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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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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Blank Rome Sued Over Breach Allegedly Affecting 57K People

By Steven Lerner

An attorney with Blank Rome LLP was tricked into uploading sensitive files to an external Google Drive account, allegedly exposing private information belonging to more than 57,000 individuals, according to a proposed class action accusing the law firm of inadequate cybersecurity safeguards and delayed breach notification.

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Richards Layton Faces Possible Sanctions Over AI Errors

By Rose Krebs

Richards Layton & Finger PA and one of its attorneys have been directed by the Delaware Court of Chancery to show why they should not be sanctioned for a brief submitted with "hallucinated legal propositions" generated by artificial intelligence and for not taking steps to remediate those errors.

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Partnership Docs Sealed In Clifford Chance Clawback Spat

By Ryan Boysen

A federal judge has sealed the partnership agreements that two ex-Clifford Chance LLP practice group heads who jumped to Sidley Austin LLP included in their lawsuit challenging a nearly $6 million clawback demand, after Clifford Chance claimed the tactics put it at a competitive disadvantage. 

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Murdaugh Fights Clerk's Bid To Ax Jury-Tampering Suit

By Emily Sawicki

A former court clerk found to have interfered in Alex Murdaugh's murder trial cannot escape civil claims over the tampering, the disgraced attorney told a South Carolina federal court, stating in an opposition that the clerk cannot argue her way out of the state Supreme Court's finding that she tampered with the jury.

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DOJ Looks To Block ABA's Trump Adviser Subpoenas

By Jack Karp

The American Bar Association cannot demand documents and deposition testimony from a Trump adviser in its lawsuit over the Trump administration's executive orders targeting law firms, since any communication between a presidential adviser and the chief executive is privileged, the government has told a New York federal court.

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Roc Nation Calls Out Alleged AI Citations In Fat Joe Case Brief

By Andrea Keckley

Roc Nation LLC has told a New York federal judge that plaintiff Terrance Dixon's opposition brief filed in a pending Rule 11 sanctions fight should be struck down in part because it includes what the company alleges are fabricated quotations attributed to real judicial decisions.

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Kasowitz Sued Over College Antisemitism Settlement Fees

By Adrian Cruz

A group of Columbia University students who reached a settlement with the school over alleged antisemitism on campus accused Kasowitz LLP of wrongfully taking over $6 million from the deal and engaging in "self-dealing and misappropriation."

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Split 5th Circ. Backs Bond Hearings For Immigrant Detainees

By Ganesh Setty

The Fifth Circuit has limited its recent decision permitting the federal government to subject unauthorized immigrants to mandatory detention without bond, finding such individuals are still entitled to an eventual bond hearing under their Fifth Amendment due process rights.

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GOP Bill Would Cement DOJ Fraud Division In Federal Law

By Courtney Bublé

A pair of House Republicans are looking to put a congressional stamp of approval on the new fraud division in the U.S. Department of Justice.

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Judge Says No To Amicus On Attorney Privilege In FTC Case

By Nadia Dreid

A defense bar advocacy group will not get a chance to weigh in on the FTC's antitrust case against Amazon over allegations the e-commerce behemoth used attorney-client privilege to hide evidence from discovery after a Washington federal judge declined to hear from the group.

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Nadine Menendez's Attys Rebuked For Medical Disclosures

By Carla Baranauckas

A New York federal judge rebuked Nadine Menendez's attorneys on Monday for publicly filing a request to delay her surrender date that included "extensive intimate details" of her medical condition, calling the disclosure "astonishing" and ordering the parties to refile a redacted version by Wednesday.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court last week handled disputes involving arbitration, corporate control, advancement rights, freeze-out mergers and insolvent company wind-downs.

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