States Say GM Will Pay $220M To Settle Driver Privacy Claims

By Brian Steele

Attorneys general said Thursday that General Motors will pay $220 million to three dozen states to settle claims that it illegally sold nearly 10.3 million drivers' behavior data and location information to third parties, including data brokers that passed it on to insurers.

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Parents Say Roblox, Discord Can't Compel Arbitration

By Emily Field

Federal law bars Roblox and Discord from compelling sexual assault plaintiffs to arbitrate their claims that the companies enabled adult predators to use their platforms to groom and abuse children, parents have told the California federal court overseeing their suits.

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Monsanto Cleared In Latest Roundup Trial After $90M Ask

By Cara Salvatore

Missouri jurors cleared Monsanto Thursday in the first Roundup trial since a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling, after they were urged during closing arguments to award $10 million to $30 million for each of three plaintiffs who developed lymphoma after regularly using the Monsanto pesticide.

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NY Bars AI Chatbots From Using Emotional Tactics With Kids

By Dorothy Atkins

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a law Wednesday that creates a regulatory framework restricting artificial intelligence chatbots' emotional interactions with minors, spurring swift pushback from business groups, which criticized the legislation for allegedly being unconstitutionally vague and overly broad.

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Meta Faces Senate Inquiry Over AI Glasses Privacy Risks

By Lauren Berg

Two Democratic senators on Thursday launched an investigation into allegations that Meta Platforms' "smart" glasses capture sensitive images of users and bystanders without their consent and use the data to train the tech giant's artificial intelligence models.

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Wash. Jury Asked To Pin Blame For Fatal 2022 Seaplane Crash

By Rachel Riley

The owner of a seaplane involved in a deadly 2022 crash told a Washington state jury on Thursday that a design flaw caused the aircraft to plunge into the bay below, contending an affiliate of the plane's Canadian manufacturer owes $1.14 million for equipment destroyed in the crash.

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Camp Lejeune Plaintiffs Blast 'Absurd' Lone Pine Motion

By Mike Curley

Plaintiffs in massive multidistrict litigation over toxic water at the Camp Lejeune military base are urging a North Carolina federal court to reject the federal government's bid for a Lone Pine motion requiring claimants to submit proof of their claims, saying it would delay the litigation by years, if not decades, and cause the plaintiffs' costs to skyrocket.

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Pa. Can Enforce E-Cigarette Law Amid Vape Cos. Appeal

By Jonathan Capriel

There will be no pause on a Pennsylvania law that makes it illegal to sell most vape products, a federal judge said, rejecting a vape industry bid seeking a brief reprieve while an appeal seeking to upend the statute heads to the Third Circuit.

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5th Circ. Will Review Texas Content-Filtering Law Ruling

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

The Fifth Circuit has granted Texas' request for an en banc rehearing of a July panel opinion that partly upheld a block on the state's new law requiring companies to filter content for underage users.

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Homebuyers Defend Third Zillow Suit Over Loan Kickbacks

By Nate Beck

A group of homebuyers urged a Washington federal judge to uphold a third amended complaint alleging Zillow paid kickbacks to brokers who steered homebuyers to use the company's mortgage services, driving up the cost of home loans and purchases overall.

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Barnes & Thornburg Adds DC, NY Product Liability Partners

By Jack Rodgers

Barnes & Thornburg LLP announced Thursday it has hired two litigation partners who will work with product liability and mass torts matters in New York and Washington, D.C.

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How To ID And Respond To 5 Types Of Misleading Witnesses

Witnesses can mislead fact-finders using a variety of tactics — from strategic amnesia to manufactured ignorance — but lawyers can learn how to identify and expose this testimony to come out on top, says Allison Rocker at Baker McKenzie.

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AI Litigation Risks Are Expanding To Affiliated Cos.

Litigation targeting artificial intelligence companies is underway, with claims reaching beyond primary developers and operators to include parties that supply technology and data, invest in and profit from platforms, validate systems, and provide services — so participants in the extended AI ecosystem must prepare, say attorneys at Arnold & Porter.

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Are You Happy With Your In-House Role? Take Our Survey

Is your company giving you everything you need to succeed? What are some misconceptions about working in-house? Help Law360 Pulse answer these questions and more in this year's In-House Satisfaction Survey.

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DOJ Backs Ex-Wisconsin Judge's ICE Obstruction Conviction

By Andrea Keckley

The U.S. Department of Justice told the Seventh Circuit that the high-profile conviction of a former Wisconsin state court judge for interfering with an ICE arrest was not compromised by her position on the bench or by jury instructions.

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Roundup

Hub Hires: WilmerHale, Womble Bond, Kirkland

By Chris Villani

Falling temperatures didn't bring a cooldown in the Boston legal lateral market as WilmerHale and Robinson & Cole LLP both welcomed former assistant attorneys general, Honigman LLP established its first office in the market, and Kirkland & Ellis LLP snagged a partner from Ropes & Gray LLP.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Consovoy McCarthy PLLC and Smith Porsborg Schweigert Armstrong Moldenhauer & Smith lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Eighth Circuit struck down the Federal Reserve's regulatory cap on the swipe fees that larger banks may collect on debit card transactions.

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Cyberattack Class Action Against Fox Rothschild Dropped

By Madison Arnold

Three data breach victims have dismissed their proposed class action lawsuit against Fox Rothschild LLP after ransomware group Silent Ransom Group targeted the firm.

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Ramona Nee, Tapped To Lead Weil, Now In Talks With Kirkland

By Daniel Moritz-Rabson

Ramona Nee, the co-leader of Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP's U.S. private equity practice who had been poised to become its leader, is engaged in talks to join Kirkland & Ellis LLP, a source with knowledge of the situation told Law360 Pulse on Friday.

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Roundup

GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

Meta reached a settlement during jury selection in the second Los Angeles bellwether trial over claims its Instagram platform harms the mental health of children, leaving Snap as the lone defendant facing trial. In the meantime, current and former in-house lawyers for Google and Meta said that the ability of AI to write patent applications is rapidly improving, and that in blind tests, experienced attorneys often deem AI-drafted patents to be superior to those from humans. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.

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Jackson Walker Inks $500K Deal In EXCO's Ch. 11 Fee Fight

By Clara Geoghegan

Jackson Walker has agreed to pay EXCO Resources Inc. $500,000 to end litigation over fees paid to the firm while one of its partners was in an undisclosed relationship with the former bankruptcy judge who mediated in the reorganized oil and gas driller's Texas Chapter 11.

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K&L Gates DQ'd In Trust's Mortgage Loan Agreement Dispute

By Isaac Monterose

A Washington federal judge disqualified K&L Gates LLP from a trust's dispute over a residential mortgage loan sale agreement, ruling that the law firm must leave the suit because it drafted the form agreement used in the transaction.

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Kalshi Taps Clement For High Court Sports Contracts Fight

By Elaine Briseño

Kalshi has hired appellate heavyweight Paul D. Clement of Clement & Murphy PLLC to represent the company in its potential U.S. Supreme Court battle over whether the prediction markets platform's sports wagering is subject to state or federal oversight.

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