2nd Circ. Won't Kick Luxottica Pension Fight To Arbitration

By Kellie Mejdrich

The Second Circuit backed a lower court's refusal to compel individual arbitration of a former Luxottica worker's proposed class action alleging pension underpayments, ruling Thursday that she had standing to sue for plan reformation but couldn't seek monetary payments on the plan's behalf.

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Analysis

Coal Exec's Bribery Trial Aligns With New FCPA Priorities

By Matthew Santoni

Former Corsa Coal executive Charles Hunter Hobson is scheduled to go on trial Monday on charges of violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and attorneys told Law360 that the case reflects the Trump administration's changed priorities for foreign bribery prosecutions.

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Fed. Circ. Judge To Intel IP Atty: Your View Is 'Unreasonable'

By Dani Kass

The Federal Circuit's chief judge on Thursday reprimanded an attorney representing Intel for his "truly unreasonable" claim that a contract with VLSI Technology to streamline patent litigation should only count toward damages, not infringement.

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Ex-Exec At Perot's VC Firm Says Boss Owes Him For $2B Sale

By Spencer Brewer

A Dallas businessman sued billionaire Ross Perot Jr. in Texas state court on Thursday saying Perot stiffed him out of his rightful equity interest in a healthcare company that sold for $2 billion and refused to honor an explicit promise.

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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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McCarter & English Wants To Torpedo $22M Malpractice Suit

By Aaron Keller

McCarter & English LLP on Thursday asked a Connecticut Superior Court judge to sink a $22.3 million professional negligence lawsuit by two struggling insurers, saying failures to provide documents or knowledgeable people to testify during pretrial depositions warrant a "harsh" end to the nearly decade-old case.

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Deel Loses Bid To DQ Quinn Emanuel In Trade Secrets Fight

By Lauren Berg

Payroll and human resources company Deel Inc. cannot have Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP disqualified from representing its competitor Rippling in a trade secrets fight, a Delaware judge ruled Thursday, saying there is no "clear conflict" that would require booting the BigLaw firm.

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Judge Affirms Health Cos.' Sanctions For Witness Omission

By Celeste Bott

An Illinois federal judge rejected a "vague and unsupported" bid by a home healthcare company accused of violating federal kickback laws to reconsider sanctions she ordered for failing to disclose witnesses, saying the motion "wastes everyone's time" and scolding the defendants for "impugning the character and professionalism of an able magistrate judge."

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Seton Hall Wants Ex-President Sanctioned In Leak Lawsuit

By Adrian Cruz

Seton Hall University said that its former president has made a frivolous attempt at dismissing a suit claiming he leaked damaging information about his successor and that he should be sanctioned as a result.

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NC Biz Court Bulletin: Dual Representation DQ, Biting Censure

By Hayley Fowler

The North Carolina Business Court kicked off 2026 with a flurry of rulings and a few rebukes from the bench, including partially disqualifying counsel in a restaurant mismanagement melee and censuring a solo attorney who sought to circumvent the specialized superior court's rules.

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Bus Co., Insurer Must Cover Tainted Candy Suit, Carrier Says

By Hope Patti

A bus company and its insurer must defend a Westport, Connecticut, school board in a suit over injuries two elementary school children suffered after they ate THC-laced candy found on a school bus, the board's insurer told a state court.

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Nerds And Other Ferrara Candies Allegedly Contain Arsenic

By Gina Kim

Ferrara Candy Co. was hit with a proposed class action Wednesday in Illinois federal court over allegations that popular brands of its candy, including Nerds, Trolli gummy candy, Laffy Taffy and Sweet Tarts, contain toxic levels of arsenic.

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Gospel Singer's Contested Song Gets Judge's Blessing

By Chart Riggall

A Georgia federal judge said Thursday that she will allow a Grammy-award winning gospel artist to release new music Friday over the objections of his label, which tried to block the release with a court order over claims that it would violate his record deal.

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MLB Star's Assistant Strikes Out In Agent Fraud Case

By Carolina Bolado

A Florida federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a suit by the personal assistant of Vladimir Guerrero Jr. accusing the Major League Baseball star's agents of swindling him out of commissions, finding that the oral employment agreement he cited is not enforceable.

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Cano Health CEO Accused Of Misleading $30M Share Buyer

By Carolina Bolado

The former chief operating officer of Cano Health Inc. told a Florida state court that ex-CEO Marlow Hernandez misled him into buying $30 million worth of shares in the company despite knowing it was on the brink of insolvency.

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BNY Mellon Can't Sue Investor In Texas Over Facility Funding

By Spencer Brewer

A Texas appellate court determined Thursday that Bank of New York Mellon Trust Co.'s suit against the company that purchased senior revenue certificates for a student housing facility does not belong in the Lone Star State, saying the bank failed to demonstrate that the company's conduct tied it to Texas.

