Salt-N-Pepa Can't Keep Pushing Copyright Fight, Judge Says

By Elliot Weld

A New York federal judge on Thursday dismissed a case brought by Salt-N-Pepa seeking the copyrights for several of the hip-hop group's most popular songs against UMG Recordings Inc., saying none of the relevant agreements between the parties indicate that the group ever owned the copyrights at issue.

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OpenAI Fights Authors' Demand For Info On $1B Disney Deal

By Bonnie Eslinger

OpenAI urged a New York federal judge Thursday to reject a request from authors for details of its newly struck $1 billion licensing agreement with Disney, saying the terms are irrelevant to claims that the company unlawfully used the authors' copyrighted works, because the deal doesn't involve textual works.

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Ex-Child Pop Artist Sues Management Co. Alleging Sex Assault

By Mike Curley

A former child singer who released Christian pop albums is suing her former manager and agency, alleging that she was groomed and sexually assaulted as a teen and that the agency covered it up and allowed the abuse to happen.

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MLB.tv Gets Fans' Facebook Data-Sharing Suits Thrown Out

By David Steele

Subscribers to Major League Baseball's video streaming service could not support their claim that their personal data was knowingly and illegally shared with Meta, a New York federal judge has ruled, dismissing a trio of proposed class actions.

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X Users Can't Revive Suit Over Use Of Data For Marketing

By Craig Clough

A California appellate panel affirmed the dismissal of a putative class action Wednesday against the social media company X, alleging it misrepresented how it would use the personal contact data of its users, finding the terms of service did allow phone numbers and emails to be implemented for advertising or marketing purposes.

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Ga. Rapper Hit With $40M Judgment Over Pimping Charges

By Chart Riggall

An Atlanta rapper and convicted sex offender was hit with a $40 million default judgment Wednesday at the request of an Indiana woman who said she was sexually trafficked by him and assaulted hundreds of times.

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Yankees Slugger Wins TM Battle Over 'Judge' Slogans

By Alex Lawson

The Federal Circuit has blocked a Long Island man from registering trademarks for judicial-themed slogans that had already been used by New York Yankees star Aaron Judge, upholding a Trademark Trial and Appeal Board decision in the slugger's favor.

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Experian Can't Nix Claim Tapad Unit Illegally Tracks Data

By Rae Ann Varona

A California federal judge has denied Experian Data Corp.'s bid to escape a proposed class action accusing it of unlawfully tracking web users' personal information and activity through its Tapad Inc. subsidiary, refusing to dismiss all but one claim a group of California consumers lodged against the data broker.

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Calif. Agency Secures Halt On Data Broker's Info Resales

By Allison Grande

A marketing firm that compiles and redistributes lists of people with serious health conditions has agreed to pay a $45,000 fine and stop selling California residents' personal information in order to settle the California Privacy Protection Agency's latest enforcement strike against a data broker for failing to register, the agency announced Thursday. 

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Comscore Ducks Antitrust But Not Unfairness Claims, For Now

By Bryan Koenig

Comscore won a partial reprieve from claims that it undermined a would-be box office data rival, with a California federal judge dismissing federal antitrust claims while preserving accusations of unfair competition, false advertising and business interference.

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Amici Back CoStar's Review Bid For Rival's Antitrust Claims

By Isaac Monterose

Technology industry coalition Chamber of Progress and other parties are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to grant commercial real estate information company CoStar's review petition for a Ninth Circuit ruling that revived a business rival's antitrust counterclaims.

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Ill. Judge Trims Revived Salesforce Sex-Trafficking Suit

By Lauraann Wood

A sex-trafficking victim looking to hold software company Salesforce.com Inc. liable for doing business with a company that facilitated such trafficking can pursue the civil liability claim outlined in her revived lawsuit, but her criminal liability claim must stay behind, an Illinois federal judge has ruled.

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Harvey Weinstein In Plea Talks As 3rd NY Trial Looms

By Frank G. Runyeon

A lawyer for Harvey Weinstein said Thursday the former Hollywood movie mogul will consider pleading guilty to a third-degree rape charge after a New York judge denied his bid to toss a separate sexual assault conviction.

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Musk-Owned Co. Freed From Voter Cash Pledge Suit

By P.J. D'Annunzio

A Pennsylvania federal judge has trimmed a proposed class action alleging Elon Musk failed to deliver on cash rewards promised to those who agreed to sign and refer others to sign a petition supporting gun and speech rights in the leadup to the 2024 general election, letting out a company owned by Musk that paid canvassers who recruited voters to sign.

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Satellite Co. Pays $175K To End FCC's Team Telecom Case

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission has agreed in return for a $175,000 payment to end its probe into whether a Luxembourg satellite company violated a national security deal with the U.S. government.

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FCC Waives Call Consent Revocation Rule Until Early 2027

By Nadia Dreid

The Federal Communications Commission has heeded the call of companies asking it to push a deadline for complying with a rule that makes it easier for people to opt out of robotexts, saying Thursday that businesses will have until 2027 to comply.

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FCC's 6 GHz Plan Relies On Geofenced 'Exclusion Zones'

By Christopher Cole

More details emerged Thursday about how the Federal Communications Commission plans to shield existing users from interference as it raises some device power levels in the 6 gigahertz spectrum band.

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AT&T Asks To Keep Extension After LA-Area Copper Theft

By Nadia Dreid

AT&T needs more time before it can be required to provide telecommunications services in Los Angeles again, the telecom behemoth has told the Federal Communications Commission, because it's still struggling to combat a recent rash of copper thefts.

