Meta Loses Coverage For Social Media Addiction Suits

By Hope Patti

A group of insurers have no duty to defend Meta Platforms Inc. against thousands of lawsuits accusing the social media giant of designing its platforms to be addictive to adolescents, a Delaware state court ruled, finding that the underlying allegations describe deliberate acts rather than accidental conduct.

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Chubb Unit Liable For Claims After Primary Insurer's Collapse

By Hope Patti

A Chubb unit must step in and provide excess coverage for asbestos exposure claims against a waterworks product supplier, a Massachusetts state court ruled Monday, finding that the company's primary policy has been exhausted as a result of that carrier's insolvency and inability to pay for covered losses.

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Pepsi Extinguishes Employee's Tobacco Fee Lawsuit

By Patrick Hoff

Pepsi has defeated a proposed class action claiming it unlawfully charged employees who used tobacco more to obtain health insurance, with a New York federal judge shutting down a worker's argument that the company hadn't given tobacco users a sufficient way to avoid the surcharge.

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Ex-Morgan Stanley Adviser Guilty Of Defrauding NBA Clients

By Stewart Bishop

A Manhattan federal jury on Tuesday convicted a former Morgan Stanley investment adviser on fraud charges, for allegedly defrauding NBA player clients by overcharging them for life insurance investments and misappropriating funds.

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Anthem Avoids Patients' Ghost Network Suit In NY

By Kellie Mejdrich

A New York federal judge on Monday granted Anthem escape from a proposed class action from patients who alleged inaccuracies in the insurer's mental health provider directory violated New York state laws, holding their claims were preempted by federal employee health benefits law.

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Epic Must Face Price Conspiracy Claims Over Gallstone Drug

By Gianna Ferrarin

Epic Pharma LLC must face the majority of suits by hospitals, insurers and other drug purchasers alleging it conspired to raise and control the price of gallstone medication ursodiol, a Pennsylvania federal judge ruled Monday.

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Kirkland-Led Bregal Sagemount's 5th Fund Hits $3.5B Limit

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Growth-focused private equity shop Bregal Sagemount, led by Kirkland & Ellis LLP, on Monday announced it had wrapped up fundraising for its fifth fund after securing $3.5 billion in capital commitments.

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Class Actions At The Circuit Courts: March Lessons

In this month's review of class action appeals, Mitchell Engel at Shook Hardy discusses four recent rulings from January and identifies practice tips from cases involving allegations of violations of consumer fraud regulations, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, employment law and breach of contract statutes.

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5 Different AI Systems Raise Distinct Privilege Issues

A New York federal court’s recent U.S. v. Heppner decision, holding that a defendant’s use of Claude was not privileged, only addressed one narrow artificial intelligence system, but lawyers must recognize that the spectrum of AI tools raises different confidentiality and privilege questions, says Heidi Nadel at HP.

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DOJ Nixes Plan To Drop Law Firm EO Appeals In About-Face

By Emma Cueto

A day after informing the D.C. Circuit that it would no longer seek to defend the executive orders issued by President Donald Trump against four law firms, the U.S. Department of Justice reversed course Tuesday, requesting permission to withdraw its motion to voluntarily dismiss the appeals.

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Goldman's Departing CLO, Gates Asked To Testify On Epstein

By Lauren Berg

The House Oversight Committee on Tuesday asked outgoing Goldman Sachs Chief Legal Officer Kathryn Ruemmler, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Apollo Global Management co-founder Leon Black and others to testify about their connections to child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

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Early Publicity Could Poison DOJ's Criminal Cases, Attys Say

By Phillip Bantz

The U.S. Department of Justice under President Donald Trump has shrugged off long-standing prosecutorial policies against publicizing criminal probes in their early stages and disparaging the targets, an "unusual" and "troubling" development that threatens the integrity of investigations, grand jury proceedings and the right to a fair trial, experts tell Law360.

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Skadden Hit With Sanctions Over 'Vexatious' Gaming Suit

By Ivan Moreno

A Manhattan federal judge has sanctioned Papaya Gaming and its attorneys from Skadden for what the court said was a "blatant" attempt to relitigate claims in Virginia that had already been dismissed in a false advertising dispute in New York with Skillz Platform, one of its competitors.

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NY Judicial Watchdog Says Complaints Break Record Again

By Andrea Keckley

New York's judicial watchdog has reported a record number of new complaints filed against judges for the fourth year in a row in 2025.

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Day Pitney Faces DQ Bid Over Ex-Justice's Role In $1.3M Case

By Aaron Keller

Day Pitney LLP should be sidelined from a $1.3 million private equity management company's windup lawsuit because former Connecticut Supreme Court Chief Justice Richard A. Robinson, now a partner at the firm, heard the case before it was earmarked for a new trial, three company owners have argued.

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New Whistleblower Program Adds 'Bit More Stick,' DOJ Says

By Bryan Koenig

The U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division's new whistleblower rewards program partnership with the U.S. Postal Service doesn't displace the leniency program by which companies disclose potential price-fixing and other antitrust violations, a DOJ official said Tuesday in Washington, D.C., but it is an important complement.

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DOJ Turns To 2nd Circ. In Bid To Revive James Subpoenas

By Emily Sawicki

The U.S. Department of Justice is urging the Second Circuit to revive an investigation into New York Attorney General Letitia James launched by a federal prosecutor later found to have been serving unlawfully, arguing the acting U.S. attorney for the Northern District of New York had been rightfully appointed when he launched the probe.

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Monthly Merger Review Snapshot

By Matthew Perlman

The U.S. Department of Justice got its antitrust case against Live Nation and Ticketmaster teed up for trial, as a court continues mulling the department's settlement last year in a case challenging a deal by Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and lawmakers call for scrutiny of Paramount Skydance's blockbuster acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery.

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Meta Atty's Slip Reveals Social Media Trial Plaintiff's Identity

By Craig Clough

An attorney for Meta Platforms on Tuesday revealed the highly guarded full name of the plaintiff in a landmark bellwether trial accusing its Instagram platform and Google's YouTube of harming children's mental health, prompting the Los Angeles judge overseeing the case to strike it from the record and ordered everyone in the courtroom not to reveal it.

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