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Class Action

  • May 21, 2025

    Distributor Can't Duck Revised Crab Price-Fixing Suit

    A California federal magistrate judge added Ocean King Fish Inc. to a list of more than a dozen distributors that must face a proposed class action from crabbers alleging a conspiracy to cap prices paid to fishermen for Dungeness crab in the Pacific Northwest.

  • May 21, 2025

    Walgreens Ducks False Ad Suit Over Mucus Relief Meds

    An Illinois federal judge on Tuesday dismissed a potential class action accusing Walgreens of misleading customers by selling them over-the-counter mucus relief medicine containing benzene without warning them of that risk, saying the claims are preempted by a federal drug safety law.

  • May 21, 2025

    Food Distribution Co. Must Face Tobacco Surcharge Suit

    Food distributor Performance Food Group must face a proposed class action claiming it unlawfully overcharged tobacco users hundreds of dollars for health benefits, with a Virginia federal judge ruling workers sufficiently alleged the company breached its responsibilities under federal benefits law.

  • May 21, 2025

    Gov't Violated Court Order With Removals, Judge Says

    A Massachusetts federal judge on Wednesday found that the government violated his order requiring due process protections for individuals facing removal to countries where they have no ties and may face harm, after a group of migrants were put on a plane bound for war-torn South Sudan with just hours' notice.

  • May 20, 2025

    'Not A Denny's': 5th Circ. Judge Chides High Court Stopwatch

    The Fifth Circuit on Tuesday expedited a case brought by Venezuelans who are accused of being gang members and who are challenging the use of a 1798 wartime law to deport them to an El Salvador prison, with one judge chastising the U.S. Supreme Court's majority for allowing the appeal to move forward.

  • May 20, 2025

    Flo Users Get Class Cert. In Google, Meta Data-Sharing Suit

    A California federal judge has granted class status to users of the menstrual cycle tracking app developed by Flo Health Inc. in a suit accusing the company of unlawfully sharing their personal health information with Google and Meta, finding that the defendants' opposition to this move lacked clarity and support.

  • May 20, 2025

    Cigna Accused Of Mismanaging Retirement Plan Funds

    Cigna has been unlawfully putting its own interests above those of a 401(k) plan's participants by using forfeited plan funds to reduce company contributions, despite experiencing "significant financial performance," a putative class action filed Tuesday in Pennsylvania federal court alleges.

  • May 20, 2025

    19-Year-Old Mass. Student Admits To PowerSchool Hacking

    A 19-year-old student at Assumption University in Worcester, Massachusetts, has pled guilty to hacking into the networks of two companies, including education software and cloud storage company PowerSchool Group LLC, and extorting them for ransoms, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Tuesday.

  • May 20, 2025

    Prudential Investors Seek OK Of $10M Derivative Settlement

    Shareholders of Prudential Financial have asked for final approval for a $10 million deal ending derivative claims that the company concealed that it would need to revise its cost expectations for certain life insurance policies it had acquired.

  • May 20, 2025

    Judge Questions Bank's Role In Jail Debit Card Fee Dispute

    A federal magistrate judge in Washington state signaled Tuesday she might advance a debit card fee class action against a Missouri bank to trial, suggesting there's still a factual dispute as to whether the prepaid cards were forced on people trying to regain access to their money after being released from correctional facilities. 

  • May 20, 2025

    Cancer Drug Co. Beats Investor Suit Over FDA Rejection

    Cancer drug company Checkpoint Therapeutics Inc. has permanently escaped a shareholder suit alleging it understated the likelihood the U.S. Food and Drug Administration would refuse approving Checkpoint's lead product candidate, with a New York federal judge ruling company statements were not shown to be false or made with scienter.

  • May 20, 2025

    5 Ohio Cities Say Hyundai, Kia Negligence Claims Still In Play

    Five Ohio cities have told a California federal judge that Hyundai and Kia cannot try to circumvent the Ninth Circuit and scuttle negligence claims in consolidated litigation alleging the automakers knowingly sold vehicles with design flaws that spawned a car-theft crime wave.

  • May 20, 2025

    Tech Co. AppLovin's Brass Face 'Shadow Downloads' Claims

    Executives and directors of technology company AppLovin face a shareholder derivative suit alleging they breached their fiduciary duties after the company allegedly inflated its download numbers, a key performance metric, by means of manipulative practices.

