J&J Again Seeks To Block Beasley Allen In NJ Talc Litigation

By George Woolston

Johnson & Johnson has opposed a New Jersey talc claimant's motion for the pro hac vice admission of two attorneys from The Beasley Allen Law Firm, claiming the partners' conduct in its talc unit's bankruptcy proceedings warrants denial of the application.

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9th Circ. Sends Express Scripts Opioid Case To State Court

By Bonnie Eslinger

The Ninth Circuit sent California's public nuisance lawsuit against Express Scripts and OptumRx over opioid dispensing back to state court Monday and denied the pharmacy benefit managers' bid to stay the remand pending appeal, saying the U.S. Supreme Court's 2009 Nken decision controls, not its later Coinbase ruling.

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High Court Skips AR-15 Ban Constitutionality For Now

By Katie Buehler

The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to weigh in on the debate over whether AR-15s and other semiautomatic rifles are protected under the Second Amendment or potentially subject to state bans because of their military-like capabilities.

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Ga. Panel Urged To Back $17M Honda Seatbelt Verdict

By Chart Riggall

A Georgia man whose wife was killed after being ejected from her Honda SUV asked a Georgia appellate panel Monday to uphold a $17 million verdict against the automaker, urging the court to reject Honda's arguments that it was wrongly denied the chance to defend itself after its attorneys introduced prohibited materials at the trial's opening.

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Insurance Experts Examine AI's Challenges For Underwriting

By Ganesh Setty

Academics, attorneys and insurance industry officials took a look at the myriad ways artificial intelligence could affect the "insurance value chain," as one conference panelist put it, across claims, litigation and underwriting, including the coverage of AI-related occurrences themselves.

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Alaska Airlines, Flyers Say Boeing Can't Ditch Calif. Blowout Suit

By Linda Chiem

Boeing's extensive business ties to California sufficiently establish a Golden State federal court's specific personal jurisdiction over a lawsuit stemming from a January 2024 midair door plug blowout aboard an Alaska Airlines flight, the airline and passengers told a federal judge Friday.

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Iowa Taking Fight Over E-Cigarette Law To 8th Circ.

By Jonathan Capriel

Iowa's Department of Revenue is taking a decision blocking it from enforcing a new law prohibiting the sale of many e-cigarettes to the Eighth Circuit, according to documents filed recently in Iowa federal court.

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4 Mass. Rulings You May Have Missed In May

By Julie Manganis

Massachusetts judges grappled with accusations of fraud in the sale of a struggling life sciences company and gave the benefit of the doubt to a vendor who allegedly sold the state gallons of ineffective hand sanitizer, among other notable rulings last month.

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Kansas City Chiefs Parade Victims Sue Gun Sellers, Organizers

By Gina Kim

Fans who were injured in a mass shooting that broke out at the Kansas City Chiefs' Super Bowl parade last year filed a lawsuit Monday in Missouri state court accusing gun sellers of lax sales practices and the event planners of failing to employ adequate security measures.

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Md. Gun Law Shouldn't Be Blocked, Baltimore Mayor Says

By Jonathan Capriel

Legal scholars, gun violence prevention organizations and Baltimore's city council are all lining up to tell a federal court why they think stopping the state of Maryland from enforcing a law that would hold gunmakers liable for gun-related crimes would be a bad idea.

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Defamation Litigation Roundup: Cheetos, NASCAR, OpenAI

By Theresa Schliep

In this month's review of ongoing defamation fights, Law360 looks back on developments in a man's case against Frito-Lay Inc. over what he called the company's defamatory statements disputing his role in the invention of a flavor of Cheetos.

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2nd Circ. Won't Let Skier Enforce Pulled Settlement Offer

By Mike Curley

The Second Circuit isn't letting an injured skier enforce a settlement he attempted to accept just before a jury sided with the ski resort he was suing, with the appellate court finding Friday that his positions are inconsistent and that allowing enforcement would be unfair.

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Ill. Budget Increases Taxes On Tobacco, Online Sports Books

By Maria Koklanaris

Illinois' Democratic-controlled General Assembly passed a $55 billion budget for fiscal 2026, including about $800 million in targeted tax hikes on tobacco, vaping and online sports betting.

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Measuring The Impact Of Attorney Gender On Trial Outcomes

Preliminary findings from our recent study on how attorney gender might affect case outcomes support the conclusion that there is little in the way of a clear, universal bias against attorneys of a given gender, say Jill Leibold, Olivia Goodman and Alexa Hiley at IMS Legal Strategies.

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The Ins And Outs Of Consensual Judicial References

As parties consider the possibility of judicial reference to resolve complex disputes, it is critical to understand how the process works, why it's gaining traction, and why carefully crafted agreements make all the difference, say attorneys at Pillsbury.

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Senators Preview Possible National Injunction Reforms

By Courtney Bublé

A Senate hearing on Tuesday was marked largely by partisan fighting over whether federal courts have justifiably ruled against the Trump administration, but there were some hints that cooperation to rein in acknowledged litigation abuses such as forum shopping and universal injunctions might be possible.

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The Law360 400: A Look At The Top 100 Firms

By Xiumei Dong and Sam Bell

A rebound in client work sent the nation’s largest law firms into growth mode last year, driving a wave of hiring, mergers and strategic moves that reshaped the top tier of the Law360 400. Here's a preview of the 100 firms with the largest U.S. attorney headcounts.

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Tom Girardi Sentenced To Over 7 Years For $15M Client Fraud

By Craig Clough

A California federal judge sentenced Tom Girardi on Tuesday to over seven years in prison for his wire fraud conviction, granting some leniency to the disbarred attorney on his 86th birthday by imposing a sentence below the guidelines in recognition of his age and ailing health. 

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Titan Of The Plaintiffs Bar: Reid Collins' Lisa Tsai

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Reid Collins & Tsai LLP co-founder and managing partner Lisa Tsai and her team secured a $64.7 million final judgment against Credit Suisse for its role in a fraudulent appraisal that overvalued the Lake Las Vegas development, inducing plaintiff Claymore Holdings and other lenders to invest, earning her recognition as one of Law360’s 2025 Titans of the Plaintiffs Bar.

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5th Paul Weiss Atty Joins New Firm Dunn Isaacson Rhee

By Daniel Connolly

A partner with Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP announced on LinkedIn this week that he's joining a new small firm that consists of other former Paul Weiss partners.

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Groups Ask California Bar To Discipline Google's Kent Walker

By Sue Reisinger

Four organizations are citing new court developments involving Google Inc. Chief Legal Officer Kent Walker's alleged mishandling of evidence in again asking the State Bar of California to discipline him.

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Bills Texas Attys Should Know From The 2025 Session

By Catherine Marfin

Texas lawmakers wrapped up the state's 89th legislative session this week, passing a number of bills on topics like artificial intelligence and social media, business law and the authorities granted to the attorney general.

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