Weil, Goodwin Advise On Fox Corp.'s $22B Roku Deal

By Al Barbarino

Fox Corp.'s legal adviser Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP and Roku Inc.'s counsel Goodwin Procter LLP are guiding a deal for Fox to acquire Roku at a $22 billion valuation, creating one of the largest streaming businesses in the U.S., according to a Monday deal announcement.

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Tyra Banks Sues Netflix For 'False Narrative' In 'Top Model' Doc

By Hailey Konnath

Tyra Banks has filed a defamation suit against Netflix, which she said constructed a "false narrative" in its docuseries about the supermodel's hit television show "America's Next Top Model," including suggesting that a young woman on the show was sexually assaulted and Banks did nothing.

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Carlton Fields Pushes To Be Involved In Miss America Hearing

By Madison Arnold

Carlton Fields pushed back Monday on a request from the CEO of Miss America and companies linked to the pageant to bar a firm attorney from a status conference in their litigation over Miss America's bankruptcy and filed a motion to intervene in the case.

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Judge Tosses XAI Trade Secret Case Against OpenAI

By Ivan Moreno

A California federal judge on Monday dismissed xAI Corp.'s trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI without leave to amend, finding that despite updating its complaint once previously, the company still failed to plausibly allege that OpenAI knowingly obtained or used confidential information from former xAI employees.

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Law Firm Can't Revive Social Media Defamation Suit In NJ

By Jake Maher

A New Jersey state appeals court shot down a law firm's social media defamation suit against a former client on Monday under a state law designed to protect litigants from meritless lawsuits filed to discourage free speech.

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Pulitzer Board Says Trump Suit Should Wait Until Term Ends

By David Minsky

Pulitzer Prize Board members Monday asked a Florida court to pause President Donald Trump's defamation case until the end of his term and reject a request for more time to provide records, arguing he missed an agreed-upon deadline despite receiving multiple extensions due to official duties.

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Bestselling Memoir Author Wants Privacy Suit Tossed

By Y. Peter Kang

Investor Amy Griffin hit back Monday at accusations lodged by a childhood acquaintance that the author "lifted" memories of a middle school sexual assault and used them in her bestselling memoir, "The Tell," telling a California state judge the privacy claims fail under the state's anti-SLAPP law.

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Analysis

No Longer Sidelined, Private Equity Firms Bet Big On Sports

By Chris Villani

With a limited number of major professional sports teams for sale and astronomical valuations leaving a high barrier to entry, experts say college sports and emerging leagues are providing opportunities for private investment, and the rapidly shifting rules are creating compliance challenges for attorneys.

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Justice Alito Asks Texas To Respond To App Store Order Brief

By Spencer Brewer

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Monday asked the Texas attorney general to respond to a bid by a tech industry group and a student advocacy group seeking to reinstate an order blocking a Texas law that requires app store owners to verify users' ages and block minors from downloading apps without parental consent.

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Disney And YouTube Defeat Kids' Data Privacy Suit, For Now

By Craig Clough

A California federal judge on Monday tossed a proposed class action alleging Disney and YouTube allowed advertisers to illegally collect minors' personal information, saying the plaintiffs failed to list any specific videos they viewed that led to the improper collection of their data, but allowed them leave to amend the complaint.

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Pa. School, AI Cos. Sued Over Deepfakes Of Female Students

By Rae Ann Varona

Over a dozen parents and their daughters sued a Pennsylvania private school and several unnamed artificial intelligence companies in federal court Monday, alleging the school sat by as male students used artificial intelligence to generate hundreds of sexually explicit "deepfake" images of at least 59 minor female students.

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Fla. AG Sues TikTok Over Minors' Access, 'Unsafe' Content

By Allison Grande

TikTok is violating Florida's restrictions on social media use and engaging in deceptive business practices by allowing young users unfettered access to the platform and failing to inform consumers about the short-form video app's allegedly addictive nature and "large amounts" of inappropriate content, the state's attorney general alleged in a lawsuit announced Monday.

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DOJ Prepares To Seek Approval For Live Nation Deal

By Matthew Perlman

The U.S. Department of Justice is preparing to seek approval for its controversial midtrial settlement with Live Nation, according to recent court filings, as state enforcers continue pressing for a breakup of the company after a jury found it violated antitrust law.

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Brief

Facebook Users Ask 9th Circ. To Fix Jury Role 'Usurpation'

By Nadia Dreid

The Ninth Circuit must undo a lower court's ruling that killed an antitrust suit brought by Facebook users after the district court judge found the novel theory propping up the suit held no water, the users have said, and that Facebook's parent company cannot defend the lower court's "usurpation of the jury's role."

