9th Circ. Tosses Jack Daniel's Win In 'Bad Spaniels' Fight

By Ivan Moreno

The Ninth Circuit on Tuesday overturned the permanent injunction Jack Daniel's secured against VIP Products in their decade-long trademark fight, ruling in a precedential opinion that the whiskey maker failed to prove the poop-themed "Bad Spaniels" dog toy was likely to tarnish its famous marks.

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Full 11th Circ. Says Fla. Can Enforce Drag Show Law

By David Minsky

A full panel of Eleventh Circuit judges on Tuesday handed a win to Florida and issued a split opinion vacating an order halting enforcement of a state law prohibiting children at drag shows, finding it wasn't unconstitutionally vague and that the lower court lacked authority to issue a broad injunction.

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TikTok Settles 3 Teen Addiction Suits Before Bellwether Trials

By Craig Clough

The company behind TikTok settled three lawsuits brought by young people alleging the social media platform caused them mental health harm, a lawyer for the plaintiffs said Tuesday, although three other social media companies are still scheduled to go to trial in Los Angeles on the claims in October.

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WWE Says It Will Pay $105M Toward Merger Suit Settlement

By Jarek Rutz

World Wrestling Entertainment expects to contribute $105 million toward a proposed settlement of Delaware shareholder litigation challenging its 2023 merger with UFC parent Endeavor, with most of that amount covered by insurance, according to a quarterly filing by parent company TKO Group Holdings Inc. filed Monday.

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Paramount-Warner Merger Challenges Get March 2027 Trial

By Lauren Berg

The California federal judge overseeing challenges of Paramount Skydance Corp.'s planned $110 billion purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery set a trial date for March 2027.

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Paramount CEO Says Warner Challenge Is About Politics

By Matthew Perlman

Paramount Skydance Corp. CEO David Ellison said Tuesday that a challenge of the company's planned purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery from state enforcers is really about CNN and concerns that his politics could impact news coverage.

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Raskin Warns Of House Probe Into FCC Chief's ABC Actions

By Christopher Cole

Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin has signaled that congressional probes of the Federal Communications Commission could be on the way if the agency staff continues down a path of potentially revoking the licenses of eight Walt Disney Co.-owned ABC stations.

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Rising Star: Covington's Mike Hill

By Adam Lidgett

Michael Hill of Covington & Burling LLP has made a career out of working for major sports organizations like the National Football League on massive distribution deals, including a package allowing NFL games to be seen on both digital and traditional television, earning him a spot among the media and entertainment law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

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Latham, Willkie Steer Bending Spoons' $1.3B Airtable Deal

By Al Barbarino

Italian technology company Bending Spoons SpA said Tuesday it has agreed to acquire U.S.-based software company Airtable in an all-cash transaction that values the target at an enterprise value of $1.285 billion.

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Udio Can't Shake Off Copyright Suit, But Gets It Moved To NY

By Adam Lidgett

Artificial intelligence music platform Udio has lost its bid to dismiss a proposed class action from a group of songwriters accusing it of copyright infringement, but will now face the claims in New York instead of Chicago.

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State Privacy Enforcer Consortium Adds Vermont To Ranks

By Allison Grande

Vermont's attorney general has become the 12th member of a bipartisan collective of U.S. regulators launched last year to collaborate on implementing and enforcing their states' data privacy regimes, the group announced Tuesday. 

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Wyden Presses States To Tackle Data Privacy Law Evasion

By Hailey Konnath

Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., has asked a handful of state regulators to issue clear guidance on their data privacy laws and band together and go after companies that are selectively ignoring consumers' requests to opt out of the sale of their data.

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Search Rival, Advocates Back DOJ Against Google In DC Circ.

By Bryan Koenig

Academics, policy experts, advocacy groups and several rivals lent their voices Tuesday to the U.S. Department of Justice's defense of its monopolization win over Google, while urging the D.C. Circuit to strengthen the "relatively modest remedies" they say leave Google able to dominate both search and artificial intelligence.

