Consumers can pursue their proposed class claims against Monsanto that ingredients in its Roundup herbicides could form a dangerous cancer-causing substance, but not against a distributor, the Ninth Circuit ruled Thursday.
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9th Circ. Revives Monsanto Roundup Expiration Label Fight

By Lauren Berg

Consumers can pursue their proposed class claims against Monsanto that ingredients in its Roundup herbicides could form a dangerous cancer-causing substance, but not against a distributor, the Ninth Circuit ruled Thursday.

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Sikorsky Loses Bid To Move Fatal Crash Suit To Conn.

By Matthew Santoni

Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. can't get a lawsuit over a fatal helicopter crash transferred from Pennsylvania to Connecticut, in part because the crashed helicopter underwent finishing and flight testing at Sikorsky's former facility in the Keystone State, a federal judge has ruled.

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Senate Panel Grills FAA, Army On DCA Midair Collision

By Linda Chiem

U.S. Senate lawmakers on Thursday grilled the Federal Aviation Administration and U.S. Army over miscommunication and policy lapses as thousands of near-misses between commercial jets and helicopters near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport were documented well before January's devastating midair collision that left 67 people dead.

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Mich. Judge Deflects Criticism Of Atty Fees In $53M Flint Deal

By Danielle Ferguson

A Michigan federal judge on Thursday defended her decision to grant a third of a $53 million settlement to attorney fees for lawyers who represented Flint claimants who alleged a water firm prolonged the water crisis, saying many members of the public don't understand the complexities of the case.

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Analysis

HHS To Cut 10,000 Jobs As RFK Jr. Reorganizes Agency

By Dan McKay

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said Thursday that it would lay off 10,000 employees as part of a "dramatic" plan to restructure the agency and downsize its workforce by about 24%.

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DRUGS & DEVICES

Fertility Co. Wants To Pull Device Maker Into Negligence Suit 

By Brian Steele

A fertility products company wants two other companies to share potential liability from a Connecticut state lawsuit alleging that a recalled culture medium was responsible for the loss of embryos a couple were planning to use for in vitro fertilization.

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FOOD & BEVERAGE

Brief

Costco Settles Listeria-Contaminated Chicken Wrap Claims

By Ryan Harroff

Costco Wholesale Corp. has settled a putative class action brought by a Florida man who claimed he ate a chicken wrap contaminated with listeria from one of its stores and had to be hospitalized.

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TALC

Barretts Mediator Feinberg Blames Committee For Impasse

By Rick Archer

The mediator in the bankruptcy of talc miner Barretts Minerals Inc. has told a Texas bankruptcy court that Chapter 11 plan talks reached an impasse, saying the unsecured creditors in the case have not shown an "ability or willingness to engage."

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AUTOMOTIVE

Tesla Faces Fraud Claims Over Fatal Autopilot Crash

By Emily Field

A California state judge said Thursday that fraudulent misrepresentation claims and punitive damages claims can go ahead against Tesla Inc. in a case over an accident that killed a 15-year-old, since they were not filed too late.

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INSURANCE

Feds Allowed To Weigh In On MultiPlan Pricing MDL

By Celeste Bott

The federal government will be allowed to appear in multidistrict antitrust litigation targeting MultiPlan's out-of-network reimbursement rates to offer input on the legal framework for analyzing claims involving the joint use of algorithms, a practice it says poses "a growing threat" to free market competition.

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Brief

AIG Drops Water Damage Suit Against NFL Player's Contractor

By David Steele

An insurer who sued the contractor and plumbers who worked on the home of NFL player Darius Slay for more than $300,000 in water damage dropped the suit Thursday, after the companies never responded to it.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Opinion

Airlines Should Follow Treaty On Prompt Crash Payouts

In the wake of the recent crash of a Delta Air Lines flight during landing in Toronto, it is vital for air carriers and their insurers to understand how the Montreal Convention's process for immediate passenger compensation can avoid years of costly litigation and reputational damage for companies, says Robert Alpert at International Crisis Response.

