5 Firms Barred From Handling NFL Parkinson's Claims

By P.J. D'Annunzio

Five law firms have been disqualified from representing claimants seeking NFL concussion settlement funds for running a scheme that "laundered" questionable Parkinson's disease claims through the system to obtain $95 million, including $20 million in fees, a special masters' report issued Monday says.

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$200B Visa, Mastercard Swipe-Fee Deal Gets Initial Approval

By Hailey Konnath

A New York federal judge Tuesday preliminarily signed off on Visa Inc. and Mastercard Inc.'s proposed $200 billion settlement with millions of merchants despite dozens of objections from potential class members, saying it was too soon to tell if the complaints are pervasive or "confined to a vocal minority."

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Fox Rothschild Sued Over Data Breach Tied To Ransom Group

By Allison Grande

Fox Rothschild LLP was hit with a proposed class action in Pennsylvania federal court Tuesday accusing the national law firm of failing to adequately protect the "highly sensitive and confidential" personal data entrusted to it from being exposed to a prominent ransomware group in a data breach last month. 

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OnlyFans Users Ask 9th Circ. To Revive Calif. Auto-Renew Suit

By Dorothy Atkins

OnlyFans subscribers on Tuesday urged the Ninth Circuit to revive a proposed class action alleging unlawful subscription auto-renewals, arguing California courts have jurisdiction over the platform's U.K. parent company because it auto-renews thousands of Golden State subscriptions and generates $400 million from the state annually.

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BOTS Act Judge Reverses, Tosses Challenge To FTC Case

By Bryan Koenig

A Maryland federal judge reversed course Tuesday and dismissed a preemptive lawsuit challenging one of the Federal Trade Commission's first online ticketing cases, concluding the ticket resellers can raise their constitutional arguments in addressing the FTC's allegations rather than pursuing a separate suit of their own.

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The Law360 400: A Look At The Top 100 Firms

By Xiumei Dong

The race to build the legal industry's largest law firm accelerated in 2025, with major firms leaning on mergers, lateral hiring and strategic expansion to climb the ranks of the Law360 400.

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Phillips 66 Workers Seek $4M Atty Fees In $12.5M Wage Deal

By Gina Kim

Phillips 66 employees who reached a $12.5 million settlement to resolve their wage-and-hour class action over unpaid don-doff time and missed breaks have asked a California federal judge to grant their attorneys' request for about $4.17 million in fees, highlighting the work they've spent in the eight-year litigation on a contingency basis.

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Whole Foods Staff Worked Meal Breaks Unpaid, Suit Says

By MJ Koo

Whole Foods Market forced workers to perform duties during meal breaks, manipulated time records to underpay wages, and blocked employees from leaving the premises during rest periods, according to a lawsuit brought in California state court.

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Car Co. ESOP Suit Tossed For Breaking 11th Circ. Rules

By Kellie Mejdrich

A Florida federal judge dismissed a proposed class action against a car dealership company from ex-workers who alleged mismanagement of their employee stock ownership plan, faulting their amended complaint as a type of shotgun pleading prohibited by Eleventh Circuit rules.

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BofA Says Fraud Findings Doom Calif. Benefit Card Classes

By Katryna Perera

Bank of America is asking that several classes of unemployment benefit cardholders be decertified in multidistrict litigation over its handling of California unemployment benefit cards during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, arguing that new evidence of ongoing benefits fraud has made the case impossible to try as a class action.

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Brief

Cognizant Settles Suit Over 401(k) Investment Management

By George Woolston

Cognizant Technology Solutions and former employees who claimed the information technology company saddled its 401(k) plan with poor investment options and high fees told a New Jersey federal judge that they have agreed to settle their dispute.

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QXO Stockholder Sues Over TopBuild Deal Disclosures

By Jarek Rutz

A QXO Inc. stockholder has filed a proposed class action in the Delaware Chancery Court seeking to block a shareholder vote tied to the company's planned $17 billion acquisition of TopBuild Corp., alleging that investors were not given enough information to make an informed decision on the deal.

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BioTech Co. Hit Investor Suit Over Cancer Test Trial Miss

By Sydney Price

Biotechnology company Grail Inc. was hit with a proposed investor class action alleging that it misled investors about the likelihood its cancer screening blood test would demonstrate effectiveness in a clinical trial, which the public learned in February was unsuccessful.

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Trading Card Grading Company Wants Antitrust Case Tossed

By Matthew Perlman

Collectors Holdings Inc. is looking to toss a proposed class action over its purchase of two rival trading card grading companies, telling a California federal court that the acquisitions were made to meet demand, not maintain a monopoly.

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Honda Drivers Allege Camera Defect Impairs Safety System

By Mike Curley

A proposed class of Honda drivers are suing the company in California federal court, saying a range of 2018 to 2025 vehicles have a defect in their front-facing cameras, which causes every safety system built on that camera to fail.

