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 Anthropic's fair use arguments "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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Are You Happy With Your In-House Role? Take Our Survey

Is your company giving you everything you need to succeed? What are some misconceptions about working in-house? Help Law360 Pulse answer these questions and more in this year's In-House Satisfaction Survey.

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Ramona Nee, Tapped To Lead Weil, Now In Talks With Kirkland

By Daniel Moritz-Rabson

Ramona Nee, the co-leader of Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP's U.S. private equity practice who had been poised to become its leader, is engaged in talks to join Kirkland & Ellis LLP, a source with knowledge of the situation told Law360 Pulse on Friday.

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Jackson Walker Inks $500K Deal In EXCO's Ch. 11 Fee Fight

By Clara Geoghegan

Jackson Walker has agreed to pay EXCO Resources Inc. $500,000 to end litigation over fees paid to the firm while one of its partners was in an undisclosed relationship with the former bankruptcy judge who mediated in the reorganized oil and gas driller's Texas Chapter 11.

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Fed. Judge A No-Show Amid Inquiry Into Her Mental Health

By Craig Clough

U.S. District Judge Ada Brown of the Northern District of Texas failed to appear Friday before a judicial investigative committee examining allegations that she abandoned her post and concerns that a mental condition may be interfering with her ability to perform her duties.

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Judge Opens Ethics Inquiry Into DOJ's Golf Course Candor

By Jared Foretek

A D.C. federal judge opened an inquiry Friday into whether Trump administration attorneys and officials violated their ethical obligations to the court when they repeatedly told her that there were no plans to close East Potomac Golf Course for an overhaul at President Donald Trump's behest.

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Kalshi Taps Clement For High Court Sports Contracts Fight

By Elaine Briseño

Kalshi has hired appellate heavyweight Paul D. Clement of Clement & Murphy PLLC to represent the company in its potential U.S. Supreme Court battle over whether the prediction markets platform's sports wagering is subject to state or federal oversight.

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Cyberattack Class Action Against Fox Rothschild Dropped

By Madison Arnold

Three data breach victims have dismissed their proposed class action against Fox Rothschild LLP after ransomware group Silent Ransom Group targeted the firm.

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DOJ Backs Ex-Wisconsin Judge's ICE Obstruction Conviction

By Andrea Keckley

The U.S. Department of Justice told the Seventh Circuit that the high-profile conviction of a former Wisconsin state court judge for interfering with an ICE arrest was not compromised by her position on the bench or by jury instructions.

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Roundup

GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

Meta reached a settlement during jury selection in the second Los Angeles bellwether trial over claims its Instagram platform harms the mental health of children, leaving Snap as the lone defendant facing trial. In the meantime, current and former in-house lawyers for Google and Meta said that the ability of AI to write patent applications is rapidly improving, and that in blind tests, experienced attorneys often deem AI-drafted patents to be superior to those from humans. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Consovoy McCarthy PLLC and Smith Porsborg Schweigert Armstrong Moldenhauer & Smith lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Eighth Circuit struck down the Federal Reserve's regulatory cap on the swipe fees that larger banks may collect on debit card transactions.

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Up Next At High Court: Religious Liberty & Unpled Defenses

By Katie Buehler

The U.S. Supreme Court will begin its November sitting by hearing oral arguments in a case challenging the constitutionality of Colorado's universal preschool program and a dispute asking the justices to settle a circuit split over whether defendants in civil lawsuits can seek summary judgment based on unpled affirmative defenses.

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Roundup

Hub Hires: WilmerHale, Womble Bond, Kirkland

By Chris Villani

Falling temperatures didn't bring a cooldown in the Boston legal lateral market as WilmerHale and Robinson & Cole LLP both welcomed former assistant attorneys general, Honigman LLP established its first office in the market, and Kirkland & Ellis LLP snagged a partner from Ropes & Gray LLP.

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In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Law360

For those who missed out, here's a look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the most buzz on Law360 last week.

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