Trump To Target Sanctuary Cities With New Executive Order

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday evening directing the attorney general and secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to publish a list of sanctuary cities, which are often found in Democratic states, as they "obstruct" the federal immigration efforts, according to the administration.

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'Top Gun: Maverick' Writer's Cousin Says He Co-Piloted Script

By Craig Clough

The cousin of a "Top Gun: Maverick" screenwriter has sued Paramount Pictures in New York federal court, alleging he penned many of the film's key scenes but never received any credit or compensation for his purported contribution to the 2022 blockbuster.

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Unions Tell Judge To Stop DOGE's Federal Personnel Probe

By Emily Brill

A New York federal judge should block the U.S. Office of Personnel Management from disclosing information about federal employees to Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, three unions argued in an updated injunction request, saying their position is stronger now that the judge denied the government's dismissal bid.

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DOJ Says NY Sanctuary Law Undermines Fed Operations

By Madeline Lyskawa

The Trump administration urged a New York federal judge to reject the state's attempt to dismiss its challenge to a law that safeguards DMVs from turning over drivers' information to federal immigration officials, saying the law undermines the federal government's operations.

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SolarWinds Seeks Final Win Over SEC's 'Face-Saving' Case

By Katryna Perera

SolarWinds Corp. has asked a New York federal judge to grant it an early win in a suit brought by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission accusing the software developer of hiding cybersecurity vulnerabilities that led to the 2020 Sunburst attack, saying the SEC's suit has "devolved into a face-saving exercise."

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Feds Urged To Drop Crypto Mixer Charges After DOJ Memo

By Aislinn Keely

Federal prosecutors are weighing whether to continue pursuing a criminal case against two executives of crypto mixing service Samourai Wallet in light of a recent U.S. Department of Justice memo limiting certain digital asset prosecutions.

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DOJ Wants Live Nation Case Split Between Liability, Damages

By Matthew Perlman

The U.S. Department of Justice asked a New York federal court on Monday to split the case accusing Live Nation of quashing competition in the live entertainment industry by having a jury decide if the company violated antitrust law and the judge decide what remedies to impose.

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Judge In NY Dismisses Athlete's Suit Over Gatorade Gummies

By Y. Peter Kang

A New York federal judge on Monday tossed a lawsuit lodged by a promising Texas-based sprinter alleging the Gatorade Co. supplied him with contaminated recovery gummies that led to his doping ban, saying lost endorsement opportunities were purely economic harm and not a personal injury.

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Nadine Menendez Seeks Acquittal And Sentencing Delay

By Carla Baranauckas

Nadine Menendez, the wife of former Sen. Robert Menendez who was convicted on corruption charges, will ask to have her guilty verdict thrown out and is seeking to delay her sentencing, according to a filing from her attorney in Manhattan federal court on Monday.

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High Court Skips Review Of Investors' Eminent Domain Case

By Isaac Monterose

The U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to review a case from a pair of real estate investors who sought more compensation from a New York transportation authority that used eminent domain to take their renovated residential property.

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Tenant Right To Counsel Grows But Faces Major Hurdles

By Marco Poggio

Five states, 17 cities and one county enacted laws between 2017 and 2024 guaranteeing tenants the right to legal counsel in eviction proceedings, but uneven implementation, chronic underfunding and persistent court barriers have sharply limited the programs' effectiveness, according to a new national study published Friday.

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Biz Groups Fight NY's Bid To Join Their Climate Suit With States'

By Keith Goldberg

Fossil fuel industry groups countered the New York attorney general's bid to transfer their lawsuit fighting a $75 billion tab they must pay for climate change adaptation projects, saying joining their suit with one from a group of Republican states would serve neither justice nor judicial economy.

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Syracuse Diocese Strikes $61M In Deals With Insurers

By Rick Archer

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Syracuse informed a New York bankruptcy judge that it has reached nearly $61 million in settlements with its insurance carriers to fund a trust for child sexual abuse claims in the diocese's Chapter 11 plan.

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Petrol Co. Says Carriers Must Defend Benzene Injury Suit

By Ganesh Setty

A petroleum services company told a New York state court that three of its marine insurers have failed to cover any defense costs incurred in a benzene injury lawsuit, even after it said the lead insurer agreed to defend it under a reservation of rights.

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TD Bank's $3 Paper Statement Fee Breaks NY Law, Suit Says

By Emilie Ruscoe

TD Bank faces a proposed customer class action alleging it violated New York state law with its practice of charging its customers $3 to mail them paper copies of their monthly billing statements.

