Analysis

Anthropic Export Controls Stir Fear Of Unforeseen Sanctions

By Madeline Lyskawa

The Trump administration's imposition of export controls against Anthropic should serve as a warning to other technology companies that missteps, and a lack of industrywide guidance on what the government considers national security risks, could result in unexpected sanctions.

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Analysis

Law Students Undeterred Under Trump's Immigration Climate

By Britain Eakin

In a climate where immigration lawyers are coming under the Trump administration’s scrutiny to tamp down on asylum fraud, law students are being ignited to enter the workforce early and rectify the injustices they see.

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Split 6th Circ. Revives Ohio's Social Media Age Limit Law

By Hailey Konnath

A divided Sixth Circuit panel Thursday wiped out a lower court's order blocking an Ohio law barring social media companies from allowing children under 16 to create accounts without parental consent, ruling that the measure does not run afoul of the Constitution.

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Justices Allow Gun Rights For Marijuana User

By Elizabeth Daley

U.S. Supreme Court justices ruled Thursday that the federal government cannot bar a drug user from owning guns, saying that the prosecution of a Texas man accused of owning a gun while being a marijuana user was inconsistent with the Second Amendment right to bear arms.

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Trump Lawyer Advances In Senate Judiciary Noms Vote

By Courtney Bublé

The nomination of Matthew Schwartz to be a judge on the Second Circuit advanced out of committee Thursday.

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Judiciary Cites AI Deepfakes In Opposing Courtroom Cameras

By Courtney Bublé

Two bipartisan bills to bring cameras into federal courtrooms advanced Thursday, but the policymaking body for the federal judiciary continues to oppose them and raised the issue of deepfakes in the age of artificial intelligence.

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NY High Court Upholds Mandatory Judge Retirement Age

By Dorothy Atkins

New York's highest court Thursday affirmed a ruling that rejected jurists' challenges to the Empire State's mandatory retirement age of 70 for state judges and justices, finding that the centuries-old constitutional mandate doesn't conflict with a recent state civil rights amendment banning age discrimination.

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3rd Circ. Rules Feds Can Replace Philly Slavery Exhibits

By P.J. D'Annunzio

The Third Circuit on Thursday held that the Trump administration can legally replace slavery exhibits at Independence Hall National Park in Philadelphia, reversing a lower court's ruling in favor of the city ordering the restoration of the previously removed informational panels.

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Feds Must Still Restore 'Truthful History' In Parks Amid Appeal

By Lauren Berg

The Trump administration cannot delay restoring information about climate change, slavery and Indigenous history to National Park Service sites by the nation's 250th anniversary while it pursues an appeal, a Massachusetts federal judge ruled on Thursday.

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Calif. Moves On Proposal To Allow Legal Aid By Nonlawyers

By Lynn LaRowe

The California Supreme Court has directed the state bar to solicit public comments on a proposed community justice worker program that would allow nonlawyers to provide limited legal assistance under the supervision of qualified legal aid organizations, according to a Thursday announcement.

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Another Defendant Claims Ill. AUSA Prejudiced Grand Jury

By Celeste Bott

Another defendant alleged Thursday that the same Chicago federal prosecutor linked to misconduct claims that ultimately tanked two recent criminal cases also made prejudicial remarks to the grand jury while seeking arson charges against him, improperly vouched for the strength of the government's case, and shared personal opinions about his guilt.

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DC Circ. Sends CFPB Layoff Fight Back To District Court

By Jon Hill

The D.C. Circuit has declined to give the Trump administration an immediate green light for a plan to lay off around half of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's remaining workforce, instead handing it off for a Washington, D.C., federal judge to review first.

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CME Group Sues CFTC Over Perpetual-Contracts Approval

By Jessica Corso

CME Group is challenging the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission's decision to approve the listing of perpetual contracts, arguing in a lawsuit that the agency "overrode Congress's definition of the term 'swap'" when it gave Kalshi the green light last month to allow trading on bitcoin spot prices. 

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Split 9th Circ. Says Feds Must Follow ESA In Water Project

By Ganesh Setty

A federal regulator must comply with the Endangered Species Act as it operates a water management initiative in southern Oregon and northern California, the Ninth Circuit ruled, without adjudicating particular usage rights among irrigators, tribes and others.

