'A Bunch Of Games': MDL Judge Irked By Meta, AGs Sparring

By Dorothy Atkins

A California federal judge appeared skeptical Wednesday of Meta Platforms Inc.'s request for a summary judgment win over claims by state attorneys general in multidistrict social media addiction litigation, saying repeatedly that many disputes should be resolved at trial and panning some arguments by both sides as "a bunch of games."

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Jury Finds Live Nation Monopolized Concert Ticketing

By Stewart Bishop

Live Nation and its Ticketmaster subsidiary harmed competition in the live entertainment sector by willfully monopolizing ticketing services to major concert venues and unlawfully tying artists' use of large amphitheaters to Live Nation's promotional services, a Manhattan federal jury found on Wednesday.

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Chair Says FTC Shouldn't Be 'All-Purpose AI Regulator'

By Bryan Koenig

Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson told lawmakers Wednesday that the agency is committed to using its existing authorities to protect Americans from deceptive artificial intelligence claims and AI-facilitated fraud, while arguing the FTC shouldn't serve as an overarching regulator for the technology.

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Roblox To Pay $12.5M, Boost Child Safety In Deal With Nev.

By Allison Grande

Roblox has agreed to implement enhanced safeguards for children who use the popular interactive gaming platform and pay $12.5 million to fund an online safety awareness campaign and other initiatives as part of what Nevada's attorney general on Wednesday called a first-of-its-kind agreement to resolve claims that the company failed to adequately protect its youngest users. 

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Food Apps' NYC Data Win Seems 'Weird' To 2nd Circ. Judges

By Jeff Overley

Does the First Amendment allow Uber Eats to keep your Chick-fil-A order a secret? At the Second Circuit on Wednesday, the fate of a New York City law aimed at reducing restaurant reliance on food delivery apps appeared to hinge heavily on that curious question.

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NC Passenger Tells Jury Of 'Disgusting' Uber Driver Assault

By Hayley Fowler

A North Carolina woman recounted for a federal jury on Wednesday how an Uber driver sexually assaulted her in 2019, rebuffing the ride-hailing giant's suggestion that the incident never occurred and describing how she felt "grossed out," "horrified" and "terrified."

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Squires Passes On 10 Patent Challenges, Takes On 2 Others

By Theresa Schliep

The newest bulk order from U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires has rejected 10 petitions for America Invents Act patent reviews while granting a couple others, including a Google challenge to a patent owned by Headwater Research LLC.

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Consumer Cases Drive Class Action Spike, Report Says

By Y. Peter Kang

Federal class action filings spiked in 2025 after nearly a decade of relative stability, fueled by a surge in consumer protection lawsuits tied to data breaches, digital commerce and online accessibility claims, according to a new report from Lex Machina.

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Cable Group Says Any 'Click To Cancel' Rule Would Be 'Chaos'

By Nadia Dreid

A cable industry trade group has told the Federal Trade Commission it wants no part of any proposed "click to cancel" regulations, saying more rules governing negative option marketing practices "would not protect consumers, only generate regulatory chaos."

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Electric Co-Op Denies Delaying Minn. Broadband Projects

By Christopher Cole

A regional electric cooperative has denied assertions that it has hindered pole improvements necessary for a broadband provider to fulfill its deployment obligations in Minnesota under the Federal Communications Commission's Rural Digital Opportunity Fund.

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Hold Dish To Buildout Plans, Mich. Local Gov'ts Urge FCC

By Christopher Cole

A coalition of local government leaders in Michigan has asked the Federal Communications Commission to insist that Dish fulfill its wireless buildout obligations before its parent company EchoStar completes spectrum sales to AT&T and SpaceX.

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FCC Names New Carveouts From Router And Drone Bans

By Nadia Dreid

The Federal Communications Commission is admitting that it once again may have been too hasty in putting all foreign-made routers and drones on the so-called covered list of technology deemed to be a risk to national security, and it will be carving out some exceptions.

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Judge Limits Evidence In Revived Deloitte Trade Secret Case

By Ivan Moreno

A West Virginia federal judge has narrowed the evidence prosecutors can present at trial in a revived trade secret case against two former Deloitte employees, curtailing use of an internal investigative report from the company they joined and restricting how "trade secrets" may be used to describe allegedly confidential materials.

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$7M Grubhub TM Deal Receives Ill. Judge's Final OK

By Lauraann Wood

An Illinois federal judge gave her final blessing Wednesday to a $7.1 million settlement between Grubhub and more than 7,000 restaurants that say the food delivery service used their trademarks without permission to gain a competitive edge over DoorDash and Uber Eats.

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Hims & Hers Providers Can't Duck Suit Over Student's Suicide

By Ben Adlin

Medical providers for telehealth company Hims & Hers can't escape a wrongful death lawsuit from the family of a Washington State University freshman who died by suicide in 2023, according to a Washington state judge's order denying summary judgment motions from five individual defendants.

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Ex-Defense Contractor Execs Call Arbitration Pact 'One-Sided'

By Rachel Konieczny

Two former executives for a defense contractor asked a Colorado federal judge Wednesday for an early win in their lawsuit alleging the contractor fired them for reporting a $1.9 million fraud scheme on a classified government contract.

