Zillow To Pay $212M To Exit Investors' Home-Flipping Suit

By Jessica Corso

Zillow told a federal judge in Washington state Wednesday the company has agreed to settle an investor class action accusing it of hiding problems with its now-shuttered home buying business, agreeing to pay $212.5 million just weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court turned away the company's appeal. 

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Jury Selection Starts In 2nd Social Media Bellwether In LA

By Craig Clough

Jury selection began Wednesday in a California courtroom for the second bellwether trial focused on allegations that major social media companies are harming the mental health of children, with Meta Platforms Inc. returning to the defense table next to Snap Inc., which is facing jurors on the claims for the first time.

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'Lessons Learned': 9th Circ. Judge Doubts Uber Clawback Bid

By Dorothy Atkins

A Ninth Circuit judge doubted Uber's request Wednesday to claw back 42 documents inadvertently produced in sexual assault multidistrict litigation during its attorney-client privilege rereview, telling counsel, "At a certain point, we have to say stop, put your pencils down," and asking why this shouldn't be "an example of lessons learned."

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9th Circ. Judge Calls Out Whole Foods For Standing Flip-Flop

By Rachel Riley

A Ninth Circuit judge confronted Whole Foods on Wednesday for reversing its position in a proposed class action alleging failure to include wage information in job listings, pressing its counsel on why an appellate panel should accept its new standing argument and let the case proceed in federal court instead of Washington state court.

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Conn. Firm Gets $3.1M For FedEx Security Check Deal

By Brian Steele

A Connecticut federal judge Wednesday awarded more than $3.16 million to Hayber McKenna & Dinsmore LLC after granting final approval of a $9.5 million settlement between FedEx and workers who were not paid for going through security before and after their shifts.

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NJ Health System Hit With Class Action Over Retirement Plan

By Gianna Ferrarin

Retirement plan participants and beneficiaries told a New Jersey federal court in a proposed Employee Retirement Income Security Act class action that a hospital network mismanaged their "jumbo-sized" plan.

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FEMA Contractors Say No-Poach, Wage-Fixing Suit Still Faulty

By Bryan Koenig

Fluor Federal Services and some of its federal disaster response subcontractors urged a Florida federal judge Tuesday to definitively end a proposed class action accusing them of agreeing to fix wages and avoid hiring each other's workers, arguing the amended complaint still doesn't fix shortcomings identified by the court.

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Pharma Co. Settles Workers' 401(k) Forfeiture Suit

By Kellie Mejdrich

Boehringer Ingelheim USA Corp. and workers who accused the pharmaceutical company of misusing forfeitures from an employee 401(k) plan have settled their federal benefits dispute, parties told a Connecticut federal court Wednesday.

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Meatpacking Cos. Can't Escape Haitian Workers' Bias Suit

By Patrick Hoff

Two meatpacking companies must face a proposed class action alleging they lured Haitian workers to Colorado with false promises and subjected them to harsh working conditions because of their race, with a federal judge saying Wednesday that the bid to toss the case is based mostly on technicalities.

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Nike Ad Crew Member Reaches Deal In Wage Suit

By MJ Koo

A production assistant who worked on a Nike commercial has reached a deal to end his lawsuit in California federal court accusing the sportswear giant, its advertising agency and a production company of shorting film crew members on wages and breaks, according to a court filing.

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Full 4th Circ. Won't Rehear Boeing Investor Class Ruling

By Katryna Perera

The Fourth Circuit on Wednesday denied a request from Boeing investors for the full court to rehear a panel's decision overturning class certification in a suit against the aerospace company over its alleged concealment of safety issues with its 737 Max fleet.

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Sanofi Settles Insulin Pen Antitrust Suit, Avoiding Trial

By Julie Manganis

Sanofi-Aventis US and a group of drug wholesalers have told a Massachusetts federal judge they have reached a settlement to resolve long-running antitrust litigation alleging that the drugmaker improperly sought to thwart competition for its single-use insulin injector pen.

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Celgene Defends Dismissal Of Cancer Drug Antitrust Suit

By Danielle Ferguson

Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. and its subsidiary Celgene Corp. urged the Second Circuit to uphold the dismissal of health plans' proposed antitrust class action alleging that the drugmaker fraudulently obtained patents for the cancer drug Pomalyst, saying it properly disclosed materials to the patent office and filed valid patent infringement lawsuits against generic-drug makers. 

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American, JetBlue Oppose Class Cert. For Northeast Alliance

By Matthew Perlman

American Airlines and JetBlue are opposing a class certification bid from flyers suing over a past alliance between the airlines, telling a New York federal court the motion relies on a flawed economic model because there's no evidence of the pact causing higher fares.

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Texan Claims Austin Firm Hasn't Alerted Him To Data Breach

By Andrea Keckley

Linebarger Goggan Blair & Sampson LLP, an Austin, Texas-based law firm focused on collecting debts and taxes for public-sector clients, failed to protect its clients' personal information from a data breach, the plaintiff in a proposed class action claimed in Texas federal court Tuesday.

