Boies Schiller Hits Meta With Arbitration Bids Over Addiction

By Hailey Konnath

Boies Schiller Flexner LLP on Thursday filed a number of arbitration demands against Meta Platforms Inc. on behalf of young Instagram users, claiming that the social media company's products are harmful and intentionally designed to hook young people.

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Calif. Jury Convicts Ex-Google Engineer Of Stealing AI Secrets

By Bonnie Eslinger

A California federal jury on Thursday found former Google software engineer Linwei Ding guilty of seven counts of trade secret theft and seven counts of economic espionage in a criminal trial over allegations that he stole the tech giant's artificial intelligence trade secrets to help himself and China.

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NHTSA Opens Waymo Probe After Autonomous Car Hits Child

By Dorothy Atkins

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened another investigation into Waymo LLC autonomous vehicles and how they operate in school zones after one hit a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica, California, marking the second safety probe into Waymo's maneuverings around children since October.

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Pasadena Settles Tenants' Wildfire Contamination Claims

By Isaac Monterose

The California city of Pasadena has agreed to settle claims filed by local residents who alleged in California state court that the city failed to conduct "adequate inspections" for homes that were contaminated with "toxic smoke, ash and soot" caused by the Eaton wildfires that occurred in January 2025.

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Feature

From TikTok To The Courtroom, The Rise Of Lawfluencers

By Chris Villani

A growing group of legal influencers with huge followings say social media use is helping them expand their practices along with their brands and offering marketing lessons that even BigLaw can learn from.

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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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Citizens Policy Doesn't Cover Mass Shooting, Suit Says

By Mark Payne

A California mushroom farm that was the site of a fatal mass shooting isn't covered under an insurance policy that prevents coverage under an "abuse and molestation exclusion" for negligence caused by the farm's workers, Citizens Insurance told a federal court Wednesday.

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Amazon Consumers Lose Bid For Earlier Antitrust Trial Date

By Ben Adlin

The trial in a massive consumer antitrust class action against Amazon.com Inc. will remain scheduled for June 2027 following a Seattle federal judge's refusal of shoppers' request to move up the trial to November.

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Costco Sued Over 'No Preservatives' Roast Chicken Ads

By Dorothy Atkins

A pair of Golden State consumers have hit Washington-based Costco Wholesale Corp. with a proposed class action in California federal court, accusing the company of falsely advertising its popular $4.99 rotisserie chicken as preservative free despite containing two chemicals — sodium phosphate and carrageenan — which allegedly function like preservatives.

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Fitness App Must Face Trimmed Suit Over Tracking Cookies

By Allison Grande

A California federal judge cut several wiretap and fraud claims from a proposed class action accusing MyFitnessPal of allowing third parties to track the browsing activities of website visitors who rejected the use of tracking cookies while allowing the plaintiffs to proceed with invasion of privacy and two other allegations.

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PubMatic Fails To Score Complete Dismissal Of Privacy Suit

By Corey Rothauser

A California federal judge has largely refused to dismiss a proposed class action that accuses digital advertising firm PubMatic Inc. of secretly tracking internet users across the web and selling their data, with the judge allowing most privacy and wiretapping claims to move forward.

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Analysis

3 Fed. Circ. Clashes To Watch In February

By Ryan Davis

The Federal Circuit's argument calendar for next month includes the latest round of the patent slugfest between VLSI Technology and Intel Corp. as well as a patent owner's bid to escape a ruling that it must pay $4 million in attorney fees for a "baseless" suit against EMC Corp.

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PTAB Knocks Down 3 More P&G Deodorant Patents

By Adam Lidgett

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has invalidated claims across three more Procter & Gamble deodorant patents, handing personal care product brand Dr. Squatch another win in its challenges to the patents it was accused of infringing in federal court.

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Fed. Circ. Won't Revive Streaming IP Suit Against Hulu

By Dani Kass

A California federal judge was right to free Hulu LLC from allegations that it infringed Sound View Innovations LLC's streaming patent, the Federal Circuit determined Thursday.

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ITC Backs Penalties For Flouting Chocolate Mix Import Ban

By Elliot Weld

The U.S. International Trade Commission has declined to review a decision by an administrative law judge to penalize four grocers found to be violating a ban on importing chocolate malt drink mix.

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ITC Judge Clears Innoscience's Redesigned Semiconductor

By Dani Kass

The U.S. International Trade Commission's 2025 decision that Innoscience's semiconductor imports infringe one of Infineon Technologies' patents was made public Thursday, revealing Innoscience has a path to avoid any upcoming ban.

