'Irreparable': The Lasting Harm Of Justices' Temporary Orders

By Cara Bayles

The U.S. Supreme Court has considered dozens of emergency petitions involving executive policies since President Donald Trump's return to office. While justices often defend their emergency rulings as stop-gap measures, people at the center of those cases — who've lost their legal status, jobs, or federal funding — say that even interim decisions have had lasting effects on their lives.

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Analysis

Fixed-Stay Student Visas May Add Burdens For Employers

By Britain Eakin

The Trump administration's new fixed-admission framework for foreign students has U.S. employers and universities thinking through new compliance obligations, with some companies contemplating tracking students' visa expiration dates and taking on their extension paperwork, attorneys tell Law360.

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Analysis

Trump's Latest Canada Tariffs Could Be More Than Bluster

By Dylan Moroses

President Donald Trump's proposed 50% tariffs on select Canadian imports could be a negotiation tactic, but given the ongoing tension between the U.S. and Canada, trade lawyers are bracing for the possibility those measures will be implemented and lead to further escalation.

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5th Circ. Partly Upholds Block On Texas Content Filtering Law

By Hailey Konnath

A Fifth Circuit panel on Friday affirmed in part a lower court's injunction blocking Texas' new law forcing companies to filter content for underage users, though it said other portions of the law, including an age-verification requirement, were permissible.

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11th Circ. Revives Challenge To Ga. Gun Carry Age Limits

By Kelcey Caulder

The Eleventh Circuit revived a challenge to a Georgia statute that prohibits adults under the age of 21 from obtaining weapons carry licenses and carrying handguns in public on Friday, sending the case back to a lower court to consider it in light of recent U.S. Supreme Court precedent.

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Judge OKs Bans On Under-21 Handgun Sales, Possession

By Aaron Keller

A Connecticut federal judge has concluded a federal ban on handgun sales to individuals under 21 and state laws that more broadly bar the carrying and possession of handguns by people under that age, do not violate the Second Amendment because they are consistent with historical traditions.

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Va. Court Orders FDA To Reconsider Mifepristone Restrictions

By Gianna Ferrarin

A Virginia federal judge held that a 2023 regulation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration unlawfully placed prescribing restrictions on the abortion drug mifepristone, agreeing with a group of abortion providers that the agency inadequately addressed burdens on the healthcare system.

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Upstart Gets OCC's Conditional Approval For Bank Charter

By Jon Hill

Online lending platform Upstart has cleared a key initial hurdle at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency in its bid to launch what it is calling the first national bank built with artificial intelligence-powered underwriting.

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2 Conservative Airbnb Investors Drop Proxy Bias Suit

By Nadia Dreid

Two right-leaning institutional investors that accused Airbnb of wrongly excluding their shareholder proposals from proxy materials have been allowed to quietly drop their lawsuit against the short-term rental business.

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Judge Won't Halt BLM Ore. Logging Project

By Gautama Mehta

An Oregon federal judge declined to halt a federal forest management project, saying a pair of conservation organizations were unlikely to prevail on their claim that the project had changed substantially enough to warrant a supplemental environmental review after it was approved.

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Brief

CFTC Wants More Input On Energy Contracts, 24/7 Trading

By Sarah Jarvis

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission has extended the public comment period for its proposals on around-the-clock trading and perpetual contracts in the energy industry, offering additional questions for consideration following the regulator's "extensive conversations" with the industry.

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IP Cases In The Spotlight As ITC Adds 5 New Commissioners

By Ryan Davis

The Senate's confirmation of five new commissioners at the International Trade Commission, including two who were staffers on the intellectual property committees in Congress, could lead to a greater focus on IP cases at the commission and efforts to speed them up, attorneys say.

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Paramount Promises Not To Close Merger During Challenge

By Bryan Koenig

Paramount Skydance Corp. took a fight over a preliminary injunction off the table Friday with a promise not to close its $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. until June 2027 or when a California federal judge rules on the merits of challenges to the deal.

