7th Circ. Weighs 'Unprecedented' Clearview AI Privacy Deal

By Celeste Bott

The Seventh Circuit on Wednesday raised misgivings about a novel settlement ending multidistrict litigation over Clearview AI's collection of biometric data online, pressing an attorney for those objecting to the deal to offer alternatives they'd deem fair, given the risk of the company going bankrupt and class members receiving no payout at all.

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Google To Pay Android Users $135M To End Data Use Suit

By Allison Grande

Google agreed to pay $135 million and obtain consent from new Android users for use of their cellular data to resolve a proposed class action accusing it of conducting "passive" data transfers without consumers' knowledge or consent over the Android operating system, according to a proposed deal filed in California federal court.

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Mid-America Inks $53M Deal In RealPage Landlord MDL

By Lauren Berg

Mid-America Apartment Communities Inc. revealed in a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing Wednesday that it will pay $53 million to settle out of multidistrict antitrust litigation alleging some of the largest landlords in the country used RealPage Inc.'s software to fix rent prices for residential properties.

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7th Circ. Doubtful Climate Fight Belongs In Federal Court

By Lauraann Wood

Seventh Circuit judges seemed skeptical Wednesday of Chevron and other oil giants' argument that a lower court incorrectly sent Chicago's climate deception claims back to state court, questioning whether they've cited the type of contractual government work and relationship that would otherwise keep the suit in federal court.

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Attys Get $2.5M In $7.5M Preterm-Birth Drug Settlement

By Mike Curley

A New Jersey federal judge has given final approval to a $7.5 million settlement to end claims that AMAG Pharmaceuticals Inc. knew its preterm-birth prevention drug Makena was ineffective when it first marketed it, along with $2.5 million to class counsel in attorney fees.

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Jordan Card Seller Found Guilty Of Faking 'Mint' Grades

By Pete Brush

A Manhattan federal jury on Wednesday convicted a Washington state man of meticulously faking grades to boost the value of big-dollar trading cards, including an iconic Michael Jordan rookie card, to rip off buyers seeking collectibles in prime condition.

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Louis Vuitton Didn't Heed Salesforce Breach Alert, Suit Says

By Gina Kim

Louis Vuitton failed to heed warnings and security recommendations from Salesforce to protect against "vishing" techniques from cybercriminals who ended up infiltrating the fashion house's systems last summer and stole customer information, alleges a proposed class action filed Tuesday in New York federal court.

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Senators Question If FirstNet, AT&T Need More Oversight

By Christopher Cole

A U.S. Senate panel Wednesday examined calls to reform the national first responder network and to rework AT&T's 25-year exclusive contract to provide network coverage for emergency personnel across the country.

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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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FCC Sees Dead People On Lifeline, But Dems Balk At New Reg

By Christopher Cole

Democrats are bristling against a plan by the Federal Communications Commission to reduce purported fraud in the Lifeline program, where the agency says some states enrolled dead people and others who don't qualify.

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Social Media Addiction Laws Eyed By Conn. Governor, AG

By Aaron Keller

Connecticut lawmakers will consider forcing social media companies to display mental health warning labels and file state reports detailing the numbers of youth users, parental consent figures and average daily screen time statistics, Gov. Ned Lamont and Attorney General William M. Tong said in a Wednesday statement.

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FCC Chair Signals Feb. Vote On 900 MHz Expansion

By Corey Rothauser

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr said the commission plans to vote next month on an order that would allow broadband deployment across the full 10 megahertz of the 900 MHz band, a move the nation's railroads have said they would support but only with strict safeguards in place.

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Chinese Man Gets 46 Months In $37M Pig Butchering Scam

By Gina Kim

A Chinese national was sentenced to 46 months in prison Tuesday in California federal court for participating in a global network that tricked 174 victims lured in from dating apps into pouring money into fake digital asset investments, and ultimately laundering $36.9 million in cryptocurrency proceeds to scam centers overseas.

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Advocates Seek Shift To 1st Circ. In Prison Call Rate Cases

By Corey Rothauser

A public interest group, backed by other public interest petitioners, is asking the D.C. Circuit to transfer to the First Circuit the challenges to the Federal Communications Commission's latest prison phone rate order, arguing the court is already deeply familiar with the dispute and best positioned to resolve it.