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10th Circ. Revives Air Force Chemical Cleanup Mandate Case

By Elaine Briseño

The Tenth Circuit has revived a case alleging New Mexico exceeded its authority by requiring cleanup of so-called forever chemicals at a U.S. Air Force base in the state, finding the district court erred by claiming it did not have jurisdiction over the dispute.

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FERC Orders Revisions Of Data Center Grid Access Policies

By Keith Goldberg

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Thursday directed regional grid operators to craft their own policies that speed up the connection of data centers and other large facilities to the grid, eschewing a nationally applicable rule advocated by the U.S. Department of Energy.

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Enviro Groups Say Feds Skirted Review For Gulf Oil Leases

By Elaine Briseño

A group of environmental organizations has sued the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management for issuing oil leases in the Gulf of Mexico, saying the agency failed to review how the proposed explorations would influence the environment and endangered species.

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Colo. Mine Says Permit Order Would Be 'Death Penalty'

By Zach Dupont

The owner of a Colorado mine claimed in state court Wednesday that regulators intentionally delayed a permitting process by misleading the owner to get the mine closed permanently, in violation of the owner's due process rights.

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Meta Can't Undo $35M Political Ad Penalty, Wash. Justices Say

By Rachel Riley

Most of the Washington State Supreme Court justices rejected Meta's First Amendment challenge to a state political advertising disclosure law in a divided opinion, while also spurning the social media giant's argument that a $35 million penalty against it violates the Constitution's prohibition on excessive fines.

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Free Speech Fight Over Fla. Social Media Law Goes To Trial

By Dorothy Atkins

A Florida federal judge refused to hand a decisive win just yet to either the state or technology groups challenging a law punishing social media websites for blocking political candidates, sending the dispute — which has already made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court — to a September bench trial instead.

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Louisiana Asks 5th Circ. To Lift Block Of Social Media Law

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

Louisiana is asking a federal appellate court to lift its block on a state law that requires social media platforms to verify users' ages and bans them from allowing minors to create or maintain accounts without parental permission.

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3rd Circ. Sides With NJ Transit In Whistleblower's Firing

By Carla Baranauckas

A Third Circuit panel on Thursday declined to reinstate a fired New Jersey Transit engineer's retaliation lawsuit, ruling that she hadn't shown that she was fired by anyone who knew about her whistleblower allegations that the agency had unsafe rail practices.

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Delta Seeks To Toss Cuba Property Trafficking Suit

By Carolina Bolado

Delta Air Lines asked a Florida federal court on Thursday to dismiss a lawsuit accusing the airline of trafficking in stolen property by operating from a Havana airport seized by the Cuban government, telling the court that the man claiming ownership of the airport acquired his claim too late.

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11th Circ. Revives Title IX Suit Over Football Team Hazing

By Alex Lawson

The Eleventh Circuit has revived an Alabama high school football player's suit against the school district and his former coach over incidents of sexual harassment by his teammates, finding that the allegations supported the student's Title IX and equal protection claims.

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Analysis

Pennsylvania Skill Games Ruling Ups Ante For New Rules

By Matthew Santoni

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court's recent ruling that skill games are subject to the same oversight as slot machines is a catalyst for lawmakers to craft a taxation and regulation framework and fuel a revenue boost Gov. Josh Shapiro has envisioned for years, experts tell Law360.

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Senate Panel Advances Revised College Sports Reform Bill

By David Steele

The U.S. Senate Commerce Committee approved a bill to codify federal protections for college sports and for athletes' earning abilities, sending it to the full Senate for a possible vote.

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NC Legislators OK 90% Property Tax Break For Builders

By Maria Koklanaris

North Carolina would allow local governments to create specialized districts and provide significant tax exclusions for developers to incentivize new property improvements under a bill now on the governor's desk.

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Split 9th Circ. To Rehear Ministry's Anti-LGBTQ+ Hiring Case

By Rachel Riley

The Ninth Circuit on Thursday nixed a panel's recent ruling that the First Amendment shields a Christian ministry's practice of rejecting gay job applicants, granting Washington state's bid for a full-court rehearing while drawing protest from one appellate judge that the court has "relegated religious liberty to a second-class right."

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5 Big ERISA Litigation Developments From 2026's First Half

By Kellie Mejdrich

The U.S. Supreme Court's acceptance of a petition challenging Intel's 401(k) investment lineup and a Fourth Circuit ruling unraveling a class of Genworth Financial retirement plan participants headlined the court developments that caught benefits attorneys' attention in the first six months of 2026. Here, Law360 looks at those and other noteworthy ERISA decisions.

