High Court To Issue Big Decisions In Term's Final Days

By Katie Buehler

As the U.S. Supreme Court enters the final days of its term, the justices still have several major decisions to issue, including some concerning birthright citizenship, the president's power to remove independent agency officials, transgender athletes and election rules. 

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Panhandling Ban In Fla. City Unconstitutional, 11th Circ. Says

By Carolina Bolado

The Eleventh Circuit ruled Friday that a city ordinance in Daytona Beach, Florida, criminalizing panhandling is unconstitutional, but vacated part of an injunction blocking its enforcement after finding that the plaintiffs did not have standing to challenge every provision of the ordinance.

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DC Circ. Preserves Biden-Era EPA Soot Rule

By Keith Goldberg

The D.C. Circuit Friday rejected challenges from Republican states and business groups to a Biden-era rule setting tighter national limits on soot, as well as the Trump administration's request to vacate the rule.

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DC Circ. Backs CMS In Medicare Advantage Rating Fight

By Corey Rothauser

A D.C. Circuit panel on Friday upheld the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' calculation of a Louisiana insurer's Medicare Advantage star rating, rejecting the insurer's claims that the agency unlawfully included data from a contract that had been folded into another one.

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John Bolton Pleads Guilty In Classified Info Case

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton and Jared Foretek

Former National Security Adviser John Bolton pled guilty Friday to charges that he illegally retained classified national defense information and shared it with family members after prosecutors said that an individual associated with the Iranian government accessed classified information through a hack of his personal email.

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Fla. Justices 'Recede' From Opinion On Forced-Entry Evidence

By Parker Quinlan

A split Florida Supreme Court has ruled that defendants must not suppress evidence obtained under a valid search warrant where officers violated the state's "knock-and-announce" laws, walking back a previous decision.

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Analysis

Georgia Cases To Watch In The Last Half Of 2026

By Kelcey Caulder

Georgia faces major litigation in the second half of 2026, including disputes over data center growth, PFAS contamination and whether companies can be forced to fund medical monitoring for people alleging no current injuries. Here, Law360 highlights some of the biggest cases to keep an eye on in the Peach State.

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Mich. Appeals Court OKs Counting Ballots With Stub Errors

By Susan Smiley

A Michigan state appeals court said in an opinion issued Friday that absentee ballots with stub discrepancies should be counted as challenged ballots, reversing a decision by the state's Court of Claims.

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SEC, CFTC Seek Input To Align Portfolio Margining Rules

By Aislinn Keely

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday issued a joint call for feedback on ways they can align their respective portfolio margining requirements to clear the path for leveraged trading involving both equities and derivatives markets.

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Disposables Co. Says Ore. Recycling Law Is Unconstitutional

By Ganesh Setty

A supplier of disposable food service supplies has told an Oregon federal court the state's recycling modernization law has deprived the company of its constitutional due process rights by enlisting a private entity to set fees, classify materials and conduct other regulatory actions.

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Texas Justices Revive Woman's Detransition Malpractice Suit

By Spencer Brewer

The Texas Supreme Court revived a young woman's claims against a counselor for negligently recommending gender-affirming care, saying Friday that the clock started ticking on the woman's medical malpractice claims after the completion of treatment with her counselor.

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ABC Viewers Seek License Denials If Disney Cuts FCC Deal

By Christopher Cole

Several media advocacy groups and ABC viewers petitioned the Federal Communications Commission Friday to deny broadcast license renewals to eight Disney-owned stations if they strike a deal with the FCC meant to keep their operations intact.

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Kalshi Loses Bid To Keep Mich. Gambling Suit In Fed. Court

By Katryna Perera

A Michigan federal judge has remanded to state court a suit by Michigan's attorney general against Kalshi over claims the prediction market platform is violating state gambling laws, finding Kalshi failed to sufficiently argue that the suit should remain in federal court.

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Caesars Expands Maine Tribal IGaming Agreement Amid Suit

By Crystal Owens

Caesars Entertainment Inc. says it has expanded an existing partnership with three of Maine's Wabanaki Nations to include online casino gambling within the state, with a launch date this year, pending regulatory approvals.

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Quinnipiac Athletes Say Team Downgrade Was Title IX Payback

By Aaron Keller

Quinnipiac University should be stopped from demoting its women's rugby team from varsity to club status because the school seized the earliest opportunity to retaliate against a coach who raised Title IX complaints, current and recruited players told a Connecticut federal judge Friday.

