Meta Can't Undo $35M Political Ad Penalty, Wash. Justices Say

By Rachel Riley

Most of the Washington State Supreme Court justices rejected Meta's First Amendment challenge to a state political advertising disclosure law in a divided opinion, while also spurning the social media giant's argument that a $35 million penalty against it violates the Constitution's prohibition on excessive fines.

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CME Group Sues CFTC Over Perpetual-Contracts Approval

By Jessica Corso

CME Group is challenging the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission's decision to approve the listing of perpetual contracts, arguing in a lawsuit that the agency "overrode Congress's definition of the term 'swap'" when it gave Kalshi the green light last month to allow trading on bitcoin spot prices. 

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Mayweather Accused Of Flouting Deal To Box Tyson, Pacquiao

By Gina Kim

Floyd Mayweather violated his agreement to fight Mike Tyson before facing off against Manny Pacquiao after formally coming out of retirement for these once-in-a-lifetime events that cannot be replicated or replaced, a global multimedia broadcasting company alleged.

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Ford Says 'Lemon Law' Firm Faked Bills Using Overseas Staff

By Linda Chiem

Ford Motor Co. accused California personal injury firm Quill & Arrow LLP of defrauding it out of more than $25 million in high-priced legal bills for work actually handled by virtual assistants overseas and non-lawyers in scores of product liability cases against the automaker.

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I-70 Contractor Seeks New Trial After $1.3M Damages Verdict

By Tom Lotshaw

An engineering and design company has asked a Colorado state judge to order a new trial after jurors found it liable for more than $1.3 million in damages for breaching a subcontract linked to an Interstate 70 construction project in Denver.

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Liberty Mutual Says It's Owed $1.5M In School Bond Row

By Danielle Ferguson

Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. told a North Carolina federal court that a construction company owes about $1.5 million for losses Liberty incurred in connection with the contractor's work on a school construction project for which Liberty executed bonds.

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Costco Seeks Coverage For Chicken Drippings Slip-And-Fall

By Hope Patti

A Liberty Mutual unit must defend and indemnify Costco against an underlying suit filed by a California man who said he was injured when he slipped on rotisserie chicken drippings, the bulk retailer said in a suit removed to Washington federal court.

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Mother Defends Punitive Claims In Boeing Door Plug Blowout Suit

By Mike Curley

A woman and her son suing The Boeing Co. over a door plug blowout on a 737 Max jet flight out of Oregon are urging a Washington federal court to deny Boeing's bid to throw out their punitive damages claims, saying the question is a fact-intensive one unsuitable for dismissal.

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Mint Mobile Faces Class Action Over Deceptive Ads

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

Mint Mobile is facing a proposed class action alleging that it is baiting customers into ordering home internet with nonexistent advertised discounts and overcharging them.

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Perplexity AI Limits Research Tool's Functions, Users Claim

By Hailey Konnath

A pair of Perplexity AI users has filed a proposed class action claiming the artificial intelligence company lures customers into fixed-term contracts and then "dramatically" decreases the services those customers can access midway through their subscription terms without notice.

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Novo Nordisk Sued Over Data Hack Tied To Extortionist Group

By Gina Kim

Novo Nordisk was hit with a proposed negligence class action in New Jersey federal court alleging the pharmaceutical giant failed to have adequate data security measures in place to protect sensitive personal health information of patients and employees from being exposed to a cybercriminal extortionist group.

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5 Big ERISA Litigation Developments From 2026's First Half

By Kellie Mejdrich

The U.S. Supreme Court's acceptance of a petition challenging Intel's 401(k) investment lineup and a Fourth Circuit ruling unraveling a class of Genworth Financial retirement plan participants headlined the court developments that caught benefits attorneys' attention in the first six months of 2026. Here, Law360 looks at those and other noteworthy ERISA decisions.

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Cere Execs Look To Arbitrate $100M Crypto Network Suit

By Joyce Hanson

A co-founder of cryptocurrency-associated data cloud platform Cere Network is seeking to compel arbitration in a case before a California federal judge over a purported cryptocurrency fraud scheme that sold about $41 million in Cere tokens on exchanges and misappropriated investor funds.

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FTC, Amazon Must Answer Attorney-Client Privilege Questions

By Emily Sawicki

The Washington federal judge handling the Federal Trade Commission's antitrust case against Amazon asked both parties to provide more information about how he should consider attorney-client privilege when reviewing documents to resolve discovery disputes in the case.