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Trump Accounts Not Subject To ERISA, DOL Says

By Asha Glover

Trump accounts, the new tax-advantaged brokerage accounts for newborns, will generally not be considered employee pension benefit plans and will not be subject to federal benefits laws, according to guidance issued Thursday by the U.S. Department of Labor.

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Colo. Worker Says State Paid Staff Below Denver's Min Wage

By Zach Dupont

A former state Department of Revenue employee claimed in a proposed class action Wednesday that she was paid more than $1 an hour below Denver's minimum wage for the entirety of her time as an employee and is owed compensation, according to a complaint filed in Colorado state court.

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Blackstone's LivCor Cuts $7M Rent-Fixing Deal With 9 States

By Dorothy Atkins

Blackstone subsidiary LivCor LLC has agreed to pay North Carolina, California and seven other states $7 million in penalties to resolve allegations against it in a sprawling antitrust lawsuit alleging major landlords used software company RealPage to fix rent prices, according to documents filed in North Carolina federal court Thursday.

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Microsoft Joins Fight To Preserve EU-US Data Transfer Pact

By Allison Grande

Microsoft Corp. has secured permission to support the European Commission in its effort to shield a vital agreement that enables personal data to flow freely from the European Union to the U.S. from a French lawmaker's attempt to convince the bloc's highest court to strike down the transfer mechanism.

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Ohio Justices OK New Reasonable Suspicion Search Rules

By Parker Quinlan

The Ohio Supreme Court ruled Thursday that police officers are allowed to continue a traffic stop of a person they believe may have committed a crime, even if an investigation finds that one of the officer's reasons for initiating the stop was incorrect.

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Bill For AI Deepfake Reporting System Clears Senate Panel

By Elliot Weld

A bill that would create a pathway for reporting AI-generated deepfakes online for removal cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday after a few senators had raised concerns over First Amendment implications but said they believed they could be resolved before a full Senate vote.

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Fatal Crash Was On Pathway, Not Street, Pa. Panel Rules

By Jonathan Capriel

A Philadelphia suburb can't be held liable for the death of a 73‑year‑old man who was allegedly run over by his older brother who was driving in a park, a Pennsylvania state appeals court ruled Thursday, saying the 9‑foot‑wide paved pathway the crash occurred on wasn't legally a street.

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NJ Panel Reverses Go-Ahead In Disabled Student Death Suit

By Y. Peter Kang

A New Jersey appellate panel on Thursday renewed a public school district's bid to exit a suit accusing it of causing the death of a 14-year-old special needs student, saying it was unclear whether there were "extraordinary circumstances" justifying allowing a late filed claims notice.

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Fluor Says Fake Citations In Contractor's Brief Should Stick

By Spencer Brewer

Fluor Federal Services Inc. told a Texas federal court that a subcontractor used generative text in its brief asking the court to keep intact its suit accusing Fluor of antitrust violations, saying the subcontractor shouldn't get to amend its filing to cure the resulting errors.

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Anthropic Files Protective Appeal Of Pentagon Designation

By Jared Foretek

Anthropic has filed a protective petition challenging the U.S. Department of Defense's June 3 decision reaffirming the artificial intelligence giant's designation as a supply-chain risk, asking the D.C. Circuit to consolidate it with the designation challenge already pending before the appeals court.

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Trade Court OKs Penalties For Importer Who Skipped Duties

By Jack McLoone

The U.S. Court of International Trade said a tire distributor is liable for a $56,000 penalty for failing to pay antidumping and countervailing duties on tires it imported from China after the company failed to appear in court.

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Mass. Top Court Blocks Income Tax Cut From Ballot

By Sanjay Talwani

A proposal to cut Massachusetts' income tax rate from 5% to 4% over three years was blocked from the November ballot by the state's top court Thursday, which said it contained significantly misleading information.

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Calif. Billionaire Tax Qualifies For November Ballot

By Maria Koklanaris

Supporters of a referendum that calls for a 5% tax to be levied once on the wealth of California billionaires have collected enough signatures to get their measure on the November ballot, California's secretary of state said.