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At Angola Farm Line Trial, An Enduring Debate Over Slavery

By Marco Poggio

A years long federal case over forced agricultural labor at Louisiana's Angola prison raised questions about prison labor and its ties to slavery, but ended earlier this year with a judge's refusal to halt the practice despite finding workers remained exposed to dangerous heat. Advocates say that was a mistake.

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Analysis

5 ERISA Cases To Keep An Eye On In The Second Half Of 2026

By Kellie Mejdrich

A U.S. Supreme Court challenge to Intel Corp.'s 401(k) investment lineup tops the list of cases benefits attorneys will be watching this summer and fall, though appeals involving health plan tobacco fees, plan forfeiture spending and a potential Eleventh Circuit precedent shift are also top of mind. Here, Law360 looks at five ERISA cases that attorneys should have on their radar as 2026 rolls on.

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Firm Beats DQ Bid Over Deposition In Housing Authority Suit

By Rose Krebs

A Connecticut judge has denied a bid to disqualify Rose Kallor LLP from representing a Connecticut housing authority and related entities in litigation accusing a former employee of misappropriating funds, saying the ex-employee hasn't shown the firm or two of its attorneys should be barred from the case at this time.

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Norfolk Southern's Post-Mallory Arguments Fail, Justices Told

By Linda Chiem

A rail worker's estate told the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday that Norfolk Southern cannot keep trying to evade a Federal Employers' Liability Act lawsuit by refashioning its constitutional challenge to Pennsylvania's business-registration statute asserting jurisdiction over the rail giant.

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Trump Reportedly Mulls FCC Attorney For DOJ Antitrust Chief

By Matthew Perlman

President Donald Trump is reportedly preparing to nominate the Federal Communications Commission's general counsel to serve as the top antitrust official in the U.S. Department of Justice.

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Elite Schools Must Face Aid-Fixing Trial First, Appeal Later

By Lauraann Wood

Cornell University and certain other elite schools defending against students' accusations that they illegally conspired to fix their financial aid offerings will not be able to challenge an order sending those claims to trial before a jury resolves them first, an Illinois federal judge has ruled.

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Court OKs Antitrust Deal Over Allegheny Health's Expansion

By P.J. D'Annunzio

A Pennsylvania federal judge on Friday signed off on a deal between Allegheny Health Network and the Pennsylvania attorney general's office, putting aside antitrust claims filed over the company's proposed acquisition of a competing Pittsburgh-area hospital system.

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Analysis

To Protect And Stalk: How Some Police Misuse Plate Readers

By Jack Karp

Police officers' abuse of public surveillance technology to stalk people in their private lives highlights the need for greater transparency and accountability when it comes to how these tools are used, say experts.

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ATF Ends Location Data Contract After Bipartisan Push

By Courtney Bublé

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives canceled a contract to obtain Americans' commercial location data without a warrant, a bipartisan pair of lawmakers announced Friday.

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CashCall Accuses Vought's CFPB Of Settlement Rug Pull

By Jon Hill

Lender CashCall Inc. has accused the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau of unfairly walking away from negotiations to reduce its $157 million enforcement judgment in California federal court, detailing behind-the-scenes talks that include claims the agency's top lawyer was initially angry with the company for hiring appellate attorney Paul Clement for its defense.

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En Banc 4th Circ. Splits Over Stay Of DOD HIV Enlistment Ban

By Ganesh Setty

The Fourth Circuit voted en banc Thursday to grant the federal government's bid to pause a lower court's permanent injunction blocking its policies excluding HIV-positive individuals from enlisting in the military, with a dissenting appellate judge writing that "the government is playing games!"

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Trump Threatens 100% Tariff For EU Nations Planning DSTs

By Dylan Moroses

President Donald Trump threatened to impose a 100% tariff on imports entering the U.S. from countries in the European Union planning to levy new digital service taxes, according to a social media post Friday.

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NC Creates Property Tax Break For Special District Projects

By Zak Kostro

North Carolina authorized local governments to approve special districts and provide property tax exclusions for eligible development projects in those areas under a bill signed by the governor.

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Trump Wants Justices To Back No-Bond Policy For Migrants

By Hailey Konnath

President Donald Trump's administration has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to rule that noncitizens arrested in the U.S. interior are not entitled to bond hearings, calling it a "critically important question of immigration law that has divided the courts of appeals."

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Texas Justices Block Harris County Immigrant Aid Funding

By Tom Lotshaw

The Texas Supreme Court on Friday granted Texas' bid to temporarily block a Harris County program from disbursing funds to nonprofits to provide legal services to detained noncitizens facing deportation while a state challenge proceeds.

