Meta Must Face Contract Claim In Facebook Ad Pricing Suit

By Bonnie Eslinger

A California federal judge trimmed a putative class action accusing Meta Platforms Inc. of secretly changing Facebook's ad auction system in a way that caused advertisers to pay more than promised, but said "ambiguity" in the social media giant's agreements meant a breach of contract claim survives the company's motion to dismiss.

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Analysis

3 Federal Circuit Clashes To Watch In June

By Ryan Davis

The Federal Circuit's argument calendar next month includes a dispute between Micron and Netlist over Idaho's law against "bad faith" patent suits, and appeals of multimillion-dollar verdicts against Boston Scientific on a stent patent and TP-Link on Wi-Fi patents.

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Split Fed. Circ. Says $452M Trade Secret Case Was Untimely

By Ivan Moreno

A split Federal Circuit panel on Thursday erased Insulet Corp.'s trade secret victory against EOFlow Co. Ltd., holding that the medical device maker filed its claims too late and reversing a $452 million jury verdict that was later reduced to $59.4 million.

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HSBC Defeats Most Claims In First Citizens' Poaching Suit

By Elliot Weld

A California federal judge has dismissed the bulk of First Citizens Bank & Trust Co.'s suit against HSBC alleging the latter induced a mass resignation and misappropriated trade secrets, saying the court still didn't have any jurisdiction over some defendants and that an amended complaint had not cured issues with a previously dismissed complaint.

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Calif. AG Sues 23andMe Over Lapses In Genetic Data Security

By Allison Grande

California moved Thursday to sue the genetic testing company formerly known as 23andMe over a 2023 data breach that exposed the personal information of nearly 7 million customers, arguing that the company failed to implement even the most basic security measures and misled consumers about the scope of its safeguards and severity of the breach.

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Illinois Nears Frontier AI Safety Law With Audit Mandate

By Rae Ann Varona

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker is set to sign into law a landmark bill requiring artificial intelligence developers to undergo annual third-party audits and provide transparency reports, the governor announced on social media Wednesday, the same day the bill received a unanimous vote in the Illinois House of Representatives.

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Trump Considers Tech Entrepreneur For DOJ Grants Post

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump appears poised to nominate a real estate attorney turned tech entrepreneur for a top U.S. Department of Justice post that oversees grants and criminal justice programs.

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Ohio Governor Pauses Data Center Tax Breaks

By Maria Koklanaris

Ohio became the most recent state to signal the growing unease in giving tax breaks to data centers as Gov. Mike DeWine said he directed the state tax credit authority to pause consideration of any new exemption requests.

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FCC Warns Of More Broadcast License Reviews

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission's leadership gave notice to broadcasters Thursday that it could review their licenses early and potentially act to revoke them if it decides the stations are failing to "operate in the public interest."

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Broadcasters Want Rules Relaxed Due To 'Fierce' Competition

By Christopher Cole

Broadcast industry advocates in Washington doubled down on their view that it's time to relax media ownership limits at all levels because the regulations unfairly pit them against "fierce" competitors like audio and video streamers.

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GCI Wants To End Service In 6 Alaska Communities

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

GCI Communication Corp. has asked the Federal Communications Commission for permission to end certain telecommunications services in six Alaskan communities, arguing that other carriers offer those services.

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Fed. Circ. Reinstates PTAB Challenge To E-Learning Patent

By Adam Lidgett

Employee training platform Go1 won its bid to revive its challenge to a cloud learning patent it has been accused of infringing, after the Federal Circuit on Thursday threw out the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's finding that the company failed to show the patent was invalid.

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9th Circ. Warned Of Market Forces In Nexstar-Tegna Case

By Matthew Perlman

The National Association of Broadcasters told the Ninth Circuit that a lower court's view of the market in a case challenging the $6.2 billion merger between Nexstar and Tegna is inconsistent with its members' experience and contradicts industry data recently submitted to regulators.

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Aerospace Co. Must Pay $2M In Network System Contract Trial

By Elliot Weld

A Texas federal judge has entered a final judgment ordering aerospace manufacturer Cabin Management Solutions Inc. to pay nearly $2 million to an audio-video network transmission company that accused it of reneging on a negotiated fee for the use of a signal transmission system.

