NTSB Torches FAA In DCA Midair Collision Probe

By Linda Chiem

The Federal Aviation Administration for years ignored repeated warnings of close calls and mismanaged high-volume helicopter and commercial jet traffic at one of Washington, D.C.'s busiest airports, as the National Transportation Safety Board on Tuesday flagged "systemic failures" that led to January 2025's midair collision.

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TikTok Cuts Deal As 1st Social Media Bellwether Trial Begins

By Dorothy Atkins

TikTok reached an eleventh-hour settlement late Monday in the first bellwether trial over claims that social media harms young users' mental health, cutting the deal days after Snap settled and leaving Meta and YouTube as the sole defendants as jury selection began Tuesday.

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AGs' HPE-Juniper Hold Too Broad, Too Late, Judge Says

By Bryan Koenig

A California federal judge explained his reasoning for refusing to block further integration between Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Juniper Networks, while Democratic attorneys general challenge the Justice Department's controversial settlement permitting the merger.

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Ford Can't Ditch Claims Of Faulty F-150 Transmissions

By Hailey Konnath

An Illinois federal judge refused to side with Ford on drivers' claims that it sold certain F-150 trucks with defective 10-speed automatic transmissions, finding that, at this stage in the litigation, a Massachusetts driver has adequately alleged a violation of his state's consumer protection law.

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Lasik Provider Can't Shake Wiretap Claims In Tracking Row

By Allison Grande

The operator of a laser eye surgery website must face a proposed class action alleging it illegally shared patients' confidential medical information with Meta, a California federal judge ruled, finding that the plaintiff could continue to press allegations under state and federal wiretap law.

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'Dirty Little Secret': Airbus Sued Over Toxic Cabin Air

By Lauren Berg

Airbus is putting profits over the wellbeing of flight crews and passengers by refusing to take simple actions that could mitigate the potential for engine contaminants to leak into cabin air through the plane manufacturer's air system design, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday in New York federal court.

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Novo Nordisk Advances Telehealth Co. Ozempic Ripoff Suit

By Rachel Riley

A Washington federal judge refused Monday to toss Novo Nordisk's lawsuit accusing telehealth platform Invigor Medical of falsely advertising Ozempic alternatives, ruling that the drugmaker has shown a "tangible stake" in correcting Invigor's alleged practice of misleading consumers into believing its compounded drugs are equivalent to federally approved medications.

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Law360 Seeks Members For Its 2026 Editorial Boards

Law360 is looking for avid readers of our publications to serve as members of our 2026 editorial advisory boards.

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EPA Seeks Public Input On Fluoride Health Effects

By Emily Field

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Tuesday that it is seeking the public's input on the health effects from fluoride in water, which it could use to develop changes to the standards for safe levels.

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Kalshi Taps Ex-Amazon State Policy Pro For New DC Shop

By Aislinn Keely

Trading platform Kalshi is expanding its policy efforts amid battles with state gambling regulators and tribes with a new office in Washington, D.C., staffed by government relations specialists, including a former Amazon executive who spent close to a decade with the Mississippi Attorney General's Office.

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Texas AG Says Nurse Practitioner Is Shipping Abortion Drugs

By Spencer Brewer

The Texas attorney general told a state court that a Delaware-based nurse practitioner and the organization she operates have shipped abortion pills to Texas, saying Tuesday that the defendants have publicly acknowledged that they send abortion pills to the Lone Star State.

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Crypto Network Cofounder Hit With $100M RICO Suit

By Gina Kim

The co-founder and board members of cryptocurrency-associated data cloud platform Cere Network were sued in California federal court Tuesday over an alleged pump-and-dump scheme where they secretly sold over $41 million in Cere tokens on various exchanges and misappropriated investor funds. 

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FCC Asks Carriers To Keep Spanish In Emergency Alerts

By Corey Rothauser

The Federal Communications Commission's Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau on Monday reminded wireless providers that they must properly transmit and display Wireless Emergency Alerts that include Spanish-language characters, warning that altering or deleting those characters violates federal rules.

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Feds Say Evidence Clear As Sports Card Case Goes To Jury

By Pete Brush

A Manhattan federal jury on Tuesday weighed charges against a Washington state man accused of duping buyers of pricey sports trading cards by faking their condition, after prosecutors said "a mountain of evidence" proves the defendant ran a lucrative forgery operation.

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Autodesk Investor Suit Over Internal Controls Axed For Good

By Katryna Perera

A California federal judge has dismissed, for good, a class action alleging that software company Autodesk misled investors on its financial metrics and internal controls, finding that there is nothing actionable or misleading about the three remaining challenged statements in the suit.

