Social Media 'Lions' Hunted Plaintiff Like Gazelle, Jury Told

By Craig Clough

The plaintiff's attorney in a bellwether trial accusing Meta Platforms Inc. and Google LLC of harming children's mental health encouraged a California jury during closing arguments Thursday not to buy the defendants' focus on his client's difficult childhood, saying it only weakened her to their social media "addiction machine" like a vulnerable gazelle being hunted by lions.

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United Airlines Agrees To Pay $27.5M To End ERISA Suit

By Patrick Hoff

United Airlines has agreed to shell out $27.5 million to end a proposed class action alleging it locked retired employees out of a generous COVID-era retirement package, a deal that would moot retirees' pending appeal to the Seventh Circuit, according to a filing in Illinois federal court.

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Ex-Chartwell Atty Says Firm Fired Her For Gaza Posts

By David Minsky

A former Chartwell attorney claimed she was harassed because she's a Pakistani Muslim and was fired for posting social media statements criticizing military action in Gaza following the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, according to a lawsuit filed in Florida federal court.

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Tom's Toothpaste Trims Class Action Over Lead Levels

By Jonathan Capriel

Tom's of Maine can't beat back proposed class claims it allowed heavy metals to taint its children's toothpaste, a New York federal judge ruled Wednesday, finding that the parent behind the suit adequately claimed the company falsely marketed the products as "safe" and "healthy."

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DOJ Wants Morgan Stanley, DOL Opinion Dispute Tossed

By Katryna Perera

The U.S. government has moved to dismiss a suit from former Morgan Stanley financial advisers challenging a U.S. Department of Labor advisory opinion that said the bank's deferred compensation plans likely aren't covered by federal benefits law, with the advisers responding by saying the agency's finding is hurting them because the bank is using it in arbitration proceedings.

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Food Service Co. Sued Over Unpaid Travel Time At LAX

By Benjamin Morse

A food service company failed to pay employees for time spent shuttling to and from an American Airlines lounge at Los Angeles International Airport, resulting in unpaid minimum and overtime wages, according to a proposed class action filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court.

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Amazon, Workers Clash Over Security Pay At 2nd Circ.

By Benjamin Morse

Amazon and a group of warehouse workers sparred in letters to the Second Circuit over the impact a recent Connecticut Supreme Court ruling has on whether employees must be paid for time spent exiting company warehouses.

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PayPal Execs Hit With Derivative Suit Over 2027 Forecast

By Sydney Price

PayPal executives and directors were hit with a shareholder's derivative suit accusing them of damaging the company with comments about the strong growth trajectory for its branded checkout segment that the investor said turned out to be untrue.

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Trip.com, Execs Downplayed China Monopoly Risks, Suit Says

By Katryna Perera

One-stop travel service provider Trip.com and its executives "recklessly understated" to shareholders the risks of their business activities running afoul of China's antimonopoly laws, according to a new proposed class action in New York federal court.

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Epilepsy Drugmaker's Statements Insulated From Stock Suit

By P.J. D'Annunzio

A Pennsylvania federal judge has trimmed a shareholder class action against Marinus Pharmaceuticals alleging it misled investors about the probability of success of an epilepsy drug, ruling that certain statements made by company leadership were immunized by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act.

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UiPath Execs Hid Risks, Ditched $394M+ In Stock, Suit Alleges

By Jarek Rutz

A UiPath Inc. shareholder has filed a derivative lawsuit in Delaware Chancery Court accusing the company's top executives and directors of misleading investors about slowing growth and intensifying competition in the robotic process automation market while insiders sold hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of stock.

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Orthopedics Co. Investors See Merger Claims Trimmed

By Emilie Ruscoe

Orthofix Medical Inc. must face claims that it failed to tell investors that a company it was merging with recently settled class action discrimination allegations, but will not have to face some securities fraud allegations, a Texas federal judge has ruled.

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Amazon 'Sensitive Skin' Body Wash Targeted In Class Action

By Rachel Riley

Amazon has been accused of deceptively promoting its Amazon Basics-branded body wash as "hypoallergenic," "unscented" and suitable for "sensitive skin," despite containing chemical fragrance and other skin irritants, with a proposed class action launched in Seattle federal court on Thursday.

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Meta Expert Says NM's Case Is About Normal Behavior

By Cara Salvatore

A psychology expert witness for Meta told a New Mexico jury on Thursday that the state's claims of social media mental health harm rely on pathologizing normal behavior as addiction-like.

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Lenovo Faces Class Suit Over Early-Morning Marketing Texts

By Zak Kostro

Technology company Lenovo unlawfully sent marketing text messages early in the morning to potentially thousands of people and might owe up to $1,500 in damages for each unwanted solicitation, according to a putative class action in California federal court.

