Bernstein Litowitz, Robbins Geller To Lead $8.9B Class Action

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court has tapped Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP and Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP to lead stockholder litigation over an $8.9 billion take-private deal, citing the firms' alignment with institutional investors holding the largest stake.

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Mich. Judge OKs $100M+ Deal For Victims Of Doc's Sex Abuse

By Danielle Ferguson

A Michigan state judge on Friday approved a settlement worth more than $100 million to resolve a class action from thousands of patients who allege they were sexually abused or recorded by an independent doctor at Henry Ford Macomb Hospital.

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Justices Urged To Rethink Baseball's Antitrust Shield, Again

By David Steele

Three baseball players have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to rehear their petition to stop major league organizations from restricting their salaries, noting another similar pending petition and saying the issue will persist until the justices undo baseball's exemption from antitrust laws.

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Amazon Should Pay For Security Checks, Conn. Justices Told

By Aaron Keller

Amazon must pay Connecticut warehouse workers for time spent waiting for and undergoing security screenings because state wage and hour laws contain unique "hours worked" definitions that do not appear in the federal Fair Labor Standards Act, the employees' lawyer told the Connecticut Supreme Court on Monday.

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Frontier's Training Repayment Contract Illegal, Pilot Says

By Irene Spezzamonte

A former Frontier Airlines pilot said he and other incoming pilots were forced to stay with the company for two years or pay a hefty price under an illegal noncompete agreement, which he learned when he quit after less than a year and Frontier demanded $44,000.

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2nd Circ. Urged To Revive Norfolk Southern Fraud Suit

By Abigail Harrison

The Second Circuit was told Friday that a proposed securities fraud class action against Norfolk Southern Corp. investors should be revived, as the rail giant misled investors by falsely extolling safety commitments while the company winnowed its workforce and cut costs.

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CarMax's Hype Over Sales Ignored Tariff Fears, Investors Say

By Gina Kim

CarMax investors filed a proposed securities class action in Maryland federal court Monday alleging its executives recklessly overhyped the used vehicle seller's growth potential and assured positive results for "years to come" when it should have known its sales bump was due to consumers purchasing cars ahead of anticipated tariffs.

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Chancery Considers Reviewing Icahn's $10M Illumina Settlement

By Jeff Montgomery

A Delaware Chancery Court hearing on resolving class and derivative claims over Illumina fiduciary data breaches connected to the company's $8 billion acquisition of Grail Inc. was sidelined Monday by questions over a private, later-released $10 million proposed settlement payment.

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Investors Seek Class Cert. In Antitrust Suit Over Securities IDs

By Gina Kim

Investment management firms urged a New York federal judge to certify their proposed class action against S&P Global and others over the use of identification numbers for financial instruments, arguing Monday there's common evidence showing the defendants maintained monopoly power through licensing terms.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz and Jeff Montgomery

From billion-dollar pharma feuds to shifting equity deadlines, Delaware's courts saw another week of battles over mergers, fiduciary duty and judicial limits.

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Firetruck-Makers Use Trade Group To Fix Prices, Suit Says

By Bonnie Eslinger

A putative federal antitrust class action against major firetruck manufacturers and an industry trade association has been filed in federal court by an upstate New York volunteer-staffed fire station, claiming the companies control up to 80% of the market and are fixing firetruck prices at artificially high levels.

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Michigan Judge Slashes Chrysler, Dodge Warping Door Suit

By Carolyn Muyskens

A Michigan federal judge on Monday whittled a putative class action claiming certain Dodge Chargers and Chrysler 300s have warp-prone door panels down to a single claim and invited manufacturer Stellantis NV to try again for sanctions against the remaining named plaintiff.

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Disney Freed Of Privacy Suit Over Kids' Video Data, For Now

By Rachel Riley

A group of families has agreed to drop a proposed class action accusing Disney of illegally collecting the personal data of minors viewing its YouTube videos by failing to tag them as "made for kids."

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Fla. Law Firm Escapes Data Breach Class Suit

By Carolina Bolado

A Florida federal judge Monday tossed a proposed class action suit claiming Miami-headquartered national law firm Zumpano Patricios PA failed to protect sensitive information prior to a data breach, ruling that a threat of misuse of the information was not enough to confer standing for the plaintiffs.

