The Ninth Circuit on Monday released Slack Technologies Inc. from an investor dispute that was previously ruled on by the U.S. Supreme Court, with the circuit court going a step further than the high court in ruling that none of the suing investors' claims were salvageable due to the unique way that Slack went public. 
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9th Circ. Tosses Slack Investor Suit After High Court Battle

By Jessica Corso

The Ninth Circuit on Monday released Slack Technologies Inc. from an investor dispute that was previously ruled on by the U.S. Supreme Court, with the circuit court going a step further than the high court in ruling that none of the suing investors' claims were salvageable due to the unique way that Slack went public. 

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Latest Ore. Fire Verdict Brings PacifiCorp Damages To $270M

By Rachel Scharf

An Oregon jury held that PacifiCorp must pay $49.5 million to eight victims of the state's 2020 Labor Day wildfires, bringing the total damages verdicts in the class action to $270 million so far as more bellwether trials loom throughout 2025.

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AI Copyright Plaintiffs Say Google Is Raising 'Marginal issues'

By Andrew Karpan

Artists and authors suing over how Google trains its artificial intelligence software say that the tech giant is disputing "marginal issues" that other tech giants facing similar copyright lawsuits over similar technology haven't brought up.

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Charter Used Forfeited 401(k) Funds For Itself, Suit Says

By Patrick Hoff

Charter Communications Inc. cost participants in its $7.9 billion 401(k) plan millions of dollars by using funds forfeited by ex-workers to cover its own contributions to the plan rather than administrative expenses, according to a proposed class action filed in Missouri federal court.

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Trump Administration Sued Over Passport Sex Designations

By Elliot Weld

A group of transgender and nonbinary people sued the Trump administration over an executive order that directed the U.S. Department of State to issue passports showing their sex assigned at birth, claiming the policy is one example of the administration's "longstanding animus against transgender people."

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Apple Says Child Porn Detection Suit Can't Stand

By Emily Field

Victims of child sexual abuse materials can't bring a proposed class action accusing Apple of spreading the videos and images, the tech giant has told a California federal court, arguing the company is protected by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.

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Tesla Seeks Chancery Toss Of Challenge Over Texas Move

By Jeff Montgomery

Delaware's chancellor said Monday she would issue a "short" letter reply to calls for dismissal of a stockholder claim that Tesla Inc. failed to secure a required supermajority vote to move its charter to Texas, following arguments that the court recently approved a simple majority vote in a similar case.

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Harvard Immunity For Body Part Thefts 'Gnaws' At Justice

By Julie Manganis

A judge on Massachusetts' highest court said Monday it's "problematic" that a state law could shield Harvard Medical School from liability in a suit by family members of people whose remains were allegedly sold off in parts by a rogue mortician.

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SECURITIES

Home Generator Maker Beats Suit Over COVID Sales Bust

By Katryna Perera

Power generator maker Generac Holdings Inc. and its top brass have beaten for now a proposed shareholder class action over Generac's alleged failure to keep up with a surge in business during the COVID-19 pandemic, with a Wisconsin federal judge saying, "misfortune does not necessarily equate with fraud."

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Pharma Co. Misled Investors On Depression Drug, Suit Says

By Sydney Price

Brain disease drugmaker Neumora Therapeutics Inc. has been hit with a proposed shareholder class action alleging that the company and its initial public offering underwriters failed to disclose prior to the $250 million IPO that Neumora's clinical trial for a depression treatment was very unlikely to yield promising results.

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Merrill Lynch Objects To New Discovery Bid In Stock Loan Suit

By Sydney Price

Merrill Lynch told a New York federal court it should deny investors' request for supplemental transaction data in their suit alleging major banks colluded to avoid modernizing the stock loan market, arguing that the discovery period has closed, and there are no legitimate reasons to grant the "burdensome" request.

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EV Biz Faraday Future Wins Chancery Toss Of Go-Public Suit

By Rae Ann Varona

Delaware's Court of Chancery on Monday tossed a proposed class action challenging electric vehicle maker Faraday Future's $1 billion take-public deal, saying that a stipulation in a $7.5 million settlement reached in a related case "unambiguously" precluded stockholders' claims against the California-based startup.

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COMPETITION

Apple Urges 9th Circ. Not To Revive Web App Antitrust Suit

By Bonnie Eslinger

Apple asked the Ninth Circuit on Friday to affirm a lower court's dismissal of a case from iPhone buyers accusing it of violating antitrust law by preventing iPhones from running web-based apps, saying the suit alleges a "highly indirect and speculative" harm that's not even an antitrust injury.

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EMPLOYMENT & BENEFITS

Baker Hughes Obtains Toss Of Ex-Worker's 401(k) Fee Suit

By Beverly Banks

A Texas federal judge tossed an excessive recordkeeping fees suit Monday from a proposed class of Baker Hughes 401(k) plan participants, finding evidence wasn't presented to show that the plan administrator owed a fiduciary duty in regard to so-called float money.

