A California appeals court has ordered Uber to comply with a state workplace safety agency's request for information regarding an Uber Eats driver's fatal fall, ruling the agency was acting within its authority and can demand records regarding whether the worker could be considered an employee.
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Uber Must Produce Docs In Cal/OSHA Probe Of Driver's Death

By Y. Peter Kang

A California appeals court has ordered Uber to comply with a state workplace safety agency's request for information regarding an Uber Eats driver's fatal fall, ruling the agency was acting within its authority and can demand records regarding whether the worker could be considered an employee.

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Uber Board Spawned 'Serial Compliance Offender,' Suit Says

By Linda Chiem

Uber Technologies Inc. executives and board directors have fostered a culture of noncompliance and lax safety that has exposed the ride-hailing giant to thousands of sexual harassment and disability discrimination lawsuits, according to a new shareholder derivative suit in California federal court Monday.

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NJ Firm Accused Of 'Double-Dipping' On Pelvic Mesh Fees

By Daniel Connolly

Four women allege in a recently filed lawsuit that a New Jersey law firm overcharged them on legal fees related to a settlement in pelvic mesh litigation, and the recent lawsuit also relates to a long-running conflict between lawyers who formerly worked together.

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Yale Health Escapes Trade Law Claim In Insemination Suit

By Aaron Keller

Yale New Haven Health Services Corp. has defeated Connecticut trade law, emotional distress and informed consent claims in a lawsuit accusing a doctor of fraudulently using his own sperm to inseminate a fertility patient, but the hospital network holding entity must face a fraud allegation, a state judge has ruled.

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POLICY & REGULATION

House Floats Revised Kids' Safety Bill After Bipartisan Deal

By Allison Grande

A pair of influential House lawmakers on Monday introduced a revamped bipartisan version of proposed legislation to boost online safety protections for children and teens, although they drew an immediate rebuke from a U.S. senator leading a similar effort in the upper chamber, who slammed the House proposal as a "toothless and tepid capitulation" to major tech companies.

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ENFORCEMENT

Philly Cops Can't Axe Daycare Owner's $4.1M Trial Verdict

By Mike Curley

A Pennsylvania appeals panel on Monday rejected a bid from two Philadelphia police officers seeking to undo a $4.1 million verdict in favor of a daycare owner who said they beat her during the unrest following the fatal shooting of Walter Wallace, saying there's no reason to disturb the jury's findings.

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LITIGATION

Yamaha Gets $7M Verdict Erased In Golf Cart Rollover Suit

By Kelcey Caulder

A Georgia appellate court panel on Monday ordered a new trial in a case in which a family won $7 million after their toddler was severely hurt in a Yamaha golf cart rollover, finding a lower court wrongly kept the motorized products maker from introducing warning label language at trial.

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No Trial For Splenda Maker, Scientist In Defamation Suit

By Abigail Harrison

Splenda maker TC Heartland LLC and the scientist whom it accused of defamation were sent packing from North Carolina federal court Monday, after a judge found neither had offered evidence to overcome the other's First Amendment right to talk about scientific research.

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NJ Appeals Court Affirms U-Haul Win In Atty Slip-And-Fall Suit

By Jonathan Capriel

An attorney who slipped while exiting a moving truck, falling on his face and breaking bone and teeth, cannot undo a jury verdict for U-Haul, a New Jersey appeals court ruled Monday, saying the lower court properly rejected his bid for a pretrial win.

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TRANSPORTATION

Plaintiffs Ask 11th Circ. To Unfreeze Cruise Voyeurism Suits

By Mike Curley

A group of plaintiffs suing Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. with allegations that one of its crew members covertly filmed them for his own gratification asked the Eleventh Circuit on Monday to undo a stay on related cases and affirm an order denying Royal Caribbean's bid to bring the cases to arbitration.

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INSURANCE

4th Circ. Says Allied Need Not Cover 'Beer Olympics' Injury

By Jonathan Capriel

A man who claims that he was paralyzed in an auto crash caused by alcohol provided to guests at a "Beer Olympics" party cannot recover from the host homeowners' insurance provider, the Fourth Circuit ruled on Monday, saying the policy's motor vehicle exclusion bars coverage.

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Lowe's $10M Coverage Clash With Chubb Unit Heads To Trial

By Hayley Fowler

A federal jury will decide whether a Chubb unit was wrong to refuse to pay $10 million as part of a wrongful death settlement following a fatal crash involving a Lowe's employee after a North Carolina judge Monday found there are disputed issues of material fact in the case.

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Injured Biker's Estate Seeks Dismissal Of Coverage Suit

By Hope Patti

The representative of a child who was seriously injured after a tow truck struck her while she was riding a bicycle urged a Georgia federal court to toss an insurer's suit over the validity of a settlement demand, saying the suit is not ripe while the underlying injury suit is pending.

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MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

YouTube Seeks To Exit Wash. Driver's Viral Dashcam Clip Suit

By Rachel Riley

YouTube has urged a Seattle federal judge to free it from a woman's lawsuit alleging she was bullied online over a secretly recorded viral video of her texting while driving, saying she cannot circumvent the platform's protection under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act by leveling a baseless wiretapping claim.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Colorado's New Chatbot Law May Be Defined By Its Carveouts

What makes Colorado's conversational artificial intelligence service law worth close attention is what it leaves out, so a thorough scoping analysis may be as important as compliance planning for companies that develop, license or deploy conversational AI, say attorneys at Eversheds Sutherland.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

LA Superior Court Gains Prominence With 'Nuclear' Verdicts

By Daniel Moritz-Rabson

Los Angeles County Superior Court was among the country's top sites for awarding big civil damages in recent years, according to a Lex Machina report.

