Amazon Revives Arbitration Clause, Bars Class Actions

By Ben Adlin

Amazon customers must now take most legal claims against the retail giant to binding arbitration, the company announced Friday, unveiling new conditions of use that also include a prohibition on users bringing proposed class actions.

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AIG Ex-Execs Win Ruling That Parent's FP Loan Was Equity

By Lauren Berg

American International Group's funding advances to one of its investment units was an equity infusion and not debt, a Delaware bankruptcy judge ruled Friday, handing a win to former executives who say they're owed deferred compensation funds that were depleted during the 2008 financial crisis.

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10th Circ. Backs $5M Verdict In Fight Over Toll Lanes Contract

By Rachel Konieczny

The Tenth Circuit on Friday unanimously upheld a Denver federal jury's award of $5.25 million to construction design firm Aecom, wholly rejecting a contractor's request for a new trial in a contract dispute over a Colorado toll lanes project.

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5th Circ. Backs Investment Co.'s Sanction In Highland Ch. 11

By Emily Lever

The Fifth Circuit on Friday decided to keep in place an $826,000 sanction against NexPoint Real Estate Partners, finding "clear and convincing evidence" showed it filed and litigated a bad-faith claim in the Chapter 11 case of defunct hedge fund Highland Capital Management LP.

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Texas Justices Pass On Atty's Bid To Undo Exxon Sanctions

By Spencer Brewer

The Texas Supreme Court on Friday declined to take up an appeal brought by a law firm challenging a sanction order issued after a lower court found it launched a frivolous lawsuit against Exxon Mobil Corp. related to the company's acquisition of Pioneer Natural Resources.

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AstraZeneca Joins States Aiming To Block Ill. 340B Drug Law

By Bonnie Eslinger

AstraZeneca on Friday joined some other large pharmaceutical companies in urging an Illinois federal court to block a new state law that prohibits drugmakers from restricting the types or number of pharmacies healthcare providers can contract with to provide medications under a federal discount drug program.

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NC County Sues Bankrupt Hospital Operator For $10M

By Emily Lever

North Carolina's Martin County has sued CHS/Community Health Systems Inc. for $10 million in North Carolina federal court, alleging the company failed to honor its obligations to run Martin General Hospital after its affiliate filed for Chapter 7 in 2023.

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9th Circ. Revives Bid For 15 Alaska Tribal Health Docs

By Crystal Owens

A Ninth Circuit panel has revived a request for 15 documents related to internal investigations and governance reforms from the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, finding that the district court abused its discretion and the case is not moot because it's uncontested that the information hasn't yet been viewed.

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Del. Chancery Refuses To Send $3M Hotel Fight To Fla.

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court has refused to send a dispute over more than $3 million in hotel investment distributions to Florida, ruling that a nonmanaging investor in a Delaware LLC could not be forced to give up its right to bring this type of dispute in Delaware.

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Gallagher Must Face Suit Over Tech Loan Coverage Losses

By Danielle Ferguson

A New York federal judge refused to dismiss an insurer's claims alleging Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. entities gave misleadingly positive information about the finances of tech companies participating in a lending program, finding the insurer showed its financial loss could be connected to Gallagher's alleged failures.

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Brief

Wells Fargo, Conduent Settle NM Debit Card Fraud Suit

By Katryna Perera

New Mexico residents who claimed Wells Fargo and a third-party contractor mishandled reports of fraud involving their state-issued debit cards dropped their proposed class action, telling a New Mexico federal judge on Friday that they had reached settlements to end the case.

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Ex-Marathon Worker Says AI Caught Her Bosses' Gender Bias

By Gina Kim

A Marathon Engineering environmental scientist has sued her former employer in New Jersey state court, alleging she was fired due to her gender, after an AI assistant that recorded her termination meeting sent her a transcript showing that one of her supervisors said he hoped to replace her with a "relatively strapping young man."

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Ski Pass Buyers Defend Antitrust Case Against Vail, Alterra

By Matthew Perlman

Skiers accusing Vail Resorts Inc. and Alterra Mountain Co. of inflating prices through their multiresort ski passes are pushing back in Colorado federal court after the resort operators moved to toss the case and strike the class allegations.

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Disbarred Fla. Atty Blames Firm For Lost $40M Ch. 11 Claim

By David Minsky

A disbarred attorney has sued his former counsel for alleged malpractice in Florida state court, saying he lost money after his $40 million claim was left unsecured in a federal bankruptcy proceeding for his company.

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Ex-Under Armour Ally Wants Pause For Appeal Of Cut Claims

By Matthew Santoni

Textile supplier Multiple Energy Technologies asked a Pennsylvania federal judge to pause the trial on its trimmed-down case against Under Armour, arguing in a brief that the Third Circuit should decide an appeal of the partial dismissal before the district court moves ahead.

