Judge Pans Uber's 'Nonstop' Discovery Violation In FTC Fight

By Dorothy Atkins

A California federal magistrate judge refused Tuesday to give Uber more time to produce data to the Federal Trade Commission in litigation alleging the ride-hailing company dupes consumers into its paid subscription service, saying during a hearing that Uber "has been in nonstop violation" of the court's April 10 data production deadline.

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Google Gets New Chance To Defend IP In Sonos PTAB Dispute

By Adam Lidgett

The Federal Circuit on Tuesday reversed the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's invalidation of claims in a pair of Google's voice command patents challenged by Sonos after the speaker company was accused of infringement.

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DOJ Says Timing, Lack Of Injury Doom TikTok Deal Challenge

By Jared Foretek

The U.S. Department of Justice has urged the D.C. Circuit to toss a challenge to the Trump administration's approval of TikTok's sale to American investors, arguing the engineers seeking to stop the deal filed their challenge too late and lack standing.

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Meta AI Order Offers Novel Question For 9th Circ., Authors Say

By Bonnie Eslinger

A group of 13 bestselling authors suing Meta have asked a California federal judge for permission to appeal his decision holding that it was fair for Meta Platforms Inc. to train its artificial intelligence system with their copyrighted material without consent, saying there's already been divergent rulings on the novel question.

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Anthropic, Other Tech Giants Get Authors' Copyright Suit Split

By Lauren Berg

A group of writers, including Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist John Carreyrou, will have to pursue their claims of copyright infringement against Anthropic, Apple, Google, Perplexity AI, Nvidia and xAI in separate lawsuits, a California federal judge ruled, siding with the tech giants.

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XAI, SpaceX Sued Over Data Center Plant's 'Intrusive' Noises

By Rae Ann Varona

Residents of a Mississippi suburb have accused Elon Musk's xAI and SpaceX companies of upending their community's "small-town charm" by operating a noisy power plant to power massive artificial intelligence data centers, saying in a proposed federal class action that the operations diminish their home values and quality of life.

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Fox Rothschild Sued Over Data Breach Tied To Ransom Group

By Allison Grande

Fox Rothschild LLP was hit with a proposed class action in Pennsylvania federal court Tuesday accusing the national law firm of failing to adequately protect the "highly sensitive and confidential" personal data entrusted to it from being exposed to a prominent ransomware group in a data breach last month. 

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Kalshi To Start Requiring Employer Info For Certain Markets

By Ganesh Setty

Prediction market platform Kalshi Inc. announced on Tuesday that it will start requiring users to verify their employer before they can trade on certain markets, and will further implement features allowing users to directly report suspicious trading activity.

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The Law360 400: A Look At The Top 100 Firms

By Xiumei Dong

The race to build the legal industry's largest law firm accelerated in 2025, with major firms leaning on mergers, lateral hiring and strategic expansion to climb the ranks of the Law360 400.

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House Clears Bill Letting President Approve Copyright Chief

By Elliot Weld

A bill that would alter how the director of the U.S. Copyright Office is selected by requiring Congress to recommend candidates and give the president the final say passed the U.S. House of Representatives.

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House Report Says NFL Misused Sports Antitrust Exemption

By Courtney Bublé

The National Football League has stretched its use of the antitrust exemption beyond what Congress intended when lawmakers created it 65 years ago, according to a new report from the House Judiciary Committee.

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FCC Looks To Spur Submarine Cables With New Security Reg

By Nadia Dreid

The Federal Communications Commission will start presuming that submarine cable applications that meet certain qualifications don't have to be referred to the executive branch for national security reviews, if the agency votes yes later this month on the order it'll have before it.

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Emergency Alert Systems Set For FCC Cybersecurity Revamp

By Christopher Cole

The nation's emergency alert services would see cybersecurity upgrades under a new plan put forward this month at the Federal Communications Commission.

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Mayors Rally To Fight Permit 'Shot Clocks,' This Time At FCC

By Christopher Cole

U.S. mayors are back fighting proposals to impose strict deadlines on local reviews of broadband projects, but this time their focus is not just on Capitol Hill but on the Federal Communications Commission.

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OnlyFans Users Ask 9th Circ. To Revive Calif. Auto-Renew Suit

By Dorothy Atkins

OnlyFans subscribers on Tuesday urged the Ninth Circuit to revive a proposed class action alleging unlawful subscription auto-renewals, arguing California courts have jurisdiction over the platform's U.K. parent company because it auto-renews thousands of Golden State subscriptions and generates $400 million from the state annually.

