Fla. Jury Rules In Favor Of Megan Thee Stallion Over Deepfake

By David Minsky

A Florida federal jury on Monday awarded $75,000 in damages to Megan Thee Stallion in her trial against online personality Milagro "Mobz World" Cooper, ruling that the rapper's reputation was injured over accusations of lying in court and after a deepfake porn video was shared across the internet. 

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Justices Question Scope Of ISP Liability In $1B Piracy Case

By Ivan Moreno

U.S. Supreme Court justices pressed Cox Communications on whether internet service providers could ever be liable for their customers' online piracy if it defeated a $1 billion case brought by music companies, with Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson questioning the company's attorney Monday if "selling internet services can ever be culpable conduct."

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11th Circ. Will Rehear Challenge To Fla.'s Anti-Drag Law

By Carolina Bolado

The full Eleventh Circuit will rehear the state of Florida's challenge to an injunction against enforcing a statute targeting drag shows that bars minors from "adult live performances," the court said Monday.

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Suit Against Erika Girardi's Atty Tossed As 'Shotgun Pleading'

By Madison Arnold

A Florida federal court has dismissed a clothing company's abuse of process suit against an attorney of "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" star Erika Jayne for being a shotgun pleading.

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Meta Can't Block 'Disgruntled' Researcher's Depo Responses

By Bonnie Eslinger

A California federal judge overseeing discovery in litigation against social media giants over their impact on youth mental health rejected Meta's bid Monday to block a "disgruntled" former researcher from sharing information it deems attorney-client privileged in an upcoming deposition.

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Nvidia Faces More Allegations Of YouTube AI Scraping

By Elliot Weld

The creators of YouTube channel h3h3 Productions and two golf content creators have brought a proposed class action against artificial intelligence and computer chip giant Nvidia, claiming it had improperly scraped their content to train the AI model Cosmos.

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White House Crypto Czar Hired Clare Locke Amid NYT Probe

By Aislinn Keely

The tech founder-turned-White House crypto and artificial intelligence czar David Sacks has hired defamation specialists at Clare Locke LLP to combat a New York Times investigation into potential conflicts of interest arising from his personal tech investments and role as a White House policy adviser.

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MVP: Davis Wright's Katherine Bolger

By Alison Knezevich

Katherine Bolger of Davis Wright Tremaine LLP won the dismissal of actor Justin Baldoni's libel lawsuit against The New York Times, successfully defended CNN in defamation claims brought by high-profile officials and defeated a New York Philharmonic musician's lawsuit against Vox Media over its investigative reporting, earning her a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Media & Entertainment MVPs.

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Samsung Accused Of Infringing Security Patents In EDTX

By Adam Lidgett

A Wyoming-based patent owner has hit Samsung with a lawsuit in Texas federal court, claiming the South Korean electronics giant's security platform is infringing a pair of patents on ways to protect data.

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Brief

Justices Ask For Government's Input On AI Copyright Case

By Ivan Moreno

The U.S. Supreme Court has asked for the government's response to an appeal from a computer scientist challenging a refusal to copyright an artwork made by an artificial intelligence system he created.

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Apple IPhone Buyers Push To Appeal Class Decertification

By Matthew Perlman

Consumers told the Ninth Circuit they need to appeal a district court ruling that decertified a class of iPhone buyers expected to reach 200 million members in an antitrust case over Apple's App Store policies because the ruling was a "death knell" for the case.

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Skaggs' Family Entitled To $114M If Angels Liable, Expert Says

By Gina Kim

An economist testifying as an expert for the plaintiffs in a California state trial over the death of Los Angeles Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs said Monday that the jury could award his surviving family members over $114 million in economic damages, based on Skaggs' future career earnings, if they find the Angels liable. 

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Ex-Colo. Dean Claims Firing Tied To Book Ban Criticism

By Rachel Konieczny

A former dean of a Colorado middle school has filed a lawsuit in federal court against the school district, alleging it fired her for criticizing a book ban that a court has since deemed unconstitutional and which she says suppressed voices by Black and LGBTQIA+ authors.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court saw a slate of corporate law clashes this past week, from fast-moving injunction fights in consumer product and real estate markets to multibillion-dollar oversight claims against crypto executives and fresh battles over control for two sports teams.

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FCC Urged To 'Radically' Redo Submarine Cable Sites Plan

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission lacks jurisdiction to impose stringent new licensing requirements on equipment used at submarine cable landing sites and should abandon the proposal, a key industry group said.

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Chinese Equipment-Testing Co. Slams FCC's 'Bad Lab' Label

By Christopher Cole

An equipment-testing company controlled by the Chinese government chided the Federal Communications Commission for dubbing it a "bad lab" as the FCC looks to block the company's ability to test telecommunications devices flowing into the U.S. market.

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Feds Ask 7th Circ. To Toss 'Untenable' Use Of Force Injunction

By Celeste Bott

The Seventh Circuit should reverse an "untenable" preliminary injunction a Chicago federal judge entered to curb immigration officials' allegedly excessive force for all of the same scope and standing issues it flagged when it paused the order a couple of weeks ago, the federal government argued in a brief made public Monday.

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Orchestra Denies Wrongdoing In Ticket Refund Class Action

By P.J. D'Annunzio

The Philadelphia Orchestra and its venue, the Kimmel Center, have denied wrongdoing in response to class claims that they were liable for unpaid ticket refunds for canceled performances of a separate orchestra, the Philly Pops.

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Series

The Law Firm Merger Diaries: How To Build On Cultural Fit

Law firm mergers should start with people, then move to strategy: A two-level screening that puts finding a cultural fit at the pinnacle of the process can unearth shared values that are instrumental to deciding to move forward with a combination, says Matthew Madsen at Harrison.

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Ex-Immigration Judge Accuses DOJ Of Political Retaliation

By Dorothy Atkins

A former Ohio immigration judge sued the U.S. Department of Justice in D.C. federal court Monday, alleging she was discriminated against and unconstitutionally fired for her liberal political beliefs while slamming the Trump administration's recent "unprecedented assault" against longstanding civil service laws that protect millions of federal employees.

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Feature

Meet The Attys Arguing Gov't Subpoena Power At High Court

By Mark Payne

Law360 introduces the lawyers appearing at the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday in a case focused on an anti-abortion crisis center and a state attorney general's attempt to subpoena details on its donors.

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3rd Circ. Says Habba Barred From Serving As Acting US Atty

By Carla Baranauckas

President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer cannot serve as acting U.S. attorney for New Jersey, the Third Circuit ruled Monday in a precedential opinion holding that her appointment violated the Federal Vacancies Reform Act and undermined the constitutional safeguards of Senate confirmation.

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Calif. Ban On Fee-Sharing With 'Alternative' Firms Challenged

By Jack Karp

A new law barring California lawyers and firms from sharing fees with out-of-state law firms owned by nonlawyers is unconstitutional and will harm the state's mass tort lawyers and their clients, according to a lawsuit filed last week.

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Analysis

What MDL Judges Can Get Done With A New Civil Rule

By Cara Salvatore

As the first federal procedure rule geared toward multidistrict litigation goes into effect, judges will have a new buffet of best practices to guide them, but little in the way of hand-tying mandates.

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