Elon Musk's counsel urged a California federal jury during trial closings Thursday to find OpenAI breached its charitable trust aided by Microsoft Corp. and slammed OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's credibility, while OpenAI's counsel argued Musk is trying to attack his competitor and urged jurors to ask themselves, "Who's telling the truth?"
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'Who's Telling The Truth?' Musk-OpenAI Fight Goes To Jury

By Dorothy Atkins

Elon Musk's counsel urged a California federal jury during trial closings Thursday to find OpenAI breached its charitable trust aided by Microsoft Corp. and slammed OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's credibility, while OpenAI's counsel argued Musk is trying to attack his competitor and urged jurors to ask themselves, "Who's telling the truth?"

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Meta Starts NM Defense As Midtrial Win Bid Fails

By Cara Salvatore

A judge denied Meta a midtrial win Thursday morning over harm to underage social media users, prompting the social media giant to call an executive to begin building a defense case that platform changes requested by New Mexico's attorney general are unnecessary or even counterproductive.

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Voting Maps, Ballot Deadline Teed Up For Ga. Special Session

By Kelcey Caulder

Georgia lawmakers will reconvene for a special session in June to redraw the state's electoral maps in the wake of a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling and to address a fast-approaching deadline to find a replacement method for tabulating votes that does not involve QR codes.

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Trump's 8th Circ. Pick Clears Senate Panel Vote

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump's nominee for the Eighth Circuit, who represented the president in the cases brought by writer E. Jean Carroll, advanced to the full Senate on Thursday.

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Algorithms In Senate Spotlight After Social Media Suit Losses

By Emily Field

Lawyers and parents on Wednesday urged lawmakers to strengthen protections for children online, focusing on the addictiveness of social media algorithms after two recent trial losses for Big Tech.

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Sen. Whitehouse Warns Colleagues Of Privilege 'Creep'

By Courtney Bublé

A key Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee issued a call to arms to his fellow members about the executive branch chipping away at the committee's oversight authority.

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Creek Nation Wins Injunction Blocking City Prosecutions

By Joyce Hanson

The Muscogee (Creek) Nation has won a bid in Oklahoma federal court for a preliminary injunction against a city that has challenged the tribe's sovereignty by arresting tribal citizens on reservation land.

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Boulder Tent Ban Survives Colo. Rights Challenge Appeal

By Zach Dupont

A Colorado Court of Appeals panel unanimously found that two city of Boulder ordinances that ban sheltering in public spaces don't violate the Colorado Constitution, shooting down constitutional challenges from a now-defunct nonprofit and several Boulder residents, according to an opinion announced Thursday.

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BANKING & SECURITIES

Senate Banking Committee Advances Landmark Crypto Bill

By Aislinn Keely

The latest version of a bill to regulate crypto markets advanced out of the Senate banking committee on Thursday in a vote that saw two Democrats break with their colleagues to support the measure, though they warned their continued support of the so-called Clarity Act is contingent upon adding ethics language and other updates before the bill reaches the Senate floor.

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FDIC Signs Off On Stellantis Industrial Bank Bid

By Jon Hill

Stellantis, the company behind Chrysler, Jeep and Dodge cars, has received Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. clearance to open a U.S. industrial bank, a move that will put all of Detroit's "Big Three" automakers on track to own federally insured lenders.

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ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL

Water Utilities Urge DC Circ. To Toss EPA PFAS Regs Suit

By Mike Curley

A trade association for local public clean water utilities is urging the D.C. Circuit to affirm the dismissal of a suit from a group of farmers alleging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency hasn't adequately regulated so-called forever chemicals, saying the plaintiffs' suit risks interfering with their ability to do their jobs.

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High Court Must End Colo. Climate Suit, Oil Cos. Say

By Ganesh Setty

Suncor Energy and ExxonMobil urged the U.S. Supreme Court Thursday to reverse a Colorado Supreme Court ruling allowing local communities to pursue state law tort claims for climate change damages, arguing their claims are "avowedly interstate and international in scope."

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House Passes Bill To Narrow Biofuel Blending Exemption

By Gautama Mehta

The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a bill that would lift summertime restrictions on the sale of higher-ethanol fuel and tighten requirements for a biofuel blending exemption for small refineries.

