Google Hit With $314M Verdict In Android Data Use Suit

By Hailey Konnath

A California state jury Tuesday sided with a class of millions of Android mobile device users in the Golden State accusing Google of transferring cellular data from their devices without their consent for information harvesting and surveillance purposes, awarding the users more than $314.6 million.

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Columbia Inks $9M Deal To End Students' Ranking Stats Suit

By Lauren Berg

Columbia University students have asked a New York federal judge to greenlight a $9 million settlement resolving class claims that the institution gave inaccurate data to U.S. News & World Report, artificially inflating its "Best National Universities" ranking and enabling the school to charge higher tuition.

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Anthem Inks $13M Deal To End Mental Health Class Action

By Kellie Mejdrich

Anthem has agreed to pay about $12.9 million to end a proposed class action alleging the insurer's coverage denials for inpatient mental health and substance use disorder treatments violated federal benefits and mental health parity laws, according to New York federal court filings.

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Cash App Parent Co. To Settle Spam Text Suit For $12.5M

By Sydney Price

Block Inc., the parent company of mobile payment service Cash App, has made a $12.5 million settlement with customers who allege that they were bombarded with "annoying and harassing spam texts" from the company.

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NY Equinox Trainers Score $12M In Unpaid Wages Settlement

By Elaine Briseño

A New York federal court has given final approval to a $12 million settlement between upscale gym chain Equinox and its personal trainers, whose Fair Labor Standards Act lawsuit accused the company of shorting them on overtime wages.

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Turkey Cos. Must Face Price-Fix Suit From Litigation Funder

By Jared Foretek

An Illinois federal judge rejected a summary judgment bid from major turkey processors fighting a price-fixing antitrust suit, ruling that a litigation funding company can continue to pursue claims against the poultry processors as a stand-in for wholesale food distributor plaintiffs.

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Axing Lit Funding Tax Bid Relieves Industry But Fears Remain

By Ryan Boysen

Litigation funders are breathing a sigh of relief after a provision to impose a 41% punitive tax on the $16 billion industry was stripped Tuesday from the massive federal spending bill, but many think the episode is just the prelude to further battles with corporate opponents.

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Analysis

Justices Face Busy Summer After Nixing Universal Injunctions

By Katie Buehler

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to limit nationwide injunctions was one of its biggest rulings of the term — a finding the court is likely going to be dealing with all summer. Here, Law360 takes a look at the decision, how it and other cases on the emergency docket overshadowed much of the court's other work, and what it all means for the months to come.

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Analysis

The Sharpest Dissents From The Supreme Court Term

By Cara Bayles

The term's sharpest dissents often looked beyond perceived flaws in majority reasoning to raise existential concerns about the role and future of the court, with the justices accusing one another of rewarding executive branch lawlessness, harming faith in the judiciary and threatening democracy, sometimes on an emergency basis with little briefing or explanation.

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Judge Advances Shaq And FTX Investors' $1.8M Deal

By Aislinn Keely

A $1.8 million settlement between FTX investors and former NBA star Shaquille O'Neal has received preliminary sign-off from a Florida federal judge in a step toward confirming the deal that would resolve claims that the retired NBA star misled FTX investors with his alleged promotion of the now-collapsed cryptocurrency exchange.

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Arrival Investors Seek Approval For $13.3M Partial Settlement

By Emilie Ruscoe

Investors in bankrupt electric vehicle company Arrival are seeking the OK for a nearly $13.3 million deal to end claims the company presented a flashy, profitable business plan when it went public through a special purpose acquisition company only to scale back its ambitions a year later.

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Chancery Sharply Refuses To Toss Colo. Bank Air Fleet Suit

By Jeff Montgomery

In an often sharp-edged ruling, a Delaware vice chancellor on Tuesday sent toward discovery and trial stockholder claims that Solera National Bancorp's executive chairman and others wasted corporate assets in assembling an 11-aircraft fleet for a one-site bank in Colorado.

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Mallinckrodt Execs See Securities Fraud Claims Trimmed

By Emilie Ruscoe

Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals executives must face investors' claims alleging they concealed signs of the company's impending 2023 bankruptcy and share cancellations, but a New Jersey federal judge pared down allegations against two executives and other aspects of the case in a partial dismissal Monday.

