Roblox To Pay $12.5M, Boost Child Safety In Deal With Nev.

By Allison Grande

Roblox has agreed to implement enhanced safeguards for children who use the popular interactive gaming platform and pay $12.5 million to fund an online safety awareness campaign and other initiatives as part of what Nevada's attorney general on Wednesday called a first-of-its-kind agreement to resolve claims that the company failed to adequately protect its youngest users. 

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'A Bunch Of Games': MDL Judge Irked By Meta, AGs Sparring

By Dorothy Atkins

A California federal judge appeared skeptical Wednesday of Meta Platforms Inc.'s request for a summary judgment win over claims by state attorneys general in multidistrict social media addiction litigation, saying repeatedly that many disputes should be resolved at trial and panning some arguments by both sides as "a bunch of games."

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Jury Finds Live Nation Monopolized Concert Ticketing

By Stewart Bishop

Live Nation and its Ticketmaster subsidiary harmed competition in the live entertainment sector by willfully monopolizing ticketing services to major concert venues and unlawfully tying artists' use of large amphitheaters to Live Nation's promotional services, a Manhattan federal jury found on Wednesday.

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Judge Ices Calif. Climate Suit As Justices Mull Boulder Case

By Tom Lotshaw

A California state court judge has put on hold coordinated climate litigation that state and local governments have filed against oil and gas companies while the U.S. Supreme Court considers a similar case brought by the city and county of Boulder, Colorado.

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Consumer Cases Drive Class Action Spike, Report Says

By Y. Peter Kang

Federal class action filings spiked in 2025 after nearly a decade of relative stability, fueled by a surge in consumer protection lawsuits tied to data breaches, digital commerce and online accessibility claims, according to a new report from Lex Machina.

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Food Apps' NYC Data Win Seems 'Weird' To 2nd Circ. Judges

By Jeff Overley

Does the First Amendment allow Uber Eats to keep your Chick-fil-A order a secret? At the Second Circuit on Wednesday, the fate of a New York City law aimed at reducing restaurant reliance on food delivery apps appeared to hinge heavily on that curious question.

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NC Passenger Tells Jury Of 'Disgusting' Uber Driver Assault

By Hayley Fowler

A North Carolina woman recounted for a federal jury on Wednesday how an Uber driver sexually assaulted her in 2019, rebuffing the ride-hailing giant's suggestion that the incident never occurred and describing how she felt "grossed out," "horrified" and "terrified."

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Amazon Can't Nix MIT Economist Input On Antitrust Case

By Rachel Riley

A Seattle federal judge has shot down Amazon's bid to rule out a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor's opinions backing proposed class antitrust claims, finding the expert used a "peer reviewed economic model based on real-world transactional data" to conclude that Amazon's "anti-discounting policies" heightened prices in other online marketplaces.

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Amneal Trims But Can't Nix AGs' Drug Price-Fixing Suit

By Lauren Berg

There is enough evidence from which a jury could conclude that Amneal Pharmaceuticals participated in a conspiracy to fix the price of an epilepsy medication, but not enough to show it participated in the overarching antitrust conspiracy alleged by dozens of state attorneys general, a Connecticut federal judge ruled Wednesday.

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Arbitration Assoc. Says Monopoly Suit Poses 'Massive Risks'

By Rae Ann Varona

The American Arbitration Association has urged an Arizona federal court to reconsider a ruling that allowed a monopoly suit against the association to proceed, saying that sustaining antitrust claims against the arbitration provider based on template arbitration clauses on its website poses "massive risks" for millions of customer arbitration contracts.

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Analysis

Trump Plan To Remake DC Golf Course Is In Rough Legal Shape

By Chris Villani

President Donald Trump's plans to renovate a public Washington, D.C., golf course and turn it into a championship venue faces strong legal headwinds as experts say the administration skipped several regulatory steps when it started work on the project.

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Chair Says FTC Shouldn't Be 'All-Purpose AI Regulator'

By Bryan Koenig

Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson told lawmakers Wednesday that the agency is committed to using its existing authorities to protect Americans from deceptive artificial intelligence claims and AI-facilitated fraud, while arguing the FTC shouldn't serve as an overarching regulator for the technology.

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Cable Group Says Any 'Click To Cancel' Rule Would Be 'Chaos'

By Nadia Dreid

A cable industry trade group has told the Federal Trade Commission it wants no part of any proposed "click to cancel" regulations, saying more rules governing negative option marketing practices "would not protect consumers, only generate regulatory chaos."