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Krispy Kreme Reaches $1.6M Deal Over Employee Data Breach

By Rae Ann Varona

Krispy Kreme has agreed to a $1.6 million settlement to resolve a consolidated proposed class action that accused the doughnut chain of failing to protect current and former employees' personal information from a November 2024 data breach, according to a filing in North Carolina federal court.

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Fairlife Founders Freed From Calif. Cow Treatment Suit

By Jonathan Capriel

The founders of Fairlife brand milk can't be held liable in a California proposed class action accusing the company of making false claims about humane cow treatment, a federal judge ruled, saying the suit failed to point to any examples of intentional acts they made directed to the state.

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TED Talks Producer Can't Nix Video Data Sharing Privacy Suit

By Lauren Berg

A Manhattan federal judge won't toss a lawsuit alleging the nonprofit producer of TED Talks unlawfully disclosed to third-party trackers the personally identifiable information of consumers who made accounts to watch videos on its website and app, saying the consumers have adequately alleged the disclosures violate the Video Privacy Protection Act.

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Amazon Must Face Delivery Driver Restroom Tech Claims

By Elliot Weld

A Washington federal judge on Wednesday mostly allowed a company's claims accusing Amazon.com Inc. of stealing technology that routes delivery drivers to nearby bathrooms to proceed, saying he would not stop it from presenting its misappropriation claims.

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Teva Allowed New Mifepristone Claim But Not New Defendant

By Bryan Koenig

A California federal judge gave Teva permission to update its antitrust suit accusing Corcept Therapeutics of using patent system abuse, bribes and exclusive dealing to block generic competition to its cortisol disorder treatment while refusing to let Teva add another specialty pharmacy as a defendant.

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LegitScript's Counterclaims Against PharmacyChecker Tossed

By Matthew Perlman

An Oregon federal court dismissed LegitScript's counterclaims accusing PharmacyChecker.com of making false statements about the legality of importing prescription drugs, in a suit accusing the pharmacy accreditation provider of blacklisting the price-checking website.

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Generics Makers Want Hospital Drug Data In Price-Fixing MDL

By Mark Payne

A group of 150 hospitals suing generic-drug makers for alleged price fixing in multidistrict litigation should hand over data on their drug purchases, the drugmakers have told a Pennsylvania federal court, arguing they don't sell directly to the hospitals and therefore have no records themselves. 

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Unions Say FEMA Staff Cuts Threaten Disaster Readiness

By Lauren Berg

A coalition of unions, nonprofit organizations and local governments that are challenging the Trump administration's federal worker layoffs and agency reorganizations asked a California federal judge Tuesday for permission to add the Federal Emergency Management Agency as a defendant, saying ongoing staff cuts threaten its legally mandated responsibility to respond to disasters.

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Colo. Drivers Claim $5M Damage From Gas-Diesel Mix-Up

By Rachel Konieczny

Colorado residents filed a proposed class action Tuesday in federal court against two fuel station operators, alleging the companies distributed gasoline contaminated with diesel fuel to major gas stations in early January that caused more than $5 million in damage to their vehicles.

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NY Firm And Medical Providers Defrauded Insurers, Suit Says

By Hope Patti

An insurer accused a law firm and a collection of medical providers and professionals of engaging in a scheme to defraud insurers through sham lawsuits and inflated medical bills, telling a New York federal court that the defendants have enriched themselves "at the expense of justice, equity and human dignity."

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Solar Panel Co. Sunrun Misclassifying Sales Reps, Suit Says

By Julie Manganis

Solar panel company Sunrun Inc. misclassified its sales representatives as independent contractors in violation of Massachusetts workers' compensation law, a coalition of advocacy groups alleged in a complaint filed in state court.

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Fiserv Uses Its Data Security Flaws For Upsells, Suit Says

By Katryna Perera

Payment systems company Fiserv Inc. is facing another suit over its alleged data security flaws, with a credit union claiming the company has allowed its online banking platform to be "repeatedly hacked, again and again," and then uses these failures to upsell additional security measures to users. 

