Drug Cos. Can't Trim Humana's Price-Fix Claims In Bellwether

By Craig Clough

A Pennsylvania federal judge on Tuesday denied a bid by a number of generic drug manufacturers to dismiss two antitrust claims brought by health insurer Humana Inc. from an upcoming bellwether trial in long-running antitrust multidistrict litigation, finding they were brought within the statute of limitations.

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Product Liability Cases To Watch: Midyear Report

By Emily Field

Social media companies are headed back to court over allegations that their platforms are designed to hook young people, while OpenAI faces claims that ChatGPT has meted out harmful health advice and helped users plan mass shootings. Here's what's on the radar for product liability for the rest of 2026.

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Takeda Says Rebates, Subsidies Cut $885M IBS Drug Verdict

By Bryan Koenig

Takeda Pharmaceuticals battled with a class of health plans over whether a Massachusetts federal jury's $885 million antitrust verdict against the drugmaker for conspiring to delay generic competition to anticonstipation drug Amitiza should be reduced by rebates the drugmaker paid and Medicare subsidies that reduced the health plans' costs.

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High Court To Hear Intel 401(k) Suit Arguments In October

By Patrick Hoff

The U.S. Supreme Court has set an October date for oral arguments in an appeal from Intel workers who argued the Ninth Circuit imposed too strict a standard when it upheld the dismissal of their lawsuit alleging their retirement savings were dragged down by underperforming investment options.

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Judge Seeks More Info On Plumbing Co.'s 401(k) Suit Deal

By Patrick Hoff

A California federal judge on Wednesday refused to greenlight a $1.8 million deal that would wrap up a proposed class action alleging a plumbing company's retirement plan was loaded with costly investment options and excessive management fees, ruling that the plan participants' bid for approval was lacking critical details.

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UPS Driver Says Late Sick Pay Can't Sink Colo. Suit

By Benjamin Morse

A UPS driver urged a Colorado federal judge to reject the company's early win bid in a proposed class action, arguing late payments cannot erase paid-sick-leave violations.

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Unread Arbitration Emails Are Unenforceable, 9th Circ. Rules

By Jeff Overley

Arbitration agreements sent to workers aren't arbitration agreements assented to by workers, the Ninth Circuit held Wednesday, rejecting assertions from medical supplies giant Thermo Fisher Scientific that its arbitration-related emails — even if never read — sufficed to keep an ex-employee's proposed class action out of court.

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JBS To Pay $31M In Pilgrim's Pride Investors' Control Suit

By Sydney Price

Brazil-based meat giant JBS SA agreed to pay $31 million to shareholders of its subsidiary Pilgrim's Pride Corp. to settle a suit accusing JBS, its affiliates and its Pilgrim's board appointees of unfairly increasing JBS' clout and access to dividends and tax benefits at the expense of minority shareholders of Pilgrim's.

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Loomis Sayles Pulls Plug On $70M Suit Against Citi

By Jessica Corso

Loomis Sayles said Wednesday that it was dropping a lawsuit accusing Citigroup Global Markets of causing $70 million in trading losses when it fulfilled trades in shares of Shopify Inc. and Colgate-Palmolive Co. in violation of "best execution" practices.

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AmTrust Investors Get Class Cert. Over Flawed BDO Audits

By Katryna Perera

A class of AmTrust investors who are suing audit firm BDO USA LLP over its work on the insurer's alleged troubled financial statements won certification in the long-running suit while Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP was named class counsel.

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Shareholders Seek OK Of Deal On Inflated Weedmaps Metrics

By Mike Curley

Shareholders leading a derivative action against executives and directors of the online cannabis marketplace Weedmaps' parent company are asking a California federal court to approve a settlement to end claims the executives inflated user numbers to bump up the stock price.

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AI Blockchain Co. Accused Of Covering Up CEO's Past

By Jessica Corso

A company that says it uses artificial intelligence to tokenize data was sued in Pennsylvania federal court Wednesday by an investor who claims the company failed to alert shareholders that its CEO had previously settled a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement action.

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Panel Rejects BMS Investor's Bid To 'Camouflage A Wolf'

By George Woolston

A New Jersey state appeals court said an investor's amended complaint over Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.'s $74 billion acquisition of Celgene Corp. was a wolf camouflaged in sheep's clothing, finding that the investor's claims of disclosure requirement shortfalls sounded more in fraud than negligence and failed to satisfy the heightened pleading standard required.

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Grocery Chains Accuse Refined Sugar Cos. Of Price-Fixing

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

Several grocery chains, including Albertsons and Kroger, have accused a group of refined sugar companies including Domino Sugar of conspiring to artificially raise the cost of refined sugar through a "give to get" arrangement.

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Glenmark Pharma Hit With Safety Suit After Carvedilol Recalls

By Craig Clough

Glenmark Pharmaceuticals' generic drug carvedilol, used to treat high blood pressure and congestive heart failure, was misrepresented as therapeutically equivalent to the brand-name drug Coreg but contained undisclosed nitrosamine impurities that changed its strength, quality and safety profile, according to a proposed class action filed Tuesday in Washington federal court.

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Cummins, Trucking Co. End Engine Warranty Suit In Mich.

By Susan Smiley

A proposed class action against Indiana-based engine manufacturer Cummins Inc. became moot Wednesday, following a settlement resolving Michigan trucking company SBS Transport's breach of contract and product liability claims.

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Mich. Parents Seek $375K In Newborn Blood Spot Case

By Melanie Dorsey

A group of Michigan parents has asked a federal judge to award nearly $375,000 in attorney fees and costs after they secured a consent judgment that ended part of the state's newborn blood spot retention program and required the destruction of about 3.4 million samples. 

