Analysis

Whistleblower 'Gold Rush' Might Strain DOJ, Experts Warn

By Phillip Bantz

A new federal program offering cash for tips that result in criminal fraud charges is poised to set off a whistleblower "gold rush" that could uncover more fraudsters, but might also invite a high number of low-quality claims that burden businesses and strain limited U.S. Department of Justice resources, experts say.

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Ex-Prosecutors Start Group Targeting Corruption, ICE Abuses

By Ryan Boysen

A new group led by former federal prosecutors claims the rule of law "is on life support" because the Trump administration's U.S. Department of Justice has fallen down on the job, and says it will investigate alleged political corruption to build the cases the DOJ "would have brought in ordinary times."

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Democrat For Alaska Senate Says DOJ Suit Threatens Election

By Courtney Bublé

Mary Peltola, the Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate race in Alaska, is seeking dismissal of the U.S. Department of Justice's lawsuit claiming the presence of Dan J. Sullivan on the ballot will draw votes away from Sen. Dan Sullivan.

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Trump Plans To Nominate SC Governor's Counsel To Bench

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump plans to nominate William Grayson Lambert, chief legal counsel for South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster, for a judgeship on the District of South Carolina.

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8th Circ. Says Fed Must Rewrite Debit Swipe-Fee Cap

By Jon Hill

The Eighth Circuit on Monday struck down the Federal Reserve's regulatory cap on the swipe fees that larger banks may collect on debit card transactions, handing a major victory to merchants that have long argued this cap was set too high.

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Bank Surcharge Hike Could Raise £5.8B, Think Tank Says

By Josh White

The U.K.'s Labour government could raise £5.8 billion ($7.7 billion) by restoring the bank surcharge to 8% in the autumn budget, a think tank said Monday.

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DOJ Says US Can Ax NAACP Suit Over X.AI Pollution

By Madeline Lyskawa

The federal government continued to argue that it can dismiss a NAACP citizen suit alleging X.AI Corp. unlawfully installed dozens of polluting gas turbines to power a data center days after a Mississippi federal judge found no support for such an assertion.

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Order Restoring Park Signage 'Flawed,' Feds Tell 1st Circ.

By Julie Manganis

The Trump administration has urged the First Circuit to vacate a "deeply flawed" ruling requiring it to restore signage addressing climate change, slavery and the history of Indigenous peoples at dozens of National Park Service-managed sites.

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11th Circ. Nixes Challenge To Ga. Campaign Finance Law

By Patrick Hoff

The Eleventh Circuit on Monday shut down a political action committee's lawsuit alleging a state campaign finance law unlawfully favored a rival to its preferred gubernatorial candidate, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, concluding that the end of Raffensperger's campaign nullified the case.

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Feds Say States Lack Standing To Sue Over HHS Vax Overhaul

By Lauren Berg

The Trump administration is again asking a California federal judge to toss a coalition of states' lawsuit challenging its decision to cut vaccine recommendations for children, arguing that the states cannot show harm that gives them standing to sue.

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Colo. AI Rules Face Calls For Longer Compliance Window

By Allison Grande

Business groups across the tech, banking and other industries pushed Colorado's attorney general Monday to revisit his proposed rules for the use of artificial intelligence to make consequential decisions and to fuel chatbots in order to address concerns such as their potential conflict with existing laws and the tight window for implementation.

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Treasury Seeks To Expand Curbs On AI And Biotech Deals

By Dylan Moroses

The U.S. Treasury Department is looking to expand its security program for foreign-based investments to cover new technologies and countries of concern, proposing rules that would prohibit certain investments in artificial intelligence and biotechnologies while also creating new exceptions for the program.

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Kalshi Sues Louisiana Over 'Threat' To Its Sports Contracts

By Bonnie Eslinger

Kalshi filed preemptive litigation against Louisiana state officials and entities saying their actions and statements deeming prediction market activities unlicensed gambling means it's facing "a threat of irreparable harm, leaving [it] with no choice to protect its commercial interests and those of its users except to bring this suit."

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Burns & Levinson Malpractice Claims Revived On Appeal

By Julie Manganis

Massachusetts' intermediate-level appeals court Monday reinstated legal malpractice claims brought by a youth soccer league against defunct Boston law firm Burns & Levinson LLP alleging a firm partner failed to provide a heads-up about a federal visa fraud investigation.

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NBA Strikes Prediction Market Deals With CFTC, Platforms

By Alex Lawson

The NBA announced partnerships with Kalshi and Polymarket on Monday alongside an agreement with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission to shield the integrity of its games as its ties to prediction market platforms deepen amid fierce legal battles.

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Wash. Foster Home Abuse Claims Not Covered, Insurer Says

By Hope Patti

A boys group home operator isn't entitled to coverage for claims stemming from abuse alleged by former residents of the Washington state facility, an insurer told a federal court, saying the facility is not listed under an endorsement that restricts bodily injury coverage to specific locations.

