Meta's View Of 'Problematic Use' Has Holes, Ex-Exec Testifies

By Cara Salvatore

A former Facebook safety executive testified Wednesday in Tennessee's trial against Meta over youth mental health that Meta's definition of "problematic use" of apps is deficient and suffers from a lack of data.

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NY Crypto Recovery Fraud Case Heads To Trial As Deal Falters

By Frank G. Runyeon

Counsel for a cryptocurrency business owner told a New York state judge on Wednesday that plea negotiations had hit a wall over how much money the state wanted in exchange for a deal without time behind bars over an alleged $1.5 million fraud scheme.

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Split 10th Circ. Revives Class Bid In 'Safer' Cig False Ad Suit

By Rae Ann Varona

A divided Tenth Circuit panel ruled Wednesday that a lower court should not have denied class certification to consumers who claimed Santa Fe Natural Tobacco falsely implied its Natural American Spirit cigarettes were safer than others, saying the court erroneously rejected their damages model as common proof of causation and damages.

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7th Circ. Flips Order Keeping 5 Baby Formula Suits In Ill. MDL

By Lauraann Wood

The Seventh Circuit has reversed a district court's finding that five out-of-state necrotizing enterocolitis suits should stay in Illinois-based multidistrict litigation involving similar cases over allegedly harmful formula for preterm infants, saying the lower court went "far afield" in its fraudulent joinder analysis.

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DOJ Declines To Charge Optometry Group Under New Policy

By Phillip Bantz

New Jersey-based optometry practice Campus Eye Management on Wednesday became the first healthcare company to secure a declination of criminal charges under the U.S. Department of Justice's new corporate enforcement policy.

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Albertsons Pharmacy Work Was 'House Of Cards,' Judge Told

By Ben Adlin

Albertsons pharmacists in Washington state repeatedly warned supervisors that busy workloads and limited staffing were making it difficult to review prescriptions before filling them, a state judge in Seattle heard Monday, during a bench trial in Washington's case accusing Albertsons and its Safeway subsidiary of fueling the state's opioid crisis.

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Apple Accused Of Not Stopping Fake Wallet Apps' Crypto Theft

By Caroline Simson

Apple has been hit with a federal lawsuit in California over its alleged failure to warn consumers about fraudulent cryptocurrency wallet apps available on its App Store and the risk of cryptocurrency theft posed by those apps.

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11th Circ. Leery Of Bid To Revive Citibank ATM Fee Bias Suit

By Kelcey Caulder

The Eleventh Circuit appeared skeptical Tuesday of customers' push to unwind Citibank's victory in a suit over a program that waives ATM fees at minority-owned banks, pressing the challengers on whether they had standing to bring the lawsuit. 

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Attys Secure $15M Fees In Abbott Formula Shareholder Suit

By Lauraann Wood

An Illinois federal judge on Wednesday approved class counsel's $15.3 million fee request in a shareholder dispute over Abbott Laboratories' management of a 2022 infant formula contamination crisis, satisfied with the elaboration he called for during an earlier settlement fairness hearing.

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Brief

US Finalizes Duties On Rebar From Vietnam, Egypt, Bulgaria

By Jack McLoone

Steel concrete reinforcing bar from Vietnam, Egypt and Bulgaria are facing varying duty rates after the U.S. Department of Commerce on Wednesday finalized its determinations that the goods imported from the countries are being sold at unfair prices.

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'96 Telecom Act Needs Overhaul To Cut Regs, Think Tank Says

By Christopher Cole

A free-market-oriented think tank called Wednesday for a legislative redo of the 1996 Telecommunications Act in order to slash regulations tied to outdated technologies and adjust the industry's regulatory regime to new market conditions.

