Teen Drops Meta Mental Health Suit Ahead Of Bellwether Trial

By Hailey Konnath

A Florida teenager on Wednesday withdrew his suit claiming that Meta Platforms Inc.'s social media products harm young users' mental health, walking away from the litigation five days before his bellwether trial was set to kick off in Los Angeles.

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6 Copyright Cases To Watch In The Second Half Of 2026

By Ivan Moreno

An appeal over whether an AI-powered legal research tool unlawfully used Westlaw material and a long-running fight involving a Miles Davis tattoo could produce some of 2026's most significant copyright rulings. Here is Law360's list of the most notable copyright cases to watch for the rest of the year.

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Federal Judge Blocks NYC Uber, Lyft Driver Deactivation Law

By Linda Chiem

A New York federal judge has blocked New York City from enforcing a new ordinance prohibiting Uber and Lyft from "deactivating" drivers without formal notice and investigation, saying the ride-hailing companies have made a strong showing that the regulation unconstitutionally interferes with their contractual rights.

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OpenAI Says AI Agent Hacked Startup Platform During Testing

By Allison Grande

OpenAI disclosed "an unprecedented cyber incident" that occurred when two of its artificial intelligence models broke out of their testing environment and accessed the servers of Hugging Face, a third-party AI and machine learning startup that operates an open-source platform for developers and others to share models and datasets.

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Midjourney Seeks To Narrow Disney AI Copyright Claims

By Adam Lidgett

Artificial intelligence startup Midjourney has asked a California federal court to trim contributory infringement claims from a copyright lawsuit brought by Disney, Universal and Warner Bros., saying the claims fly in the face of a U.S. Supreme Court decision involving Cox Communications from earlier this year.

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Newspapers Claim Articles Were Sold For AI Training

By Elliot Weld

The publisher of The Wall Street Journal and New York Post has lodged counterclaims against Brave Software Inc. in response to its declaratory judgment suit, saying Brave was creating infringing summary versions of copyrighted articles and selling them to artificial intelligence companies.

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Fla. Pastor Sues OpenAI Over ChatGPT Health Advice

By Emily Field

A Florida pastor has sued OpenAI in California state court alleging that ChatGPT gave him dangerous and inaccurate medical advice, often couched with spiritual guidance, causing him to delay care until he suffered a massive pulmonary embolism.

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SEC's Peirce Says Crypto Vaults May Trigger Securities Laws

By Sarah Jarvis

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's Hester Peirce said Wednesday that cryptocurrency assets and activities including some vaults and lending may implicate securities laws, urging firms to "work with us to find a compliant path forward so that you can use new technology to serve investors without running afoul of the federal securities laws."

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Squires Grants 4 IPRs, Issues No Discretionary Denials

By Dani Kass

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires has granted four more petitions for inter partes review, bringing his institution rate to just shy of 30%.

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Reps. Hit With Robocalls As They Discuss How To Stop Them

By Nadia Dreid

Robocalls were the thing on everyone's mind Wednesday morning as a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee heard from witnesses about a half dozen bills that lawmakers hope will protect the nation's telecommunications networks.

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FCC Overhauls 'Nutrition' Labels For Broadband Services

By Christopher Cole

Consumers can expect to soon see a change in broadband "nutrition" labels detailing the metrics of high-speed services after the Federal Communications Commission voted to overhaul the labeling rules Wednesday.

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FCC Clears Way For Upper C-Band Auction To Sell 160 MHz

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission voted Wednesday to set up an auction to sell exclusive licenses in the upper C-band airwaves, getting the process moving at what FCC Chair Brendan Carr called an "unprecedented" speed following Congress' order last year to expedite the sale long awaited by wireless carriers.

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Bipartisan Bill To Speed Broadband Permits Clears Committee

By Christopher Cole

A bipartisan bill aimed at making federal agencies accelerate reviews of broadband permit applications passed the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee on Wednesday.

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Software Co. Freed From Insurer's $2.5M Indemnity Dispute

By Hope Patti

A maker of vehicle valuation software needn't cover the $2.5 million that an insurer paid in connection with a class action alleging that its former affiliate underpaid claims for totaled vehicles, a New York federal court ruled, finding that the insurer has no enforceable subrogation rights.

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Google Settles With Ex-Director Who Won Gender Bias Verdict

By Rae Ann Varona

Google and a woman former engineering director who accused the company of discriminating against her because of her gender have reached a settlement, the parties told a New York federal judge Wednesday, months after the judge declined to throw out a jury's verdict in the woman's favor.

