Meta Pans States' Bid For $1.4T In Social Media Addiction MDL

By Emily Field

Meta said Monday that California and three other states are seeking more than a trillion dollars in penalties in their upcoming August trial in the multidistrict social-media-addiction litigation, based on sweeping, "unmoored" calculations.

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Fed. Circ. Side-Eyes No Sanctions For 'Very Bad' Game Patent

By Theresa Schliep

A Federal Circuit panel seemed ready Tuesday to revive a company's bid for sanctions after it defeated Epic Tech LLC's patent case, with one judge calling the patent "very bad" and saying "if I were the district court judge in this case, I 100% would have granted the attorney's fees."

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Veradigm Can't Shake Suit Over Patient Portal Data Tracking

By Allison Grande

An Illinois federal judge has refused to toss a putative class action accusing health information technology services provider Veradigm LLC of illegally divulging patient portal visitors' protected health information to Google, finding that the plaintiffs had plausibly alleged that the company's conduct violated federal and state wiretap laws.

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Calif. Judge Asks About Standing In Google Antitrust Case

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

A California federal judge overseeing an antitrust litigation accusing Google of shutting out rival search engines has asked for evidence showing that the consumers bringing the case have standing.

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​​​​​​​Top Groups Lobbying The FCC

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission heard from lobbyists more than 140 times in June, with AT&T at the front of the pack hoping to convince the agency to preempt California rules that the telecom giant says are hindering network modernization.

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Women's Law Group Asks FCC To Ditch Plan For 'The View'

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

The National Women's Law Center has asked the Federal Communications Commission to drop potential plans to withdraw its "bona fide news" exemption for ABC's "The View" over concerns it would amount to censorship.

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AT&T Asks FCC To Retire Copper Lines In 600 More Places

By Nadia Dreid

There are more than 600 locations across the country where AT&T's copper phone lines have been disrupted — by theft, accident or natural disaster — and the company is hoping the Federal Communications Commission will give it the green light to leave them as they are.

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Sony Bank's Crypto Charter Bid Clears 1st OCC Hurdle

By Aislinn Keely

Sony's online banking unit is a step closer to setting up a crypto-focused U.S. trust company with a preliminary conditional charter from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.

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Brief

USPTO To Set Up Outreach Centers At Ga., Ala. HBCUs

By Adam Lidgett

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is planning to launch projects in Georgia and Alabama to connect historically Black colleges and universities in those states with partners to help develop and commercialize inventions.

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Fed. Circ. Won't Revive Dental Patent Claims In Align Feud

By Adam Lidgett

The Federal Circuit on Tuesday said it won't bring back claims in a pair of dental arch image analysis patents their owner accused Invisalign maker Align Technology Inc. of infringing, backing a lower court's finding that they were invalid.

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GM, Drivers Tell 6th Circ. Opt-Outs Delaying $150M Settlement

By Susan Smiley

General Motors and class members who secured a $150 million settlement in a class action over alleged fire risks in the Chevrolet Bolt on Tuesday asked the Sixth Circuit not to let a small group of drivers opt out of the deal — or hold it up in their attempts to do so.

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5th Circ. Presses Ericsson Insurers On Terrorism Suit Defense

By Spencer Brewer

A Fifth Circuit panel pushed insurers to explain why they should be allowed to avoid covering the defense of Ericsson Inc. against claims the company funded foreign terrorist organizations, asking Tuesday if Ericsson knew the money it gave out "was going to kill Americans."

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Illinois Cases To Watch In 2026: Midyear Report

By Celeste Bott

Mead Johnson is set to go to trial this summer in the first case to make it to a jury in multidistrict litigation claiming baby formula caused a serious gut illness in premature infants, while the U.S. attorney's office in Chicago is facing a possible sanctions hearing over prosecutorial misconduct allegations in two Illinois cases on attorneys' radar for the rest of the year.

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AmEx Escapes Rewards Program Patent Suit For Good

By Elliot Weld

A New York federal judge has permanently dismissed a lawsuit accusing American Express of infringing patents covering loyalty and rewards programs, saying an amended complaint had still not cured the issues the court identified in a previous ruling.

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Judge Sets 2027 Trial For Zillow Home-Flipping Investor Suit

By Nate Beck

A Washington federal judge has scheduled a September 2027 trial date in a class action from investors accusing Zillow of concealing the true performance of its house-flipping business, Zillow Offers.

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DOJ's 2020 Fulton County Election Staff Subpoena Quashed

By Rae Ann Varona

A Georgia federal judge Tuesday quashed a U.S. Department of Justice grand jury subpoena for names and other information of those in Fulton County who worked during the 2020 general election, saying it was too late for the DOJ to possibly prosecute anyone for any related election crimes.

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Cadillac Lyriq Drivers Plan To Move EV Defect Suit To Mich.

By Jonathan Capriel

Cadillac Lyriq owners from six states have dropped their proposed class action against General Motors that claims it sold luxury electric vehicles with defects that cause the SUV to become inoperable, with the counsel for the drivers saying they intend to move the case to Michigan.

