American, JetBlue Oppose Class Cert. For Northeast Alliance

By Matthew Perlman

American Airlines and JetBlue are opposing a class certification bid from flyers suing over a past alliance between the airlines, telling a New York federal court the motion relies on a flawed economic model because there's no evidence of the pact causing higher fares.

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Shipbuilder Must Face Bridge Wreck Suit In US, 3rd Circ. Told

By Linda Chiem

The Dali cargo ship's owner and manager told the Third Circuit on Wednesday that a Pennsylvania federal judge improperly tossed their lawsuit alleging South Korean shipbuilder HD Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. Ltd. designed and built a "fatally flawed" ship that subsequently slammed into Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge.

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BakerHostetler Malpractice Case To Expand With RICO Claim

By Emily Johnson

A Georgia federal judge has allowed a trustee who has accused BakerHostetler and an Atlanta-based attorney of legal malpractice to file an amended complaint after the trustee asked to add claims of Georgia RICO Act violations.

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FEMA Contractors Say No-Poach, Wage-Fixing Suit Still Faulty

By Bryan Koenig

Fluor Federal Services and some of its federal disaster response subcontractors urged a Florida federal judge Tuesday to definitively end a proposed class action accusing them of agreeing to fix wages and avoid hiring each other's workers, arguing the amended complaint still doesn't fix shortcomings identified by the court.

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Albright Left Key Issue In Billion-Dollar IP Fight Unanswered

By Dani Kass

In May 2025, then-U.S. District Judge Alan Albright watched a jury hold that VLSI Technology is controlled by Fortress Investment Group, but by the time he left the bench in August 2026, the judge had yet to decide whether that ownership would let Intel avoid billions of dollars in patent infringement verdicts.

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NJ Atty Mishandled Property Damage Dispute, Court Told

By Hope Patti

A man told a New Jersey federal court that he was forced to pay excessive and avoidable fees to an attorney hired to represent him in a property damage dispute after the attorney mishandled the case by failing to advise him to tender the claim to his homeowners insurer.

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Versata Wants Ford To Pay Interest Atop Restored $82M Award

By Adam Lidgett

Versata Software Inc. wants a Michigan federal court to tack on at least $37.7 million to a reinstated $82.3 million contract award against Ford Motor Co. and said the court should finalize that win while both sides prepare for a new trade secret damages trial.

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Wash. Gov. Creates Fraud Post, Backs Broader Medicaid FCA

By Ben Adlin

As part of a push to expand fraud prevention efforts in Washington, Gov. Bob Ferguson signed an executive order Tuesday to create a new chief fraud prevention officer position and a statewide fraud prevention work group, also announcing forthcoming legislation that would broaden the state's Medicaid False Claims Act.

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DraftKings Fights Bid To Link Bettor Suit To Promos Action

By Ganesh Setty

DraftKings Inc. urged an Illinois federal court to not reassign an Illinois man's personal injury action over his sports gambling addiction to a judge in the district overseeing a separate proposed class action challenging DraftKings' advertising practices, arguing they are materially different.

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NJ Health System Hit With Class Action Over Retirement Plan

By Gianna Ferrarin

Retirement plan participants and beneficiaries told a New Jersey federal court in a proposed Employee Retirement Income Security Act class action that a hospital network mismanaged their "jumbo-sized" plan.

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Patients Seek OK Of Connecticut Rehab Data Breach Deal

By Brian Steele

Patients accusing a Connecticut medical rehab network of waiting almost a year to disclose a cyberattack have asked a state court judge to preliminarily bless a deal that would provide about 61,000 people up to $2,500 in cash, plus $1 million in identity theft insurance.

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Canadian Enforcer Concerned Over Air Canada-United Pact

By Matthew Perlman

Canada's competition enforcer said Wednesday an expanded pact between Air Canada and United Airlines would eliminate competition between the carriers on several routes, likely leading to higher prices.

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Homebuilder Sues Subcontractors In Fla. Seminole Tribe Case

By Carolina Bolado

Lennar Homes LLC has roped dozens of subcontractors into the Seminole Tribe of Florida's lawsuit over construction defects in more than 550 homes built for its members, arguing that if Lennar is held liable, it is entitled to damages from the subcontractors who did the work.

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Investors, Mich. Pot Co. Settle $1.5M Contract Breach Suit

By Mike Curley

A Michigan federal judge has dismissed with prejudice a lawsuit from an investment firm alleging that the owners of a dispensary stole its $1.5 million investment, after the parties reached a settlement to end the case.