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Series

Baseball Fantasy Camp Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Judges Block Trump's Jenner & Block, WilmerHale Orders

By Lauren Berg, Ali Sullivan and Alison Knezevich

Jenner & Block LLP and WilmerHale both won temporary restraining orders late Friday blocking President Donald Trump's executive orders targeting the firms, with two Washington, D.C., federal judges determining the firms have shown the orders are likely retaliation for their representation of certain clients.

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Skadden Offers $100M In Pro Bono Work To Avoid Trump Order

By Aebra Coe

Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP has reached a deal with President Donald Trump to avert an impending executive order that could have prevented it from taking on work connected to the federal government and its contractors, according to an announcement by the president Friday on social media platform Truth Social.

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Up Next At High Court: Terror Liability, Health Provider Choice

By Katie Buehler

The U.S. Supreme Court will return to the bench this week to consider whether a federal law subjecting Palestinian government organizations to federal jurisdiction violates due process principles and if the Medicaid Act's provider choice provision allows individual benefit recipients to sue states over the disqualification of healthcare providers. 

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Trump Grants Clemency To Ozy Media CEO Carlos Watson

By Hailey Konnath

President Donald Trump has granted clemency to former Ozy Media CEO Carlos Watson, who was facing nearly a decade in prison for lying to banks and investors to secure funding for his now-shuttered multimedia company, the White House confirmed Friday.

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Trump Pardons BitMEX Crypto Co., Four Ex-Executives

By Aislinn Keely

President Donald Trump has pardoned the business entity behind cryptocurrency exchange BitMEX and four of the firm's former executives years after they copped to Bank Secrecy Act violations and lax anti-money laundering controls, the White House confirmed Friday.

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Tubi Says Keller Postman Breached Deal In Arbitration Fight

By Emily Sawicki

The D.C. federal judge overseeing video streaming service Tubi Inc.'s tortious interference suit against Keller Postman LLC over mass arbitration claims ordered the parties on Friday to schedule a status conference for next month, in light of Tubi's claims that the firm violated an agreement.

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Ex-Paralegal Sues Ga. Personal Injury Firm Over 658 OT Hours

By Irene Spezzamonte

An Atlanta-based personal injury law firm didn't pay a former paralegal for 658 hours of overtime, and it erroneously considered her a salaried-exempt employee, according to a lawsuit filed in Georgia federal court.

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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 sparkling winemaker Nyetimber hit a rival distillery with an intellectual property claim, Newcastle United's former owner Mike Ashley target the club's ex-vice president for damages tied to a fraudulent investment, and a real estate agency file a legal claim against law firm Winston & Strawn LLP. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

As a growing number of companies and their general counsel consider moving their incorporation out of Delaware, the state's governor has quickly signed into law a measure revising its corporation statutes, though there are still critics. And 98% of legal leaders in a recent survey said their budgets are increasing in 2025 to handle the extra work stemming from new diversity risks, tech changes and cybersecurity threats.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

UCLA School of Law's Supreme Court Clinic and Gair Gallo Eberhard LLP head this week's list of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a Seventh Circuit ruling that upheld the conviction of a former Chicago alderman for making false statements about loans from a defunct bank.

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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

Aidala Bertuna

Akin Gump

Arnall Golden

Arnold & Itkin

Arnold & Porter

Arthur Cox

Ashfords LLP

Ashurst LLP

Barclay Damon

Berger Montague

Birketts LLP

Bowman & Brooke

Brown Rudnick

CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang

Caplin & Drysdale

Carlton Fields

Clark Smith Villazor

Clarkson Law Firm PC

Clement & Murphy

Clifford Law Offices

Clyde & Co

Cooley LLP

Cooney Trybus

Covington & Burling

Crowell & Moring

DWF LLP

Davis Polk

Dickinson Wright

Dinsmore & Shohl

Druces LLP

Edelson PC

Eversheds Sutherland

Fisher & Phillips

Fitzpatrick Hunt

Foley Hoag

Gateley PLC

Gibson Dunn

Gilbert & Tobin

Gordons LLP

Gutride Safier

Hecker Fink

Hogan Lovells

Irell & Manella

Jenner & Block

Jones Day

Keller Postman

Keystone Law

King & Spalding

Kirkland & Ellis

Kline & Specter

Koskoff Koskoff

Lankler Siffert & Wohl

Latham & Watkins

Levy Konigsberg

Macfarlanes LLP

Mayer Brown

McDermott Will & Emery

Mitchell Silberberg

Morgan Lewis

Morvillo Abramowitz

Nabarro LLP

Napoli Shkolnik

Neal Gerber

Nelson Mullins

Pallas Partners

Paul Weiss

Perkins Coie

Phelps Dunbar

Polsinelli PC

Porter Hedges

Quinn Emanuel

Rawle & Henderson

Raynes & Lawn

Robinson & Cole

Ropes & Gray

Seeger Weiss

Shook Hardy

Shoosmiths LLP

Sidley Austin

Signature Litigation LLP

Simmons & Simmons

Singleton Schreiber

Skadden Arps

Squire Patton

Stephenson Harwood

Steptoe LLP

Stutzman Bromberg

Sullivan Law Firm PLLC

Susman Godfrey

Sweet James LLP

TLT LLP

Vinson & Elkins

Wachtell Lipton

Weightmans LLP

White and Williams

Wiggins Childs

Wiley Rein

Williams & Connolly

WilmerHale

Winston & Strawn

Young Conaway

gunnercooke LLP

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

A.P. Moller-Maersk

Alliance Defending Freedom

American Airlines Group Inc.

American International Group Inc.

Amicus

Apple Inc.

Association of Corporate Counsel

Axis Bank Ltd.

BDO LLP

Barclays PLC

Bayer CropScience Ltd.

BuzzFeed Inc.

CooperSurgical Inc.

Costco Wholesale Corp.

Coupang Inc.

Delta Air Lines Inc.

Digital River Inc.

EE Ltd.

Elliott Investment Management LP

Endeavor Air Inc.

Ethiopian Airlines Enterprise

FTI Consulting Inc.

Great American Insurance Co.

HDR Global Trading Ltd.

Intel Corp.

James Hardie Industries PLC

LG Electronics Inc.

LexisNexis Legal & Professional

Lockheed Martin Corp.

Major League Baseball Inc.

Mars Inc.

McKinsey & Co. Inc.

Mediterranean Shipping Co. SA

Monsanto Co.

MultiPlan Corp.

National Treasury Employees Union

National Westminster Bank PLC

Netlist Inc.

PSA Airlines Inc.

Philadelphia Eagles

Phillips 66

Pittsburgh Steelers

Planned Parenthood Federation

RELX PLC

Reser's Fine Foods Inc.

Ryanair Holdings PLC

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

Severn Trent PLC

Sony Music Publishing LLC

St. Louis Cardinals

Tesla Inc.

The AZEK Co. LLC

The Boeing Co.

The Cooper Cos. Inc.

The Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

The Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC

The Scotts Miracle-Gro Co.

UCLA School of Law

Uber Technologies Inc.

Veolia Environnement SA

Vice Media Inc.

Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Worldwide Inc.

Warner Bros. Records Inc.

WeWork Inc.

World Airways Inc.

YouTube Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Companies House

Delaware Court of Chancery

Executive Office of the President

Federal Aviation Administration

Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

Financial Crimes Enforcement Network

Financial Reporting Council

Food and Drug Administration

Health Resources and Services Administration

NATO

National Institutes of Health

National Labor Relations Board

National Transportation Safety Board

Patent Trial and Appeal Board

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

Texas Department of Criminal Justice

U.S. Army

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

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

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of Labor

U.S. Department of the Treasury

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

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

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 New York

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

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

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

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

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

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

UK High Court

United Nations

Wisconsin Department of Justice

Wisconsin Supreme Court