A full panel of Eleventh Circuit judges on Tuesday handed a win to Florida and issued a split opinion vacating an order halting enforcement of a state law prohibiting children at drag shows, finding it wasn't unconstitutionally vague and that the lower court lacked authority to issue a broad injunction.
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Full 11th Circ. Says Fla. Can Enforce Drag Show Law

By David Minsky

A full panel of Eleventh Circuit judges on Tuesday handed a win to Florida and issued a split opinion vacating an order halting enforcement of a state law prohibiting children at drag shows, finding it wasn't unconstitutionally vague and that the lower court lacked authority to issue a broad injunction.

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Approach The Bench: Judge Rakoff Doesn't Hide His Views

By Cara Bayles and Steven Trader

During his decades on the bench, U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff has witnessed a slew of changes, particularly as technology has brought a rise in cybercrimes, as well as novel questions like whether AI-generated legal advice is privileged. But perhaps the biggest shift was in Rakoff's own views.

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Blanche Advances After GOP Sens. Win Written Assurances

By Courtney Bublé

The Senate Judiciary Committee voted to advance acting Attorney General Todd Blanche's nomination for the permanent position Tuesday, after Sens. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., and John Cornyn, R-Texas, said they would support him.

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NC Judge Who Upheld Voter ID Law To Take Senior Status

By Courtney Bublé

Judge Thomas Schroeder of the Middle District of North Carolina has informed the president he will take semi-retired status at a date later in the future.

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5th Circ. Weighs KKK Act For 'Trump Train' Driver

By Spencer Brewer

A Fifth Circuit judge wanted to know why the Ku Klux Klan Act should apply to a member of the "Trump Train" convoy who collided with a campaign vehicle in 2020, questioning Tuesday whether supporters of then-presidential nominee Joe Biden fell under the law's description.

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Fla. AG Requests Impeachment Probe Into 11th Circ. Judge

By Carolina Bolado

Florida's Attorney General said Monday he is asking Congress to open an impeachment inquiry into U.S. Circuit Judge Nancy Abudu because of work she did before ascending to the Eleventh Circuit bench for the Southern Poverty Law Center.

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5th Circ. Hints Texas App Age-Check Law Needs More Review

By Spencer Brewer

A Fifth Circuit panel wanted to know whether the lower court should have gone "provision by provision" before halting a Texas law that requires app store owners to block minors from downloading apps without parental consent, suggesting the lower court needed to do more while weighing the legislation's constitutionality.

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ABA Gives Symbolic Support For Law School DEI Standards

By Emily Sawicki

In a split vote, American Bar Association House of Delegates members on Tuesday elected to uphold a rule requiring law schools to demonstrate DEI standards, but then followed up with a vote allowing another path to removing the standards, in an effort to avoid the Trump administration's threat to strip the ABA of accreditation authority.

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ABA Seeks Bar Exam Reform Following Tech Failures

By Emily Sawicki

Over the course of its two-day annual meeting, the American Bar Association's policymaking body, the House of Delegates, approved measures to urge further bar exam oversight and backed measures to support law schools at accredited historically Black colleges and universities.

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ELECTION FIGHTS

Colo. Judge Tosses DOJ's Suit Seeking State Voter Data

By Zach Dupont

A Colorado federal judge has ruled the Trump administration can't force Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold to hand over an unredacted copy of the state's voter registration list, after finding the government has no right to the records under the Civil Rights Act.

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BANKING & SECURITIES

FDIC Gives Green Light To 'AI-Native' Augustus National Bank

By Jon Hill

A top U.S. banking agency said Tuesday that it has signed off on deposit insurance coverage for Augustus National Bank NA, advancing the newly chartered startup's plans to build out a full-service platform for crypto firms, high-net-worth clients and other players in the digital economy.

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CFTC's Selig Has Crypto Rules Ready Even If Clarity Bill Stalls

By Aislinn Keely

U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Michael Selig on Tuesday said his agency has rule proposals "ready to go" if Congress passes its Clarity Act to regulate crypto markets, and it will move forward with those rulemakings whether the bill succeeds.

