Live Nation Entertainment Inc. confirmed that the road to its controversial settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice went all the way to the White House in a New York federal court filing that leaves many questions unanswered about a deal Democrats have cast as corrupt and failed to mollify state enforcers.
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Live Nation Discloses White House Involvement In DOJ Deal

By Bryan Koenig

Live Nation Entertainment Inc. confirmed that the road to its controversial settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice went all the way to the White House in a New York federal court filing that leaves many questions unanswered about a deal Democrats have cast as corrupt and failed to mollify state enforcers.

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NCAA Approves Expanding Eligibility To Five Years

By David Steele

A historic eligibility expansion to allow athletes to compete for five years after entering college was approved by the NCAA Division I Cabinet on Tuesday, the association announced.

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9th Circ. Judge Pans Live Nation's 'Unlawful' Arbitration Terms

By Dorothy Atkins

A Ninth Circuit panel on Tuesday expressed doubt about Live Nation's argument that a putative class action seeking refunds for a canceled 2022 festival belongs in arbitration, with one judge calling Live Nation's arguments "puzzling" and another judge saying she's disturbed to see a "blatantly unlawful provision" in its terms.

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NY-Presbyterian Tees Bid To Ax Union Funds' Antitrust Row

By Emily Brill

Three union benefit funds lack standing in their lawsuit accusing New York-Presbyterian Hospital of using anticompetitive tactics when negotiating with health insurance companies, the hospital told a New York federal judge, saying the negotiations are between it and the insurers.

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Claritev Says It Wasn't Target Of Criminal Antitrust Probe

By Matthew Perlman

Healthcare data firm Claritev said the U.S. Department of Justice is ending a grand jury investigation of potential antitrust violations in the health insurance space and is not targeting the company with a criminal probe.

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2 Want Out Of Pavia Suit, May Take NCAA To State Courts

By David Steele

A pair of players hoping to resume their college football careers are dropping out of Diego Pavia's proposed class action challenging NCAA eligibility rules but are considering suing in state court, where athletes have had more recent success.

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Brief

FTC Tells 4th Circ. Court Got It Wrong In J&J Stelara Case

By Nadia Dreid

The Federal Trade Commission has told the Fourth Circuit that a Virginia federal court messed up when it ruled in an antitrust suit against Johnson & Johnson that the company bringing the suit needed to show specific intent in order to prop up a monopolization claim over the immunosuppressive drug Stelara.

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MERGER REVIEW

11th Circ. Mulls DOT Order Scrapping Delta, Aeromexico JV

By Linda Chiem

The Eleventh Circuit on Tuesday questioned whether the U.S. Department of Transportation sufficiently analyzed the competitive effects of Delta Air Lines' joint venture with Aeromexico — or considered alternative conditions — before ordering the airlines to dismantle their nearly decade-long partnership.

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Media Alliance Seeks Say In Charter, Cox Merger In Calif.

By Nadia Dreid

Cox Communications and Charter Communications Inc. have asked the California Public Utilities Commission to kibosh a media advocacy group's petition seeking conditions on their $34.5 billion merger, but the media organization is asking the commission to ignore that request.

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INTERNATIONAL

Google Says Shopping Search Remedy Ended Antitrust Abuse

By William Janes

Google has denied continuing to put rival shopping comparison websites at a disadvantage in user searches following a €2.4 billion ($2.7 million) sanction from the European antitrust watchdog, telling a tribunal on Tuesday that it had acted to end anticompetitive practices.

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UK Weighs Extending VAT Accounting To Online Marketplaces

By Kevin Pinner

Online marketplaces would be tasked with accounting for value-added tax on the sales they facilitate for U.K. businesses selling domestic goods to U.K. consumers rather than the underlying business itself, according to a set of reforms proposed Tuesday by the government.

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Drugmakers Say CAT Used Wrong Test In £100M Fines Row

By Sophia Dourou

A group of pharmaceutical companies urged the Court of Appeal Tuesday to partly reverse £100 million ($132 million) in sanctions over an alleged price-fixing cartel, arguing that a tribunal made factual and legal mistakes when upholding the fines. 

