Google Fined €890M By EU For Restricting Competition

By Tom Fish

The European Union fined Google owner Alphabet Inc. a total of €890 million ($1.04 billion) on Thursday after finding that the U.S. technology giant unfairly favored its own services in search results and restricted app developers from directing users to cheaper options.

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Apple Can't Get BigTech AI Voice Suits Under Same Ill. Judge

By Lauren Berg

Apple cannot get eight similar proposed class actions alleging BigTech companies exploited the voices of journalists and voice actors to train their artificial intelligence reassigned to the same judge overseeing its case, an Illinois federal court ruled.

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Google Must Face Ex-NPR Host's AI Voice Suit In State Court

By Rae Ann Varona

A California federal judge ruled Thursday that former NPR "Morning Edition" co-host David Greene's claims that Google misappropriated his voice in an artificial intelligence podcasting product could proceed in state court, rejecting Google's contention that his claims arose under the Copyright Act and thus belong in federal court.

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Samsung Seeks $1B Bond If Pictiva's Injunction Bid Granted

By Craig Clough

Three Samsung entities urged a Texas federal judge on Wednesday to reject Pictiva's motion for a preliminary injunction to ban them from selling high-end QD-OLED TVs while a suit over Pictiva's patents plays out, but said if such extraordinary relief is granted, it should come with a $1 billion bond.

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Web Scraper Seeks Toss Of Reddit Copyright Claims

By Elliot Weld

SerpApi, a company that scrapes online content, asked a New York federal judge Thursday to let it out of a copyright lawsuit from Reddit alleging it illegally looted content at the behest of Perplexity for AI training, contending Reddit doesn't own copyrights on the bulk of the user content on its website and that the protective measures the suit alleged were circumvented belong to Google.

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Proposed AI Bill Lets DHS Hit 'Kill Switch' On Risky Systems

By Rae Ann Varona

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security may order the shutdown of artificial intelligence systems deemed capable of causing "catastrophic harm" under a bill bipartisan lawmakers introduced Thursday, citing OpenAI models' recent inadvertent and autonomous hack of AI startup Hugging Face.

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Feature

2026 Marks Banner Year For AI Changes To Insurance Industry

By Abraham Gross

The first half of 2026 has seen continued development of artificial intelligence systems in the insurance industry, including new coverage terms for policyholders and evolving regulatory scrutiny for insurers. The changes promise to alter the insurance market in the months to come.

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Trump Touts Pledge As Ratepayer Protection From AI Boom

By Nate Beck

President Donald Trump during a Thursday event urged utilities, data center developers and states to sign a voluntary pledge to prevent average ratepayers from shouldering the cost of artificial intelligence infrastructure.

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USTR Says EU's Google Actions Cast Cloud On US Trade Deal

By Dylan Moroses

The U.S. trade deal with the European Union may be undermined by European Commission actions against Google owner Alphabet, including penalties totaling over $1 billion and claims that the U.S. technology giant unfairly favored its own services in certain applications, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said Thursday. 

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House Panel Summons CEOs Over Private Listing Partnership

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

A House antitrust subcommittee requested a briefing with Midwest Real Estate Data CEO Rebecca Jensen and Compass International Holdings CEO Robert Reffkin over their companies' private listing partnership.

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PTAB Eligibility Affirmance Rate Fell After Squires Took Over

By Theresa Schliep

Early data on Patent Trial and Appeal Board decisions on patent eligibility determinations by examiners shows a slight dip in the affirmance rate under U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires, according to an analysis by McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP.

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Seagate Urges Justices Not To Review NHK Antitrust Case

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

Seagate Technology LLC is urging the U.S. Supreme Court not to review a Ninth Circuit decision reviving portions of its price-fixing suit against NHK Spring Co. Ltd., arguing that NHK's petition mischaracterizes how the Ninth Circuit applied the Foreign Trade and Antitrust Improvements Act.

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Fed. Circ. Partly Undoes Amazon Digital Photo Frame IP Win

By Adam Lidgett

The Federal Circuit on Thursday refused to reboot a trio of digital picture framing patents Amazon was accused of infringing but reversed a California federal judge's finding that another patent was invalid.

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8th Circ. Says Vendor Didn't Show Major Harm In Bank IP Fight

By Ivan Moreno

The Eighth Circuit on Thursday upheld a Missouri federal judge's refusal to block Commerce Bank from using software that a vendor alleges was developed with its trade secrets, ruling the vendor failed to show it was likely to suffer harm that could not be remedied later.