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FCC Updates 'Covered List' To Remove Some Drones

By Nadia Dreid

The Federal Communications Commission announced that it will be pulling from its covered list certain drones and related components that the agency says no longer pose a risk to national security after consultation with the U.S. Department of Defense.

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Production Co. Drops Malpractice Suit Against Vegas Atty

By Emily Sawicki

A Nevada production company has dropped a Georgia state court malpractice suit against a Las Vegas attorney over a botched deal to build a basketball facility in Atlanta, after the two sides reportedly attended alternative dispute resolution.

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Ill. Judge Wary Of Ending Force Suit In Light Of Minn. Shooting

By Celeste Bott

An Illinois federal judge on Thursday appeared hesitant to allow plaintiffs accusing immigration officials of using excessive force against Chicago press and peaceful protesters to voluntarily end their case, saying she had concerns in light of continued enforcement operations in Illinois as well the shooting this week of a woman by an immigration officer in Minneapolis.

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Autonomous AI Attacks Demarcate Shift In Risk Landscape

Anthropic and OpenAI recently disclosed cyberattacks where an artificial intelligence agent was the primary attacker, illustrating immediate implications for corporate governance, contracting and security programs as companies integrate AI with their business systems, say Rahul Mukhi and Melissa Faragasso at Cleary and Brian Lichter at Stroz Friedberg.

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How 11th Circ.'s Zafirov Decision Could Upend Qui Tam Cases

Oral argument before the Eleventh Circuit last month in U.S. ex rel. Zafirov v. Florida Medical Associates suggests that the court may affirm a lower court's opinion that the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act are unconstitutional — which could wreak havoc on pending and future qui tam cases, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.

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Key Trends For Life Sciences Cos. To Watch In 2026

Following a year of drastic change at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, two themes are likely to drive the coming year — a commitment to lowering the cost of drugs and an inherent tension between the priorities of the health agencies and the broader administration, say attorneys at Sheppard Mullin.

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Series

Muay Thai Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Muay Thai kickboxing has taught me that in order to win, one must stick to one's game plan and adapt under pressure, just as when facing challenges by opposing counsel or judges, says Mark Schork at Feldman Shepherd.

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Goldberg Segalla Fights Ex-IP Co-Chair's $4M Arbitration Bid

By Theresa Schliep

An arbitration fight Goldberg Segalla LLP initiated against a former co-chair of its intellectual property group over proceeds from transferred cases spilled into New York state court, where the firm is seeking relief from his counterclaims that it shorted him nearly $4 million in compensation.

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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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UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

By Laura Stewart Liberty

This past week in London has seen a collapsed investment firm revive a $15 million dispute with a hedge fund, major Hollywood studios bring an IP claim against the U.K.'s largest internet providers over illegal streaming, and the Department of Health and Social Care sue the law firm and barrister representing it in a pharma competition damages case.

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Jones Day To Help Restore David Bowie's Old London Home

By Jamie Lennox

Jones Day's charitable foundation will help to restore the childhood home of musical icon David Bowie before it opens to the public in late 2027, the historical trust leading the project said Friday.

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Law Firms Closed 2025 With Continued 'Appetite For Hiring'

By Tracey Read

The legal sector continued to defy hiring expectations in spite of uncertainty in the U.S. economy as 2025 drew to a close.

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Bruce Fein Unauthorized To Represent Maduro, Atty Says

By Rachel Rippetoe

When constitutional lawyer Bruce Fein entered an appearance as counsel for former Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro on Tuesday, it was without having ever spoken to the client, according to a Thursday filing by Maduro's attorney Barry Pollack seeking to remove Fein from the case.

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Calif. Wage Suit Settles Months After Atty Admits To AI Mishap

By Emily Sawicki

A proposed wage and hour class action that drew the legal world's attention in November after the plaintiff's counsel admitted to using a half-dozen artificial intelligence tools to prepare a botched motion has now ended, with a Northern California federal judge granting a joint dismissal following a settlement agreement.

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NJ Justices Nix Atty Registration Fee Hike After Bar Pushback

By Rose Krebs

The New Jersey Supreme Court has rejected a request to raise the annual registration fee for attorneys after the state's bar association complained that a proposed $27 hike for certain attorneys, following prior year increases, was too much at a time when they and their firms face "significantly increasing operational costs."

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New Trade Group Joins Litigation Finance Lobbying Fight

By Ryan Boysen

A new trade group for litigation funders has launched with the aim of enlisting personal injury and mass tort attorneys in a fight against proposed federal laws that it says could threaten the $16 billion litigation finance industry.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

In technology, the increasing use of artificial intelligence by legal departments will be a major concern for general counsel seeking to control costs in the New Year. And in labor matters, the National Labor Relations Board has a new general counsel along with a quorum and is ready to start deciding cases again.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a Ninth Circuit panel affirmed a ruling in which Apple beat claims it illegally blocked third-party access to Apple Watch medical data so it could create rival software.

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Biz Owner's RICO Suit Says 5 Calif. Attys Helped Loot IT Co.

By Daniel Connolly

A business owner has filed a lawsuit this week accusing five attorneys from five different small California law firms of conspiring with his ex-business partner to steal assets from a company the two had jointly owned.

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Ramey Ducks BlackBerry's Sanctions Bid Over 'Frivolous' Suit

By Elliot Weld

Patent attorney Bill Ramey has avoided sanctions requested by BlackBerry Corp. for what the smartphone company called the "frivolous and unreasonable" way he litigated a case brought on behalf of Silent Communications LLC.

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