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Apple Aims To Boot Anti-Moonlighting Suit To Arbitration

By Ben Adlin

Apple Inc. urged a Seattle federal judge to throw out a former employee's proposed class action accusing the company of unlawfully barring lower-wage workers from taking second jobs, arguing that plaintiff Gabriel Fisher gave up his right to sue when he signed an arbitration agreement included in his job offer.

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Apple Dodges Users' Deposition In Google Antitrust Case

By Rae Ann Varona

A California federal judge has quashed a Christmas Eve deposition subpoena that sought information from Apple Inc. concerning dealings with Google LLC, saying users who accused Google of suppressing rival search engines through anticompetitive deals had no valid reason for the subpoena.

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OppFi Says It's Not Pulling Calif. 'Dummy Lender' Scheme

By Craig Clough

An attorney for Opportunity Financial LLC urged a Los Angeles state judge Thursday to toss a California regulator's claims that it uses a Utah bank partner to dodge state regulations, saying it's not part of a "dummy lender" scheme and the court has all the information it needs to end the case.

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9th Circ. Says Noem Can't 'Smuggle In' TPS Vacaturs

By Britain Eakin

The Ninth Circuit has ruled that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem lacked the authority to vacate temporary protected status for Venezuela and Haiti, saying her attempt to do so flouts both Congress' design of the TPS statute and the law's language.

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How Generative AI Cos. Can Navigate Product Liability Claims

Increasingly, plaintiffs are aggregating disputes over generative artificial intelligence and pursuing them through mass-tort-style proceedings, borrowing tactics from litigation involving social media, pharmaceuticals and other consumer-facing products — but there are approaches that AI companies can use to narrow claims and manage long-term exposure, say attorneys at Arnold & Porter.

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Navigating Trade Secret Exceptions In Noncompete Bans

Recent and ongoing developments in the noncompete landscape, including a potential decision from the Tenth Circuit in Edwards Lifesciences v. Thompson, could offer tools for employers to bring noncompete agreements within trade secret exceptions amid an era of heightened employee mobility, say attorneys at Sullivan & Cromwell.

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Series

Playing Tennis Makes Me A Better Lawyer

An instinct to turn pain into purpose meant frequent trips to the tennis court, where learning to move ahead one point at a time was a lesson that also applied to the steep learning curve of patent prosecution law, says Daniel Henry at Marshall Gerstein.

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Ex-Worker Says Goldstein Offered Crypto, Gifts As IRS Probed

By Jared Foretek

A former employee at Thomas Goldstein's law firm who resigned after the Internal Revenue Service began investigating the firm said that the SCOTUSblog founder suddenly began offering her bitcoin, payment from case settlements and potential student loan relief after federal agents visited the office.

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Clemency Favors White Collar Offenders, New Study Shows

By Phillip Bantz

White collar criminal defendants are more likely than other types of offenders to receive presidential pardons, especially under the Trump administration, a new analysis of clemency actions shows, raising concerns about a system one expert called "broken."

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Attacks Haven't Killed Judiciary's AI Rule, May Strengthen It

By Jeff Overley

Federal judiciary advisers Thursday confronted the most extensive opposition yet in their campaign to ensure the reliability of evidence utilizing artificial intelligence, but the criticism appeared constructive, possibly upping the odds of a digital age addition to U.S. court rules.

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DOJ Awards $1M In First For Antitrust Whistleblower Program

By Rae Ann Varona

The U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division awarded a whistleblower $1 million for providing information that led to charges and a $3.28 million criminal fine against used-vehicle auction site EBlock, marking the first-ever award under a new antitrust whistleblower program, the DOJ announced Thursday.

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Crowell & Moring Loses DC Appeal In $30M COVID Rent Dispute

By Isaac Monterose

The District of Columbia Court of Appeals on Thursday ruled against Crowell & Moring LLP's appeal for its $30 million rent dispute with a D.C. office landlord that refused to grant a coronavirus-related rent abatement.

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Bondi Elevates Pa. US Atty Amid Appointments Scrutiny

By Matthew Santoni

The first assistant U.S. attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania is being retained and elevated to full U.S. attorney, Attorney General Pamela Bondi announced Thursday, though the appointment will have to remain temporary or he could face the same questions about his appointment as other top prosecutors in President Donald Trump's administration.

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