Jury Picked For Meta Social Media Addiction Trial

By Bonnie Eslinger

A landmark federal trial in California over allegations that Meta social media platforms harm children's mental health is ready to begin after a jury was impaneled Wednesday — a selection process in which no prospective juror would say that Facebook or Instagram are safe for kids.

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Deal Reached In Class Action Over Botched Calif. Bar Exam

By Emily Sawicki

A settlement has been reached in a proposed nationwide class action brought by bar applicants against the proctor of the botched February 2025 California bar exam, one month after the California State Bar settled its claims against the proctor.

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Colleges Say Wealth Bias Evidence Would Prejudice Jury

By Jared Foretek

Top-flight universities, preparing to fight class action antitrust claims at trial later this year that they illegally colluded on financial aid formulas, on Wednesday accused the student plaintiffs of trying to "dirty" the universities with allegations that they admit underqualified applicants because of their family wealth.

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DOL Backs Off Job Corps Shutdowns To End Students' Suit

By MJ Koo

The U.S. Department of Labor has agreed to rescind its decision to shutter 99 contractor-operated Job Corps centers nationwide to settle a suit brought by students who challenged the closures in D.C. federal court.

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Auto Supplier Fired Worker Over FMLA Leave, Suit Says

By Benjamin Morse

An international automotive supplier fired a lab technician for taking leave to care for her mother and shorted hourly workers for off-the-clock work, according to a proposed collective action filed in Michigan federal court.

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Brief

DC Physician Group Settles ERISA Plan Mismanagement Suit

By Grace Elletson

A George Washington University-affiliated physician group has agreed to settle a suit claiming it allowed its $345 million retirement plan to be bogged down by underperforming and pricey investment funds, according to a filing Tuesday in D.C. federal court.

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Canadian Tech Co. Beats Investor Suit Over Alleged AI Hype

By Katryna Perera

Canadian technology services firm Telus Digital has escaped a suit accusing it of misleading investors about its artificial intelligence capabilities, with a New York federal judge finding that the suit's challenged statements are inactionable.

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Cloudflare Investors Seek Block On Founder Control Plan

By Jarek Rutz

Cloudflare stockholders urged the Delaware Chancery Court on Wednesday to block a recapitalization that would let the technology company's co-founders sell billions of dollars in stock while retaining voting control, while the company argued the plan is a fair effort to keep its longtime leaders engaged.

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Del. Judge Slashes Fee Bid For 'Underwhelming' Settlement

By Katryna Perera

The Delaware Court of Chancery has significantly cut attorney fees requested in a derivative lawsuit settlement with The Beauty Health Co., finding the deal "releases weak claims in exchange for minor enhancements."

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Zillow Investors Urge Justices To Reject Post-Goldman Case

By Jessica Corso

Zillow investors have asked the U.S. Supreme Court not to hear a lawsuit over the company's shuttered homebuying business, arguing that the justices should reject Zillow's request to apply a "new, stricter rule" for certifying shareholder class actions.

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1st Circ. Urged Not To Revive Puerto Rico Climate RICO Suit

By Keith Goldberg

Fossil fuel companies have urged the First Circuit to uphold the dismissal of a racketeering and antitrust lawsuit from several Puerto Rico municipalities claiming the companies misrepresented the climate dangers of fossil fuel products in causing a pair of hurricanes.

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PayPal Wins Final Dismissal Of Merchant Rules Antitrust Suit

By Sydney Price

PayPal on Wednesday beat for good a proposed class action over its alleged restrictive merchant agreements, with a California federal judge finding that the third version of the suit still fails to establish the consumers' standing to bring antitrust claims.

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Subaru Says Drivers Undercut Own Brake Defect Claims

By Carla Baranauckas

Subaru urged a New Jersey federal judge to dismiss a proposed nationwide class action over alleged precollision braking system defects in several models, arguing that the complaint identifies no actual malfunction and that the named plaintiffs are still using the vehicles despite saying their systems are defective.

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Edible Brands Hit With Privacy Lawsuit Over Web Tracking

By Kelcey Caulder

The company behind Edible Arrangements is facing a class action in Georgia federal court for allegedly using tracking tools to collect and share the data of website visitors without authorization.

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9th Circ. Upholds Ex-ITT Students' $12M Loan Fraud Win

By Emily Lever

The Ninth Circuit Wednesday affirmed a $12 million judgment to former students of bankrupt for-profit college ITT Education Services Inc., saying their RICO claims against student loan servicers weren't time-barred because evidence showed the students had no way of knowing they were being scammed more than four years before they filed suit.

