'I'm Not Buying It': Judge Pans 'Ridiculous' Colgate Argument

By Dorothy Atkins

A California federal judge appeared open Wednesday to certifying multiple subclasses in a consumer action alleging Colgate falsely labels its toothpaste tubes as being recyclable, and panned one of the arguments by Colgate's defense attorneys as "ridiculous."

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Compass' $1.6B Anywhere Buy Goes Unchallenged By Government

By Isaac Monterose

Real estate brokerage Compass Inc.'s $1.6 billion acquisition of Anywhere Real Estate Inc. is expected to move forward Wednesday without being scrutinized by the federal government even though congressional lawmakers previously urged the government to do so.

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Trump Family-Tied Stablecoin Co. Seeks Bank Charter

By Aislinn Keely

The Trump family-tied crypto company World Liberty Financial said Wednesday that it's filed an application with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to become a national trust bank as it looks to expand its stablecoin business, drawing the ire of one lawmaker, who called the application a conflict of interest.

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Tribal Gaming Orgs. Back Bid To Block Kalshi Contracts

By Katryna Perera

A slew of tribal gaming groups, including the Indian Gaming Association, are supporting a bid to limit sporting event contracts offered by Kalshi and Robinhood, arguing the tribal organizations have a "shared, strong interest" in a Wisconsin federal court case over the matter.

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Google, Character.AI To Settle Suicide, Violent Content Suits

By Y. Peter Kang

Google and artificial intelligence company Character Technologies have agreed to settle lawsuits over various injuries suffered by underage users of its Character.AI chatbot, including the suicides of two teenagers, according to documents filed in federal courts.

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OpenAI Can't Ax Musk's Fraud Claim Over For-Profit Plan

By Bonnie Eslinger

A California federal judge indicated Wednesday that she'll deny OpenAI's bid to toss Elon Musk's claims that the artificial intelligence company duped the billionaire into donating $45 million with false promises of remaining a nonprofit, saying "there's plenty of evidence" to take the claim to a jury.

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DOJ Seeks Nod For HPE Merger Deal Over State Objections

By Matthew Perlman

The U.S. Department of Justice has requested court approval for its settlement that would end a challenge of Hewlett Packard Enterprise's acquisition of a networking equipment rival, despite objections raised by state enforcers over allegations of improper lobbying influence.

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Feds Cut $160M From Calif. Over Truck Driver Licenses

By Linda Chiem

The U.S. Department of Transportation said Wednesday that California will lose out on nearly $160 million in federal highway funds for failing to revoke thousands of commercial driver's licenses that were issued to ineligible foreign drivers, as the Trump administration cracks down on immigrant truck drivers.

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Calif. Bill Proposes 4-Year AI Toy Ban To Mull Safety Rules

By Lauren Berg

California Sen. Steve Padilla has introduced what would be the nation's first moratorium on the sale of toys containing artificial intelligence chatbot features, with the aim of giving lawmakers time to implement regulatory guardrails to protect children from potentially dangerous AI interactions.

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House Talks Market Share Regarding Netflix-WB Merger

By Nadia Dreid

Rapid consolidation in the streaming market was on the minds of members of the House Judiciary Committee's subcommittee on antitrust when they met Wednesday, with Democrats questioning if competition was being threatened and if the president was exerting too much influence on merger reviews.

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FCC Won't Extend Time To Comment On Wireless Reg Redo

By Nadia Dreid

The Federal Communications Commission dashed the hopes of nearly two dozen cities on Wednesday, including the District of Columbia, when it refused to grant them more time to respond to the agency's plans to change rules surrounding wireless site deployment.

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FCC Plans To Raise Power Limits For Unlicensed 6 GHz Use

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission plans to vote this month on whether to expand unlicensed uses of the 6 gigahertz airwaves, aiming to make more room for Wi-Fi, the Internet of Things and augmented and virtual reality.

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FCC Urged To Revisit AT&T-UScellular Spectrum Deal OK

By Christopher Cole

Consumer advocates are teaming up with rural wireless carriers to call for the Federal Communications Commission to reverse its recent approval of a $1 billion deal for AT&T to snap up spectrum held by broken-up UScellular.

