7th Circ. Admonishes Atty Over 'Astonishing' Bogus Citations

By Christine DeRosa

The Seventh Circuit has admonished but declined to sanction an attorney for a brief that included what a judge called "an astonishing number of erroneous and even hallucinated citations."

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2nd Circ. Backs Public Defender's Firing For Computer Misuse

By Andrea Keckley

The Second Circuit has backed a district court's dismissal of a former public defender's lawsuit against Oneida County, New York, for firing him after he used his work computer to work on his private practice on county time, agreeing that the county did not violate his privacy rights or breach their contract.

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DC Circ. Backs Maximum Prison Term For Trump Tax Leaker

By Phillip Bantz

The D.C. Circuit has upheld the maximum prison sentence handed down in the case of an IRS contractor who pled guilty to leaking President Donald Trump's tax returns, along with thousands of others, ruling Friday that the punishment was "reasonable."

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Feature

Wash. Gov.'s High Court Pick Aims To Hold Off 3 Challengers

By Ben Adlin

In one of the most hotly contested races in this year's Washington Supreme Court, Justice Theo Angelis — who took the high court bench in April after being appointed by Gov. Bob Ferguson — will attempt to defend his Position 5 seat from three challengers, each with a different pitch to voters.

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Analysis

The Biggest Trade Secret Rulings Of 2026: A Midyear Report

By Ivan Moreno

The Federal Circuit issued two of the year's most consequential trade secret rulings within days of each other, wiping out Insulet's victory in a wearable insulin patch pump case while reopening a software company's path to potentially larger damages in a dispute with Ford Motor Co. Here, Law360 highlights the biggest trade secret decisions so far this year.

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Analysis

Top Gov't Contracting Decisions Of 2026: Midyear Report

By Madeline Lyskawa

The U.S. Supreme Court and federal circuit courts decided several consequential cases impacting contractors this year, including weighing whether contractors can immediately appeal district court denials of their immunity claims and clarifying what a successful protester needs to challenge an agency's decision to continue a contract during a bid protest.

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Top Transportation Rulings: Midyear 2026 Report

By Linda Chiem

U.S. Supreme Court rulings determining that freight brokers can face state-based negligence lawsuits and that last-mile drivers can also be exempt from arbitration are among the biggest court decisions of the first half of 2026 affecting the transportation industry. Here, Law360 highlights a few of the biggest transportation-related rulings of 2026 so far.

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DC Circ. Vacates Benghazi Attack Leader's 'Lenient' Sentence

By Madeline Lyskawa

A D.C. Circuit panel vacated a lower court's 28-year sentence of a Libyan national accused of orchestrating the deadly 2012 attacks against a U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, agreeing with the government that his sentence is "unreasonably lenient."

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Split DC Circ. Halts Block Of DOD Escort Rule

By Madeline Lyskawa

A divided D.C. Circuit panel has paused a preliminary injunction blocking the U.S. Department of Defense's policy that reporters must be escorted whenever they're in the Pentagon.

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Fed. Circ. Won't Review Reversal In $18M Penile Implant Case

By Theresa Schliep

The full Federal Circuit said Friday that it won't review a panel decision that mostly undid a California federal jury verdict that awarded $18.3 million to International Medical Devices Inc. in a trade secret case about penile implants.

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Fed. Circ. Upholds PTAB Ax Of Treadmill Patent Claims

By Adam Lidgett

The Federal Circuit on Friday backed a Patent Trial and Appeal Board finding that claims in a Woodway patent on its line of Curve treadmills were invalid, finding the company misinterpreted how the board analyzed key patent language.

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US Seeks Toss Of Arbutus Patent Suit Over Moderna Vaccine

By Ryan Davis

The federal government asked the U.S. Court of Federal Claims on Friday to dismiss much of a patent suit against it by Arbutus Biopharma tied to Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine, saying the court couldn't hear the bulk of the case because Arbutus and Moderna reached a multibillion-dollar consent judgment that is subject to appeal.

