Corteva Strikes $85M Deal In Farmer Pesticide Antitrust MDL

By Craig Clough

A group of farmers have asked a North Carolina federal judge to preliminarily approve an $85 million settlement with Corteva Inc. to resolve antitrust claims that the company used loyalty rebate programs to artificially extend their patent monopolies over certain pesticides. 

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23andMe To Pay $46.7M To Resolve Data Breach Claims

By Emily Lever

The plan administration trust created under the Chapter 11 plan of DNA-testing company 23andMe has struck a deal to pay $46.7 million to data breach claimants, saying the move brings 23andMe one step closer to resolving the fallout of a massive data breach in 2023.

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3rd Circ. Again Rejects $3.7M Atty Fee For BMW Defect Class

By P.J. D'Annunzio

In a precedential opinion Thursday, the Third Circuit once again overturned a $3.7 million fee award for attorneys representing BMW owners in an engine failure class action, after having previously sent the award back for recalculation.

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OpenAI Says High Court Curbed Some News Org IP Claims

By Craig Clough

OpenAI told a New York federal judge Thursday that the U.S. Supreme Court's recent Cox v. Sony decision bars a contributory infringement claim brought by four news companies accusing the artificial intelligence company of using their copyrighted materials to train ChatGPT, saying the high court's ruling eliminates the legal theory on which the plaintiffs rely.

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7th Circ. Rejects Firms' Bid For More Flea Collar MDL Fees

By Celeste Bott

The Seventh Circuit on Wednesday affirmed an Illinois federal court's refusal to order a redistribution of attorney fees from a $15 million settlement resolving multidistrict litigation against Bayer and other manufacturers of Seresto flea and tick collars, saying two law firms arguing they were cut out of their fair share failed to timely challenge the fee-allocation process.

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Workers Hit Chiron Financial With Unpaid Wage Suit

By Emily Brill

Chiron Financial didn't pay 17 of its workers when it was having money trouble, a proposed class action in Texas federal court alleges, seeking to recoup the money that the workers say they're owed.

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US Chamber Says ERISA Suit Could Shrink 401(k) Choices

By Grace Elletson

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce urged a California federal judge to toss a suit claiming a car dealership company misused forfeited funds and chose opaque investment options for its $1 billion 401(k) plan, warning the case could hurt retirement savers by leading to fewer investment options.

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Amazon Reaches Deal To End Workers' Genetic Privacy Suit

By Patrick Hoff

Amazon has agreed to end a lawsuit alleging that it violated Illinois genetic privacy law by seeking information about job applicants' family medical history, according to a federal court filing.

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Discount Airline Settles Military Workers' Leave Benefits Suit

By Grace Elletson

A budget airline has agreed to settle a proposed class action in Minnesota federal court claiming the business violated federal law by failing to contribute cash into workers' retirement funds when they took military leave.

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Hospital Co. Accused Of Misusing Forfeited 401(k) Funds

By Patrick Hoff

A Northwell Health Inc. subsidiary violated federal benefits law by using millions of dollars in forfeited 401(k) funds to offset its contribution obligations and allowing the $1.2 billion plan's recordkeeper to be overpaid, according to a proposed class action in Connecticut federal court.

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11th Circ. Won't Revisit Delta Pilots' Military Bias Suit

By Patrick Hoff

The Eleventh Circuit declined to rethink the dismissal of a suit alleging Delta forced out two pilots because they took military leave, leaving in place a panel's conclusion that they resigned over investigations into whether they misused their sick leave.

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Meta Beats Investors' Suit Over AI-Powered Facebook Scams

By Bonnie Eslinger

A California federal judge tossed a proposed class action alleging that Meta's AI tools enabled investment schemes advertised on Facebook, finding Thursday that his own earlier ruling means that the plaintiffs' state claims are barred under federal securities law.

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Via Transportation Hit With Investor Suit Over $493M IPO

By Emilie Ruscoe

Technology company Via Transportation Inc. and certain executives and underwriters face a proposed investor class action alleging that the company failed to disclose slowing growth and challenges to expanding its business in the German market before its roughly $493 million initial public offering in September 2025.

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Guess Investors Claim Take-Private Deal Skirts Reforms

By Dorothy Atkins

Guess Inc. investors have hit the luxury apparel company's top brass with a putative securities class action in Delaware Chancery Court, alleging the company's take-private sale to Authentic Brands Group LLC unfairly cashed out public investors to benefit executives and circumvented governance reforms imposed to curb co-founder Paul Marciano's alleged sexual misconduct.

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Kan. AG Can't Try To Stop Shale Oil Claims From Local Gov'ts

By Bryan Koenig

A New Mexico federal judge refused Thursday to let Kansas' attorney general intervene in multidistrict litigation accusing U.S. shale oil producers of conspiring with OPEC to inflate oil and fuel prices, concluding that the enforcer has no grounds or authority to try to block the claims from local governments.

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Fla. Hospital Antitrust Case Paused For Cert. Denial Appeal

By Nadia Dreid

Patients who have accused hospital operator Health First of illegally fending off competition by preventing doctors from referring patients to rivals have convinced a Florida federal judge to put their lawsuit on hold while they challenge her decision to deny them class certification.

