Analysis

FCRA, TCPA Drive Consumer Protection Suits To 10-Year High

By Allison Grande

Consumer protection litigation in federal courts hit a 10-year high in 2025, fueled by a rise in credit reporting and telemarketing disputes, and these gains show no signs of abating as the emergence of artificial intelligence tools sparks more grievances, according to a new report by Lex Machina.

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9th Circ. Doubts Kids Agreed To Arb. Roblox Gambling Claims

By Dorothy Atkins

A Ninth Circuit panel doubted Monday a website owner's arguments he is entitled to a trial over whether a putative class of minors agreed to arbitrate their claims Roblox and others operated an illegal gambling business, with one judge asking if the appellant wants 9-year-olds to attest to whether they entered a contract.

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23andMe Successor Co. Inks $6M Data Breach Deal With Calif.

By Rae Ann Varona

California and 23andMe's corporate successor have reached a $6 million settlement that, if approved, would resolve the state's allegations that the genetic testing company failed to protect customers' sensitive information in a 2023 data breach, as well as the state's objection to 23andMe's sale of genetic data during bankruptcy proceedings.

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Proskauer Says It Didn't Drop Reddit To Defend Perplexity

By Lauren Berg

Proskauer Rose LLP and Perplexity AI are urging a New York federal judge to allow the law firm to represent the artificial intelligence company in Reddit's suit over alleged data scraping, balking at the social media platform's argument that its one-time law firm can't represent its current opponent.

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NSO Avoids Contempt As WhatsApp Says It's Still Hacking

By Nadia Dreid

An Israeli spyware company isn't going to be held in contempt on allegations it violated a court order restricting its use of WhatsApp because the order wasn't so specific that it banned the company from using accounts it already had, only restricted it from making new ones, a judge has ruled.

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Intel Seeks FCC Waiver For Vehicles Used In Chip Plants

By Christopher Cole

Intel Corp. has asked the Federal Communications Commission to exempt certain automated vehicles used in its chip-making process from an FCC restriction on foreign-made robotic devices.

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Ex-OpenAI Engineer Must Stay In Custody In Recording Case

By Hailey Konnath

The former OpenAI product team engineer accused of hiding a secret recording device in an executive conference room has been ordered to stay behind bars after prosecutors argued he has "considerable resources and ties to Saudi Arabia," according to news reports and the government's motion for detention.

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Justices Urged To Hear Case Targeting FINRA Enforcement

By Jessica Corso

The U.S. Supreme Court has been asked to hear a case challenging the ability of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority to impose fines through an in-house disciplinary procedure with a broker who was penalized by the regulator, telling the justices that it was "futile" to first bring his constitutional arguments before the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

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Apple Wants Fake Crypto Wallet Apps Suit Tossed

By Katryna Perera

Apple has urged a California federal judge to toss a suit alleging it failed to warn consumers about fraudulent cryptocurrency wallet apps available on its App Store and the risk of cryptocurrency theft posed by those apps, saying the suit is deficient since it seeks to hold the tech giant liable for the conduct of third-party criminal scammers.

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Hanes Loses Latest Bid To Escape Suit Over Marketing Emails

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

A Washington federal judge has denied Hanes' latest attempt to duck a proposed class action accusing it of sending misleading marketing emails, reasoning that new state rulings it cited don't control the case.

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OCC Plan May Bring Data Sharing Flexibility, Diligence Issues

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency's recent proposal to overhaul its supervisory information sharing regime for the first time in decades would provide important flexibility to banks, but it could create new issues around confidentiality agreements, disclosure controls and diligence processes, say attorneys at Simpson Thacher.

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DOJ Or Trump: Judge Asks Who Is Deciding Golf Course Plan

By Jared Foretek

Trump administration lawyers continued to insist at a hearing Monday there is no final plan to remake East Potomac Golf Course, and they changed their tune about whether one would require environmental review, despite new social media posts from the president announcing that work on the overhaul would begin "immediately."

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Wood Smith, Charlesbank Capital Ink Pioneering MSO Deal

By Emma Cueto

Insurance defense firm Wood Smith Henning & Berman has inked a deal to take investment from middle market investment firm Charlesbank Capital Partners via a managed services organization, according to an announcement Monday, the largest U.S. firm to announce such a move.

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Brief

Arizona Court Approves State's First Non-ABA Law School

By Emma Cueto

The Arizona Supreme Court has approved the state's first law school not accredited by the American Bar Association, citing the need to increase the number of lawyers per capita in the state and provide more affordable options for legal education.

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Court Denies Gov't Bid To DQ Susman Godfrey In ABA's Suit

By Andrea Keckley

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has denied the U.S. Department of Justice's bid to disqualify Susman Godfrey LLP from representing the American Bar Association in its lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's executive orders against multiple major law firms. 

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Trump Taps DOJ Official, Federal Prosecutor For Judgeships

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump on Monday nominated a senior U.S. Department of Justice attorney for a Nebraska federal judgeship and an assistant U.S. attorney for a seat on the Northern District of Indiana bench.

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Rogoff Tells 9th Circ. Firing Furthers 'Evil' Framers Opposed

By Ben Adlin

Roger Rogoff urged the Ninth Circuit to affirm a lower judge's order reinstating him as Seattle's top federal prosecutor, asserting in a filing Friday that he's entitled to keep the court-appointed U.S. attorney position until President Donald Trump fills the role with a Senate-confirmed nominee.

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What The Justices Won't Hear: A Roundup Of Cert Denials

By Taylor Bowie

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up cases from Google, a U.S. Navy contractor, and other appellate hopefuls on Monday, according to an order list.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court last week blocked Cloudflare Inc. from completing a restructuring meant to preserve its founders' voting control, while Tower Semiconductor Ltd. accused Intel Corp. of backing out of a semiconductor manufacturing agreement and social media company Triller Group Inc. challenged its removal from Nasdaq.

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