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Trump Calls Ex-Judges' Bid To Reopen IRS Case 'Baseless'

By Jack McLoone

President Donald Trump pushed back on a group of former federal judges' claim that the settlement closing his $10 billion suit against the IRS was a result of fraud against a Florida federal court, attacking their motion to reopen the suit as "baseless" and legally dubious.

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FCC Says ISP Can Nix Rural Buildout Plan In Arkansas

By Nadia Dreid

Wisper, an internet service provider that has taken over other companies' Connect America Fund projects in the past, received the Federal Communications Commission's permission Monday to ditch some Rural Digital Opportunity Fund obligations of its own in Arkansas.

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'Delete' Cuts Didn't Trigger Public Notice Rules, FCC Says

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission said Monday it did not find enough resistance to a round of deregulatory cuts last fall to justify requiring the agency to provide notice and a chance for the public to weigh in further.

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FCC Urged To Revisit Verizon's $1B Array Spectrum Buy

By Christopher Cole

Multiple groups want the Federal Communications Commission to reconsider its staff decision to approve Verizon's roughly $1 billion purchase of spectrum rights from onetime rival UScellular, questioning why the full commission did not vote on the deal.

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No Need To Speed Up C-Band Deployments, FCC Told

By Nadia Dreid

It's not necessary for the Federal Communications Commission to push companies to deploy in the upper C-band — once it's cleared out — any faster than it did when it opened up the lower C-band in 2020, according to a wireless industry trade group.

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Network Cos. Call For Bill To Expand Broadband On Railroads

By Christopher Cole

High-speed network providers are pressing Congress to advance legislation that would expand broadband along freight railroads by touting the benefits of AI-driven inspections and real-time rail monitoring.

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Ga. Appeals Court Reinstates Six Flags Wrongful Death Suit

By Kelcey Caulder

Six Flags Over Georgia must face a wrongful death action filed by the husband of a former "scare actor" who died when she fell out of a cargo van during Halloween festivities at the park, a Georgia appeals court ruled Monday.

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Feds Say NYT Boat Strike Video Request Risks Security Harm

By Tom Lotshaw

The U.S. Department of Defense told a New York federal judge on Friday it had rightly refused to provide footage from several military strikes on boats in the Pacific and Caribbean to The New York Times to protect national security.

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Meta's AI Deals Test Scope Of China M&A Scrutiny

The Chinese government's recent approval of Meta's purchase of an AI and robotics company, shortly after blocking a similar deal, raises questions about how far China's legal authority extends over foreign companies connected to China, and highlights the regulatory and compliance risks involved in cross-border acquisitions of AI businesses, says Minda Huang at TsingLaw Partners.

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These Firms Secured The Most Damages In The Last 3 Years

By Daniel Moritz-Rabson

Government lawyers had a strong success rate in federal courts over the last three years, but intellectual property litigation saw certain firms secure damage awards worth hundreds of millions of dollars for clients, according to Lex Machina's Law Firms Activity Report 2026 released on Tuesday.

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SCOTUSblog Founder Goldstein Denied Acquittal Or Retrial

By Alison Knezevich

A Maryland federal judge on Tuesday denied SCOTUSblog founder Tom Goldstein's bid for an acquittal or new trial, rejecting his claims that issues with jury instructions and excluded evidence warranted a do-over in his tax evasion and mortgage fraud case.

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Senate Rejects Bid To Block Fast-Track Immigration Appeals

By Courtney Bublé

A Democratic-led Senate resolution that would have blocked a U.S. Department of Justice rule directing its Board of Immigration Appeals to quickly dismiss cases that don't raise "novel" issues failed to pass Tuesday.

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Georgia Atty Disbarred For Terror Threats, Intimidating Judge

By Emily Sawicki

A Georgia criminal defense and personal injury attorney serving a seven-year prison term for threatening and intimidating court personnel, including members of the district attorney's office and a Superior Court judge, was stripped of his state law license on Tuesday.

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Blanche To Go Before Senate Panel July 15

By Courtney Bublé

Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche's nomination hearing is a month away, and the fate of his confirmation is likely in the hands of Sens. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., and John Cornyn, R-Texas.

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Brazil Says Justice Is Immune From Trump Media's Suit

By Carolina Bolado

Brazil asked Monday to intervene and dismiss a suit by President Donald Trump's media company and online video-sharing platform Rumble Inc. against a Brazilian Supreme Federal Court justice's gag orders, saying the suit cannot overcome immunity under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act.

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Oral Arguments In Comey, James Appeal Set For September

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

The Fourth Circuit has scheduled in-person oral arguments for the Trump administration's appeal of the dismissals of indictments against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James for Sept. 15-18.

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