High Court Sends Back $28M Roundup Verdict After Durnell

By Emily Field

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday remanded a case involving a $28 million award to a California man who developed non-Hodgkin lymphoma after using Monsanto's Roundup weed killer, following its recent ruling that federal law barred failure-to-warn claims over the pesticide.

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High Court Will Not Hear Fiat Chrysler Defect Row

By Emily Field

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to weigh whether an arbitrator or a court should decide the proper venue for a dispute involving a nonsignatory to an arbitration agreement in an appeal brought by Fiat Chrysler in a proposed class action over allegedly defective Jeep and Dodge headrests.

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1st Circ. Revives Amgen Migraine Drug Risk Label Suit

By Julie Manganis

A mother in Massachusetts is entitled to pursue a new theory of liability against drugmaker Amgen Inc. over the death of her 25-year-old son after he took the company's then-recently approved migraine medication Aimovig in 2018, the First Circuit has found.

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OpenAI Accused Of Mining Kids' ChatGPT Data To Train LLMs

By Hailey Konnath

OpenAI has preyed on children by extracting "vast amounts of highly sensitive and valuable data" from millions of young ChatGPT users without valid consent and then using that information to train its large language models, according to a proposed class action filed Tuesday in California federal court.

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Pa. Firm Can't Toss Uber's RICO Claims Over Insurer Payouts

By Linda Chiem

A Pennsylvania federal judge allowed Uber to pursue Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act claims alleging a Philadelphia personal injury firm schemed with healthcare providers to fabricate medical records and inflate accident claims involving Uber and FedEx drivers, saying Uber doesn't lose standing just because its insurer paid its legal fees in underlying litigation.

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Conn. Atty Sues Ga. Firm Over Fees From Sig Sauer Suit

By Mike Curley

An attorney who has been helping clients sue Sig Sauer Inc. for years over pistols that allegedly discharge without a trigger pull is suing a Georgia firm that he says recruited him for one such case, saying he was removed from the case and is likely to be cut out of his share of attorney fees.

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Walmart Shorts Customers On Shrimp Weight, Ill. Suit Says

By Lauraann Wood

Walmart has been accused in Illinois state court of illegally shorting its customers by including the ice "glaze" in the weight advertised on its Great Value shrimp packaging, which a customer says can lead to substantial differences in the product's true weight once thawed and drained.

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Mommy's Bliss Melatonin Isn't Safe For Kids, Suit Says

By Gina Kim

Mommy's Bliss is improperly hawking its melatonin supplements as being suitable to treat children with insomnia or sleeplessness, despite numerous studies that say melatonin isn't safe for kids, as ingesting it has resulted in overdoses, hospitalizations and even death, alleges a proposed class action filed Monday in California federal court. 

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Norfolk Southern Wants Out Of East Palestine Derailment Suit

By Mike Curley

Norfolk Southern Corp. is asking an Ohio federal judge to throw out the East Palestine City School District Board of Education's latest complaint over the 2023 train derailment, saying the claims that the derailment cost the board tax money cannot stand up to court standards.

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GKN Isn't Covered For Toxic Chemical Emergency, Court Told

By Danielle Ferguson

A Chubb unit told a Texas federal court Tuesday that a pollution exclusion bars coverage to GKN Aerospace Transparency Systems Inc. for underlying lawsuits and a civil investigation stemming from the overheating of a storage tank in California that led to toxic emissions and the evacuation of thousands of residents.  

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Island Golf Club And Hospital Sued After Wasp Sting Death

By Jonathan Capriel

A golf club and hospital on Martha's Vineyard face a widow's lawsuit claiming that they caused her 41-year-old husband's death after a wasp sting, saying the pesticide-free course failed to control the wasps' population and emergency responders misplaced the EpiPen that could have saved his life.

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Skadden Adds 5 DLA Piper Mass Torts Attys To Chicago Office

By Gina Kim

Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP continues to grow its mass torts and products liability litigation offerings in its Chicago office with the addition of five veteran litigators from DLA Piper, the firm announced on Tuesday.

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Watchdog Wants Probe Of Trump Press Secretary's Atty Claim

By Jack Karp

A nonprofit government watchdog on Wednesday asked the State Bar of California to investigate whether the new White House press secretary has claimed to be an attorney without being licensed to practice law.

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Ex-BigLaw Atty Wants Firm Docs For Insider Trading Defense

By Carolyn Muyskens

A former BigLaw associate accused of insider trading is seeking records from ex-employers Sidley Austin LLP, Latham & Watkins LLP and Goodwin Procter LLP to help fight charges that he tipped others about nonpublic deals the firms were working on.

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Quinn Emanuel Seeks Arbitration Of $1.7M Fee Dispute

By Caroline Simson

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP is urging a California federal court to order an entrepreneur to arbitrate malpractice claims stemming from the firm's representation of her in a sexual harassment claim against a technology investor as it seeks to collect more than $1.7 million in unpaid fees.

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Baker Botts Atty Seeks $3.4M In Fees After Defamation Suit

By Madison Arnold

A Baker Botts LLP patent attorney has moved for almost $3.4 million in attorney fees and expenses in a defamation suit an inventor brought against her that was dismissed.

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Fox Rothschild Beats Daycare's Malicious Prosecution Suit

By George Woolston

A New Jersey state court dismissed an adult daycare company's suit against Fox Rothschild LLP and one of its attorneys related to their prosecution of a fraudulent loan lawsuit that led to a $65,000 sanction against the firm, according to a court order.

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DLA Piper Accused Of Malpractice In Investor's Soccer Deals

By Bonnie Eslinger

American businessman John Textor has filed a legal malpractice suit in Florida against DLA Piper over the firm's representation in connection with an investment vehicle he created to acquire soccer clubs in the United Kingdom and other countries, claiming his damages could exceed hundreds of millions of dollars.

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