Most Ozempic, Wegovy Claims Survive MDL Dismissal Bid

By Matthew Santoni

Eli Lilly & Co. and Novo Nordisk will have to face most of a multidistrict litigation accusing them of misleading consumers over the risks and benefits of popular weight loss drugs like Ozempic and Trulicity, after a Pennsylvania federal judge only trimmed a few of the dozen claims the drugmakers tried to have tossed.

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Tesla Drivers Nab Class Cert. In 'Full Self-Driving' Suit

By Rae Ann Varona

A California federal judge Monday granted class certification in a consolidated lawsuit that accused Tesla Inc. of duping drivers into falsely believing that its cars can fully pilot themselves, but made some modifications to proposed class definitions.

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Meta Faces Senate Probe Over AI Chatbots' Talks With Kids

By Allison Grande

Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri has launched an investigation into how artificial intelligence-fueled chatbots being deployed by Meta interact with children, following reports that the social media giant internally approved rules that would enable these products to engage "romantic" and "sensual" exchanges with minors. 

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4th Circ. Revives Ethylene Oxide Suit Against Union Carbide

By Juan-Carlos Rodriguez

A split Fourth Circuit on Monday revived a West Virginia woman's lawsuit alleging that a Union Carbide Corp.- and Covestro LLC-owned plant exposed nearby residents to ethylene oxide, finding that a lower court erred in siding with the companies.

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Monsanto Reaches Terms To Settle Wash. School PCB Torts

By Rachel Riley

Monsanto has come to tentative settlement terms to end claims from roughly 200 people who say they developed various health problems from chemical contamination at a Washington state school site, parent company Bayer AG said Monday.

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NJ Firms End Battle Over $25M Fee In Verizon Pole Injury Case

By Jake Maher

Several New Jersey firms have ended a long dispute over a $25 million fee from a personal injury case against Verizon in a suit that already went to trial in 2021 and recently had another trial ordered.

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Boehringer Long Ignored Zantac's Cancer Risks, Jury Hears

By Lauraann Wood

Boehringer Ingelheim ignored years of mounting concerns that the active ingredient in its over-the-counter drug Zantac degraded into a highly toxic compound, and it simply changed the color of its tablets to shield their problems, a colorectal cancer patient told an Illinois state jury Monday.

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Texas Investigates Meta Over AI Mental Health Services

By Jonathan Capriel

The Texas attorney general said his office will investigate Meta AI Studio and Character.AI on allegations they are misleading consumers into thinking their chatbots are mental health tools, according to an announcement issued Monday, which also suggested the companies' activities may violate the state's privacy laws.

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Amazon Settles Suit Over Child's Button Battery Burn Injuries

By Y. Peter Kang

A Washington federal judge has approved a settlement in a suit seeking to hold Amazon liable for severe injuries suffered by a toddler who ingested a small lithium-ion battery sold by a third-party company on Amazon, saying the terms of the deal are fair and reasonable.

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Williams-Sonoma Loses Bid To Narrow Thread-Count Class

By Craig Clough

A California federal judge on Monday denied Williams-Sonoma's bid to exclude certain class members from a suit alleging it misled consumers about the thread count of its bedding, finding the company did not meet its burden to establish the consumers agreed to arbitrate their claims.

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Akero Investor Suit Over Liver Drug Trials Permanently Tossed

By Gina Kim

A California federal judge has permanently ended Akero Therapeutics investors' proposed class action alleging they were misled about the patient population in the company's liver disease treatment clinical trial, ruling the investors did not "fill-in the logical gaps" she previously identified when dismissing their earlier pleading for failing to plead scienter. 

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DEA Asks Health Officials To Review Psilocybin Rescheduling

By Sam Reisman

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has transmitted a request to loosen federal restrictions on psilocybin, the main compound in psychoactive mushrooms, to federal health officials for a scientific and medical analysis, according to emails reviewed by Law360.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Sydney Price and Jeff Montgomery

Executives and board members of Cencora Corp. tentatively settled a stockholder derivative suit for $111.25 million, VectoIQ board members reached a $6.3 million deal on stockholder claims over electric carmaker Nikola's prospects, and class attorneys who secured a $50 million derivative suit settlement saw their proposed 25% attorney fee cut by almost half. Here's the latest from the Delaware Chancery Court.

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Vt. Says It Has The Authority To Enact Climate Superfund Law

By Keith Goldberg

Vermont has urged a federal judge to dismiss lawsuits challenging its recently enacted climate change Superfund law, saying it's a valid exercise of the state's authority to raise revenue and protect its citizens against environmental harms.

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Brief

McDonald's Settles Colo. Buyer's Quarter Pounder E. Coli Suit

By Bonnie Eslinger

McDonald's has struck a deal to end a Colorado customer's Illinois state court lawsuit over a 2024 E. coli outbreak linked to the company's Quarter Pounder hamburgers, according to a court filing.

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Boeing Slams Fund's 737 Max 'Zombie' Fraud Claims

By Linda Chiem

Boeing told an Illinois federal judge that an investment fund has lobbed untimely "zombie" claims seeking to hold the American aerospace giant liable for allegedly misrepresenting the overall safety of the 737 Max 8 after two deadly crashes in 2018 and 2019. 

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Cannabis Interests Challenging Federal Pot Ban Get Extension

By Sam Reisman

The U.S. Supreme Court has said that marijuana companies challenging the federal ban on cannabis can have until October to submit their petition for a writ of certiorari.

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Ill. Toxic Tort Jurisdiction Law Raises Constitutional Concerns

Illinois' S.B. 328, purporting to broaden state courts' jurisdictional reach over out-of-state corporations, is presented as a measure aimed at facilitating recovery in toxic tort cases, but the legislation raises significant due process and dormant commerce clause issues, say attorneys at Alston & Bird.

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Top Takeaways From Trump's AI Action Plan

President Donald Trump's AI Action Plan represents some notable evolution in U.S. policy, including affirmation of the administration's trend toward prioritizing artificial intelligence innovation over guardrails and toward supporting greater U.S. private sector reach overseas, say attorneys at WilmerHale.

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Rebuttal

BigLaw Settlements Should Not Spur Ethics Deregulation

A recent Law360 op-ed argued that loosening law firm funding restrictions would make BigLaw firms less inclined to settle with the Trump administration, but deregulating legal financing ethics may well prove to be not merely ineffective, but counterproductive, says Laurel Kilgour at the American Economic Liberties Project.

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Litigation Funder Burford Eyes Investments In US Law Firms

By Ryan Boysen

Burford Capital LLC, the world's largest litigation funder, is eyeing an investment model to put money directly in U.S. law firms after years of investing in U.S. lawsuits, its chief development officer told Law360 Pulse.

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Fired DOJ Antitrust Deputy Warns Of Lobbyist Influence

By Matthew Perlman

The former top deputy for the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division, Roger P. Alford, defended the agency's leadership Monday while calling out a pair of senior officials and warning of the influence that lobbyists are wielding over merger reviews and other issues.

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Fried Frank Escapes Sanctions Over Flawed RICO Patent Suit

By Emily Sawicki

A Florida federal court has rejected sanctions motions leveled against Tristar Products Inc. and its counsel at Fried Frank for bringing a doomed anti-racketeering patent fraud lawsuit against Telebrands Corp., finding that the claims were not frivolous despite "myriad" flaws and "sloppy lawyering."

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SDNY Judges OK Trump's Selection Of Jay Clayton As US Atty

By Hailey Konnath

The Southern District of New York on Monday permitted Jay Clayton to continue overseeing the district's prosecutorial office, appointing Clayton as U.S. attorney just a day before his tenure as interim U.S. attorney was set to expire.

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Burr & Forman Must Face Claims From Healthcare Scheme

By Chart Riggall

A Georgia federal judge has denied Burr & Forman LLP's bid to escape a lawsuit accusing the firm of being party to a massive healthcare fraud scheme, ruling that it must largely face malpractice and breach of fiduciary claims from a pair of bankruptcy trustees.

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NJ Feds Say Habba's US Atty Role Unusual, But Not Unlawful

By Lauren Berg

Acting U.S. Attorney Alina Habba on Monday doubled down on her argument that President Donald Trump legally appointed her New Jersey's top federal prosecutor, telling a federal judge that this is simply "an unusual situation" created when the district court last month refused to extend her interim tenure.

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Lawmaker Pans 'Selective' Charges Over ICE Facility Clash

By Carla Baranauckas

U.S. Rep. LaMonica McIver has moved to dismiss criminal charges against her from a May confrontation with federal agents at an immigrant detention center in Newark, New Jersey, arguing she is immune from prosecution under the U.S. Constitution's speech or debate clause and is being selectively targeted by the government.

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Ex-NY AG Immune From Malicious Prosecution Suit

By Cara Salvatore

Former New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has immunity from a suit by a former New York City Council member claiming wrongful prosecution, a federal judge has ruled.

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Whiteford Taylor Must Face Wire Fraud Malpractice Suit

By Emily Sawicki

A Maryland federal judge has declined to toss the majority of a malpractice and gross negligence suit brought by the founder of a construction company who accused his former business partners and their shared counsel of being partially to blame for hackers stealing his $4 million share of proceeds from the sale of their business.

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Treasury Seeks Input On Tech To Combat Crypto Crimes

By Aislinn Keely

The U.S. Department of the Treasury on Monday asked the public to share feedback on how novel technologies might be used to detect and thwart illicit crypto activity, fulfilling a directive under a recently signed bill to regulate stable value tokens.

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