5 Supreme Court Cases To Watch This Fall

By Katie Buehler

The U.S. Supreme Court will convene Monday to begin its 2026 October term, which includes several cases that could determine the future of climate change tort litigation, expand religious freedoms and parental rights, and grant states authority to require proof of citizenship when individuals register for presidential elections using state forms. 

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Roberts Wants Less Talk. Supreme Court Attorneys Disagree.

By Katie Buehler

Near the end of last term, Chief Justice John Roberts voiced his frustration with the U.S. Supreme Court's lengthening oral argument sessions and suggested the justices might tweak their format over the summer. But as the new term begins Monday, the court has yet to announce any changes, and advocates see little need for improvement.

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Analysis

3rd Circ. AI Ruling May Reach Beyond Westlaw Content Fight

By Ivan Moreno

The Third Circuit went out of its way to say its ruling against a defunct legal research startup was not a generative artificial intelligence case, but copyright lawyers expect the reach of its reasoning to be tested almost immediately in pending AI litigation.

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8th Circ. Temporarily Blocks Minn.'s 'Nudification' Image Ban

By Hailey Konnath

The Eighth Circuit has agreed to temporarily block Minnesota from enforcing its ban on image "nudification" technology while Elon Musk's SpaceXAI appeals a lower court's order leaving the ban in place, according to an order issued Friday.

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Parler Ex-CEO Wins $11M Over Ouster From Social Media Site

By Cara Salvatore

A jury in Nevada found Friday that Parler co-founder John Matze is owed nearly $11.1 million, including $250,000 in punitive damages, for the stake he was stripped of after billionaire business partner Rebekah Mercer and others allegedly changed the social media company's constitution to get rid of him.

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Uber Settles Bellwether In Sex Assault MDL Before Trial

By Rae Ann Varona

Uber Technologies Inc. settled with a Texas woman just ahead of opening statements in the third scheduled bellwether trial in multidistrict litigation over alleged sexual assaults by the ride-hailing company's drivers, her attorneys announced Friday.

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Analysis

DOJ Envisions 'Full-Fledged Law Firm' To Combat Gov't Fraud

By Phillip Bantz

The National Fraud Enforcement Division was created less than six months ago, but it is rapidly reshaping the U.S. Department of Justice and spurring an uptick in internal corporate investigations, white collar experts say.

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Analysis

4 Argument Sessions Benefits Attys Should Watch In October

By Kellie Mejdrich

Former Intel workers' bid to convince the U.S. Supreme Court to revive their suit alleging shoddy retirement plan investments tops the list of oral arguments slated for October that benefits attorneys may want to keep an eye on. Here's a look at that case and three others teed up for argument this month.

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AT&T Users' Attys Score $59M, $177M Data Breach Deal OK'd

By Hailey Konnath

A Texas federal judge on Friday gave final approval to AT&T's $177 million data breach settlement, awarding a combined $59 million to attorneys representing two classes of millions of customers whose information was exposed in the incidents.

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Keesal Young Owes Duty To Safeguard 316K People's Data

By Matt Perez

A California federal judge has kept negligence and consumer privacy claims intact against law firm Keesal Young & Logan over a 2024 data breach that exposed the personal information of more than 316,000 people, finding the plaintiffs have standing because their data apparently landed on the dark web.

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Gannett, Daily Mail Get April '27 Date For Google Ad Tech Trial

By Bryan Koenig

A New York federal judge Friday teed up the Daily Mail and Gannett for the first trial in the sprawling antitrust multidistrict litigation targeting Google's advertising placement technology business, penciling in a start date of April 5, 2027.

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Feds Can't Ax Unions' Suit Over AI Monitoring Of Noncitizens

By Craig Clough

A New York federal judge has declined to toss a lawsuit by unions accusing federal immigration agencies of using artificial intelligence to surveil noncitizens' online activity, finding that immigration law does not bar the suit because it does not challenge the removal proceedings of any individual.

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Judge Axes Salvadoran Journalists' NSO Spying Suit

By Madeline Lyskawa

Journalists at a Salvadoran news outlet have failed to adequately allege that NSO Group committed any wrongful conduct in California, a federal judge ruled, dismissing claims that their iPhones were hacked with spyware sold by the Israeli security company.

