Meta Docs Reveal Plan To Discredit Teen-Harm Critic Haidt

By Dorothy Atkins

Meta internally set a goal to "get the academic community to disavow" and "turn against" professor Jonathan Haidt, who has linked social media use to mental health decline, as it in-house rebuffed internal efforts to study social media's impact on teen health, according to recently unredacted documents filed publicly Friday.

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Novo Can't Get 'Deceptive' Lilly GLP-1 Ads Blocked Amid Suit

By Hailey Konnath

A New Jersey federal judge on Monday refused to issue an injunction blocking Eli Lilly & Co. from running ads allegedly comparing its GLP-1 drug to Novo Nordisk Inc.'s using "outdated" clinical trials and "false superiority messages," ruling that Novo Nordisk hasn't shown it would be irreparably harmed.

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Analysis

Whistleblower 'Gold Rush' Might Strain DOJ, Experts Warn

By Phillip Bantz

A new federal program offering cash for tips that result in criminal fraud charges is poised to set off a whistleblower "gold rush" that could uncover more fraudsters, but might also invite a high number of low-quality claims that burden businesses and strain limited U.S. Department of Justice resources, experts say.

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Feds Say States Lack Standing To Sue Over HHS Vax Overhaul

By Lauren Berg

The Trump administration is again asking a California federal judge to toss a coalition of states' lawsuit challenging its decision to cut vaccine recommendations for children, arguing that the states cannot show harm that gives them standing to sue.

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In 2/3 Generics Cases, Mylan Execs Allowed To Revoke 5th

By Bryan Koenig

A Connecticut federal judge carved a different path Friday for two later generic-drug price-fixing cases from state attorneys general, allowing Mylan executives to revoke their previous invocation of the Fifth Amendment unimpeded, after previously allowing the enforcers to challenge that revocation in the first case set for trial.

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Colo. AI Rules Face Calls For Longer Compliance Window

By Allison Grande

Business groups across the tech, banking and other industries pushed Colorado's attorney general Monday to revisit his proposed rules for the use of artificial intelligence to make consequential decisions and to fuel chatbots in order to address concerns such as their potential conflict with existing laws and the tight window for implementation.

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Texas Couple Sent To Prison For Medicare Fraud Scheme

By Tom Lotshaw

Husband and wife operators of a medical equipment company in Harlingen, Texas, were sentenced to serve several years in prison for defrauding Medicare out of millions of dollars for wheelchair repairs that were never performed, according to federal prosecutors.

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Mich. Panel Backs $9.7M Negligence Verdict Against Hospital

By Gianna Ferrarin

A Michigan appeals court declined to upend a hospital's share of a $9.7 million jury verdict for administrative negligence in its care for a woman who died while receiving emergency treatment for complications following an abdominoplasty, or "tummy tuck" procedure.

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Pa. Court Affirms $9.5M Verdict Over Botched Vasectomy

By Y. Peter Kang

A Pennsylvania appellate panel Monday affirmed a $9.5 million verdict in a suit accusing a doctor of botching a man's vasectomy that caused the loss of a testicle, saying the verdict was supported by sufficient evidence.

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Bristol-Myers, Others Appeal Revlimid MDL To 3rd Circ.

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

Bristol-Myers Squibb, Natco Pharma, AbbVie and other pharmaceutical companies have sought permission to file an interlocutory appeal for a sprawling antitrust multidistrict litigation over Celgene Corp.'s cancer drug Revlimid to the Third Circuit after a New Jersey federal judge refused to toss it.

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Radiology Co. Strikes Deal In ESOP Fight Ahead Of Trial

By Grace Elletson

Radiology company Envision and its trustee have settled a class action claiming they brokered an inflated $163.7 million stock sale to the business' employee stock ownership plan, staving off a bench trial that was days away from kicking off, according to a Colorado federal court filing.

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Immigrant Detainees Say ICE Is Defying Clean Facility Order

By Ganesh Setty

A certified class of detainees held in a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in the Mojave Desert asked a California federal court again to enforce its preliminary injunction requiring humane conditions and independent monitoring.

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Nomi Says HHS Shirked COVID Care Reimbursement Promise

By Tom Lotshaw

Utah-based Nomi Health Inc. sued the U.S. government on Friday, claiming that it failed to provide more than $200 million in promised payments for testing and vaccination services provided to uninsured Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Blue Cross Says National TM Link Dooms Ford Antitrust Suit

By Bonnie Eslinger

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan and the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association have asked a Michigan federal judge to hand them a win in Ford Motor's antitrust suit alleging supracompetitive pricing, arguing the Blue Cross trademark means the association and affiliates act as a "single entity" that "cannot conspire with itself."

