A California federal judge dismissed a proposed class action Monday against Arby's, Jimmy John's, Dunkin', Baskin-Robbins and their parent company alleging their websites contained cookie banners falsely promising to remove trackers, finding the plaintiffs failed to meet heightened pleading standards required when the claims are based in fraud allegations.
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Arby's, Dunkin' Owner Dodges Web Cookie Suit, For Now

By Craig Clough

A California federal judge dismissed a proposed class action Monday against Arby's, Jimmy John's, Dunkin', Baskin-Robbins and their parent company alleging their websites contained cookie banners falsely promising to remove trackers, finding the plaintiffs failed to meet heightened pleading standards required when the claims are based in fraud allegations.

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Patients Say Pa. Med Mal Firm Left Data Vulnerable To Hackers

By Dan McKay

A Pittsburgh law firm that handles medical malpractice and insurance litigation faces a proposed class action complaint alleging that it failed to protect the private health and personal data of patients whose information was stolen in a data breach.

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Texas Phone App Age Law Blocked Days Before Taking Effect

By Jared Foretek

A Texas federal judge on Tuesday overturned a state law that would age-gate app downloads and require app stores to display age ratings, holding that the law failed the narrow-tailoring standard under strict scrutiny, just days before it was set to take effect.

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Analysis

3 Federal Circuit Clashes To Watch In January

By Ryan Davis

The Federal Circuit is set to hear several intellectual property cases in January, including one over a nine-figure patent judgment against cybersecurity company Gen Digital tied to a contempt finding against a major law firm that represented it, and another over the tech industry's long-running crusade against patent review denials based on related litigation.

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POLICY & REGULATION

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Notable Pennsylvania Legislation Of 2025

By Matthew Santoni

Pennsylvania's much-delayed 2025 budget bill contained some big public-policy changes like ending a carbon cap-and-trade program, offering an $800 income tax credit and providing stopgap funding for mass transit, even as its domination of the state Legislature's time prevented much else from passing, attorneys told Law360 in reviewing major laws that passed in the last year.

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Top Illinois Decisions Of 2025

By Celeste Bott

State and federal courts have handed down rulings in Illinois cases this year that made clear plaintiffs must allege concrete injury for common law standing, narrowed the scope of the federal anti-kickback statute and laid out a new standard for certifying collective actions.

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Analysis

Top Gov't Contracts Policies Of 2025

By Madeline Lyskawa

The Trump administration made several prominent policy moves affecting contractors this year, including finalizing the U.S. Department of Defense's long-awaited rule implementing the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program and releasing model deviation text slimming down the Federal Acquisition Regulation. Here, Law360 examines significant policy changes from 2025 that government contractors should know.

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ENFORCEMENT

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State Telecom Roundup: AGs Step Up War On Robocalls

By Nadia Dreid

Americans have been pummeled by more than 2.5 billion robocalls every month this year, and stanching the onslaught has become one of the more bipartisan issues in national politics. Federal and state authorities also agree on the magnitude of the issue, and the nation's attorneys general are teaming up for battle across the country at the state level.

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Intent Not Needed To Boost ID Theft Sentence, 9th Circ. Says

By Emilie Ruscoe

Federal prosecutors need not show that a defendant intended to commit fraud with stolen materials that have authentication features, such as driver's licenses, for courts to apply a sentencing enhancement for possessing those materials, the Ninth Circuit has held.

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LITIGATION

Telcoin Sues To Freeze $1.5M In Stolen Crypto-Assets

By Carla Baranauckas

Cryptocurrency platform Telcoin LLC has gone to California federal court seeking an emergency injunction and damages against unknown hackers who allegedly siphoned millions in digital assets from customer wallets on Christmas Day 2023.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

3 Key Trends For The Legal Industry In 2025

By Tracey Read

Executive orders, updated office attendance policies and private equity interests were three top issues that shaped the industry this year.

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ITC Atty's 1st Kids' Book Imagines A Santa-Less Christmas

By Dani Kass

Michelle Klancnik, assistant general counsel at the U.S. International Trade Commission, spends her days looking into when imports should be banned for violating intellectual property rights, but outside work, she​'s focused on one big question: What would happen if Santa took a year off?

