A New York City law that would require DoorDash, GrubHub and other delivery apps to share customer data with the restaurants fulfilling food orders violates the First Amendment, the Second Circuit ruled Wednesday.
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NYC's Food Apps Data Law Goes Too Far, 2nd Circ. Says

By Lauren Berg

A New York City law that would require DoorDash, GrubHub and other delivery apps to share customer data with the restaurants fulfilling food orders violates the First Amendment, the Second Circuit ruled Wednesday.

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Senate Version Of Kids' Online Safety Legislation Clears Panel

By Allison Grande

A key U.S. Senate committee Wednesday advanced four legislative proposals designed to shield children from online harms presented by addictive design features and artificial intelligence-powered chatbots, setting up a clash with a package of digital safety bills that has already passed the House but that several senators have blasted as "toothless."

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Canadian Man Cops To Extensive Hacking, Extortion Scheme

By Gina Kim

A Canadian man pled guilty Wednesday in Washington federal court over his involvement in a widespread fraud scheme where he and other co-conspirators hacked into computer networks belonging to more than 165 organizations before threatening to leak stolen information unless they made ransom payments.

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POLICY & REGULATION

CFPB Sends Open-Banking Rule Redo To White House

By Jon Hill

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has finished a proposal to overhaul its Biden-era open-banking rule and has submitted it for White House clearance, a move that signals the agency is nearing publication of the highly anticipated draft changes.

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LITIGATION

T-Mobile Asks Judge To Reconsider Data Breach Ruling

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

T-Mobile has asked a Washington judge to address issues that the company says were overlooked in his June ruling finding that T-Mobile committed more than 722,000 violations of a state data breach notification law.

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Product Liability Cases To Watch: Midyear Report

By Emily Field

Social media companies are headed back to court over allegations that their platforms are designed to hook young people, while OpenAI faces claims that ChatGPT has meted out harmful health advice and helped users plan mass shootings. Here's what's on the radar for product liability for the rest of 2026.

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Brief

Connex Data Breach Class Action Heads To Mediation

By Brian Steele

A Connecticut state court judge has agreed to pause a proposed class action blaming a credit union for a breach of customers' private data while the parties head to a mediation session currently scheduled for September.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

3 Private Suits Test Influencer Ads As FTC Stays On Sidelines

Three lawsuits filed so far this year illustrate how influencer campaigns are facing growing scrutiny from private plaintiffs, despite the Federal Trade Commission not bringing an influencer marketing enforcement action since revising its endorsement guides to address the topic in 2023, but brands can take concrete steps to reduce the risks, says Gonzalo Mon at Kelley Drye.

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DOJ's FCA Push Creates Risks For Construction Contractors

The construction industry may be uniquely vulnerable to a new generation of False Claims Act enforcement driven by the U.S. Department of Justice's increasing usage of the FCA to target a much broader category of conduct than it has in decades past, specifically compliance certifications and regulatory representations, say attorneys at Cozen O'Connor.

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Deposit Contracts Do Heavy Lifting As Fraud Moves Upstream

As courts increasingly find that upstream parties are best positioned to detect red flags in fraud disputes, most recently in Yangtze v. Ohio Valley Trackwork, companies should tighten treasury and deposit agreement verification protocols, indemnity terms, and insurance coordination to reduce exposure, says Nadine Dorsht at Stinson.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

How Does In-House Pay Compare? Take The Law360 Survey

How do in-house salaries vary across industries, roles, and organizational revenue? What compensation tools are companies using to lure top talent? Help Law360 Pulse answer these questions and more in this year's In-House Compensation Survey.

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2 Law Firms Say IRS Wrongly Denied COVID-19 Tax Credits

By Adrian Cruz

A pair of law firms are alleging in Georgia federal court that the Internal Revenue Service wrongly denied their claims to employee retention credits, a tax incentive created during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic to encourage businesses to keep workers on their payrolls.

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NC House OKs Unpaid Suspensions For Judges Under Inquiry

By Hayley Fowler

Republicans in the North Carolina House of Representatives have given the green light to a legislative proposal empowering the chief justice of the state Supreme Court to suspend trial court judges without pay if they're under investigation by the state Judicial Standards Commission.

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Simpson Thacher Lands In Chicago With 5-Atty Kirkland Team

By James Boyle

A five-person team of Kirkland & Ellis LLP attorneys are moving their practices to Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP to help the firm launch an office in Chicago.