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2 European Fintechs Seek OCC Bank Charters

By Aislinn Keely

Two European fintechs are seeking sign-offs from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to set up U.S. banks, including a firm planning to issue its own stablecoin.

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FDA Pushes Back On Vape Cos.' 5th Circ. Appeal

By Mike Curley

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is urging the Fifth Circuit to reject a group of appeals from e-cigarette manufacturers seeking to overturn the marketing denial of their flavored vapes, saying the agency did not abuse its discretion in rejecting the companies' products.

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Live Nation Looks To Toss BOTS Act Case

By Matthew Perlman

Live Nation and Ticketmaster told a California federal court Tuesday the Federal Trade Commission is trying to use a statute designed to help ticket sellers fight scalping to target operation of the events and the ticketing giant's legitimate resale platform.

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Next Boeing 737 Max Ethiopian Air Trial Kicks Off Monday

By Celeste Bott

The latest wrongful death case against Boeing over the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8 crash of 2019 is teed up for trial in Chicago on Monday, where jurors will determine damages for a man who lost multiple family members.

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Block Inc., Dorsey Must Face Suits Over Compliance Claims

By Katryna Perera

A California federal judge has ruled that the parent company of Square and Cash App, Block Inc., and its officers and directors must face claims of compliance failures in a class action and separate derivative suit, finding, among other things, that the derivative suit adequately pleads that Block's board failed to properly oversee the company's compliance program.

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AT&T Says Discovery Bid Could 'Disrupt' $177M Settlement

By Spencer Brewer

AT&T Inc. has asked a Texas federal court to shoot down discovery requests from five alleged victims of a data breach, saying the requests are an underhanded attempt to derail a $177 million settlement between it and customers who suffered because of the breach.

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NJ Town Blasts 'Litigation Tactic' In Mall Sunday Sales Suit

By Carla Baranauckas

The New Jersey borough that's home to the American Dream megamall has asked a state judge to dismiss another municipality's lawsuit challenging Sunday sales there, arguing that the complaint failed to articulate any legally cognizable claim against the borough.

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Amazon Seeks To Halt Supplement Suit As FDA Nixes Rule

By Rachel Riley

Amazon called on a Seattle federal judge to pause a proposed class action accusing the e-commerce platform of failing to make certain disclosures on supplement product pages, saying the U.S. Food and Drug Administration plans to revoke the so-called each panel labeling rule at the center of the case.

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Fandango's User Tracking Is Rotten, Tomatoes Reader Says

By Bonnie Eslinger

Fandango Media violated a California privacy statute by placing third-party tracking pixels from Microsoft and other companies on its movie-review website Rotten Tomatoes that collected identifying information and device data from website visitors without consent, according to a proposed consumer class action filed in California federal court.

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Kaplan Fox Remains Lead In Securities Suit After Ex-Client DQ

By Sydney Price

Kaplan Fox & Kilsheimer LLP will continue leading a putative securities class action against Spectrum Pharmaceuticals after a previously appointed lead plaintiff was removed from the case for allegedly going behind his lawyers' backs to push his own settlement plan and unrelated conspiracy theories.

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Ford Drops Firms From Beefed-Up RICO Suit Against 3 Attys

By Dorothy Atkins

Ford Motor Co. has dropped racketeering allegations against Knight Law Group LLP and other law firms and lawyers in its latest amended complaint over allegations of a massive fraudulent legal billing scheme, while adding new obstruction of justice allegations against the three remaining attorney defendants.

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Vets Allege Firm's Data Breach Jeopardizes Private Info

By Matthew Santoni

A Pennsylvania law firm that handles veterans' Social Security and VA disability claims is facing proposed class claims over a November data breach that potentially affected the private health and financial information of thousands of clients. 

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Objector To PACER Overcharge Settlement Faces Uphill Battle

By Emily Sawicki

An objector to a $125 million settlement to end class claims alleging the federal government overcharged nonprofits and other lawyers to access court documents faced a skeptical Federal Circuit panel Wednesday, with judges indicating they had not found legal errors in the district court's approval of the deal.