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Alibaba Investor Says E-Com Giant Hid China Military, AI Risks

By Katryna Perera

Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba was hit Tuesday with a suit accusing it of misleading shareholders about both its status as a Chinese military company in the eyes of the U.S. government and about its allegedly ongoing illicit activity tied to accessing third-party artificial intelligence models.

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States Warn SEC Against 'Unlawful' Climate Rule Withdrawal

By Jessica Corso

A coalition of Democratic attorneys general are warning the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that its plan to discard a corporate climate disclosure regulation is "unlawful," adding their voices to a chorus of state and local pension funds urging the agency to abandon the planned regulatory withdrawal.

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ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL

DC Circ. Upholds Injunction Forcing EPA To Fund Clean Energy

By Jared Foretek

A split D.C. Circuit affirmed a lower court decision blocking the Trump administration from freezing $20 billion in clean-energy grant money Tuesday, overturning a divided circuit panel decision from September that vacated the injunction and would have allowed the administration to claw back the funding.

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5th Circ. Confronts Intervention Row In Prairie-Chicken Suit

By Tom Lotshaw

A Fifth Circuit panel appeared skeptical of a U.S. government attorney's assertion that an environmental advocacy group waited too long to enter a lawsuit to contest the Trump administration's decision to scrap an endangered species listing for the lesser prairie-chicken.

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Cement Group Challenges Hazardous Waste Combustor Rule

By Jared Foretek

An organization representing the cement industry has asked the D.C. Circuit to review the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's new technology review rule for hazardous waste combustors, alleging the regulation may run afoul of the Clean Air Act and the Administrative Procedure Act.

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IP & TECHNOLOGY

TikTok Regulatory Chief Joins Pillsbury's New Tech Practice

By Christine DeRosa

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP announced that it has launched an emerging technology laws and litigation practice, adding TikTok's head of North America regulatory to serve as the practice's co-leader.

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MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

Paramount-Warner Merger Challenges Get March 2027 Trial

By Lauren Berg

The California federal judge overseeing challenges of Paramount Skydance Corp.'s planned $110 billion purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery set a trial date for March 2027.

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Paramount CEO Says Warner Challenge Is About Politics

By Matthew Perlman

Paramount Skydance Corp. CEO David Ellison said Tuesday that a challenge of the company's planned purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery from state enforcers is really about CNN and concerns that his politics could impact news coverage.

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Raskin Warns Of House Probe Into FCC Chief's ABC Actions

By Christopher Cole

Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin has signaled that congressional probes of the Federal Communications Commission could be on the way if the agency staff continues down a path of potentially revoking the licenses of eight Walt Disney Co.-owned ABC stations.

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Brief

Milwaukee Radio Licensee Resolves FCC Probe For $8K

By Christopher Cole

A Milwaukee radio station licensee reached a consent decree with the Federal Communications Commission for $8,000 to end an investigation into whether it failed to properly clear a transfer of control with the agency.

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TRANSPORTATION & INFRASTRUCTURE

5th Circ. Revives Penske Vicarious Liability Suit

By Linda Chiem

The Fifth Circuit Tuesday revived a lawsuit alleging trucking services giant Penske Logistics LLC and its freight broker affiliate Penske Transportation Management LLC are vicariously liable for a fatal 2018 Texas collision, after the U.S. Supreme Court's recent Montgomery ruling reshaped brokers' liability exposure.

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REAL ESTATE

Ore. Court Tweaks Land, Building Values For $79M Complex

By Sanjay Talwani

The Oregon Tax Court refused to lower an apartment complex's $79 million valuation but agreed with the owner that the land component of the property was undervalued, adjusting the land and building values accordingly.

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NYC Extends Deadline For Pied-À-Terre Tax Exemptions

By Isaac Monterose

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has extended the deadline for applying for exemptions from a "pied-à-terre" tax on second NYC homes that the city values at $1 million or more, setting the new deadline as Sept. 18.

