Ga. Panel Lets Lyft Escape Liability In Driver Assault Suit

By Y. Peter Kang

A Georgia appellate court ruled Tuesday that Lyft was properly dismissed from a suit by a passenger who was badly beaten by his driver, ruling that reports of unsafe driving and suspected drug or alcohol use did not make the driver's violent assault reasonably foreseeable.

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Healthcare In Court

Courts Take On Lilly GLP-1 Ads, J&J Mesothelioma Trial, More

By Gianna Ferrarin

Law360 Healthcare Authority looks at a Novo Nordisk loss in its challenge to Eli Lilly's GLP-1 advertising, an Ohio verdict in wrongful death litigation over Johnson & Johnson's talc baby powder and other legal news from the past week.

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Kreindler Loses Bid To Cut 9/11 Fee Claims

By Jared Foretek

A Washington, D.C., federal judge denied law firm Kreindler & Kreindler LLP's bid to end a lawsuit from the estate of a deceased attorney over 9/11 victim's fund fees, potentially setting up a trial to resolve the 5-year-old litigation.

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World Cup Workers' Attys Deserve Sanctions, Colo. Cos. Say

By Rachel Konieczny

Companies that managed the construction of stadiums for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar urged a Colorado federal judge Tuesday to sanction opposing counsel in Filipino workers' forced labor lawsuit against the companies, alleging the workers' attorneys took "shortcuts" that resulted in wasted legal costs for the companies.

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Tyler Tech. To Pay $1.5M To Settle NC ECourts Class Action

By Matt Perez

Attorneys for a proposed class that alleged glitches in North Carolina's electronic court system led to scores of individuals being wrongfully arrested or detained asked a federal court on Monday to approve a $1.5 million settlement with the software's developer Tyler Technologies.

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RE Execs, Brother Get 30 Years For 'Monstrous' Sex Assaults

By Pete Brush

A Manhattan federal judge hit two wealthy former real estate executives and their brother with 30 years each in prison Tuesday, after a jury convicted the three Florida men of a 13-year campaign of trafficking, drugging and raping women and minors.

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Federal Defenders Can't Get Freeze On Detainee Transfers

By David Aaro

A Georgia federal judge declined to block the transfer of hundreds of federal pretrial detainees to a facility roughly 200 miles from Atlanta's federal courthouse, calling defense lawyers' argument that their clients' constitutional rights were being violated premature.

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JPMorgan Seeks Sanctions In Ex-Banker's Bias Suit

By Katryna Perera

A former JPMorgan Chase employee's claims of racial discrimination and sexual harassment were completely false and manufactured, JPMorgan and the employee's former supervisor said in motions urging a New York federal judge to levy sanctions against Chirayu Rana for his "fraudulent litigation."

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Fla. Court Urged To Halt Blanche's 'Improper' Epstein Depo

By David Minsky

The government urged a Florida federal court to quash a subpoena to depose U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche in a lawsuit brought by dozens of women alleging the FBI mishandled a sex trafficking investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, arguing Blanche's testimony on the late financier would be "improper." 

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Weyerhaeuser Targeted In New Suit Over Wash. Mill Implosion

By Ben Adlin

The families of two workers killed in a May chemical tank rupture at a Washington paper mill filed a wrongful death lawsuit in Washington state court against plant operator Nippon Dynawave Packaging Co. LLC and former owner Weyerhaeuser Co., alleging negligence in the tank's installation and use.

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Family Reaches $500K Settlement Over Mich. School Shooting

By Melanie Dorsey

A Michigan federal judge approved a $500,000 settlement Tuesday in a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the mother of a 17-year-old girl killed in the 2021 Oxford High School shooting, bringing an end to litigation against the school district after the Sixth Circuit ruled school officials were entitled to qualified immunity.

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Texas Appeals Court Weighs Mootness In Uri Victims Appeal

By Spencer Brewer

A Texas appeals court wanted to know if an appeal before them concerning thousands of victims of a deadly winter storm was moot, pressing Tuesday for counsel to explain what the court should do with a finding by an MDL court that the victim's expert witness was inadmissible.

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New Jersey Says DuPont Deal Bars Town's $1B PFAS Claims

By George Woolston

The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection backed various DuPont entities' bid to toss the remaining claims in a municipality's $1 billion lawsuit over forever chemical contamination stemming from a longtime DuPont facility, arguing that a landmark settlement the state reached earlier this year bars the claims.

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Feds Settle Suit Over Botched Atlanta VA Hysterectomy

By David Aaro

The federal government reached a deal to end a suit from a patient who claimed a doctor botched her hysterectomy at a Department of Veterans Affairs medical facility in metro Atlanta, according to a Tuesday filing in Georgia federal court.

