A North Carolina woman recounted for a federal jury on Wednesday how an Uber driver sexually assaulted her in 2019, rebuffing the ride-hailing giant's suggestion that the incident never occurred and describing how she felt "grossed out," "horrified" and "terrified."
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NC Passenger Tells Jury Of 'Disgusting' Uber Driver Assault

By Hayley Fowler

A North Carolina woman recounted for a federal jury on Wednesday how an Uber driver sexually assaulted her in 2019, rebuffing the ride-hailing giant's suggestion that the incident never occurred and describing how she felt "grossed out," "horrified" and "terrified."

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NC Judge Won't Undo $4M Philips Copyright Verdict

By Elliot Weld

A North Carolina federal judge has refused to erase a $4 million jury verdict against independent service organization Transtate Equipment Co. for violations of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, saying trial evidence provided a "firm basis" to support the jury's statutory damages award.

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Head Shaver Co. Seeks Toss Of Rival's Patent Suit

By Elliot Weld

A company that makes head shavers asked a North Carolina federal judge Wednesday to throw out a case alleging that it infringed one patent and one design patent held by a rival, saying the suit has no chance of plausibly showing that its products are infringing.

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Jury Finds Live Nation Monopolized Concert Ticketing

By Stewart Bishop

Live Nation and its Ticketmaster subsidiary harmed competition in the live entertainment sector by willfully monopolizing ticketing services to major concert venues and unlawfully tying artists' use of large amphitheaters to Live Nation's promotional services, a Manhattan federal jury found on Wednesday.

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LITIGATION

'A Bunch Of Games': MDL Judge Irked By Meta, AGs Sparring

By Dorothy Atkins

A California federal judge appeared skeptical Wednesday of Meta Platforms Inc.'s request for a summary judgment win over claims by state attorneys general in multidistrict social media addiction litigation, saying repeatedly that many disputes should be resolved at trial and panning some arguments by both sides as "a bunch of games."

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Amneal Trims But Can't Nix AGs' Drug Price-Fixing Suit

By Lauren Berg

There is enough evidence from which a jury could conclude that Amneal Pharmaceuticals participated in a conspiracy to fix the price of an epilepsy medication, but not enough to show it participated in the overarching antitrust conspiracy alleged by dozens of state attorneys general, a Connecticut federal judge ruled Wednesday.

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SURVEYS

The 2026 Lawyer Satisfaction Survey: Where Do You Stand?

How is your work-life balance? Are you content with your compensation and opportunities for advancement at work? Take the 2026 Law360 Lawyer Satisfaction Survey and share your thoughts.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Sotomayor Apologizes For 'Hurtful' Comments About Kavanaugh

By Katie Buehler

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor publicly apologized Wednesday for comments she made at a University of Kansas appearance earlier this month criticizing Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

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Justice Jackson Slams Court's 'Oblivious' Emergency Orders

By Lauren Berg

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson this week slammed her conservative colleagues' use of the court's emergency docket, which has repeatedly benefited the Trump administration, saying that such "scratch-paper" orders don't acknowledge the harms that can follow such decisions, making the orders "seem oblivious and thus ring hollow."

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Consumer Cases Drive Class Action Spike, Report Says

By Y. Peter Kang

Federal class action filings spiked in 2025 after nearly a decade of relative stability, fueled by a surge in consumer protection lawsuits tied to data breaches, digital commerce and online accessibility claims, according to a new report from Lex Machina.

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Hogan, Cadwalader Partners Vote To Forge Ahead With Merger

By Marialuisa Taddia

Hogan Lovells and Cadwalader said Wednesday that their partners have voted in favor of their merger ahead of the scheduled launch of the combined law firm on July 1.

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Winston & Strawn Must Face $1.7B GloriFi Malpractice Suit

By Vince Sullivan

A Chapter 7 malpractice suit brought by the trustee of fintech company GloriFi asserting $1.7 billion in damages from a failed initial public offering mostly survived a motion to dismiss late Tuesday, with a Texas bankruptcy judge saying the trustee sufficiently pled breach claims against law firm Winston & Strawn.

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Trump's 8th Circ. Pick Pressed On Leonard Leo Ties

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump's nominee for the Eighth Circuit, who represented Trump in the two cases brought by writer E. Jean Carroll, came under scrutiny Wednesday for his affiliation with groups linked to longtime Federalist Society executive and Republican fundraiser Leonard Leo.

