Meta, Google Begin Defense As Mental Harm Plaintiff Rests

By Craig Clough

Attorneys for the plaintiff in a landmark bellwether California trial in a suit accusing Instagram and YouTube of harming children's mental health rested their case Friday, opting not to call the plaintiff's mother to testify live despite the defense portraying her as the potential cause of the plaintiff's mental health struggles.

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Meta Witness Says Spotty Audits Show Commitment To Safety

By Cara Salvatore

A trust and safety expert witness for Meta defended the company Friday over shortcomings laid out in internal audits, telling a jury that the audits' existence refutes the New Mexico attorney general's claims that Meta did not take user safety seriously.

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Disney To Pay $50M To End YouTube, DirecTV Stream Claims

By Lauren Berg

The Walt Disney Co. will pay $50 million in its settlement with YouTube TV and DirecTV Stream users in antitrust litigation alleging Disney drove up the cost of streaming live pay television by forcing its pricey ESPN sports channel on streaming platforms, the plaintiffs have told a California federal judge.

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Express Scripts Ducks RICO Suit Over Acthar Price Hike

By Matthew Santoni

Express Scripts Inc. and its affiliates may have worked with drugmaker Mallinckrodt to hike the price of seizure medication Acthar from $40 to $40,000, but a proposed class action by third-party payors failed to allege the high prices were a result of fraud, a Pennsylvania federal judge ruled.

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Analysis

Experts See Immunity Defense Reset After NJ Transit Ruling

By Carla Baranauckas

The U.S. Supreme Court's unanimous ruling Wednesday that New Jersey Transit isn't an arm of the state clarified a key limit on sovereign immunity, with experts telling Law360 that the court's emphasis on corporate form and formal liability could change how states structure and defend their state-created, quasi‑governmental entities.

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Kalshi Sued Over 'Death Carveout' For Khamenei Trades

By Katryna Perera

Prediction market Kalshi defrauded traders who bet that Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei would leave office before March 1, 2026, by invoking an improperly disclosed "death carveout" and refusing to pay full winnings to traders when Khamenei was killed in recent U.S. and Israeli military strikes, according to a suit in California federal court.

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Amazon Beats Claim It Ships Slowly To Some ZIPs, For Now

By Rachel Riley

A Washington federal judge has for now thrown out a proposed class action accusing Amazon of lagging shipping speeds in certain ZIP codes, saying Friday the plaintiff online shoppers haven't shown the e-commerce company promised routine two-day delivery to its Prime members.

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Google's $135M Deal To End Data Use Suit Gets Initial Nod

By Dorothy Atkins

A California federal magistrate judge preliminarily approved Google's $135 million settlement to resolve a proposed class action alleging Google surreptitiously consumed Android users' mobile data, finding the deal is fair despite Google agreeing to pay nearly three times more to settle similar claims by a smaller Golden State-consumer class.

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Senate Dems Float Bill To Break Up 'Meatpacking Monopoly'

By Matthew Perlman

Senate Democrats have introduced a bill to break up the country's largest meatpacking conglomerates over concerns that concentration in the beef, pork and chicken sectors has contributed to higher food prices and worse deals for farmers.

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Wash. Antispam Penalties Near Cut From $500 Down To $100

By Ben Adlin

Washington lawmakers passed a bill Friday that would cut damages available to plaintiffs under the state's antispam law from $500 per offending message to just $100, significantly reducing Commercial Electronic Mail Act penalties for companies that send offending emails or text messages.

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Oregon Passes Bill To Limit Out-Of-State Bank Interest Rates

By Jon Hill

Oregon lawmakers have approved legislation opting it out of a federal law that lets state-chartered banks export their home-state interest rates nationwide, advancing a measure similar to one in Colorado that is tied up in Tenth Circuit litigation. 

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DOJ Faces 'Serious Questions' In $68M Colony Ridge Deal

By José Luis Martínez

A Texas federal judge told an attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice on Friday that he has "serious questions regarding the nature" of a proposed $68 million settlement the agency and the state of Texas reached with Colony Ridge Development.

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Treasury Scores Early Win In DOGE Data Sharing Suit

By Katherine Smith

Two labor unions and a retirees group that claimed Department of Government Efficiency personnel were allowed to access Treasury Department computer systems can't proceed with their lawsuit, a D.C. federal judge ruled, finding they failed to establish that the agency's decisions can be considered a final agency action.

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Comerica Didn't Steal Fed Benefits Interest, Judge Finds

By Emilie Ruscoe

A Michigan federal judge has dismissed a proposed class action accusing Comerica Bank and the federal government of improperly withholding interest on prepaid debit card accounts used to distribute Social Security and other benefits, ruling recipients have no property right to those earnings.

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Bank Beats Sanctions Bid In Jail Debit Card Fees Suit

By Sydney Price

Central Bank of Kansas City has been ordered to produce more documents related to a prepaid debit card program for formerly incarcerated people in an excessive fee class action, but will not face monetary sanctions for its failure to comply fully with a previous court order.

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Duke Energy Settles Monopoly Suit On Eve Of Jury Trial

By Hayley Fowler

Duke Energy has settled a Florida-based power provider's monopoly suit on the eve of a jury trial in North Carolina, just two months after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to review a Fourth Circuit ruling that revived the antitrust claims, according to a notice filed Friday.

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Atty Should've Checked Docket, Says Philips CPAP Judge

By Jonathan Capriel

An attorney and his client have no one but themselves to blame for the permanent end to a product liability lawsuit over a recalled Philips sleep breathing machine, a Pennsylvania federal judge said on Friday, saying it was on them to monitor the docket.