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Arby's Owner Must Face Trimmed Data Tracking Opt-Out Suit

By Gina Kim

A California federal judge on Monday trimmed some privacy claims in a suit alleging Arby's', Jimmy John's', Dunkin's and Sonic's website cookie banners falsely promise to remove trackers but allowed the plaintiffs' fraud claims to proceed, finding it's enough for them to plead they declined cookies but were tracked anyway.

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Amazon Settles Fight Over DivX Patent Ahead Of Trial

By Craig Clough

Video technology company DivX and Amazon told a Virginia federal judge Tuesday they reached a settlement in a suit accusing Amazon of infringing an encrypted video playback patent and asked the court to stay a jury trial set for later this month.

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PTAB Rules Micron Didn't Show Yangtze Patent Is Invalid

By Adam Lidgett

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board on Tuesday found that Micron Technology Inc. failed to prove a Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. integrated circuit patent was invalid, the latest episode in a patent fight between the companies spanning the board and federal court.

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ITC Judge Won't Let Everspin Out Of Memory Chip IP Case

By Elliot Weld

An administrative law judge at the U.S. International Trade Commission has denied Everspin Technologies' request to shut down a case brought by Avalanche Technology Inc. related to its memory chip patents, after Everspin alleged Avalanche had wrongly paid discounted fees meant for small businesses for years.

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Zillow Loses Appeal In Pa. Fight Over $10K Data Charge

By Matthew Santoni

A Pennsylvania county can charge Zillow more than $10,000 for a listing of all its property assessments under the state's Right-to-Know Law, given that the law allows the county to charge the "reasonable market value" for complex data sets, a state appellate court found Tuesday.

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Microsoft Looks To Ax 3D Artist's Copyright Info AI Suit

By Ben Adlin

Microsoft Corp. urged a Washington federal court to throw out a Los Angeles-based 3D artist's proposed class action under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, saying the artist failed to allege that the company ever removed copyright information from his content or shared his copyright-protected works.

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Health Tech Exec Defends $430K Wage Suit

By Benjamin Morse

A former healthcare data platform chief strategy officer urged a North Carolina federal court to keep his $430,000 wage and commissions suit intact, arguing he has alleged enough ties to keep the case in the state and enough facts to let his claims move forward.

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Former XAI Engineer Says He Was Fired Over Safety Warnings

By Lauren Berg

A former engineer at Elon Musk's xAI claims he was fired after repeatedly raising concerns about safety, discriminatory bias and other risks associated with the artificial intelligence company's chatbot Grok, according to a lawsuit lodged Tuesday in California state court.

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Agensys Sues Biopharmas For Alleged Trade Secret Theft

By Bonnie Eslinger

Agensys Inc. filed a trade secret misappropriation suit in California federal court Tuesday against a U.S.-based cancer research firm and two alleged Chinese affiliates, claiming they stole confidential information for oncology antibodies developed at Agensys and that the theft was "willful and malicious."

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Brief

Fed. Circ. Upholds $37.5M Patent Verdict Against TP-Link

By Elliot Weld

The Federal Circuit on Tuesday affirmed a $37.5 million patent infringement verdict against two companies selling TP-Link wireless network devices that were sued by patent licensing company Atlas Global Technologies LLC.

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Brief

Cognizant Settles Suit Over 401(k) Investment Management

By George Woolston

Cognizant Technology Solutions and former employees who claimed the information technology company saddled its 401(k) plan with poor investment options and high fees told a New Jersey federal judge that they have agreed to settle their dispute.

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5 Firms Advise On Apollo-Led $35B Broadcom AI Financing

By Al Barbarino

Apollo Global Management said Tuesday it is leading a $35 billion capital commitment for a Broadcom initiative to build artificial intelligence infrastructure for companies including Anthropic and OpenAI, with Blackstone also participating.

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Novanta Buys Riverpoint In $1.45B Deal Steered By 3 Firms

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Medical technology provider Novanta Inc., advised by Ropes & Gray LLP and King & Spalding LLP, on Tuesday announced plans to acquire medical device maker Riverpoint Medical, led by Goodwin Procter LLP, from private equity shop Arlington Capital Partners in a deal worth up to $1.45 billion.

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Software Biz Beacon Wraps $225M Funding Round

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Software firm Beacon on Tuesday announced that it closed its latest funding round with $225 million in tow, which will be used to fuel its acquisition of essential businesses.

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BOTS Act Judge Reverses, Tosses Challenge To FTC Case

By Bryan Koenig

A Maryland federal judge reversed course Tuesday and dismissed a preemptive lawsuit challenging one of the Federal Trade Commission's first online ticketing cases, concluding the ticket resellers can raise their constitutional arguments in addressing the FTC's allegations rather than pursuing a separate suit of their own.