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EMPLOYMENT & BENEFITS

NYC Retirees Ink $53M In Healthcare Copay Class Action

By Gina Kim

New York City and EmblemHealth will pay $53 million to resolve a class action complaint covering more than 250,000 Medicare-eligible retirees who alleged the defendants illegally charged $15 copays onto their healthcare costs, according to a preliminary approval motion filed Friday in New York state court.

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Union Sues Texas A&M Over Ban On Gender, Race Topics

By Emily Brill

Texas A&M University is violating the U.S. Constitution by banning professors from teaching politically disfavored views on gender, race and sexuality, a professors' union argues in a new lawsuit, asking a Texas federal court to repeal the ban.

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COMPETITION

Google Accused Of Antitrust Behavior In Ad Tech Practices

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

A rival technology company has accused Google of violating antitrust law by restricting competition in digital advertising markets.

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AGs Can't Yet Get Discovery Into Live Nation's DOJ Deal

By Craig Clough

A New York federal judge on Tuesday rejected a request by some state attorneys general for discovery into the Justice Department's antitrust settlement reached midtrial with Live Nation, ruling that the scope of the request is "unclear" but the AGs can try again with "narrow and targeted requests."

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Search Rival, Advocates Back DOJ Against Google In DC Circ.

By Bryan Koenig

Academics, policy experts, advocacy groups and several rivals lent their voices Tuesday to the U.S. Department of Justice's defense of its monopolization win over Google, while urging the D.C. Circuit to strengthen the "relatively modest remedies" they say leave Google able to dominate both search and artificial intelligence.

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CYBERSECURITY & PRIVACY

States Sue Trump Admin Over Aid Recipients' Data Disclosure

By Celeste Bott

New York, Illinois and 20 other states sued the Trump administration Monday to block a new policy that would authorize the disclosure of sensitive personal information, including Social Security numbers and immigration status, of their residents receiving temporary financial assistance.

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Wyden Presses States To Tackle Data Privacy Law Evasion

By Hailey Konnath

Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., has asked a handful of state regulators to issue clear guidance on their data privacy laws and band together and go after companies that are selectively ignoring consumers' requests to opt out of the sale of their data.

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CONSUMER PROTECTION

US Beekeepers Say USDA Mislabels 'Organic' Foreign Honey

By Ben Adlin

Federal regulations wrongly allow foreign honey producers to describe their products as "organic" while at the same time barring large-scale production of organic honey domestically, a group of commercial beekeepers claimed Monday in a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

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PERSONAL INJURY & MEDICAL MALPRACTICE

DC Circ. Says Feds' $629M Settlement Belongs In Terror Fund

By Ganesh Setty

The federal government must deposit $629 million earned from settled bank fraud and sanctions violation charges against a tobacco company into a fund supporting victims of state-sponsored terror, the D.C. Circuit ruled Tuesday, favoring two victims of terror attacks in Lebanon.

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GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS

3rd Circ. Won't Give Ex-Olympus Exec Another Go At FCA Suit

By Gina Kim

The Third Circuit has declined to revive a whistleblower suit by Olympus Corp.'s former employee who claimed he was fired after reporting FDA regulatory violations, ruling Tuesday that he failed to state a retaliation claim under the False Claims Act since he didn't link his concerns to a reasonable belief that Olympus defrauded the government.

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INTERNATIONAL TRADE

Brief

ITC Tees Up Duties On Norwegian, Australian Silicon Metals

By Jack McLoone

The U.S. International Trade Commission affirmed U.S. businesses have been harmed by imported silicon metals arriving from Norway and Australia that are being sold at unfair prices, setting up duties orders from the U.S. Department of Commerce.

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Brief

Commerce Flags Indonesian Fatty Acid Surge In Duty Probe

By Jack McLoone

Imports of fatty acids from Indonesia into the U.S. appear to have surged in response to the opening of a countervailing duty investigation into the products, the U.S. Department of Commerce found Tuesday, setting up possible retroactive duties for some companies.

