LA County Approves $4B Juvenile Sex Abuse Settlement

By Y. Peter Kang

Los Angeles County officials on Tuesday officially approved a previously announced $4 billion settlement to resolve nearly 7,000 claims of sexual abuse at juvenile detention facilities and foster homes, touted as the largest sex abuse settlement in U.S. history.

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PacifiCorp Hit With $11M Verdict In Latest Wildfire Case

By Cara Salvatore

A Portland, Oregon, jury awarded around $10.8 million in noneconomic damages Tuesday to nine plaintiffs who suffered property damage in a group of 2020 wildfires attributed to PacifiCorp's negligence, with the awards likely to be increased to account for punitive damages.

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Judge Wants Discovery On Investigator In Buzbee-Jay-Z Feud

By Catherine Marfin

A Texas federal judge is considering allowing limited discovery in an ongoing legal feud between Tony Buzbee and Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter to determine whether an investigator named by the personal injury lawyer across three lawsuits exists.

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Combs Wants Gag Order For Attorneys Repping Accusers

By Elliot Weld

Hip-Hop mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs asked a Manhattan federal judge Tuesday to direct attorneys representing his accusers to not make extrajudicial statements until his upcoming trial on sex-trafficking charges concludes.

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Apple Beats Claim Amber Alert On AirPod Hurt Boy's Hearing

By Rae Ann Varona

A California federal judge on Monday tossed a Texas mother's lawsuit accusing Apple Inc. of being responsible for her teenage son's permanent hearing loss after an Amber Alert allegedly rang through defective AirPods and ruptured his eardrums, saying a physician's expert opinion they leaned on was unreliable for proving causation.

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Alex Jones Wants High Court Look At $1.3B Sandy Hook Case

By Brian Steele

Bankrupt Infowars host Alex Jones will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to invalidate a mammoth libel judgment that families of Sandy Hook shooting victims secured against him and his company over his conspiratorial broadcasts calling the massacre a hoax, he told a Connecticut appellate court in seeking to extend a pause on the payout.

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California Judge Loses Pay After Conviction For Murdering Wife

By Gina Kim

The California Commission on Judicial Performance formally suspended a California judge without pay after a state jury found him guilty of second-degree murder last week for shooting his wife to death in their Anaheim Hills home on Aug. 3, 2023, following a heated argument. 

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Brief

OneTaste Execs Can't Get High Court Relief Over 'Stolen' Docs

By Cara Salvatore

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to bar allegedly stolen and privileged documents from being used at the upcoming forced-labor conspiracy trial of two former OneTaste executives.

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Child Born After Father's Death Can Sue Iran, DC Circ. Rules

By Tom Lotshaw

A child in utero when her Navy special forces father was killed in an Iranian-sponsored Taliban attack can seek so-called solatium damages from Iran under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act's terrorism exception, just like her mother and older siblings, a D.C. Circuit panel ruled Tuesday.

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Kline & Specter Wants Depos Blocked In Renewed Atty Fight

By Emily Sawicki

Kline & Specter PC's reignited Pennsylvania state court fight with former firm attorney Tom Bosworth over enforcement of a settlement that previously resolved their multiple differences has entered the realm of discovery disputes, with the firm seeking to block depositions in the continuing feud.

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Opioid MDL Judge Won't Recuse Over Ex Parte Allegations

By Jack Karp

An Ohio federal judge will not step aside from multidistrict opioid litigation after the plaintiffs' attorney, who had alleged the judge "regularly communicates" with other lawyers involved in the litigation, testified that there was no such communication after all, the judge ruled Tuesday.

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Olympic Committee Escapes Bobsledder Death Suit In NJ

By Elaine Briseño

A New Jersey federal judge has dismissed claims brought against the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee in a lawsuit that seeks to hold the committee and others responsible for the death of a former U.S. Olympic bobsledder, finding his court does not have personal jurisdiction over the organization.

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Ohio Justices Reinstate Trans Care Limits During AG's Appeal

By Rae Ann Varona

The Ohio Supreme Court on Tuesday reinstated state law limits on gender-affirming care for transgender youths pending Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost's appeal of what he called "radical constitutional views" of an Ohio state appeals court that last month blocked the restrictions.