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Abbott Labs Settles Ill. Genetic Privacy Suit

By Celeste Bott

Abbott Laboratories has inked a settlement with a proposed class of workers alleging the company's onboarding materials asked for employees' medical history in violation of an Illinois law aimed at protecting residents' genetic information, prompting an Illinois federal judge to dismiss the case Thursday.

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Nearmap, Eagleview Reach Roof Measurement Patent Deal

By Adam Lidgett

The owner of a series of patents covering a system for measuring and identifying attributes in a roof by using aerial imagery has settled its yearslong infringement allegations against Nearmap in Utah federal court.

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Squires To Review TikTok Foreign Ties In Another IPR

By Adam Lidgett

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires is going to review his own decision to institute review of a computer hardware patent challenged by TikTok, saying he was considering whether a foreign government should have been listed as an interested party.

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Squires Scrutinizing Grant Of Asus IPR Over Sotera Concern

By Theresa Schliep

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires has ordered a review of his own decision to institute a challenge by ASUSTeK Computer Inc. and Asus to a Nokia patent, citing Nokia's allegations that the U.S. International Trade Commission might be considering the same invalidity arguments.

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Wash. Justices Float AI Hypotheticals In Hospital Pixel Case

By Rachel Riley

As the Washington Supreme Court considered a group of parents' bid to revive their proposed privacy class action over a Seattle hospital's use of the Meta Pixel browser tracking tool on its website, the justices questioned Thursday whether the rise of artificial intelligence-powered chatbots carried implications for the case.

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Baltimore City's Suit Against Musk Heads To Federal Court

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

Baltimore City's lawsuit against Elon Musk's xAI, accusing it of deceptive trade practices over the photo editing capabilities of its Grok artificial intelligence platform, has been moved to federal court.

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Ad Tech Rivals Say Google Can't Cull Antitrust Claims

By Bryan Koenig

Google's rival advertising placement technology providers urged a New York federal judge not to dramatically reduce their antitrust claims, arguing the court has already rejected the statute of limitations assertions raised against other multidistrict litigation plaintiffs "and it should do so again."

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5 AI Cos. Sued Over Neural Network Patent In Delaware

By Elliot Weld

Five companies developing various transcription, speech-to-text and customer experience products with artificial intelligence are facing lawsuits brought by an entity alleging they infringed a patent covering neural networks.

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It's 'Just Math,' Lenovo Says Of German Co.'s Patent Claims

By Abigail Harrison

Lenovo told a North Carolina federal court that it should find invalid a collection of patent claims from a German research organization related to wireless audio communications, arguing they are all overly broad and abstract.

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Ex-Perrigo Workers Say Lax Security Led To Cyberattack

By Gina Kim

Perrigo, a company that manufactures branded and private-label over-the-counter healthcare products, was hit with a proposed class action in Michigan federal court Wednesday following a cyberattack linked to a notorious hacking group that claims to have accessed personal data belonging to current and former employees.

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Roundup

Injury Law Roundup: Freight Brokers, Uber Lose Key Cases

By Y. Peter Kang

The U.S. Supreme Court's green light of negligent hiring claims against freight brokers in highway crash cases and an adverse verdict against Uber in the sexual assault multidistrict litigation lead Law360's Injury Law Roundup.

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3 Firms Guide Rental Property Software Co. Entrata's IPO Plan

By Nate Beck

Rental property management software company Entrata filed for an initial public offering on Thursday with advice from Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC, Latham & Watkins LLP and Ropes & Gray LLP, saying its revenue grew 23% in the first three months of 2026 compared to the same period last year.

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HVAC Biz Valued At $10B After Apollo Backing, More Rumors

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Private equity giant Apollo took a stake in home services company Apex Service Partners to value it at $10 billion, chipmaker Groq Inc. is hoping to raise $650 million to launch a new company focused on artificial intelligence "neoclouds," and semiconductor company Qualcomm inked a supply deal with TikTok owner ByteDance. Here, Law360 breaks down the notable deal rumors from the past week.

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4th Circ. Rules IRS 'Cooperation' Doesn't Sink Tax Convictions

By Hayley Fowler

The Fourth Circuit on Thursday affirmed the convictions of two software executives found guilty at trial of failing to pay employment taxes to the Internal Revenue Service, rejecting the notion that their alleged cooperation with the IRS somehow undermined the charges.

