NY-NJ Commission Sues Over Frozen Hudson Tunnel Funding

By Linda Chiem

The bi-state commission overseeing the $16 billion rehabilitation of aging commuter train tunnels under the Hudson River between New York and New Jersey has sued the Trump administration, alleging it's illegally withholding federal funds and jeopardizing the project, which is days away from having to shut down construction.

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NY County Wants To Erase $80M Buffalo Five Verdict

By Cara Salvatore

A county in New York state asked a federal judge to overturn a record-setting $80 million wrongful conviction verdict for a member of the Buffalo Five, a group of Black teenagers falsely accused of a 1976 murder, citing alleged jury irregularities.

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NYC Delivery Laws Will Stay In Place During Instacart Appeal

By Irene Spezzamonte

Instacart won't be able to block New York City's laws for app-based delivery workers instituting a new minimum wage, tipping options and disclosure requirements while it challenges a federal court's order, a New York federal judge ruled.

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Queens Defenders Ex-Director Admits Embezzling Over $100K

By Pete Brush

The former longtime head of Queens Defenders copped to a count of fraud conspiracy in Brooklyn federal court Tuesday after prosecutors said she diverted over $100,000 intended for indigent residents and used the money for a lavish lifestyle.

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2nd Circ. Upholds NLRB Subpoena Enforcement Order

By Braden Campbell

A New York City businessman must turn over documents relevant to his companies' liability for years of back pay to a fired bus company tour guide after the Second Circuit on Tuesday upheld an order to comply with National Labor Relations Board subpoenas.

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Sealed Letter Halts Sentencing Of 50 Cent's Ex-Associate

By Corey Rothauser

The sentencing of a former executive at rapper Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson's liquor brand came to an 11th-hour halt Tuesday following the prosecution's letter suggesting he violated his agreement in which he pled guilty to fraud.

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Ex-BofA Manager Cops To Role In Medicare Fraud Scheme

By Gina Kim

A former Bank of America branch manager copped to a money laundering conspiracy charge Tuesday in New York federal court in connection with a transnational scheme that made over $8 billion in fraudulent Medicare claims for glucose monitors and urinary catheters that were medically unnecessary, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

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Martin Shkreli Countersues, Adds RZA To Wu-Tang Fight

By Hailey Konnath

Martin Shkreli has filed counterclaims and added Wu-Tang Clan rappers and producers RZA and Cilvaringz as counterdefendants in litigation over the group's one-of-a-kind album he once owned, a move that comes just weeks after a New York federal judge rejected Shkreli's request to bring the Wu-Tang members into the dispute.

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NFL Fans' Antitrust Suit Over Bluesky Fumbles, Judge Rules

By Rae Ann Varona

A New York federal judge on Tuesday dismissed an antitrust suit two football fans lodged against the NFL, saying they failed to allege they were injured by a league policy barring teams from posting on the social media platform Bluesky.

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Law360 Seeks Members For Its 2026 Editorial Boards

Law360 is looking for avid readers of our publications to serve as members of our 2026 editorial advisory boards.

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Coverage Barred For Mortgage Fee Dispute, 2nd Circ. Says

By Hope Patti

Insurers for a bankrupt financial services company are not obligated to cover settlement payments and defense costs stemming from a pair of mortgage fee class actions, the Second Circuit affirmed Tuesday, finding the claims fall squarely within an exclusion for fee-related losses.

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Insurer Seeks To Void Stamp Co.'s Policy After $3.35B Claim

By Hope Patti

A stamp dealer seeking $3.35 billion for the loss of its inventory in a fire should have its insurance policy declared void from the start, the insurer told a New York federal court, saying the company misrepresented the value of its inventory when applying for coverage.

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2nd Circ. Keeps Credit Suisse Collapse Suit Out Of US Courts

By Brian Steele

The Second Circuit on Tuesday declined to revive a shareholder suit accusing Credit Suisse and related entities of misconduct leading up to the bank's collapse, holding that a New York judge was not wrong to find that the litigation is overwhelmingly tied to Switzerland.

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Ex-SPAC CEO Cops To Defrauding Lottery.com Investors

By Emilie Ruscoe

The former CEO of a blank check company that took Lottery.com public pled guilty on Tuesday to securities fraud over charges that he schemed to inflate the revenue of the lottery products platform by means including a $9 million round-trip transaction.

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SNAP Case 'Tip Of The Iceberg' In Anti-Fraud Effort, Feds Say

By Carolyn Muyskens

Four Massachusetts defendants were charged Tuesday with collecting more than $1 million in fraudulent food and unemployment benefits in what the state's top federal prosecutor called part of a broader U.S. Department of Justice initiative to root out fraud in government benefit programs.

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Novartis, Sandoz Face New Generic-Drug Price-Fixing Suit

By Abigail Harrison

Adding to sprawling antitrust litigation against pharmaceutical giants, 42 states and territories sued Novartis AG, Sandoz AG and other drug companies in Connecticut federal court Monday, alleging that the companies colluded for years to fix prices and control markets for generic drugs.

