Tyra Banks has filed a defamation suit against Netflix, which she said constructed a "false narrative" in its docuseries about the supermodel's hit television show "America's Next Top Model," including suggesting that a young woman on the show was sexually assaulted and Banks did nothing.
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Tyra Banks Sues Netflix For 'False Narrative' In 'Top Model' Doc

By Hailey Konnath

Tyra Banks has filed a defamation suit against Netflix, which she said constructed a "false narrative" in its docuseries about the supermodel's hit television show "America's Next Top Model," including suggesting that a young woman on the show was sexually assaulted and Banks did nothing.

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6th Circ. Says Auto Mogul Must 'Pay Up' In Lengthy Loan Spat

By Hailey Konnath

The Sixth Circuit on Monday upheld a $750 million judgment and a separate $20 million contempt ruling against the owner of an auto parts manufacturer in a 24-year-old fight over a defaulted loan, ruling that the mogul must "pay up."

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Barnes & Thornburg Profit-Share Admin Wants Legal Bills Paid

By James Boyle

A company that oversaw recordkeeping duties of Barnes & Thornburg LLP's profit-sharing plan says in a complaint in Pennsylvania state court it is owed legal fees over a previous suit filed by a former firm partner.

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Cognizant, Infosys Can't Shield Execs From Depositions

By Elliot Weld

Infosys Ltd. and Cognizant TriZetto Software Group Inc. will each have to produce executives to speak on certain topics for depositions in a Texas federal lawsuit over claims that Infosys stole Cognizant's trade secrets to build a competing healthcare software, a special master ruled Monday.

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Justice Alito Asks Texas To Respond To App Store Order Brief

By Spencer Brewer

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Monday asked the Texas attorney general to respond to a bid by a tech industry group and a student advocacy group seeking to reinstate an order blocking a Texas law that requires app store owners to verify users' ages and block minors from downloading apps without parental consent.

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Shipowner Says Baltimore Can't Recover Economic Losses

By Linda Chiem

The owner and manager of the cargo ship that slammed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge told a Maryland federal judge on Monday that Baltimore, local businesses and dockworkers cannot recover millions in alleged economic losses from the 2024 wreck because they have no proprietary interest in the bridge.

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LEGAL ETHICS & MALPRACTICE

Firm Faces DQ Bid Over Atty's Housing Authority Deposition

By Aaron Keller

Rose Kallor LLP should be barred from representing a Connecticut housing authority and a related nonprofit because one of its lawyers testified as a corporate representative during a deposition, and another lawyer asked questions that sounded like testimony, the entities' former executive director told a state judge Monday.

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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

Supreme Court Skips Challenge To $168M Trade Secret Award

By Ivan Moreno

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to review Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.'s challenge to a $168 million trade secret judgment for Computer Sciences Corp.

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SPORTS & BETTING

Texas Tech QB's Eligibility Sparks Fierce Legal Backlash

By Alex Lawson

The fallout from Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby's bid to play college football this season intensified Sunday as the Big 12 conference sued to preserve its right to discipline the school over Sorsby's admitted violations of NCAA sports betting rules.

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EMPLOYMENT

Sex Bias Led To Unequal Pay, Firing, Says Ex-PNC Director

By Abigail Harrison

A former managing director at Charlotte-based PNC Bank told a North Carolina federal court that the financial services giant targeted her for reporting sex-based discrimination, and then fired her right before the vesting of hundreds of thousands of dollars in restricted stock units.

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SECURITIES & WHITE COLLAR

Mich. Panel Upholds Stock Redemption Order

By Susan Smiley

A Michigan state appeals court has affirmed a trial court decision that resolved a decades-long shareholder dispute between a real estate development firm and its ex-CEO by ordering the company to buy out the former executive's original $25,000 investment plus 7% interest.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court this past week handled disputes involving shareholder voting rights, take-private transactions, merger disclosures, board control battles and investor litigation, while the Delaware Supreme Court heard arguments over the wind-down of an oil-and-gas investment fund.

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COMPETITION

DOJ Prepares To Seek Approval For Live Nation Deal

By Matthew Perlman

The U.S. Department of Justice is preparing to seek approval for its controversial midtrial settlement with Live Nation, according to recent court filings, as state enforcers continue pressing for a breakup of the company after a jury found it violated antitrust law.

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TECHNOLOGY

AI Co. Looks To Nix $6M Award Over Purchase Agreement

By Joyce Hanson

An artificial intelligence company has asked a New York federal judge to vacate a more than $6 million arbitral award issued over a failed asset purchase agreement involving a group of Kazakhstan technology companies, saying the arbitrator ignored provisions that clearly barred the underlying claims.

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PRIVATE EQUITY

Analysis

No Longer Sidelined, Private Equity Firms Bet Big On Sports

By Chris Villani

With a limited number of major professional sports teams for sale and astronomical valuations leaving a high barrier to entry, experts say college sports and emerging leagues are providing opportunities for private investment, and the rapidly shifting rules are creating compliance challenges for attorneys.

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FOOD & BEVERAGE

Restaurant Chain Manager Accused Of Pocketing Vendor Rebates

By Jarek Rutz

A company that manages the Medium Rare restaurant chain has sued one of its own co-managers in the Delaware Chancery Court, accusing him of secretly diverting vendor rebate payments to himself, misrepresenting the company's ownership structure and steering purchasing decisions to enrich himself at the business's expense.