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Ex-TD Bank Worker Admits Role In $3M Customer Fraud Scam

By Dorothy Atkins

A former TD Bank NA financial service representative entered a plea deal in New Jersey federal court Wednesday, admitting to defrauding bank customers and bribing an employee at another financial institution to falsify bank records to facilitate a $3.4 million fraud scheme.

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SEC Says AI Crypto Trading Bot Was $12M Ponzi Scheme

By Jessica Corso

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday accused a Texas man of lining his pockets with millions of dollars in investor funds that he falsely promised would be used to trade cryptocurrency using an artificial intelligence-operated bot.

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Feds Say Canadian Co.'s Auto Devices Violate Emissions Law

By Ganesh Setty

The federal government has accused a Canadian automotive accessory retailer in Washington federal court of selling certain aftermarket products designed to boost vehicle performance by bypassing existing vehicle systems meant to ensure a vehicle satisfies federal emissions standards.

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Colo. Residents Challenge Police Use Of Flock Cameras

By Rachel Konieczny

A Colorado police department's use of a network of Flock cameras to photograph and track vehicles is unconstitutional, according to a proposed class action brought by Boulder residents in state court.

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Musk-OpenAI Verdict Shows Value Of Early-Stage Governance

A California federal court's ruling last week in Musk v. Altman preserves the status quo at OpenAI, but signals to the technology industry at large that courts will not relitigate the governance decisions of early-stage organizations on a founder's competitive timetable, surfacing questions that will outlast the litigation, says attorney Alan N. Walter.

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Opinion

International Patent Licensing System Must Be Maintained

As foreign approaches to patent enforcement threaten to distort the licensing markets that underpin modern technology, courts and policymakers must take action to ensure that the standard essential patent framework is preserved, says Brian O'Shaughnessy at Dinsmore.

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New Connecticut Law On Employers' AI Use Is Inventive

A recently passed Connecticut law regulating the use of artificial intelligence in employment decisions innovates by using third-party risk assessments to vet and certify AI models, and by recognizing a division of responsibility between developers and deployers, potentially influencing pending legislation in other states, say attorneys at Littler.

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Visa's Agentic Payment Rules Expose Compliance Tensions

Visa's recently released framework clarifying how payments driven by artificial intelligence can occur without consumer-merchant interaction exposes compliance risks under disclosure and fee transparency laws that may require merchants and payment providers to rethink consumer protection as agentic commerce expands, say attorneys at Stinson.

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Series

Studying Foreign Languages Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Studying Italian and Japanese has shown me that learning a new language can benefit a legal career in several ways, including by demonstrating the importance of approaching problems from a fresh perspective and the value of practicing patience with colleagues and clients, says Anna King at Genworth Financial.

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Brief

Davis Polk Adds A&O Shearman Antitrust Partner In NY

By Andrea Keckley

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP has hired a former A&O Shearman partner, who joined its antitrust and competition practice in New York.

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Bonus Spotlight

Selendy Gay Doles Out Spring Associate Bonuses

By Aebra Coe

New York litigation boutique Selendy Gay PLLC paid its associates spring bonuses of as much as $25,000 this week, according to the firm.

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Ex-Calif. Appellate Judge To Take Over As Law School Dean

By Rose Krebs

A former California appellate justice, who was the first Muslim to serve as a Court of Appeal justice in the U.S., has been named Western State College of Law at Westcliff University's next dean.

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Dems Say DOJ Blocked Bondi On Trump Questions

By Courtney Bublé

Democrats were incensed on Friday that the U.S. Department of Justice attorneys who accompanied former Attorney General Pam Bondi to her committee interview stopped her from answering questions about President Donald Trump.

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Civil Rights Icon Clarence B. Jones Dies At 95

By Andrea Keckley

Civil rights icon Clarence B. Jones, a speechwriter and personal attorney to Martin Luther King Jr., died May 22 at an assisted living facility in the Santa Clara County city of Cupertino, California, his family confirmed earlier this week. He was 95.

