FCC Warns Shows To Follow Political 'Equal Opportunity' Reg

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission cautioned TV broadcasters Wednesday that no exemption has been found that would let talk shows get around the agency's political equal opportunity rules.

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Google Likely Stuck With $425M Loss, But Bid For $3B Flops

By Bonnie Eslinger

A California federal judge overseeing a class action accusing Google of illegally collecting information from 98 million cellphone users said Wednesday that he probably will not let Google decertify the class, but he is also unlikely to add $2.36 billion in alleged wrongful profits on top of a jury's $425 million verdict.

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5th Circ. Leans Toward Vacating Airline Fees Disclosure Rule

By Spencer Brewer

The full Fifth Circuit wanted to know Wednesday why it shouldn't just do away with a Biden-era rule requiring airlines to more clearly disclose add-on fees upfront, saying that the government seemed to be arguing that the court should just vacate the rule.

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Feds Back Freight Broker In High Court Negligence Case

By Linda Chiem

The federal government urged the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday to hold that federal law unequivocally shields freight brokers from state-based negligence and personal injury claims, throwing its support behind broker and logistics giant C.H. Robinson in a closely watched case.

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Justices Wary Of Greenlighting Trump Bid To Fire Fed's Cook

By Jon Hill

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared reluctant to let President Donald Trump immediately oust Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook, with multiple justices expressing doubts about administration claims of broad presidential removal power over the central bank.

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Apple Shakes Mobile Users' Suit Over App Data Collection

By Allison Grande

A California federal judge released Apple from a putative class action accusing it of improperly collecting mobile device users' data when they interacted with Apple's App Store, Music and other proprietary apps, finding "perplexing" contradictory allegations and other deficiencies doomed plaintiffs' claims, including those under California and Pennsylvania's wiretap laws. 

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FTC Mulling Deal With Express Scripts In PBM Case

By Matthew Perlman

The Federal Trade Commission is considering a potential settlement with Express Scripts in the agency's case accusing the country's three largest pharmacy benefit managers of inflating insulin prices through rebate schemes.

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Senate Panel To Examine Upcoming FirstNet Renewal

By Christopher Cole

A U.S. Senate subcommittee will take a close look next week at legislative plans to renew the First Responder Network Authority, which currently has a long-standing public-private partnership with AT&T.

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Feds Say Medicare Steering Case Meets FCA Legal Bar

By Julie Manganis

The government said Wednesday that its False Claims Act complaint accusing insurers and brokers of participating in a kickback scheme to steer customers to Medicare Advantage plans doesn't conflict with a First Circuit decision last year setting out the standard for such cases.  

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Brief

Texas AG Launches Investigation Into Vaccine Incentives

By Spencer Brewer

The Texas attorney general launched what it characterized as a sweeping, multi-industry investigation into financial incentives for medical providers to recommend childhood vaccines, saying providers regularly dish out vaccines that "are not proven to be safe or necessary."

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Schwab Nixed From DOL Enforcement Suit Against Other Firm

By Katryna Perera

A Pennsylvania federal judge on Wednesday dismissed two Schwab companies from a U.S. Department of Labor enforcement case, finding the financial services providers' participation was no longer needed in the agency's dispute against another firm.

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FINRA Says Firm Broke Reg BI By Not Spotting Risky Trading

By Sydney Price

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority has accused a broker-dealer and its ex-CEO of violating Regulation Best Interest by failing to identify suspicious, excessive trading in a customer account by a representative of the firm, causing the client $1.2 million in losses.

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Comcast's $117.5M Data Breach Deal Gets Preliminary OK

By Bonnie Eslinger

A Pennsylvania federal judge has granted initial approval to Comcast's deal to pay $117.5 million to resolve class claims alleging the internet, TV, phone, and mobile services provider didn't take adequate cybersecurity measures to protect more than 31 million customers' sensitive information from an October 2023 cybersecurity attack.

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AI Recruiting Co. Eightfold Sued Over Job Applicant 'Dossiers'

By Dorothy Atkins

Job applicants have hit Eightfold AI with a proposed class action in California court, alleging the artificial intelligence company's business model violates longstanding consumer protection statutes by using "opaque" closely guarded AI algorithms to scrape personal data and generate "dossiers" on job applicants for major employers without applicants' knowledge or consent.

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Stellantis North America Didn't Thwart Ransomware, Suit Says

By Rae Ann Varona

An Illinois couple sued Stellantis North America in Michigan federal court on Wednesday, alleging in a proposed class action that the carmaker's lax data security practices led to a cyberattack around Christmas Day on Chrysler's database that put their Social Security numbers and other personal information in the hands of a ransomware group.

