DOJ Sues Alaska Over Two Dan Sullivans On Senate Ballot

By Courtney Bublé

Dan J. Sullivan, who is running for Senate in Alaska against Sen. Dan. Sullivan, said on Friday it "was a surprise to me" that the U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit claiming his presence on the ballot could mislead voters and skew the election results.

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Trump Adviser Ducking Service In Exec Orders Suit, ABA Says

By Jack Karp

Trump attorney Boris Epshteyn has evaded service of subpoenas, so the American Bar Association should be allowed to pursue alternative means of serving him in its lawsuit over President Donald Trump's efforts to intimidate BigLaw firms, the organization is telling a Washington, D.C., federal judge.

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Ex-DOJ Officials And Judicial Nominees Vie For Office

By Courtney Bublé

Hundreds of candidates are on the ballot in the midterm elections, happening in less than two weeks, and among them are former U.S. Department of Justice officials and unsuccessful judicial nominees.

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2026 Tax Ballot Measure Map

By Jaqueline McCool

Citizens across the country will be tasked with deciding significant tax-related measures when they head to the polls in November, including proposals to impose a one-time 5% wealth tax on billionaires, ban state-level property tax in Tennessee and make income tax changes in numerous states.

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Analysis

By Ivan Moreno

The U.S. Supreme Court left music publishers, creators and catalog buyers facing potentially different rules for worldwide copyright termination after an unusual quorum failure ended the entertainment industry's bid to overturn a Fifth Circuit ruling allowing authors to recapture foreign rights included in worldwide grants.

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FCC Nat'l Security Clampdown Draws Rare Industry Rebukes

By Christopher Cole

Industry leaders see the Federal Communications Commission hitting for a high batting average during President Donald Trump's second term, pushing deregulation they have sought for years. But when it comes to putting the squeeze on device imports from foreign adversaries, business groups are less than bowled over — and they're letting the FCC know it.

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Full 5th Circ. OKs Trump's No-Bond Policy For Immigrants

By Britain Eakin

The full Fifth Circuit handed down a divided opinion on Friday, ruling that noncitizens who were never lawfully admitted to the U.S. don't have a constitutional right to bond hearings regardless of how long they've been detained.

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Fla. AG Says Home Climate Risk Data Is Deceptive Practice

By Carolina Bolado

Florida's attorney general sued a climate-risk modeler on Friday, claiming its data, which shows up on major real estate sites, deviates from official federal data and deceives homebuyers about the actual flood and fire risks of properties.

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Feds Urged To Nix Bank Examiner Limits Over AI Cyber Risks

By Jon Hill

The Senate Banking Committee's top Democrat called Friday for federal banking regulators to scrap recent policies that raise the bar for issuing and escalating supervisory criticism at banks, warning they could obstruct oversight needed to stay ahead of rising artifical intelligence-enabled risks.

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Senate Dem. Presses Tether Over Ties To Ex-White House Aide

By Aislinn Keely

U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, the leading Democrat on the Senate's Subcommittee on Investigations, is demanding records and information from Tether about the stablecoin issuer's relationship with former White House crypto aide Bo Hines, who is now the CEO of Tether's U.S. division.

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EPA Grants Navajo Nation Key Clean Water Act Status

By Crystal Owens

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has approved the Navajo Nation's application that will allow the tribe to be treated in a similar manner to a state under the Clean Water Act for the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System and sludge management programs.

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Ohio Justices Say Class Cert. Analysis Was 'Rigorous'

By Craig Clough

The Ohio Supreme Court held Thursday that a trial court did not err by examining all seven requirements for class certification in a suit alleging water ratepayers were overcharged, even though the judge found two were not met but assumed for the sake of argument that the other requirements were satisfied.

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HHS Seeks Judgment In Suit Over Childcare Rule Rollback

By Tom Lotshaw

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has asked a Washington federal judge to rule in its favor in a labor union suit challenging a rule that repealed new family co-pay caps and other requirements enacted for a childcare funding program for low-income families.

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NYC Bill Gives Nonprofits Priority Bid On Distressed Housing

By Nate Beck

Some New York City nonprofits will get the chance to buy distressed residential buildings ahead of other buyers under a bill the mayor has pledged to sign.

