3rd Circ. Asks How Legal Tech AI Tool Differed From Westlaw

By Ivan Moreno

A Third Circuit panel grilled ROSS Intelligence's attorney Thursday over whether the defunct legal tech startup's use of Westlaw headnotes to train an artificial intelligence-powered legal research tool was truly transformative, repeatedly asking counsel to explain how the product differed from Westlaw.

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OpenAI Says High Court Curbed Some News Org IP Claims

By Craig Clough

OpenAI told a New York federal judge Thursday that the U.S. Supreme Court's recent Cox v. Sony decision bars a contributory infringement claim brought by four news companies accusing the artificial intelligence company of using their copyrighted materials to train ChatGPT, saying the high court's ruling eliminates the legal theory on which the plaintiffs rely.

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Meta Must Face Porn Studio's IP Suit Over AI Training

By Rae Ann Varona

Meta Platforms Inc. can't toss a porn studio's copyright infringement suit accusing the social media giant of downloading the studio's films to train generative artificial intelligence models, a California federal judge ruled Thursday, saying the studio's allegations suffice to infer a "coordinated effort" by Meta to gather data.

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Amazon Didn't Infringe 'The Love Zone' TM With TV Show

By Elliot Weld

A Manhattan federal judge has dismissed a suit brought by a New York radio personality who hosts a show called "The Love Zone" against Amazon Studios and Paramount over a television episode that featured a fictional radio show of the same name, saying there wasn't a risk that the episode would harm the reputation of the real-life radio show.

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Magistrate Judge Suggests Injunction On 'Blippi' Fakes

By Elliot Weld

A federal magistrate judge has recommended permanently enjoining a Florida company from infringing trademarks on the children's show "Blippi," agreeing with the U.K.-based business that makes the show that the Florida company's Blippi impersonators were infringing.

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Fla. Justices Lower Bar For Ex-Marvel CEO's Damages Bid

By David Minsky

The Florida Supreme Court ruled that the former CEO of Marvel Entertainment doesn't need to show "clear and convincing" evidence to add a punitive damages claim against his neighbor, saying Thursday the lower court doesn't act as a trier of fact at the pleading stage of a lawsuit. 

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Ex-CEO Seeks To Again Depose Lutnick In Trump Media Suit

By David Minsky

The former CEO of a company that merged with President Donald Trump's Truth Social platform urged a Florida state court on Thursday to again allow him to depose U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, arguing his testimony is highly relevant to the lawsuit over a botched public offering.

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Miss America CEO Wants Ex-Atty Barred From Court

By Emily Lever

The CEO of Miss America and companies linked to the pageant asked a Florida federal court on Thursday to bar their former counsel Carlton Fields from a status conference in their litigation over Miss America's bankruptcy, arguing the firm is not a party and is no longer counsel of record.

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DJI Says Insta360's Gimbal Cameras 'Blatantly Copy' Its Own

By Lauren Berg

Drone maker DJI Technology Co. filed a pair of patent infringement suits in Texas federal court alleging Insta360's new Luna line of handheld gimbal cameras "blatantly copy DJI's patented inventions wholesale."

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Sports Tech Company Calls Rival's Licensing Claims False

By David Steele

Genius Sports has accused Panda Interactive in Delaware federal court of falsely claiming licensing deals in several states, connections with sportsbooks, and production of NFL-related content, the latest act in a multiyear legal battle between the rival sports tech companies.

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Tech Group Urges High Court To Block Texas App Store Law

By Hailey Konnath

The Computer & Communications Industry Association on Thursday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to vacate a recent Fifth Circuit ruling permitting Texas to move forward with a law requiring app store owners to verify users' ages, arguing the law is unconstitutional and overly burdensome for its members.

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Meta Beats Investors' Suit Over AI-Powered Facebook Scams

By Bonnie Eslinger

A California federal judge tossed a proposed class action alleging that Meta's AI tools enabled investment schemes advertised on Facebook, finding Thursday that his own earlier ruling means that the plaintiffs' state claims are barred under federal securities law.

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Valve Seeks Appeal After Judge Lets Steam Arbitrations Roll

By Caroline Simson

Valve will seek interlocutory review of a federal judge's order last month refusing to block hundreds of video game buyers from arbitrating consumer protection claims, the game developer said on Wednesday, citing the Seattle judge's observation during a hearing last month that neither side is "'sitting on comfortable ground.'"

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FTC Wants Zillow-Redfin Deal Presumed Illegal Ahead Of Trial

By Bryan Koenig

The Federal Trade Commission sought Wednesday to further limit Zillow and Redfin's ability to defend a rental listings syndication deal the agency says was a $100 million payoff for Redfin to exit the market, asking a Virginia federal judge to treat the agreement as a presumptively unlawful transaction.

