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The U.S. Department of Justice asked a New York federal judge on Friday to unseal grand jury testimony from the prosecution of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, as President Donald Trump faces a growing number of Republicans, including House Speaker Mike Johnson, asking for more transparency about the case.
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DOJ Asks To Unseal Epstein Grand Jury Files Amid GOP Flak

By Bonnie Eslinger

The U.S. Department of Justice asked a New York federal judge on Friday to unseal grand jury testimony from the prosecution of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, as President Donald Trump faces a growing number of Republicans, including House Speaker Mike Johnson, asking for more transparency about the case.

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Plaintiffs' Expert Says Tesla Deleted Data From Crashed Car

By Carolina Bolado

A vehicle accident reconstruction expert told jurors Thursday that data from the Tesla Model S involved in a fatal Florida Keys crash had been deleted after the crash by the automaker, which is defending its autopilot system at a trial in Miami.

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Social Media MDL Judge Could Bifurcate Bellwether Trials

By Dorothy Atkins

A California federal judge presiding over multidistrict litigation by school districts and personal injury plaintiffs claiming social media is addictive said Friday she'll likely bifurcate bellwether trials into two phases, with the judge presiding over the second phase, if plaintiffs seek any relief "that may be injunctive in nature."

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Shannon Sharpe, Rape Accuser Settle $50M Suit

By Rae Ann Varona

Pro Football Hall of Famer Shannon Sharpe and a woman who accused him of raping and threatening to choke her during a rocky relationship have agreed to settle her lawsuit, the woman's attorney announced Friday on social media, citing "protracted and respectful negotiations."

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RISING STAR

Law360 Names 2025's Top Attorneys Under 40

Law360 is pleased to announce the Rising Stars of 2025, our list of more than 150 attorneys under 40 whose legal accomplishments belie their age.

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LITIGATION

'Lost Services' Damages OK In Child Death Suits, Court Rules

By Carolyn Muyskens

A mother can pursue damages against a Detroit hospital for the loss of household services she would have received if her infant son had lived to adulthood, even after a recent Michigan Supreme Court ruling narrowed the available recovery, an appellate panel held.

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2nd Circ. Shields Official From NRA's Free Speech Suit Again

By Elaine Briseño

A Second Circuit panel has said National Rifle Association's First Amendment lawsuit cannot survive a motion to dismiss because the former New York official accused of pressuring financial institutions to cut ties with the organization has qualified immunity.

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Yale Says Patient Data Breach Suit Lacks Specifics

By Brian Steele

Yale New Haven Health Services Corp. is urging a Connecticut federal court to toss a proposed class action over a March ransomware attack that allegedly may have affected millions of people, arguing patients haven't shown that the state's largest healthcare system violated any legal duties or contracts.

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Oxford Shooting Victim's Estate Can Sue Cops, Court Finds

By Danielle Ferguson

A Michigan appellate panel reopened a lawsuit from the father of a student killed in the Oxford High School shooting alleging state police failed to act on tips about the threat of an attack, finding a provision designed to extend filing deadlines for estates applies to claims against the state.

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Ga. Facility Exposed Workers, Families To Mercury, Suit Says

By Kelcey Caulder

A group of former employees and contractors, as well as their family members, have filed suit in Georgia federal court over allegations they were exposed to dangerous and harmful levels of mercury at Olin Corp.'s Augusta, Georgia, facility from 1965 forward.

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TRANSPORTATION

Boeing Urges 4th Circ. To Decertify 737 Max Investor Class

By Linda Chiem

Boeing told the Fourth Circuit on Friday that a Virginia district court flouted U.S. Supreme Court precedent by certifying a class of investors alleging the company misrepresented the safety of its 737 Max 9 fleet after a door plug blowout, saying there's zero evidence backing the plaintiffs' damages theories.

