Social Media Cos. Must Face School In 1st Addiction MDL Trial

By Dorothy Atkins

A California federal judge denied social media companies' bid for a summary judgment win on a bellwether school district's allegations it was forced to spend its limited resources on combating students' purported social media addictions, teeing up the first bellwether trial in the multidistrict litigation for June 15.

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Judge Limits Insurers' Exposure in Opioid Coverage Fight

By Hope Patti

Insurers garnered several wins Tuesday in a dispute over coverage for thousands of opioid suits against bankrupt pharmaceutical company Endo International, with a Pennsylvania federal court ruling favorably for the carriers on the interpretation of claims-made provisions and the meaning of "damages for bodily injury."

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Wash. Panel Says Healthcare Cost-Share Group Is An Insurer

By Mark Payne

A Utah-based healthcare cost-sharing nonprofit operates as and must register as an insurer under Washington state law, a state appeals panel ruled, upholding a $50,000 fine from the state's insurance commissioner that found the nonprofit ran afoul of Washington insurance law. 

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7th Circ. Mulls Outcome Health Execs' $1B Fraud Convictions

By Lauraann Wood

Seventh Circuit judges hearing former Outcome Health executives' challenge to a $1 billion fraud conviction seemed critical of the U.S. government's handling of the case on Tuesday as they questioned why its admitted asset over-restraint and introduction of certain grand jury statements should not require reversal.

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Jury Asked To 'Send A Message' To J&J As Talc Trial Wraps

By P.J. D'Annunzio

Counsel for a woman who died of ovarian cancer asked a Philadelphia jury to "send a message" with its verdict at the closing of the court's second talc mass tort trial against Johnson & Johnson, suggesting they should consider the company's multibillion-dollar net worth when coming up with a punitive damages award.

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Law360 Seeks Members For Its 2026 Editorial Boards

Law360 is looking for avid readers of our publications to serve as members of our 2026 editorial advisory boards.

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Brief

IHS To Phase Out Mercury Dental Fillings By 2027

By Jonathan Capriel

The Indian Health Service has announced it will phase out the use of dental fillings containing mercury at its facilities over the next year.

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US Says Abbott Lied, Must Repay Funds Spent On Formula

By Jonathan Capriel

Abbott Laboratories must face the federal government's lawsuit over the 2022 infant formula crisis caused by the discovery of potentially deadly bacteria in a facility that made baby formula, prosecutors told a Michigan federal court, saying the company "repeatedly lied" about the cleanliness of its plant.

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Pa. Health Network Escapes Wiretapping Suit, For Now

By Joyce Hanson

A Pennsylvania federal judge has tossed class claims alleging Penn Highlands Healthcare Inc. violated state wiretapping laws by sharing patient health information with Google Analytics, reasoning that the patients suing the healthcare network need to provide more specifics about the harm they alleged.

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Fresenius Can't Knock Out 401(k) Forfeiture Suit

By Grace Elletson

A Massachusetts federal judge narrowed but declined to dismiss a suit claiming dialysis company Fresenius violated federal benefits law by using forfeited 401(k) funds to pay for match contributions instead of plan fees, ruling the workers behind the suit adequately explained that the move may have flouted their interests.

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Pa. Hospital Settles Ex-Worker's ADA Suit Over CBD Gummy

By Grace Elletson

UPMC Pinnacle Hospitals has settled a former employee's disability discrimination suit claiming he was unlawfully fired when he tested positive for cannabis because he took cannabidiol gummies used to treat his spinal condition.

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Colo. Clinic, Billing Provider Face Data Breach Class Action

By Rachel Konieczny

A Colorado children's eye care clinic and medical billing provider negligently stored patients' and customers' personal information that resulted in an August 2025 data breach, a patient of the clinic alleged in a proposed class action in Colorado's federal district court.

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Whooping Cough-Focused Biotech Wraps $115M Fundraise

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Florida-based biotechnology company ILiAD Biotechnologies Inc. on Tuesday revealed that it wrapped its latest financing round after securing $115 million from investors, which will be used to advance development on a potential whooping cough vaccine.