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Asset Co. Slams Conn. Insurance Chief's Plan For Liquidation

By Hope Patti

An asset management company asked a Connecticut state court for permission to intervene in the insurance commissioner's rehabilitation of struggling insurer PHL Variable Insurance Co., saying the commissioner's "surprise" plan to pursue liquidation will be disastrous for universal life policyholders that are over a $300,000 cap on death benefits.

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Ambulance Billing Co. Settles Data Breach Claims

By Julie Manganis

An ambulance billing service will pay a total of $515,000 to the states of Massachusetts and Connecticut and take measures to improve its data security to settle allegations stemming from a 2022 breach, the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office announced Wednesday.

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What Businesses Offering AI Should Expect From The FTC

The Federal Trade Commission's move to reopen and set aside an administrative order against Rytr shows that the FTC is serious about executing on the administration's Artificial Intelligence Action Plan, and won't stand in the way of businesses offering AI products with pro-consumer, legitimate uses, say attorneys at Reed Smith.

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Digital Assets May Be In For A Growth Spurt In 2026

All signs point to an acceleration in digital asset product and service innovation throughout 2026, and while questions of first impression still need to be addressed, some legal issues will be clarified, spurring developments namely on the tokenization and stablecoin fronts, say attorneys at Skadden.

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And Now A Word From The Panel: MDL Year In Review

2025 was a roller coaster for the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation, with the panel canceling one hearing session due to the absence of new MDL petitions, yet also issuing rulings on more new MDL petitions than in 2024 — making it clear that MDLs are still thriving, says Alan Rothman at Sidley Austin.

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Judges On AI: How Judicial Use Informs Guardrails

U.S. Magistrate Judge Maritza Dominguez Braswell at the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado discusses why having a sense of how generative AI tools behave, where they add value, where they introduce risk and how they are reshaping the practice of law is key for today's judges.

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ICE Violated Nearly 100 Court Orders, Minn. Judge Says

By Rae Ann Varona

The Minnesota federal court's chief judge admonished U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Wednesday for violating nearly 100 court orders concerning the Trump administration's immigration enforcement operations in Minnesota while another judge, on the same day, temporarily blocked ICE from unlawfully arresting and detaining refugees in the North Star State.

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Tobey Maguire Says He Rerouted Fee To Goldstein

By Jared Foretek

"Spider-Man" star Tobey Maguire told the jury Wednesday in Thomas Goldstein's tax fraud trial that he paid $500,000 for his legal services to another poker player the former SCOTUSblog founder owed money to, rather than Goldstein's law firm.

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Tom Goldstein Saga Could Go From Courtroom To Big Screen

By Rachel Rippetoe

As federal prosecutors are two weeks into detailing SCOTUSblog founder Thomas Goldstein's storied descent into the world of high-stakes poker during his tax fraud trial in Maryland, Hollywood producers are gearing up to tell the same story on-screen.

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Fla. Prosecutors' Detention Defense Met With Sanction Threat

By Adrian Cruz

The U.S. attorney for the Middle District of Florida, Gregory Kehoe, along with an assistant U.S. attorney have been threatened with sanctions by a federal judge for the methods their office used in defending the mandatory detention of noncitizens.

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Trump Announces Pick For New Assistant AG For Fraud Role

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump announced Wednesday evening that he would be nominating Colin McDonald, associate deputy attorney general, for the newly created assistant attorney general for fraud role.

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USPTO Seeks 'Serious Sanctions' For Chinese Co.'s 19K Apps

By Rae Ann Varona

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office says the "most serious sanctions" are warranted against a China-based company for filing more than 19,000 trademark submissions using names of U.S.-licensed attorneys who did not review the applications, saying submissions were at times filed in 3-minute intervals "or less."

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Prosecutors Form New Group To Fight Federal Overreach

By Ryan Boysen

Several progressive prosecutors have launched a new group to hold accountable federal officials who "exceed their lawful authority," amid a growing backlash to the Trump administration's immigration crackdown and the recent killing of two protesters by immigration agents in Minneapolis.

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Analysis

Trade Secret Filings Hit Record High In 2025, Report Finds

By Ivan Moreno

Trade secret litigation reached an all-time high in 2025, with more than 1,500 federal cases filed for the first time ever, according to a new report by legal analytics firm Lex Machina, which also highlights trends about damages, the busiest courts and the law firms most frequently involved.

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