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October 28, 2026
Shipbuilder Must Face Bridge Wreck Suit In US, 3rd Circ. Told

The Dali cargo ship's owner and manager told the Third Circuit on Wednesday that a Pennsylvania federal judge improperly tossed their lawsuit alleging South Korean shipbuilder HD Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. Ltd. designed and built a "fatally flawed" ship that subsequently slammed into Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge.
October 28, 2026
'Lessons Learned': 9th Circ. Judge Doubts Uber Clawback Bid

A Ninth Circuit judge doubted Uber's request Wednesday to claw back 42 documents inadvertently produced in sexual assault multidistrict litigation during its attorney-client privilege rereview, telling counsel, "At a certain point, we have to say stop, put your pencils down," and asking why this shouldn't be "an example of lessons learned."
October 28, 2026
Full 4th Circ. Won't Rehear Boeing Investor Class Ruling

The Fourth Circuit on Wednesday denied a request from Boeing investors for the full court to rehear a panel's decision overturning class certification in a suit against the aerospace company over its alleged concealment of safety issues with its 737 Max fleet.
October 28, 2026
Denver Law Firm Sued Over Delayed Data Breach Notice

A Denver law firm was hit with a proposed class action in Colorado federal court Tuesday from an Oklahoma man accusing it of allowing his and thousands of others' personally identifiable information to be stolen in a cyberattack.
October 28, 2026
FTC Probes Delta, Uber, Others Over Data-Driven Pricing

The Federal Trade Commission is pressing Delta, Uber, Target and a half-dozen other companies to detail how they're using personal data to set individualized pricing for consumers and compensation for workers, marking the latest escalation of the agency's growing scrutiny of the increasingly prominent business practice.
October 28, 2026
Watchdog Seeks Privacy Guardian In Character.AI Ch. 11 Sale

The U.S. Trustee's Office said a Delaware bankruptcy judge must appoint a consumer privacy ombudsman to review the sale of artificial intelligence entertainment platform Character Technologies' assets, saying its Character.AI platform includes identifiable information from users' chats.
October 28, 2026
4th Circ. Judge Sees 'Big Brother' In Va. Social Media Limits

A Fourth Circuit judge Wednesday expressed concern with a Virginia law limiting children's access to social media, telling counsel for the commonwealth that the provision has a "big brother atmosphere" to it and suggesting he'd back the district court's injunction halting enforcement of the regulation.
October 28, 2026
9th Circ. Open To Decertifying BofA COVID Fee-Relief Class

A Ninth Circuit panel appeared open Wednesday to decertifying a class of Bank of America account holders who allege the bank abruptly ended a COVID-19 fee-relief program without notice, with all three judges criticizing the class definition for being overly broad, and two judges suggesting individualized issues predominate.
October 28, 2026
Cruise Co. Settles Fla. Doc's Whistleblower Suit Over Billing

A Florida doctor said he reached a quick settlement with Norwegian Cruise Lines Holdings Ltd. one month after filing his lawsuit alleging he was fired for opposing the company's practice of overbilling passengers, the state's federal court records show.
October 28, 2026
Wash. Gov. Creates Fraud Post, Backs Broader Medicaid FCA

As part of a push to expand fraud prevention efforts in Washington, Gov. Bob Ferguson signed an executive order Tuesday to create a new chief fraud prevention officer position and a statewide fraud prevention work group, also announcing forthcoming legislation that would broaden the state's Medicaid False Claims Act.
October 28, 2026
DraftKings Fights Bid To Link Bettor Suit To Promos Action

DraftKings Inc. urged an Illinois federal court to not reassign an Illinois man's personal injury action over his sports gambling addiction to a judge in the district overseeing a separate proposed class action challenging DraftKings' advertising practices, arguing they are materially different.
October 28, 2026
YouTuber Sues Broker Over Logan Paul Defamation Coverage

A YouTube investigator who called influencer and professional wrestler Logan Paul's cryptocurrency project a scam sued insurance brokers, alleging they failed to procure an insurance policy that would have provided defense coverage for Paul's defamation suit.
October 28, 2026
Sportsbooks Say DC Law Bars Bettor Loss Recovery

Sportsbook operators are urging the D.C. Circuit not to revive a lawsuit challenging the legality of their operations there, arguing the city expressly excluded licensed sports wagering from the statute being invoked to recover losses for bettors.
October 28, 2026
Canadian Enforcer Concerned Over Air Canada-United Pact

