Texas AG Says Shein Is Selling 'Toxic' Goods To Consumers

By Spencer Brewer

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Friday filed his fifth lawsuit targeting companies with alleged ties to China, suing fast-fashion retailer Shein the day after he sued its rival Temu. 

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Social Media Cases Atty In Hot Water Over Courthouse Filming

By Craig Clough

A Los Angeles judge on Friday ripped into an attorney for the plaintiff in a bellwether suit alleging Meta and Google's social media platforms harm childrens' mental health, stripping the attorney of his seat on the plaintiffs' steering committee for violating court rules by twice filming inside the courthouse.

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NY AG's Zelle Fraud Suit Sent Back To State Court

By Jon Hill

A Manhattan federal judge has ruled that the New York attorney general's office may return to state court with its lawsuit accusing Zelle's parent company of failing to adequately protect against fraud on the digital payment platform, granting the state's bid for remand.

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State Privacy Watch: 4 Legislative Developments To Know

By Allison Grande

In the first weeks of 2026, state lawmakers pushed policy initiatives aimed at protecting consumers' most sensitive personal data, with two states moving closer to banning companies from selling location data and South Carolina becoming the latest to establish enhanced digital safeguards for minors despite continued industry pushback. 

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Evolve Bank Freed From Fintech Yotta's Fraud Suit, For Now

By Emilie Ruscoe

A San Francisco federal judge has dismissed Yotta Technology's lawsuit accusing Evolve Bank & Trust of operating a Ponzi scheme on the grounds that it can't proceed in federal court without now-defunct fintech intermediary Synapse Financial Technologies as a party, but the judge held it could be refiled in state court.

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Trump Imposes Maximum Tariff After Supreme Court Rebuke

By Dylan Moroses

President Donald Trump imposed a temporary global tariff with several exemptions hours after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down tariffs imposed under the International Economic Emergency Powers Act, then announced that he would increase the duty to the 15% maximum.

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Wireless Builders Want FCC Kibosh On Dish 'Shell Games'

By Nadia Dreid

Dish Network has reneged on its promise to build a 5G network, and with that pledge rescinded, it has stopped paying the companies that were supposed to be doing the build out, placing all their operations at risk, those companies told the Federal Communications Commission.

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FCC Warned Of Risks From Moving Too Fast On IP Networks

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission risks harm to the public if it moves too quickly to retire legacy phone networks in the transition to all-internet-based connectivity, consumer advocates warn.

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FTC Chair Wants Merger Cases Filed Only In Fed. Court

By Matthew Perlman

Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson said Friday that the agency should bring its merger challenges directly in federal court, rather than the agency's in-house administrative process, as it typically has done.

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Google Data Sharing With China Violates DOJ Rule, Suit Says

By Craig Clough

Google has sent millions of internet users' information to several large ad firms in China, violating a U.S. Department of Justice rule preventing the bulk transmission of data to "countries of concern" that are American adversaries, according to a proposed class action in Maryland federal court.

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Roundup

Pa. Statehouse Catch-Up: AG Loopholes, Insurance Database

By Matthew Santoni

Pennsylvania's General Assembly sent bills to the governor in February that shielded state agencies from surprise discovery requests in litigation they're not involved in, and tasked PennDOT and insurers with establishing an online system for tracking and verifying auto insurance coverage.

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Brief

Chinese Chemical Imports Evading Duties, Commerce Says

By Jack McLoone

The U.S. Department of Commerce determined Friday that Chinese imports of a water treatment chemical into the U.S. are skirting antidumping and countervailing duties against such products after a U.S. company accused the countrywide industry of making misleading "minor" alterations.

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Texas AG Sues Retailer Over Chest Binder Sales To Youth

By Emily Field

The Texas attorney general on Friday hit an online retailer with a suit alleging that it sells chest binders as undergarments to young people, in what appears to be the first suit in the state targeted at a product used in gender-affirming care.

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Wash. Man Admits To Role In $100M Oil Investor Crypto Con

By Rachel Riley

A Washington state man has admitted to conspiracy to commit money laundering in a scheme that federal prosecutors say cheated victims out of nearly $100 million that they were told was going to oil and gas investments but was instead routed to co-conspirators' accounts and cryptocurrency wallets.

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Feds Step Up Scrutiny Of Immigrant Truck Drivers' Licensing

By Linda Chiem

The U.S. Department of Transportation said Friday that it would soon draft new rules and step up enforcement against "chameleon carriers," as well as training schools that churn out drivers seeking nondomiciled commercial driver's licenses, which are issued to immigrants.