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EPA Floats Relaxation Of Coal Plant Waste Rule

By Nadia Dreid

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency wants to relax Biden-era rules requiring coal-run power plants to treat toxic wastewater so it doesn't seep into waterways, saying the move would reduce the cost of electricity by more than $1 billion a year.

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EPA Proposes Delaying Biden-Era Vehicle Emissions Regs

By Gautama Mehta

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency proposed a two-year extension on Thursday for the compliance deadline for Biden-era vehicle emissions standards, saying the policy was based on an overestimation of electric vehicle demand.

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HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES

NC Republicans Want Fetal Personhood Question On '26 Ballot

By Abigail Harrison

Two Republicans in the North Carolina House who have a history of advancing so-called fetal personhood bills have made another attempt to put a constitutional amendment to voters in November to decide if life begins at fertilization.

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IP & TECHNOLOGY

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States Eye AI Ownership Laws To Fill Federal IP Gaps

By Ivan Moreno

States are beginning to test whether they can fill a gap left by federal copyright and patent law for works created with artificial intelligence, with Arkansas adopting a first-of-its-kind ownership rule for generative content and lawmakers elsewhere weighing their own proposals.

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Squires Lays Out Principles For Patent Review Discretion

By Hailey Konnath

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John A. Squires issued a precedential decision Thursday outlining the principles underlying his discretion in instituting America Invents Act reviews, emphasizing that Congress intended such reviews to be an alternative to costly and lengthy litigation.

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Squires Walks Back 5 More IPR Grants Over Inconsistent Args

By Theresa Schliep

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires has reversed earlier decisions granting five petitions for patent review, citing what he called the challengers' inconsistent positions in parallel proceedings and explaining that four petitions he denied in previous bulk orders were also rejected for the same reasons. 

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Squires Ends IPR After Railway Co. Surrenders Patent Claim

By Dani Kass

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires has de-instituted a Patent Trial and Appeal Board review after National Steel Car Ltd. disclaimed the only parts of its patent the board thought could be invalid, saying they should "be treated as though they never existed."

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House Panel Backs Bill To Recast Copyright Office Oversight

By Ivan Moreno

A U.S. House committee Thursday unanimously advanced a bill that would change how the Copyright Office chief is selected, requiring congressional leaders to recommend candidates while allowing the president to make the final selection — a shift that would give both branches of government a more direct role in choosing the agency's leadership.

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MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

Senate Bill Would Require Network Outage Refunds

By Christopher Cole

A Democratic senator filed legislation that would require cable, satellite, internet and phone providers to refund customers for service outages lasting longer than four hours.

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Verizon's Array Buy Gets Green Light From FCC Staff

By Christopher Cole

Verizon secured approval Thursday from the Federal Communications Commission to buy up spectrum assets of the former rival UScellular, now known as Array Digital Infrastructure Inc.

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TRANSPORTATION & INFRASTRUCTURE

Justices Say Freight Brokers Can Face Negligence Suits

By Linda Chiem

The U.S. Supreme Court said Thursday that freight brokers might also be liable under state law for selecting unsafe motor carriers that then get into highway crashes that kill or injure people, offering long-sought clarity on liability standards in a commercial trucking industry unnerved by supersized verdicts against carriers and drivers.

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Railroads Say Taxing Train But Not Truck Fuel Violates Law

By Kelcey Caulder

Norfolk Southern and CSX Transportation told a Georgia federal court in a lawsuit against the state Department of Revenue and its commissioner that the state's suspension of an excise tax on highway diesel fuel without extending the suspension to locomotive diesel fuel is "discriminatory taxation" that must be enjoined.

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SPORTS & BETTING

Florida AG Subpoenas NFL Over Diversity Hiring Rules

By David Minsky

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier expanded his inquest into the NFL and subpoenaed league officials after they pushed back against the threat of a lawsuit for allegedly using discriminatory hiring practices in violation of state law. 