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Ex-DOJ Fraud Prosecutors Launch DC White Collar Boutique

By Alison Knezevich

Two former U.S. Department of Justice fraud prosecutors are opening their own Washington, D.C., boutique firm to represent clients in complex fraud and white collar cases, they said Tuesday.

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What's At Stake In Possible Circuit Split On Medicaid Rule

A recent Eleventh Circuit decision, reviving Florida's lawsuit against a federal rule that reduces Medicaid funding based on agreements between hospitals, sets up a potential circuit split with the Fifth Circuit, with important ramifications for states looking to private administrators to run provider tax programs, say Liz Goodman, Karuna Seshasai and Rebecca Pitt at FTI Consulting.

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Malpractice Claim Assignability Continues To Divide Courts

Recent decisions from courts across the country demonstrate how different jurisdictions balance competing policy interests in determining whether legal malpractice claims can be assigned, providing a framework to identify when and how to challenge any attempted assignment, says Christopher Blazejewski at Sherin & Lodgen.

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Circuit Split Brewing Following 5th Circ.'s No-Bond Ruling

By Britain Eakin

The Fifth Circuit's split ruling blessing the Trump administration's mandatory immigration detention policy won't be the final say on the matter, but it could supercharge efforts to concentrate detained immigrants there while other circuits weigh the policy's legality.

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Fla. US Attys Push Back Against Sanctions In Habeas Case

By Rae Ann Varona

The U.S. attorney for the Middle District of Florida and an assistant U.S. attorney have urged an Orlando federal judge not to sanction them for the government's response to a noncitizen's habeas petition, saying any shortcomings were an "unintentional oversight."

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Ex-McDermott Atty Fights 'Harassing' Subpoena In Bias Suit

By Grace Elletson

A Black attorney accusing McDermott Will & Schulte LLP of firing her for calling out racial bias has urged an Illinois federal court to reject the firm's bid to get employment records from her previous employer, Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, saying the request serves no other purpose than to harass her.

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Kirkland Joins Growing Number Of Firms Launching In Tenn.

By Andrea Keckley

Kirkland & Ellis is joining a long line of firms setting their sights on Tennessee, announcing Tuesday that it would set up shop in Nashville with a team of former Butler & Snow LLP and King & Spalding LLP litigators.

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Amazon Calls FTC Allegations Of Hidden Documents 'Reckless'

By Bryan Koenig

Amazon.com assailed the Federal Trade Commission for accusing it of using auto-deleting Signal chats and improper privilege claims to hide evidence of rules that created an artificial pricing floor across online retail stores, asking a Washington federal judge to appoint a special master to handle the "inflammatory, close-of-discovery filings."

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Tom Goldstein To Testify At Tax Trial Wednesday

By Jared Foretek

SCOTUSblog co-founder Thomas Goldstein will take the stand in his tax fraud trial Wednesday, after the government rested its case with an IRS agent tallying up $3.6 million that she said went unreported on his 2016 tax return.

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Senate Confirms Burrows As DOJ Policy Chief

By Courtney Bublé

The U.S. Senate voted 52-46 on Tuesday to confirm Daniel Burrows, a White House official and former chief deputy attorney general of Kansas, to lead the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Legal Policy.

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Lewis Brisbois, Ex-Paralegal Bring Dueling Suits Over Firing

By Adrian Cruz

Days after being sued to compel her to arbitrate her claims against the firm, a former Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP paralegal hit her ex-employer with a defamation suit claiming its actions tarnished her reputation and cost her a job at another firm.

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DOJ Pushes To Revive Comey, James Indictments

By Emily Sawicki

Criminal indictments against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James were brought under a validly serving interim U.S. attorney and, therefore, never should have been dismissed, the U.S. Department of Justice argued in its opening brief in its consolidated appeal before the Fourth Circuit.

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