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Coinbase Investors Knew About Regulatory Issues, Court Told

By P.J. D'Annunzio

Counsel for Coinbase urged a Pennsylvania federal judge Wednesday to dismiss a stockholder's proposed class action accusing the cryptocurrency exchange of not being up front with investors about its regulatory compliance, arguing the company had been transparent about what regulators in the U.S. and U.K. saw as deficiencies in Coinbase's anti-money laundering measures.

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Midwives Challenge Miss. Practice Limits In Antitrust Suit

By Gianna Ferrarin

The American College of Nurse-Midwives launched a suit seeking to permanently block Mississippi rules requiring certified nurse-midwives to obtain collaboration agreements with physicians, arguing the rules unlawfully restrict competition and exacerbate public health challenges in the state.

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Costco Nears Settlement With Insurer Over Store Injury Claims

By Rachel Riley

A Hartford unit has reached a tentative deal with Costco to end claims that the insurer wrongfully refused defense coverage for a lawsuit by a customer allegedly hurt while trying to move a grill box at a California store, according to a Wednesday filing in Seattle federal court.

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Fla. Dispensary Exposed Patient Data Via Google, Suit Says

By Mike Curley

A Florida man is suing a dispensary website in federal court, alleging it has violated federal health confidentiality laws by using Google Analytics Pixel on its website, which he said intercepts and collects private information for use in advertising.

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Morgan Lewis Adds Crypto-Focused Investment Atty

By James Boyle

An attorney specializing in advising companies on cryptocurrency matters and derivatives transactions has moved his practice recently to Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP's Pittsburgh office after more than two years with Blank Rome LLP.

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OCC's New Fee Clearance Shows Further Ease Around Crypto

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency's recent holding that banks can use crypto-assets to pay certain blockchain network fees shows that the OCC is further warming to the idea that organizations are using new methods to do "the very old business of banking," say attorneys at Jones Day.

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How A 1947 Tugboat Ruling May Shape Work Product In AI Era

Rapid advances in generative artificial intelligence test work-product principles first articulated in the U.S. Supreme Court’s nearly 80-year-old Hickman v. Taylor decision, as courts and ethics bodies confront whether disclosure of attorneys’ AI prompts and outputs would reveal their thought processes, say Larry Silver and Sasha Burton at Langsam Stevens.

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Analysis

Nonprofits, Not BigLaw, Lead Legal Challenges To Trump

By Jack Karp

Public interest groups are handling a majority of the lawsuits filed against the second Trump administration, while most large firms remain on the sidelines, according to a review by Law360 of more than 400 lawsuits filed in the first year of Trump's second term.  

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Ballard Partners Led In Lobbying Earnings As Trump Returned

By Alison Knezevich

Ballard Partners more than quadrupled its annual federal lobbying revenue in 2025 amid President Donald Trump's return to office, surpassing the law firm policy practices that have led K Street in recent years.

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Former SG Prelogar Joins Cooley Team On Trump EO Appeal

By Alison Knezevich

Former Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar has joined the legal team representing Jenner & Block LLP in its fight with President Donald Trump's administration over his executive order targeting the BigLaw firm, according to a new court filing.

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Lawyer Testifies Goldstein Dodged $500K Poker Repayment

By Jared Foretek

A former employee at Thomas Goldstein's law firm recounted in court Wednesday that a U.S. Internal Revenue Service levy was placed on the SCOTUSblog founder's accounts, while a lawyer at another firm said Goldstein dodged repaying him for money invested in his poker-playing exploits.

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House Speaker Johnson Supports Impeachment Of Judges

By Courtney Bublé

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., on Wednesday threw his support behind efforts to impeach federal judges in Washington, D.C., and Maryland.

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DOJ Outline Of New Fraud Role Doesn't Mention WH Oversight

By Courtney Bublé

A U.S. Department of Justice official explained the parameters of the new role of assistant attorney general for fraud in a recent letter to Congress, obtained Wednesday by Law360, but did not mention the individual will be overseen by the White House, as the vice president previously said.

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NYC Indigent Defense Program In 'Crisis,' Task Force Reports

By Andrea Keckley

The New York City Assigned Counsel Plan, which provides lawyers to indigent people in criminal and family courts who can't be served by institutional legal service providers, is "in a state of crisis," a New York City Bar task force said in an interim report released Wednesday.

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7th Circ. Cautions Pro Se Litigants To Avoid AI-Induced Errors

By Celeste Bott

The Seventh Circuit offered guidance to litigants using artificial intelligence while representing themselves in a ruling remanding a pro se plaintiff's civil rights case Wednesday, saying that AI has "great promise" for those who can't afford legal counsel, but that it doesn't abdicate them of their duty to avoid misrepresentations in court filings.

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