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NJ Tax Court Protects Taxpayer Methodology Ahead Of Trial

By Jaqueline McCool

A New Jersey tenant appealing the property tax assessment of a legacy data center is not required to provide the township with a detailed methodology of its assessment challenge prior to the case's trial, the state Tax Court ruled.

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Del. Bill Seeks Intermediary Municipal Rental Tax Collection

By Zak Kostro

Delaware would require accommodations intermediaries to collect short-term rental tax for municipalities under a bill introduced in the state House of Representatives.

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Securitization Cos. Can Duck EU Interest Limits, Adviser Says

By Kevin Pinner

Luxembourg correctly exempted securitization companies from the interest limitation rule under the European Union's anti-tax avoidance directive because they are comparable to financial undertakings that are explicitly exempted, an adviser to the European Court of Justice said Thursday.

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Calif., Carbon Health $4.5M Deal Over Clinic Biz Nears Review

By Gianna Ferrarin

A $4.5 million settlement resolving California's allegations that recently bankrupt urgent care company Carbon Health Technologies Inc. violated the state's prohibition on the corporate practice of medicine and misled patients about its billing practices is nearing court review, according to individuals familiar with the matter.

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NY Judge Won't Grant Fee Requests In Public Charge Suits

By Tom Lotshaw

A New York federal judge refused to award over $1 million in attorney fees and costs to organizations that challenged "public charge" immigration policies the first Trump administration enacted, ruling that preliminary injunctions did not give them prevailing party status.

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ICE Ditches Mich. Warehouse After Detention Center Suit

By Melanie Dorsey

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has abandoned plans to convert a suburban Detroit warehouse into a 500-bed immigration detention center and will instead sell the facility, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced Thursday. 

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DOJ Says Philadelphia Can't Order Fed. Officers To Unmask

By P.J. D'Annunzio

The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday sued the city of Philadelphia, District Attorney Larry Krasner and the city solicitor in Pennsylvania federal court over an ordinance prohibiting federal agents from wearing masks and requiring them to identify themselves and their vehicles as part of law enforcement agencies.

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DHS Says Dairy Farmers Can Access H-2A Visas

By Britain Eakin

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has clarified that dairy-related positions may qualify for the H-2A temporary visa program for agricultural workers based on whether an employer needs temporary labor.

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Migrant Group Drops Claims Over Martha's Vineyard Flights

By Tom Lotshaw

A network of migrant-led groups told a Massachusetts federal judge it agreed to dismiss its claims against a company accused of participating in a scheme to fly migrants to Martha's Vineyard.

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Ga. Ethics Panel Fights Ex-Candidates' Bid To Nix Statement

By Emily Sawicki

Georgia's judicial ethics commission has asked a federal court to reject a bid from two defeated Peach State Supreme Court candidates to withdraw public statements the watchdog issued shortly before the state's primary election day last month, stating that the judicial hopefuls may have committed ethics violations, arguing that their request is moot now that the election has passed.

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Conn. Deal Lets Mashantucket Tribe Join Cannabis Market

By Aaron Keller

Connecticut and the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation have signed a cannabis compact allowing transactions between tribal enterprises and state-licensed entities, the first deal of its kind since Connecticut legalized recreational marijuana in June 2021 and the tribe penned its own cannabis regulations that same year.

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Tribe Looks To Block Border Wall Through Ariz. Reservation

By Crystal Owens

An Arizona Indigenous nation is asking a D.C. district court to block the Department of Homeland Security from constructing a 62-mile border wall through its reservation, alleging that reports of federal contractors destroying ancestral sites in adjacent areas confirm the tribe's decision to oppose the wall construction.

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Judge Extends Block On Wis. Tribe Nonmember Fishing Ban

By Crystal Owens

A Wisconsin judge says the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians' decision to block nonmember fishing in 19 lakes within its reservation goes against a status quo held for generations, and allowing a last-minute disruption will confuse the public during this year's fishing season.

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Q&A

5 Questions For NTIA Chief Arielle Roth

By Christopher Cole

Heading into her second year running the federal agency that manages spectrum and a $42 billion push to expand broadband deployment, Arielle Roth has her hands full.

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ISP Tells FCC Minn. City Can't Force It Into Cable Agreement

By Nadia Dreid

Internet service provider Gateway Fiber has asked the Federal Communications Commission to step in and declare that a Minnesota city can't decide that its cable franchise agreement ordinances suddenly apply to broadband providers now.

