Product Liability Cases To Watch: Midyear Report

By Emily Field

Social media companies are headed back to court over allegations that their platforms are designed to hook young people, while OpenAI faces claims that ChatGPT has meted out harmful health advice and helped users plan mass shootings. Here's what's on the radar for product liability for the rest of 2026.

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Analysis

How Plaintiffs Won A $604M Verdict Against CH Robinson

By Spencer Brewer

Roland Christensen of Arnold & Itkin LLP said that for the life of him, he couldn't understand why C.H. Robinson didn't cut a deal offered by the families of victims who burned to death following an 18-wheeler crash.

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UN Worker Died In 'Needless' Boeing Crash, Ill. Jury Hears

By Lauraann Wood

Boeing should pay substantial damages to the family of a former United Nations engineer who had a "magnetism" that spread light and comfort to others before he died in a "needless" and preventable plane crash aboard Ethiopian Air Flight ET302, Illinois federal jurors heard Wednesday.

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Senate Version Of Kids' Online Safety Legislation Clears Panel

By Allison Grande

A key U.S. Senate committee Wednesday advanced four legislative proposals designed to shield children from online harms presented by addictive design features and artificial intelligence-powered chatbots, setting up a clash with a package of digital safety bills that has already passed the House but that several senators have blasted as "toothless."

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Glenmark Pharma Hit With Safety Suit After Carvedilol Recalls

By Craig Clough

Glenmark Pharmaceuticals' generic drug carvedilol, used to treat high blood pressure and congestive heart failure, was misrepresented as therapeutically equivalent to the brand-name drug Coreg but contained undisclosed nitrosamine impurities that changed its strength, quality and safety profile, according to a proposed class action filed Tuesday in Washington federal court.

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Sunbeam Settles Over Alleged Exploding Pressure Cookers

By Jonathan Capriel

The mother of a child who suffered severe burns to her face after a Sunbeam pressure cooker allegedly exploded is asking a Florida federal court to approve a confidential settlement to end their claims, reaching the deal in the middle of the trial.

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Tesla Says Ky. Man's Full Self-Driving Fraud Suit Is Untimely

By Gina Kim

Tesla has moved to nix a customer's proposed class action alleging the company duped him into thinking its vehicles can fully drive themselves, arguing in California federal court Tuesday that his claims are untimely and overlap with a similar consolidated consumer protection action.

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Texas Panel Cuts China Golf Cart-Maker From Fatal Crash Suit

By Jonathan Capriel

Litigation concerning a fatal golf cart rollover at a San Antonio country club that killed a passenger and severely injured another will have to proceed without the Chinese manufacturer as a defendant, a state appeals court ruled on Monday after finding Texas courts didn't have jurisdiction.

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Amazon Loses Bid To Bar Trucking Expert In Fatal Crash Suit

By Mike Curley

A Texas federal magistrate judge won't let Amazon strike an opinion from a trucking expert in a suit alleging a driver hauling Amazon cargo crashed into another vehicle, killing one of its occupants.

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Insurers Seek $2M In Fees After Arbitrator Removal Bid Fails

By Corey Rothauser

A group of reinsurers has asked a New York federal court to order Truck Insurance Exchange to pay roughly $2.14 million in attorney fees and costs, arguing the insurer's unsuccessful lawsuit seeking to disqualify an arbitrator was brought in "obvious breach" of a covenant not to sue.

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Wyoming Judge Says Congress Nixed Coal Lease Fight

By Tom Lotshaw

A Wyoming federal judge dismissed a series of cases challenging resource management plans that ended new coal leasing on federal lands in the Powder River Basin, agreeing that the dispute ended when Congress repealed the plans.

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Judge Says Firearms Act Can't Stand After Gun Taxes Zeroed

By Asha Glover

A Texas federal court ruled Wednesday that the National Firearms Act and its enforcement of registration and transfer requirements are unconstitutional in light of the 2025 federal budget bill's elimination of taxes on certain firearms, handing a win to several gun rights advocacy groups.

