Teens Are Meta's 'Collateral Damage,' Jury Hears In Closings

By Cara Salvatore

New Mexico on Monday closed out its trial against Meta over allegedly undisclosed mental health harms, telling a jury the social media giant openly committed to "move fast and break things" but hid that minors "are the collateral damage, what's broken when Meta moved fast."

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Social Media Jurors Say They Are Deadlocked On A Defendant

By Craig Clough

A California jury considering claims Meta and Google harm children's mental health through their social media platforms reported Monday that it is deadlocked as to one of the defendants, but it wasn't clear if the jury is stuck on the question of liability or on potential punitive damages.

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Wagstaff Law Firm Backs $7.25B Roundup Deal

By Emily Field

The founding partner of Wagstaff Law Firm and co-lead counsel in federal multidistrict litigation over claims that weed killer Roundup is a carcinogen announced her support on Monday for a $7.25 million deal to end current and future claims that the herbicide causes non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

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Roundup

Injury Law Roundup: Meta Atty Uses Jane Doe Plaintiff's Name

By Y. Peter Kang

A Meta attorney's gaffe and Mark Zuckerberg's testimony in the closely watched social media addiction bellwether trial, and an announced $7.25 billion settlement by Bayer over Roundup weedkiller claims, lead Law360's Injury Law Roundup.

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Social Media Atty Sanctioned For 'Most Shameful Moment'

By Craig Clough

A California judge on Monday sanctioned an attorney for the plaintiff in a bellwether trial alleging Meta Platforms and Google's social media platforms harm children's mental health, fining him $1,100 and keeping him off the plaintiffs' steering committee for violating court rules by twice filming inside the courthouse.

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Analysis

LaGuardia Airport Runway Collision: What We Know So Far

By Linda Chiem

A late Sunday runway collision between an Air Canada passenger jet and a fire truck marked the first deadly accident at LaGuardia Airport in more than three decades, federal and state officials said, raising troubling questions about air traffic control procedures at one of the busiest airports serving the New York metropolitan area.

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Agilent, Axion End Cell Analysis IP Suit After Jury Selection

By Adam Lidgett

Laboratory equipment company Agilent Technologies and biotechnology business Axion BioSystems have agreed to end litigation accusing Axion of patent infringement, just before trial was to start Monday.

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CooperSurgical Fights Docs Request In Embryo Loss Suit

By Jonathan Capriel

Fertility company CooperSurgical Inc. is pushing back against a bid to compel the release of internal financial and other records in litigation brought by a couple who claims the company negligently destroyed their embryos with its recalled culture media, calling the request overly broad.

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J&J Amici Seek Clarity On Goldman Precedent For Class Cert.

By Jarek Rutz

Four groups of amici have urged the U.S. Supreme Court to take up Johnson & Johnson's challenge to a Third Circuit decision allowing a securities class action over its talc products to proceed, warning the ruling could reshape how shareholder suits are litigated nationwide.

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Truck Insurance Wants Arbitrator Dispute Back In State Court

By Hope Patti

Truck Insurance Exchange urged a New York federal court to remand its bid to disqualify an arbitrator, who previously served as the insurer's attorney, from an asbestos coverage fight with a group of reinsurers, saying the court lacks subject matter jurisdiction.

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Ex-White Sox Star Thomas Sues Team, Nike Over Jersey Sales

By Celeste Bott

Former Chicago White Sox player Frank Thomas has sued his ex-team, Nike and Fanatics in Illinois state court, claiming they unlawfully sold jerseys bearing his name and number without his consent and without compensating him in any way.

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Snap Says Texas Child Harm Suit Would Limit DHS, FDA Work

By José Luis Martínez

Snap Inc. has moved Texas' lawsuit over Snapchat's alleged harms to minors into federal court, arguing that the case targets conduct tied to its work with federal agencies to deliver public health and safety messaging to teens.

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Duke Health's $3.7M Pixel Privacy Deal Gets Initial OK

By Abigail Harrison

Hundreds of thousands of Duke University Health System Inc. patients are one step closer to securing a share of a $3.7 million settlement stemming from a health data tracking suit involving Meta's Pixel, after a North Carolina federal court granted preliminary approval of the class action settlement.

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NC High Court Nixes Mold Claims Over Contract Limit

By Mike Curley

The North Carolina Supreme Court has thrown out a couple's suit against a contractor over water and mold damage to their home, finding that a one-year limitation on claims in their work contract applies over the four-year statute of limitations in the state's Unfair and Deceptive Trade Practices Act.

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Calif. Sues To Stop Trump's 'Power Grab' To Restart Pipeline

By Lauren Berg

California slammed as a "breathtaking power grab" the U.S. Department of Energy's order directing Sable Offshore Corp. to restart a pipeline in Southern California that was shuttered in 2015 following a massive oil spill, asserting in a lawsuit Monday that the order is a "stunning usurpation" of state authority. 

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How 2 Decisions Reframed Witness-Centered Trials

The recent Maryland federal jury verdict in U.S. v. Goldstein and the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Villarreal v. Texas suggest that the traditional paradigm of American civil trial practice, with its emphasis on witness performance and assertive advocacy, may not reflect the ideal approach for the modern courtroom, says Joshua Robbins at Crowell & Moring.

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Labor & Employment Head Named Next Morgan Lewis Chair

By Tracey Read

Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP announced Monday that the global leader of its labor and employment practice was unanimously elected as the firm's next chair to take over for Jami McKeon, who will retire at the end of the year.

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NJ Judges Name US Atty In Apparent End To Leadership Fight

By Jake Maher

The New Jersey federal court on Monday appointed a career federal prosecutor to serve as U.S. attorney for the Garden State in what appears to end a lengthy standoff between district judges and the U.S. Department of Justice over leadership of the office.

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Immigration Judges To Challenge Their Firing At Fed. Circ.

By Britain Eakin

Attorneys for a pair of fired immigration judges said Monday they will ask the Federal Circuit to review a federal panel ruling that stripped them of civil service protections, warning of a dramatic expansion of presidential authority over the civil workforce.

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Day Pitney Fights DQ Over Ex-Justice's Time On Case He Heard

By Aaron Keller

Day Pitney LLP has apologized after former Connecticut Supreme Court Chief Justice Richard A. Robinson, now a firm partner, billed 15.7 hours for reviewing a since-remanded case he heard years ago as a justice, but the firm said the "error" should not disqualify its other lawyers from advancing the litigation. 

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Reed Smith Pushes To Continue Atty Depo In NJ Bias Suit

By Jake Maher

Reed Smith LLP is urging a New Jersey state trial court to allow it to resume its deposition of a former attorney suing it for gender discrimination years after the last deposition date in the wake of an appeals court decision widely expanding the scope of discovery.

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Ramey IP Attys, Client Must Pay $107K Fees In Bad-Faith Suit

By Emily Sawicki

A San Francisco federal judge has ordered three sanctioned attorneys, including Texas intellectual property lawyer William Ramey III, together with their client, to cover $107,389 in attorney fees stemming from three identical patent suits the lawyers launched and withdrew in 2024, also ordering Ramey to show cause why he should not face further sanctions.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court's docket this past week featured high-stakes disputes involving major consumer brands, a reinstated video game executive, revived noncompete and compensation claims and fresh allegations of corporate misconduct in the healthcare sector.

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