Judge To Alter Critique Of Investor Vying To Be Lead Plaintiff

By José Luis Martínez

A Texas federal judge on Thursday acknowledged a potential "black mark" against an investor who vied to be lead plaintiff for a subclass of investors who allegedly bought McDermott International Inc. stock at artificially inflated prices, agreeing to amend an order critical of him.

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WHO 'Changed The Rule' To Find Talc-Cancer Link, Jury Told

By Craig Clough

A Johns Hopkins epidemiologist told a California jury Thursday considering bellwether claims that Johnson & Johnson's talc products caused deadly ovarian cancer in three women that a World Health Organization agency's recent reclassification of talc as being probably carcinogenic only came about because it "changed the rule" over what evidence it considered.

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Justices Say 'Last-Mile' Drivers Can Skip Arbitration

By Max Kutner

An exemption to federal arbitration requirements for workers engaged in interstate commerce can extend to what are known as last-mile drivers who locally deliver goods that travel interstate, the U.S. Supreme Court held Thursday, resolving an issue that lingered after previous high court decisions.

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Hospital Network Left Bonuses Out Of OT Pay, Suit Says

By MJ Koo

A dietary worker at a Pennsylvania hospital network accused her employer of shortchanging overtime pay by leaving bonuses out of the calculation, according to a proposed collective action filed in federal court.

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Brief

Delta, Retirees Fail To Reach Accord In Benefits Battle

By Kelcey Caulder

A proposed class action accusing Delta Air Lines Inc. of shorting married pensioners on retirement benefits by miscalculating lump-sum payouts will move forward after the airline and former workers failed to settle during mediation earlier this month.

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Mark Cuban Beats Bid To Move Crypto Investor Suit To Texas

By Emilie Ruscoe

A Miami federal judge won't send dismissed crypto promotion claims against Mark Cuban and the Dallas Mavericks to Texas, noting the investors seeking to move the suit strenuously fought the move earlier in the litigation and now "decline to explain why their current about-face should be excused."

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GMO Trust Investors Get Final OK For $6.8M Deal

By Sydney Price

GMO-Z.com Trust and buyers of the GYEN stablecoin have received final approval of a $6.8 million deal to end the buyers' claims they suffered losses when the coin was "de-pegged" from the Japanese yen.

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Chancery Tosses Insider Financing Suit Against Ayala Brass

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court has dismissed a stockholder derivative suit against several venture capital investors and directors of biotechnology company Ayala Pharmaceuticals Inc., ruling that the plaintiff failed to show the board could not independently evaluate litigation over a disputed 2023 financing deal.

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2nd Circ. Cites Macquarie Case In Tossing Gap Investor Suit

By Jessica Corso

The Second Circuit on Thursday upheld the dismissal of a proposed class action accusing The Gap Inc. of misleading investors about demand for its Old Navy brand's plus-size clothing line, ruling that the plaintiffs couldn't overcome a test imposed by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2024's Macquarie decision.

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Zoetis Hit With Investor Suit Over Slowed Pet Drug Sales

By Sydney Price

Animal health company Zoetis Inc. has been hit with a proposed shareholder class action accusing it of misleading investors about its growth prospects amid rising competition and shifting trends in the veterinary industry.

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Ad Tech Rivals Say Google Can't Cull Antitrust Claims

By Bryan Koenig

Google's rival advertising placement technology providers urged a New York federal judge not to dramatically reduce their antitrust claims, arguing the court has already rejected the statute of limitations assertions raised against other multidistrict litigation plaintiffs "and it should do so again."

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Roundup

Recall Recap: Steamer Burns, Grill Brush Wires

By Emily Field

In the inaugural Recall Recap, Law360 takes a look at suits that have been filed so far this year over recently recalled products, including several suits over millions of Weber grill brushes recalled for wires that can come loose during use — and in one case, got stuck in a man's pancreas. Other recall-related actions include suits over Bissell and another brand of household steam cleaners and an air bag safety defect in Honda Odysseys.

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Abbott Labs Settles Ill. Genetic Privacy Suit

By Celeste Bott

Abbott Laboratories has inked a settlement with a proposed class of workers alleging the company's onboarding materials asked for employees' medical history in violation of an Illinois law aimed at protecting residents' genetic information, prompting an Illinois federal judge to dismiss the case Thursday.

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Mich. Judge Dismisses Data Breach Class Action

By Susan Smiley

A Michigan federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a data breach class action brought against A-Line Staffing Solutions because the plaintiffs failed to show that any injury that might have occurred was a direct result of the staffing company's actions.

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Ex-Perrigo Workers Say Lax Security Led To Cyberattack

By Gina Kim

Perrigo, a company that manufactures branded and private-label over-the-counter healthcare products, was hit with a proposed class action in Michigan federal court Wednesday following a cyberattack linked to a notorious hacking group that claims to have accessed personal data belonging to current and former employees.

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Wash. Justices Float AI Hypotheticals In Hospital Pixel Case

By Rachel Riley

As the Washington Supreme Court considered a group of parents' bid to revive their proposed privacy class action over a Seattle hospital's use of the Meta Pixel browser tracking tool on its website, the justices questioned Thursday whether the rise of artificial intelligence-powered chatbots carried implications for the case.

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Meta Must Face Contract Claim In Facebook Ad Pricing Suit

By Bonnie Eslinger

A California federal judge trimmed a putative class action accusing Meta Platforms Inc. of secretly changing Facebook's ad auction system in a way that caused advertisers to pay more than promised, but said "ambiguity" in the social media giant's agreements meant a breach of contract claim survives the company's motion to dismiss.

