Paramount-Warner Bros. Investor Loses Bid To Expedite Suit

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court on Thursday denied a Paramount Skydance Corp. stockholder's bid to fast-track derivative litigation seeking to halt the company's planned $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, finding that the investor had not shown a sufficient basis for rushing the case toward trial.

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X Secures Order Barring Startup's Use Of 'Twitter' Marks

By Elliot Weld

A Delaware federal judge blocked Operation Bluebird Inc. from using the Twitter brand Thursday at the request of X Corp., which sought an injunction after founder Elon Musk changed the company's name.

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FCC Denies Retaliatory Pretext In ABC License Renewal Probe

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission urged a D.C. federal court Thursday to toss ABC's suit over the agency's early review of eight station licenses, denying that a discrimination probe of network parent Disney was a pretext for retaliating against ABC.

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Ex-White House Aide Must Testify On Jan. 6 Attack, BBC Says

By David Minsky

The BBC on Thursday urged a Florida federal court to allow testimony from a former White House aide in President Donald Trump's $10 billion lawsuit alleging defamation from a documentary about the U.S. Capitol attack in 2021, saying she knows whether the president intended to foment violence that day.

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More Suits Filed Blaming ChatGPT In Canada School Shooting

By Emily Field

OpenAI Inc. on Wednesday was hit with another wave of 30 lawsuits in California federal court over the February school shooting in Canada brought by surviving teachers, staff members and students who say that ChatGPT assisted and encouraged the shooter in planning the attack.

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Fed. Circ. Judge's Post-Decision Recusal Won't Lead To Redo

By Dani Kass

U.S. Circuit Judge Richard G. Taranto's decision to recuse himself from a case based on newly inherited Amazon stock is not enough to justify reconsidering the opinion he'd already issued, the Federal Circuit has ruled.

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CORRECTED: Strip Club Signs $340K Insurance Deal In False Ad Suit

By Hayley Fowler

A North Carolina strip club has agreed to assign its insurance rights to five models so they can pursue a $340,000 payout to resolve claims over the club's use of their images in advertisements, according to a filing in federal court.

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MDL Attys Want Special Master To Vet Meta Privilege Claims

By Dorothy Atkins

Personal injury plaintiffs' counsel asked a California federal judge Wednesday to appoint a special master to review Meta's attorney-client privilege designations in social media addiction multidistrict litigation, arguing that Meta can't be trusted to review them in light of the judge's recent rulings that certain Meta trial-exhibit redactions were "entirely inappropriate."

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Polymarket Accused Of Using Fake Wins To Woo US Users

By Jared Foretek

A D.C. resident's proposed class action accusing Polymarket of using paid influencers to stage fake trading wins on sham sites was moved to D.C. federal court Wednesday, carrying allegations that the company used the faked videos to get around a settlement that barred it from advertising to Americans.

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Fox's Supposed $500M Offer For Parler Was Fake, Jury Told

By Cara Salvatore

Billionaire Rebekah Mercer testified Thursday that Parler's later-ousted CEO made her think falsely that Fox was offering $500 million for the social app, one example of the supposed misconduct she has said was the reason he was forced out.

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Ex-IRL App CEO Says Prosecutors Ignored Ethics Breaches

By Courtney Bublé

The co-founder of defunct social app IRL is fighting fraud charges by claiming that the U.S. attorney's office prosecuting him is conflicted because an attorney who formerly defended IRL in an SEC investigation and is now with the office pushed for him to be charged — and he is disputing prosecutors' denial of impropriety. 

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Wireless Tower Group Urges FCC To Back GPS Alternatives

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

Wireless tower builders have asked the Federal Communications Commission to consider new rules that will promote the development of new positioning, navigation and timing technologies that can complement GPS technology.

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FCC Told It Can't Preempt Local Utilities On Pole Attachments

By Nadia Dreid

A municipally owned electric company from Kentucky wants the FCC to clarify that it doesn't plan to step on its toes or the toes of any other government-owned utilities as the agency seeks to pass rules that would allow it to preempt wireline decisions if localities are moving too slowly.

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Ky. AG Sues NY Abortion Rights Org. Over Gas Station Ads

By Mark Payne

A New York-based abortion advocacy nonprofit is violating Kentucky's consumer protection laws by illegally advertising mail-order abortion pills at gas stations throughout the state and flying ads over the state fair, the state's attorney general claimed in a lawsuit Thursday. 

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Series

Ballet Makes Me A Better Lawyer

A lifetime of learning and performing ballet taught me that success — whether in dance or practicing law — comes only through hours of thorough preparation, boundless energy and relentless effort, says Sharon Katz-Pearlman at Greenberg Traurig.

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Quinn Emanuel, McDermott Hit By Data Breaches

By Lauren Berg

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP and McDermott Will & Schulte LLP both recently suffered data breaches, adding to the dozens of cybersecurity incidents law firms in the U.S. have suffered in 2026.

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Analysis

Boutique Firms Emerge As Trump Admin's 'Achilles' Heel'

By Phillip Bantz

Less fearful of retribution than some of their BigLaw counterparts, small law firms are taking on an outsize role handling cases seen as adversarial to the Trump administration.

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Interview

Federal Judge Warns Threats Imperil Judicial Independence

By Carolina Bolado

U.S. District Judge Beth Bloom of the Southern District of Florida told Law360 that judges and members of the bar need to educate the public on the judiciary's important role in American democracy to combat increasing threats, speaking following the release of two reports this week that warn of safety concerns for judges and that defiance of court orders is undermining the federal judiciary's independence.

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Husch Blackwell Gets Early Win In Ex-Partner's 401(k) Suit

By Andrea Keckley

A Missouri federal court granted Husch Blackwell LLP an early win over a former employee's proposed class action alleging the firm illegally withheld retirement contributions and mismanaged its employee 401(k) plan, finding the ex-partner couldn't prove violations of federal benefits law.

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Former Girardi Keese CFO Drops Appeal Of 5-Year Fraud Term

By Emily Sawicki

The Seventh Circuit has granted onetime Girardi Keese financial chief Christopher Kamon's request to drop the appeal he lodged fighting an Illinois federal judge's order adding five concurrent years onto the 10 he is already serving for his role helping Tom Girardi, the head of the firm, steal millions from plane crash clients who settled cases in Chicago.

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Pirro Urges House Ethics Panel To Refer Crime Claims To DOJ

By Courtney Bublé

U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro has told the House Ethics Committee that as cases involving criminal misconduct come before it, her office should be involved too.

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Fox Rothschild Says Adult Day Care Suit Rehashes Claims

By Rose Krebs

Fox Rothschild LLP is urging a New Jersey state court to toss claims against the firm and one of its attorneys in a complaint related to the firm's prosecution of a fraudulent loan lawsuit that led to a $65,000 sanction against the firm.

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