Analysis

'Experience Drain' Leaves FTC, DOJ Staffers More Hesitant

By Bryan Koenig

Months before he left the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division, the agency's chief said that prospective job seekers no longer needed the substantial profile previously required to work for the agency, a change he cast as a positive for young attorneys.

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Analysis

This Courtroom Assumption Preceded A White Collar Manhunt

By Aaron Keller

After a jury convicted former Connecticut state budget official Konstantinos Diamantis of 21 corruption counts, a federal judge assumed prosecutors would not seek immediate incarceration, asking a question that came to preface an international manhunt now underway.

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Analysis

USPTO Is Seeing A Rise In Continued Examination Requests

By Theresa Schliep

Requests for continued examination of patent applications have ballooned at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, a trend attributed in part to the agency's success at decreasing the backlog of new applications.

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A2J At The High Court: Gun Bans, Voting And Civil Remedies

By Marco Poggio

From the right to own semiautomatic rifles to the rules governing voter registration, the upcoming U.S. Supreme Court term will see the justices tackle a broad swath of constitutional and access to justice issues.

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Ore. Judge Rejects CFPB Funding Cutoff Theory

By Jon Hill

An Oregon federal judge ruled Friday that the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau cannot refuse to replenish the agency's funding, handing the Trump administration another loss on a now-suspended policy that almost shuttered the consumer watchdog last year. 

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Split 6th Circ. Keeps Block On Tenn. 'Abortion Trafficking' Ban

By Gianna Ferrarin

A split Sixth Circuit panel upheld a permanent injunction on what Tennessee calls an abortion trafficking ban, finding the law is facially overbroad and violates the First Amendment by restricting speech on access to abortions in states where that care is legal.

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Possible Trial In Comey's '86 47' Case Delayed To 2027

By Lynn LaRowe

A federal judge in North Carolina on Friday granted a request from former FBI Director James Comey to delay his formal arraignment on charges related to an allegedly threatening photo of seashells he posted online, saying "the gravity of the charges, pending motions, and the need to provide defense counsel additional time to prepare for trial promote need for continuance."

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Justices Block Missouri's New Midterm Map In Loss For GOP

By Jeff Overley and Katie Buehler

The U.S. Supreme Court late Friday barred Missouri from using in its impending midterm elections a newly redrawn congressional map that would favor Republicans, rejecting the Eighth Circuit's restoration of revised boundaries and likely ending a litigation whirlwind that reached the justices thrice this month.

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Supreme Court Revives DHS Voter Citizenship Database

By Katie Buehler and Jeff Overley

The Trump administration can reinstate the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's upgraded citizenship verification database ahead of this year's midterm elections, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Friday.

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Feds' Stablecoin Review Committee Rules On The Horizon

By Aislinn Keely

The White House has completed its review of regulators' planned forms and procedures for reviewing and approving state-level stablecoin licensing frameworks, indicating the U.S. Treasury Department could soon circulate the rules.

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GAO Says Energy Dept. Cut $9.1B In Projects Under Trump

By Elaine Briseño

The U.S. Department of Energy canceled $9.1 billion in awards after being directed to review the projects to ensure they aligned with the Trump administration's priorities, handing the deepest cut to the Office of Clean Energy Demonstration.

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AbbVie Says Botox Exempt From Medicare Price Negotiations

By Jared Foretek

AbbVie largely backed away from its constitutional challenges to the Inflation Reduction Act's Drug Price Negotiation Program in D.C. federal court Friday, but still insisted that its suite of Botox drugs can't be forced into negotiations with Medicare over price because they feature enough human plasma to fit into a congressional exemption.

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Squires Says Biocon Challenge To Eylea Patent Filed Too Late

By Adam Lidgett

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires has explained why he rejected Biocon Biologics' challenge to a Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. patent covering the eye disorder drug Eylea — because Biocon waited too long to bring the challenge.