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SF Giants Accused Of Charging 'Junk Fees' On MLB Tickets

By Gina Kim

The San Francisco Giants for years lured consumers into buying tickets to ball games by unlawfully charging undisclosed "junk fees" that aren't revealed until checkout, after pressuring them with a countdown clock, alleges a proposed class action filed Monday in California federal court.

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Shein Moves To Toss Artist's 'Misguided' Copyright, RICO Suit

By Rae Ann Varona

Shein urged a California federal court to toss a proposed copyright and racketeering class action that accuses the fast-fashion online retailer of using sophisticated algorithmic systems and artificial intelligence to steal artists' works, chiding the suit's bid to equate Shein with a criminal enterprise as "fanciful and severely misguided."

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Mortgage Statements Class Action Tossed, For Now

By Emilie Ruscoe

Bank of New York Mellon and a mortgage servicing company no longer face class action claims that they unfairly sought to collect on second mortgages following a bankruptcy discharge, a Boston federal judge has determined, finding that the suit didn't show that the firms were required to send borrowers periodic statements showing that they still owed money.

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Facebook Users' Suit Over Hacked Accounts Tossed, For Now

By Dorothy Atkins

A California federal judge tossed with leave to amend Monday a proposed class action alleging Meta lets hackers take over users' Facebook accounts while profiting from users' data, finding that the consumers fail to allege a viable contract breach, but allowing them another shot at amending their theory of liability.

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Ohio PBM Suit Belongs In Federal Court, 6th Circ. Rules

By Rae Ann Varona

The Sixth Circuit on Tuesday ruled that Ohio's lawsuit accusing pharmacy benefit managers of driving up prescription prices through rebate schemes belongs in federal court, saying in an opinion recommended for publication that the suit imposes liability on conduct undertaken at the direction of a federal officer.

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Troubled Apt. Co-Op Seeks $6M State Loan To Clear Liens

By Brian Steele

The receiver overseeing the finances of the 924-unit Success Village Apartments has asked a Connecticut court to allow it to borrow $6 million from the state Department of Housing, which the agency has already approved, "to eliminate the many tax and utility liens" on the property.

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Iowa Can't Block Schwab's Antitrust Deal, 5th Circ. Told

By Katryna Perera

A group of investors who settled with The Charles Schwab Corp. in an antitrust suit over the financial services company's merger with TD Ameritrade has urged the Fifth Circuit to dismiss an appeal filed by the state of Iowa, which had previously objected to the settlement's lack of monetary benefit to the class and proposed attorney payouts.

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Kratom Buyers Call Co.'s Products Addictive, Dangerous

By Mike Curley

A group of kratom product buyers is suing 7Tabz Retail LLC in California federal court, launching the latest suit alleging kratom companies are pushing an addictive drug without warning buyers about the danger.

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MLB Co. Seeks Exit From Lost Tickets Suit

By Ganesh Setty

Major League Baseball's ticketing and media company urged a New York federal court to toss a proposed class action alleging fans' tickets disappeared from the MLB Ballpark app, noting there are no claims the app malfunctioned or suffered a security breach.

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Homebuyers Say Rocket Mortgage Illegally Inflated Prices

By Isaac Monterose

A proposed class of homebuyers accused Rocket Companies Inc. and its subsidiaries in Michigan federal court of illegally hiking home prices by sending business leads to real estate agents who pushed clients to use Rocket's "disadvantageous" financing services for purchases.

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Under Armour Faces Class Action Over Alleged Data Breach

By Jared Foretek

Under Armour was hit with a proposed class action claiming that it failed to stop — and notify customers of — a massive data breach that compromised roughly 72 million email addresses and over 191 million customer records.

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Progressive Urges 4th Circ. To Decertify Car Valuation Class

By Hayley Fowler

Progressive told the Fourth Circuit to undo class certification of auto insurance customers in North Carolina challenging how it calculates adjustments for total loss claims, citing the court's decision last year in a "materially identical case" in which certification was reversed.

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Adhesive Cos. Push Back On FTC Merger Concerns

By Matthew Perlman

The makers of Loctite and Liquid Nails told a New York federal court that the Federal Trade Commission will be unable to show their planned $725 million merger will hurt competition for construction adhesives.

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Sonesta Dupes Consumers With Hidden Hotel Fees, Suit Says

By Carolyn Muyskens

Sonesta International Hotels Corp. deceptively tacks on fees to room prices late in the booking process, according to a putative class action filed in Massachusetts federal court.

