Snapchat Inks Deal To Avoid 1st Social Media Bellwether Trial

By Craig Clough

Attorneys for Snapchat and the plaintiff in a bellwether trial starting next week over claims social media harms young users' mental health told a Los Angeles judge Tuesday they have reached a settlement in the plaintiff's suit, which is slated to be the first such case to go to trial.

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Plaintiffs Atty Who Disclosed Uber MDL Docs On 'Thin Ice'

By Dorothy Atkins

A California federal magistrate judge warned plaintiffs attorney Bret Stanley of Johnson Law Group during a hearing Tuesday that he's on "thin ice" after Uber argued he should be sanctioned for allegedly repeatedly using discovery in multidistrict litigation over sexual assault liability to litigate other cases against Uber.

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Chamber Tells 5th Circ. EPA Asbestos Ban Goes Too Far

By Mike Curley

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is urging the Fifth Circuit to vacate a 2024 rule by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency banning the use of chrysotile asbestos, saying the agency overstepped its authority without consulting other regulators as it was required to.

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DC Circ. Doubts If EPA Had To Quantify Costs In PFAS Rule

By Ganesh Setty

The D.C. Circuit on Tuesday seemed to favor the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's position that public comments were properly solicited before labeling two forever chemicals as hazardous substances, and expressed skepticism that the agency should have done a more rigorous analysis of clean-up costs for businesses.

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Trump's Bid For Fed Firing Faces Pivotal Supreme Court Test

By Jon Hill

As President Donald Trump's push to carry out the first-ever firing of a sitting Federal Reserve governor takes center stage at the U.S. Supreme Court, the stakes couldn't be higher: nothing less than control of the central bank is on the line.

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Microsoft Warns Google Play Store Deal Invites Antitrust Harm

By Lauren Berg

Microsoft Corp. urged a California federal judge to reject the proposed Android app distribution settlement in Epic Games' antitrust suit against Google, arguing that the deal would essentially erase the court's injunction requiring Google to open up its Play Store to Microsoft and other competitors.

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Law360 Names Firms Of The Year

By Kevin Penton

Eight law firms have earned spots as Law360's Firms of the Year, with 48 Practice Group of the Year awards among them, achieving milestones such as high-profile litigation wins at the U.S. Supreme Court and 11-figure merger deals.

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FTC Appeals Meta Loss To DC Circ.

By Bryan Koenig

The Federal Trade Commission gave notice Tuesday that it would seek D.C. Circuit intervention over a federal judge's rejection of its lawsuit accusing Meta Platforms Inc. of illegally monopolizing personal social media through what the agency described as a buy-or-bury strategy behind the Facebook parent's purchases of Instagram and WhatsApp.

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Luminys Back In Clear With FCC After Dahua USA Is Dissolved

By Christopher Cole

Luminys can once again market its telecom equipment in the U.S. now that the onetime Chinese-controlled firm Dahua USA has been dissolved, the Federal Communications Commission said Tuesday.

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NextNav Claims No Toll Disruption From GPS Backup Plan

By Christopher Cole

Geolocation developer NextNav Inc. has claimed that studies show its plan to build a terrestrial backup to the Global Positioning System wouldn't interfere with road tolling operations, as debate intensifies with industry stakeholders over its plan.

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FTC, Doxo Trade Blows In Online Consumer Deception Case

By Rachel Riley

As the Federal Trade Commission pushes for a pretrial win in its case accusing online bill pay platform Doxo Inc. of duping consumers into paying extra fees, the Seattle-based firm has called out the agency for "targeting a company for sticking up for itself" and seeking to bankrupt its executives.  

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North Carolina AG Wins Bid To End MV Realty's 40-Year Deals

By Hayley Fowler

Florida real estate company MV Realty defied state consumer protection statutes in North Carolina by tricking homeowners into signing decades-long listing agreements in exchange for small cash advances, a state Business Court judge said in handing the attorney general a major pretrial victory.

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Kim Kardashian's Skims Settles NJ Consumer Fraud Suit

By Carla Baranauckas

Skims Body Inc. will pay a $200,000 civil penalty and continue refunding New Jersey shoppers after improperly collecting sales tax on clothing that should have been tax exempt for nearly five years, Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Division of Consumer Affairs announced Tuesday.

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Va. Tells 4th Circ. To Stay Order Blocking Vape Law On Appeal

By Mike Curley

The Commonwealth of Virginia is asking the Fourth Circuit to stay a district court order blocking enforcement of some aspects of its law banning the sale of unauthorized vapes, saying the district court was wrong to find the law was preempted by the Food Drug and Cosmetic Act and the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act.

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GoodRx Users Denied Nod For $32M Deal In Data Sharing Row

By Allison Grande

A California federal judge refused to sign off on a $32 million deal to resolve a proposed class action accusing GoodRx of illegally sharing users' sensitive health data with fellow defendant Criteo and other advertisers, faulting the parties for failing to provide a detailed analysis of the strength of each claim.