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Mich. Court Freezes $2.5M In Grants Meant For Baseball Parks

By Susan Smiley

A Michigan court has granted a preliminary injunction ordering the state Department of Labor and Economic Development to halt disbursements of $2.5 million in community enhancement grants to two minor-league baseball stadiums pending the outcome of a Mackinac Center for Public Policy suit claiming earmark funds were illegally appropriated.

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EMPLOYMENT & BENEFITS

Farmworkers Lose Early Bid To Halt DOL H-2A Wage Rule

By Britain Eakin

A California federal judge declined Thursday to block a U.S. Department of Labor regulation reducing wages for H-2A seasonal farmworkers, ruling that United Farm Workers failed to show there is an immediate injury that warrants court intervention now.

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DOL Walks Back Biden-Era Overtime Exemption Rule

By Max Kutner

The U.S. Department of Labor moved Thursday to undo a rule from former President Joe Biden's administration that raised the salary threshold for overtime exemptions under the Fair Labor Standards Act, returning to the standard from President Donald Trump's first term.

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7th Circ. Presses Trans CTA Driver On Bias Evidence

By Celeste Bott

A Seventh Circuit panel Thursday pressed counsel for a former Chicago Transit Authority bus driver on whether the record showed he was fired because he is transgender, rather than because he failed to follow procedures for taking leave, as he seeks to revive discrimination claims against the agency and union.

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CONSUMER PROTECTION

NJ Lawmakers Slam Attacks On Judiciary At State Bar Panel

By George Woolston

A bipartisan panel of New Jersey lawmakers condemned partisan attacks on judges and the judiciary on Wednesday, urging Garden State attorneys to uphold their oath to the U.S. Constitution and the rule of law and to "step back from the keyboard."

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Fla. Property Manager To Pay Evicted Sailor $60K In DOJ Deal

By Nate Beck

A Florida property management company will pay $60,000 to a U.S. Navy sailor to settle allegations by federal prosecutors that the company used a false affidavit to win an eviction that forced the sailor to live apart from his wife — at times on a Navy ship with no heat.

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PERSONAL INJURY & MEDICAL MALPRACTICE

Texas Panel Nixes Ex-Atty's Defamation Suit Against City

By José Luis Martínez

A Texas appeals court dismissed a former attorney's suit against the city of Shenandoah on Thursday because he waited too long to make the city a defendant in lieu of city employees.

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High Court Maintains Abortion Pill Access Amid Circuit Appeal

By Dan McKay

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday extended a stay preserving telehealth access to the abortion medication mifepristone while the Fifth Circuit weighs a challenge to the mail-order distribution of the pill.

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Conn. Mayor Given Gag Order For Talking To Press About Trial

By Elizabeth Daley

A Connecticut mayor placed the integrity of a wrongful conviction trial "at grave risk" by speaking to the media, a judge said in issuing a gag order this week, also noting that the jury will be instructed on the importance of ignoring news stories.

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AEROSPACE & DEFENSE

New Bill Would Ban Chinese Point-Of-Sale Tech For DOD

By Nadia Dreid

The U.S. Department of Defense would be banned from using any Chinese-made point-of-sale technology — devices like those that allow people to tap their cards to pay — in its buildings, if one Republican congressman gets his way.

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INTERNATIONAL TRADE

Brief

US Trade Rep. Seeks Feedback On ITC's Quartz Tariff Plan

By Jack McLoone

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative on Thursday said it is seeking comments on tariff recommendations made in April by the U.S. International Trade Commission regarding imported quartz surfaces.

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Guidelines For Tariff Offsets Treat Truck Parts Like Auto Parts

By Jack McLoone

Imported parts used in manufacturing various trucks are treated like automobile parts in guidelines that the U.S. International Trade Administration issued Thursday for U.S. manufacturers of medium- and heavy-duty vehicles looking to qualify for a program that allows a discount on duties paid for such parts.

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TAX

'Pig Butchering' Crypto Scam Victim Seeks $962K From IRS

By Kat Lucero

An Ohio man told a district court that the Internal Revenue Service wrongly denied his tax deduction claim for a loss of over $800,000 from a cryptocurrency "pig butchering" scheme despite the extensive documentation of the fraud he said he provided to the agency.