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Suit Says Mazda's Sensors Missed Motorcyclist In Blind Spot

By Jonathan Capriel

Mazda Motor Corp. manufactured its CX-5 SUV with a defective blind spot monitoring system that failed to warn its driver that there was a motorcyclist in the lane he merged into, according to a lawsuit filed by a Pittsburgh-area family that claims the biker suffered life-altering injuries.

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INSURANCE

Insurer Asks To Be Freed From Mass Shooting Coverage

By Elizabeth Daley

A home insurer has told a North Carolina federal court it should not have to cover an underlying lawsuit brought against the parents of a teen mass shooter by victims and family members of decedents, since its policy does not cover intentional acts, among other reasons.

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MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

Off The Bench

Off The Bench: Latest NASCAR Win, Trans Athlete Fights Ban

By David Steele

In this week's Off The Bench, Michael Jordan's racing team fails to bounce back right away from a tough defeat in its battle with NASCAR, a transgender woman fights a last-minute expulsion from a college women's track and field event, and a football player sees his window to playing an extra college season slammed shut by the NCAA and the Seventh Circuit.

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PEOPLE

Armstrong Teasdale Adds Former CLO As A Litigator In Miami

By Madison Arnold

A former chief legal officer at professional services company Indelible has joined Armstrong Teasdale LLP as a litigation counsel in Miami.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Compliance Lessons From 1st-Ever Product Safety Sentences

A California federal judge’s recent sentencing of two former Gree USA executives in a landmark Consumer Product Safety Act case serves as a reminder of the federal government’s willingness to pursue criminal prosecution of individuals who fail to report safety hazards, as well as companies’ need to strengthen their reporting and compliance programs, say attorneys at Cooley.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

​​​​​​​3rd Circ. Pick 'Respected' By Trump, Mysterious To Senators

By Matthew Santoni

The senior White House lawyer nominated to represent Delaware on the Third Circuit is a constitutional scholar and presidential immunity defender touted as "highly respected" by President Donald Trump, although some Delaware lawmakers have questioned her ties to the First State.

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NYC Legal Services Strike Continues To Grow

By Andrea Keckley

A strike by hundreds of legal service workers in New York City grew even larger on Friday after three more member shops of the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys joined the picket line.

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Judge Unsure Of Alternatives To Nationwide Birthright Ruling

By Chris Villani

A Massachusetts federal judge on Friday wrestled with how the government would implement any alternatives to a nationwide block on President Donald Trump's order limiting birthright citizenship and what type of decision would comply with recent high court precedent.

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Seven Months In, Race-Blind Charging Faces Test In Calif.

By Marco Poggio

In January, California adopted race-blind charging as a statewide policy, after a law passed in 2022 went into effect. Now, seven months into the program's statewide rollout, race-blind charging is showing both promise and limitations.

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Trump Files $10B Defamation Suit Over WSJ Epstein Story

By Hailey Konnath

President Donald Trump filed a $10 billion defamation suit Friday against The Wall Street Journal over its July 17 article reporting that he was among friends who sent a "bawdy" letter to Jeffrey Epstein for his 50th birthday, calling the article "false, defamatory and malignant."

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California Courts Set AI Rules Allowing Flexibility For Judges

By Craig Clough

The Judicial Council of California approved a policy Friday for rules and standards on the use of generative artificial intelligence for judges and court staff, with the chair of the council's AI task force saying the policy provides flexibility by allowing courts to either adopt the technology or ban it.

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Geragos Owes $100K For Role In Nike Extortion, Jury Says

By Craig Clough

Celebrity attorney Mark Geragos was ordered to pay $100,000 to a youth basketball coach by a Los Angeles jury that found he aided and abetted disbarred lawyer Michael Avenatti in a failed attempt to extort Nike that landed Avenatti with a 2½ year prison sentence.

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Ex-CEO Again Pushes For Standing In Judge Romance Case

By Catherine Marfin

The former CEO of a defunct barge company has again urged a court to rule that he has standing to sue over a former bankruptcy judge's secret romance with an attorney, writing in a supplemental filing that "certain issues" had "not been fully briefed."

