Streamer's 'Lazy Reaction' Video May Be Fair Use, Judge Says

By Ivan Moreno

A California federal judge said Friday he is inclined to toss a YouTube creator's copyright suit over a Twitch user's livestreamed response to a documentary, finding that what the plaintiff characterized as "lazy reaction" content that siphoned views from the original work is covered by fair use because of the defendant's real-time criticism, commentary and mockery.

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NM Jury Awards $13M To 'Star Trek' Star's Family In Death Suit

By Y. Peter Kang

A New Mexico jury has awarded $13 million to the family of Nichelle Nichols, who played Lt. Uhura on "Star Trek," in a medical malpractice suit accusing a hospital of causing the trailblazing actress's death in 2022, according to news reports.

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7th Circ. Says Ind. Can Bar Press From Attending Executions

By Parker Quinlan

A divided Seventh Circuit panel on Friday ruled that an Indiana prison rule restricting journalists' access to inmate executions does not violate the First Amendment, as reporters are not actually prevented from covering executions.

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Paramount Told To Produce Skydance Deal Board Materials

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court has recommended that Paramount Global turn over additional board-level documents to stockholders investigating whether controlling shareholder Shari Redstone improperly influenced the company's $8 billion sale to Skydance Media, finding there is a credible basis to suspect potential wrongdoing in the merger process.

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Marilyn Manson Fails To Nix Ex-Assistant's Sex Assault Suit

By Rae Ann Varona

Goth rocker Marilyn Manson failed to convince a Los Angeles judge on Friday to permanently toss his former personal assistant's latest amended complaint that accuses him of having sexually assaulted her in 2010, with the judge saying it wouldn't be right to resolve the case at the pleading stage.

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WWE Merger Trial To Test McMahon's Grip On Sale Process

By Jarek Rutz

The trial over WWE's $21.4 billion merger with UFC's parent company will test how much a larger-than-life corporate controller like Vince McMahon can shape a sale process when his identity is nearly inseparable from the company itself — and when stockholders say his personal need for protection and continued influence tainted the deal.

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Judge Rejects Objectors' Bid For More Equity In NIL Proposal

By David Steele

A California federal magistrate judge has turned down a group of athletes' objection to a proposed addition to the $2.78 billion settlement with the NCAA that the group said would disproportionately benefit men in major revenue college sports.

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Musicians Say UMG, Warner Stiffed Them On AI Licensing

By Lauren Berg

The American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada claims Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group violated its members' collective bargaining agreement by licensing sound recordings to two artificial intelligence companies without compensating the musicians involved, according to a lawsuit filed Friday in New York federal court.

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TelevisaUnivision Sues To Stop Pirated World Cup Streams

By Carolina Bolado

TelevisaUnivision sued several online streaming services Thursday, asking a Florida federal court to shut down plans to pirate the Spanish-language media company's exclusive broadcasts of the upcoming FIFA World Cup.

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Roundup

UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

By Megan Norcott

The past week in London has seen the U.K.'s oldest Indian restaurant launch an appeal against King Charles III's property company in an effort to stop its eviction, trustees of a bankrupt former EY tax partner file a claim against his wife, and 37 leading insurers bring a lawsuit against agrichemical company Syngenta over an insurance dispute. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

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Spotify Lawsuit Says Algorithms Squeeze Small Artists

By Aaron Keller

Spotify USA Inc. has been accused of unfairly reducing payments to small creators by implementing a 1,000-stream royalty threshold and changing the way it counts streams, saves and other engagement metrics, according to a lawsuit alleging violations of Connecticut trade laws.

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Epic Fights Apple's Bid For High Court Sanctions Review

By Bryan Koenig

Epic Games told the U.S. Supreme Court there's no need for high court review of a California federal court's contempt order against Apple for violating a ban on company policies that barred app developers from steering users to outside payment options.

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Paramount Criticizes Consumers' Antitrust Suit As Unserious

By Bonnie Eslinger

Paramount Skydance has asked a California federal judge to toss a consumer antitrust challenge to its pending $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, saying the lawsuit lacks essential elements to state a claim and criticizing the opposition for treating the litigation like a "sport" rather than a "serious matter."

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Ex-Mich. Hockey Team Exec Loses Appeal In Team Sale Suit

By Susan Smiley

A Michigan appeals court panel has declined to revive former Muskegon Lumberjacks executive Michael McCall's lawsuit seeking a cut of the minor league hockey team's sale, reasoning that McCall did not actually broker the deal. 

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Top Groups Lobbying The FCC

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission heard from lobbyists more than 100 times in May on issues ranging from 5G wireless in the C-band airwaves to a new foreign-made router ban, satellite spectrum, efforts to cut the volume on TV ads, next-gen 911 and more.

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FCC's Trusty Says Network Vandalism Is Getting Worse

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

Infrastructure vandalism damaging high-speed networks is getting worse despite warnings about the problem, a member of the Federal Communications Commission, Commissioner Olivia Trusty, said during remarks addressing critical communications infrastructure.

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FCC Grants Amazon Leo's Waiver For Deployment Milestones

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

The Federal Communications Commission has granted Amazon some leniency in meeting the deployment milestones of its Leo satellite system, which is meant to provide high-speed internet.

