Music Publishers Say X Finds Conspiracy In 1 Emailed 'We'

By Craig Clough

The National Music Publishers' Association and its members have told a Texas federal court that X Corp.'s antitrust suit fails to allege any conspiracy, with the best argument the company could muster being an "implausible" interpretation of a single word — "we" — in a single email.

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Amazon Says Audible Intervenor Wants Info For Her Own Suit

By Ben Adlin

Amazon urged a Seattle federal judge to deny a woman's motion to intervene in a putative class action accusing the retailer of wrongfully auto-enrolling customers in its Audible e-book service, arguing the woman should not be able to obtain discovery in the case to buttress her own recently dismissed complaint.

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Schneider Wallace Loses Bid For Bigger Piece Of $75M Fee

By Lauren Berg

A California federal magistrate judge on Friday rejected Schneider Wallace Cottrell Kim LLP's bid to increase its cut of a $75.4 million fee award for representing plaintiffs in a $228.5 million Sutter Health antitrust deal, saying lead counsel Constantine Cannon LLP's allocation of $1.4 million to Schneider Wallace was fair.

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Brief

Music Labels, French Co. End $500M Fake Songs Suit

By Elliot Weld

A French music company on Friday resolved a suit in New York federal court filed by a group of major music labels that asserted $500 million in claims that it distributed manipulated versions of copyrighted tracks to social media.

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Law360 Announces The Members Of Its 2026 Editorial Boards

Law360 is pleased to announce the formation of its 2026 Editorial Advisory Boards.

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Real Estate Co. Says Compass Owes More For Agent 'Betrayal'

By David Minsky

A real estate company asked a Florida state court for permission to seek punitive damages against Compass Inc., claiming the brokerage firm is misleading the public regarding its agents' fiduciary duties despite facing the company's lawsuit alleging "betrayal" from a real estate agent's double-dealing in a lucrative property transaction.

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Oil Co. Says Investor Misused Data To Seize $71M Project

By José Luis Martínez

A Texas oil company said a would-be funding partner didn't abide by its $71 million contract to help develop a New Mexico project, instead using confidential information to gain leverage and mislead the company into giving up control of the project.

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Aetna Escapes COVID Testing Payment Suit In Calif.

By Mark Payne

A Nebraska testing laboratory failed to prove that Aetna underpaid more than $53 million for COVID-19 testing services, a California federal judge has ruled, dismissing the lab's federal racketeering and state law claims against the insurer but leaving the door open to an amended suit. 

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Gulf Reinsurance Plan Doubles To $40B With Added Insurers

By Hope Patti

Six major American insurers will join Chubb in providing $20 billion for the U.S. International Development Finance Corp.'s initiative to restore maritime trade in the Gulf region amid the Iran war, doubling the total amount of available reinsurance to $40 billion, according to an announcement Friday.

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Lockheed Says Co.'s Unpaid Costs Suit Must Be Trimmed

By Ganesh Setty

Lockheed Martin told a Colorado court that most of the claims it faces in a subcontractor's lawsuit accusing it of failing to pay back costs incurred from another subcontractor's alleged failures should be tossed, citing a "termination for convenience" provision.

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Broker Says Ex-Managers, Competitor Took $900K In Revenue

By Aaron Keller

Boston-based RSC Insurance Brokerage Inc. has sued two former managing directors for allegedly orchestrating a talent and client "raid" while jumping to rival Marshall & Sterling Enterprises Inc., purportedly causing more than 15 accounts worth close to $900,000 in revenue to leave with them.

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Door-Maker Drops Appeal Of Landmark Divestiture Order

By Matthew Perlman

Door manufacturer Jeld-Wen Inc. has dropped its latest appeal of the first court-ordered divestiture in a private merger challenge before the Fourth Circuit could rule, after pressing ahead with oral arguments earlier this year.

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Fraud Claims Survive Pot Lender's Contract Breach Suit

By Mike Curley

A New York federal judge dismissed the bulk of a suit from Advanced Flower Capital Inc. alleging lawyers from Loevy & Loevy misled the lender and breached a $46 million loan agreement, but let the fraud claims against one attorney move forward.

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Latham Adds Wilson Sonsini Tech Transactions Pro In Calif.