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Credit One Bank Pays $10M In Calif. DAs' Suit Over Debt Calls

By Gina Kim

Credit One Bank will pay $10.2 million to settle a lawsuit from a group of California district attorneys alleging it inundated consumers with excessive debt collection calls, even when they had no account with the bank, three years after the Ninth Circuit held that district attorneys can sue banks over such calls.

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DOJ Says Ohio Health System's Contracts Are Anticompetitive

By Matthew Perlman

The U.S. Department of Justice and Ohio's attorney general's office sued OhioHealth Corp. Friday in federal court, accusing the healthcare system of using contractual restrictions to block insurers from offering plans that include lower-cost rivals.

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Meta Judge's Antitrust Dismissal 'Usurped' Jury, 9th Circ. Told

By Dorothy Atkins

Facebook users urged the Ninth Circuit to revive their proposed class action accusing Meta Platforms Inc. of monopolizing personal social networking markets by misrepresenting its privacy and data practices, arguing that a trial judge misapplied antitrust law and "improperly usurped the jury's role" in deciding factual disputes.

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Roblox Faces Calif. Lawsuit Over Child Safety Failures

By Jonathan Capriel

Roblox built a multibillion-dollar business by marketing its online gaming site as safe for children, but knowingly allowed its platform to become a "hunting ground for predators" where adults systematically groom and sexually exploit minors, according to a civil enforcement action brought by Los Angeles County.

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Chemical, Carpet Cos. Fight To End Landowners' PFAS Suits

By Kelcey Caulder

Shaw Industries, Mohawk Industries, 3M Co. and other major carpet manufacturers and chemical makers accused of contaminating soil, dust and water with so-called forever chemicals urged a Georgia judge Friday to toss a trio of lawsuits.

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Class Attys Allege Lead Counsel Is Hoarding $75M Sutter Fees

By Dorothy Atkins

Schneider Wallace Cottrell Kim LLP has urged a California federal magistrate judge to enforce the $75.4 million fee award in Sutter Health's $228.5 million deal resolving a decade-long antitrust fight, arguing lead counsel Constantine Cannon LLP "unilaterally" and "arbitrarily" cut SWCK's fees by nearly $800,000 while boosting its own.

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Analysis

Valve's Anti-Troll Law Win Could Open New Doors

By Dani Kass

The first jury verdict in the U.S. finding a patent owner violated state law meant to curb bad faith patent suits had unique circumstances that will be hard to repeat, but attorneys say Tuesday's decision still has them considering the little-used laws more closely.

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Zillow Fights Class Claims It Pushed Buyers Into Pricey Loans

By Ben Adlin

Real estate marketplace Zillow urged a Seattle federal judge Friday to throw out homebuyers' accusations it violated a Washington consumer protection law and federal anti-racketeering and real estate statutes, rejecting claims that it directed buyers to its own more costly mortgage services and steered website visitors toward Zillow-affiliated sales agents.

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DuPont Atty's Clerkship Leads Judge To Reconsider Recusal

By Aaron Keller

A Connecticut federal judge on Friday said he would reconsider a decision not to step away from a perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances lawsuit after his former law clerk appeared for several DuPont-related defendants and his daughter landed a job at a firm that represents fellow defendant 3M.

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Cos. Not Covered In Garage Door Death, Insurer Tells Court

By Hope Patti

An insurer said it has no duty to defend a developer or contractors accused of causing a woman to sustain fatal injuries from an unsecured garage entry door, telling a Florida federal court that the event did not arise out of work covered under the policy.

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Beasley Allen Can't Pause NJ Talc DQ Order, Judge Rules

By George Woolston

The Beasley Allen Law Firm can't delay an order disqualifying it from representing hundreds of women who claim their ovarian cancer was caused by Johnson & Johnson's talcum powder while it seeks review from the New Jersey Supreme Court, a state judge ruled on Friday.

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Flagstar Customers Closer To $31.5M Data Breach Settlement

By Melanie Dorsey

A Michigan federal judge granted preliminary approval Friday to a proposed $31.5 million settlement resolving consolidated class claims that Flagstar Bank failed to protect the personal information of customers and employees in two data breaches impacting more than 2 million people.

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PVC Pipe Buyers Want To Get Price-Fixing Discovery Moving

By Elizabeth Daley

Parties involved in price-fixing litigation over polyvinyl chloride pipe costs have offered differing solutions to an Illinois federal court, with defendants in the consolidated action pushing for dismissal as plaintiffs urged the court to start permitted discovery.