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Gov't Asks 6th Circ. To Reverse FedEx's $89M Tax Credit Win

By Natalie Olivo

The U.S. government urged the Sixth Circuit to reverse a Tennessee federal court's decision that invalidated foreign tax credit regulations and allowed FedEx an $89 million refund, arguing that the rules reflect Congress' intent to prevent windfalls under the 2017 tax overhaul.

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DC Beneficiary Can't Get Recordation Tax Refund, Court Says

By Jaqueline McCool

A trust beneficiary is not eligible for a refund of a Washington, D.C., recordation tax that was paid when a property was transferred upon the dissolution of the trust, a district appellate court ruled Thursday. 

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Newsom's Budget Change Targets Credits, SaaS, LLC Tax

By Maria Koklanaris

California would make permanent its business tax credit limit, apply the sales tax to digital prewritten software and cut in half the $800 minimum tax for limited liability companies under a revised budget announced Thursday by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom.

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IMMIGRATION

Ex-Immigration Judge Says DOJ Targeted Dissenters, Others

By Julie Manganis

A former immigration judge in Massachusetts said in a lawsuit brought Thursday that he was fired in a purge of those with "political ideologies contrary to those held" by the Trump administration in violation of his First Amendment rights.

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Feds Must Return Colombian Deported To Congo, Judge Says

By Britain Eakin

A D.C. federal judge ordered the Trump administration to facilitate the return of a 55-year-old Colombian woman the government deported to the Democratic Republic of the Congo in April, ruling that her removal likely violated federal immigration law.

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Infrastructure Can't Support ICE Detention Center, Ga. City Says

By Tom Lotshaw

Social Circle, a Georgia city of about 5,000, has asked a federal judge to block U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement from rapidly converting an empty warehouse into a 10,000-bed detention center, arguing the agency shirked its duty to consider the impacts.

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Texas AG Says Dallas Sheriff Must Cooperate With ICE

By Britain Eakin

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton threatened legal action against Dallas County Sheriff Marian Brown over her refusal to enter into a cooperative agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement authorizing local officers to enforce federal immigration law.

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WHITE COLLAR

Fla. AG Blasts State Atty Over Lenient Felony Punishments

By Madison Arnold

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier this week criticized State Attorney Monique Worrell over her application of a Sunshine State law that allows "youthful offenders" to receive less severe punishments, calling her use a "policy of excessive leniency."

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NYC Bar Endorses Random Audits For Law Firm Accounts

By Emily Sawicki

The New York City Bar Association's Professional Discipline Committee on Thursday threw its support behind a statewide bill to institute a random audit program for law firm financial accounts.

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DOJ Asserts Broad Power In BigLaw Executive Order Appeal

By Jared Foretek

A Trump administration attorney told the D.C. Circuit on Thursday that the courts have no authority to review the president's decision to revoke someone's security clearance for any reason, including race, religion, or even refusal to pay a $1 million bribe.

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Ill. Rep.'s Ex-Aide Pleads Not Guilty To COVID Relief Fraud

By Lauraann Wood

An Illinois congressman's former deputy district chief accused of securing fraudulent unemployment insurance benefits through a COVID-19 pandemic relief program pled not guilty to the charges Thursday in federal court.

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NATIVE AMERICAN

4th Circ. Says Tribe Can Reclaim Boarding School Remains

By Crystal Owens

The U.S. Army must repatriate the remains of two Indigenous children from a former Indian boarding school cemetery in Pennsylvania, a split Fourth Circuit panel determined Thursday, saying the site qualifies as a holding or collection under a federal law designed to protect Native American burial sites.

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TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Rural Carrier To Pay $80K For Breaking FCC Rules

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

A rural telephone company in Colorado has agreed to pay $80,000 and create a compliance plan to resolve a Federal Communications Commission probe into whether it provided unauthorized service.

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Advocacy Groups, Dems Seek To Restore Digital Equity Fund

By Christopher Cole

A year after the Trump administration abruptly pulled funds set aside for digital equity grants, Democratic lawmakers are joining with public interest groups in trying to block a budget proposal that would permanently stamp out the program.

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AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon Join Forces To End 'Dead Zones'

By Hailey Konnath

AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon have reached an agreement in principle to form a new joint venture aimed at ending wireless dead zones in the U.S. by pooling resources to increase capacity, according to an announcement made Thursday.

