Meta's Newspaper Analogy Doesn't Sway Instagram Judge

By Carolyn Muyskens

Meta faced some pushback from a Massachusetts state judge for comparing Instagram's design to a newspaper publisher's decisions about what to put on the front page, as the company pushed to end the state's lawsuit over alleged harm to youth from social media use.

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News Orgs Must Give Cohere AI Use Policies

By Elliot Weld

A New York federal magistrate judge has ordered a group of news and magazine publishers to turn over their policies on how artificial intelligence is used in their newsrooms to AI startup Cohere, as Cohere stands accused of improperly using copyrighted news content to train chatbots.

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3rd Circ. Rules Feds Can Replace Philly Slavery Exhibits

By P.J. D'Annunzio

The Third Circuit on Thursday held that the Trump administration can legally replace slavery exhibits at Independence Hall National Park in Philadelphia, reversing a lower court's ruling in favor of the city ordering the restoration of the previously removed informational panels.

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Split 6th Circ. Revives Ohio's Social Media Age Limit Law

By Hailey Konnath

A divided Sixth Circuit panel Thursday wiped out a lower court's order blocking an Ohio law barring social media companies from allowing children under 16 to create accounts without parental consent, ruling that the measure does not run afoul of the Constitution.

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Comedian Carlos Mencia Charged In Calif. Tax Evasion Case

By Lauren Berg

Comedian Carlos Mencia is facing felony tax evasion charges after California prosecutors say he failed to report $8.7 million in personal and corporate income, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced Thursday.

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Anthropic Faces New Copyright Suit From Authors

By Elliot Weld

A group of authors sued Anthropic, the company behind the artificial intelligence large language model Claude, accusing the firm of ingesting the authors' works illegally via online shadow libraries to use as material to train Anthropic's models.

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Bill For AI Deepfake Reporting System Clears Senate Panel

By Elliot Weld

A bill that would create a pathway for reporting AI-generated deepfakes online for removal cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday after a few senators had raised concerns over First Amendment implications but said they believed they could be resolved before a full Senate vote.

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Q&A

5 Questions For NTIA Chief Arielle Roth

By Christopher Cole

Heading into her second year running the federal agency that manages spectrum and a $42 billion push to expand broadband deployment, Arielle Roth has her hands full.

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Fed. Circ. Again Revives Valve Bid To Ax Patent In $4M Verdict

By Ryan Davis

The Federal Circuit on Thursday gave Valve Corp. yet another chance to try to invalidate rival SCUF's video game controller patent underlying a $4 million verdict, ruling that, after the appeals court revived the effort, the trial judge wrongly said Valve's arguments are barred by a prior challenge.

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Louisiana Asks 5th Circ. To Lift Block Of Social Media Law

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

Louisiana is asking a federal appellate court to lift its block on a state law that requires social media platforms to verify users' ages and bans them from allowing minors to create or maintain accounts without parental permission.

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Pornhub Makes Deal With Child Sex Crime Victim Class In Calif.

By Craig Clough

The entities behind Pornhub have reached a settlement with a certified class of child sex trafficking and sexual abuse material survivors who allege the website profited from the crimes committed against them, an attorney for the class told a California federal judge Thursday.

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Express Scripts Can't Ditch Meta Wiretap Suit Yet

By Rae Ann Varona

A California federal judge refused to dismiss a proposed class action alleging Express Scripts lets Meta secretly read consumers' communications, saying a consumer sufficiently claimed the online pharmacy allowed Meta's unauthorized collection of personal health information.

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Free Speech Fight Over Fla. Social Media Law Goes To Trial

By Dorothy Atkins

A Florida federal judge refused to hand a decisive win just yet to either the state or technology groups challenging a law punishing social media websites for blocking political candidates, sending the dispute — which has already made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court — to a September bench trial instead.

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Microsoft Joins Fight To Preserve EU-US Data Transfer Pact

By Allison Grande

Microsoft Corp. has secured permission to support the European Commission in its effort to shield a vital agreement that enables personal data to flow freely from the European Union to the U.S. from a French lawmaker's attempt to convince the bloc's highest court to strike down the transfer mechanism.

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DirecTV, AGs Tell 9th Circ. Not To Curb Nexstar-Tegna Block

By Bryan Koenig

DirecTV and a coalition of state attorneys general urged the Ninth Circuit not to narrow a district court preliminary injunction blocking Nexstar's purchase of Tegna, arguing the only way to preserve competition while the case proceeds is a full block, not one restricted to 31 overlapping broadcast markets.

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Senate Panel Advances Revised College Sports Reform Bill

By David Steele

The U.S. Senate Commerce Committee approved a bill to codify federal protections for college sports and for athletes' earning abilities, sending it to the full Senate for a possible vote.

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Musk Fights Uphill To Toss Fraud Verdict Of Twitter Buyout

By Bonnie Eslinger

A California federal judge considering Elon Musk's bid to toss a jury's verdict that he defrauded Twitter investors during his $44 billion buyout said it's "readily apparent to the court that Mr. Musk is liable" for making two false statements that were material to the trading public.

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ISP Tells FCC Minn. City Can't Force It Into Cable Agreement

By Nadia Dreid

Internet service provider Gateway Fiber has asked the Federal Communications Commission to step in and declare that a Minnesota city can't decide that its cable franchise agreement ordinances suddenly apply to broadband providers now.