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Calif. Regulator To Appeal $100M OppFi 'Rent-A-Bank' Loss

By Sarah Jarvis

California's financial services regulator has appealed a state judge's ruling that it cannot pursue millions in fines against Opportunity Financial for alleged "rent-a-bank" predatory lending, after the judge rejected the regulator's allegation that OppFi was the "true lender" for loans that the company argued originated from an out-of-state partner.

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AI Tops Advisers' 2026 Compliance Agenda, Survey Finds

By Sarah Jarvis

Artificial intelligence is overwhelmingly the top compliance priority for investment adviser firms, according to the results of a survey released Wednesday, with 85% of respondents identifying it as the hottest compliance topic for 2026, significantly up from the previous year.

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Calif. Dems Pressure FCC To Drop ABC Station Probe

By Nadia Dreid

More than two dozen California House Democrats have come together to tell the Federal Communications Commission to abandon its review of the license of an ABC station in the Golden State, saying there's no chance the agency launched the probe in good faith.

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Enforcers Defend Google Search Win, Seek Payment Ban

By Matthew Perlman

The U.S. Department of Justice and state enforcers urged the D.C. Circuit not to disturb a trial court's ruling that found Google illegally maintained its search monopoly, while also asking the appeals court to consider banning Google from paying to be the default search engine.

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Ex-CFPB Official Tapped For NJ Consumer Watchdog Role

By Katryna Perera

A former official at the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been tapped to lead the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs, making him the latest former CFPB official to join a state regulator after the Trump administration moved to dismantle the agency last year.

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FTC Says Hims & Hers Shares Health Data, Misleads Users

By Lauren Berg

The Federal Trade Commission and regulators in California and Utah allege in a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday that Hims & Hers promises patient privacy while actually sharing consumers' sensitive health information with Meta Platforms and other third-party advertising platforms and that the telehealth provider has deceived users about its billing practices.

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CFTC Can't Halt Wis. Sports Contracts Crackdown

By Elaine Briseño

A Wisconsin federal court on Wednesday rejected the Commodity Future Trading Commission's attempt to shield Kalshi and Crypto.com from the state's gambling laws during litigation, saying the court is not convinced sports event contracts are "swaps."

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CFTC Must 'Start Afresh' On Prediction Market Regs, States Say

By Aislinn Keely

A group of 44 attorneys general warned the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission to "start afresh" on its proposed rule for prediction markets or risk treading on state authority over gambling, while prediction market platforms backed the rule's plan to permit many sports-focused event contracts.

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3rd Circ. Revives Atlantic City Hotel Dynamic-Pricing Suit

By Matthew Santoni

A Third Circuit panel Wednesday revived a proposed class action accusing Atlantic City casino-hotels of illegally inflating room prices with software that allegedly shared private occupancy and pricing information among them.

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Trail Cam Co. Says T-Mobile Broke Tech Migration Promises

By Nadia Dreid

T-Mobile is trying to plow forward with a plan to shift Tactacam-branded "trail cameras" that operate on cellular networks to a new technology even though all the tests have failed, which could make millions of cams useless, according to the company that owns those cameras.

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Depo-Provera MDL Gets New Lead Plaintiffs After Settlement

By Carolina Bolado

The Florida federal judge overseeing the multidistrict litigation over a link between brain tumors and the hormonal contraceptive Depo-Provera on Wednesday approved three new pilot plaintiffs for the cases remaining after a global settlement that the judge called an "excellent outcome."

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Curaleaf Says Pot Suit Is Long On Length But Not Substance

By Jonathan Capriel

Cannabis giant Curaleaf Holdings Inc. on Tuesday slammed as "ill-conceived" a proposed class action by consumers who claim the company falsely marketed its products as medical treatments for mental health disorders and physical pain, saying none of the buyers are even medical cannabis patients.

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3M, DuPont Ordered To Face Montana PFAS Lawsuit, For Now

By Aaron Keller

DuPont de Nemours Inc., 3M Co. and other manufacturers of firefighter turnout gear must for now face a retooled class action complaint by local governments in a dozen states who claim an industrywide conspiracy concealed the dangers of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, a Montana federal judge ruled Tuesday.

