Tom Goldstein To Testify At Tax Trial Wednesday

By Jared Foretek

SCOTUSblog co-founder Thomas Goldstein will take the stand in his tax fraud trial Wednesday, after the government rested its case with an IRS agent tallying up $3.6 million that she said went unreported on his 2016 tax return.

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2nd Circ. Revives Photographer's Case Against Shutterstock

By Elliot Weld

The Second Circuit revived some of a landscape photographer's case against photo licensing database Shutterstock Inc. on Tuesday, finding that while there was nothing in evidence showing Shutterstock intended to change copyright management information, the company's "right and ability to control" the infringing activity should be litigated further.

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NY Judge Says Diddy Assault Claim Is Time-Barred

By Lauren Berg

A Manhattan federal judge Tuesday tossed a lawsuit accusing Sean "Diddy" Combs of groping a man at a 2022 party, saying the sexual assault claim comes too late under New York law, but gave the plaintiff an opportunity to amend his suit despite expressing skepticism that it would be doable.

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Social Media App Plaintiff 'Not Addicted To YouTube,' Jury Told

By Craig Clough

An attorney for Google told a California state jury Tuesday during his opening remarks in the first bellwether trial over social media companies allegedly harming young people's mental health that the plaintiff's extensive medical records, own words and user history show she is not addicted to YouTube.

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Adobe Faces Another Suit Over Alleged AI Training Piracy

By Dorothy Atkins

Adobe Inc. was hit with another proposed class action in California federal court, accusing the software giant of surreptitiously using hundreds of thousands of copyrighted books in the "notorious" RedPajama and Common Crawl datasets to train its SlimLM artificial intelligence models without authors' consent.

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Law360 Seeks Members For Its 2026 Editorial Boards

Law360 is looking for avid readers of our publications to serve as members of our 2026 editorial advisory boards.

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Freshfields, Kirkland Steer $6.2B Clear Channel Outdoor Deal

By Al Barbarino

Advertising company Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings Inc. has agreed to be acquired by Mubadala Capital in partnership with TWG Global in an all-cash deal valuing the company at $6.2 billion.

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Paramount Amends Warner Bid To Cover Netflix Breakup Fee

By Al Barbarino

Paramount Skydance Corp. said Tuesday it has sweetened its $30 per share, all-cash tender offer for Warner Bros. Discovery by adding new financial protections and regulatory assurances, and offering to pay the breakup fee if WBD walks away from its existing deal with Netflix. 

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Valve's Trial Against Accused Patent Troll Begins In Seattle

By Rachel Riley

Valve Corp. told a Seattle federal jury Tuesday that inventor Leigh Rothschild and his intellectual property firms spent years "harassing" the video game company over patents it was already licensed to use in pursuit of a bigger payout, pressing play on a trial that will test Washington's Patent Troll Prevention Act.

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'What I Like About You' Bandmates Seek End To Royalty Spat

By Carolyn Muyskens

The founding guitarist of The Romantics asked a federal judge to either appoint a receiver or dissolve the company that manages the "What I Like About You" performers' finances, as his bandmate argued it's time for a judge to put an end to "meritless" self-dealing accusations.

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2nd Circ. Upholds NYT's $2.4M Auto-Renewal Class Deal

By Brian Steele

A Second Circuit panel on Tuesday upheld a class action settlement resolving claims that The New York Times Co. auto-renewed California users' subscriptions without proper notice, turning away an objection that said the $2.375 million deal was unfair and the lead plaintiff lacked standing.

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Fla. Social Media Ban Violates Teens' Rights, 11th Circ. Told

By David Minsky

Snap Inc. is fighting Florida's attempt to keep a state law restricting teenagers' social media use, telling the Eleventh Circuit that children also have a First Amendment right to speech on the internet regarding matters of public importance. 

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Meta Gave Short Shrift To Safety Efforts, Ex-Exec Testifies

By Cara Salvatore

A former Facebook safety executive testified Tuesday in the New Mexico attorney general's trial against Meta that over his time there, proposals for safety improvements faced increasing resistance and onerous approvals in which non-safety colleagues "whittled down" their effectiveness.

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Social Media Cos. Must Face School In 1st Addiction MDL Trial

By Dorothy Atkins

A California federal judge denied social media companies' bid for a summary judgment win on a bellwether school district's allegations it was forced to spend its limited resources on combating students' purported social media addictions, teeing up the first bellwether trial in the multidistrict litigation for June 15.

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Amazon Calls FTC Allegations Of Hidden Documents 'Reckless'

By Bryan Koenig

Amazon.com assailed the Federal Trade Commission for accusing it of using auto-deleting Signal chats and improper privilege claims to hide evidence of rules that created an artificial pricing floor across online retail stores, asking a Washington federal judge to appoint a special master to handle the "inflammatory, close-of-discovery filings."

