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May 27, 2026
A Georgia attorney urged a federal judge to keep her proposed class action alive, arguing that the State Bar of Georgia can't claim immunity from her suit because it has allegedly demonstrated a pattern of racial discrimination against her and others in attorney discipline cases.
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May 27, 2026
Toyota has settled a lawsuit over the fatal carbon monoxide poisoning of a man who accidentally left his 2017 Tacoma running in his attached garage, just before trial was set to start on his wife's claims that buyers weren't warned about risks associated with the truck's keyless ignition system.
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May 26, 2026
A company and its insurer have accused China Construction Bank Corp. of issuing fraudulent letters of credit valued at nearly $10 million, claiming in Illinois federal court that the country's largest bank has refused to honor reinsurance agreements the parties signed.
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May 26, 2026
A group of 44 attorneys general for states including California, New York, New Jersey and Michigan have created a coalition opposing the House version of the Kids Internet and Digital Safety Act, H.R. 7757, and signed a letter to congressional leaders pointing out the shortcomings of the bill.
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May 26, 2026
A Georgia appeals court revived a medical malpractice suit accusing a chiropractor of causing an infection to spread by treating a patient based on an X-ray in which her spine was partially hidden, finding that an expert affidavit she filed should have kept the case in court.
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May 26, 2026
The Eleventh Circuit on Tuesday reinstated a proposed class action against a Southern Co. subsidiary from married retirees who said outdated life expectancy data caused them to lose out on benefits, holding that a lower court erred in ruling federal benefits law didn't require using reasonable actuarial assumptions in annuity conversions.
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May 26, 2026
A split Eleventh Circuit ruled Tuesday that a written probation requirement that a Florida man obtain his GED and turn over his computer for inspection should be tossed because a federal judge failed to mention the requirements during an in-person sentencing hearing.
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May 26, 2026
Holland & Knight LLP has brought on a duo of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP attorneys, including the chair of the firm's gaming industry group, in Boston and Atlanta as leaders of Holland & Knight's national gaming practice, the firm announced Monday.
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May 26, 2026
A Georgia district attorney's office has a new leader after her predecessor died unexpectedly in an incident that remains under investigation, even as foul play is not suspected, authorities said.
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May 26, 2026
The Eleventh Circuit said it does not have jurisdiction to hear an insurer's appeal of a Georgia federal court decision tossing its claim that the company has no duty to defend an Atlanta-area hotel against a sex trafficking suit.
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May 26, 2026
A Georgia appeals court on Tuesday revived a suit from a man claiming Georgia Power Electric Co. and a state commission wrongfully tacked a fee onto his electric bill, finding a trial court failed to notify him of a scheduling conference.
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May 26, 2026
Two former event company workers who alleged their employer shorted them on overtime pay and improperly cut managers into tip pools asked a Georgia federal court to approve a $180,000 settlement, according to a joint motion in the Northern District of Georgia.
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May 22, 2026
This past year, 10 lawyers across the country at plaintiffs' firms big and small helped secure millions of dollars in settlements and verdicts for their clients, going up against powerful defendants like Google, Monsanto and the Trump administration, earning the attorneys recognition as Law360's Titans of the Plaintiffs Bar for 2026.
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May 22, 2026
Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including a $69 billion merger in the residential sector, a dramatic transformation in Florida's West Palm Beach, and the landmark housing bill creating strange bedfellows in Congress.
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May 22, 2026
The corporate operator of the NBA's Atlanta Hawks and State Farm Arena were sued in Georgia federal court by an event security officer who alleges they did nothing to address her reports that she was sexually harassed by a coworker.
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May 22, 2026
Cox Media Group and two other companies have agreed to collectively pay $930,000 to settle the Federal Trade Commission's allegations that the companies falsely represented the capabilities of an "active listening" artificial intelligence marketing service, according to an announcement made Thursday.
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May 22, 2026
The Trump administration's expanded recreational red snapper fishing permits for four southeastern states were blocked by a D.C. federal judge Thursday, just hours prior to what would have been the start of open snapper fishing in Florida.
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May 22, 2026
A Georgia appellate panel has backed a trial court's decision to enforce a separation settlement between a metro Atlanta city and its former city manager, ruling that he could not escape his attorney's clear-cut acceptance of the city's offer when she wrote that "we have a deal."
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May 22, 2026
Seven HVAC companies, including Rheem, Trane, Carrier and Lennox, engaged in price-fixing and inventory manipulation using the COVID-19 pandemic as a cover, Arkansas-based HVAC contractor Reliance Heating and Cooling alleged in a civil antitrust suit filed in Michigan federal court Friday.
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May 22, 2026
The federal judiciary signed off Friday on a private reprimand for a district judge within the Eleventh Circuit for misconduct that included having an extramarital affair with a law enforcement officer and sexual intercourse in their chambers within earshot of the judge's staff.
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May 22, 2026
An unusual Trump administration notice exhorting financial institutions to be on guard for human trafficking activity during the 2026 FIFA World Cup could create compliance challenges not just for banks but an array of other industries, experts told Law360.
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May 22, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court refused Friday to vacate an Eleventh Circuit ruling that allowed Georgia's judicial watchdog to publicize allegations that two unsuccessful Georgia Supreme Court candidates violated ethics rules, shortly after the pair argued the election did not moot the case.
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May 22, 2026
The Eleventh Circuit backed an early win Friday for four Georgia police officers accused of unlawfully seizing and using excessive force against a woman suspected of overdosing, relying upon a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision holding that the probable cause standard doesn't apply to "emergency aid" situations.
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May 21, 2026
The Eleventh Circuit on Thursday vacated T-Mobile's win in a long-running fight with a Georgia city over a proposed cell tower, rejecting a widely used test over the infrastructure's need that the court called "irreconcilable" with the Telecommunications Act of 1996.
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May 21, 2026
A former Atlanta Housing Authority executive was sentenced to nine months in prison and nine months of home detention, to be served as part of her two-year term of supervised release, for carrying out a scheme to collect fraudulent housing assistance payments under Section 8 and pandemic relief funds.