Trump Calls For Prosecution Of Jack Smith Post-Hearing

By Courtney Bublé

Shortly after former special counsel Jack Smith gave his first public congressional testimony on the Trump cases, in which he warned the rule of law should not be taken for granted, President Donald Trump said he should be prosecuted.

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Trump Sues JPMorgan For $5B Over Account Closures

By Jon Hill

President Donald Trump on Thursday sued JPMorgan Chase in Florida state court for at least $5 billion in damages, alleging it unlawfully "debanked" him and an array of his business ventures shortly after the end of his first term.

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5th Circ. Appears Divided On President's Alien Enemies Power

By Britain Eakin

The full Fifth Circuit appeared divided Thursday on whether President Donald Trump can label any threat an "invasion" or "predatory incursion" under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act, with judges split between giving the president broad deference and those doubtful the courts have only a limited role.

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Goldstein Prosecutors Unveil Conflicting Cash Source Claims

By Jared Foretek

A former lawyer at SCOTUSblog founder Thomas Goldstein's firm said Thursday that Goldstein told coworkers that the more than $960,000 in cash he brought off a flight from Hong Kong — the source of which is integral to the government's case — had come from a client.

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TikTok Seals Joint Venture Deal For US Operations

By Lauren Berg

TikTok's Beijing-based owner, ByteDance, has sold a majority stake in the video app's U.S. operations to a new U.S.-based joint venture managed by a group of non-Chinese investors in order to comply with a congressional mandate and avoid the app's shutdown, the company announced Thursday.

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DC Circ. Presses Feds To Justify Military Trans Ban

By Madeline Lyskawa

A D.C. Circuit judge pressed the government on Thursday to justify a policy that effectively bars transgender people from serving in the military, questioning why Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth imposed a more stringent policy than the first Trump administration did. 

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DOJ's Revival Of Mediation Agency Doesn't End Suit Yet

By Carolyn Muyskens

Community organizations told a Massachusetts federal judge Thursday they are planning to continue fighting what they alleged was the dismantling of a small racial-justice mediation agency within the U.S. Department of Justice, even as the agency's employees have been called back to work, saying it is still not clear if services have been restored.

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Pa. Justices Say Judge's Partisan Posts Warrant Suspension

By Hayley Fowler

Pennsylvania's highest court has adopted a balancing test for restricting a sitting judge's free speech outside the context of an election and, in doing so, affirmed the suspension of a state court judge who it said damaged the court's appearance of impartiality by making political posts on social media.

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Brief

Courthouse News Drops Access Suit Against DC Court Clerk

By Emily Sawicki

National litigation news outlet Courthouse News Service has voluntarily and permanently dropped claims against a Washington, D.C., Superior Court clerk and the executive officer of the D.C. courts over filing delays, with both sides agreeing to pay their own costs.

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FDIC Rolls Back Biden-Era Digital Signage Rule

By Sarah Jarvis

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. on Thursday finalized a rollback of its digital signage requirements, easing where and how banks must display FDIC-insured labeling online after industry criticized a prior Biden-era revamp as overly rigid and confusing for customers.

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SEC Approves Cuts To PCAOB Budget, Board Member Salaries

By Sarah Jarvis

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday approved a 2026 budget for the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board that includes a 9.4% decrease overall from the prior year and cuts upward of 42% for board members' compensation.

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Ford, GM Industrial Bank Bids Get FDIC Approval

By Jon Hill

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said Thursday that it has signed off on industrial loan company applications from Ford Motor Co. and General Motors Co., clearing the two automakers to open federally insured banking units over objections from community bankers.

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10th Circ. Should Deny Interest 'Opt-Out' Rehearing, Colo. Says

By Katryna Perera

Colorado pushed back against calls for the Tenth Circuit to grant a full court rehearing of a challenge to the state's "opt-out" law on interest rates, arguing that a recent panel decision upholding the law does not merit review by the full appeals court.

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AGs Target Investor Advocacy Group As 'Climate Cartel'

By Carolina Bolado

A group of state attorneys general led by Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier issued a warning letter Wednesday to climate advocacy organization Ceres claiming concerns about violations of antitrust and consumer protection laws.

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FERC Commissioners Back Fed-State Push For PJM Changes

By Keith Goldberg

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Thursday backed plans from the Trump administration, state governors and PJM Interconnection to address escalating power prices amid data center-fueled increases in electricity demand, and encouraged the nation's largest grid operator to promptly submit policy proposals.

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Brief

Washington Drops $9M Climate Fund Suit Against NOAA

By Elaine Briseño

Washington state dropped its lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Commerce after a federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from withholding more than $9 million meant to shore up the state's resiliency to climate change.

