Abbott Hit With $53M Verdict Over Baby Formula Harms

By Celeste Bott

A Cook County jury on Thursday awarded a total of $53 million in damages to four mothers claiming Abbott Laboratories' preterm baby formula contributed to their babies' development of a serious and often fatal gut condition, in the first of such claims to go to trial in Illinois.

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Trump Had No Reason To Seek Mass. Voter Data, Judge Says

By Julie Manganis

A Massachusetts federal judge on Thursday dismissed a Trump administration lawsuit demanding the state's voter data, saying the government offered no factual basis for seeking residents' personal information.

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'Not Going To Keep Doing This,' Judge Warns Epic, Google

By Bonnie Eslinger

A California federal judge Thursday ordered an evidentiary hearing on Epic and Google's latest proposal to revise a court-crafted injunction following Epic's win in an antitrust trial over the Android app marketplace, saying he has concerns and warning the companies that "we're not going to keep" batting proposals back and forth.

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Yale Medical School Can't Nix Fraudulent Insemination Suit

By Gina Kim

Yale can't escape a negligence suit by onetime patients alleging its former fertility doctor secretly inseminated them with his own sperm, after a Connecticut judge said that a letter from an anonymous doctor, which is mandated by law to support their claims, met the statutory requirements.

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Berkshire Unit Can't Use Broker Fee Deal To Duck Antitrust Suit

By Bryan Koenig

A Missouri federal judge refused Thursday to let a Berkshire Hathaway unit duck an antitrust lawsuit over real estate broker compensation rules, concluding the company cannot use its relationship with subsidiary brokerage HomeServices of America Inc. or a major settlement that HSA struck in a related case.

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States Tell Jury That Live Nation Isn't Above The Law

By Stewart Bishop

Counsel for 33 states and the District of Columbia on Thursday urged a Manhattan federal jury to show the world that even "a $36 billion behemoth" like Live Nation isn't above antitrust laws and find it liable for flagrantly monopolizing the U.S. live entertainment market, to the detriment of artists, venue operators and fans.

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Ex-Law Officer Urges 4th Circ. To Uphold W.Va. Privacy Law

By Jared Foretek

The plaintiff in a lawsuit accusing data brokers of violating a West Virginia state law barring the dissemination of public officials' addresses and phone numbers defended the law's constitutionality Wednesday, arguing to the Fourth Circuit that it regulates speech "integral" to criminal conduct and shouldn't be subjected to strict scrutiny.

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Suit Seeks To Kill Washington Tax On Earnings Above $1M

By Maria Koklanaris

Washington state's new tax on millionaires violates the state Constitution and should be invalidated, opponents told a state court Thursday.

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FCC Plans To End '90s Framework For Satellite Power Limits

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission released details late Thursday of its plan to replace a 1990s-era framework for satellite power limits, saying the rules will be replaced with a system requiring space companies to coordinate to avoid signal disruption.

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FCC's Carr Signals No Slowdown In 'Public Interest' Battles

By Christopher Cole

Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr signaled Thursday that his effort to make broadcasters fulfill their "public interest" obligations will continue with potential legal actions well into the Trump administration.

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Cantwell Wants Fired FTC Dems At Senate Oversight Hearing

By Allison Grande

The top Democrat on the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee is pushing for the two commissioners who were fired from the Federal Trade Commission last year to be invited to an upcoming hearing, arguing that their presence is "necessary" to conduct proper oversight of how the Trump administration's influence has impacted the agency's work to protect consumers. 

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StubHub To Pay $10M Over Hidden NFL Ticket Fees, FTC Says

By Lauren Berg

StubHub agreed to pay $10 million to resolve the Federal Trade Commission's allegations that the ticket exchange purposely slow-walked its compliance with a new rule banning hidden fees in order to gain an advantage over competitors when the NFL announced its 2025 game schedule, the agency announced Thursday.

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Ohio Man First To Be Convicted Under Anti-Revenge Porn Law

By Bonnie Eslinger

An Ohio man who sent to numerous women harassing messages that included nude images of the victims, both real and artificial intelligence-generated, became the first person to be convicted under a 2025 federal law targeting revenge porn, according to a Thursday announcement from the U.S. Department of Justice.

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CFPB Pans Debt Collector's Bid To Exit 'Onerous' 2023 Order

By Jon Hill

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is urging a Virginia federal court to deny a major debt collector's bid to exit a Biden-era settlement with the agency, arguing the firm's claims of struggles due to "finfluencers" and credit repair outfits don't justify unwinding the deal.