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Coverage Barred For Bulldozer Injury Suit, Insurer Says

By Hope Patti

An insurer said it owes no coverage to an employer accused of negligently hiring a man who ran over another worker with a bulldozer at a construction site, telling a Texas federal court that its policy bars coverage for injuries to contractors who are retained by or for an insured.

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Resort Owner's Suit Stayed Pending Insurer's First-Filed Case

By Hope Patti

A Montana federal court Tuesday stayed a ski resort owner's suit seeking coverage for a claim made by the estate of a man who died after falling from a chairlift, saying the owner's pending motions to dismiss and transfer the insurer's first-filed suit in California federal court must be resolved.

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Fla. Court Orders Trump Depo By Dec. 11 In $10B BBC Suit

By Carolina Bolado

A Florida federal magistrate judge Tuesday ordered President Donald Trump to sit for a deposition in his $10 billion defamation suit against the BBC over the broadcaster's documentary on the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

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Snapchat Accused Of Letting Predators Exploit Kids

By P.J. D'Annunzio

The company behind the popular app Snapchat has been sued in Philadelphia court by a group of parents alleging that the platform allowed predators to sexually exploit their children while at the same time holding itself out to be a safe place for kids.

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NFL Coverage Ruling Sets Limits On Long-Tail Claim Defenses

A New York appellate court's recent decision — holding that National Football League players who sustained neurological injuries had suffered multiple occurrences for insurance coverage purposes — may also be used to limit insurers' efforts to declaim coverage for other long-tail injury cases, including sexual abuse claims, say attorneys at SDV Fenchurch.

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Judge Hellerstein, Gruff Moderator Of Major Cases, Dies At 92

By Pete Brush

Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein, a former litigator and sometimes impatient Manhattan federal jurist who presided over decades of high-profile cases that often came under close appellate scrutiny, died Wednesday at the age of 92.

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Texan Claims Austin Firm Hasn't Alerted Him To Data Breach

By Andrea Keckley

Linebarger Goggan Blair & Sampson LLP, an Austin, Texas-based law firm focused on collecting debts and taxes for public-sector clients, failed to protect its clients' personal information from a data breach, the plaintiff in a proposed class action claimed in Texas federal court Tuesday.

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BakerHostetler Malpractice Case To Expand With RICO Claim

By Emily Johnson

A Georgia federal judge has allowed a trustee who has accused BakerHostetler and an Atlanta-based attorney of legal malpractice to file an amended complaint after the trustee asked to add claims of Georgia RICO Act violations.

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Weil To Wind Down As Top Attorneys Abandon Firm

By Daniel Moritz-Rabson, Alex Wittenberg and Aebra Coe

Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, the restructuring powerhouse that led Lehman Brothers, Enron and General Motors through bankruptcy, told Law360 Pulse Wednesday that the firm is preparing to wind down operations.

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NJ Atty Mishandled Property Damage Dispute, Court Told

By Hope Patti

A man told a New Jersey federal court that he was forced to pay excessive and avoidable fees to an attorney hired to represent him in a property damage dispute after the attorney mishandled the case by failing to advise him to tender the claim to his homeowners insurer.

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BigLaw Tip Middleman To Admit Role In $3.5M Trading Scheme

By Chris Villani

An alleged middleman in a sweeping scheme to trade off of deal information stolen from major law firms has agreed to plead guilty and potentially faces a prison term of nearly a decade, according to a plea agreement filed Wednesday in Massachusetts federal court.

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Mich. Judge Weighs Toshiba Legal Bills Discovery Fight

By Melanie Dorsey

A Michigan federal judge on Wednesday questioned whether she needs to review specific objections to DTE Electric Co. and Consumers Energy Co.'s multimillion-dollar attorney fee request before deciding whether Toshiba Corp. must disclose its own legal bills and litigation expenses following a nearly $394.4 million jury verdict over a botched power plant overhaul.

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Analysis

Albright Left Key Issue In Billion-Dollar IP Fight Unanswered

By Dani Kass

In May 2025, then-U.S. District Judge Alan Albright watched a jury hold that VLSI Technology is controlled by Fortress Investment Group, but by the time he left the bench in August 2026, the judge had yet to decide whether that ownership would let Intel avoid billions of dollars in patent infringement verdicts.

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Proskauer, Reddit Attys Called To Testify In Data-Scraping Suit

By Bryan Koenig

A New York federal judge on Wednesday called for live testimony from two Proskauer Rose LLP attorneys and Reddit's deputy general counsel as he weighs the law firm's bid to represent Perplexity AI in a lawsuit from Reddit, the firm's former client, over alleged data scraping.

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SC Gov.'s Counsel Still In The Running For Federal Judgeship

By Courtney Bublé

The chief legal counsel for South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster is "being actively considered" for a federal judgeship, according to the White House, but it's not a done deal yet.

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