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LITIGATION

Fla. Judge Won't Toss Suit Over $300M Guyana Fuel Deal

By Carolina Bolado

A Florida judge on Tuesday denied Jones Walker LLP's request to exit a lawsuit accusing the firm and one of its partners of using confidential information from a client to create an entity to compete with the client for a $300 million fuel agreement with the government of Guyana.

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Fed. Circ. Affirms Intel Win In Processor Patent Fight

By Elliot Weld

The Federal Circuit on Tuesday upheld a summary judgment granted to Intel in an infringement lawsuit brought by licensing entity PACT XPP Schwiz AG over patents covering processing architecture in computers, finding PACT had failed to raise an argument properly that it was relying upon on appeal.

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Disney, Netflix Win Texas Cities' Franchise Tax Suit Again

By Spencer Brewer

Streaming services companies including Disney and Netflix have again prevailed against multiple Texas cities accusing them of evading a state franchise tax, with a Texas appeals court reaffirming that the companies do not need to obtain franchise licenses.

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POLICY & REGULATION

Telecom Biz Sees Robust Competition, Think Tank Says

By Christopher Cole

As the Federal Communications Commission evaluates competition in the telecom sector, a think tank urged the agency not to adopt regulatory policies that treat the market as unfairly skewed toward a few large players.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Drawing A Line Between Settlement Pressure And Extortion

U.S. v. Luo, pending in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, may force courts to address anew when settlement negotiations become criminal extortion, particularly in the age of easily fabricated digital evidence, says attorney Denis Kiely.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

The 2026 Lawyer Satisfaction Survey

Lawyers are generally happy being lawyers, but nonequity partners and associates told Law360 Pulse that several aspects of their job leave them feeling dissatisfied. Explore our analysis of these and other findings in the 2026 Law360 Lawyer Satisfaction survey.

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Bonus Spotlight

Axinn Giving $25K Bonuses As Glenn Agre Matches Milbank

By Tracey Read

Glenn Agre Bergman & Fuentes LLP will match the Milbank LLP base pay scale for associates, while Axinn Veltrop & Harkrider LLP — which was already paying above-market salaries — will hand out special summer bonuses of up to $25,000, the boutiques told Law360 Pulse Tuesday.

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LA Superior Court Gains Prominence With 'Nuclear' Verdicts

By Daniel Moritz-Rabson

Los Angeles County Superior Court was among the country's top sites for awarding big civil damages in recent years, according to a Lex Machina report.

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NC Becomes First State To Ban Outside Funding Of Civil Suits

By Hayley Fowler

North Carolina has become the first state in the country to ban outside investors from funding civil litigation, after Democratic Gov. Josh Stein signed into law a bill that outlaws third parties from footing the bill for civil suits in exchange for a cut of the payout at the finish line.

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Calif. Judge Restores Immigration Courthouse Arrest Limits

By Hailey Konnath

A California federal judge Tuesday vacated the Trump administration's policies on civil arrests at immigration courthouses, restoring limits on those arrests and finding that the government didn't adequately explain its policy shift.

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NY Rule Rewrite Drops 30-Day Pause For Atty Soliciting

By Emily Sawicki

New York's Appellate Division has adopted new rules of professional conduct on attorney advertising and solicitation, deleting a ban on soliciting clients less than 30 days after an incident.

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Judicial Noms Still Say Biden Won In 2020 — Technically

By Courtney Bublé

A group of judicial nominees, who earlier this month were the first of the Trump administration's nominees to say President Joe Biden won the 2020 election, reiterated in follow-up statements that Biden won the election "as a matter of law" — doubling down on what critics say is an equivocation on the election's outcome.

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Judge Who Denied Goldstein Retrial Says It Wasn't Close Case

By Rachel Rippetoe

A Maryland federal judge has elaborated on her decision to deny SCOTUSblog founder Tom Goldstein's bid for an acquittal or new trial, saying that the evidence presented at trial either supersedes or invalidates his claims of issues with jury instructions and insufficient or excluded evidence.

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Texas Judge Tosses Buzbee Firm's Jay-Z Conspiracy Suits

By Spencer Brewer

A Texas state court has handed a win to Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP and a Mississippi law firm, which sought dismissal of claims that they conspired with Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter to retaliate against Houston personal injury firm The Buzbee Law Firm and two of its former clients.

