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Drugmakers Fight Multifront Legal Battles Over GLP-1s

By Hannah Albarazi

In the wake of U.S. Food and Drug Administration approvals for GLP-1 weight-loss drugs, surging public demand and massive profits have inspired a broad range of drugmaker litigation against competitors, alleged counterfeits and telehealth providers.

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Teva Gets Claims Trimmed Ahead Of IUD MDL Bellwether Trial

By Mike Curley

A Georgia federal judge has trimmed some claims from a bellwether trial against original manufacturer Teva Pharmaceuticals over alleged defects in the Paragard intrauterine device that a woman says caused her injuries requiring surgery, while allowing some failure to warn, design defect and punitive damages claims to proceed.

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NJ Judge Signals Green Light To Revive J&J Unit's Libel Suit

By Emily Lever

A New Jersey federal judge has indicated she is planning to grant a bankrupt Johnson & Johnson talc subsidiary's bid to revive its trade libel claim over a scientific article linking asbestos in talc to mesothelioma.

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Meta Downplayed $10B Ad Changes 'Tsunami,' 9th Circ. Told

By Dorothy Atkins

Meta Platforms Inc. investors urged a Ninth Circuit panel on Tuesday to revive a proposed securities class action alleging the social media giant hid the financial effects of privacy changes by Apple Inc., arguing that Meta executives publicly assured investors while knowing the company would be hit with a "$10 billion tsunami."

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Section 230 Knocks Down Addiction MDL, Meta Tells 9th Circ.

By Dorothy Atkins

Meta Platforms Inc. urged a Ninth Circuit panel on Tuesday to find that Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act shields it from sprawling social-media-addiction multidistrict litigation, arguing that the claims go to "the heart of what the statute intends to protect."

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Trump Announces First Judicial Picks Of 2026

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday evening his first judicial nominees of 2026, a slate of four district court picks for Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana.

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Live Nation Settles Workers' Claims Of Excessive 401(k) Fees

By Craig Clough

Live Nation has agreed to a settlement of a proposed class action from former employees who alleged their 401(k) plan was saddled with excessive fees, after a California federal judge said in December he would reconsider his earlier decision requiring arbitration of some claims in the dispute. 

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Amazon Nears Deal With Flex Drivers In Tip Skimming Suit

By Rachel Riley

Amazon and a group of Flex delivery drivers told a Seattle federal judge Tuesday they've reached an agreement in principle to resolve a 2021 putative class action accusing the e-commerce giant of withholding tips, prompting the court to pause the case pending a final settlement.

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Cracker Barrel Asks Justices To Avoid Collective Opt-Ins Fight

By Benjamin Morse

Cracker Barrel urged the U.S. Supreme Court not to take up an appeal of a Ninth Circuit decision that only Arizona employees could opt in to a collective suit over tipped wages, arguing that there isn't a wide enough circuit split to merit review.

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5th Circ. Mulls If ERISA Claims Are Subject To Arbitration Clause

By Spencer Brewer

A Fifth Circuit panel wanted a former employee at International Bancshares Corp. to explain how his benefits class action could evade an arbitration clause adopted by the plan that he never consented to, saying Tuesday that other courts seemingly have not adopted a theory that would allow that.

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Tyson Foods Tries To Pare Down Meat Packer's Wage Claims

By Ben Adlin

Tyson Foods Inc. is asking a Washington federal judge to throw out the bulk of a proposed wage and hour class action, arguing that the plaintiff's amended complaint is too short on details to proceed.

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Food Distribution Co. Misclassified Supervisors, Suit Says

By Benjamin Morse

A food distribution company misclassified supervisors as salaried employees exempt from overtime even though they did not meet the legal requirements to satisfy the carveout under federal wage law, according to a proposed collective action filed in Colorado federal court.

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NYC Hospital Network, Co. Fight Class Cert. In Wage Suit

By Benjamin Morse

NYC Health and Hospitals workers weren't subject to a single policy that violated federal law, the hospital network and a staffing company told a New York federal court, urging it to reject the workers' bid for collective certification in their wage suit.

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Ill. Judge Trims Most Of Walgreens Shareholder Suit

By Celeste Bott

An Illinois federal judge on Monday dismissed most claims in a lawsuit alleging Walgreens inflated share prices by concealing the lack of viability of its pharmacy division and primary care investment, warning shareholders not to "waste judicial resources" in amending their allegations by claiming straightforward statements are misleading "absent a coherent argument as to why."

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Ex-Robbins Geller Attys' New Firm To Lead Securities Suit

By Katryna Perera

A new firm by former partners of Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP and Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP has secured its first lead counsel appointment in a securities suit against National Instruments Corp., which alleges the company repurchased stock while concealing from investors it was considering being acquired.

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Rick Perry's AI Energy Co. Hit With Post-IPO Lawsuit

By Jessica Corso

An artificial intelligence infrastructure company co-founded by former Texas Gov. Rick Perry is facing a proposed class action accusing it of overselling its key development in order to secure $745.7 million through an initial public offering.

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Bankrupt Hospital Wants Out Of $3B BCBS Antitrust Deal

By Rick Archer

A bankrupt Alabama hospital is asking a federal judge to allow it to drop out of a $2.8 billion antitrust class action settlement with Blue Cross Blue Shield, saying it may be forced to shut down unless it can pursue separate relief in bankruptcy court.

