Trump Amends $10B WSJ Defamation Suit Over Epstein Story

By Hailey Konnath

President Donald Trump has filed a new version of the complaint in his $10 billion defamation suit against The Wall Street Journal over an article reporting that he sent a "bawdy" birthday letter to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, this time claiming that the reporters knew or should've known the letter didn't exist.

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6th Circ. Revives P-Funk Keyboardist's Copyright Royalty Suit

By Melanie Dorsey

The Sixth Circuit revived part of the estate of late Parliament-Funkadelic keyboardist George "Bernie" Worrell's copyright suit against group co-founder George Clinton and his company Thang Inc., ruling that a jury must decide whether Worrell partly owned the recordings he helped create. 

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Goldstein Says Bad Jury Instructions Warrant New Trial

By Jared Foretek

SCOTUSblog founder Tom Goldstein said that the prosecutors who convicted him on 12 tax and mortgage fraud charges in February are now contradicting arguments they made at the end of his trial in their attempt to deny him a bench acquittal or new trial.

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Grammy Winner Danny Elfman Must Face Woman's Libel Suit

By Bonnie Eslinger

"The Simpsons" theme song composer and former Oingo Boingo frontman Danny Elfman can't toss a defamation suit brought by a woman after Rolling Stone published statements he made about her sexual misconduct claims against him, a California state appellate court ruled Wednesday.

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Chance The Rapper Controls His Business, Ex-Manager Says

By Lauraann Wood

Chance the Rapper solicited opinions and received help from a team of people as he considered business deals, but retained all final decision-making power with the same level of control the rapper took to structuring his independent career, his ex-manager testified Thursday.

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FCC Targeting ABC Licenses To Punish Speech, Station Says

By Rae Ann Varona

ABC's local New York station said Thursday that the Federal Communications Commission's order for ABC to file early license renewal applications is an "unprecedented attack" on the broadcast company's license portfolio with "no legitimate purpose" other than to suppress speech.

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CNN Accuses AI Co. Perplexity Of 'Free Riding' On Reporting

By Rae Ann Varona

CNN on Thursday became the latest news publisher to accuse Perplexity of copyright infringement, asserting in a complaint filed in New York federal court that the self-described artificial intelligence "answer engine" copied more than 17,000 of the network's stories, videos and images without permission.

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Ex-NBA Player Sues Crypto Co. After $2M Publicity Deal Sours

By Dorothy Atkins

Former NBA player Tristan Thompson sued cryptocurrency firm World Mobile Group Ltd. in Delaware Chancery Court, accusing the company of manufacturing bogus allegations to get out of its obligations under his $2 million brand ambassador deal while continuing to use his name, image and likeness.

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HVAC Biz Valued At $10B After Apollo Backing, More Rumors

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Private equity giant Apollo took a stake in home services company Apex Service Partners to value it at $10 billion, chipmaker Groq Inc. is hoping to raise $650 million to launch a new company focused on artificial intelligence "neoclouds," and semiconductor company Qualcomm inked a supply deal with TikTok owner ByteDance. Here, Law360 breaks down the notable deal rumors from the past week.

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Athletes Decry Antitrust Immunity In College Sports Bill

By David Steele

College athlete advocacy groups have criticized a proposed bipartisan U.S. Senate bill that provides congressional oversight to college sports and allows athletes to have agents, but also limits player movement and compensation and grants the NCAA antitrust immunity.

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Fed. Circ. Reinstates PTAB Challenge To E-Learning Patent

By Adam Lidgett

Employee training platform Go1 won its bid to revive its challenge to a cloud learning patent it has been accused of infringing, after the Federal Circuit on Thursday threw out the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's finding that the company failed to show the patent was invalid.

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Squires To Review TikTok Foreign Ties In Another IPR

By Adam Lidgett

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires is going to review his own decision to institute review of a computer hardware patent challenged by TikTok, saying he was considering whether a foreign government should have been listed as an interested party.

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DC Newspaper Sues NOTUS Over 'Star' Rebrand

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

A Washington, D.C.-based newspaper is suing a digital media company over its upcoming rebranding as "The Star," saying in Virginia federal court Thursday that it had warned the competitor that it had registered a trademark on that name for news reporting in the D.C. area.

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Calif. AG Sues 23andMe Over Lapses In Genetic Data Security

By Allison Grande

California moved Thursday to sue the genetic testing company formerly known as 23andMe over a 2023 data breach that exposed the personal information of nearly 7 million customers, arguing that the company failed to implement even the most basic security measures and misled consumers about the scope of its safeguards and severity of the breach.

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Baltimore City's Suit Against Musk Heads To Federal Court

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

Baltimore City's lawsuit against Elon Musk's xAI, accusing it of deceptive trade practices over the photo editing capabilities of its Grok artificial intelligence platform, has been moved to federal court.

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9th Circ. Warned Of Market Forces In Nexstar-Tegna Case

By Matthew Perlman

The National Association of Broadcasters told the Ninth Circuit that a lower court's view of the market in a case challenging the $6.2 billion merger between Nexstar and Tegna is inconsistent with its members' experience and contradicts industry data recently submitted to regulators.

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Meta Must Face Contract Claim In Facebook Ad Pricing Suit

By Bonnie Eslinger

A California federal judge trimmed a putative class action accusing Meta Platforms Inc. of secretly changing Facebook's ad auction system in a way that caused advertisers to pay more than promised, but said "ambiguity" in the social media giant's agreements meant a breach of contract claim survives the company's motion to dismiss.

