Fox Seeks Appeal In Newsom's $787M Defamation Suit

By Jarek Rutz

Fox News has urged a Delaware judge to let the state supreme court immediately review a ruling allowing California Gov. Gavin Newsom's $787 million defamation suit to proceed, arguing that the case threatens First Amendment protections and improperly lets a public official use litigation to punish criticism.

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OpenAI Must Produce Musk Case Depos In NY Copyright MDL

By Elliot Weld

OpenAI was ordered to turn over deposition testimony from three executives that was taken in the course of Elon Musk's California case challenging the company's conversion into a for-profit entity to a group of authors and news organizations suing over the alleged use of copyrighted content to train artificial intelligence models.

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Maxim Drops Playboy IP Suit After Losing Injunction Bid

By Ivan Moreno

Maxim Inc. has voluntarily dismissed its trade secret and copyright lawsuit against Playboy Inc., ending the case days after a New York federal judge denied Maxim's request for emergency relief and found its claims unlikely to succeed.

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Author Michael Wolff's Preemptive Melania Trump Suit Axed

By Lauren Berg

A New York federal judge Friday tossed author Michael Wolff's bid to secure a declaration that statements he made about Melania Trump's alleged relationship with child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were not defamatory, saying the court won't be "conscripted to oversee an abusively presented spat."

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Ex-Prosecutor Among Latest To Challenge Trump 'Slush Fund'

By Hailey Konnath

A former federal prosecutor who worked on Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection cases sued Friday over the $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization" fund created by President Donald Trump's settlement with the Internal Revenue Service, calling it a "slush fund" that's "on a collision course with the United States Constitution."

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Prosecutors Seek $1.98M Forfeiture In Goldstein Case

By Jared Foretek

Federal prosecutors are seeking a nearly $2 million forfeiture judgment against convicted SCOTUSblog founder Tom Goldstein and asking a Maryland federal judge to turn the Supreme Court lawyer's Northwest D.C. home over to the government to pay it.

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Disney, Cameron Look To Escape Suit Over 'Avatar' Sequels

By Adam Lidgett

Disney, film director James Cameron and his production company, Lightstorm Entertainment Inc., are urging a California federal judge to throw out a suit alleging the sequels in the "Avatar" movie franchise ripped off a writer's ideas, calling most of the case a "conspiratorial fantasy."

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States Seek Ticketmaster Sale As Live Nation Wants New Trial

By Matthew Santoni

State enforcers say they want a federal court to split up Live Nation and Ticketmaster following a New York federal jury verdict that Live Nation had harmed competition by monopolizing ticket sales for large concert venues, even as the concert promotion giant sought to undo the verdict against it or to be granted a new trial.

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Sills Cummis, Ex-Rock Musician Manager Ink Pretrial Deal

By George Woolston

Sills Cummis & Gross PC and the former manager of a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee suing the firm over malpractice claims have reached a deal just days before the case was set to go to trial, according to a letter filed in New Jersey state court.

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Analysis

Why Big Tech Gets Advisory Juries In 'Socially Explosive' Suits

By Dorothy Atkins

A California federal judge's recent use of advisory juries for high-profile tech disputes — including Elon Musk's OpenAI for-profit conversion challenge and states' social-media addiction fight with Meta — is an uncommon practice that's intended as a "reality check" for judges deciding "socially explosive" disputes, according to legal experts.

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Law360 Reveals Titans Of The Plaintiffs Bar

By Rachel Rippetoe

This past year, 10 lawyers across the country at plaintiffs' firms big and small helped secure millions of dollars in settlements and verdicts for their clients, going up against powerful defendants like Google, Monsanto and the Trump administration, earning the attorneys recognition as Law360's Titans of the Plaintiffs Bar for 2026.

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Music Labels Want To Add 60K Songs To AI Copyright Suit

By Carolyn Muyskens

Major record labels have asked to expand a copyright infringement lawsuit against an artificial intelligence company, saying they've identified recordings by artists from Billy Joel to Billie Eilish in the training data of Suno Inc.'s AI-powered song generator. 

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Cox Media Group Settles FTC's 'Active Listening' Tool Claims

By Hailey Konnath

Cox Media Group and two other companies have agreed to collectively pay $930,000 to settle the Federal Trade Commission's allegations that the companies falsely represented the capabilities of an "active listening" artificial intelligence marketing service, according to an announcement made Thursday.

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9th Circ. Judges Skeptical Of Roblox Arbitration Timing

By Emily Field

An email that Roblox Corp. sent to opposing counsel asking for an account username and saying that it was seeking to compel arbitration after it lost a bid to dismiss a parent's suit could be "damning" for the popular gaming company, a Ninth Circuit judge suggested on Friday.

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Nvidia 'Decline All' Tracking Class Action Sent To Arbitration

By Bonnie Eslinger

A California magistrate judge Thursday sent to arbitration a proposed class action alleging Nvidia secretly installed third-party tracking cookies even after users clicked "decline all" on its website, saying the cookie banner included a hyperlink to terms of service that included an agreement to arbitrate disputes.

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Analysis

Trump's Melding Of Politics, Antitrust Hard To Roll Back

By Bryan Koenig

Environmental initiatives, diversity programs, anti-misinformation efforts and gender-affirming care have become central targets for President Donald Trump's antitrust enforcers in what observers say is an increasing trend of politically tinged competition enforcement.

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Google Urges DC Circ. To Nix DOJ's Search Win

By Matthew Perlman

Google told the D.C. Circuit Friday the government is using antitrust law to punish a successful competitor as it looks to overturn a trial court's ruling finding that Google illegally maintained its search monopoly.

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Nexstar Says It Needs Tegna Deal To Compete With Big Tech

By Matthew Perlman

Nexstar Media Group Inc. told a California federal court it needs to merge with Tegna Inc. to compete more effectively, especially with streaming services owned by the Big Tech giants, as it faces a challenge to the deal from state enforcers and DirecTV.

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Bipartisan Bill Would Rein In Gov't Subpoena Use

By Courtney Bublé

A bipartisan group of lawmakers has introduced a bill intended to stop the federal government's "abuse" of subpoenas for phone and internet records in order to safeguard individuals' privacy rights.

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Tampa Council, Fla. County Board OK Rays' $2.3B Ballpark

By Isaac Monterose

The Tampa City Council and a Florida county's board of commissioners have reportedly approved nonbinding agreements for a proposed $2.3 billion, 113-acre ballpark project for the MLB's Tampa Bay Rays.

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Meta Says IRS Must Stipulate To Court Findings In Facebook

By Molly Moses

The Internal Revenue Service is required to accept statements from the U.S. Tax Court's opinion and other items from the record of litigation with Facebook Inc. in its current dispute with the company's successor, Meta Platforms Inc., the company argued.

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Fox Rothschild Attys Shot Outside NC Courthouse After Hearing

By Hayley Fowler

Two Fox Rothschild LLP attorneys were shot Friday outside a courthouse in Raleigh, North Carolina, according to police reports and a firm spokesperson.

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Survey Finds Legal Malpractice Claim Frequency Grew In 2025

By Andrea Keckley

Insurers reported an increase in the frequency of legal malpractice claims for the first time in several years amid concerns over issues like the uncontrolled use of artificial intelligence, according to this year's legal professional liability insurance survey by EPIC Law Firm Group.

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Discipline Upheld For Fed. Judge Who Had Sex In Chambers

By Madison Arnold

The federal judiciary signed off Friday on a private reprimand for a district judge within the Eleventh Circuit for misconduct that included having an extramarital affair with a law enforcement officer and sexual intercourse in their chambers within earshot of the judge's staff.

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Nelson Mullins Faces $2B Suits Over Alleged Conflicts

By Carolina Bolado

The former wives of two insurance mogul brothers have sued Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP for $2 billion, claiming a partner there set up the couples' estates while quietly conspiring with the brothers to shield marital assets from the wives in the event of divorce.

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Ala. Atty Suspended Over 'Atrocious' Bid To Cover Up AI Use

By Rae Ann Varona

A federal judge has suspended an attorney from practicing in the Northern District of Alabama after the attorney deleted his ChatGPT account in a bid to cover up his use of the chatbot to write an erroneous brief, saying the court never imagined having to deal with such "atrocious conduct."

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DOJ Hid Grand Jury Misconduct In ICE Case, Ill. Judge Says

By Celeste Bott

An Illinois federal judge said Thursday her trust in U.S. Department of Justice attorneys had been "broken" after reviewing unredacted grand jury transcripts in a criminal case against anti-ICE protesters that revealed prosecutorial misconduct, shortly after which Chicago's top federal prosecutor moved to dismiss the charges.

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'Can't Just Make Up Names And Sue,' 7th Circ. Judge Says

By Anne Cullen

A Seventh Circuit judge rebuked a lawyer Friday for naming a "made up" entity, rather than the correct institution, in a workplace sexual harassment lawsuit against the Wisconsin Court System and a former judge, demanding the error be corrected immediately.

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UC Berkeley Law Adopts Sweeping Restrictions On AI Use

By Lynn LaRowe

The University of California, Berkeley School of Law has adopted a sweeping new policy that restricts the use of artificial intelligence by students, saying the measure aims to ensure "our courses focus on requisite cognitive skills by default."

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Attys Hijacked 1,000 Storm Cases In 'Shakedown,' Suit Says

By Emily Sawicki

Two Louisiana law firms and a group of politically connected attorneys engaged in a "shakedown" to steal about 1,000 cases filed by hurricane survivors who had hired and built cases with a different firm, alleged a RICO suit filed Thursday in Houston federal court.

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Exclusive

Fed. Judiciary Urged To Drop Unified Atty Admission Effort

By Jack Karp

The federal judiciary should scrap any proposal to do away with state bar admission requirements for U.S. district courts and create a national district court bar, according to a recent report finding it would undercut those courts' control over bar membership and that it lacks the necessary support.

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Analysis

Some Attys Say Remote Hearing Expansion Comes At A Cost

By Julie Manganis

A push in Massachusetts to expand the number of proceedings held via videoconference is raising concerns among some attorneys, who question if the time savings of remote hearings is outweighed by the hidden costs of lawyers and judges staring into a screen.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Morrison Foerster LLP, Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz and Dechert LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a California federal jury cleared OpenAI and executives Sam Altman and Greg Brockman of allegations that they breached the nonprofit's charitable trust by converting to a for-profit.

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Roundup

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

By Laura Stewart Liberty

The past week in London has seen Napster sued by a music royalties company, White & Case LLP and Laytons LLP targeted in a claim by a property developer, a short-term lender pursue legal action against law firm Rainer Hughes and its former founding partner following his strike-off for money laundering offenses, and the administrators of London Bridging sue the founder of collapsed Market Financial Solutions. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

The role of artificial intelligence in law weaves in and out of this week's stories, with the most recent compelling action coming from California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who issued an executive order to mobilize state agencies as AI layoffs begin to hit thousands of workers in his state.

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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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