Analysis

Calif. AI Guardrails Split From Feds, Other States May Follow

By Madeline Lyskawa

California Gov. Gavin Newsom's recent executive order directing state agencies to implement guardrails for contracting with artificial intelligence companies marks a rift with the Trump administration's deregulatory approach that could proliferate across other states.

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'Mark Of Autocracy': Court Says Pentagon Defied Press Order

By Lauren Berg

The U.S. Department of Defense has not complied with a court order barring the Pentagon from taking press passes away from journalists who report on matters not authorized by the government, a D.C. federal judge ruled Thursday, saying the department's revised rules "achieve that same unconstitutional result."

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Split 4th Circ. Backs West Virginia Schoolchildren Vax Law

By Gianna Ferrarin

A split Fourth Circuit panel struck down an order barring West Virginia from applying a compulsory vaccination law to a student whose parents alleged the law violates her religious rights, ruling the law serves the state's interest in reducing the spread of infectious diseases.

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Trump Picks Ohio Ex-Solicitor General For 6th Circ.

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump announced Thursday evening that he is tapping Benjamin Flowers, former solicitor general of Ohio, to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

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1st Circ. Sees Rationale For Puerto Rico 'X' Birth Marker Ban

By Carolyn Muyskens

A First Circuit panel floated a possible legal pathway for Puerto Rico to refuse to add a neutral gender option on birth certificates Thursday as the commonwealth appealed a mandate to permit nonbinary people to change their gender to "x."

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DOJ Probes NFL TV Contracts For Anticompetitiveness

By David Steele

The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating the National Football League regarding its broadcast contracts and whether fans are being harmed by the rising cost to view games.

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Elon Musk's xAI Says New Colo. Law 'Severely Burdens' AI

By Hailey Konnath

X.AI LLC, the company behind Elon Musk's artificial intelligence tool Grok, has asked a Colorado federal court to block a new Centennial State law aimed at AI, claiming that the statute "severely burdens the development and use of AI" and is an "attempted coercion" that's unconstitutional.

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Trump Had No Reason To Seek Mass. Voter Data, Judge Says

By Julie Manganis

A Massachusetts federal judge on Thursday dismissed a Trump administration lawsuit demanding the state's voter data, saying the government offered no factual basis for seeking residents' personal information.

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Fed Ends Crédit Agricole, Goldman Enforcement Orders

By Jon Hill

The Federal Reserve said Thursday that it has closed out another batch of longstanding enforcement actions against big banks, freeing Crédit Agricole, Goldman Sachs and Taiwan's Mega Bank from orders that date to at least 2018.

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Arizona Check Casher Says FinCEN Rule Is 'Crushing' Business

By Sarah Jarvis

A Phoenix-area money services business has sued the Treasury Department over an order targeting such businesses along the Southern border for heightened anti-money laundering reporting requirements, saying the measure imposes "business-crushing burdens" that may force it to close.

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9th Circ. Axes Kids' 'Sprawling And Speculative' Climate Suit

By Dorothy Atkins

A Ninth Circuit panel affirmed Thursday tossing youths' lawsuit alleging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's greenhouse gas "discount" program discriminates against children by favoring present-day consumption over future consumption, finding the kids' "sprawling and speculative causal theory" of alleged environmental harms aren't traceable to the government's policies.

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EPA Plan To Revise Coal Ash Rules Draws Quick Objections

By Tom Lotshaw

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday proposed a rule to update coal ash disposal regulations, sparking immediate outcry from environmental groups that accused it of seeking to roll back health protections and cleanup requirements in a Big Coal handout.

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Senators Warn EPA Rule Will Erode State, Tribal Water Review

By Crystal Owens

Nearly a dozen Democratic U.S. senators are opposing a proposed Environmental Protection Agency rule that will limit states' and tribes' rights to block and regulate the effects of hydropower dams on water quality on their lands.

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Mich., Animal Rights Groups Take Aim At US's Egg Price Suit

By Gina Kim

Animal advocacy groups and Michigan officials moved to end the U.S. government's federal lawsuit seeking to void the state's ban on eggs produced by caged hens, arguing Thursday the federal government lacks standing because it isn't the subject of enforcement, as it doesn't commercially sell, produce or distribute eggs in Michigan.

