9th Circ. Backs Meta In Publisher's Appeal Over Account Ban

By Hailey Konnath

The Ninth Circuit Friday affirmed a lower court's dismissal of a Canadian news site's claim that Meta breached their agreement when it canceled the site's Facebook account, finding that Meta was acting in its capacity as a publisher and is therefore shielded by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.

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9th Circ. Revives NFL Sunday Ticket Antitrust Verdict

By Matthew Perlman

The Ninth Circuit ruled Friday that a lower court was wrong to scrap a $4.7 billion jury verdict against the National Football League in a class action over the price of its Sunday Ticket broadcast package, but ordered a new trial on the damages.

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'I Can't Get An Answer': Fair Use Fight Irks Anthropic Judge

By Dorothy Atkins

A California federal judge overseeing music publishers' high-stakes copyright fight with Anthropic over song lyrics expressed frustration during a hearing Friday, calling the fair use debate "slippery" and citing an "overarching concern" that she can't get clear answers about the categories of AI outputs at issue.

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K&L Gates DQ'd In Trust's Mortgage Loan Agreement Dispute

By Isaac Monterose

A Washington federal judge disqualified K&L Gates LLP from a trust's dispute over a residential mortgage loan sale agreement, ruling that the law firm must leave the suit because it drafted the form agreement used in the transaction.

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Pa. Justices Nix Damages For CEO Who Was Paid Late

By P.J. D'Annunzio

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled an employee can't sue an employer for liquidated damages stemming from unpaid wages if those wages were paid before the lawsuit was filed, even if the payday came late.

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Law360 MVP Awards Go To Top Attorneys From 89 Firms

The lawyers chosen as Law360's 2026 MVPs stand out from their peers by notching significant achievements in high-stakes litigation, complex global matters and record-setting transactions.

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Real Estate Investors Say Deceit Tanked Conn. Projects

By Brian Steele

A group of investors living in Israel is demanding to know what happened to the millions of dollars it put into three Connecticut properties that decayed and fell into foreclosure, bringing a contract and fraud suit Friday against the managing member of the underlying corporate entities.

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Builder Says Insurer Shifted Reasons To Deny $600K Claim

By Hope Patti

A general contractor said its insurer must pay nearly $600,000 and counting for costs incurred to remedy a flooring subcontractor's faulty work, telling a Tennessee federal court that the carrier wrongfully denied coverage based on exclusions that don't apply and incorrect interpretations of the policy.

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Pension Plan Says Denver Health Is Delaying $2M In Payments

By Rachel Konieczny

A Denver medical network reneged on its contract with a government retirement plan and is delaying paying the plan more than $2 million by incorrectly calculating its operating income, according to the plan's lawsuit filed in Colorado state court.

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Judge Won't Free Pierce Atwood Of Investor's Malpractice Suit

By Carolyn Muyskens

Pierce Atwood LLP failed to win dismissal of a lawsuit from a Ukrainian oligarch who says the firm's advice led to a $1.85 million judgment against him in investor litigation over the liquidation of now-insolvent genetic testing company Pathway Genomics Corp.

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Pharma Supplier Sues To Undo $52M Minority Stake Deal

By Jarek Rutz

Pharmaceutical ingredient manufacturer Pfanstiehl Holdings Inc. has sued a minority shareholder and its general partner in the Delaware Chancery Court, seeking to unwind a $52.3 million transaction that allegedly transferred a majority economic interest in the shareholder's stake to an unidentified investor without required notice or consent.

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Cannabis Co. Says Retailer Failed To Pay $301K For Goods

By Mike Curley

A cannabis distributor is suing the owner of five dispensaries in California state court, alleging they haven't paid more than $301,000 in invoices and that they claimed they would pay on a "sell-through" basis despite such an agreement being neither negotiated nor agreed to.

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Tracking Texas: When Counterclaims Start The Removal Clock

The Texas Business Court's recent decision in Bakery v. Naterra International clarifies that, when the original claims do not meet the court's amount-in-controversy threshold, a presuit threat to bring high-value counterclaims does not itself make those unfiled claims part of the action, say attorneys at Greenberg Traurig.

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How AI Could Help Judges Spot Their Own Biases

In close cases where there’s room for discretion, artificial intelligence could challenge judges’ implicit biases by running counterfactual tests at scale — but any judicial use of such tools would need guardrails, say Arnold Peter at Peter Law and Nancy Rapoport at University of Nevada.

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BigLaw Attys Step Up To Help Voters In Midterm Elections

By Jack Karp and Lynn LaRowe

Attorneys from several BigLaw firms are volunteering across the country to make sure voters don't run into problems casting their ballots or having those ballots counted in Tuesday's midterm elections.

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Brief

Winston Taylor, DLA Piper Match Milbank Pay Scale

By Tracey Read

Two more BigLaw firms have opted to match the new associate salary scale set by Milbank LLP in June.

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Analysis

Judiciary Stuck In AI Rulemaking Rut As Attys, Judges Protest

By Jeff Overley

Judiciary efforts to enact rules for the artificial intelligence age are mired in concerns about burdens on litigators, the tensions between burgeoning technology and snail-paced policymaking, and how to even define AI. And despite vivid examples of AI's risks, officials are inching toward mothballing the prominent project.

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Judge Orders Chicago US Atty To Testify In Misconduct Probe

By Celeste Bott

An Illinois federal judge has ordered Chicago's top federal prosecutor and three assistant U.S. attorneys to testify under oath about potentially false statements made to her in a now-dismissed criminal conspiracy case against anti-ICE protesters, saying Monday that the government's shifting explanations about communications with DOJ leadership suggest prosecutors misled the court about outside involvement in the prosecution.

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NY State Bar Says Attys Can't Bill Time Saved By AI

By Andrea Keckley

The New York State Bar Association has told lawyers not to bill clients for the time they saved by using artificial intelligence, or for the time it took to learn a new AI tool.

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Interview

SEC's Top Cop On Building A 'Nimble' Enforcement Division

By Jessica Corso

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has lost hundreds of enforcement employees and seen significant restructuring of its regional offices over the past two years, but the Division of Enforcement's director said that hasn't stopped him from building a "nimble" program that is focused on more than just the number of cases filed.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court last week allowed a stockholder claim over R1 RCM Inc.'s $8.9 billion buyout to proceed, while investors in Meta Platforms Inc. sued to block a stock restructuring they say would let CEO Mark Zuckerberg sell billions of dollars in shares without giving up control of the company.

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Monthly Merger Review Snapshot

By Matthew Perlman

The Federal Trade Commission caused a pair of playground equipment makers to abandon their planned merger, Canadian enforcers upended a deal for the Green Giant brand in the country and state attorneys general reached settlements for several regional deals.

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