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DC Gun Ban Suit Paused For High Court Look At Ill. Case

By Jared Foretek

A D.C. federal judge has stayed the Trump administration's challenge to the city's prohibition on silencers and AR-15s, ordering the case to remain on ice until the U.S. Supreme Court rules on a similar challenge to semiautomatic bans in Illinois and Connecticut.

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Calif. Drug Ruling Affirms Defect-Centric Liability Framework

The California Supreme Court's decision in Gilead Tenofovir Cases this week rejects a novel duty-to-innovate theory of negligence that could have reshaped product liability exposure well beyond the pharmaceutical industry, instead signaling that negligence claims premised on nondefective products are unlikely to succeed, say attorneys at Dechert.

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Brown Rudnick Adds 34 Attys, Will Open Silicon Valley Office

By Daniel Moritz-Rabson

Brown Rudnick LLP announced on Wednesday that it had lured a 34-attorney intellectual property litigation group from Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP and would be opening a Silicon Valley office with many of those lawyers.

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Law Grad Employment Remains High As BigLaw Drives Hires

By Aebra Coe

Class of 2025 law school graduates posted near-record high employment rates, with large law firms hiring more graduates than any other industry category as federal government hiring experienced a significant decline, according to new data released Wednesday.

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Analysis

These Firms Are Picking Up The Most PTAB Work

By Theresa Schliep

Intellectual property heavyweight Fish & Richardson PC remains the busiest firm in front of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, as it again secured the top spot on a list of firms with the most PTAB trials over the past three years.

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Murdaugh Loses Jury Tampering Suit Against Ex-Court Clerk

By Jake Maher

A South Carolina federal judge on Wednesday dismissed disgraced attorney Alex Murdaugh's jury tampering suit against a former court clerk who was found to have interfered in his murder trial, ruling there was no connection between his alleged damages and the ex-clerk's misconduct.

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New Mexico Joins States With Alternative Atty License Paths

By Jack Karp

Law school graduates will soon be able to earn their license to practice in New Mexico by working under an attorney's supervision and demonstrating their legal skills rather than by taking the bar exam, the state's Supreme Court chief justice told Law360 Pulse on Wednesday.

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New Mexico Says Blanche, DOJ Blocked Epstein Ranch Probe

By Lauren Berg

The state of New Mexico asked a Washington, D.C., federal court Wednesday to force the U.S. Department of Justice to hand over unredacted Jeffrey Epstein investigative files, saying it needs the materials for its own investigation of alleged crimes at the late sex offender's Santa Fe County ranch.

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Texas Firm Lands $150M HHS Services Deal For Migrant Kids

By Britain Eakin

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said it has entered into a $150 million contract with a small Texas law firm to provide legal services to unaccompanied immigrant children, raising concerns from former subcontractors about the firm's experience with immigration matters.

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Simpson Thacher Witness Takes Aim At PIPE Stocks Claim

By Madison Arnold

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP wrapped up its defense Wednesday to a Florida state malpractice suit from the founder of Patriot National Inc. over the firm's handling of a private investment in public equity transaction, with a stock market expert testifying that short selling stock allowed under the deal didn't lead to the insurance services company's downfall.

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Conn. Atty To Fork Over $3,500 For AI Errors In Taco TM Beef

By Brian Steele

A Connecticut federal judge imposed a $3,500 fine on a defense attorney who submitted two motions riddled with AI-generated mistakes in a taco restaurant's trademark battle, finding that although the lawyer expressed remorse and promised to make changes to his verification process, he still showed "subjective bad faith."

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Sierra Leone Isn't Responding To Its Own Attys, Judge Told

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

A second law firm now says it is being iced out by the government of Sierra Leone in a yearslong legal battle that began over the country's dispute with a U.K.-based mining company.

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NY Legal Aid Union Averts Strike After 4 Months Of Talks

By Andrea Keckley

Another New York legal aid union has reached a deal with its organization's management, averting the possibility of a strike after its contract and those of four other unions expired at the end of June.

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CREXi Wants 9th Circ. To Undo Quinn Emanuel CoStar Row DQ

By Bryan Koenig

Commercial Real Estate Exchange Inc. doesn't want to replace Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP after a California federal judge disqualified the firm from defending a copyright infringement suit by CoStar, seeking Ninth Circuit intervention and a pause on the district court case.

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