$7.25B Roundup Deal Sent Back To Missouri State Court

By Emily Field

A Missouri federal judge on Wednesday sent the case that resulted in a yet-to-be-finalized $7.25 billion settlement with Monsanto over claims that its weedkiller Roundup causes cancer from California federal court back to Missouri state court.

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J&J Can't Get New Trial In $65.5M Minn. Talc Cancer Case

By Emily Field

A Minnesota state judge on Wednesday denied Johnson & Johnson's bid for a new trial in a case that resulted in a $65.5 million verdict in favor of a 37-year-old wife and mother who claimed that the company's talc baby powder caused her cancer, rejecting arguments about her husband's infidelity.

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Fiat Chrysler Can't Ditch Infotainment Defect Class Action

By Susan Smiley

A Michigan federal judge has denied Fiat Chrysler's motion to dismiss a proposed class action from drivers claiming that nine models of the automaker's vehicles manufactured between 2021 and 2024 have defective infotainment systems.

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Glenmark Pharma Beats Suit Over Recalled Cholesterol Drugs

By Rae Ann Varona

A New Jersey federal judge Wednesday tossed a proposed class action that accused drugmaker Glenmark Pharmaceuticals of falsely representing that its statin cholesterol drugs were safe and effective despite a recall over its manufacturing practices, saying plaintiff consumers' lack of actual economic or physical injury meant they couldn't sue.

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Syngenta, Chevron Bids To Move Paraquat Cases Opposed

By P.J. D'Annunzio

Plaintiffs alleging they developed Parkinson's disease from an herbicide asked a Philadelphia judge to block bids by Syngenta and Chevron to move the cases out of the city's mass tort system, arguing that the companies already tried that and failed.

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Medline, AdaptHealth Sued Over Deadly Hospital Bed Fire

By Aaron Keller

Medline Industries and AdaptHealth have been sued by the estate and daughter of a Connecticut woman who allegedly died after suffering burns over 47% of her body when an electric-powered hospital-style bed caught fire in a Newtown home.

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Panel Says No Ban On Concealed Guns For Those Under 21

By David Minsky

A Florida appellate panel on Wednesday ruled against a state law prohibiting 18- to 20-year-olds from carrying concealed firearms, saying the ban is unconstitutional. 

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GM, Drivers Spar Over Trimmed Transmission Defect Class

By Linda Chiem

General Motors LLC has asked a Michigan federal judge to shut down a lawsuit alleging it sold vehicles with defective eight-speed automatic transmissions that caused "hard shifts" or made vehicles shake or shudder on the road, while the plaintiffs moved to certify four state-based classes of drivers.

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NC County Liable For Highest PFAS Levels In State, Suit Says

By Abigail Harrison

A grassroots environmental group asked a North Carolina federal court to prohibit a county from polluting local waters with forever chemicals, contending that the county knows that thousands of residents are imperiling their health by drinking PFAS-laden water but has refused to do anything about it.

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Recycler Says City's Wrongful License Suspension Cost $10M  

By George Woolston

The operator of a metal recycling scrapyard in Camden, New Jersey, currently facing two lawsuits over its handling of the facility has filed its own lawsuit in state court, alleging the city acted beyond its statutory authority in suspending the operator's license.

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The Banking Issue Hiding In Justices' Freight Broker Ruling

While the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent liability preemption ruling in Montgomery v. Caribe Transport was front-page news for the transportation industry, the banking industry seems to have missed that the decision exposes freight broker lenders to credit, documentation and litigation issues, say attorneys at Barack Ferrazzano.

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Opinion

Rule Of Law Requires Gov't Engagement With Bar, Not Retreat

A federal agency's absence from national and local bar conferences, most recently illustrated by the U.S. Department of Justice's withdrawal from a New York City Bar Association white collar conference, disserves the bar, the government lawyers themselves and, ultimately, the administration of justice, says Muhammad Faridi at Linklaters.

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Judiciary Cites AI Deepfakes In Opposing Courtroom Cameras

By Courtney Bublé

Two bipartisan bills to bring cameras into federal courtrooms advanced Thursday, but the policymaking body for the federal judiciary continues to oppose them and raised the issue of deepfakes in the age of artificial intelligence.

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NJ Tax Court Protects Taxpayer Methodology Ahead Of Trial

By Jaqueline McCool

A New Jersey tenant appealing the property tax assessment of a legacy data center is not required to provide the township with a detailed methodology of its assessment challenge prior to the case's trial, the state Tax Court ruled.

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Trump Lawyer Advances In Senate Judiciary Noms Vote

By Courtney Bublé

The nomination of Matthew Schwartz to be a judge on the Second Circuit advanced out of committee Thursday.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

General counsel may cringe at the news, but their chief financial officers will rejoice over a new study that shows the average spending by legal departments dropped to a six-year low in 2026. And two in-house Cigna lawyers are at the center of a finding of "improperly asserted privilege" over key company documents related to a payment lawsuit brought by three labs.

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Gibson Dunn Hires Ropes & Gray Health Regulatory Atty In DC

By Jack Rodgers

Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP has hired a former Ropes & Gray LLP partner, who works on a myriad of health regulatory and drug pricing matters, advising pharmaceutical manufacturers, investors and other entities on those issues, the firm announced Thursday.

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Calif. Moves On Proposal To Allow Legal Aid By Nonlawyers

By Lynn LaRowe

The California Supreme Court has directed the state bar to solicit public comments on a proposed community justice worker program that would allow nonlawyers to provide limited legal assistance under the supervision of qualified legal aid organizations, according to a Thursday announcement.

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Analysis

Law Students Undeterred Under Trump's Immigration Climate

By Britain Eakin

In a climate where immigration lawyers are coming under the Trump administration’s scrutiny to tamp down on asylum fraud, law students are being ignited to enter the workforce early and rectify the injustices they see.

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'Mortified' Atty Takes Blame For Fake Quotes In Taco TM Fight

By Ivan Moreno

A Connecticut attorney facing possible sanctions over fake case quotations in a taco restaurant trademark fight told a federal judge Thursday that he takes "full and unqualified responsibility" for the flawed filings, saying he is "mortified" and acknowledging that his verification process for AI-assisted legal work fell far short.

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Ford Says 'Lemon Law' Firm Faked Bills Using Overseas Staff

By Linda Chiem

Ford Motor Co. on Thursday accused California personal injury firm Quill & Arrow LLP of defrauding it out of more than $25 million in high-priced legal bills for work actually handled by virtual assistants overseas and non-lawyers in scores of product liability cases against the automaker.

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Israeli Atty Gets 15 Months For Role In Ponzi Scheme

By George Woolston

An Israeli attorney whose participation in a fraud scheme led by convicted Ponzi schemer Eliyahu "Eli" Weinstein gave the plan an "air of legitimacy" was sentenced on Thursday to one year and three months in federal prison.

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