Analysis

What To Watch For As Meta Stares Down NM Injunction Trial

By Cara Salvatore

The attorney general who convinced a jury to penalize Meta Platforms Inc. $375 million for teen mental health harms now faces a critical follow-up bench trial to fight for a suite of court orders that Meta claims would force "a different Instagram to exist in New Mexico."

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Judge, Atty Get In Shouting Match At Fatal Overdose Trial

By P.J. D'Annunzio

Tensions boiled over in a Philadelphia courtroom Friday at the end of an emotionally fraught trial over a man's fatal opioid overdose, with a judge and lawyer shouting at each other about how to figure out an inconclusive verdict spurred by a seemingly confused juror.

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Amazon Accused Of Selling Kids Sunscreen With Lead

By Emily Field

Consumers on Thursday hit Amazon with a proposed class action in Washington federal court alleging that children's sunscreens it sells are contaminated with heavy metals such as lead and that its artificial intelligence shopping assistant Rufus doesn't disclose details about the product ingredients.

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Q&A

How Paul Clement Does It All

By Katie Buehler

For most lawyers, getting to argue before the U.S. Supreme Court is a once-in-a-lifetime event, but for a select few, it's a common occurrence. Clement & Murphy PLLC name partner Paul Clement is one of those lawyers. 

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Brief

Exxon, Widow End Suit Over Cancer Death Linked To Benzene

By Hayley Fowler

The widow of a former gas station and industrial worker on Friday dropped her suit alleging ExxonMobil Corp.'s benzene-containing products caused her late husband's fatal cancer, according to a joint motion.

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Callaway Takes A Swing At Rival's 'Tortured' False Ad Suit

By Hailey Konnath

Callaway Golf Co. asked a California federal court to throw out claims it has run a disparaging smear campaign portraying TaylorMade Golf Co.'s products as poorly performing, calling the suit "a tortured effort to chill competition."

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Fla. Jury Hears Menthol Smoker Succumbed To Addiction

By Cara Salvatore

A Florida jury heard in opening arguments Friday that a woman who died of lung cancer after smoking R.J. Reynolds cigarettes was a victim of the severely addictive nature of nicotine, something her lawyers said even the U.S. surgeon general didn't acknowledge until 1988.

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Boeing 737 Max Judge Delays Ruling On Punitive Damages

By Ben Adlin

A Washington state judge overseeing Boeing 737 Max passengers' consolidated lawsuit over the 2024 blowout of an aircraft door panel agreed Friday to delay ruling on the company's motion to preclude punitive damages, allowing the plaintiffs an opportunity to conduct further discovery into management's alleged role in the incident.

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Boeing, DOJ Say No Need For Full 5th Circ. Review Of NPA

By Linda Chiem

Boeing and the federal government have said the full Fifth Circuit doesn't need to revisit a panel's decision declining to upend the U.S. Department of Justice's nonprosecution agreement with Boeing closing out allegations the American aerospace giant conspired to defraud safety regulators about its 737 Max jets.

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Supplier Says Travelers Must Cover Nestle Defect Claims

By Hope Patti

An industrial equipment supplier accused of providing defective compressed air piping materials for the construction of a facility owned by Nestle told a North Carolina federal court that two Travelers units must defend and indemnify it in connection with the underlying claim.

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Creek Nation Fights Dismissal Bids Over Alabama Burial Site

By Crystal Owens

The Muscogee Creek Nation is asking a federal district court to reject motions to dismiss its challenge over an excavated sacred burial site in Alabama, arguing that its sister tribe's claims of immunity in the long-running dispute fail under state and federal law.

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Texas High Court Revives Delta-8 THC Restrictions

By Jonathan Capriel

The Lone Star State's health commissioner has the power to ban manufactured delta-8 THC goods, the Texas Supreme Court ruled Friday, lifting a lower court's order that had allowed hemp companies to keep selling these products while they sued the state.

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Sioux Tribes Fight Black Hills Mining Plan Over Sacred Land

By Crystal Owens

Nine Sioux Nations are asking a South Dakota federal court to block the approval of exploratory drilling in the Black Hills National Forest, saying the federal government didn't consider the potential effects the project will have on a sacred Indigenous worship site that contains hundreds of cultural properties.

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Nelson Mullins Hires Career Faegre Drinker Pharma Trial Atty

By Jack Rodgers

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP has expanded its bench of trial attorneys with a lawyer who represents pharmaceutical and medical device companies in product liability, consumer fraud and class action matters.

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NY's Growing Enviro Reg Framework Will Transform Projects

Three closely connected environmental rulemakings in New York state — concerning greenhouse gas reporting, remediation standards and amendments to the State Environmental Quality Review Act — have reached critical stages, and taken together, they will have major impacts on business operations, construction project timelines and transactional risk, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.

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Don't 'Throw' Young Attys Under Bus, Judge Warns Musk Atty

By Dorothy Atkins

The California federal judge presiding over Elon Musk's challenge to OpenAI's for-profit conversion criticized Musk's attorney Marc Toberoff on Friday for eliciting "waste of time" trial testimony into Musk's $97.4 billion acquisition bid, warning Toberoff he "shouldn't throw young lawyers under the bus" by not quickly acknowledging his role.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a California federal jury cleared Armistice Capital and two of its executives of class action claims that it pumped and dumped $250 million in Vaxart stock during the COVID-19 pandemic and violated federal securities law with insider trading.

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Whistleblower Says DOJ Rushed SPLC Indictment

By Courtney Bublé

A whistleblower has come forward to say a top U.S. Department of Justice official ordered prosecutors in Alabama to "rush" the indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center despite concerns about the viability of the case, according to Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee.

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California High Court Rejects Dunn's Bid To Nix Suspension

By Adrian Cruz

The California Supreme Court has declined to review a California State Bar decision to impose a one-year stayed suspension on former State Bar executive Joseph Dunn.

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FTC, DOJ Say ABA Reliance Limits Law School Competition

By Matthew Perlman

The Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division told the Tennessee Supreme Court the American Bar Association's monopoly over law school accreditations is driving up the cost of legal education.

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Analysis

SEC's Corp. Governance Shift Puts Onus On States, Cos.

By Sarah Jarvis

Lawyers who work with clients on corporate governance matters had a warm response to a recent pledge from U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Paul Atkins to let states handle such issues, saying the shift marks a return to the agency's historical approach and may spur increased activity among state regulators.

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Ex-Bondi Adviser Tapped As Fraud Task Force's Chief Lawyer

By Phillip Bantz

Ousted U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi's former adviser is taking on a new role as general counsel for the White House's fraud task force.

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Roundup

GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

A pair of proxy advisory firms have sued two state attorneys general over laws they say impose burdensome requirements for issuing recommendations that go against corporate managers' wishes. Meanwhile, KPMG reports that legal is evolving into a key driver of business performance, and AI is a core component of the department. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.

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Roundup

The Top In-House Hires Of April

By Michele Gorman

Legal department hires during the past month included high-profile appointments at Intel, Colgate and Tripadvisor. Here, Law360 Pulse looks at some of the top in-house announcements from April.

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Roundup

UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

By Laura Stewart Liberty

The past week in London has seen a Swiss energy trader bring a Financial List claim against shipping benchmarking company Baltic Exchange, law firm Slater and Gordon sued by a former client, Slack and Salesforce hit Microsoft with an antitrust claim, and Stephen Fry bring a personal injury claim after he broke bones falling off a stage. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

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In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Law360

For those who missed out, here's a look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the most buzz on Law360 last week.

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