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Century Surety Escapes Vape Battery Injury Coverage Suit

By Emily Field

An Alabama federal judge said Century Surety Co. has no duty to indemnify or defend a smoke shop being sued by a customer burned by a vape pen battery that caught fire in his pocket because the incident didn't take place at one of the retailer's locations.

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Class Cert. Denied In Planned Parenthood Tracking Tech Suit

By Gianna Ferrarin

A California federal judge declined to certify a proposed class of individuals alleging Planned Parenthood Federation of America allowed third parties to intercept their sensitive information via tracking technologies embedded on its website, finding their attempt to bring common evidence amounted to "speculation and conjecture."

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EDTX Judge Suggests Toyota Should Win Axle Patent Case

By Ryan Davis

Ahead of a trial scheduled for November, an Eastern District of Texas magistrate judge has recommended granting Toyota's motion for summary judgment that its vehicle transaxles do not infringe an individual inventor's patent on vehicle power generation technology.

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AI Co. Reaches Deal To End Copyright Case Against Microsoft

By Adam Lidgett

Artificial intelligence company Cerence Inc. has agreed to a deal to end its copyright lawsuit in Delaware federal court against Microsoft Corp. over text-to-speech technology.

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Medivis Gets Some AR Device Patent Claims Cut In Remand

By Ryan Davis

After the Federal Circuit faulted the Patent Trial and Appeal Board for upholding a Novarad Corp. patent on augmented reality technology for surgeons, the board found on remand that Medivis Inc. had shown that some patent claims are invalid, but not others.

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Skechers Seeks To End Appraisal Claims After Settlement

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Skechers U.S.A. Inc. has asked the Delaware Chancery Court to dismiss a number of actions brought by a group of investment funds seeking a court appraisal of the fair value of their shares following 3G Capital Partners' $9.4 billion takeover of the footwear company.

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Thomson Reuters Hit With Antitrust Case Over 'Killer' AI Deal

By Matthew Perlman

A California law firm has accused Thomson Reuters of violating antitrust law when it purchased artificial intelligence research tool Casetext for $650 million and then shuttered the platform to extinguish a rising competitor to its Westlaw service.

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Sony's PS5, Headphones Infringe Voice-Control IP, AI Co. Says

By Gina Kim

Artificial intelligence company Cerence sued Sony in Texas federal court Thursday, accusing it of infringing speech recognition and voice-control technology patents with its Sony PlayStation 5 and noise-cancelling headphones.

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Alphabet Hit With Investor Suit Over Gemini Release Lag

By Rae Ann Varona

Google CEO Sundar Pichai made it seem like the company's artificial intelligence model Gemini 3.5 Pro was on track for a successful launch, when in reality, it was delivering "disappointing training results," an investor alleged in a proposed class action filed Friday in California federal court.

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Advisory Co. Says Ex-Worker Stole Client Data Via AI Notes

By Zach Dupont

A former employee of a compensation, benefits and business risk advisory firm used an unapproved artificial intelligence note-taking app to record confidential client meetings before leaving for a competitor and taking company trade secrets with her, the company said in a complaint filed in Colorado federal court.

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Cox Makes It Hard For Users To Cancel, Suit Says

By Nadia Dreid

If you sign up for residential Cox cable, phone or internet service online, you'll be enrolled in a continually renewing plan that you can't cancel without calling in and going through a "burdensome process," according to a proposed class action targeting the company.

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Onsemi, Synaptics Revise Deal To $5.7B After Alternate Bid

By Al Barbarino

Onsemi and Synaptics Inc. have amended their $7 billion merger agreement after a third party submitted an unsolicited competing bid for Synaptics, resulting in a revised $5.7 billion value and a switch from all-stock to cash.

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Roundup

Taxation With Representation: Hogan Lovells, Davies, Sidley

By Zak Kostro

In this week's Taxation With Representation, semiconductor company Advanced Micro Devices buys AI model developer and research lab World Labs, Brixmor Property Group and private investment management firm Everview Partners acquire Slate Grocery REIT, and cyberintelligence company REDLattice merges with blank check company Bold Eagle Acquisition Corp.

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SEC Fines Latch $1M Over SPAC-Tied Revenue Misstatements

By Katryna Perera

The smart lock system company formerly known as Latch Inc. has agreed to pay $1 million to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to resolve claims of incorrect revenue recognition and internal control and accounting violations connected to its go-public combination with a blank check company.