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Verizon Escapes Workers' Suit Over Lead-Covered Cables

By P.J. D'Annunzio

A Pennsylvania federal judge threw out a lawsuit filed on behalf of utility workers alleging Verizon endangered them by failing to properly dispose of lead-covered cables on telephone poles, ruling that allegations of suffering common ailments were not enough to support a class action.

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Pension Execs Found Liable In $2B Danish Tax Fraud Case

By David Hansen

A New York federal jury found Monday by "clear and convincing evidence" that Denmark's tax agency reasonably relied on the false statements made on pension plan applications that were part of a $2.1 billion tax fraud scheme by pension plan executives.

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Little Caesars Cheated Workers Out Of OT, Suit Claims

By Irene Spezzamonte

Pizza chain Little Caesars didn't pay workers for the time they spent responding to texts and phone calls outside their scheduled shifts, a former co-manager said in a proposed class and collective action filed in Michigan federal court on Monday.

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Sheriff's Office Must Face Workers' Wage Payment Suit

By Emmy Freedman

A North Carolina federal judge refused to throw out a wage and hour class action that detention center employees lodged against a sheriff's office, adopting a magistrate judge's finding that the case should head to a jury after none of the parties objected to his opinion.

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NJ Hospital Hit With Class Claims Over Retirement Plan Fees

By George Woolston

A New Jersey health system has been accused of mismanaging its employees' retirement funds, according to a proposed class action filed by one of its employees in Garden State federal court.

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Wash. Justices Won't Review Workers' $3.3M Meal Break Win

By Greg Lamm

A class of hospital workers can keep a $3.3 million award in a closely watched case over uncompensated meal breaks, after the Washington Supreme Court decided it won't take on a hospital's bid to overturn a lower state appellate court's ruling that rejected the argument that the workers had already been paid.

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Brief

Merrill Lynch $20M Bias Deal Should Be Approved, Judge Says

By Katryna Perera

A U.S. magistrate judge has recommended granting the first green light to a $20 million settlement that will resolve discrimination and retaliation claims launched against Merrill Lynch by a proposed class of nearly 1,400 Black financial advisers who claimed they received less pay and promotions compared to their white counterparts.

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PRODUCT LIABILITY

Kratom Co. Says False Ad Addiction Suit Falls Short

By Mike Curley

The company behind Kryptic Kratom and K-Chill branded supplements is urging a California federal court to throw out a suit alleging it concealed kratom's addictive qualities from consumers, saying the complaint fails to shore up its claims with factual allegations.

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CYBERSECURITY & PRIVACY

Amazon Used App Toolkit To Harvest User Data, Suit Says

By Rachel Riley

Amazon has used Candy Crush Saga, Subway Surfers and other mobile apps as a "Trojan Horse" to ingrain secret tracking mechanisms in hundreds of millions of consumers' smartphones through a software development kit for developers, according to a new proposed class action in Seattle federal court.

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INSURANCE

Brief

Bird Shelter Settles 2nd Nuisance Calls Suit With UnitedHealth

By Hayley Fowler

UnitedHealth Group Inc. has settled a proposed class action brought by a North Carolina bird refuge over nuisance calls the health insurer allegedly made to consumers even after it demanded the calls stop, according to a court order pausing the case.

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ENTERTAINMENT

Judge Refuses To Certify '70s Rockers' Royalty Class Action

By Andrea Keckley

A Tennessee federal judge on Monday denied class certification in a breach of contract lawsuit by two members of the 1970s pop-rock band Orleans, John Hall and Lance Hoppen, who accused Warner Music Group Corp. and subsidiary Elektra Entertainment of underpaying foreign digital streaming royalties.

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SPORTS & BETTING

Harassment Suit Against Fox Sports, Hosts Sent To Fed. Court

By David Steele

The lawsuit accusing Fox Sports executives and on-air hosts of sexual harassment and creating a toxic workplace environment has been moved from California state court to federal court, where the two sides were told to attempt alternative dispute resolution.

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DraftKings Must Face Narrowed Suit Over Voided NBA Bets

By Rachel Scharf

An Indiana federal judge trimmed allegations of deceptive sales Friday from a putative class action over DraftKings' decision to cancel wagers made with faulty odds on a National Basketball Association game in 2023, but said the sports betting giant must face a well-pled breach of contract claim.

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Fla. Court Lets Seminoles Intervene In Gaming Ad Suit

By Carolina Bolado

A Florida federal judge on Monday granted the Seminole Tribe of Florida's request to intervene in a proposed class action over allegedly misleading advertisements by gaming vendor Seminole Hard Rock Digital, which the judge found cannot adequately represent the tribe's interests.

