9th Circ. Grants Rare Rehearing In Kat Von D Tattoo Fight

By Ivan Moreno

The Ninth Circuit agreed Tuesday to take the rare step of having a larger panel rehear a copyright dispute over Kat Von D's Miles Davis tattoo, vacating a ruling that upheld the celebrity tattoo artist's trial win.

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Meta AI Order Offers Novel Question For 9th Circ., Authors Say

By Bonnie Eslinger

A group of 13 bestselling authors suing Meta have asked a California federal judge for permission to appeal his decision holding that it was fair for Meta Platforms Inc. to train its artificial intelligence system with their copyrighted material without consent, saying there's already been divergent rulings on the novel question.

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Challengers Of Trump's 'Slush Fund' Want Proof Plan Is Dead

By Lauren Berg

Plaintiffs challenging what they call President Donald Trump's proposed $1.8 billion "slush fund" in Virginia and Washington, D.C., federal court on Tuesday expressed doubt that the administration's plan to pay victims of "lawfare and weaponization" is truly "not moving forward" as the acting attorney general has claimed.

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Trump Blames Sealing Order For Missed Deadline In BBC Suit

By Madison Arnold

President Donald Trump has asked a Florida federal judge overseeing his $10 billion defamation suit against the British Broadcasting Corp. to not consider the news network's motion to dismiss as unopposed after his attorneys missed a filing deadline.

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Anthropic, Other Tech Giants Get Authors' Copyright Suit Split

By Lauren Berg

A group of writers, including Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist John Carreyrou, will have to pursue their claims of copyright infringement against Anthropic, Apple, Google, Perplexity AI, Nvidia and xAI in separate lawsuits, a California federal judge ruled, siding with the tech giants.

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Paramount's $110B Deal For Warner Bros. Faces UK Probe

By Dawood Fakhir

Britain's competition watchdog said Tuesday that it has launched a formal probe into Paramount Skydance's $110 billion deal to buy Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. after it sought initial views on the acquisition in April.

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The Law360 400: A Look At The Top 100 Firms

By Xiumei Dong

The race to build the legal industry's largest law firm accelerated in 2025, with major firms leaning on mergers, lateral hiring and strategic expansion to climb the ranks of the Law360 400.

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House Clears Bill Letting President Approve Copyright Chief

By Elliot Weld

A bill that would alter how the director of the U.S. Copyright Office is selected by requiring Congress to recommend candidates and give the president the final say passed the U.S. House of Representatives.

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Google Gets New Chance To Defend IP In Sonos PTAB Dispute

By Adam Lidgett

The Federal Circuit on Tuesday reversed the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's invalidation of claims in a pair of Google's voice command patents challenged by Sonos after the speaker company was accused of infringement.

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Amazon Settles Fight Over DivX Patent Ahead Of Trial

By Craig Clough

Video technology company DivX and Amazon told a Virginia federal judge Tuesday they reached a settlement in a suit accusing Amazon of infringing an encrypted video playback patent and asked the court to stay a jury trial set for later this month.

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Microsoft Looks To Ax 3D Artist's Copyright Info AI Suit

By Ben Adlin

Microsoft Corp. urged a Washington federal court to throw out a Los Angeles-based 3D artist's proposed class action under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, saying the artist failed to allege that the company ever removed copyright information from his content or shared his copyright-protected works.

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Nightclub Urges Court To Toss Models' Suit Over Ad Photos

By Rachel Konieczny

A Denver nightclub is urging a Colorado federal judge to toss a lawsuit from nine models who claim it used their photos for advertising without their consent, arguing that they failed to identify themselves in the images at issue and that some of their claims are time-barred.

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OnlyFans Users Ask 9th Circ. To Revive Calif. Auto-Renew Suit

By Dorothy Atkins

OnlyFans subscribers on Tuesday urged the Ninth Circuit to revive a proposed class action alleging unlawful subscription auto-renewals, arguing California courts have jurisdiction over the platform's U.K. parent company because it auto-renews thousands of Golden State subscriptions and generates $400 million from the state annually.

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Arby's Owner Must Face Trimmed Data Tracking Opt-Out Suit

By Gina Kim

A California federal judge on Monday trimmed some privacy claims in a suit alleging Arby's', Jimmy John's', Dunkin's and Sonic's website cookie banners falsely promise to remove trackers but allowed the plaintiffs' fraud claims to proceed, finding it's enough for them to plead they declined cookies but were tracked anyway.

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Hospital Rating Group Calls $10.5M Fee Bid 'Unreasonable'

By Carolina Bolado

The Leapfrog Group said Tenet Healthcare Corp.'s community hospitals "gratuitously overstaffed" their deceptive trade practices case against the hospital ratings nonprofit and urged a Florida federal court to deny or "massively reduce" Tenet's $10.5 million request for fees.

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House Report Says NFL Misused Sports Antitrust Exemption

By Courtney Bublé

The National Football League has stretched its use of the antitrust exemption beyond what Congress intended when lawmakers created it 65 years ago, according to a new report from the House Judiciary Committee.

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BOTS Act Judge Reverses, Tosses Challenge To FTC Case

By Bryan Koenig

A Maryland federal judge reversed course Tuesday and dismissed a preemptive lawsuit challenging one of the Federal Trade Commission's first online ticketing cases, concluding the ticket resellers can raise their constitutional arguments in addressing the FTC's allegations rather than pursuing a separate suit of their own.