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Nadine Menendez Attys Say Relationship Has 'Broken Down'

By Carla Baranauckas

One of the law firms representing former U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez's wife in her bribery case told a New York federal judge Friday that it wants to leave the matter because the attorney-client relationship has "broken down."

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Trump Asks Supreme Court To Decline Early Tariff Challenge

By Natalie Olivo

President Donald Trump's administration urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reject a request from Illinois-based toy makers to hear their challenge against the White House's global tariffs, arguing the justices should not "leapfrog" parallel proceedings in circuit courts.

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Roundup

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

By Max Austin

This past week in London has seen the former owner of British oil refinery Prax Group sued following the collapse of his business empire, a unit of Shard Credit Partners target a married couple believed to have inflated the value of their companies before selling them, and Aerofoil Energy reignite patent action against AFE Group over the design of its F1-inspired cooling units.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

President Donald Trump has chosen the chief labor counsel at Boeing Co. for one of two vacancies on the National Labor Relations Board, whose confirmation would help restore a quorum. And Meta reached a midtrial agreement with stockholders in an $8 billion suit.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Shapiro Arato Bach LLP leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Second Circuit overturned the conviction of a former HSBC executive accused of defrauding a Scottish oil and gas company in a $3.5 billion currency exchange deal.

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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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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

