The Second Circuit on Thursday overturned the fraud conviction of a former OpenSea manager accused of insider trading on nonfungible token sales on his employer's platform, finding that a Manhattan jury may have convicted him "based on conduct that it found to be unethical rather than fraudulent."
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2nd Circ. Vacates OpenSea Crypto Insider Trading Conviction

By Aislinn Keely

The Second Circuit on Thursday overturned the fraud conviction of a former OpenSea manager accused of insider trading on nonfungible token sales on his employer's platform, finding that a Manhattan jury may have convicted him "based on conduct that it found to be unethical rather than fraudulent."

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Fed. Circ. Judges Cast Doubts On Trump Tariff Powers

By Dylan Moroses

Several Federal Circuit judges raised concerns about whether President Donald Trump's tariffs imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act override constitutional and congressional authority during oral arguments Thursday in their questions to better understand the extent of the appeals court's review.

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9th Circ. Upholds Google's Play Store Antitrust Trial Loss

By Dorothy Atkins

A Ninth Circuit panel Thursday affirmed Epic Games' 2023 antitrust jury trial win, along with an injunction requiring Google to open its Google Play Store to rivals, backing a landmark finding that Google monopolized the Android app-distribution market.

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Plaintiffs Seek $345M For Fatal Crash In Tesla Autopilot Trial

By Carolina Bolado

The plaintiffs in a suit seeking to hold Tesla accountable for a fatal crash in the Florida Keys asked jurors Thursday to award $345 million in damages for putting out an allegedly defective autopilot product into the market.

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Flo Settles Privacy Fight Midtrial, Leaving Meta To Face Jury

By Dorothy Atkins

Flo Health Inc. told a California federal judge Thursday it had reached an agreement to settle claims that its popular menstrual-tracking app illegally shared sensitive health data of millions of women with Meta Platforms Inc. and Google, partially resolving a sweeping privacy case midtrial, and leaving Meta as the sole remaining defendant.

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Zoom Investor Gets Final OK For Derivative Suit Settlement

By Katryna Perera

A Delaware federal judge granted final approval on Thursday to a settlement reached in a shareholder derivative suit accusing the top brass of Zoom of pulling in $172.9 million via insider sales after its 2019 initial public offering and before shares fell during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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POLICY & REGULATION

Full FCC Hearing Sought On T-Mobile, UScellular Tie-Up

By Christopher Cole

Several trade and public interest groups urged the Federal Communications Commission to hold a full agency review of T-Mobile's plan to take over most of UScellular after FCC staff gave the deal a green light almost three weeks ago.

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LITIGATION

10th Circ. Says Water Exclusion Bars Co.'s $1.75M Loss

By Ganesh Setty

A Kansas office building's property insurer has no duty to provide coverage for roughly $1.75 million in repairs over a broken water pipe, the Tenth Circuit ruled, rejecting the building owner's argument that an exception in one exclusion conflicted with a separate exclusion for water damage.

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Robotic Surgery Co.'s Antitrust Appeal Backed At 9th Circ.

By Matthew Perlman

Surgical Instrument Service Co. Inc. has received backing at the Ninth Circuit from a trade association and others groups as it looks to revive its case accusing Intuitive Surgical Inc. of blocking third parties from refurbishing components for its popular da Vinci surgery robot.

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Del. Court OKs Investor Check Of Trade Desk Charter Move

By Jeff Montgomery

A Delaware magistrate in Chancery issued a split decision Thursday on document demands by a stockholder of The Trade Desk Inc. who sought, in part, details on the company's conversion into a Nevada chartered business, allegedly in order to preserve a billionaire co-founder's control.

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PE Firm Risking Contempt, Receiver In Del. Over Legal Bills

By Jeff Montgomery

Noting that unpaid legal bills might already support a contempt or limited receivership order against private equity 777 Partners, a Delaware magistrate in Chancery gave the company and its counsel a Monday deadline to report still-accumulating fee advancement debts.

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Microsoft Fights Demand For AI Deal Data In Databricks Suit

By Dorothy Atkins

Third-party Microsoft Corp. urged a California magistrate judge Thursday to block a subpoena by a group of writers accusing San Francisco-based Databricks of using their copyrighted works to train its artificial intelligence tool MosaicML, arguing that Microsoft has already exceeded third-party obligations by providing certain data agreements and that the request is overbroad.

