Westlaw AI Fight Warrants Full Court Review, 3rd Circ. Told

By Theresa Schliep

Ross Intelligence urged the full Third Circuit to revisit a copyright decision concluding that it wasn't protected by fair use when it trained its artificial intelligence legal research platform on Thomson Reuters' Westlaw headnotes, arguing that "at every turn, the panel asked the wrong question."

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Anthropic And CEO Beat Lyric Infringement Claims, For Now

By Dorothy Atkins

A California federal judge on Wednesday tossed music publishers' claims against artificial intelligence behemoth Anthropic and its CEO Dario Amodei alleging they ripped off lyrics from over 20,000 songs, but said the publishers can amend their complaint and try again.

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5th Circ. Backs 'Geek Therapy' Co. In Roleplay Game IP Battle

By Adam Lidgett

The Fifth Circuit on Wednesday sided with a "geek therapy" company in a suit claiming it infringed the intellectual property rights of a role-playing game developer after their partnership soured, saying a licensing agreement allowed the company to use the content of the game.

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Goldstein Ordered To Pay Trimmed $1M Forfeiture

By Nadia Dreid

Former SCOTUSblog publisher Tom Goldstein was hit with a $1 million forfeiture order Wednesday by a Maryland federal judge in the wake of his tax and mortgage fraud trial, where the appellate advocate was convicted on a dozen charges.

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Gov't To Probe Sky's £1.6B ITV Buy Over Public Interest

By Najiyya Budaly

The culture secretary said Wednesday that she will intervene in Sky Group's proposed £1.6 billion ($2.2 billion) purchase of the broadcast and streaming division of ITV to safeguard media plurality in the U.K.

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MVP: Gibson Dunn's Ted Boutrous

By Theresa Schliep

Ted Boutrous of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP worked numerous high-profile cases involving the media and public figures this year, including The New York Times in its challenge to the Pentagon's restrictions on journalists and NPR in its funding fight, earning him a spot as one of the 2026 Law360 Media & Entertainment MVPs.

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Sony Must Face Trimmed Suit Over Smart TV Data Collection

By Allison Grande

A California federal judge has tossed the bulk of a proposed class action accusing Sony of collecting and selling smart TV users' viewing data without consent, finding that the plaintiffs had failed to adequately plead more than a dozen wiretap and privacy allegations while leaving two common law claims intact.

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Brief

State AGs Tell Congress $17B Meta Deal Didn't Go Far Enough

By David Aaro

A bipartisan coalition that includes nearly every state attorney general is urging Congress to pass legislation designed to further improve online protections for minors, just two months after a $17 billion multistate settlement was reached with Meta.

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Brands Urge 5th Circ. Not To Revive X's Ad Boycott Suit

By Matthew Perlman

Mars, CVS, Nestlé and other brands have told the Fifth Circuit a lower court was right to toss X Corp.'s advertising boycott case, arguing the social media platform sued only because it lost customers to competitors after being acquired by Elon Musk.

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Turner Sports, Ex-HR Director Reach Deal In Severance Suit

By David Aaro

A one-time Warner Bros. subsidiary has struck a deal to end a race bias suit from a former human resources director who claimed she was denied severance benefits after she quit following Discovery Inc. and WarnerMedia's 2022 merger, according to a Georgia federal court filing.

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Meta Share Plan Fight Gets January Injunction Hearing

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court ruled Wednesday that stockholders challenging Meta Platforms Inc.'s plan to create nonvoting shares will get a preliminary injunction hearing in early January, rejecting the company's push for a full trial before the transaction takes effect Jan. 19, 2027.

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Strand Bookstore To Pay $1.5 Million Over Improper PPP Loan

By Katryna Perera

New York's Strand Bookstore has agreed to pay nearly $1.5 million to resolve claims that it improperly applied for and received a Paycheck Protection Program loan that it was not eligible for, while under the control of the wife of U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore.

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Feds' Prop Bet Case Based On Lies, MLB Pitchers Tell Jury

By Stewart Bishop

A pair of Cleveland Guardians pitchers accused of feeding inside information about their planned gameplay to allied prop bettors laid bare their central defense to jurors on Wednesday, saying the government's case rests on a deceptive cooperator who may not even take the stand, but who has admitted to deceiving other members of the purported conspiracy.

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Fake Sony Agent Who Stole $1M Gets 6½ Years In Prison

By Pete Brush

A New York federal judge sentenced a film production worker from Brooklyn with a lengthy criminal history to 6.5 years in prison Wednesday, after he admitted posing as a sports and music agent from Sony and taking $1 million from victims.

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AT&T Seeks OK To Suspend LA Services Amid Copper Theft

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

AT&T has asked the Federal Communications Commission to again extend its emergency authorization to suspend phone services in parts of Los Angeles amid "repeated and pervasive" copper theft and vandalism incidents.

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SpaceX Says Data Shows Need To Sunset High-Cost Program

By Christopher Cole

SpaceX has urged a Federal Communications Commission member to consider a phaseout of a high-cost program that serves rural areas, pointing to new data it says shows increasing overlap between subsidized and competing services.

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NM Broadband Officials Say State Still Needs E-Rate

By Nadia Dreid

As the Federal Communications Commission considers the future of the E-Rate program, which subsidizes the cost of internet for schools and libraries, including whether to sunset it entirely, New Mexico has told the agency that ending the program would be a mistake.

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Zula Casino Gambling Suit Returned To Georgia State Court

By Kelcey Caulder

A Georgia federal judge has remanded a lawsuit filed against the operator of Zula Casino alleging illegal gambling to state court, finding an arbitration clause in Zula's terms and conditions does not confer federal court jurisdiction.

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Opinion

The Invisible AI Danger That May Undermine Legal Profession

A public database tracking cases involving hallucinations generated by artificial intelligence recently surpassed 2,200 entries, but the bigger risk underlying attorneys’ use of such tools is that they will slowly surrender their judgment to AI and lose analytical skills, says Massachusetts District Court Associate Justice Brian Palmucci.

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Gibson Dunn Set To Bring On 120 Lawyers From Weil

By Daniel Moritz-Rabson and Marialuisa Taddia

Gibson Dunn is set to hire the U.S. and London-based private funds teams from Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, bringing on 120 attorneys in the largest group move reported since Weil's management committee recommended last week that the firm wind down operations.

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Analysis

Midterm Dem Wins To Scramble Lit Funding Legislative Efforts

By Ryan Boysen

Litigation funders can rest easy, for now, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce will need to rethink its approach after last night's midterm elections saw Democrats rout Republicans, scrambling a yearslong effort for federal regulation of litigation finance that's so far relied on Republicans.

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State AG Race Wins Set To Give Dems Control Of Most Offices

By Madison Arnold

Democrats are poised to oversee a majority of state attorneys general offices around the country after Tuesday's elections saw the party hang on to all of its existing seats and flip control of five offices from the Republicans, according to unofficial election results.

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Analysis

Attys Ensure Voters' 'Right To Be Heard' In Midterm Elections

By James Boyle and Lynn LaRowe

From BigLaw attorneys and solo practitioners to university professors, thousands of attorney volunteers turned out for Tuesday's midterm elections to ensure American voters' ballots would be counted.

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DOJ Says Epshteyn Will Answer ABA Service Motion

By Jared Foretek

Trump advisor Boris Epshteyn will answer for himself why he has allegedly been evading subpoenas in the American Bar Association's legal challenge to the administration's law firm targeting campaign, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Wednesday.

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Holland & Hart Cost Ex-Client $23M Stake In Co., Suit Says

By Zach Dupont

Holland & Hart LLP and two of its attorneys were accused of malpractice in Colorado state court Tuesday by a former client who claims the attorneys failed to inform her that a wealth transfer plan with her then-husband left her iced out of the couple's most valuable asset.

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DOJ Accused Of Unlawfully Ending Crime Victim Agreement

By Tom Lotshaw

The National Crime Victim Law Institute has accused the U.S. Department of Justice in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims of unlawfully terminating a $500,000 cooperative agreement aimed at strengthening legal support for disabled crime victims in the wake of an executive order against diversity, equity and inclusion programs.

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Former DOJ Officials See Mixed Results In Midterm Races

By Chris Villani

The 2026 midterm elections included bids for office by several former U.S. Department of Justice officials and nominees for the federal bench, with one race a dead heat and several others decided as of early Wednesday.

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