A&O Shearman

Advisors LLC

Akin Gump

Armstrong Teasdale

Arnold & Porter

Ashurst LLP

Baker & Hostetler

Baker McKenzie

Barnes & Thornburg

Barrack Rodos

Beck Redden

Benesch

Bernstein Litowitz

Beveridge & Diamond

Blank Rome

Bleichmar Fonti

Bloch & White

Boies Schiller

Bond Schoeneck

Bowman & Brooke

Breit Biniazan

Brewer Attorneys

Brito PLLC

Brown Rudnick

Bryan Cave

Buckingham Doolittle

Buzbee Law Firm

CG Law

Cahill Gordon

Carpmaels & Ransford

Cicchiello & Cicchiello LLP

Cleary Gottlieb

Clifford Chance

Clyde & Co

Coburn & Greenbaum

Coffey Burlington

Cohen & Gresser

Cohen Milstein

Cooley LLP

Cotchett Pitre

Covington & Burling

Cozen O'Connor

Crowell & Moring

DLA Piper

David Boies

Davis Polk

Debevoise & Plimpton

Dechert LLP

DelVecchio & Miller

Delahunty & Edelman

Eaton & Wolk

Edelsberg Law

Ellis George LLP

Federman & Sherwood

Fenwick & West

Foley & Lardner

Foley Hoag

Freshfields

Gateley PLC

Geragos & Geragos

Gibson Dunn

Goldman Ismail

Goodwin Procter

Greenberg Traurig

Greenwich Legal Associates

Hanson Bridgett

Hilgers Graben

Hill Dickinson

Hodgson Russ

Hogan Lovells

Hueston Hennigan

Husch Blackwell

J A Kemp LLP

Jackson Walker LLP

Jenner & Block

Jones Day

Joseph Saveri Law Firm

K&L Gates

Keker Van Nest & Peters

Keller Rohrback

Kelley Drye

Kellogg Hansen

King & Spalding

Kirkland & Ellis

Kopelowitz Ostrow

Labaton Keller

Latham & Watkins

Law Office of Marc Fernich

Levi & Korsinsky

Lieff Cabraser

Lowey Dannenberg

Lynch Carpenter

Macias Counsel Inc

Manatt Phelps

Martin G. Weinberg PC

Mayer Brown

McDermott Will & Emery

McGuireWoods

McKeen & Associates

Migliaccio & Rathod

Milbank LLP

Milberg Coleman

Mills & Reeve

Mishcon de Reya

Moore & Van Allen

Morgan & Morgan

Morgan Lewis

Morrison & Foerster

Motley Rice

Murray Law Firm LLC

Norton Rose

Nussbaum Law Group

O'Melveny & Myers

Orrick Herrington

Osborne Clarke

Paul Hastings

Paul Weiss

Perkins Coie

Pitt McGehee

Poulin Willey

Prickett Jones

Proskauer Rose

Quinn Emanuel

Reed Smith

Reichman Jorgensen

Robbins Geller

Robins Kaplan

Ropes & Gray

Rousso Boumel

Rusty Hardin

Saltz Mongeluzzi

Scott&Scott

Selendy Gay

Seyfarth Shaw

Shamis & Gentile

Shapiro Arato

Shegerian & Associates

Sidley Austin

Simpson Law Firm PLLC

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Singleton Schreiber

Siri & Glimstad

Steptoe LLP

Stradley Ronon

Strauss Borrelli

Sullivan & Cromwell

TLT LLP

Troutman

Vinson & Elkins

Wachtell Lipton

Wedlake Bell

Weil Gotshal

Welty Weaver

Wiley Rein

Wilkinson Stekloff

Williams & Connolly

Willkie Farr

WilmerHale

Wilson Sonsini

Winston & Strawn

Womble Bond

Wright Hassall

Zeldes Needle

gunnercooke LLP

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

ARAG

ASUSTeK Computer Inc.

AXA XL Ltd.

American Bar Association

American Civil Liberties Union

American International Group Inc.

American Property Casualty Insurance Association

Apple Inc.

Aramark

Association of Corporate Counsel

Barclays PLC

Bouchard Transportation Co. Inc.

Broadcom Inc.

Brussels Airlines NVSA

CDI Corporation

Center for Appellate Litigation

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp.

Comcast Corp.

Consolidated Edison Inc.

Court of Arbitration for Sport

Crawford & Co.

Dow Jones & Co.

ESPN Inc.

Edenred SA

Emirates National Oil Co. Ltd. LLC

Energizer Holdings Inc.

Erie Insurance Inc.

FedEx Corp.

Federalist Society

George Washington University

Glencore PLC

Guardant Health Inc.

HSBC Holdings PLC

Harley-Davidson Inc.

Harvard University

Heathrow Airport Holdings Ltd.

Instagram Inc.

InterContinental Hotels Group PLC

Johnson & Johnson

Learning Resources Inc.

Leidos Holdings Inc.

LinkedIn Corp.

MGM Resorts International

Mazda Motor Corp.

Mediterranean Shipping Co. SA

Meta Platforms Inc.

Microsoft Corp.

NASCAR Digital Media LLC

NBCUniversal Media LLC

NES Fircroft Group Ltd.

Natera Inc.

National Collegiate Athletic Association

National District Attorneys Association

National Rifle Association of America

New York Legal Assistance Group Inc.

New York University

News Corp.

Nike Inc.

Nokia Corp.

Olin Corp.

OpenAI OpCo LLC

Philadelphia Eagles

Pilot Travel Centers LLC

Prime Healthcare Services Inc.

Princeton University

RaceTrac Petroleum

Reddit Inc.

Stanford University

Syngenta AG

Tata AIG General Insurance Co.Ltd.

Tesco PLC

Tesla Inc.

The Boeing Co.

The Bronx Defenders

The Catholic University of America

University of Miami

VMWare Inc.

Verizon Communications Inc.

Washington Football Team

World Justice Project

Yale New Haven Health

YouTube Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

California Attorney General's Office

California Department of Justice

California District Attorneys Association

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Delaware Court of Chancery

European Union

Executive Office of the President

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Communications Commission

Federal Reserve System

Federal Trade Commission

HMRC

Michigan Supreme Court

National Labor Relations Board

New Jersey Attorney General's Office

New York Department of Financial Services

San Diego County District Attorney

State of Michigan

State of Nevada

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia

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

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission

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 Seventh Circuit

U.S. Department of Education

U.S. Department of Justice

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 Connecticut

U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

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

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

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

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

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

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

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Supreme Court

UK High Court

Yolo County District Attorney