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Judge Rejects Integra Investor's Suit Over Factory Issues

By Katryna Perera

A New Jersey federal judge has tossed an investor suit alleging Integra LifeSciences Holding Corp. and its top brass misled the public about how they were addressing quality control and manufacturing issues at the company's Boston factory.

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Investors Sue Petco Over Premium Pet Food Business Model

By Katryna Perera

Petco and several current and former executives misled the public about the sustainability of its premium pet food business model and oversold the company's growth prospects while hiding the impact of shifting consumer behavior post-COVID-19, a new lawsuit has alleged.

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Weichert, EXp Can't Pause Mo. Broker Fees Antitrust Case

By Isaac Monterose

A Missouri federal judge rejected Weichert Co. and eXp's bids to stay an antitrust class action accusing the National Association of Realtors and multiple brokerages of conspiring to artificially inflate buyer-broker commission fees.

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Deutsche Faces Investor Bid To Renew UK Bond-Rigging Case

By Jon Hill

An Oklahoma pension fund moved Monday to revive its New York federal court case over alleged price-fixing of U.K. government bonds, citing newly obtained chat transcripts and other material that it says bolster its claims against Deutsche Bank.

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Amazon Beats Cert. Bid By 150K Flex Drivers In Tip Dispute

By Gina Kim

A Washington federal judge refused to certify a proposed class of 150,000 Amazon Flex drivers who said Amazon pocketed their tips, ruling on Tuesday that Amazon's earlier $61.7 million settlement with the Federal Trade Commission already provided relief, and litigating the case as a class action would be costly and duplicative.

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Amazon Escapes Worker's Military Leave Suit

By Emmy Freedman

A former Amazon employee cannot show that she was fired because she requested to take military leave or because she needed to care for her son, a New York federal judge ruled, saying she can't rebut the company's argument that she was fired for violating security protocol.

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Lighting Co. Can't Escape 401(k) Forfeiture, Health Fee Suit

By Kellie Mejdrich

An Illinois federal judge narrowed a proposed federal benefits class action against an automotive lighting company from an ex-worker, but allowed allegations to proceed to discovery alleging the company misspent 401(k) forfeitures and failed to properly notify workers about a health plan tobacco surcharge.

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HomeSafe Layoffs After Lost DOD Contract Spur Suit

By Tom Lotshaw

A Georgia man hit KBR Inc. and HomeSafe Alliance LLC with a proposed class action alleging that they failed to provide notice before terminating some 200 employees after the U.S. government scrapped a moving services contract worth up to $20 billion for performance troubles.

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Infant Car Seat Co. Faces Class Claims Over Defective Belts

By Jonathan Capriel

Premium baby gear maker Nuna was hit with a proposed class action by a parent who claims the three roughly $500 car seats he bought have a defect that allows debris to block up components, which prevented the seat belts from staying snug on his children.

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2nd Circ. Scrubs $4M Wet Wipes Settlement Over Atty Fees

By Mike Curley

The Second Circuit on Tuesday vacated a $4 million settlement agreement to end claims that wet wipes made by Kimberly-Clark Corp. are not flushable as advertised, saying the trial court didn't properly consider the allocation of recovery between class counsel and the class.

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7th Circ. Backs Walmart's 'Raw Honey' False Ad Dismissal Win

By Lauraann Wood

A Walmart customer who accused the retail giant of falsely labeling processed honey as raw or organic "pled himself out of court" by acknowledging the product's higher chemical compound levels could have other obvious explanations beyond simply overheating, the Seventh Circuit said Tuesday.

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Judge Dismisses Health Data Breach Suit As 'Bare Assertions'

By Abigail Harrison

A North Carolina federal judge has thrown out a putative data breach class action against a health information company, finding that the named plaintiff's alleged anxiety, injuries in the form of future harms, and fear over his financial situation were too speculative to support standing under Article III.

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OpenAI Accused Of Using Pirated Works, 'Shadow Libraries'

By Bonnie Eslinger

Authors hit OpenAI and its investor Microsoft with a putative class action alleging that the artificial intelligence company used written works from "shadow libraries" to train its generative AI machines, saying the use of the pirated IP negates any claim of fair use.

