4 Firms Vie To Lead Investor Class Action Against Roblox

By Jonathan Capriel

Roblox investors who claim they've lost a combined $48 million after an age-verification rollout triggered an 18% stock price collapse are competing to lead the proposed securities class action in California federal court against the online game platform, with Motley Rice LLC, Johnson Van Kwawegen LLP, Grant & Eisenhofer PA and the Rosen Law Firm PA all arguing they are the best firm for the job.

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Meta Loses Appeal Days Before Social Media Trial Begins

By Bonnie Eslinger

The Ninth Circuit said Monday it lacks jurisdictional authority over Meta's appeal in a social-media-addiction multidistrict litigation at this stage, saying Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act can provide a defense to liability but not immunity from a lawsuit.

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Roblox, TikTok, Discord Say CDA Blocks Teen Suicide Suit

By Mike Curley

Roblox, Discord and TikTok are urging a Kentucky federal court to throw out a suit alleging a young teen died by suicide as a result of using their platforms, saying the claims are blocked by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.

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Taylor Farms Pulls Jalapeno Products Over Salmonella Risk

By Lauren Berg

Taylor Farms is pulling from store shelves more than a dozen products containing jalapeno peppers, including salsa and guacamole, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday, as the agencies investigate a salmonella outbreak tied to a grower in northwest Mexico.

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Lack Of Fiduciary Duty Frees Chemours From NC PFAS Suit

By Mike Curley

Chemours Inc., its affiliates and DuPont Industrial Biosciences USA LLC on Monday got the dismissal of a proposed class action by a North Carolina resident over contamination of Brunswick County's water.

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Boeing 737 Max Door Plug Suits Get Special Discovery Judge

By Ben Adlin

A Washington state court appointed retired King County Superior Court Judge Bruce W. Hilyer to oversee discovery matters in more than a dozen lawsuits related to the January 2024 blowout of a Boeing 737 Max 9 jet door plug that allegedly left passengers with physical and emotional injuries.

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Opioid Victims Say Firm Kept Too Much Of Purdue Payouts

By Jared Foretek

A Baltimore woman is accusing a California-based attorney and her firm of illegally withholding thousands of dollars from opioid victims' Purdue Pharma settlement payments in a new class action filed Sunday in Maryland federal court.

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Sig Sauer Can't Slip Suit Alleging Pistols Go Off Accidentally

By Kelcey Caulder

Sig Sauer will have to face a product liability suit brought by a man who claimed a problem with his gun caused him to shoot himself in the finger, a Georgia federal judge said, rejecting the gunmaker's argument that the Second Amendment bars design defect claims.

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Denver Says Tobacco Cos. Should Pay For Cigarette Litter

By Benjamin Morse

Major tobacco companies including Philip Morris USA Inc. and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. knowingly shifted the cost of cleaning up cigarette litter onto Denver, the city alleged in a Colorado state court suit seeking to recover those expenses.

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Simon & Simon Can Shield Some Info In Uber, FedEx Suit

By Rose Krebs

A Pennsylvania federal judge has ruled that Simon & Simon PC can redact the identities of certain personal injury claimants and compensation paid to referral attorneys as it defends claims lodged by Uber and FedEx accusing the firm of a medical records falsification scheme meant to boost injury claims.

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JB Hunt Says Broker Role Clears It Of Liability For Fatal Crash

By Linda Chiem

J.B. Hunt has urged an Arizona federal judge to reject a lawsuit seeking to hold it vicariously liable as the alleged statutory employer of the commercial trucker involved in a 2023 head-on collision that killed two people and seriously injured three children.

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Trump Picks Ex-Personal Lawyer As New White House Counsel

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump's incoming White House counsel is a former personal attorney for the president who is already working for the White House and was at the U.S. Department of Justice during his first term.

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Ill. Gov. Signs Bill Restricting PE Role In Legal Industry

By Emma Cueto

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has signed into law a bill designed to target nonlawyer ownership of law firms, outlawing fee sharing with out-of-state alternative business structures and attempting to place restrictions on law firms' use of managed services organizations.

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Spa Fights 9th Circ.'s 'Swinging Dicks' Order At High Court

By Jeff Overley

The Ninth Circuit's rejection of a spa's religious objections to serving transgender customers is incompatible with several major precedents, according to a U.S. Supreme Court petition filed Monday in litigation that soared in prominence when dozens of circuit judges decried a salacious dissent.

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CREXi Can't Stay CoStar Case For Quinn Emanuel DQ Appeal

By Matthew Perlman

A California federal court rejected a bid Monday from Commercial Real Estate Exchange Inc., or CREXi, for a stay in CoStar's copyright case while CREXi looks to undo the disqualification of its attorneys from Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP.

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Biz Owners Appeal Morgan Lewis Win In Tax Shelter Suit

By Andrea Keckley

A pair of business owners asked the Florida Supreme Court to reverse a decision affirming judgment in favor of Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP in a dispute over whether the law firm had routed income through illegal tax shelters.

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