J&J, Ovarian Cancer Talc Claimants Unveil $5.5B Global Deal

By Lauren Berg

Johnson & Johnson announced Monday that it has agreed to pay $5.5 billion to put to rest tens of thousands of lawsuits alleging its talcum powder products caused ovarian cancer, with plaintiffs' counsel calling the deal "long-delayed justice" for their clients.

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Meta Left Users In Dark About Danger, Tenn. AG Tells Jury

By Cara Salvatore

Tennessee's attorney general went to trial Monday against Meta over claims the social media giant concealed teen mental health harms, telling a jury that despite the revelations employees saw from its systematic research program, the public "warning never came."

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Taco Bell, Taylor Farms Hit With Another Cyclospora Suit

By Y. Peter Kang

Consumers have filed another suit in Michigan federal court against Taco Bell and produce supplier Taylor Farms, alleging that the companies' negligence caused them to suffer cyclospora infections after eating contaminated iceberg lettuce sold at Taco Bell restaurants.

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Union Funds Seek Final OK For $180M In Opioid Deals

By Emily Field

Union health and welfare funds have asked the Ohio federal judge overseeing the sprawling national opioid litigation to approve settlements totaling $180 million with CVS, Walgreens, Walmart and three pharmaceutical companies to compensate for the costs of opioid use disorder treatment.

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Albertsons Opioid Trial Told Of Needles, ODs In Library

By Ben Adlin

A witness in Washington's case accusing Albertsons Cos. Inc. of fueling the state's opioid crisis testified at a bench trial Monday that problem drug use was evident in a city library system she's led for nearly a decade, pointing to syringes scattered across the facility and multiple instances of overdoses.

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Calif. Judge Doubts AI Citation Case Fits Diversion Program

By Craig Clough

A State Bar of California judge on Monday explained her decision to decline to refer an attorney to the bar's alternative discipline program for allegedly using nonexistent citations drafted with artificial intelligence, saying the attorney did not provide any grounds for such a referral and she is unsure there could be any such grounds.

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NJ Mayor Fights DOJ Bid To Toss False Arrest Suit

By Lynn LaRowe

Newark, New Jersey, Mayor Ras Baraka is pushing back on a bid from the U.S. Department of Justice to dismiss a lawsuit over his allegedly unlawful arrest last year outside an ICE facility, telling a New Jersey federal court that the government's theories of immunity don't fit the facts and case law.

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Weill Cornell Medicine Settles Doctor Sex Abuse Probe

By Phillip Bantz

Weill Cornell Medicine reached a settlement on Monday with Manhattan federal prosecutors to end a criminal investigation into allegations that the prestigious medical and graduate school failed to prevent one of its doctors from sexually abusing patients for more than a decade.

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Installer Sues Canadian Solar After He's Crushed By Panels

By Mike Curley

A Washington man who owns a solar component contractor is suing Canadian Solar Inc. and its affiliates in federal court, alleging poor packaging caused 1,800 pounds of solar panels to fall over and crush him.

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Former JPMorgan Banker Levels Race Bias, Harassment Suit

By Vin Gurrieri

A former JPMorgan Chase employee filed a race discrimination and sexual harassment suit against the investment bank in Manhattan federal court Monday, on the heels of dropping a similar state court complaint that triggered an ongoing defamation case from his former boss. 

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Cigna Must Face Pa. Suit Over Portal Health Data Tracking

By Gianna Ferrarin

A Pennsylvania federal judge on Monday allowed a group of Cigna health plan participants to pursue most of their claims alleging the company unlawfully disclosed their protected health information for marketing purposes by using an Adobe tracking pixel.

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Railroads, Feds Spar Over Train Crew Size Rule In 11th Circ.

By Linda Chiem

Railroads have told the Eleventh Circuit that the Federal Railroad Administration failed to properly justify its 2024 two-person train crew rule, saying the agency flip-flopped from its previous determination that such a rule was unnecessary.

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GM Says Airbag Defect Suit Fails After Plaintiffs Recast Case

By Jonathan Capriel

General Motors has urged a California federal court to end a proposed class action by truck and SUV drivers, arguing that after five years of litigation, they still cannot plausibly allege any defect exists in their vehicles' safety software.

