Analysis

State Meta Verdicts May Offer Clues For 1st Federal Bellwether

By Cara Salvatore

Meta's recent state jury losses in suits over social media's harms to mental health provide clues as to what will happen this summer when a school district's suit against social platforms goes to trial in the first federal bellwether — and down the road in appeals some believe will reach the nation's high court.

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PacifiCorp Damages Tab Rises With Liability Uncertain

By Cara Salvatore

An Oregon jury on Monday ordered PacifiCorp to pay $14.5 million to a group of 11 survivors of 2020 fires, although the validity of the damages-only verdict is uncertain after an appeals court days ago overturned the liability verdict underlying it.

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Chancery Approves $70M Deal In Covetrus Take-Private Suit

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court on Monday approved a $70 million settlement resolving stockholder claims over the 2022 take-private sale of animal health company Covetrus Inc., finding the deal provides a meaningful recovery for investors while avoiding the risks of continued litigation.

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Tesla Wins Chancery Suit Dismissal After Move To Texas

By Sarah Jarvis

A consolidated Delaware Chancery Court suit leveling breach of fiduciary duty claims against Elon Musk and Tesla Inc. directors belongs in Texas, a vice chancellor said Monday, finding that a forum selection bylaw applies retroactively even though the conduct at issue occurred before the company reincorporated in the Lone Star State.

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Robbins Geller To Lead Investor Suit Despite Filing Glitch

By Katryna Perera

A New York federal judge has appointed Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP as lead counsel in a proposed class action against BellRing Brands, the owner of Premier Protein and other supplement brands, after finding a lead counsel bid that was filed six minutes past the deadline due to a technical glitch was excusable.

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Del. Judge Ends 80K Pre-2026 Zantac Cases

By Emily Field

A Delaware state court on Monday dismissed more than 80,000 suits filed before December alleging that Boehringer Ingelheim's discontinued heartburn medication Zantac caused cancer, following a Delaware Supreme Court ruling on admissibility of the plaintiffs' experts.

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Symetra Inks $44.4M Deal With AME Church Employees

By Kellie Mejdrich

Symetra Life Insurance Co. will pay $44.4 million to end multidistrict litigation from a class of African Methodist Episcopal Church workers who alleged that mismanagement of their annuity retirement plan allowed a rogue employee to embezzle $90 million, according to filings in Tennessee federal court.

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Mich. Judge Mulls Settlement For Fiat Chrysler OT Suit

By Susan Smiley

An estimated 68,000 Fiat Chrysler employees would receive an average $100 payout under a settlement agreement presented at a hearing Monday in Michigan federal court that would end a 2023 suit accusing the carmaker of not paying workers correct overtime.

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Deal Struck In Former NCR Executives' Lifetime Benefits Fight

By Kelcey Caulder

The administrator of several NCR Corp. retirement plans has agreed to settle a class action from former executives who said the technology company failed to make good on a promise to send them annuity payments for life, according to a filing in Georgia federal court.

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AT&T Strikes Deal To End Suit Over Pension Mortality Data

By Grace Elletson

AT&T Inc. has agreed to settle a proposed class action that aimed to represent 300,000 workers claiming it shorted employees on their pension payments by using outdated mortality data to calculate married couples' benefits, according to a California federal court filing.

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Roundup

NC High Court Snapshot: State Retirees Fight To Retain Class

By Hayley Fowler

The North Carolina Supreme Court in April will tackle a long-simmering fight over the state's obligations to provide health insurance to retired public employees, who are battling to keep their class status.

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Investors Seek Class Cert. In Aramark, Vestis Spinoff Suit

By Sydney Price

A group of institutional investors has asked a Georgia federal judge to certify a class in their proposed securities class action accusing uniform supplier Vestis Corp. and food and facilities services giant Aramark of making misleading statements about Vestis' operations and customer relationships prior to its 2023 spinoff from Aramark.