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Conn. Atty Pins Failed Redaction On Tech In Gunmaker Suit

By Emily Sawicki

A third party's ability to bypass redactions and view protected documents was due to a software issue, a Connecticut civil litigator has told a federal judge, urging the court not to authorize sanctions for what he said was a "good faith" effort at redacting filings amid his dueling lawsuits with gunmaker Sig Sauer.

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Fintech, BofA, JPMorgan Face Class Suit Over Cyberattack

By Emilie Ruscoe

Financial software company Finastra Technology Inc., Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase Bank NA face a proposed class action alleging they failed to properly safeguard customers' personal information that was exposed by a data breach.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Corp. Human Rights Regulatory Landscape Is Fragmented

Given the complexity of compliance with nations' overlapping human rights laws, multinational companies need to be cognizant of the evolving approaches to modern slavery transparency, and proposals that could reduce mandatory due diligence and reporting requirements, say attorneys at Simpson Thacher.

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Impending Quality Control Standards Pose Risks For Auditors

Public accounting firms will need to comply with new standards aimed at strengthening their quality control systems by the end of this year, a significant challenge sure to increase costs, individual liability and regulatory scrutiny, say Kelly Bossard at FTI Consulting and Mike Plotnick at King & Spalding.

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Opinion

Premerger Settlements Don't Meet Standard For Bribery

Claims that Paramount’s decision to settle a lawsuit with President Donald Trump while it was undergoing a premerger regulatory review amounts to a quid pro quo misconstrue bribery law and ignore how modern legal departments operate, says Ediberto Román at the Florida International University College of Law.

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Texas Med Spas Must Prepare For 2 New State Laws

Two new laws in Texas — regulating elective intravenous therapy and reforming healthcare noncompetes — mark a pivotal shift in the regulatory framework for medical spas in the state, which must proactively adapt their operations and contractual practices, says Brad Cook at Munsch Hardt.

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Series

Playing Soccer Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Soccer has become a key contributor to how I approach my work, and the lessons I’ve learned on the pitch about leadership, adaptability, resilience and communication make me better at what I do every day in my legal career, says Whitney O’Byrne at MoFo.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Legal Job Sector Continued 5-Month Growth Streak In July

By Tracey Read

For the fifth straight month, the U.S. legal industry experienced job growth, adding 600 positions in July, according to preliminary data released on Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Brief

Test-Taker's Collapse At NY Bar Exam Sparks Criticism

By Anna Sanders

New York bar-takers were allegedly forced to continue the test after witnessing a Fordham University School of Law graduate suffer a medical incident and receive CPR while she took the exam, according to the school and accounts posted online by people who said they were present.

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DC Panel Calls For Former DOJ Official Clark's Disbarment

By Phillip Bantz

The majority of a Washington, D.C., lawyer ethics panel has called for the disbarment of Jeffrey Clark, a White House official and ally of President Donald Trump, over his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

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NJ Court Will Mull Legality Of Habba's US Atty Appointment

By Lauren Berg

If Alina Habba was illegally appointed acting U.S. attorney in New Jersey, a pair of defendants in a drug trafficking case are not entitled to dismissal of the indictment, but it "appears appropriate" that Habba would be barred from prosecuting them, a federal judge ruled Friday.

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Politics And Privacy Laws Collide 5 Years After Salas Shooting

By Jack Karp

Five years after a disgruntled litigant killed a New Jersey federal judge's son at their home, experts and judges disagree over whether the judicial privacy laws enacted following the shooting are doing much to protect jurists, while political leaders' heated rhetoric makes for an even more dangerous landscape for judges.

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Analysis

Wheeling & Appealing: Midyear Highlights For Every Circuit

By Jeff Overley

In this special edition of Wheeling & Appealing, we're spotlighting key decisions and developments in every circuit court during the first half of 2025, while also previewing August's most intriguing oral arguments, including a remarkably "fierce" showdown between Edible Arrangements and 1-800-Flowers with millions of dollars in attorney fees on the line.

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1st Circ. Doubtful Of Trump's Stance On Birthright Citizenship

By Chris Villani

The First Circuit on Friday seemed inclined to say that the children of unauthorized immigrants are citizens if they were born on U.S. soil, citing both the 14th Amendment and a subsequent U.S. Supreme Court ruling and pushing back on an argument by President Donald Trump's administration.

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Brief

Ex-Copyright Chief Appeals Denial Of Reinstatement Bid

By Elliot Weld

The former head of the U.S. Copyright Office will appeal a D.C. federal judge's denial of her request to be immediately reinstated to her former position after she was fired by President Donald Trump while her suit remains pending.