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9th Circ. Urged To Keep Reddit Moderator Subpoenas Alive

By Ivan Moreno

A YouTube creator's production company has pressed the Ninth Circuit to reject a bid by anonymous Reddit moderators to block subpoenas seeking their identities, arguing that a federal judge properly found the company presented sufficient evidence that they facilitated alleged copyright infringement by directing people to livestreamed "watch parties" of its content.

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EBay Cleared Under Alice In Website Patent Dispute

By Adam Lidgett

A Delaware federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit accusing eBay Inc. of infringing a pair of patents on customizing access to websites, finding the patents only covered abstract ideas without any inventive concept to save them.

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Kroll Can Arbitrate Some Data Claims, Ax Others, Judge Says

By Bonnie Eslinger

Bankruptcy claims agent Kroll Restructuring Administration LLC should be able to arbitrate claims over a 2023 data breach affecting FTX Trading customers, but claims from a BlockFi user should be tossed, according to recommendations from a Texas magistrate judge.

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DraftKings Fights Uphill To Beat Suit Over Calif. Gambling Law

By Bonnie Eslinger

U.S. District Judge Charles R. Breyer said Thursday he's inclined to deny DraftKings' bid to toss a putative class action accusing the sportsbook of skirting California gambling laws, saying he thinks the plaintiff consumers have sufficiently alleged a monetary injury — and that the games are likely prohibited by state law.

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Blank Rome Breach Suits Dropped Over Jurisdiction Question

By James Boyle

Three class actions accusing Blank Rome LLP of alleged negligence from a data breach have been dismissed by the plaintiffs less than a month after the complaints were initially filed in Pennsylvania federal court.

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Squires To Review 2024 PTAB Ax That Followed Vidal Ruling

By Adam Lidgett

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires on Thursday said he is going to review a 2-year-old Patent Trial and Appeal Board decision that found claims in an EagleView Technologies patent on measuring roofs to be invalid.

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Pictiva's $93M Trial Win Doesn't Moot Invalidation, PTAB Says

By Dani Kass

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has again invalidated claims of a Pictiva organic light-emitting diode patent, telling U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires that Samsung's invalidity argument differs from one rejected by a Texas federal jury.

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PTAB Revives Ioengine Data Patent In Roku Reexam Case

By Theresa Schliep

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has reversed an examiner's decision to strike claims in an Ioengine LLC data processing patent that was challenged by Roku, faulting the examiner's reading and application of relevant pieces of prior art.

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Del. Judge Voids Destiny Co-Founder's Ouster Scheme

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court ruled Thursday that Destiny XYZ Inc.'s controlling founder carried out an unfair scheme to squeeze his co-founder out of the company, restoring the minority founder's ownership stake and finding that the controller and two directors breached their fiduciary duties through a reverse-forward stock split designed to eliminate him.

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RTX Contractor's Defenses Trimmed In $1.8M Contract Case

By Madeline Lyskawa

A Connecticut state judge dismissed most of consulting firm Delaware North America LLC's counterclaims against its subcontractor as unripe in litigation accusing the firm of failing to pay $1.8 million for out-of-scope data extraction work completed under an IT services contract with RTX Corp.

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Lenovo Wants 'Bad Faith' Infringement Claims Shut Down

By Hailey Konnath

Lenovo on Wednesday asked a North Carolina federal judge to step in and halt a "coordinated campaign of bad faith patent assertions" from Longhorn IP, claiming that the state's Abusive Patent Assertions Act was designed to protect Lenovo from "precisely this kind of conduct."

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Abbott Labs Accused Of Lax Security Over Shinyhunters Hack

By Gina Kim

Abbott Laboratories and Exact Sciences were hit with a proposed class action in Illinois federal court Wednesday over a cyberattack carried out by a notorious ransomware gang known as "Shinyhunters" that absconded with patients' medical records, which the suit says is far more harmful than standard identity theft.

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Jenzabar Investor Sues Board Over Alleged Power Grab

By Jarek Rutz

A Jenzabar Inc. stockholder has sued three current and former directors of the private education technology company in the Delaware Chancery Court, accusing them of seizing control of the board and awarding themselves outsized pay packages without proper oversight.