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Ex-AT&T Counsel Charged Over Disclosing Privileged Info

By Sue Reisinger

A former in-house attorney for AT&T, accused of leaking privileged information to opposing counsel while seeking a share of financial gains from a lawsuit filed 18 years ago against the company, has been charged with violating attorney professional conduct rules.

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Judge Allows Brazil To Join Trump Suit Against Justice

By Carolina Bolado

A Florida federal judge on Tuesday allowed Brazil to intervene in 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 but deferred ruling on Brazil's motion to dismiss the suit.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Axinn Veltrop

Baker & Hostetler

Boies Schiller

Bradley Arant

Brick Court Chambers

Bristows LLP

Brito PLLC

Butler Snow LLP

Buzbee Law Firm

Coblentz Patch

Cokinos Young

Cravath Swaine

DLA Piper

Dechert LLP

DiCello Levitt

Dordick Law

Faegre Drinker

Fairmark Partners LLP

Farella Braun

Foley Hoag

Garwin Gerstein

Gibson Dunn

Glasser & Glasser

Glenn Agre

Greenberg Gross

Gupta Wessler

HSF Kramer

Hach Rose Schirripa

Hagens Berman

Hausfeld LLP

Heise Suarez

Holland & Knight

Jones Walker LLP

Kasowitz LLP

Keller Rohrback

Kirkland & Ellis

Korein Tillery

Labaton Keller

Latham & Watkins

Lewis Brisbois

Lieff Cabraser

Linklaters LLP

Lowey Dannenberg

Lynn Pinker

MJ Legal PA

Macfarlanes LLP

McKool Smith

Milbank LLP

Monckton Chambers

Munger Tolles

Parris Law Firm

Parry Law PLLC

Pillsbury Winthrop

Proskauer Rose

Quinn Emanuel

Radice Law Firm

Riley & Jacobson

Sidley Austin

Sullivan & Cromwell

Susman Godfrey

Wilkinson Stekloff

Wilson Sonsini

Winston Taylor

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

AT&T Inc.

Aetna Inc.

Agri Stats Inc.

Ahern Rentals Inc.

Allergan PLC

American Bar Association

American Express Co.

American Tort Reform Association

Baylor University

Brown Shoe Company Inc.

C3 Presents LLC

Charter Communications Inc.

Claremont McKenna College

Claritev

Coinbase Global Inc.

Cox Communications Inc.

Cox Enterprises Inc.

Delta Air Lines Inc.

EchoStar Corp.

Fortress Investment Group LLC

Gawker Media LLC

George Washington University

Google LLC

Granite Rock Co.

Grupo Aeromexico SAB de CV

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.

Hulu LLC

Intas Pharmaceuticals Ltd.

Intel Corp.

International Brotherhood of Teamsters

Johnson & Johnson

Kelkoo

Lex Machina Inc.

LexisNexis Legal & Professional

LinkedIn Corp.

Live Nation Entertainment Inc.

Lyft Inc.

Meta Platforms Inc.

Milwaukee Bucks

National Center for Missing & Exploited Children

National Collegiate Athletic Association

Netflix Inc.

New York City Bar Association

New York County Lawyers' Association

New York State Bar Association

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital

Nike Inc.

North Carolina Justice Center

Pennzoil

RELX PLC

ROC Nation LLC

RealPage Inc.

Starbucks Corp.

StubHub Inc.

T-Mobile US Inc.

Tegna Inc.

The District of Columbia Bar

The New York Times Co.

The State University of New York

Twitter Inc.

United Food & Commercial Workers International Union

UnitedHealth Group Inc.

Verizon Communications Inc.

Zappos.com Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

California Public Utilities Commission

Chickasaw Nation

Competition Appeal Tribunal

Competition and Markets Authority

European Commission

Executive Office for Immigration Review

Executive Office of the President

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Communications Commission

Federal Trade Commission

Government of Mexico

HM Revenue & Customs

Internal Revenue Service

National Health Service

New York State Unified Court System

North Carolina General Assembly

Public Utility Commission of Texas

Supreme Court of Nevada

Texas Judicial Branch

Texas Supreme Court

Texas Tenth Court of Appeals

U.S. Attorney's Office

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

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of Transportation

U.S. District & Bankruptcy Courts of Southern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware

U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

U.S. Government Accountability Office

U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

UK Court of Appeal

United States District Court for the District of Nevada