Analysis

Looming Virginia AI Bill Likely Just Start Of State Law Flood

By Allison Grande

Virginia is on the brink of becoming the second state to regulate high-risk uses of artificial intelligence, a move that would kick-start the formation of a patchwork that is similar to the one emerging in the data privacy realm and that is expected to rapidly expand in the wake of the federal government's disavowal of stringent rules in the AI space.

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BNY Sued Over $17.7B Unregistered Barclays-Issued Notes

By Sarah Jarvis

A trio of investors has filed a proposed class action against The Bank of New York Mellon Corp. for allegedly failing to properly authenticate several exchange-traded note offerings from Barclays, leading to the sale of $17.7 billion in unregistered securities.

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Legalese Aside, Live Nation Judge Keeps Damages Claims

By Bryan Koenig

A New York federal judge refused Friday to pare back a lawsuit filed by the government and 40 states accusing Live Nation of quashing competition and hiking ticketing prices, preserving claims that artists have been forced to use Live Nation promotion services and deeming state attorneys general to have standing to seek damages.

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Chocolate-Makers Can't Keep Child Labor Suit In Fed. Court

By Y. Peter Kang

Mars Inc. and other chocolate-makers have lost their bid to keep in federal court a suit claiming they falsely advertised their products as being made without child slave labor, with a federal judge finding the alleged damages weren't high enough to trigger federal jurisdiction.

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Analysis

Ford Bronco TM Suit Looks Under Hood Of Vintage Market

By Ivan Moreno

Ford Motor Co. is clashing with a company that restores Broncos from the 1960s and 1970s and retrofits the newer models that Ford started selling after a two-decade hiatus to make them look like older ones, setting up a battle over whether the iconic car company has done enough to maintain its rights over the Bronco mark in the intervening years.

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Judge Refuses Bid For Injunction In CFPB Defunding Suit

By Jon Hill

A Maryland federal judge on Friday denied the city of Baltimore's bid for a preliminary injunction barring the Trump administration from stripping away the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's budget, unpersuaded that it has been targeted for defunding.

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Kraken Beats Suit Over Crypto Scam Losses, For Good

By Rachel Scharf

A California state judge permanently tossed a lawsuit Friday alleging lax security measures on the cryptocurrency exchange Kraken are to blame for a Los Angeles County man's loss of nearly $50,000 in a digital asset investment scam.

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Client Who Sent Money To Fraudster Wins Suit Against Firm

By Matt Perez

An optometrist who claims a fraudster infiltrated her lawyer's email system and tricked her into wiring $90,586 to an incorrect account has won a lawsuit against Mancini Provenzano & Futtner LLC after a Connecticut state court judge found the firm was negligent in failing to secure its system.

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FTC Urges 8th Circ. Not To Pause Insulin Pricing Case

By Matthew Perlman

The Federal Trade Commission has urged the Eighth Circuit not to pause its in-house case accusing Caremark Rx, Express Scripts and OptumRx of artificially inflating insulin prices, telling the appeals court the pharmacy benefit managers have no chance of winning on their constitutional claims.

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FTC Probing $13B Marketing Mega-Deal

By Bryan Koenig

Marketing communications giants Omnicom and Interpublic disclosed an in-depth Federal Trade Commission probe into their $13 billion merger, pumping the brakes on their ability to close the deal soon, but they said the expectation is nevertheless to finish by the second half of this year.

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Reject Next-Gen TV Tuner Mandate, Consumer Tech Org. Says

By Nadia Dreid

It's a bad idea to force TV manufacturers to include devices that make them compatible with the next generation of television broadcasting technology on all new sets, a consumer technology trade group told the Federal Communications Commission.

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Calif. Insurance Chief OKs State Farm Rates Pending Hearing

By Hope Patti

The California Department of Insurance on Friday provisionally approved State Farm's request for an emergency rate hike following the Los Angeles fires, including a nearly 22% increase for homeowners, saying final approval will be contingent on the insurer justifying its request at a hearing.

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FCC Chief Presses Congress For Spectrum Pipeline Soon

By Christopher Cole

The Republican chair of the Federal Communications Commission told lawmakers the U.S. won't make critical advances on the wireless technology front until they free up dedicated blocks of airwaves for private licensing.

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Judge Backs Conn. Utility's $2M Enviro Penalty In Rate Hike Row

By Brian Steele

An Avangrid Inc. unit must suffer a roughly $2 million annual penalty for failing to remediate pollution at the defunct English Station power plant in New Haven, Connecticut, a judge has ruled as part of a broader order that upholds most of the state utility regulator's decision to slash a requested $131 million rate hike.

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Md. Judge Joins Calif. In Reversing Federal Workers' Firing

By Lauren Berg

A Maryland federal judge has ordered the reinstatement of thousands of probationary employees who were abruptly fired from 18 federal agencies, saying the Trump administration's lack of required notice left states "scrambling" to pick up the pieces.

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ExxonMobil Brings $14M Clean Air Act Suit To High Court

By Rae Ann Varona

ExxonMobil on Friday urged the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn both a "radically divided" en banc Fifth Circuit's opinion upholding $14.25 million in air pollution penalties as well as a decades-old high court ruling concerning redressability, saying it was being made to pay penalties environmental group plaintiffs won't even receive.