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Analysis

Cannabis World Cheers Justices' Gun Rights Ruling

By Sam Reisman

Cannabis industry stakeholders on Thursday largely applauded the U.S. Supreme Court's unanimous decision finding that a ban on gun ownership for drug users is unconstitutional as applied to a person who regularly uses marijuana.

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DEA Picks Only Pot Foes To Join Rescheduling Hearings

By Sam Reisman

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration on Thursday announced its selection of interested parties to participate in upcoming administrative hearings on a proposal to reclassify marijuana to a less restrictive status, each of whom is understood to oppose marijuana rescheduling.

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Brief

Restaurant Trade Org. Says Banning THC Drinks Isn't The Way

By Jonathan Capriel

The National Restaurant Association says there should be a proper legal framework in place allowing restaurants to sell hemp-derived THC beverages, it told Congress in a letter asking legislators to delay implementing a law set to take effect in November that would make the drinks illegal.

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High Court's FCC Ruling Adds To Comms Industry Paradox

The Supreme Court's recent decision in Federal Communications Commission v. AT&T, finding that the FCC's informal forfeiture process survives Seventh Amendment scrutiny, opens some doors for regulated entities, but the practical effect may be surprisingly constrained, says Jonathan Marashlian at The CommLaw Group.

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Class Actions Have Entered The Fight Over Prediction Markets

While disputes brought by states over the regulation of prediction markets have claimed most of the headlines, class actions brought by ordinary citizens, particularly in Kentucky and Massachusetts, represent another avenue to challenge the legality of the prediction markets themselves, says Laura Chiu at DarrowEverett.

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Why Ultra-Processed Foods May Be The Next Big Mass Tort

With multiple federal lawsuits filed already this year over the alleged harms caused by ultra-processed foods, and policymakers targeting UPFs for increasingly strict regulation, the sector exhibits the same structural characteristics identified historically in major mass torts, say Ruth Levy at Womble Bond and Elizabeth Epes at Financial Asset Recovery Analytics.

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FTC Focus: Calibrating Biden-Era Issues In 2026's 1st Half

In the first half of 2026, Federal Trade Commission actions have redefined which of the previous administration's theories it views as legally sustainable, institutionally worthwhile and consistent with a more restrained conception, including a pivot from rulemaking to case-specific noncompete enforcement this spring, say attorneys at Proskauer.

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Series

Founding An Autism Academy Made Me A Better Lawyer

Starting a nonprofit autism school with no building, no funding model and no guarantee that families would trust us taught me the importance of mission, patience and purpose — lessons that sharpened my practice and showed how meaningful work outside the office can make lawyers better, says Phillip Russell at Ogletree Deakins.

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'Mortified' Atty Takes Blame For Fake Quotes In Taco TM Fight

By Ivan Moreno

A Connecticut attorney facing possible sanctions over fake case quotations in a taco restaurant trademark fight told a federal judge that he takes "full and unqualified responsibility" for the flawed filings, saying he is "mortified" and acknowledging that his verification process for AI-assisted legal work fell far short.

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Mich. Panel Sanctions Atty Over AI-Hallucinated Cases

By Susan Smiley

A medical malpractice suit in the Michigan Court of Appeals led to financial sanctions against an attorney who the court said during litigation repeatedly cited nonexistent cases that were generated by artificial intelligence.

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Ford Says 'Lemon Law' Firm Faked Bills Using Overseas Staff

By Linda Chiem

Ford Motor Co. accused California personal injury firm Quill & Arrow LLP of defrauding it out of more than $25 million in high-priced legal bills for work actually handled by virtual assistants overseas and non-lawyers in scores of product liability cases against the automaker.

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Tort Report: Meta Set To Face Facebook Sex Trafficking Trial

By Y. Peter Kang

An upcoming trial in Texas for a first-of-its-kind case against Meta and claims against a health clinic owned by a U.S. senator lead Law360's Tort Report, which compiles recent personal injury and medical malpractice news that may have flown under the radar.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

General counsel may cringe at the news, but their chief financial officers will rejoice over a new study that shows the average spending by legal departments dropped to a six-year low in 2026. And two in-house Cigna lawyers are at the center of a finding of "improperly asserted privilege" over key company documents related to a payment lawsuit brought by three labs.

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