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Tennis Players Bid For Class Cert. In NCAA Prize-Money Feud

By Alex Lawson

Two athletes challenging NCAA rules curbing college tennis players' ability to accept prize money in outside tournaments have asked a North Carolina federal judge to certify a class of potentially thousands of players, stressing the sweeping impact of the association's restrictions.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Lights, Camera, Ethics? TV Lawyers Tend To Set Bad Example

Though fictional movies and television shows portraying lawyers are fun to watch, Hollywood’s inaccurate depictions of legal ethics can desensitize attorneys to ethics violations and lead real-life clients to believe that good lawyers take a scorched-earth approach, says Nancy Rapoport at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

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How Cos. Can Use Data Clean Rooms To Address Privacy

Implementing comprehensive administrative controls, security processes and vendor management systems are vital steps for businesses leveraging data clean rooms for privacy compliance, especially given the Federal Trade Commission's warnings of complicated user privacy implications, say attorneys at Troutman.

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What Justices' FLSA Ruling Means For 2-Step Collective Cert.

The U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision in EMD Sales v. Carrera may have sounded the death knell for the decades-old two-step process to certify collective actions under the Fair Labor Standards Act, which could lead more circuits to require a preponderance of the evidence showing that members are similarly situated, says Steven Katz at Constangy.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Injury Attys Admit 'Embarrassment' Of AI-Hallucinated Cites

By Lauren Berg

Morgan & Morgan PA and the Goody Law Group expressed "great embarrassment" Monday when they told the Wyoming federal judge overseeing a personal injury lawsuit against Walmart over an allegedly defective hoverboard that the pretrial motions they filed did, indeed, contain case law hallucinated by artificial intelligence.

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Goldstein Rearrested After Feds Say He Hid Millions In Crypto

By Phillip Bantz, Ali Sullivan

U.S. Supreme Court lawyer and SCOTUSblog publisher Tom Goldstein was arrested again Monday following his earlier release on criminal tax evasion charges, after prosecutors alleged that he secretly made millions of dollars worth of cryptocurrency transactions in recent days and was a serious risk to flee.

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Experts Sound Alarm After Musk, Vance Float Ignoring Judges

By Jack Karp

Attorneys and constitutional experts say the warning lights "are blinking red" after Vice President JD Vance and Trump confidante Elon Musk took to social media to attack the independence of the judiciary over the weekend.

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Ex-FTC Commissioner's Accusers Call Damages Bid 'Fiction'

By Emily Sawicki

Women who accused former FTC Commissioner Joshua Wright of sexual misconduct stemming from his role as a law professor have told a Virginia judge that his damages expert in his defamation lawsuit against them failed to do his homework and his testimony shouldn't be allowed at the upcoming trial in the case.

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GenapSys Can't Claw Back Some Docs From Paul Hastings

By Craig Clough

A California judge ruled that GenapSys Inc. can claw back some documents it inadvertently released during discovery in a legal malpractice suit against Paul Hastings LLP, but that some documents discussed during depositions cannot be clawed back because attorneys for GenapSys did not lodge proper objections during the proceedings. 

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Orrick Lands 13-Atty VC Team From Gunderson Dettmer In LA

By Rose Krebs

Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP announced Monday that it has hired a 13-attorney team from Gunderson Dettmer, including the co-founders of its Los Angeles office, to bolster its tech company and venture capital services.

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DOJ Brass Want Bribery Charges Against NYC Mayor Dropped

By Rachel Scharf

The U.S. Department of Justice has moved to drop public corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, an extraordinary development in the wake of a public courtship between the embattled mayor and President Donald Trump.

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Morgan Lewis Adds 5 Knobbe Martens IP Attys On West Coast

By James Mills

Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP continues expanding its intellectual property team, announcing Monday it is bringing in a team of five Knobbe Martens IP litigators as partners in its West Coast offices.

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Roundup

What Judges Want You To Know: You Can't Fool The Court

By Dani Kass

Federal judges regularly sit on panels at conferences and similar events, sharing their best practices and most valuable pieces of advice with patent lawyers and others in the room. In the first installment of a two-part series, Law360 has pulled together advice over the last few years that remains as relevant as ever. 

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Fragomen Opens Pittsburgh Shop With 6 Dentons Attys

By James Boyle

A team of six attorneys recently moved its immigration-focused practices from Dentons Cohen & Grigsby to help Fragomen open a new office in Pittsburgh, the firm announced Monday.

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House Dems Form Rapid Response Litigation Working Group

By Courtney Bublé

House Democrats announced on Monday a new litigation initiative to confront the Trump administration and the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency, which has been slashing federal funding, from stopping some government services and firing workers without Congressional approval.