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Medical Groups Urge 1st Circ. To Back Vaccine Panel Freeze

By Carolyn Muyskens

The American Academy of Pediatrics and other public health organizations on Friday defended before the First Circuit a Massachusetts judge's decision to block Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s vaccine policy committee appointments, countering claims that the judge overreached.

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2nd Circ. Sends Sprinter's Gatorade Doping Suit To NY Court

By David Steele

The Second Circuit on Friday deferred the appeal by a track athlete claiming Gatorade supplied him with tainted gummies to a New York state appeals court to determine whether his complaint is covered by state tort or contract law.

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Full 3rd Circ. Wipes Out New Jersey Assault Weapons Ban

By Hailey Konnath

The full Third Circuit on Friday held that New Jersey's decades-long ban on semi-automatic firearms and high-capacity magazines is unconstitutional, though some judges said the way the weapons are now being used as well as recent technological advances couldn't have been foreseen by the Constitution's framers.

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Bankrupt Pa. City Can Keep Disputed Revenue, 3rd Circ. Says

By Alex Wittenberg

The Third Circuit ruled Friday that the bankrupt city of Chester, Pennsylvania, gets to keep income from a casino, a trash incinerator and other sources that secured its debt, finding that its creditors' liens on the revenues did not survive Chester's Chapter 9 filing.

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4th Circ. Says MS-13 Threats Didn't Support Asylum Bid

By Elaine Briseño

The Fourth Circuit declined to revisit a Guatemalan man's request for asylum, finding he was not specifically targeted by MS-13 because of his membership in a particular group or his beliefs, but instead was a victim of general gang activity.

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4th Circ. Bars Salvadoran Woman's Bid To Cancel Removal

By Tom Lotshaw

A split panel of the Fourth Circuit ruled Friday an El Salvador woman granted temporary removal relief did not have an immigration "status" and was therefore ineligible to seek to stop her deportation, breaking with precedent in the Fifth and Ninth circuits.

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6th Circ. Says Cops Had Reason To Search Felon's Home

By Mike Curley

A Sixth Circuit panel has rejected a convicted felon's appeal seeking to suppress evidence from a search that found three firearms and contraband in his house, saying police had a reasonable suspicion that he was hiding criminal activities at the house.

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6th Circ. Won't Rehear Mark Cuban-Backed FINRA Challenge

By Phillip Bantz

A Sixth Circuit panel has declined to grant a full rehearing of a constitutional challenge of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority's in-house disciplinary proceedings brought by the owner of a financial consulting company that had support from billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban.

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9th Circ. Rekindles Idaho Logging Review Dispute

By Gautama Mehta

The Ninth Circuit revived a conservation group's suit against the U.S. Forest Service over an environmental review of an Idaho logging project, ruling that the group should have been allowed to raise an argument it had not raised during an earlier administrative process.

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9th Circ. Tosses Child Sex Abuse Conviction Over Bad Search

By Brandon Lowrey

A Ninth Circuit panel threw out the conviction of a man who pled guilty to recording himself raping his 7-year-old daughter in Washington, saying Friday that officers discovered the videos on his computer after going beyond the bounds of an unrelated search warrant.

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EEOC Faults Judge's 'Idiosyncratic' Views In 10th Circ. Appeal

By Benjamin Morse

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission urged the Tenth Circuit to reverse a Kansas federal judge's refusal to enter a $300,000 consent decree resolving claims that Walmart failed to accommodate two deaf workers, arguing he relied on personal views instead of governing approval factors.

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Ex-FDIC, CFPB Chiefs Back Colo. In 10th Circ. Rate Law Case

By Zach Dupont

Two former members of the FDIC's board of directors, one of whom also led the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, filed an amicus brief urging the Tenth Circuit to uphold a panel's ruling reinstating a Colorado law intended to curb high-cost lending in the state that a lower court initially shot down.