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FCC Insists DC District Lacks Jurisdiction In Fight With ABC

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission again urged a D.C. federal court to jettison ABC Inc.'s legal action claiming retaliation against the network over content disliked by President Donald Trump, saying case law shows the court has no jurisdiction over the dispute.

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Detractors Tell Court Paramount Deal Fails To Fix Concerns

By Matthew Perlman

Civil rights and public interest groups have told a California federal court the settlement ending a challenge of Paramount Skydance's purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery fails to address the concerns state enforcers raised in the first place.

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Colo. Secretary Of State Withheld Badge Records, Group Says

By Zach Dupont

A conservative nonprofit organization is demanding records from Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold after her office denied an open records request seeking information on Griswold's badge scans into the secretary's office in 2025, according to the group's complaint filed in state court Thursday.

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DC Circ. Backs Buy America Waiver For Brightline Trains

By Tom Lotshaw

The D.C. Circuit on Friday rejected Alstom Transportation Inc.'s challenge of a Buy America waiver approved for trains for a high-speed rail project linking Las Vegas to Southern California, holding that the waiver is reasoned and aligns with federal requirements.

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Rail Industry Wants Full 11th Circ. To Review FRA Rule

By Mike Curley

Railroad industry groups are asking the Eleventh Circuit to hold an en banc rehearing after a split panel rejected their challenge to a 2024 Federal Railroad Administration rule requiring two-person train crews, saying the panel's decision expands agency authority and goes against Supreme Court precedent.

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Analysis

Prediction Market Regulators, Bad Actors In AI Arms Race

By Chris Villani

Artificial intelligence is playing an increasingly important role in policing prediction markets, and attorneys say that regulators and investigators are starting to effectively use the same technology that would-be bad actors have leveraged to try to score big with their bets.

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Kalshi Sports Contracts Aren't Financial Swaps, 6th Circ. Says

By Bonnie Eslinger

In a closely watched decision that exacerbates an existing circuit split, a Sixth Circuit panel on Friday rejected Kalshi's assertion that the sports-related transactions made on its platform should be considered federally regulated swaps and not conventional betting subject to state gambling laws.

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UDR Settles Wash. AG's Claims Of Illegal Rent Hikes

By Isaac Monterose

Multifamily real estate investment trust UDR Inc. will pay more than $1.6 million in order to settle a suit filed by the Washington State Office of the Attorney General, which accused the REIT in state court of illegally hiking rents on its tenants.

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Mich. Wineries Say Appeal Bid Would Delay Event Dispute

By Susan Smiley

A group of Michigan wineries has opposed Peninsula Township's request for an interlocutory appeal in its ongoing suit over hosting special events, arguing that the township is attempting to improperly bypass a Michigan federal court's earlier rulings and delay the case. 

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Unions, Feds Settle Suit Over Gov't Shutdown Layoffs

By Katherine Smith

A coalition of labor unions and the U.S. Department of Justice have agreed to settle claims in a dispute challenging the layoffs of federal employees that occurred during the 2025 government shutdown, according to an agreement filed by the parties.

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Dems Revive Resolution To Boost Support For Working Moms

By Benjamin Morse

Democratic lawmakers announced Friday that they have reintroduced a resolution calling for expanded paid leave, child care support and other federal policies aimed at helping mothers remain in the workforce and addressing economic disparities facing working moms.

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Unions Urge 2nd Circ. To Back Reviving Uber, Lyft Driver Law

By Katherine Smith

A group of unions and workers' rights advocates has asked the Second Circuit to lift the block on a municipal ordinance banning Uber and Lyft from kicking drivers out of the app without a formal notice or an investigation, claiming the district court was wrong to stop the law.

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Domino Foods Fights Paul Weiss DQ Bid In Price-Fixing MDL

By Madison Arnold

Domino Foods is pushing back on an attempt to disqualify its counsel from Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP in a sugar price-fixing multidistrict litigation, arguing Hershey, J.M. Smucker and other food makers filed the motion as a "strategic attempt to gain tactical advantage" at a critical point in the dispute.