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3rd-Party Purchases Get Graco Car Seat Suit Trimmed Further

By Mike Curley

A Georgia federal judge on Wednesday trimmed more claims from a proposed class action alleging that Graco Children's Products Inc. misled them on the safety ratings of the company's booster seats, saying that because they didn't buy directly from Graco, there's no duty for Graco to disclose under Georgia law.

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Binance Taps Ex-SEC, Coinbase Atty To Head Global Litigation

By Aislinn Keely

Binance has brought on a former senior Coinbase lawyer and veteran U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement attorney to serve as its global head of litigation.

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How Settlement In Texas TCPA Case Affects Text Marketing

The recent settlement in Ecommerce Innovation Alliance v. State of Texas, which challenged the constitutionality of expanded registration requirements of the Texas mini-Telephone Consumer Protection Act, is a substantial win for companies concerned about being penalized by Texas regulators or other financial exposure for sending consented-to marketing texts, but the expanded private right includes other traps for the unwary, say attorneys at Womble Bond.

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State AG Enforcement During CFPB Gap Predicts 2026 Trends

State attorneys general responded to the decrease in Consumer Financial Protection Bureau enforcement in 2025 by stepping in to regulate consumer finance more than ever before, and the trends in rebooting CFPB investigations, cracking down on ESG and DEI initiatives, and fighting financial exploitation of homeowners will likely extend into 2026, say attorneys at Cozen O'Connor.

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Law School's Missed Lessons: Intentional Career-Building

A successful legal career is built through intention: understanding expectations, assessing strengths honestly and proactively seeking opportunities to grow and cultivating relationships that support your development, say Erika Drous and Hillary Mann at Morrison Foerster.

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McGlinchey Stafford To Close After 51 Years

By Emma Cueto

New Orleans-based firm McGlinchey Stafford PLLC announced Tuesday that it has decided to wind down operations after over half a century, citing difficult market conditions and unspecified "internal circumstances."

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Law Firms Step Up To Navigate Biz Opportunities In Venezuela

By Lynn LaRowe and Adrian Cruz

Law firms are gearing up to assist clients exploring potential business opportunities in Venezuela following President Donald Trump's announcement that the U.S. would "run" the country for the time being after the arrest of former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on narco-conspiracy charges.

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Cruz Tells House Speaker To Move On Judicial Impeachments

By Courtney Bublé

Ahead of a hearing on impeachment of "rogue judges" on Wednesday, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, increased pressure on House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., to advance impeachment proceedings against federal judges in D.C. and Maryland.

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Bulk Of SDNY Attys Are Tasked With Reviewing Epstein Docs

By Hailey Konnath

Over half of the more than 220 assistant U.S. attorneys at the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York have been tasked with sifting through documents related to the investigation of the late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to a Justice Department disclosure filed in federal court.

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Feds Want To Use Goldstein's Comments To NYT At Trial

By Jared Foretek

Federal prosecutors preparing to try SCOTUSblog founder Tom Goldstein for tax crimes next week are looking to use his comments in a New York Times Magazine article against him, claiming that admissions and details from the article "directly prove" certain charges the government has brought.

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DOJ Nominee Says He'll Work Within Blue-Slip 'Parameters'

By Courtney Bublé

A nominee for a top U.S. Department of Justice position that handles judicial nominees appeared to give a nod to the Senate's blue-slip process, despite President Donald Trump's vocal opposition to the tradition.

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Jurisdiction Questioned In NY Fried Frank Data Breach Suit

By Emily Sawicki

A New York federal judge is threatening to toss a proposed class action data security suit against Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP over a data breach involving private equity funds maintained by firm client Goldman Sachs, unless plaintiffs properly plead that the Manhattan court has jurisdiction.

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DOJ To Appeal Reinstatement Of Clearance For Mark Zaid

By Jared Foretek

The Trump administration told a D.C. federal judge on Wednesday that it will obey his injunction to reinstate attorney Mark Zaid's security clearance as it appeals the ruling in the D.C. Circuit, but left open the possibility that government intelligence agencies could try to revoke it again for new reasons.

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