Jury Finds Live Nation Monopolized Concert Ticketing

By Stewart Bishop

Live Nation and its Ticketmaster subsidiary harmed competition in the live entertainment sector by willfully monopolizing ticketing services to major concert venues and unlawfully tying artists' use of large amphitheaters to Live Nation's promotional services, a Manhattan federal jury found on Wednesday.

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'A Bunch Of Games': MDL Judge Irked By Meta, AGs Sparring

By Dorothy Atkins

A California federal judge appeared skeptical Wednesday of Meta Platforms Inc.'s request for a summary judgment win over claims by state attorneys general in multidistrict social media addiction litigation, saying repeatedly that many disputes should be resolved at trial and panning some arguments by both sides as "a bunch of games."

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Food Apps' NYC Data Win Seems 'Weird' To 2nd Circ. Judges

By Jeff Overley

Does the First Amendment allow Uber Eats to keep your Chick-fil-A order a secret? At the Second Circuit on Wednesday, the fate of a New York City law aimed at reducing restaurant reliance on food delivery apps appeared to hinge heavily on that curious question.

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Counsel In Ex-Chartwell Atty Firing Suit Told To Ease Off

By Carolina Bolado

A Florida federal judge said Wednesday she wanted more information about a sanctions motion allegedly filed with hallucinated AI citations and urged attorneys to "bring the temperature down" in an ex-Chartwell Law Offices LLP attorney's suit claiming she was fired for posting social media statements criticizing military action in Gaza.

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Roblox To Pay $12.5M, Boost Child Safety In Deal With Nev.

By Allison Grande

Roblox has agreed to implement enhanced safeguards for children who use the popular interactive gaming platform and pay $12.5 million to fund an online safety awareness campaign and other initiatives as part of what Nevada's attorney general on Wednesday called a first-of-its-kind agreement to resolve claims that the company failed to adequately protect its youngest users. 

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Larry King's Estate Says Supplement Co. Still Using His Name

By Gina Kim

Larry King's estate sued operators of a prostate health supplement company in California state court Wednesday, alleging they continued using his name and likeness to advertise their product even after striking a legal settlement agreeing to stop.

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Consumer Cases Drive Class Action Spike, Report Says

By Y. Peter Kang

Federal class action filings spiked in 2025 after nearly a decade of relative stability, fueled by a surge in consumer protection lawsuits tied to data breaches, digital commerce and online accessibility claims, according to a new report from Lex Machina.

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Amazon Alexa Users Seek To Revive Class Deception Claims

By Rachel Riley

A group of Amazon Alexa users has urged a Washington federal judge to reinstate their class consumer protection claims based on allegations the devices secretly recorded their personal conversations, contending the court ignored competing evidence when determining Amazon clearly disclosed the possibility of accidental activations.

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Chair Says FTC Shouldn't Be 'All-Purpose AI Regulator'

By Bryan Koenig

Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson told lawmakers Wednesday that the agency is committed to using its existing authorities to protect Americans from deceptive artificial intelligence claims and AI-facilitated fraud, while arguing the FTC shouldn't serve as an overarching regulator for the technology.

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Ad Agencies Settle FTC's 'Brand Safety' Boycott Claims

By Matthew Perlman

The Federal Trade Commission reached a deal on Wednesday with WPP, Publicis and Dentsu over concerns that "brand safety" standards allowed them to collude to steer ad money away from disfavored platforms.

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Zillow, Redfin Can't Use 4th Circ. Ruling In Antitrust Suit

By Isaac Monterose

The Federal Trade Commission and multiple states on Wednesday filed a proposed response pushing back on Zillow and Redfin Corp.'s bid to cite a published Fourth Circuit decision they say supports their attempt to dismiss the antitrust suit brought by the agency and states.

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MSU Beats Privacy Violation Suit From Mel Tucker Accuser

By Susan Smiley

A Michigan federal judge has tossed a suit filed by sexual assault victim advocate Brenda Tracy against Michigan State University's board of trustees, saying Tracy failed to connect factual allegations to her legal claims over the handling of her sexual harassment complaint against former football coach Mel Tucker.

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Denver Seeks To End Strip Clubs' Wage Theft Suit

By MJ Koo

Strip club operators that repeatedly failed to halt Denver's $14 million wage theft investigation in state court cannot relitigate those same challenges in federal court, the city told a Colorado federal court Wednesday.

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Cvent Investors Reach $12M Deal To End Take-Private Suit

By Katryna Perera

Stockholders of cloud-based event management technology provider Cvent Holding Corp. have reached a $12 million settlement with the company, its top brass and its controlling shareholder over claims that they breached their fiduciary duties in connection with the company's $4.6 billion take-private sale to affiliates of Blackstone Inc.

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SantaCon Leader 'Stole Christmas' In NY Con Game, Feds Say

By Rae Ann Varona

The president of New York City's SantaCon turned out to be a con man, federal prosecutors have alleged, filing an indictment in New York federal court saying the bar crawl's leader diverted more than $1 million in charitable proceeds toward luxury getaways, fine dining, property renovations and other pricey personal ventures.

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Cable Group Says Any 'Click To Cancel' Rule Would Be 'Chaos'

By Nadia Dreid

A cable industry trade group has told the Federal Trade Commission it wants no part of any proposed "click to cancel" regulations, saying more rules governing negative option marketing practices "would not protect consumers, only generate regulatory chaos."

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Electric Co-Op Denies Delaying Minn. Broadband Projects

By Christopher Cole

A regional electric cooperative has denied assertions that it has hindered pole improvements necessary for a broadband provider to fulfill its deployment obligations in Minnesota under the Federal Communications Commission's Rural Digital Opportunity Fund.