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Amazon Alexa Users Seek To Revive Class Deception Claims

By Rachel Riley

A group of Amazon Alexa users has urged a Washington federal judge to reinstate their class consumer protection claims based on allegations the devices secretly recorded their personal conversations, contending the court ignored competing evidence when determining Amazon clearly disclosed the possibility of accidental activations.

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Leo Says Missteps Sank $50M SpaceX Investment In Appeal

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Supreme Court on Wednesday grappled with whether a fund manager's handling of a failed $50 million SpaceX investment crossed the line into fiduciary misconduct, as attorneys for both sides clashed over causation, fairness and a controversial $16 million fee award stemming from the dispute.

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Computer Co. Hid Defective Hinges In Its Laptops, Suit Says

By Gina Kim

A California-based company manufactures laptops containing defective hinges that "prematurely and unexpectedly crack and fail" at their plastic mounting points only after just months of use, rendering them practically inoperable, according to a customer's proposed class action lodged in California federal court.

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Women's Health Co. Accused Of Unauthorized Data Sharing

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

A private women's healthcare system is facing a proposed class action in Pennsylvania federal court that alleges it allowed third parties to use sensitive patient information without consent or notice.

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Biopharma Co. Says Ex-Worker Used Files To Build AI Rival

By Mark Payne

A biopharmaceutical consulting firm's ex-contractor illegally downloaded thousands of proprietary internal files and emails that he then used to launch a rival company powered by artificial intelligence, the firm claimed in a lawsuit, alleging that the former contractor violated federal trade secrets law.

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Antitrust Suit Targets CoStar Noncompetes, Cross-Post Limits

By Nate Beck

CoStar Group faces a lawsuit in Virginia federal court alleging that the real estate information service has for years sought to prevent cross-listings by customers and shut out would-be competitors through acquisitions and noncompete deals with large brokerages, in what plaintiffs' counsel claims is the first such antitrust class action against the company. 

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Dish Whopped With Another Suit Over Cancelled 5G Contracts

By Nadia Dreid

The lawsuits against Dish Wireless just keep on coming after the prepaid phone service provider abandoned both its plans to build a nationwide 5G network and the contracts it signed with the companies set to build the infrastructure, the newest of which is from a company seeking $1.7 million.

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Payments Co., Owner 'Sabotaged' $175M Sale, Crypto Biz Says

By Emilie Ruscoe

A cryptocurrency wallet platform seeks to enforce its $175 million deal to purchase a global payments company, accusing the company and its owner of "a blatant, reckless, and improper campaign" to keep the sale from closing.

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Fed. Circ. Won't Touch DraftKings Win In PTAB Fight

By Elaine Briseño

In a one-word decision Wednesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld a Patent Trial and Appeal Board decision that found a peer-to-peer gaming patent challenged by DraftKings was not valid.

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EU Announces Duties Against Imported Filament, Softwood

By Dylan Moroses

The European Commission announced antidumping duties Wednesday for imported glass fiber filament from Egypt, Bahrain and Thailand, as well as duties for imported softwood lumber from Brazil.

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Goodwin-Led Topspin Wraps $328M Consumer-Focused Fund

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Goodwin Procter LLP-advised private equity shop Topspin Consumer Partners on Wednesday revealed that it closed its third fund after securing $328 million in capital commitments.

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2nd Circ. Backs $58M IcomTech Ponzi Convictions, Sentences

By Gina Kim

The Second Circuit upheld convictions and judgments for defendants behind a $58 million IcomTech cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme after rejecting their arguments that there's no evidence they knew it was a fraud, ruling Wednesday "sufficient red flags existed" for the lower court to properly provide a "conscious avoidance" jury instruction.

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Ad Agencies Settle FTC's 'Brand Safety' Boycott Claims

By Matthew Perlman

The Federal Trade Commission reached a deal on Wednesday with WPP, Publicis and Dentsu over concerns that "brand safety" standards allowed them to collude to steer ad money away from disfavored platforms.

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Palisades Fire Suspect Can't Toss Warrants, ChatGPT Images

By Craig Clough

A California federal judge Wednesday held that the Palisades Fire arson suspect cannot suppress all evidence discovered via search warrants — including ChatGPT images on his phone depicting a city on fire — finding the government didn't rely only on his mere presence near the crime scene to obtain the warrants.

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Zillow, Redfin Can't Use 4th Circ. Ruling In Antitrust Suit

By Isaac Monterose

The Federal Trade Commission and multiple states on Wednesday filed a proposed response pushing back on Zillow and Redfin Corp.'s bid to cite a published Fourth Circuit decision they say supports their attempt to dismiss the antitrust suit brought by the agency and states.

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The 2026 Lawyer Satisfaction Survey: Where Do You Stand?

How is your work-life balance? Are you content with your compensation and opportunities for advancement at work? Take the 2026 Law360 Lawyer Satisfaction Survey and share your thoughts.