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Supplement Cos. Challenge FDA Health Claim Denials

By Gianna Ferrarin

A group of health supplement companies hit the U.S. Food and Drug Administration with a suit in D.C. federal court Wednesday alleging regulators wrongly denied them approval to make over 100 distinct claims concerning the health benefits of their products.

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FDA Action Shouldn't Halt Amazon Labeling Suit, Plaintiffs Say

By Ben Adlin

Shoppers accusing Amazon of failing to make required disclosures on dietary supplement product pages told a Washington federal judge there's no need to pause their proposed class action amid possible rulemaking by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, arguing that the supposed rule change wouldn't negate the suit's claims under California law.

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As Lawmakers Scrutinize Costs, Insurers Point To Hospitals

By Yeji Jesse Lee

Facing a barrage of questions from lawmakers on Capitol Hill about rising costs, the heads of the biggest health insurance companies in the U.S. sought to blame providers and other parts of a complex industry.

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USPTO Re-Ups Agreement With Major IP Offices Through 2029

By Ryan Davis

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has extended the Patent Prosecution Highway pilot program with four other intellectual property offices, which expedites review of patent applications that have been allowed in another country, for another three years.

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Patent Office Beats La Jolla Pharma's Application Denial Suit

By Craig Clough

A Virginia federal judge on Wednesday upheld a U.S. Patent and Trademark Office decision that denied patent applications from drug developer La Jolla Pharma LLC claiming a unique dosage and delivery method of a drug the company markets to treat low blood pressure, finding the claims are all anticipated or obvious.

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Meta Fights Late Data Request In Instagram Addiction Suit

By Julie Manganis

Meta Platforms has told a judge that Massachusetts' attorney general should not be allowed to fill what the company said are holes in the state's Instagram addiction lawsuit with a late subpoena for records from two of its own health agencies.

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Md. Judge Keeps Ship Manager Liability Shield Bid Alive

By Linda Chiem

A Maryland federal judge Thursday allowed the manager of the container ship that slammed into Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge to press ahead, for now, with its request to invoke a nearly two-centuries-old maritime law to limit its liability for the 2024 wreck.

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Transportation Cases To Watch In 2026

By Linda Chiem

Clashes over the scope of federal preemption in personal injury cases involving freight brokers and motor carriers, the Trump administration's gutting of Biden-era vehicle emissions standards and cuts to states' transportation and infrastructure funding are among the court battles that transportation attorneys are monitoring in 2026.

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NCAA Tells 4th Circ. Appeal Of Eligibility Ruling Should Go On

By Tom Lotshaw

The NCAA has urged the Fourth Circuit to keep hearing its appeal of a preliminary injunction letting four West Virginia University football players compete in a season that is now over, arguing that similar challenges to its eligibility rules are inevitable.

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Judge Recommends Toss Of Ex-Deputy's Political Firing Suit

By Kelcey Caulder

A Georgia federal judge has recommended tossing a former metropolitan Atlanta deputy sheriff's suit alleging he was forced to resign because he supported the sheriff's 2024 election opponent, while also urging sanctions against the deputy's attorney for citing nonexistent cases and misstating the law.

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CTA's Vax Mandate Was An 'Impossible Dilemma,' Jury Hears

By Lauraann Wood

The Chicago Transit Authority put a former employee into an "impossible dilemma" and forced him to choose between honoring his Christian faith or receiving a COVID-19 vaccine when it flatly rejected his vaccination exemption request and later fired him for mandate noncompliance, Illinois federal jurors heard Thursday.

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EEOC Chair Decries 'Fearmongering' Amid Guidance Repeal

By Anne Cullen

The Republican members of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission voted Thursday to retract comprehensive harassment guidelines issued during the Biden administration after the agency's chair panned warnings from Democrats and civil rights advocates that the move erodes key worker protections.

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Drugmakers May Dodge Disgorgement In States' Antitrust Suit

By Brian Steele

A Connecticut federal judge probed the limits of his equitable powers Thursday in a sprawling generic drug antitrust enforcement action, expressing doubt that he could order the drugmaker defendants to hand over their profits while also awarding multiplied damages and imposing civil penalties.

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House Report Claims Evidence of CVS Antitrust Violations

By Bryan Koenig

House Judiciary Committee staffers said Wednesday that they'd uncovered "a pattern of anticompetitive activity" in CVS Health tactics aimed at coercing independent pharmacies into avoiding working with online services the company saw as a threat to its own pharmacy and pharmacy benefit manager businesses.

