Spa franchise Hand & Stone has been hit with a potential class action filed by a customer claiming the chain violated her privacy rights by sending confidential health information taken from the company's website to Google, Meta and TikTok.
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Hand & Stone Sent Info To Google, Meta And TikTok, Suit Says

By P.J. D'Annunzio

Spa franchise Hand & Stone has been hit with a potential class action filed by a customer claiming the chain violated her privacy rights by sending confidential health information taken from the company's website to Google, Meta and TikTok.

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HVAC Supplier Says Ex-Shareholders Defected To Rivals

By Matthew Santoni

Two former shareholders in a Pittsburgh company supplying pumps, boilers and other commercial heating and cooling equipment violated a noncompetition agreement after selling their stakes and going to work in the same field, the company alleged in a Pennsylvania state court lawsuit.

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DOJ Again Demands That Pa. Turn Over Voter Data

By Elizabeth Daley

The U.S. Department of Justice again demanded that Pennsylvania turn over voters' driver's license numbers and partial Social Security numbers, saying in Pennsylvania federal court that the information is required to be delivered under Title III of the Civil Rights Act, the Help America Vote Act and the National Voter Registration Act.

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ENFORCEMENT

Oak Street Exec's Ex-Partner Must Forfeit $617K In Assets

By Matthew Santoni

Federal authorities can delve into the assets of a man who made illegal insider trades of CVS stock based on information from his domestic partner so that they can recover $617,000 he agreed to forfeit as part of a plea deal, a Pennsylvania federal judge said Tuesday.

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LITIGATION

Comcast Decries Circuit Split After $177M IP Case Is Revived

By Dani Kass

The Federal Circuit split from several other circuits when reviving WhereverTV Inc.'s $177 million infringement suit against Comcast based on waived arguments, the telecommunications giant has warned the U.S. Supreme Court.

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States Lose Bid To Freeze EPA Solar Grant Funds, For Now

By Rae Ann Varona

A Seattle federal judge Tuesday denied a coalition of states' bid to preliminarily block the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from cutting solar power grant programs as they challenge the agency's termination of its $7 billion Biden-era "Solar for All" program.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

A Look At EEOC Actions In 2025 And What's Next

President Donald Trump issued several executive orders last year that reshaped policy at the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and with the administration now controlling a majority of the commission, the EEOC may align itself fully with orders addressing disparate impact and transgender issues, say attorneys at Jones Day.

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2026 State AI Bills That Could Expand Liability, Insurance Risk

State bills legislating artificial intelligence that are expected to pass in 2026 will reshape the liability landscape for all companies incorporating AI solutions into their business operations, as any novel private rights of action authorized under AI-related statutes signal expanding exposures, say attorneys at Wiley.

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5 E-Discovery Predictions For 2026 And Beyond

2026 will likely be shaped by issues ranging from artificial intelligence regulatory turbulence to potential evidence rule changes, and e-discovery professionals will need to understand how to effectively guide the responsible and defensible adoption of emerging tools, while also ensuring effective safeguards, say attorneys at Littler.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

No Jury Yet In Goldstein Trial, But Celeb Witnesses Possible

By Jared Foretek

Day two of jury selection in Tom Goldstein's tax and mortgage fraud case wrapped without a jury being seated Tuesday, but did reveal that the government could call celebrities Tobey Maguire and Kevin Hart to the stand.

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Ex-Duane Morris Tax Partner Charged With Murdering Wife

By Hailey Konnath

A former tax partner at Duane Morris LLP's Chicago office has been charged with killing his wife a little more than a year ago, according to an announcement made Tuesday by Illinois prosecutors.

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Beasley Allen Talc Work Sends 'Bad Signal,' J&J Says

By George Woolston

Johnson & Johnson's talc unit told a New Jersey appeals panel on Tuesday that a lower court's ruling permitting Beasley Allen Law Firm attorneys to represent plaintiffs in multicounty litigation over its talc-based baby powder "sends a very bad signal" to the state bar.

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Ex-Atty, Others Charged In Staged New Orleans Crash Scheme

By Hope Patti

A disbarred attorney was hit with new charges claiming that he induced a witness to commit perjury and obstructed justice in the federal investigation of an insurance scam involving staged car crashes in the New Orleans area.

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Halligan Blasts Court's 'Inquisition' Over US Atty Status

By Ryan Boysen

Lindsey Halligan said Tuesday that she is still the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia despite a recent ruling to the contrary, dismissing a federal judge's questions about why she's still using the title as an "inquisition" and a "gross abuse of power."

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Approach The Bench: Judge Bough On Ethics

Years of experience as a plaintiff's attorney influenced U.S. District Judge Stephen Bough's disclosure rules for litigators appearing in his court.

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DLA Piper Can't Counsel Hudson Hotel In Ch. 11, Judge Says

By Alex Wittenberg

A Delaware bankruptcy judge Tuesday rejected a bid by two bankrupt entities tied to the former Hudson Hotel to retain DLA Piper LLP as special counsel in their Chapter 11 case, saying the law firm's work for the entities' lender presented a conflict of interest.

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Sen. Whitehouse Presses AG On Boasberg Complaint Results

By Courtney Bublé

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., ranking member of the courts panel on the Senate Judiciary Committee, is calling for Attorney General Pam Bondi to release the results of the disciplinary complaint she filed against Chief U.S. District Judge James Boasberg of the District of Columbia when the investigation wraps up.

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Jack Smith To Testify Publicly Next Week

By Courtney Bublé

Former special counsel Jack Smith is slated to testify publicly before the House Judiciary Committee on Jan. 22 after, according to his attorney, having been "ready and willing" to do so for a while.

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4th Circ. Combines DOJ Appeals Of Comey, James Dismissals

By Jack Karp

The Fourth Circuit has granted the Trump administration's request to combine its previously separate appeals of the dismissals of prosecutions against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Baker McKenzie

Beasley Allen

Benesch

Bryan Cave

Carmichael Ellis

Carmody & Ging

Chimicles Schwartz

Chipman Brown

Cooley LLP

Covington & Burling

DLA Piper

Davis Polk

Duane Morris

Faegre Drinker

Goldstein & Russell

Goldstein Mehta

Hailey McNamara

Jones Day

Law Office of Stephen J. Haedicke

Liskow & Lewis

Littler Mendelson

Lowell & Associates

Minto Law Group

Morgan Lewis

Morris James

Motta & Motta

Motta Law

Munger Tolles

Murphy Ball Stratton

O'Melveny & Myers

Reed Smith

Reese Marketos

Ruloff Swain

Schwartz White

Seward & Kissel

Sills Cummis

Weil Gotshal

Wiley Rein

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

American Bar Association

Apple Inc.

Burke Inc.

CVS Health Corp.

Chevron Corp.

Comcast Corp.

Gallup Inc.

Global Logistic Properties Ltd.

Google LLC

International Association of Privacy Professionals

International Business Machines Corp.

Johnson & Johnson

Lawyers for Civil Justice

LinkedIn Corp.

Natural Resources Defense Council

New York City Bar Association

Oak Street Health Inc.

OpenAI OpCo LLC

Sheetz Inc.

Spotify Technology SA

The New York Times Co.

TikTok Inc.

University of Mississippi Medical Center

University of Virginia

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Cook County State's Attorney's Office

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

European Commission

European Union

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Trade Commission

Internal Revenue Service

National Institute of Standards and Technology

New Jersey Court

New Jersey Supreme Court

New York Attorney General's Office

Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs

Pennsylvania Department of State

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Louisiana

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia

U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of Labor

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 District of Maryland

U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

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

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

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

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

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

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

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court