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Ex-DOJ Antitrust Atty On Google Case Joins Wilson Sonsini

By Bonnie Eslinger

A lead attorney on the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division's monopolization cases against Google LLC who left the agency last week joined Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday as a partner.

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Willkie Adds O'Melveny Litigator To Los Angeles Office

By James Boyle

Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP expanded its Los Angeles office with the recent addition of a litigator who moved her practice after nearly 15 years with O'Melveny & Myers LLP.

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Sidley Adds Another NY Capital Markets Pro From Cravath

By Andrea Keckley

Sidley Austin LLP announced Wednesday that it has hired another New York-based capital markets attorney from Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP, touting her history advising venture capital-backed companies, founders, investors and financial institutions on a range of corporate matters.

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USPTO's AI Search Pilot May Reshape Patent Filing Strategy

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's new artificial intelligence search pilot aims to introduce earlier visibility into the prior art landscape, potentially influencing patent filing considerations and shifting the role of counsel to an earlier stage of the prosecution process, say attorneys at Foley & Lardner.

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'Made In America' EO May Not Survive Section 230

President Donald Trump's recent executive order to combat fraudulent "Made in America" claims in advertising directs the Federal Trade Commission to deem online marketplaces' failure to verify third-party origin claims as unlawful, but such a rule would likely run into Section 230's publisher immunity doctrine, say attorneys at Blank Rome.

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CBP's $166B Tariff Refund Portal Needs 4 Safeguards

Before launching its automated web portal to process tariff-refund disbursements on April 20, U.S. Customs and Border Protection should apply the expensive lessons learned from the pandemic-era employee retention credit, says Peter Gariepy at RubinBrown.

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Sotomayor Apologizes For 'Hurtful' Comments About Kavanaugh

By Katie Buehler

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor publicly apologized Wednesday for comments she made at a University of Kansas appearance earlier this month criticizing Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

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Justice Jackson Slams Court's 'Oblivious' Emergency Orders

By Lauren Berg

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson this week slammed her conservative colleagues' use of the court's emergency docket, which has repeatedly benefited the Trump administration, saying that such "scratch-paper" orders don't acknowledge the harms that can follow such decisions, making the orders "seem oblivious and thus ring hollow."

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Hogan, Cadwalader Partners Vote To Forge Ahead With Merger

By Marialuisa Taddia

Hogan Lovells and Cadwalader said Wednesday that their partners have voted in favor of their merger ahead of the scheduled launch of the combined law firm on July 1.

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Winston & Strawn Must Face $1.7B GloriFi Malpractice Suit

By Vince Sullivan

A Chapter 7 malpractice suit brought by the trustee of fintech company GloriFi asserting $1.7 billion in damages from a failed initial public offering mostly survived a motion to dismiss late Tuesday, with a Texas bankruptcy judge saying the trustee sufficiently pled breach claims against law firm Winston & Strawn.

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Trump's 8th Circ. Pick Pressed On Leonard Leo Ties

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump's nominee for the Eighth Circuit, who represented Trump in the two cases brought by writer E. Jean Carroll, came under scrutiny Wednesday for his affiliation with groups linked to longtime Federalist Society executive and Republican fundraiser Leonard Leo.

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Jones Day DQ'd From Vanderbilt Case Over Pre-Ch. 11 Work

By Vince Sullivan

A New York bankruptcy judge disqualified law firm Jones Day from representing talc producer Vanderbilt Minerals in its Chapter 11 case Wednesday, saying the firm's prior work for the larger Vanderbilt corporate family raises questions about its disinterestedness.

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John Eastman Disbarred Over Bid To Overturn 2020 Election

By Rae Ann Varona

California's highest court on Wednesday ordered the disbarment of California attorney John Charles Eastman, who a state bar court found had helped plan and promote President Donald Trump's strategy to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

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ICE Arrest Memo Switch Looks 'Specious,' Judge Says

By Pete Brush

A Manhattan federal judge on Wednesday revived an effort by civil rights groups to block immigration courthouse arrests, citing what he called an apparently deceptive Trump administration move to disclaim its earlier litigation position.

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Historical Groups Fight To Save White House Records

By Jared Foretek

Historians are asking a D.C. federal judge for an injunction that would force the Trump White House to preserve official records after administration attorneys declared the Presidential Records Act unconstitutional.

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Trump Defends DOJ Investigation Of 'Incompetent' Fed Chair

By Jon Hill

President Donald Trump expressed support Wednesday for the U.S. Department of Justice continuing to investigate Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell over the Fed's headquarters renovation, saying the government must "find out what happened" with the project's $2.5 billion price tag.

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DOJ Atty Slapped With $250 Sanction For Missed Deadlines

By Tom Lotshaw

A California federal judge hit a U.S. Department of Justice attorney with a $250 sanction for repeatedly missing deadlines in a noncitizen's habeas corpus case, rejecting his assertions that his need to juggle tasks under a 300-plus caseload should excuse him.

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Former Judge To Head New NJ Attorney Readmission Board

By Jake Maher

The New Jersey Supreme Court announced this week the lineup of a new committee that will consider disbarred attorneys' applications for readmission, with a former state court judge of over 20 years at the head of the board.

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