Willkie Partner Loses Claims Over Conn. Atty's NY Post Tip

By Aaron Keller

A Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP partner and his wife cannot hold a solo practitioner liable for directing a New York Post reporter to an insult-laced affidavit a landlord filed in an underlying lawsuit surrounding the lease of a multimillion-dollar mansion, a Connecticut federal judge has ruled.

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Analysis

Henry Darger's Landlord Saved His Art. But Who Owns It?

By Ivan Moreno

The fate of the extraordinary body of artwork Henry Darger created over decades living alone in a rented Chicago room may depend in part on the meaning of a few words attributed to him shortly before he died in 1973 — a question now scheduled for a federal jury trial in March.

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AI Co. Suno Seeks Toss Of Musicians' Claims It Copies Styles

By Ben Adlin

Artificial intelligence music service Suno Inc. urged a Massachusetts federal judge to throw out a proposed class action accusing the company of copying musicians' identifying attributes, arguing that U.S. copyright law does not protect a musician's artistic style.

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Kroger Seeks To Exit Sony's Influencer Music Copyright Suit

By Adam Lidgett

Grocery chain Kroger and a host of related companies have asked a California federal judge to dismiss Sony Music's suit over influencer ad videos, saying the suit doesn't adequately identify which party was using which recording.

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Princess Diana Dress Designer Sues Over Las Vegas Replica

By Hailey Konnath

The designer of Princess Diana's iconic wedding dress filed copyright infringement claims Monday against the operators of a Las Vegas royals exhibition, claiming that it features an imitation of the dress and of her hand-drawn sketches for the dress without her permission.

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Calif. AG Rob Bonta Wins 2nd Term Over Michael Gates

By Bonnie Eslinger

California voters on Tuesday handed state Attorney General Rob Bonta a decisive reelection win over an Orange County city administrator who briefly served as a U.S. Department of Justice deputy assistant attorney general during the current Trump administration.

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MVP: Davis Wright's Elizabeth McNamara

By Ivan Moreno

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP partner Elizabeth McNamara persuaded a New York federal judge to dismiss President Donald Trump's $50 million copyright lawsuit over journalist Bob Woodward's recorded interviews and fended off defamation claims against several other clients, earning her a spot as one of the 2026 Law360 Media & Entertainment MVPs.

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Squires Grants 4 IPRs, Denies 6 Before Handing Over Power

By Dani Kass

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires on Tuesday instituted four inter partes reviews in what could be the final petitions for which he reviews the merits.

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Judge Removes Boies Schiller As Class Counsel In AI Case

By Elliot Weld

A California federal judge has revoked Boies Schiller Flexner's status as interim class counsel for a group of authors suing Meta with allegations that their works were used without permission to train artificial intelligence, several months after the judge criticized the firm for how long it took to add a contributory infringement claim to the case.

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Brief

Uber, Photographers Cut Deal In Suit Over Uber Eats Photos

By Theresa Schliep

Nearly two dozen photographers have reached a settlement in principle with Uber over claims that the company used their photos on Uber Eats without permission and infringed their copyrights, according to a joint notice the parties filed in Florida federal court Tuesday.

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Online Casino Cos. Look To Duck Mass Arbitration Claims

By Caroline Simson

A trio of offshore entities linked to the WOW Vegas online "social gaming" site sued the American Arbitration Association on Monday, seeking an injunction barring them from being targeted in an ongoing illegal gambling mass arbitration because they never signed an underlying arbitration agreement.

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Justices To Hear Apple App Store Contempt Case In January

By Matthew Perlman

The U.S. Supreme Court has scheduled an argument on Jan. 11 for Apple's challenge to a contempt order issued for allegedly trying to use high commissions to prevent app developers from steering users to outside payment methods in a case brought by Epic Games.

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Apple Gets Sync Streaming App's Antitrust Suit Sent To Calif.

By Rae Ann Varona

A New Jersey federal judge on Tuesday granted Apple Inc.'s bid to transfer a communal streaming app developer's antitrust lawsuit against it to California, saying "court congestion" and "local interest" weigh in favor of moving the case to the Golden State.

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Md. Casino To Pay $150K To End EEOC Disability Bias Suit

By Patrick Hoff

Caesars Entertainment and a Maryland subsidiary will pay $150,000 to settle a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit alleging it unlawfully fired a table dealer after he had a heart attack at work, according to a federal court filing.

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FCC Evaluating Plan To Boost Drones In 3 Spectrum Bands

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

The Federal Communications Commission is evaluating a draft plan to update rules for three spectrum bands to make it easier to deploy drones as well as expand broadband connectivity in aviation.

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Calif. OK With Broadband Rules, But Not Net Neutrality Limits

By Nadia Dreid

California has told the National Telecommunications and Information Administration that it will accept the $1.8 billion it has been allocated under the federal broadband access program, but it doesn't believe that it has to stop enforcing its state consumer protection laws, including the ones related to net neutrality.

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Low-Power Stations Resist Sinclair Call For ATSC Mandate

By Christopher Cole

Low-power stations told the Federal Communications Commission they would stand behind a decision by full-power broadcasters to adopt the next-generation TV transmission standard, but urged the agency not to apply a federal sunset of the older standard to LPTV.

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Challengers Urge FCC To Zero Out Subsidy Fund Fees

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

A conservative litigation group challenging the Universal Service Fund asked the Federal Communications Commission Tuesday to zero out the fees supporting the fund next quarter.

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Brief

Cruz Tees Up Hearing For 3rd FCC Republican

By Christopher Cole

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, on Tuesday announced a confirmation hearing next week for a third Republican nominee to the Federal Communications Commission.

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Patriots Owner In Talks To Settle Stadium License Dispute

By Carolyn Muyskens

The owner of the New England Patriots and the town of Foxborough have told a Massachusetts state judge they are entering talks to potentially resolve a lawsuit over seven-figure fees associated with the National Football League team's home stadium.

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Judge Delays Kennedy Center Ruling Until Friday Briefing

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

A federal judge Tuesday said he was not inclined to rule just yet on a motion to compel documents and other discovery material related to the closure and attempted renaming of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, citing an impending briefing from the government due Friday.

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How Cos. Using AI Agents Can Avoid Protected Data Incidents

For businesses whose deployed artificial intelligence agents could enter other companies' systems and steal protected data, deployers can take several steps before an incident to test the configured agent, such as limiting it to approved systems and destinations and requiring human escalation when tasks stall, says Steven Carlson at von Briesen & Roper.

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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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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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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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