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Neb. Utility Allowed To Join Power Line Project Approval Fight

By Keith Goldberg

A Colorado federal judge has allowed Nebraska's largest electric utility to back the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in litigation seeking to undo the agency's fast-track approval of the utility's 226-mile high-voltage transmission project.

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Philly Injection Site Row Judge Rejects Nonprofit's 'Ploy'

By P.J. D'Annunzio

A Pennsylvania federal judge on Thursday called the addition of overdose prevention nonprofit Safehouse's president as a counterclaim plaintiff in the government's suit to stop it from launching a safe-injection site in Philadelphia a "ploy" to add another to the ranks of those claiming the government infringed the group's religious freedom.

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US Again Urges High Court To Back Drug Price Program

By Mark Payne

The administration of President Donald Trump again urged the Supreme Court not to hear a challenge to the Medicare drug price negotiation program, arguing against a constitutional challenge brought by Boehringer Ingelheim that drug companies aren't forced to accept lower prices because they can choose not to participate. 

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FCC's Carr Signals No Slowdown In 'Public Interest' Battles

By Christopher Cole

Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr signaled Thursday that his effort to make broadcasters fulfill their "public interest" obligations will continue with potential legal actions well into the Trump administration.

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Ga. Jail Policy Scrutinized In Bookstore's Free Speech Suit

By Kelcey Caulder

A Georgia federal judge pored over a county jail's policy of only allowing in books sent from authorized retailers, as jail leadership argued its approach was narrowly tailored and a local bookstore claimed it was arbitrary and unconstitutional.

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Conspiracy Claims Not 'Plausible,' Insurers Tell Calif. Judge

By Rae Ann Varona

California homeowners affected by the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires cannot "plausibly" allege insurers conspired to eliminate competition in the marketplace, an attorney for Chubb and other insurers told a California state judge Thursday in a bid to toss the homeowners' litigation, chalking market exits to insurers' independent economic interests.

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Kan. Expands Value Adjustment Rule To Residential Property

By Zak Kostro

Kansas expanded a requirement for county appraisers to adjust commercial property valuations or order an independent appraisal in certain cases to apply to residential property under a bill signed by the governor.

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DOL Urges 11th Circ. To Scrap ERISA Exhaustion Rule

By Kellie Mejdrich

The U.S. Department of Labor urged the full Eleventh Circuit to overturn precedent making it the only appellate court requiring workers to exhaust administrative remedies before bringing any statutory claims under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act. arguing that the standard is unfair and in conflict with ERISA.

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Miami Police Chief's Firing Was Justified, 11th Circ. Told

By David Minsky

Former Miami officials urged the Eleventh Circuit on Thursday to dismiss retaliation claims against them, arguing they're immune from a lawsuit brought by a police chief who alleged he was wrongfully terminated after informing the FBI and state law enforcement officials that corruption was occurring within the city.

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NC Prison Officials Defend Push For Quick Appeal Of Pay Suit

By Benjamin Morse

North Carolina prison officials defended their bid for an immediate appeal of a ruling finding correctional officers may be entitled to pay for all time spent inside prison facilities, rejecting the guards' argument that the court's reliance on a "robust" factual record precludes such an appeal.

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States Tell Jury That Live Nation Isn't Above The Law

By Stewart Bishop

Counsel for 33 states and the District of Columbia on Thursday urged a Manhattan federal jury to show the world that even "a $36 billion behemoth" like Live Nation isn't above antitrust laws and find it liable for flagrantly monopolizing the U.S. live entertainment market, to the detriment of artists, venue operators and fans.

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Cantwell Wants Fired FTC Dems At Senate Oversight Hearing

By Allison Grande

The top Democrat on the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee is pushing for the two commissioners who were fired from the Federal Trade Commission last year to be invited to an upcoming hearing, arguing that their presence is "necessary" to conduct proper oversight of how the Trump administration's influence has impacted the agency's work to protect consumers. 

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Irish Mallinckrodt Unit Stuck In Drug Price-Fixing Suit

By Ben Zigterman

An Irish entity of drugmaker Mallinckrodt waited too long to seek dismissal of a price-fixing lawsuit brought by states based on a lack of personal jurisdiction or proper service, a Connecticut federal judge has ruled, finding that the company first raised that argument more than five years after the complaint was filed.