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CANNABIS

Legislative Update: Cannabis And Psychedelics Bill Roundup

By Sam Reisman

Members of Congress approved language in a funding bill that would block the rescheduling of marijuana, Colorado lawmakers gave final approval to a bill to fund research into the psychedelic ibogaine and authorize the establishment of licensed treatment centers, and Rhode Island lawmakers introduced legislation to eliminate geographic criteria from the state's cannabis social equity program.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

SEC Clarifies 'Baby Shelf' Restrictions For Small Cos.

For smaller public companies looking to access the capital markets, the so-called baby shelf requirements can be a significant limitation, but recent guidance from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission helps to alleviate the effect of subsequent baby shelf restrictions on an at-the-market facility, say attorneys at Faegre Drinker.

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New Cuba Sanctions Raise Risks For Foreign Banks, Cos.

President Donald Trump's bold move leveling secondary sanctions against Cuba expands enforcement risk for foreign banks and companies with no U.S. nexus, signaling that non-U.S. businesses should reassess related transactions, counterparties and exposure as regulators test this broader authority, say attorneys at Troutman.

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AG Watch: Reconciling 2 Maryland Data Privacy Statutes

In-house counsel should map the interplay between the Maryland Online Data Privacy Act's strictly necessary standard to deliver a requested service, and the Protection From Predatory Pricing Act's exemption of consent-based pricing within loyalty programs, before the state attorney general begins enforcement on the latter in October, says Erek Barron at Mintz.

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EPA Listing Signals New Scrutiny Of Drugs In Drinking Water

The recent publication of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's latest draft drinking water contaminant list highlights pharmaceuticals as a category of concern, marking the start of a process that could shape future research priorities, monitoring requirements, and federal and state actions, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.

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Nexstar Offers A Cautionary Tale On State-Level Deal Scrutiny

State-enforcement challenges to the $6.2 billion Nexstar-Tegna merger remind legal practitioners that federal approval isn't always sufficient to deliver certainty on closing, integration and timetable assumptions, says Brett Story at Britehorn Securities.

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Series

Playing Basketball Makes Me A Better Lawyer

My grandfather used to say "I wear your jersey" as shorthand for wholly committing to support someone with loyalty and integrity — ideals that have shaped my life on the basketball court and in legal practice, says Tracy Schimelfenig at Schimelfenig Legal.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

ABA Section Votes To Scrap Law School DEI Standards

By Emma Cueto

The American Bar Association's legal education section on Friday voted to eliminate its requirements that law schools show a commitment to diversity in their student body in order to remain accredited, a policy that has been under fire since a 2023 U.S. Supreme Court ruling striking down affirmative action in higher education.

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Fed. Circ. Drops A Theme Song, Talks Guest Judges

By Dani Kass

The Federal Circuit's full lineup came together Friday to provide practitioners with insight about their experience sitting on other courts, in a conference where the chief judge dropped the court's first (and only) single.

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Alston & Bird, Banks Sued Again Over $328M Goliath Scam

By Jack Karp

Another proposed class of investors sued Alston & Bird LLP and a trio of financial institutions Friday over their alleged roles in a $328 million cryptocurrency scam orchestrated by Goliath Ventures Inc.

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Fed. Circ. Urges Justices To Reject Newman Suspension Case

By Ryan Davis

The Federal Circuit has urged the U.S. Supreme Court not to hear Judge Pauline Newman's appeal targeting a suspension imposed on her by the court's other judges, arguing that a lower court correctly held that her challenges to the order are not subject to judicial review.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP and Haynes Boone lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that federal courts that have sent disputes to arbitration have jurisdiction to confirm or vacate subsequent awards.

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Brief

Colorado Passes Bill Banning Fee Sharing With Nonlawyers

By Emily Sawicki

The Colorado Legislature has approved a bill to bar attorneys and law firms operating in the state from sharing fees and revenue with non-attorney-owned firms, known as alternative business structure firms, making Colorado the latest state to tamp down the practice.