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Insurer Denies Extra $5M For Event Co.'s Injury Dispute

By Hope Patti

An insurer for a motocross event organizer doesn't owe an additional $5 million in coverage on top of the $1 million it already paid to settle a suit over a child's injury at an amateur national motocross championship event, the carrier told an Ohio federal court.

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Condo Assoc., Insurer End Nashville Bombing Coverage Row

By Jonathan Capriel

Aspen Specialty Insurance Co. and a Nashville condominium association have agreed to end their dispute over coverage for nearly $11 million in damages caused by the 2020 Christmas Day bombing in the city, ending their battle with a joint stipulation of dismissal filed in Tennessee federal court.

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Key Questions When Mediating Environmental Disputes

As the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency implements dramatic regulatory changes, companies seeking to use mediation to manage increased risks and uncertainties around environmental liabilities should keep certain essential considerations in mind to help reach successful outcomes, says Edward Cohen at Thompson Coburn.

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The 2025 Lawyer Satisfaction Survey

Law firms and the legal profession are facing new uncertainties, shifting the stress levels, economic pressures, and overall contentment of lawyers in private practice, according to the 2025 Law360 Pulse Lawyer Satisfaction Survey.

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'The Court Is Not A Cartoon': Judge Rips Dragon Watermark

By Hailey Konnath

A Michigan federal magistrate judge Monday ordered an East Lansing, Michigan, firm called Dragon Lawyers PC to stop plastering its pleadings with a large, suit-clad purple cartoon dragon watermark on each page, saying it's not only "distracting, it's juvenile and impertinent."

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Analysis

Feds Have Strong Hand On Judge Charged With Blocking ICE

By Danielle Ferguson and Carolyn Muyskens

A Wisconsin state judge faces an uphill battle in defending against federal criminal allegations that she helped a man evade immigration officials at a Wisconsin courthouse, but she may be able to stake out a defense in arguing the government can't prove intent, experts told Law360. 

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Q&A

Sullivan M&A Chief Sees Opportunities Amid Tariff Turmoil

By Al Barbarino

After a rocky start to 2025, the mergers and acquisitions landscape is grappling with economic volatility, shifting trade policies and a complex regulatory environment. But even in a "choppy" market, there are always deals to be made, says Melissa Sawyer, global head of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP's M&A group and co-head of its corporate governance practice.

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NJ Judge Apologizes Through Waylon Jennings Lyrics

By George Woolston

Clark Township, New Jersey, Municipal Judge Antonio Inacio said Tuesday that he isn't proud of all the things that led him to appear before a Garden State judiciary disciplinary committee, but he can say that he never intentionally hurt anyone by his conduct.

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$10M Brown Rudnick Deal With Guo Trustee Gets Judge's OK

By Aaron Keller

A Connecticut bankruptcy judge on Tuesday approved a $10 million deal between Miles Guo's Chapter 11 trustee and the Chinese exile's onetime attorneys at Brown Rudnick LLP, and greenlighted 10 lesser settlements with other firms and luxury retailer Versace.

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Analysis

GOP Plan To Shutter Audit Watchdog Could Strain SEC

By Jessica Corso

Congressional Republicans are renewing the push to get rid of a financial regulator that conservatives have complained is costly and lacks proper oversight, but some former staffers at the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board wonder whether the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has the manpower or expertise to take over the board's duties.

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Federal Defenders Of NY Staff Announce Union Drive

By Andrea Keckley

Staff members at the Federal Defenders of New York have announced their plans to join their attorney colleagues as members of the Association of Legal Advocates and Attorneys.

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Justices Scoff At Feds' Defenses In Mistaken FBI Raid Case

By Chart Riggall

Supreme Court justices Tuesday appeared flummoxed by the government's "ridiculous" arguments it should be immune to a Georgia resident's lawsuit over a mistaken FBI raid on her house, but seemed unlikely to issue a blanket ruling on when an officer's discretion trumps their liability for injuries caused by their actions.

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Breyer To Talk Pragmatism At NJ Bar Association Convention

By Carla Baranauckas

Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer will bring his pragmatic legal philosophy to center stage when he appears at the New Jersey State Bar Association Convention on May 16 in Atlantic City.

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