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Brief

Mexico, Japan Eye Trade Cooperation On Energy, AI

By Dylan Moroses

Mexico and Japan are looking to heighten their coordination on trade matters in fields including energy and technology, the two governments said after a meeting of officials.

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TAX

Fla. Homestead Exemption Ballot Question Must Be Changed

By Jaqueline McCool

The Florida attorney general has 10 days to submit a revised title and summary for a ballot question that proposes boosting the state's homestead tax exemption, after a state judge found the current language misleading and ordered a change.

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Ex-Booz Allen Worker Says Sen. Scott's Tax Leak Claims Late

By Zak Kostro

A former employee of federal contractor Booz Allen Hamilton asked a Florida federal court to toss claims against him by Sen. Rick Scott over the leak of his personal tax returns, saying the suit was filed too late and in the wrong jurisdiction.

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BANKRUPTCY

Senate Reenacts Small Business, Consumer Debt Limit Hikes

By Vince Sullivan

The U.S. Senate passed the Bankruptcy Threshold Adjustment Act of 2026 by unanimous consent, taking steps to make permanent the higher debt limits that apply to small business and consumer debtors first implemented during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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IMMIGRATION

OpenAI To Pay $3.2M In DOJ Visa Worker Bias Settlement

By Sarah Jarvis

OpenAI and its subsidiary will pay $3.2 million to settle allegations from the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division that the technology giant discriminated against U.S. workers in favor of workers with temporary employment visas in violation of the Immigration and Nationality Act, the DOJ announced Tuesday.

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1st Circ. Panel Splits Over Stay Of Somalia TPS Termination

By Ganesh Setty

The First Circuit urged a Massachusetts federal district court to promptly adjudicate the Trump administration's bid to dissolve an administrative stay delaying its revocation of temporary protected status for Somalia, noting there's a new administrative stay replacing the one on appeal.

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Md. Judge Blocks Ban On Voting Aid For New Citizens

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

A Maryland federal judge has blocked a Trump administration policy preventing nonpartisan organizations from helping newly naturalized citizens register to vote at naturalization ceremonies.

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DOJ Calls Connecticut ICE Law 'Blantantly Unconstitutional'

By Bonnie Eslinger

The U.S. Department of Justice pushed back against Connecticut's bid to toss the federal government's legal challenge to a state law subjecting in-custody deaths to state oversight, requiring federal agents to wear identifying badges, and banning law enforcement officers from wearing facemasks, calling the act "blatantly unconstitutional."

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Workers Say Trump's Gold Card Lets Rich Jump Visa Line

By Elaine Briseño

Professional, skilled workers seeking employment-based visas urged a D.C. federal judge not to toss their lawsuit challenging the gold card visa program, arguing they will suffer injury because the expedited application allows wealthy individuals to skip ahead in line.

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NATIVE AMERICAN

Climate Crisis Costs Top $8B In Indian Country, Justices Told

By Crystal Owens

More than a dozen Indigenous nations, federal Indian law professors and tribal organizations are backing Boulder County, Colorado, in the Supreme Court, telling the justices that climate change has already caused roughly $8 billion in disruptions across Indian Country, yet the federal government provides only $400 million to mitigate them.

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Corps, Enbridge Seek Win In Tribe's Line 5 Reroute Permit Suit

By Crystal Owens

The federal government and Enbridge Energy are looking to dismiss a challenge to a permit that allows 41 miles of pipeline to be rerouted around a Wisconsin tribe's lands, arguing that any attempts to find flaws in an environmental analysis for the plan are hasty and lack merit.

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Food Safety Group Says Tribe Needn't Join Fish Farm Suit

By Corey Rothauser

The Center for Food Safety and Wild Fish Conservancy have urged a Washington federal judge to reject Pacific Seafood's argument that the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation must be joined in their Clean Water Act suit over three Columbia River fish farms.