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AGs Can't Yet Get Discovery Into Live Nation's DOJ Deal

By Craig Clough

A New York federal judge on Tuesday rejected a request by some state attorneys general for discovery into the Justice Department's antitrust settlement reached midtrial with Live Nation, ruling that the scope of the request is "unclear" but the AGs can try again with "narrow and targeted requests."

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Ex-Team Owner Says PR Baseball League Can't Escape Suit

By Alex Lawson

The former owner of a Puerto Rican baseball team is looking to keep his antitrust suit against the league afloat, telling a federal judge that the league's efforts to snuff out the case are premature.

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Google Accused Of Antitrust Behavior In Ad Tech Practices

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

A rival technology company has accused Google of violating antitrust law by restricting competition in digital advertising markets.

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Wash. State Says FCC's High-Cost Overhaul Plan Is Flawed

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

Washington state officials are pushing back against some aspects of a plan being considered by the Federal Communications Commission to overhaul the program that helps fund broadband deployment to rural and other "high cost" areas.

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Commerce Targets Dec. Restart For Digital Equity Grants

By Nadia Dreid

The U.S. Department of Commerce should be ready to start accepting applications for the reinstated Digital Equity Competitive Grant Program, the Trump administration has told a D.C. federal judge after he struck down part of the law behind the grant as unconstitutional.

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Brief

Milwaukee Radio Licensee Resolves FCC Probe For $8K

By Christopher Cole

A Milwaukee radio station licensee reached a consent decree with the Federal Communications Commission for $8,000 to end an investigation into whether it failed to properly clear a transfer of control with the agency.

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Tech Cos. Say FCC Must Keep Unlicensed Device Framework

By Nadia Dreid

The FCC plans to vote later this week to open up 200 megahertz of unlicensed spectrum for satellite use, but Broadcom Inc., Intel Corp. and Cisco Systems Inc. think there are a few ways the agency could better "emphasize" its point that the current spectrum framework shouldn't be undermined.

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Ex-Booz Allen Worker Says Sen. Scott's Tax Leak Claims Late

By Zak Kostro

A former employee of federal contractor Booz Allen Hamilton asked a Florida federal court to toss claims against him by Sen. Rick Scott over the leak of his personal tax returns, saying the suit was filed too late and in the wrong jurisdiction.

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Fla. High Court Won't Touch Reversal Of $213M 'Maya' Award

By Carolina Bolado

The Florida Supreme Court said Tuesday it would not hear the appeal of a decision that reversed a $213 million judgment against a Florida hospital in favor of Maya Kowalski, the subject of the Netflix documentary "Take Care of Maya."

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TikTok Regulatory Chief Joins Pillsbury's New Tech Practice

By Christine DeRosa

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP announced that it has launched an emerging technology laws and litigation practice, adding TikTok's head of North America regulatory to serve as the practice's co-leader.

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CIPA Tech Tracking Suits Highlight Uncertain Legal Ground

Alexandra Samofalova at Spencer Fane discusses the state of California Invasion of Privacy Act website tracking litigation, why credible defendants choose to settle and how the businesses best positioned to face this uncertain legal landscape are the ones treating data practices as a legal compliance matter to address today.

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AI, Prediction Markets Lead Securities Developments In 2026

Securities class actions tied to artificial intelligence and the battle over prediction market regulation both raise novel questions that courts are only beginning to address and that will continue to resonate throughout the second half of the year, say attorneys at Skadden.

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How Does In-House Pay Compare? Take The Law360 Survey

How do in-house salaries vary across industries, roles, and organizational revenue? What compensation tools are companies using to lure top talent? Help Law360 Pulse answer these questions and more in this year's In-House Compensation Survey.

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Tyson & Mendes In Talks For Possible PE-Backed MSO Deal

By Emma Cueto

Insurance litigation defense firm Tyson & Mendes LLP confirmed to Law360 Pulse Tuesday that it is in "preliminary discussions" about taking private equity investment via a managed service organization.

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Fla. AG Requests Impeachment Probe Into 11th Circ. Judge

By Carolina Bolado

Florida's Attorney General said Monday he is asking Congress to open an impeachment inquiry into U.S. Circuit Judge Nancy Abudu because of work she did before ascending to the Eleventh Circuit bench for the Southern Poverty Law Center.

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Analysis

These Firms Are Landing The Most Patent Litigation Work

By Dani Kass

Rabicoff Law and Ramey LLP have maintained their roles as top patent suit filers, while Fish & Richardson PC and Gillam & Smith LP have remained leaders on defense teams, according to Lex Machina's annual patent litigation report.

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Approach The Bench: Judge Rakoff Doesn't Hide His Views

By Cara Bayles and Steven Trader

During his decades on the bench, U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff has witnessed a slew of changes, particularly as technology has brought a rise in cybercrimes, as well as novel questions like whether AI-generated legal advice is privileged. But perhaps the biggest shift was in Rakoff's own views.

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ABA Gives Symbolic Support For Law School DEI Standards

By Emily Sawicki

In a split vote, American Bar Association House of Delegates members on Tuesday elected to uphold a rule requiring law schools to demonstrate DEI standards, but then followed up with a vote allowing another path to removing the standards, in an effort to avoid the Trump administration's threat to strip the ABA of accreditation authority.

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Simpson Thacher Highlights PIPE Client's Financial Troubles

By Madison Arnold

The founder of Patriot National Inc. was likely short millions of dollars when it finalized a private investment in public equity transaction at the center of his malpractice case against Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, according to defense testimony on Tuesday at a Florida state trial.

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ABA Seeks Bar Exam Reform Following Tech Failures

By Emily Sawicki

Over the course of its two-day annual meeting, the American Bar Association's policymaking body, the House of Delegates, approved measures to urge further bar exam oversight and backed measures to support law schools at accredited historically Black colleges and universities.

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Blanche Advances After GOP Sens. Win Written Assurances

By Courtney Bublé

The Senate Judiciary Committee voted to advance acting Attorney General Todd Blanche's nomination for the permanent position Tuesday, after Sens. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., and John Cornyn, R-Texas, said they would support him.

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Ford Asks 9th Circ. To Revive Lemon Law Fake-Billing Suit

By Linda Chiem

Ford Motor Co. has asked the Ninth Circuit to revive its racketeering lawsuit accusing three attorneys affiliated with Knight Law Group LLP of orchestrating a massive fraudulent billing scheme, saying First Amendment protections don't immunize the attorneys' underlying conduct in California lemon law litigation against the automaker.

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Day Pitney Dropped From Suit Over Ex-Justice's Involvement

By Brian Steele

A Connecticut state court judge allowed Day Pitney LLP to withdraw from a $1.3 million corporate windup feud after the involvement of one of its partners, a former chief justice on the state Supreme Court, came to light, negating the defendants' call for an evidentiary hearing on a motion to disqualify the firm.

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Fried Frank Data Breach Class Action Voluntarily Dismissed

By Matt Perez

A proposed class action data security suit against Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP was voluntarily dismissed on Thursday following a joint motion to stay the case in April to undergo mediation.

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Ashurst Perkins, Nail Co. Lose Doc Bids In Malpractice Suit

By Rachel Riley

Ashurst Perkins Coie won't have to turn over documents related to its predecessor firm's work for an Omani screw and nail manufacturer in international trade proceedings that are now the subject of a legal malpractice case, a Washington court has ruled, while also denying a discovery request from the firm. 

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Analysis

New Patent Suits Surge As PTAB Challenges Get Tougher

By Ryan Davis

More patent suits were filed in 2025 than in any year in the past decade, according to a new report, an increase attorneys said is likely tied to new U.S. Patent and Trademark Office policies that have made it harder to challenge patents.

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NC Judge Who Upheld Voter ID Law To Take Senior Status

By Courtney Bublé

Judge Thomas Schroeder of the Middle District of North Carolina has informed the president he will take semi-retired status at a date later in the future.

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Bronx Union Says Striking Atty Faced 'Impossible' Choice

By Andrea Keckley

An attorney with the Bronx Defenders felt she had no other choice but to cross the picket line on Tuesday after an immigration judge ordered her to appear in court and the organization's managers did not commit to covering the proceedings without her, a union representative has told Law360.

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Neighborhood Defender Service Of Harlem Union Ends Strike

By Andrea Keckley

The Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem union announced it was returning to work with a tentative deal after more than a week on the picket line.

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