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Girardi Trial Judge Josephine Staton To Take Senior Status

By Ryan Boysen

The California federal judge who sentenced disgraced trial attorney Tom Girardi to prison for wire fraud last year has announced that she'll be taking senior status in the fall, allowing President Donald Trump to appoint her successor.

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Roundup

Balancing The Scales: Justices To Revisit Sentencing Rules

By Orlando Lorenzo

The U.S. Supreme Court will take a closer look at a circuit split over the deference that should be allotted to U.S. Sentencing Commission commentary, and a man convicted in the killing of an infant has been released after 27 years served over evidence that points to pneumonia as the likely cause of death.

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Atty Tied To Trump Pardon Headed For August Extortion Trial

By Stewart Bishop

A New York federal judge on Friday set an August trial date for a South Carolina attorney and lobbyist on extortion charges tied to his work as a purported go-between for people with serious legal troubles seeking clemency from President Donald Trump.

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Roundup

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

By Megan Norcott

The past week in London has seen singer Rita Ora be sued by her management company, the billionaire Gertner brothers file a part 8 claim and Stephenson Harwood lodge a debt claim against a member of the Bulgari jewelry dynasty. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

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Roundup

GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

PayPal settled with the DOJ to end a probe into what the government agency said was a discriminatory investment program for Black- and minority-owned businesses. Meanwhile, Meta's global head of legal operations during a panel discussion predicted that the billable hour will be the exception — not the rule — in five years. These are among the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.

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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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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Alston & Bird

ArentFox Schiff

Armstrong Teasdale

Arnold & Porter

Ashfords LLP

Avantech Law

BPE Solicitors

Baker Donelson

Baker McKenzie

Banner Witcoff

Beveridge & Diamond

Big Fire Law

Brabners LLP

Brooks Kushman

Brown & Crouppen

Bush Ross

Clement & Murphy

Clyde & Co

Cooley LLP

Covington & Burling

Cripps LLP

Cultural Heritage Partners

DLA Piper

DWF LLP

Davis Polk

Davis Wright Tremaine

Dechert LLP

Dowd Bloch

Dykema

Edwin Coe

Faegre Drinker

Foot Anstey

Freshfields

GRATA Law Firm

Gibson Dunn

Gilbert Employment Law

Girard Sharp

Goodwin Procter

Greenberg Traurig

Hall & Evans

Hall Estill

Harrison Goddard Foote

Haynes Boone

Hill Dickinson

Hogan Lovells

Holland & Knight

Howd & Ludorf

Hutchinson Black

Ice Miller

Jenner & Block

Joseph Hage

Kanji & Katzen

Karsten & Tallberg

Keker Van

Kellogg Hansen

Kennedys Law LLP

King & Spalding

Kingsley Napley

Kirkland & Ellis

Kline & Specter

Knobbe Martens

Koskoff Koskoff

Latham & Watkins

Leigh Day

Levine Kellogg

Lewis Brisbois

Lowell & Associates

Meister Seelig & Schuster

Messing Rudavsky

Mintz Levin

Mishcon de Reya

MoloLamken

Morgan Lewis

Morrison & Foerster

Morrison Cohen

Motley Rice

Munger Tolles

Neufeld Scheck

Newman McNulty

Paul Weiss

Penningtons Manches

Perkins Coie

Pillsbury Winthrop

Power Rogers

Proskauer Rose

Quarles & Brady

Quinn Emanuel

Reynolds Porter

Ropes & Gray

Setfords Solicitors

Shoosmiths LLP

Sidley Austin

Singleton Schreiber

Skadden Arps

Smith Baluch

Stephenson Harwood

Steptoe LLP

Susman Godfrey

Tax Workout Group

Thompson Coburn

Toberoff & Associates

Troutman

Umhofer Mitchell

Venable LLP

Wachtell Lipton

Walker Morris LLP

Watkins Calcara

Wheeler Trigg

Williams & Connolly

Williams Law Firm

WilmerHale

Womble Bond

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

AB Electrolux

AT&T Inc.

AXA SA

Alliance Defending Freedom

Amalgamated Transit Union

Amazon.com Inc.

American Bar Association

American Civil Liberties Union

American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado

American Farm Bureau Federation Inc.

American Petroleum Institute Inc.