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Chicago Funeral Home Sued Over 57 Mishandled Bodies

By Celeste Bott

A Chicago funeral home was hit with a proposed class action lawsuit in Illinois state court Tuesday alleging it mishandled, mislabeled and improperly stored roughly 57 bodies, leaving remains unrefrigerated and decomposing in allegedly "deplorable" conditions.

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Spotify Urges Permanent Toss Of Rapper's Bot-Streaming Suit

By Taylor Bowie

A rapper alleging that Spotify allows fraudulent bots to manipulate streaming data once again failed to show how his commercial association with the platform ascends to a "special relationship" under California law, Spotify said in a motion to permanently dismiss the amended complaint filed Tuesday.

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ICE Says Noncitizens Are Targeting 'Unwritten' Philly Policy

By P.J. D'Annunzio

The Trump administration asked a federal judge Wednesday to toss proposed class claims against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement seeking the reinstatement of a Philadelphia policy that the three noncitizens who filed suit say limits the agency's ability to rearrest nondangerous immigrants without justification. 

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NCAA Age Rule Illegally Cuts Athletes' Careers, Suit Says

By Benjamin Morse

Three Division I athletes alleged the NCAA's new age-based eligibility rule unlawfully cuts short some athletes' eligibility to compete, according to a proposed class action filed in Colorado federal court.

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Avoiding Sponsor Conflicts As NCAA Patch Rule Takes Effect

A new rule allowing schools to add corporate sponsor patches to athletes' uniforms may create a conflict with students' individual name, image and likeness agreements with competing brands, requiring negotiated contract provisions to reduce the legal risks, says Evan Rosenberg at Morritt Hock.  

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Are your summer associates prepared for a legal career?

How does your firm shape the summer associate experience and mentor new talent? Invite your summer associates to share their perspectives in this year’s Law360 Pulse Summer Associates Survey.

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Trial Firm Reid Collins To Award 3rd Set Of Associate Bonuses

By Jake Maher

Texas-based trial boutique Reid Collins & Tsai LLP is planning to dole out a third round of bonuses for the year to associates, raising their total bonus pay to between $130,000 and $170,000 on the year so far, with another round expected later in 2026.

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Aperture Expands Litigation Finance Platform To $1B

By Ryan Boysen

Alternative asset manager Aperture Investors is expanding its litigation finance platform to $1 billion in total investment capacity, mostly deployed as direct loans to plaintiffs firms.

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Law Grad Says Hofstra Ignored Heart Attack Mid-Bar Exam

By Andrea Keckley

A Fordham University School of Law graduate accused Hofstra University in New York state court of failing to intervene in time when she had a heart attack in the middle of the July 2025 Bar Exam, refusing to stop the test and discouraging her peers from rendering aid.

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$190K Or $1.9M? Goldstein, DOJ 'At Impasse' Over Forfeiture

By Jeff Overley

Tom Goldstein and the U.S. Department of Justice aired dramatically divergent views Wednesday of a looming financial penalty for his fraud convictions, with the famed appellate advocate voicing constitutional objections to the DOJ's request for almost $2 million and revealing that prosecutors spurned a far smaller offer.

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Analysis

DOJ Settlements Perceived As Flouting Litigation Norms

By Britain Eakin

A trend of settlements between the Trump administration and friendly parties in fast-track lawsuits to pursue policy changes has legal experts concerned about the endurance of a longstanding norm that federal courts can only hear genuine disputes between opposing parties.

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BakerHostetler Faces Possible RICO Claim From Ex-Client

By Emily Johnson

A trustee who has accused BakerHostetler and an Atlanta-based attorney of legal malpractice has asked a Georgia federal court to allow him to accuse the former de facto general counsel and business adviser of a nonprofit of violating the Georgia RICO Act.

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Q&A

She Has A Point: Shutts & Bowen's Jodi-Ann Tillman

By Dani Kass

Jodi-Ann Tillman of Shutts & Bowen LLP was brought into patent infringement litigation over drum technology just months before trial, and her performance earned high praise from opposing counsel, Foley & Lardner LLP partner Laura Ganoza.

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Trent McCotter Follows Blanche As DOJ's 2nd-In-Command

By Courtney Bublé

Following confirmation of Todd Blanche as attorney general, U.S. Department of Justice official Trent McCotter is taking his former post as deputy attorney general on a temporary basis.

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Trump, DOJ Say Firing Seattle US Atty Was Within Their Rights

By Emily Sawicki

The White House and the U.S. Department of Justice are fighting a demand for immediate reinstatement brought by Seattle's former top federal prosecutor, who was fired within an hour of a court appointing him to the role, arguing his due process rights were not violated.

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