Justices Say Mich. Tax Sale Allowed Under Constitution

By Maria Koklanaris

A Michigan county did not violate the U.S. Constitution when it took the title of a home over a tax debt, then sold the home at a low price and refunded only that amount to the homeowner, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday, agreeing with the Sixth Circuit on merits but remanding the case back to that court to address procedural questions.

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High Court Tosses Rastafarian's Haircut Suit

By Katie Buehler

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday ended a Rastafarian's bid to hold Louisiana prison guards responsible for allegedly violating his religious rights by forcibly shaving off his dreadlocks, ruling a law aimed at preventing religious discrimination at state and local levels can't be used to sue government officials in their individual capacities without their consent.

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DC Judge Will Take Gov't 'At Its Word' Trump's Fund Is Dead

By Lauren Berg

A Washington, D.C., federal judge Tuesday declined to issue a preliminary injunction blocking the Trump administration's proposed $1.8 billion "lawfare" fund, saying he "must take the government at its word" that the fund is truly dead.

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Calif. Judge Restores Immigration Courthouse Arrest Limits

By Hailey Konnath

A California federal judge Tuesday vacated the Trump administration's policies on civil arrests at immigration courthouses, restoring limits on those arrests and finding that the government didn't adequately explain its policy shift.

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USDA Lacked Authority To Ban SNAP For Soda, Judge Says

By Rae Ann Varona

A D.C. federal judge has vacated U.S. Department of Agriculture approvals of waivers in five states that restrict purchases of sugary foods and drinks using food stamps, saying a section of law the USDA leaned on did not give the department authority to approve the efforts.

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Ill. Feds Drop More Charges For Grand Jury 'Irregularities'

By Celeste Bott

A third federal prosecution has unraveled over "serious irregularities" in grand jury proceedings at Chicago's federal courthouse, with U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros personally moving Monday to permanently dismiss arson charges against four defendants after improper communications between a prosecutor and grand jurors came to light.

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Judge Who Denied Goldstein Retrial Says It Wasn't Close Case

By Rachel Rippetoe

A Maryland federal judge has elaborated on her decision to deny SCOTUSblog founder Tom Goldstein's bid for an acquittal or new trial, saying that the evidence presented at trial either supersedes or invalidates his claims of issues with jury instructions and insufficient or excluded evidence.

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States, Ex-IRS Officials Want Trump-IRS Deal Scrutinized

By Hailey Konnath

A coalition of 23 states and a group of former high-level Internal Revenue Service officials have pressed a Florida federal court to reopen Donald Trump's suit against the IRS and carefully scrutinize the resulting settlement, arguing that the litigation was "colored by fraud from the beginning."

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Judicial Noms Still Say Biden Won In 2020 — Technically

By Courtney Bublé

A group of judicial nominees, who earlier this month were the first of the Trump administration's nominees to say President Joe Biden won the 2020 election, reiterated in follow-up statements that Biden won the election "as a matter of law" — doubling down on what critics say is an equivocation on the election's outcome.

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NY Rule Rewrite Drops 30-Day Pause For Atty Soliciting

By Emily Sawicki

New York's Appellate Division has adopted new rules of professional conduct on attorney advertising and solicitation, deleting a ban on soliciting clients less than 30 days after an incident.

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NC Becomes First State To Ban Outside Funding Of Civil Suits

By Hayley Fowler

North Carolina has become the first state in the country to ban outside investors from funding civil litigation, after Democratic Gov. Josh Stein signed into law a bill that outlaws third parties from footing the bill for civil suits in exchange for a cut of the payout at the finish line.

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Connecticut Courts Require Verification Of AI Output In Filings

By Brian Steele

Connecticut's state judges on Tuesday issued a new requirement that attorneys and pro se filers independently verify all citations, legal authorities and evidence produced by generative artificial intelligence tools, threatening to impose case-ending sanctions on those who flout the rule.

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DC Judge Pulls Plug On Feds' Voter Citizenship Database

By Tom Lotshaw

A D.C. federal judge blocked the Trump administration's expansion of a database that allows states to screen voters, saying it "haphazardly combined and repurposed" information on millions of Americans, including unreliable citizenship information, and violated multiple laws.