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Zillow, Redfin Oppose Pausing FTC Case For Shutdown

By Isaac Monterose

Zillow and Redfin are fighting an attempt by the Federal Trade Commission and multiple states to pause consolidated antitrust claims against the property listing companies, arguing in Virginia federal court that the recent partial federal government shutdown doesn't justify staying litigation.

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Wachtell Lipton, Davis Polk Steer $12B Santander Deal

By Hailey Konnath

Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz and Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP are guiding Banco Santander SA's $12.3 billion cash-and-stock acquisition of Webster Financial Corp., according to an announcement made Tuesday.

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Analysis

OCC Urged To Scrap Escrow 'Giveaway' To Banks

By Jon Hill

Consumer advocates are urging the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to abandon proposals they say would let national banks unfairly profit off homeowners' escrowed money, warning the plan unlawfully revives a rejected deregulatory playbook.

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Calif. Cardholders Ask 2nd Circ. To Revive Swipe Fee Suit

By Katryna Perera

California cardholders accusing Visa, Mastercard and other major banks of conspiring to fix interchange fees have asked the Second Circuit to revive their claims after a district court judge denied their motion for reconsideration in a long-running multidistrict litigation.

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Dem Lawmakers Win Block On New ICE Detention Visit Policy

By Tom Lotshaw

A D.C. federal judge temporarily blocked a Trump administration policy that had required Congress members to provide a week's notice before making oversight visits to immigrant detention facilities, ruling the policy will likely be found unlawful.

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Limiting Worker Surveillance Risks Amid AI Regulatory Shifts

With workplace surveillance tools becoming increasingly common and a recent executive order aiming to preempt state-level artificial intelligence enforcement, companies may feel encouraged to expand AI monitoring, but the legal exposure associated with these tools remains, say attorneys at MoFo.

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Can OCC State Banking Law Preemption Survive The Courts?

While two December proposals from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency seek to foreclose pending consumer litigation against national banks related to residential mortgage lending, it's unclear whether this aggressive approach will withstand judicial scrutiny under the U.S. Supreme Court's 2024 rulings in Cantero and Loper Bright, say attorneys at Davis Wright.

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Habeas Cases Flood Courts After Immigrant Detention Shift

By Jack Karp

Federal courts have been inundated with a flood of cases stemming from the Trump administration's revised approach to the detention of unauthorized immigrants, with judges routinely ruling against the government as immigration attorneys scramble to keep up.

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Baker McKenzie Describes Client Fallout After Assault Claims

By Alison Knezevich

Several clients asked the leader of Baker McKenzie's Washington, D.C., office to stop handling work for them after he was accused of sexual assault, according to a new filing in a defamation case against the former firm associate who made the allegations.

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Goldstein Knew What Was On His Returns, Accountant Claims

By Jared Foretek

The top outside accountant handling tax returns for SCOTUSblog founder Thomas Goldstein and his law firm said Tuesday that Goldstein wasn't forthcoming about his gambling records and that he firmly believed the former U.S. Supreme Court attorney knew what was in his allegedly false tax returns when they were filed.

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Approach The Bench: Judge Yew Warns Of Deepfake Evidence

By Cara Bayles and Steven Trader

After decades on the bench of the Santa Clara County Superior Court, Judge Erica Yew began to regard the future of courtroom evidence with some trepidation, as the rapid evolution of artificial intelligence made it easier to falsify documents, photos and videos.

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4 Attys Sanctioned Over AI Hallucinations In Legal Brief

By Elliot Weld

A Kansas federal judge has issued sanctions against a group of lawyers representing a technology company in a patent dispute and has referred one attorney for disciplinary action over case citations hallucinated by ChatGPT appearing in a legal brief.

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Pretti Killing Highlights Free Speech And Gun Rights Tension

By Marco Poggio

The killing of Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old U.S. citizen and lawful gun owner, by federal immigration enforcement agents in Minneapolis last month brought to the fore a long-standing tension between two constitutional rights that the U.S. Supreme Court has never resolved, legal experts say.

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Floyd Prosecutor, Defense Atty To Represent Pretti's Family

By Lynn LaRowe

The relatives of a Minnesota intensive care nurse killed by ICE agents have secured legal representation from a former federal prosecutor who helped secure the conviction of an ex-police officer in the killing of George Floyd, and a criminal defense attorney coming off a high-profile murder case.

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Feds Fight Cyberstalking Atty's Bid For Pretrial Release

By Adrian Cruz

The U.S. government has asked a Texas federal judge to reject a bid for pretrial release from a currently detained attorney charged with cyberstalking other attorneys at BigLaw firms.

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Analysis

Squires And Stewart's Patent Office, By The Numbers

By Theresa Schliep

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has seen sweeping changes under Director John Squires and Deputy Director Coke Morgan Stewart, ranging from pro-patent owner policies at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board to employment shake-ups that have prompted departures from the agency.

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Senate Confirms Picks For Texas, Ark. District Court Seats

By Courtney Bublé

The Senate confirmed two U.S. district court judges, for Texas and Arkansas, on Tuesday.

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