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Brief

Hurricane Beryl Lawsuits Combined Into MDL

By Catherine Marfin

The Texas Multi-District Litigation Panel has agreed to consolidate cases stemming from a July 2024 hurricane into an MDL.

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Foreign Students, DHS End Suits Over Revoked Visa Records

By Madeline Lyskawa

Foreign college students have agreed to drop their challenges to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's deletion of student visa compliance records in two lawsuits after the agency restored them.

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One Year On, Davidson Holds Lessons On 'Health Halo' Claims

A year after the Ninth Circuit's Davidson v. Sprout Foods decision — which raised the bar for so-called health halo claims — food and beverage companies can draw insights from its finding, subsequently expanded on by other courts, that plaintiffs must be specific when alleging fraud in healthfulness marketing, say attorneys at Sidley.

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Rocket Mortgage Appeal May Push Justices To Curb Classes

Should the U.S. Supreme Court agree to hear Alig v. Rocket Mortgage, the resulting decision could limit class sizes based on commonality under Rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Evidence as opposed to standing under Article III of the U.S. Constitution, say attorneys at Carr Maloney.

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Series

Law School's Missed Lessons: Communicating With Clients

Law school curricula often overlook client communication procedures, and those who actively teach this crucial facet of the practice can create exceptional client satisfaction and success, says Patrick Hanson at Wiggam Law.

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Supreme Court Taps Latham Atty In Campaign Spending Case

By Carolyn Muyskens

The U.S. Supreme Court has turned to Latham & Watkins LLP's Roman Martinez to defend caps on coordinated campaign spending as amicus counsel in a case on tap for next term.

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Senate Passes Budget Bill, Rebuking National Injunctions

By Courtney Bublé

The Senate voted 51-50 on Tuesday to pass the budget reconciliation bill, including various provisions that seek to greatly restrict the use of nationwide injunctions, which Republicans heavily criticized after district courts repeatedly stalled parts of President Donald Trump's agenda with the legal maneuver.

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US Attorney Picks Include Alina Habba And Senator's Son

By Courtney Bublé

The president sent 14 U.S. attorney nominations to the Senate on Tuesday, including Alina Habba, the president's former counselor and personal attorney, for the District of New Jersey and Arch Moore Capito, the son of Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W. Va., for the Southern District of West Virginia.

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Legal Aid Attys Can't Sever Union Ties Over Its Mideast Views

By Emily Brill

A New York federal judge tossed two New York City public defenders' lawsuit against their union, saying the attorneys can't leverage the U.S. Supreme Court's Janus ruling to stop paying the union because they disagree with its stance on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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Yale Law's 1st Woman Dean To Leave Post 2 Years Early

By Hailey Konnath

Yale Law School Dean Heather Gerken, the first woman named to the position, is leaving Yale to lead the Ford Foundation two years before her term was set to expire, according to a recent announcement.

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Apple Backers Raise Price, Privilege Concerns At 9th Circ.

By Bryan Koenig

Trade groups and advocacy organizations have raised a series of concerns with the Ninth Circuit about a federal district court mandate blocking Apple from charging commissions on iPhone app purchases made outside its systems, arguing an Epic Games Inc. injunction redux improperly compels speech, imperils price-setting autonomy and threatens legal privilege.

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Analysis

Top Personal Injury, Med Mal News: 2025 Midyear Report

By Y. Peter Kang

A U.S. Supreme Court ruling over whether personal injury claims can be brought under a RICO statute and a $7.4 billion settlement reached with the Sackler family and Purdue Pharma are among Law360's top personal injury and medical malpractice cases from the first six months of 2025.

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Monthly Merger Review Snapshot

By Matthew Perlman

The U.S. Department of Justice reached the agency's first three merger settlements of the second Trump administration, clearing deals in the technology and aerospace sectors after divestitures, while the Federal Trade Commission put conditions on an advertising merger. Here, Law360 looks at the major merger review developments from June.

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The Top In-House Hires Of June

By Michele Gorman

Legal department hires over the past month included high-profile appointments at Microsoft, Guess and U.S. Steel. Here, Law360 Pulse looks at some of the top in-house announcements from June.

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