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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2nd Circ. Backs Ex-Goldman Exec's 1MDB Conviction

By Phillip Bantz

Former Goldman Sachs managing director Roger Ng's attempt to overturn his conviction in the $6.5 billion 1MDB corruption scheme hit a wall Friday at the Second Circuit, where a panel categorically rejected his multipronged appeal.

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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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Employment Authority: The Push To Unionize Museums

By Grace Elletson

Law360 Employment Authority covers the biggest employment cases and trends. Catch up this week with coverage on how workers at The Met are adding to a unionization wave in America's museums and why employers should heed warnings set by a $39 million settlement Starbucks reached with New York City to resolve alleged predictive scheduling violations. 

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OCC, FDIC Scrap Obama-Era Leveraged Lending Guidance

By Jon Hill

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. on Friday formally withdrew from Obama-era guidance that sought to tighten bank leveraged lending standards, a policy that banks argued hamstrung them against nonbank rivals.

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Teamsters Challenge NLRB's Bid To Block California Law

By Emily Brill

The Teamsters have asked a California federal judge to preserve a state law that expanded the state labor board's power, telling the judge that the law can exist side by side with the National Labor Relations Act and that he should reject the National Labor Relations Board's bid to block it.

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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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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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Eaton's Position On Parental Support Conflicting, Judge Says

By Molly Moses

Eaton is telling "different stories at different times" about the ability of its foreign parent company to step in and pay the U.S. company's debt obligations to third parties, Tax Court Judge Albert Lauber said in questioning one of the company's experts Friday.

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Analysis

ERISA Recap: 4 Rulings Worth Paying Attention To From Nov.

By Kellie Mejdrich

The Ninth Circuit striking down a class action win for transgender employee health plan participants who said their gender-affirming care denials were discriminatory is just one noteworthy Employee Retirement Income Security Act ruling from November. Here's a recap of that ruling and three others.

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Medline Accused In Chancery Of Withholding $10M Earnout

By Jarek Rutz

A Florida-based holding company and its founder have sued medical supplier Medline in the Delaware Chancery Court, alleging it deliberately refused to make a $10 million payment tied to a 2023 acquisition, missed a hard deadline and is now acting in bad faith to avoid paying the key portion of the sale price.

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Ex-Derailment Deal Admin Faces Irked Judge In Contempt Bid

By Matthew Santoni

The ex-administrator of Norfolk Southern's $600 million settlement over the East Palestine, Ohio, derailment met skepticism as it admitted to a federal judge Friday that it had made some mistakes in distributing funds, but denied class counsel's key contention that $120 million for personal injury claims had to be divided evenly among all the claimants.

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Roundup

Real Estate Recap: Energy-Dependent Deals

Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including how energy scarcity is affecting data center deals.

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DC Circ. Decision Reaffirms SEC Authority Post-Loper Bright

The recent denial of a challenge to invalidate 2024 amendments to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's tick size and fee-cap rules reinforces the D.C. Circuit's deference to SEC expertise in market structure regulation, even after Loper Bright, though implementation of the rules remains uncertain, say attorneys at Sidley.

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How Fed. Circ. Shaped Subject Matter Eligibility In 2025

The Federal Circuit's most impactful patent eligibility decisions this year, touching on questions about obviousness and abstractness, provide a toolbox of takeaways that can be utilized during patent preparation and prosecution to guard against potential challenges, says Reilley Keane at Banner Witcoff.

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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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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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