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NY Law Mandating Judicial Fine Declared Unconstitutional

By Madison Arnold

A New York state appeals court has declared unconstitutional a statute that mandates a judge forfeit $1,000 to a plaintiff if the judge refuses to issue a writ of habeas corpus.

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Monthly Merger Review Snapshot

By Matthew Perlman

The U.S. Department of Justice abandoned its challenge of a corporate travel management deal, while lawmakers are calling for scrutiny of the agency's recent decision to settle a different case, and the Federal Trade Commission agreed to nix the requirements placed on a pair of oil and gas deals.

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The Top In-House Hires Of July

By Michele Gorman

Legal department hires over the past month included high-profile appointments at Warner Bros. Discovery, Deutsche Bank and Kroger. Here, Law360 Pulse looks at some of the top in-house announcements from July.

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

By Max Austin

This past week in London has seen several telco giants hit with a trademark claim, a collapsed hotel company sue a property investor in an ongoing dispute over a decades-old hotel sale, and two litigation funders square off against each other.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

Department store retailer Dillard's has asked for a special shareholder's vote on Aug. 19 on management's plan to move its incorporation from Delaware to Texas, becoming the latest company to join the so-called DExit trend.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP and Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a Ninth Circuit panel affirmed Epic Games Inc.'s 2023 antitrust jury trial win, along with an injunction requiring Google to open its Google Play Store to rivals.

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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

Adamski Moroski

Advisors LLC

Arnold & Porter

Ashurst LLP

Bae Kim

Baker & Hostetler

Berger Montague

Bielli & Klauder

Boies Schiller

Bowman & Brooke

Brown Law Firm

Bush Gottlieb

CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang

Consovoy McCarthy

Cooch & Taylor

Cooley LLP

Covington & Burling

Cravath Swaine

Crowell & Moring

DLA Piper

DWF LLP

David Boies

Dechert LLP

Dentons

Dinsmore & Shohl

Eaton & Wolk

Faegre Drinker

Farnan LLP

Fenwick & West

Fields Kupka

Flood & Flood

Foley Hoag

Freeths LLP

Freshfields

Gainey McKenna

Gibson Dunn

Gleiss Lutz

Gowling WLG

Green LLP

Greenberg Traurig

Harrison LLP

Hogan Lovells

Holwell Shuster

Horwich Farrelly

Howes Percival

Jones Day

K&L Gates

Keystone Law

Kilpatrick Townsend

King & Spalding

King & Wood Mallesons

Kirkland & Ellis

Knight Nicastro

Knights Solicitors

Koch Garg

Labaton Keller

Latham & Watkins

Law Offices of Ronald A. Marron

Law Offices of Todd M. Friedman

Lowey Dannenberg

MFG Solicitors

McCarter & English

McCaulley Law Group

McDermott Will & Emery

McShane & Brady

Milbank LLP

Milberg Coleman

Mills & Reeve

Mishcon de Reya

Morgan Lewis

Mori Hamada

Morris Nichols

Morrison & Foerster

Munger Tolles

Munsch Hardt

Nabarro LLP

Norton Rose

Olsson Frank

Orrick Herrington

Paul Weiss

Pierce Atwood

Pinsent Masons

Quinn Emanuel

RM Law PC

Robbins Alloy

Robbins LLP

Rousso Boumel

Rudy Exelrod

Saul Ewing

Seyfarth Shaw

Shapiro Arato

Sidley Austin

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Singleton Schreiber

Siri & Glimstad

Skadden Arps

Spector Roseman

Stevens & Bolton

Stites & Harbison

Stranch Jennings

Susman Godfrey

Tarter Krinsky

Taylor Rose

Trethowans LLP

Tucker Ellis

Wachtell Lipton

Ward Hadaway

Webb Law Group APC

Williams Mullen

Willkie Farr

WilmerHale

Wilson Sonsini

Winston & Strawn

Young Conaway

Zimmer Citron

gunnercooke LLP

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

1-800-Flowers.com Inc.

7-Eleven Inc.

777 Partners LLC

AT&T Inc.

AXA XL Ltd.

Abbott Laboratories

Adobe Inc.

Air Products & Chemicals Inc.

Airbnb Inc.

Amazon.com Inc.

