NYDFS Fines Delta Dental $2.25M Over MOVEit Data Breach

By Allison Grande

Delta Dental has agreed to pay $2.25 million to resolve the New York financial regulator's claims that the insurer maintained inadequate cybersecurity and breach response measures that enabled hackers to obtain access to files sent through the MOVEit transfer tool containing its customers' personal information. 

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Judge Dubious Of TikTok Bid To Trim Mass. Addiction Suit

By Julie Manganis

A Massachusetts Superior Court judge appeared skeptical Friday of efforts by TikTok to differentiate its product from Meta Platforms' Instagram, hinting that he is likely to reject the company's bid to dismiss claims in another social media addiction lawsuit brought by Massachusetts.

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Pentagon Reaches AI Deals For Classified Network Use

By Ganesh Setty

The U.S. Department of Defense announced new deals Friday with major technology companies including Nvidia, Google and SpaceX, letting their artificial intelligence systems into its own classified networks.

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Wells Fargo Customer Gets TransUnion Class Certified

By Matthew Santoni

A Wells Fargo customer whose TransUnion LLC credit report kept showing a purportedly fraudulent transaction can now represent nearly 281,000 similarly situated people in a class action against the credit reporting agency, a Pennsylvania federal judge has ruled.

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DOJ Asks 4th Circ. To Revive Children's Hospital Subpoena

By Jared Foretek

The U.S. Department of Justice is asking the Fourth Circuit to reverse a district court order quashing its subpoena of transgender minor records from Children's National Hospital in Maryland, arguing that the patients' families — who sued to block the subpoena — lacked standing to bring a HIPAA challenge.

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Analysis

What To Watch For As Meta Stares Down NM Injunction Trial

By Cara Salvatore

The attorney general who convinced a jury to penalize Meta Platforms Inc. $375 million for teen mental health harms now faces a critical follow-up bench trial to fight for a suite of court orders that Meta claims would force "a different Instagram to exist in New Mexico."

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Top Groups Lobbying The FCC

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission heard from lobbying groups almost 140 times in April on issues ranging from satellite spectrum sharing to the upcoming auction of C-band, changes to the E-Rate funding program, rules to tamp down on robocalls and more.

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Roundup

NC Statehouse Catch-Up: Data Centers, AI, School Funding

By Abigail Harrison

North Carolina lawmakers are several weeks into their 2026 "short session," and already they are taking big, multi-bill swings at data centers, public-facing energy costs and artificial intelligence. They also seek to make entertainment ticket pricing more transparent and raise the state's minimum wage for the first time in nearly two decades.

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Judge Wants DOJ Answers On Timeline Of Fulton Ballot Raid

By Chart Riggall

A Georgia federal judge has ordered the U.S. Department of Justice to disclose more details about the timeline leading up to its January raid seizing ballots from Fulton County as he continues to weigh whether to force the government to return the hundreds of boxes of election materials.

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Forbes Strikes $10M Deal In Calif. Tracker Privacy Suit

By Craig Clough

A proposed class of Forbes.com website users has asked a California federal judge to preliminarily approve a $10 million settlement to resolve claims that Forbes Media violated Golden State privacy laws by using third-party tracking technologies on its website to collect and share visitors' data without their consent.

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Crypto Co. Seeks Sanctions For Depo Conduct In $8.1M Suit

By Hayley Fowler

A cryptocurrency business that accuses a former trader of usurping $8.1 million in digital assets wants him sanctioned for his conduct during a deposition, saying he was coached by his attorney and intentionally gave ambiguous answers.

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Judge Hits Brakes On Privacy Suit Over Unpaid Parking Bill

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

A Florida federal judge has dismissed a proposed class action accusing a parking company of illegally accessing driving records when charging delinquent drivers, saying the plaintiff suffered no injury.

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Ex-Drexel Athlete Sues UMich Over Coach Hacking Scandal

By Melanie Dorsey

A former Drexel University student-athlete has filed a lawsuit in Michigan federal court accusing the University of Michigan, its regents, Drexel and others of enabling a yearslong hacking scheme by former assistant football coach Matthew Weiss that allegedly exposed thousands of athletes' private data and intimate images. 

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Va. Social Media Limit Law Should Stay Blocked, Court Told

By Nadia Dreid

There's no reason a Virginia federal judge should stay her decision blocking the commonwealth from enforcing a law that limits children's access to social media to an hour a day unless they get special permission from their parents, says the trade group challenging the law.

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Roundup

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

By Laura Stewart Liberty

The past week in London has seen a Swiss energy trader bring a Financial List claim against shipping benchmarking company Baltic Exchange, law firm Slater and Gordon sued by a former client, Slack and Salesforce hit Microsoft with an antitrust claim, and Stephen Fry bring a personal injury claim after he broke bones falling off a stage. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

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Q&A

How Paul Clement Does It All

By Katie Buehler

For most lawyers, getting to argue before the U.S. Supreme Court is a once-in-a-lifetime event, but for a select few, it's a common occurrence. Clement & Murphy PLLC name partner Paul Clement is one of those lawyers. 

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Don't 'Throw' Young Attys Under Bus, Judge Warns Musk Atty

By Dorothy Atkins

The California federal judge presiding over Elon Musk's challenge to OpenAI's for-profit conversion criticized Musk's attorney Marc Toberoff on Friday for eliciting "waste of time" trial testimony into Musk's $97.4 billion acquisition bid, warning Toberoff he "shouldn't throw young lawyers under the bus" by not quickly acknowledging his role.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a California federal jury cleared Armistice Capital and two of its executives of class action claims that it pumped and dumped $250 million in Vaxart stock during the COVID-19 pandemic and violated federal securities law with insider trading.

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Whistleblower Says DOJ Rushed SPLC Indictment

By Courtney Bublé

A whistleblower has come forward to say a top U.S. Department of Justice official ordered prosecutors in Alabama to "rush" the indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center despite concerns about the viability of the case, according to Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee.

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California High Court Rejects Dunn's Bid To Nix Suspension

By Adrian Cruz

The California Supreme Court has declined to review a California State Bar decision to impose a one-year stayed suspension on former State Bar executive Joseph Dunn.

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FTC, DOJ Say ABA Reliance Limits Law School Competition

By Matthew Perlman

The Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division told the Tennessee Supreme Court the American Bar Association's monopoly over law school accreditations is driving up the cost of legal education.

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Analysis

SEC's Corp. Governance Shift Puts Onus On States, Cos.

By Sarah Jarvis

Lawyers who work with clients on corporate governance matters had a warm response to a recent pledge from U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Paul Atkins to let states handle such issues, saying the shift marks a return to the agency's historical approach and may spur increased activity among state regulators.

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Ex-Bondi Adviser Tapped As Fraud Task Force's Chief Lawyer

By Phillip Bantz

Ousted U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi's former adviser is taking on a new role as general counsel for the White House's fraud task force.

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Roundup

GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

A pair of proxy advisory firms have sued two state attorneys general over laws they say impose burdensome requirements for issuing recommendations that go against corporate managers' wishes. Meanwhile, KPMG reports that legal is evolving into a key driver of business performance, and AI is a core component of the department. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.

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Roundup

The Top In-House Hires Of April

By Michele Gorman

Legal department hires during the past month included high-profile appointments at Intel, Colgate and Tripadvisor. Here, Law360 Pulse looks at some of the top in-house announcements from April.

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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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