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Discord To Adopt UK Age Standards In Texas After AG's Suit

By Spencer Brewer

Discord Inc. and the Texas attorney general agreed to a court order that will see the messaging platform adopt the same age-assurance and default safety protections it provides in the United Kingdom.

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Conservative Groups Say No To Broadcast Renewal Updates

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

Fourteen conservative and free-market organizations urged Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr to preserve broadcast license renewals as "routine and presumptive."

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CFTC Warns Platforms Against Broad Event Contract Filings

By Aislinn Keely

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Friday told prediction market platforms that it won't wave through "broad, template" filings seeking to certify a variety of event contracts at once.

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Housing Groups Sue Over HUD Grant Program Overhaul

By Nate Beck

Two fair housing groups asked a Massachusetts federal judge to block the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development from slashing grants for a program to assist housing discrimination victims and funneling awards to groups that Congress never intended as recipients.

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Analysis

DOL E-Delivery Push Pleases Mgmt. And Worker Attys Alike

By Kellie Mejdrich

Recently proposed U.S. Department of Labor regulations that would encourage e-delivery of employee health plan documents are winning plaudits from both sides of the benefits bar for potentially streamlining the process and augmenting online transparency. Here are three things to know about the DOL's proposal.

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Live Nation Says Nielsen Ruling Doesn't Help State AGs

By Matthew Perlman

Live Nation is pushing back after state enforcers told a New York federal court that a recent Second Circuit ruling in a case against Nielsen supports their antitrust claims, saying the ruling instead supports its bid to undo the jury verdict.

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Analysis

Data Privacy & AI Issues To Watch For The Rest Of 2026

By Allison Grande

Federal and state lawmakers are expected in the coming months to keep pressing efforts for companies to do more to keep children safe online and rein in potentially harmful uses of emerging artificial intelligence systems, while the California Legislature ponders a measure that's aimed at easing the explosion of wiretap litigation under a decades-old state law.

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Senators Urge FTC To Deny X's Petition To Drop Settlement

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

Three Senate Democrats are asking the Federal Trade Commission to reject Elon Musk's bid to vacate a 2022 consent decree resolving allegations that X, formerly Twitter, misled users when asking for their contact information.

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Calif.'s New Biz Agency Set To Target 'Corrupt Practices'

By Lauren Berg

Rohit Chopra, the first secretary of California's new Business and Consumer Services Agency, on Thursday asked consumers in the Golden State to send in tips about businesses that engage in dishonest pricing schemes, inflated fees and other "harmful and corrupt practices."

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Illinois Judge Tosses Suit Aimed At High School Speed Zone

By Lauraann Wood

An Illinois federal judge has tossed a Chicago driver's proposed class lawsuit challenging two speeding tickets she received in a high school safety zone, adding that one claim requires administrative adjudication before it returns to court.

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Analysis

Top Product Liability Cases Of 2026: Midyear Report

By Emily Field

In one of the most-watched cases for product liability so far this year, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that failure-to-warn claims about the alleged cancer risks of Monsanto's widely used pesticide Roundup are barred by federal law. Social media titans were also rocked by the first verdicts delivered in cases alleging mental health harms to youth.

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8 States Say Education Dept. Still Targeting DEI In Grant Cuts

By Julie Manganis

A coalition of eight states told a Massachusetts federal judge Friday the U.S. Department of Education is continuing to illegally terminate or deny grants under two programs intended to address teacher shortages based on diversity, equity and inclusion "buzzwords" in applications.

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DOD Says Boat Strike Videos Sought By NYT Are Classified

By Lauren Berg

The U.S. Department of Defense told a New York federal judge that while it did share on social media video clips from military strikes on boats in the Pacific and Caribbean, it properly withheld from The New York Times the full-length videos because they contain classified details.

