Monsanto Cleared In Latest Roundup Trial After $90M Ask

By Cara Salvatore

Missouri jurors cleared Monsanto Thursday in the first Roundup trial since a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling, after they were urged during closing arguments to award $10 million to $30 million for each of three plaintiffs who developed lymphoma after regularly using the Monsanto pesticide.

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Wash. Jury Asked To Pin Blame For Fatal 2022 Seaplane Crash

By Rachel Riley

The owner of a seaplane involved in a deadly 2022 crash told a Washington state jury on Thursday that a design flaw caused the aircraft to plunge into the bay below, contending an affiliate of the plane's Canadian manufacturer owes $1.14 million for equipment destroyed in the crash.

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Navy Beats Clean Water Act Suit Over Fuel Discharges

By Madeline Lyskawa

A Hawaii federal judge ruled in favor of the U.S. Navy over an environmental group's claims it violated the Clean Water Act by discharging fuel into Pearl Harbor, saying there's no reasonable likelihood that the Navy will continue to do so.

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Tort Reform Helps Walmart Upend Loss In Fall Case

By David Aaro

A Georgia appeals court on Thursday backed Walmart's bid for a new trial in a slip-and-fall case in which a woman won a $975,000 verdict, saying her attorneys' references to monetary values for pain and suffering during closing arguments didn't fly under a 2025 amendment to state law.

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Ex-ComEd CEO, Lobbyist Signal Plea Deal Over Retrial

By Celeste Bott

Attorneys for Commonwealth Edison's former CEO and a longtime lobbyist told an Illinois federal judge on Thursday that they are in talks with the government about plea deals rather than an anticipated retrial next year on charges that they conspired to win former Illinois Speaker Michael Madigan's legislative favor in exchange for do-nothing jobs for his allies.

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Fugitive Former Conn. Official Must Pay Capital One $25K

By Aaron Keller

A onetime Connecticut budget official who fled to Greece as sentencing neared in one federal public corruption case and a trial loomed in another must pay more than $25,000 to cover the balance of a Capital One personal loan, a state judge has ruled.

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Mass. Panel Won't Undo OUI Plea Over Now-Void Breath Test

By Julie Manganis

A Massachusetts man cannot take back his 2015 admission to operating under the influence based on later revelations of state crime lab misconduct concerning the calibration of breath-test devices, given the other "overwhelming" evidence of drunken driving, an intermediate state appellate court said Thursday.

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Spoliation Silence Should End Price-Fixing Claims, Court Told

By Lauraann Wood

Broiler chicken producers defending sprawling price-fixing accusations in Illinois argue two Burford Capital units' intentional discovery misconduct that destroyed key bid-rigging evidence should bar the litigation funding units from pursuing claims in two food distributors' place.

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EMT Immunity Doesn't Cover Driving, Wash. Justices Say

By Ben Adlin

Emergency medical technicians' qualified immunity from negligence claims in Washington does not extend to driving ambulances, a divided state Supreme Court held Thursday, ruling that the transportation of patients falls outside EMTs' statutory immunity for rendering emergency services.

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Pa. Supreme Court OKs Cancer Misdiagnosis Retrial

By Y. Peter Kang

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Thursday greenlighted a new trial in a suit accusing a doctor of rendering the wrong type of cancer treatment to a patient, which caused her to die more quickly, solidifying the state's risk of harm standard in medical malpractice cases.

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McCarter Can Keep ABA Report Quotes In Loan Suit Brief

By Brian Steele

A Connecticut state judge will not order McCarter & English LLP to file a new post-trial reply brief in a $21.3 million malpractice case over collapsed loan transactions, despite two insurers' arguments that the firm improperly quoted a treatise that was never admitted into evidence.

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MoFo Adds 2 Paul Weiss Attys, Including Biz Litigation Leader

By Andrea Keckley

Morrison Foerster announced the addition of two litigators from Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP on Thursday as partners in New York, including a returning partner who will lead the firm's business litigation and disputes team.

