Analysis

No Slowdown: A Midyear Look At FDA Ad Enforcement

By Dan McKay

An FDA drug ad enforcement surge that began last year continued in the first half of 2026. Experts say the agency is looking hard at the overall impression an ad makes, including in broad emotional appeals to consumers.

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3rd Circ. Revives Huckabee Likeness Suit Over Meta CBD Ads

By Matthew Santoni

The Third Circuit partly revived former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee's lawsuit against Meta Platforms Inc. over Facebook ads that falsely claimed his endorsement of CBD products, after a panel said he'd noted enough red flags in the ads that Meta could have been aware that his name and likeness were being misused.

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Live Nation Discloses White House Involvement In DOJ Deal

By Bryan Koenig

Live Nation Entertainment Inc. confirmed that the road to its controversial settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice went all the way to the White House in a New York federal court filing that leaves many questions unanswered about a deal Democrats have cast as corrupt and failed to mollify state enforcers.

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Judge Allows Brazil To Join Trump Suit Against Justice

By Carolina Bolado

A Florida federal judge on Tuesday allowed Brazil to intervene in 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 but deferred ruling on Brazil's motion to dismiss the suit.

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9th Circ. Judge Pans Live Nation's 'Unlawful' Arbitration Terms

By Dorothy Atkins

A Ninth Circuit panel on Tuesday expressed doubt about Live Nation's argument that a putative class action seeking refunds for a canceled 2022 festival belongs in arbitration, with one judge calling Live Nation's arguments "puzzling" and another judge saying she's disturbed to see a "blatantly unlawful provision" in its terms.

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Texas Judge Tosses Buzbee Firm's Jay-Z Conspiracy Suits

By Spencer Brewer

A Texas state court has handed a win to Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP and a Mississippi law firm, which sought dismissal of claims that they conspired with Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter to retaliate against Houston personal injury firm The Buzbee Law Firm and two of its former clients.

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Several Democrats Challenge FCC Political Ad Guidance

By Corey Rothauser

Democratic candidates and officeholders, including former Sen. Sherrod Brown, Sen. Jon Ossoff, former North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper and Rep. Kristen McDonald Rivet, have asked the Fourth Circuit to strike down Federal Communications Commission guidance they say unlawfully expands discounted political advertising rates to party committees and joint fundraising groups.

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DC Judge Will Take Gov't 'At Its Word' Trump's Fund Is Dead

By Lauren Berg

A Washington, D.C., federal judge Tuesday declined to issue a preliminary injunction blocking the Trump administration's proposed $1.8 billion "lawfare" fund, saying he "must take the government at its word" that the fund is truly dead.

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Vimeo Owner Bending Spoons Launches Plans For $1.6B IPO

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Italian mobile app developer Bending Spoons has unveiled terms for an estimated $1.6 billion initial public offering steered by Latham & Watkins LLP and Milbank LLP.

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Media Alliance Seeks Say In Charter, Cox Merger In Calif.

By Nadia Dreid

Cox Communications and Charter Communications Inc. have asked the California Public Utilities Commission to kibosh a media advocacy group's petition seeking conditions on their $34.5 billion merger, but the media organization is asking the commission to ignore that request.

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MGA Owes Rapper T.I. $125M In Punitive Damages, Jury Told

By Gina Kim

Counsel for Tameka Harris and rapper T.I. kicked off a fourth trial in California federal court over the couple's intellectual property suit against MGA Entertainment, arguing that a previous jury found that MGA stole the likeness of the hip-hop moguls' girl group and that this jury should now award up to $125 million in punitive damages.

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Meta Fights Authors' Bid For Quick Appeal In AI Training Case

By Elliot Weld

Meta Platforms Inc. urged a California federal judge on Monday to reject a bid by 13 authors to appeal his ruling that the company's use of their copyrighted works to train its Llama large language models was fair use, arguing the decision was not a novel legal question warranting appellate review.

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Nvidia Seeks To Toss 3D Artist's 'Copycat' Copyright AI Suit

By Bonnie Eslinger

Nvidia Corp. urged a California federal court to throw out a Los Angeles-based 3D artist's proposed class action claiming violations of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, saying the way Nvidia's artificial intelligence models are trained and used puts the company outside the scope of the federal copyright law.

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Paramount Urges High Court To Limit Video Privacy Lawsuits

By Allison Grande

Paramount Global is calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to preserve a ruling that only consumers who directly subscribe to audiovisual goods and services can bring lawsuits under the Video Privacy Protection Act, arguing that a more expansive reading would allow plaintiffs to flood the courts and would wrongly "transform" the law into an "unworkable internet-privacy regime."

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WhatsApp Users Fight Uphill To Keep Calif. Privacy Suit Intact

By Bonnie Eslinger

A California federal judge overseeing WhatsApp users' allegations that Meta violated their privacy rights appeared open Tuesday to tossing some of the claims, at least for now, saying the proposed class complaint appears to make fraud claims that need to be backed by particularized allegations.

