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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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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Palisades Fire Suspect Can't Toss Warrants, ChatGPT Images

By Craig Clough

A California federal judge Wednesday held that the Palisades Fire arson suspect cannot suppress all evidence discovered via search warrants — including ChatGPT images on his phone depicting a city on fire — finding the government didn't rely only on his mere presence near the crime scene to obtain the warrants.

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Pa. Health System Sheds Privacy Claim In Meta Pixel Action

By Gianna Ferrarin

A Pennsylvania regional health system escaped allegations that it intruded on the privacy of visitors to its website by using Meta's Pixel but must face a negligence claim, a Pennsylvania federal judge ruled in trimming a proposed class action.

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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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POLICY & REGULATION

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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Brief

FCC Names New Carveouts From Router And Drone Bans

By Nadia Dreid

The Federal Communications Commission is admitting that it once again may have been too hasty in putting all foreign-made routers and drones on the so-called covered list of technology deemed to be a risk to national security, and it will be carving out some exceptions.

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LITIGATION

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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NC Judge Won't Undo $4M Philips Copyright Verdict

By Elliot Weld

A North Carolina federal judge has refused to erase a $4 million jury verdict against independent service organization Transtate Equipment Co. for violations of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, saying trial evidence provided a "firm basis" to support the jury's statutory damages award.

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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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Ex-Defense Contractor Execs Call Arbitration Pact 'One-Sided'

By Rachel Konieczny

Two former executives for a defense contractor asked a Colorado federal judge Wednesday for an early win in their lawsuit alleging the contractor fired them for reporting a $1.9 million fraud scheme on a classified government contract.

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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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Women's Health Co. Accused Of Unauthorized Data Sharing

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

A private women's healthcare system is facing a proposed class action in Pennsylvania federal court that alleges it allowed third parties to use sensitive patient information without consent or notice.

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SURVEYS

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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LEGAL INDUSTRY

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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Gordon Rees

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Hecker Fink

Hogan Lovells

Jackson Lewis PC

Jones Day

King & Spalding

Kirkland & Ellis

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Milberg PLLC

Miller Waxler

Morgan Lewis

O'Melveny & Myers

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Reed Smith

Robbins Geller

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Smith Gambrell

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Watkins Calcara

Wilentz Goldman

Winston & Strawn

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COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Adobe Inc.

African Communities Together

Amazon.com Inc.

American Bar Association

American Civil Liberties Union

American Medical Association Inc.

Apple Inc.

Chick-fil-A Inc.

DoorDash Inc.

Ethereum GmbH

Federalist Society

Google LLC

GrubHub Inc.

Instacart

Instagram Inc.

Johnson & Johnson

Lex Machina Inc.

LexisNexis Legal & Professional

LinkedIn Corp.

Live Nation Entertainment Inc.

Main Line Health Inc.

Make the Road New York

Marketo Inc.

Meta Platforms Inc.

NETGEAR, Inc.

New Jersey State Bar Association

New York Civil Liberties Union

R.T. Vanderbilt Holding Co. Inc.

RELX PLC

Roblox Corp.

State Bar of California

Stockton University

The University of Alabama System

Uber Eats

Uber Technologies Inc.

Vanderbilt Minerals LLC

Walmart Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

California Department of Justice

California Supreme Court

City of New York

European Union

Executive Office for Immigration Review

Executive Office of the President

Federal Communications Commission

Federal Reserve System

Federal Trade Commission

National Reconnaissance Office

Nevada Attorney General's Office

New Jersey Supreme Court

U.S. Attorney's Office

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California

U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Minnesota

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of California

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of New York

United States District Court for the District of Colorado