Trump Asks Supreme Court To Upend $83M Carroll Verdict

By Lauren Berg

President Donald Trump urged the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday to wade in and overturn a jury's $83.3 million verdict finding he defamed writer E. Jean Carroll after she accused him of a decades-old sexual assault, pointing to the justices' decision giving presidents sweeping immunity for official acts.

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Baldoni's Studio Owes NYT $170K For Failed Defamation Suit

By Lauren Berg

"It Ends With Us" director and star Justin Baldoni's production company must pay The New York Times more than $170,000 after it defeated the studio's defamation claims, a New York state judge has ruled, saying the newspaper is entitled to recoup its legal fees.

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Watchdog Org. Asks Court For Trump-IRS Deal Docs

By Zak Kostro

A watchdog organization asked a D.C. federal court to order the government to disclose communications relating to the settlement between President Donald Trump and the Internal Revenue Service over leaks of his tax information.

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Papaya Owes $719M, Atty Fees In Gaming False Ad Case

By Elliot Weld

A New York federal judge has granted Firy Inc.'s request to order Papaya Gaming Ltd. to disgorge $719 million and pay $10.1 million in attorney fees to Firy on top of a $420 million jury verdict in April for alleged misrepresentations about its mobile games being based on skill and not using bots.

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OpenAI Settles TM Dispute Over 'IO' Hardware Branding

By Ivan Moreno

OpenAI and startup IYO have reached a settlement in principle in their trademark dispute over the "IO" name for AI hardware, the parties told a California federal court.

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Ariana Grande Says Hackers Leaked Songs, Photos For Years

By Gina Kim

Ariana Grande filed a privacy invasion suit in California state court Monday alleging unknown hackers have been stealing and leaking her unreleased masters and demos, behind-the-scene photos, and other content after gaining backdoor access to accounts belonging to people she worked with over the years. 

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Musk's XAI Wants Minn. Ban On Image 'Nudification' Blocked

By Hailey Konnath

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI asked a federal court to shut down Minnesota's ban on image "nudification" technology, claiming the new law is an "overbroad, content-based ban on free speech" that runs afoul of the First Amendment.

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3 Firms Steer Media-Focused SPAC's $200M IPO

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Special purpose acquisition company Catalyst Acquisition Corp., which plans to target traditional and digital media businesses, hit the public markets Tuesday after raising $200 million in its initial public offering steered by three law firms.

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Albright Preserves Verdict Clearing Roku On Streaming Patents

By Elliot Weld

A Texas federal judge on Tuesday said he wouldn't grant a new trial or a favorable judgment to a company that asserted two patents against Roku after a jury cleared the streaming device maker in 2024.

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Writer Must Post $150K Bond During Romantasy IP Appeal

By Adam Lidgett

A New York federal judge on Tuesday said a writer has to put up a bond of $150,000 while she appeals the dismissal of her suit accusing a best-selling fiction author of stealing her romance-fantasy book drafts to create the popular "Crave" series.

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Ticket Broker Pays $300K To Settle Concert Resale Claims

By Alex Lawson

A Georgia ticket broker has agreed to pay $300,000 to settle allegations that it used a fleet of intermediaries and proxies to hoard concert tickets for artists like Metallica and Benson Boone and resell them for inflated prices.

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Nielsen Says 2nd Circ. Ruling Makes Courts Price Regulators

By Matthew Perlman

Nielsen has asked the Second Circuit to reconsider a ruling upholding an injunction in a case from Cumulus accusing it of tying sales of its national radio ratings data to its local offerings, telling the appeals court the ruling turns judges into price regulators.

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Penske Accused Of Scheming To Buy Golden Globes

By Matthew Perlman

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association sued Penske Media Corp. in California federal court Tuesday, accusing the company and owner Jay Penske of orchestrating a scheme to fraudulently acquire the Golden Globe Awards as part of a bid to dominate the market.

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How They Won It

How A Casino Analogy Helped Win A Short-Swing Profits Trial

By Katryna Perera

To win a first-of-its-kind securities trial over short-swing profits, attorneys at Freshfields LLP knew they needed to find the right analogy to showcase their argument, even if it meant comparing the case to a craps table at a casino.

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Digital Ad Co. Beats Investor Suit Over Client Loss Claims

By Sydney Price

Digital advertising firm PubMatic has escaped a shareholder's suit accusing it of concealing the loss of a key customer for its digital marketing business, with a California federal court ruling that the suit's claims are too vague as-is.