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NYC Hit With Class Action Over 'Kafkaesque' Seizure System

By Dorothy Atkins

New York City has been hit with a proposed class action in federal court, alleging that the New York Police Department regularly unconstitutionally seizes property, which can only be recovered in a "Kafkaesque Odyssey" and by navigating a "bureaucratic scavenger hunt, riddled with contradictory instructions, arbitrary requirements and dead ends."

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Lawmaker Report Targets 'Pay-To-Play' Antitrust Enforcement

By Matthew Perlman

A new report from Democratic lawmakers found that influence from the White House appears to be resulting in lax antitrust enforcement and higher consumer prices, citing a number of recent settlements, case dismissals and merger decisions.

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NetChoice Seeks To Halt Calif. Social Media Warning Law

By Allison Grande

Tech trade group NetChoice is pressing a California federal court to strike down a state law that will soon require social media platforms to display mental health warning labels, arguing that the mandate violates the "bedrock" constitutional prohibition on forcing services to "act as a mouthpiece" for the government.

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Texas Sues OpenAI, Altman Over ChatGPT Safety Claims

By Spencer Brewer

The Texas attorney general's office sued OpenAI and its chief executive Sam Altman in state court Friday, alleging the company breached consumer protection laws by unleashing a chatbot that often gives harmful advice and is addictive to children.

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Feds Want Grant Ruling Foiling Priorities Stayed For Appeal

By Tom Lotshaw

The Trump administration asked a Massachusetts federal judge to pause a decision declaring that a grant termination clause does not allow agencies to scrap awards not aligned with its new priorities, claiming it is likely to prevail in a First Circuit appeal.

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Trump Declines Tariffs On Wind Turbines, For Now

By Dylan Moroses

The U.S. Trade Representative and U.S. Department of Commerce will negotiate with trading partners over the next 180 days to address national security threats posed by imported wind turbines and their associated parts, according to an executive order President Donald Trump signed that failed to mention tariffs on those products.

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Trump Drops Lumber, Paper Products From 50% Canada Tariff

By Hailey Konnath

President Donald Trump on Friday exempted a number of goods — including plywood sheets, some paper products and certain machinery — from his 50% tariff on Canadian goods.

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Canada, Turkey Announce Partnership For Boosting Trade

By Jack McLoone

Canada and Turkey are working toward growing the economic ties between the two countries, including through a free trade agreement, their leaders announced, as Canada continues to look to build new international trade relationships and expand its existing ones.

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Commerce Probing Imported Pizza Boxes For Possible Duties

By Jack McLoone

Corrugated cardboard boxes of a style typically used for pizza boxes that are imported into the U.S. from Turkey, China and Malaysia are being investigated by the U.S. Department of Commerce for possibly being sold at unfair prices in the U.S., the department said Friday.

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US Opens Duty Investigations Into Chinese Compounds

By Jack McLoone

The U.S. Department of Commerce is opening investigations into whether certain chemical compounds imported from China are being sold at less than fair value and are subsidized, the department said Friday.

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USTR Extends Pause On Chinese Maritime Tariffs, Port Fees

By Dylan Moroses

The U.S. will suspend upcoming port fees on Chinese ships and tariffs on Chinese port cranes and other maritime equipment until January, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative said in a notice Friday.

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Colo. Justices Asked To Hear Challenge To Amendment 87

By Zach Dupont

The man challenging the validity of signatures for a Colorado ballot initiative to raise taxes on the state's wealthiest residents appealed the dismissal of his lawsuit to the state's high court Thursday.

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Minn. Court Lets Property Tax Appeal Proceed Sans Payment

By Jaqueline McCool

A Minnesota taxpayer can move forward with her petition for a property tax exemption for seven parcels of land without paying back taxes, a judge for the state Tax Court ruled.

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State AGs Take Aim At 'Texas Two-Step' In Brief To Justices

By Vince Sullivan

Attorneys general for 20 states and the District of Columbia urged the U.S. Supreme Court to take up a challenge to the validity of "Texas Two-Step" bankruptcies, telling the high court a Fourth Circuit ruling in an asbestos liability case threatens the ability of states to exercise their sovereign power to enforce their own laws.

