The U.S. Department of Justice announced a settlement Saturday with Hewlett Packard Enterprise, clearing the tech giant's $14 billion purchase of Juniper Networks by requiring the divestiture of a WiFi network business geared toward small firms.
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DOJ OKs $14B HPE-Juniper Deal With Small-Biz WiFi Unit Sale

By Bryan Koenig

The U.S. Department of Justice announced a settlement Saturday with Hewlett Packard Enterprise, clearing the tech giant's $14 billion purchase of Juniper Networks by requiring the divestiture of a WiFi network business geared toward small firms.

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UK Tribunal Says Visa, Mastercard Fees Infringe Antitrust Law

By Matthew Perlman

A U.K. tribunal issued a judgment Friday siding with merchants seeking damages from Visa and Mastercard for claims they were charged excessively high transaction fees, finding the interchange fees merchants pay to banks violate competition law.

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Judge Waits On Fortune's Bid To Join Assa Abloy Fight

By Jared Foretek

A D.C. federal judge left open the question of whether Fortune Brands Home & Security can intervene to enforce Assa Abloy's 2023 settlement agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice on Friday, as the DOJ seeks to keep a supply agreement between the two companies in place.

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Puerto Rico Soccer League Slims Down FIFA Antitrust Lawsuit

By Elaine BriseƱo

A now-defunct Puerto Rican soccer league on Thursday filed a fourth amended complaint in its suit against FIFA, eliminating previously dismissed claims under the Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organizations Act, as well as claims that had been put forward by an attorney disqualified from the antitrust case.

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Compass Wants 'Zillow Ban' Halted For Antitrust Case

By Matthew Perlman

Compass asked a New York federal court Friday to stop Zillow from enforcing a new policy the real estate brokerage claims is designed to block competition, saying the threat of Zillow's rules is already causing harm and confusion.

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Greystar, Landlords Push To Toss DOJ's RealPage Suit

By Isaac Monterose

Greystar Management Services LLC and several other landlords urged a North Carolina federal court to toss a rent price-fixing suit lodged by the federal government and multiple states, arguing in part that they have failed to provide specifics for their antitrust claims.

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LITIGATION

Mass. Cannabis Labs Call Rival's Suit 'Publicity Stunt'

By Julie Manganis

Seven Massachusetts cannabis testing labs are asking a state court judge to toss out a lawsuit brought by a competitor accusing them of manipulating test results, with three of the defendants calling the complaint a "publicity stunt" driven by the plaintiff's declining market share.

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Analysis

Feds Use Fortress-Backed NPE Suit To Encourage Injunctions

By Dani Kass

The federal government acted in line with the administration's strong pro-patent owner policies when, seemingly out of nowhere, it stepped into a little-known Texas patent case and promoted injunctions for nonpracticing entities, attorneys say. But there are suggestions that it may not be so random, as the patent owner may have ties to the nominee for U.S. Patent and Trademark Office director.

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NJ Judge Denies Investment Fund's Bid For Nonparty Docs

By George Woolston

A New Jersey federal judge has rejected a Black-owned investment fund's bid to obtain personal emails and other documents related to the relationship between an asset management firm's principals and the ex-director of the Garden State's investment division, ruling the fund failed to show the need for the documents and that the request is overly burdensome.

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NC Biz Court Bulletin: Last-Minute Settlements Head Off Trials

By Hayley Fowler

Untouched by the summer slump, the North Carolina Business Court kicked off June with a sanctions order against a biogas company caught spurning court orders and a new complaint by a former NFL player accusing his longtime financial adviser of defrauding him for decades.

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Off The Bench

Off The Bench: Tatis Says Loan 'Predatory,' Tennis Player Suit

By David Steele

In this week's Off The Bench, a Major League Baseball star wants out of a "predatory" loan from a future earnings investment company, a group of migrant workers keep alive their suit accusing companies that helped develop World Cup facilities in Qatar of exploitation and abuse, and the tennis Grand Slam tournaments may be in the crosshairs of players suing the sport's hierarchy.

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PEOPLE

Recently Retired US District Judge Joins JAMS In Los Angeles

By James Mills

Alternative dispute resolution service JAMS continues expanding its roster, announcing Thursday it has added a former California federal judge as one of its neutrals.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Trump's Susman Godfrey 'Sword Of Damocles' Order Tossed

By Lauren Berg

A Washington, D.C., federal judge Friday struck down as unconstitutional President Donald Trump's executive order targeting Susman Godfrey LLP, saying it was issued in retaliation for the firm's representation of clients and causes with which the president disagrees, while hanging "like the sword of Damocles" over the BigLaw firm.

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Analysis

After Dobbs, States Become Battleground For Abortion Rights

By Marco Poggio

Three years ago, when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the precedent set by Roe v. Wade, it did more than end nearly five decades of federal constitutional protection for abortion; it also fractured the legal landscape of reproductive rights, shifting the authority to regulate the procedure to individual states, and leading to legal uncertainty for courts, physicians and patients.