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Judge Clears Settlement In Equifax Reporting Suit

By Jared Foretek

A Virginia federal judge won't intervene in a deal resolving a proposed Fair Credit Reporting Act class action against Equifax, ruling that the undisclosed settlement, which was announced prior to class certification, had not been "tainted by collusion."

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FCA Seeks High Court Review Of 9th Circ. Arbitration Loss

By Caroline Simson

Fiat Chrysler will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review a Ninth Circuit decision refusing to send a class action over allegedly defective Jeep and Dodge headrests to arbitration, saying the justices must resolve whether a court or an arbitrator determines if a nonsignatory can enforce an arbitration clause.

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3M, DuPont Lose PFAS Forum-Shopping Sanctions Bid

By Hailey Konnath

A Montana federal judge Thursday declined to sanction Connecticut municipalities for moving firefighter turnout gear PFAS claims to his jurisdiction after roughly two years of litigation on the East Coast, ruling that consolidation of the claims "regardless of district" is "beneficial to all parties."

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Insurance Brokers Sold 'Worthless' Policies, Ill. Suit Says

By Danielle Ferguson

A proposed class action filed in Illinois state court alleges that insurance brokers orchestrated a scheme to sell sham policies that were touted as providing broad liability coverage, but in truth had such unusual exclusions that they were essentially worthless.

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UnitedHealthcare Unit Settles PrEP Coverage Fight

By Kelcey Caulder

A UnitedHealthcare subsidiary and two customers who alleged its failure to approve full coverage for PrEP violated the Affordable Care Act have agreed to settle their dispute, parties told a Minnesota federal court.

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Judge Backs Cannabis Landlord In Investor Suit Over Defaults

By Nate Beck

A Maryland federal judge found that a landlord of cannabis companies can't be held liable after four tenants defaulted on their leases, ruling that shareholders missed clues about the defaults found in public records and failed to show what the property owner knew beforehand.

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Husch Blackwell Adds Manatt Healthcare Duo In LA

By Adrian Cruz

Husch Blackwell LLP announced that a pair of Los Angeles-based commercial litigators from Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP have joined the firm as part of its focus on expanding its California healthcare capabilities.

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Series

Studying Foreign Languages Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Studying Italian and Japanese has shown me that learning a new language can benefit a legal career in several ways, including by demonstrating the importance of approaching problems from a fresh perspective and the value of practicing patience with colleagues and clients, says Anna King at Genworth Financial.

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Florida High Court Adopts AI Policy For Lawyers

By Madison Arnold

The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday amended the state's rules to require those filing court documents to check any artificial intelligence-generated content for accuracy, and allow for sanctions if the content contains errors.

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Goldstein Says Bad Jury Instructions Warrant New Trial

By Jared Foretek

SCOTUSblog founder Tom Goldstein said that the prosecutors who convicted him on 12 tax and mortgage fraud charges in February are now contradicting arguments they made at the end of his trial in their attempt to deny him a bench acquittal or new trial.

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King & Spalding Blocked From Exiting $300M Fraud Lawsuit

By Brian Steele

King & Spalding LLP and Lennon Murphy & Phillips LLC can't withdraw from representing clients in consolidated litigation over an alleged $300 million stock swindle, a Connecticut state court judge has ruled, saying the firms' motions ahead of a June trial lack good cause.

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Fla. Court Refers Atty To Bar Over Bogus Case Citations

By Madison Arnold

A Florida state appeals court has referred an appellant's attorney to the state's bar for disciplinary proceedings after filing a petition that appears to be generated by artificial intelligence and "raises frivolous arguments, misstates the law, and cites non-existent case law."

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Parents Demand 'Bad Faith' Sanctions In Camp Mystic Case

By Lynn LaRowe

Camp Mystic in Texas' Hill Country should be sanctioned over "bad faith" conduct in litigation over flooding deaths last summer, including purported misrepresentations to courts and regulators and an alleged remark by one of its attorneys to a plaintiffs' lawyer that he would "burn in hell," a state court has been told.

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Trump Considers Tech Entrepreneur For DOJ Grants Post

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump appears poised to nominate a real estate attorney turned tech entrepreneur for a top U.S. Department of Justice post that oversees grants and criminal justice programs.

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Dem Sens. Ask DOJ To Preserve Trump-IRS Settlement Docs

By Jack McLoone

Two Democratic Senate leaders asked the U.S. Department of Justice to preserve any records related to the settlement of President Donald Trump's suit against the IRS in a letter published Thursday, signaling that further investigations may be coming.

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Roundup

Injury Law Roundup: Freight Brokers, Uber Lose Key Cases

By Y. Peter Kang

The U.S. Supreme Court's green light of negligent hiring claims against freight brokers in highway crash cases and an adverse verdict against Uber in the sexual assault multidistrict litigation lead Law360's Injury Law Roundup.

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Ex-Fla. Chief Justice Fred Lewis Dies At 78

By Carolina Bolado

Former Florida Chief Justice R. Fred Lewis, who spent two decades on the bench of the Florida Supreme Court, has died at 78, the court announced Thursday.

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Titan Of The Plaintiffs Bar: Gupta Wessler's Deepak Gupta

By Daniel Moritz-Rabson

In the decade and a half since starting his own firm, Deepak Gupta has argued seven cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, has won matters in state high courts from coast to coast, and has become a mainstay in federal appellate courts while building his plaintiff-side litigation boutique into a sought-after juggernaut.

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