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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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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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

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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PRIVACY & CONSUMER PROTECTION

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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COMPETITION

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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SECURITIES & WHITE COLLAR

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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TELECOMMUNICATIONS

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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EXPERT ANALYSIS

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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LEGAL INDUSTRY

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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Interview

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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Q&A

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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Analysis

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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COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Acquira

Advanced Bionics AG

Amazon.com Inc.

American Bar Association

Anthropic PBC

Apple Inc.

Baskin-Robbins Inc.

British Broadcasting Corp.

Burford Capital LLC

ByteDance Ltd.

Citizens for Responsibility & Ethics in Washington

Creative Commons

Democracy Forward Foundation

DivX LLC

Dunkin' Brands Group Inc.

FedEx Corp.

GitHub Inc.

Google LLC

Ingevity Corp.

Inspire Brands Inc.

Instagram Inc.

International Brotherhood of Teamsters

Jimmy John's Franchise LLC

Live Nation Entertainment Inc.

McDonald's Corp.

Meta Platforms Inc.

Microsoft Corp.

NFL Enterprises LLC

NVIDIA Corp.

Netflix Inc.

Pinterest Inc.

Roblox Corp.

Skydance Media LLC

Sonos Inc.

Steward Health Care System LLC

Tenet Healthcare Corp.

TikTok Inc.

Uber Technologies Inc.

Union Internationale des Avocats

Warner Bros. Discovery Inc.

Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.

WestRock Co.

YouTube Inc.

LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Ahmad Zavitsanos

Akerman LLP

Akin Gump

Alston & Bird

ArentFox Schiff

Arnold & Porter

Baker & Hostetler

Baker Donelson

Baker McKenzie

Ballard Spahr

Baratta Law

Barnes & Thornburg

Blank Rome

Boies Schiller

Bradley Arant

Bricker Graydon

Brito PLLC

Buchalter LLP

Bunsow De Mory

Cafferty Clobes

Carlton Fields

Casas Law Firm

Christian & Small

Clark Hill

Cleary Gottlieb

Cooley LLP

Covington & Burling

Cowan DeBaets

Cozen O'Connor

Cravath Swaine

Crowell & Moring

DLA Piper

DWF LLP

Daniel Williams & Associates

David Boies

Davis Polk

Davis Wright Tremaine

Debevoise & Plimpton

Dechert LLP

Dentons

DiCello Levitt

Dilworth Paxson

Dinsmore & Shohl

Dorsey & Whitney

Duane Morris

Dykema

Elsberg Baker

FBT Gibbons

Faegre Drinker

Federman & Sherwood

Fenwick & West

Finnegan

Fish & Richardson

Fisher & Phillips

Foley & Lardner

Fox Rothschild

Frederick M. Lehrer Attorney at Law

Freedman Normand

Fried Frank

Gaw Poe

Gibson Dunn

Glaser Weil

Goodwin Procter

Gordon Rees

Greenberg Traurig

Gregory and Adams

Gutride Safier

Haynes Boone

Hogan Lovells

Holland & Knight

Hollingsworth LLP

Honigman LLP

Hunton Andrews

Husch Blackwell

Irell & Manella

Jackson Lewis PC

Jones Day

Joseph Saveri Law Firm

K&L Gates

Kaiser PLLC

Katten Muchin

Kilpatrick Townsend

King & Spalding

Kirkland & Ellis

Kopelowitz Ostrow

Kutak Rock

Latham & Watkins

Law Offices of Charles B. Molster III

Lee Sullivan Shea

Leech Tishman

Lewis Brisbois

Lieff Cabraser

Littler Mendelson

Manatt Phelps

Mayer Brown

Maynard Nexsen

McDermott Will & Schulte

McGuireWoods

Milbank LLP

Milberg PLLC

Mogin Law

Morgan & Morgan PA

Morgan Lewis

Morrison & Foerster

Nelson Mullins

Nixon Peabody

Norton Rose

O'Melveny & Myers

Ogletree Deakins

Orrick Herrington

PCB Byrne

Paul Hastings

Paul Weiss

Perkins Coie

Pillsbury Winthrop

Polsinelli PC

Proskauer Rose

Quinn Emanuel

Quintairos Prieto

Reed Smith

Reinhart Boerner

Robins Kaplan

Ropes & Gray

Scott&Scott

Seyfarth Shaw

Sheppard Mullin

Shook Hardy

Sidley Austin

Simon & Simon PC

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

Skadden Arps

Spencer Fane

Squire Patton

Sterne Kessler

Stris & Maher

Sullivan & Cromwell

Taft Stettinius

Troutman

Venable LLP

Vinson & Elkins

Wachtell Lipton

Watkins Calcara

Weil Gotshal

White & Case

Wilkinson Stekloff

Willkie Farr

WilmerHale

Wilson Elser

Wilson Sonsini

Winston Taylor

Womble Bond

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Committee on House Administration

Competition and Markets Authority

European Union

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Communications Commission

Federal Trade Commission

Homeland Security Investigations

Internal Revenue Service

International Trade Commission

Kansas Attorney General's Office

Library of Congress

New York Attorney General's Office

Patent Trial and Appeal Board

U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. Copyright Office

U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

Unified Patent Court

United States District Court for the District of Colorado