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Proposed Subpoena Rule Change Raises Victim Privacy Fears

By Brandon Lowrey

A proposal to loosen restrictions on the use of federal criminal subpoenas would endanger and further traumatize victims of crime, most of whom lack legal representation to fight the invasive demands, victims' rights advocates told a federal rules advisory committee on Thursday.

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6th Circ. Clears 911 Dispatch Of Failure To Stop Murder

By Elizabeth Daley

Michigan county dispatchers can't be held responsible for the murder of a man by his mentally ill son, the Sixth Circuit ruled Thursday, finding that although the son told 911 he "might do something bad" an hour before the killing, the agency's "failure to act does not suffice."

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Judge Expands Block On Trump's Grant Restrictions

By Isaac Monterose

A Washington federal judge agreed to broaden a preliminary injunction against the Trump administration over its political restrictions for using over $12 billion worth of federal grants, expanding the block to cover additional plaintiffs who were added to the suit.

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Feds Given More Time To Revisit School Grant Cancellations

By Rachel Riley

A Washington federal judge agreed Thursday to extend a deadline for the Trump administration to make fresh determinations as to 138 public school mental health grants that the court has found were illegally canceled, but admonished the federal government for previously understating how long those reassessments would take.   

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Iran Sued For Alleged Role In Deadly Jordan Drone Attack

By Elaine Briseño

The families of three U.S. soldiers killed in a drone attack orchestrated by alleged terrorists at a military installation in Jordan sued the Islamic Republic of Iran in D.C. federal court on Thursday seeking to recover monetary damages for the deaths of their loved ones.

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Digital Services Taxes May Give Leverage In US Trade Deals

By Dylan Moroses

As President Donald Trump and his administration continue to negotiate with trading partners seeking to lower tariff rates, countries with digital services taxes could find those measures build some leverage with U.S. negotiators aiming to eliminate them. 

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UN Committee Floats Draft For Taxing Cross-Border Services

By Natalie Olivo

Negotiators at the United Nations released a draft of potential cross-border measures that could eventually appear in a multilateral treaty to help countries tax the income of remote corporations that currently fall outside traditional taxation rules.

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Full 5th Circ. Weighs Order Blocking Texas Migrant Arrest Law

By Spencer Brewer

The full Fifth Circuit pushed multiple immigrants' rights organizations to explain why a Texas law allowing the state to arrest unauthorized immigrants could not stand, asking Thursday where it says in the U.S. Constitution immigrants have a right to file for asylum.

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Ill. Judge Dismisses Suit Over Federal Agents' Use Of Force

By Celeste Bott

An Illinois federal judge has allowed plaintiffs accusing immigration officials of using excessive force to voluntarily end their case, but first disbanded the class of media and peaceful protesters she'd certified late last year.

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Fla. Must Provide Everglades Detention Center Funding Docs

By Elaine Briseño

A state judge on Thursday ordered the Florida Division of Emergency Management to fulfill a records request from an environmental group related to a federal grant that funded an immigration detention center in the Everglades.

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Judge Severs Tax Charges From Ex-Rep's Foreign Agent Case

By Jack McLoone

A former Florida congressman will get to contest tax charges against him separately from a criminal indictment alleging he and a political consultant failed to register as foreign agents while lobbying on behalf of Venezuela's state oil company, a federal judge ruled.

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Fla. Archaeologist Says Stolen Artifact Claims Ruined Career

By David Minsky

A Florida archaeologist filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against a Maryland nonprofit and a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service official, alleging she damaged his reputation and ruined his career with false claims that he trafficked stolen Native American human remains. 

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How SEC Civil Penalties Became Arbitrary: The Data

Data regarding how the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has adhered to its own civil penalty rules over the past 20 years reveals that awards are no longer determined in accordance with the guidelines imposed on the SEC by the securities laws, say David Slovick at Kopecky Schumacher and Phil Lieberman at Vanderbilt Law.

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How Payments Law Landscape Will Evolve In 2026

After a year of change across the payments landscape, financial services providers should expect more innovation and the pushing of regulatory boundaries, but should stay mindful that state regulators and litigation will continue to challenge the status quo, say attorneys at Troutman.

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Postconviction Law In 2026: A Recalibration, Not A Revolution

As the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to issue decisions in several federal postconviction cases in the coming months, the justices appear focused on restoring coherence to a system in which sentencing modification, collateral review and finality increasingly overlap, and success for practitioners will depend on strategic clarity, say attorneys at the Law Offices of Alan Ellis.

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Regulatory Uncertainty Ahead For Organ Transplant System

Pending court cases against a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services final rule that introduced a competition-centric model for assessing organ procurement organizations' performance will significantly influence the path forward for such organizations and transplant hospitals, say attorneys at Crowell & Moring.