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Analysis

Pregnancy Loss Draws Police Scrutiny Following Dobbs

By Dan McKay

The nation's abortion debate has played out in civil courtrooms and state capitols across the country since the overturning of Roe v. Wade three years ago. But the battle is also emerging in another arena: the criminal courts.

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Justices Limit Universal Injunctions But Defer On Citizenship

By Katie Buehler

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Friday that President Donald Trump can partially implement his executive order aimed at limiting birthright citizenship, in a ruling that significantly limits the ability of federal district court judges to issue nationally applicable orders against presidential edicts and policy initiatives.

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Grassley Plots Next Moves After Nationwide Injunction Ruling

By Courtney BublƩ

Following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision Friday significantly limiting federal judges' ability to issue injunctions affecting parties outside a case, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley is gearing up to further rein in judges with the Republicans' budget bill and standalone legislation.

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Groups Quickly Switch Tactics In Birthright Citizenship Cases

By Britain Eakin

Just hours after the U.S. Supreme Court limited federal judges' ability to issue nationwide injunctions Friday, groups challenging the constitutionality of President Donald Trump's birthright citizenship executive order fired off a volley of new lawsuits, switching their legal actions to class action complaints.

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Analysis

How States Are Rethinking Life Without Parole For Youth

By Marco Poggio

A wave of recent state high court rulings, including a landmark decision in Michigan in April, has curtailed the use of mandatory life without parole for defendants under 21, citing evolving standards of decency and brain science. Hundreds of incarcerated individuals in Michigan are now eligible for resentencing, but the reforms face resistance from prosecutors, victims’ rights advocates, and dissenting justices who warn of consequences for public safety and judicial overreach.

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Justices Say Md. Must Allow LGBTQ Storybook Opt-Out

By Katie Buehler and Ali Sullivan

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Friday that a Maryland school district burdened parents' religious rights when it declined to provide opt-outs from a policy that introduced LGBTQ-themed storybooks into its K-12 English curriculum.

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DC Judge Asks If WH Can Pull Clearances Based On Bias

By Nadia Dreid

The D.C. federal judge overseeing national security lawyer Mark S. Zaid's challenge to being stripped of his clearances had some hard questions Friday for the government's attorney, asking if President Donald Trump stripped clearances from attorneys for being Catholic meant they could judicially challenge him.

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Justices Uphold Texas Law Requiring Porn Site Age Checks

By Catherine Marfin

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday said a Texas law requiring pornographic websites to verify visitors' ages could take effect, agreeing with a divided Fifth Circuit's decision to vacate an injunction while using a different standard of judicial review to evaluate the statute.

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Justices Punt La. Voting Rights Case Despite Thomas Dissent

By Jeff Overley and Katie Buehler

The U.S. Supreme Court surprisingly declined Friday to resolve a yearslong saga over voting rights and alleged racial gerrymandering, ordering new arguments over Louisiana's controversial congressional districts despite an impassioned protest from Justice Clarence Thomas.

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No Federal Agency Can Enforce WilmerHale EO, Judge Says

By Aebra Coe

A D.C. federal judge on Thursday amended his decision in the WilmerHale executive order litigation, clarifying amid disagreement among the parties that the underlying executive order cannot be enforced by any federal agency.

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2nd Circ. Mulls Arguments In NY Atty Grievance Privacy Suit

By Emily Sawicki

A Second Circuit panel has questioned whether a pathway exists to limit the scope of "presumptive public access" to attorney grievance documents in New York, as the panel considers the state's appeal of a federal district court ruling that would make records related to attorney misconduct cases public.

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In-House Pro Bono Work Dipped In 2024, Report Says

By Rose Krebs

The pro bono participation rate for U.S. attorneys in the Pro Bono Institute's annual Corporate Pro Bono Challenge dipped to 46% in 2024, with participation among legal staff decreasing to 31%, well below the institute's 50% "aspirational goal."

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UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

By Max Austin

This past week in London has seen the British Basketball Federation sued by members of the men's professional basketball league for alleged competition breaches, songwriter Coco Star file an intellectual property claim against Universal Music Publishing, and the Solicitors Regulation Authority file a claim against the Post Office amid ongoing investigations into law firms linked to the Horizon IT Scandal. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

As the second half of 2025 begins, here are five corporate enforcement trends that general counsel and their white collar lawyers should watch. And just days before The New York Times reported that the president of the University of Virginia resigned under pressure from the Justice Department, the former general counsel and now chancellor of Antioch University spoke with Law360 Pulse about his personal views on the danger of government threats to higher education. 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

Cooley LLP, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP and Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a California federal judge determined that it was fair for Meta Platforms Inc. to train its Llama large language models with 13 bestselling authors' copyrighted material without their permission.