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Hold Dish To Buildout Plans, Mich. Local Gov'ts Urge FCC

By Christopher Cole

A coalition of local government leaders in Michigan has asked the Federal Communications Commission to insist that Dish fulfill its wireless buildout obligations before its parent company EchoStar completes spectrum sales to AT&T and SpaceX.

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SEC Secures $7.1M Award In Forex Ponzi Scheme Suit

By José Luis Martínez

A Texas federal court entered a $7,101,992 final judgment in favor of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission more than three years after it accused a Houston man of defrauding roughly 175 investors who thought their funds would be traded in foreign exchange markets for a profit.

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Zillow, Redfin Can't Use 4th Circ. Ruling In Antitrust Suit

By Isaac Monterose

The Federal Trade Commission and multiple states on Wednesday filed a proposed response pushing back on Zillow and Redfin Corp.'s bid to cite a published Fourth Circuit decision they say supports their attempt to dismiss the antitrust suit brought by the agency and states.

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Ad Agencies Settle FTC's 'Brand Safety' Boycott Claims

By Matthew Perlman

The Federal Trade Commission reached a deal on Wednesday with WPP, Publicis and Dentsu over concerns that "brand safety" standards allowed them to collude to steer ad money away from disfavored platforms.

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$7M Grubhub TM Deal Receives Ill. Judge's Final OK

By Lauraann Wood

An Illinois federal judge gave her final blessing Wednesday to a $7.1 million settlement between Grubhub and more than 7,000 restaurants that say the food delivery service used their trademarks without permission to gain a competitive edge over DoorDash and Uber Eats.

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737 Max Families Ask Full 5th Circ. To Weigh DOJ-Boeing Deal

By Linda Chiem

Families of 737 Max 8 crash victims have asked the full Fifth Circuit to review a panel's recent decision accepting the U.S. Department of Justice's refusal to criminally prosecute Boeing for allegedly conspiring to defraud safety regulators, saying it allows corporate defendants to game the courts through a "mootness" loophole.

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2nd Agri Stats Settlement OK'd In Turkey Price-Fixing Suit

By Lauraann Wood

A federal judge overseeing turkey price-fixing litigation in Illinois gave the initial green light Wednesday to a settlement Agri Stats Inc. struck to end purchasers' accusations that the company's informational reports helped facilitate the allegedly anticompetitive conspiracy, marking the deal's second approval in as many days.

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Don't Squeeze 'Mega' Charmin Cause It's A Trick, Suit Says

By Craig Clough

Charmin toilet paper rose to prominence off its classic "don't squeeze the Charmin" campaign, but a proposed class action filed in California state court Wednesday suggests a reason not to squeeze its "mega" sized product is because it is fooling customers through a comparison to a "phantom" product that doesn't exist.

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Parking Lot Signs Bind Drivers To Arbitration, Judge Says

By MJ Koo

A proposed class action claiming a parking company unlawfully overcharged drivers must go to arbitration, a Colorado federal judge has ruled, finding that lot signs bearing the arbitration clause were sufficient notice, whether or not drivers saw them.

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7th Circ. Questions Resort Co.'s 'Radio Silence' On Arbitration

By Celeste Bott

A Seventh Circuit judge on Wednesday pressed an attorney for a resort company that is arguing a lower court incorrectly found it waived its right to arbitrate Telephone Consumer Protection Act claims against more than 1,000 class members to address why it didn't raise the subject of arbitration earlier as it litigated the case over seven years.

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Hims & Hers Providers Can't Duck Suit Over Student's Suicide

By Ben Adlin

Medical providers for telehealth company Hims & Hers can't escape a wrongful death lawsuit from the family of a Washington State University freshman who died by suicide in 2023, according to a Washington state judge's order denying summary judgment motions from five individual defendants.

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Honda Inks Deal To End Defective Fuel Pump Class Suit

By Mike Curley

A proposed class of vehicle owners is asking an Alabama federal court for preliminary approval of a settlement to end a six-year suit alleging American Honda Motor Co. Inc. sold vehicles with defective fuel pumps made by Denso International America Inc.

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Circle Failed To Freeze $280M Lost In April 1 Hack, Suit Says

By Aislinn Keely

Circle is facing a proposed class action from a Missouri crypto user who accused the stablecoin issuer of failing to intervene and freeze assets as unknown hackers drained an estimated $280 million in digital assets from crypto project Drift Protocol in an April Fools' Day exploit.

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Amazon Alexa Users Seek To Revive Class Deception Claims

By Rachel Riley

A group of Amazon Alexa users has urged a Washington federal judge to reinstate their class consumer protection claims based on allegations the devices secretly recorded their personal conversations, contending the court ignored competing evidence when determining Amazon clearly disclosed the possibility of accidental activations.

