Split DC Circ. Halts Block Of DOD Escort Rule

By Madeline Lyskawa

A divided D.C. Circuit panel has paused a preliminary injunction blocking the U.S. Department of Defense's policy that reporters must be escorted whenever they're in the Pentagon.

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Spokeo Reaches $10M Settlement In Right Of Publicity Row

By Craig Clough

Spokeo has reached a $10 million preliminary settlement with a group of plaintiffs from nine states alleging their right to publicity was violated by the company through teaser profiles that used their private information to help sell subscriptions to the platform, according to a motion filed in California federal court.

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Music Publishers, X End Copyright And Antitrust Fights

By Adam Lidgett

Music publishers have agreed to drop their copyright infringement suit against X Corp., at the same time the social platform said it would end claims that the publishers and their trade group banded together to demand an industrywide license.

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MSG Claims Wired Lied In Article About Celebrity 'Risk' List

By David Steele

Madison Square Garden Entertainment has accused Wired in New York state court of defaming it in an article claiming the company surveilled, targeted and kept a list of LGBTQIA celebrities attending events, allegations that Wired called "baseless and ridiculous."

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'Wicked Tuna' Star Says Parents Are Throwing Him Overboard

By Julie Manganis

A fishing boat captain who appeared on the Massachusetts-based reality show "Wicked Tuna" is asking a court to block his parents from selling the boat he used on the show, saying they're trying to cut him out of his interest in that vessel, three others and a Key West, Florida, home they've already sold, according to a lawsuit filed in state court Thursday.

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Feature

She Was On 'Jeopardy!' Who Is A Foley & Lardner Atty?

By Chris Villani

As a lifelong "off and on" viewer of "Jeopardy!," regular trivia-goer and insatiable consumer of knowledge, Foley & Lardner LLP associate Lea James told Law360 she had the chance last month to live out a once-in-a-lifetime experience on the iconic game show.

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Netflix Wants Judge To Reject DivX's New Patent Trial Bid

By Cara Salvatore

Netflix is urging a California federal judge not to grant compression technology company DivX a new trial over anti-copying and image-quality patents for streaming video after a jury cleared Netflix in March.

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Reexam Denial On Ex-BlackBerry Patent Cites Pre-Order Filing

By Ryan Davis

Pointing to a paper filed by patent owner Malikie Innovations Ltd. under a new policy put in place this spring, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has rejected Unified Patents LLC's request for reexamination of a video coding patent originally issued to BlackBerry Ltd.

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Toy Seller Used 'Space Jam' In Ads Without License, Suit Says

By Kelcey Caulder

A Florida-based music publisher has filed a copyright suit against a wholesale toy supplier in Georgia federal court over the song "Space Jam," which served as the main theme song for the film of the same name, alleging the company used the tune to promote and market its business without obtaining a license to do so.

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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 Snapchat and Dolby press on with a fresh infringement claim in their ongoing patent battle, The Telegraph face an intellectual property claim by a photo archive, a group of international human rights barristers and chambers sued, and oil business Equinor embroiled in a contract dispute with BP after recently acquiring full ownership in their offshore project. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

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Roundup

Skill Games, Grinch Bots: A Midyear Pa. Legislation Review

By Matthew Santoni

Two major rulings from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court have left it up to the Legislature to address "skill games" and second-degree murder sentences, while other pending bills would tackle a long-standing challenge in administering elections, and make it harder for scalpers to snatch up high-demand tickets or products online.

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Judge Decries 'Extreme' Penalty Bids In Social Media MDL

By Dorothy Atkins

A California federal judge overseeing an upcoming trial over states' social media addiction claims against Meta took issue with both sides' "extreme" penalty estimates during a pretrial hearing Friday, saying the states' $1.4 trillion proposal is "unreasonable," but Meta's $4 million estimate "is not even a slap on the hand."

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NetChoice Ordered To Produce Harm Studies In Va. Case

By Jared Foretek

A Virginia federal judge ordered tech industry group NetChoice to turn over any studies or reports it has examining social media's potential addictiveness or harm to young people Friday, partially granting a motion to compel from the state as it fights a suit challenging its law limiting children's access.

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Gamers Fight To Keep Valve 'Loot Box' Gambling Claims Alive

By Ben Adlin

Gamers accusing Valve Corp. of violating Washington state gambling laws through in-game "loot boxes" containing potentially valuable virtual items on Thursday urged a Seattle federal judge not to dismiss their proposed class action, rejecting the gaming giant's assertion that the boxes are no different than a pack of baseball cards.

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Busch Gardens Sued Over Allegedly False Sales Deadlines

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

A proposed class action alleges Busch Gardens Williamsburg overwhelmed Maryland customers with notices of misleading sales deadlines.

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Analysis

States Stepping Up Merger Work In First Half Of 2026

By Matthew Perlman

Federal enforcers reached a number of merger settlements in the first half of 2026, while state attorneys general stepped up their independent enforcement efforts, taking on Nexstar's planned purchase of rival broadcaster Tegna and Paramount's deal for Warner Bros. Discovery.

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Bipartisan Bill Targets Google's Search Dominance

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

U.S. Sens. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., have introduced bipartisan legislation aimed at preventing dominant search engines such as Google from engaging in anticompetitive tactics to monopolize the online search market.

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Dems Raise Alarm DOJ Will 'Rubber-Stamp' Fox's Roku Buy

By Bryan Koenig

Democratic lawmakers are targeting both Fox Corp.'s planned purchase of Roku and the Justice Department that will review it, in a letter announced Friday lambasting the deal itself and pushing the agency under Associate Attorney General Stanley E. Woodward Jr. not to be "corrupted by influence-peddling or political favoritism."

