Analysis

The Firms That Won Big At The Supreme Court

By Jack Karp

This U.S. Supreme Court term featured high-stakes oral arguments on issues including presidential power, immigration and voting regulations. Here's a look at the law firms that argued the most cases and how they fared.

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Analysis

Breaking Down The Vote: The High Court Term In Review

By Jack Karp

The U.S. Supreme Court's stark ideological divisions were on full display this term, particularly as it issued long-awaited rulings in the last few days of June. Here, Law360 dives into the numbers behind this court term.

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Analysis

The Year Donald Trump Won Big At The High Court

By Katie Buehler

The Supreme Court's conservative supermajority and President Donald Trump largely aligned this year on issues of executive power, resulting in a series of decisions that significantly expanded presidential authority.

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Analysis

The Sharpest Dissents From The Supreme Court Term

By Cara Bayles

The sharpest dissents this term often involved the president, and pitted conservative and liberal justices against each other on core constitutional issues and questions about the limits to executive power, with nearly a quarter of cases being decided squarely along ideological lines.

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Analysis

Push And Pull: How High Court Shaped Civil Rights This Term

By Marco Poggio

The U.S. Supreme Court delivered far-reaching rulings on civil rights issues this term, dealing a major blow to federal voting-rights protections while expanding gun rights, upholding restrictions on transgender athletes' participation in women's sports and preserving birthright citizenship.

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8th Circ. Revives Local Conversion Therapy Ban Challenge

By Yeji Jesse Lee

The Eighth Circuit revived a case Thursday challenging local ordinances passed in Kansas City and Jackson County, Missouri, that prohibited the practice of conversion therapy, as it is commonly known, with minors.

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4th Circ. Says Fired CIA Officers Must Be Allowed To Appeal

By Madeline Lyskawa

A split Fourth Circuit panel on Thursday affirmed an order requiring the CIA and Office of the Director of National Intelligence to allow intelligence officers who were fired for their involvement with DEI and accessibility-related assignments to appeal their terminations. 

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Judge Questions Imminent Harm In Light Of Valid Passport

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

A district judge on Thursday questioned whether a transgender woman suing the government over a new federal policy targeting gender identification was facing an impending threat since her passport with her chosen identity is valid for another six years.

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Feds Inadvertently Disclosed Trump Classified Docs Report

By Rose Krebs

The government told a Florida federal court on Thursday that it inadvertently disclosed a report from former special counsel Jack Smith regarding the criminal case against President Donald Trump over his handling of classified documents to a former federal prosecutor separately accused of emailing confidential documents from the report to herself.

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Roundup

NJ Top Court Snapshot: Indemnity Provisions, Truth Defense

By George Woolston

Three of the most recent cases to head to the New Jersey Supreme Court will address the admission of evidence in criminal proceedings and civil issues including indemnification.

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Judges To Tour Rust Belt To Build Trust In Courts

By James Boyle

Days after the Fourth of July celebration of America's 250th birthday, a group of current and retired judges will lead a four-day bus tour through three states to promote one of the bedrock principles of the country's independence: the rule of law.

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Paralegals Take NC Legal Advice Law Challenge To 4th Circ.

By Emily Sawicki

Two paralegals and a nonprofit have asked the Fourth Circuit to revive their challenge to a North Carolina law that blocks nonlawyers from providing legal advice.

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Fired NCUA Democrats Say Slaughter Ruling Is On Their Side

By Jon Hill

Democrats who sued after President Donald Trump booted them from the National Credit Union Administration's board have signaled they will keep seeking reinstatement, pressing ahead after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the president can fire most federal regulators at will.

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Fed Nears CRA Rule Repeal As FDIC, OCC Exit 5th Circ. Fight

By Jon Hill

Federal regulators plan to take different legal approaches to completing their previously joint effort to unwind Biden-era updates to decades-old community reinvestment rules for banks, according to two filings at the Fifth Circuit.

