Free Speech Fight Over Fla. Social Media Law Goes To Trial

By Dorothy Atkins

A Florida federal judge refused to hand a decisive win just yet to either the state or technology groups challenging a law punishing social media websites for blocking political candidates, sending the dispute — which has already made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court — to a September bench trial instead.

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Microsoft Joins Fight To Preserve EU-US Data Transfer Pact

By Allison Grande

Microsoft Corp. has secured permission to support the European Commission in its effort to shield a vital agreement that enables personal data to flow freely from the European Union to the U.S. from a French lawmaker's attempt to convince the bloc's highest court to strike down the transfer mechanism.

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Split 6th Circ. Revives Ohio's Social Media Age Limit Law

By Hailey Konnath

A divided Sixth Circuit panel Thursday wiped out a lower court's order blocking an Ohio law barring social media companies from allowing children under 16 to create accounts without parental consent, ruling that the measure does not run afoul of the Constitution.

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Express Scripts Can't Ditch Meta Wiretap Suit Yet

By Rae Ann Varona

A California federal judge refused to dismiss a proposed class action alleging Express Scripts lets Meta secretly read consumers' communications, saying a consumer sufficiently claimed the online pharmacy allowed Meta's unauthorized collection of personal health information.

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Tort Report: Meta Set To Face Facebook Sex Trafficking Trial

By Y. Peter Kang

An upcoming trial in Texas for a first-of-its-kind case against Meta and claims against a health clinic owned by a U.S. senator lead Law360's Tort Report, which compiles recent personal injury and medical malpractice news that may have flown under the radar.

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Meta's Newspaper Analogy Doesn't Sway Instagram Judge

By Carolyn Muyskens

Meta faced some pushback from a Massachusetts state judge for comparing Instagram's design to a newspaper publisher's decisions about what to put on the front page, as the company pushed to end the state's lawsuit over alleged harm to youth from social media use.

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Bill For AI Deepfake Reporting System Clears Senate Panel

By Elliot Weld

A bill that would create a pathway for reporting AI-generated deepfakes online for removal cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday after a few senators had raised concerns over First Amendment implications but said they believed they could be resolved before a full Senate vote.

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Anthropic Files Protective Appeal Of Pentagon Designation

By Jared Foretek

Anthropic has filed a protective petition challenging the U.S. Department of Defense's June 3 decision reaffirming the artificial intelligence giant's designation as a supply-chain risk, asking the D.C. Circuit to consolidate it with the designation challenge already pending before the appeals court.

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Bitcoin Thief Tells 2nd Circ. Resentence Violates Constitution

By Stewart Bishop

Counsel for a convicted Florida bitcoin fraudster who was sentenced to 12 years in prison for failing to pay over $20 million in restitution stemming from his role in a crypto heist on Thursday told the Second Circuit that the lower court's resentencing trampled on the constitutional rights of her client, who "never got due process at any stage."

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Pornhub Makes Deal With Child Sex Crime Victim Class In Calif.

By Craig Clough

The entities behind Pornhub have reached a settlement with a certified class of child sex trafficking and sexual abuse material survivors who allege the website profited from the crimes committed against them, an attorney for the class told a California federal judge Thursday.

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Novo Nordisk Sued Over Data Hack Tied To Extortionist Group

By Gina Kim

Novo Nordisk was hit with a proposed negligence class action in New Jersey federal court alleging the pharmaceutical giant failed to have adequate data security measures in place to protect sensitive personal health information of patients and employees from being exposed to a cybercriminal extortionist group.

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Louisiana Asks 5th Circ. To Lift Block Of Social Media Law

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

Louisiana is asking a federal appellate court to lift its block on a state law that requires social media platforms to verify users' ages and bans them from allowing minors to create or maintain accounts without parental permission.

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Accenture Unveils $4.2B Cybersecurity Software Buying Spree

By Al Barbarino

Accenture said Thursday it will acquire a majority stake in industrial cybersecurity company Dragos and buy runZero and NetRise in deals with a combined enterprise value of $4.175 billion, expanding its software offerings for securing critical infrastructure and industrial operations.