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9th Circ. Blocks Trump's Calif. National Guard Deployment

By Hailey Konnath

A split Ninth Circuit panel on Friday upheld a lower court's preliminary injunction blocking President Donald Trump's deployment of the California National Guard in Los Angeles last year, finding that the president didn't have the authority to order the deployment, which violated the constitutional separation of powers.

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9th Circ. Fast-Tracks Trump Admin's Student Speech Appeal

By Britain Eakin

The Ninth Circuit granted the Trump administration's request to expedite its appeal of an August district court's ruling in a suit brought by the Stanford Daily newspaper that the federal government effort to deport foreign students over their pro-Palestinian speech is unconstitutional.

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DOJ Urges Md. Judge To Void State Immigrant Tuition Law

By Jared Foretek

The Trump administration continues to press for a Maryland federal judge to strike down a state law granting in-state tuition to unauthorized immigrant students, arguing that a ruling from a Virginia district judge upholding a similar law was "wrongly decided" and urging the Maryland judge to follow the Fifth Circuit instead.

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Cities Say Feds Ignore Immigration Rule Collusion Claims

By Elaine Briseño

Three cities on Friday urged the U.S. Supreme Court to stay an order that removed the ability of immigration courts to temporarily close cases, arguing the federal government failed to address the legality of circumventing Administrative Procedures Act requirements.

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ICE Says NY 'Hold Room' Order Makes Processing Undoable

By Elaine Briseño

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has asked a federal judge to pare down the requirements outlined in an order regarding conditions at a New York facility, arguing the court's definition of a "hold room" is too broad.

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9th Circ. Judge Hints Trump US Atty Firing OK Despite 'Chaos'

By Rachel Riley

A Ninth Circuit judge remarked on Friday that President Donald Trump's ouster of court-appointed Seattle U.S. Attorney Roger Rogoff has sown "chaos," but pushed back against Rogoff's contention that the move amounted to executive overreach, noting that the president already controls the office via the attorney general.

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DC Circ. Lets 1929 Census Descendants Join Miwok Vote

By Jared Foretek

The D.C. Circuit allowed descendants of people listed in a 1929 census of local Native Americans to have a say in the California Valley Miwok Tribe's constitution and bylaws Friday, rejecting a rival faction's bid to restrict the process to a smaller group and settling — for now — a decades-long fight tied to state gaming funds.

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Ute Family Urges High Court To Revive FBI Evidence Duty

By Crystal Owens

A Utah tribal member's family is asking the Supreme Court to reverse a decision that the federal government isn't liable for his shooting death, telling the justices that without their intervention the case could set a dangerous precedent that will harm investigative authority at crime scene investigations.

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Trump Signs Law Updating Wireless Emergency Alert System

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

President Donald Trump has signed into law a bipartisan, bicameral act that will modernize the emergency alert infrastructure by integrating satellite networks into the Wireless Emergency Alert system.

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FCC's Gomez Urges More NAB Engagement On 'Censorship'

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission's only Democrat wants the broadcast lobby to pull more weight in defying what she described as an FCC campaign of "censorship and control" over the media.

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Lone FCC Democrat Calls E-Rate Sunset Proposal 'Misguided'

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

The lone Democrat on the Federal Communications Commission has issued her support for extending The E-Rate Program to provide discounts on eligible connectivity services for schools and libraries during a visit to a New Hampshire school district.

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Leave 2.5 GHz Band Out Of Satellite Plan, T-Mobile Says

By Nadia Dreid

T-Mobile says the Federal Communications Commission's plan to expand the coverage that satellites provide from space is a good one, but the agency should refrain from auctioning off the 2.5 gigahertz band for that purpose, arguing it should be reserved for operations on the ground.

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FCC Grants Intel's Automatic Vehicle Waiver For 1 Year

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission has granted Intel Corp. a one-year waiver from rules that could otherwise subject the automated vehicles used in its chipmaking plants to security restrictions.