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Nexstar Says Tegna Board Members Don't Violate Injunction

By Matthew Perlman

Nexstar Media Group told a California federal court that Tegna remains independent, despite concerns from DirecTV and a coalition of states that the companies violated an injunction preventing them from merging fully when Nexstar took over Tegna's board.

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Delta Can't Knock Out Consumer's Greenwashing Suit

By Kelcey Caulder

A California federal judge narrowed a proposed class action accusing Delta Air Lines of overstating its emissions progress and falsely touting itself as the first carbon-neutral airline, denying a bid for injunctive relief but refusing to toss California law claims. 

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TaskUs Trims Claims From Coinbase Breach Suit

By Katryna Perera

A New York federal judge has trimmed claims from a suit alleging a Texas-based Coinbase vendor called TaskUs failed to protect the personal information of Coinbase customers from a bribery-fueled data compromise scheme involving TaskUs employees.

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Roundup

Lowe's Coverage Row, NASCAR Team Tiff: NC Midyear Report

By Hayley Fowler

The North Carolina courts are teeing up for a busy second half of 2026, including readying for a multimillion-dollar insurance trial with Lowe's and speeding through discovery in a high-profile trade secrets dispute involving former NFL coach Joe Gibbs' championship NASCAR team.

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Amicus Briefs Back Decertification In Juul, Altria Antitrust Suit

By Mike Curley

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, 14 states led by Iowa, and legal interest groups are urging the Ninth Circuit to throw out class certification in antitrust litigation against Altria and Juul, joining the companies in arguing that the trial court misapplied California law to apply to other states.

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DraftKings Offers Sports Bets In Barred States, Suit Alleges

By David Steele

A proposed class action in Massachusetts federal court accuses DraftKings of conducting sports betting in states that outlaw it, through prediction markets that are accessible through the same app as its sportsbook and daily fantasy sports.

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Mass. Judge Says Roundup Suit May Survive Justices' Ruling

By Chris Villani

A suit against Monsanto over the alleged cancer risks of the weedkiller Roundup may still be heading for trial after a Massachusetts federal judge said Wednesday that a U.S. Supreme Court ruling barring certain claims against the company doesn't necessarily doom the case.

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Meta Set For 2027 Trial In Mass. Social Media Addiction Case

By Julie Manganis

A Massachusetts judge on Wednesday agreed to schedule a jury-waived trial for next May in the state's social media addiction lawsuit against Instagram and its owner, Meta Platforms.

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Apple, Amazon Beat Bid To Revive IPhone Sales Antitrust Suit

By Rachel Riley

A Washington federal judge has declined to reinstate a proposed class action accusing Apple and Amazon of illegally limiting iPhone and iPad sales, standing by her previous conclusion that Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP failed to promptly seek the approval of two substitute plaintiffs after the original lead consumer abandoned the case.

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Planned Parenthood Lab's $6.1M Breach Deal Gets Initial OK

By Crystal Owens

A Washington federal judge has preliminarily approved a $6.1 million class action settlement in two challenges to a state-based diagnostics testing service for Planned Parenthood over a 2025 data breach that reportedly affected as many as 1.6 million people.

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What Corporate Counsel Can Learn From OpenAI Test Breach

The significance of the recent artificial intelligence testing breach involving OpenAI and Hugging Face lies in what it reveals about the path of AI’s evolution, because legal professionals must translate that trajectory into actionable governance, contractual and advisory frameworks, says Jason Mueller at Vorys.

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What's Inside Proposed, Expanded NY Stablecoin Regulations

New York's recently proposed regulations for payment stablecoin issuers would, if adopted, increase the regulatory burdens of a state license, and midsize issuers considering a conversion to a federal charter should weigh the associated costs of both options, say attorneys at Lowenstein Sandler.