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High Court's FCC Ruling Adds To Comms Industry Paradox

The Supreme Court's recent decision in Federal Communications Commission v. AT&T, finding that the FCC's informal forfeiture process survives Seventh Amendment scrutiny, opens some doors for regulated entities, but the practical effect may be surprisingly constrained, says Jonathan Marashlian at The CommLaw Group.

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'Honeypot' Suit Spotlights Nuances Of Trade Secret Law

Fintech company MyCard's recent complaint filed in Delaware federal court, alleging that competitor Atomic FI copied its proprietary software, including a "honeypot" in the form of a specific 37-character string, highlights fact-intensive questions of when alleged trade secrets are actually secret, says Eugene Mar at Farella Braun.

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A Lender's Guide To Fraud: Identifying Risks

The evolving lending landscape, particularly the private credit boom, has heightened lenders' exposure to fraud, but recent bankruptcies demonstrate where fraud risks most commonly materialize and how banks can mitigate exposure at the outset, say attorneys at Moore & Van Allen.

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Series

Founding An Autism Academy Made Me A Better Lawyer

Starting a nonprofit autism school with no building, no funding model and no guarantee that families would trust us taught me the importance of mission, patience and purpose — lessons that sharpened my practice and showed how meaningful work outside the office can make lawyers better, says Phillip Russell at Ogletree Deakins.

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Judiciary Cites AI Deepfakes In Opposing Courtroom Cameras

By Courtney Bublé

Two bipartisan bills to bring cameras into federal courtrooms advanced Thursday, but the policymaking body for the federal judiciary continues to oppose them and raised the issue of deepfakes in the age of artificial intelligence.

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Trump Lawyer Advances In Senate Judiciary Noms Vote

By Courtney Bublé

The nomination of Matthew Schwartz to be a judge on the Second Circuit advanced out of committee Thursday.

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'Mortified' Atty Takes Blame For Fake Quotes In Taco TM Fight

By Ivan Moreno

A Connecticut attorney facing possible sanctions over fake case quotations in a taco restaurant trademark fight told a federal judge that he takes "full and unqualified responsibility" for the flawed filings, saying he is "mortified" and acknowledging that his verification process for AI-assisted legal work fell far short.

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Calif. Moves On Proposal To Allow Legal Aid By Nonlawyers

By Lynn LaRowe

The California Supreme Court has directed the state bar to solicit public comments on a proposed community justice worker program that would allow nonlawyers to provide limited legal assistance under the supervision of qualified legal aid organizations, according to a Thursday announcement.

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Law Students Undeterred Under Trump's Immigration Climate

By Britain Eakin

In a climate where immigration lawyers are coming under the Trump administration’s scrutiny to tamp down on asylum fraud, law students are being ignited to enter the workforce early and rectify the injustices they see.

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Mich. Panel Sanctions Atty Over AI-Hallucinated Cases

By Susan Smiley

A medical malpractice suit in the Michigan Court of Appeals led to financial sanctions against an attorney who the court said during litigation repeatedly cited nonexistent cases that were generated by artificial intelligence.

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Ford Says 'Lemon Law' Firm Faked Bills Using Overseas Staff

By Linda Chiem

Ford Motor Co. accused California personal injury firm Quill & Arrow LLP of defrauding it out of more than $25 million in high-priced legal bills for work actually handled by virtual assistants overseas and non-lawyers in scores of product liability cases against the automaker.

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NY High Court Upholds Mandatory Judge Retirement Age

By Dorothy Atkins

New York's highest court Thursday affirmed a ruling that rejected jurists' challenges to the Empire State's mandatory retirement age of 70 for state judges and justices, finding that the centuries-old constitutional mandate doesn't conflict with a recent state civil rights amendment banning age discrimination.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

General counsel may cringe at the news, but their chief financial officers will rejoice over a new study that shows the average spending by legal departments dropped to a six-year low in 2026. And two in-house Cigna lawyers are at the center of a finding of "improperly asserted privilege" over key company documents related to a payment lawsuit brought by three labs.

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