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Judge Refuses To Pause Coverage Fight Over Boy's Death

By Susan Smiley

A Michigan federal judge ruled Friday that Nationwide Insurance may proceed with its declaratory judgment lawsuit against the Oxford Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Center and the parents of a 5-year-old boy killed at the facility, noting that the insurance coverage dispute addresses issues separate from pending state civil and criminal cases involving the center.

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Textile Co. Not Covered In PFAS-Tainted Water Suit, Court Told

By Hope Patti

A group of CNA units said they owe no coverage to a textile company accused in an underlying suit of contaminating drinking water in South Carolina with so-called forever chemicals, telling an Ohio federal court that an absolute pollution exclusion in their policies bars coverage.

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Insurers Don't Owe Grocer Coverage For Opioid Settlement

By Hope Patti

A group of insurers owes no coverage to grocery chain Harris Teeter for amounts that its parent company, Kroger, paid as part of a $1.37 billion global settlement of opioid suits brought by government entities, North Carolina's business court ruled.

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OceanGate Foundation Insurer Launches Titan Coverage Suit

By Rachel Riley

Philadelphia Indemnity Insurance Co. urged a Seattle federal court Friday to find it has no duty to defend nonprofit OceanGate Foundation from a lawsuit filed by the family of a French explorer who died during the Titan deep-sea submersible's 2023 expedition, or otherwise rule any coverage obligations are capped at $100,000.

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Deal Reached In Comedian Eric André's Racial Profiling Suit

By Kelcey Caulder

Actor Eric André and another comedian who said their constitutional rights were violated when they were racially profiled at an Atlanta airport have reached a tentative deal with a Georgia county to settle their lawsuit about a year after the Eleventh Circuit agreed to revive the case. 

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Judges On AI: Examining Administrative, Organizational Uses

U.S. District Judge Alan Albright of the Western District of Texas examines how artificial intelligence could transform a court's ability to deal with administrative work and organize materials when preparing for hearings or drafting opinions, thereby affording judges more time to resolve contested issues.

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Milbank Issues Bonuses To Associates, Special Counsel

By Andrea Keckley

Milbank LLP is continuing to lead the way on bonuses, confirming Monday it has issued a round of special bonuses ranging from $6,000 for the class of 2026 and 2025 associates to $25,000 for the class of 2021 associates and beyond.

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Cooley Owes $25.4M Judgment To NJ Biotech Co. Founder

By Brian Steele

A New Jersey state court on Monday entered a $25.4 million judgment against Cooley LLP after a jury found the multinational firm had committed malpractice in its representation of a biotech founder who said his own lawyers assisted in shoving him out of his company.

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ABA Says Feds' Susman Godfrey DQ Bid Is More Intimidation

By Lauren Berg

The American Bar Association on Monday urged the D.C. federal judge overseeing its lawsuit challenging 2025 executive orders targeting law firms to reject the Trump administration's bid to have Susman Godfrey LLP disqualified as plaintiffs' counsel, calling it the latest "effort to intimidate" the American legal profession.

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Quinn Emanuel's Ethics Training 'Promising,' Judge Says

By Bonnie Eslinger

A California federal judge Monday approved a court-ordered ethics training program prepared by Quinn Emanuel in the wake of misrepresentations the firm made concerning an expert in a false advertising suit brought by Guardant Health against its client Natera, saying the firm had designed an "extremely promising" eight-hour program.

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Simpson Thacher Atty Says Patriot Nat'l Founder Sank Co.

By Madison Arnold

A Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP partner wrapped up her testimony Monday in a Florida state malpractice trial brought by the founder of Patriot National Inc., telling the jury that the founder was willing to forgo establishing a floor on the value of so-called Series B warrants, which he says contributed to the company's demise.

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300+ Public Defenders Strike In The Bronx

By Andrea Keckley and Daniel Moritz-Rabson

More than 300 attorneys and staff with the Bronx Defenders Union went on strike Monday, one year after the last time the union walked off the job.

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Comey Says Seashell Post No Threat To Trump

By Abigail Harrison

Former FBI Director James Comey urged a North Carolina federal court Monday to dismiss an indictment stemming from a social media post he made last year, arguing the post doesn't constitute a "true threat" to President Donald Trump.

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