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Defunct Gov't Contractor Found In Contempt Of Asset Freeze

By Jarek Rutz

The U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware has held the owners and affiliates of a defunct government contractor in contempt for violating a court-ordered asset freeze, concluding that they improperly sold a Missouri property that had been expressly barred from transfer while a $14 million clawback suit proceeds.

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Series

Teaching Logic Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Teaching middle and high school students the skills to untangle complicated arguments and identify faulty reasoning has made me reacquaint myself with the defined structure of thought, reminding me why logic should remain foundational in the practice of law, says Tom Barrow at Woods Rogers.

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Meet New Paul Weiss Chairman Scott Barshay

By Anna Sanders

New Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP chair Scott Barshay is a rainmaker who most recently led the corporate department, guiding clients through some of the largest transactions in recent history after joining the firm's New York office a decade ago.

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Judge Who Resigned To Criticize Trump Had Faced Inquiry

By Chris Villani

Former Massachusetts U.S. District Judge Mark L. Wolf was the subject of an inquiry into potential misconduct when he announced his November resignation, a decision he said at the time was motivated by a desire to speak out against the Trump administration, according to a source familiar with the matter.

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Judge Says AI Errors Show Atty Can't 'Learn' From Mistakes

By Ivan Moreno

A New York federal judge concluded that an attorney who repeatedly submitted filings with false AI-generated citations must be punished with case-terminating sanctions against a client he was defending in a trademark lawsuit, saying Thursday that the lawyer "has not, and apparently cannot, learn from his mistakes."

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NY Times Article Excerpts Admitted In Goldstein Trial

By Jared Foretek

Federal prosecutors pressing their case against SCOTUSblog co-founder Thomas Goldstein for tax evasion and misleading statements on mortgage applications were finally able on Thursday to present jurors with key statements the U.S. Supreme Court lawyer made to legal journalist Jeffrey Toobin for a long New York Times Magazine article.

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Texas Atty Must Explain AI 'Misuse' In Employment Case

By Lauren Berg

A prominent civil rights attorney representing a University of Texas at Austin nurse in an employment discrimination case must explain why he shouldn't be sanctioned "for his apparent misuse of artificial intelligence" to research and write a brief, a Texas federal judge ruled.

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Ex-Alex Jones Atty Asks Conn. Justices To Nix Suspension

By Brian Steele

A Connecticut attorney who formerly represented conspiracy broadcaster Alex Jones in a $1.4 billion defamation case has asked the state's highest court to consider whether it was proper for a judge to suspend his law license for violating a protective order governing Sandy Hook families' personal information.

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State Bar Of Texas Declines To Open Grievance On Ramey

By Emily Sawicki

The State Bar of Texas has declined to open a grievance against patent litigator William P. Ramey III after a San Francisco federal court sanctioned him and his firm, Ramey LLP, for practicing law in California without a license.

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Wash. Lawyer Faces Sanction Threat Over Alleged AI Errors

By Ben Adlin

A federal judge has ordered an attorney in Washington state to submit a sworn declaration explaining why she shouldn't be sanctioned for what opposing counsel claimed are dozens of artificial intelligence "hallucinations" across multiple case filings.

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Fake Case Pulled From Toshiba Malicious Prosecution Suit

By Bryan Koenig

A former printer toner salesman is trying to salvage his lawsuit against Toshiba after the company flagged nonexistent citations, apologizing to the California federal court in a corrected brief Thursday defending claims that the electronics company manufactured a criminal case against him and others to maintain an illegal monopoly.

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Trump's Seattle US Atty Stays On For Now Via Title Swap

By Rachel Riley

Trump administration appointee Charles Neil Floyd will continue to be the Western District of Washington's top federal prosecutor for now, under the new title of "First Assistant U.S. Attorney," after the deadline passed Wednesday for the U.S. Senate to confirm the interim appointment.

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Klobuchar Alarmed By Exodus Of Prosecutors In Minnesota

By Courtney Bublé

Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., on Thursday said she was alarmed by the surge of resignations by federal prosecutors in her state following the shooting deaths of two Minnesotans by immigration agents.

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Judiciary Backs Bill To Let Judges Carry Concealed Guns

By Courtney Bublé

The federal judiciary has come out in support of a Republican-led bill to allow judges and prosecutors to carry concealed firearms across state lines, according to a letter obtained by Law360.

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Ex-Prosecutors Call For Independent Probes Of ICE Killings

By Rose Krebs

A coalition of former federal prosecutors and civil rights attorneys is urging U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to ensure that the U.S. Department of Justice allows for "transparent, unbiased and impartial" investigations into the killings in Minneapolis last month of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal immigration enforcement agents.

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