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City Says Waiver And Federal Pot Ban Beat Licensing Suit

By Jonathan Capriel

A cannabis company that spent $1.7 million to open a dispensary in a town on the shores of the Great Lakes cannot sue the city or its officials for failing to issue allegedly promised retail licenses, the municipality told a federal court, saying the business signed a waiver that bars litigation.

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Cannabis Event Founders Accused Of $750K Fraud

By Jonathan Capriel

A Los Angeles attorney and his business partner are accused in a California state lawsuit of diverting investor money to pay for private jet flights, bar dues and other personal expenses instead of funding business-to-consumer cannabis trade shows, including the failed 2022 Green Street Festival.

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Satellite Co. Asks Fla. Court To End $15M Finder's Fee Suit

By David Minsky

A satellite technology company asked a Florida state court on Wednesday to once and for all end a lawsuit alleging it owes $15 million in finder's fees for help with sourcing funders, arguing the complaint was already considered and rejected by federal courts. 

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Unilever May Get Suit By Ex-Ben & Jerry's Chair Moved To NY

By Bonnie Eslinger

A California federal judge said on Wednesday that he is unlikely to toss claims that Unilever defamed Ben & Jerry's then-board chair to justify ousting her over her support for Palestinians, and indicated he is inclined to transfer the case to New York.

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Restaurant Investor Says Divorce Left Repayment In Dispute

By Matthew Santoni

A former employee and investor in a Pittsburgh-area chain of Mexican restaurants says he wants to be repaid after his retirement, but the former co-owners' divorce has left each party claiming the other owes him the money, according to a lawsuit the investor filed in Pennsylvania state court Tuesday.

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Electronics Maker Says $48.5M Tax Suit Wrongly Tossed

By Jarek Rutz

Electronics manufacturer Flex Ltd. urged the Delaware Supreme Court on Wednesday to revive its bid for a $48.5 million tax distribution from its Nextracker Inc. spinoff, arguing the companies' agreements entitled it to the money, while Nextracker maintained Flex had agreed to bear the tax costs.

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3 Strategies To Reduce AI Sycophancy In Legal Work

The tendency of generative artificial intelligence models to tell users what they want to hear can reinforce attorneys’ confirmation bias when testing the strength of arguments, and it can’t simply be prompted away — but a few practices can help mitigate it, says Michael Ott at Ice Miller.

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Weil To Wind Down As Top Attorneys Abandon Firm

By Daniel Moritz-Rabson, Alex Wittenberg and Aebra Coe

Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, the restructuring powerhouse that led Lehman Brothers, Enron and General Motors through bankruptcy, told Law360 Pulse Wednesday that the firm is preparing to wind down operations.

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BigLaw Tip Middleman To Admit Role In $3.5M Trading Scheme

By Chris Villani

An alleged middleman in a sweeping scheme to trade off of deal information stolen from major law firms has agreed to plead guilty and potentially faces a prison term of nearly a decade, according to a plea agreement filed Wednesday in Massachusetts federal court.

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Judge Hellerstein, Gruff Moderator Of Major Cases, Dies At 92

By Pete Brush

Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein, a former litigator and sometimes impatient Manhattan federal jurist who presided over decades of high-profile cases that often came under close appellate scrutiny, died Wednesday at the age of 92.

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LA's Top Federal Prosecutor 'Unlawfully Serving,' Judge Finds

By Christine DeRosa

A federal judge has ruled that Los Angeles' top federal prosecutor isn't legally serving in the role and that he is disqualified from participating in or supervising two criminal prosecutions.

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Proskauer, Reddit Attys Called To Testify In Data-Scraping Suit

By Bryan Koenig

A New York federal judge on Wednesday called for live testimony from two Proskauer Rose LLP attorneys and Reddit's deputy general counsel as he weighs the law firm's bid to represent Perplexity AI in a lawsuit from Reddit, the firm's former client, over alleged data scraping.

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Mich. Judge Weighs Toshiba Legal Bills Discovery Fight

By Melanie Dorsey

A Michigan federal judge on Wednesday questioned whether she needs to review specific objections to DTE Electric Co. and Consumers Energy Co.'s multimillion-dollar attorney fee request before deciding whether Toshiba Corp. must disclose its own legal bills and litigation expenses following a nearly $394.4 million jury verdict over a botched power plant overhaul.

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SC Gov.'s Counsel Still In The Running For Federal Judgeship

By Courtney Bublé

The chief legal counsel for South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster is "being actively considered" for a federal judgeship, according to the White House, but it's not a done deal yet.

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