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High Court Declines Review Of 'Server Test' In Copyright Suit

By Ivan Moreno

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a challenge to the Ninth Circuit's criteria for determining copyright liability when photos are embedded online, denying a photographer's appeal in a case where he is suing Canadian media company Valnet Inc.

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Tech Exec Says Littler's 'Unlawful' Advice Led To Suspension

By Patrick Hoff

Littler Mendelson PC shouldn't be allowed to escape a tech executive's lawsuit claiming that she was suspended and ultimately fired for complaining about her boss' sexist comments, the employee told a New York federal court, arguing that the firm's advice directly led to her employer's retaliation.

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Nasdaq Presses SEC To Enact Clearer Digital Asset Rules

By Tom Zanki

Nasdaq is urging the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and its sister agency that regulates derivatives to adopt clearer rules governing digital assets, calling for a system that classifies such products into four categories.

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2nd Circ. Backs Guilty Verdict In NYC Murder-For-Hire Case

By Elliot Weld

The Second Circuit on Monday affirmed the convictions and life sentences of a New York City developer and another man for plotting the murder of a former employee who they claimed had poached workers and clients to launch his own real estate business.

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2nd Circ. Upholds Clinic Manager's Repeat Charges For Fraud

By Anna Scott Farrell

A decision that allowed the federal government to reindict a health clinic manager for a Medicare and tax fraud scheme can stand, a Second Circuit panel found Monday, agreeing with the lower court that his offenses were serious enough to permit it.

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Napco Faces Investor Suit Over Sales Downturn

By Emilie Ruscoe

Security device maker Napco Security Technologies Inc. faces a proposed investor class action alleging that the company overpromised on a long-term earnings margin goal, hurting investors when trading prices fell as its sales and progress toward that target stalled in February.

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Defense-Focused SPAC Kochav Files $220M IPO

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Defense- and aerospace-focused special purpose acquisition company Kochav Defense Acquisition has revealed plans to raise up to $220 million in an initial public offering, looking to list on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol KCHVU.

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Judge Weighs Impact Of Top Court Ruling On DOE Grant Cap

By Brian Dowling

A federal judge hearing a challenge to a Department of Energy grant cap on Monday expressed concerns about the case's potential overlap with a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that cast doubt on a bid to revive federal teacher training grants.

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Google Claims Row Delays Dormify's Ch. 11 IP Asset Sale

By Vince Sullivan

A dispute over a $600,000 claim from Google led bankrupt dorm room furnishing retailer Dormify Inc. to delay approval of a sale of its intellectual property assets to Williams-Sonoma Inc. Monday to give the debtor time to resolve the conflict.

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FCC Tells Courts 5th Circ. Wrong To Kill $57M AT&T Fine

By Ali Sullivan

The Federal Communications Commission defended multimillion-dollar fines against T-Mobile and Verizon in letters to the D.C. Circuit and Second Circuit, urging the appeals courts not to heed the Fifth Circuit's toss of a related $57 million privacy fine against AT&T.

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Kramer Levin Hires Former SDNY Prosecutor, Corporate Atty

By Rose Krebs

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP announced Monday that it has added to its attorney roster a former assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York and a corporate lawyer from Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP.

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Ex-Deutsche Bank GC Is Coinbase's Next Compliance Chief

By Michele Gorman

A former general counsel at Deutsche Bank AG, who most recently led the anti-financial crime unit, is joining Coinbase Global Inc. as chief compliance officer, he said in a LinkedIn post Monday, a move that comes as policymakers work to set rules of the road for cryptocurrency.

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Gibson Dunn Bankruptcy Pro Joins Cleary In NY

By Andrea Keckley

A former Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP attorney known for his work on high-profile restructurings has joined Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP's New York office as a partner, the firm announced Monday.

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NY Tax Talk: Sourcing, Retroactivity, Information Services

Attorneys at Eversheds Sutherland examine recent decisions by New York’s Tax Appeals Tribunal, Division of Taxation and Court of Appeals on location sourcing of broker-dealer receipts, a case of first impression on the retroactive application of Corporate Franchise Tax regulations and when fees for information services are excluded from taxation.