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BREAKING: No Simpson Thacher Malpractice In PIPE Case, Jury Finds

By Madison Arnold

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP escaped a malpractice lawsuit late Thursday over its representation of Patriot National Inc. in a private investment in public equity transaction in the years before the company's downfall.

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Sidley Adds Ex-Accenture Enterprise Platforms Lead As CIO

By Matt Perez

Sidley Austin LLP on Wednesday announced the hiring of a nearly two-decade veteran at professional services firm Accenture as its chief information officer.

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New ABA Chief Seeks To 'Streamline' Org, Defend Democracy

By Emily Sawicki

The American Bar Association's new president, Barbara J. Howard, will focus on twin goals of defending democracy against expected unprecedented attacks associated with this year's midterm elections, while also reorganizing the association to run more efficiently, as she kicks off her one-year term this month.

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Richards Layton Under Fire Amid Bid To Avoid AI Sanctions

By Rose Krebs

A firm has asked a Delaware vice chancellor to allow it to submit more "factual information" regarding what it says are inconsistencies in Richards Layton & Finger PA's attempt to avoid sanctions for submitting a filing with errors generated by artificial intelligence.

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Justices' FTC Ruling Weakens Qui Tam's Constitutional Base

The U.S. Supreme Court’s holding in Trump v. Slaughter, expanding presidential control over those exercising executive power, suggests that courts may be receptive to arguments challenging the constitutional foundations of the False Claims Act’s qui tam mechanism, says Daniel Passeser at Wiggin.

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Analysis

The Dramatic Moments Set To Shape Tom Goldstein's Appeal

By Jeff Overley and Jared Foretek

Prurient revelations, brash recriminations and purportedly glaring judicial errors in Tom Goldstein's criminal case have captivated the appellate bar for nearly 19 months, and many of those moments will be center stage in the star attorney's imminent appeal.

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6th Circ. Slashes 'Egregious' Fee Award In Tax-Taking Suit

By Susan Smiley

Michigan attorneys representing plaintiffs in a tax foreclosure suit had their awarded attorney fees, which more than doubled the settlement they obtained in the case, slashed by a Sixth Circuit panel in a published opinion Thursday.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Almeida Law Group

Anderson Kill

Bass Berry

Bodker Ramsey

Burns Charest

Cahill Gordon

Cicchiello & Cicchiello LLP

Cole & Van Note

Conrad & Scherer

Cozen O'Connor

Crowell & Moring

Diserio Martin

Ellzey Kherkher

Federman & Sherwood

Giarmarco Mullins

Gibson Dunn

Gordon Dana & Gilmore

Gordon Rees

Hayber McKenna

Hecker Fink

Honigman LLP

Hughes Hubbard

Israel David LLC

Jennings & Earley

Kelley Drye

Kirkland & Ellis

Kopelowitz Ostrow

Koskoff Koskoff

Lemberg Law

Lowey Dannenberg

McAlpine PC

McDermott Will & Schulte

Milberg PLLC

Orrick Herrington

Paul Hastings

Pittman Dutton

Proskauer Rose

Richards Layton

Rueb Stoller

Seila Law

Sidley Austin

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

Siri & Glimstad

Stearns Weaver

Stinson LLP

Stranch Jennings

Wagstaff & Cartmell

Wiggin & Dana

Williams & Connolly

Wilson PC

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

3M Co.

Accenture PLC

American Bar Association

American Civil Liberties Union

BBB National Programs Inc.

ByteDance Ltd.

Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corp.

Computer & Communications Industry Association

Cross River Bank

DoorDash Inc.

DuPont de Nemours Inc.

Executive Health Resources Inc.

Google LLC

GrubHub Inc.

Harborview Capital Partners LLC

Hard Yaka Inc.

Instagram Inc.

Meta Platforms Inc.

National Association of Consumer Advocates

NeoGenomics Laboratories Inc.

OpenAI OpCo LLC

Pacific Legal Foundation

Patriot National Inc.

Paypal Holdings Inc.

Public Co. Accounting Oversight Board

Rite Aid Corp.

Safeway Inc.

SatoshiLabs sro

Snap Inc.

Sterling National Bank

T-Mobile US Inc.

The Boeing Co.

The Charles Schwab Corp.

The District of Columbia Bar

TikTok Inc.

Uber Eats

YouTube Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

City of New York

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Delaware Court of Chancery

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Trade Commission

Internal Revenue Service

Los Angeles Superior Court

Ohio Supreme Court

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Washington

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth 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 Sixth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit

U.S. Department of Justice

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 Maryland

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. Navy

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

US Office of Management and Budget

United States District Court for the District of Montana

Washington Attorney General's Office