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Computer Co. Hid Defective Hinges In Its Laptops, Suit Says

By Gina Kim

A California-based company manufactures laptops containing defective hinges that "prematurely and unexpectedly crack and fail" at their plastic mounting points only after just months of use, rendering them practically inoperable, according to a customer's proposed class action lodged in California federal court.

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Mortgage Co. Says Vets' Fraud Scheme Claims Distort Truth

By Sydney Price

Veterans United Home Loans told a Missouri federal judge that a proposed class action alleging the company directs veterans toward expensive mortgages fails to show the homebuyers were prevented from considering other lending options and uses altered images to exaggerate claims the company's website is misleading.

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Landlord Wants Out Of Fraud Claim In NJ AG's RealPage Suit

By Grace Dixon

A New Jersey landlord is urging a federal court to revisit part of a March decision and dismiss claims against it under a state consumer fraud statute amid the New Jersey attorney general's antitrust suit against RealPage Inc. and 10 of the state's largest landlords.

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Brigit To Take Fight Over 'Instant' Wage Advances To 2nd Circ.

By Katryna Perera

Short-term cash advance company Brigit has said it will appeal a New York federal judge's refusal to dismiss a proposed class action alleging it overcharged military borrowers with its "Instant Cash" earned-wage advances, which the judge ruled qualified as consumer loans under federal law.

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Electric Co-Op Denies Delaying Minn. Broadband Projects

By Christopher Cole

A regional electric cooperative has denied assertions that it has hindered pole improvements necessary for a broadband provider to fulfill its deployment obligations in Minnesota under the Federal Communications Commission's Rural Digital Opportunity Fund.

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NY Appeals Panel Doubts NYC's Climate Suit Can Be Revived

By Frank G. Runyeon

New York state appeals judges voiced skepticism Wednesday of New York City's bid to revive its lawsuit against major energy companies for "greenwashing" their gasoline products, highlighting the lack of alleged false claims and questioning whether they were even misleading.

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Brief

Poppi Soda Buyers Get Final OK For $8.9M False Ad Deal

By Jonathan Capriel

A California federal judge granted final approval to an $8.9 million settlement that resolves false advertising claims alleging the company behind the Poppi soda brand misleadingly touted its products as "prebiotics for a healthy gut."

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Brief

EU Announces Duties Against Imported Filament, Softwood

By Dylan Moroses

The European Commission announced antidumping duties Wednesday for imported glass fiber filament from Egypt, Bahrain and Thailand, as well as duties for imported softwood lumber from Brazil.

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Brief

Chinese Truck Bed Covers Likely Harm US Cos., ITC Says

By Kevin Pinner

Truck bed covers imported from China are likely harming domestic producers, the U.S. International Trade Commission said Wednesday in a preliminary determination, giving credence to a U.S. producer's allegations that the products were sold at less than fair value and received government subsidies.

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The 2026 Lawyer Satisfaction Survey: Where Do You Stand?

How is your work-life balance? Are you content with your compensation and opportunities for advancement at work? Take the 2026 Law360 Lawyer Satisfaction Survey and share your thoughts.

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'Made In America' EO May Not Survive Section 230

President Donald Trump's recent executive order to combat fraudulent "Made in America" claims in advertising directs the Federal Trade Commission to deem online marketplaces' failure to verify third-party origin claims as unlawful, but such a rule would likely run into Section 230's publisher immunity doctrine, say attorneys at Blank Rome.

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How CFPB Opinion Changes Earned Wage Access Definition

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's recent conclusion that earned wage access is not "credit" for purposes of Regulation Z of the Truth in Lending Act improves on prior guidance on these products in several meaningful ways, say attorneys at K&L Gates.

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Fraud Enforcement, Sentencing Face Unusual Convergence

The Trump administration’s newly created task force to eliminate fraud and the U.S. Sentencing Commission’s recent proposals to scale back certain elements of the federal sentencing framework seem to point in opposite directions, creating a collision of policy priorities that may reshape how fraud cases are charged, negotiated and sentenced for years to come, says David Tarras at Tarras Defense.

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Class Actions At The Circuit Courts: April Lessons

In this month's review of class action appeals, Mitchell Engel at Shook Hardy identifies practice tips from three recent rulings involving allegations of racial discrimination in mortgage applications, health insurance networks and actual cash value losses.

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Microplastics On Water Contaminant List Could Spur Claims

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's proposal to include microplastics in its draft sixth Contaminant Candidate List under the Safe Drinking Water Act could influence consumer fraud claims and enforcement by state attorneys general, as well as claims against manufacturers from entities facing regulatory compliance costs, says Arie Feltman-Frank at Jenner & Block.

