Analysis

Prediction Markets Expand Wall St. Cops' Insider Trading Beat

By Aislinn Keely

As traders flock to platforms that allow them to speculate on everything from Super Bowl ad placements to political shakeups, regulators and law enforcement face increasing pressure to crack down on newly expanded opportunities for insider trading.

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Analysis

Arbitrators Take Cautious Approach To Integrating AI

By Emily Sawicki

Norms, practices and regulations surrounding the use of generative artificial intelligence in arbitration are developing just as rapidly as they are in the courts. Here, Law360 Pulse talks with legal tech vendor Veritext's senior vice president in charge of alternative dispute resolution about how the arbitration industry is interacting with AI.

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5th Circ. Backs Trump Admin On Immigrants' Bond Ineligibility

By Rae Ann Varona

A split Fifth Circuit on Friday blessed the Trump administration's policy calling for immigrants who entered the U.S. without authorization to remain in detention without a bond hearing, saying the administration is acting within its "full enforcement authority."

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'Very Bizarre': Trump's Funding Freeze Appeal Vexes DC Circ.

By Jeff Overley

D.C. Circuit judges struggled Friday with whether to unblock a federal funding freeze carrying multitrillion-dollar implications, as a Trump administration lawyer disclaimed interest in a vast spending halt but also dodged opportunities to rule it out unequivocally.

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11th Circ. OKs Immunity Denial In Fla. Excessive Force Case

By Parker Quinlan

The Eleventh Circuit ruled Friday that two Florida police officers named in a civil lawsuit should not be granted qualified immunity for their conduct during a Baker Act arrest of a person they knew to be mentally unwell.

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DC Courts To Tag In Non-Attys To Help Civil Litigants

By Emily Johnson

The District of Columbia Courts is the latest court system in the U.S. to allow non-attorneys to help guide civil litigants who face matters without an attorney, creating a program that expands who can advise people facing evictions, child custody disputes and other matters.

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Trump's BigLaw Executive Order Appeals Consolidated

By Emily Sawicki

The D.C. Circuit on Friday consolidated the government's appeals of losses in four cases BigLaw firms launched against the White House and Justice Department over executive orders against them related to the clients they represent.

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4th Circ. Says Trump Anti-DEI Orders Are Constitutional

By Grace Elletson

The Fourth Circuit on Friday lifted a block on President Donald Trump's executive orders that terminated federal diversity, equity and inclusion programs and aimed to encourage government contractors to do the same, saying it's not the court's role to determine if the directives are "sound policy."

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Trump Admin, States Reach Agreement In School DEI Fight

By Rae Ann Varona

The Trump administration has agreed not to condition federal education funding for state and legal education agencies on what a coalition of nearly 20 states alleged was an incorrect interpretation of law in relation to diversity, equity and inclusion, according to a Friday filing in Massachusetts federal court.

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Ex-Fla. Rep., Lobbyist Want Maduro To Testify At Trial

By Cara Salvatore

A former Florida congressman and a lobbyist who allegedly secretly represented Venezuela in the U.S. said their upcoming trial should include the testimony of the country's former president, Nicolás Maduro.

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Graham Pushes Bill To Allow Suits Over Smith Investigations

By Courtney Bublé

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., is working on a bill to allow nonmembers of Congress to sue for damages after being investigated by special counsel Jack Smith.

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Feds Want 2020 Ballot Case Paused, Citing Fulton FBI Raid

By Kelcey Caulder

The federal government on Friday asked a judge to stay its suit attempting to force the clerk of courts in Fulton County, Georgia, to hand over 2020 presidential election ballots, citing a recent FBI raid that removed those records from the clerk's possession.

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Most Of Fulton Co. Residents' Suit Over 2020 Ballots Tossed

By Kelcey Caulder

A Georgia state judge has dismissed a majority of claims in a long-running suit filed by citizens who sought to review Fulton County's 2020 presidential election ballots, finding there wasn't enough future uncertainty to maintain their claims. 

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Shake Shack Governance Suit Headed For Dismissal In Del.

By Jarek Rutz

A stockholder lawsuit challenging Shake Shack Inc.'s corporate governance arrangements is set to be dismissed after the parties jointly asked the Delaware Court of Chancery to end the case, cutting off the named plaintiff's claims while preserving the ability of other stockholders to bring similar suits later.

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Paycheck Advances Aren't Loans, Fintech Orgs Tell 9th Circ.

By Jon Hill

Fintech trade groups on Friday urged the Ninth Circuit to rein in class litigation over earned wage access products, arguing it should recognize the products as distinct from credit under federal lending laws or risk upending a popular, safer alternative to traditional loans.

