Analysis

Amazon Ruling May Shift E-Commerce Litigation, Attys Say

By Rachel Riley

The Washington State Supreme Court signaled a willingness to hold online platforms accountable for societal harm and took a progressive stance on mental health in a recent decision reinstating lawsuits against Amazon over the suicides of teens who died by ingesting sodium nitrite purchased on the platform, legal experts say.

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Social Media Trial Judge Threatens Media With Gag Order

By Craig Clough

The judge overseeing the landmark bellwether trial accusing major social media platforms of harming children's mental health lashed out at the media Friday morning, threatening to issue a gag order because she believed an outlet violated her orders to stay away from jurors in the hallway. 

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Analysis

Freight Brokers Fear Liability Pileup In Pivotal Top Court Case

By Linda Chiem

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Wednesday on whether freight brokers might also be liable for roadway crashes that have killed or injured people, in a case that could reshape liability standards in a commercial trucking industry unnerved by supersized verdicts against carriers and drivers.

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PG&E Investors' $100M Wildfire Suit Deal Gets Initial OK

By Sydney Price

California utility Pacific Gas & Electric Co., its brass, underwriters and shareholders have received initial approval of their $100 million deal settling claims the company misled investors about its safety practices ahead of deadly wildfires in the past decade.

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Prairie Farms Hit With $241M Verdict Over Dry Ice Death

By Dorothy Atkins

An Illinois state jury on Friday awarded $241 million, including $191.5 million in punitive damages, to the family of a man who died while transporting dry ice for a Prairie Farms subsidiary as part of his job as a courier, according to the family's counsel.

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Up Next At High Court: Drug User Gun Possession

By Katie Buehler

The U.S. Supreme Court will close out its February oral argument session by hearing its newest Second Amendment case over a federal law that prohibits drug users from possessing firearms, as well as a dispute over whether motor carrier brokers can be held liable for truck crashes under state law.

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Product Liability Group Of The Year: Singleton Schreiber

By Emily Field

A watershed $243 million jury verdict in a high-profile trial awarded to a survivor and the family of a victim of a deadly incident involving Tesla and its Autopilot technology marked the first time that the automaker had been found liable at trial for a fatal crash and helped secure Singleton Schreiber's spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Product Liability Groups of the Year.

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3rd Circ. Preview: Janssen, Penn State Prof. Seek Relief

By Carla Baranauckas

A packed March argument calendar will put several high‑stakes disputes before the Third Circuit, including a billion‑dollar False Claims Act judgment and challenges at the intersection of academic freedom, DEI programming, cannabis‑sector finance and campus Title IX procedures.

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Teens Worth $270 Each To Facebook, NM Jury Hears

By Cara Salvatore

A marketing professor testified Friday in the New Mexico attorney general's social media mental health trial against Meta that the company calculated young teens' value to Facebook at $270 apiece and created "personas" of users as young as 9 to understand how to better "leverage" them.

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DraftKings Denied 7th Circ. Appeal In Sports Betting Ad Suit

By Celeste Bott

An Illinois federal judge rejected DraftKings' bid to certify a question to the Seventh Circuit about whether a mobile app can be a "product" under Illinois product liability law, after he refused last year to dismiss most claims in a proposed class action claiming the company's advertisements fuel gambling addiction.

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Marine's Heart Attack Should Speed Up Cases, Court Told

By Emily Field

Veterans and family members suing over injuries from toxic water at Camp Lejeune on Thursday pushed a North Carolina judge to hasten the pace of the vast litigation, saying that a former military lawyer's recent massive heart attack and the declining health of other plaintiffs underscores the need to get to a quick resolution.

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Exxon's Bid To Pause Tribes' Climate Suit Met With Skepticism

By Rachel Riley

A Washington state judge expressed reluctance on Friday to grant Exxon and other oil giants' request to pause two tribal lawsuits alleging a decades-long campaign to downplay the harm of fossil fuels until the U.S. Supreme Court weighs in on the viability of climate torts in a Colorado case.

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Sunoco Sued Over Pipeline Leak In Philly-Area Neighborhood

By Jonathan Capriel

Homeowners in a community north of Philadelphia are suing Energy Transfer, PBF Energy, Delta Air Lines and a host of other energy companies, alleging that their negligence allowed a pipeline to leak a "massive" amount of jet fuel that contaminated the soil, drinking water and air, destroying their properties.

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Labubu Shows Value Of Patents When Viral Brands Plateau

The rapid ascent of Labubu dolls demonstrated how character-driven products can scale globally without relying heavily on U.S. patents, but risk profiles change as growth stabilizes, and copyright and trade dress protections may not provide enough protection in the long term, says Tina Dorr at Barnes & Thornburg.

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Opinion

AI-Assisted Arbitration Needs Safeguards To Ensure Fairness

As tribunals and arbitral institutions increasingly use artificial intelligence tools in their decision-making processes, ​​​​​​​clear disclosure standards and procedural safeguards are necessary to ensure that efficiency gains do not erode the fairness principles on which arbitration depends, says Alexander Lima at Wesco International.

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DOJ Drops Law Firm Executive Order Appeals

By Alison Knezevich and Lauren Berg

The Trump administration told the D.C. Circuit on Monday that it is dropping its fight over executive orders targeting four law firms.

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Dems Probe Trump 'Fixer' In Kirkland Pro Bono Deal

By Lauren Berg

Top Democratic legislators who are investigating the legality of pro bono agreements some BigLaw firms made with President Donald Trump demanded Monday that Kirkland & Ellis LLP provide information about the involvement of Boris Epshteyn, whom the lawmakers called Trump's "legal fixer and co-conspirator to overturn the 2020 presidential election."

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Analysis

4 Things That Likely Sealed Fate Of SCOTUSblog Founder

By Jared Foretek

When 12 "guilty" verdicts were read aloud by the jury in SCOTUSblog founder Thomas Goldstein's tax evasion and mortgage fraud trial last week, it was the culmination of a 16-day trial that took jurors deep into Goldstein's ultra high-stakes poker playing, his lavish lifestyle and his former law firm's accounting. Here, Law360 looks at four key pieces of evidence that likely moved jurors to their decision.

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Hagens Berman Denied Rehearing Bid In Sanctions Dispute

By Emma Cueto

The Third Circuit on Monday rejected plaintiffs firm Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP's request to reconsider weighing in on the sanctions dispute in a since-dropped product liability case that resulted in the trial court judge referring the firm for possible criminal investigation.

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Ex-Atty Kossoff Axed From Bankruptcy Case Amid Appeal

By Emily Sawicki

A New York bankruptcy judge determined he has jurisdiction over litigation stemming from the collapse of real estate law firm Kossoff PLLC after its principal stole $14 million from its clients, finding the firm's founder may be dismissed as a defendant because the now imprisoned, disbarred lawyer "appears to be judgment-proof."

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Scientists Slam 'Political Attack' On Judges' Reference Book

By Lauren Berg

Partisan politics is interfering with a reference manual judges routinely rely on to understand complicated scientific evidence, according to more than two dozen contributors who on Monday raised the alarm about Republican attorneys general successfully lobbying for a chapter on climate change to be deleted.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court's docket last week featured headline-grabbing disputes involving fast food giant Jack in the Box and boxing legend Mike Tyson's cannabis venture, alongside high-stakes fights over merger documents, appraisal rights and a $75 million renewable energy funding clash.

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Roundup

The Top In-House Hires Of February

By Michele Gorman

Legal department hires during the second month of 2026 included high-profile appointments at Walmart, Walgreens and the Big 12 Conference. Here, Law360 Pulse looks at some of the top in-house announcements from February.

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