Law360 Names Practice Groups Of The Year

Law360 would like to congratulate the winners of its Practice Groups of the Year awards for 2025, which honor the attorney teams behind litigation wins and significant transaction work that resonated throughout the legal industry this past year.

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Analysis

In First Year, Trump Lost Most Cases But Often Won Appeals

By Cara Bayles

In the first year of President Donald Trump's second term, his administration lost in court nearly twice as often as it won, but its success rate increased when it appealed, according to a Law360 review of more than 400 lawsuits.

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Calif. AG Orders xAI To Stop Enabling Sexualized Deepfakes

By Rae Ann Varona

California's attorney general on Friday sent xAI a cease and desist letter demanding the artificial intelligence company immediately stop the creation and distribution of nonconsensual, sexualized deepfakes, days after U.S. senators announced they had demanded that leading tech companies disclose how they are preventing such images on their platforms.

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'Egregious' Judge Shopping Sanctioned In Ill. TM Case

By Hailey Konnath

An Illinois federal judge has permanently thrown out a "Schedule A" trademark case, chastising the plaintiff for once again trying to lump together defendants that multiple judges have already held cannot be lumped together in one suit, calling it "an egregious form of forum shopping."

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Money Not Sole Motive For Jordan Card Caper, Jury Told

By Pete Brush

A Washington state youth sports coach who says he bankrolled a $2 million sports trading-card scam conceded Friday that the man accused of spearheading the fraud had motives beyond money, as a defense lawyer challenged the cooperator's account before a Manhattan federal jury.

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Rapper Xzibit's Ex-Wife Sues Over Cannabis TM Transfers

By Gina Kim

The ex-wife of rapper Xzibit filed a trademark infringement suit in California federal court Thursday alleging he assigned the marks of the couple's cannabis brand to his associate without her consent, in violation of an automatic temporary restraining order in their divorce proceedings.

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Litter Box Maker Starts False Ads Catfight With TikTokers

By Lauren Berg

The maker of the Meowant brand self-cleaning litter box says a rival litter box maker pays TikTok accounts to post fake "review" videos spreading false and disparaging comments about the Meowant products and steer cat owners to the rival company, according to a lawsuit filed Friday in Texas federal court.

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Fed. Circ. Won't Revive Patent Suit Against Nintendo Switch

By Theresa Schliep

The Federal Circuit on Friday affirmed a California federal judge's conclusion that Nintendo's popular Nintendo Switch system did not infringe Gamevice Inc. patents, although it remanded an invalidity ruling that one judge feared could result in "really wacky case law."

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9th Circ. Upholds Ax Of RNC Suit Over Google Email Filtering

By Allison Grande

The Ninth Circuit on Friday refused to revive the Republican National Committee's lawsuit accusing Google of illegally sending RNC fundraising emails to Gmail users' spam folders, finding that the committee had failed to establish the type of user relationship necessary to sustain its claims. 

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OpenAI, Microsoft Must Face Musk Fraud Fight In April Trial

By Dorothy Atkins

A California federal judge denied OpenAI Inc.'s request for summary judgment on Elon Musk's claims OpenAI duped him into donating $38 million with false promises of remaining a nonprofit, while trimming some claims against Microsoft Corp. and sending the bifurcated dispute to an April jury trial.

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TikTok Ties To UK Argued Before Del. Judge

By Jeff Montgomery

Arguments on dismissal of a landmark suit seeking to hold video sharing platform TikTok and associated companies liable for the deaths of five young people in the U.K. and one in America went to a Delaware Superior Court judge Friday.

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Google Appeals DOJ Search Win, Seeks Data-Sharing Stay

By Lauren Berg

Google on Friday filed its long-awaited notice of appeal of a D.C. federal judge's decision that the tech giant is an online search monopolist, while asking to pause some remedies won by the U.S. Department of Justice that require the company to share search data with competitors.