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Pipeline Worker Engaged In Interstate Commerce, Court Says

By Spencer Brewer

A Texas appeals court ruled that Energy Transfer LP cannot compel the family of a man who died in a pipeline explosion to arbitration under the Federal Arbitration Act, finding Thursday that the FAA did not apply to his employment contract because he engaged in interstate commerce.

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Deutsche Bank Can Pursue Billionaire Vik Over $243M Order

By Aaron Keller

A Connecticut appeals court on Friday revived a Deutsche Bank lawsuit against billionaire Alexander Vik, concluding that the bank's prior litigation loss did not bar a second lawsuit accusing Vik and his daughter of disrupting a Norwegian software company's share sale designed to partially satisfy a $243 million English court judgment.

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Conn. Justices Bar Town From Killing Errant Forest Tax Break

By Sanjay Talwani

A Connecticut municipal assessor did not have the authority to terminate a property tax break for forest use that was erroneously granted, the state Supreme Court said Friday, suggesting that state lawmakers could clarify the law on the matter.

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Conn. Justices Uphold Nonprofit Center's Renovation Plan

By Aaron Keller

The Connecticut Supreme Court on Friday said a nonprofit cultural center was legally clear to have renovated a building on its nearly 80-acre New Canaan property, finding a town zoning appeals board in 2019 correctly denied neighbors' challenges to a permit obtained from a zoning enforcement officer.

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Fla. Justices Uphold ISIS-Radicalized Teen's Sentences

By Parker Quinlan

The Florida Supreme Court has ruled that a double life without parole sentence handed down to a juvenile convicted of murder who was radicalized by ISIS propaganda on the internet does not violate state law and U.S. Supreme Court precedent forbidding mandatory life sentences for young people.

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Del. High Court Says Jarkesy Doesn't Extend To State Cases

By Katryna Perera

The Delaware Supreme Court has declined to apply the U.S. Supreme Court's Jarkesy holding to a state securities fraud suit arising from an administrative enforcement action brought by the state's Investor Protection Unit, finding there are no similar common-law cases requiring the right to a jury trial.

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Mich. Panel Says Restitution Doesn't Cover Memorial Jewelry

By Melanie Dorsey

A western Michigan man convicted of manslaughter cannot be required to reimburse a victim's family for memorial jewelry purchased after the victim's death, a Michigan appellate panel has ruled, holding for the first time that such items do not qualify as "actual funeral and related services" under the state's restitution laws. 

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Mass. Court Tosses Evidence After Bodycams Show Coercion

By Julie Manganis

Massachusetts' highest court on Friday said a gun and drugs found in a car after police repeatedly searched and pressured the driver for the key must be thrown out as evidence in a case that one of the justices, in a concurrence, says highlights the value of police-worn body cameras.

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Roundup

UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

By Megan Norcott

The past week in London has seen Snapchat and Dolby press on with a fresh infringement claim in their ongoing patent battle, The Telegraph face an intellectual property claim by a photo archive, a group of international human rights barristers and chambers sued, and oil business Equinor embroiled in a contract dispute with BP after recently acquiring full ownership in their offshore project. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

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How Justices Stayed Off The Geofence In Location Data Case

The U.S. Supreme Court's recent Chatrie v. United States decision reaffirms Fourth Amendment protections for location data but avoids more complicated questions about geofence warrants, say attorneys at Adams Duerk.

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Asylum Ruling Signals Larger Separation Of Powers Battle

The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in Mullin v. Al Otro Lado that border officials may turn away asylum-seekers without inspection is part of a broader conversation about the reach of institutional safeguards that subject governmental authority to legal constraint, says Dree Collopy at American University's Washington College of Law.

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Fed. Circ. Licensing Rulings Shed Light On Patentee Standing

Two recent decisions from the Federal Circuit provide a useful framework for evaluating whether a patent license agreement preserves a sufficient exclusionary interest to support future patent infringement claims, say attorneys at Venable.