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Tesla Trims 1 Intellectual Ventures Patent But Not 2nd At PTAB

By Adam Lidgett

Intellectual Ventures was able to hold onto a patent covering a way to identify targets in an image and most claims in another patent on digital camera technology that were challenged by Tesla at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.

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Amazon's Deal To End Gambling Suit Draws App Makers' Ire

By Ben Adlin

Developers of casino-style mobile apps sought to intervene Wednesday in Amazon's tentative deal to end consumers' proposed class action accusing the platform of enabling illegal online gambling, arguing that the settlement would leave the developers on the hook for $140 million while forcing Amazon to pay just $2.5 million.

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Subcontractor Says Lockheed Ignored Claims In Dismissal Bid

By Zach Dupont

A Lockheed Martin subcontractor said the court can't dismiss the bulk of its claims accusing the defense contractor of failing to pay back costs incurred from another subcontractor's alleged failures because the company's motion to dismiss mischaracterizes the complaint's allegations, according to a response brief filed Tuesday.

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Holland & Knight Hit With $1.2B Malpractice Suit

By Madison Arnold

A real estate firm is accusing Holland & Knight LLP and three attorneys of malpractice in a new complaint filed in Florida state court and is seeking up to $1.2 billion in damages after more than 30 states opened investigations into the company's practices.

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LG Energy Says Bosch, Others Infringe Battery Patents

By Gina Kim

LG Energy accused Robert Bosch GmbH, a Chinese battery manufacturer and several others of ripping off its secondary cylindrical battery patented technology that can be used to charge consumer electronics, electric vehicles and power tools, according to a patent infringement action filed in Texas federal court Tuesday.

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JPMorgan's Kinexys Infringes Blockchain Co.'s IP, Suit Says

By Gina Kim

JPMorgan Chase's blockchain business unit Kinexys, which is built on Ethereum Virtual Machine technology and processes billions of dollars worth of tokenized asset transactions every day, is infringing a Texas company's patented technology covering authentication performances, according to a suit filed Wednesday in the Eastern District of Texas. 

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AI Training Platform Misclassifies College Workers, Suit Says

By Benjamin Morse

A company that recruits workers to train artificial intelligence models misclassified thousands of college students and others as independent contractors while controlling their assignments, pay and work methods, a proposed class and collective action in California federal court alleges.

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EV Battery Co. Misled Investors On Expansion, Suit Says

By Sydney Price

Electric vehicle-battery manufacturer Microvast Holdings Inc. has been accused of misleading investors about production delays at its China facility and concealing the reasons why several of its chief financial officers departed the company over a three-year period.

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Nadex Seeks To Shield OG Prediction Market Biz In Wash.

By Rachel Riley

North American Derivatives Exchange asked a Washington federal court Wednesday to protect its prediction market platform OG from potential enforcement action by the state, pointing to the state attorney general's lawsuit going after Kalshi for alleged violations of state gambling law.

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Cars.com Sabotaged $88M Earnout, Chancery Suit Says

By Jarek Rutz

Cars.com is facing a lawsuit in Delaware Chancery Court accusing the online marketplace of deliberately undermining the growth of automotive wholesale auction platform DealerClub after acquiring it in a deal that left most of the purchase price contingent on future performance.

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Illinois Crypto Tax Unfairly Targets Traders, Suit Says

By Maria Koklanaris

Illinois' new tax on cryptocurrency, the first in the nation, discriminates against those who trade in crypto and is illegal, a trade group argued in a complaint in a state court.

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Glass Maker Lands Final OK For Data Breach Settlement

By Kelcey Caulder

A Georgia federal judge on Wednesday gave final approval to glass products maker AGC America Inc.'s nearly $600,000 settlement resolving claims that it failed to safeguard the personal data of thousands of its workers in a December 2023 data breach.

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Pillsbury Data Breach Suit Voluntarily Dismissed

By Matt Perez

A proposed class action against Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP over a data breach last year has been voluntarily dismissed by the named plaintiffs, following a granted motion to stay in April to discuss mediation.

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Paul Hastings, Sidley Guide Data-Center Co.'s $4B SPAC Deal

By Nate Beck

Artificial intelligence infrastructure company TECfusions reached a $4 billion valuation in a Wednesday deal guided by Sidley Austin LLP and Paul Hastings LLP to go public using a blank check company.

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Candid Health Wraps $120M Series D Funding Round

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Autonomous revenue cycle management platform Candid Health, advised by Lowenstein Sandler LLP, on Wednesday revealed that it raised $120 million in its latest funding round, marking a three-times increase in valuation over the San Francisco-based company's previous funding round in February 2025.