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DOJ Asks Appeals Court To Toss ICE Facility Access Case

By Jared Foretek

The Trump administration is defending U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's policy requiring seven days notice for lawmakers to visit detention facilities in the D.C. Circuit, calling for the appeals court to dismiss a lawsuit from 13 Democratic Congress members challenging the rule for lack of standing.

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Philly Defends Federal Agent Unmasking, ID Law

By P.J. D'Annunzio

The city of Philadelphia is standing by its "ICE Out" ordinance prohibiting federal agents from wearing masks and requiring them to identify themselves as law enforcement officers, arguing in response to the federal government's lawsuit challenging the measure that it makes communities safer.

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FOIA Suit Seeks Records Tied To Denaturalization Plans

By Tom Lotshaw

A national legal organization asked a D.C. federal judge to order the U.S. government to search for and provide records it requested to shine light on possible Trump administration plans to ramp up cases to revoke citizenship from naturalized Americans.

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Judge Tells Feds To Justify Bid To Drop Adani Prosecution

By Katryna Perera

A New York federal judge Friday told prosecutors their "terse, bland, and conclusory statement" asking the court to drop a fraud case accusing several individuals of orchestrating a $250 million bribery scheme to secure lucrative Indian government renewable-energy contracts was not sufficient without further information.

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Texas Justices Revive Fraud Suit Over Criminal Defense Fees

By Spencer Brewer

The Texas Supreme Court gave a man convicted of aggravated assault another chance to claim his defense attorneys are liable for fraud, saying Friday that the doctrine that generally bars criminal defendants from suing their attorneys doesn't immunize defense counsel from tort claims.

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Fintech Execs Tell 11th Circ. Token Wasn't Security

By Carolina Bolado

Two former executives at fintech company Hydrogen Technology Corp. have asked an Eleventh Circuit panel to vacate their convictions and sentences, arguing there was insufficient evidence to support the charges that they conspired to manipulate the market for Hydrogen's digital assets.

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FCC Tweaks Alaska Rural Deployment Performance Plans

By Nadia Dreid

Following feedback from the telecom industry, the Federal Communications Commission has made a few changes to the performance plans Alaska Connect Fund recipients have to submit outlining how they plan to deploy and maintain their networks.

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Bankers Want Beefed Up 'Know Your Customer' FCC Rules

By Nadia Dreid

Bankers are behind the Federal Communications Commission all the way when it comes to the agency's plan to impose "know your customer" rules on originating telecom providers and fining those that don't comply, myriad financial service trade groups have told the commission.

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Brief

Police Union Offers Sens. Revamped FirstNet Renewal Draft

By Christopher Cole

The Fraternal Order of Police has submitted draft language to the U.S. Senate to reauthorize the nation's first responder communications network that reasserts law enforcement's role in governing the network.

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DEA Will Back Cannabis' Medical Utility In Historic Hearing

By Sam Reisman

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration will kick off three weeks of hearings Monday on a proposal to move marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III under the Controlled Substances Act, by presenting testimony asserting that the drug has a valid, currently accepted medical use.

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Kratom Interests Urge Court, Again, To Halt Utah Law

By Jonathan Capriel

It is impossible to manufacture kratom beverages under Utah's new kratom law, according to a dietary supplement maker that urged a federal court to block enforcement after its effort to make a new statute-compliant kratom beverage was thwarted by the law's ban on a naturally occurring compound.

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Pot Shop Says NY Can't Use 'Unclean Hands' In Labor Row

By Katherine Smith

A cannabis dispensary is seeking an early win in its challenge to a New York state requirement compelling cannabis operators to sign labor peace agreements with unions to secure a license, telling a federal court Friday that the state's argument alleging the company has "unclean hands" is meritless.

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Assessing Issues The CFTC's Sports Betting Rules May Face

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission recently proposed a rule to consolidate its control of sports bets made on prediction market trading platforms, but problems may arise from possible conflicts between the proposed changes and state laws — and maybe even the Commodity Exchange Act itself, says David Slovick at Kopecky Schumacher.

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Constructing AI Compliance Plans As State Laws Diverge

With Colorado, Connecticut and the federal government recently announcing wildly different approaches to artificial intelligence regulation, creating a workable compliance program means addressing overlapping obligations using shared systems rather than separate silos, say attorneys at Ogletree.

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GHG Rescission Undermines State Climate Suit Preemption

As the U.S. Supreme Court considers the fate of state climate litigation in Suncor Energy Inc. v. Boulder County, it must confront the fact that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's rescission of its greenhouse gas endangerment finding has also removed the foundation for federal preemption of state climate suits, says attorney Gregg Goldfarb.

