Analysis

Tylenol MDL In Spotlight After Trump Blasts Use In Pregnancy

By Dan McKay

The Trump administration's attack on the use of acetaminophen during pregnancy drew on the work of a Harvard expert whose analysis is central to a legal clash now before a federal appeals court. The president's broadside promises to energize plaintiffs.

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Uber Asks Judge To Look Into Leak Of Sealed Records To NYT

By Bonnie Eslinger

Uber has asked a San Francisco judge to order the lawyers in coordinated sexual assault litigation in California state court involving hundreds of accusers to officially state they have no knowledge about how sealed, confidential information protected under the court's order was handed over to The New York Times.

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Social Media Giants Must Face Expert Testimony On Harm

By Craig Clough

A California state judge ruled Monday that jurors set to consider claims against major social media technology companies for allegedly causing harm to young users' mental health will be allowed to hear expert testimony about potential injuries inflicted by the design and operation of the platforms.

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EPA Still Can't Escape Tort Claims Over Flint Water Crisis

By Carolyn Muyskens

A Michigan federal judge has again denied a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency request to dismiss Federal Tort Claims Act litigation seeking to hold the government liable for allegedly lax oversight of the water system in Flint, Michigan.

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Foes Slam Feds' GHG Plan As Trump Decries Green 'Scam'

By Juan-Carlos Rodriguez

Green groups and democrats are strongly opposing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's proposal to abandon a key greenhouse gas policy, as President Donald Trump on Tuesday called climate change "the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world."

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Chemours Asks 4th Circ. To Toss Ohio River Pollution Order

By Tom Lotshaw

Chemours told the Fourth Circuit a West Virginia federal judge botched the law and the science about the risks a forever chemical poses when he ordered its Washington Works facility to stop discharging permit-exceeding amounts of the substance into the Ohio River.

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Ship's Owner Can't Shift Blame For Bridge Collapse, Court Told

By Linda Chiem

The Singaporean owner and manager of the container ship that slammed into Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge and triggered its collapse cannot try to shift blame for its own failings, the South Korean shipbuilder HD Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. Ltd. has told a Pennsylvania federal court.

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Brief

Pfizer Settles Conn. Zantac Lawsuits Alleging Cancer Risks

By Aaron Keller

Pfizer Inc. has settled two Connecticut state court lawsuits by patients who claimed generic forms of ranitidine, the heartburn and acid reflux drug sold under the brand name Zantac, degraded into a substance that caused cancer.

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Eli Lilly Deal In Weight Loss Drugs Trademark Suit Hits Snag

By Ben Adlin

Pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly and two Seattle-area medical clinics tried to leave a federal court "entirely in the dark" on the finer points of their newly proposed trademark suit settlement, a Seattle federal judge held in declining to approve the deal and enter a consent judgment in the case.

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OTC Drug Co. Must Face Shampoo Cancer Risk Class Action

By P.J. D'Annunzio

A Pennsylvania federal judge denied Lake Consumer Products Inc.'s request to toss a putative class action alleging it manufactures coal tar shampoo with known carcinogens, reasoning that most of the claims against the company were plausible enough to move forward.

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Sunbeam Settles Claims With Scalded Pressure Cooker User

By Mike Curley

A woman who sued Sunbeam Products Inc. and its parent Newell Brands Inc. last week with allegations that she was scalded by a defective pressure cooker told the Georgia federal court on Tuesday that she'd settled her claims.

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5th Circ. Clears Tugboat Firm In Barge Sinking Dispute

By Emily Field

The Fifth Circuit on Monday said a lower court did not err in finding that a marine transportation services company wasn't liable for all claims arising from a June 2022 capsizing and sinking of a barge, saying that the barge's structure made it unseaworthy.

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Pa. Road Worker Says Unsafe Equipment Cost Him His Arm

By Mike Curley

A Pennsylvania road worker is suing an equipment supplier and a manufacturer in state court, alleging he lost his arm because of the equipment's unsafe design, as it lacked safeguards that would've stopped him from getting caught in the machinery.

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How Hyperlinks Are Changing E-Discovery Responsibilities

A recent e-discovery dispute over hyperlinked data in Hubbard v. Crow shows how courts have increasingly broadened the definition of control to account for cloud-based evidence, and why organizations must rethink preservation practices to avoid spoliation risks, says Bree Murphy at Exterro.

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Attys Must Pay $24K For AI Citations In FIFA Antitrust Case

By Lauren Berg

Counsel representing the now-shuttered Puerto Rico Soccer League in its antitrust suit against FIFA must pay more than $24,000 in attorney fees and litigation costs to the soccer federation and other defendants for filing briefs that appeared to contain errors hallucinated by artificial intelligence, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.