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Maurene Comey Illegally Fired, Entitled To Pay, Judge Holds

By Pete Brush

Former New York federal prosecutor Maurene Comey was unlawfully fired by President Donald Trump's administration, a federal judge in Manhattan held Monday, granting back pay and potentially legal fees to the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey.

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Farmworker Seeks Higher Atty Fees, Citing 9th Circ. Ruling

By Katherine Smith

A farmworker and a union urged a Washington federal court to increase a previous attorney fee award to nearly $430,000 following a recent Ninth Circuit decision in their favor, arguing they are entitled to more fees due to their success in challenging the federal government's agricultural wage survey methodology.

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Conn. Justice Insists PTSD A 'Physical' Injury In Comp Case

By Brian Steele

A Connecticut Supreme Court justice told counsel for the town of East Hartford on Monday that post-traumatic stress disorder is a physical injury, even though it is not observable with X-rays and other medical detection methods, and it is "nonsense" to suggest otherwise amid workers' compensation litigation.

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Federal Unions Urge Court To Scrap Arbitration Restrictions

By Benjamin Morse

Four federal employee unions urged a D.C. federal judge to overturn new restrictions on obtaining arbitration panels, arguing that a federal labor agency illegally abandoned its decades-old practice of honoring unions' requests without requiring their employers' consent.

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Google Says DOJ Overreaching With Proposed Antitrust Fixes

By Nadia Dreid

Google has told a D.C. federal court that the U.S. Department of Justice and state enforcers are trying to force it into unreasonable antitrust measures that go beyond what the court imagined when it handed down its remedies order in the monopolization suit.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court last week approved a $250 million settlement of litigation over Microsoft Corp.'s acquisition of Activision Blizzard Inc., while Albertsons Cos. Inc. accused Kroger Co. of rejecting changes that could have saved their $24.6 billion merger, and the Delaware Supreme Court ordered Verisk Analytics Inc. to keep pursuing a $2.35 billion acquisition.

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EU Privacy Board Urged To Confirm Limits On Tax Data Swaps

By Kevin Pinner

The European Data Protection Board should confirm that its guidelines limiting large-scale, systematic data transfers will continue applying to automatic exchanges of tax information despite wording that could suggest otherwise in draft European Union legislation, the leader of a group representing "accidental" U.S. citizens said Monday.

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Mozambicans Can Stay Anonymous In $4.7B Ex-Im LNG Fight

By Jack McLoone

A group of Mozambicans can use pseudonyms in their challenge of a $4.7 billion Export-Import Bank of the U.S. loan to a natural gas project in Mozambique, a D.C. federal judge ruled, granting them protection they say they need from violent government retaliation.

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Former Willkie Partner, Wife Owe $14.5M Tax Debt, Gov't Says

By Zak Kostro

A former Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP partner and his wife owe the U.S. more than $14.5 million in unpaid taxes, penalties and interest, according to a complaint filed in Manhattan federal court that seeks to enforce federal tax liens against their New York home to settle the debt.

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Immigrant Detainees Say ICE Is Defying Clean Facility Order

By Ganesh Setty

A certified class of detainees held in a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in the Mojave Desert asked a California federal court again to enforce its preliminary injunction requiring humane conditions and independent monitoring.

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Refugees Fight DHS Green Card Freeze, Termination Rule

By Carolyn Muyskens

Refugee advocacy organizations on Monday challenged the federal government's hold on processing refugees' green card applications and a rule allowing swifter revocation of refugee status, saying the Trump administration is departing from long-standing practice.

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In 2/3 Generics Cases, Mylan Execs Allowed To Revoke 5th

By Bryan Koenig

A Connecticut federal judge carved a different path Friday for two later generic-drug price-fixing cases from state attorneys general, allowing Mylan executives to revoke their previous invocation of the Fifth Amendment unimpeded, after previously allowing the enforcers to challenge that revocation in the first case set for trial.

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First Liberty Founder Gets 15 Years For Ponzi Scheme

By David Aaro

A Georgia federal judge sentenced First Liberty Building & Loan LLC founder Brant Frost IV to 15 years in prison Monday, about six months after prosecutors charged him with running a Ponzi scheme that bilked investors out of $140 million.

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Tribal Legal Group Sues To Halt Calif. Archives' Shutdown

By Crystal Owens

California Indian Legal Services is asking a district court to block the federal government's planned closure of a national archives facility in San Bruno that will relocate Indigenous records so they can be digitized and rehoused, arguing that its clients and tribes have relied on the site for more than 50 years.

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Judge Keeps Mont. Tribal River Water Rights Challenge Alive

By Crystal Owens

A federal district judge says the Department of the Interior and the Blackfeet Tribe cannot dodge a challenge to a Milk River water-rights settlement, but is allowing the Montana Indigenous nation to formally join the case, saying a modification to the agreement would affect its already-guaranteed interests.