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Forced Labor Tariffs Are Another Illegal Global Regime, Cos. Say

By Jack McLoone

President Donald Trump's latest tariff covering most imports to the U.S. is yet another instance of the president attempting to establish an illegal global tariff regime, a pair of companies told the U.S. Court of International Trade on Friday.

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World Cup National Bodies Get IRS Filing Requirement Waived

By Kevin Pinner

The Internal Revenue Service will waive a filing requirement for tax-exempt national soccer associations that participated in this year's FIFA World Cup if they lack income connected to the U.S. other than prize money, the agency said Friday.

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DOJ Says Colo. Tuition Laws Discriminate Against US Citizens

By Gina Kim

The state of Colorado and its education departments are breaking federal law by providing in-state tuition, scholarships and other postsecondary educational benefits to students without legal residency but do not offer the same benefits to out-of-state U.S. citizen students, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday in Colorado federal court.

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Illinois Blocked From Giving Tuition Aid To Immigrants

By Ben Adlin

A federal judge Friday permanently barred Illinois from providing benefits such as in-state tuition and education scholarships to unauthorized immigrants, agreeing with the Trump administration's argument that the offerings run afoul of federal law by discriminating against U.S. citizens.

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Ex-Immigration Judge Says Firing Is Part Of Biased Anti-DEI Push

By Bonnie Eslinger

A former immigration judge has sued the U.S. Department of Justice in California federal court claiming she was pushed off the bench because she is Black and female, and previously advocated for immigrant clients as an attorney — and saying dozens of similarly situated judges were also fired or denied permanent positions.

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Federal Bill Seeks CDC Set-Aside For Tribal Health

By Crystal Owens

A coalition of U.S. lawmakers from New Mexico and U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., have introduced legislation that would guarantee that tribal nations have equal access to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Public Health Emergency Preparedness program.

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Alaska Tribes Say Road Permits Risk Birds, Subsistence

By Crystal Owens

Three Indigenous Alaskan villages and a conservation group are challenging a Clean Water Act permit and biological opinion the government issued that will allow for construction of a road through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge, alleging in a new lawsuit the decisions violated a slew of environmental laws.

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FCC Adopts New Rules To Close 'Covered List' Loophole

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

The Federal Communications Commission closed a loophole that allowed the sale of products containing "smart" components despite their manufacturers' inclusion on the agency's list of national security threats.

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Mich. Justices Say Open Meeting Not Needed For Pot Permit

By Melanie Dorsey

The city manager of a Detroit suburb did not violate Michigan's Open Meetings Act by privately evaluating and ranking applicants for the city's limited recreational marijuana licenses, the Michigan Supreme Court has ruled, reversing an appellate decision.

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What FERC Concurrences Reveal About Large Load Priorities

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's recent orders concerning grid operators' procedures for connecting large loads like data centers to the power grid came with concurring statements from the FERC commissioners, which provide key insights into individual commissioners' concerns and a road map for compliance, say attorneys at Womble Bond.

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Ensuring Eligibility For Data Center Sales Tax Breaks

As states compete to lure data centers, sales tax exemptions are an important component of many incentive packages — but companies must ensure that projects not only qualify for exemptions on paper, but also can preserve and prove their eligibility through the planning, construction and operation phases, says Peter Lowy at Nelson Mullins.

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CFPB Fair Lending Litigation Reveals Compliance Complexity

A recent legal challenge to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's fair lending amendments underscores continuing uncertainty over disparate impact liability, discouragement standards and special purpose credit programs, signaling that financial services providers should avoid hasty compliance changes, say attorneys at Weiner Brodsky.

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Opinion

USCIS Delays Shouldn't Mean Detention For EB-5 Investors

Some EB-5 investors with pending petitions were recently detained amid a surge in immigration arrests, but when only U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services can resolve a respondent's status, immigration courts shouldn't retain cases they can't decide, and detention shouldn't replace adjudication, says Jun Li at Reid & Wise.