Canada's competition enforcer said Wednesday an expanded pact between Air Canada and United Airlines would eliminate competition between the carriers on several routes, likely leading to higher prices.
October 28, 2026
FCC Inks $80K Consent Decree With Nexstar

Nexstar has entered into a consent decree with the Federal Communications Commission to pay $80,500 and implement compliance plans to end a probe related to the license renewals of several stations.
October 28, 2026
'Modest Needs' Founder Gets 8 Years For Looting Charity

A Manhattan federal judge on Wednesday sentenced a charity founder to eight years in prison for embezzling over $2.5 million of charitable funds to live a luxury lifestyle, after his bid to withdraw a guilty plea on fraud and tax evasion charges was nixed.
October 28, 2026
Robinhood Agrees To Pause Sports Event Contracts In Ohio

Robinhood Markets Inc. on Wednesday said it struck an agreement with Ohio's gaming commission to stop offering new sports-related event contracts in the Buckeye State in exchange for an enforcement reprieve while litigation over the contracts' legality plays out in federal courts.
October 28, 2026
American, JetBlue Oppose Class Cert. For Northeast Alliance

American Airlines and JetBlue are opposing a class certification bid from flyers suing over a past alliance between the airlines, telling a New York federal court the motion relies on a flawed economic model because there's no evidence of the pact causing higher fares.
October 28, 2026
Celgene Defends Dismissal Of Cancer Drug Antitrust Suit

Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. and its subsidiary Celgene Corp. urged the Second Circuit to uphold the dismissal of health plans' proposed antitrust class action alleging that the drugmaker fraudulently obtained patents for the cancer drug Pomalyst, saying it properly disclosed materials to the patent office and filed valid patent infringement lawsuits against generic-drug makers.
October 28, 2026
RealPage Says NY Can't Get Redo For Blocked Software Law

Property management software company RealPage Inc. has urged a New York federal court to stand by a prior ruling that temporarily blocked New York's attorney general from enforcing part of a state law that aims to stop landlords from using revenue management software that allows them to engage in rent price-fixing.
October 27, 2026
Anthropic's 'Existential Risks' Warning Sets Stage For AI IPOs

Anthropic PBC's registration statement includes more than 90 pages of risk disclosures for prospective investors ahead of the Claude developer's planned public offering, including "existential risks to humanity" posed by advanced artificial intelligence and a corporate governance structure the company warns may make it difficult for voting shareholders to replace directors and managers.
October 27, 2026
Google Class Attys Get $2M In $8.25M Kids' App Tracking Deal

A California federal judge has awarded class counsel just over $2 million in fees and expenses as part of an $8.25 million deal to resolve a proposed class action accusing Google of surreptitiously tracking children's online activity, despite expressing "some concern" that the rates and hours billed by one plaintiffs' firm was "excessive" and rejecting some of the firm's travel expenses.
October 27, 2026
Milliman Reaches $15.5M Deal In Life Insurance FCRA Suit

Risk management firm Milliman Inc. is set to pay $15.5 million to resolve a consumer class action accusing the company of peddling flawed information to life insurance companies, according to a proposed settlement that the plaintiffs filed for preliminary court approval in Washington federal court on Monday.
October 27, 2026
OpenAI Sued Over Epilepsy Death Allegedly Tied To ChatGPT

The parents of a Chinese national with epilepsy who died earlier this year sued OpenAI on Tuesday in California state court, alleging ChatGPT was effectively practicing medicine without a license when it designed a tapering schedule for the anti-seizure medication that was keeping their daughter alive.
October 27, 2026
Google Can't Dodge Ex-NPR Host's AI Voice Misuse Suit

Google cannot escape former NPR "Morning Edition" co-host David Greene's lawsuit alleging the tech giant misappropriated his voice in an artificial intelligence podcasting product, a California judge ruled.

Editor's Picks

Fed. Circ. Panel Backs Invalidation Of OxyContin Patent

The Federal Circuit on Monday upheld a Delaware federal court's decision that deemed invalid a Purdue Pharma patent covering an abuse-deterrent version of the opioid OxyContin, rebuffing the company's arguments that the lower court got its obviousness analysis wrong.
Fed. Circ. Questions Specificity Needed In Oxy IP Invalidation

A Federal Circuit panel expressed frustration with attorneys from both Purdue Pharma LP and generic-drug maker Accord Healthcare Inc. Wednesday as it tried to navigate whether the Delaware district court order invalidating Purdue's abuse-deterrence patent was explicit enough.