  • May 20, 2025

    Ill. Judge Won't Toss Cannabis Payment Venture Dispute

    An Illinois federal judge refused on Tuesday to toss out a shareholder's derivative lawsuit alleging his business partner usurped an opportunity to provide payment services to cannabis giant Cresco Labs, rejecting the other 50% shareholder's argument that the court lacked diversity jurisdiction in the case.

  • May 20, 2025

    Keurig Says Google Ruling Doesn't Back Antitrust Claims

    Keurig coffee pod buyers who have accused the company of anticompetitive behavior mischaracterized a recent court ruling in an antitrust case against Google to make their own case look better, the company has told the New York federal court overseeing the long-running litigation.

  • May 20, 2025

    Medical Supply Co. Faces Ga. Suit Over Unwanted Texts

    A Florida-based medical supply company has been hit with a proposed Telephone Consumer Protection Act class action in Georgia federal court by a man who says he received several promotional text messages from the company after he added himself to the National Do Not Call Registry.

  • May 20, 2025

    Elf Beauty Brass Face Investor Suit Over Declining Demand

    Executives and directors of cosmetics company e.l.f. Beauty were hit with a shareholder derivative suit accusing them of concealing declining consumer demand, which led to a 55% decline in stock value as information regarding waning revenues and increasing inventory emerged.

  • May 20, 2025

    4th Circ. Won't Revive Md. Retirees' Drug Benefits Case

    The Fourth Circuit backed Maryland's defeat of a proposed class action alleging it broke promises made to retirees when it transitioned their prescription drug benefits to Medicare Part D, saying Tuesday that a lower court was right to toss the case.

  • May 20, 2025

    BofA Class In Out-Of-Network ATM Fee Fight Narrowed

    A California federal judge tweaked the definition of a class of account holders suing Bank of America over out-of-network fees for balance inquiries at certain ATMs, agreeing to exclude certain members from the class but largely rejecting the bank's qualms with the class certification.

  • May 20, 2025

    Nextdoor Beats Investor Suit Over Post-SPAC Profitability

    A California federal judge has tossed a shareholder class action that alleges hyperlocal social networking service Nextdoor Holdings Inc. misled investors about its projected profitability when combining with a special purpose acquisition company, saying the suit's plaintiff never owned or sold the company's securities before the merger, among other things. 

  • May 20, 2025

    J&J Workers Reassert Drug Costs Resulted In Concrete Harm

    Johnson & Johnson workers are urging a New Jersey federal court to maintain their proposed class claims that the company botched the management of prescription drug costs in its employee healthcare plan by allowing excessive pharmacy costs, asserting that company mismanagement resulted in concrete harm.

  • May 20, 2025

    Meta Asks To Toss Claim That Illegal Tool Scraped Tax Info

    Meta's tracking tool did not violate state privacy law, the company argued, urging a California federal court to toss a claim calling the tool an unauthorized recording device that collected sensitive information from tax filing websites H&R Block, TaxAct and Tax Slayer.

  • May 20, 2025

    The Alien Enemies Act Cases: A Roundup

    Litigation over President Donald Trump’s March 14 proclamation invoking the 1798 Alien Enemies Act has moved at breakneck speed, spurring two U.S. Supreme Court decisions already while at least five different districts weigh his authority to invoke the wartime law. Here, Law360 catches you up on major developments in the litigation.

  • May 20, 2025

    Biotech Stockholders Challenge Director Pay Levels In Del.

    Investors in biotech company Intellia Therapeutics Inc. stock opened a derivative suit in Delaware's Court of Chancery on Tuesday seeking recovery of allegedly excessive compensation paid to non-employee directors for multiple years without an approval vote by stockholders.

  • May 20, 2025

    Feds Ignored Order With South Sudan Removals, Judge Told

    Lawyers for immigrants at risk of being deported to countries where they have no prior ties and may face harm told a Boston federal judge Tuesday that the government removed at least two class members to South Sudan in violation of a court order.

Expert Analysis

  • Alien Enemies Act Case Could Reshape Executive Power

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    President Donald Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelan nationals raises fundamental questions about statutory interpretation, executive power and constitutional structure, which now lay on the U.S. Supreme Court's doorstep, says Mauni Jalali at Quinn Emanuel.

