Even Dolly Could've Been Barred By Drag Ban, Judge Says

By Lauren Berg

On the same day the world lost Dolly Parton, a Texas federal judge invoked the iconic singer and philanthropist to again block a law widely seen as a ban on drag performances, saying it's so broad that her "big hair, flamboyant clothes and breast exposure" might run afoul of the measure.

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NY Times Says EEOC Dragging Feet On Anti-White Bias Info

By Grace Elletson

The New York Times Company has sued the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, claiming the anti-discrimination watchdog flouted federal law by failing to respond to requests for records of communications with conservative legal groups and agency efforts to investigate claims of bias against white workers.

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'News To Me': Instagram CEO Unaware Its Attys Deleted Data

By Dorothy Atkins

Instagram's CEO appeared to be taken by surprise Tuesday during a California federal jury trial over claims Meta hid social media's harms, after the states revealed that Instagram's in-house counsel removed data from a teen-safety presentation before presenting it to minimize his "litigation exposure risk," saying "this is all news to me."

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Ghislaine Maxwell Loses 'Frivolous' Bid To Nix Guilty Verdict

By Craig Clough

A New York federal judge on Tuesday rejected Ghislaine Maxwell's attempt to overturn her sex trafficking conviction and 20-year prison sentence, finding her arguments largely "frivolous" or procedurally barred, and concluding that purported new evidence unearthed in the release of the Epstein files does not help her case.

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Tort Report: Mass. Jury Delivers Record Amazon Crash Verdict

By Y. Peter Kang

A record personal injury verdict against Amazon in a crash case and Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler's upcoming sex abuse trial 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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Dropbox Escapes Cloud Patent Trial Set For Sept.

By Elliot Weld

A California federal judge has ruled that Entangled Media could not prove that Dropbox infringed a patent covering cloud-based data storage under an alternative theory, calling off a Sept. 8 trial date since Entangled had already received a ruling against it on literal infringement.

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Meta Should Keep Research Internal, Data Whiz Tells Jury

By Cara Salvatore

A high-ranking Meta data analyst told a Tennessee jury Tuesday that the social media giant shouldn't release its user research publicly because he saw during a famous leak the danger that such research will be "misinterpreted and misrepresented."

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Calif. Data Broker Tool Sign-Ups Hit 500K As Deletions Begin

By Allison Grande

Data brokers in California have deleted "tens of millions" of records since their obligation to comply with requests made through a new consumer data deletion tool kicked in earlier this month, the state's privacy regulator said Tuesday, while announcing that registrations for the first-of-its-kind platform had reached the half-million mark.

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3 Firms Will Lead Charter Cyberattack Claims For Now

By Brian Steele

Attorneys with Milberg PLLC, Scott+Scott Attorneys at Law LLP and Hausfeld LLP will serve as class counsel, at least temporarily, in a consolidated class action alleging that hackers stole more than 40 million private records through a cyberattack on Charter Communications Inc., a Connecticut federal judge has ruled.

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Snap Pixel Suit Dropped Amid Calif. 'Judge-Shopping' Claims

By Allison Grande

A plaintiff suing Snap in the Central District of California over its alleged deployment of website tracking pixels has voluntarily ended his lawsuit, on the heels of the company accusing his counsel of engaging in "forum shopping" to avoid appearing before a judge who's advised against a broad reading of the state's wiretap law.

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Pa. AG Says Snapchat Hooks Kids With 'Ephemeral' Posts

By P.J. D'Annunzio

Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday announced Tuesday that Pennsylvania is suing Snapchat for allegedly harming kids by turning them into compulsive users afraid to miss "ephemeral" posts on the popular app that disappear in time.

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Publishers Say Google Would Gut Web Traffic To Win AI Race

By Jared Foretek

A lawyer for education tech company Chegg Inc. told a D.C. federal judge Tuesday that Google LLC would likely rather cannibalize its search engine supply — and the whole internet in the process — than lose the artificial intelligence "arms race" Tuesday.