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Dollar Tree Sued Over Receipts With Partial Account Numbers

By Abigail Harrison

A Dollar Tree Inc. shopper accused it of shirking federal consumer protection law by printing more than the last five digits of customers' credit and debit card numbers on receipts, according to a putative class action designated to the North Carolina Business Court Friday.

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Bumble Allowed 'Massive' Data Breach, Class Action Claims

By Zak Kostro

Dating app Bumble failed to protect users' personal information stored in the company's information network, making it vulnerable to a recent data breach by a cybercriminal operation known as ShinyHunters, a Texas woman alleged in a proposed class action.

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Discord Caused Child To Stream Suicide For Cult, Parents Say

By Ben Adlin

Discord Inc.'s failure to properly police its online platform enabled a sadistic cult focused on child abuse to convince a 13-year-old trans user to end his life as part of a suicide pact, according to a Washington state lawsuit.

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NC Panel Won't Review DuPont PFAS Nuisance Appeal

By Ganesh Setty

The North Carolina Court of Appeals has declined to examine a trial court's finding that DuPont spinoff entities created a public nuisance by contaminating groundwater with so-called forever chemicals, rejecting their interlocutory appeal.

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PepsiCo Sued Over Shareholder Proposal Exclusion

By Sarah Jarvis

PepsiCo Inc. has been hit with a lawsuit for moving to exclude a shareholder's animal welfare-focused proposal from its proxy ballot, the latest such suit brought after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission adopted a more deferential approach to corporations' decisions on shareholder proposals.

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Veterans Accuse Mortgage Lender Of Illegal Kickback Scheme

By Emilie Ruscoe

Veterans United Home Loans is facing a proposed class action that claims it steers servicemembers into costly mortgages through a system of illegal referrals and kickbacks with preferred sales agents.

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Kalshi Gets A Win In Tennessee Over Sports Contracts

By Katryna Perera

Kalshi has secured a win against Tennessee regulators trying to stop it from offering sports wagers in the state, with a federal judge blocking a potential enforcement action against the prediction marketplace operator after finding it is likely to succeed on the merits of its claims that its contracts are federally regulated.

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Fintech Mortgage Co. Hit With Class Action Over Data Breach

By Sydney Price

Blockchain home loan company Figure Lending LLC was hit with a proposed class action in North Carolina federal court accusing it of failing to safeguard customers' data from cybercriminals during a breach of its computer systems earlier this month.

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Record FCA Recoveries Signal Intensified Healthcare Focus

In its recently released False Claims Act statistics, the U.S. government's emphasis on record healthcare recoveries and government-initiated healthcare matters last year indicates robust enforcement ahead, though the administration's focus on current policy objectives also extends beyond the healthcare sector, say attorneys at Epstein Becker.

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Methods For Challenging State Civil Investigative Demands

Ongoing challenges to enforcement actions underscore the uphill battle businesses face in arguing that a state investigation is prohibited by federal law, but when properly deployed, these arguments present a viable strategy to resist civil investigative demands issued by state attorneys general, say attorneys at Troutman Pepper.

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Reel Justice: 'Sentimental Value' And Witness Anxiety

"Sentimental Value" reminds us that anxiety can interfere with performance, but unlike actors, witnesses cannot rehearse their lines or control the script, so a lawyer's role is not to eliminate stress, but to create conditions where the accuracy of a witness's testimony survives under pressure, says Veronica Finkelstein at Wilmington University.

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Calif.'s Civility Push Shows Why Professionalism Is Vital

The California Bar’s campaign against discourteous behavior by attorneys, including a newly required annual civility oath, reflects a growing concern among states that professionalism in law needs shoring up — and recognizes that maintaining composure even when stressed is key to both succeeding professionally and maintaining faith in the legal system, says Lucy Wang at Hinshaw.

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McGlinchey Stafford Files Ch. 7 With Over $10M In Liabilities

By Lauren Berg

New Orleans-based firm McGlinchey Stafford PLLC, which announced last month that it's winding down operations after more than half a century, filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy with more than $10 million in liabilities owed to former staff and attorneys, workplace vendors, financial institutions and other creditors.

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Judge Nixes DOJ Fine In ICE Case, But Blasts 'Radio Silence'

By Hailey Konnath

A Minnesota federal judge said Friday that a U.S. Department of Justice attorney won't be fined after an immigrant's identification documents were finally returned to him, yet she tore into the DOJ's excuses and said she will "not tolerate what happened here: disobedience and radio silence from the government."