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SEC To Pay Coinbase's Atty Fees In FOIA Suit Settlement

By Aislinn Keely

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said Wednesday that it will pay $150,000 in attorney fees and share its document retention policies to resolve a Coinbase-backed lawsuit seeking internal documents surrounding closed crypto investigations.

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AGs Appeal Order Blocking RealPage Damages In MDL

By Jared Foretek

Attorneys general for Kentucky, Washington state, New Jersey, Maryland and D.C. have asked the Sixth Circuit to review a district court ruling barring them from seeking damages on behalf of their residents alongside private plaintiffs' settlements in a sweeping multidistrict litigation accusing landlords of using RealPage software to collude on rent prices.

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Huawei Loses Bid To Block Laptop Evidence In NY RICO Case

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

A New York federal judge has refused to grant a motion to suppress four laptops and two recordings involving Huawei employees that the government obtained during its lengthy investigation of the Chinese telecommunications company.

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States Say Nielsen Ruling Backs Claims In Live Nation Suit

By James Boyle

A recent Second Circuit ruling in a data-tying case was invoked Wednesday to support a motion by more than a dozen state attorneys general opposing Live Nation's attempt to overturn a federal jury verdict against the company.

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Nexstar Execs On Tegna Board Violates Injunction, Judge Told

By Matthew Perlman

DirecTV and a coalition of states told a California federal court on Wednesday that Nexstar Media Group has taken over Tegna's board of directors, despite a preliminary injunction preventing the broadcasting companies from fully integrating.

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Sullivan & Cromwell Adds National Security, Investment Atty

By Jack Rodgers

Sullivan & Cromwell LLP has hired a new national security and foreign investments and trade regulations practice partner for its Washington, D.C., office, the firm announced Tuesday.

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Co. Turned Away Simpson Thacher's Deal Meeting, Jury Told

By Cara Salvatore

A retired Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP partner who handled the fundraising round alleged to have destroyed Patriot National Inc. testified in a Florida state malpractice trial Wednesday that the insurance services company waved off his attempt to present details to the board.

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DLA Piper Says Deception, Not Bias, Cost Palestinian Atty Job

By Grace Elletson

DLA Piper urged an Illinois federal judge to toss a Palestinian attorney's suit claiming the firm revoked a job offer out of discrimination, arguing it rescinded the offer because she concealed allegations that she assaulted someone at a protest.

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DC Bar Leaders Say DOJ Ethics Suit Encourages Misconduct

By Emily Sawicki

Washington, D.C., attorney regulators continue to garner support in their effort to toss a Justice Department lawsuit over alleged "weaponizing" of executive branch lawyer discipline, with D.C. bar organizations, scores of legal scholars and more than 500 former DOJ attorneys backing the disciplinary authorities.

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Mich. Gets Judge With Blue Slips In 1st For Trump Admin

By Courtney Bublé

The U.S. Senate voted 62-36 on Wednesday to confirm Michael Martin, a longtime federal prosecutor, to the Eastern District of Michigan and Benjamin Flowers, former solicitor general of Ohio, to the Sixth Circuit.

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DOL IG Says Info-Sharing Pacts Lacked Safeguards

By Irene Spezzamonte

U.S. Department of Labor Inspector General Anthony P. D'Esposito testified Wednesday before a U.S. House subcommittee that during the Biden administration, the department shared confidential information with plaintiffs' attorneys without notifying the Wage and Hour Division or the Employee Benefits Security Administration.

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Gov't Attys May Face Broader Duty To Report Misconduct

By Alison Knezevich

Attorneys representing the government could face "more demanding" obligations to disclose misconduct by people within their client organizations than attorneys representing private entities, according to an ethics opinion issued Wednesday by the American Bar Association.

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Retired Judges Rip Bid To Ban Foreign-Born Federal Judges

By Courtney Bublé

A group of 58 retired federal judges, appointed by presidents of both parties, on Wednesday came out strongly against recent proposals from Republican lawmakers that would require federal judges to be natural-born U.S. citizens and relinquish any citizenship that is not of the United States.

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US Marshals Can't Make Immigration Arrests In DC Court

By Rae Ann Varona

A D.C. federal judge Wednesday refused to toss a lawsuit from a certified class of immigrants challenging immigration arrests by U.S. marshals in D.C. Superior Court, declaring that the marshals lack authority and necessary training for the arrests.

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Securities Class Action Deals On Target To Hit 6-Year High

By Katryna Perera

The value of class action settlements is on track to reach a six-year high of $4.4 billion, fueled in part by a handful of "mega settlements" and other high-dollar deals, a Cornerstone Research report released Wednesday said. 

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