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TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Commerce Targets Dec. Restart For Digital Equity Grants

By Nadia Dreid

The U.S. Department of Commerce should be ready to start accepting applications for the reinstated Digital Equity Competitive Grant Program, the Trump administration has told a D.C. federal judge after he struck down part of the law behind the grant as unconstitutional.

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Wash. State Says FCC's High-Cost Overhaul Plan Is Flawed

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

Washington state officials are pushing back against some aspects of a plan being considered by the Federal Communications Commission to overhaul the program that helps fund broadband deployment to rural and other "high cost" areas.

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Brief

Tech Cos. Say FCC Must Keep Unlicensed Device Framework

By Nadia Dreid

The FCC plans to vote later this week to open up 200 megahertz of unlicensed spectrum for satellite use, but Broadcom Inc., Intel Corp. and Cisco Systems Inc. think there are a few ways the agency could better "emphasize" its point that the current spectrum framework shouldn't be undermined.

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CANNABIS

35 AGs Urge Congress Not To Delay Hemp Ban Rollout

By Sam Reisman

A bipartisan coalition of state attorneys general is urging Congress not to approve language in a pending continuing resolution that would delay the implementation of a ban on virtually all intoxicating hemp products for one month.

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Texas Hemp Suit Says Federal Law Preempts State Policy

By Sam Reisman

A trio of hemp interests have brought a new federal lawsuit against Texas officials challenging the constitutionality of new state-led restrictions redesignating intoxicating hemp products as Schedule I substances.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Fed Report Underscores Focus On Nonbank, CRE Risks

The Federal Reserve Board's latest supervision and regulation report highlights that broad systemic stability will not insulate individual institutions from rigorous supervisory challenges regarding concentrated commercial real estate portfolios and nonbank partnerships, says Daniel Meade at Hogan Lovells.

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3 Upcoming Deadlines That EB-5 Investors Should Consider

Potential EB-5 regional center investors should weigh three approaching deadlines, the most immediate of which is Sept. 30, that may affect their filing strategy, required capital commitment and ability to participate even if Congress fails to reauthorize the program, says Michael Ashoori at Ashoori Law.

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AI, Prediction Markets Lead Securities Developments In 2026

Securities class actions tied to artificial intelligence and the battle over prediction market regulation both raise novel questions that courts are only beginning to address and that will continue to resonate throughout the second half of the year, say attorneys at Skadden.

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Key Compliance Insights From Calif.'s Volvo Diesel Deal

While the future of California's vehicle emissions standards under the Clean Air Act is uncertain, the state's recent settlement with Volvo over diesel emissions hinges on the truthfulness of manufacturer representations to state regulators, and offers important lessons for companies on compliance and recordkeeping, says Thierry Montoya at FBT Gibbons.

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Why A Class Was Certified In Financial Aid Info-Sharing Case

The recent Illinois federal court decision in Corzo v. Brown University offers key guidance for defendants confronting class certification in antitrust matters, highlighting how typicality can be satisfied despite class members attending different universities, receiving different aid awards and being affected across different time periods, say attorneys at Baker McKenzie.

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CIPA Tech Tracking Suits Highlight Uncertain Legal Ground

Alexandra Samofalova at Spencer Fane discusses the state of California Invasion of Privacy Act website tracking litigation, why credible defendants choose to settle and how the businesses best positioned to face this uncertain legal landscape are the ones treating data practices as a legal compliance matter to address today.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Brown Rudnick Adds 34 Attys, Will Open Silicon Valley Office

By Daniel Moritz-Rabson

Brown Rudnick LLP announced on Wednesday that it had lured a 34-attorney intellectual property litigation group from Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP and would be opening a Silicon Valley office with many of those lawyers.

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Law Grad Employment Remains High As BigLaw Drives Hires

By Aebra Coe

Class of 2025 law school graduates posted near-record high employment rates, with large law firms hiring more graduates than any other industry category as federal government hiring experienced a significant decline, according to new data released Wednesday.