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Connex Data Breach Class Action Heads To Mediation

By Brian Steele

A Connecticut state court judge has agreed to pause a proposed class action blaming a credit union for a breach of customers' private data while the parties head to a mediation session currently scheduled for September.

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BofA Must Face Some Claims In Military Interest Cap Suit

By Katryna Perera

A North Carolina federal judge declined to fully adopt a magistrate judge's recommendation to dismiss a proposed class action accusing Bank of America of violating an interest cap law for military service members, though he trimmed some claims from the suit.

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Tesla Says Ky. Man's Full Self-Driving Fraud Suit Is Untimely

By Gina Kim

Tesla has moved to nix a customer's proposed class action alleging the company duped him into thinking its vehicles can fully drive themselves, arguing in California federal court Tuesday that his claims are untimely and overlap with a similar consolidated consumer protection action.

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Wash. Landlords' COVID-19 Eviction Moratorium Suit Tossed

By Rachel Riley

A Seattle federal judge has thrown out a group of landlords' proposed class action challenging COVID-19-era eviction bans imposed by Washington cities and the state, saying Wednesday that appellate courts have recognized that landlord-tenant regulations generally do not qualify as physical takings of private property.

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Judge Backs Magistrate's Ruling On 3rd-Party NIL Deals

By Ganesh Setty

A California federal judge said she won't reverse a magistrate's decision rejecting a bid by college athletes seeking to limit oversight of third-party name, image and likeness deals under their landmark $2.78 billion class settlement with the NCAA.

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3 Private Suits Test Influencer Ads As FTC Stays On Sidelines

Three lawsuits filed so far this year illustrate how influencer campaigns are facing growing scrutiny from private plaintiffs, despite the Federal Trade Commission not bringing an influencer marketing enforcement action since revising its endorsement guides to address the topic in 2023, but brands can take concrete steps to reduce the risks, says Gonzalo Mon at Kelley Drye.

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Card Grading Merger Suit Tests Antitrust In Niche Market

Rasmussen v. Collectors Holdings, a class action pending in California federal court challenging the effects of a trading card grading company merger, reflects the elevation of trading cards from hobby collectibles to niche investment markets susceptible to classic antitrust injury theories, say attorneys at Kean Miller.

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Brown Rudnick Adds 34 Attys, Will Open Silicon Valley Office

By Daniel Moritz-Rabson

Brown Rudnick LLP announced on Wednesday that it had lured a 34-attorney intellectual property litigation group from Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP and would be opening a Silicon Valley office with many of those lawyers.

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Law Grad Employment Remains High As BigLaw Drives Hires

By Aebra Coe

Class of 2025 law school graduates posted near-record high employment rates, with large law firms hiring more graduates than any other industry category as federal government hiring experienced a significant decline, according to new data released Wednesday.

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These Firms Are Picking Up The Most PTAB Work

By Theresa Schliep

Intellectual property heavyweight Fish & Richardson PC remains the busiest firm in front of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, as it again secured the top spot on a list of firms with the most PTAB trials over the past three years.

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Murdaugh Loses Jury Tampering Suit Against Ex-Court Clerk

By Jake Maher

A South Carolina federal judge on Wednesday dismissed disgraced attorney Alex Murdaugh's jury tampering suit against a former court clerk who was found to have interfered in his murder trial, ruling there was no connection between his alleged damages and the ex-clerk's misconduct.

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New Mexico Joins States With Alternative Atty License Paths

By Jack Karp

Law school graduates will soon be able to earn their license to practice in New Mexico by working under an attorney's supervision and demonstrating their legal skills rather than by taking the bar exam, the state's Supreme Court chief justice told Law360 Pulse on Wednesday.

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New Mexico Says Blanche, DOJ Blocked Epstein Ranch Probe

By Lauren Berg

The state of New Mexico asked a Washington, D.C., federal court Wednesday to force the U.S. Department of Justice to hand over unredacted Jeffrey Epstein investigative files, saying it needs the materials for its own investigation of alleged crimes at the late sex offender's Santa Fe County ranch.

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Texas Firm Lands $150M HHS Services Deal For Migrant Kids

By Britain Eakin

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said it has entered into a $150 million contract with a small Texas law firm to provide legal services to unaccompanied immigrant children, raising concerns from former subcontractors about the firm's experience with immigration matters.

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Simpson Thacher Witness Takes Aim At PIPE Stocks Claim

By Madison Arnold

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP wrapped up its defense Wednesday to a Florida state malpractice suit from the founder of Patriot National Inc. over the firm's handling of a private investment in public equity transaction, with a stock market expert testifying that short selling stock allowed under the deal didn't lead to the insurance services company's downfall.

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Conn. Atty To Fork Over $3,500 For AI Errors In Taco TM Beef

By Brian Steele

A Connecticut federal judge imposed a $3,500 fine on a defense attorney who submitted two motions riddled with AI-generated mistakes in a taco restaurant's trademark battle, finding that although the lawyer expressed remorse and promised to make changes to his verification process, he still showed "subjective bad faith."

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Sierra Leone Isn't Responding To Its Own Attys, Judge Told

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

A second law firm now says it is being iced out by the government of Sierra Leone in a yearslong legal battle that began over the country's dispute with a U.K.-based mining company.

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NY Legal Aid Union Averts Strike After 4 Months Of Talks

By Andrea Keckley

Another New York legal aid union has reached a deal with its organization's management, averting the possibility of a strike after its contract and those of four other unions expired at the end of June.

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CREXi Wants 9th Circ. To Undo Quinn Emanuel CoStar Row DQ

By Bryan Koenig

Commercial Real Estate Exchange Inc. doesn't want to replace Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP after a California federal judge disqualified the firm from defending a copyright infringement suit by CoStar, seeking Ninth Circuit intervention and a pause on the district court case.

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