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ChatGPT Users Say Microsoft Can't Duck Antitrust Suit

By Bryan Koenig

ChatGPT subscribers urged a California federal judge Friday not to dismiss their lawsuit accusing Microsoft of undermining OpenAI by forcing the artificial intelligence giant into using its cloud computing exclusively, a day after they said Microsoft has no claim to alternatively force the proposed class action into arbitration.

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SEC Fines 'Cash Flow King' Podcaster $3M For Ponzi Scheme

By Gina Kim

A podcast host dubbed the "Cash Flow King" will pay $3.3 million to settle claims that he ran a multiyear Ponzi scheme that cheated investors out of $11 million through bogus real estate investments, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced Friday.

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Justices Will Decide Constitutionality Of Geofence Warrants

By Christopher Cole

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to review the constitutionality of geofence warrants, used by law enforcement to pinpoint suspects' whereabouts using location data handed over by technology firms like Google.

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Dems Balk At FCC Drive For Simpler Broadband Labels

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission wants to move toward broadband "nutrition" labels that it thinks consumers could more easily navigate, even if that means taking out a separate line about early termination fees for high-speed plans, the FCC chair said this week.

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Brief

Localism Requirement Dooms Low-Power Station Requests

By Christopher Cole

Four proposed low-power FM stations in Texas and one in Nevada can't get building permits from the Federal Communications Commission because their paperwork doesn't indicate they would be run by local organizations under federal rules, the FCC said Friday.

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Analysis

Immigrant Visa Pause Could Test Limits Of Executive Power

By Britain Eakin

The Trump administration's indefinite pause on immigrant visas for applicants from 75 countries may test the outer bounds of executive control over visa issuance and prompt court battles in a rarely litigated area of immigration law.

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5 Advertising Law Trends That Will Shape 2026

The legal landscape for advertisers will grow only more complex this year, with ongoing trends including a federal regulatory retreat, more aggressive action by the states, a focus on child privacy and expanded scrutiny of "natural" claims, say attorneys at Reed Smith.

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Law360 Names Firms Of The Year

By Kevin Penton

Eight law firms have earned spots as Law360's Firms of the Year, with 48 Practice Group of the Year awards among them, achieving milestones such as high-profile litigation wins at the U.S. Supreme Court and 11-figure merger deals.

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Shooting Of Indiana Judge, Wife Prompts Call For Vigilance

By Lynn LaRowe

The shooting of an Indiana Superior Court judge and his wife over the weekend has prompted the chief of the state's highest court to urge all jurists in the Hoosier State to "remain vigilant in your security."

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Judge Rips Halligan For 'Masquerading' As US Attorney

By Courtney Bublé

A federal judge said Tuesday that Lindsey Halligan's argument that she is still U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia contains "vitriol more appropriate for a cable news talk show" and reaffirmed a ruling that she is not lawfully serving in the role.

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Justices Ax 6th Circ. Abortion Order Amid Loper Bright Outcry

By Jeff Overley

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday erased a Sixth Circuit decision allowing abortion-related conditions on family planning grants, a victory for Tennessee officials who accused the circuit of flouting the high court's landmark rejection of judicial deference to regulators.

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AI Firm Countersues Legal Publisher For Breach Of Contract

By Adam Lidgett

Artificial intelligence startup Alexi Technologies has accused Fastcase Inc. and its owner of weaponizing the legal system after the legal research firm filed a lawsuit in November claiming the AI company breached a former business relationship.

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Justices Set Time Limit To Ax Judgments, Ending 11-1 Split

By Jeff Overley

Almost every circuit court has wrongly allowed litigants to vacate invalid judgments regardless of how long ago the judgments became final, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday, endorsing one circuit's outlier interpretation of a decades-old procedural rule.

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Brief

Supreme Court Security Gets $30M Boost In DHS Bill

By Courtney Bublé

The consolidated U.S. Department of Homeland Security funding bill for fiscal year 2026 released early Tuesday morning includes $30 million for the security of U.S. Supreme Court justices.

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