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Edison Blames LA County, Others For Exacerbating Eaton Fire

By Gina Kim

Southern California Edison filed a cross-complaint in California state court on Friday against several public and private entities, including Los Angeles County and the city of Pasadena, alleging they are also at fault for exacerbating the damage left by the devastating Eaton fire that sparked in January 2025.

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Suit Says Grubhub Failed To Protect Private Info From Breach

By Celeste Bott

Grubhub was sued in Illinois federal court Monday by a potential class of diners and drivers who say the food delivery giant failed to adequately safeguard their sensitive personal information against recent data breaches.

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Pump.Fun Faces Sanctions Bid Over Meme Coin 'Harassment'

By Aislinn Keely

The meme coin launchpad known as Pump.Fun is facing a sanctions demand for allegedly enabling an "escalating campaign of harassment and intimidation" that used mocking meme coins and threatening posts against lawyers and plaintiffs who are suing the platform.

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Zillow, Redfin Must Produce CEO Docs In FTC's Antitrust Case

By Bryan Koenig

A Virginia federal magistrate judge gave the Federal Trade Commission a limited peek Tuesday into the communications between the CEOs of Zillow and Redfin over an alleged deal paying Redfin more than $100 million not to compete for rental listings, partially overriding Zillow's objections in a ruling from the bench.

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HP Wants Antitrust Suit Over Third-Party Ink Tossed For Good

By Lauraann Wood

HP has urged an Illinois federal judge to permanently toss customers' amended lawsuit accusing the printer-maker of illegally blocking third-party ink cartridge use through a firmware update, arguing the "few" changes in their latest complaint still do not outline a plausible antitrust case.

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Investment Cos. Deny Funding Tribal Biz Sued For Payday Loans

By Joyce Hanson

Two investment firms have denied they secretly controlled a tribally affiliated short-term lending company that is being sued in North Carolina federal court by a class of borrowers who say it's handing out supposedly illegal payday loans that charge annual interest rates as high as 490%.

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Lyft's 'Priority Pickup' Service Fails to Deliver, Suit Says

By Bonnie Eslinger

Lyft tells passengers they can get a faster pickup for a premium price but frequently fails to deliver on that promise, a customer says in a proposed consumer class action filed Tuesday in California federal court.

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Philips CPAP Cancer Suit Sent Back To Kentucky

By Emily Field

A Pennsylvania federal judge has sent back to state court a suit in the multidistrict litigation over recalled CPAP devices brought against Philips RS North America by a Kentucky woman who claims her sleep apnea machine caused her cancer, finding that a middleman supplier wasn't added to thwart federal jurisdiction.

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Justices Won't Hear Audi, VW Bid To Limit Calif. Jurisdiction

By Linda Chiem

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear Audi AG and Volkswagen AG's bids to limit when foreign manufacturers, whose products are sold through a U.S. distributor, are subject to specific personal jurisdiction in American state courts for product liability and personal injury claims.

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Mass. Judge Slams Brakes On Kalshi Sports Offerings

By Alex Lawson

Prediction market operator Kalshi will soon be barred from offering sports event contracts in Massachusetts after a state judge ruled Tuesday that the contracts are likely functioning as unlicensed sports wagering.

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'Battery' Led To $32M Yale Hospital Verdict, Parents Say

By Aaron Keller

A Connecticut mother and father have urged a state superior court judge not to rethink a $32 million bench trial verdict against Yale University and its affiliated Yale New Haven Hospital surrounding the death of a premature baby fed a diet fortified with a cow's milk product.

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5th Circ. Urged Not To Transfer Google Antitrust Case

By Matthew Perlman

Mobile analytics software company Branch Metric urged the Fifth Circuit on Tuesday not to transfer from Texas to California its case accusing Google of monopolizing mobile device search markets, saying the case has sufficient connections to the Lone Star State.

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Proposed Class Action Targets Fanatics' Wager Limit Rules

By David Steele

A betting platform breaking multiple state laws to raise a user's self-imposed deposit limit is a clear enough violation for the user to be granted a quick lawsuit victory, a Michigan federal judge has been told.

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AG Watch: Calif. Fills Federal Consumer Protection Void

California's consumer protection efforts seem to be intensifying as federal oversight wanes, with Attorney General Rob Bonta recently taking actions related to buy now, pay later products, credit reporting and medical debt, consumer credit discrimination, and the use of artificial intelligence in consumer services, say attorneys at Cooley.

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Navigating Privilege Law Patchwork In Dual-Purpose Comms

Three years after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to resolve a circuit split in In re: Grand Jury, federal courts remain split as to when attorney-client privilege applies to dual-purpose legal and business communications, and understanding the fragmented landscape is essential for managing risks, say attorneys at Covington.

