NY Judge Declines Sanctions For Citation Errors — Again

By Emily Sawicki

For the second time in as many months, a Manhattan federal judge has stopped short of sanctioning an attorney for including false case citations in a filing, warning the lawyer in an order that he had better not allow errors again.

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NY Gov't Ethics Watchdog Called To Testify Against AG James

By Andrea Keckley

The federal government subpoenaed the New York State Commission on Ethics and Lobbying in Government on Wednesday to testify in its case against New York Attorney General Letitia A. James.

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Trump To Pardon UK Billionaire Lewis For Insider Trading

By Dorothy Atkins

President Donald Trump has agreed to pardon 88-year-old British billionaire Joseph Lewis, who was sentenced to three years of probation for feeding nonpublic stock tips to his girlfriend and private-jet pilots.

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MLB Star Reliever Denies Pitch-Fixing Conspiracy

By Pete Brush

Cleveland Guardians pitcher Emmanuel Clase on Thursday pled not guilty and vowed to fight charges in Brooklyn federal court accusing him of conspiring with gamblers to rig pitches during Major League Baseball games.

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Gov't Funding Deal Ends SNAP Benefits Battle

By Matthew Santoni

President Donald Trump's signing of a government funding bill Wednesday rendered moot lawsuits seeking to make his administration tap emergency funds for food assistance benefits, the administration told the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday.

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Union To Pay Attys $315K Who Dissented On Palestine Vote

By Grace Elletson

A union for legal aid lawyers and advocates agreed to pay $315,000 to three of its attorney members who said the labor group tried to kick them out for opposing a pro-Palestine resolution they saw as antisemitic, counsel for the attorney members said Thursday.

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Judge Rejects NY Tribe's Bid To Revive Eel-Fishing Rights

By Crystal Owens

A New York federal judge won't reconsider a decision determining that members of the Shinnecock Indian Nation don't have aboriginal eel-fishing rights off Long Island free of state regulatory fees, saying their arguments lack merit and they can't point to any decisions or data that the court overlooked.

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2nd Circ. Upholds NY's Ban On Selling Diet Pills To Minors

By Dorothy Atkins

The Second Circuit on Thursday rejected a trade group's bid to block a New York law that bars companies from selling weight loss and muscle-building supplements to minors, finding the group likely won't win its First Amendment challenges and retailers' "speculative predictions" of lost sales aren't enough to show irreparable harm.

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Google Sues Cybercriminals Over Global Phishing Scams

By Joyce Hanson

Google has sued foreign cybercriminals behind phishing scams that claim to represent the U.S. Postal Service and the New York City government's website, among others, accusing them of texting millions of Americans phony messages that lure them into providing their payment information and other personal data.

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HGTV Owner Sheds Video Privacy Suit Over Meta Data Sharing

By Allison Grande

A New York federal judge Thursday tossed a putative class action accusing the owner of HGTV of illegally sharing information about website visitors' video-watching activities with Facebook, finding that the plaintiff had failed to adequately allege that the media company disclosed the type of data protected by federal video privacy law.

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2nd Circ. Revives Bright Health Investors' Pandemic Suit

By Katryna Perera

The Second Circuit on Thursday revived a suit alleging healthcare management services company Bright Health Group Inc. misled investors in its 2021 initial public offering about its anticipated costs during the COVID-19 pandemic, finding that the complaint plausibly alleged the defendants hid preexisting operational issues and risks.

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DocGo Investors Seek OK Of $12.5M Deal Over Ex-CEO Claims

By Sydney Price

Investors of mobile medical provider DocGo have asked a New York federal court to grant preliminary approval of their $12.5 million settlement of claims that the company deceived stockholders before a $432 million contract with New York City to provide emergency migrant housing came under public scrutiny.

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Brief

2nd Circ. Backs Chase In Suit Over Fraud Denial Mistake

By Sydney Price

The Second Circuit determined on Thursday that JPMorgan Chase Bank NA is shielded from liability under the Electronic Fund Transfer Act for mistakenly denying a customer's fraud claim, finding the bank established a bona fide error defense.

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BofA, BNY Slam 'Razor-Thin' Epstein Enabling Claims

By Lauren Berg

Bank of America and the Bank of New York Mellon Corp. urged a Manhattan federal judge Thursday to toss lawsuits accusing them of enabling Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking enterprise and failing to timely report the late sex offender's suspicious transactions, saying "razor-thin allegations" don't connect the institutions to the crimes.

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Legal Guardrails For AI Tools In The Hiring Process

Although artificial intelligence can help close the gaps that bad actors exploit in modern recruiting, its precision also makes it subject to tighter scrutiny, meaning new regulatory regimes should be top of mind for U.S.-centric employers exploring fraud-focused AI-enabled tools, say attorneys at Ogletree.

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Courts Stay Consistent In 'Period Of Restoration' Rulings

Three recent rulings centering on the period of restoration in lost business income claims followed the same themes in interpreting this infrequently litigated, but highly consequential, provision of first-party property and time element insurance coverage, say attorneys at Zelle.

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Recent Rulings Show When PIPs Lead To Employer Liability

Performance improvement plans may have earned their reputation as the last stop before termination, and while a PIP may be worth considering if its goals can be achieved within a reasonable time frame, several recent decisions underscore circumstances in which they may aggravate employer liability, says Noah Bunzl at Tarter Krinsky.