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Office Snapshot: Summer Brings Move For Lathrop GPM In DC

By Jack Rodgers

Lathrop GPM LLP is set to move its office in the nation's capital this summer, leaving the Watergate complex near George Washington University for a smaller space in a building just blocks from the White House.

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The 2026 Lawyer Satisfaction Survey

Lawyers are generally happy being lawyers, but nonequity partners and associates told Law360 Pulse that several aspects of their job leave them feeling dissatisfied. Explore our analysis of these and other findings in the 2026 Law360 Lawyer Satisfaction survey.

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Texas, DOJ Get Judge To End Biden Immigration Rule In 1 Day

By Ganesh Setty

A Texas federal court has approved a deal between Texas and the Trump administration to vacate a Biden-era rule allowing immigration courts to temporarily close cases, the same day Texas filed a lawsuit alleging the policy had created a "de facto amnesty program."

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Clifford Chance Adds Ex-V&E Debt Finance Atty In Houston

By Matt Perez

Clifford Chance LLP announced on Monday the hiring of a former Vinson & Elkins LLP attorney as a finance and derivatives partner in its Houston office.

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NY Rule Rewrite Drops 30-Day Pause For Atty Soliciting

By Emily Sawicki

New York's Appellate Division has adopted new rules of professional conduct on attorney advertising and solicitation, deleting a ban on soliciting clients less than 30 days after an incident.

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NC Becomes First State To Ban Outside Funding Of Civil Suits

By Hayley Fowler

North Carolina has become the first state in the country to ban outside investors from funding civil litigation, after Democratic Gov. Josh Stein signed into law a bill that outlaws third parties from footing the bill for civil suits in exchange for a cut of the payout at the finish line.

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Judge Who Denied Goldstein Retrial Says It Wasn't Close Case

By Rachel Rippetoe

A Maryland federal judge has elaborated on her decision to deny SCOTUSblog founder Tom Goldstein's bid for an acquittal or new trial, saying that the evidence presented at trial either supersedes or invalidates his claims of issues with jury instructions and insufficient or excluded evidence.

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Judicial Noms Still Say Biden Won In 2020 — Technically

By Courtney Bublé

A group of judicial nominees, who earlier this month were the first of the Trump administration's nominees to say President Joe Biden won the 2020 election, reiterated in follow-up statements that Biden won the election "as a matter of law" — doubling down on what critics say is an equivocation on the election's outcome.

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Judge Allows Brazil To Join Trump Suit Against Justice

By Carolina Bolado

A Florida federal judge on Tuesday allowed Brazil to intervene in a suit by President Donald Trump's media company and online video-sharing platform Rumble Inc. against a Brazilian Supreme Federal Court justice's gag orders but deferred ruling on Brazil's motion to dismiss the suit.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Akerman LLP

Allen Hansen

Arnall Golden

Barnwell Whaley

Boies Schiller

Borowsky & Borowsky

Carmody Torrance Sandak & Hennessey LLP

Clifford Chance

Cozen O'Connor

DLA Piper

Dordick Law

Double Aught Injury Lawyers

Eversheds Sutherland

Faegre Drinker

Foley Hoag

Fox Rothschild

Greenberg Gross

Hamilton Stephens Steele & Martin

Hodgson Russ

Holland & Knight

Jones Day

Keller Rohrback

Kirkland & Ellis

Lathrop GPM

Law Offices of Peter C. Lucas

Lipcon Margulies

Littler Mendelson

Lynch Traub

Mazie Slater

McElroy Deutsch

Mincey Fitzpatrick

Morgan & Morgan PA

Munger Tolles

Murphy & Grantland

Nagel Rice

Norton Rose

O'Melveny & Myers

Orrick Herrington

Parris Law Firm

Parry Law PLLC

Pendley Baudin

Perkins Coie

Reed Smith

Robins Kaplan

Robinson Bradshaw

Schneider Injury Law

Scott&Scott

Slater Slater

Susman Godfrey

Swift Currie

Vinson & Elkins

Webb Daniel Friedlander

Weinberg Wheeler

Wilson Sonsini

Winston Taylor

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Ahern Rentals Inc.

American Bar Association

American Tort Reform Association

Center for Democracy & Technology

Claremont McKenna College

Fordham University

George Washington University

Google LLC

GuideOne Mutual Insurance Co.

Hay Adams Hotel LP

Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey

Instagram Inc.

Johnson & Johnson

Lex Machina Inc.

LexisNexis Legal & Professional

Lowe's Cos. Inc.

Meta Platforms Inc.

New York State Bar Association

North Carolina Justice Center

RELX PLC

Reddit Inc.

Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.

Starbucks Corp.

Turo Inc.

Twitter Inc.

U-Haul International Inc.

Uber Eats

Uber Technologies Inc.

Verizon Communications Inc.

Yale New Haven Health

Yamaha Motor Co.

YouTube Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

California Labor and Workforce Development Agency

California Supreme Court

Executive Office for Immigration Review

Federal Trade Commission

Georgia Court of Appeals

Georgia Supreme Court

Internal Revenue Service

New Jersey Court

New York State Unified Court System

North Carolina General Assembly

Occupational Safety and Health Administration

Pennsylvania Supreme Court

Texas Attorney General's Office

U.S. Attorney's Office

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

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Department of Justice

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

U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina

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

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

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

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 Western District of Washington

U.S. General Services Administration

U.S. Government Accountability Office

U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

U.S. Senate