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Meta Lied About Data Privacy, New Mexico Jury Finds

By Cara Salvatore

A New Mexico jury said Friday that Meta lied willfully on 26 different occasions regarding data privacy, hate speech, misinformation and Facebook's outside investigation of third-party app developers after the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

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CPSC Told To Explain Warning Against Weighted Baby Blankets

By Lauren Berg

A D.C. federal judge on Friday sent Dreamland Baby Co.'s dispute over the Consumer Product Safety Commission's warning against weighted blankets and swaddles for infants back to the agency, saying it didn't adequately explain its stance or its refusal to retract it.

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Acquittal Bid In Okla. Bid-Rigging Conviction Denied

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

An Oklahoma federal court has rejected an acquittal bid from a man convicted of participating in an erosion control company's bid-rigging conspiracy that allegedly affected over $100 million in publicly funded transportation construction contracts.

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Dems Press DOD Over Delayed Pay For Trans Troops

By Courtney Bublé

A group of House Democrats is calling on the U.S. Department of Defense to ensure that transgender service members ousted from the military under the Trump administration receive their separation payment.

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US Blocks WTO Appellate Body Selection For 100th Time

By Jack McLoone

The U.S. prevented the World Trade Organization on Friday from beginning the process of selecting members to the appellate body designed to settle disputes over WTO decisions for the 100th time, continuing its six-year blockade of the body.

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WTO To Weigh Russian Claim EU Carbon Levy Breaks Rules

By Jack McLoone

The World Trade Organization said Friday it will consider Russia's challenge that the European Union's carbon import levy poses significant trade barriers despite the bloc's protest that it is unreasonable to treat seriously a complaint raised by a member waging a war of aggression.

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US, China Agree To Trade Truce Extension, Greer Says

By Dylan Moroses

U.S. and Chinese negotiators agreed to temporarily extend a trade truce and provide preferential tariff treatment for a subset of goods bought and sold between the two countries while discussions continue on a broader trade agreement between the world's two largest economies, the top U.S. trade official said Friday.

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Judge Moves Sen. Scott's Tax Info Leak Case To DC Court

By Asha Glover

A Florida federal court transferred U.S. Sen. Rick Scott's suit against a former employee of federal contractor Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. for leaking his personal tax returns to D.C. federal court Friday, saying the employee's conduct didn't happen in Florida.

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DC Circ. Judges Clash Over Fate Of Deported Venezuelans

By Nadia Dreid

Two D.C. Circuit judges did not see eye to eye during oral arguments Friday as the federal government attempted to overturn an order requiring it to facilitate the return of Venezuelan nationals it deported after a court told it not to.

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Full 2nd Circ. Won't Revisit Rejection Of Feds' No-Bond Policy

By Britain Eakin

The en banc Second Circuit on Friday denied a request by the Trump administration for the full court to rehear a unanimous panel decision rejecting the government's argument that noncitizens who entered the U.S. unlawfully aren't eligible for bond.

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Judge Bars 'Inhumane' Conditions At NY ICE Facility

By Ganesh Setty

A New York federal court has ordered U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to ensure humane conditions and proper counsel access for noncitizen detainees held at its regional office in lower Manhattan, detailing squalid, unconstitutional conditions there during the summer of 2025.

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Enviro Group Says Border Wall Work Hit Oldest U.S. Geoglyph

By Crystal Owens

An environmental group says new research shows that an Indigenous geoglyph believed to be the oldest in the Americas has been partially destroyed by federal contractors working on a border wall through Arizona's Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge.

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Tribes Say Gold Mine Spill Study 'Still Falls Very Short'

By Corey Rothauser

A court-ordered federal study says a hypothetical major waste spill at a proposed Alaska gold mine could leave parts of a nearby village uninhabitable and cause lasting harm to fish habitat, but tribal opponents say the analysis still does not show the full extent of the danger.

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Tech Co. Seeks FCC Reg Waiver For 'Silent Speech' Devices

By Christopher Cole

A technology firm has asked the Federal Communications Commission to waive part of its rules to allow it to market "silent speech," also known as lipsyncing, devices.