Apple Inc.

BMS Group

BSH Hausgeräte GmbH

Bank of America Corp.

Boston Scientific Corp.

Britehorn Securities LLC

British American Tobacco PLC

British Broadcasting Corp.

Britvic PLC

Bulgari SpA

C.H. Robinson Worldwide Inc.

CSX Corp.

Cemex, S.A.B. de C.V.

Chevron Corp.

Coinbase Global Inc.

Consumer Federation of America

Corporate Legal Operations Consortium

Debenhams PLC

Earthjustice

Ethiopian Airlines Enterprise

Exxon Mobil Corp.

FedEx Corp.

Ford Motor Co.

FreightCar America Inc.

Google LLC

Groupe PSA

HSBC Holdings PLC

Haemonetics Corp

ING Groep NV

InCloud LLC

Instagram Inc.

Integer Holdings Corp.

International Paper Co.

Investments Ltd.

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Jimmy John's Franchise LLC

LinkedIn Corp.

LionTree LLC

Mackinac Center for Public Policy

Managed Funds Association

Marriott International Inc.

Marubeni

Maserati North America Inc.

MasterCard Inc.

Mediterranean Shipping Co. SA

Medtronic PLC

Meta Platforms Inc.

Microsoft Corp.

Midas Group Inc.

NFL Enterprises LLC

National Association of Clean Water Agencies

National Corn Growers Association

National Employment Law Project

National Mining Association

Native American Rights Fund Inc.

Natural Resources Defense Council

New Civil Liberties Alliance

New Jersey State Bar Association

New York City Bar Association

Nexstar Media Group Inc.

Nike Inc.

Nippon Life Insurance Company of America

Norfolk Southern Corp.

OpenAI OpCo LLC

Otis Worldwide Corp.

PG&E Corp.

Paypal Holdings Inc.

Pilgrim's Pride Corp.

Pindrop Security Inc.

Pittsburgh Steelers

ROC Nation LLC

Rural Wireless Association

SAS Institute Inc.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

Sierra Club

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Snap Inc.

South Carolina Bar

Southeastern University

Stellantis NV

Suncor Energy Inc.

T-Mobile US Inc.

Tegna Inc.

Terumo Corp.

Tesla Inc.

The Catholic University of America

The DIRECTV Group Inc.

The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.

Thryv Inc.

TikTok Inc.

Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance Co. Ltd.

U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants

United Farm Workers

Verizon Communications Inc.

Visa Europe

Wells Fargo & Co.

World Resources Institute

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Bureau of Labor Statistics

Chicago Transit Authority

Colorado Supreme Court

Committee on House Administration

Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Companies House

Competition Appeal Tribunal

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Executive Office of the President

Federal Aviation Administration

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Communications Commission

Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

Federal Trade Commission

Financial Conduct Authority

Florida Attorney General's Office

Food and Drug Administration

Georgia Department of Revenue

Georgia Supreme Court

House Committee on Energy and Commerce

Internal Revenue Service

International Trade Administration

International Trade Commission

Library of Congress

Louisiana Attorney General's Office

Maryland Attorney General's Office

Maryland General Assembly

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Michigan Attorney General's Office

Muscogee Creek Nation

National Labor Relations Board

National Telecommunications and Information Administration

New Mexico Attorney General's Office

Office of Foreign Assets Control

Office of the U.S. Trade Representative

Patent Trial and Appeal Board

Pennsylvania Supreme Court

Small Business Administration

State of Michigan

Texas Attorney General's Office

Texas State Senate

Texas Tenth Court of Appeals

U.S. Army

U.S. Attorney's Office

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Florida

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Illinois

U.S. Copyright Office

U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

U.S. Department of Agriculture

U.S. Department of Commerce

U.S. Department of Defense

U.S. Department of Education

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of Labor

U.S. Department of State

U.S. Department of the Treasury

U.S. District & Bankruptcy Courts of Southern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board

U.S. Navy

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Senate

U.S. Sentencing Commission

U.S. Supreme Court

UK High Court

UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO)

US Office of Management and Budget

United Nations

United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma

United States District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia

United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Wage and Hour Division

Winnebago Tribe

Yurok Tribe