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Ex-Oura CEO Pushes To DQ Quinn Emanuel In Firing Suit

By Emily Sawicki

The onetime CEO of fitness tracker company Oura Health is pushing to disqualify Quinn Emanuel from representing the smart ring maker in his compensation suit, telling a San Francisco federal judge that he shared confidential information when he consulted with the firm about his claims prior to filing suit.

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NYC Bar Issues Opinion On AI Use For Recording Client Calls

By Tracey Read

The New York City Bar Association's Professional Ethics Committee has issued an opinion addressing how the New York Rules of Professional Conduct impacts the use of artificial intelligence tools to record, transcribe and create summaries of conversations in audio and video calls between attorneys and their clients.

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Ex-DOJ Employees Fight Gov't Bid To Toss Their Firing Suit

By Bonnie Eslinger

An ex-assistant U.S. attorney and two other former Justice Department employees urged a Washington, D.C., federal court on Tuesday to deny the government's motion to dismiss their lawsuit claiming they were unlawfully fired, arguing an internal government employment board isn't appropriate for their cases and is controlled by President Donald Trump.

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Top Delaware Chancery Cases Of 2025: A Year-End Report

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court closed out 2025 amid a period of institutional uncertainty, as landmark cases addressing fiduciary duty, executive compensation, board oversight and the limits of equitable power unfolded against the backdrop of sweeping legislative changes to the Delaware General Corporation Law.

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Hub Hires: Cooley, Morgan Lewis, Nixon Peabody

By Chris Villani

The end of the year marked the beginning of new chapters for plenty of Boston attorneys, as Cooley added more than 30 professionals to its life sciences team, Morgan Lewis snagged an intellectual property partner, and Nixon Peabody beefed up its cybersecurity practice.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

A&O Shearman

Adams Duerk

Arnall Golden

Baker & Hostetler

Benesch

Bradley Arant

Burakiewicz & DePriest

Cooley LLP

Covington & Burling

Cozen O'Connor

Crowell & Moring

Davies McFarland

Dechert LLP

Duane Morris

Dynamis LLP

Ellzey Kherkher

Foley & Lardner

Goldberg Kohn

Goodwin Procter

Gutride Safier

Hargrove Firm

Haynes Boone

Hogan Lovells

Holland & Knight

Hunton Andrews

Ice Miller

Jenner & Block

Kimmel & Silverman

Kirkland & Ellis

Latham & Watkins

Lowell & Associates

Mark S. Zaid PC

Mayer Brown

McDermott Will & Schulte

Milbank LLP

Morgan Lewis

Neal Gerber

Nixon Peabody

Paul Weiss

Perkins Coie

Protorae Law

Quinn Emanuel

Schwartz White

Shipman & Goodwin

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Skadden Arps

Susman Godfrey

Willkie Farr

WilmerHale

Wilson Sonsini

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Activision Blizzard Inc.

Amazon.com Inc.

Apple Inc.

Associated Press

BNP Paribas SA

Bandwidth Inc.

Baskin-Robbins Inc.

Binance Holdings Ltd.

Change Healthcare Inc.

Cisco Systems Inc.

Coinbase Global Inc.

Computer & Communications Industry Association

Eli Lilly & Co.

Gen Digital Inc.

George Washington University

Getty Images Holdings Inc.

Google LLC

Inspire Brands Inc.

Insulet Corp.

Insulet Corporation

Inteliquent Inc.

Jimmy John's Franchise LLC

Lumen Technologies Inc.

Meta Platforms Inc.

Microsoft Corp.

New York City Bar Association

Nike Inc.

NortonLifeLock Inc.

Peerless Network Inc.

Public Strategies Inc.

Stanford University

Tesla Inc.

The Boeing Co.

The Trade Desk Inc.

TripAdvisor Inc.

Xerox Holdings Corp.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

California Attorney General's Office

City of New York

Delaware Court of Chancery

Delaware General Assembly

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Executive Office of the President

Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council

Federal Communications Commission

Illinois Supreme Court

Internal Revenue Service

International Trade Commission

Missouri Attorney General's Office

National Archives and Records Administration

Office of Federal Procurement Policy

Pennsylvania General Assembly

Social Security Administration

Tennessee Attorney General's Office

Texas Attorney General's Office

U.S. Attorney's Office

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

U.S. Department of Defense

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of the Treasury

U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

U.S. Supreme Court