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Analysis

These Firms Are Picking Up The Most PTAB Work

By Theresa Schliep

Intellectual property heavyweight Fish & Richardson PC remains the busiest firm in front of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, as it again secured the top spot on a list of firms with the most PTAB trials over the past three years.

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Murdaugh Loses Jury Tampering Suit Against Ex-Court Clerk

By Jake Maher

A South Carolina federal judge on Wednesday dismissed disgraced attorney Alex Murdaugh's jury tampering suit against a former court clerk who was found to have interfered in his murder trial, ruling there was no connection between his alleged damages and the ex-clerk's misconduct.

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New Mexico Joins States With Alternative Atty License Paths

By Jack Karp

Law school graduates will soon be able to earn their license to practice in New Mexico by working under an attorney's supervision and demonstrating their legal skills rather than by taking the bar exam, the state's Supreme Court chief justice told Law360 Pulse on Wednesday.

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New Mexico Says Blanche, DOJ Blocked Epstein Ranch Probe

By Lauren Berg

The state of New Mexico asked a Washington, D.C., federal court Wednesday to force the U.S. Department of Justice to hand over unredacted Jeffrey Epstein investigative files, saying it needs the materials for its own investigation of alleged crimes at the late sex offender's Santa Fe County ranch.

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Texas Firm Lands $150M HHS Services Deal For Migrant Kids

By Britain Eakin

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said it has entered into a $150 million contract with a small Texas law firm to provide legal services to unaccompanied immigrant children, raising concerns from former subcontractors about the firm's experience with immigration matters.

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Simpson Thacher Witness Takes Aim At PIPE Stocks Claim

By Madison Arnold

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP wrapped up its defense Wednesday to a Florida state malpractice suit from the founder of Patriot National Inc. over the firm's handling of a private investment in public equity transaction, with a stock market expert testifying that short selling stock allowed under the deal didn't lead to the insurance services company's downfall.

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Conn. Atty To Fork Over $3,500 For AI Errors In Taco TM Beef

By Brian Steele

A Connecticut federal judge imposed a $3,500 fine on a defense attorney who submitted two motions riddled with AI-generated mistakes in a taco restaurant's trademark battle, finding that although the lawyer expressed remorse and promised to make changes to his verification process, he still showed "subjective bad faith."

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Sierra Leone Isn't Responding To Its Own Attys, Judge Told

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

A second law firm now says it is being iced out by the government of Sierra Leone in a yearslong legal battle that began over the country's dispute with a U.K.-based mining company.

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NY Legal Aid Union Averts Strike After 4 Months Of Talks

By Andrea Keckley

Another New York legal aid union has reached a deal with its organization's management, averting the possibility of a strike after its contract and those of four other unions expired at the end of June.

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CREXi Wants 9th Circ. To Undo Quinn Emanuel CoStar Row DQ

By Bryan Koenig

Commercial Real Estate Exchange Inc. doesn't want to replace Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP after a California federal judge disqualified the firm from defending a copyright infringement suit by CoStar, seeking Ninth Circuit intervention and a pause on the district court case.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Apollo Law LLC

