Mich. Judge Gives Final OK To $150M Chevy EV Battery Deal

By Danielle Ferguson

A Michigan federal judge Monday gave the final approval to a $150 million deal to resolve claims that General Motors sold Chevy Bolt vehicles with a battery defect that posed a fire risk, finding the agreement was in the best interest of class members.

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AmTrust Says Robbins Geller Is Causing Investor Suit Delays

By Sydney Price

Insurance company AmTrust accused Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP on Monday of being "asleep at the wheel" and causing discovery failures in an investor suit in New York federal court accusing the insurer of making financial misrepresentations related to its IPO, which AmTrust argues makes the firm inadequate for lead counsel appointment.

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Top Delaware Chancery Cases Of 2025: A Year-End Report

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court closed out 2025 amid a period of institutional uncertainty, as landmark cases addressing fiduciary duty, executive compensation, board oversight and the limits of equitable power unfolded against the backdrop of sweeping legislative changes to the Delaware General Corporation Law.

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Federal Agencies Urge 9th Circ. To Lift Layoff Freeze

By Braden Campbell

The U.S. government urged the Ninth Circuit to stay a court order barring agencies from laying off workers through next month under the shutdown deal, saying the court intruded on federal labor panels' territory and the funding resolution didn't bar layoffs agencies had in the works.

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Red Robin Cheated Managers Out Of Wages, Court Told

By Irene Spezzamonte

Restaurant chain Red Robin required salaried managers to perform nonexempt work so it could save millions of dollars every year, eight workers said in a proposed class and collective action in Colorado federal court.

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Transcom Fails To Pay For Preshift Work, Ex-Worker Says

By Zach Dupont

A former employee of a customer service support company based in Denver accused it of forcing employees to work prior to clocking in and without pay in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act.

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AdaptHealth To Pay Investors $35M To End Inflated-Sales Suit

By Jessica Corso

Medical device provider AdaptHealth Corp. has agreed to pay $35 million to settle a lawsuit accusing it of deceiving shareholders about its revenue projections as it "routinely engaged in improper and unethical tactics to inflate sales numbers." 

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Car Services Co. Inks $25M Deal In Securities Suit

By Carla Baranauckas

Driven Brands Holdings Inc. has agreed to pay $25 million to resolve allegations that the company and certain executives misled investors by overstating the success of the integration of its glass repair acquisitions and performance of its car wash businesses.

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Klarna Faces Investor Alleging IPO Risk Misrepresentations

By Sydney Price

Klarna Group PLC has been hit with a proposed class action from an investor alleging the payments company damaged shareholders by failing to disclose the risks of its "buy now, pay later" loans typically issued to financially insecure consumers ahead of its initial public offering earlier this year.

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Shuttered Network Co. Gets One More Chance Against AWS

By Bryan Koenig

A shuttered network optimization startup has one more chance to fix market definition and other failings in its antitrust case accusing Amazon Web Services Inc. of deliberately sabotaging its work to drive it out of business, after a Washington federal judge gutted most of the suit Monday.

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Walmart Gets $623K As Sanction Award In Avocado Oil Suit

By Rae Ann Varona

A California federal judge has ordered two attorneys from a Santa Monica-based law firm to pay Walmart $623,000 in attorney fees as a sanction in their client's decertified class action that accused Walmart of falsely labeling its avocado oil as containing only avocado oil despite allegedly containing other oils.

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Patients Say Pa. Med Mal Firm Left Data Vulnerable To Hackers

By Dan McKay

A Pittsburgh law firm that handles medical malpractice and insurance litigation faces a proposed class action complaint alleging that it failed to protect the private health and personal data of patients whose information was stolen in a data breach.

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Arby's, Dunkin' Owner Dodges Web Cookie Suit, For Now

By Craig Clough

A California federal judge dismissed a proposed class action Monday against Arby's, Jimmy John's, Dunkin', Baskin-Robbins and their parent company alleging their websites contained cookie banners falsely promising to remove trackers, finding the plaintiffs failed to meet heightened pleading standards required when the claims are based in fraud allegations.

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Disney Wants ESPN Streaming Rates Suit Sent To Arbitration

By Jared Foretek

Disney is seeking to force a proposed class of Fubo subscribers to arbitrate their claims that Disney unlawfully made streaming services pay inflated rates for ESPN and other sports channels, telling a California federal judge that the company can enforce Fubo's arbitration clause after its purchase of the streamer.

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Top North Carolina Cases Of 2025

By Hayley Fowler

A sweep of settlements in major lawsuits punctuated the second half of the year in North Carolina, from a record-breaking wrongful death deal to an eleventh-hour resolution in a lending fight over a biogas development project. Here are some of the top North Carolina case outcomes in the second half of 2025.

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Top Illinois Decisions Of 2025

By Celeste Bott

State and federal courts have handed down rulings in Illinois cases this year that made clear plaintiffs must allege concrete injury for common law standing, narrowed the scope of the federal anti-kickback statute and laid out a new standard for certifying collective actions.

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3 Key Trends For The Legal Industry In 2025

By Tracey Read

Executive orders, updated office attendance policies and private equity interests were three top issues that shaped the industry this year.

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ITC Atty's 1st Kids' Book Imagines A Santa-Less Christmas

By Dani Kass

Michelle Klancnik, assistant general counsel at the U.S. International Trade Commission, spends her days looking into when imports should be banned for violating intellectual property rights, but outside work, she​'s focused on one big question: What would happen if Santa took a year off?

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Ex-Oura CEO Pushes To DQ Quinn Emanuel In Firing Suit

By Emily Sawicki

The onetime CEO of fitness tracker company Oura Health is pushing to disqualify Quinn Emanuel from representing the smart ring maker in his compensation suit, telling a San Francisco federal judge that he shared confidential information when he consulted with the firm about his claims prior to filing suit.

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NYC Bar Issues Opinion On AI Use For Recording Client Calls

By Tracey Read

The New York City Bar Association's Professional Ethics Committee has issued an opinion addressing how the New York Rules of Professional Conduct impacts the use of artificial intelligence tools to record, transcribe and create summaries of conversations in audio and video calls between attorneys and their clients.

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Ex-DOJ Employees Fight Gov't Bid To Toss Their Firing Suit

By Bonnie Eslinger

An ex-assistant U.S. attorney and two other former Justice Department employees urged a Washington, D.C., federal court on Tuesday to deny the government's motion to dismiss their lawsuit claiming they were unlawfully fired, arguing an internal government employment board isn't appropriate for their cases and is controlled by President Donald Trump.

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Hub Hires: Cooley, Morgan Lewis, Nixon Peabody

By Chris Villani

The end of the year marked the beginning of new chapters for plenty of Boston attorneys, as Cooley added more than 30 professionals to its life sciences team, Morgan Lewis snagged an intellectual property partner, and Nixon Peabody beefed up its cybersecurity practice.

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