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Samba TV Dodges Nonresidents' Calif. Data Privacy Claims

By Allison Grande

A group of television owners who live outside of California can't use the state's wiretap laws to sue Samba TV for allegedly intercepting their video-viewing data and have failed to adequately allege that the analytics provider is covered by federal video privacy law, a California federal judge ruled in axing a proposed class action against the company.

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UPenn Hit With Halloween Email Blast, Suit Over Data Breach

By Bonnie Eslinger

The University of Pennsylvania was "negligent and reckless" in not safeguarding the personal information of students, alumni and others from a data breach announced by a purported hacker in an email blast on Halloween, an alumnus told a Pennsylvania federal court in his putative class action filed Monday.

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'Pay-To-Pay' PenFed Fee Class Scores Cert. In West Virginia

By Katryna Perera

A West Virginia federal judge granted certification Monday to a class of borrowers who claim Pentagon Federal Credit Union illegally charged them a $5 fee for making loan payments by phone or online, finding that the class meets all the requirements for certification.

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Capital One 'Refer-a-Friend' Text Suit Dropped In Wash.

By Nadia Dreid

People who say they were pelted with unsolicited Capital One texts due to the bank's "refer a friend" marketing initiatives have quietly dropped their suit against the financial institution in Washington federal court.

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Suit Claims Cos. Fraudulently Charging 'Zombie' Loan Interest

By Isaac Monterose

A proposed class of borrowers is accusing a mortgage servicer and a debt owner in Virginia federal court of fraudulently charging them thousands of dollars of retroactive interest fees for their "long-dormant," "zombie" mortgage loans.

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Parking Lot Sign Isn't A Contract, Drivers Tell Fla. Court

By David Minsky

A proposed class of individuals suing a Georgia company for allegedly accessing confidential DMV records urged a Florida federal court to let their amended lawsuit proceed, saying it can't win on its argument that the text of a street sign showing the consequences of nonpayment for parking constitutes a contract.

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'Exercise More Restraint,' Judge Tells OpenAI Co-Founder

By Bryan Koenig

A California federal judge had little patience for an OpenAI co-founder trying to limit his forced participation in Elon Musk's lawsuit challenging the ChatGPT maker's transition to a for-profit structure, admonishing the former executive for contesting a magistrate judge's order with motions filed while federal courts work unpaid.

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Biotech Co. Agrees To Reforms After Co-Founder's Conviction

By Emilie Ruscoe

Executives of the company formerly known as Enochian BioSciences Inc. have agreed to implement a series of corporate reforms to end shareholder derivative claims that they breached their fiduciary duty when a company co-founder it hailed as a "genius" was accused of both a murder-for-hire plot and falsifying research data.

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Pharmacies Seek Cert. In Cholesterol Drug Price-Fixing MDL

By Dorothy Atkins

A group of indirect reseller plaintiffs urged a Pennsylvania federal judge on Friday to certify a nationwide class of thousands of pharmacies that indirectly purchased the cholesterol medication pravastatin in sprawling multidistrict litigation over alleged price-fixing in the generic drug industry.

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Oncology Co. Board Hit With Suit Over Product Growth Claims

By Sydney Price

Executives and directors of radiopharmaceuticals company Lantheus Holdings Inc. have been hit with an investor's derivative suit accusing them of allowing the company to misrepresent the growth potential of its key product used to detect prostate cancer.

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Fla. Cannabis Banking Biz Broke Law, Investor Suit Says

By Sydney Price

An investor in Florida-based First National Bank of Pasco hit the bank with a lawsuit alleging that its inability to manage lending to cannabis industry operators has made it prone to regulatory scrutiny and financial harm, including a recent investigation by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.

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Landlords Fight States' Objection To RealPage Settlements

By Isaac Monterose

A group of landlords urged a Tennessee federal court to reject arguments lodged by several attorneys general who criticized $141.8 million worth of proposed antitrust settlements that aim to resolve multidistrict litigation accusing the landlords of using property management software company RealPage Inc.'s technology for rent price fixing.

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Steps For Healthcare Providers After Cigna ERISA Settlement

Following the Cigna class action's settlement, where Employee Retirement Income Security Act violations arose from Cigna's online provider directory advertising providers as in-network who were actually out-of-network, providers should routinely audit their contract status and directory listings, and proactively coordinate with plans and payor partners, say attorneys at ArentFox Schiff.

