Instagram CEO Denies Users Can Be 'Addicted' To Platform

By Craig Clough

Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri testified Wednesday in front of a California state jury considering claims his company and Google's YouTube harm children's mental health, saying he does not believe a user can become "addicted" to the platform in a clinical sense despite having used the term himself in the past. 

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Goldstein Says He Lost Millions On Poker In 2016

By Jared Foretek

SCOTUSblog founder Thomas Goldstein told the Maryland federal jury in his tax fraud trial Wednesday that he lost nearly $3 million playing poker in 2016, directly contradicting charges that he underreported his gambling winnings, and pinned the blame for tax filing errors on his own miscalculations and shoddy work from his accountants.

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CEO Criticizes 'Crazy Lawyers' In $5M Financial Adviser Feud

By Aaron Keller

The chief executive officer of Prime Capital Investment Advisors LLC on Wednesday testified that he emailed a rival CEO during litigation to warn him that "crazy lawyers" could be burning millions of dollars to fight an unfair trade practices case Prime believed involved business worth $50,000 to $100,000.

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'The Shoe Is On The Other Foot': Judge Needles Meta In MDL

By Dorothy Atkins

A California federal judge presiding over social media addiction multidistrict litigation Wednesday criticized Meta's bid to push newly filed arbitration demands into court, saying she doesn't have jurisdiction over those claims and noting "big companies" are always insisting on arbitration, but "when they don't like the fact that they're arbitrating, they complain about it."

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Law360 Seeks Members For Its 2026 Editorial Boards

Law360 is looking for avid readers of our publications to serve as members of our 2026 editorial advisory boards.

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Fed. Circ. Backs $85M Patent Antitrust Verdict Against Ingevity

By Theresa Schliep

The Federal Circuit on Wednesday declined to disturb a Delaware jury's $85 million antitrust verdict against Ingevity over it tying patent licenses to purchases of its automobile carbon filtering technology, rejecting the company's arguments that it was entitled to a certain statutory patent misuse defense.

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Justices Urged To Restore $181M Verdict Against AT&T, Nokia

By Adam Lidgett

Finesse Wireless LLC has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to take up its challenge to the Federal Circuit's decision wiping out a $181 million verdict against AT&T and Nokia, saying it's part of a long trend of the circuit court not respecting jury verdicts.

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GoDaddy Challenges $170M Loss, Patent Owner Wants $370M

By Rae Ann Varona

GoDaddy is looking to nix its $170 million verdict loss in Express Mobile's lawsuit that accused the website hosting platform of willfully infringing patents related to creating websites while Express Mobile urged a Delaware federal court to increase its damages to $370 million, according to newly unsealed court filings.

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Lighting Co. Signify Nets $411K Verdict In Patent Case

By Adam Lidgett

A Nevada federal jury found that lighting company Lepro owes nearly $411,000 in a suit brought by rival Signify over LED technology patents after finding the remaining three patents before the jury were infringed.

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Judge Tosses Patent Suit Over Decentralized Exchange Tech

By Adam Lidgett

A New York federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit accusing the companies behind Uniswap of infringing patents for smart contract technology used in decentralized exchanges, finding the patent claims didn't pass the U.S. Supreme Court's Alice test.

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NC Jury Clears Fuel Parts Co. In PPE Pay Suit

By Abigail Harrison

A federal jury in North Carolina found that a former worker at a fuel parts manufacturing company who alleged he wasn't paid for overtime or for time spent putting on personal protection equipment failed to prove that he hadn't received the wages he'd been promised.

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NBA Pro Says He Would've Balked At Deal Over Adviser's Role

By Stewart Bishop

A former New York Knicks shooting guard on Wednesday testified that he didn't know his former Morgan Stanley adviser had a stake in the player's $2.1 million life insurance investment and would have passed on the deal had he known, echoing testimony from two other NBA veterans.

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Egypt's 'Social Law' Doesn't Endorse Bribery, Jury Told

By Matthew Santoni

Attorneys for a former Corsa Coal executive on trial for allegedly passing bribes sought to undermine an expert witness's opinions that bribery was illegal in Egypt, confronting him with law review articles he'd written that said corruption was commonly accepted and had become the "social law."

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7th Circ. Denies New Trial To Convicted Tax Preparer

By Anna Scott Farrell

A tax preparer convicted of filing false returns and stealing her grandmother's pension will not receive a new trial, the Seventh Circuit ruled, rejecting her argument that a lower court made a mistake in allowing her to represent herself.

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Fla. Panel Orders New Trial Over Forcible-Felony Instruction

By Parker Quinlan

A Florida appeals court ordered a new trial Wednesday for a man convicted of being a principal in a murder, after finding an incorrect jury instruction undermined his trial defense that the use of force was justified.

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Avon Loses Appeal Over $51M Verdict In Mesothelioma Case

By Hailey Konnath

A California appellate court on Wednesday refused to wipe out a $51 million jury verdict against Avon for the cancer a woman says she got from using its asbestos-tainted talc, rejecting the cosmetic company's qualms with expert testimony and the trial court's evidentiary rulings.

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Schools Must Face Financial Aid Suit Before Appeal: Students

By Bryan Koenig

Former students urged an Illinois federal judge to bar Cornell, Georgetown, Notre Dame, MIT and UPenn from going straight to the Seventh Circuit on a ruling that teed up trial against the five schools yet to settle the proposed class action over the alleged fixing of financial aid offerings.

