W.Va. Strikes $11.5M Deal With Roblox Over Kid Safety

By Emily Field

The West Virginia attorney general on Tuesday said his office had reached an $11 million settlement with gaming platform Roblox that will "fundamentally overhaul" the embattled company's child safety protections with mandatory age verification and limits on adult interactions with minors.

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Merck Beats Minn. Hockey Player's Talc Mesothelioma Claims

By Cara Salvatore

A Chicago jury has found Merck & Co. not liable for a hockey player's mesothelioma allegedly caused by the Dr. Scholl's talc foot powder he used regularly for years.

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Philly Zantac Judge Again Declines To Recuse From Cases

By P.J. D'Annunzio

A Philadelphia judge overseeing the Zantac mass tort litigation against GlaxoSmithKline has once again denied a motion to recuse himself from the cases, claiming that his wife's affiliation with a firm representing a defendant in the litigation did not present a conflict that required him to step away.

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Fla. Probes OpenAI Over Alleged ChatGPT FSU Shooting Role

By Jonathan Capriel

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced Tuesday he has launched a criminal investigation into OpenAI Inc., accusing its ChatGPT chatbot of acting as an accomplice to the Florida State University shooting suspect, who is charged with killing two and injuring six, by providing specific tactical advice on weapons, timing and location.

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Deposition Sinks Social Media Bellwether Case, Judge Told

By Craig Clough

Social media companies urged a California federal judge at a hearing Tuesday to toss a bellwether case in sprawling litigation accusing the companies of harming children's mental health, arguing that the plaintiff admitted during his deposition that he was not harmed by the platform's features, sinking his claims.

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7th Circ. Says Fed. Laws Don't Preempt Wis. Vape Sale Ban

By Gina Kim

The Seventh Circuit declined Tuesday to revive vaping interest groups' bid to halt enforcement of a Wisconsin law banning sales of e-cigarettes that aren't approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, finding federal law doesn't preempt the state's authority to regulate the marketing and sales of tobacco products. 

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Ruger Says Colo. Law Applies In Conn. Mass Shooting Suits

By Mike Curley

Sturm Ruger & Co. Inc. is asking a Connecticut state court to find that Colorado, not Connecticut, law applies to a pair of suits from families of the victims of a 2021 Boulder mass shooting, saying Connecticut has little to no connection with the company's alleged wrongdoing.

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Drivers Drop Stellantis Door Panel Defect Suit

By Melanie Dorsey

A Michigan federal judge has dismissed a putative class action accusing Stellantis of selling certain Dodge Chargers and Chrysler 300 vehicles with interior door panels prone to warping, after the car company and its customers stipulated to end the case following earlier rulings that had narrowed the claims to a single cause of action. 

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NJ Panel Won't Nix Plumber's $2M Injury Trial Win

By Mike Curley

A New Jersey appeals court on Tuesday rejected a contractor's bid to throw out a $2 million verdict won by a plumber in an injury suit, saying the contractor could not object to jury instructions that it accepted at trial just because its trial strategy backfired.

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NJ Panel Finds Ski Act Blocks Snow Tubing Injury Suit

By Mike Curley

A New Jersey appeals panel has dismissed with prejudice a suit from a man injured while snow tubing at a Bergen County site, finding the state's Ski Act applies to snow tubing and overrides his common law claims.

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Calif. Says City Skirted Duties After Tribal Remains Found At Site

By Ganesh Setty

California has accused a southern city in the state of failing to conduct further environmental review after Native American remains were discovered at a luxury home development site, saying the city improperly let certain construction activities continue.

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Feds Say Pot Foes Lack Standing To Stop CMS Hemp Program

By Sam Reisman

Federal health regulators have told a D.C. federal judge that anti-pot advocates' attempt to block a program to ease access for Medicare beneficiaries to federally legal hemp products that have small amounts of THC was not bolstered by the addition of a pharmaceutical company as a co-plaintiff.

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Enviro Orgs., Tribe Say Neb. Power Line Will 'Slice' Landscape

By Crystal Owens

The Rosebud Sioux Tribe, a historic ranch and conservation organizations are asking a Colorado federal court to block the construction of a 226-mile, high-voltage power line through the Nebraska Sandhills, arguing it will destroy iconic Indigenous and historic cultural landscapes, artifacts and resources if allowed to continue.

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Feds Say Arctic Lease Sale For Oil Drilling Begins In June

By Joyce Hanson

The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management has announced that it will hold an oil and gas lease sale on the 1.56-million-acre Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, saying the bid opening for tracts will take place June 5.

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E-Discovery Quarterly: Recent Rulings On ESI Control

Several recent federal court decisions have perpetuated a split over what constitutes “control” of electronically stored information — with judges divided on whether the standard should turn on a party's legal right or practical ability to obtain the information, say attorneys at Sidley.

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Some Firms Break Lobbying Revenue Records Again

By Alison Knezevich

After raking in record-breaking federal lobbying revenue last year, several firms reported this week that they had their strongest quarter ever in the first three months of 2026, with practice leaders predicting another busy period ahead as midterms approach.

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Breyer Says 'Shadow Docket' Not A Top Court Power Grab

By Carolyn Muyskens

Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer said Tuesday that the rise of the so-called shadow docket is a consequence of the post-COVID era and not a bid to usurp influence by the high court. 

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Sullivan & Cromwell Alerts SDNY To AI Errors In Ch. 15 Case

By Andrea Keckley

Sullivan & Cromwell LLP told a New York bankruptcy judge Saturday that an emergency motion it filed in Prince Global Holdings Ltd.'s Chapter 15 case contained several inaccurate citations and other errors, including what the firm described as artificial intelligence "hallucinations."

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Pillsbury Unlawfully Fired Pregnant Recruiter, Bias Suit Says

By Lauren Berg

The former Black female director for associate recruiting at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP says she was unlawfully fired just weeks after disclosing her high-risk pregnancy to her supervisor, according to her discrimination and retaliation lawsuit filed Tuesday in Tennessee federal court.

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WDTX Judge Albright Stepping Down At End Of Summer

By Dani Kass

U.S. District Judge Alan Albright is resigning after nearly eight years presiding over cases in the Western District of Texas, Law360 confirmed Tuesday.

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Ex-Wis. Judge Argues ICE Case Reversal Backs Her Acquittal

By Craig Clough

Former state Judge Hannah Dugan asked a Wisconsin federal judge Tuesday to reconsider an order not to overturn her felony obstruction conviction for directing a defendant in her courtroom away from immigration agents, arguing the Fourth Circuit recently reversed a decision the trial court repeatedly relied upon.

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Warsh Rejects Claim He'd Be Trump's 'Sock Puppet' At Fed

By Jon Hill

Federal Reserve chair nominee Kevin Warsh sought at his Tuesday confirmation hearing to rebut Democratic accusations that he would be a White House "sock puppet," distancing himself from President Donald Trump's calls for rate cuts and downplaying their significance.

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Copyright Head Touts 6,000 Registrations Of Human-AI Works

By Theresa Schliep

The U.S. Copyright Office has issued more than 6,000 registrations for works that incorporate artificial intelligence-generated materials and follow the agency's guidance for combined human-made and AI-created works, U.S. Copyright Office leader Shira Perlmutter said Tuesday.

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