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9th Circ. Backs LA-Area Gas Appliance Nitrogen Oxide Ban

By Lauren Berg

The Ninth Circuit Thursday upheld a ban on the use of certain nitrogen oxide-emitting appliances in four Southern California counties, rejecting claims that the pollution control effort is preempted by federal law, as a dissenting judge contended this conclusion runs afoul of the court's own recent precedent.

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Yellowstone Bison Plan Ignores Disease Report, Groups Say

By Taylor Bowie

In a motion for summary judgment, two environmental groups asked a Montana federal judge to order the U.S. Department of the Interior to revise a management plan for bison in Yellowstone National Park they say violates federal law.

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CMS Proposes Cut To Hospitals' 340B Drug Reimbursements

By Dan McKay

Federal health officials on Thursday proposed a Medicare spending plan that would slash reimbursement for hospitals participating in the 340B drug pricing program and reduce how much all hospitals receive for certain imaging tests.

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DOJ Has 'Negligible Interest' In Trans Patient Info, Judge Says

By Gianna Ferrarin

A California federal judge on Thursday blocked the U.S. Department of Justice from trying to identify individuals who received gender-affirming care from a Stanford Medicine hospital as minors, finding grand jury subpoena demands seeking that information likely violated the Fifth Amendment.

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Analysis

Cox, Hikma Rulings Set Stage For Trademark Liability Fights

By Ivan Moreno

After the U.S. Supreme Court narrowed paths to secondary liability in copyright and patent cases this term, trademark law stands apart with an older, potentially broader rule for when intermediaries can be held liable for another party's infringement.

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USPTO Snubs Avalanche's Deficiency Payments For Chip IP

By Elliot Weld

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has declined to accept fee deficiency payments from Avalanche Technology Inc. on four patents covering memory chips after a judge at the U.S. International Trade Commission turned down a rival's request to toss an infringement case based on uncertainty over whether the office would accept the fees.

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Ex-USPTO Deputy Nominated For World IP Org. Leadership

By Rae Ann Varona

Laura Peter, who served as U.S. Patent and Trademark Office deputy director under the first Trump administration, has been nominated for the role of deputy director general of the World Intellectual Property Organization's patents and technology sector, the USPTO announced Thursday.

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DC Circ. Told FCC Trying To 'Evade' News Distortion Scrutiny

By Christopher Cole

A media advocacy group Thursday again pushed its bid to convince the D.C. Circuit to force the Federal Communications Commission to revisit the agency's controversial news distortion policy.

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Sinclair Convinces Ga. Panel To Sink Doctor's Defamation Suit

By Kelcey Caulder

A Georgia appellate panel sided with media conglomerate Sinclair Broadcast Group and a nurse who was interviewed about alleged forced sterilizations of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees, saying a trial court erred by letting a doctor's defamation suit proceed.  

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Transportation Regulation To Watch: Midyear Report 2026

By Linda Chiem

Revised vehicle fuel economy standards, negotiations on a new infrastructure and transportation funding package and the next iteration of a North American trade deal are some of the transportation industry's top regulatory developments to watch in the latter half of 2026.

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Sports And Real Estate: A Special Report

By Real Estate Authority Staff

Nowadays, professional sports are as deeply woven into the real estate and legal industries as they are into American culture. In this special report, Law360 Real Estate Authority examines the most recent interplay between sports and real estate development, the policies and litigation accompanying it, and the vast legal work guiding it.

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Judge Warns Trump Team On East Potomac Golf Course Work

By Jared Foretek

A Washington, D.C., federal judge said she was unlikely to dismiss a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump's plan to remake the capital's East Potomac Golf Links, but also declined to order a stoppage of any work on the site until more concrete steps are taken.

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Calif. Lawmakers OK Extending Tax Credits For Job Creation

By Zak Kostro

California would extend by five years a tax credit program for businesses that agree to hire workers and invest in the state under budget-related legislation approved by state lawmakers and sent to Gov. Gavin Newsom.

