Media & Entertainment

  • April 30, 2026

    Defamation Litigation Roundup: Loomer, Patel, Carroll

    In this month's review of defamation fights, Law360 explores a Florida federal court ruling rejecting a suit by ring-wing provocateur Laura Loomer against a popular comedian, as well as developments in a case by former real estate executives against a trade publication for reporting on sexual assault allegations against them.

  • April 30, 2026

    Fox News Can't Yet Duck Newsom's $787M Defamation Suit

    A Delaware state judge Thursday refused to throw out California Gov. Gavin Newsom's $787 million defamation claims over Fox News' coverage of his June 6 phone call with President Donald Trump, ruling that Newsom has plausibly alleged that Fox News knew it was making false statements when it made them.

  • April 30, 2026

    5 States Join Bid To Block $6.2B Nexstar-Tegna Merger

    Five states on Thursday joined a coalition of others who sued to challenge Nexstar Media Group Inc.'s then-proposed $6.2 billion merger with Tegna Inc., alleging in an amended antitrust complaint that the currently frozen deal will eliminate consumers' choices for local news and diminish diversity in news coverage.

  • April 30, 2026

    OpenAI Judge Pauses Trial To Probe Musk Attys On $97B Bid

    A California federal jury trial over Elon Musk's challenge to OpenAI's for-profit conversion paused on a precarious note Thursday after Musk's legal team failed to object to a document during Musk's cross-examination, and inadvertently opened the door to wide-ranging and potentially damaging evidence into Musk's $97.4 billion acquisition proposal.

  • April 30, 2026

    Ad Network Can't Ditch Suit Over Mobile App User Tracking

    A California federal judge refused to toss a putative class action accusing mobile advertising network InMobi of unlawfully collecting detailed, sensitive information from users of apps that integrate its software tools, finding the plaintiff adequately alleged the technology functions as a "pen register" that's prohibited by the state's wiretap law. 

  • April 30, 2026

    Mich. Appeals Court Revives Bounce House Back Injury Suit

    A Michigan court has revived a negligence suit brought by a 29-year-old man who claims he was seriously injured when he performed a backflip in a bounce house at an indoor children's amusement facility, saying a jury should decide if Family and Friends Funland should have had an employee supervising the inflatable playscape.

  • April 30, 2026

    New Mexico AG Calls Meta Threat To Leave State 'PR Stunt'

    New Mexico's attorney general responded Thursday to Meta Platforms' threat to pull social media products from the state if an upcoming bench trial over potential mandates to increase child safety goes poorly for the company, calling it a "PR stunt" that is "showing the world how little it cares about child safety."

  • April 30, 2026

    FCC Advances Plan To Clamp Down On Robocall Campaigns

    Calling illegal robocalls the No. 1 customer service issue facing the agency, the Federal Communications Commission on Thursday floated new rules that would require voice call providers to familiarize themselves with customers ahead of carrying their call traffic.

  • April 30, 2026

    'Grotesquely Bloated,' Google Judge Rips Consumers' Fee Bid

    A California federal judge said Thursday he would likely give final approval to Google's $700 million antitrust deal with states and consumers, but blasted the accompanying request for $85 million in attorney fees, calling the 100,000 hours the consumers' counsel said they spent on the case "grotesquely bloated."

  • April 30, 2026

    Monthly Merger Review Snapshot

    A pair of door manufacturers ended a landmark private merger challenge, state enforcers are gearing up for a potential Live Nation breakup bid following a crucial jury win, and a separate group of states and DirecTV are challenging Nexstar's $6.2 billion deal for rival broadcaster Tegna.

  • April 30, 2026

    Google Says Ad Tech Rivals Can't 'Circumvent' Time Limits

    Google has formally asked a New York federal judge to dramatically reduce antitrust claims from rival advertising placement technology providers, arguing they're clearly targeting policies they've known about for years and thus cannot get around a four-year statute of limitations pegged to a U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit.

  • April 30, 2026

    Netflix's 'Tiger King' Funeral Clip Was Fair Use, 10th Circ. Says

    The Tenth Circuit on Thursday said Netflix Inc. made fair use of a minutelong funeral clip in its popular "Tiger King" docuseries, holding in a precedential opinion that the streaming platform's use of the footage was "significantly transformative," departing from its earlier ruling that reached the opposite conclusion.

  • April 30, 2026

    Al Jazeera Fights To Nix Storm Video DMCA Claim For Good

    Al Jazeera urged a California federal judge Thursday to permanently nix a claim alleging it knowingly, with intent to conceal infringement, embedded its watermark over videographers' extreme weather footage uploaded onto YouTube, arguing it never removed the videographers' copyright management information and that the parties' works are not identical.