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Uber Fights Uphill To Ax FTC, States' Subscription Fight

By Dorothy Atkins

A California federal judge appeared open Thursday to keeping alive the Federal Trade Commission and states' claims that Uber dupes consumers into its paid subscription service, doubting that Uber's disclosures clearly communicate its subscription practices "as a matter of law," and saying certain state claims are "on very firm ground."

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DOJ Probes NFL TV Contracts For Anticompetitiveness

By David Steele

The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating the National Football League regarding its broadcast contracts and whether fans are being harmed by the rising cost to view games.

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Binance Can't Push Investor Suit Into Arbitration

By Katryna Perera

Binance and its former CEO Changpeng Zhao cannot force into arbitration a proposed class action alleging that the crypto trading platform knowingly violated U.S. regulatory requirements by failing to implement an effective anti-money laundering program and offering and selling unregistered securities, a Florida federal judge ruled Thursday.

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Conspiracy Claims Not 'Plausible,' Insurers Tell Calif. Judge

By Rae Ann Varona

California homeowners affected by the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires cannot "plausibly" allege insurers conspired to eliminate competition in the marketplace, an attorney for Chubb and other insurers told a California state judge Thursday in a bid to toss the homeowners' litigation, chalking market exits to insurers' independent economic interests.

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9th Circ. Upholds NCAA Eligibility Limit, Ends Player's Season

By David Steele

The Ninth Circuit has ended a University of Nevada baseball player's sixth season of competition, reversing a district court order that allowed him to start the season and upholding the NCAA's five-year eligibility limit.

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11th Circ. Affirms Dish Network's Copyright Win, $600K Award

By Hailey Konnath

The Eleventh Circuit Thursday refused to disturb a $600,000 copyright win for Dish Network in long-running litigation over Arabic pay-TV programming distribution, ruling that the lower court was correct in finding that Dish's copyrights were infringed.

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Philip Morris, RJR Keep Win In Widower's Death Suit

By Mike Curley

A Massachusetts appeals panel Thursday refused to reinstate a suit from a widower against Philip Morris USA Inc. and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. over the death of his wife from COPD, saying he hadn't properly preserved his arguments for tolling the statute of limitations.

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Rider Blasts Uber Bid To Admit Atty Ads In NC Bellwether Trial

By Hayley Fowler

Uber should not be allowed to introduce evidence that a rider in North Carolina saw attorney advertisements before she sued the ride-hailing giant claiming she was sexually harassed by her driver, the passenger said, arguing it has "no relevance to any issue" in her upcoming trial.

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Clinic Charged Patients For Faulty Mammograms, Suit Claims

By Jonathan Capriel

A West Virginia clinic provided "worthless" mammograms to hundreds of patients for more than two years, according to a proposed class action filed in federal court which seeks refunds and other damages in excess of $5 million.

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Chinese Vape-Maker Seeks Narrow Discovery In Battery Suit

By Jonathan Capriel

The Chinese manufacturer of Geekvape is asking to limit discovery in a lawsuit seeking to hold it liable for burns a man suffered when the battery for his vape exploded while in his pocket, arguing that what the plaintiff asked for was too broad.

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LA Cannabis Edibles Maker Settles Prop 65 Warning Suit

By Jonathan Capriel

A Los Angeles cannabis-infused edibles producer has agreed to pay $70,000 to end a Proposition 65 lawsuit accusing the company of deliberately hiding the state-required warning with a peel-back product label, with most of the money going to the plaintiff's lawyer.

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Colo. Co. Failed To Prevent Patient Data Leak, Suit Says

By MJ Koo

A Colorado-based digital health company focused on reversing Type 2 diabetes is facing a proposed class action in federal court alleging it did not protect patients' personal and medical information from a cyberattack in late March that exposed their information to the dark web.

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Couple Sue American Airlines Over Arrest, Flight Ban

By Mike Curley

A couple are suing American Airlines Inc. in Texas federal court, alleging the airline wrongly called the police on them during a customer service dispute, then further retaliated by banning them from any future flights.

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Zillow, Redfin Ask To Use 4th Circ. NCAA Ruling In FTC Suit

By Isaac Monterose

Property listing giants Zillow and Redfin asked a Virginia federal court to let them use a recent Fourth Circuit ruling for an NCAA case to bolster their dismissal bid against antitrust claims filed by the Federal Trade Commission and multiple states.

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Irish Mallinckrodt Unit Stuck In Drug Price-Fixing Suit

By Ben Zigterman

An Irish entity of drugmaker Mallinckrodt waited too long to seek dismissal of a price-fixing lawsuit brought by states based on a lack of personal jurisdiction or proper service, a Connecticut federal judge has ruled, finding that the company first raised that argument more than five years after the complaint was filed.

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Debt Relief Provider Accused Of Do Not Call Violations

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

A Maryland debt relief services company is facing a proposed class action alleging that it violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by contacting people on the National Do Not Call Registry and misrepresenting itself.