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Calif. Appealing Order Faulting Cannabis Tracking System

By Sam Reisman

California's cannabis regulator will appeal a state court's judgment finding that the agency failed to implement a system highlighting suspicious marijuana transactions as it was required to do so by state law.

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Kansas Officials Say Hemp Raid Suit Should Be Tossed

By Mike Curley

State and local officials in Kansas are urging a federal court to throw out a lawsuit that two retailers have brought alleging their shops were wrongly raided and that their legal hemp products were seized, contending the businesses' latest complaint fell short of alleging any constitutional rights were violated.

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Hemp Shop Owner Hits LA With $10M Suit Over Raids

By Jonathan Capriel

A Black entrepreneur claims he was run out of business through unlawful and racially motivated raids on his hemp shop by the Los Angeles Police Department, in a lawsuit in state court that seeks $10 million in damages — the third he has filed on similar claims against city officials.

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How To Improve Hiring Transparency Amid Ghost Job Scrutiny

Recent regulatory and state law scrutiny of ghost job postings for roles that don't exist or aren't being filled signals a shift toward hiring transparency, and employers that fail to adapt risk enforcement actions, consumer protection claims and financial penalties, say attorneys at Foley & Lardner.

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FTC Push May Create Dual Origin-Claim Risks For Contractors

Recent Federal Trade Commission actions involving Made in USA advertising requirements offer a preview of enforcement themes that may impose dual compliance burdens on government contractors that are also subject to Federal Acquisition Regulation Buy American restrictions, says Amy Hoang at Seyfarth.

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Negotiating The Scope Of The Stablecoin Customer ID Rule

Though comments on bank regulators’ proposed rule for stablecoin issuers under the Genius Act generally agree that oversight would help prevent illicit activity, agencies must reconcile disagreement over whether to extend customer identification requirements from issuers' primary-market relationships to secondary-markets activity, say attorneys at Ballard Spahr.

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Senior Lawyers Survey: Tell Us About Your Career

How are senior lawyers adapting to evolving career paths and emerging technologies? Share your perspective in this five-minute survey.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

O'Melveny & Myers LLP and Reed Smith LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Ninth Circuit overturned a $140 million class verdict against CenturyLink, holding that the company had a reasonable interpretation of the Fair Credit Reporting Act.

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Arkansas Firm 5th To Seal PE Deal With Uplift Investors

By Tracey Read

Arkansas' largest personal injury law firm is the latest legal entity to ink a deal to take private equity investment using Uplift Investors' associated management services organization.

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AI Mishap Has Judge Questioning 'Our Collective Character'

By Julie Manganis

A California attorney was barred from representing the plaintiffs in a Massachusetts insurance coverage dispute and ordered to pay legal costs of up to $10,000 to opposing counsel, after a federal judge found he relied on "inaccurate and fictitious" case cites and holdings in three filings.

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Tarter Krinsky Faces Suit After Disclosing Data Breach

By Andrea Keckley

Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP maintained "intentional opacity" about a recently disclosed cybersecurity attack last year that may have compromised protected health information, a proposed class action alleged in New York federal court.

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Duane Morris To Settle Employee's Tax Withholding Claim

By Asha Glover

Duane Morris LLP has agreed to private mediation to settle a proposed class action by an employee who alleged that the firm failed to withhold taxes for workers who were misclassified as partners, according to a notice.

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Roundup

UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

By Megan Norcott

The past week in London has seen Glencore Energy sue a refinery for allegedly defrauding it out of more than $236 million worth of crude oil, the former CEO of ankle-tag maker Big Technologies file a defamation claim against the company, and property investment group Hunter Jones hit by a claim from the Financial Conduct Authority. 

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

Wilson Sonsini topped a list of law firms that have alumni attorneys working at six of the country's most prominent tech companies. And general counsel at most large companies expect to increase their litigation budgets next year.

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In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Law360

For those who missed out, here's a look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the most buzz on Law360 last week.

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