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Colo. Staffing Cos. Settle Travel Nurses' OT Suit For $7M

By Rachel Konieczny

Two Colorado travel nurse staffing companies and thousands of travel nurses have reached a $7 million settlement to end a class and collective action accusing the companies of underpaying their workers.

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Soul BnB Says Airbnb Didn't Properly Serve TM Case

By Elliot Weld

A wellness retreat company called Soul BnB asked a California federal judge on Monday to lift a default judgment in a trademark infringement lawsuit filed by Airbnb, claiming the suit was not properly served.

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6 Firms Steer $5.7B Surgery Partners Take-Private Deal

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Healthcare services organization HealthSpan Partners on Monday announced plans to acquire short-stay surgical facility owner and operator Surgery Partners in an all-cash take-private deal valued at $5.7 billion that was built by six law firms.

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3 Firms Steer Obesity Drugmaker Corxel's $377M SPAC Deal

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Obesity-focused biopharmaceutical company Corxel Pharmaceuticals Inc. on Monday unveiled plans to go public by merging with special-purpose acquisition company Amanat Acquisition Corp. in a deal expected to generate roughly $377 million in gross proceeds and that was built by three law firms.

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2nd Circ. EFAA Ruling Shifts Employer Litigation Strategy

In Diaz-Roa v. Hermes Law, the Second Circuit recently held that, under the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act, employers can't carve out nonharassment claims and send them to arbitration, which has implications for discovery, litigation costs and resolution strategy in EFAA-covered disputes, say attorneys at Krevolin Horst.

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Weil PE Pro Declines Executive Partner Seat Amid Turmoil

By Marialuisa Taddia

Ramona Y. Nee has decided not to become executive partner at Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, days after merger talks with Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP ended and amid departures on both sides of the Atlantic, sources close to the firm told Law360 Monday.

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Morgan & Morgan Can't Pursue Ad Ban Suit, Fla. Bar Says

By Madison Arnold

The Florida Bar has pushed back against Morgan & Morgan PA's lawsuit alleging that a rule banning the use of a celebrity's voice or image in lawyer advertising violates the First Amendment, arguing that the personal injury giant lacks standing to bring the case.

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Burns & Levinson Malpractice Claims Revived On Appeal

By Julie Manganis

Massachusetts' intermediate-level appeals court Monday reinstated legal malpractice claims brought by a youth soccer league against defunct Boston law firm Burns & Levinson LLP alleging a firm partner failed to provide a heads-up about a federal visa fraud investigation.

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Feature

Dugout Divided: Foley & Lardner Clients Clash In World Series

By Chris Villani

The World Series matchup between Foley & Lardner LLP clients, the Milwaukee Brewers and the Tampa Bay Rays, has pitted partners against one another as the firm enjoys a good-natured intrasquad rivalry during the Fall Classic.

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Former Willkie Partner, Wife Owe $14.5M Tax Debt, Gov't Says

By Zak Kostro

A former Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP partner and his wife owe the U.S. more than $14.5 million in unpaid taxes, penalties and interest, according to a complaint filed in Manhattan federal court that seeks to enforce federal tax liens against their New York home to settle the debt.

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Trump Plans To Nominate SC Governor's Counsel To Bench

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump plans to nominate William Grayson Lambert, chief legal counsel for South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster, for a judgeship on the District of South Carolina.

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Scholar Warns AI Pitfalls Can Go Beyond Hallucinations

By Andrea Keckley

The number of court cases around the world involving AI-generated errors fell in both the second and third quarters of 2026, according to new research by a legal scholar who recently warned that the risks of using artificial intelligence in litigation now go beyond so-called hallucinations.

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Maurene Comey Illegally Fired, Entitled To Pay, Judge Holds

By Pete Brush

Former New York federal prosecutor Maurene Comey was unlawfully fired by President Donald Trump's administration, a federal judge in Manhattan held Monday, granting back pay and potentially legal fees to the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court last week approved a $250 million settlement of litigation over Microsoft Corp.'s acquisition of Activision Blizzard Inc., while Albertsons Cos. Inc. accused Kroger Co. of rejecting changes that could have saved their $24.6 billion merger, and the Delaware Supreme Court ordered Verisk Analytics Inc. to keep pursuing a $2.35 billion acquisition.

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