1st Circ. Mindful Of Justices In 3rd Country Removal Case

By Julie Manganis

A First Circuit panel suggested Tuesday that a U.S. Supreme Court emergency docket stay may constrain its review of a district judge's decision requiring due process for deportees facing removal to so-called third countries where they may face torture.

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7th Circ. Probes Due Process For Ill. ICE Detainees

By Celeste Bott

A Seventh Circuit judge Tuesday asked the Trump administration to square its position that immigrants unlawfully in the United States have no due process rights with Supreme Court rulings that held otherwise, as the appellate court mulls the bid to block two orders addressing warrantless arrests of hundreds of immigrants.

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2nd Circ. Keeps Credit Suisse Collapse Suit Out Of US Courts

By Brian Steele

The Second Circuit on Tuesday declined to revive a shareholder suit accusing Credit Suisse and related entities of misconduct leading up to the bank's collapse, holding that a New York judge was not wrong to find that the litigation is overwhelmingly tied to Switzerland.

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Chancery Slashes Mootness Fee Proposal In Bolt Suit

By Jeff Montgomery

A Delaware vice chancellor on Tuesday pruned to $4.1 million a $7.5 million attorney fee request for litigation that ended with cancellation of more than $37 million in Bolt Financial Group shares used by a company controller to secure a later-defaulted-upon, company-guaranteed loan.

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Zillow, Microsoft Say Users' Wiretapping Case Still Falls Short

By Ben Adlin

Zillow and Microsoft urged a Seattle federal judge to put an end to a proposed class action accusing Zillow of improperly using Microsoft software to track users' activity on the real estate giant's website, claiming the plaintiffs have failed to fix fundamental flaws in their case despite multiple tries.

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Class Action Group Of The Year: Morgan Lewis

By Mike Curley

Knowing the ins and outs of class action law and having wide experience throughout the firm has led Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP to victories defending clients such as Freddie Mac, Deloitte and Amazon Web Services against billions in exposure, earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 Class Action Groups of the Year.

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Ill. Judge OKs $3.3M Deal In Mariano's Managers' OT Suit

By Celeste Bott

An Illinois federal judge has approved a $3.3 million settlement resolving a lawsuit by current and former supermarket meat, bakery and deli managers who alleged Kroger subsidiary Mariano's falsely claimed they were exempt from overtime pay.

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Colo. Music Venue Failed To Pay Full Wages, Ex-Worker Says

By Benjamin Morse

A live music venue in Denver failed to pay workers for all hours worked, misclassified them as independent contractors and retaliated against a worker for complaining about unpaid wages, according to a potential class and collective action complaint filed in Colorado federal court.

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Medical Transport Co. Misclassified Drivers, Suit Says

By Benjamin Morse

A company that transports radioactive medical materials misclassified drivers as independent contractors, leading to minimum wage and overtime violations, according to a proposed class and collective action filed in Florida federal court.

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Voya Concedes To Certification Of 401(k) ERISA Class

By Brian Steele

Voya Financial Inc. will not fight the certification of a class of around 11,400 workers who claim they were shortchanged when the company loaded up its 401(k) offering with its own branded investments, which allegedly underperformed.

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Masimo Investors' $34M Deal In Revenue Suit Gets Initial OK

By Sydney Price

Masimo Corp. and its investors have received initial approval of a $33.8 million deal to settle claims that the medical and audio device company based its sales and revenue projections on unrealistic expectations for demand.

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AI Robot Co.'s Microsoft Ties Were Overblown, Investor Says

By Emilie Ruscoe

The developer of a purported artificial intelligence-powered bartender robot faces a proposed class action accusing it of misleading investors about Microsoft's involvement in its project, causing the company's share price to sink after the truth was revealed but not before the developer locked in a $38.7 million private placement deal.

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DOJ, AGs Lodge Cross-Appeal Over Google Search Remedies

By Lauren Berg

The U.S. Department of Justice and state enforcers on Tuesday launched an appeal of a D.C. federal judge's scaled-back remedies in their case targeting Google's search monopoly, after the tech giant filed its own appeal to knock out the penalties.

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Calif. Cardholders Ask 2nd Circ. To Revive Swipe Fee Suit

By Katryna Perera

California cardholders accusing Visa, Mastercard and other major banks of conspiring to fix interchange fees have asked the Second Circuit to revive their claims after a district court judge denied their motion for reconsideration in a long-running multidistrict litigation.

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J&J Beats Proposed Class Action Over Band-Aid PFAS

By Emily Field

A New Jersey federal judge on Monday tossed claims by a proposed class of consumers alleging that Kenvue Inc. and Johnson & Johnson hid the presence of a group of chemicals known as PFAS in Band-Aid products, saying the consumers hadn't shown that they were harmed.

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Thompson Hine Adds 6 Financial Services Attys In Chicago

By Tracey Read

Thompson Hine LLP has expanded its Chicago office with a six-attorney securities litigation and regulatory enforcement team from UB Greensfelder LLP.

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Paul Weiss' Karp Steps Back After Epstein Email Revelations

By Hailey Konnath and Aebra Coe

Longtime Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP chair Brad S. Karp has resigned from his leadership role, the firm announced Wednesday, a move that comes after the U.S. Department of Justice released numerous emails between Karp and Jeffrey Epstein.

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Baker McKenzie To Downsize Business Professional Jobs

By Tracey Read

Baker McKenzie, which has a legal services hub in Tampa, Florida, is in the process of downsizing business professionals' jobs, a firm spokesperson confirmed to Law360 Pulse on Wednesday.

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Ex-DLA Piper Partner Aims To Toss Claim He Raped Associate

By Jack Karp

Allegations that an ex-DLA Piper partner raped a former Boston-based associate in Delaware in 2022 should be tossed since the Massachusetts state court the case was filed in has no jurisdiction over the Delaware claim, according to the accused former partner.

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Goldstein Accountant Admits Tax Return Errors

By Jared Foretek

A star government witness and the top outside accountant for SCOTUSblog founder Thomas Goldstein and his law firm admitted to making mistakes on Goldstein's tax returns and offering the grand jury erroneous testimony, under cross-examination in the U.S. Supreme Court lawyer's tax fraud trial Wednesday.

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Analysis

Clemency Was 'Broken' Long Before Trump. Can It Be Fixed?

By Phillip Bantz

President Donald Trump has transformed what has historically been a bureaucratic process for seeking federal pardons and commutations into a more freewheeling affair with few clear rules — and no easy solutions for reform, experts say.

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Wachtel Missry Settles Liability In $26M Atty Malpractice Case

By Emily Sawicki

A dispute over who is liable for a former Wachtel Missry LLP partner's alleged exploitation of an elderly client has been settled on the eve of trial, while the Brooklyn federal judge declined to consider recusing himself despite "inadvertently" meeting with the firm's founding partner before the matter was fully put to rest.

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Ex-Fox News Host Decries Judge Pick's Arbitration Stance

By Courtney Buble

Gretchen Carlson, a former Fox News anchor and a leading advocate for ending forced arbitration of sexual harassment and assault in the workplace, has come out against a federal judicial nominee for Louisiana for her past comments on the issue.

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Trump Bid To Move NY Appeal Faces 'Fatal' Error, Judge Says

By Frank G. Runyeon

A Manhattan federal judge on Wednesday repeatedly aired doubts that President Donald Trump can upend the pending New York state appeal of his hush-money conviction by moving the case to federal court.

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Law360 Seeks Members For Its 2026 Editorial Boards

Law360 is looking for avid readers of our publications to serve as members of our 2026 editorial advisory boards.

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