Trump's $10B WSJ Suit Tossed For Failing To Plead Malice

By Carolina Bolado

A Florida federal judge has dismissed President Donald Trump's $10 billion defamation suit against the Wall Street Journal, ruling Trump failed to allege the newspaper and its reporters acted with malice when they published an article linking him to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

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Carroll Asks High Court To Skip Trump Defamation Appeal

By Elliot Weld

Writer E. Jean Carroll has asked the U.S. Supreme Court not to hear President Donald Trump's appeal of an $83.3 million jury verdict finding that he defamed her after she accused him of sexual assault, saying Trump waived his presidential immunity argument.

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More Amicus Briefs Flood NYT, OpenAI Copyright Case

By Theresa Schliep

Actors, writers groups, advocacy organizations, law professors and current and former political leaders weighed in on the OpenAI copyright multidistrict litigation in New York federal court, with some arguing that fair use does not protect the artificial intelligence developer, while others contended that training models on copyrighted works was all above board.

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Runway AI Must Face Video Scraping DMCA Suit, Judge Says

By Adam Lidgett

A New York federal judge has refused to toss a proposed class action accusing Runway AI of wrongfully scraping videos YouTube users posted online to train its artificial intelligence system, finding the allegations in the suit under federal copyright law are up to snuff at this point.

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Snap Inks 11th-Hour Deals Ending Social Media Harm Trial

By Craig Clough

Snap Inc. revealed Monday that it has reached settlements with two plaintiffs over claims its platform harms the mental health of children, cutting short the second such Los Angeles bellwether trial in the midst of jury selection.

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News Orgs Say Brave Is 'Dealer' For Scraped Content

By Elliot Weld

The New York Times and a group of regional newspapers have accused Brave Software Inc. of acting as a "dealer" of copyrighted news content scraped from the internet and selling it to the top makers of artificial intelligence for training data.

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MVP: O'Melveny's Molly Lens

By Adam Lidgett

Molly Lens of O'Melveny & Myers LLP helped defend Paramount in two copyright suits over the studio's 2022 "Top Gun: Maverick" blockbuster film and achieved wins for CBS and Disney, making her one of the 2026 Law360 Media & Entertainment MVPs.

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College Athletes' Attys Seek $18M Cut Of NIL Settlement

By Alex Lawson

More than a year after the approval of a historic $2.78 billion settlement to share revenue derived from college athletes' name, image and likeness, attorneys for the athletes are seeking $18 million for their work administering the settlement's terms.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court last week allowed a stockholder claim over R1 RCM Inc.'s $8.9 billion buyout to proceed, while investors in Meta Platforms Inc. sued to block a stock restructuring they say would let CEO Mark Zuckerberg sell billions of dollars in shares without giving up control of the company.

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Meta Users Win Class Cert. In Pixel Healthcare Data Suit

By Lauren Berg

A California federal judge certified four classes of Facebook users who allege Meta Platforms collected their personal health information through data tracking tools on healthcare providers' websites, rejecting the social media company's attempts to attack the predominance of common issues.

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Meta Can't Shake Android Users' Browsing-Profile Claims

By Hailey Konnath

A California federal judge on Monday once again refused to throw out consolidated litigation claiming Meta matched users' browsing activities to their Facebook accounts for targeted advertising purposes, ruling that the plaintiffs have adequately alleged it violated the Android security protocol known as sandboxing.

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Xbox Buyer's Microsoft Tariff Refund Suit Sent To Arbitration

By Rachel Riley

A Washington federal judge said Monday that an Xbox buyer must arbitrate his claims that Microsoft unjustly pocketed refunds meant for consumers after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the Trump administration's global tariff regime, citing an arbitration pact described by the console's packaging and included documents.

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Monthly Merger Review Snapshot

By Matthew Perlman

The Federal Trade Commission caused a pair of playground equipment makers to abandon their planned merger, Canadian enforcers upended a deal for the Green Giant brand in the country and state attorneys general reached settlements for several regional deals.

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DirecTV Says Nexstar Hiding Behind Privilege In Antitrust Suit

By Nadia Dreid

DirecTV says it's time for a New York federal court to step in and force Nexstar Media Group to hand over documents it was ordered to produce in discovery, saying the massive multimedia conglomerate has been dragging its feet for months.