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Ex-FCC Officials Call Agency's ABC Station Probe 'Retaliatory'

By Christopher Cole

Several former top officials at the Federal Communications Commission called on FCC Chair Brendan Carr on Tuesday to abandon an early review of eight Disney-owned ABC stations' licenses, calling the action a "grave violation" of federal law and free speech protections.

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FCC Says Starlink Routers Exempt From Nat'l Security Ban

By Nadia Dreid

The Federal Communications Commission has banned virtually all foreign-made routers from the United States, citing national security concerns, but it isn't worried about ones made by billionaire Elon Musk's satellite internet company Starlink.

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FCC Pulls Major Provider From Lifeline, Citing Violations

By Nadia Dreid

The Federal Communications Commission says it has banned one of the nation's biggest Lifeline providers from participating in the subsidy program after uncovering widespread violations of the program's rules, including a practice of transferring people back after they switched their service to another provider.

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Brief

Humanoids, Other Robotics Added To FCC's Nat'l Security List

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission said Tuesday that humanoids and other advanced robotics newly produced in foreign countries will be included on the "covered list" of products restricted from U.S. importation and marketing.

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Randy Quaid Loses Bid To Undo $3.5M Calif. Property Ruling

By Lauren Berg

Actor Randy Quaid and his wife cannot overturn a $3.5 million judgment awarded to a California couple who bought a Santa Barbara property that once belonged to the Quaids, an appeals court ruled Tuesday, finding substantial evidence supporting claims that the Quaids' false ownership assertions damaged the property's marketability.

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Trump Permitted To Amend NYT Defamation Suit

By David Minsky

A Florida federal judge granted President Donald Trump permission to amend his lawsuit against the New York Times and its reporters, allowing him to explain in detail why statements in a book and articles published shortly before the 2024 election are false and were meant to derail his campaign.

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LG Can't Arbitrate Stockholder Suit, Chancery Says

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court has refused to send fiduciary duty claims against LG, its U.S. subsidiary and several executives to arbitration, ruling that an investor's derivative lawsuit over the governance of advertising technology company Alphonso must remain in the Delaware court.

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Trader In BigLaw Deal-Tipping Scheme To Plead Guilty

By Chris Villani

A Florida resident is set to plead guilty to his alleged role in a sweeping scheme to trade on insider information about impending acquisitions that was stolen from major law firms, according to a court filing Tuesday.

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Simpson Thacher Stock Work Hurt 2 Companies, Jury Told

By Madison Arnold

The chief financial officer for an insurance company told a Florida jury Tuesday that a stock drop for Patriot National Inc. — which is suing Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP for malpractice for allegedly putting together a shoddy securities offering — dramatically affected his own business as well.

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AT&T Whistleblower Told To Cut Facts From Ethics Case Filing

By Sue Reisinger

Former AT&T in-house counsel and whistleblower Theodore Marcus has been asked to delete part of his response to professional misconduct charges pending against him in Washington, D.C., because the filing allegedly contains privileged information.

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1st Circ. Asked To Save Mayer Brown $21M Fee Bid In RI Suit

By Linda Chiem

The American Trucking Associations told the First Circuit that its attorneys at Mayer Brown LLP reasonably justified their request for $21 million in fees and costs after securing "substantial" wins in long-running litigation over Rhode Island's truck tolling program, disputing a district court's determination that the trucking trade group wasn't actually a "prevailing party."

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Winston Taylor Seeks Sanction Against Ex-Client Hunter Biden

By Rae Ann Varona

Winston Taylor urged a D.C. state court on Monday to sanction its former client Hunter Biden in its legal bills collection suit, saying the former president's son destroyed Signal communications that would have proved he understood that he owes the law firm more than $50,000.

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Court Is In Session Whenever A Judge Says It Is, 6th Circ. Told

By Susan Smiley

Court is wherever and whenever a judge says it is, counsel for a Detroit judge told a Sixth Circuit panel Tuesday, arguing that subjecting a student to a mock arrest and trial because she fell asleep during a field trip was within his jurisdiction.

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Senate Confirms Jay Clayton As National Intelligence Chief

By Madeline Lyskawa

The U.S. Senate voted Tuesday to confirm Jay Clayton as director of national intelligence, two weeks after Clayton, the former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, refused to answer who he thought won the 2020 election during his confirmation hearing.

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Queens Defenders Head Gets 3.5 Years For Looting The Nonprofit

By Pete Brush

A Brooklyn federal judge on Tuesday sentenced the former director of the Queens Defenders to more than 3.5 years in prison after the longtime attorney admitted to a course of embezzlement that destroyed the group dedicated to legal services for the poor.

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