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Walmart Sued Over 'Plant-Based' Milk With Additives

By Corey Rothauser

Walmart misrepresents its Bettergoods line of almond, oat and soy milks as "Plant-Based," even though the labeling shows inorganic and synthetic ingredients such as vitamin A palmitate, which "naturally occurs in liver, fish and dairy products ... not plants," a class action by consumers says.

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Drivers Say GM, Bosch Can't Ditch Chevy Cruze Fraud Claims

By Linda Chiem

Drivers told a Michigan federal judge that General Motors and Bosch cannot dodge the remaining fraud claims in long-running litigation alleging the companies deceptively marketed Chevrolet Cruze vehicles as clean vehicles when they were actually outfitted with emissions-cheating software.

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'Made In America' Rules Raise Stakes For Gov't Contractors

The convergence of widely varying "buy American" requirements, increased enforcement efforts and continuing regulatory attempts to limit foreign sourcing suggests that government contractors should carefully review their supply chain and country-of-origin compliance to remain competitive, say attorneys at Arnold & Porter.

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Weighing The Practical Implications Of SC Kids' Privacy Law

South Carolina's recently enacted Age-Appropriate Code Design Act includes a unique provision: a private right of action for certain violations, but its practical effect remains uncertain, as courts and litigants grapple with complex questions of standing, causation and the definition of actionable harm, say attorneys at K&L Gates.

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Series

Alpine Skiing Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Skiing has shaped habits I rely on daily as an attorney — focus, resilience and the ability to remain steady when circumstances shift rapidly — and influences the way I approach legal strategy, client counseling and teamwork, says Isaku Begert at Marshall Gerstein.

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DLA Piper Partner Rejects Pregnant Atty's Account Of Firing

By Pete Brush

The DLA Piper partner who fired a pregnant associate said she did so lawfully, telling a Manhattan federal jury her former employee was "in over her head" and disputing that the associate raised pregnancy bias concerns on a termination call.

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6th Circ. Won't Revisit EFAA Ruling Against Adams & Reese

By Patrick Hoff

The Sixth Circuit said it won't reconsider its ruling that a law barring mandatory arbitration of sexual harassment cases kept a former Adams & Reese LLP paralegal's sex harassment and disability bias suit in court, concluding that the firm's objections were already considered.

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Roundup

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

By Laura Stewart Liberty

The past week in London has seen the owner of an oil tanker stuck in the Strait of Hormuz sued by an energy company and an insurer, law firm Boodle Hatfield LLP and two Serle Court barristers sued by a group of Winston Churchill's great-grandchildren, and Welsh Water hit with a fresh class action over polluted rivers.

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Calif. Atty Avoids Sanctions For Filing Bogus Citations With AI

By Matt Perez

A California attorney has avoided sanctions over his use of artificial intelligence for a filing in a civil rights case, which resulted in false citations.

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Another Gov't Atty From Vt. Joins Stris & Maher's Team

By Jack Rodgers

A former civil chief of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Vermont has joined Stris & Maher LLP's practice as a partner, the firm announced Friday.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

Other states might follow the lead of California and break with President Donald Trump's policies in implementing guardrails for state agencies to contract with AI companies. And after three individual indictments last month for selling banned tech to China, Supermicro has hired Munger Tolles & Olson LLP to conduct an independent investigation, assigned its general counsel to lead an internal compliance review, and shaken up its compliance leadership.

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NJ Justices Won't Review Beasley Allen's DQ From Talc Cases

By George Woolston

The New Jersey Supreme Court has declined to review a lower court's order booting the Beasley Allen Law Firm from multicounty litigation in the Garden State over Johnson & Johnson's talcum powder, according to an order made public Friday.

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Conn. Justices Block Agency's Bias Probe Into Atty Licensing

By Brian Steele

Because citizens blocked the legislature from reviewing court decisions when ratifying the state's 1818 constitution, a Connecticut human rights agency has no power to investigate alleged bias in attorney licensing decisions, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled Friday in a unanimous opinion.

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Airline Worker Asks To Expand Sanctions Row In Bias Case

By Emily Brill

A Southwest Airlines flight attendant who was fired after sending her union's president pictures of aborted fetuses is pushing for additional remedies in a sanctions dispute stemming from her long-running religious discrimination lawsuit against the airline, from which she received $800,000 after winning a jury trial in 2022.

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In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Law360

For those who missed out, here's a look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the most buzz on Law360 last week.

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Trump Taps Personal Atty For 2nd Circ.

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump announced on Friday evening he's tapping Matthew Schwartz, his attorney in the New York hush money case, for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. 

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