Trump Bid To Move NY Appeal Faces 'Fatal' Error, Judge Says

By Frank G. Runyeon

A Manhattan federal judge on Wednesday repeatedly aired doubts that President Donald Trump can upend the pending New York state appeal of his hush-money conviction by moving the case to federal court.

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USPTO's Squires Sees TMs As Key Tool Against AI Deepfakes

By Ivan Moreno

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires pitched trademarks as one of the most practical tools for combating artificial intelligence deepfakes, saying during a Wednesday webinar that name, image and likeness rights are "where the puck is going," peppering his remarks with pop culture references and sports metaphors.

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Goldstein Accountant Admits Tax Return Errors

By Jared Foretek

A star government witness and the top outside accountant for SCOTUSblog founder Thomas Goldstein and his law firm admitted to making mistakes on Goldstein's tax returns and offering the grand jury erroneous testimony, under cross-examination in the U.S. Supreme Court lawyer's tax fraud trial Wednesday.

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Mayweather Sues Showtime Over Missing Earnings

By Tom Lotshaw

Boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. hit Showtime Networks Inc. with a lawsuit accusing the company of helping a former manager defraud him, with at least $340 million of fight earnings misappropriated or unaccounted for.

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Ex-Fox News Host Decries Judge Pick's Arbitration Stance

By Courtney Buble

Gretchen Carlson, a former Fox News anchor and a leading advocate for ending forced arbitration of sexual harassment and assault in the workplace, has come out against a federal judicial nominee for Louisiana for her past comments on the issue.

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Law360 Seeks Members For Its 2026 Editorial Boards

Law360 is looking for avid readers of our publications to serve as members of our 2026 editorial advisory boards.

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Media & Entertainment Group Of The Year: Davis Wright

By Adam Lidgett

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP's work over the past year has secured a block against a California law requiring tech giants to bolster privacy protections for children and helped Mariah Carey win a copyright suit against her over her hit song "All I Want For Christmas Is You," earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 Media & Entertainment Practice Groups of the Year.

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Music Labels Win On Most Counts In Classic Rock Videos Suit

By Elliot Weld

Music labels suing a British filmmaker and his former company over a set of videos that made unauthorized use of songs by several classic rock artists were granted a win on a substantial portion of the case Wednesday by a Manhattan federal judge who found the videos did not contain enough legitimate commentary to be considered documentaries.

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CREXi Fights Bid To Disqualify Quinn Emanuel In CoStar IP Suit

By Rae Ann Varona

Commercial real estate platform CREXi has urged a California federal judge to let it keep Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP as its counsel as it fights CoStar's accusations of copyright infringement, saying CoStar is only now raising conflict of interest concerns to gain a "tactical advantage."

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Gospel Singer Pleads To Drop Track Amid 'Messy' Label Fight

By Chart Riggall

A Grammy Award-winning gospel singer locked in a contract fight with his record label urged a Georgia federal judge Tuesday to reject the label's attempt to shut down the impending release of a solo track, arguing that halting his work could allow his career to "die on the vine."

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Sinclair To Pay $175K For Lost Texts In Price-Fixing MDL

By Emily Sawicki

A Chicago federal judge has approved a joint stipulation by which Sinclair Broadcast Group agreed to pay $175,000 after it was sanctioned for failing to preserve text message data from more than 50 company-issued cellphones amid discovery in multidistrict litigation over an alleged unlawful price-fixing scheme.

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9th Circ. Seems Reluctant To Keep Netflix Bias Case In Court

By Vin Gurrieri

The Ninth Circuit zeroed in on timing Wednesday as a former Netflix worker pushed to keep her sexual harassment suit out of arbitration, appearing sympathetic to the streaming company's argument that her dispute began before a law banning mandatory arbitration for sexual harassment claims became effective.

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9th Circ. Reopens Funko Investors' Securities Class Action

By Ben Adlin

A Ninth Circuit panel Wednesday revived a proposed securities class action against toy-maker Funko Inc. and two former executives, ruling that shareholders sufficiently alleged that some company statements about its handling of millions of dollars of dead inventory were false and misleading.

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Feds Vow New Effort To Protect Privacy Of Epstein's Victims

By Pete Brush

A Manhattan federal judge said Tuesday evening that women abused by Jeffrey Epstein have resolved privacy complaints stemming from the government's release of documents related to the deceased financier's sex crimes, after the victims' lawyers flagged widespread deficiencies.

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Partisan Permit Reform Won't Last In Long Run, Dem Says

By Christopher Cole

A Democratic member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Wednesday called for bipartisan reform of state and local broadband permitting laws, saying a GOP approach that excludes the other side could stymie the legislation.

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Lions Fan Sues Steelers Player, Denies Racial Slur Claims

By Carolyn Muyskens

Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver DK Metcalf has been hit with a lawsuit from a Detroit Lions fan whom he was caught on tape tussling with during a December game, with the fan saying he's been falsely accused of calling Metcalf a racial slur.

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Series

Law School's Missed Lessons: Practicing Resilience

Resilience is a skill acquired through daily practices that focus on learning from missteps, recovering quickly without internalizing defeat and moving forward with intention, says Nicholas Meza at Quarles & Brady.

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Paul Weiss' Karp Steps Back After Epstein Email Revelations

By Hailey Konnath and Aebra Coe

Longtime Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP chair Brad S. Karp has resigned from his leadership role, the firm announced Wednesday, a move that comes after the U.S. Department of Justice released numerous emails between Karp and Jeffrey Epstein.

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Baker McKenzie To Downsize Business Professional Jobs

By Tracey Read

Baker McKenzie, which has a legal services hub in Tampa, Florida, is in the process of downsizing business professionals' jobs, a firm spokesperson confirmed to Law360 Pulse on Wednesday.

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Ex-DLA Piper Partner Aims To Toss Claim He Raped Associate

By Jack Karp

Allegations that an ex-DLA Piper partner raped a former Boston-based associate in Delaware in 2022 should be tossed since the Massachusetts state court the case was filed in has no jurisdiction over the Delaware claim, according to the accused former partner.

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Analysis

Clemency Was 'Broken' Long Before Trump. Can It Be Fixed?

By Phillip Bantz

President Donald Trump has transformed what has historically been a bureaucratic process for seeking federal pardons and commutations into a more freewheeling affair with few clear rules — and no easy solutions for reform, experts say.

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Wachtel Missry Settles Liability In $26M Atty Malpractice Case

By Emily Sawicki

A dispute over who is liable for a former Wachtel Missry LLP partner's alleged exploitation of an elderly client has been settled on the eve of trial, while the Brooklyn federal judge declined to consider recusing himself despite "inadvertently" meeting with the firm's founding partner before the matter was fully put to rest.

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