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Amazon Reaches Deal To End Workers' Genetic Privacy Suit

By Patrick Hoff

Amazon has agreed to end a lawsuit alleging that it violated Illinois genetic privacy law by seeking information about job applicants' family medical history, according to a federal court filing.

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Ex-Colo. Film Commissioner Says Age Bias Led To Firing

By Benjamin Morse

Colorado's former film commissioner hit the state's economic development office with an age bias and retaliation suit, alleging he was forced out at age 79 after initiating the effort to bring the Sundance Film Festival to Colorado and raising concerns about a nearly $748,000 accounting error.

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WWE, Accuser Eyeing Confidential Deal In Sex Abuse Suit

By Brian Steele

The former World Wrestling Entertainment legal staffer accusing the company and founder Vince McMahon of sexual abuse and trafficking may consent to the defendants' long-sought effort to drag the dispute into arbitration, the parties jointly told a Connecticut federal judge on Thursday.

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239M Napster Shares Stolen By NC Man And Atty, SEC Says

By Bonnie Eslinger

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed a civil suit in New York federal court Thursday against a North Carolina resident and his lawyer over an alleged stock scheme, claiming they defrauded the company that acquired Napster out of 239 million shares of its stock.

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Gov't Hectoring Prompts Bipartisan Bill To Shield Free Speech

By Christopher Cole

A bipartisan Senate bill was introduced Thursday to curtail government jawboning of free speech amid the Federal Communications Commission chair's political controversies with broadcasters.

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FCC Aims To Quell Pole Attachment Fights At State Level

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission says it wants to speed up the resolution of disputes over broadband attachments on utility poles in states that have adopted their own rules on top of federal requirements.

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GlobalStar Opposes FCC Review Of 2 GHz Satellite Order

By Nadia Dreid

The Federal Communications Commission should ignore a request to rethink its rejection of a plan that would bring sweeping changes to the "Big LEO" satellite rules, an American satellite telecom is telling the agency.

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Judge Doubts Need For Discovery In Digital Equity Suit

By Jared Foretek

A Washington, D.C., federal judge struggled to find a reason for plaintiffs challenging the Trump administration's shutdown of the Digital Equity Act's Competitive Grant Program to get discovery in their lawsuit, suggesting the question of the program's constitutionality appeared to be a purely legal question, as the government suggested.

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Cow Horse Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Moving an unwilling 800-pound cow while riding a horse at high speed is exhilarating, a little unhinged and, at least for me, a surprisingly effective training ground for litigation — both demand focus, preparation over rigid planning and the willingness to act despite fear, says Ashley Zitrin at Glenn Agre.

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The 2026 Law360 400

By Daniela Porat

Law360 is pleased to announce its list of the 400 largest U.S. firms by headcount.

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Kellogg Hansen Bests Susman Godfrey's Associate Pay Hikes

By Andrea Keckley

More litigation boutiques are joining the growing number of firms raising their base salaries for associates, with Kellogg Hansen Todd Figel & Frederick PLLC exceeding the scale Susman Godfrey LLP set earlier this week.

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SDNY US Atty Jay Clayton Picked For DNI After Pulte Pushback

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump announced on Thursday he's nominating Jay Clayton, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, to be director of national intelligence.

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Widow Sues Podhurst Orseck Over $4M 737 Max Settlement

By Mike Curley

An Indonesian widow is suing Podhurst Orseck PA and one of its attorneys in Illinois federal court, alleging they failed to keep her informed or get her all the money she was entitled to in a $4 million settlement with Boeing over the fatal crash of Lion Air Flight 610.

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Immigration Firm Says Attys Fraudulently Poached Clients

By Britain Eakin

A law firm recently accused of running a volume-driven immigration filing mill claimed in a new lawsuit in Ohio federal court that three attorneys and a TikTok personality orchestrated a social media campaign falsely accusing it of visa fraud as a way to poach its clients.

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Ex-Trump Atty Chesebro Gets Fla. Law License Back

By Madison Arnold

The Florida Supreme Court has reinstated the law license of former Trump campaign attorney Kenneth Chesebro after his conviction in Georgia's election interference racketeering case was eventually cleared by a court order invalidating the charge.

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Mass. Attys Ding Watchdog's 'Myopic' Public Defense Report

By Julie Manganis

The leader of a group of Massachusetts attorneys who stopped taking court-appointed cases last year over what they say are inadequate hourly rates on Thursday slammed a state inspector general's highly critical report on the state's indigent defense system as "myopic."

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