Social Media Apps Must Face Jury After Section 230 Loss

By Dorothy Atkins

A California state judge refused Wednesday to grant social media companies summary judgment on claims their platforms harm young users' mental health, again rejecting arguments that Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act shields them from liability, and sent three cases to bellwether trials, with the first to begin Jan. 27.

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Judge OKs DOJ Bid To Drop Boeing 737 Max Conspiracy Case

By Linda Chiem

A Texas federal judge on Thursday dismissed the 737 Max criminal conspiracy case against Boeing, saying the court's hands are tied if the U.S. Department of Justice declines to prosecute the company, but noted that a $1.1 billion nonprosecution agreement still doesn't fully hold Boeing accountable.

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Texas AG Wants To Halt Kenvue $400M Shareholder Pay

By Jonathan Capriel

Texas wants to block Johnson & Johnson consumer health spinoff Kenvue from paying $400 million to shareholders, calling it a "fraudulent transfer" amid the company, which makes Tylenol, facing "tens or hundreds of billions of dollars in liabilities" in the state's suit alleging the company hid the risk that acetaminophen could lead to autism.

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FDA Warns Companies About Illegal Marketing Of Botox

By Jonathan Capriel

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has ordered the companies behind 18 websites to stop selling all Botox injectables to consumers that they have marketed as being able to treat chronic migraine, sweaty palms, overactive bladder and blepharospasm, or spasms that force one's eyelids closed.

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Fla. AG Says Planned Parenthood Lied About Abortion Drugs

By David Minsky

The Florida Attorney General sued Planned Parenthood on Thursday, alleging the reproductive healthcare nonprofit misrepresented the safety of abortion drugs to women in a mass marketing campaign.

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Consumers Sue Tilray Over Protein Claims In Hemp Product

By Jonathan Capriel

International cannabis lifestyle and consumer packaged goods company Tilray Brands Inc. was hit with a proposed class action in California federal court by a woman who claims it overstates the amount of protein consumers will get from eating its "Just Hemp" protein powder.

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Roundup

Pa. Statehouse Catchup: Cannabis Quality, 'Deepfake' Fines

By Matthew Santoni

Even as the Pennsylvania General Assembly has struggled to agree to a state budget since the summer deadline passed, legislators have introduced and advanced bills dealing with perennial topics like cannabis legalization or responding to newer concerns like AI-fueled fraud.

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Navigating DEA Quotas: Key To Psychedelics Industry Growth

As new compounds like DOI enter the Schedule I landscape, manufacturers who anticipate U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration quota regulations, and build quota management into their broader strategy, will be best equipped to meet the growing demand, say Kimberly Chew at Husch Blackwell and Jaime Dwight at Promega.

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Series

Mindfulness Meditation Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Mindful meditation enables me to drop the ego, and in helping me to keep sight of what’s important, permits me to learn from the other side and become a reliable counselor, says Roy Wyman at Bass Berry.

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Jeffer Mangels Hit With Pregnancy Bias Suit By Ex-Associate

By Hailey Konnath

A former Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP associate has accused the firm of discriminating against women, especially pregnant women, claiming that she was harassed throughout her pregnancy and eventually fired after she advocated for herself and pointed out the disparate treatment.

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Mass. Federal Judge Mark Wolf Retires After 40 Years

By Chris Villani

Senior U.S. District Judge Mark L. Wolf on Friday announced that he is retiring after more than 40 years on the federal bench, having presided over some of the most notable cases in Massachusetts federal court over the past four decades.

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Hearing Officer Clears Mass. Judge Of Aiding ICE Escape

By Julie Manganis

A hearing officer has concluded that Massachusetts state court Justice Shelley Richmond Joseph was not aware of a plan to allow a defendant to evade an ICE agent waiting at a suburban Boston court in 2018, but is recommending a public reprimand for other actions the judge took that day.

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Roundup

UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

By Max Austin

This past week in London has seen Big Technologies file fresh claims against its ousted chief executive, West Ham United FC sue Arthur J. Gallagher Insurance for breach of duty, and RSM UK face a new claim over a company's administration. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K. 

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Del. Federal Court Won't Keep Trump's Interim US Atty In Role

By Jack Karp

Delaware's federal court will not appoint the district's current interim U.S. attorney and President Donald Trump's choice for that position to remain in the role, according to a notice from the district's chief judge.

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DOJ Backs Trump In NY False-Records Conviction Appeal

By Emily Sawicki

The U.S. Department of Justice is throwing its support behind President Donald Trump's effort to overturn his New York criminal conviction for falsifying business records, filing a proposed amicus brief on Friday citing the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark 2024 decision "defining the contours of a president's federal constitutional immunity from criminal prosecution."

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Brief

Pension Corp. Installs EEOC Ex-Chair Dhillon As Director

By Kellie Mejdrich

The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. swore in former U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission chair and commissioner Janet Dhillon as the 17th director of the federal agency, which runs two insurance programs backstopping the nation's single and multiemployer defined-benefit pension plans.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

The federal judge overseeing Epic Games' antitrust suit against Google Inc. has doubts about their settlement deal and is asking for more evidence. And a Black McDonald's executive, who claimed he was fired for confronting his CEO over a racial comment, has lost his bias suit. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Latham & Watkins LLP and Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Eighth Circuit vacated a National Labor Relations Board ruling that Home Depot illegally forced out a worker who showed support for Black Lives Matter.

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Shutdown, Funding Crisis Leave Federal Defenders Unpaid

By Courtney Bublé

The record-long government shutdown has hindered an already dire funding situation for the federal defense community, but now the judiciary is working on requests to Congress to alleviate that.

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Analysis

How One Law Firm Got Two Big White-Collar Wins In 48 Hours

By Phillip Bantz

The white-collar team at Dykema Gossett PLLC secured back-to-back dismissals of two criminal cases in as many days last month by challenging the government's experts, flagging discovery issues and hammering on other perceived weaknesses in the prosecutions.

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