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Brief

CFTC Updates Crypto Collateral Letter For Bank Stablecoins

By Aislinn Keely

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Friday tweaked an earlier no-action letter on the use of tokenized collateral to clarify that stablecoins issued by national trust banks are among the list of approved digital assets.

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EPA's Air Review Rule Backed By Industry Groups

By Keith Goldberg

Industry groups have backed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's formula for triggering air pollution review at industrial facilities, telling the D.C. Circuit that environmental groups challenging the agency are attempting to expand the scope of Clean Air Act permitting beyond what Congress intended.

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HHS Ends 340B Drug Rebate Pilot After Legal Challenge

By Mark Payne

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has ended a proposed rebate program that would have altered how hospitals receive payments for participating in the federal 340B drug discount program, which provides discounted prescription drugs for low-income Americans, after facing a lawsuit from a major hospital association.

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Squires Rules Inconsistent Claim Constructions Doom 3 IPRs

By Ryan Davis

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires has undone three decisions by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board instituting inter partes reviews, finding that the patent challengers made conflicting claim construction arguments in the reviews and in court.

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Squires Revives Dish Patent Over Pornhub RPI Error

By Dani Kass

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires has vacated the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's invalidation of a Dish Technologies LLC streaming patent, saying it took too long to disclose a real party in interest.

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News-Rating Biz Escalates Fight Against 'Retaliatory' FTC Deal

By Bryan Koenig

News-rating organization NewsGuard took aim Friday at a Federal Trade Commission settlement barring merging ad-buying giants from doing business with it, challenging that deal and an FTC subpoena in a D.C. federal court lawsuit alleging that both are "part of a broader retaliatory campaign" against NewsGuard and other sites.

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NY Judge Allows Funding For $16B Tunnel To Continue

By Pete Brush

A Manhattan federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from halting funding for a tunnel connecting New York and New Jersey, after the states called the move an unlawful attempt to "punish political rivals" over immigration policy disagreements.

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STB Pledges 'Rigorous Review' Of UP, Norfolk Southern Deal

By Linda Chiem

The Surface Transportation Board has reassured lawmakers that it will "conduct a rigorous and comprehensive review" of Union Pacific's proposed $85 billion merger with Norfolk Southern, as the board weighs a flurry of comments from industry stakeholders on the deal's sweeping implications for the U.S. economy.

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Ousted Conn. Public Defender Chief Loses Bias Suit

By Aaron Keller

The commission responsible for Connecticut's public defenders did not violate TaShun Bowden-Lewis' constitutional or legal rights when it removed her as chief of the office in 2024, a state Superior Court judge has ruled, finding no second hearing was necessary before the former top defense lawyer lost her job.

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Brief

DOL Rolls Out New Minimum Wage For Federal Contractors

By Irene Spezzamonte

The new minimum hourly wage for federal contractors will be set at $13.65, the U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division said Friday, a move coming after the Trump administration nixed a Biden-era rule setting the wage to $15.

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Lenovo Accused Of Illegaly Sharing Data With Chinese Parent

By Bonnie Eslinger

Lenovo Group's U.S. subsidiary illegally shares American consumers' data with its Chinese parent company in violation of a U.S. Department of Justice regulation restricting bulk transfers of sensitive information to foreign adversaries, according to a proposed class action filed Thursday in California federal court.

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SEC Seeks To Enforce $27M Order In NFL, NBA Player Fraud

By Katryna Perera

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has asked a Washington, D.C., federal judge to order a broker-dealer and its sole director to comply with a 2015 commission order requiring them to pay over $27 million in disgorgement and other fines that stemmed from allegations that they ran a Ponzi scheme that swindled NFL and NBA clients out of $12 million.

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Tampa Bay Rays Unveil New MLB Stadium Renderings

By Isaac Monterose

Major League Baseball's Tampa Bay Rays revealed new renderings for its proposed 31,000-seat stadium and mixed-use district project that's planned to be located at the Florida city's Hillsborough College, the team has announced.

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Football Coaches Throw Support Behind FTC's Agent Probe

By Alex Lawson

A football coaches' trade association has thrown its weight behind the Federal Trade Commission's recently launched investigation of college sports agents, warning that the profession is rife with predatory figures looking to exploit vulnerable athletes.

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DC Circ. Wary Of Drone Maker's Chinese Gov't Ties

By Madeline Lyskawa

The D.C. Circuit appeared skeptical of a drone manufacturer's claim that a 2021 recognition from the Chinese government no longer carries weight, while acknowledging that much of the U.S. government's evidence for labeling the company as a "Chinese military company" remains classified.