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Hold Dish To Buildout Plans, Mich. Local Gov'ts Urge FCC

By Christopher Cole

A coalition of local government leaders in Michigan has asked the Federal Communications Commission to insist that Dish fulfill its wireless buildout obligations before its parent company EchoStar completes spectrum sales to AT&T and SpaceX.

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Judge Won't Move 'Maya' Case For Retrial

By Carolina Bolado

A Florida judge on Wednesday denied a hospital's request to move a retrial of Netflix documentary subject Maya Kowalski's claims against the hospital from Sarasota to St. Petersburg, citing the difficulty and expense of moving the 8-year-old case to a new circuit and judge.

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Cinemoi Trustee Moves To Seize $43M Film Library In Ch. 7

By Emily Lever

The Chapter 7 trustee for bankrupt television network Cinemoi North America on Wednesday asked a California bankruptcy judge to hold the company in contempt for allegedly refusing to turn over a hard drive containing a film library valued at about $43.4 million. 

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The 2026 Lawyer Satisfaction Survey: Where Do You Stand?

How is your work-life balance? Are you content with your compensation and opportunities for advancement at work? Take the 2026 Law360 Lawyer Satisfaction Survey and share your thoughts.

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Willkie Adds O'Melveny Litigator To Los Angeles Office

By James Boyle

Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP expanded its Los Angeles office with the recent addition of a litigator who moved her practice after nearly 15 years with O'Melveny & Myers LLP.

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'Made In America' EO May Not Survive Section 230

President Donald Trump's recent executive order to combat fraudulent "Made in America" claims in advertising directs the Federal Trade Commission to deem online marketplaces' failure to verify third-party origin claims as unlawful, but such a rule would likely run into Section 230's publisher immunity doctrine, say attorneys at Blank Rome.

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5 Key Questions Attys Should Ask About Statistical Analyses

Even attorneys without a background in statistics can effectively vet the general concepts of a statistical analysis by asking targeted questions and can thereby reinforce the credibility and relevance of expert testimony — or expose its weaknesses, say Katrina Schydlower and Christopher Cunio at Hunton and Kevin Cahill at FTI Consulting.

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Sotomayor Apologizes For 'Hurtful' Comments About Kavanaugh

By Katie Buehler

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor publicly apologized Wednesday for comments she made at a University of Kansas appearance earlier this month criticizing Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

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Justice Jackson Slams Court's 'Oblivious' Emergency Orders

By Lauren Berg

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson this week slammed her conservative colleagues' use of the court's emergency docket, which has repeatedly benefited the Trump administration, saying that such "scratch-paper" orders don't acknowledge the harms that can follow such decisions, making the orders "seem oblivious and thus ring hollow."

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Hogan, Cadwalader Partners Vote To Forge Ahead With Merger

By Marialuisa Taddia

Hogan Lovells and Cadwalader said Wednesday that their partners have voted in favor of their merger ahead of the scheduled launch of the combined law firm on July 1.

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Winston & Strawn Must Face $1.7B GloriFi Malpractice Suit

By Vince Sullivan

A Chapter 7 malpractice suit brought by the trustee of fintech company GloriFi asserting $1.7 billion in damages from a failed initial public offering mostly survived a motion to dismiss late Tuesday, with a Texas bankruptcy judge saying the trustee sufficiently pled breach claims against law firm Winston & Strawn.

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Trump's 8th Circ. Pick Pressed On Leonard Leo Ties

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump's nominee for the Eighth Circuit, who represented Trump in the two cases brought by writer E. Jean Carroll, came under scrutiny Wednesday for his affiliation with groups linked to longtime Federalist Society executive and Republican fundraiser Leonard Leo.

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Jones Day DQ'd From Vanderbilt Case Over Pre-Ch. 11 Work

By Vince Sullivan

A New York bankruptcy judge disqualified law firm Jones Day from representing talc producer Vanderbilt Minerals in its Chapter 11 case Wednesday, saying the firm's prior work for the larger Vanderbilt corporate family raises questions about its disinterestedness.

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John Eastman Disbarred Over Bid To Overturn 2020 Election

By Rae Ann Varona

California's highest court on Wednesday ordered the disbarment of California attorney John Charles Eastman, who a state bar court found had helped plan and promote President Donald Trump's strategy to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

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ICE Arrest Memo Switch Looks 'Specious,' Judge Says

By Pete Brush

A Manhattan federal judge on Wednesday revived an effort by civil rights groups to block immigration courthouse arrests, citing what he called an apparently deceptive Trump administration move to disclaim its earlier litigation position.

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Historical Groups Fight To Save White House Records

By Jared Foretek

Historians are asking a D.C. federal judge for an injunction that would force the Trump White House to preserve official records after administration attorneys declared the Presidential Records Act unconstitutional.

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Trump Defends DOJ Investigation Of 'Incompetent' Fed Chair

By Jon Hill

President Donald Trump expressed support Wednesday for the U.S. Department of Justice continuing to investigate Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell over the Fed's headquarters renovation, saying the government must "find out what happened" with the project's $2.5 billion price tag.

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DOJ Atty Slapped With $250 Sanction For Missed Deadlines

By Tom Lotshaw

A California federal judge hit a U.S. Department of Justice attorney with a $250 sanction for repeatedly missing deadlines in a noncitizen's habeas corpus case, rejecting his assertions that his need to juggle tasks under a 300-plus caseload should excuse him.

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Former Judge To Head New NJ Attorney Readmission Board

By Jake Maher

The New Jersey Supreme Court announced this week the lineup of a new committee that will consider disbarred attorneys' applications for readmission, with a former state court judge of over 20 years at the head of the board.

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