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Several Democrats Challenge FCC Political Ad Guidance

By Corey Rothauser

Democratic candidates and officeholders, including former Sen. Sherrod Brown, Sen. Jon Ossoff, former North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper and Rep. Kristen McDonald Rivet, have asked the Fourth Circuit to strike down Federal Communications Commission guidance they say unlawfully expands discounted political advertising rates to party committees and joint fundraising groups.

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Feds' Capital Revamp Has A Dodd-Frank Problem, Critics Say

By Jon Hill

Big banks are broadly pleased with a draft capital-rule overhaul that federal regulators project would deliver the biggest capital relief in a generation, but critics say it rests on shaky legal ground that the banking agencies have "astoundingly" ignored.

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Truist Division Sued Over Citizenship-Based Loan Denial

By Sydney Price

A recipient of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals hit Truist Financial Corp. division Sheffield Financial and an Oklahoma motorcycle dealership with a proposed class action alleging he was wrongfully denied credit based on his immigration status despite having an above-average credit score.

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10th Circ. Revives Utah National Monument Challenges

By Crystal Owens

A Tenth Circuit panel on Tuesday revived challenges to former President Joe Biden's designations of hundreds of thousands of acres as parts of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments, finding that the Antiquities Act puts discernible limits on the president's discretion.

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Green Groups Drop Pipeline Permit Appeal After Stay Is Refused

By Abigail Harrison

Environmental groups' challenge to a discharge permit issued by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for work on a natural gas pipeline stretching across several Eastern states was voluntarily dismissed Monday at the Fourth Circuit.

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States Challenge Arctic Leasing Over Birds, Climate Change

By Crystal Owens

Fourteen states are backing challenges to the Trump administration's decision to open up oil and gas leasing on the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, telling the court that the seismic exploration will harm migratory birds and increase greenhouse gas emissions that already contribute to climate change.

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Green Group Wants Records Behind Trump's Weed Killer Order

By Emily Field

An environmental organization on Monday sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture in D.C. federal court, seeking records behind President Donald Trump's executive order to hike the production of glyphosate, the active ingredient in the weed killer Roundup, an allegedly carcinogenic pesticide at the center of an imminent U.S. Supreme Court decision.

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Justices Back Parole For Charged Green-Card Holders

By Britain Eakin

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday held that green-card holders with pending criminal charges should be paroled rather than admitted into the country when returning from abroad.

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Feds Tout AI's Role In $6.5B Healthcare Fraud Crackdown

By Dan McKay

Federal authorities said Tuesday that artificial intelligence and sophisticated data analysis helped them detect and prosecute healthcare fraud as part of a national crackdown that resulted in charges against 455 defendants.

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BioNTech Accused Of Firing Nurse Over Drug Trial Concerns

By Abigail Harrison

A former senior clinical trial manager at BioNTech US Inc. told a North Carolina federal court Monday that she was wrongfully fired after complaining to higher-ups about an "epidemic of safety issues and protocol deviations" in clinical trials.

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USPTO Shortens Time Period When Delays Need Justification

By Adam Lidgett

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office says delays of more than a year in filing certain documents tied to patents need to come with an explanation, shortening the period of time that had been two years.

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Analysis

No Slowdown: A Midyear Look At FDA Ad Enforcement

By Dan McKay

An FDA drug ad enforcement surge that began last year continued in the first half of 2026. Experts say the agency is looking hard at the overall impression an ad makes, including in broad emotional appeals to consumers.

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Live Nation Discloses White House Involvement In DOJ Deal

By Bryan Koenig

Live Nation Entertainment Inc. confirmed that the road to its controversial settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice went all the way to the White House in a New York federal court filing that leaves many questions unanswered about a deal Democrats have cast as corrupt and failed to mollify state enforcers.

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Disney, Netflix Win Texas Cities' Franchise Tax Suit Again

By Spencer Brewer

Streaming services companies including Disney and Netflix have again prevailed against multiple Texas cities accusing them of evading a state franchise tax, with a Texas appeals court reaffirming that the companies do not need to obtain franchise licenses.

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Judge Allows Brazil To Join Trump Suit Against Justice

By Carolina Bolado

A Florida federal judge on Tuesday allowed Brazil to intervene in a suit by President Donald Trump's media company and online video-sharing platform Rumble Inc. against a Brazilian Supreme Federal Court justice's gag orders but deferred ruling on Brazil's motion to dismiss the suit.