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Jones Day DQ'd From Vanderbilt Case Over Pre-Ch. 11 Work

By Vince Sullivan

A New York bankruptcy judge disqualified law firm Jones Day from representing talc producer Vanderbilt Minerals in its Chapter 11 case Wednesday, saying the firm's prior work for the larger Vanderbilt corporate family raises questions about its disinterestedness.

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John Eastman Disbarred Over Bid To Overturn 2020 Election

By Rae Ann Varona

California's highest court on Wednesday ordered the disbarment of California attorney John Charles Eastman, who a state bar court found had helped plan and promote President Donald Trump's strategy to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

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ICE Arrest Memo Switch Looks 'Specious,' Judge Says

By Pete Brush

A Manhattan federal judge on Wednesday revived an effort by civil rights groups to block immigration courthouse arrests, citing what he called an apparently deceptive Trump administration move to disclaim its earlier litigation position.

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Historical Groups Fight To Save White House Records

By Jared Foretek

Historians are asking a D.C. federal judge for an injunction that would force the Trump White House to preserve official records after administration attorneys declared the Presidential Records Act unconstitutional.

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Trump Defends DOJ Investigation Of 'Incompetent' Fed Chair

By Jon Hill

President Donald Trump expressed support Wednesday for the U.S. Department of Justice continuing to investigate Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell over the Fed's headquarters renovation, saying the government must "find out what happened" with the project's $2.5 billion price tag.

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DOJ Atty Slapped With $250 Sanction For Missed Deadlines

By Tom Lotshaw

A California federal judge hit a U.S. Department of Justice attorney with a $250 sanction for repeatedly missing deadlines in a noncitizen's habeas corpus case, rejecting his assertions that his need to juggle tasks under a 300-plus caseload should excuse him.

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Former Judge To Head New NJ Attorney Readmission Board

By Jake Maher

The New Jersey Supreme Court announced this week the lineup of a new committee that will consider disbarred attorneys' applications for readmission, with a former state court judge of over 20 years at the head of the board.

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Anapol Weiss

Baker & Hostetler

Bond Schoeneck

Bradley Arant

Brown Rudnick

Caplin & Drysdale

Chaffin Luhana LLP

Covington & Burling

Cravath Swaine

Davis Polk

Day Pitney

Emery Celli

Gibbs & Bruns

Girard Sharp

Gordon Rees

Gottlieb & Associates PLLC

Hogan Lovells

Jackson Lewis PC

Jones Day

Kelley Drye

Kirkland & Ellis

Latham & Watkins

McGuireWoods

Milberg PLLC

Miller Waxler

Morgan Lewis

Nelson Mullins

O'Melveny & Myers

Parker Poe

Peiffer Wolf

Perkins Coie

Reed Smith

Smith Anderson Blount Dorsett Mitchell & Jernigan

Soliman & Associates

Stein Saks

Troutman

Watkins Calcara

Wilentz Goldman

Williams Hart

Winston & Strawn

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

African Communities Together

Amazon.com Inc.

American Bar Association

American Civil Liberties Union

Amneal Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Apple Inc.

Avet Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Emcure Pharmaceuticals Ltd.

Federalist Society

Google LLC

Instagram Inc.

Johnson & Johnson

Lannett Company, Inc

Lex Machina Inc.

LexisNexis Legal & Professional

LinkedIn Corp.

Live Nation Entertainment Inc.

Make the Road New York

Marriott International Inc.

Meta Platforms Inc.

New Jersey State Bar Association

New York Civil Liberties Union

Northern Mariana Islands Retirement Fund

R.T. Vanderbilt Holding Co. Inc.

RELX PLC

Sandoz International GmbH

State Bar of California

Stockton University

The University of Alabama System

Uber Technologies Inc.

Vanderbilt Minerals LLC

Viatris Inc.

Walmart Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

California Department of Justice

California Supreme Court

Connecticut Attorney General's Office

Executive Office for Immigration Review

Executive Office of the President

Federal Reserve System

Federal Trade Commission

New Jersey Supreme Court

New York Attorney General's Office

U.S. Attorney's Office

U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Minnesota

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of California

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York

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 Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

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

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

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

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

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

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

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of New York