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How McDonnell Still Shapes Bribery Defense Strategy

The pending federal bribery allegations against Washington, D.C., Council member Trayon White Sr. highlight for defense counsel the importance of overcoming the “official act” requirement established by the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in McDonnell v. U.S., and juries' critical role in distinguishing between official and unofficial acts, say attorneys at ArentFox Schiff.

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As Quantum Computing Evolves, So Do Antitrust Risks

Amid quantum computing's increased strategic importance there are five potential antitrust fault lines that may arise not only between quantum developers, but also within and across the layers of the stack as the industry matures, say attorneys at Proskauer.

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Justices' Montgomery Ruling Doesn't Expand Shipper Liability

Whether negligent hiring liability claims against shippers will increase after the U.S. Supreme Court's decision last month in Montgomery v. Caribe Transport II is anyone's guess, but the ruling itself will have no impact on shippers' actual liability in personal injury claims relating to trucking accidents, says Ronald Leibman at McCarter & English.

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Opinion

State Courts Must Be Gatekeepers Of Expert Testimony

Based on my experience in the state judiciary, emulating federal courts' role as gatekeepers of expert witness testimony would help state court judges maintain the appearance of impartiality and assist juries, thus enhancing the overall confidence people have in their justice system, says Lorie Gildea at Greenberg Traurig.

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Q&A

This Pride Month, LGBTQ+ Bar Leader Talks Community, Hope

By Emma Cueto

In 2026, the LGBTQ+ Bar is focused on expanding programs, especially those focused on law students and younger attorneys, and building up community ties at a time of growing legal threats to LGBTQ people.

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Scientologists Want 'Ignored' Boies Schiller AI Errors Review

By Emily Sawicki

The Church of Scientology has asked the California Supreme Court to review an appellate order that didn't impose sanctions on Boies Schiller Flexner LLP for filing a brief containing artificial intelligence-generated citation errors in a harassment and retaliation suit pending against the church.

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PACER Fees Will Rise To Fund Cyber Defense Upgrades

By Bonnie Eslinger

The federal judiciary announced Friday it will temporarily increase the fees for electronic access to court records to pay for a potential $800 million upgrade that will modernize and strengthen court records systems PACER and CM/ECF, an upgrade it previously said is needed to respond to escalating cyberattacks.

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King & Spalding Insists On Fraud Suit Pause Amid 'Conflicts'

By Brian Steele

King & Spalding LLP has urged a Connecticut state court to keep its involvement in a $300 million fraud lawsuit on hold while it challenges the denial of its attorneys' withdrawal from representing several individual defendants, citing "serious, nonwaivable conflicts of interest" that will prevent the firm from proceeding.

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Analysis

Bosch DOJ Declination Shows Benefits Of Early Self-Reporting

By Sarah Jarvis

The U.S. Department of Justice's recent decision not to prosecute German technology company Bosch for exporting products to a sanctioned Chinese company signals to businesses that prompt self-reporting to the government can help them secure a declination even for serious national security offenses.

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Judge Stays Jackson Walker RICO Suit Over Sorrento Ch. 11

By Clara Geoghegan

A California federal judge has paused Sorrento Therapeutics shareholders' litigation after a Texas bankruptcy court ruled they lacked standing to pursue racketeering claims over a former Jackson Walker attorney's relationship with the judge who initially oversaw the biotech company's Chapter 11.

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Messner Reeves Says $8.3M Fraud Suit Repeats Utah Case

By Zach Dupont

Colorado law firm Messner Reeves LLP has claimed in federal court that a lawsuit accusing it of stealing more than $8 million as part of a fraudulent loan scheme should be dismissed because the plaintiffs' Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act claims were dismissed by another court with prejudice.

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Roundup

GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

A Connecticut federal judge told attorneys to challenge clients who demand use of generative artificial intelligence tools to conduct legal research, and a Kansas federal judge blocked a state law imposing requirements on proxy advisers' voting recommendations. These were among the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.

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Roundup

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

By Laura Stewart Liberty

The past week in London has seen Michelle Mone sued by PPE Medpro, Broadfield Law sued by the founders of an international aid company, and litigation funder Fortress bring a claim against Edwin Coe and businesses the law firm represented in a cartel claim.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Clement & Murphy PLLC, Covington & Burling LLP and Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court handed Monsanto a win in its long-running battle over the labeling of alleged cancer risks of its bestselling weedkiller Roundup.

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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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