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Ex-Law Officer Urges 4th Circ. To Uphold W.Va. Privacy Law

By Jared Foretek

The plaintiff in a lawsuit accusing data brokers of violating a West Virginia state law barring the dissemination of public officials' addresses and phone numbers defended the law's constitutionality Wednesday, arguing to the Fourth Circuit that it regulates speech "integral" to criminal conduct and shouldn't be subjected to strict scrutiny.

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ACLU Says DHS Database Expansion Risks Citizens' Privacy

By Britain Eakin

The American Civil Liberties Union has urged a D.C. federal judge to block the Trump administration's attempt to expand the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements system to include voter registration data, warning it will create a centralized surveillance platform.

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Ohio Man First To Be Convicted Under Anti-Revenge Porn Law

By Bonnie Eslinger

An Ohio man who sent to numerous women harassing messages that included nude images of the victims, both real and artificial intelligence-generated, became the first person to be convicted under a 2025 federal law targeting revenge porn, according to a Thursday announcement from the U.S. Department of Justice.

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Law Grad Loses Wrongful Incarceration Award After 2nd Review

By Aaron Keller

The Connecticut Claims Commissioner's Office has rescinded a $75,456 award to a pardoned Vanderbilt Law School graduate who said he was wrongfully incarcerated after defending himself in a March 2008 fight among teenagers, expressing doubt that its analysis was sound enough to justify it.

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Ex-Player Asks NC Justices To Revive School Negligence Suit

By Abigail Harrison

A former college football player is urging North Carolina justices to take up his appeal and rule that a lower court was wrong to hand a pretrial win to Gardner-Webb University, arguing a jury should decide if the school took reasonable care to protect him from "attempted murder."

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Trump Inks Deal With Library Groups Over Agency Cuts

By Gina Kim

The Trump administration reached a resolution Thursday in Washington, D.C., federal court with the American Library Association and a public sector union challenging an executive order eliminating an agency that disburses grants to libraries and museums, which means previously terminated grants will be reinstated and staff cuts will be rescinded. 

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Trade Court Shifts Tariff Refund Proceedings To New Suit

By Jack McLoone

The underlying U.S. Court of International Trade suit serving as the core of the government's development of a refund system for the now-invalidated International Emergency Economic Powers Act tariffs has changed after the original case was dismissed.

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ITC Probing Possible Harm Of 4 Countries' Chemical Imports

By Jack McLoone

The U.S. International Trade Commission on Thursday said it has opened antidumping duty investigations into imports of polytetramethylene ether glycol, or PTMEG, from China, South Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam to determine whether the imports are harming U.S. industry.

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UK Drafts Carbon Border Tax Rules To Match EU System

By Josh White

The U.K. tax authority released draft regulations on the country's carbon border tax regime Thursday that would broadly align it with the European Union's system for taxing carbon-intensive imports.

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IRS Urged To Clarify Foreign-Owner Rules For Energy Credits

By Kat Lucero

Public power and nuclear associations, along with battery groups, are among stakeholders urging the Internal Revenue Service to clarify foreign ownership rules that could disqualify projects from certain clean energy tax credits, emphasizing that timely guidance is critical to securing project financing.

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Suit Seeks To Kill Washington Tax On Earnings Above $1M

By Maria Koklanaris

Washington state's new tax on millionaires violates the state Constitution and should be invalidated, opponents told a state court Thursday.

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Colo. Appeals Court Upholds State Sanctuary Law

By Rachel Konieczny

A Colorado law that prohibits counties from entering into immigration detention agreements with the federal government does not violate the state's constitution, the Colorado Court of Appeals held Thursday in rejecting Douglas County's challenge to the law.

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DOJ Calls Immigrant Legal Aid Wasteful In Budget Push

By Courtney Bublé

Tucked into the Trump administration's budget request for fiscal 2027, the U.S. Department of Justice is trying once again to take an ax to a program that provides legal assistance to noncitizens.

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NY Group Says ICE Quotas Lead To Warrantless Arrests

By Ganesh Setty

Latino New Yorkers accused the Trump administration of executing an unconstitutional policy of racial profiling and warrantless arrests amid its crackdown on illegal immigrants, telling a New York federal court that underlying the policy is an arrest quota from the top.

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Wash. Justices Oust Judge Pro Tem Over Forged Parking Doc

By Ben Adlin

Washington's highest court voted unanimously Thursday to remove a substitute judge from his King County District Court post for forging a court document in an effort to save $10 on daily parking costs.

