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April 20, 2026
FBI Director Kash Patel sued The Atlantic magazine for $250 million in damages Monday, claiming a recent report about his alleged drinking and absences from work was "fabricated" and designed to "drive him from office."
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April 20, 2026
A conservative social media influencer accused of defaming a transgender Army National Guard pilot by claiming that she caused the deadly January 2025 collision over the Potomac River has asked a Colorado federal judge to reconsider his decision not to throw out the lawsuit.
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April 20, 2026
The Delaware Chancery Court should not grant WWE shareholders' latest discovery motion, company leaders and related parties have said, arguing that investors' demand for more information about what they called deleted messages were unnecessary, unsupported and already satisfied.
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April 20, 2026
Netflix's attorneys at Baker Botts and Perkins Coie are asking a California federal court to order a Finnish national and his former attorney at Ramey LLP to pay $3 million in fees the streaming giant incurred in defending a patent suit.
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April 20, 2026
Google has asked a Manhattan federal judge to throw out a contributory infringement claim asserted by a group of textbook publishers in light of a U.S. Supreme Court decision that held that internet service providers aren't accountable for piracy committed by users.
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April 20, 2026
An organization that normally champions the Federal Communications Commission's E-rate program, which subsidizes internet service for schools and libraries, has told the agency it thinks its plans to consolidate bids into a single competitive portal is a bad idea.
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April 20, 2026
Live Nation is asking a New York federal court to strike the testimony of a key expert witness for the states and to wipe the damages awarded by the jury based on her work, in the antitrust case accusing the company of monopolizing the live entertainment industry.
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April 20, 2026
CNN has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reject a petition to revive Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz's $300 million defamation suit, calling Dershowitz a "uniquely unfit petitioner to force a constitutional showdown" over the high court's First Amendment jurisprudence.
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April 20, 2026
A NASA contracting officer lacked the authority to enter into a long-term contract with a movie production company, a Court of Federal Claims judge said, axing the company's claims that NASA breached an implied agreement to lease space at a Louisiana facility for 10 years.
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April 20, 2026
Prosecutors can pause U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission fraud claims in New York federal court against convicted corporate raider Paul Bilzerian and his associates as the government's own charges against him, his accountant and a vape company head for an October trial.
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April 20, 2026
An Illinois federal judge has ruled in favor of a Facebook group and a phone app that track U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement immigration operations in their lawsuit accusing U.S. government officials of coercing Meta and Apple into disabling their content, finding their First Amendment rights were likely violated.
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April 20, 2026
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP announced on Monday that it has hired a former Kirkland & Ellis LLP partner to lead its music practice, touting his work at the intersection of intellectual property, media and entertainment, technology and commercial transactions.
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April 20, 2026
The Delaware Chancery Court this past week delivered another mix of procedural rulings, fiduciary duty disputes and deal litigation, highlighting both the court's gatekeeping role and its continued focus on stockholder rights and transactional fairness.
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April 20, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a law professor's trademark appeal over the name "Rapunzel," leaving intact a Federal Circuit ruling that found consumers lack standing to challenge generic marks at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
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April 20, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday passed on reviewing a sculptor's efforts to save a portion of her copyright case against Walmart over photographs that appeared on its website, letting stand a Ninth Circuit decision that partly reversed her lower court win in the suit.
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April 17, 2026
A California federal judge on Friday issued a preliminary injunction barring, for now, the $6.2 billion merger of broadcast giants Nexstar and Tegna, ruling that state attorneys general and DirecTV are likely to prevail in proving that the deal is anticompetitive and will harm consumers as well as distributors.
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April 17, 2026
A California state judge Friday largely denied Alec Baldwin's request for summary judgment in a negligence case brought by the chief lighting technician on the film "Rust," teeing the case up for trial.
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April 17, 2026
The state data privacy law landscape continues to grow, with Alabama becoming the latest to join the fray and Kentucky moving to expand the types of sensitive data covered by its existing statute, although one state's legislature that had been pushing to enact what would have been one of the strictest frameworks in the nation adjourned for the year without finishing.
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April 17, 2026
The Eleventh Circuit on Friday agreed to resurrect a dispute between a company that claims to own various Frida Kahlo trademarks and Kahlo's family, ruling that a lower court erred in throwing out the case for lack of jurisdiction.
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April 17, 2026
A California federal judge Friday appeared frustrated with Elon Musk and OpenAI ahead of trial over Musk's challenge to OpenAI's conversion to a for-profit entity, criticizing the parties' "constantly shifting" positions and doubting whether she has the authority to grant the relief Musk requested.
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April 17, 2026
There are hundreds of places all over the country where AT&T's copper phone lines have been disrupted, either by accident, theft or natural disaster, and it's asking the Federal Communications Commission for permission not to replace them.
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April 17, 2026
OpenAI has abandoned its Ninth Circuit appeal of an injunction blocking it from using the term "Cameo" in relation to a component of its artificial intelligence video generator Sora 2.
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April 17, 2026
A Connecticut state judge has ordered the strict foreclosure of a Greenwich mansion that exiled Russian media tycoon Vladimir Gusinski purchased through an arm of his company, New Media Holdings LLC, capping a six-year-old lawsuit by a bank and its successor surrounding $4.94 million loans.
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April 17, 2026
Though antitrust charges are in play in the U.S. Department of Justice's investigation into the NFL's deals with services like Amazon Prime and Netflix, experts say they don't see a strong federal case against the league's broadcasting practices, as focus may shift to updating a decades-old law governing how sports leagues negotiate television deals.
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April 17, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court's final argument session of this term kicks off Monday, when the justices will consider the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's authority to seek disgorgement orders against alleged wrongdoers without proving investors were harmed. Here, Law360 breaks down the week's oral arguments.