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Opinion

CBP's $166B Tariff Refund Portal Needs 4 Safeguards

Before launching its automated web portal to process tariff-refund disbursements on April 20, U.S. Customs and Border Protection should apply the expensive lessons learned from the pandemic-era employee retention credit, says Peter Gariepy at RubinBrown.

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What To Know About NY's Employment Credit Check Ban

An amendment to the New York state Fair Credit Reporting Act prohibiting applicants' or employees' consumer credit history from being used in employment-related decisions statewide will take effect in a few days, so employers should update policies, train teams and audit positions for narrow exemptions, say attorneys at Reed Smith.

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5 Key Questions Attys Should Ask About Statistical Analyses

Even attorneys without a background in statistics can effectively vet the general concepts of a statistical analysis by asking targeted questions and can thereby reinforce the credibility and relevance of expert testimony — or expose its weaknesses, say Katrina Schydlower and Christopher Cunio at Hunton and Kevin Cahill at FTI Consulting.

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Sotomayor Apologizes For 'Hurtful' Comments About Kavanaugh

By Katie Buehler

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor publicly apologized Wednesday for comments she made at a University of Kansas appearance earlier this month criticizing Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

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Justice Jackson Slams Court's 'Oblivious' Emergency Orders

By Lauren Berg

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson this week slammed her conservative colleagues' use of the court's emergency docket, which has repeatedly benefited the Trump administration, saying that such "scratch-paper" orders don't acknowledge the harms that can follow such decisions, making the orders "seem oblivious and thus ring hollow."

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Hogan, Cadwalader Partners Vote To Forge Ahead With Merger

By Marialuisa Taddia

Hogan Lovells and Cadwalader said Wednesday that their partners have voted in favor of their merger ahead of the scheduled launch of the combined law firm on July 1.

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Winston & Strawn Must Face $1.7B GloriFi Malpractice Suit

By Vince Sullivan

A Chapter 7 malpractice suit brought by the trustee of fintech company GloriFi asserting $1.7 billion in damages from a failed initial public offering mostly survived a motion to dismiss late Tuesday, with a Texas bankruptcy judge saying the trustee sufficiently pled breach claims against law firm Winston & Strawn.

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Trump's 8th Circ. Pick Pressed On Leonard Leo Ties

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump's nominee for the Eighth Circuit, who represented Trump in the two cases brought by writer E. Jean Carroll, came under scrutiny Wednesday for his affiliation with groups linked to longtime Federalist Society executive and Republican fundraiser Leonard Leo.

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Jones Day DQ'd From Vanderbilt Case Over Pre-Ch. 11 Work

By Vince Sullivan

A New York bankruptcy judge disqualified law firm Jones Day from representing talc producer Vanderbilt Minerals in its Chapter 11 case Wednesday, saying the firm's prior work for the larger Vanderbilt corporate family raises questions about its disinterestedness.

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John Eastman Disbarred Over Bid To Overturn 2020 Election

By Rae Ann Varona

California's highest court on Wednesday ordered the disbarment of California attorney John Charles Eastman, who a state bar court found had helped plan and promote President Donald Trump's strategy to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

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ICE Arrest Memo Switch Looks 'Specious,' Judge Says

By Pete Brush

A Manhattan federal judge on Wednesday revived an effort by civil rights groups to block immigration courthouse arrests, citing what he called an apparently deceptive Trump administration move to disclaim its earlier litigation position.

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Historical Groups Fight To Save White House Records

By Jared Foretek

Historians are asking a D.C. federal judge for an injunction that would force the Trump White House to preserve official records after administration attorneys declared the Presidential Records Act unconstitutional.

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Trump Defends DOJ Investigation Of 'Incompetent' Fed Chair

By Jon Hill

President Donald Trump expressed support Wednesday for the U.S. Department of Justice continuing to investigate Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell over the Fed's headquarters renovation, saying the government must "find out what happened" with the project's $2.5 billion price tag.

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DOJ Atty Slapped With $250 Sanction For Missed Deadlines

By Tom Lotshaw

A California federal judge hit a U.S. Department of Justice attorney with a $250 sanction for repeatedly missing deadlines in a noncitizen's habeas corpus case, rejecting his assertions that his need to juggle tasks under a 300-plus caseload should excuse him.

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Former Judge To Head New NJ Attorney Readmission Board

By Jake Maher

The New Jersey Supreme Court announced this week the lineup of a new committee that will consider disbarred attorneys' applications for readmission, with a former state court judge of over 20 years at the head of the board.

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