Meta CEO Zuckerberg Fights Privacy Suit Depo At 9th Circ.

By Dorothy Atkins

Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg urged a Ninth Circuit panel during a hearing Friday to scrap orders requiring him to give a limited deposition in privacy litigation over Facebook's alleged collection of health data, arguing the plaintiffs failed to exhaust alternative methods of getting the information they seek.

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Google Search Judge Issues Finalized Antitrust Mandates

By Hailey Konnath

A D.C. federal judge Friday issued the finalized package of remedies in the U.S. Department of Justice's case targeting Google's search monopoly, mostly agreeing with the government's proposals for exactly what Google must do to prop up rivals and restore competition in the search engine market.

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Judge Denies Firms' Bid To Clarify CFPB's MoneyLion Deal

By Katryna Perera

A New York federal judge has denied a request by consumer advocate law firms to add clarifying language to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's recently approved $1.75 million settlement with MoneyLion Technologies Inc., noting that the advocates did not seek to intervene in the suit and that the CFPB and MoneyLion both oppose the request.

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Elon Musk's X Fined €120M By EU For Misleading Users

By Sophia Dourou

The European Commission revealed Friday that it has fined social media platform X €120 million ($140 million) for breaching European Union digital transparency rules, including by "deceiving" users through the blue checkmarks for so-called verified accounts.

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Nickel For Your Thoughts? Dems Want Plan For Ending Penny

By Courtney Bublé

Top Democrats on banking and financial services committees are claiming the Trump administration has not formulated a sufficient plan for the transition away from the penny and are asking for a public plan by Dec. 12.

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Feds Wrap Up FARA Case Against Ex-NY Gov. Aide Linda Sun

By Stewart Bishop

Brooklyn federal prosecutors on Friday rested their case against a former top aide to New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, after about three weeks of trial over alleged violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act and other charges.

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Judge Won't Exit Agri Stats DOJ Case Over Clerk Connection

By Christine DeRosa

A Minnesota federal judge refused to recuse himself from a case accusing Agri Stats of helping meat processors exchange sensitive information based on a clerk's past work on related cases, after refusing a similar request in a case over pork prices.

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Mass. Justices Muse On Swift, 'FOMO' In Meta Addiction Case

By Chris Villani

Massachusetts' highest court appeared divided Friday as it wrestled with whether Meta Platforms Inc. should have to face a suit by the state attorney general claiming that it is illegally getting kids hooked on Instagram.

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Wash. AG, Lawmakers Pitch Bill To Protect Immigrant Workers

By Ben Adlin

Two Washington lawmakers and the state's attorney general Friday announced plans to introduce legislation that would attempt to protect immigrant workers from federal crackdowns, saying the state's "prosperity would not be possible without the contributions of immigrants."

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Top Groups Lobbying The FCC

By Christopher Cole

As the Federal Communications Commission returned to full operations in November after a government shutdown, groups lobbying the FCC remained busy on issues ranging from a Global Positioning System backup to spectrum sharing and the upcoming FCC auction of upper C-Band airwaves.

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Feds Seek 12 Years For Founder's 'Devastating' Crypto Fraud

By Aislinn Keely

Federal prosecutors say Terraform founder Do Kwon should face 12 years in prison, arguing that he "fled from the wreckage" after misleading investors ahead of a $40 billion collapse of his stablecoin crypto project.

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FTC's Abandoned Pepsi Pricing Case Will Be Mostly Unsealed

By Matthew Perlman

A New York federal court agreed to largely unseal the Federal Trade Commission's price discrimination complaint against PepsiCo Inc. despite protests from the beverage company and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce after enforcers dropped the case earlier this year.

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Federal Hemp Ban Enforcement Uncertain, Report Finds

By Sam Reisman

It is unclear how or whether federal agencies will enforce the federal ban on intoxicating hemp due to take effect in 11 months or apply the same hands-off approach that has governed marijuana, according to a recent report from the Congressional Research Service.

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Character.AI Exec Can't Exit Teen's Suicide Suit, Mom Argues

By Jonathan Capriel

The co-founder of Character.AI should not be allowed to escape a wrongful death lawsuit accusing the platform and its creators of building a large language model that encouraged a 14-year-old boy to kill himself, the teen's mother argued in Florida federal court, saying the founder essentially controlled the company, so much so that it was his alter ego.