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Meta Can't Undo $35M Political Ad Penalty, Wash. Justices Say

By Rachel Riley

Most of the Washington State Supreme Court justices rejected Meta's First Amendment challenge to a state political advertising disclosure law in a divided opinion, while also spurning the social media giant's argument that a $35 million penalty against it violates the Constitution's prohibition on excessive fines.

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Tort Suit Marketing Co. Says It Must Keep Firm's $9M Payment

By Spencer Brewer

A marketing company that specializes in advertising mass tort litigation lodged a suit against a lender in Texas state court, claiming the lender wrongfully demanded $6 million that came from a judgment finding that a law firm failed to make payments for a $42 million contract.

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Mayweather Accused Of Flouting Deal To Box Tyson, Pacquiao

By Gina Kim

Floyd Mayweather violated his agreement to fight Mike Tyson before facing off against Manny Pacquiao after formally coming out of retirement for these once-in-a-lifetime events that cannot be replicated or replaced, a global multimedia broadcasting company alleged.

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Meta Says IRS Seeks 'Do-Over' Of Facebook Case

By Molly Moses

The IRS, in increasing Meta's income under the periodic adjustment rule for years 2017-2019, is seeking a "do-over" of the Facebook case decided in 2025, valuing the same intangibles the U.S. Tax Court already valued under a different method, Meta argued.

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Ex-CEO Cites Mexico Ruling For Ch. 11 Dismissal In Delaware

By Jarek Rutz

The former CEO of marine park company Dolphin Co. has asked the Delaware Bankruptcy Court to either dismiss the Chapter 11 case of Leisure Investments Holdings LLC or halt parts of the proceedings, arguing that a Mexican appellate court has reinstated an earlier insolvency case and restored his authority over the company's parent entity.

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High Court's FCC Ruling Adds To Comms Industry Paradox

The Supreme Court's recent decision in Federal Communications Commission v. AT&T, finding that the FCC's informal forfeiture process survives Seventh Amendment scrutiny, opens some doors for regulated entities, but the practical effect may be surprisingly constrained, says Jonathan Marashlian at The CommLaw Group.

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Series

Founding An Autism Academy Made Me A Better Lawyer

Starting a nonprofit autism school with no building, no funding model and no guarantee that families would trust us taught me the importance of mission, patience and purpose — lessons that sharpened my practice and showed how meaningful work outside the office can make lawyers better, says Phillip Russell at Ogletree Deakins.

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Judiciary Cites AI Deepfakes In Opposing Courtroom Cameras

By Courtney Bublé

Two bipartisan bills to bring cameras into federal courtrooms advanced Thursday, but the policymaking body for the federal judiciary continues to oppose them and raised the issue of deepfakes in the age of artificial intelligence.

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Trump Lawyer Advances In Senate Judiciary Noms Vote

By Courtney Bublé

The nomination of Matthew Schwartz to be a judge on the Second Circuit advanced out of committee Thursday.

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'Mortified' Atty Takes Blame For Fake Quotes In Taco TM Fight

By Ivan Moreno

A Connecticut attorney facing possible sanctions over fake case quotations in a taco restaurant trademark fight told a federal judge that he takes "full and unqualified responsibility" for the flawed filings, saying he is "mortified" and acknowledging that his verification process for AI-assisted legal work fell far short.

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Calif. Moves On Proposal To Allow Legal Aid By Nonlawyers

By Lynn LaRowe

The California Supreme Court has directed the state bar to solicit public comments on a proposed community justice worker program that would allow nonlawyers to provide limited legal assistance under the supervision of qualified legal aid organizations, according to a Thursday announcement.

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Analysis

Law Students Undeterred Under Trump's Immigration Climate

By Britain Eakin

In a climate where immigration lawyers are coming under the Trump administration’s scrutiny to tamp down on asylum fraud, law students are being ignited to enter the workforce early and rectify the injustices they see.

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Mich. Panel Sanctions Atty Over AI-Hallucinated Cases

By Susan Smiley

A medical malpractice suit in the Michigan Court of Appeals led to financial sanctions against an attorney who the court said during litigation repeatedly cited nonexistent cases that were generated by artificial intelligence.

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Ford Says 'Lemon Law' Firm Faked Bills Using Overseas Staff

By Linda Chiem

Ford Motor Co. accused California personal injury firm Quill & Arrow LLP of defrauding it out of more than $25 million in high-priced legal bills for work actually handled by virtual assistants overseas and non-lawyers in scores of product liability cases against the automaker.

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NY High Court Upholds Mandatory Judge Retirement Age

By Dorothy Atkins

New York's highest court Thursday affirmed a ruling that rejected jurists' challenges to the Empire State's mandatory retirement age of 70 for state judges and justices, finding that the centuries-old constitutional mandate doesn't conflict with a recent state civil rights amendment banning age discrimination.

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Tort Report: Meta Set To Face Facebook Sex Trafficking Trial

By Y. Peter Kang

An upcoming trial in Texas for a first-of-its-kind case against Meta and claims against a health clinic owned by a U.S. senator lead Law360's Tort Report, which compiles recent personal injury and medical malpractice news that may have flown under the radar.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

General counsel may cringe at the news, but their chief financial officers will rejoice over a new study that shows the average spending by legal departments dropped to a six-year low in 2026. And two in-house Cigna lawyers are at the center of a finding of "improperly asserted privilege" over key company documents related to a payment lawsuit brought by three labs.

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