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4 Takeaways From The EU's Latest Trade Agreements

By Dylan Moroses

The European Union recently cemented formal trade agreements with India and Mercosur, a group of Latin American countries, which — along with creating certainty for businesses in the regions — strike a sharp contrast with the approach taken in framework deals reached by President Donald Trump. Here, Law360 examines four takeaways from the two trade agreements announced by the EU.

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India, US Outline Commitments Toward Trade Deal

By Dylan Moroses

India has agreed to remove tariffs on U.S. industrial exports and several agricultural products, including soybean oil, tree nuts and fruit, in exchange for further U.S. tariff relief, according to a joint statement issued Friday afternoon by the White House.

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Commerce Ordered To Try Again On Russian Fertilizer Duties

By Jack McLoone

The U.S. Department of Commerce has again failed to justify its calculations for the value of Russian mining rights as part of a countervailing duty investigation into phosphate fertilizer, the U.S. Court of International Trade said Friday in an order for a partial redo.

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Brief

Trump Orders 25% Tariff For Countries With Biz Ties To Iran

By Dylan Moroses

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday afternoon that threatens a 25% tariff on the imports entering the U.S. of countries found to be purchasing goods or services from Iran.

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Trump's $10B Tax Leak Suit Legally Unsound, Ex-Officials Say

By Asha Glover

The $10 billion in damages President Donald Trump is seeking in his suit accusing the Internal Revenue Service of failing to prevent a former contractor from leaking Trump's tax returns to news outlets is legally unsupported and unprecedented, four former government officials told a Miami federal court.

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Citing Feds' 'Lies,' Judge Orders 3 Families Returned To U.S.

By Rae Ann Varona

The Trump administration must return three immigrant families wrongly deported in violation of a family separation settlement agreement, a California federal judge said Thursday, stating the removals were unlawful and "involved lies, deception, and coercion."

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2nd Circ. Revives Panama Man's Bid To Reopen Removal Case

By Tom Lotshaw

A Second Circuit panel has ordered the Board of Immigration Appeals to rethink its denial of a deported Panamanian man's attempt to reopen his removal proceedings after New York further decriminalized marijuana possession and vacated convictions he was deported for.

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Second Judge Says IRS Can't Share Address Data With ICE

By Ganesh Setty

Another federal court has blocked a taxpayer address-sharing agreement between the IRS and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, finding they failed to follow a federal tax statute that allows limited information sharing for criminal investigations.

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DHS Sued Over ICE Citizenship Proof Requirement

By José Luis Martínez

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security was hit with proposed class claims Friday alleging the proof-of-citizenship requirement that agents impose during immigration enforcement actions flouts due process for U.S. citizens.

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Top Groups Lobbying The FCC

By Christopher Cole

Groups lobbying the Federal Communications Commission started the year off with concerns ranging from environmental reviews for broadband projects to submarine cable licensing headaches, controversy over EchoStar's spectrum deals with AT&T and SpaceX, and more.

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Anuvu Can't Get More Money For C-Band Move, Judge Rules

By Christopher Cole

An in-house judge at the Federal Communications Commission on Friday rejected Anuvu's push for nearly $1 million more than the agency approved for the company's agreement to vacate lower C-band spectrum years ago to make way for other users.

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Cable Landing Co. Cuts $40K Deal To End FCC License Probe

By Christopher Cole

An undersea cable landing site operator has agreed to pay $40,000 to settle a Federal Communications Commission probe for failing to give proper notice before transferring control of its cable landing license.

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Anti-Pot Advocates Vow To Fight Legalization In Courts

By Sam Reisman

Principals and allies of a leading antidrug nonprofit pledged Friday to pursue the fight against marijuana legalization and normalization in the courts by challenging a pending proposal to loosen federal cannabis restrictions and directly suing some of the country's largest marijuana companies.

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How To Trademark A Guy In 8 Ways: An IP Strategy Against AI

Attempting a novel method of protection against artificial intelligence misuse of his voice and likeness, Matthew McConaughey's recent efforts to register eight trademarks for a series of audio and video clips of himself underscore the importance of extending existing legal frameworks beyond traditional applications, says Summer Todd at Patterson Intellectual Property.

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Where PCAOB Goes Next After A Year Of Uncertainty

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board will likely bring fewer enforcement matters in 2026, reflecting a notable change in board priorities following the change in administrations, say Robert Cox and Nicole Byrd at Whiteford Taylor and Matthew Rogers at Bridgehaven Consulting.

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Protecting Sensitive Data During Congressional Inquiries

With the 2026 midterm elections potentially set to shift control of one or both houses of Congress, entities must proactively plan for the prospect of new congressional investigations, and adopt strategic, effective and practical measures to mitigate risks related to disclosure of sensitive information, say attorneys at Crowell & Moring.