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FCC Asked To Combine Study Areas For 4 Iowa Telecoms

By Christopher Cole

Four Iowa local exchange carriers will be joined into one corporate entity, and they have asked the Federal Communications Commission to sign off on the combination of their coverage areas for purposes of federal aid.

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South Carolina AG Backs FCC's Prison Phone Jamming Plan

By Christopher Cole

South Carolina's attorney general wrote to the chief of the Federal Communications Commission to support a proposal that would allow prisons to jam the signals of contraband cellphones.

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After Litigation, Ayahuasca Church Gets DEA Registration

By Sam Reisman

After years of litigating against federal regulators, an Iowa church has reached an agreement with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to lawfully use the psychedelic ayahuasca for religious purposes, the church's attorneys announced Monday.

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Latham Adds California Privacy Agency's Enforcement Chief

By Rose Krebs

Latham & Watkins LLP announced Monday that it has brought on the head of enforcement for California's Privacy Protection Agency, who previously steered numerous high-profile enforcement actions related to state consumer privacy laws, to bolster its privacy and cyber practice.

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How Bank Lobby's Suit Tests OCC's Crypto Charter Powers

The Independent Community Bankers of America’s recent lawsuit challenging the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s ability to charter cryptocurrency companies marks another chapter in the struggle over the appropriate regulatory framework for digital assets, while raising a classic administrative law question at its most basic level, say attorneys at Ballard Spahr.

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Tort Liability When AI Goes Rogue: Negligence Theory

If reasonable care in the use of artificial intelligence agents cannot eliminate the risk of third-party harm, then AI companies and users of AI agents must consider whether negligence theory provides an adequate framework for assessing harm caused by agents that go rogue, says Donald Hawthorne at Carter Ledyard.

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Digging Into Dems' Letter On Subpoena Secrecy Demands

Lawmakers’ recent letter arguing that federal agencies’ use of boilerplate nondisclosure language in subpoenas pressures recipients into silence may lead to a significant overhaul of the current framework, but in the meantime, companies should review their rights and options, say attorneys at Crowell & Moring.

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DC Circ. Ruling Clarifies Standards For Buy America Waivers

The D.C. Circuit's recent decision to uphold a Federal Railroad Administration Buy America waiver offers clarifying guidance about assessing domestic availability, distinguishing manufacturing capabilities from future production plans and creating a well-supported administrative record, says Todd Overman at Bass Berry.

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Uniting BSA, Sanctions Compliance As Treasury Targets Iran

The past 18 months of Treasury Department policies demonstrate expectations that financial institutions not merely obey sanctions against Iran, but also help expose how it moves money, making it essential that banks eliminate silos between their Bank Secrecy Act and sanctions compliance teams for an integrated response, says Jonathan Harrington at Bradley Arant.

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2nd Circ. EFAA Ruling Shifts Employer Litigation Strategy

In Diaz-Roa v. Hermes Law, the Second Circuit recently held that, under the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act, employers can't carve out nonharassment claims and send them to arbitration, which has implications for discovery, litigation costs and resolution strategy in EFAA-covered disputes, say attorneys at Krevolin Horst.

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How Senate-Passed Bill May Reshape NCAA Antitrust Liability

With the U.S. Senate's recent passage of the Protect College Sports Act, practitioners should not wait for the U.S. House of Representatives' approval to prepare for shifts in potential antitrust protections, compensation, media rights deals and conference mergers, say attorneys at Norton Rose.

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The Future Of PCAOB Enforcement After Post-Jarkesy Win

While the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board recently defeated procedural and structural challenges to its enforcement program in D.C. federal court, it's unclear what claims and sanctions the PCAOB can bring against respondents — and whether it's interested in instituting disciplinary proceedings generally, says Mike Plotnick at King & Spalding.

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Weil PE Pro Declines Executive Partner Seat Amid Turmoil

By Marialuisa Taddia

Ramona Y. Nee has decided not to become executive partner at Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, days after merger talks with Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP ended and amid departures on both sides of the Atlantic, sources close to the firm told Law360 Monday.

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Morgan & Morgan Can't Pursue Ad Ban Suit, Fla. Bar Says

By Madison Arnold

The Florida Bar has pushed back against Morgan & Morgan PA's lawsuit alleging that a rule banning the use of a celebrity's voice or image in lawyer advertising violates the First Amendment, arguing that the personal injury giant lacks standing to bring the case.

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Feature

Dugout Divided: Foley & Lardner Clients Clash In World Series

By Chris Villani

The World Series matchup between Foley & Lardner LLP clients, the Milwaukee Brewers and the Tampa Bay Rays, has pitted partners against one another as the firm enjoys a good-natured intrasquad rivalry during the Fall Classic.

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Scholar Warns AI Pitfalls Can Go Beyond Hallucinations

By Andrea Keckley

The number of court cases around the world involving AI-generated errors fell in both the second and third quarters of 2026, according to new research by a legal scholar who recently warned that the risks of using artificial intelligence in litigation now go beyond so-called hallucinations.

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