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Nexgrill Sued Over Wire Brush Defect, 'Inadequate' Recall

By Mike Curley

A proposed class of grill users is suing Nexgrill Industries Inc. in California federal court, alleging that it waited years to issue a recall over a dangerous defect in its wire grill brushes and that the recall is itself inadequate to address the issue.

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Dodge, Jeep Accused Of Delaying Headrest Class Action Trial

By Susan Smiley

Class members claiming headrests in several Dodge and Jeep vehicles can spontaneously deploy with a potential to cause serious injury accused automaker FCA on Monday of using arbitration claims to delay a federal court trial that has been pending for six years.

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Arby's Owner Must Face Trimmed Data Tracking Opt-Out Suit

By Gina Kim

A California federal judge on Monday trimmed some privacy claims in a suit alleging Arby's', Jimmy John's', Dunkin's and Sonic's website cookie banners falsely promise to remove trackers but allowed the plaintiffs' fraud claims to proceed, finding it's enough for them to plead they declined cookies but were tracked anyway.

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Fiber Internet Co. Failed Customers In Data Breach, Suit Says

By MJ Koo

A Denver-based fiber internet provider failed to protect customers' sensitive personal information in a cyberattack and waited five months to notify those affected, a customer said in a suit filed in Colorado federal court.

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Sunday App Sneaks Restaurant Payment Fee, Suit Says

By Rae Ann Varona

Sunday App, a restaurant payment platform that lets diners pay for meals through a QR code, has been blindsiding consumers by hiding a mandatory platform fee "until the last possible moment" in the payment process, alleges a proposed class action lodged in California state court.

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Meta AI Order Offers Novel Question For 9th Circ., Authors Say

By Bonnie Eslinger

A group of 13 bestselling authors suing Meta have asked a California federal judge for permission to appeal his decision holding that it was fair for Meta Platforms Inc. to train its artificial intelligence system with their copyrighted material without consent, saying there's already been divergent rulings on the novel question.

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Microsoft Looks To Ax 3D Artist's Copyright Info AI Suit

By Ben Adlin

Microsoft Corp. urged a Washington federal court to throw out a Los Angeles-based 3D artist's proposed class action under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, saying the artist failed to allege that the company ever removed copyright information from his content or shared his copyright-protected works.

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Operational AI Washing: The Next Frontier Of Fiduciary Risk

While there are still no final Delaware decisions applying Caremark specifically to artificial intelligence governance failures, previous case law provides a blueprint, so the question for boards is whether their governance architectures will satisfy Caremark when the first cases are decided, say attorneys at Akerman.

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Checking For AI Errors Is Now A Two-Way Street

A handful of recent federal and state cases demonstrate the importance of checking for errors generated by artificial intelligence not only in your own court submissions, but also your opponent's, as well as when catching opposing counsel's AI mistakes could result in an award for attorney fees, says Tamara Barago at Hollingsworth.

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Trial Boutiques Roll Out Associate Pay Raises

By Andrea Keckley

Three trial boutiques are planning to bump associate salaries by at least $10,000 next month, the firms confirmed to Law360 Pulse Tuesday.

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Interview

Burford Sees Growing Market For Stakes In Elite Firms

By Marialuisa Taddia

Burford Capital plans to step up minority equity investments in elite law firms in the U.K. and U.S. that already use its litigation finance, as investor appetite for law firm equity increases, the firm's new London-based chief operating officer told Law360.

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All Attys In Miss. Suit DQd For Back-To-Back-To-Back AI Flubs

By Emily Sawicki

A Mississippi federal judge who found herself in the "unusual scenario" of reviewing briefs with artificial intelligence-created errors filed by both parties in a lawyer's fee dispute against a Magnolia State municipality has terminated all four attorneys from the case.

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Q&A

Next ABA International Ethics Chair Looks To Year Ahead

By Emily Sawicki

Rob Misey, incoming chair of the American Bar Association's International Ethics Committee, brings a passion for international dialogue to his new role, set to begin in September. Misey discussed his goals of initiating ethics conversations throughout the ABA and with counterparts overseas.

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Analysis

Fed. Circ. 'Recalibrates' Analysis For Constitutional Standing

By Dani Kass

The Federal Circuit eased the line between constitutional and statutory standing last month when reviving A.L.M. Holding Co.'s infringement suit against Zydex Industries Private Ltd., in a decision attorneys say makes standing more accessible and clarifies how patent licensors can maintain their rights.

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Pa. Law Firm Calls Uber and FedEx's RICO Suit A 'Sham'

By James Boyle

Nearly a month after its motion to dismiss a RICO suit filed by Uber and FedEx was denied by a Philadelphia federal judge, personal injury firm Simon & Simon PC has lodged a counterclaim against the companies, saying their complaint is a "frivolous sham."

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Senate Confirms Longtime Kan. Prosecutor, KBI Chief To Bench

By Courtney Bublé

The Senate voted 51-46, along party lines, on Tuesday to confirm Tony Mattivi, director of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, to serve on the bench in the District of Kansas.

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