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Willkie Accused Of Aiding $735M Fraud In Buyout Deal

By Katryna Perera

Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP on Tuesday was accused of aiding a $735 million fraud carried out by an investment manager to secure financing for a 2023 take-private transaction involving Franchise Group Inc., which was then used to pay off the manager's personal debts.

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Goldstein Poker Pals Got Money From Firm, Witness Says

By Jared Foretek

A former office manager at Thomas Goldstein's law firm Tuesday told the jury in his tax fraud trial in Maryland federal court that hundreds of thousands of dollars in wire transfers sent to the U.S. Supreme Court lawyer's poker counterparts were classified as business transactions in documents used by the firm's tax accountants.

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McDonald Hopkins Forms Practice Group For Law Firm MSOs

By Emma Cueto

Midwestern firm McDonald Hopkins LLC announced Tuesday that it has launched a practice group focused on handling deals between law firms and prospective private equity investors, which the firm said is a natural extension of its work on litigation funding deals and private equity investment in other professional services.

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Ex-DOJ Attys Describe Fallout From Trump Takeover

By Stewart Bishop

Former federal prosecutors who resigned or were fired from the U.S. Department of Justice over the last year spoke Tuesday of their dismay over political interference at the department by the Trump administration, but largely expressed confidence that the DOJ could recover in time.

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Shooting Of Indiana Judge, Wife Prompts Call For Vigilance

By Lynn LaRowe

The shooting of an Indiana Superior Court judge and his wife over the weekend has prompted the chief of the state's highest court to urge all jurists in the Hoosier State to "remain vigilant in your security."

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Ex-Girardi Keese Atty To Take Plea Deal In Chicago Case

By Rae Ann Varona

Former Girardi Keese attorney Keith Griffin will take a plea deal in a case accusing him of helping Tom Girardi violate court orders and covering up the theft of client funds, according to a minute entry entered Friday in Illinois federal court.

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Lindsey Halligan Out As US Atty As Judge Criticizes 'Charade'

By Courtney Bublé

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said Tuesday that Lindsey Halligan's 120-day term as U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia is over, the same day a Virginia federal judge criticized "this charade of Ms. Halligan masquerading" in a role in which she was not lawfully serving.

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Justice Jackson Slams Fee Waiver Ban For Indigent Prisoners

By Brandon Lowrey

The U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday rejected three pro se indigent prisoners' bids to file petitions to the court without fees and permanently barred them from seeking fee waivers from the high court, decisions that Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson called "foolish" in a passionate dissent.

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Supreme Court Rules Mandatory Restitution Is Punitive

By Phillip Bantz

The U.S. Supreme Court held in a unanimous opinion Tuesday that restitution is a criminal punishment subject to the Constitution's ban on increasing punishment retroactively.

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John Roberts Welcomes John Roberts To Supreme Court

By Jeff Overley

U.S. Supreme Court advocates have tips galore for staying calm at a debut argument, including diligent preparation, mindful breathing and treating the event as a conversation. But a Proskauer Rose LLP attorney benefited Tuesday from a distinctive development: the chief justice's introductory jest about the two of them not being related.

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Justices Ax 6th Circ. Abortion Order Amid Loper Bright Outcry

By Jeff Overley

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday erased a Sixth Circuit decision allowing abortion-related conditions on family planning grants, a victory for Tennessee officials who accused the circuit of flouting the high court's landmark rejection of judicial deference to regulators.

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NJ Justices Sharply Limit Attorney Liability To Nonclients

By Carla Baranauckas

The New Jersey Supreme Court adopted a formal framework on Tuesday for determining when attorneys owe a duty of care to nonclients, affirming that estate lawyers generally cannot be sued for malpractice by disappointed heirs without clear proof the lawyer was engaged to benefit them directly.

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AI Firm Countersues Legal Publisher For Breach Of Contract

By Adam Lidgett

Artificial intelligence startup Alexi Technologies has accused Fastcase Inc. and its owner of weaponizing the legal system after the legal research firm filed a lawsuit in November claiming the AI company breached a former business relationship.

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Justices Set Time Limit To Ax Judgments, Ending 11-1 Split

By Jeff Overley

Almost every circuit court has wrongly allowed litigants to vacate invalid judgments regardless of how long ago the judgments became final, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday, endorsing one circuit's outlier interpretation of a decades-old procedural rule.

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Supreme Court Security Gets $30M Boost In DHS Bill

By Courtney Bublé

The consolidated U.S. Department of Homeland Security funding bill for fiscal year 2026 released early Tuesday morning includes $30 million for the security of U.S. Supreme Court justices.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court wrapped up last week with a mix of deal litigation, governance fights and disclosure battles, including a proposed settlement over a contested medical device sale, a merits dismissal tied to a $2 billion biotech exit and dueling lawsuits over Paramount Skydance's pursuit of Warner Bros. Discovery.

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