Harvard, Boston Hospitals Block Power Plant's Fee Hike

By Chris Villani

A Massachusetts judge ruled that Harvard University and a group of major Boston-area hospitals do not have to pay higher fees that a power plant imposed unilaterally, but he rejected their request for treble damages under the state's consumer protection laws.

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TikTok Backs School District In MDL Trial Witness Fight

By Dorothy Atkins

School district plaintiffs on Wednesday opposed a bid by YouTube, Snap and Meta to exclude late-disclosed witnesses from an upcoming bellwether trial in social media addiction multidistrict litigation, noting that defendant TikTok agreed the school district witnesses can be added if TikTok USDS Joint Venture's new CEO can testify as well.

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11th Circ. Backs Emory Healthcare In Ex-Prof's ADA Suit

By David Aaro

The Eleventh Circuit on Thursday declined to reinstate a lawsuit from a former professor at Emory University's healthcare arm who claimed she faced "unrelenting" retaliation for taking time off after a knee injury, saying she hadn't shown that her alleged mistreatment stemmed from a desire to punish her.

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NYC, LA, Other Cities Seek To Halt Latest HUD Grant Terms

By Rachel Riley

New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and dozens of other cities across the country that have challenged the Trump administration's grant restrictions are asking a Washington federal judge to block a new round of funding conditions from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

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Anthropic Accused Of Infringing AI Attention Patents

By Elliot Weld

A Texas technology company sued Anthropic on Thursday claiming it was infringing a set of patents covering AI attention for training when working on its marquee chatbot model Claude.

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Travelers Can't Move Senior Home Coverage Fight To Kansas

By Danielle Ferguson

A Colorado federal judge Thursday refused to transfer a senior living community's insurance coverage dispute to Kansas, finding that Colorado-based policy negotiations, claims communications and witness availability outweighed the less congested docket in Kansas.

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NY Contractor Gets Final OK For $162M Caregiver Wage Deal

By Katherine Smith

A New York federal magistrate judge has signed off on final approval of a $162 million settlement in a proposed class and collective action against a contractor that helps administer a state Medicaid program, ending claims that the company failed to pay personal care assistants accurately or on time.

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6th Circ. Rejects Fraud Claims Over $600M Train Deal

By Kelcey Caulder

Ohio residents who waived personal injury claims for extra payments from a $600 million settlement with Atlanta-based Norfolk Southern Corp. over a 2023 train derailment can't reclaim their right to sue the railroad giant, the Sixth Circuit ruled.

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Waffle House Tobacco Fee Suit Narrowed To Avoid Arbitration

By David Aaro

A former Waffle House server wants to shrink her suit claiming the restaurant chain unlawfully charged workers who used tobacco more for health coverage to level a sole claim for planwide relief, after Waffle House moved to kick two of the three counts she originally asserted to arbitration.

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JB Hunt To Pay $3.2M To End Tobacco Fee Suit

By Kellie Mejdrich

Trucking company J.B. Hunt will shell out roughly $3.2 million to settle a proposed class action alleging workers who used tobacco were wrongly charged $15 per week more for healthcare, according to the terms of a deal filed in Arkansas federal court.

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5 Firms Guide CareTrust's $638M Stock Offering

By Isaac Monterose

Healthcare-focused real estate investment trust CareTrust REIT Inc. is offering 17 million common shares for $637.5 million in a public stock offering that's being guided by O'Melveny & Myers LLP, DLA Piper LLP, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Jones Day and Latham & Watkins LLP.

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Ex-Cravath Staffer Charged With Insider Trading

By Stewart Bishop

A former employee at Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP on Thursday was arrested and charged with insider trading for allegedly exploiting nonpublic information about major deals involving the firm's clients, including Paramount Skydance Corp.'s $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc.

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Posner Remembered For Wide Influence, Pragmatic Approach

By Ryan Boysen

The iconoclastic, prolific and hugely influential U.S. Circuit Court Judge Richard A. Posner is being remembered for a lifetime of relentless advocacy for a more pragmatic approach to the law and a legacy that will ripple through American jurisprudence for decades to come.

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Remembering Richard Posner: A Prolific Jurist

Judge Richard Posner died Tuesday at age 87, leaving a legacy as one of the most influential members of the judiciary who never served on the U.S. Supreme Court. Here, Law360 revisits its coverage over the years of the prolific retired Seventh Circuit judge, including interviews with him about his pragmatic approach to the law, his belief that the courts mistreat pro se litigants and his love of felines.

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Foley Revamps Associate Pay, Advancement Structure

By James Boyle

Foley & Lardner LLP is the latest law firm to alter the way it handles associate compensation and advancement to keep in line with Milbank LLP's update of its own associate pay scale in July.

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Weil's 1,000 Staff Face 'Absorption' Issue In Hunt For Roles

By Daniel Moritz-Rabson

As the approximately 1,000 professional staff members at Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP look for new roles, they're likely to encounter a more difficult job market than the firm's attorneys, recruiters told Law360 Pulse.

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DOJ Exodus Leaves Trump Facing Confirmation Crunch

By Courtney Bublé

Since the Democrats' sweeping victories on Election Day, there has been an exodus of top officials at the U.S. Department of Justice and prospects for confirming permanent replacement are slim.

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The Go-To Firms For Insurance Litigation In 2026

By Hope Patti

A Florida-based law firm filed the most insurance coverage actions in the first half of 2026, primarily representing policyholders in property damage disputes, while BigLaw firm Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani was the most frequent choice among insurer defendants.

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Senate Confirms First Judge Of Lame-Duck Period

By Courtney Bublé

The U.S. Senate confirmed Alabama Supreme Court Justice Gregory Cook to the Northern District of Alabama on Thursday, marking the first judicial confirmation of the lame-duck period.

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Proskauer Won't Rep Perplexity In Reddit Data-Scraping Suit

By Matthew Perlman

Perplexity AI Inc. has abandoned its effort to have Proskauer Rose LLP defend against a data-scraping lawsuit from Reddit Inc. after Reddit raised concerns about the law firm's past representation of the social media company.

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Arbitration Assoc. Wants Consumers' Monopoly Suit Tossed

By Rae Ann Varona

The American Arbitration Association urged an Arizona federal court Thursday to toss a proposed class action that accuses the organization of monopolizing the consumer arbitration services market, saying the plaintiff consumers are trying to hold it liable for contracts it never entered into.

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