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Live Nation Fights States' Latest Bid For Insight Into DOJ Deal

By Dorothy Atkins

Live Nation has fired back against the latest request in New York federal court by some state attorneys general seeking material related to Live Nation's midtrial antitrust settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice, arguing the states are seeking burdensome discovery, including communications between third parties and outside counsel.

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FTC Says Lens.com's Hidden Fees Doubled Contact Costs

By Lauren Berg

The Federal Trade Commission, joined by the attorneys general for Nevada and Utah, on Friday accused contact lens retailer Lens.com Inc. in federal court of deceptive advertising by touting artificially low prices before hitting consumers with bogus fees that often double the price of their contact lenses.

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Feds Claim Calif. Man Smuggled $300M In Servers To China

By Jack McLoone

Federal authorities arrested a California technology company owner accused of helping smuggle over $300 million worth of high-end computer servers containing export-controlled Nvidia components — commonly used for artificial intelligence applications — to China, the U.S. Department of Justice said.

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South Korea Ordered To Pay Elliott $48M In Samsung Dispute

By Joyce Hanson

An arbitration tribunal has ordered South Korea to pay U.S. hedge fund Elliott about 66 billion won ($48 million) after the government lost on remand an investor-state dispute settlement case accusing it of interfering in an $8 billion merger between two Samsung affiliates in 2015.

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FTC Proposal Puts Personalized Pricing On Notice

The Federal Trade Commission’s recent proposed policy statement on undisclosed personalized pricing signals the potential for harm when business practices diverge from consumer expectations, indicating a need to disclose not only data usage, but also how it influences the prices consumers see, says Linda Goldstein at CM Law.

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Religious Accommodation Lessons From Recent EEOC Focus

With several recent U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission enforcement actions focusing on religious accommodations, employers should identify the actual burden an accommodation imposes, distinguish operational hardship from co-workers' objections, and pay attention to how the accommodation is implemented, says Crystal Banse at Spencer West.

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Justice Alito Says He's Weighing The Best Time To Retire

By Katie Buehler

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has confirmed that he considered retiring at the end of the high court's latest term, and that he will continue to weigh that decision "every term." 

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Munger Tolles Announces Clerkship Bonus Increases

By Matt Perez

Munger Tolles & Olson LLP announced Thursday that it is increasing its clerkship bonuses to $180,000 for one qualifying clerkship and $200,000 for two or more qualifying clerkships.

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Legal Sector Adds 2K Jobs, For 6th Straight Month Of Growth

By Tracey Read

While the overall U.S. economy's unemployment rate ticked up to 4.2% last month, the legal industry was in the midst of a six-month hot streak.

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Judge Clevenger Retires After 36 Years On Fed. Circ.

By Dani Kass

U.S. Circuit Judge Raymond C. Clevenger III has retired from the Federal Circuit, 20 years after taking senior status, the court said Friday.

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Jackson Walker May Face New Sanctions Over Old Romance

By Rick Archer

A Texas bankruptcy judge Friday threatened Jackson Walker LLP with sanctions over yet another bankruptcy case where the firm's retention was approved by a judge in a relationship with a former attorney at the firm.

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Trump Asks 9th Circ. To Pause Seattle US Atty Reinstatement

By Rachel Riley

The Trump administration called on the Ninth Circuit Friday to suspend a federal judge's Thursday order reinstating Roger Rogoff as U.S. attorney for the Western District of Washington, seeking to keep Charles Neil Floyd as acting head of the Seattle office pending the government's appeal.

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Amazon Seeks Records Around Lawyer's USPTO Suspension

By Ben Adlin

An attorney Amazon has accused of furthering a scheme to fraudulently register thousands of trademarks and use them to report infringement by rival Amazon merchants must hand over documents related to her discipline in California and Washington, the retail giant argued in a Washington federal court filing Thursday.

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Tenn. High Court Keeps ABA As Law School Accreditor

By Emma Cueto

The Tennessee Supreme Court on Friday declined to follow other conservative states in dropping the American Bar Association as the state's law school accreditor, though it indicated it is open to approving other accreditors in addition to or instead of the ABA in the future.

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Roundup

GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

The Department of Justice has unveiled new corporate fraud enforcement priorities, and a report found that more than four out of five legal departments have adopted artificial intelligence. These are among the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions after a California federal jury said Apple owes $5.7 billion to headphone-maker Taction for infringing two vibration technology patents, issuing the largest patent verdict in U.S. history.

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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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