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Ariz. Justices Say Screening Didn't Create Client Relationship

By Marco Poggio

The Arizona Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a social worker who conducted a brief crisis screening of a patient could testify at an involuntary treatment hearing, holding that the interaction did not create a confidential behavioral health professional-client relationship and therefore was not protected by privilege.

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Opinion

Justices' Monsanto Decision May Fix A Preemption Mistake

In Monsanto Co. v. Durnell, the U.S. Supreme Court will address whether federal law preempts states' label-based failure-to-warn claims when federal regulators have not required a warning — and its decision could correct a long-standing misinterpretation of a prior high court ruling, thus ending myriad meritless state law personal injury claims, says Lawrence Ebner at Capital Appellate.

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Legal Services Hiring Started New Year Off With A Bang

By Tracey Read

The legal sector is off to a good start in 2026, with 5,500 more people employed in lawyer, paralegal and other law-related professional roles last month than in December, according to seasonally adjusted data released Wednesday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Feature

'Unflappable' Mass. Judge Emerges As Trump Foil

By Chris Villani

The newest member of the Massachusetts federal bench has made a name for himself as a thorn in the side of the Trump administration, a perception that stands in stark contrast to what friends and former colleagues describe as an unassuming and open-minded judge.

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'It Takes Time To Write': Jackson On High Court's Tariff Ruling

By Katie Buehler

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has provided an unusual update on the court's decision over President Donald Trump's authority to impose emergency tariffs, saying in a TV interview that the justices are still working on what is one of their most anticipated rulings this term. 

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Analysis

Not 'Your Dad's DOJ': Recapping Year One Under Bondi

By Phillip Bantz and Carolina Bolado

Even before her contentious congressional testimony on Wednesday, few U.S. attorneys general had been embroiled in so many controversies so early into their tenures as Pam Bondi, who critics and supporters alike say embodies a new era at the Justice Department.

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Bondi Touches On Judges, Fraud, Subpoenas At Fiery Hearing

By Courtney Bublé

Attorney General Pam Bondi opened her congressional testimony on Wednesday taking aim at "liberal activist judges," but the rest of the hearing was devoid of any discussion or questions on the Trump administration's combative relationship with a large portion of the federal bench.

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SC High Court Probes Clerk's Misconduct In Murdaugh Appeal

By Parker Quinlan

The South Carolina Supreme Court on Wednesday closely inspected Alex Murdaugh's appeal claiming the jury in his high-profile double-murder trial was biased because of comments made by a clerk of court, voicing questions and statements favorable to the disgraced lawyer's arguments.

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Md. Federal Judge Owns Up To Creating 'Abusive' Workplace

By Jack Karp

A Maryland federal judge has acknowledged creating an "abusive workplace" where clerks were chastised for minor errors, discouraged from asking questions and harshly criticized, according to a Fourth Circuit disciplinary order.

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Remote LSAT Testing To Largely End Amid Cheating Concerns

By Emily Johnson

Law school hopefuls will mostly need to sit for the Law School Admission Test — better known as the LSAT — in person starting in August rather than test remotely, a change designed to strengthen security after the exam provider ended remote testing in China over cheating concerns.

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Ford Slams Lemon Law Attys' Bid To Escape Billing Fraud Suit

By Lauren Berg

Ford Motor Co. urged a California federal judge to keep alive its lawsuit accusing three Knight Law Group LLP-affiliated attorneys of orchestrating a massive fraudulent legal billing scheme, scoffing at the attorneys' argument that they are immunized from liability related to lemon law litigation they have pursued.

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Calif. Atty Wins $25K Fee Sanction Over AI Errors

By Emily Sawicki

A California federal court has ordered $25,000 in fee sanctions for a litigator representing a mobile app platform in a copyright and contract suit as reimbursement for work he said went into responding to an error-ridden motion and further resulting motion practice.

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Miami World Cup Counsel Share Look At Prep Work, Impact

By Nathan Hale

Counsel representing the FIFA World Cup's Miami Host Committee gave Law360 an inside look at their multifaceted work preparing for the upcoming event, which organizers say could have the economic impact of multiple Super Bowls.

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Trio Leading NJ District Office Face New Disqualification Bid

By Elizabeth Daley

A criminal defendant who successfully challenged the appointment of Donald Trump's former personal attorney Alina Habba as New Jersey's top federal prosecutor joined other defendants in seeking to disqualify the trio now helming the office.

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Beasley Allen Wants Talc DQ Paused Pending High Court Appeal

By Jonathan Capriel

Hundreds of women who claim their ovarian cancer was caused by Johnson & Johnson's talcum powder risk appearing in an upcoming trial without their preferred counsel from the Beasley Allen Law Firm, unless a New Jersey state court stays an order disqualifying the firm, it said.

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Morgan & Morgan, Former Aide Settle Disability, Age Bias Suit

By Lynn LaRowe

Personal injury law firm Morgan & Morgan PA and a former firm legal assistant have settled a Florida federal lawsuit that alleged age and disability discrimination, according to a filing in the court.

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NYC Bar Pushes Gov. To Free Legal Aid Funds In Budget

By Andrea Keckley

The New York City Bar Association urged Gov. Kathy Hochul in a statement Wednesday to ensure the 2027 executive budget gives the New York State Interest on Lawyer Account Fund access to its revenue for civil legal services, noting the current proposed budget did not grant full spending authority.

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