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Law360 Seeks Members For Its 2025 Editorial Boards

Law360 is looking for avid readers of our publications to serve as members of our 2025 editorial advisory boards.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Consumer Law Group

A&O Shearman

Abrams & Bayliss

ArentFox Schiff LLP

Baker & Hostetler

Barry Richard Law Firm

Bathaee Dunne

Bell Davis & Pitt PA

Binder & Schwartz

Binnall Law Group

Bleichmar Fonti

Bochetto & Lentz

Bose McKinney

Bragar Eagel

Carella Byrne

Clarkson Law Firm PC

Coblentz Patch

Cohen Milstein

Constangy Brooks

Continental PLLC

Cotchett Pitre

Covington & Burling

Cranfill Sumner

Crowley Fleck

Cuneo Gilbert

DLA Piper

Davis Wright Tremaine

Dentons

Edelson PC

Fragomen Del Rey

Freshfields

Frost Brown

Garman Turner

Gibbons Law Group PLLC

Gibson Dunn

Goodwin Procter

Goody Law Group

Gunderson Dettmer

Hach Rose Schirripa

Hancock Daniel

Hirschler

Hobbs Straus

Hogan Lovells

Hueston Hennigan

Hughes Hubbard

Jackson Lewis PC

Johnson & Johnson LLP

Johnson Johnson Lucas & Middleton

Jones & Haley

Jones Day

Joseph Saveri Law Firm

Kaskela Law

Kay Griffin

Keches Law Group

Keller Rohrback

Kiesel Law

Kirkland & Ellis

Klausner Kaufman

Knobbe Martens

Lauro & Singer

Law Office of Chris R. Miltenberger

Lerch Early

Lesnick Prince

Liang Ly LLP

Lockridge Grindal

Lynch Carpenter

Manatt Phelps

Mayer Brown

Mazow McCullough PC

McCollom D'Emilio

McCoy Leavitt

Milberg Coleman

Miller Monroe & Plyler

Monahan & Associates PC

Morgan & Morgan

Morgan Lewis

Morrison Foerster

Munger Tolles

Nick Kahl LLC

Nilges Draher

Orrick Herrington

Paul Hastings

Pearson Warshaw

Prickett Jones

Quinn Emanuel

Richards Layton

Robbins Geller

Rosen Law Firm PA

Sauder Schelkopf

Schlichter Bogard

Schroeter Goldmark

Seeger Weiss

Shapiro Haber

Sheppard Mullin

Sidley Austin

Snell & Wilmer

Stoel Rives

Stoll Berne

Stradling Yocca

Stubbs Alderton

Sullivan & Cromwell

Troutman

Vasseghi Law

Ward & Smith

Wenzel Fenton

Wilkinson Stekloff

WilmerHale

Wilson Sonsini

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Amazon.com Inc.

American Bar Association

American Civil Liberties Union

American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts

American College of Trial Lawyers

Anthropic PBC

Apple Inc.

Baker Hughes Co.

Bank of America Corp.

Berkshire Hathaway Energy GT&S

BetterHelp

Brennan Center for Justice

Charter Communications Inc.

Databricks Inc.

Denver Nuggets

DraftKings Inc.

Eli Lilly & Co.

Epic Games Inc.

F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd.

Faraday & Future Inc.

Fox Corp.

GenapSys Inc.

Generac Holdings Inc.

Genesis HealthCare Corp.

GoodRx Holdings Inc.

Google LLC

HP Inc.

Hertz Global Holdings Inc.

IHS Markit Ltd.

Interactive Advertising Bureau Inc.

Jetson Electric Bikes LLC

Johnson & Johnson

Little Caesar Enterprises Inc.

Los Angeles Lakers

Maximus Inc.

McAfee Inc.

Meta Platforms Inc.

Microsoft Corp.

Morgan Stanley

National Basketball Association Inc.

National Collegiate Athletic Association

PacifiCorp

Public Citizen Inc.

Publix Super Markets Inc.

Reddit Inc.

Sales Inc.

Slack Technologies Inc.

Tesla Inc.

The Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

The New York Times Co.

The Trade Desk Inc.

Therapeutics Inc.

UBS Group AG

USA Today International Corp.

UnitedHealth Group Inc.

University of California Davis

University of Southern California

Verizon Communications Inc.

Virginia Mason Medical Center

Virtua Health Inc.

Walmart Inc.

Warner Music Group Corp.

Xerox Holdings Corp.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

California Privacy Protection Agency

Delaware Court of Chancery

Executive Office of the President

Federal Trade Commission

Food and Drug Administration

Indiana Gaming Commission

Los Angeles Superior Court

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

New York County District Attorney's Office

Patent Trial and Appeal Board

Seminole Tribe of Florida

Transportation Security Administration

U.S. Agency for International Development

U.S. Attorney's Office

U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Maryland

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of State

U.S. Department of the Treasury

U.S. District & Bankruptcy Courts of Southern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina

U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Supreme Court

United States District Court for the District of Wyoming

United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana