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Calif. Privacy Audits Starting This Year, Agency's Head Says

By Allison Grande

The California Privacy Protection Agency is continuing to build out its new Audits Division and is aiming to begin conducting checks of businesses' compliance with the state's comprehensive data privacy regime this year, the agency's director recently told Law360 in an exclusive interview. 

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IBM To Pay $17M Over DOJ's Claims Of Illegal DEI Practices

By Lauren Berg

IBM agreed to pay the Trump administration $17 million to resolve allegations it violated the False Claims Act with efforts to increase the diversity of its workforce, which the U.S. Department of Justice on Friday said was the first settlement under its initiative against diversity, equity and inclusion.

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First Phase Of Tariff Refund System To Launch April 20

By Anna Scott Farrell

The first phase of an electronic system allowing U.S. importers to claim refunds for tariffs paid under the global regime struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court will launch April 20, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Friday.

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Analysis

Tech's AI Coding Boom On Collision Course With Copyright

By Ivan Moreno

Tech companies embracing generative tools to write their software code — and boasting about it — may be running into a gap in copyright protection: the more they rely on them, the harder it may be to claim exclusive rights when that code is copied or leaked.

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DLA Piper Partner Rejects Pregnant Atty's Account Of Firing

By Pete Brush

The DLA Piper partner who fired a pregnant associate said she did so lawfully, telling a Manhattan federal jury her former employee was "in over her head" and disputing that the associate raised pregnancy bias concerns on a termination call.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

Other states might follow the lead of California and break with President Donald Trump's policies in implementing guardrails for state agencies to contract with AI companies. And after three individual indictments last month for selling banned tech to China, Supermicro has hired Munger Tolles & Olson LLP to conduct an independent investigation, assigned its general counsel to lead an internal compliance review, and shaken up its compliance leadership.

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Roundup

Employment Authority: Inside The Wells Fargo Union Push

By Grace Elletson

Law360 Employment Authority covers the biggest employment cases and trends. Catch up this week with coverage on how the effort to unionize Wells Fargo branches has faced setbacks in 2026, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's move to prioritize settlements before filing suits and how a recent Sixth Circuit decision is set to affect U.S. Department of Labor regulations.

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Real Estate Recap: Q1 Dealmakers, Tariff Creep In Contracts

By Real Estate Authority Staff

Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including the law firms that led real estate and hospitality deals in the first quarter, and examples of how tariffs are showing up in real estate contracts one year on.

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Meta Must Face Mass. AG's Instagram Addiction Suit

By Chris Villani

Meta Platforms Inc. will have to face a suit brought by the Massachusetts attorney general claiming the company is illegally hooking kids on Instagram, the state's top court ruled Friday.

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BAE Says Manager's DEI Concerns Aren't Why He Was Fired

By Ganesh Setty

BAE Systems urged a Maryland federal court Friday to toss a former manager's claims that he was fired for critiquing its diversity, equity and inclusion policies, arguing it was instead because he was "rude, dismissive and disrespectful, particularly toward women."

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Oracle Says Laid-Off Worker Threatening To Sell Trade Secrets

By Lauren Berg

Oracle Corp. says one of its recently laid off sales employees has been trying to extort "an unreasonable and outsized fee" by threatening to sell the software firm's trade secrets to the "highest-bidder," asking a North Carolina federal court to prevent the former employee from exposing any sensitive business information.

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Chancery Tosses Orchid Suit Over Investor Jurisdiction

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court on Friday dismissed a declaratory judgment suit brought by Orchid Global Inc. against a minority stockholder, finding the court lacks personal jurisdiction over the California-based investor despite the company's reliance on its forum selection bylaws.

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Big Banks Say They Were Victims Of Tricolor Fraud Scheme

By Katryna Perera

JPMorgan, Barclays and Fifth Third have urged a New York federal judge to toss an investor suit claiming the banks ignored flaring red flags and helped conceal a sprawling subprime auto loan fraud by Tricolor Holdings, arguing that they were also victims of the fraud and not aware of the scheme despite being sophisticated financial institutions.

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NJ Justices Won't Review Beasley Allen's DQ From Talc Cases

By George Woolston

The New Jersey Supreme Court has declined to review a lower court's order booting the Beasley Allen Law Firm from multicounty litigation in the Garden State over Johnson & Johnson's talcum powder, according to an order made public Friday.

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Coty Brass Hid Struggling Beauty Brands Sales, Suit Says

By Sydney Price

Executives and directors of beauty giant Coty Inc. were hit with a shareholder's derivative suit accusing them of damaging the company by falsely claiming that sales in both its consumer and prestige beauty segments were improving when both divisions were actually struggling.

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Biz Judge Says Contract Lets Majority Vote On Unit Transfers

By José Luis Martínez

A Texas business court ruled Friday that a meter-proving company's agreement allows a simple majority of a company's board to approve a transfer of membership units, rejecting minority owners' argument that separate director approval is also required.

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Roundup

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

By Laura Stewart Liberty

The past week in London has seen the owner of an oil tanker stuck in the Strait of Hormuz sued by an energy company and an insurer, law firm Boodle Hatfield LLP and two Serle Court barristers sued by a group of Winston Churchill's great-grandchildren, and Welsh Water hit with a fresh class action over polluted rivers.

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Calculating Damages In IEEPA Tariff Refund Litigation

To calculate damages in the spate of refund litigation triggered by the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision invalidating tariffs collected under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, the central question will be how to determine where in the supply chain their economic burden ultimately came to rest, say analysts at Charles River Associates.

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Mortgage EO Casts Wide Net In Push To Ease Lending Rules

A recent executive order targeting mortgage credit access states an intent to promote competition among all types of lenders and is notable for its breadth, resetting regulatory expectations in a number of areas including origination, digitization and licensing, says Kara Ward at Baker Donelson.

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Opinion

Judicial Restraint Anchors Constitutional Order

Contrasting opinions in two recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings — Trump v. CASA and Bost v. Illinois State Board of Elections — demonstrate how the judiciary’s constitutionally entrusted role can easily be preserved or disrupted, and invite renewed attention to the enduring importance of judicial restraint, says Ninth Circuit Judge J. Clifford Wallace.

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Trump Taps Personal Atty For 2nd Circ.

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump announced on Friday evening he's tapping Matthew Schwartz, his attorney in the New York hush money case, for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. 

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Calif. Atty Avoids Sanctions For Filing Bogus Citations With AI

By Matt Perez

A California attorney has avoided sanctions over his use of artificial intelligence for a filing in a civil rights case, which resulted in false citations.

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6th Circ. Won't Revisit EFAA Ruling Against Adams & Reese

By Patrick Hoff

The Sixth Circuit said it won't reconsider its ruling that a law barring mandatory arbitration of sexual harassment cases kept a former Adams & Reese LLP paralegal's sex harassment and disability bias suit in court, concluding that the firm's objections were already considered.

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Conn. Justices Block Agency's Bias Probe Into Atty Licensing

By Brian Steele

Because citizens blocked the legislature from reviewing court decisions when ratifying the state's 1818 constitution, a Connecticut human rights agency has no power to investigate alleged bias in attorney licensing decisions, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled Friday in a unanimous opinion.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Andrea Keckley

Two personal injury firms in Michigan lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions for their work to secure a more than $300 million verdict against a prison health services provider and one of its doctors for refusing to approve a 34-year-old man's surgery while he was detained at a local jail.

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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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