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Media Alliance Seeks Say In Charter, Cox Merger In Calif.

By Nadia Dreid

Cox Communications and Charter Communications Inc. have asked the California Public Utilities Commission to kibosh a media advocacy group's petition seeking conditions on their $34.5 billion merger, but the media organization is asking the commission to ignore that request.

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11th Circ. Mulls DOT Order Scrapping Delta, Aeromexico JV

By Linda Chiem

The Eleventh Circuit on Tuesday questioned whether the U.S. Department of Transportation sufficiently analyzed the competitive effects of Delta Air Lines' joint venture with Aeromexico — or considered alternative conditions — before ordering the airlines to dismantle their nearly decade-long partnership.

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Quinnipiac Treated Rugby As 'Less Of A Sport,' Judge Told

By Aaron Keller

Quinnipiac University women's rugby athletes and new recruits urged a Connecticut federal judge Tuesday to force the Division I school to maintain the team's varsity status while a Title IX discrimination lawsuit unfolds, arguing the school unfairly targeted the program during budget cuts despite clinching three national titles.

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Landmark Housing Bill Heads To Trump After House Vote

By Lauren Berg

The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday overwhelmingly passed an amended version of landmark housing legislation focused on expanding housing supply and lowering housing costs with a 358-32 vote, putting it on the track to President Donald Trump's desk.

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Colo. Justices Say Courts Can Order Condemnation Discovery

By MJ Koo

The Colorado Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that trial courts have discretion to order discovery before immediate possession hearings in condemnation proceedings, finding a lower court erred in concluding it lacked that authority.

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Rent Ballot Measure Can't Go To Voters, Mass. Justices Say

By Julie Manganis

A religious carveout has doomed a November ballot question seeking to bring back rent control in Massachusetts, the state's highest court ruled Tuesday, siding with a group of residents who challenged its certification to go before voters.

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NLRB Judge Hits Amazon With Bargaining Order At SF Facility

By Braden Campbell

A National Labor Relations Board judge ordered Amazon to bargain with the Teamsters at a San Francisco delivery center in a decision that may give the board's Republican majority a chance to rethink the agency's reworked bargaining order standard.

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Judge Flags Flaws In Rule Capping Health Student Loans

By Jared Foretek

A D.C. federal judge appeared to agree with health worker organizations challenging new federal student loan caps that there were problems with how the U.S. Department of Education defined "professional degrees" in a recent rulemaking, but suggested that "taking over the job" of the department would be inappropriate.

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SSA Says Court Has No Jurisdiction Over FOIA Fee Dispute

By Elaine Briseño

The Social Security Administration told the D.C. federal court that the Freedom of Information Act does not authorize the court to override the fee determinations the agency made when producing public records related to its involvement with technology company Palantir.

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Paramount Urges High Court To Limit Video Privacy Lawsuits

By Allison Grande

Paramount Global is calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to preserve a ruling that only consumers who directly subscribe to audiovisual goods and services can bring lawsuits under the Video Privacy Protection Act, arguing that a more expansive reading would allow plaintiffs to flood the courts and would wrongly "transform" the law into an "unworkable internet-privacy regime."

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Wash. Says T-Mobile Broke Data Breach Law

By Nadia Dreid

There's enough evidence for a judge to find that T-Mobile failed to meet Washington's data breach notification requirements following a 2021 breach, the state said Monday, arguing that text messages the company sent to customers about the incident left out critical information.

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Texas Woman Says ERs Violated EMTALA Amid Miscarriage

By Gianna Ferrarin

A Texas woman urged the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to investigate two providers over their alleged violations of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, or EMTALA, when she sought treatment for a miscarriage, arguing her case "is not an isolated incident."

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Umarex Says It Has No Link To Pistol In Hunter's Suit

By Mike Curley

Umarex USA Inc. is urging a Colorado federal court to throw out a hunter's claims against it over a pistol that he says discharged with the safety on, arguing it had nothing to do with the manufacture, design or distribution of the gun.

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FAR Council Takes Aim At Acquisitions, Contract Terminations

By Madeline Lyskawa

The Trump administration kicked off the formal rulemaking process as part of its effort to streamline the Federal Acquisition Regulation, releasing four proposed rules covering everything from competition requirements and acquisition planning to contract terminations and protests. 