Expert Analysis

Midterm Elections Outlook For Financial Services

A change in congressional control after the upcoming midterm elections could bring about slower regulatory approvals, intensified oversight and shifting enforcement priorities for the financial services industry, say attorneys at Covington.
New Manhattan DA Task Force Puts Antitrust In Its Crosshairs

The Manhattan District Attorney's Office's new corporate crime and antitrust task force is adding local criminal enforcement to a field long led by federal authorities, meaning companies need to account for potential parallel federal and state antitrust investigations when responding to misconduct, say attorneys at Ropes & Gray.
Right-To-Repair Laws Create Manufacturer Compliance Maze

Without existing precedent to help interpret new right-to-repair laws, original equipment manufacturers must make careful judgments about how best to comply with conflicting state statutes — but several principles related to documentation, replacement products and more emerge from the patchwork, say attorneys at Faegre Drinker.
3 Strategies To Reduce AI Sycophancy In Legal Work

The tendency of generative artificial intelligence models to tell users what they want to hear can reinforce attorneys’ confirmation bias when testing the strength of arguments, and it can’t simply be prompted away — but a few practices can help mitigate it, says Michael Ott at Ice Miller.
AI Risks May Recalibrate 'Reasonable Security' Standards

A definitive answer to what constitutes reasonable vulnerability management in the age of artificial intelligence is still emerging, but the answer is likely less a reset of the standard than a recalibration of how organizations meet it, say Scott Loughlin at Hogan Lovells and Mike Priest at Globe Life.
DOJ Directive Gives Contractors A Fraud Risk Road Map

For government contractors, the 10 factors described in the U.S. Department of Justice's recent corporate fraud enforcement directive function as a de facto scoring rubric for internal audits that mirrors what prosecutors will prioritize, say attorneys at Spencer Fane.
Key Risk Assessment Gaps To Note From NY Cyber Guidance

Covered entities should take a fresh look at the compliance gaps flagged in recent New York State Department of Financial Services guidance on "deficient cybersecurity programs," particularly around scope, asset inventories and documentation, say attorneys at Mayer Brown.
FTC's Changing Model Raises Questions About Its Mission

Federal Trade Commission leaders have recently sketched a vision of an agency that continues an enforcement role distinct from the U.S. Department of Justice's, even as a shift toward greater presidential control makes enforcement more responsive to changes in administrations, say attorneys at Wiley.
2nd Circ. EFAA Ruling Shifts Employer Litigation Strategy

In Diaz-Roa v. Hermes Law, the Second Circuit recently held that, under the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act, employers can't carve out nonharassment claims and send them to arbitration, which has implications for discovery, litigation costs and resolution strategy in EFAA-covered disputes, say attorneys at Krevolin Horst.
How Bank Lobby's Suit Tests OCC's Crypto Charter Powers

The Independent Community Bankers of America’s recent lawsuit challenging the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s ability to charter cryptocurrency companies marks another chapter in the struggle over the appropriate regulatory framework for digital assets, while raising a classic administrative law question at its most basic level, say attorneys at Ballard Spahr.
New Calif. Law Ties Finance Contracts To State Licensing

Under a California law taking effect in 2028, commercial financing licensing requirements have been substantially expanded — meaning that fintechs relying on limited regulatory enforcement will face risk from their own borrowers, who could use licensing failures to resist repayment, say attorneys at Husch Blackwell.
Frozen Potato Ruling Highlights Data-Sharing Antitrust Risk

A recent Illinois federal court decision allowing key claims against frozen potato producer competitors to proceed illustrates the vulnerability of highly concentrated industries to antitrust exposure through aggregated data sharing, say attorneys at Foley & Lardner.
How FCC Robocall Rules Reshape TCPA Opt-Out Compliance

The Federal Communications Commission's recent changes to its Telephone Consumer Protection Act rules may simplify how businesses process consumer opt outs for robocalls and robotexts, but they also introduce nuances to the opt-out process that may be challenging to operationalize, say attorneys at Hunton.
PFAS Ruling Extinguishes A Policyholder Path To Coverage

Following an Ohio federal court's recent ruling in Fire-Dex v. Admiral Insurance, policyholders whose PFAS exposure is concentrated in workplace products will see bids for coverage fail under the occupational-disease exclusion, giving insurers a defense well suited for the category of claims that has been most resistant to pollution exclusions, say attorneys at Benesch.
AG Watch: Minnesota Takes Action To Secure Child Safety

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison has built one of the most aggressive and structurally coherent child protection enforcement programs in the country, targeting consumer-facing sectors that his office has concluded prey on minors, such as tobacco and nicotine, social media platforms, and artificial intelligence, say attorneys at Crowell & Moring.