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Tesla Gets PTAB To Trim Intellectual Ventures Comms Patent

By Nadia Dreid

Elon Musk's Tesla has convinced the Patent Trial and Appeal Board to invalidate a wireless technology patent owned by Intellectual Ventures II, a win for the electric car company in its intellectual property war with the patent holding entity.

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Data Co. Not Covered In Meta Glasses Privacy Suit, Court Told

By Hope Patti

A data annotation company accused of using private recordings collected by Meta's smart glasses to train artificial intelligence models is not entitled to insurance coverage, a Travelers unit told a California federal court, saying the company's policy bars coverage for the wrongful collection of protected personal information.

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Uber App Terms Bind Driver's Estate To Arbitration, Court Told

By Abigail Harrison

An estate trying to hold Uber accountable for the death of a driver should be forced to resolve its grievances in arbitration because Emmanuel Kwame Gbedee Sr. accepted a company agreement with an arbitration clause, Uber told a North Carolina federal court.

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ChatGPT Edits Weren't 'Knowing' Errors, Conn. Justices Told

By Aaron Keller

A GLG Law LLC lawyer who blamed ChatGPT for misquotes and citation errors in three filings told the Connecticut Supreme Court on Tuesday he did not violate an ethics rule requiring candor to the tribunal because his briefs, though inaccurate, contained correct assertions about the law.

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Kalshi Says Federal Law Bars Wash. 'Gambling' Clampdown

By Ben Adlin

Prediction market KalshiEX LLC urged a Washington state judge on Monday to reject state officials' effort to halt the company's operations under Washington gambling laws, arguing that federal law preempts the regulatory effort and that Washington has failed to show that the platform has caused meaningful harm.

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Mayo Sacked Research Director For Flagging Flaws, Suit Says

By Holly DeMuth

Mayo Clinic retaliated against and eventually terminated its director of research operations after she brought up concerns about security, safety and privacy regarding the medical center's use of artificial intelligence and other protocols, according to a lawsuit filed in Minnesota federal court on Monday.

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LSAC Says Test Prep Co. Flouted Fees, Infringed TMs

By Christine DeRosa

The Law School Admission Council, purveyor of the LSAT, has sued a test preparation company in Pennsylvania federal court over alleged unpaid licensing fees and continued unauthorized use of its trademarks in certain digital offerings.

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Photronics Investor Says 'Critical Bottleneck' Tanked Stock

By Lauren Berg

Semiconductor-maker Photronics Inc. and its top brass made "overwhelmingly positive statements" about the company's growth while it was experiencing a "critical bottleneck" in its product pipeline, leading to a 36.4% stock drop when the truth came out, according to a proposed class action filed in Connecticut federal court.

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Brief

Legal Tech Co. Drops Suit After Anthropic Embargo Is Lifted

By Emily Sawicki

Legal tech company Legion has voluntarily dropped its claims against the Commerce Department over an order forcing artificial intelligence platform Anthropic to shut down two of its advanced models to foreigners, days after news broke that the government had rescinded the directive.

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Sealing The Deal

How Gibson Dunn Helped SpaceX Pull Off Its $75B Global IPO

By Al Barbarino

When SpaceX completed its record-breaking $75 billion initial public offering last month, the transaction was notable not only for its size — the largest IPO ever — but also for breaking new ground in how public offerings can be structured to reach retail investors around the world.

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Thales Seeks Full Purchase Of Drone-Maker Exail For €3.9B

By Tom Fish

Defense and aerospace group Thales has agreed to acquire a controlling stake in Exail Technologies and plans to buy its remaining shares, a transaction that values the maritime drone-maker at €3.9 billion ($4.5 billion).

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Equifax Is Buying Círculo De Crédito In $750M Deal

By Al Barbarino

Credit reporting company Equifax said Tuesday it has agreed to acquire Mexican credit bureau Círculo de Crédito for an enterprise value of $750 million, expanding its presence in one of Latin America's fastest-growing credit markets. 

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Orrick-Led Nuclear Fuel Company Targets $356M IPO

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Standard Nuclear, which makes fuel for small modular reactors across the U.S., unveiled plans on Tuesday for an estimated $356 million initial public offering steered by Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP and Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP.

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23andMe's $47M Data Breach Deal Gets Bankruptcy Court OK

By Craig Clough

A Missouri bankruptcy judge entered an order Tuesday authorizing a $46.7 million settlement between the plan administration trust created under the Chapter 11 plan of DNA-testing company 23andMe and data breach claimants, finding the deal is fair and equitable. 

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Celsius Ex-GC's Ch. 11 Suit Against Other Execs Tossed

By Clara Geoghegan

A New York bankruptcy judge tossed a former Celsius Network LLC executive's lawsuit that blamed alleged oversight issues at the crypto platform on three other executives, finding that his claims belonged to Celsius and were waived under its Chapter 11 plan.

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Analysis

5 Midyear White Collar Trends To Watch

By Phillip Bantz

The practice of white collar criminal defense is fraught with uncertainty halfway into 2026 as lawyers try to navigate upheaval in the U.S. Department of Justice, the prospect of big changes in Congress and the rapidly developing use of artificial intelligence.