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A Shift To Semiannual Reporting May Reshape Litigation Risk

While the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's proposed change from quarterly to semiannual reporting may reduce the volume of formal filings, it wouldn't reduce litigation risk, instead shifting it into less predictable terrain — where informal disclosures, timing ambiguities and broader materiality debates will dominate, says Pavithra Kumar at Advanced Analytical Consulting Group.

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When Atty Ethics Violations Give Rise To Causes Of Action

Though the Model Rules of Professional Conduct make clear that a violation of the rules does not automatically create a cause of action, attorneys should beware of a few scenarios in which they could face lawsuits for ethical lapses, says Brian Faughnan at Faughnan Law.

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Dechert Requiring 4 Days In Office For Some Attys, All Staff

By Anna Sanders

Dechert LLP joined a growing list of BigLaw firms increasing their office attendance requirements, rolling out a new policy requiring rising second-year associates and all nonattorney business professionals to work in person four days a week beginning next year.   

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Winston & Strawn Fights 'Anti-Woke' Fintech $1.7B Crash Suit

By Lynn LaRowe

Winston & Strawn LLP is asking a Texas bankruptcy court to toss a lawsuit from the trustee of self-styled "anti-woke" financial technology startup GloriFi, saying that holding the law firm responsible for the company's failure would set "extraordinary and dangerous precedent."

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DOJ Ignores Court Discovery Order In Letitia James Case

By Adrian Cruz

The U.S. Department of Justice has refused to provide New York Attorney General Letitia James access to documents related to her October indictment on mortgage fraud charges, arguing Tuesday that a Virginia federal judge was too early in making the discovery order.

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Confirmation Ends Dem-Appointed Judges' Lock On 1st Circ.

By Courtney Bublé

The Senate voted 52-46 on Tuesday to confirm Joshua D. Dunlap, a partner at Pierce Atwood LLP, to the First Circuit.

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Ill. ICE Processing Facility Has 'Become A Prison,' Judge Says

By Celeste Bott

An Illinois federal judge said Tuesday that attorneys representing a proposed class of individuals detained at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing center in suburban Chicago had presented a "disturbing record" of the conditions at the facility that likely justifies a temporary restraining order in some form, but held off ruling until Wednesday.

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Dechert Tracks Significant Decline In U.S. Merger Probes

By Bryan Koenig

Dechert LLP's latest merger review report counted a dramatic decrease in the number of significant U.S. Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission tie-up investigations between July and September and year-to-date, coming in at just two-thirds of the average over the last 15 years.

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Approach The Bench: Justice McKenna On Earning Her Master's

By Cara Bayles and Steven Trader

Sabrina McKenna, acting chief justice of the Hawaii Supreme Court, had been on the bench for about three decades before she decided to go back to school to study the work of judging.

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Mass. Attys Split As Punitive Damages Rules Go To Top Court

By Chris Villani

A case before Massachusetts' top appellate court over whether more safeguards are needed to cap runaway punitive damage awards has divided attorneys, with some saying the big-dollar verdicts can be skewed by improper evidence and others calling the matter a solution in search of a problem.

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CFPB's Information Security 'No Longer Effective,' IG Says

By Sarah Jarvis

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's information security program has weakened under the Trump administration and is "no longer effective" amid staff departures and loss of contractor resources, according to a new inspector general report.

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End Payors Seek $66M In Atty Fees In Generic Drug MDL

By P.J. D'Annunzio

End payors in a generic drug price-fixing multidistrict litigation are seeking a Pennsylvania federal court's approval for a $66 million award of attorney fees, representing one-third of the $200 million settlement between the classes and Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. and Taro Pharmaceuticals USA Inc.

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Squires Sets Precedent On Making AI Patent-Eligible

By Dani Kass

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires on Tuesday made precedential his September declaration that an invention shouldn't be deemed unpatentable just because it involves machine learning.

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BU Law Will Start Offering AI Certificate In Fall 2026

By Sarah Martinson

Boston University School of Law will begin offering a certificate in artificial intelligence for law practice in fall 2026 to prepare students for using the technology in their legal careers.

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