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Lost Mail Helps State Street Exit Judgment In Crypto Case

By Sydney Price

A North Carolina federal judge undid a default judgment ruling against investment management firm State Street Global Advisors, finding the investor who sued claiming he lost $650,000 trying to transfer cryptocurrency to a digital wallet named the wrong defendant, and a summons to the firm was lost.

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Pa. High Court Snapshot: AG Powers, Gun Parts, CEO Bonus

By Matthew Santoni

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court this month will revisit a ruling on the state attorney general's power over civil suits brought by county-level district attorneys in a case stemming from the Philadelphia and Pittsburgh district attorneys' objections to a $26 billion opioid settlement.

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Constantine Cannon Defends Handling Of Sutter $75M Fee

By Dorothy Atkins

Constantine Cannon LLP pushed back against Schneider Wallace Cottrell Kim LLP's allegations it unfairly reduced Schneider Wallace's share of a $75.4 million fee award in Sutter Health's $228.5 million antitrust deal, arguing in California federal court that the firm "sat on the sidelines" for most of the decadelong fight and isn't entitled to a bigger cut.

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TriZetto, Cognizant Hit With Class Claims Over Data Breach

By George Woolston

A Cognizant Technology Solutions-owned healthcare tech company was hit with a proposed class action in New Jersey federal court on Friday over its alleged failure to protect the sensitive personal and health information of thousands.

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NJ Talc Suit Will Proceed Amid Beasley Allen DQ Appeal

By Emily Sawicki

The New Jersey Supreme Court has declined to stay multicounty litigation over Johnson & Johnson's talc-based baby powder brought by hundreds of women who allege their ovarian cancer was linked to the product, while Beasley Allen appeals its removal as plaintiff's counsel over a firm partner's collaboration with the pharmaceutical giant's former outside counsel.

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Complaint Portal Updates Prove That The CFPB Is Listening

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's recent updates to its online complaint portal not only clarify complaint pathways and strengthen identity verification, but also signal that the bureau is more willing to consider industry perspectives on its activities and change course where warranted, say attorneys at Manatt.

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Character.AI Case Highlights Agentic AI Liability Questions

The recently settled litigation against Character Technologies Inc. provides an early case study for exploring salient legal issues related to agentic artificial intelligence, such as tort liability, strict liability, statutory liability and contractual liability, says Samuel Mitchells at Smith Gambrell.

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DOJ Forges Ahead With Law Firm EO Appeals At DC Circ.

By Lauren Berg

The U.S. Department of Justice on Friday moved ahead with filing appeals at the D.C. Circuit to defend executive orders issued by President Donald Trump targeting four law firms, just three days after the agency backtracked on its decision to drop the fight.

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Legal Jobs Up 19th Straight Month In 'Goldilocks' Economy

By Tracey Read

The legal sector continued its lengthy upward streak in February, with 2,600 more people employed in lawyer, paralegal and other law-related professional roles last month than in January, according to seasonally adjusted data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Ex-Girardi Keese Atty Pleads Guilty For Role In Client Scandal

By Dorothy Atkins

Former Girardi Keese attorney Keith Griffin pled guilty to criminal contempt in Illinois federal court on Thursday for his role in the firm's failure to pay millions ​in client settlement funds to relatives of victims killed in the crash of Lion Air Flight 610.

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Louisiana Atty Sanctioned Over AI Hallucinations In Filing

By Matt Perez

A Louisiana attorney was fined $1,000 Thursday for his use of artificial intelligence in drafting an error-riddled brief, while three co-counsel were spared penalty.

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Investors Accuse Alston & Bird Of Aiding $328M Crypto Fraud

By David Minsky

Several investors have brought a Florida federal proposed class action alleging legal malpractice against Alston & Bird LLP, accusing the law firm of drafting joint venture agreements that were used to aid a $328 million cryptocurrency scam. 

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Florida Bar Rescinds Claim Agency Is Investigating Halligan

By Jack Karp

The Florida Bar said Friday that it is not investigating controversial former interim U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Lindsey Halligan, walking back a previous assertion it had made in a letter to a nonprofit that it was probing Halligan's actions.

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Courts Aren't Ignoring Justices' TPS Orders, Ex-Judges Say

By Ganesh Setty

Over 175 former federal and state judges have slammed the Trump administration's claim that lower courts "flouted" interim orders from the U.S. Supreme Court in litigation involving the administration's revocation of foreign nationals' temporary protected status, saying they weren't binding.

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Dems Again Push For Independent Immigration Courts

By Courtney Bublé

Democrats have again introduced a bill that would shift the immigration courts from the executive branch to an independent judiciary, following concerns that the Trump administration has "weaponized" the system.

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Roundup

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

By Laura Stewart Liberty

This past week in London has seen British American Tobacco sued by more than 100 investors, the government bring a claim against a COVID-19 supplier of personal protective equipment, Annington Funding sue its new corporate trustees on the Financial List, and Piers Morgan hit with a defamation claim from a pro-Israel barrister he interviewed on his YouTube channel. 

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

Anthropic, the developer of Claude AI, says it will take the Pentagon to court over being designated a national security risk because it wants to impose ethical guardrails on Claude's use. And the Mideast war is making in-house legal teams across the country work long hours to protect employees trapped by the violence and to keep businesses running despite broken supply chains. These are some of 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

Winston & Strawn LLP, Sullivan Papain Block McManus Coffinas & Cannavo PC, Stanford's Supreme Court Litigation Clinic and attorney Olivia Gabriel lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that New Jersey cannot shield its public transit system from personal injury lawsuits by out-of-state plaintiffs under sovereign immunity.

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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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