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Roundup

UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

By Megan Norcott

The past week in London has seen the billionaire who donated £5 million ($6.7 million) to Nigel Farage sue Ben Habib, the leader of far-right party Advance UK, for defamation; Mashreqbank bring claims against three subsidiaries of dissolved private equity giant Abraaj Group for commercial fraud; and the property and investment vehicle of the State of Kuwait be targeted by four real estate figures who filed a miscellaneous claim. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

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Titan Of The Plaintiffs Bar: Boies Schiller's Matthew Schwartz

By Sarah Jarvis

Matthew L. Schwartz oscillated among many career aspirations as a kid, from astronaut to mayor of New York. When it was time to head off to college, the man who would go on to handle the prosecution of employees tied to Bernie Madoff and become chair of Boies Schiller Flexner LLP set his sights on science, earning an undergraduate degree in physics.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Phillips Black Inc., Hogan Lovells and Watkins & Eager PLLC lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a Black Mississippi death row prisoner who argued racial discrimination tainted his jury selection is entitled to habeas corpus relief.

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DLA Piper Hires Real Estate, Construction Partner In Seattle

By Nate Beck

DLA Piper said it has added a Seattle-based real estate partner with experience advising a range of construction projects including data centers, mixed-use projects, schools and renewable energy facilities.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

Kirkland & Ellis says it's investing a half billion dollars into developing its own artificial intelligence platform to better serve clients. And Law360 looks at the general counsel who is guiding BP through its latest leadership crisis after the company abruptly dismissed its board chair.

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Baker McKenzie Asks Judge Not To Toss Suit Against Ex-Atty

By Alison Knezevich

A lawyer for Baker McKenzie on Friday urged a Washington, D.C., judge not to dismiss the BigLaw firm's defamation suit against a former tax associate who accused a firm office leader of sexual assault, telling the court the accusations were false and made with "malice."

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Fla. Panel Revives Firm's Suit Over Tobacco Case Referrals

By David Minsky

A Florida state appellate court revived a law firm's complaint alleging tortious interference against a widow over a contingency fee agreement involving tobacco injury case referrals, finding that the lower court wrongly tossed the lawsuit based on extraneous information even though there was sufficient evidence to support a claim.

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NY Judge Doubts Nussbaum-Linked Firms Belong In Ch. 11

By Emily Lever

A New York bankruptcy judge on Friday questioned whether his court was the proper venue to wind down two commercial real estate law firms headed by Mark J. Nussbaum as the debtors sought to ditch an assignment for the benefit of creditors process in New York state court.

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Trump Urges 3rd Circ. To Reverse 'Bizarre' Anti-SLAPP Loss

By Dorothy Atkins

President Donald Trump urged the Third Circuit on Thursday to find a Pennsylvania anti-SLAPP statute shields him from the Central Park Five's defamation claims, slamming the lower court's "truly bizarre" ruling in an opening brief filed the same day a DLA Piper partner and others joined Trump's defense team.

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In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Law360

For those who missed out, here's a look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the most buzz on Law360 last week.

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Akin Gump Owes Fees For Winebow's 'Self-Indulgent' Appeal

By Dorothy Atkins

The Ninth Circuit on Thursday ordered an importer's Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP attorneys to pay a European winemaker fees for having to defend against the importer's "spurious objections" to the winemaker's valid arbitral award, ruling that the importer's "self-indulgent" appeal warrants sanctions in the form of fees.

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Colo. Appeals Court Bars One-Way Fees In Eviction Cures

By Zach Dupont

A Colorado Court of Appeals panel on Thursday reversed the dismissal of a proposed class action against a group of landlords, Tschetter Sulzer PC and the Colorado Apartment Association accusing the collective of illegally extracting attorney fees from tenants during eviction proceedings.

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Double Shooting Renews Courthouse Safety Fears In NC

By Hayley Fowler

The shooting of two Fox Rothschild LLP attorneys outside a courthouse in Raleigh, North Carolina, ahead of Memorial Day weekend has renewed calls to protect the safety of judges and lawyers in an increasingly volatile justice system.

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Calif. Panel Reverses Order For Citing Atty's Bogus Case Law

By Dorothy Atkins

A California appellate panel on Thursday reversed a judgment in favor of a man accused of abusing his son, finding that "without doubt" the trial judge abused her discretion by incorporating the man's bogus legal citations into her ruling, despite being alerted to the mistakes in advance.

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