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Kelley Drye Adds Ex-23andMe, Facebook Privacy Pros

By Lauren Berg

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP said Monday it is boosting its privacy and information security practice with the addition of a former 23andMe attorney in California and a former Facebook attorney in Texas.

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Lessons From EdTech Provider's Data Breach Settlements

Education technology company Illuminate Education's recent settlements with three states and the Federal Trade Commission over state privacy law claims following a student data breach are some of the first of their kind, suggesting a shift in enforcement focus to how companies handle student data and highlighting the potential for coordinated enforcement actions, say attorneys at Wilson Sonsini.

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State Of Insurance: Q4 Notes From Pennsylvania

Last quarter in Pennsylvania, a Superior Court ruling underscored the centrality of careful policy drafting and judicial scrutiny of exclusionary language, and another provided practical guidance on the calculation of attorney fees and interest in bad faith cases, while a proposed bill endeavored to cover insurance gaps for homeowners, says Todd Leon at Marshall Dennehey.

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Fla. Prosecutors' Detention Defense Met With Sanction Threat

By Adrian Cruz

The U.S. attorney for the Middle District of Florida, Gregory Kehoe, along with an assistant U.S. attorney have been threatened with sanctions by a federal judge for the methods their office used in defending the mandatory detention of noncitizens.

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Gibson Dunn Mentor Program Sets Up Attys For Success

By Tracey Read

January is National Mentoring Month. Law360 heard from attorneys who are in Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP’s firmwide mentorship program about its top benefits.

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Mass. Disbars Pot Shop Lawyer Convicted In Bribery Scheme

By Julie Manganis

A Massachusetts attorney convicted of attempting to bribe a Boston-area police chief to endorse his client's pot shop license has been disbarred, according to a notice released by the state's bar this week.

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NJ Atty Calls Fla. Bar's High Fees Unconstitutional

By Carolina Bolado

A New Jersey lawyer urged the Eleventh Circuit on Wednesday to revive his suit accusing the Florida Board of Bar Examiners of violating the dormant commerce clause by charging out-of-state attorneys disproportionately high fees to sit for the Florida bar exam.

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Longtime DOJ Antitrust Litigator Joins Duane Morris

By Christine DeRosa

A veteran antitrust litigator at the U.S. Department of Justice left the federal government to join Duane Morris LLP as a partner, the firm has announced.

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Tom Goldstein Saga Could Go From Courtroom To Big Screen

By Rachel Rippetoe

As federal prosecutors are two weeks into detailing SCOTUSblog founder Thomas Goldstein's storied descent into the world of high-stakes poker during his tax fraud trial in Maryland, Hollywood producers are gearing up to tell the same story on-screen.

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Ropes & Gray Adds 3 Partners In New York

By Christine DeRosa

Ropes & Gray LLP has expanded its offerings in New York with the addition of three attorneys, one each from Debevoise, Paul Weiss and Wachtell Lipton.

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Reciprocal Discipline Unfair After 'Ambush,' Atty Tells 4th Circ.

By Hayley Fowler

A solo practitioner in North Carolina whose law license was suspended for alleged tax crimes and trust account problems told the Fourth Circuit on Wednesday not to reciprocate the punishment, arguing his due process rights were violated and the underlying facts don't support disciplining him.

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Ex-DOJ Leader Joins High-Profile Litigation Group In DC

By Jack Rodgers

The former acting chief of the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division's Appellate Section has joined Washington Litigation Group, a boutique firm that is involved in several high-profile matters, including a lawsuit challenging the president's renaming of the Kennedy Center, and successfully blocked the appointment of Alina Habba as acting U.S. attorney in New Jersey.

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Firm Revenue Up 12.6% As Billing Rates, Demand Grew In '25

By Alison Knezevich

Increased billing rates and strong demand helped drive another financially successful year for the U.S. legal industry in 2025, according to survey results released Wednesday.

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ArentFox Schiff Launches Longevity Industry Group

By Gianna Ferrarin

ArentFox Schiff LLP on Wednesday announced the launch of a group geared toward advising companies focused on advancing wellness, preventive health care and the longevity of life.

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Prosecutors Form New Group To Fight Federal Overreach

By Ryan Boysen

Several progressive prosecutors have launched a new group to hold accountable federal officials who "exceed their lawful authority," amid a growing backlash to the Trump administration's immigration crackdown and the recent killing of two protesters by immigration agents in Minneapolis.

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Nomura Unit Taps Legal Chief To Steer Crypto Trust Bank Plan

By Aislinn Keely

A crypto-focused subsidiary of financial services group Nomura has applied to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to establish a national trust bank headed by its legal chief.

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