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Amazon Seeks To 'Hot Tub' MIT Prof's Opinion In Antitrust Suit

By Rae Ann Varona

Amazon.com Inc. has asked a Seattle federal court for a "hot tub" hearing in a proposed consumer antitrust class action that accuses the e-commerce giant of artificially raising retail prices, saying the novel litigation technique for concurrently questioning parties' experts is needed to vet one expert's change in opinion.

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4th Circ. Asked To Revive Experian Credit Investigation Suit

By Abigail Harrison

Experian Information Solutions Inc. violated its statutory duty by failing to reinvestigate and later approving a clearly erroneous credit report that resulted in a refused mortgage application, the report's subject told the Fourth Circuit in an attempt to revive his class action lawsuit.

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Authors Demand OpenAI's $1B Disney Deal Details For IP Suit

By Ivan Moreno

Bestselling authors accusing OpenAI of unlawfully using their copyrighted works to train ChatGPT have asked a New York federal judge to order the company to produce details of its $1 billion licensing deal with Disney announced last month, saying the agreement could show the "feasibility" of a licensing market for AI training.

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Judiciary Advisers Predict Clashes Over AI, Remote Testimony

By Jeff Overley

The federal judiciary's policy advisers appeared divided Tuesday over efforts to align procedural rules with digital age technology and preferences, and they predicted a torrent of impassioned input if they open up their delicate internal debates to the entire public.

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Cigna Accused Of Rigging Market For Life-Saving Drugs

By Bryan Koenig

Patients with chronic health conditions sued Cigna in an Illinois federal court alleging in a proposed class action Tuesday that the company and its pharmacy and pharmacy benefit manager subsidiaries use exclusive agreements to lock users into a network where Byzantine refill processes have been deliberately erected to limit payouts for life-saving drugs.

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BofA Faces Customer Suit Over Post-Jan. 6 'Surveillance'

By Jon Hill

Bank of America was hit with a putative class action accusing it of financial privacy violations tied to the aftermath of the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol attack, alleging the bank aggressively mined and illegally shared customer data with authorities looking for leads.

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DHS Blasts ICE Detainees' Lengthy Conditions Complaint

By Lauraann Wood

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is urging an Illinois federal judge to toss a class action claiming federal immigration officials subjected detainees to inhumane conditions at a Chicago-area holding facility, saying the complaint is "unnecessarily long" and otherwise fails to plead valid constitutional or procedural claims.

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Reviewing 2025's Artificial Intelligence Disputes Over IP

2025 brought the first major fair use rulings involving generative artificial intelligence, and in 2026 courts will weigh in on more discovery disputes, renewed motions to dismiss, class certification challenges and fair use defenses that could shape the course of future AI litigation, say attorneys at Debevoise.

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'Get Over' Yourself, Ho Says To Judges' Independence Worry

By Lauren Berg

U.S. Circuit Judge James C. Ho snapped back at colleagues on the bench who have raised the alarm over threats to judicial independence, writing in an article that those complaining judges "need to get over themselves" and stop bowing to the "cultural elites" who oppose the Trump administration.

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Halligan Ordered To Explain Why She's Still Listed As US Atty

By Hailey Konnath

A Virginia federal judge Tuesday ordered Lindsey Halligan to explain why she was still identifying herself as a U.S. attorney despite another judge's order finding that the former insurance lawyer hadn't been properly appointed and was serving illegally on an interim basis.

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Judgeship Nomination Not Renewed Amid Fla. Charity Probe

By Courtney Bublé

The nomination of John Guard, senior counselor to the attorney general of Florida, for a Middle District of Florida federal judgeship, has not been renewed for the new session of Congress after he came under scrutiny in a criminal probe regarding a charity connected to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

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Atty Apologizes For ChatGPT-Hallucinated Citations In Briefs

By Elliot Weld

A patent attorney has apologized to a Kansas federal judge for submitting a court filing with case citations hallucinated by ChatGPT, calling the experience "shameful and embarrassing" and saying he was in a poor mental state at the time due to his mother and aunt being hospitalized and dying shortly after.

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Texas Justices Erase ABA Approval In Bar Admissions

By Lynn LaRowe

The Texas Supreme Court on Tuesday issued an order ending a longstanding rule requiring graduation from a law school approved by the American Bar Association for admittance to the state bar, with the court giving itself the authority for accreditation.

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WH Says Judge Can't Pursue Immigration Contempt Probe

By Jared Foretek

The Trump administration has once again told the D.C. Circuit that U.S. District Judge James Boasberg lacks the constitutional authority to open a contempt probe into the government's removal of hundreds of Venezuelan migrants against his emergency order in March, calling the investigation an "unprecedented criminal fact-finding inquisition."

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Girardi Keese CFO Must Use His Own Atty For Chicago Appeal

By Lauraann Wood

Girardi Keese's former financial chief cannot have counsel appointed to help him challenge the Illinois sentence he is serving alongside his 10-year California sentence for helping Tom Girardi steal millions from clients because he isn't pursuing the appeal in good faith, an Illinois federal judge has ruled.

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National Judicial College Names Idaho Law Dean As President

By Jake Maher

The National Judicial College has named a new president and chief executive officer, selecting the dean of the University of Idaho College of Law to become the first woman to hold the position.

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