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Analysis

Deportation Policy Pushes Texas Federal Bench To The Brink

By Courtney Bublé

Texas has suffered through a shortage of judges for its federal courts for a while now, but the recent influx of immigration cases is pushing the system to the brink.

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Michigan Federal Judge Faces State's 'Super Drunk' Charge

By Bonnie Eslinger

A Michigan federal judge facing trial on drunken driving charges crashed his car on the night he was arrested, registered a 0.27% blood alcohol level and told a state trooper who asked him to recite the alphabet, "A, B, C, D, F, U," according to a police report recently made public.

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Boies Schiller Partner Faces Possible Sanctions For AI Errors

By Emily Sawicki

A Boies Schiller Flexner LLP partner must explain why he should not face monetary sanctions for filing a brief containing artificial intelligence-generated citation errors amid his representation of women who allege the Church of Scientology harassed them for reporting convicted actor Danny Masterson's sexual assaults.

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Epstein's Advisers Ink $35M Deal With Sex Trafficking Victims

By Katryna Perera

A class of victims of Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking scheme has asked a New York federal judge to grant the first OK in a settlement reached with Epstein's lawyer and accountant, who allegedly aided him in the scheme.

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Va. Judges Name New US Atty, But Blanche Says 'You're Fired'

By Lauren Berg

The federal judges in the Eastern District of Virginia on Friday unanimously appointed veteran litigator James W. Hundley to serve as interim U.S. attorney, a decision immediately met with derision from Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who purported to fire Hundley in a social media post.

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Fake Attys, Judges, Hearings: DOJ Alleges Immigration Scam

By Hailey Konnath

A group of Colombian immigrants scammed clients out of $100,000 by pretending to be immigration lawyers at a fake firm and orchestrating phony hearings in which they pretended to be judges and federal agents, complete with fake judicial robes and uniforms, federal prosecutors in New York said Friday.

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6th Circ. Chief Judge To Take Senior Status

By Courtney Bublé

Chief Sixth Circuit Judge Jeffrey Sutton announced on Friday that he will take senior status on Oct. 1 after more than 20 years on the bench.

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Judiciary Preps Training On National Injunction Limits

By Courtney Bublé

Seven months after the budget reconciliation bill was enacted, the federal judiciary is making progress on the provisions to rein in what Republicans deem abuse of nationwide injunctions targeting the Trump administration's initiatives.

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Florida AG Defends $100K Teaching Side Gig Amid Scrutiny

By Jake Maher

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has been on defense amid scrutiny over a reported $100,000-per-year teaching gig at the University of Florida law school, just as he sought to roll out a new anti-corruption unit.

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Attys Regret Unnoticed ChatGPT Errors In Conn. Court Filings

By Tracey Read

Attorneys ordered to explain errors in two January Connecticut Supreme Court briefs said ChatGPT altered legal arguments that counsel did not notice when they asked the artificial intelligence software to help limit duplicate passages, meet word count rules and format the filings.

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Brief

2nd NJ Defendant Joins Bid To Disqualify US Atty Leadership

By Carla Baranauckas

A second defendant in a New Jersey federal criminal case on Friday joined a pending bid to disqualify the three assistant U.S. attorneys overseeing the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey, escalating a constitutional challenge to the office's leadership structure.

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Beltway Moves: Baker McKenzie, Armstrong & Bradylyons

By Alison Knezevich

The deputy assistant attorney general of the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division returned to Baker McKenzie, while two former DOJ fraud prosecutors launched a new white collar boutique, in some of the latest legal industry happenings in Washington, D.C.

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Roundup

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

By Max Austin

The last week in London saw the founders of Getir sue investment fund Mubadala for more than $700 million tied to alleged breaches during the company's restructuring, the Welsh Rugby Union face a claim by Swansea Council over a proposed takeover of Cardiff Rugby, and Euro Car Parks target the Competition and Markets Authority after it was fined by the watchdog. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

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Roundup

GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

Several pension funds in New York City sued AT&T, alleging the illegal exclusion of their shareholder proposal requesting a corporate diversity report from the telecom giant's corporate ballot. In the meantime, the DOJ said the Trump administration is investigating federal contractors and grant recipients for potentially engaging in discrimination, rather than for their DEI programs. These are among the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Wigdor LLP and Elefterakis Elefterakis & Panek lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a New York federal judge denied the NFL's bid to force a class of National Football League coaches into arbitration.

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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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