Polymarket Hit With Class Action For 'Disguising' Sports Bets

By Katryna Perera

Prediction market company Polymarket has been hit with a class action in New York federal court targeting its sports event contracts, which the suit alleges are disguised sports gambling offers meant to evade state regulation and scrutiny.

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Uber Hit With $8.5M Verdict In 1st Fed. Sex Assault Bellwether

By Bonnie Eslinger

An Arizona federal jury on Thursday found that Uber wasn't negligent with respect to rider safety but was liable for the actions of a driver who allegedly sexually assaulted a passenger in 2023, awarding the rider $8.5 million in damages in the first such federal bellwether trial.

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Microsoft Teams Illegally Collected Voice Data, Ill. Users Claim

By Ben Adlin

Microsoft Corp.'s Teams software collects and analyzes users' distinctive "voiceprints" without providing proper notice as required under Illinois law, five state residents alleged in a proposed class action Thursday.

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Amazon Screenings Are 'Hours Worked,' Conn. Justices Rule

By Aaron Keller

Amazon security screenings count as "hours worked" under Connecticut state employment law, and no legal exception permits the retailer to withhold pay for time spent on minimal matters at the end of a worker's shift, the state supreme court ruled unanimously on Thursday.

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Class Action Group Of The Year: Hagens Berman

By James Boyle

Attorneys at Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP resolved several long-running and complex class action matters and secured landmark settlements against high-profile defendants, including the NCAA, the National Association of Realtors and Visa, earning the firm a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Class Action Groups of the Year.

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2nd Circ. Won't Kick Luxottica Pension Fight To Arbitration

By Kellie Mejdrich

The Second Circuit backed a lower court's refusal to compel individual arbitration of a former Luxottica worker's proposed class action alleging pension underpayments, ruling Thursday that she had standing to sue for plan reformation but couldn't seek monetary payments on the plan's behalf.

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J-1 Visa Worker Urges Class Cert. In Marriott RICO Suit

By Irene Spezzamonte

Marriott International Inc. shouldn't prevent class certification in a suit claiming it engaged in racketeering to secure cheaper labor through the J-1 visa program, the worker leading the suit told a Colorado federal court, saying he has enough evidence to support a class claim. 

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AT&T Wins Toss Of Job-Seeker's 'Lie Detector' Claims

By Julie Manganis

A Massachusetts judge on Thursday tossed a proposed class action alleging that AT&T is violating a state law prohibiting the use of lie detectors in hiring, rejecting the plaintiff's claim that an instruction to answer questions honestly on a job assessment test is a polygraph exam.

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Arbitration Pact Doesn't Block Race Bias Suit, 6th Circ. Says

By Grace Elletson

The Sixth Circuit backed a trial court's ruling that an arbitration agreement didn't apply to a Black ex-security officer's suit claiming Detroit's Renaissance Center failed to address concerns that white officers mistreated their Black co-workers, ruling a grammatical decision in the pact keeps his case in court.

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Red Lobster Wants Worker's Wage Suit Sent To Arbitration

By Benjamin Morse

A Red Lobster worker must pursue her Illinois wage claims in arbitration rather than federal court because she agreed to arbitrate employment disputes when she was rehired, the restaurant chain said Thursday.

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Car Services Co.'s $25M Investor Deal Gets First OK

By Sydney Price

Car services company Driven Brands Holdings Inc. and its investors have received initial approval of their $25 million deal settling claims it misled the public by overstating the success of the integration of its glass repair acquisitions and performance of its car wash businesses.

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Colo. Judge Hears Closings In Gender-Affirming Care Halt Suit

By Rachel Konieczny

Patients of Children's Hospital Colorado who want a state court to reinstate their gender-affirming medical care told a judge Thursday that the court's enforcement of state law and the rule of law is their only remedy, while the hospital that halted their care has other options.

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Aircraft Service Co. Denied OT, Full Pay, Ex-Worker Tells Court

By Benjamin Morse

An aircraft services company stiffed workers on overtime and pay for all hours worked, a former employee alleged in a proposed collective action complaint filed in Texas federal court.

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E.L.F. Beauty Investors Told To Revise Inventory Fraud Claims

By Sydney Price

Investors of cosmetics giant e.l.f. Beauty were told by a California federal judge that they must rework parts of their suit accusing the company and its executives of hiding growing inventory issues stemming from inadequate sales, including claims accusing Elf's chief financial officer of fraud.