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Otter Tail To Pay $30M To Settle PVC Price-Fix Claims

By Celeste Bott

Otter Tail has agreed to pay $30 million to resolve certain claims in litigation alleging it and two subsidiaries conspired with other polyvinyl chloride pipe producers to fix prices, the company said in a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing.

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Fluor Says Fake Citations In Contractor's Brief Should Stick

By Spencer Brewer

Fluor Federal Services Inc. told a Texas federal court that a subcontractor used generative text in its brief asking the court to keep intact its suit accusing Fluor of antitrust violations, saying the subcontractor shouldn't get to amend its filing to cure the resulting errors.

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Popeyes Franchisee Nears Restaurants Sale In Fla. Ch. 11

By David Minsky

A Popeyes franchisee inched closer to selling dozens of restaurants in its Florida Chapter 11 following last-minute tweaks to a proposed order after objections from several companies raised questions on whether a sale would result in negative proceeds for the debtor. 

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Tort Suit Marketing Co. Says It Must Keep Firm's $9M Payment

By Spencer Brewer

A marketing company that specializes in advertising mass tort litigation lodged a suit against a lender in Texas state court, claiming the lender wrongfully demanded $6 million that came from a judgment finding that a law firm failed to make payments for a $42 million contract.

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A Lender's Guide To Fraud: Identifying Risks

The evolving lending landscape, particularly the private credit boom, has heightened lenders' exposure to fraud, but recent bankruptcies demonstrate where fraud risks most commonly materialize and how banks can mitigate exposure at the outset, say attorneys at Moore & Van Allen.

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Series

Founding An Autism Academy Made Me A Better Lawyer

Starting a nonprofit autism school with no building, no funding model and no guarantee that families would trust us taught me the importance of mission, patience and purpose — lessons that sharpened my practice and showed how meaningful work outside the office can make lawyers better, says Phillip Russell at Ogletree Deakins.

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Judiciary Cites AI Deepfakes In Opposing Courtroom Cameras

By Courtney Bublé

Two bipartisan bills to bring cameras into federal courtrooms advanced Thursday, but the policymaking body for the federal judiciary continues to oppose them and raised the issue of deepfakes in the age of artificial intelligence.

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Trump Lawyer Advances In Senate Judiciary Noms Vote

By Courtney Bublé

The nomination of Matthew Schwartz to be a judge on the Second Circuit advanced out of committee Thursday.

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'Mortified' Atty Takes Blame For Fake Quotes In Taco TM Fight

By Ivan Moreno

A Connecticut attorney facing possible sanctions over fake case quotations in a taco restaurant trademark fight told a federal judge that he takes "full and unqualified responsibility" for the flawed filings, saying he is "mortified" and acknowledging that his verification process for AI-assisted legal work fell far short.

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Calif. Moves On Proposal To Allow Legal Aid By Nonlawyers

By Lynn LaRowe

The California Supreme Court has directed the state bar to solicit public comments on a proposed community justice worker program that would allow nonlawyers to provide limited legal assistance under the supervision of qualified legal aid organizations, according to a Thursday announcement.

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Analysis

Law Students Undeterred Under Trump's Immigration Climate

By Britain Eakin

In a climate where immigration lawyers are coming under the Trump administration’s scrutiny to tamp down on asylum fraud, law students are being ignited to enter the workforce early and rectify the injustices they see.

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Mich. Panel Sanctions Atty Over AI-Hallucinated Cases

By Susan Smiley

A medical malpractice suit in the Michigan Court of Appeals led to financial sanctions against an attorney who the court said during litigation repeatedly cited nonexistent cases that were generated by artificial intelligence.

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NY High Court Upholds Mandatory Judge Retirement Age

By Dorothy Atkins

New York's highest court Thursday affirmed a ruling that rejected jurists' challenges to the Empire State's mandatory retirement age of 70 for state judges and justices, finding that the centuries-old constitutional mandate doesn't conflict with a recent state civil rights amendment banning age discrimination.

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Tort Report: Meta Set To Face Facebook Sex Trafficking Trial

By Y. Peter Kang

An upcoming trial in Texas for a first-of-its-kind case against Meta and claims against a health clinic owned by a U.S. senator lead Law360's Tort Report, which compiles recent personal injury and medical malpractice news that may have flown under the radar.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

General counsel may cringe at the news, but their chief financial officers will rejoice over a new study that shows the average spending by legal departments dropped to a six-year low in 2026. And two in-house Cigna lawyers are at the center of a finding of "improperly asserted privilege" over key company documents related to a payment lawsuit brought by three labs.

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