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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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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Adsuar Muniz

Advisors LLC

Anderson & Wanca

Archer & Greiner

Arnold & Porter

Berger Montague

Boies Schiller

Boyden Gray

Bracewell LLP

Brown Rudnick

Bryan Cave

Bulkley Richardson

Burges Salmon

Capsticks Solicitors LLP

Chiesa Shahinian

Cleary Gottlieb

Clement & Murphy

Clyde & Co

Connell Foley

Cooley LLP

Covington & Burling

Crowell & Moring

DLA Piper

Davis Woolfe

Dean Ringers

Enyo Law

Eversheds Sutherland

Ferraiuoli LLC

Freshfields

Fried Frank

Gibson Dunn

Graves Garrett

Gupta Wessler

Haun Mena

Haynes Boone

Herrick Feinstein

Hogan Lovells

Honigman LLP

Husch Blackwell

JMW Solicitors LLP

Jenner & Block

Jones Day

Kirkland & Ellis

Koskoff Koskoff

Kudman Trachten

Latham & Watkins

Miller Shah

Mills & Reeve

Mishcon de Reya

Moore & Van Allen

Morgan Lewis

Munger Tolles

Napthens Solicitors

Nelson Mullins

Paris Smith LLP

Patterson Belknap

Paul Weiss

Penningtons Manches

Perkins Coie

Pillsbury Winthrop

Pinsent Masons

Quinn Emanuel

Reed Smith

Robins Kaplan

Robinson Miller

Saul Ewing

Scott&Scott

Sidley Austin

Simon Paschal

Skadden Arps

Stephenson Harwood

Sterne Kessler

Sullivan & Cromwell

Susman Godfrey

Thompson Hine

Wade Kilpela

Walker Morris LLP

Watson Farley

Webb Daniel Friedlander

Weil Gotshal

Whatley Kallas

Wilkinson Stekloff

WilmerHale

Wilson Sonsini

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

3M Co.

AT&T Inc.

ATP Tour Inc.

Aegean Marine Petroleum Network Inc.

Aetna Inc.

Amazon.com Inc.

American Bar Association

American Civil Liberties Union

American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana

American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts

American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan

American Civil Liberties Union of New Hampshire

American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers

Anthropic PBC

Asian American Center for Advancing Justice

Assa Abloy AB

Association of Corporate Counsel

Association of Tennis Professionals

Astra International

BDO LLP

Big League Advance Inc.

BlackRock Inc.

Bragg

Brennan Center for Justice

C&S Wholesale Grocers

CVS Health Corp.

Carolina Panthers

Cisco Systems Inc.

Civil Rights Corps

Cleveland Clinic Foundation

Cliffwater LLC

Compass Inc.

Compass Minerals International, Inc.

DuPont de Nemours Inc.

English Premier League

Exelon Corp.

Federation Internationale de Football Association

Finjan Holdings Inc.

Food & Water Watch

Fortress Investment Group LLC

Fortune Brands Home & Security Inc.

Forvis Mazars LLP

Freddie Mac

General Mills Inc.

Google LLC

HSBC Holdings PLC

Harley-Davidson Inc.

Harvard University

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.

Hill International Inc.

ICM Inc.

Intel Corp.

JAMS Inc.

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc.

Juniper Networks Inc.

Juvenile Law Center

LinkedIn Corp.

MCR Labs

Major League Baseball Inc.

Major Lindsey & Africa LLC

MasterCard Inc.

McKesson Corp.

Mediterranean Shipping Co. SA

Meta Platforms Inc.

Microsoft Corp.

NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund Inc.

NASCAR Digital Media LLC

NFL Enterprises LLC

NFP Corp.

National Association of Realtors

National Collegiate Athletic Association

National District Attorneys Association

Neil Jones Food Co.

New Jersey Devils

New York Jets LLC

Oracle Corp.

PepsiCo Inc.

Pfizer Inc.

Philadelphia 76ers

Planned Parenthood Federation

Pro Bono Institute

RealPage Inc.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

San Diego Padres

Sentencing Project

Shenandoah Life Insurance Company Inc.

Smithfield Foods Inc.

Solicitors Regulation Authority Ltd.

SpartanNash Co.

Spectrum Brands Inc.

State Bar of Texas

The Center for Reproductive Rights Inc.

The Home Depot Inc.

The New York Times Co.

The PNC Financial Services Group Inc.

United Therapeutics Corp.

Universal Music Group NV

University of California Davis

University of Virginia

VTB Bank

VTB Capital PLC

Verizon Communications Inc.

Visa Inc.

Washington & Lee University

Western Digital Corp.

Xerox Holdings Corp.

Zillow Group Inc.

eBay Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Arizona House of Representatives

Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Companies House

Competition Appeal Tribunal

European Commission

European Union

Executive Office of the President

Federal Communications Commission

Federal Judicial Center

Financial Reporting Council

Florida Supreme Court

Georgia Supreme Court

Indiana Supreme Court

Louisiana Legislature

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Michigan Supreme Court

New York Attorney General's Office

North Carolina Attorney General's Office

North Dakota Supreme Court

Patent Trial and Appeal Board

Pennsylvania Department of Human Services

Pennsylvania Supreme Court

Texas Attorney General's Office

Texas Legislature

Texas Supreme Court

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

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 New Jersey

U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico

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

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

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

U.S. District Court of the District of New Hampshire

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Supreme Court

UK High Court

United States District Court for the District of Colorado

United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio

Wisconsin Supreme Court