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Ad Tech Rivals Say Google Can't Cull Antitrust Claims

By Bryan Koenig

Google's rival advertising placement technology providers urged a New York federal judge not to dramatically reduce their antitrust claims, arguing the court has already rejected the statute of limitations assertions raised against other multidistrict litigation plaintiffs "and it should do so again."

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Ex-Prosecutor Wants Trump 'Slush Fund' Payments Blocked

By Hailey Konnath

A former federal prosecutor who worked on Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection cases was among a handful of individuals and groups Thursday who pressed federal courts to issue temporary restraining orders blocking payouts from President Donald Trump's $1.8 billion "slush fund," according to motions filed in Virginia and Washington, D.C.

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Dem Sens. Ask DOJ To Preserve Trump-IRS Settlement Docs

By Jack McLoone

Two Democratic Senate leaders asked the U.S. Department of Justice to preserve any records related to the settlement of President Donald Trump's suit against the IRS in a letter published Thursday, signaling that further investigations may be coming.

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FCC Warns Of More Broadcast License Reviews

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission's leadership gave notice to broadcasters Thursday that it could review their licenses early and potentially act to revoke them if it decides the stations are failing to "operate in the public interest."

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Broadcasters Want Rules Relaxed Due To 'Fierce' Competition

By Christopher Cole

Broadcast industry advocates in Washington doubled down on their view that it's time to relax media ownership limits at all levels because the regulations unfairly pit them against "fierce" competitors like audio and video streamers.

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GCI Wants To End Service In 6 Alaska Communities

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

GCI Communication Corp. has asked the Federal Communications Commission for permission to end certain telecommunications services in six Alaskan communities, arguing that other carriers offer those services.

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Calif. City Says Insurer Lowballed Historic Ballpark Fire Claim

By Danielle Ferguson

A California city said an insurer significantly undervalued the estimated costs required to clear debris and replace facilities on a historic baseball field featured in films, including "A League of Their Own," after the field was destroyed in a fire in 2024, contributing to a delay in restoring the park.

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Musk-OpenAI Verdict Shows Value Of Early-Stage Governance

A California federal court's ruling last week in Musk v. Altman preserves the status quo at OpenAI, but signals to the technology industry at large that courts will not relitigate the governance decisions of early-stage organizations on a founder's competitive timetable, surfacing questions that will outlast the litigation, says attorney Alan N. Walter.

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Opinion

International Patent Licensing System Must Be Maintained

As foreign approaches to patent enforcement threaten to distort the licensing markets that underpin modern technology, courts and policymakers must take action to ensure that the standard essential patent framework is preserved, says Brian O'Shaughnessy at Dinsmore.

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Series

Studying Foreign Languages Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Studying Italian and Japanese has shown me that learning a new language can benefit a legal career in several ways, including by demonstrating the importance of approaching problems from a fresh perspective and the value of practicing patience with colleagues and clients, says Anna King at Genworth Financial.

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Florida High Court Adopts AI Policy For Lawyers

By Madison Arnold

The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday amended the state's rules to require those filing court documents to check any artificial intelligence-generated content for accuracy, and allow for sanctions if the content contains errors.

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King & Spalding Blocked From Exiting $300M Fraud Lawsuit

By Brian Steele

King & Spalding LLP and Lennon Murphy & Phillips LLC can't withdraw from representing clients in consolidated litigation over an alleged $300 million stock swindle, a Connecticut state court judge has ruled, saying the firms' motions ahead of a June trial lack good cause.

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Fla. Court Refers Atty To Bar Over Bogus Case Citations

By Madison Arnold

A Florida state appeals court has referred an appellant's attorney to the state's bar for disciplinary proceedings after filing a petition that appears to be generated by artificial intelligence and "raises frivolous arguments, misstates the law, and cites non-existent case law."

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Parents Demand 'Bad Faith' Sanctions In Camp Mystic Case

By Lynn LaRowe

Camp Mystic in Texas' Hill Country should be sanctioned over "bad faith" conduct in litigation over flooding deaths last summer, including purported misrepresentations to courts and regulators and an alleged remark by one of its attorneys to a plaintiffs' lawyer that he would "burn in hell," a state court has been told.

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Trump Considers Tech Entrepreneur For DOJ Grants Post

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump appears poised to nominate a real estate attorney turned tech entrepreneur for a top U.S. Department of Justice post that oversees grants and criminal justice programs.

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Roundup

Injury Law Roundup: Freight Brokers, Uber Lose Key Cases

By Y. Peter Kang

The U.S. Supreme Court's green light of negligent hiring claims against freight brokers in highway crash cases and an adverse verdict against Uber in the sexual assault multidistrict litigation lead Law360's Injury Law Roundup.

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Ex-Fla. Chief Justice Fred Lewis Dies At 78

By Carolina Bolado

Former Florida Chief Justice R. Fred Lewis, who spent two decades on the bench of the Florida Supreme Court, has died at 78, the court announced Thursday.

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Titan Of The Plaintiffs Bar: Gupta Wessler's Deepak Gupta

By Daniel Moritz-Rabson

In the decade and a half since starting his own firm, Deepak Gupta has argued seven cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, has won matters in state high courts from coast to coast, and has become a mainstay in federal appellate courts while building his plaintiff-side litigation boutique into a sought-after juggernaut.

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