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'Lion King' Suit May Not Reign In Podcasting Legal Jungle

By Chris Villani

A recently filed suit over the alleged mischaracterization of the iconic opening chant in “The Lion King” may not hold up in court, but the case highlights the risks podcasters can face in a freewheeling and increasingly ubiquitous medium, experts say.

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11th Circ. Revives Trademark Suit Against Frida Kahlo Family

By Hailey Konnath

The Eleventh Circuit on Friday agreed to resurrect a dispute between a company that claims to own various Frida Kahlo trademarks and Kahlo's family, ruling that a lower court erred in throwing out the case for lack of jurisdiction. 

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Nexstar-Tegna Deal Blocked Amid DirecTV, AGs' Challenge

By Hailey Konnath

A California federal judge on Friday issued a preliminary injunction barring, for now, the $6.2 billion merger of broadcast giants Nexstar and Tegna, ruling that state attorneys general and DirecTV are likely to prevail in proving that the deal is anticompetitive and will harm consumers as well as distributors.

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'Rust' Negligence Suit Against Alec Baldwin Headed To Trial

By Hailey Konnath

A California state judge Friday largely denied Alec Baldwin's request for summary judgment in a negligence case brought by the chief lighting technician on the film "Rust," teeing the case up for trial.

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Caitlyn Jenner's Crypto Token Isn't A Security, Judge Says

By Katryna Perera

A California federal judge has permanently tossed a proposed class action against Caitlyn Jenner over the $JENNER cryptocurrency token she created and promoted, finding that the digital assets in question are not securities.

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Deer Feed Co. Fights Blockbuster's 'Block Buster' TM Claims

By Ivan Moreno

A Mississippi animal feed company has asked federal trademark judges to throw out Blockbuster LLC's bid to block an application for "Block Buster" for deer feed supplements, arguing the defunct video rental giant failed to clearly identify which of its many registrations are allegedly being infringed or diluted.

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Rapper Says Coach Ripped Off 'This Is A Blue T-Shirt' Mark

By Lauren Berg

Los Angeles rapper G Perico alleges in a California federal lawsuit that luxury brand Coach has infringed his "this is a blue t-shirt" trademark and brand by selling shirts that bear the slogan "this is a Coach t-shirt."

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Analysis

DOJ's NFL Probe May Reshape Sports Broadcasting Law

By David Steele

Though antitrust charges are in play in the U.S. Department of Justice's investigation into the NFL's deals with services like Amazon Prime and Netflix, experts say they don't see a strong federal case against the league's broadcasting practices, as focus may shift to updating a decades-old law governing how sports leagues negotiate television deals.

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Up Next At High Court: SEC And FCC Enforcement Authority

By Katie Buehler

The U.S. Supreme Court's final argument session of this term kicks off Monday, when the justices will consider the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's authority to seek disgorgement orders against alleged wrongdoers without proving investors were harmed. Here, Law360 breaks down the week's oral arguments.

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PTAB To Eye 3 Patents After Squires Rejected TikTok Reviews

By Adam Lidgett

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has agreed to launch reviews of whether three Cellspin Soft Inc. patents for publishing data on websites are invalid after the company was able to dodge earlier challenges from TikTok.

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Denver Bookshop Says 'Book Society' Can't Be A Trademark

By Rachel Konieczny

A Denver independent bookstore asked a Colorado federal judge Friday to declare it is not infringing upon a California book and wine lounge or engaging in unfair competition by using "book society" in its name.

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Brief

OpenAI Drops 9th Circ. Appeal Over 'Cameo' TM Block

By Elliot Weld

OpenAI has abandoned its Ninth Circuit appeal of an injunction blocking it from using the term "Cameo" in relation to a component of its artificial intelligence video generator Sora 2.

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State Privacy & AI Watch: 4 Legislative Developments To Know

By Allison Grande

The state data privacy law landscape continues to grow, with Alabama becoming the latest to join the fray and Kentucky moving to expand the types of sensitive data covered by its existing statute, although one state's legislature that had been pushing to enact what would have been one of the strictest frameworks in the nation adjourned for the year without finishing.

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'Constantly Shifting': Judge Rips Musk, OpenAI As Trial Nears

By Dorothy Atkins

A California federal judge Friday appeared frustrated with Elon Musk and OpenAI ahead of trial over Musk's challenge to OpenAI's conversion to a for-profit entity, criticizing the parties' "constantly shifting" positions and doubting whether she has the authority to grant the relief Musk requested.

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Cities Pan Latest GOP Permit Reform Bill As 'Dangerous'

By Christopher Cole

A coalition of cities and counties Friday blasted a Republican plan to impose "shot clocks" on local governments so they will hurry along broadband permit decisions, calling it an unacceptable attack on local authority.