  • April 30, 2026

    Crypto Co. Fights Shkreli's Counterclaims In Album Case

    A cryptocurrency company suing "Pharma Bro" Martin Shkreli over ownership of a coveted Wu-Tang Clan album has asked a Brooklyn federal judge to dismiss his counterclaims, calling his claim seeking a declaration that he didn't steal trade secrets related to the album a "mirror image" of the company's claim saying he did.

  • April 30, 2026

    Texas Justices Asked To Revive Infowars Lease To The Onion

    Victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre have asked the Texas Supreme Court to let a court-appointed receiver lease Alex Jones' website Infowars to a company linked to satire publication The Onion, a move that could hasten the delivery of funds Jones owes the families after massive defamation judgments.

  • April 30, 2026

    Tribes Back Michigan In Robinhood, Polymarket Betting Fight

    A coalition of tribal gaming groups and federally recognized tribes won permission on Thursday to file briefs backing Michigan officials in suits by Robinhood Derivatives LLC and Polymarket US over sports-related event contracts, arguing the companies' claims threaten to upend tribal-state gaming regulation and siphon revenue from tribal governments. 

  • April 30, 2026

    XAI's Suit Is 'Jurisdictional Bullying,' Musk Child's Mom Says

    The mother of one of Elon Musk's children is urging a Texas federal court to throw out a suit from his artificial intelligence company alleging she breached its terms of service by suing it in New York, saying the case is "jurisdictional bullying" and trying to weaponize a forum selection clause to preempt her own case.

  • April 30, 2026

    Antenna Location Near Bermuda Sinks Ala. FM Station Bid

    Selma, Alabama, will not be getting a new low-power FM station after the Federal Communications Commission said an error on the paperwork listed antenna coordinates that nearly reached all the way to Bermuda.

  • April 30, 2026

    Ark. Asks 8th Circ. To Uphold Tribal Gaming License Order

    Arkansas is asking the Eighth Circuit to reject an appeal by two Cherokee Nation entities over the voter referendum revocation of a gaming license in Pope County, arguing that their claims omit crucial details in alleging that the state conspired to violate their constitutional rights.

  • April 30, 2026

    Exec Fired By 5-Hour Energy Founder Wins Trial Over Pay

    A Manhattan federal jury credited severance claims from an executive who worked for the former publisher of Sports Illustrated, awarding him over $1 million after he was fired when the billionaire founder of 5-Hour Energy drinks took control, according to a Thursday verdict sheet.

  • April 30, 2026

    Judge Seeks Help On Jurisdiction In Trump's Tax Leak Suit

    A Miami federal court appointed six attorneys from three firms to help it determine whether it has jurisdiction in President Donald Trump's suit accusing the IRS of failing to prevent a former contractor from leaking his tax returns to news outlets.

  • April 29, 2026

    Musk Accuses OpenAI Atty Of Tricking Jury In Fiery Cross

    Elon Musk locked horns with an OpenAI attorney during a combative, and at times comical, cross-examination in a California federal jury trial Wednesday over Musk's challenge to OpenAI's for-profit conversion, repeatedly accusing defense counsel of asking "false" and misleading questions, which Musk claimed were crafted to "trick" him and jurors.

  • April 29, 2026

    Tech Group Aims To Halt Minn. Social Media Warning Mandate

    A Minnesota law that requires social media platforms to prominently display mental health warning labels to all users has become the target of the latest First Amendment challenge being pressed by tech trade group NetChoice, which argued in a lawsuit filed Wednesday that the state is using public health concerns to create an unlawful "backdoor" to regulate protected speech. 

  • April 29, 2026

    Bipartisan Bill Would Give Parents Control Over Kids' AI Use

    A group of Democratic and Republican senators introduced legislation that would allow parents to keep a better eye on their children's use of chatbots by requiring artificial intelligence companies to establish safeguards the lawmakers say will help protect kids' mental health and social development.

  • April 29, 2026

    FCC Looks To Update How It Collects Broadband Map Data

    The Federal Communications Commission has its eye on the National Broadband Map, with plans to vote next month on launching a proceeding to explore how to cut red tape from the data collection process while also increasing the accuracy of the data being collected.

Expert Analysis

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    Playing Magic: The Gathering Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    The competitive card game Magic: The Gathering offers me a training ground for the strategic thinking skills crucial to litigation, challenging me to adapt to oft-updated rules, analyze text as complicated as any statute and anticipate my opponent’s next moves, says Christopher Smith at Lash Goldberg.

