawsuit by a group of sales representatives accusing TikTok of incorrectly classifying them as exempt from earning overtime can largely be sent to arbitration, a California federal judge ruled, saying all but one worker signed an agreement that mandates employment disputes stay out of court.

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9th Circ. Limits Cracker Barrel Collective To In-State Workers

By Emmy Freedman

A nationwide collective of Cracker Barrel servers in a wage and hour case is too vast, the Ninth Circuit ruled, saying members who worked for the restaurant chain outside Arizona, where the suit was launched, should not have been permitted to join.

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Falsehoods Cited As Fla. Atty DQ'd From Practicing In NC

By Emily Sawicki

A North Carolina Business Court judge has barred a Florida attorney from practicing in North Carolina for a year, after he was found to have made numerous false representations in applications for pro hac vice status in two separate suits on which he sought to appear in the Tar Heel State.

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DHS Accused Of Targeting 'Individuals With Brown Skin' In LA

By Rae Ann Varona

Immigration rights groups and individuals who were arrested or stopped during recent federal immigration operations in Los Angeles filed a putative class action on Wednesday, accusing the federal government of targeting brown-skinned people and day laborers without warrants and keeping detainees in "dungeon-like" facilities.

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Analysis

High Court Case Tops List of Securities Appeals To Watch

By Jessica Corso

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to take up at least one shareholder's lawsuit when it reopens its doors in October, and securities attorneys from both the plaintiff and defense bars will be watching that appeal and several others as the year moves forward.

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Feature

The Funniest Moments Of The Supreme Court's Term

By Jeff Overley

After justices and oral advocates spent much of an argument pummeling a lower court's writing talents, one attorney suggested it might be time to move on — only to be told the drubbing had barely begun. Here, Law360 showcases the standout jests and wisecracks from the 2024-25 U.S. Supreme Court term.

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Veterans Sue Air Force For Disability Review Failures

By Tom Lotshaw

Three former service members hit the U.S. Air Force with a proposed class action challenging the lawfulness of a screening process used to determine if people should be retained or referred to a formal disability evaluation process.

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Brief

Moving Help Co. Accused Of Misclassifying Drivers

By Emmy Freedman

An on-demand moving and delivery service classifies workers as independent contractors — despite exercising substantial control over their work — and refuses to reimburse drivers for the costs they incur from buying gas and paying tolls, according to a proposed class action filed in California state court.

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Target Board Sued Over 2023 Pride Campaign 'Backlash'

By Sydney Price

Executives and directors of Target have been hit with a shareholder derivative suit in Minnesota federal court accusing them of damaging the company by implementing an LGBTQ+ pride-themed marketing campaign two years ago despite knowing the risk of "public backlash."

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Chinese Cannabis Vape Maker Accused Of Monopoly

By Jonathan Capriel

The Chinese companies behind cannabis vape brand CCELL and a number of its U.S. distributors were accused of organizing an anticompetitive price-fixing scheme that gave them market dominance, according a proposed class action lawsuit, at least the second this year to make similar claims.

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Schools Ask To Probe Ethics Claim In Financial Aid Case

By Matthew Perlman

Universities accused of conspiring to limit financial aid offerings are asking an Illinois federal court for permission to take discovery on potential ethical violations involving class attorney fees after an attorney for the students raised the issue.

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Girardi Asks To Remain Free During Fraud Appeal

By Lauren Berg

Disbarred attorney Tom Girardi asked a California federal judge on Wednesday to remain free on bond while he appeals his wire fraud conviction, saying he's not a flight risk or danger to the community and there are several issues on appeal that could result in reversal or resentencing.

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Best Buy Gets Laptop Speed False-Ad Suit Sent To Arbitration

By Ryan Harroff

An Illinois federal judge ruled Wednesday that a Best Buy customer who accused the electronics retailer of falsely advertising the ASUS Vivobook laptop of operating at higher speeds than it was actually capable of must arbitrate his claims against the company.

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Tree Top's Apple Juices Aren't Really '100% Juice,' Suit Says

By Gina Kim

Tree Top Inc. deceptively labels some of its apple juices as made with "100% apple juice" or made from "100% USA apples," despite the addition of ascorbic acid, a synthetic preservative, to the beverages, according to a proposed false advertising class action filed Tuesday in California federal court.

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High Court ACA Ruling May Harm Preventative Care

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Kennedy v. Braidwood last week, ruling that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services secretary has authority over an Affordable Care Act preventive care task force, risks harming the credibility of the task force and could open the door to politicians dictating clinical recommendations, says Michael Kolber at Manatt.

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8 Ways Lawyers Can Protect The Rule Of Law In Their Work

Whether they are concerned with judicial independence, regulatory predictability or client confidence, lawyers can take specific meaningful actions on their own when traditional structures are too slow or too compromised to respond, says Angeli Patel at the Berkeley Center of Law and Business.

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GOP Reps. Want Probe Of RI Judge Blocking Funding Freeze

By Jack Karp

Two Republican U.S. House members have asked the First Circuit to investigate a Rhode Island federal judge who blocked a Trump administration spending freeze, claiming the judge's link to a funding recipient constitutes a conflict of interest, one of those congressmen's office confirmed to Law360 Pulse on Wednesday.

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Trump Announces 1st And 9th Circ. Nominees

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump announced nominations for judges on the First and Ninth circuit courts on Wednesday evening.

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Ill. Judge Asks Deere Rivals To Stop Pestering Court Staff

By Nadia Dreid

The judge overseeing the FTC's antitrust enforcement action against farm machinery maker Deere & Co. has penned a light-hearted order calling out another judge and asking equipment manufacturers to stop calling his staff to ask for advice.

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Amazon Judge Presses FTC On Bid For 'Bad Faith' Finding

By Rachel Riley

As the Federal Trade Commission insisted Wednesday that Amazon should be punished with a bad faith finding for mislabeling documents as privileged in a case over the company's Prime subscription practices, a Washington federal judge questioned why the agency wasn't "made whole" when the court granted its sanctions bid.

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DOJ, HHS Form New False Claims Act Enforcement Group

By Gianna Ferrarin

Lead attorneys at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Justice Department will head a working group focused on enforcement of the False Claims Act, government officials announced Wednesday.

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Segal McCambridge Hit With Age Bias, Retaliation Suit

By Jake Maher

A former secretary is suing Segal McCambridge Singer & Mahoney Ltd. in New York federal court alleging that the firm excluded her from work emails, falsely accused her of failing to perform her work duties and ultimately fired her based on her age.

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Wisconsin High Court Narrowly Blocks 1849 Abortion Ban

By Dan McKay

The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Wednesday narrowly struck down an 1849 statute criminalizing abortion, finding that the law has been effectively replaced by more modern legislation regulating the procedure.

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DOJ, Defenders Alums Chosen As EDNY Magistrate Judges

By Andrea Keckley

The Board of Judges of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York has announced the appointment of two new magistrate judges: a former federal prosecutor and a Federal Defenders of New York alum.

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Litigation Funder Seeks Exit From NJ Suit Over Crash Funding

By Emily Sawicki

A litigation funder has asked a New Jersey state court to remove it from a suit alleging it worked with two law firms to unlawfully steer a former client into high-interest loans amid a vehicle injury suit, arguing its funding agreements are not loans and therefore are not governed by the Consumer Fraud Act.

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Analysis

Amid DEI Uncertainty, Cos. Face Pressure From All Sides

By Sarah Jarvis

Attorneys have been analyzing the Trump administration's many pronouncements against diversity, equity and inclusion programs over the past several months, only to be left with questions as to what exactly "illegal DEI" is and what the government will do to police it.

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Calif. Man Charged In Plot To Murder Fed. Judge, Senator

By Lauren Berg

A California man allegedly belonging to an online-based terrorist group is accused of soliciting the murders of a federal judge, a U.S. senator, a former U.S. attorney and other officials the organization deemed to be obstructing their white supremacist aims, according to a federal indictment unsealed Wednesday.

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Roundup

Hub Hires: Crowell & Moring, Greenberg Traurig, Kirkland

By Chris Villani

There will be more than a few Boston-area attorneys celebrating new jobs while attending Fourth of July cookouts this year.

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