Analysis

Meta's $17B Child Safety Deal Puts Heat On Congress To Act

By Allison Grande

Meta's landmark $17.1 billion settlement of states' claims that it purposely addicted kids to social media mandates many of the safeguards increasingly being required by a growing patchwork of largely contested state child safety laws, boosting not only the profile of these measures but also the push for Congress to enact a more comprehensive fix.

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Mead Johnson, Mom Clash On Formula Risks In Trial Closing

By Celeste Bott

An Illinois federal jury is set to begin deliberating Monday on a mother's claims that Mead Johnson is liable for her infant son's death, with attorneys making closing remarks Friday in the first test case to be tried among more than 800 consolidated lawsuits linking a deadly bowel condition to premature baby formula.

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Walmart Pays $50M To End DOJ's Suit Over Opioid Crisis

By Rae Ann Varona

Walmart has agreed to pay $50 million to settle the U.S. Department of Justice's nearly 6-year-old lawsuit in Delaware federal court alleging the big-box retailer helped spur the nationwide opioid crisis by unlawfully dispensing controlled drugs from its pharmacies, the department announced Friday.

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NJ Says TikTok Is Withholding Key Child Usage Data

By Carla Baranauckas

New Jersey urged a state judge to force TikTok to hand over detailed user engagement data the state said was essential in proving that the platform's design harmed children, accusing the company of months of evasive answers, shifting explanations and contradictory statements about whether the information even exists.

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OpenAI Sued Again Over ChatGPT's Role In FSU Shooting

By Emily Field

Another survivor of the April 2025 shooting at Florida State University that killed two people and left five injured joined the pile of suits facing OpenAI over ChatGPT, saying in her own federal complaint that artificial intelligence fed the shooter's delusions and violence.

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Uber Text Doesn't Bind Guest Rider To Arbitrate, DC Circ. Says

By Bonnie Eslinger

Uber cannot force into arbitration a passenger who sued over a crash in which he was severely injured when the ride was requested by his wife since he never created an account or agreed to the ride-hailing company's terms of service, the D.C. Circuit said in a published opinion Friday.

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Ex-Eli Lilly Rep Can't File Whistleblower Claims In NJ

By Carla Baranauckas

A New Jersey federal judge on Friday dismissed a former Eli Lilly sales manager's suit alleging she was fired after objecting to pressure to promote off-label use of the diabetes drug Mounjaro, finding that the court lacked personal jurisdiction over the Indiana‑based drugmaker.

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Mazda Driver Avoids Sanctions In Oil-Burning Defect Suit

By Carla Baranauckas

A North Carolina federal judge has refused to sanction a Mazda driver and his attorneys for their attempt to revive a proposed class action over an alleged oil‑burning defect, finding the effort unlikely to succeed but not improper.

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AT&T Says Charter Is Misleading Consumers With 'Fiber' Claims

By Spencer Brewer

AT&T Teleholdings Inc. told a Texas federal judge on Friday that Charter Communications Inc. duped consumers by falsely touting its Spectrum brand residential internet service as being entirely fiber, when in reality the company uses copper cable to make the connection to a consumer's home.

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Ariz. Tribe Seeks To Pause Border Wall Work During Appeal

By Crystal Owens

The Tohono O'odham Nation is asking a district court to pause an order that denied its bid to block construction of a border wall near its Arizona reservation while it appeals the ruling to the D.C. Circuit, saying the federal government "plainly feels emboldened" by the decision.

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ConocoPhillips Can't Dodge Climate Torts, Wash. Tribes Say

By Rachel Riley

Two Native American tribes urged a Washington state judge Friday to preserve their climate change tort claims against ConocoPhillips, contending there's a "clear connection" between the oil company's Washington ties, its alleged actions downplaying the dangers of burning fossil fuels and the tribes' purported injuries.

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Analysis

Medical Marijuana Industry Grapples With DEA's New Role

By Sam Reisman

After years of allowing the state-sanctioned medical marijuana industry to operate without interference, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is stepping in to regulate a drug it once treated exclusively as contraband, but attorneys and regulators say the cannabis industry's interactions with the agency are off to a rocky start.

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McDermott Closing Health Policy Shop In DC

By Alison Knezevich

McDermott Will & Schulte is closing its healthcare lobbying and consulting shop after a dozen years in business.

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Feature

Rachael Rollins Pitches Scandal As Asset In Comeback Bid

By Taylor Bowie

Rachael Rollins rode a progressive wave to become Suffolk County's district attorney in 2019. After a scandal derailed her stint as Massachusetts U.S. attorney, she's trying to win her old DA post back, and leaning into her alleged ethical missteps as a resume boost.

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Calif. County Judges Recuse From Bias Suit Against DA's Office

By Patrick Hoff

The entire bench of a county court recused itself from a lawsuit alleging the San Francisco District Attorney's Office didn't take appropriate action when a Black employee reported a colleague's use of a racial slur, pushing the trial in the decade-old case to early October.

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'Exemplary Performance' Earns Google Users' Attys $146.8M

By Bonnie Eslinger

A California federal judge Friday awarded plaintiffs' attorneys $146.8 million in fees after they secured a $425 million jury verdict against Google LLC in a privacy class action covering about 98 million people, calling the one-third fee award "extraordinary" but justified given their "exemplary performance."

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House Eyes Vote To Lock Supreme Court At 9 Justices

By Courtney Bublé

The House returns from recess on Monday, and its agenda could include a vote to keep the number of U.S. Supreme Court justices at nine.

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Trump Denied New Bid To Federalize Hush Money Prosecution

By Pete Brush

A New York federal judge on Friday again denied President Donald Trump's bid to move his criminal hush money conviction out of state court, finding as he did earlier that a federal law defense that Trump was operating in his official capacity would be meritless.

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Roundup

UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

By Megan Norcott

The past week in London has seen shoe brand Crocs bring an appeal against the chief executive of the U.K.'s Intellectual Property Office, singer Alanis Morissette sued by the former head of operations at Live Nation Israel and the son of convicted fraudster Guo Wengui file an appeal against the Chapter 11 trustee controlling his father's bankruptcy estate. 

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Roundup

GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

KKR will pay a $250 million civil penalty to end allegations that it hid key documentation and entire transactions for merger notification. In the meantime, Apple told an Illinois federal judge that a recent Seventh Circuit decision affirming Samsung's win in a biometric privacy suit means the tech giant should prevail over similar claims. These are among the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

WilmerHale leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a California federal judge held that the U.S. Department of Defense's designation of Anthropic PBC as a supply chain risk to national security was retaliation for the company's public criticism of the Trump administration.

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In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Law360

For those who missed out, here's a look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the most buzz on Law360 last week.

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