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Brief

Lack Of Jurisdiction Dooms $273M 'Rip And Replace' Suit

By Nadia Dreid

The Court of Federal Claims has tossed a complaint from a telecom that says the Federal Communications Commission wrongly denied it $273 million in "rip and replace" funds for replacing Chinese-made equipment, saying that the company's dispute belongs in federal appeals court.

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Kirkland-Led Francisco Partners Raises $21B Across 2 Funds

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Kirkland & Ellis LLP-advised Francisco Partners on Thursday revealed that it raised $21 billion across its two latest funds, marking the largest fundraise in the firm's history.

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Deals Rumor Mill

British Bank Revolut Hits $115B Valuation, Plus More Rumors

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

British digital bank Revolut's valuation soared to $115 billion, private equity giant BlackRock leads an at least $12 billion debt sale for Meta's new data center project, and Liverpool FC is in talks with investor Amit Bhatia over a potential stake sale that could value the club at $6 billion.

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Crypto Miner Poolin Hits Ch. 11 After China Ban, Market Slump

By Rick Archer

Bitcoin miner Poolin Technology filed for Chapter 11 protection in New Jersey bankruptcy court with more than $173 million in liabilities and plans for an asset sale, pointing to price volatility and a Chinese ban on cryptocurrency mining.

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Another Landlord Exits Kentucky's RealPage Antitrust Case

By Isaac Monterose

Kentucky has settled antitrust claims with another landlord that it had accused of using RealPage's revenue management software for rent price-fixing.

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Orrick Adds Financial Services Partner From Cooley In DC

By Jack Rodgers

Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP has hired a former Cooley LLP partner with years of experience advising clients like emerging financial institutions, retailers and others on financial services regulations, the firm announced Thursday.

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Cos. Should Act Now After US Ruling Reopens EU Data Fight

The U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision in Trump v. Slaughter may have inadvertently undermined the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, and given the importance of data transfers for U.S. businesses, companies should start preparing for a scenario in which the framework is no longer enforceable, says Fernanda Pires Merouço at Davis Wright.

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Series

Being A Singer Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Before law school, I spent seven years trying to make it as a professional singer in Los Angeles, and nearly everything I learned about preparation, humility, confidence and more has followed me into my legal practice, says Jessica Caterina at Moses & Singer.

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How Does In-House Pay Compare? Take The Law360 Survey

How do in-house salaries vary across industries, roles, and organizational revenue? What compensation tools are companies using to lure top talent? Help Law360 Pulse answer these questions and more in this year's In-House Compensation Survey.

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Simpson Thacher Warned Co. About Deal Terms, Jury Told

By Cara Salvatore

A retired Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP partner who handled the fundraising vehicle alleged to have destroyed Patriot National Inc. told a Florida jury Thursday that he flagged deal terms that later became detrimental to the insurance services company.

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ABA Rips DOJ's 'Absurd' Firm Subpoenas In Documents Fight

By Emily Sawicki

The American Bar Association has blasted as "absurd" the government's move to subpoena law firms as an attempt to avoid a documents request from the organization amid allegations the Trump administration worked to intimidate law firms into conforming with his policy goals through executive orders last year.

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Judge's Deportation Probe 'Off The Rails,' DOJ Tells DC Circ.

By Britain Eakin

The Trump administration urged the full D.C. Circuit to either order U.S. District Judge James Boasberg to terminate his criminal contempt inquiry into the administration's Alien Enemies Act removals last year, or order him to forgo live testimony in the probe.

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Jack Smith's Lawyers Say Criminal Referral Twists Testimony

By Courtney Bublé

Former special counsel Jack Smith's legal team has said the criminal referral a U.S. Congress member sent the Department of Justice to investigate Smith is based on a "spurious claim."

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500-Member NYC Public Defender Union Ends Strike

By Andrea Keckley

The first and so far only New York City public defender union to go on strike this year announced on Wednesday that its approximately 500 members are returning to work after reaching a tentative agreement with their managers.

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Patent Atty Sues USPTO Over 'Flawed' Disciplinary Procedure

By Hailey Konnath

An Ohio patent lawyer Thursday accused the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office of using an unlawful "pay for play" system for its disciplinary proceedings against attorneys, claiming the disciplinary proceedings are "inherently biased" and rigged against him and others facing discipline.

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Senate Confirms 2 Judges, Advances Ohio And Colo. Picks

By Courtney Bublé

The Senate on Thursday voted 48-47 to confirm Judge Daniel Traynor of the District of North Dakota to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and 49-44 to confirm Antonio M. Pozos, a partner at Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, as a judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

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