Analysis

The Firms That Won Big At The Supreme Court

By Jack Karp

This U.S. Supreme Court term featured high-stakes oral arguments on issues including presidential power, immigration and voting regulations. Here's a look at the law firms that argued the most cases and how they fared.

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Breaking Down The Vote: The High Court Term In Review

By Jack Karp

The U.S. Supreme Court's stark ideological divisions were on full display this term, particularly as it issued long-awaited rulings in the last few days of June. Here, Law360 dives into the numbers behind this court term.

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The Year Donald Trump Won Big At The High Court

By Katie Buehler

The Supreme Court's conservative supermajority and President Donald Trump largely aligned this year on issues of executive power, resulting in a series of decisions that significantly expanded presidential authority.

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The Sharpest Dissents From The Supreme Court Term

By Cara Bayles

The sharpest dissents this term often involved the president, and pitted conservative and liberal justices against each other on core constitutional issues and questions about the limits to executive power, with nearly a quarter of cases being decided squarely along ideological lines.

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Cox, Hikma Rulings Set Stage For Trademark Liability Fights

By Ivan Moreno

After the U.S. Supreme Court narrowed paths to secondary liability in copyright and patent cases this term, trademark law stands apart with an older, potentially broader rule for when intermediaries can be held liable for another party's infringement.

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Amicus Briefs Split On 9th Circ. Copyright Test In Tattoo Case

By Ivan Moreno

Music labels, writers, photographers and copyright scholars are urging the Ninth Circuit to use the en banc rehearing in Kat Von D's Miles Davis tattoo fight to rework its substantial similarity test, though their amicus briefs are split over whether the court should discard the test entirely or refine it.

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Fla. Judge Ends Trump's $2.78B Suit Against WaPo

By Carolina Bolado

A Florida federal judge ended President Donald Trump's $2.78 billion defamation suit against The Washington Post after finding that there was no evidence showing the newspaper acted with malice.

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Bad Bunny, Others Can't Ditch Suit Over Reggaeton's Origins

By Hailey Konnath

A California federal judge on Thursday refused to end a sprawling copyright case over the origin of the rhythm that underpins much of reggaeton music, rejecting dueling motions for summary judgment from both sides and finding that there are material factual disputes that must be resolved by a jury.

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Streamer's Reaction Video Is Fair Use, Judge Finds

By Adam Lidgett

A Central California federal judge has tossed a YouTube creator's copyright suit over a Twitch streamer's livestreamed reaction to a YouTube documentary, saying the commentary counted as fair use.

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Revised Suit Against Erika Girardi's Attorney Tossed

By Adrian Cruz

A Florida federal judge once again dismissed a clothing company's abuse of process suit against an attorney of "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" star Erika Girardi, determining Thursday it was a "shotgun pleading" for the second time in less than a year.

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Meta Hit With Textbook Authors' IP Suit Over AI Training

By Lauren Berg

Meta Platforms Inc. was hit with a proposed class action Thursday in California federal court accusing it of feeding copyrighted textbooks into its Llama large language model to train the artificial intelligence product without getting permission from or compensating the textbooks' authors.

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Fed. Circ. Wants More Analysis In Amazon Transcribing IP Suit

By Theresa Schliep

The Federal Circuit on Thursday said a lower court needed to revisit a claim construction issue in an infringement case against Amazon over audio transcription patents, saying the question of whether the relevant claims were in the means-plus-function format needs a more thorough analysis.

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Netflix Says 'Exceptional Misconduct' Merits $3M In Atty Fees

By Bonnie Eslinger

Netflix urged a California federal judge on Thursday to order a Finnish national and his former Ramey LLP attorney to pay $3 million in legal fees due to "exceptional misconduct" and "fraud," saying both knew the plaintiff didn't own an asserted patent and so lacked standing to sue.

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Apple Says YouTube AI Scraping Suit Fails Under DMCA

By Nadia Dreid

Apple Inc. is coming out swinging against a proposed class action brought by a group of YouTube creators accusing it of violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act by scraping millions of copyrighted videos to train large language model products, telling the California federal court that the creators are suing under the wrong part of the law.

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Ticketmaster Can't Shield Breach Probe In Snowflake MDL

By Allison Grande

A Montana federal judge overseeing multidistrict litigation over a data breach at cloud storage provider Snowflake ordered Ticketmaster, one of its affected clients, to turn over materials about its post-breach investigation and cybersecurity spending, while hitting the ticketing giant with $5,000 in sanctions for "discovery abuses" related to these requests. 

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Minn. Judge Won't Let Cypriot Gaming Co. Force Arbitration

By Caroline Simson

A Minnesota federal judge has denied a request by the Cypriot operator of the online "social gaming" site Stake to force a proposed illegal gambling class action into arbitration, saying it still isn't clear whether the terms and conditions containing an underlying arbitration agreement are valid.

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Kaiser Nears Final OK On $46M Deal Over Patient Data Share

By Craig Clough

A California federal judge said he will grant final approval of a $46 million settlement to resolve claims by 13.1 million Kaiser Permanente patients who say the healthcare provider disclosed their information to Google and other third parties without consent once he decides how to allocate the attorney fees.

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Lucky Strike Aims To Knock Down Bowlers' Antitrust Lawsuit

By Ben Adlin

Lucky Strike urged a Washington federal court Wednesday to throw out a proposed class action from customers who claim the bowling giant acted anticompetitively to monopolize markets across the U.S. and drive up prices, saying the suit rests solely on "the bare allegation that it acquired bowling centers."

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Ex-Wolverines Coach Wins Bid To Suppress Digital Evidence

By Melanie Dorsey

A Michigan federal judge has suppressed evidence recovered from multiple computers, phones and storage devices seized from a former University of Michigan assistant football coach accused of hacking into female college students' accounts, finding state search warrants authorizing sweeping forensic searches violated the Fourth Amendment.

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FCC Says OK To T-Mobile-Grain Mgt. Spectrum Swap

By Nadia Dreid

Mobile behemoth T-Mobile and broadband services company Grain Management have received the green light from the Federal Communications Commission to swap certain spectrum holdings each has that the other wants.

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DC Circ. Told FCC Trying To 'Evade' News Distortion Scrutiny

By Christopher Cole

A media advocacy group Thursday again pushed its bid to convince the D.C. Circuit to force the Federal Communications Commission to revisit the agency's controversial news distortion policy.

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Calif. Lawmakers OK Extending Tax Credits For Job Creation

By Zak Kostro

California would extend by five years a tax credit program for businesses that agree to hire workers and invest in the state under budget-related legislation approved by state lawmakers and sent to Gov. Gavin Newsom.

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Series

Choral Singing Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Singing in the New York City Bar Chorus — a hobby partly inspired by the late U.S. District Judge Richard Owen, who infused my clerkship year with opera music — has improved my legal career by refining my abilities to listen, exude confidence and develop emotional intelligence, says Bonnie Baker at Friedman Kaplan.

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Legal Sector Jobs Spike With Work 'Churning Right Along'

By Aebra Coe

The legal sector added 5,100 jobs in June, the largest increase the industry has seen in more than two years, according to preliminary, seasonally adjusted data released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics on Thursday.

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Push And Pull: How High Court Shaped Civil Rights This Term

By Marco Poggio

The U.S. Supreme Court delivered far-reaching rulings on civil rights issues this term, dealing a major blow to federal voting-rights protections while expanding gun rights, upholding restrictions on transgender athletes' participation in women's sports and preserving birthright citizenship.

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'Embarrassed' Conn. Atty Details ChatGPT Briefing Errors

By Aaron Keller

With a sanctions hearing on the horizon, a Connecticut attorney has told the state's highest court he is "extremely embarrassed" by artificial intelligence errors in briefs filed in two recently decided cases, explaining he used ChatGPT to edit his research without knowing it could make "unprompted changes to the content."

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Feds Seek Up To 21 Months For Ex-Judge On ICE Obstruction

By Elizabeth Daley

A former Wisconsin judge who was convicted of obstructing ICE officers' courthouse arrest of a man facing misdemeanor charges by pointing him to a side door should spend up to 21 months in prison, the government said in a sentencing memo, recommending she be made an example.

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Del. Magistrate Orders JPMorgan To Advance Javice Fees

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court ruled that JPMorgan Chase & Co. must advance millions more in disputed legal fees to cover the appeal of the convicted founder of college financial aid startup Frank, concluding the bank failed to meet Delaware's demanding standard for withholding advancement by showing the billing requests reflected "clear abuse."

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Judges To Tour Rust Belt To Build Trust In Courts

By James Boyle

Days after the Fourth of July celebration of America's 250th birthday, a group of current and retired judges will lead a four-day bus tour through three states to promote one of the bedrock principles of the country's independence: the rule of law.

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Mass Tort Titan Paul J. Napoli Dies

By Daniel Moritz-Rabson

Paul J. Napoli, an influential plaintiffs attorney who worked on some of the nation's highest-profile mass tort matters in recent decades, died on Tuesday at the age of 58.

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'Trailblazer' Mass. Federal Judge Rya Zobel Dies At 94

By Chris Villani

U.S. District Judge Rya Zobel, a survivor of Nazi Germany who became the first woman to serve as a federal judge in Massachusetts and the first woman partner at Goodwin Procter, died Saturday at age 94, the court's judges announced.

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Nadine Menendez Irks Judge With 11th-Hour Prison Delay Bid

By Rae Ann Varona

Nadine Menendez urged a New York federal judge Thursday to delay her prison surrender date four months to accommodate breast cancer-related surgeries, to which the judge ordered Menendez explain why her request came "90 minutes" before the Fourth of July long weekend and just days before her surrender date.

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Sports And Real Estate: A Special Report

By Real Estate Authority Staff

Nowadays, professional sports are as deeply woven into the real estate and legal industries as they are into American culture. In this special report, Law360 Real Estate Authority examines the most recent interplay between sports and real estate development, the policies and litigation accompanying it, and the vast legal work guiding it.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week 

By Sue Reisinger

Amid the changes coming for general counsel, the policies and enforcement priorities of federal regulators may fluctuate more rapidly after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last week that could dramatically remake independent government agencies. And the EEOC rescinded affirmative action documents that have guided employers for decades.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

The American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, the Asian Law Caucus and the Democracy Defenders Fund lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected President Donald Trump's bid to limit birthright citizenship.

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In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Law360

For those who missed out, here's a look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the most buzz on Law360 last week.

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