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Allstate Accused Of Website Tracking Despite Cookie Opt-Out

By Joyce Hanson

The Allstate Corp.'s website secretly uses Meta and Google's advertising trackers to share the content of consumers' communications with the insurance company even when site users instruct it not to share that information, according to a proposed class action lodged in Illinois federal court.

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Meta To Face Sanctions Bid Over Addiction MDL Privilege Log

By Dorothy Atkins

School district plaintiffs and attorneys general have told a California federal judge they plan to seek sanctions against Meta Platforms Inc. in the social media addiction multidistrict litigation for the tech giant's "extremely belated production" of over 73,841 documents downgraded off privilege logs, months after fact discovery closed.

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Embryo Loss Suits Need 'Serious' Edits, Judge Told

By Brian Steele

Two complaints against fertility products maker CooperSurgical Inc. require "serious" amendments to clarify the nature of the claims that a defective culture medium caused embryo losses for in vitro fertilization patients, the company told a Connecticut federal judge Thursday.

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DraftKings Wants Emails Under Wraps In Voided Bet Suit

By Alex Lawson

DraftKings has asked an Indiana federal judge to redact its emails with a betting technology company while it looks to fend off a class action from bettors alleging that they were unfairly denied payouts on successful NBA wagers.

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Harrah's, Resorts Dealer Joins Atlantic City Tip Pool Suit Blitz

By George Woolston

Two more casinos were hit with proposed class and collective actions in New Jersey federal court by a dealer who alleges the Atlantic City-based casinos paid less than minimum wage to tipped employees and illegally required them to pool tips.

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Valve Faces 'Loot Box' Gambling Suits After NY AG's Action

By Ben Adlin

On the heels of the New York attorney general's accusations that Washington-based Valve Corp. promotes illegal gambling through its popular video game franchises, gamers filed two putative class actions in Seattle federal court similarly targeting the entertainment giant's use of "loot boxes."

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Podcasting Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Podcasting has changed how I ask questions and connect with people, sharpening my ability to listen without interrupting or prejudging, and bringing me closer to what law is meant to be: a human profession grounded in understanding, judgment and trust, says Donna DiMaggio Berger at Becker.

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4th Circ. Scolds Atty Suspected Of Using AI In Race Bias Suit

By Patrick Hoff

The Fourth Circuit has reprimanded an attorney suspected of using generative artificial intelligence to draft briefs in a race discrimination lawsuit against Baltimore Gas and Electric Co., warning that courts need to grapple with the technology as it "may soon become the norm."

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Democrats Seek Review Of Bondi's Role In Brother's Cases

By Alison Knezevich

Two Democratic lawmakers have asked the U.S. Department of Justice's inspector general to review whether Attorney General Pam Bondi "adequately recused herself" from cases involving clients represented by her brother Brad Bondi, who is a partner at Paul Hastings LLP.

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Sinema Says Tryst With Ex-Guard Not In NC Court's Reach

By Abigail Harrison

Former U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, now a Hogan Lovells attorney, told a North Carolina federal court Thursday that a lawsuit alleging her cross-country affair with a former member of her security detail ended a 14-year marriage must be dismissed because the trysts occurred outside state borders.

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Ex-Judge Testifies About Alleged Forgeries In Amazon Case

By Kelcey Caulder

The former chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia testified Thursday about the alleged forging of court documents, signatures and court stamps in a criminal case against a woman accused of defrauding Amazon out of $9.4 million through fraudulent invoices. 

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Judge Newman Takes Suspension Battle To Supreme Court

By Ryan Davis

Federal Circuit Judge Pauline Newman brought her fight against a suspension imposed on her by her colleagues to the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday, arguing that a lower court wrongly held that her challenges to the order are not subject to judicial review.

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Calif. Bar Says Internal Docs Bolster Claims Against Exam Co.

By Emily Sawicki

The State Bar of California has bulked up its breach of contract and fraud suit against the administrator of its "disastrous" February 2025 bar exam, filing an amended complaint in light of information it says it learned from internal communications unearthed amid discovery.

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Holyoak's US Attorney Nomination Advances

By Courtney Bublé

The nomination of Melissa Holyoak, former commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission, to be U.S. attorney for the District of Utah was sent to the full Senate on Thursday.

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CFTC Takes 1st Steps Toward Prediction Market Regulations

By Jessica Corso

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission opened the door Thursday to promised prediction market regulation, calling for public feedback on what such rules might look like while laying out the staff's view on the current rules that the platforms should follow in order to offer betting on sports and other events.

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