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5 Issues To Watch As Fed. Circ. Hears Moderna Vax IP Case

Upcoming oral arguments before the Federal Circuit in Arbutus v. Moderna will test whether patent liability protections for government contractors extend to vaccines distributed to the public, and the resolution of certain questions, such as how to define “for the government,” may be key to the outcome, say attorneys at Honigman.

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How FCC Robocall Rules Reshape TCPA Opt-Out Compliance

The Federal Communications Commission's recent changes to its Telephone Consumer Protection Act rules may simplify how businesses process consumer opt outs for robocalls and robotexts, but they also introduce nuances to the opt-out process that may be challenging to operationalize, say attorneys at Hunton.

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3rd Circ. Ruling Opens Door For Fraud-On-The-Market Rethink

The Third Circuit's recent decision in Ocugen, holding that a stable stock price after publication of restated financials does not prove immateriality, could be a vehicle for the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the doctrine undergirding certification of securities class actions, says Jonathan Richman at Brown Rudnick.

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New Calif. Law Ties Finance Contracts To State Licensing

Under a California law taking effect in 2028, commercial financing licensing requirements have been substantially expanded — meaning that fintechs relying on limited regulatory enforcement will face risk from their own borrowers, who could use licensing failures to resist repayment, say attorneys at Husch Blackwell.

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4 Steps For Cos. Amid Russia Sanctions Law Uncertainty

Russian companies, their U.S. subsidiaries and businesses with Russian commercial relationships should take concrete steps to determine their exposure under ambiguous provisions of legislation that recently expanded the scope of U.S. sanctions, notwithstanding an Oct. 16 executive order waiving most of its restrictions, say attorneys at Wilk Auslander.

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Are You Happy With Your In-House Role? Take Our Survey

Is your company giving you everything you need to succeed? What are some misconceptions about working in-house? Help Law360 Pulse answer these questions and more in this year's In-House Satisfaction Survey.

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Weil Merger Talks With Willkie End, Another Partner To Leave

By Daniel Moritz-Rabson

Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP and Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP have ended merger discussions and another top Weil partner is set to depart the firm, sources with knowledge on the matters told Law360 Pulse on Friday.

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Holland & Knight Legal Profession Head On MSO Dealmaking

By Al Barbarino

Holland & Knight LLP partner Trisha Rich is at the forefront of the firm's work in a fast-growing corner of the legal industry, advising law firms setting up management services organizations, or MSOs, as well as the investors looking to buy into them.

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Mass. Judge Jailed Atty For 'Attitude,' Ethics Complaint Says

By Julie Manganis

A former Massachusetts state court judge placed a public defender into custody for hours over his "attitude" during a March 2025 hearing, the state's judicial conduct commission has said in a disciplinary complaint.

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SEC Fights LSU Claim That Case Citations Were 'Hallucinated'

By Alex Lawson

The Southeastern Conference is disputing claims that it submitted "hallucinated" case citations in its lawsuit challenging Louisiana State University's efforts to add former professional players to its sports teams, urging an Alabama federal judge to strike the allegations.

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Insurer Says NY Firm Staged Accidents For Suits

By Danielle Ferguson

A reinsurance company has filed another complaint accusing a New York personal injury law firm of recruiting workers to stage injuries in support of meritless claims, a few months after the Second Circuit dismissed similar claims because the insurer didn't have any direct injuries to bring a racketeering suit.

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NY Commercial Attys Must Justify Discovery Cost Bids Early

By Andrea Keckley

New York Courts Chief Administrative Judge Joseph A. Zayas said in an administrative order earlier this month that commercial litigators who want opposing counsel to fund some or all of the discovery process must state their basis for the request and provide a "good faith" estimate of the costs.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

McGinn Montoya Love Curry & Sievers PA and DiCello Levitt lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a New Mexico federal judge ordered Meta to pay $25 billion over the lies that the social media giant offered the public regarding its data privacy practices.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

Meta's legal chief says the company will appeal a $25 billion verdict involving data privacy practices including the Cambridge Analytica scandal. And a new study shows that while in-house starting salaries are staying stable, adding special skills like AI expertise can lift them higher.

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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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