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Nissan Cooling Fans Are Dangerously Defective, Driver Claims

By Mike Curley

A driver is suing Nissan North America Inc. in Tennessee federal court, alleging in a proposed class action that its Rogue Sport vehicles have a dangerous defect in the radiator coolant fans that lets engines overheat.

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Mich. Judge Denies Law Firm's Bid To Toss Data Breach Suit

By Susan Smiley

A Michigan law firm's bid to toss a proposed class action alleging that it allowed a cybersecurity breach that exposed its clients' personal and medical information was denied Thursday by a federal judge who also granted the lead plaintiff's request to amend his complaint.

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Fla. Dispensary Says Data Privacy Suit Is Meritless

By Jonathan Capriel

A medical marijuana patient can't sue Florida dispensary Sunburn Cannabis for secretly sharing his health data with Google LLC, the dispensary argued to a federal court this week, saying he consented to the tracking via its website's privacy policy.

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Robinhood Accused Of Tricking Users Into Illegal Betting

By Katryna Perera

Robinhood purportedly tricks consumers into illegally gambling by disguising its event contracts as a "modern, sophisticated form of investing" when, in reality, the contracts are just plain old-fashioned sports betting that is unregulated and in violation of state gambling laws, a new lawsuit alleges in California federal court.

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Colo. City Cut Speed Camera Response Deadline, Driver Says

By MJ Koo

A Colorado driver has launched a proposed class action in state court, claiming a city near Denver knowingly gives motorists only 30 days to respond to automated speed camera citations despite a state law requiring at least 45 days.

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Investment Cos. Push To Nix Consumers' Tribal RICO Suit

By Joyce Hanson

A couple of investment firms are asking a North Carolina federal court to toss a proposed consumer class action over a so-called tribal lending scheme that charges annual interest rates as high as 490%, saying the borrowers fail to show they helped manage the short-term loan company.

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Braidwood Files New Challenge To ACA Birth Control Mandate

By Kellie Mejdrich

For-profit healthcare company Braidwood Management and several individuals sued the government in Texas federal court to challenge no-cost contraception coverage requirements under the Affordable Care Act, arguing that the court should enjoin enforcement of the policy because it burdened their faith in violation of federal religious freedom law.

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Immigrants Say Guantánamo Policy Is Arbitrary, Costly

By Elaine Briseño

A certified class of Guantánamo Bay detainees told a D.C. federal judge that the Immigration and Nationality Act does not allow the United States to detain noncitizens after they have been removed from the country.

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Immigration Firm Says Attys Fraudulently Poached Clients

By Britain Eakin

A law firm recently accused of running a volume-driven immigration filing mill claimed in a new lawsuit in Ohio federal court that three attorneys and a TikTok personality orchestrated a social media campaign falsely accusing it of visa fraud as a way to poach its clients.

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Winston & Strawn Employment Partner Joins Davis Wright

By Adrian Cruz

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP announced Thursday that an experienced employment attorney has joined the firm's Los Angeles office after a lengthy stint with Winston & Strawn LLP.

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New State AI Laws Create Dual Misrepresentation Risk

As artificial intelligence transparency laws are enacted across the country and the volume and specificity of compliance records increase, companies will be required to speak more often, more precisely and to more audiences about the same systems, compounding the risk of litigation, say attorneys at Cooley.

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Cow Horse Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Moving an unwilling 800-pound cow while riding a horse at high speed is exhilarating, a little unhinged and, at least for me, a surprisingly effective training ground for litigation — both demand focus, preparation over rigid planning and the willingness to act despite fear, says Ashley Zitrin at Glenn Agre.

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The 2026 Law360 400

By Daniela Porat

Law360 is pleased to announce its list of the 400 largest U.S. firms by headcount.

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Kellogg Hansen Bests Susman Godfrey's Associate Pay Hikes

By Andrea Keckley

More litigation boutiques are joining the growing number of firms raising their base salaries for associates, with Kellogg Hansen Todd Figel & Frederick PLLC exceeding the scale Susman Godfrey LLP set earlier this week.

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SDNY US Atty Jay Clayton Picked For DNI After Pulte Pushback

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump announced on Thursday he's nominating Jay Clayton, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, to be director of national intelligence.

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Widow Sues Podhurst Orseck Over $4M 737 Max Settlement

By Mike Curley

An Indonesian widow is suing Podhurst Orseck PA and one of its attorneys in Illinois federal court, alleging they failed to keep her informed or get her all the money she was entitled to in a $4 million settlement with Boeing over the fatal crash of Lion Air Flight 610.

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Miss America CEO Wants Ex-Atty Barred From Court

By Emily Lever

The CEO of Miss America and companies linked to the pageant asked a Florida federal court on Thursday to bar their former counsel Carlton Fields from a status conference in their litigation over Miss America's bankruptcy, arguing the firm is not a party and is no longer counsel of record.

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Ex-Trump Atty Chesebro Gets Fla. Law License Back

By Madison Arnold

The Florida Supreme Court has reinstated the law license of former Trump campaign attorney Kenneth Chesebro after his conviction in Georgia's election interference racketeering case was eventually cleared by a court order invalidating the charge.

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Mass. Attys Ding Watchdog's 'Myopic' Public Defense Report

By Julie Manganis

The leader of a group of Massachusetts attorneys who stopped taking court-appointed cases last year over what they say are inadequate hourly rates on Thursday slammed a state inspector general's highly critical report on the state's indigent defense system as "myopic."

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