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FTC Warns 7 Retailers About Unqualified 'U.S. Origin' Claims

By Gina Kim

The Federal Trade Commission announced Monday that it has notified seven retail businesses that sell drums, industrial laser machinery and e-cigarettes that they may be making unqualified "Made in  the USA" or "Made in Texas" claims about their respective products, and have advised them to comply with the agency's labeling rules. 

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7th Circ. Rejects Internet Scammer's Phone Search Appeal

By Lauraann Wood

Federal border agents did not need a warrant or probable cause before manually searching a fraudster's cellphone for evidence upon his return flight to the United States, the Seventh Circuit said Monday, keeping the evidence a part of his case.

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Ex-U Of Mich. Coach Loses Bid To Trim Hacking Indictment

By Melanie Dorsey

A former University of Michigan assistant football coach accused of hacking into thousands of college athletes' accounts and stealing personal information and intimate photos lost his bid to dismiss several charges when a Michigan federal judge Monday ruled prosecutors may proceed with the indictment.

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Willow Bridge Reaches DOJ Deal To End Price-Fixing Claims

By Nate Beck

Dallas-based residential property manager Willow Bridge Property Co. has become the latest to reach a settlement with authorities in a North Carolina federal lawsuit accusing a host of landlords of fixing apartment prices using software from RealPage.

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Longtime Goodwin Proctor IP Lawyer Moves To Pillsbury In DC

By Jack Rodgers

A career Goodwin Proctor LLP lawyer, who spent nearly two decades at that firm working on high-stakes intellectual property disputes, has joined Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP's Washington, D.C., office.

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Kilpatrick Hires M&A Pro From Reed Smith In Silicon Valley

By Gina Kim

Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP has added a former Reed Smith LLP mergers and acquisitions star to chair its West Coast Mergers & Acquisitions Practice at its Menlo Park, California, office, where he brings deep experience handling complex mergers, cross-border acquisitions, divestitures, stock investments, consolidations and more. 

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Quantum Readiness May Paradoxically Raise Contractor Risk

The organizations best positioned for the cryptographic system migration deadlines and other requirements under President Donald Trump’s recent quantum executive orders will be those able to inventory their cryptographic dependencies while protecting their vulnerability road map from adversaries, says Jesse Lemon at The Beckage Firm.

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Trademark Law As A Tool To Bolster NIL Rights Against AI

The meteoric rise of artificial intelligence-generated deepfakes is prompting high-profile celebrities to protect their name, image and likeness rights using federal trademark law — a powerful yet limited supplement to traditional NIL claims, says Susan Natland at BakerHostetler.

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'Tiger King' Funeral Clip Ruling Offers Fair Use Road Map

The Tenth Circuit's decision in Whyte Monkee v. Netflix that the streaming service's use of another party's funeral footage in the docuseries "Tiger King" constituted fair use lays out a framework for producers to apply the four statutory fair use factors to their own projects, says Frank D’Angelo at Loeb & Loeb.

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Justices Stand On Statutory Specifics In Cisco And Landor

With its June 23 decisions in Cisco Systems Inc. v. Doe and Landor v. Louisiana Department of Corrections and Public Safety, the U.S. Supreme Court doubled down on the critical point that the statute invoked in a federal claim must authorize a private lawsuit and the remedy sought, says Patrick Judd at Phelps Dunbar.

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CEO Cops To Conspiracy In BigLaw Insider Trading Case

By Sydney Price

A Dubai-based CEO and trader has pled guilty in Massachusetts federal court to charges that he worked with a former BigLaw associate and others to carry out a far-reaching insider trading scheme.

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Justices To Defend Court's Budget In Rare Hill Testimony

By Courtney Bublé

U.S. Supreme Court Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Elena Kagan will testify before House and Senate committees on July 14, marking the first time in seven years that a sitting justice has gone before lawmakers.

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Ex-DOJ Employees Tell Senate To Reject Blanche Nomination

By Emily Sawicki

Hundreds of former Justice Department employees and appointees urged the Senate in a Tuesday letter to reject the nomination of acting Attorney General Todd Blanche for the permanent role, particularly noting what they called Blanche's work toward politicizing the department.

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Ogletree Co-Founder Deakins, 'Beacon Of Wisdom,' Dies At 90

By Emily Johnson

A co-founder of the global labor and employment juggernaut Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC died Monday after decades of helping shape the firm's values of honesty and transparency.

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McCarter Atty's Work 'Fell Short' In $20M Deals, Judge Told

By Brian Steele

McCarter & English LLP and one of its Connecticut attorneys failed to uphold the applicable standard of care when advising insurers on $20 million worth of loan transactions that ultimately fell apart because the borrower stopped paying, an expert witness told a Connecticut state court on Tuesday.

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House Dems Push To Ban Judges From Prediction Markets

By Emily Sawicki

Ranking members of the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday called on the federal judiciary to ban judges from taking part in prediction markets amid growing concerns that court-related wagers could undermine judicial integrity.

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