In The American Lawyer: Big Suits

On August 21, 2026, the Tenth Circuit granted the NCAA’s stay request in Wisne v. NCAA, temporarily restoring the NCAA’s age-based eligibility rules pending resolution of the appeal. Three weeks earlier, Judge Sweeney of the District of Colorado had issued a nationwide injunction that permitted athletes in the Class of 2022 to pursue a fifth year of eligibility.

The top ten largest class action settlements in securities cases in the U.S. have recouped tens of billions of dollars in damages.

This monthly newsletter examines critical developments in product liability and mass tort litigation, including FDA guidance on PFAS in medical devices, state-level AI regulation in legal practice...

A Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling harshly criticizes a federal district judge for relying on AI-generated content in legal orders, revealing fabricated facts and poor legal analysis. The decision raises critical questions about the use of generative AI in legal practice and whether lawyers who adopt such technology are compromising their ethical obligations of competence, confidentiality, and integrity.

Two federal courts have reached opposing conclusions on whether expert witnesses must disclose their AI prompts during discovery. While one court treats prompts as discoverable methodology, another protects them as mental impressions while requiring disclosure of AI-generated outputs the expert consulted.

On the morning of July 4, 2025, catastrophic flooding on the Guadalupe River took 135 lives across the Texas Hill Country. Twenty-eight of them—25 school-aged campers, two young counselors and the camp's co-executive director—were at Camp Mystic, a century-old girls' camp near Hunt.

A federal court rejected TikTok's attempt to use two prior nationwide class action settlements—totaling over $93 million—to dismiss new privacy claims brought by minors alleging violations of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act. The ruling hinged on whether the current plaintiffs were demonstrably members of the earlier settlement classes based solely on the pleadings, raising critical questions about the scope and enforceability of broad settlement releases in successive privacy litiga

A federal court in California denied preliminary approval of a $2.3 million data breach settlement affecting over 220,000 individuals, finding seven critical deficiencies in the proposed agreement. The decision highlights the rigorous scrutiny courts apply to class action settlements, particularly regarding claims-made distribution processes, inadequate documentation of settlement value, and unexplained disparate treatment among class members.

The U.S. Supreme Court will review a constitutional challenge to an 1868 federal law banning home distilleries, creating an opportunity to resolve a circuit split between the 5th and 6th Circuit Courts of Appeals. The case centers on whether the prohibition violates the Constitution's Taxation Clause or represents a legitimate exercise of congressional power to prevent tax evasion.

An ICC tribunal has ruled in favor of Galp in its dispute with Venture Global over the Calcasieu Pass LNG facility, finding that Venture Global breached its obligation to declare the facility operational in a timely manner. This decision adds to a series of contrasting outcomes in similar disputes involving other buyers, with damages yet to be determined in a hearing scheduled for 2027 or 2028.

On March 8, 2016, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia preliminarily approved a proposed $19.5 million settlement of a class action lawsuit against Home Depot...

On May 18, 2016, the U.S. government took further steps to ease its sanctions against Burma (Myanmar), although stopping short of totally lifting the sanctions.

On June 24, 2024, the European Union ("EU") adopted a fourteenth package of restrictive measures (sanctions) against Russia for its continued war of aggression against Ukraine.

June 19, 2017 – The Administration and Congress took action on two fronts last week to stiffen sanctions against Cuba, Russia and Iran. While the specific policies and areas of emphasis might change...

This week, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced two new investigations under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, as amended, to determine the effects of certain imports...

If the new information is deemed to be a signal, CDRH convenes an in-house team of subject matter and regulatory experts.

President Trump issued an Executive Order prohibiting certain transactions involving debt of the Government of Venezuelan or equity in entities majority-owned by the Government of Venezuela.

While the court avoided some of the most dramatic remedies requested by the government, the ruling will require major operational shifts for Google and present new strategic opportunities for competitors.

April 7, 2022 - On April 6, 2022, in response to reports of atrocities by Russian forces against Ukrainian civilians in Bucha, the U.S. imposed additional sanctions on Russia

November 1, 2019 — Ryan Fayhee has been identified as one of the 25 most respected sanctions lawyers in Washington, D.C. by Global Investigations Review (GIR).