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Ohio Appeals Court Agrees: Google Not A Common Carrier

By Bryan Koenig

An Ohio appeals panel sided with Google and against a state attorney general's efforts to designate the company a common carrier subject to neutrality controls on its search results, affirming a lower court's rejection of the lawsuit because Google doesn't transport property and doesn't serve users "indifferently."

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EU Orders Meta To Give Rival Chatbots Free WhatsApp Access

By Matthew Perlman

European enforcers ordered Meta Platforms to give rival artificial intelligence chatbots free access to WhatsApp amid an antitrust investigation into the messaging service, despite Meta taking steps to provide access for a fee after previously blocking rival assistants.

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Morrison Foerster Brings On Sidley Patent Litigation Duo

By Hailey Konnath

A pair of Sidley Austin LLP patent and trade secrets litigators, including the firm's co-leader of its global intellectual property practice, have departed for Morrison Foerster LLP, according to an announcement made Tuesday.

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What Colorado AI Law's Major Rewrite Means For Employers

Colorado's landmark law regulating employers' use of artificial intelligence tools was recently replaced with a narrower regime that eliminates many burdensome obligations, but still imposes a host of requirements focused on transparency and accountability, say attorneys at Proskauer.

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A Look At The Court's Next Steps In Live Nation Antitrust Case

Following a recent jury verdict that Live Nation and Ticketmaster operated as a monopoly to fix ticket prices, a New York federal court stands to weigh Live Nation's bid for a new trial, approve the U.S. Department of Justice's March settlement with the defendants, and impose remedies that include full structural separation, say attorneys at Crowell.

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Operational AI Washing: The Next Frontier Of Fiduciary Risk

While there are still no final Delaware decisions applying Caremark specifically to artificial intelligence governance failures, previous case law provides a blueprint, so the question for boards is whether their governance architectures will satisfy Caremark when the first cases are decided, say attorneys at Akerman.

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Checking For AI Errors Is Now A Two-Way Street

A handful of recent federal and state cases demonstrate the importance of checking for errors generated by artificial intelligence not only in your own court submissions, but also your opponent's, as well as when catching opposing counsel's AI mistakes could result in an award for attorney fees, says Tamara Barago at Hollingsworth.

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Trial Boutiques Roll Out Associate Pay Raises

By Andrea Keckley

Three trial boutiques are planning to bump associate salaries by at least $10,000 next month, the firms confirmed to Law360 Pulse Tuesday.

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Interview

Burford Sees Growing Market For Stakes In Elite Firms

By Marialuisa Taddia

Burford Capital plans to step up minority equity investments in elite law firms in the U.K. and U.S. that already use its litigation finance, as investor appetite for law firm equity increases, the firm's new London-based chief operating officer told Law360.

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All Attys In Miss. Suit DQd For Back-To-Back-To-Back AI Flubs

By Emily Sawicki

A Mississippi federal judge who found herself in the "unusual scenario" of reviewing briefs with artificial intelligence-created errors filed by both parties in a lawyer's fee dispute against a Magnolia State municipality has terminated all four attorneys from the case.

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Q&A

Next ABA International Ethics Chair Looks To Year Ahead

By Emily Sawicki

Rob Misey, incoming chair of the American Bar Association's International Ethics Committee, brings a passion for international dialogue to his new role, set to begin in September. Misey discussed his goals of initiating ethics conversations throughout the ABA and with counterparts overseas.

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Analysis

Fed. Circ. 'Recalibrates' Analysis For Constitutional Standing

By Dani Kass

The Federal Circuit eased the line between constitutional and statutory standing last month when reviving A.L.M. Holding Co.'s infringement suit against Zydex Industries Private Ltd., in a decision attorneys say makes standing more accessible and clarifies how patent licensors can maintain their rights.

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5 Firms Barred From Handling NFL Parkinson's Claims

By P.J. D'Annunzio

Five law firms have been disqualified from representing claimants seeking NFL concussion settlement funds for running a scheme that "laundered" questionable Parkinson's disease claims through the system to obtain $95 million, including $20 million in fees, a special masters' report issued Monday says.

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Pa. Law Firm Calls Uber and FedEx's RICO Suit A 'Sham'

By James Boyle

Nearly a month after its motion to dismiss a RICO suit filed by Uber and FedEx was denied by a Philadelphia federal judge, personal injury firm Simon & Simon PC has lodged a counterclaim against the companies, saying their complaint is a "frivolous sham."

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Senate Confirms Longtime Kan. Prosecutor, KBI Chief To Bench

By Courtney Bublé

The Senate voted 51-46, along party lines, on Tuesday to confirm Tony Mattivi, director of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, to serve on the bench in the District of Kansas.

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