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Gov't Tells Justices FCC Subsidy Critics Target 'Strawman'

By Christopher Cole

Opponents of the Federal Communications Commission's nearly 30-year-old telecom subsidy system are making "strawman" arguments by claiming taxing power has been unlawfully delegated away from Congress, the government told the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Apple Tells DC Circ. It's Still Singled Out In Final Google Fixes

By Matthew Perlman

Apple told the D.C. Circuit that it still needs to intervene in the U.S. Department of Justice's search monopolization case against Google because the government's final remedy proposal still treats the iPhone-maker differently than other companies.

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Dunkin' Nears End To ADA Suit Over Milk Alternative Charges

By Bonnie Eslinger

A California federal judge indicated Friday that she's ready to toss a proposed class action claiming doughnut chain Dunkin' violates the Americans with Disabilities Act by charging extra for beverages with nondairy milk after noting that the chain announced it would no longer charge extra for nonlactose alternatives.

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Class Can't Re-Contest Debt Collection, Mich. Law Firm Argues

By Danielle Ferguson

A law firm accused of charging unlawfully high post-judgment interest rates on debt collection actions told a Michigan federal court on Thursday that several debtors have already resolved their litigation, precluding them from pressing their federal class action, and debt collection agencies blamed the rates on the law firm.

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LG Unit Must Face Ga. Jury Over Exploding Battery Claims

By Chart Riggall

LG Chem America Inc., a subsidiary of Korea's LG Chem Ltd., can't toss a suit from a man who claims one of its lithium ion batteries exploded in his pocket, after a Georgia state court judge ruled the company may not have done enough to prevent its batteries being misused for vapes.

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Wash. Justices Side With Shopper In Lowe's Fallen Fence Suit

By Rachel Riley

Washington's high court has sided with a customer suing Lowe's after she was injured by a fallen roll of fencing at an Evergreen State store, saying a judge or jury should decide whether the retailer could have anticipated the hazard given the self-service style of the store.

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Antigua Clinic Accused Of Lying About 'Miracle' Cancer Cure

By Emily Field

A company called ExThera Medical Corp. has been sued in California federal court over a cure, backed by a billionaire investor, marketed for metastatic cancer but was actually a "dangerous medical experiment."

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Unpacking First Consumer Claim Under Wash. Health Data Act

The first consumer class action claim filed under Washington's My Health My Data Act, Maxwell v. Amazon.com, may answer questions counsel have been contending with since the law was introduced almost a year ago, if the court takes the opportunity to interpret some of more opaque language, say attorneys at Polsinelli.

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A Judge's Pointers For Adding Spice To Dry Legal Writing

U.S. District Judge Fred Biery shares a few key lessons about how to go against the grain of the legal writing tradition by adding color to bland judicial opinions, such as by telling a human story and injecting literary devices where possible.

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20 Law Firms Face EEOC Demands For DEI Employment Info

By Jack Karp

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has written to 20 law firms seeking information about their diversity, equity and inclusion-related employment practices, the agency announced Monday.

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Dentons Merger Brings Firm To The Turks And Caicos

By Andrea Keckley

Dentons says it is set to become the first global law firm to establish a presence in the Turks and Caicos, announcing Monday that it plans to combine with island firm Griffiths & Partners.

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Pillsbury Lands 14 Int'l Trade Attys From Curtis

By Rose Krebs

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP announced Monday that it has added a 14-attorney team, including three partners, from Curtis Mallet-Prevost Colt & Mosle LLP to strengthen its international trade practice and help clients navigate tariffs, supply chains and other issues.

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Judge Questions DOJ Timing Of Deportations After Injunction

By Britain Eakin

U.S. Chief District Judge James Boasberg admonished the Trump administration Monday for its seeming noncompliance with an oral order to turn around flights carrying Venezuelans who were deported under a presidential proclamation invoking the 1798 Alien Enemies Act.

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Judge Ikuta's Sr. Status Plans Give Trump 9th Circ. Opening

By Courtney Bublé

U.S. Circuit Judge Sandra Segal Ikuta of the Ninth Circuit will be taking semi-retired status upon confirmation of her successor, a court representative confirmed to Law360 on Monday.

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DC Judge Holds Off Ruling On Immigration Legal Aid Funds

By Ali Sullivan

A D.C. federal judge on Monday held off on deciding whether to order the Trump administration to continue funding programs that give noncitizens access to legal aid and information, as requested in a lawsuit from nonprofit groups, noting that other court orders in separate lawsuits have mandated that federal funds keep flowing.

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Houston Midwife Arrested In Texas' 1st Criminal Abortion Case

By Catherine Marfin

A Houston-area midwife has been arrested after an investigation by the Texas attorney general's office for allegedly providing illegal abortions, Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Monday, the first such criminal charges brought since the state issued its near-total abortion ban.

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Littler Elects 6 New Members To Board Of Directors

By Tracey Read

Littler Mendelson PC has elected six new members to its 19-member, 2025 board of directors, the management-side employment and labor law firm announced Monday.

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Ex-Seton Hall Law Worker Avoids Jail In Embezzlement Case

By Carla Baranauckas

A former employee of Seton Hall University School of Law was sentenced Monday to two years of probation with one year of electronic monitoring for her guilty plea in an embezzlement scheme that defrauded the school of $1.3 million over 13 years.

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Seeger Weiss Atty Tapped To Lead Depo-Provera Plaintiffs

By Carolina Bolado

A Florida federal judge on Sunday selected Christopher Seeger of Seeger Weiss LLP to lead the team representing plaintiffs in the multidistrict litigation claiming Pfizer Inc. failed to adequately warn patients and doctors about the risk of brain tumors associated with the hormonal contraceptive drug Depo-Provera.

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