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Pa. Town Wants Out Of 'Forever' Sewer Deals With Neighbor

By Corey Rothauser

A Pittsburgh-area township is suing a neighboring borough and sewer authority, asking a Pennsylvania state court to declare that the township has authority to update or terminate decades-old sewer service agreements that locked in rates that no longer reflect the cost of maintaining the system.

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US Blocks WTO Appellate Body Selection Process Again

By Dylan Moroses

The World Trade Organization failed again to begin the process of selecting members to the appellate body designed to settle disputes over WTO decisions, marking the 98th time that the initiative has been blocked by U.S.-led efforts, according to a news release Tuesday.

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EU Parliament Panels Advance Mexico Trade Agreement

By Jack McLoone

Two European Parliament committees signed off Tuesday on a reworked trade deal with Mexico that would remove nearly all tariffs on European agricultural goods imported into the country, setting up a full vote by Parliament.

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Customs Announces Second Phase Of Tariff Refund System

By Dylan Moroses

The second phase of a system for importers to claim refunds for tariffs struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court will become available June 29 for certain entries that have been subject to the reconciliation process, U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced Tuesday.

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Brief

UK Seeks Input On Potential Customs Updates

By Jack McLoone

HM Revenue & Customs is considering a plan to require customs intermediaries to register with the agency for the purposes of raising standards, it said Tuesday while also looking for general input on modernizing the U.K. customs regime.

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Brief

US Bars Jordan Cos.' Imports Over Forced Labor Concerns

By Jack McLoone

U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Tuesday announced it would bar shipments of any garments produced by a pair of Jordanian companies due to indications that they are being produced with forced labor.

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UK Seeks To Restore Capital Gains Deferrals For Share Gifts

By Kevin Pinner

The U.K. is planning to restore capital gains tax deferral treatment on gifts of business assets covered by the country's substantial shareholding exemption or intangible fixed asset regime, the government said Tuesday.

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UK Aims To Modernize Tax Framework For Distributions

By Kevin Pinner

The United Kingdom is aiming to modernize its tax system on distributions, including by aligning the treatment of dividends from foreign companies with domestic companies, the government said Tuesday.

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Texas, DOJ Get Judge To End Biden Immigration Rule In 1 Day

By Ganesh Setty

A Texas federal court has approved a deal between Texas and the Trump administration to vacate a Biden-era rule allowing immigration courts to temporarily close cases, the same day Texas filed a lawsuit alleging the policy had created a "de facto amnesty program."

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Mass. Sheriffs Must Turn Over ICE Records, Judge Says

By Julie Manganis

A Massachusetts judge on Tuesday ordered four county sheriffs to comply with a public records request by an immigrant advocacy group for materials related to the sheriffs' interactions with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers.

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New York Mask Ban For Federal Agents Sparks Dueling Lawsuits

By Jack Karp

New York state and the U.S. Department of Justice have filed dueling lawsuits over the state's new laws banning federal law enforcement officers from wearing face masks and seeking to rein in immigration enforcement in the Empire State.

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Split DC Circ. Clears Expansion Of Expedited Removals

By Tom Lotshaw

A split D.C. Circuit panel on Tuesday allowed the Trump administration to move ahead with a plan to fast-track the deportation of more noncitizens, vacating a lower court's decision to put the plan on hold over what one judge called "woefully inadequate procedures."

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Feds Say Consultant Shouldn't Get FARA Verdict Erased

By Ganesh Setty

The U.S. government told a Florida federal court there was "abundant" evidence to convict a political consultant of knowingly failing to register as a foreign agent as she helped draft a $50 million contract involving a former congressman and Venezuela's state-owned oil enterprise.

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New Mexico Tribe Says Land Suit Targets Survey, Not Title

By Crystal Owens

A New Mexico tribe is fighting attempts to dismiss its bid to block the federal government from altering the boundaries of a Lincoln-era 34,700-acre land patent, telling the court that the defendants can't frame the litigation as a quiet title action.

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FCC's Carr Calls Policy Against DEI 'Right Thing To Do'

By Christopher Cole

Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr has told Congress that tanking diversity, equity and inclusion programs across the telecom industry is not only justified but also a policy where Americans find more "common ground" than many lawmakers realize.