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Employer Tips For Navigating Cultural Flashpoints Litigation

A New York federal court's recent refusal to fully dismiss claims that Cooper Union failed to address antisemitism underscores why employment litigation that involves polarizing political, social or cultural divides requires distinct defense strategies to minimize risk of an adverse outcome and of negative impacts on the employer's reputation, say attorneys at Seyfarth Shaw.

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Class Actions At The Circuit Courts: April Lessons

In this month's review of class action appeals, Mitchell Engel at Shook Hardy discusses four federal appellate court decisions and identifies practice tips from cases involving pretrial detainee bail funds, employment law, product defect allegations and claims of not providing proper pain medication at a jail.

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The 2025 Lawyer Satisfaction Survey

Law firms and the legal profession are facing new uncertainties, shifting the stress levels, economic pressures, and overall contentment of lawyers in private practice, according to the 2025 Law360 Pulse Lawyer Satisfaction Survey.

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'The Court Is Not A Cartoon': Judge Rips Dragon Watermark

By Hailey Konnath

A Michigan federal magistrate judge Monday ordered an East Lansing, Michigan, firm called Dragon Lawyers PC to stop plastering its pleadings with a large, suit-clad purple cartoon dragon watermark on each page, saying it's not only "distracting, it's juvenile and impertinent."

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Analysis

Feds Have Strong Hand On Judge Charged With Blocking ICE

By Danielle Ferguson and Carolyn Muyskens

A Wisconsin state judge faces an uphill battle in defending against federal criminal allegations that she helped a man evade immigration officials at a Wisconsin courthouse, but she may be able to stake out a defense in arguing the government can't prove intent, experts told Law360. 

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California Judge Loses Pay After Conviction For Murdering Wife

By Gina Kim

The California Commission on Judicial Performance formally suspended a California judge without pay after a state jury found him guilty of second-degree murder last week for shooting his wife to death in their Anaheim Hills home on Aug. 3, 2023, following a heated argument. 

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Q&A

Sullivan M&A Chief Sees Opportunities Amid Tariff Turmoil

By Al Barbarino

After a rocky start to 2025, the mergers and acquisitions landscape is grappling with economic volatility, shifting trade policies and a complex regulatory environment. But even in a "choppy" market, there are always deals to be made, says Melissa Sawyer, global head of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP's M&A group and co-head of its corporate governance practice.

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NJ Judge Apologizes Through Waylon Jennings Lyrics

By George Woolston

Clark Township, New Jersey, Municipal Judge Antonio Inacio said Tuesday that he isn't proud of all the things that led him to appear before a Garden State judiciary disciplinary committee, but he can say that he never intentionally hurt anyone by his conduct.

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$10M Brown Rudnick Deal With Guo Trustee Gets Judge's OK

By Aaron Keller

A Connecticut bankruptcy judge on Tuesday approved a $10 million deal between Miles Guo's Chapter 11 trustee and the Chinese exile's onetime attorneys at Brown Rudnick LLP, and greenlighted 10 lesser settlements with other firms and luxury retailer Versace.

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Analysis

GOP Plan To Shutter Audit Watchdog Could Strain SEC

By Jessica Corso

Congressional Republicans are renewing the push to get rid of a financial regulator that conservatives have complained is costly and lacks proper oversight, but some former staffers at the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board wonder whether the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has the manpower or expertise to take over the board's duties.

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Federal Defenders Of NY Staff Announce Union Drive

By Andrea Keckley

Staff members at the Federal Defenders of New York have announced their plans to join their attorney colleagues as members of the Association of Legal Advocates and Attorneys.

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Justices Scoff At Feds' Defenses In Mistaken FBI Raid Case

By Chart Riggall

Supreme Court justices Tuesday appeared flummoxed by the government's "ridiculous" arguments it should be immune to a Georgia resident's lawsuit over a mistaken FBI raid on her house, but seemed unlikely to issue a blanket ruling on when an officer's discretion trumps their liability for injuries caused by their actions.

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Alex Jones Wants High Court Look At $1.3B Sandy Hook Case

By Brian Steele

Bankrupt Infowars host Alex Jones will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to invalidate a mammoth libel judgment that families of Sandy Hook shooting victims secured against him and his company over his conspiratorial broadcasts calling the massacre a hoax, he told a Connecticut appellate court in seeking to extend a pause on the payout.

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Breyer To Talk Pragmatism At NJ Bar Association Convention

By Carla Baranauckas

Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer will bring his pragmatic legal philosophy to center stage when he appears at the New Jersey State Bar Association Convention on May 16 in Atlantic City.

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