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WaPo Accused Of Failing To Protect Employee Info From Hack

By Rae Ann Varona

A former Washington Post employee has accused the newspaper of failing to prevent a targeted cyberattack over the summer, saying in a putative class action filed in D.C. federal court that lax cybersecurity procedures have put thousands of employees' and contractors' sensitive information in the hands of data thieves.

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Fed Can Fund CFPB Under Trump Admin's Terms, Court Told

By Jon Hill

A group of former Federal Reserve officials told a Washington, D.C., federal judge on Friday that the Trump administration is wrong to claim the central bank both needs and lacks profits right now to keep the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau up and running.

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Hawaii Sues TikTok Over Youth Mental Health

By Emily Field

Hawaii this week became the latest state to hit TikTok with allegations that the social media company purposely designed its platform to hook users and especially children.

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10 Commandments For Agentic AI Tools In The Legal Industry

Though agentic artificial intelligence has demonstrated significant promise for optimizing legal work, it presents numerous risks, so specific ethical obligations should be built into the knowledge base of every agentic AI tool used in the legal industry, says Steven Cordero at Akerman LLP.

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Bonus Spotlight

Katten Exceeds Market Bonus Scale, Orrick Matches

By Tracey Read

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP has joined a select few law firms that have gone beyond the BigLaw norm for year-end and special bonuses.

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Immigration Lawyers Battle Burnout Amid Deportation Surge

By Daniel Connolly

As the Trump administration carries out a mass deportation campaign across the country, immigration attorneys faced with heavy demand and changing norms are feeling the impact of burnout and stress on their practices and emotions, they told Law360.

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Judges Beat Ethics Suits For Dropping Retirement Post-Trump

By Jake Maher

A Fourth Circuit judge and two district court judges have defeated ethics complaints from a conservative legal organization alleging they improperly reversed their decisions to take senior status after President Donald Trump was elected.

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Rosen Law Firm Sanctioned Over 'Frivolous' Investor Suit

By Lynn LaRowe

A Wisconsin federal judge has sanctioned The Rosen Law Firm PA for failing to conduct an adequate investigation before filing a "frivolous" securities complaint against an airline holding company.

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Utah Atty Avoids Monetary Sanction For 'Hallucinated' Cases

By Matt Perez

A Utah federal judge handling a trademark infringement matter has sanctioned an attorney for filing court documents with "hallucinated" cases, but instead of issuing a fine, the lawyer was ordered to read all the cases and authorities cited in the opinion and file a summary statement within 30 days.

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Supreme Court Halts Immigration Judges' Free Speech Suit

By Britain Eakin

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday stayed a Fourth Circuit decision reviving a free speech suit from an immigration judges union challenging a policy barring them from speaking publicly about immigration without approval.

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Feature

For NY Inmate, Jamaica's Violence Waits Outside Prison Walls

By Rachel Rippetoe

Jamaican-born Eric Tolliver is nearing the end of his 33-year prison sentence in New York, but what waits for him on the other side might be worse: deportation to his home country, where many want him dead.

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Fla. Court Upholds Atty Disqualification In $1M Estate Dispute

By David Minsky

A Florida state appellate court on Friday affirmed the disqualification of an attorney who abandoned his client and began representing his client's adversaries in a $1 million probate case, finding that he likely violated ethics rules regarding conflicts of interest.

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Fla. Judge OKs Release Of Epstein Grand Jury Transcripts

By Rae Ann Varona

A Florida federal judge on Friday ordered the release of grand jury transcripts from an investigation of late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, citing a newly enacted law that the government said overrides a prohibition on disclosing the documents to the public.

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Roundup

GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

An SEC panel has asked the agency to adopt regulations that could standardize the way publicly traded companies report details about AI use. Meanwhile, the FCC approved AT&T's $1 billion UScellular deal after AT&T became the latest of the big three mobile carriers to agree to do away with diversity, equity and inclusion policies. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Gupta Wessler LLP and Block & Leviton LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Eleventh Circuit revived a proposed class action against NextEra Energy Inc. that seeks to hold the energy company liable for a share price drop that followed political interference allegations involving a subsidiary.

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In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Law360

For those who missed out, here's a look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the most buzz on Law360 last week.

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