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NJ Justices Say Council Can't Invalidate $25 DWI Surcharge

By Parker Quinlan

The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a watchdog group established by the state's constitution exceeded its authority when it invalidated a surcharge attached to the New Jersey law against driving while intoxicated.

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Roundup

Product Liability Q2 Regulatory Roundup

By Emily Field

This spring and early summer saw the EPA setting its sights on "forever chemicals," approving some of them for use in pesticides and clawing back limits on their presence in drinking water. The former top FDA official is now out, and several nominees are waiting to fill gaps at the Consumer Product Safety Commission. 

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DOJ Says Virginia AR-15 Sales Ban Violates 2nd Amendment

By Jared Foretek

The Trump administration has asked a Virginia federal judge to take down the state's new prohibition on assault weapon sales, arguing that the right to keep and bear arms must include the right to acquire them.

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Senate Dems Say OMB Rule Would Politicize Federal Grants

By Courtney Bublé

The entire Senate Democratic Caucus is urging the Office of Management and Budget to abandon a new proposed rule that they say will politicize the federal grants process.

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Top International Trade Developments Of 2026: Midyear Report

By Jack McLoone

The fallout from the U.S. Supreme Court striking down President Donald Trump's global tariff regime kept international trade attorneys busy in the first half of 2026, with the shifting landscape largely occupied by other tariffs and their respective court challenges. Here, Law360 examines the top developments in international trade so far this year.

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Customs Adds 1.6M Phase 2 Imports To Tariff Refund System

By Dylan Moroses

U.S. Customs and Border Protection received tariff refund requests covering another 1.6 million entries in a day's time after opening a second phase of eligibility for its system, according to a declaration filed with the U.S. Court of International Trade.

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Brief

US Hits Algerian Steel Rebar With Countervailing Duties

By Jack McLoone

The U.S. Department of Commerce ordered a 72.94% countervailing duty against imports of steel concrete reinforcing bar into the country from Algeria on Thursday, following triple-digit antidumping duties issued earlier this year.

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IRS Unveils Portal For Claiming Late-Filed COVID-Era Refunds

By Kat Lucero

The IRS quietly rolled out an online portal dedicated to individuals and businesses seeking to take advantage of the Federal Claims Court's decision allowing a California business owner to recover late-filed refunds for penalties and interest tied to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Feds Win Bid To Pause Philly's ICE Agent Unmasking, ID Law

By P.J. D'Annunzio

A Pennsylvania federal judge on Thursday ruled Philadelphia's law requiring federal agents to display badges and unmask themselves while on duty in the city likely went against the Constitution because it interfered with the way the federal government operates, noting in his ruling that the law was even treated with skepticism by the mayor and the city's solicitor.

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Nadine Menendez Irks Judge With 11th-Hour Prison Delay Bid

By Rae Ann Varona

Nadine Menendez urged a New York federal judge Thursday to delay her prison surrender date four months to accommodate breast cancer-related surgeries, to which the judge ordered Menendez explain why her request came "90 minutes" before the Fourth of July long weekend and just days before her surrender date.

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Calif. Judge Says IHS Must Fund Tribe's Opioid Clinic

By Crystal Owens

A California district judge has ordered the Indian Health Service to enter into a compact and funding agreement with the Pechanga Band of Indians that will allow it to operate an opioid treatment facility, saying the agency's interpretation of the tribe's authority under federal law "does not comport with reality."

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FCC Seeks To Lock Bad Actors Out Of Anti-Spoof System

By Christopher Cole

Anti-robocall enforcers in recent years have focused on the technical usefulness of a call-verifying protocol used by companies across the call network, but now the Federal Communications Commission wants to block fraudsters from infiltrating the system itself.

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FCC Says OK To T-Mobile-Grain Mgt. Spectrum Swap

By Nadia Dreid

Mobile behemoth T-Mobile and broadband services company Grain Management have received the green light from the Federal Communications Commission to swap certain spectrum holdings each has that the other wants.