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Planned Parenthood Sent Patient Data To Google, Suit Says

By Danielle Ferguson

Planned Parenthood and regional affiliates were hit with a proposed class action alleging they use hidden tracking tools on their website and patient portals to transmit sensitive sexual and reproductive health information to third-party companies such as Google and Meta without consent. 

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FCC's Carr Calls Policy Against DEI 'Right Thing To Do'

By Christopher Cole

Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr has told Congress that tanking diversity, equity and inclusion programs across the telecom industry is not only justified but also a policy where Americans find more "common ground" than many lawmakers realize.

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Disney, Netflix Win Texas Cities' Franchise Tax Suit Again

By Spencer Brewer

Streaming services companies including Disney and Netflix have again prevailed against multiple Texas cities accusing them of evading a state franchise tax, with a Texas appeals court reaffirming that the companies do not need to obtain franchise licenses.

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Telecom Biz Sees Robust Competition, Think Tank Says

By Christopher Cole

As the Federal Communications Commission evaluates competition in the telecom sector, a think tank urged the agency not to adopt regulatory policies that treat the market as unfairly skewed toward a few large players.

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Brief

FCC Spectrum Auction Pulls In More Than $3.5B

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission said Tuesday it had raised more than $3.5 billion in gross winning bids in its recent spectrum auction, the first sale of wireless licenses by the federal government in years.

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KKR Unit Unveils Univ. Of Tennessee Mixed-Use Project

By Isaac Monterose

Private equity firm Arctos Partners LP, a KKR unit, and its partners are working with the University of Tennessee, Knoxville on a mixed-use development that will include a private club, homes, a 24-story hotel and an entertainment area spanning 100,000 square feet, the companies announced Tuesday.

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How A Novel NY Law Fits Into The AI Legal Landscape For Ads

An amendment to New York's General Business Law requiring disclosures when advertisements use performers generated by artificial intelligence arrives at a moment of rapid transformation in the marketing ecosystem and indicates that advertisers should take a proactive approach grounded in transparency, contractual protections and alignment across legal and creative teams, say attorneys at Manatt.

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Drawing A Line Between Settlement Pressure And Extortion

U.S. v. Luo, pending in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, may force courts to address anew when settlement negotiations become criminal extortion, particularly in the age of easily fabricated digital evidence, says attorney Denis Kiely.

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The 2026 Lawyer Satisfaction Survey

Lawyers are generally happy being lawyers, but nonequity partners and associates told Law360 Pulse that several aspects of their job leave them feeling dissatisfied. Explore our analysis of these and other findings in the 2026 Law360 Lawyer Satisfaction survey.

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Bonus Spotlight

Axinn Giving $25K Bonuses As Glenn Agre Matches Milbank

By Tracey Read

Glenn Agre Bergman & Fuentes LLP will match the Milbank LLP base pay scale for associates, while Axinn Veltrop & Harkrider LLP — which was already paying above-market salaries — will hand out special summer bonuses of up to $25,000, the boutiques told Law360 Pulse Tuesday.

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LA Superior Court Gains Prominence With 'Nuclear' Verdicts

By Daniel Moritz-Rabson

Los Angeles County Superior Court was among the country's top sites for awarding big civil damages in recent years, according to a Lex Machina report.

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NC Becomes First State To Ban Outside Funding Of Civil Suits

By Hayley Fowler

North Carolina has become the first state in the country to ban outside investors from funding civil litigation, after Democratic Gov. Josh Stein signed into law a bill that outlaws third parties from footing the bill for civil suits in exchange for a cut of the payout at the finish line.

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Calif. Judge Restores Immigration Courthouse Arrest Limits

By Hailey Konnath

A California federal judge Tuesday vacated the Trump administration's policies on civil arrests at immigration courthouses, restoring limits on those arrests and finding that the government didn't adequately explain its policy shift.

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NY Rule Rewrite Drops 30-Day Pause For Atty Soliciting

By Emily Sawicki

New York's Appellate Division has adopted new rules of professional conduct on attorney advertising and solicitation, deleting a ban on soliciting clients less than 30 days after an incident.

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Judicial Noms Still Say Biden Won In 2020 — Technically

By Courtney Bublé

A group of judicial nominees, who earlier this month were the first of the Trump administration's nominees to say President Joe Biden won the 2020 election, reiterated in follow-up statements that Biden won the election "as a matter of law" — doubling down on what critics say is an equivocation on the election's outcome.

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Judge Who Denied Goldstein Retrial Says It Wasn't Close Case

By Rachel Rippetoe

A Maryland federal judge has elaborated on her decision to deny SCOTUSblog founder Tom Goldstein's bid for an acquittal or new trial, saying that the evidence presented at trial either supersedes or invalidates his claims of issues with jury instructions and insufficient or excluded evidence.

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Ex-AT&T Counsel Charged Over Disclosing Privileged Info

By Sue Reisinger

A former in-house attorney for AT&T, accused of leaking privileged information to opposing counsel while seeking a share of financial gains from a lawsuit filed 18 years ago against the company, has been charged with violating attorney professional conduct rules.

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