Ashoori Law

Ashurst Perkins

Baker McKenzie

Beck Redden

Berchem Moses

Bracewell LLP

Bradley Arant

Bricker Graydon

Brown Rudnick

Burns Charest

Chamblee Ryan

Cohen & Gresser

Cohen Seglias

Colombo & Hurd

Conrad & Scherer

Cooley LLP

Covington & Burling

Cozen O'Connor

Cravath Swaine

Crowell & Moring

Cuneo Gilbert

Davis Polk

Davis Wright Tremaine

Drummond Woodsum

Duane Morris

Elias Law Group LLP

Elzer Law Firm

FBT Gibbons

Farmer Brownstein

Finnegan

Fish & Richardson

Foley Hoag

Foster Garvey

Fried Frank

Griffin Humphries

HSF Kramer

Hecker Fink

Hogan Lovells

Holwell Shuster

Hunton Andrews

Irvine & Conner

Jenner & Block

Kellogg Hansen

Kelly Hart

Kirkland & Ellis

Latham & Watkins

Marshall Dennehey

Milbank LLP

Munger Tolles

O'Melveny & Myers

Paul Hastings

Paul Weiss

Peifer Hanson

Penn Law Firm

Pillsbury Winthrop

Pollock Cohen

Proskauer Rose

Quinn Emanuel

Richard A. Harpootlian PA

Ropes & Gray

Rosen Law Firm PA

Rosenberg & Estis

Russ August

Schouest Bamdas

Schwabe Williamson

Shinder Cantor

Shutts & Bowen

Sidley Austin

Simonsen Sussman

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

Singleton Schreiber

Skadden Arps

Spencer Fane

Stearns Weaver

Steptoe LLP

Sterne Kessler

The Banks Law Firm PA

Venable LLP

Walden Haran

Webber & Thies

Weiss Serota

Wheeler Trigg

Wilkinson Stekloff

Williams & Connolly

Willkie Farr

Willson Jones

Wilson Sonsini

Winston Taylor

Yetter Coleman

Zimmer Citron

Ziontz Chestnut

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

AB Volvo

Adient PLC

African Communities Together

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.

AlixPartners LLP

Alphabet Inc.

Amazon.com Inc.

American Association of University Professors

American Bankruptcy Institute

American Bar Association

American Civil Liberties Union

American Economic Liberties Project

Amica Center for Immigrant Rights

Anthropic PBC

Apple Inc.

Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp.

British American Tobacco PLC

Broadcom Inc.

Brooklyn Defender Services

Burke Inc.

CBS Interactive Inc.

Cable News Network Inc.

Campaign Legal Center

Center for Biological Diversity Inc.

Center for Family Representation Inc.

Center for Justice

Cisco Systems Inc.

Citigroup Inc.

CoStar Group Inc.

Computer & Communications Industry Association

Cornell University

Costco Wholesale Corp.

DuckDuckGo Inc.

Earthjustice

Elegant Enterprise-Wide Solutions Inc.

EmblemHealth Inc.

Enbridge Energy Partners LP

Ennis Inc.

Expedia Group Inc.

Exxon Mobil Corp.

Genentech Inc.

Gerald Holdings LLC

Google LLC

Griswold

Instagram Inc.

Intel Corp.

Lex Machina Inc.

LexisNexis Legal & Professional

Line 5 LLC

LinkedIn Corp.

Live Nation Entertainment Inc.

Los Angeles Times

Makah Tribe

Marriott International Inc.

MedImmune LLC

Microsoft Corp.

Mozilla Corp.

Muslim Advocates

NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund Inc.

National Association for Law Placement Inc.

Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem

Netflix Inc.

Olympus Corp.

OpenAI OpCo LLC

PT Musim Mas

Pacific Seafood

Patriot National Inc.

Penske Automotive Group Inc.

Peraton Corp.

Protect Democracy Project Inc.

Public Citizen Inc.

Public Counsel

RELX PLC

Real Estate Board of New York

Reddit Inc.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

Seattle University

Sierra Club

Skydance Media LLC

Smart Approaches to Marijuana

Southern Poverty Law Center Inc.

Spectrum Management Holding Co.

Spotify Technology SA

Stanford University

StubHub Inc.

Suncor Energy Inc.

Texas Civil Rights Project

The Bronx Defenders

The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law

The Texas A&M University System

The Walt Disney Co.

TikTok Inc.

Trump Organization Inc.

Twitter Inc.

United Auto Workers

Walmart Inc.

Warner Bros. Discovery Inc.

Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.

Yelp Inc.

ZoomInfo Technologies Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Administration for Children and Families

Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Tribe

Bay Mills Indian Community

Bureau of Indian Affairs

California Air Resources Board

California Attorney General's Office

California Department of Justice

California Privacy Protection Agency

California Supreme Court

City of New York

Colorado Secretary of State

Colorado Supreme Court

Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation

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