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NJ Justices Won't Hear Challenge To State Bar Diversity Plan

By Jake Maher

The New Jersey Supreme Court has allowed to stand an appellate decision approving a New Jersey State Bar Association system for fostering diversity in its leadership, which a state attorney accused of being a discriminatory quota system.

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Judiciary Dems Demand Feds Explain 'Border Czar' Probe

By Lauren Berg

Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary Committee announced Tuesday they are looking into the Trump administration's alleged closure of a U.S. Department of Justice bribery investigation of White House "border czar" Thomas Homan, following recent news reports that he accepted $50,000 from an undercover FBI agent.

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Watchdog Calls For DC, Md. Bar Investigations Into Carr

By Jared Foretek

A government accountability watchdog brought a complaint against Federal Communications Chair Brendan Carr to the D.C. Bar Association on Tuesday, claiming Carr violated conduct rules when he threatened to bring FCC action against ABC if it declined to discipline Jimmy Kimmel over his remarks following Charlie Kirk's murder.

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Ice Miller Corporate Atty Elected Chief Managing Partner

By Adrian Cruz

Ice Miller LLP announced Tuesday that an Indianapolis-based corporate attorney who has been with the firm for nearly two decades has been elected chief managing partner for the start of 2026.

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Westlaw Notes Uncopyrightable, AI Company Tells 3rd Circ.

By Elliot Weld

An artificial intelligence-powered legal search engine has asked the Third Circuit to reverse a district court's decision that its use of Westlaw headnotes did not constitute fair use, arguing its utilization of them "radically promoted scientific progress" and increased access to justice.

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Feds Illegally Denying Immigrant Bond Hearings, Suit Says

By Chris Villani

The Trump administration is deliberately misclassifying immigrants marked for removal proceedings in an effort to illegally skirt their right to a bond hearing, according to a proposed class action filed Tuesday in Massachusetts federal court.

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Chief Judge In Ala. To Take Semiretirement Status Next Year

By Courtney Bublé

Chief U.S. District Judge David Proctor of the Northern District of Alabama has informed the president that he will take senior status Jan. 1, 2026.

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Law Firms Sued Over La. Hurricane Claim Fee Scheme

By Ganesh Setty

Two law firms and certain attorneys engaged in a scheme to "grossly and blatantly" inflate damages estimates for hurricane-related property insurance claims in order to "collect an exorbitant fee which they would all share," a group of seven Louisiana residents told a Louisiana federal court.

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DHS Floats H-1B Rule To Prioritize Higher-Paid Workers

By Bonnie Eslinger

The Trump administration proposed a rule on Tuesday to change the H-1B lottery process to one that gives priority to higher-skilled workers at companies offering better pay, according to a Federal Register notice.

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NC Legislature Passes Bill To Eliminate Cashless Bail

By Elizabeth Daley

In the wake of the murder of a Ukrainian refugee on public transit allegedly by a man recently arrested and freed on a promise to appear, North Carolina's General Assembly on Tuesday passed a bill to eliminate cashless bail and make it easier to execute people in the state.

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Atty-Trustee Conflicts Doom Scaife Estate's $26M Tax Refund

By Matthew Santoni

A Strassburger McKenna Gutnick & Gefsky attorney was also acting as Mellon heir Richard Scaife's lawyer, trustee and media executive when he signed releases that kept Scaife's spending of his inheritance secret from his children, so a resulting $200 million settlement between the children and Scaife's estate was not a bona fide tax-exempt expense, a Pennsylvania appeals court ruled Tuesday.

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Full Effects Of US Tariffs 'Yet To Be Felt,' OECD Report Says

By Natalie Olivo

Economic growth in the U.S. is expected to dip in 2026 partly because of global trade tensions, the full effects of which "have yet to be felt," the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development reported Tuesday.

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Analysis

Minnesota's Deepfake Crackdown Foreshadows Legal Clashes

By Ivan Moreno

Minnesota's law cracking down on deepfake videos aimed at influencing elections has drawn separate court challenges to stop its enforcement, including one by X Corp., offering a glimpse into the hurdles other states and Congress may face as they address the proliferation of digital replicas created with artificial intelligence.

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NC Paralegal Says Cancer Is Disability In Bias Fight With Firm

By Hayley Fowler

A paralegal in North Carolina said The Driscoll Firm PC can't duck her suit claiming she was fired a day after informing higher-ups that her ovarian cancer had come back, arguing the complaint contains sufficient allegations of her disability and the firm's wrongful discharge.

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