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Opportunities Amid The Challenges Of Trump's BIS Shake-Up

The Trump administration’s continuing overhaul of the Bureau of Industry and Security has created enormous practical challenges for export compliance, but it potentially also offers a once-in-a-generation opening to advocate for simplifying and rationalizing U.S. export controls, say attorneys at Gibson Dunn.

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Opinion

It's Too Soon To Remove Suicide Warnings From GLP-1 Drugs

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's decision this month to order removal of warnings about the risk of suicidal thoughts from GLP-1 weight-loss drugs is premature — and from a safety and legal standpoint, the downside of acting too soon could be profound, says Sean Domnick at Rafferty Domnick.

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Key False Claims Act Trends From The Last Year

The False Claims Act remains a powerful enforcement tool after some record verdicts and settlements in 2025, and while traditional fraud areas remain a priority, new initiatives are raising questions about its expanding application, says Veronica Nannis at Joseph Greenwald.

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What Texas Can Learn From La. About CO2 Well Primacy

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's granting Texas primary authority over wells used to inject carbon dioxide into deep rock formations is a significant step forward for carbon capture and storage projects in the state — but Louisiana's experience after it was granted primacy offers a cautionary tale, say attorneys at Phelps Dunbar.

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Series

Hosting Exchange Students Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Opening my home to foreign exchange students makes me a better lawyer not just because prioritizing visiting high schoolers forces me to hone my organization and time management skills but also because sharing the study-abroad experience with newcomers and locals reconnects me to my community, says Alison Lippa at Nicolaides Fink.

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Analysis

Supreme Court Caseload Hits 160-Year Low

By Katie Buehler

Not since the Civil War has the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in as few cases as it will this term — the latest milestone for the court's shrinking docket, and one attorneys say might have more to do with the high court's culture than its expanding emergency appeals caseload.

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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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Roundup

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

By Max Austin

This past week in London saw Travelers Insurance hit with a claim from a property buyer over a payout tied to collapsed law firm Axiom Ince, Swedish music group Pophouse Entertainment clash with the production company that helped it create the ABBA Voyage experience, and biotech company Vertex Pharmaceuticals sue rival entity ToolGen for patent infringement.

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Analysis

More Push In The 'Push-Pull' As DOJ Targets 'Gamesmanship'

By Bryan Koenig

The U.S. Department of Justice continues to build its task force targeting "gamesmanship" that it says BigLaw attorneys for major companies, especially technology platforms, are using to obstruct antitrust investigations — an effort that has been welcomed by some practitioners and questioned by others.

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5 Arrests Made In Shooting Of Indiana Judge, Wife

By Lynn LaRowe

Five people have been charged in connection with the shooting of an Indiana Superior Court Judge and his wife at their home Sunday following an investigation involving state law enforcement in Indiana and Kentucky and federal agencies.

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Shook Hardy Adds 2 E-Discovery-Focused Partners

By Matt Perez

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP has hired two e-discovery experts as partners for its complex litigation strategic counseling practice in Washington, D.C., and New York City.

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Dems Push For Another Round Of Jack Smith Testimony

By Courtney Bublé

Following former special counsel Jack Smith's congressional appearance, Democrats are looking for him to return once he is able to speak about the second volume of his report on President Donald Trump's retention of classified documents after he left office.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Williams & Connolly LLP leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court held in a unanimous opinion that restitution is a criminal punishment subject to the Constitution's ban on increasing punishment retroactively.

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DOJ Alumni Back Maurene Comey In Effort To Keep Suit Alive

By Rose Krebs

U.S. Department of Justice alumni and a group that includes attorneys, law professors and former judges have filed briefs supporting former Manhattan federal prosecutor Maurene Comey's call for a New York federal court to reject the DOJ's bid to dismiss a suit over her firing.

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How Attorneys Can Balance Careers With Caring For Parents

By Kevin Penton

As baby boomers get older and develop more intense healthcare needs, attorneys in the prime of their careers are increasingly pressed to also provide care to their elderly parents.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

The EEOC voted to retract major harassment and discrimination protections as civil rights advocates protested. And Goldman Sachs denied rumors it was easing out its prominent chief legal officer despite the lingering stigma over her association with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

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Embezzler's Legal Malpractice Claims Too Late, Court Says

By Julie Manganis

A convicted embezzler who accused her attorneys of botching her defenses in criminal and civil cases cannot rely on a longer six-year statute of repose for breach of contract claims to overcome her delay in filing a legal malpractice case, an intermediate Massachusetts appellate court said Friday.

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