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Generator Co. Beats Investors' Post-COVID Demand Woes Suit

By Emilie Ruscoe

Generator-maker Generac Holdings Inc. no longer faces proposed investor class action claims it concealed struggles to rightsize its production and inventory levels following pandemic-linked fluctuations, a Wisconsin federal judge has determined after finding the suit didn't show intentional misrepresentations.

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Semtech Hid Copper Tech Product Setbacks, Investors Say

By Katryna Perera

Two Semtech Corp. investors have filed amended claims against the company's top brass in a shareholder derivative suit in California federal court, alleging the executives misled investors ahead of Semtech's secondary public offering and overhyped demand for the company's active copper cable technology that was supposed to be used by chipmaker Nvidia.

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BlackRock Arm Faces Investor Suit Over Lending Losses

By Jessica Corso

A BlackRock subsidiary that finances middle-market companies is facing a proposed class action in California federal court accusing it of failing to warn investors about the ballooning number of portfolio companies struggling to pay back their loans.

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Consumers Fight To Keep Frozen Potato Antitrust Suit Alive

By Lauraann Wood

Consumer groups pursuing price-fixing allegations against the nation's leading frozen potato product producers and certain others have urged an Illinois federal judge to let their claims proceed, arguing they've plausibly outlined a "classic antitrust story" that should be allowed to enter the evidence-gathering stage.

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Meta Must Redo User Engagement Data In Mental Health MDL

By Bonnie Eslinger

A California federal judge overseeing discovery in litigation against social media giants over their effect on youth mental health ordered Meta to provide plaintiffs with updated data on the amount of time users spend on Instagram and Facebook, after state attorneys general argued Meta had skewed the times downward.

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Nerds And Other Ferrara Candies Allegedly Contain Arsenic

By Gina Kim

Ferrara Candy Co. was hit with a proposed class action Wednesday in Illinois federal court over allegations that popular brands of its candy, including Nerds, Trolli gummy candy, Laffy Taffy and Sweet Tarts, contain toxic levels of arsenic.

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Website Wiretapping Claims Trimmed From Cigna Suit

By Matthew Santoni

A Pennsylvania federal judge has trimmed most of a proposed class action over Cigna's alleged third-party sharing of customers' private health information on its website and patient portals, finding that while the customers had standing, they had consented to a privacy policy that disclosed the data collection and sharing.

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Analytics Co. Says Patients Not Harmed By Data Breach

By Melanie Dorsey

A private healthcare data analytics company on Wednesday urged a Michigan federal court to dismiss a consolidated proposed class action stemming from a cyberattack, arguing the patients' claims rest on speculative fears of future identity theft rather than concrete injury.

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OpenAI Rips Bid For Exec's Personal Journal In IP Litigation

By Dorothy Atkins

OpenAI urged a New York federal judge Wednesday to reject a demand by authors and newspapers for the OpenAI president's "personal journal" in their copyright litigation, arguing the request is unwarranted and a "severe invasion of privacy," even if excerpts were recently revealed in OpenAI's separate litigation with Elon Musk.

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Meta Latest To Be Accused Of YouTube Data Scraping For AI

By Elliot Weld

Three YouTube personalities have filed suit against Meta Platforms Inc., accusing it of circumventing YouTube's technological protections to bulk-download video content to be used in training artificial intelligence.

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PacifiCorp Owes $2M In Latest Wildfire Trial

By Cara Salvatore

An Oregon state jury on Thursday ordered PacifiCorp to pay $2 million in noneconomic damages to a firefighter captain and his wife in the latest trial over wildfire property damage.

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Conn. Town's PFAS Case Against 3M, Others Sent To MDL

By Brian Steele

A Connecticut town's "forever chemicals" lawsuit against major corporations including 3M and RTX, claiming damages for the contamination of local water supplies, will proceed as part of multidistrict litigation in South Carolina, court records show.

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Elevance Fights Nurses' '11th Hour' Class Expansion

By Abigail Harrison

Health insurer Elevance told a North Carolina federal court that it should deny a former nurse's attempt to expand a class definition in her overtime-exempt misclassification lawsuit, arguing that the reworked definition would entirely upend the litigation and prejudice the insurer.

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Teaching Logic Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Teaching middle and high school students the skills to untangle complicated arguments and identify faulty reasoning has made me reacquaint myself with the defined structure of thought, reminding me why logic should remain foundational in the practice of law, says Tom Barrow at Woods Rogers.

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Meet New Paul Weiss Chairman Scott Barshay

By Anna Sanders

New Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP chair Scott Barshay is a rainmaker who most recently led the corporate department, guiding clients through some of the largest transactions in recent history after joining the firm's New York office a decade ago.