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Apple, Google Offer App Store Measures Under New UK Rules

By Matthew Perlman

Britain's competition enforcer said Tuesday that Apple and Google have committed to fairness and transparency measures for their respective app stores, after the mobile platforms were designated as having strategic market status under the country's new digital regime.

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Ziff Davis Sues Google Amid Mounting Ad Tech Antitrust Suits

By Bonnie Eslinger

Digital media publisher Ziff Davis Inc. has filed the latest antitrust lawsuit against Google over its advertising technology, alleging in its New York federal complaint that the Silicon Valley giant unlawfully monopolizes the publisher ad server and ad exchange markets.

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7th Circ. Mulls Outcome Health Execs' $1B Fraud Convictions

By Lauraann Wood

Seventh Circuit judges hearing former Outcome Health executives' challenge to a $1 billion fraud conviction seemed critical of the U.S. government's handling of the case on Tuesday as they questioned why its admitted asset over-restraint and introduction of certain grand jury statements should not require reversal.

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Feds Say 50 Cent's Liquor Boss Violated Fraud Plea Deal

By Hailey Konnath

Federal prosecutors said a former executive at rapper Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson's liquor brand violated a fraud plea agreement by requesting a sentence of one year in home confinement, arguing he had already agreed to spend more than two years behind bars.

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Broadcasters Fight 39% Media Ownership Cap In Hill Hearing

By Christopher Cole

TV broadcasters told the U.S. Senate Tuesday that lawmakers never meant to permanently cap national audience share controlled by a single station owner at 39%, as conservative outlet Newsmax argued there's support from both the left and right for keeping the limit in place.

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NJ Panel Nixes Amusement Park Co.'s Luxury Housing Suit

By Isaac Monterose

A New Jersey appellate panel backed the permanent dismissal of an amusement park company's suit challenging a New Jersey luxury housing and retail project, ruling that the lower court rightfully decided that it lacked jurisdiction for the suit.

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America's Test Kitchen Harvests Food52 Assets In Ch. 11

By Jeff Montgomery

A Chapter 11 deal to serve up assets of cooking and home goods e-commerce company Food52 Inc. to America's Test Kitchen secured a Delaware Bankruptcy judge's approval Tuesday, one of three sale measures totaling nearly $12.5 million to move forward.

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Theme Park Files Ch. 11 After Wrongful Death Judgment

By Emily Lever

The owner of Colorado's Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park has filed for Chapter 11 protection in Delaware bankruptcy court, saying it's unable to pay a $116 million wrongful death judgment.

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Malpractice Claim Assignability Continues To Divide Courts

Recent decisions from courts across the country demonstrate how different jurisdictions balance competing policy interests in determining whether legal malpractice claims can be assigned, providing a framework to identify when and how to challenge any attempted assignment, says Christopher Blazejewski at Sherin & Lodgen.

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Circuit Split Brewing Following 5th Circ.'s No-Bond Ruling

By Britain Eakin

The Fifth Circuit's split ruling blessing the Trump administration's mandatory immigration detention policy won't be the final say on the matter, but it could supercharge efforts to concentrate detained immigrants there while other circuits weigh the policy's legality.

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Fla. US Attys Push Back Against Sanctions In Habeas Case

By Rae Ann Varona

The U.S. attorney for the Middle District of Florida and an assistant U.S. attorney have urged an Orlando federal judge not to sanction them for the government's response to a noncitizen's habeas petition, saying any shortcomings were an "unintentional oversight."

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Ex-McDermott Atty Fights 'Harassing' Subpoena In Bias Suit

By Grace Elletson

A Black attorney accusing McDermott Will & Schulte LLP of firing her for calling out racial bias has urged an Illinois federal court to reject the firm's bid to get employment records from her previous employer, Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, saying the request serves no other purpose than to harass her.

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Kirkland Joins Growing Number Of Firms Launching In Tenn.

By Andrea Keckley

Kirkland & Ellis is joining a long line of firms setting their sights on Tennessee, announcing Tuesday that it would set up shop in Nashville with a team of former Butler & Snow LLP and King & Spalding LLP litigators.

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Senate Confirms Burrows As DOJ Policy Chief

By Courtney Bublé

The U.S. Senate voted 52-46 on Tuesday to confirm Daniel Burrows, a White House official and former chief deputy attorney general of Kansas, to lead the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Legal Policy.

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Lewis Brisbois, Ex-Paralegal Bring Dueling Suits Over Firing

By Adrian Cruz

Days after being sued to compel her to arbitrate her claims against the firm, a former Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP paralegal hit her ex-employer with a defamation suit claiming its actions tarnished her reputation and cost her a job at another firm.

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DOJ Pushes To Revive Comey, James Indictments

By Emily Sawicki

Criminal indictments against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James were brought under a validly serving interim U.S. attorney and, therefore, never should have been dismissed, the U.S. Department of Justice argued in its opening brief in its consolidated appeal before the Fourth Circuit.

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