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How Does In-House Pay Compare? Take The Law360 Survey

How do in-house salaries vary across industries, roles, and organizational revenue? What compensation tools are companies using to lure top talent? Help Law360 Pulse answer these questions and more in this year's In-House Compensation Survey.

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Simpson Thacher Hung Client Out To Dry, Jury Hears

By Madison Arnold

A legal ethics expert told a Florida jury Wednesday that he believes Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP's actions when representing Patriot National Inc. constitute legal malpractice leading up to the insurance services company declaring bankruptcy.

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Senate Postpones Key Vote For AG Nominee Blanche

By Courtney Bublé

The committee vote on acting Attorney General Todd Blanche's bid to take the permanent role, slated for Thursday, was postponed after Sens. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Thom Tillis, R-N.C., were not fully on board.

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GOP Bill To Curb Judge Shopping May Have Limited Effect

By Courtney Bublé

A Senate Republican has introduced legislation that he says will fix the judge shopping issue, but court observers don't think it will make much of a difference.

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King & Spalding Told To End 'Shenanigans' In Bid To Exit Case

By Brian Steele

The individual defendants in a $300 million fraud lawsuit have accused King & Spalding LLP of appellate "shenanigans" while it seeks to exit the case due to an alleged ethics conflict, claiming the firm has falsely denied representing corporate clients despite an attorney's appearance suggesting otherwise.

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9th Circ. Vacates Orrick Win In Stock Transfer Deal Dispute

By Hailey Konnath

The Ninth Circuit on Wednesday reversed a lower court's finding that Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP can't be held liable in a battle over a stock transfer agreement gone awry, ruling that California law does allow a party to the transfer to pursue equitable indemnity in the case.

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DOJ Wants To Let Immigration Judges Fine For Contempt

By Britain Eakin

The Executive Office for Immigration Review proposed a rule Wednesday that would allow immigration judges to impose civil monetary penalties for contempt on attorneys, their noncitizen clients and witnesses, operationalizing a power that has lain dormant since 1996.

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Legal Aid Union Alleges Unlawful Incentives To Break Strike

By Andrea Keckley

The Neighborhood Defender Services of Harlem union announced on the third workday of its strike Tuesday that it has filed unfair labor practice charges with the National Labor Relations Board, accusing its management of offering unlawful incentives to cross the picket line.

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Former Trump Lawyer Officially Takes The Helm At SDNY

By Hailey Konnath

James McDonald, a former Sullivan & Cromwell LLP partner who represented President Donald Trump in his appeal of his criminal conviction, was sworn in as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York on Wednesday after McDonald's predecessor Jay Clayton departed to serve as director of national intelligence.

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2nd Circ. Backs Ex-Shkreli Atty's 401(k) Restitution Deal

By Lauren Berg

A New York trial judge erred in rejecting a retirement-fund garnishment deal that would have protected Martin Shkreli's convicted former lawyer from tax penalties, the Second Circuit ruled Wednesday.

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DOJ Wants New Judge In Fired Court-Appointed US Atty's Suit

By Jack Karp

A lawsuit from the Seattle U.S. attorney who was swiftly fired from his post by President Donald Trump shortly after being appointed to it by a federal court should be reassigned to a different judge, the administration has told a Washington federal court.

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Segal McCambridge Settles Fired Secretary's Age Bias Suit

By Grace Elletson

Law firm Segal McCambridge Singer & Mahoney Ltd. has struck a deal to end a New York federal court suit from a former secretary who said her colleagues mistreated her because of her age, according to a Wednesday court filing.

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Comey Rips '86 47' Case, Says Warrants 'Misstated Facts'

By Lauren Berg

James Comey is taking another angle in his effort to dismiss an indictment stemming from a picture of seashells he posted on Instagram, telling a North Carolina federal judge that the government is pursuing the "vindictive" case because of President Donald Trump's "deep-seated animosity" toward the former FBI director.

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