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Judge Who Resigned To Criticize Trump Had Faced Inquiry

By Chris Villani

Former Massachusetts U.S. District Judge Mark L. Wolf was the subject of an inquiry into potential misconduct when he announced his November resignation, a decision he said at the time was motivated by a desire to speak out against the Trump administration, according to a source familiar with the matter.

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Judge Says AI Errors Show Atty Can't 'Learn' From Mistakes

By Ivan Moreno

A New York federal judge concluded that an attorney who repeatedly submitted filings with false AI-generated citations must be punished with case-terminating sanctions against a client he was defending in a trademark lawsuit, saying Thursday that the lawyer "has not, and apparently cannot, learn from his mistakes."

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NY Times Article Excerpts Admitted In Goldstein Trial

By Jared Foretek

Federal prosecutors pressing their case against SCOTUSblog co-founder Thomas Goldstein for tax evasion and misleading statements on mortgage applications were finally able on Thursday to present jurors with key statements the U.S. Supreme Court lawyer made to legal journalist Jeffrey Toobin for a long New York Times Magazine article.

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Texas Atty Must Explain AI 'Misuse' In Employment Case

By Lauren Berg

A prominent civil rights attorney representing a University of Texas at Austin nurse in an employment discrimination case must explain why he shouldn't be sanctioned "for his apparent misuse of artificial intelligence" to research and write a brief, a Texas federal judge ruled.

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Ex-Alex Jones Atty Asks Conn. Justices To Nix Suspension

By Brian Steele

A Connecticut attorney who formerly represented conspiracy broadcaster Alex Jones in a $1.4 billion defamation case has asked the state's highest court to consider whether it was proper for a judge to suspend his law license for violating a protective order governing Sandy Hook families' personal information.

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Deel Loses Bid To DQ Quinn Emanuel In Trade Secrets Fight

By Lauren Berg

Payroll and human resources company Deel Inc. cannot have Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP disqualified from representing its competitor Rippling in a trade secrets fight, a Delaware judge ruled Thursday, saying there is no "clear conflict" that would require booting the BigLaw firm.

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State Bar Of Texas Declines To Open Grievance On Ramey

By Emily Sawicki

The State Bar of Texas has declined to open a grievance against patent litigator William P. Ramey III after a San Francisco federal court sanctioned him and his firm, Ramey LLP, for practicing law in California without a license.

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Wash. Lawyer Faces Sanction Threat Over Alleged AI Errors

By Ben Adlin

A federal judge has ordered an attorney in Washington state to submit a sworn declaration explaining why she shouldn't be sanctioned for what opposing counsel claimed are dozens of artificial intelligence "hallucinations" across multiple case filings.

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Fake Case Pulled From Toshiba Malicious Prosecution Suit

By Bryan Koenig

A former printer toner salesman is trying to salvage his lawsuit against Toshiba after the company flagged nonexistent citations, apologizing to the California federal court in a corrected brief Thursday defending claims that the electronics company manufactured a criminal case against him and others to maintain an illegal monopoly.

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McCarter & English Wants To Torpedo $22M Malpractice Suit

By Aaron Keller

McCarter & English LLP on Thursday asked a Connecticut Superior Court judge to sink a $22.3 million professional negligence lawsuit by two struggling insurers, saying failures to provide documents or knowledgeable people to testify during pretrial depositions warrant a "harsh" end to the nearly decade-old case.

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Trump's Seattle US Atty Stays On For Now Via Title Swap

By Rachel Riley

Trump administration appointee Charles Neil Floyd will continue to be the Western District of Washington's top federal prosecutor for now, under the new title of "First Assistant U.S. Attorney," after the deadline passed Wednesday for the U.S. Senate to confirm the interim appointment.

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Klobuchar Alarmed By Exodus Of Prosecutors In Minnesota

By Courtney Bublé

Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., on Thursday said she was alarmed by the surge of resignations by federal prosecutors in her state following the shooting deaths of two Minnesotans by immigration agents.

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Judiciary Backs Bill To Let Judges Carry Concealed Guns

By Courtney Bublé

The federal judiciary has come out in support of a Republican-led bill to allow judges and prosecutors to carry concealed firearms across state lines, according to a letter obtained by Law360.

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Ex-Prosecutors Call For Independent Probes Of ICE Killings

By Rose Krebs

A coalition of former federal prosecutors and civil rights attorneys is urging U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to ensure that the U.S. Department of Justice allows for "transparent, unbiased and impartial" investigations into the killings in Minneapolis last month of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal immigration enforcement agents.

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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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