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Rivera's Ex-Partner Kept Cut Of $50M Venezuela Contract

By Carolina Bolado

Real estate developer and convicted drug trafficker Hugo Perera told jurors Thursday he regretted "1,000%" getting involved with former U.S. Rep. David Rivera in a $50 million contract with a unit of Venezuela's state-owned oil company but admitted he kept his $5 million cut of the deal.

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7th Circ. Judge Questions Madigan Jury's Intent Instruction

By Lauraann Wood

A Seventh Circuit judge appeared skeptical Thursday that jurors received a proper intent instruction before they ultimately convicted former Illinois House speaker Michael Madigan of participating in bribery schemes involving Exelon Corp. subsidiary Commonwealth Edison and a former Chicago alderman.

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Feds Cast Calif. Tribe's Opioid Clinic Fight As Money Grab

By Crystal Owens

The federal government says it had justification for rejecting a California tribe's request for an agreement to fund an opioid treatment center, claiming that a challenge over the denial is more about trying to monetize on advantages available to Indigenous nations and less about helping patients.

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FCC Plans To End '90s Framework For Satellite Power Limits

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission released details late Thursday of its plan to replace a 1990s-era framework for satellite power limits, saying the rules will be replaced with a system requiring space companies to coordinate to avoid signal disruption.

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3 Federal Policy Trends Shaping Data Center Power

With the White House, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and Congress each pushing energy policies that will influence how data centers are sited, powered and interconnected for years to come, industry stakeholders should understand compliance obligations, consider possible downstream effects, and evaluate off-grid and self-supply energy options, say attorneys at ArentFox Schiff.

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Human Authorship Is Still Central To Copyright Eligibility

In declining to review the D.C. Circuit's ruling in Thaler v. Perlmutter — holding that a work purely generated by artificial intelligence cannot be copyrighted — the U.S. Supreme Court has reinforced the human authorship requirement, so it is critical for creators of AI-assisted projects to document their involvement, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.

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'Made In America' Rules Raise Stakes For Gov't Contractors

The convergence of widely varying "buy American" requirements, increased enforcement efforts and continuing regulatory attempts to limit foreign sourcing suggests that government contractors should carefully review their supply chain and country-of-origin compliance to remain competitive, say attorneys at Arnold & Porter.

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Recent Bank Resolution Filings Stress Readiness Over Docs

Against the backdrop of banking regulators' recent emphasis on institutional readiness in the event of a bank failure, a review of more than a dozen public resolution plan submissions points to an immediate future in which regulators and banks alike prioritize operational preparedness over extensive documentation, say attorneys at Moore & Van Allen.

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Series

Alpine Skiing Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Skiing has shaped habits I rely on daily as an attorney — focus, resilience and the ability to remain steady when circumstances shift rapidly — and influences the way I approach legal strategy, client counseling and teamwork, says Isaku Begert at Marshall Gerstein.

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The 2026 Law360 Pulse Lawyer Satisfaction Survey

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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Lewis Brisbois Accused Of Ignoring Racism, Unethical Billing

By Aebra Coe

A former national billing director of Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP filed a lawsuit in California state court this week accusing the firm of ignoring racist conduct and sexual harassment by partners, and alleging unethical billing practices and even embezzlement.

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Fed. Circ. Chief Feels 'Bright-Line Rule Coming' For IP Marking

By Dani Kass

As a Federal Circuit panel reprimanded embattled attorney William Ramey on Thursday for the "disrespect" shown in his failed 3D glasses patent litigation against Volkswagen, the Federal Circuit's chief judge suggested precedent may be needed to define the role of marking in admissionless settlements.

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Trade Secrets Suit Is A 'Far-Flung Conspiracy,' Law Firm Says

By Adam Lidgett

A Georgia law firm wants a Nevada federal court to throw out a lawsuit accusing it of stealing trade secrets from litigation lead generator Archetype Capital Partners, calling the whole case "a far-flung conspiracy."

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MMA Law Accuses Lawyer, Insurance Co. Of RICO Scheme

By Emily Sawicki

Embattled Texas firm MMA Law has filed nearly a score of complaints amid an ongoing bankruptcy action, including accusing a Louisiana attorney, his wife and an insurer of working together to "target, dismantle and destroy" the firm in an effort to avoid sharing a cut of legal fees stemming from storm damage claims.

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