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Costco Says Its Food Prep Eliminates All Chicken Concerns

By Taylor Bowie

Costco has told a Washington federal judge that its popular rotisserie chickens pose no health risk to customers because the product is fully cooked, in a bid to dismiss a proposed class action claiming the product is processed in a plant contaminated with salmonella.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court's docket this past week featured a mix of high-stakes settlements, fast-moving deal litigation, governance disputes and a notable post-trial ruling involving fraud-tainted loans.

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United Homes Faces Investor Suit Over Discounted Sale Plan

By Emilie Ruscoe

Homebuilder United Homes Group Inc. faces a proposed investor class action alleging the company hid that its former CEO schemed to devalue the company as he gunned to sell it off, leading to a proposed sale that caused significant shareholder losses by cutting the company's valuation in half. 

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Chamber, Other Biz Groups Back Insulin Cos. At High Court

By Bryan Koenig

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other business groups urged the U.S. Supreme Court to take up an appeal from Sanofi-Aventis, Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisk and AstraZeneca, arguing the Second Circuit's revival of an antitrust suit risks opening up liability just for trade group membership.

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Calif. High Schools Resume Court Fight Against Athlete NIL

By David Steele

California's high school sports governing body has told a California federal court that the athletes demanding name, image and likeness rights again failed to prove that the state's ban eliminates competition for their talents.

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Some Claims, Plaintiffs Trimmed From AirPod Defect Suit

By Mike Curley

A California federal judge has thrown out breach of implied warranty claims and two plaintiffs' claims from a proposed class action alleging Apple Inc. misled consumers about defects in its AirPods Pro products.

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Hyundai Eyes Exit In Insurer Car-Theft Bellwether Trial

By Linda Chiem

Hyundai Motor America has asked a California federal judge to wipe out State Automobile Mutual Insurance Co.'s claims ahead of a bellwether trial next month seeking to hold the automaker liable for allegedly selling theft-prone vehicles that heightened the risk of insurance claims.

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Texas GLP-1 Compounder Caused Mom's Death, Family Says

By Mark Payne

A Houston compounding pharmacy misled consumers by marketing its weight loss and diabetes drugs as safe and pharmaceutical-grade while selling contaminated medicines, a deceased Texas woman's family claims in a wrongful death lawsuit, alleging the drugs led to the woman's death. 

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Honey Baked Ham Ignores Data-Tracking Opt-Out, Suit Says

By Gina Kim

Honey Baked Ham fraudulently assures website visitors they have control over whether their data is tracked or shared, but secretly records and discloses that information to third parties anyway without the visitors' consent, according to a proposed class action filed Friday in Georgia federal court.

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Uber Says Driver Deactivation Not Proof Of Sex Assault

By Abigail Harrison

On the eve of jury selection in a bellwether trial in multidistrict litigation against Uber over alleged sexual assaults, the ride-share company is asking a North Carolina federal court to exclude an offer of proof purporting to cast a driver's deactivation as an admission from Uber that an alleged sexual assault occurred.

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Wash. Antispam Law Violates Due Process Clause, Co. Claims

By Ben Adlin

Clothing retailer Destination XL Group Inc. urged a Seattle federal judge to strike down a putative class action accusing it of barraging shoppers with false and misleading spam emails, arguing that a Washington state law's $500-per-email penalty is unconstitutionally excessive.

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NordVPN Hit With Dark Patterns Class Actions In Va., Conn.

By Jared Foretek

Virtual private network provider NordVPN and its parent company are facing a pair of proposed class actions accusing the company of using deceptive "dark pattern" tactics, like automatic renewal, to keep consumers paying for unwanted and expensive internet security subscriptions.

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BofA Shielded In Iranian Bias Suit, 9th Circ. Says

By Sydney Price

The Ninth Circuit refused Monday to revive a proposed class action accusing Bank of America of discriminating against Iranian citizens, affirming a California federal court's ruling that the lawsuit fails to show the bank acted with ill will when erroneously closing the plaintiff's account.

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ICE Detainees Push Class Bid Over Calif. Center Conditions

By Britain Eakin

Immigrant detainees have asked a California federal judge to certify a class action challenging the inadequate medical care, poor food quality and lack of disability accommodations at a Mojave Desert detention center, arguing the allegedly unconstitutional practices harm all detainees held there.