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DPAs At Hand For Argentine Media Co. Bosses In FIFA Case

By Stewart Bishop

Brooklyn federal prosecutors said they intend to enter into deferred prosecution agreements with the owners of Argentine sports marketing agency Full Play Group SA, a company that was convicted at trial of bribing Latin American soccer officials in exchange for lucrative media rights to tournaments, according to court documents unsealed Tuesday.

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DC Circ. Won't Revive Standard General's FCC Bias Suit

By Nadia Dreid

The D.C. Circuit does not believe that the Federal Communications Commission took part in a racist conspiracy to kill Standard General hedge fund manager Soo Kim's $8.6 billion merger with broadcaster Tegna and has affirmed the dismissal of his lawsuit claiming such.

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4th Circ. Blocks FCC Campaign Ad Pricing Guidance

By Lauren Berg

While political candidates are entitled to the lowest advertising rate radio and television stations can charge, political parties and joint fundraising committees with noncandidate members are not, a split Fourth Circuit ruled Tuesday, wiping out recent Federal Communications Commission guidance.

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Bid For FCC Preemption 'Dead On Arrival,' Minn. City Says

By Christopher Cole

A Minneapolis suburb called on the Federal Communications Commission to reject a broadband provider's request for FCC preemption in a local franchise dispute because of court rulings declaring that broadband does not qualify as a telecommunications service.

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City Of Austin Backs Improving Emergency Alert System

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

The city of Austin, Texas, has asked the Federal Communications Commission to improve its geolocating requirements for emergency alert systems, saying its systems are facing several challenges and require more precise location information.

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9th Circ. Says Congress Kept NSA Report Outside FOIA

By Courtney Bublé

A Ninth Circuit panel has affirmed the National Security Agency's decision to not grant a Freedom of Information Act request to release a nearly six-decade-old report on the sinking of the USS Liberty.

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Dolphin Co.'s Ex-CEO Opposes Sale Of JV Stake In Ch. 11

By Vince Sullivan

The ex-CEO of the bankrupt parent company of wildlife adventure business The Dolphin Co. and former board members have objected to a $2 million sale of a majority stake in a Mexican park joint venture, saying it is being proposed without testing the value of the asset through an auction.

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What To Know As Legal Duty To Consider AI Takes Shape

While the U.K. Jurisdiction Taskforce’s recent statement on liability for artificial intelligence harms is nonbinding for both U.K. and U.S. lawyers, it highlights the importance of being able to distinguish between the availability of a tool and a professional obligation to use it, say Jonny Frank and Michael Costa at StoneTurn.

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Firm Revenue Climbs 12.4% In First Half Of 2026

By Daniel Moritz-Rabson

Record billing rate gains, strong demand and increased productivity fueled a successful start to the year for the legal industry, according to a report released Tuesday.

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Florida AG Slams Bar Complaint Against DHS Counsel

By Madison Arnold

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier wrote to the executive director of the Florida Bar to criticize a recent complaint made to the bar against James Percival, general counsel of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, for attacking judges.

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Legal Watchdog Lodges Bar Complaint Against Jeanine Pirro

By Hailey Konnath

The Legal Accountability Center said Tuesday that it filed a bar complaint against U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro, claiming that she abused her position to unjustifiably target Democratic lawmakers after they released a video reminding members of the military and intelligence community that it's their duty to refuse unlawful orders.

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6th Circ. Says Judge Can't Escape Teen Mock Arrest Suit

By Susan Smiley

A Sixth Circuit panel on Monday allowed to proceed a Michigan federal lawsuit filed against a Detroit judge who handcuffed a 15-year-old student and subjected her to a mock trial after she fell asleep in his courtroom, ruling that judicial immunity does not protect him.

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Watchdog Wants NY Judge Ousted Over Retaliatory Suit

By Rose Krebs

The New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct has determined a state judge should be removed from office for filing a retaliatory defamation suit against an eye-care worker who had lodged an ethics complaint over the judge refusing to wear a mask in an office in 2021.

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Colo. Judge Ships $8.3M Messner Reeves Fraud Suit To Utah

By Zach Dupont

A Colorado federal judge granted a motion Monday from law firm Messner Reeves LLP to move a lawsuit accusing the firm of stealing more than $8 million as part of a fraudulent loan scheme to Utah after finding the venue was the proper forum to litigate the claims.

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