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Remote Work Rulings Show ADA Fights Hinge On Process

Two opposite outcomes in recent Fifth Circuit and D.C. federal court cases underscore that the legality of denying employees' disability accommodation requests for remote work depends less on broad policy and more on how it's applied, says Paul Sweeney at Ice Miller.

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Solar's Momentum At Mid-2026 Will Help It Overcome Snags

The rapid expansion of U.S. solar development in the first half of 2026 is likely to continue its pace, even amid ongoing shifts in federal trade policy and supply chain regulations, obstacles to permitting reform, and an increasing divide between states enacting policies to encourage or stymie project development, say attorneys at Beveridge & Diamond.

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How Competitive Is Your Compensation? Take Our Survey

Is your compensation keeping pace with the rate of inflation? Do you know what your colleagues made last year? Help Law360 Pulse answer these questions and more in this year's Law Firm Compensation Survey.

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Trump Admin Wants Susman Godfrey DQ In ABA's EO Suit

By Adrian Cruz

Over a year into a suit by the American Bar Association challenging 2025 executive orders targeting law firms, the Trump administration is looking to have Susman Godfrey LLP disqualified as plaintiffs' counsel, alleging the firm can't act as counsel in a case where it's also a key witness.

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Simpson Thacher Points To Audit Issues In Malpractice Trial

By Cara Salvatore

A corporate founder seeking more than $100 million in a malpractice case against Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP endured a withering cross-examination in Florida state court Monday over his companies' money flows and an auditor's refusal to certify their financial statements two years after the fundraising transaction he believes the firm botched.

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Jackson Walker, US Trustee Denied Delay In Romance Dispute

By Emma Cueto

Jackson Walker LLP and the U.S. Trustee's Office, grappling with the aftermath of a romantic relationship between one of the firm's former partners and a then-bankruptcy judge, will not be able to delay pretrial proceedings to continue negotiating a possible settlement, a judge ruled Monday.

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AGs Say DOJ Suit Would 'Upend' Atty Discipline System

By Phillip Bantz

Attorneys general in 20 states have raised alarms over the U.S. Department of Justice's "unprecedented effort" to halt a disciplinary case in D.C. against former federal prosecutor Jeffrey Clark, warning the Trump administration is trying to "upend a centuries-old system of attorney discipline" and put federal government lawyers beyond the reach of local disciplinary authorities.

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Tennessee Lawyer Disbarred For Doxxing Judge, Hiding Client

By Rachel Rippetoe

The Supreme Court of Tennessee on Monday upheld a decision to permanently disbar a family law attorney for harassing a juvenile court judge online and illegally hiding a client and their child from police officers in her home.

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Trump Demands Review Of Judges' Science Manual

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump has escalated a recent controversy over a scientific manual for federal judges that has been around for over three decades. 

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Another NYC Public Defense Union Sets Strike Deadline

By Andrea Keckley

The Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem union became the latest New York City-area legal aid union to set a strike deadline this week, announcing Monday that its over 230 members will walk off the job if they don't reach a deal with their managers by Friday at 8 a.m.

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Atty Says Firm Used Info From Merger Talks Against Him

By Christine DeRosa

A Florida-based attorney and accountant has accused DeWitt LLP of retaliating against him after he declined to merge his estate practice with the firm by representing a woman he sued for defamation in a separate case after he had shared confidential information with DeWitt.

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NYC Judiciary Advisory Committee Executive Steps Down

By Andrea Keckley

The executive director of New York City's Mayor's Advisory Committee on the Judiciary has resigned, a City Hall spokesperson confirmed Monday, as the committee's near-total vacancy continues.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court last week tackled disputes involving intellectual property, corporate control, fiduciary duties, artificial intelligence, trust administration and cryptocurrency litigation.

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