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What Ratings Overhaul May Mean For Banking Industry

Proposed revisions to the bank rating system commonly known as CAMELS could constrain examiner discretion and tie supervisory outcomes more closely to measurable financial risk, potentially saving compliance costs, reducing the frequency of ratings downgrades and spurring a more growth-oriented banking system, say attorneys at Debevoise.

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Opinion

Congress Must Resolve Growing Subchapter V Uncertainty

Congress must pass a bill to permanently restore the Subchapter V debt limit and clarify several other key points of the law to prevent a practical restructuring tool from becoming a costly procedural morass, says Ted Gavin at Gavin Solmonese.

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CFTC Policy Substantially Expands Self-Reporting Incentives

A recent U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission policy moves from a mitigation-centered model to prioritizing declination for early self-reporting and full cooperation, reflecting a deliberate effort to harmonize voluntary self-disclosure incentives across the federal enforcement authorities, say attorneys at Sullivan & Cromwell.

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Opinion

Exxon Shareholders Were Right To Save New Voting Program

Following Exxon shareholders’ recent vote that rejected a bid to dismantle the company’s new retail voting program, other companies should replicate it as a way to lower the friction for shareholders who already vote with the board to keep doing so without wrestling a ballot every spring, says J.W. Verret at the Antonin Scalia Law School.

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Series

Choral Singing Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Singing in the New York City Bar Chorus — a hobby partly inspired by the late U.S. District Judge Richard Owen, who infused my clerkship year with opera music — has improved my legal career by refining my abilities to listen, exude confidence and develop emotional intelligence, says Bonnie Baker at Friedman Kaplan.

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Legal Sector Jobs Spike With Work 'Churning Right Along'

By Aebra Coe

The legal sector added 5,100 jobs in June, the largest increase the industry has seen in more than two years, according to preliminary, seasonally adjusted data released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics on Thursday.

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'Embarrassed' Conn. Atty Details ChatGPT Briefing Errors

By Aaron Keller

With a sanctions hearing on the horizon, a Connecticut attorney has told the state's highest court he is "extremely embarrassed" by artificial intelligence errors in briefs filed in two recently decided cases, explaining he used ChatGPT to edit his research without knowing it could make "unprompted changes to the content."

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Feds Seek Up To 21 Months For Ex-Judge On ICE Obstruction

By Elizabeth Daley

A former Wisconsin judge who was convicted of obstructing ICE officers' courthouse arrest of a man facing misdemeanor charges by pointing him to a side door should spend up to 21 months in prison, the government said in a sentencing memo, recommending she be made an example.

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Del. Magistrate Orders JPMorgan To Advance Javice Fees

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court ruled that JPMorgan Chase & Co. must advance millions more in disputed legal fees to cover the appeal of the convicted founder of college financial aid startup Frank, concluding the bank failed to meet Delaware's demanding standard for withholding advancement by showing the billing requests reflected "clear abuse."

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Mass Tort Titan Paul J. Napoli Dies

By Daniel Moritz-Rabson

Paul J. Napoli, an influential plaintiffs attorney who worked on some of the nation's highest-profile mass tort matters in recent decades, died on Tuesday at the age of 58.

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'Trailblazer' Mass. Federal Judge Rya Zobel Dies At 94

By Chris Villani

U.S. District Judge Rya Zobel, a survivor of Nazi Germany who became the first woman to serve as a federal judge in Massachusetts and the first woman partner at Goodwin Procter, died Saturday at age 94, the court's judges announced.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week 

By Sue Reisinger

Amid the changes coming for general counsel, the policies and enforcement priorities of federal regulators may fluctuate more rapidly after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last week that could dramatically remake independent government agencies. And the EEOC rescinded affirmative action documents that have guided employers for decades.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

The American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, the Asian Law Caucus and the Democracy Defenders Fund lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected President Donald Trump's bid to limit birthright citizenship.

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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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