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DOJ Says Timing, Lack Of Injury Doom TikTok Deal Challenge

By Jared Foretek

The U.S. Department of Justice has urged the D.C. Circuit to toss a challenge to the Trump administration's approval of TikTok's sale to American investors, arguing the engineers seeking to stop the deal filed their challenge too late and lack standing.

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Trading Card Grading Company Wants Antitrust Case Tossed

By Matthew Perlman

Collectors Holdings Inc. is looking to toss a proposed class action over its purchase of two rival trading card grading companies, telling a California federal court that the acquisitions were made to meet demand, not maintain a monopoly.

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DOJ Pushes For Dismissal Of NJ Mayor's False Arrest Suit

By Jake Maher

The U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday told a New Jersey federal court that government officials are protected by various immunity doctrines from a suit from Newark Mayor Ras Baraka over his alleged unjust arrest while visiting an ICE facility.

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FCC Looks To Spur Submarine Cables With New Security Reg

By Nadia Dreid

The Federal Communications Commission will start presuming that submarine cable applications that meet certain qualifications don't have to be referred to the executive branch for national security reviews, if the agency votes yes later this month on the order it'll have before it.

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Emergency Alert Systems Set For FCC Cybersecurity Revamp

By Christopher Cole

The nation's emergency alert services would see cybersecurity upgrades under a new plan put forward this month at the Federal Communications Commission.

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Mayors Rally To Fight Permit 'Shot Clocks,' This Time At FCC

By Christopher Cole

U.S. mayors are back fighting proposals to impose strict deadlines on local reviews of broadband projects, but this time their focus is not just on Capitol Hill but on the Federal Communications Commission.

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A Look At The Court's Next Steps In Live Nation Antitrust Case

Following a recent jury verdict that Live Nation and Ticketmaster operated as a monopoly to fix ticket prices, a New York federal court stands to weigh Live Nation's bid for a new trial, approve the U.S. Department of Justice's March settlement with the defendants, and impose remedies that include full structural separation, say attorneys at Crowell.

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Checking For AI Errors Is Now A Two-Way Street

A handful of recent federal and state cases demonstrate the importance of checking for errors generated by artificial intelligence not only in your own court submissions, but also your opponent's, as well as when catching opposing counsel's AI mistakes could result in an award for attorney fees, says Tamara Barago at Hollingsworth.

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Trial Boutiques Roll Out Associate Pay Raises

By Andrea Keckley

Three trial boutiques are planning to bump associate salaries by at least $10,000 next month, the firms confirmed to Law360 Pulse Tuesday.

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Burford Sees Growing Market For Stakes In Elite Firms

By Marialuisa Taddia

Burford Capital plans to step up minority equity investments in elite law firms in the U.K. and U.S. that already use its litigation finance, as investor appetite for law firm equity increases, the firm's new London-based chief operating officer told Law360.

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Fox Rothschild Sued Over Data Breach Tied To Ransom Group

By Allison Grande

Fox Rothschild LLP was hit with a proposed class action in Pennsylvania federal court Tuesday accusing the national law firm of failing to adequately protect the "highly sensitive and confidential" personal data entrusted to it from being exposed to a prominent ransomware group in a data breach last month. 

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All Attys In Miss. Suit DQd For Back-To-Back-To-Back AI Flubs

By Emily Sawicki

A Mississippi federal judge who found herself in the "unusual scenario" of reviewing briefs with artificial intelligence-created errors filed by both parties in a lawyer's fee dispute against a Magnolia State municipality has terminated all four attorneys from the case.

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Next ABA International Ethics Chair Looks To Year Ahead

By Emily Sawicki

Rob Misey, incoming chair of the American Bar Association's International Ethics Committee, brings a passion for international dialogue to his new role, set to begin in September. Misey discussed his goals of initiating ethics conversations throughout the ABA and with counterparts overseas.

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Fed. Circ. 'Recalibrates' Analysis For Constitutional Standing

By Dani Kass

The Federal Circuit eased the line between constitutional and statutory standing last month when reviving A.L.M. Holding Co.'s infringement suit against Zydex Industries Private Ltd., in a decision attorneys say makes standing more accessible and clarifies how patent licensors can maintain their rights.

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5 Firms Barred From Handling NFL Parkinson's Claims

By P.J. D'Annunzio

Five law firms have been disqualified from representing claimants seeking NFL concussion settlement funds for running a scheme that "laundered" questionable Parkinson's disease claims through the system to obtain $95 million, including $20 million in fees, a special masters' report issued Monday says.

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Pa. Law Firm Calls Uber and FedEx's RICO Suit A 'Sham'

By James Boyle

Nearly a month after its motion to dismiss a RICO suit filed by Uber and FedEx was denied by a Philadelphia federal judge, personal injury firm Simon & Simon PC has lodged a counterclaim against the companies, saying their complaint is a "frivolous sham."

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Senate Confirms Longtime Kan. Prosecutor, KBI Chief To Bench

By Courtney Bublé

The Senate voted 51-46, along party lines, on Tuesday to confirm Tony Mattivi, director of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, to serve on the bench in the District of Kansas.

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