  • Series

    Adapting To Private Practice: From DOJ Leadership To BigLaw

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    The move from government service to private practice can feel like changing one’s identity, but as someone who has left the U.S. Department of Justice twice, I’ve learned that a successful transition requires patience, effort and the realization that the rewards of practicing law don’t come from one particular position, says Richard Donoghue at Pillsbury.

  • Law Firm Executive Orders Create A Legal Ethics Minefield

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    Recent executive orders targeting BigLaw firms create ethical dilemmas — and raise the specter of civil or criminal liability — for the government attorneys tasked with implementing them and for the law firms that choose to make agreements with the administration, say attorneys at Buchalter.

  • Firms Must Embrace Alternative Billing Models Or Fall Behind

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    As artificial intelligence tools eliminate inefficiencies and the Big Four accounting firms enter the legal market, law firms that pivot from the entrenched billable hour model to outcomes-based pricing will see a distinct competitive advantage, says attorney William Brewer.

  • How Attorneys Can Master The Art Of On-Camera Presence

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    As attorneys are increasingly presented with on-camera opportunities, they can adapt their traditional legal skills for video contexts — such as virtual client meetings, marketing content or media interviews — by understanding the medium and making intentional adjustments, says Kerry Barrett.

  • Series

    Baseball Fantasy Camp Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    With six baseball fantasy experiences under my belt, I've learned time and again that I didn't make the wrong career choice, but I've also learned that baseball lessons are life lessons, and I'm a better lawyer for my time at St. Louis Cardinals fantasy camp, says Scott Felder at Wiley.

  • 2 Recent Federal Decisions Affecting State CIPA Cases

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    Two recent cases may help stem the tide of the ever-increasing number of California Invasion of Privacy Act complaints filed in federal court, but won't prevent plaintiffs from filing in state courts, so companies need to shift their focus from Article III standing to statutory standing, says Matthew Pearson at Womble Bond.

  • Series

    Adapting To Private Practice: From Fed. Prosecutor To BigLaw

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    Making the jump from government to private practice is no small feat, but, based on my experience transitioning to a business-driven environment after 15 years as an assistant U.S. attorney, it can be incredibly rewarding and help you become a more versatile lawyer, says Michael Beckwith at Dickinson Wright.

  • And Now A Word From The Panel: MDL Hubs

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    The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation showed a willingness in 2024 to establish new multidistrict litigation proceedings in cities with both less MDL and air traffic, including states that had no other pending MDL proceedings, but the overall number of pending MDL proceedings has dwindled down, says Alan Rothman at Sidley.

  • How Del. Supreme Court, Legislature Have Clarified 'Control'

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    The Delaware Supreme Court's January decision in In re: Oracle and the General Assembly's passage of amendments to the Delaware General Corporation Law this week, when taken together, help make the controlling-stockholder analysis clearer and more predictable for companies with large stockholders, say attorneys at Baker Botts.

  • Rebuttal

    6 Reasons Why Arbitration Offers Equitable Resolutions

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    Contrary to a recent Law360 guest article, arbitration provides numerous benefits to employees, consumers and businesses alike, ensuring fair and efficient dispute resolution without the excessive fees, costs and delays associated with traditional litigation, say attorneys at Proskauer.

  • Retirement Plan Suits Show Value Of Cybersecurity Policies

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    Several data breach class actions that were recently filed against retirement plan administrator The Pension Specialists in Illinois federal court are a reminder that developing and following a good written cybersecurity policy provides a blueprint for compliance and may prevent lawsuits, says Carol Buckmann at Cohen & Buckmann.

  • Firms Still Have Lateral Market Advantage, But Risks Persist

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    Partner and associate mobility data from the fourth quarter of 2024 shows that we’re in a new, stable era of lateral hiring where firms have the edge, but leaders should proceed cautiously, looking beyond expected revenue and compensation analyses for potential risks, say Julie Henson and Greg Hamman at Decipher Investigative Intelligence.

  • Recent Cases Highlight Latest AI-Related Civil Litigation Risks

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    Ongoing lawsuits in federal district courts reveal potential risks that companies using artificial intelligence may face from civil litigants, including health insurance coverage cases involving contractual and equitable claims, and myriad cases concerning securities disclosure claims, say attorneys at Katten.

  • Opinion

    We Must Allow Judges To Use Their Independent Judgment

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    As two recent cases show, the ability of judges to access their independent judgment crucially enables courts to exercise the discretion needed to reach the right outcome based on the unique facts within the law, says John Siffert at Lankler Siffert & Wohl.

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