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How To ID And Respond To 5 Types Of Misleading Witnesses

Witnesses can mislead fact-finders using a variety of tactics — from strategic amnesia to manufactured ignorance — but lawyers can learn how to identify and expose this testimony to come out on top, says Allison Rocker at Baker McKenzie.

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Are You Happy With Your In-House Role? Take Our Survey

Is your company giving you everything you need to succeed? What are some misconceptions about working in-house? Help Law360 Pulse answer these questions and more in this year's In-House Satisfaction Survey.

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DOJ Backs Ex-Wisconsin Judge's ICE Obstruction Conviction

By Andrea Keckley

The U.S. Department of Justice told the Seventh Circuit that the high-profile conviction of a former Wisconsin state court judge for interfering with an ICE arrest was not compromised by her position on the bench or by jury instructions.

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Hub Hires: WilmerHale, Womble Bond, Kirkland

By Chris Villani

Falling temperatures didn't bring a cooldown in the Boston legal lateral market as WilmerHale and Robinson & Cole LLP both welcomed former assistant attorneys general, Honigman LLP established its first office in the market, and Kirkland & Ellis LLP snagged a partner from Ropes & Gray LLP.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Consovoy McCarthy PLLC and Smith Porsborg Schweigert Armstrong Moldenhauer & Smith lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Eighth Circuit struck down the Federal Reserve's regulatory cap on the swipe fees that larger banks may collect on debit card transactions.

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Cyberattack Class Action Against Fox Rothschild Dropped

By Madison Arnold

Three data breach victims have dismissed their proposed class action against Fox Rothschild LLP after ransomware group Silent Ransom Group targeted the firm.

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Ramona Nee, Tapped To Lead Weil, Now In Talks With Kirkland

By Daniel Moritz-Rabson

Ramona Nee, the co-leader of Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP's U.S. private equity practice who had been poised to become its leader, is engaged in talks to join Kirkland & Ellis LLP, a source with knowledge of the situation told Law360 Pulse on Friday.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

Meta reached a settlement during jury selection in the second Los Angeles bellwether trial over claims its Instagram platform harms the mental health of children, leaving Snap as the lone defendant facing trial. In the meantime, current and former in-house lawyers for Google and Meta said that the ability of AI to write patent applications is rapidly improving, and that in blind tests, experienced attorneys often deem AI-drafted patents to be superior to those from humans. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.

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Jackson Walker Inks $500K Deal In EXCO's Ch. 11 Fee Fight

By Clara Geoghegan

Jackson Walker has agreed to pay EXCO Resources Inc. $500,000 to end litigation over fees paid to the firm while one of its partners was in an undisclosed relationship with the former bankruptcy judge who mediated in the reorganized oil and gas driller's Texas Chapter 11.

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Fed. Judge A No-Show Amid Inquiry Into Her Mental Health

By Craig Clough

U.S. District Judge Ada Brown of the Northern District of Texas failed to appear Friday before a judicial investigative committee examining allegations that she abandoned her post and concerns that a mental condition may be interfering with her ability to perform her duties.

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K&L Gates DQ'd In Trust's Mortgage Loan Agreement Dispute

By Isaac Monterose

A Washington federal judge disqualified K&L Gates LLP from a trust's dispute over a residential mortgage loan sale agreement, ruling that the law firm must leave the suit because it drafted the form agreement used in the transaction.

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Cruz Counsel Returns To FCC As Space Bureau Chief

By Nadia Dreid

The Federal Communications Commission has named a former employee with experience in both the public and private sectors to head the agency's Space Bureau, after a stint as chief telecommunications counsel to the Senate Commerce Committee.

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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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Kalshi Taps Clement For High Court Sports Contracts Fight

By Elaine Briseño

Kalshi has hired appellate heavyweight Paul D. Clement of Clement & Murphy PLLC to represent the company in its potential U.S. Supreme Court battle over whether the prediction markets platform's sports wagering is subject to state or federal oversight.

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