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FCC Grants 1st Router Security Waiver Aimed At Onshoring

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission's staff has granted a partial waiver from its rules restricting the sale of foreign routers in the U.S., saying it's the first exemption for routers based on onshoring jobs as one of the public interest benefits.

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FCC Clears More Drones, Inverters, Robots From Covered List

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

The Federal Communications Commission has cleared several foreign-produced products for sale in the U.S., exempting certain uncrewed aircraft systems, advanced robotic devices and power inverters from the Covered List, which restricts foreign-made devices for national security reasons.

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FCC Stops Broadcasters' Workforce Diversity Data Collection

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

The Federal Communications Commission will once again stop collecting workforce diversity data from the broadcast industry.

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FCC To Vote On Extending Rural Broadband Support Fund

By Nadia Dreid

The Federal Communications Commission wants to extend the Connect America Fund's alternative cost model by another two years instead of letting it sunset at the end of the year.

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Reform But Don't Gut FCC Subsidies, Rural Telecoms Say

By Christopher Cole

Rural telecom providers say the Universal Service Fund needs reforms to run more smoothly, but they cautioned the Federal Communications Commission against structural changes that could disrupt the program.

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Contractor Says SBA Suspension Relied On Deceptive Video

By Elaine Briseño

A tribally owned contractor urged a D.C. federal court to temporarily halt its suspension by the Small Business Administration from government contracting, arguing misconduct allegations against it stem from a "salacious" video published by a far-right influencer wearing a wig.

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Trump Admin Seeks Revival Of Blocked Fixed-Term Visa Rule

By Ganesh Setty

The Trump administration has told a Massachusetts federal court that its currently blocked final rule setting firm duration limits on foreign student and press visas is critical for national security, while education groups and labor unions said the court's prior analysis "needs no retreading."

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Triller Faces $6.16M Default Judgment In Boxing Dispute

By Craig Clough

A Florida federal magistrate judge recommended Monday that two Triller companies pay nearly $6.2 million to a boxing agent over a breached settlement agreement, after the defendants failed to obtain replacement counsel by a court-ordered deadline.

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Lessons For Cannabis Dispensaries From Web Tracking Suits

The trajectory of health-tracking litigation in Florida and elsewhere suggests that patient privacy claims will not disappear quickly, so dispensaries should audit their sites, tighten consent and align their disclosures with their actual practices, say attorneys at Buchanan Ingersoll.

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The Patent Circuit: Minding Patents' Family Histories

The Federal Circuit's recent decision in Epic Tech v. Pen-Tech highlights the relevance of patent families in determining whether to maintain an ongoing patent infringement litigation, and the sanctions risk that may stem from failing to account for patent relatives, say attorneys at Knobbe Martens.

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BigLaw Attys Step Up To Help Voters In Midterm Elections

By Jack Karp and Lynn LaRowe

Attorneys from several BigLaw firms are volunteering across the country to make sure voters don't run into problems casting their ballots or having those ballots counted in Tuesday's midterm elections.

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Winston Taylor, DLA Piper Match Milbank Pay Scale

By Tracey Read

Two more BigLaw firms have opted to match the new associate salary scale set by Milbank LLP in June.

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Judiciary Stuck In AI Rulemaking Rut As Attys, Judges Protest

By Jeff Overley

Judiciary efforts to enact rules for the artificial intelligence age are mired in concerns about burdens on litigators, the tensions between burgeoning technology and snail-paced policymaking, and how to even define AI. And despite vivid examples of AI's risks, officials are inching toward mothballing the prominent project.

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Judge Orders Chicago US Atty To Testify In Misconduct Probe

By Celeste Bott

An Illinois federal judge has ordered Chicago's top federal prosecutor and three assistant U.S. attorneys to testify under oath about potentially false statements made to her in a now-dismissed criminal conspiracy case against anti-ICE protesters, saying Monday that the government's shifting explanations about communications with DOJ leadership suggest prosecutors misled the court about outside involvement in the prosecution.

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NY State Bar Says Attys Can't Bill Time Saved By AI

By Andrea Keckley

The New York State Bar Association has told lawyers not to bill clients for the time they saved by using artificial intelligence, or for the time it took to learn a new AI tool.

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SEC's Top Cop On Building A 'Nimble' Enforcement Division

By Jessica Corso

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has lost hundreds of enforcement employees and seen significant restructuring of its regional offices over the past two years, but the Division of Enforcement's director said that hasn't stopped him from building a "nimble" program that is focused on more than just the number of cases filed.

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