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Where Cables Were Cut, AT&T Wants Be Done With Copper

By Nadia Dreid

There are hundreds of places all over the country where AT&T's copper phone lines have been disrupted, either by accident, theft or natural disaster, and it's asking the Federal Communications Commission for permission not to replace them.

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Tycoon's 'Unclean Hands' Defense Fails In $5.4M Foreclosure

By Aaron Keller

A Connecticut state judge has ordered the strict foreclosure of a Greenwich mansion that exiled Russian media tycoon Vladimir Gusinski purchased through an arm of his company, New Media Holdings LLC, capping a six-year-old lawsuit by a bank and its successor surrounding $4.94 million loans.

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QVC Aiming For Late May Ch. 11 Plan Confirmation

By Vince Sullivan

QVC told a Texas bankruptcy judge Friday the home shopping television company wants to get its Chapter 11 debt swap plan confirmed by late May and emerge from the insolvency process within 90 days, as it seeks to cut $5 billion of liabilities from its balance sheet.

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2 Discovery Rulings Break With Heppner On AI Privilege Issue

While a New York federal court’s recent ruling in U.S. v. Heppner suggests that some litigants’ communications with AI tools are discoverable, two other recent federal court decisions demonstrate that such interactions generally qualify for work-product protection under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, says Joshua Dunn at Brown Rudnick.

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California Is Latest Battleground In Defining Access To Justice

By Brandon Lowrey

A pair of dueling California ballot initiatives both purport to increase consumers' access to justice — a righteous cause, most would say. If only the initiatives' backers agreed on what that means.

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Adams & Reese Sued For Malpractice Over $411M Injury Loss

By Lynn LaRowe

A scaffolding company has hit Adams & Reese LLP with a legal malpractice suit in Texas state court that accuses the firm of botching its defense in a Louisiana workplace injury case, leading to a roughly $411 million jury verdict and ultimately forcing the business to settle the matter for millions.

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Polsinelli Sent Bogus Infringement Letters, Suits Say

By Elliot Weld

National law firm Polsinelli PC was accused of sending letters to two medical device companies with meritless claims of patent infringement, the companies claimed in a pair of malpractice suits.

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Another Record-Breaking Year For NY Lobbying: Watchdog

By Andrea Keckley

The amount of money spent on lobbying in New York state reached a new high — again — in 2025 despite lower dollar amounts from that year's top spenders, a state ethics and lobbying watchdog said Thursday.

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NY High Court Suspends Judge Over Racist Remarks

By Elizabeth Daley

A veteran judge who used the N-word among colleagues and claimed in court that a Black defendant was likely to be violent and "played the race card" has been suspended without pay by New York's highest court.

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Roundup

Balancing The Scales: Juror Bias, First For Revenge Porn Law

By Orlando Lorenzo

The California Supreme Court tossed the conviction and death sentence in a double slaying over the trial court's failures to investigate claims of juror bias, and an Ohio man is believed to be the first person in the nation convicted under a federal law intended to battle revenge porn.

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Alaska-Hawaiian Merger Judge Mulls DQ Over O'Melveny Ties

By Craig Clough

The parties in a consumer lawsuit challenging Alaska Airlines' 2024 acquisition of Hawaiian Airlines have been notified that the federal judge recently assigned to the case intends to disqualify himself unless they sign a waiver over one of his retirement accounts being tied to O'Melveny & Myers LLP, which is representing Alaska Airlines.

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Nussbaum-Linked Law Firms Hit Ch. 11 Facing Scheme Suits

By Vince Sullivan

Two commercial real estate law firms headed by Mark J. Nussbaum filed for Chapter 11 protection in New York, listing at least $353 million in disputed unsecured claims tied to the firms' hard money lending practices that have been described in litigation as a Ponzi scheme.

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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 Aston Martin file an appeal in a row with Chinese carmaker Geely over its winged logo for London black cabs, Ineos sue Ben Ainslie's America's Cup team for a £180 million ($244 million) boat, White & Case face a claim from two energy storage companies, and a golf tour company bring a claim against Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund after the fund invested in its rival.

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Roundup

GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

New data found that some companies are being wary during the 2026 proxy season by negotiating deals behind closed doors rather than allowing shareholders to vote on issues. In the meantime, a report showed that the higher annual rate growth for outside counsel fees that began in 2022 has become the new normal. 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

Winston & Strawn LLP leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a New York federal jury found that Live Nation and its Ticketmaster subsidiary harmed competition in the live entertainment sector by willfully monopolizing ticketing services.

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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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