McDonald's Falsely Touts 'Sugar Free' Coffee Bevs, Suit Says

By Rae Ann Varona

McDonald's "sugar free" McCafé coffee beverages actually have up to 18 grams of sugar due to dairy, consumers alleged Friday in a proposed false advertising class action filed in Illinois federal court, saying the fast-food chain's use of the "sugar free" term violates federal regulations and consumer protection laws.

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Pepsi Urges High Court To Leave TM Strength To Judges

By Elliot Weld

PepsiCo Inc. has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reject an appeal from a coffee company that wants the justices to overrule a Second Circuit order allowing judges to decide the strength of trademarks, saying the question of trademark strength was a "quintessentially legal" one best left to judges.

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Sea Bass Fishing Isn't Banned In S. Atlantic, 11th Circ. Told

By David Minsky

A seafood company asked the Eleventh Circuit on Friday to reverse the government's denial of a permit to import frozen sea bass caught in a region of the South Atlantic, arguing a federal agency embargoed the fish after wrongly concluding there was a total prohibition on commercial fishing there.

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Ex-Cruise Line Server Says Reporting Assaults Got Her Fired

By Kelcey Caulder

American Cruise Lines fired a server after she reported being repeatedly sexually assaulted by the vessel's executive sous chef, and the company ignored warning signs about him beforehand, according to a lawsuit filed Friday in Georgia federal court.

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Bessent, Greer Warn China Over Trade Truce Commitments

By Dylan Moroses

Top U.S. officials warned China on Friday over what they viewed as potential shortfalls in commitments made last year as part of the trade truce reached between President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, according to readouts published Friday by the U.S. Treasury Department and Office of the U.S. Trade Representative.

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3rd Circ. Preview: UPenn Staff Rifts, FTC $3M Fee Fight

By George Woolston

The Third Circuit began its November session by examining Tree of Life synagogue shooter Robert Bowers' appeal of his death sentence and is set to hear a number of other matters ranging from a state's bid to restore millions of dollars in food aid, to the federal government fighting a $3 million counsel fee award, to reviewing the third-party harassment test.

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Roundup

Employment Authority: Labor Sees Gains After Dems Win

By MJ Koo

Law360 Employment Authority covers the biggest employment cases and trends. Catch up this week with coverage on what Democrats' midterm takeover of Congress could mean for labor's legislative agenda, how the party's gains in state governments could spur new paid leave laws and a Missouri constitutional amendment that could make it harder for lawmakers to overturn wage ballot measures.

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ERISA Recap: 4 Decisions To Know From Oct.

By Kellie Mejdrich

The full Eleventh Circuit's repeal of its administrative exhaustion standard under federal benefits law was the biggest ruling issued in Employee Retirement Income Security Act litigation during October, but district courts issued some noteworthy decisions, as well. Here are four developments from last month that ERISA attorneys should have on their radar.

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Opinion

Judges Must Turn To Merits Earlier To Fix Civil Justice System

The U.S. justice system is long overdue for a cultural shift that encourages judges to engage with the merits of a case from the outset, which would help to cut through procedural complexities and deliver high-quality justice efficiently and at lower cost, says Steven Kayman at Rottenberg Lipman.

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Are You Happy With Your In-House Role? Take Our Survey

Is your company giving you everything you need to succeed? What are some misconceptions about working in-house? Help Law360 Pulse answer these questions and more in this year's In-House Satisfaction Survey.

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Squire Patton, Baker McKenzie Hit With Data Breach Suits

By Rae Ann Varona

Squire Patton Boggs LLP and Baker McKenzie failed to protect private personal information stored in the law firms' systems from separate cyberattacks and delayed notifying affected individuals for roughly two months, two proposed class actions filed in Ohio and Illinois federal courts have alleged.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Susman Godfrey LLP, Langer Grogan & Diver PC, Hausfeld LLP and MoloLamken LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Ninth Circuit ruled that a former federal judge erred by scrapping a $4.7 billion jury verdict against the National Football League in a class action over the price of its Sunday Ticket broadcast package.

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Judge Kewalramani Warns Against Taking Sanctions Lightly

By Dani Kass

Retired U.S. Magistrate Judge Shashi Kewalramani on Friday cautioned patent attorneys to be extremely discerning when filing sanctions motions, comparing it to crying "fire" in a crowded room.

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Brief

US Legal Sector Jobs Reached Record High In October

By Tracey Read

The legal industry's hot streak continued last month, adding 2,400 more jobs in October to reach a record high, according to seasonally adjusted data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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US Charges 3 Over $129M AI Scam Using Fake UK Lawyers

By Laura Stewart Liberty

U.S. prosecutors said Thursday they have charged three men, including one facing extradition from London, for allegedly defrauding companies of $129 million through a scheme that used AI to impersonate executives and U.K. lawyers.

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Defeated Texas Justice Being Considered For Federal Bench

By Courtney Bublé

With the clock ticking on Republicans' control of the Senate, President Donald Trump is considering putting a Texas Supreme Court justice who just lost reelection on the federal bench.

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Attys Can Curb AI Error Fallout With Candor, Accountability

By Andrea Keckley

Nearly four years since ChatGPT launched and the legal industry began experimenting at scale with generative artificial intelligence, not a month goes by without another attorney finding a hallucination error in a court filing.

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Top Blanche Adviser Among Latest To Exit DOJ

By Jared Foretek

A top legal adviser to U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche announced his departure from the U.S. Department of Justice Friday, becoming the latest in a slew of high-profile resignations from the department since Republicans' midterm election defeat Tuesday night.

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Ice Miller Sued Over $729K Award After Losing Federal Forum

By Andrea Keckley

A couple who hired Ice Miller LLP to defend their organization against a breach of contract suit have accused the firm in Indiana federal court of exposing them to additional litigation with a settlement that failed to preserve federal jurisdiction over future disputes.

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Law Firm Sues Sierra Leone Over $361K Legal Bill

By Jared Foretek

Law firm Cohen Seglias Pallas Greenhall & Furman PC claims in a complaint filed in D.C. federal court that Sierra Leone's government stiffed it on more than $300,000 in legal fees and costs after the firm defended it against earlier claims of unpaid fees by Jenner & Block.

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Mich. Supreme Court Chief Next To Lead Chief Justice Group

By Melanie Dorsey

The Michigan Supreme Court's chief justice has been named president-elect of the Conference of Chief Justices, a national organization representing the highest-ranking state judicial officers, and she plans to focus on expanding access to legal services, reforming attorney licensing and strengthening courthouse security.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

The U.S. Department of Justice's new cash rewards program for tips on criminal fraud could backfire in some cases, experts say. Elsewhere, attorneys are weighing new strategies in the wake of Texas' historic blue shift during the midterm elections. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.

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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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