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USPTO-Fed. Circ. Split Complicates Machine Learning Patents

The wide chasm between the USPTO's and the Federal Circuit's approach to eligibility for machine learning patents means that patent drafters must avoid functional claiming and specifications if they hope to avoid invalidation of a machine learning patent at the appellate court, says attorney Michael Kiklis.

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4 Cert. Denials Keep Personal Jurisdiction Issues Percolating

After the U.S. Supreme Court's decisions in Ford Motor v. Montana and Mallory v. Norfolk Southern Railway expanded limits on personal jurisdiction, the justices' denials this term of four certiorari petitions suggest they are content to let jurisdiction questions brew in lower courts before weighing in, say attorneys at Hunton.

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Goldstein Gets 6-Year Sentence, Bond Revoked

By Jared Foretek

Thomas Goldstein, the famed U.S. Supreme Court attorney and founder of SCOTUSblog whose turn into the world of ultra-high-stakes poker ultimately landed him federal tax and mortgage fraud convictions, was sentenced to six years in prison; he was taken into custody and out of court in handcuffs Friday.

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Disciplinary File Opened On Atty Repping Trump In IRS Fight

By James Boyle

A disciplinary file was opened recently on one of the attorneys representing President Donald Trump who helped him reach a deal with the Internal Revenue Service to settle a lawsuit that a Florida federal judge said was meant to "manipulate the judicial process."

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Patriot National CEO Wasn't Simpson Thacher Client, Jury Told

By Madison Arnold

Another Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP attorney took the stand Friday in a Florida malpractice trial brought by the founder of Patriot National Inc. to push back on the idea the founder was actually a client of the firm in the time leading up to his insurance services company declaring bankruptcy.

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Roundup

Balancing The Scales: Geofence Clarity, Post-Hunter Scrutiny

By Orlando Lorenzo

The U.S. Supreme Court deemed geofence warrants as searches under the Fourth Amendment, and the justices’ ruling in Hunter spurs a conversation of what the bar should be for criminal appeal waivers. Here, Law360 highlights access to justice stories arising from litigation, verdicts and judgments you may have missed.

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Feature

The White Collar Boutique 'Renaissance' Is Here

By Phillip Bantz

Unprecedented political pressure on BigLaw, dwindling opportunities at elite firms, powerful legal tech tools and broad slowdowns in white collar enforcement are fueling a remarkable boom in boutique law firm growth, experts say.

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Ala. State Bar Sets Guidance For Atty AI Use, Billing

By Emily Sawicki

The Alabama State Bar has released a formal opinion to guide attorneys on the ethical use of artificial intelligence, cautioning lawyers to be transparent with their clients about their use of AI to avoid unethically inflated billing while encouraging attorneys to utilize the evolving technology.

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'False Innuendo': Sanctioned Davis Wright Atty Rips Fee Bid

By Jeff Overley

A Davis Wright Tremaine LLP partner sanctioned for subpoena tactics is fiercely contesting a plaintiffs firm's six-figure fee bid, telling a California federal court that the request misleadingly cites alleged misconduct in separate litigation, reflecting a "naked attempt to prejudice the court's view of counsel."

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Over 100 Legal Aid Staffers Strike In Harlem And The Bronx

By Andrea Keckley

Over 100 legal aid attorneys, social workers and advocates in Harlem and the Bronx went on strike Friday, with the possibility of more to come in the New York City area.

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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 financial advice firm Smith Square Partners sue ailing social housing company Home REIT, Pogust Goodhead hit with a contract claim by one of its investors, and Entain faced with its latest claim in expanding litigation linked to alleged bribery at its former Turkish business. 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

General counsel are gearing up again to help their companies adapt to the impact of a new round of U.S. tariffs. And the chief legal officer of Alphabet and Google lashed out at the European Commission over search engine changes it is demanding, after the EU imposed a $1 billion fine on Google for violating competition laws.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Sullivan & Cromwell LLP and McGuireWoods LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Fourth Circuit reversed class certification in an investor lawsuit against Boeing over the company's alleged concealment of safety issues with its 737 Max fleet.

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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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