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Wash., Detainees Urge High Court To Reject GEO Wage Appeal

By Benjamin Morse

The state of Washington and a class of immigration detainees urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reject GEO Group's bid to overturn a Ninth Circuit ruling requiring the prison operator to pay Washington's minimum wage to detainee workers, filing separate briefs arguing the decision does not merit further review.

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Immigrant Attys Say Everglades Site Violated Access Order

By Tom Lotshaw

A Florida federal judge pressed government lawyers for some answers Monday after legal service providers and a class of noncitizens said officials violated a court order to ensure access to legal counsel at the South Florida Detention Facility.

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Opinion

State Bars Need To Get Specific About AI Confidentiality

Lawyers need to put actual client information into artificial intelligence tools to get their full value, but they cannot confidently do so until state bars offer clear, formal authority on which plan tiers of the three most popular generative AI tools are safe to use when sharing specific client details, says attorney Nick Berk.

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How Securities Litigation Risks Materialized In The 1st Quarter

The securities litigation landscape in 2026's first quarter was defined by higher filing frequency and increased litigation exposure with rising average settlement values, meaning issuers should maximize data-driven legal defenses early to disqualify alleged fraud-revealing stock drops, say Nessim Mezrahi and Stephen Sigrist at SAR.

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DLA Piper Defeats Fired Associate's Claims Of Pregnancy Bias

By Pete Brush

A federal jury in Manhattan declined to award damages Monday to a former associate who says DLA Piper unlawfully fired her after she announced she was pregnant, absolving the BigLaw firm hours after tense closing arguments.

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Q&A

Former Pardon Atty Says Trump's Clemency Grants Hurt DOJ

By Phillip Bantz

Former U.S. Department of Justice pardon attorney Liz Oyer spoke recently with Law360 about how the pardon process has changed, the impact the shift might have on the DOJ and how the system could be reformed.

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DOJ Urges DC Circ. To Revive Trump EOs Targeting Firms

By Alison Knezevich

The D.C. Circuit should individually review each section of President Donald Trump's executive orders targeting four law firms, allowing certain portions to stand if others are blocked, the U.S. Department of Justice argued in a new filing urging the court to revive the measures.

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Analysis

The Justices Had Their Say On Immunity. Is A DC Jury Next?

By Chris Villani

The limits of presidential immunity are once again set to be tested after a D.C. federal judge ruled President Donald Trump must face civil claims over the Jan. 6, 2021, riots, clearing the way for trial and potentially another high-stakes appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Meta Pulls Some Attys' Social Media Addiction Ads

By Rachel Rippetoe

After losing a bellwether trial last month in one of a slew of cases from plaintiffs who claim to have been harmed by social media, Meta has begun removing ads from attorneys seeking clients with similar claims.

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Brief

EEOC To Produce Law Firm DEI Letter Records By May 15

By Kelcey Caulder

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission told a federal court Monday that it would give two law professors documents related to 20 letters the agency sent to law firms over their purported diversity, equity and inclusion practices by May 15.

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Morgan & Morgan Sued Over Firing Amid Nevada Expansion

By Emily Sawicki

Personal injury titan Morgan & Morgan is facing allegations from a former firm attorney in California state court alleging the Golden State lawyer was pressured to file suits in neighboring Nevada despite having an inactive law license and no experience practicing there, and was then harassed and wrongfully fired over the filings.

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Atty Says Ogletree Can't Litigate Against Her In 2 Similar Cases

By Adrian Cruz

A Georgia attorney said Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC should be disqualified from serving as defense counsel in a discrimination suit she's working on while simultaneously litigating against her on behalf of her ex-employer in a similar matter.

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NJ Man Who Sought To DQ US Atty Leadership To Plead Guilty

By Gina Kim

A criminal defendant who joined a pending bid to disqualify assistant U.S. attorneys overseeing the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey and escalated a constitutional challenge to its leadership structure told a federal judge Saturday he plans to plead guilty in his drug case. 

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