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Denver Law Firm Sued Over Delayed Data Breach Notice

By Zach Dupont

A Denver law firm was hit with a proposed class action in Colorado federal court Tuesday from an Oklahoma man accusing it of allowing his and thousands of others' personally identifiable information to be stolen in a cyberattack.

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Patients Seek OK Of Connecticut Rehab Data Breach Deal

By Brian Steele

Patients accusing a Connecticut medical rehab network of waiting almost a year to disclose a cyberattack have asked a state court judge to preliminarily bless a deal that would provide about 61,000 people up to $2,500 in cash, plus $1 million in identity theft insurance.

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Patients Tell Colo. Justices Hospital Defied Gender Care Order

By Rachel Konieczny

Transgender youth patients of Children's Hospital Colorado are challenging a judge's discharge of their contempt citation against the hospital for not resuming the provision of medical gender-affirming care to them, urging Colorado's justices to decide whether the hospital complied with an injunction prohibiting it from refusing to provide the care.

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9th Circ. Open To Decertifying BofA COVID Fee-Relief Class

By Dorothy Atkins

A Ninth Circuit panel appeared open Wednesday to decertifying a class of Bank of America account holders who allege the bank abruptly ended a COVID-19 fee-relief program without notice, with all three judges criticizing the class definition for being overly broad, and two judges suggesting individualized issues predominate.

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Mich. Judge Presses ICE On Iraqi Deportation Deal

By Melanie Dorsey

A Michigan federal judge on Wednesday pressed federal immigration officials to explain how they monitor compliance with a settlement protecting about 1,400 Iraqi nationals from improper detention and deportation, questioning whether additional oversight is needed after attorneys reported hundreds of defective removal notices and repeated violations of the agreement.

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DraftKings Fights Bid To Link Bettor Suit To Promos Action

By Ganesh Setty

DraftKings Inc. urged an Illinois federal court to not reassign an Illinois man's personal injury action over his sports gambling addiction to a judge in the district overseeing a separate proposed class action challenging DraftKings' advertising practices, arguing they are materially different.

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3 Strategies To Reduce AI Sycophancy In Legal Work

The tendency of generative artificial intelligence models to tell users what they want to hear can reinforce attorneys’ confirmation bias when testing the strength of arguments, and it can’t simply be prompted away — but a few practices can help mitigate it, says Michael Ott at Ice Miller.

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Weil To Wind Down As Top Attorneys Abandon Firm

By Daniel Moritz-Rabson, Alex Wittenberg and Aebra Coe

Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, the restructuring powerhouse that led Lehman Brothers, Enron and General Motors through bankruptcy, told Law360 Pulse Wednesday that the firm is preparing to wind down operations.

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BigLaw Tip Middleman To Admit Role In $3.5M Trading Scheme

By Chris Villani

An alleged middleman in a sweeping scheme to trade off of deal information stolen from major law firms has agreed to plead guilty and potentially faces a prison term of nearly a decade, according to a plea agreement filed Wednesday in Massachusetts federal court.

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Judge Hellerstein, Gruff Moderator Of Major Cases, Dies At 92

By Pete Brush

Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein, a former litigator and sometimes impatient Manhattan federal jurist who presided over decades of high-profile cases that often came under close appellate scrutiny, died Wednesday at the age of 92.

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LA's Top Federal Prosecutor 'Unlawfully Serving,' Judge Finds

By Christine DeRosa

A federal judge has ruled that Los Angeles' top federal prosecutor isn't legally serving in the role and that he is disqualified from participating in or supervising two criminal prosecutions.

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Proskauer, Reddit Attys Called To Testify In Data-Scraping Suit

By Bryan Koenig

A New York federal judge on Wednesday called for live testimony from two Proskauer Rose LLP attorneys and Reddit's deputy general counsel as he weighs the law firm's bid to represent Perplexity AI in a lawsuit from Reddit, the firm's former client, over alleged data scraping.

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BakerHostetler Malpractice Case To Expand With RICO Claim

By Emily Johnson

A Georgia federal judge has allowed a trustee who has accused BakerHostetler and an Atlanta-based attorney of legal malpractice to file an amended complaint after the trustee asked to add claims of Georgia RICO Act violations.

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Mich. Judge Weighs Toshiba Legal Bills Discovery Fight

By Melanie Dorsey

A Michigan federal judge on Wednesday questioned whether she needs to review specific objections to DTE Electric Co. and Consumers Energy Co.'s multimillion-dollar attorney fee request before deciding whether Toshiba Corp. must disclose its own legal bills and litigation expenses following a nearly $394.4 million jury verdict over a botched power plant overhaul.

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SC Gov.'s Counsel Still In The Running For Federal Judgeship

By Courtney Bublé

The chief legal counsel for South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster is "being actively considered" for a federal judgeship, according to the White House, but it's not a done deal yet.

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Analysis

Albright Left Key Issue In Billion-Dollar IP Fight Unanswered

By Dani Kass

In May 2025, then-U.S. District Judge Alan Albright watched a jury hold that VLSI Technology is controlled by Fortress Investment Group, but by the time he left the bench in August 2026, the judge had yet to decide whether that ownership would let Intel avoid billions of dollars in patent infringement verdicts.

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