By James Mills

Latham & Watkins LLP is expanding its California team, bringing in a Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC tech transactions ace as a partner in its Bay Area offices in San Francisco and Silicon Valley.

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ABA, Ex-Judges And Many More Back BigLaw In EO Appeal

By Dorothy Atkins

Numerous bar associations, 239 former judges, 21 states, lawmakers and dozens of other amici curiae have thrown their weight behind BigLaw firms in the Trump administration's consolidated D.C. Circuit appeal seeking to revive executive orders targeting the firms, broadly arguing that the orders are an affront to foundational constitutional rights.

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Legal Sector Lost 700 Jobs In March, Ending Hiring Streak

By Tracey Read

The legal sector began to slow down in March after a year and a half straight of gains, with 700 fewer people employed in lawyer, paralegal and other law-related professional roles last month than in February, according to seasonally adjusted data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Progressive Org. Rolls Out $3M Anti-Trump High Court Push

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump does not have any vacancies on the U.S. Supreme Court, but a progressive court advocacy organization is not waiting for a justice's departure to launch a multimillion-dollar campaign opposing a possible Trump pick.

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Brief

Justice Alito Treated For Dehydration After Federalist Event

By Courtney Buble

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito felt ill during a Federalist Society event last month and was seen by a doctor "out of an abundance of caution," the high court announced on Friday.

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6th Circ. Axes Atty For 'Inexcusable' AI 'Transgressions'

By Rae Ann Varona

An attorney committed "inexcusable transgressions" by relying on Westlaw's internal CoCounsel artificial intelligence platform for appellate filings and by failing to catch erroneous AI-generated content, the Sixth Circuit said Friday and removed the lawyer from further representing a man who pled guilty to drug trafficking charges.

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Analysis

'Political' Deals Pit DOJ Against State AGs, And Not Just Dems

By Bryan Koenig

Controversial U.S. Department of Justice settlements with Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Live Nation, along with the approval of Nexstar's purchase of Tegna, are increasingly inspiring state attorneys general to strike out on their own as antitrust enforcers, often in direct challenge to a federal government that Democrats have cast as "corrupt."

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Florida Gov., AG Face Criticism For Judge Impeachment Push

By Rose Krebs

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Attorney General James Uthmeier faced pushback this week from some in the state's legal community for calling for the impeachment of a judge for releasing a man who went on to allegedly kill his five-year-old stepdaughter, with critics blasting those calls as being politically motivated and "unethical."

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Analysis

DOJ's New Corporate Enforcement Policy May Eclipse SDNY's

By Sarah Jarvis

The U.S. Department of Justice has put to use for the first time its new corporate enforcement policy of declining prosecutions when companies self-report potential criminal violations, but experts say the new, department-wide initiative has rendered a more business-friendly approach by the Southern District of New York moot.

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Ex-DOJ Official Wants Epstein-Talk Suit Kept In District Court

By Emily Sawicki

A former U.S. Department of Justice acting deputy chief who was fired last year after a hidden-camera video of him discussing the Epstein files was posted online has told a D.C. federal judge his due process case must survive in district court because the Trump administration now controls federal oversight agencies.

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Trump Seeks 13% Boost In DOJ Funding

By Courtney Bublé

The White House budget request for fiscal 2027, released on Friday, seeks $40.8 billion in discretionary funds for the U.S. Department of Justice, a 13% increase from the current year level.

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Judge Stands By Block Of DOJ Subpoenas In Powell Probe

By Jon Hill

A Washington, D.C., federal judge on Friday rejected a U.S. Department of Justice attempt to revive subpoenas from its investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, saying the government hadn't "come close" to giving him a reason to rethink blocking them.

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Roundup

GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

PayPal was hit with a proposed investor class action that claims the payments giant hid slowing growth for its critical branded checkout business. In the meantime, a Shopify lawyer encouraged his peers during a webinar to make sure their outside counsel have "met the moment" by leveraging artificial intelligence in smart ways. 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

Alliance Defending Freedom, Pearman Law Firm PC and attorney Barry Arrington lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a Colorado ban on therapy intended to change a minor's sexual orientation or gender identity amounts to viewpoint discrimination against a Christian therapist.

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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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