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Judge Open To TRO Blocking Paramount-Warner Bros. Deal

By Dorothy Atkins

A California federal judge appeared open Friday to granting a group of states' bid for a temporary restraining order blocking Paramount Skydance's $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, saying it appears the tie-up's anticipated market share presumptively violates the Clayton Act under U.S. Supreme Court precedent.

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AGs Have 'Significant Concerns' With DOJ's Live Nation Deal

By Bryan Koenig

A bipartisan coalition of state attorneys general asked a New York federal judge Thursday for a peek into the negotiations behind the Justice Department's controversial midtrial settlement with Live Nation, voicing concerns the deal isn't in the public interest and saying they need details as they seek a breakup.

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Meta Avoids Workers' Bid To Block Allegedly AI-Tainted Cuts

By Rae Ann Varona

A California federal judge Friday denied a group of current and former Meta employees' bid to swiftly block the company from disturbing the benefits of certain employees it allegedly selected for termination using artificial intelligence, but requested more information on how Meta selected four employees on company-sponsored employment visas.

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DC Circ. Backs Maximum Prison Term For Trump Tax Leaker

By Phillip Bantz

The D.C. Circuit has upheld the maximum prison sentence handed down in the case of an IRS contractor who pled guilty to leaking President Donald Trump's tax returns, along with thousands of others, ruling Friday that the punishment was "reasonable."

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Feds Say NYC Duo Laundered $43M In 'Pig-Butchering' Funds

By Stewart Bishop

New York federal prosecutors have announced charges against two Chinese nationals who are alleged to be top members of a sophisticated money laundering network in New York and China that used numerous shell companies and bank accounts to conceal at least $43 million in illicit proceeds from "pig-butchering" scams.

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Senate Bill Would Ease SEC Reporting For Rural Telecoms

By Christopher Cole

A bipartisan Senate bill would make it easier for small, rural communications providers to prepare reports to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission when obligated to submit paperwork for certain financial events.

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FCC's Subsidy Reform Plan Could Cut USAC Board By Third

By Nadia Dreid

Change is on the way for the Universal Service Administrative Co., which manages the Federal Communications Commission's multibillion-dollar subsidy fund, with the agency signaling its plans to consider slashing the company's board by more than a third.

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How Competitive Is Your Compensation? Take Our Survey

Is your compensation keeping pace with the rate of inflation? Do you know what your colleagues made last year? Help Law360 Pulse answer these questions and more in this year's Law Firm Compensation Survey.

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DOJ Unveils Law Firm Subpoenas In ABA Docs Bid Fight

By Ryan Boysen, Rae Ann Varona, Alison Knezevich, Daniel Moritz-Rabson and Aebra Coe

The BigLaw firms that cut deals with the Trump administration last year to skirt punitive executive orders are now grappling with subpoenas from the U.S. Department of Justice seeking deal-related communications and depositions of the firms' managing partners or chairs, according to Friday court filings.

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K&L Gates Cuts Nonattorney Staff By 10% After Review

By Tracey Read

K&L Gates LLP has cut its nonattorney and business support staff by 10% following a monthslong review of its structure, the firm told Law360 Pulse Friday.

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Analysis

Upon Review: The 2026 World Cup's Biggest Legal Stories

By Alex Lawson

The grandest iteration of the World Cup to date unsurprisingly raised new legal and regulatory disputes, including immigration issues and the White House's intervention in a player disciplinary proceeding. Here, Law360 digs into the legal questions arising from the tournament.

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7th Circ. Admonishes Atty Over 'Astonishing' Bogus Citations

By Christine DeRosa

The Seventh Circuit has admonished but declined to sanction an attorney for a brief that included what a judge called "an astonishing number of erroneous and even hallucinated citations."

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Ashurst Perkins Gets Trial Date Pushed In Malpractice Case

By Rachel Riley

A Washington state judge granted Ashurst Perkins Coie's bid to postpone the trial date in a lawsuit accusing the firm's predecessor of making significant mistakes while representing a Middle Eastern screw and nail manufacturer in regulatory proceedings before the U.S. Department of Commerce, calling the case "complex" on Friday.

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Judge Warns Gov't Over Apparent AI-Hallucinated Citation

By Courtney Bublé

A federal judge in Michigan, appointed by President Donald Trump, called out the government for its apparent use of artificial intelligence to cite "nonexistent case law."

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Public Defenders Go On Strike In New York City

By Andrea Keckley

Hundreds of public defenders and social workers in Brooklyn and Queens have gone on strike, with the possibility of more walkouts to come as legal aid providers continue to negotiate with their unions.

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Feature

How A 'Revolutionary' Charlotte Courtroom Advances Justice

By Hayley Fowler

In the second of a two-part series on the Virginia Revival Courtroom in the Charlotte federal courthouse, judges, architects and a trial consultant explain the strategy behind designing a space they see as more conducive to justice.

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2nd Circ. Backs Public Defender's Firing For Computer Misuse

By Andrea Keckley

The Second Circuit has backed a district court's dismissal of a former public defender's lawsuit against Oneida County, New York, for firing him after he used his work computer to work on his private practice on county time, agreeing that the county did not violate his privacy rights or breach their contract.

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Roundup

GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is considering allowing electronic delivery to be the default method for sending investors information, and a panel of investor activists said the 2026 proxy season was shaped by regulators who seem to let public companies behave more like private ones. These are among the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Hogan Lovells Cadwalader leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Second Circuit determined that a lower court properly found that Nielsen cannot condition media company Cumulus' access to national radio ratings data on buying its local offerings.

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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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