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Telecom Biz Sees Robust Competition, Think Tank Says

By Christopher Cole

As the Federal Communications Commission evaluates competition in the telecom sector, a think tank urged the agency not to adopt regulatory policies that treat the market as unfairly skewed toward a few large players.

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Brief

FCC Spectrum Auction Pulls In More Than $3.5B

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission said Tuesday it had raised more than $3.5 billion in gross winning bids in its recent spectrum auction, the first sale of wireless licenses by the federal government in years.

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Opinion

Current Consumer Protection Laws Can Fit Agentic Commerce

While agentic commerce — artificial intelligence that searches, compares and makes purchases for customers — doesn't warrant a new consumer protection regime, it will require companies to design compliance into their products from the outset and challenge regulators to consistently apply existing laws, says Katherine Adkins at Affirm.

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How A Novel NY Law Fits Into The AI Legal Landscape For Ads

An amendment to New York's General Business Law requiring disclosures when advertisements use performers generated by artificial intelligence arrives at a moment of rapid transformation in the marketing ecosystem and indicates that advertisers should take a proactive approach grounded in transparency, contractual protections and alignment across legal and creative teams, say attorneys at Manatt.

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Opinion

FTC's Clinical Trial Requirement Threatens Food Claim Rules

The Federal Trade Commission's general requirement for randomized controlled trials for most health-benefit claims, recently embraced by the National Advertising Review Board, lacks legal basis and endangers the existing statutory framework Congress created for marketing food and dietary supplements versus drugs, say attorneys at Keller & Heckman.

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Texas Rule Change Could Speed Trucking Case Dismissals

The Texas Supreme Court's recent comprehensive amendments to Rule 166a, governing summary judgment procedure and standards in Texas state courts, will fundamentally reshape dispositive motion practice, permitting defendants in trucking cases to weaponize the rule against unwitting plaintiffs, and requiring more aggressive early discovery efforts, say attorneys at Hamilton Wingo.

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What NERC Reliability Guideline Means For Large Loads

The North American Electric Reliability Corporation's new reliability guideline — which addresses issues associated with large loads like data centers, cryptocurrency mining facilities and factories — is nonbinding, but hints at possible future expansion of reliability obligations for large load owners, operators, developers and equipment providers, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.

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Justices' Obstruction Ruling Clears Venue-Challenge Path

While the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent ruling in Abouammo v. U.S. poses venue challenges for federal obstruction of justice prosecutions, it is a gift for defense counsel because it offers a clean, constitutional basis to challenge venue where a place of falsification and a place of investigation diverge, says Liz Aloi at MoFo.

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Drawing A Line Between Settlement Pressure And Extortion

U.S. v. Luo, pending in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, may force courts to address anew when settlement negotiations become criminal extortion, particularly in the age of easily fabricated digital evidence, says attorney Denis Kiely.

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The 2026 Lawyer Satisfaction Survey

Lawyers are generally happy being lawyers, but nonequity partners and associates told Law360 Pulse that several aspects of their job leave them feeling dissatisfied. Explore our analysis of these and other findings in the 2026 Law360 Lawyer Satisfaction survey.

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Bonus Spotlight

Axinn Giving $25K Bonuses As Glenn Agre Matches Milbank

By Tracey Read

Glenn Agre Bergman & Fuentes LLP will match the Milbank LLP base pay scale for associates, while Axinn Veltrop & Harkrider LLP — which was already paying above-market salaries — will hand out special summer bonuses of up to $25,000, the boutiques told Law360 Pulse Tuesday.

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LA Superior Court Gains Prominence With 'Nuclear' Verdicts

By Daniel Moritz-Rabson

Los Angeles County Superior Court was among the country's top sites for awarding big civil damages in recent years, according to a Lex Machina report.

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Texas Judge Tosses Buzbee Firm's Jay-Z Conspiracy Suits

By Spencer Brewer

A Texas state court has handed a win to Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP and a Mississippi law firm, which sought dismissal of claims that they conspired with Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter to retaliate against Houston personal injury firm The Buzbee Law Firm and two of its former clients.

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Ex-AT&T Counsel Charged Over Disclosing Privileged Info

By Sue Reisinger

A former in-house attorney for AT&T, accused of leaking privileged information to opposing counsel while seeking a share of financial gains from a lawsuit filed 18 years ago against the company, has been charged with violating attorney professional conduct rules.

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