American Antitrust Institute

American Bar Association

American Civil Liberties Union

American Express Global Business Travel

American Institute of Certified Public Accountants

Amneal Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Ancestry

Apple Inc.

Aramark

Auto-Owners Insurance Co.

BASF SE

BCE Inc.

BDO LLP

BJC HealthCare

Balfour Beatty PLC

Bank of America Corp.

Beyond Meat Inc.

Boy Scouts of America

CVS Health Corp.

Charter Communications Inc.

Chegg Inc.

Chevron Corp.

Chick-fil-A Inc.

Cisneros

Communications Workers of America

Cox Communications Inc.

Databricks Inc.

Davies Group Ltd.

Delta Corp. Ltd.

Democracy Forward Foundation

Deutsche Bank AG

Dick's Sporting Goods Inc.

Dollar Tree Inc.

Downtown Music Holdings LLC

EE Ltd.

EQT Corp.

Eastman Kodak Co.

Edgeworth Economics LLC

Edible Arrangements LLC

Eli Lilly & Co.

Enerpac Tool Group Corp.

English Premier League

Epic Games Inc.

Exxon Mobil Corp.

FTI Consulting Inc.

Federal Bar Association

Federalist Society

Finastra

Foot Locker Inc.

Fordham University

GE HealthCare Technologies Inc.

Global Payments Inc.

Goal Group Ltd.

Google LLC

Greencore Group PLC

HSBC Holdings PLC

Harvard University

Hess Corp.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.

Honeywell International Inc.

Intelsat SA

Intuitive Surgical

JELD-WEN Inc.

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Johnson & Johnson

Juniper Networks Inc.

KKR & Co. Inc.

Lawyers for Civil Rights

Lex Machina Inc.

Liberty Mutual Insurance Group

Live Nation Entertainment Inc.

Louis Dreyfus Holding B.V.

MS Amlin PLC

Macrae Inc.

McDonald's Corp.

Mediterranean Shipping Co. SA

Meta Platforms Inc.

Metronet

Microsoft Corp.

Mosaic

Munchkin Inc.

National Collegiate Athletic Association

New York Legal Assistance Group Inc.

New York Racing Association Inc.

New York State Bar Association

Norfolk Southern Corp.

Northern Trust Corp.

Nova Biomedical Corp.

Novo Nordisk A S

Orient Overseas Container Line Ltd.

Ozone Networks Inc.

PGA TOUR Inc.

Palantir Technologies Inc.

Paramount Global

Pioneer Natural Resources Co.

Pivot Bio Inc.

ProAssurance Corporation

Public Co. Accounting Oversight Board

Quantum Energy Partners

Reddit Inc.

Repligen Corporation

Restoration Hardware Holdings Inc.

Rural Wireless Association

SES SA

Sage Therapeutics Inc.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

Sanofi

Skydance Media LLC

Solventum

Southwest Airlines Co.

Spectrum Management Holding Co.

Steves & Sons Inc.

Sunoco LP

Supernus Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Sysmex Corp.

Take-Two Interactive Software Inc.

Tesla Inc.

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.

The Bank of New York Mellon Corp.

The Charles Schwab Corp.

The District of Columbia Bar

The Doctors Co.

The Kraft Heinz Co.

The Kroger Co.

The Trade Desk Inc.

Therium Capital Management Ltd.

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.

Toys R Us Inc.

Tricon Energy Inc.

Union Pacific Corp.

Universal Music Group NV

Verizon Communications Inc.

Verve Therapeutics Inc.

Virgin Media Inc.

Vivendi SA

Volkswagen AG

Vuori Inc.

Warner Bros. Discovery Inc.

Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.

Workday Inc.

Worldpay LLC

X Corp.

Yang Ming Marine Transport Corp.

Zoom Video Communications Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives

Bureau of Labor Statistics

Companies House

Competition and Markets Authority

Council of the EU

Delaware Court of Chancery

European Commission

European Parliament

European Union

Federal Communications Commission

Federal Trade Commission

Food and Drug Administration

House of Lords of the United Kingdom

Judicial Conference of the United States

Library of Congress

National Labor Relations Board

New Jersey Attorney General's Office

New York City Department of Education

New York Supreme Court, New York County

Office of the Comptroller of the Currency

Texas House of Representatives

Texas Medical Board

U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission

U.S. Copyright Office

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Department of Justice

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 Connecticut

U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware

U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

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

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

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

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

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

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

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

UK High Court

US Office of Management and Budget

United Nations