  • What's At Stake For Employers In Fight Over Visa Pause

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    For employers that rely on foreign talent, the Trump administration’s suspension of immigrant visa issuance for the nationals of 75 countries is creating practical problems, and a recently filed lawsuit challenging the pause could determine whether consular processing, for some, ceases to be an individualized process, says attorney Lisa Eisenberg.

  • Improving Well-Being In Law, 10 Years After Landmark Study

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    An important 2016 study revealed significant substance abuse and mental health issues among lawyers, and while the findings helped normalize the conversation around these topics, a decade later, structural change is still needed, says Denise Robinson at PLI.

  • Initial Virginia AG Actions Signal Focus On Multistate Efforts

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    Now that Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones has reached the 100-day mark in office, his first set of actions reveals a clear preference for coalition with regional and national counterparts, which means the primary risk for businesses is no longer just the fact of enforcement, but the speed at which investigations can escalate, says Lauren Cooper at Hogan Lovells.

  • Opinion

    New Legislation May Be Necessary To Fix Flawed Cox Ruling

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    The U.S. Supreme Court's opinion in Cox v. Sony erroneously limited the doctrine of contributory copyright infringement and effectively eliminated such liability for internet service providers, and the most viable option to remedy the damage is to codify the pre-Cox common law of contributory copyright infringement, says Michael Cicero at Mavacy.

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    Officiating Football Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Though they may seem to have little in common, officiating football has sharpened many of the same skills that define effective lawyering in management-side labor and employment: preparation, judgment, composure, credibility and ability to make difficult decisions in real time, says Josh Nadreau at Fisher Phillips.

  • How College Sports EO Raises Stakes, Casts Uncertainty

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    The effectiveness of President Donald Trump's recent executive order urging national action to "save" college sports depends on NCAA implementation and judicial tolerance, neither of which is certain, so college athletics will remain governed by an unstable balance between executive pressure and judicial authority until Congress acts, say attorneys at Manatt.

  • Prediction Market Platform Probes Merit Strategic Responses

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    As the battle over the regulation of prediction markets is being waged between states and the federal government, investigations into insider trading allegations are increasingly originating from inside the exchanges themselves, creating obvious risks for market participants — as well as opportunities, say attorneys at Kobre & Kim.

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    Law School's Missed Lessons: How To Draft Pleadings

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    Most law school graduates step into their first jobs without ever having drafted a complaint, answer, motion or other type of pleading, but that gap can be closed by understanding the strategy embedded in every filing, writing with clarity and purpose, and seeking feedback at every step, says Eric Yakaitis at Haug Barron.

  • E-Discovery Quarterly: Recent Rulings On ESI Control

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    Several recent federal court decisions have perpetuated a split over what constitutes “control” of electronically stored information — with judges divided on whether the standard should turn on a party's legal right or practical ability to obtain the information, say attorneys at Sidley.

  • Del. Ruling Shows Power Of Postclose Governance Provisions

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    After the Delaware Court of Chancery reinstated a target company's CEO as part of the equitable remedy in Fortis Advisors v. Krafton, deal parties should emphasize the importance of postclosing governance provisions to earnout economics, knowing that they will have to live with these provisions for the duration of the earnout period, say attorneys at Sidley.

  • The Role Of Operational Data In Tech Platform Liability Suits

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    As litigation becomes a de facto substitute for the regulation of major technology platforms, with plaintiffs advancing claims under product liability, public nuisance and consumer protection laws, among others, courts are evaluating how platform systems operate in practice based on large-scale operational data, say attorneys at Brattle.

  • 2 Discovery Rulings Break With Heppner On AI Privilege Issue

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    While a New York federal court’s recent ruling in U.S. v. Heppner suggests that some litigants’ communications with AI tools are discoverable, two other recent federal court decisions demonstrate that such interactions generally qualify for work-product protection under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, says Joshua Dunn at Brown Rudnick.

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    Isshin-Ryu Karate Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    My involvement in martial arts, specifically Isshin-ryu, which has principles rooted in the eight codes of karate, has been one of the most foundational in the development of my personality, and particularly my approach to challenges — including in my practice of law, says Kaitlyn Stone at Barnes & Thornburg.

  • 5 Key Questions Attys Should Ask About Statistical Analyses

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    Even attorneys without a background in statistics can effectively vet the general concepts of a statistical analysis by asking targeted questions and can thereby reinforce the credibility and relevance of expert testimony — or expose its weaknesses, say Katrina Schydlower and Christopher Cunio at Hunton and Kevin Cahill at FTI Consulting.

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