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AEROSPACE & DEFENSE

Drone Supplier Urges NY Court To Pause $5M Ukrainian Award

By Elaine Briseño

A U.S.-based supply company told a New York federal court its appeal of a $5.09 million Ukrainian arbitral award stemming from the firm's alleged failure to deliver a shipment of drones has warranted a pause on its enforcement.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

These Firms Secured The Most Damages In The Last 3 Years

By Daniel Moritz-Rabson

Government lawyers had a strong success rate in federal courts over the last three years, but intellectual property litigation saw certain firms secure damage awards worth hundreds of millions of dollars for clients, according to Lex Machina's Law Firms Activity Report 2026 released on Tuesday.

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Ex-Girardi Atty Hid Firm's Diversion Of Funds, State Bar Says

By Bonnie Eslinger

A State Bar of California prosecutor argued Tuesday at a disciplinary trial that ex-Girardi Keese attorney Robert Finnerty hid the firm's misappropriation of millions of dollars from a family's $53 million settlement, while Finnerty's counsel countered he's being blamed for the actions of his former boss, convicted and disbarred attorney Tom Girardi.

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SCOTUSblog Founder Goldstein Denied Acquittal Or Retrial

By Alison Knezevich

A Maryland federal judge on Tuesday denied SCOTUSblog founder Tom Goldstein's bid for an acquittal or new trial, rejecting his claims that issues with jury instructions and excluded evidence warranted a do-over in his tax evasion and mortgage fraud case.

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Ex-Judge Loses Bid To Undo ICE Obstruction Conviction

By Britain Eakin

Former Wisconsin state judge Hannah Dugan has failed in her attempt to use a Fourth Circuit decision to vacate her conviction for helping a defendant in her courtroom evade immigration agents, with a federal judge ruling Tuesday the decision involves fact patterns that differ from her case.

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Senate Rejects Bid To Block Fast-Track Immigration Appeals

By Courtney Bublé

A Democratic-led Senate resolution that would have blocked a U.S. Department of Justice rule directing its Board of Immigration Appeals to quickly dismiss cases that don't raise "novel" issues failed to pass Tuesday.

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Blanche To Go Before Senate Panel July 15

By Courtney Bublé

Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche's nomination hearing is a month away, and the fate of his confirmation is likely in the hands of Sens. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., and John Cornyn, R-Texas.

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Oral Arguments In Comey, James Appeal Set For September

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

The Fourth Circuit has scheduled in-person oral arguments for the Trump administration's appeal of the dismissals of indictments against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James for Sept. 15-18.

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Brazil Says Justice Is Immune From Trump Media's Suit

By Carolina Bolado

Brazil asked Monday to intervene and dismiss a suit by President Donald Trump's media company and online video-sharing platform Rumble Inc. against a Brazilian Supreme Federal Court justice's gag orders, saying the suit cannot overcome immunity under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Abir Cohen

Baker Botts

Barnes & Thornburg

Baughman Kroup

Berger Montague

Blank Rome

Boies Schiller

Bondurant Mixson

Butler Prather

Carmichael Ellis

Catafago Fini

Clare Locke

Clement & Murphy

Cooley LLP

Cravath Swaine

DLA Piper

Davis Wright Tremaine

Demorest Law Firm

DiCello Levitt

Drew Cooper & Anding

Duane Morris

Finnegan

Foley Hoag

GessnerLaw

Gibson Dunn

Gillam Smith

Gimbel Reilly

Girardi & Keese

Gordon Rees

Gupta Wessler

Haynes Boone

Holland & Knight

Horn Wright

Irell & Manella

Jenner & Block

Jones Day

Kellogg Hansen

King & Spalding

Kirkland & Ellis

Kreindler & Kreindler

Latham & Watkins

Levine Lee

Lochner Law Firm

Loughlin Law PC

Lowell & Associates

Lynn Pinker

M.D. Gibson & Bolen

Morgan Lewis

Munger Tolles

Neubert Pepe

Ogletree Deakins

Page Scrantom

Pullman & Comley

Quinn Emanuel

Reed Smith

Reid & Riege

Richards Layton

Rose Kallor

Rosing Pott

Serbagi Law

Seyfarth Shaw

Sidley Austin

Skadden Arps

Spears Manning

Strang Bradley

The Basile Law Firm PC

Thompson Hine

Troutman

Wilkinson Stekloff

Wilson Sonsini

Winston Taylor

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Amazon.com Inc.

American Civil Liberties Union

Apollo Global Management LLC

Apple Inc.

Authentic Brands Group LLC

B. Riley Financial Inc.

Bank of America Corp.

Cloudflare Inc.

Computer & Communications Industry Association

Computer Sciences Corp.

Elevate

Elliott Investment Management LP

Fifth Third Bancorp

Ford Motor Co.

GoFundMe Inc.

Google LLC

Guess Inc.

Hytera

Infosys Ltd.

International Longshoremen's Association

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

League One Volleyball Inc.

Lex Machina Inc.

LexisNexis Legal & Professional

Live Nation Entertainment Inc.

Major League Baseball Inc.

Marriott International Inc.

Meta Platforms Inc.

Morgan Stanley

Motorola Solutions Inc.

NASCAR Digital Media LLC

National Collegiate Athletic Association

National Holdings Corp.

Netflix Inc.

Ohio State University

PG&E Corp.

RELX PLC

RedBird Capital Partners

SPAR Group, Inc.

State Bar of California

StubHub Inc.

Syntel, Inc.

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.

The Charles Schwab Corp.

The Markets LLC

The PNC Financial Services Group Inc.

TopBuild Corp.

TriZetto Corp.

Twitter Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Delaware Court of Chancery

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Internal Revenue Service

International Chamber of Commerce

New York Attorney General's Office

Texas Attorney General's Office

U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Maryland

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

U.S. Coast Guard

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Supreme Court

United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin