A prominent plaintiff’s attorney in the social media addiction trial unfolding in Los Angeles lost his leadership role Friday after twice breaking the court’s rules on technology use in the building.

Federal judges appointed a new top federal prosecutor in the Eastern District of Virginia on Friday, drawing an immediate rebuke from a top Justice Department official who announced the pick was fired.

Former Massachusetts federal Judge Mark Wolf, who said he stepped down from the bench last year to freely raise concerns about President Donald Trump, created a stressful culture for his chambers staff, according to seven former employees.

Chief Judge Jeffrey Sutton of the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, who wrote notable opinions upholding both Obamacare and same-sex marriage bans, plans to step away from active status, handing President Donald Trump a rare appellate vacancy to fill as judges have been slow to retire in his second presidency.

A New Jersey trial court refused to stay an order disqualifying Beasley Allen from the sprawling litigation involving more than 70,000 ovarian cancer claims by users of Johnson & Johnson talc-based products.

McGlinchey Stafford, the New Orleans-based law firm that shuttered last month, filed for bankruptcy to address more than $10 million in liabilities with former lawyers, vendors, and large financial institutions.

Washington, DC, police closed a sexual assault investigation into Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer’s husband after federal prosecutors found no indication of a crime, a police spokesperson confirmed.

South Korea said a US Supreme Court ruling striking down tariffs imposed under President Donald Trump’s emergency powers would not derail its broader trade agreement with Washington.

Detroit’s automakers learned Friday night that they had been spared from tariffs that President Donald Trump imposed after the US Supreme Court struck down most of his global duties.

In early 2024, the agency that oversees cybersecurity for much of the US government issued a rare emergency order — disconnect your Connect Secure virtual private network software immediately. Chinese spies had hacked the code and infiltrated nearly two dozen organizations.

A New York federal court denied a home healthcare company’s request to reduce FLSA liquidated damages, finding they lacked good faith and reasonableness in failing to track or pay overtime for live-in aides’ interrupted meal and sleep breaks. Chavez-Deremer v. Sarene Servs., 2026 BL 53610, E.D.N.Y., 2:20-cv-3273 (NJC) (ST), 2/18/26

A Missouri federal court denied Jost Chemical’s motion to dismiss a chemical line operator’s Title VII race discrimination claim, ruling the EEOC’s dismissal of the charge satisfied administrative requirements despite the right-to-sue notice being issued before 180 days had passed. Leckrone v. Jost Chem. Co., 2026 BL 53421, E.D. Mo., 4:25-cv-01660-AGF, 2/18/26

Google LLC‘s broad copyright licenses for the content that flows over its many platforms could complicate class certification for authors and artists suing the tech giant for using their works to train its generative AI models.

A prominent plaintiff’s attorney in the social media addiction trial unfolding in Los Angeles lost his leadership role Friday after twice breaking the court’s rules on technology use in the building.

TikTok Inc. dropped its lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Montana’s first-in-the-US ban on the service within the state’s borders.

Former Massachusetts federal Judge Mark Wolf, who said he stepped down from the bench last year to freely raise concerns about President Donald Trump, created a stressful culture for his chambers staff, according to seven former employees.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued fast-fashion giant Shein Friday, alleging the company unlawfully sells toxic products to US consumers and exposes Americans’ personal data to the Chinese government.

The US Department of Justice must expedite records requests from a nonprofit watchdog related to its efforts to compel states to hand over copies of their voter registration lists.

Texas student groups are entitled to early relief in their suit challenging a state law they say unlawfully bans all student organizations based on sexual orientation or gender identity, a federal district court said.

The Utah Supreme Court on Friday rejected the Republican legislature’s request to block a judge-imposed congressional map favored by Democrats and reinstate the district lines it drew.

President Donald Trump took the Supreme Court’s tariffs ruling personally, and he made it personal in response.

The full Fifth Circuit cleared the way for Louisiana to enforce a law requiring public schools to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms.

The Montgomery County Board of Education has reached a settlement to end a legal challenge to its policy that prohibited parents from excusing their children from instruction involving LGBTQ+-themed books in schools.

A Texas judge can refuse to marry same-sex couples because of her religious beliefs, a state court ruled, a groundbreaking decision in a more than five-year-old case testing the limits of religious freedom protections for judges who are otherwise to remain impartial.