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Baba Social Gambling Class Action Sent To Arbitration

By Joyce Hanson

A Utah federal judge has ordered into arbitration a proposed class action accusing Baba Entertainment of operating an illegal online gambling platform, pausing the case while citing the lead plaintiff's decision not to oppose the company's motion to compel arbitration.

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How End Of SEC 'Gag Rule' Affects Free Speech Certiorari Bid

The Securities and Exchange Commission's recent rescission of the so-called gag rule, which forbade defendants in settlements from denying the SEC’s allegations, may sway the outcome of a petition to the Supreme Court in a case challenging the rule on First Amendment grounds, say attorneys at Troutman.

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Series

The Biz Court Digest: Shoring Up Corporate Law In Maryland

Launched more than 20 years ago to improve complex corporate adjudication, Maryland's Business and Technology Case Management Program has been a solid success in some areas, but there always is room for improvement, says Bill Krulak at Miles & Stockbridge.

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Legal Job Market Surges With Special Litigation, Gov't Work

By Tracey Read

The legal sector saw 1,200 more jobs in May after gaining 1,900 positions the month before, according to seasonally adjusted data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Winston Taylor leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court ended a patent suit over Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc.'s generic version of a heart drug that uses a so-called skinny label.

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​​​​​​​Judge Seeks Discipline For DOJ Trans Care Subpoena Tactics

By Mark Payne

A Rhode Island federal judge on Friday referred Justice Department attorneys seeking gender-affirming care records from Rhode Island Hospital via a HIPAA subpoena to a court disciplinary committee for potential punishment after they allegedly misled the court. 

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Katten Is Latest Firm To Match Milbank Associate Pay Raise

By Kevin Penton

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP has joined the growing list of firms that are largely matching a new pay scale for associates set earlier this week by Milbank LLP, with attorneys set to see annual pay increases of $10,000 to $20,000.

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Morgan & Morgan Explores Private Equity Investment Options

By Emma Cueto

The nation's largest personal injury firm, Morgan & Morgan, is exploring its options with regard to a potential private equity investment, with the firm saying Friday it is in the early stages of understanding what such an investment might mean and whether it is a good opportunity or "fool's gold."

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Bonus Spotlight

Dunn Isaacson Announces Bonuses Of Up To $25K

By Daniel Moritz-Rabson

Litigation boutique Dunn Isaacson Rhee LLP is the latest firm to announce midyear associate bonuses and is distributing payouts of between $10,000 and $25,000, according to an internal memo viewed by Law360.

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Leon Black Seeks $1.6M In Fees After Wigdor Sanction

By Ryan Boysen

Scandal-plagued financier Leon Black wants Wigdor LLP to pay $1.6 million as a sanction for lying to a New York federal judge while representing a woman who claims she was raped by Black at notorious accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein's home.

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Analysis

Will WDTX Remain A Patent Fixture Without Albright?

By Dani Kass

Whether the Western District of Texas will continue drawing in hordes of patent cases after U.S. District Judge Alan Albright leaves this summer has attorneys torn, given that he's no longer the top patent judge in his district, let alone the country.

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Berkeley Dean Views 1952 Opinion As Executive Power Test

By Aaron Keller

Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, has urged the courts to examine a lesser-known concurring opinion in a 1952 U.S. Supreme Court decision on a steel mill case when judging the modern limits of presidential power.

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Analysis

Justices Signal Openness To Future SEC Disgorgement Cases

By Jessica Corso

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's victory before the U.S. Supreme Court Thursday is likely to give the agency a leg up in settlement negotiations, but attorneys say that some defendants will continue to press judges to review the agency's disgorgement requests based on questions that the high court still hasn't answered.

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First Democrat Returns A Blue Slip For Judicial Nominee

By Courtney Bublé

Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., is the first Democratic senator in the second Trump administration to return a blue slip for a judicial nominee.

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DLA Piper Urges 2nd Circ. To End 'Vexatious' Malpractice Suit

By Emily Sawicki

The Second Circuit should uphold the dismissal of a Chinese software company's legal malpractice suit and $635,000 in sanctions against it and its lawyers, DLA Piper has argued, citing previous favorable rulings in the matter by a federal magistrate judge, district court judge, state justice and five-judge panel of the New York state appeals court.

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ICE Atty's Bid To Ax Contempt Order Is 'Absurd,' Amicus Says

By Emily Sawicki

A court-appointed amicus curae has told the Eighth Circuit that a Minnesota federal judge was right to hold a government attorney in contempt after finding that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement flouted a court order, leading to a detained man being released hundreds of miles from his home without legal identification.

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GrayRobinson Data Breach Suits Get Consolidated

By Adrian Cruz

A Florida magistrate judge has decided to consolidate three nearly identical suits accusing GrayRobinson PA of negligence following the revelation of a March 2025 data breach, simultaneously denying the plaintiffs' bid to have interim class counsel appointed.

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Roundup

GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

Among the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week, investor advocates have questioned the legality of the SEC's plan to withdraw corporate climate disclosure regulations, and an insurance broker's report found claims made under policies for mergers and acquisitions have risen in frequency and severity.

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Titan Of The Plaintiffs Bar: Morgan & Morgan's John Yanchunis

By Matt Perez

John Yanchunis of Morgan & Morgan PA has been at the forefront of data privacy litigation for nearly three decades, but what stands out to his colleague Ryan McGee is not the litany of wins but the attorney's humility.

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In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Law360

For those who missed out, here's a look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the most buzz on Law360 last week.

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