Feds Withdraw Subpoenas To NYT Over Trump Jet Reporting

By Pete Brush

The Manhattan U.S. Attorney's Office on Thursday withdrew grand jury subpoenas served on four New York Times journalists who reported on security flaws aboard a jet gifted to President Donald Trump for use as Air Force One, after a federal judge threatened to quash the inquiries.

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Paramount-Warner TRO Extended As Injunction Fight Looms

By Lauren Berg

A California federal judge Thursday extended a temporary restraining order preventing Paramount Skydance Corp. from closing its proposed $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc.

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9th Circ. Urged To Keep Reddit Moderator Subpoenas Alive

By Ivan Moreno

A YouTube creator's production company has pressed the Ninth Circuit to reject a bid by anonymous Reddit moderators to block subpoenas seeking their identities, arguing that a federal judge properly found the company presented sufficient evidence that they facilitated alleged copyright infringement by directing people to livestreamed "watch parties" of its content.

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Apple Can't Get BigTech AI Voice Suits Under Same Ill. Judge

By Lauren Berg

Apple cannot get eight similar proposed class actions alleging BigTech companies exploited the voices of journalists and voice actors to train their artificial intelligence reassigned to the same judge overseeing its case, an Illinois federal court ruled.

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Google Must Face Ex-NPR Host's AI Voice Suit In State Court

By Rae Ann Varona

A California federal judge ruled Thursday that former NPR "Morning Edition" co-host David Greene's claims that Google misappropriated his voice in an artificial intelligence podcasting product could proceed in state court, rejecting Google's contention that his claims arose under the Copyright Act and thus belong in federal court.

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Web Scraper Seeks Toss Of Reddit Copyright Claims

By Elliot Weld

SerpApi, a company that scrapes online content, asked a New York federal judge Thursday to let it out of a copyright lawsuit from Reddit alleging it illegally looted content at the behest of Perplexity for AI training, contending Reddit doesn't own copyrights on the bulk of the user content on its website and that the protective measures the suit alleged were circumvented belong to Google.

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PTAB Revives Ioengine Data Patent In Roku Reexam Case

By Theresa Schliep

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has reversed an examiner's decision to strike claims in an Ioengine LLC data processing patent that was challenged by Roku, faulting the examiner's reading and application of relevant pieces of prior art.

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CGL Cases To Watch In The 2nd Half Of 2026

By Jennifer Mandato

Heading into the back half of 2026, insurance attorneys can expect federal and state courts to interpret how general liability policy language applies to some of the industry's biggest emerging risks. Law360 Insurance Authority breaks down three CGL-related cases.

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Proposed AI Bill Lets DHS Hit 'Kill Switch' On Risky Systems

By Rae Ann Varona

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security may order the shutdown of artificial intelligence systems deemed capable of causing "catastrophic harm" under a bill bipartisan lawmakers introduced Thursday, citing OpenAI models' recent inadvertent and autonomous hack of AI startup Hugging Face.

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Lucky Strike Can't Move Bowling Alley Buy-Up Suit, Court Told

By Bryan Koenig

Bowlers urged a Washington federal judge Wednesday not to let Lucky Strike transfer to New York their proposed class action accusing it of monopolization by buying up alleys across the country.

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Brazil Wants Crackdown On Alleged Media Rights Cartel

By Alex Lawson

Antitrust authorities in Brazil on Thursday called for a slew of convictions against what it described as an international cartel that colluded to fix prices and suppress competition in the market for sports broadcasting rights.

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Author Trust Royalties Are Capital, Not Income, UK Court Says

By Kevin Pinner

Royalty payments accrued in a family trust for the grandchildren of the author of the "Thomas the Tank Engine" books should be considered capital for trust law purposes instead of income, a London court found, siding with the trustees.

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Being A Singer Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Before law school, I spent seven years trying to make it as a professional singer in Los Angeles, and nearly everything I learned about preparation, humility, confidence and more has followed me into my legal practice, says Jessica Caterina at Moses & Singer.

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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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Simpson Thacher Warned Co. About Deal Terms, Jury Told

By Cara Salvatore

A retired Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP partner who handled the fundraising vehicle alleged to have destroyed Patriot National Inc. told a Florida jury Thursday that he flagged deal terms that later became detrimental to the insurance services company.

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ABA Rips DOJ's 'Absurd' Firm Subpoenas In Documents Fight

By Emily Sawicki

The American Bar Association has blasted as "absurd" the government's move to subpoena law firms as an attempt to avoid a documents request from the organization amid allegations the Trump administration worked to intimidate law firms into conforming with his policy goals through executive orders last year.

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Judge's Deportation Probe 'Off The Rails,' DOJ Tells DC Circ.

By Britain Eakin

The Trump administration urged the full D.C. Circuit to either order U.S. District Judge James Boasberg to terminate his criminal contempt inquiry into the administration's Alien Enemies Act removals last year, or order him to forgo live testimony in the probe.

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Jack Smith's Lawyers Say Criminal Referral Twists Testimony

By Courtney Bublé

Former special counsel Jack Smith's legal team has said the criminal referral a U.S. Congress member sent the Department of Justice to investigate Smith is based on a "spurious claim."

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500-Member NYC Public Defender Union Ends Strike

By Andrea Keckley

The first and so far only New York City public defender union to go on strike this year announced on Wednesday that its approximately 500 members are returning to work after reaching a tentative agreement with their managers.

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Patent Atty Sues USPTO Over 'Flawed' Disciplinary Procedure

By Hailey Konnath

An Ohio patent lawyer Thursday accused the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office of using an unlawful "pay for play" system for its disciplinary proceedings against attorneys, claiming the disciplinary proceedings are "inherently biased" and rigged against him and others facing discipline.

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Senate Confirms 2 Judges, Advances Ohio And Colo. Picks

By Courtney Bublé

The Senate on Thursday voted 48-47 to confirm Judge Daniel Traynor of the District of North Dakota to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and 49-44 to confirm Antonio M. Pozos, a partner at Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, as a judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

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