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Fla. Judge Rejects PE Investors' Bid To Block Asset Sale

By Isaac Monterose

A Florida federal judge on Friday rejected a proposed class of private equity investors' emergency request to lift a mandated stay on their $150 million fraud suit and won't hand down a temporary restraining order that would've prevented the sale of infrastructure assets to major homebuilder D.R. Horton.

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Cumulus Asks 2nd Circ. For Help With Nielsen Data Order

By Bryan Koenig

Cumulus Media sought clarification Thursday from the Second Circuit on the timing of a district court order upheld last month barring Nielsen from conditioning access to national radio ratings data on buying Nielsen's local offerings, arguing that the ratings analytics company can't hold up obeying the injunction just because it's seeking reconsideration.

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Lender Looks To Dodge Counterclaims In Cannabis Loan Row

By Jonathan Capriel

A married couple who operate a New Jersey cannabis dispensary and are accused of misusing roughly half of a $1.6 million business loan are "retaliating" against their lender, the financing company told a California federal court, asking that the entrepreneurs' countersuit be permanently tossed.

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Roundup

UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

By Megan Norcott

The past week in London has seen newly signed Real Madrid footballer Yan Diomandé sued over access to his image rights, Nigel Farage and Reform UK deputy leader Richard Tice accuse the NCA of leaking confidential financial information, and a right-wing American journalist hit The Guardian with a libel claim. 

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FBT Gibbons Adds Wells Fargo Senior Litigator In Calif.

By Christine DeRosa

FBT Gibbons LLP has grown its financial services and litigation capabilities in California with the addition of a litigator who previously worked in-house at Wells Fargo and Charles Schwab.

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Lowndes Adds BakerHostetler Commercial Real Estate Pro

By Christine DeRosa

Florida-based law firm Lowndes has welcomed an experienced commercial real estate attorney from BakerHostetler to its office in Orlando.

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Other Transaction Authority May Change Military Construction

Early use of the Pentagon’s expanded authority to use other transaction agreements for defense construction projects suggests it may become a consequential change that draws new entrants into the marketplace, so participants should be cognizant of how it differs from the familiar Federal Acquisition Regulation model, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.

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Are your summer associates prepared for a legal career?

How does your firm shape the summer associate experience and mentor new talent? Invite your summer associates to share their perspectives in this year’s Law360 Pulse Summer Associates Survey.

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Analysis

Can Texas, Nevada Replicate Delaware's Corporate Edge?

By Jarek Rutz

Texas and Nevada have spent the past few years rewriting corporate laws and building specialized business courts in an effort to challenge Delaware's long-standing dominance as the preferred home for U.S. companies. While a handful of high-profile corporations have already made the move, corporate law experts say creating another Delaware will require far more than new statutes and judges.

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Immigration Judge Says Anti-DEI Bias Led To Her Ousting

By Elaine Briseño

A Black immigration judge has sued the U.S. Department of Justice for discrimination, alleging her firing was related to anti-DEI sentiments at the agency that overwhelmingly targeted older, nonwhite women.

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White House, BigLaw Atty Picked For Tenn. Federal Bench

By Jack Karp

President Donald Trump announced Friday that he is nominating a White House attorney and former BigLaw associate to serve as a Tennessee federal judge.

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Holland & Knight Loses Bid To Escape GWG Fraud Suit

By Emily Sawicki

Holland & Knight LLP must face adversary claims in Houston bankruptcy court after a Texas federal judge found the trustee for bankrupt life insurance bond seller GWG Holdings Inc. had made a plausible case that the firm and one of its attorneys engaged in a racketeering conspiracy with its ex-chairman.

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Law Student's Race Bias Claim Survives In Kirk Discipline Suit

By Matt Perez

A Texas federal judge on Friday allowed a former Texas Tech law student to proceed with her claim that the university board was discriminatory in disciplining her over comments she made allegedly celebrating the death of Charlie Kirk because non-Black students who spoke about the assassination weren't investigated.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

Boeing has won dismissal of a Delaware suit brought by pension funds accusing its board of putting profits before safety. And in-house counsel helped pick Latham & Watkins as the leader on an annual list of client service all-stars.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Baker Botts LLP and King & Spalding LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Ninth Circuit enforced an over $2 billion arbitral award issued to a satellite communications company, ruling that the legal concept of an optimal venue for a case doesn't apply in matters concerning the enforcement of international arbitral awards.

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In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Law360

For those who missed out, here's a look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the most buzz on Law360 last week.

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