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When Bankruptcy Collides With Product Recalls

The recent bankruptcy filing by Rad Power Bikes on the heels of a U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission warning about dangerously defective batteries sold by the company highlights how CPSC enforcement clashes with bankruptcy protections, leaving both regulators and consumer litigants with limited options, says Michael Avanesian at Avian Law Group.

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Texas AG Wields Consumer Protection Law Against Tech Cos.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has targeted technology companies using the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act, a broadly worded statute that gives the attorney general wide latitude to pursue claims beyond traditional consumer protection, creating unique litigation risks, say attorneys at Yetter Coleman.

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How Latest Nasdaq Proposals Stand To Raise Listings Quality

Nasdaq's recent proposals stand to heighten both quantitative and qualitative standards for issuers, which, if approved, may bring investors stronger market integrity and access but also raise the listings bar, say attorneys at Norton Rose.

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Opinion

CFIUS Must Adapt To Current Foreign Investment Realities

To continue protecting the U.S.’ long-term strategic and economic interests, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States should implement practical enhancements that leverage technology, expertise and clear communication, and enable it to keep pace with evolving demands, says attorney Sohan Dasgupta.

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As Federal Water Regs Recede, Calif.'s Permitting Tide Rises

The U.S. Supreme Court's 2023 decision in Sackett v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reduced federal protections for many wetlands and surface water features, but as California's main water regulator has made clear, many projects are now covered by state rules instead, which have their own complex compliance requirements, says Thierry Montoya at FBT Gibbons.

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Remote Patient Monitoring Is At Regulatory Inflection Point

With remote patient monitoring at the center of new federal pilot programs and a recent report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Inspector General examining Medicare billing for those services, it is clear that balancing innovation and risk will be a central challenge ahead for digital health stakeholders, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.

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Unpacking Dormant Commerce Clause Cannabis Circuit Split

Federal courts have reached differing conclusions as to whether state-legal cannabis is subject to the dormant commerce clause, with four opinions across three circuit courts in the last year demonstrating the continued salience of the dormant commerce clause debate to the nation's cannabis industry, regulators and policymakers, say attorneys at Perkins Coie.

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Venezuela Legal Shifts May Create Investment Opportunities

Since the removal of President Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela has shown signs of economic liberalization, particularly in the oil and mining sectors, presenting unique — but still high-risk — investment opportunities for U.S. companies, say attorneys at Haynes Boone.

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Beasley Allen Disqualified From NJ Talc Multicounty Litigation

By George Woolston

A New Jersey state appeals court disqualified the Beasley Allen Law Firm from representing plaintiffs in multicounty litigation over Johnson & Johnson's talc-based baby powder, ruling Friday that a former Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP lawyer's collaborative efforts with the firm's attorneys violated ethics rules.

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Louisiana Attys Face Possible Sanctions For AI Slop Usage

By Adrian Cruz

As part of an order dismissing the remaining claims in a real estate matter, a Louisiana federal judge has threatened to sanction attorneys from two local firms for submitting a brief riddled with errors generated by artificial intelligence.

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Q&A

Va. Prosecutor Calls For Courage In Charging Feds

By Brandon Lowrey

Several district attorneys have formed a group with a singular goal: to charge and convict federal agents who violate civil rights. Here, Law360 speaks to one of these prosecutors about the creation of Fight Against Federal Overreach and the plans for the organization.

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Judge Shooting Probe Draws Alleged Gunman's Confession

By Lynn LaRowe

The man accused of shooting an Indiana Superior Court judge confessed to carrying out the shooting to achieve a higher rank in his criminal gang and to erase debt he owed to co-conspirators — one of them scheduled for a criminal trial before the judge, according to court documents filed Friday.

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Roundup

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

By Max Austin

This past week in London saw a unit of Johnson & Johnson sue the U.S. government in a patent dispute, Southampton Football Club file a claim against Aviva Insurance, and an events business face a claim by Live Nation (Music) over potential licensing issues for Chelmsford City Live, a music festival that featured Justin Timberlake last year. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

Attacks on alleged anticompetitive behavior took the spotlight in the past week, with a federal jury ordering medical device maker Medtronic to pay $382 million for its monopolistic practices, including bundling sales and punishing customers for using rival products. And the Federal Trade Commission warned 42 law firms that participating in the Diversity Lab's diversity, equity and inclusion program could constitute anticompetitive collusion.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a California federal jury ordered Medtronic to pay nearly $382 million to business rival Applied Medical Resources Corp. for antitrust violations.

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Law360 Seeks Members For Its 2026 Editorial Boards

Law360 is looking for avid readers of our publications to serve as members of our 2026 editorial advisory boards.

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