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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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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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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Dallas Jury Finds Ex-NFL Player Ran $328M Medicare Scheme

By Spencer Brewer

A federal jury in Dallas has found that former NFL player and Texas laboratory owner Keith Gray orchestrated a $328 million fraud scheme involving billing for cardiovascular genetic testing, federal prosecutors said Thursday.

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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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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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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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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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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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EBay Execs Seek To Bar Criminal Deal From Harassment Trial

By Julie Manganis

Three former eBay executives facing trial next month in a harassment lawsuit by a Massachusetts couple who say they were targeted over their blog posts, asked a judge on Friday to bar the plaintiffs from referring to a deferred prosecution agreement eBay entered in a separate criminal case.

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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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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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How Blockchain Could Streamline Real Estate Transactions

As U.S. real estate markets face pressure to adopt digital frameworks, blockchain technology offers a credible solution for consolidating execution, payment and recording into a single record, with a unified ledger potentially replacing fragmented processes with digitally authenticated events, say attorneys at King & Spalding.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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