Hagens Berman Fights Fee Demand Amid Misconduct Claims

By Jake Maher

Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP has blasted as premature a bid from drugmakers in Pennsylvania federal court calling for the firm to cover the fees and costs of a special master who alleged the firm committed misconduct in product liability actions over the morning sickness drug thalidomide.

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NJ Judge Trims J&J And Neutrogena Benzene Suit

By Jonathan Capriel

A New Jersey federal judge has slashed state and common law claims in a multistate proposed class action alleging that acne cream produced by Johnson & Johnson Consumer Inc. and Kenvue Inc. contained a cancer-causing chemical without warning labels, saying the buyers' claims missed "a step" and were "circular."

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Mass. Town Targets Georgia-Pacific, Honeywell In PFAS Suit

By Carolyn Muyskens

A Massachusetts town has sued several industrial paper manufacturers in federal court, seeking to force the companies to pay for removal of forever chemicals that have contaminated the local water supply.

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Enbridge Cites 'Painful' Risk In Bid To Delay Line Shutdown

By Corey Rothauser

Enbridge Energy LP insists that a Wisconsin federal court has the authority to pause a looming shutdown of a portion of its Line 5 pipeline, telling a judge that keeping the crude oil and natural gas liquids line running amid an appeal would prevent "painful, irreparable harm" to consumers, workers and energy markets in the U.S. and Canada.

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Product Liability Group Of The Year: Jones Day

By Matt Perez

Jones Day last year successfully defended the entire U.S.-based firearm manufacturing industry in a $10 billion complaint filed by the government of Mexico that eventually made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court, one of several wins that earned the firm a place on the 2025 Law360 Product Liability Groups of the Year.

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Birth Control Shot Plaintiffs Lose Mid-Case Appeal Bid In Del.

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Supreme Court has refused to hear an interlocutory appeal in product liability litigation over the contraceptive injection Depo-Provera, leaving in place a set of case-management orders designed to streamline what is expected to become hundreds of lawsuits in the state.

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Lawsuit Over Recalled Lowe's Batteries Tossed, For Now

By Jonathan Capriel

Tool company Chervon North America Inc. and retailer Lowe's Home Centers LLC have, for now, beaten a proposed class action accusing them of selling lithium-ion batteries that caught fire, after an Illinois federal judge ruled that the buyer failed to point to any particular "promise regarding safety."

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Fungi-Nail Co. Says False Advertising Class Action Must Fail

By Emily Field

Arcadia Consumer Healthcare Inc. on Tuesday urged a North Carolina federal judge to toss once and for all a proposed class action alleging that its Fungi-Nail product is falsely marketed as a treatment for nail fungus, saying that the plaintiff has tried and failed several times to point to specific statements that it treats the infection.

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9th Circ. Upends $8M Asbestos Verdict Against BNSF

By Linda Chiem

The Ninth Circuit has ruled that BNSF Railway Co. cannot be held strictly liable under Montana law for transporting asbestos-containing vermiculite and letting vermiculite dust collect on tracks and its railyard, upending the $8 million jury verdict awarded to the estates of two former Libby, Montana, residents who developed mesothelioma.

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BP Says Wash. 'Odors' Suit Smells No Better 2nd Time Around

By Ben Adlin

BP Products North America Inc. again urged a Seattle federal judge to reject a putative class action over fumes from the petroleum company's Cherry Point Refinery in Blaine, Washington, arguing the two named plaintiffs are poor representatives of the proposed class.

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How To Counter 7 Logical Fallacies In Legal Arguments

Many legal arguments are riddled with reasoning flaws that can effectively distract or persuade the fact-finder, but these tactics lose much of their power when attorneys recognize and strategically shine a light on them, says Allison Rocker at BakerMcKenzie.

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Tom Goldstein Guilty On Tax Evasion, 11 Other Counts

By Jared Foretek

SCOTUSblog founder and famed U.S. Supreme Court advocate Thomas Goldstein was found guilty of tax evasion, as well as aiding in the filing of false tax returns and lying on loan applications, by a Maryland federal jury Wednesday. 

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Patterson Belknap Adds Ex-SDNY Prosecutor Maurene Comey

By Alison Knezevich

Former Manhattan federal prosecutor Maurene Comey, who handled some of the nation's highest-profile cases before she was fired by the Trump administration, has joined Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP, the firm announced Wednesday.

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Cat Cover Story In Ginsburg Health Hack Gives Judge Pause

By Hayley Fowler

A Fourth Circuit jurist on Wednesday seemed fixated on the feline excuse a former hospital transplant coordinator gave FBI agents when he was questioned in 2019 about accessing U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's healthcare records.

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Democrats Cast Doubt On New DOJ Fraud Role

By Courtney Bublé

During the confirmation hearing on Wednesday for President Donald Trump's nominee for the new assistant attorney general for fraud role, Democrats expressed anxiety about the White House's involvement in the fraud crackdown and how genuine the effort is.

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Dems Demand Explanation For DOJ Antitrust Chief's Exit

By Lauren Berg

Two Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee demanded Wednesday that U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi explain to lawmakers why the U.S. Department of Justice's antitrust chief was forced to resign, expressing concern about the administration's potential interference with merger reviews and antitrust litigation.

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Florida Co. Blames Holland & Hart For $21M Judgment

By Zach Dupont

A Florida-based company claimed in Colorado federal court Wednesday that a Holland & Hart LLP attorney was negligent in representing it in a lawsuit from the city of Fort Collins that eventually ended in a more than $21 million judgment against the company.

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'Do Not Lie To Me': Calif. Judge Panel Agrees Credibility Is Key

By Bonnie Eslinger

California federal judges speaking at a Federal Bar Association panel in San Francisco have urged attorneys to protect their credibility in the courtroom, with one judge bluntly telling lawyers "do not lie to me" and another revealing it's "shocking" how frequently judges share notes about lawyers.

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Justices Set New Limits On Recess Testimony Talks

By Cara Salvatore

A unanimous Supreme Court set limits Wednesday on the right to counsel during overnight breaks in a defendant's testimony under the Sixth Amendment, ruling that prohibiting talk about "testimony for its own sake" strikes an appropriate constitutional balance.

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Netflix Swaps Out Latham For Munger Tolles In Antitrust Suit

By Bonnie Eslinger

Latham & Watkins LLP withdrew Wednesday as defense counsel for Netflix in a proposed consumer class action in Illinois federal court claiming Meta cut an illegal deal ceding the video streaming market to Netflix, which is now represented by Munger Tolles & Olson LLP.

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Foley & Lardner Wants 'Scattershot' Malpractice Suit Tossed

By Rose Krebs

Foley & Lardner LLP is urging the Delaware Superior Court to toss a malpractice suit accusing the firm of negligence in representing an officer of a now-defunct food recycling company in a Chancery Court case that led to a $1.6 million judgment, saying it "suffers from basic pleading defects."

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