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Series

Building With Lego Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Building with Lego has taught me to follow directions and adapt to unexpected challenges, and in pairing discipline with imagination, allows me to stay grounded while finding new ways to make complex deals come together, says Paul Levin at Venable.

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New California Bar Leader Aims To Rebuild Public Trust

By Tracey Read

After less than two weeks on the job, Laura Enderton-Speed, the California State Bar's new executive director, is already busy working to strengthen trust in the organization following the botched administration of the February bar exam.

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Roundup

UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

By Laura Stewart Liberty

This past week in London has seen Freeths face a professional negligence claim from a Scottish car dealership, Rolls-Royce sue logistics giant Kuehne + Nagel, and a team of Oberon Investments Group investment managers sued by their former employer.  

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Roundup

GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

Experts say it will likely take at least a month for the thousands of SEC employees now back to work after the government shutdown to catch up with submissions for initial public offerings. Meanwhile, clean energy developers are increasingly looking to privately held investors amid a race to beat a July 2026 cutoff to maintain eligibility for clean electricity investment and production tax credits. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.

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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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Buchalter Won't Be Sanctioned For 'Hallucinated' AI Citations

By Rose Krebs

An Oregon federal judge has decided not to sanction Buchalter PC and other counsel representing an environmental nonprofit in a trademark infringement dispute for submitting "hallucinated" case citations generated by an artificial intelligence tool, saying he is satisfied with "remedial actions" already done or to be taken.

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King & Spalding, Atty Move To End Bias Suit At 4th Circ.

By Grace Elletson

King & Spalding LLP and an attorney who complained that she didn't apply to a summer associate program as a straight, white woman because the firm sought diverse applicants have agreed to end her bias case, according to a filing in the Fourth Circuit.

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Manning Kass Hit With Age Bias Suit In Calif.

By Christine DeRosa

Manning & Kass Ellrod Ramirez Trester LLP is facing an age bias lawsuit in California state court alleging a firm leader has made ageist comments at employees over 40 and is trying to drive those workers out of the firm.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Sidley Austin LLP and Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a Washington federal jury cleared Novo Nordisk of allegations that it defrauded the state's Medicaid and Medicare systems by paying kickbacks and promoting off-label use to illegally boost prescriptions of its hemophilia drug NovoSeven.

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Non-Attys Could Help Close Georgia's Civil Justice Gap

By Emily Johnson

Low-income Georgians and rural Georgians face several barriers to accessing legal services, including living in a legal desert, according to a Georgia Supreme Court committee’s report. The panel's proposal allowing "limited licensed legal practitioners" to assist with civil housing and consumer debt matters could improve access to justice across the state.

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House Eyes Vote To Repeal Provision On Senators' Lawsuits

By Courtney Bublé

A House bill to repeal a controversial provision tucked into the government funding package that would allow senators investigated by former special counsel Jack Smith to sue for damages is listed for possible consideration on the schedule for the week of Nov. 17.

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Northern NY US Atty To Defend DOJ In Maurene Comey Suit

By Jack Karp

The U.S. attorney's office for the Northern District of New York has agreed to defend the U.S. Department of Justice against a lawsuit from former FBI Director James Comey's daughter over what she calls her illegal firing, that office informed a New York federal judge this week.

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DOJ Official Among Trump Picks For District Courts

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump announced judicial nominees for federal courts in Tennessee, Indiana and Missouri on Friday, including a current U.S. Department of Justice official.

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Frequent DEI Foe Takes Aim At Mich. Law Firm's Scholarships

By Madison Arnold

American Alliance for Equal Rights, a group known for challenging diversity, equity and inclusion scholarships, has set its sights on Michigan personal injury firm Buckfire & Buckfire PC for alleged discrimination via the firm's scholarship programs for minorities.

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NC, Utah Attorneys General Launch Nationwide AI Task Force

By Matt Perez

Democratic North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson and Republican Utah Attorney General Derek Brown have announced the formation of a nationwide artificial intelligence task force in collaboration with developers OpenAI and Microsoft, as well as the Attorney General Alliance, a nonprofit group of bipartisan state attorneys general.

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How To Kill A Person: A Legal Battle Over Execution Methods

By Marco Poggio

As botched executions pile up and states reach for untested methods like nitrogen hypoxia, prisoners are turning to the courts for a say in how they will die — and are being met with a legal framework stacked against finding execution methods unconstitutional.

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Perkins Coie Sued By Omani Co. Over Trade Case Defense

By Rachel Riley

An Omani screw manufacturer has launched a legal malpractice suit in Washington state court accusing Perkins Coie LLP of a "series of deadly mistakes" while representing the Middle Eastern company in a U.S. Department of Commerce probe, allegedly leading to steep penalties and tariffs that cost the company hundreds of millions of dollars.

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Analysis

Feds' Use Of AI In Permitting, Rulemaking Raises Concerns

By Juan-Carlos Rodriguez

Federal government agencies with environmental responsibilities have begun using artificial intelligence tools, but attorneys say information about exactly why, how and when they are being used has been hard to get, leading to uncertainty about their effectiveness and shortcomings.

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'Constitutional Word Salad': Judge Rips Suit Over Mascot Ban

By Bonnie Eslinger

A New York federal court judge denied a Long Island school district's bid to amend claims in a lawsuit challenging the state's ban on Indigenous mascots, calling proposed changes a "constitutional word salad," but said a district parent could add First Amendment claims to the litigation.

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