Judiciary Cites AI Deepfakes In Opposing Courtroom Cameras

By Courtney Bublé

Two bipartisan bills to bring cameras into federal courtrooms advanced Thursday, but the policymaking body for the federal judiciary continues to oppose them and raised the issue of deepfakes in the age of artificial intelligence.

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Fed. Circ. Again Revives Valve Bid To Ax Patent In $4M Verdict

By Ryan Davis

The Federal Circuit on Thursday gave Valve Corp. yet another chance to try to invalidate rival SCUF's video game controller patent underlying a $4 million verdict, ruling that, after the appeals court revived the effort, the trial judge wrongly said Valve's arguments are barred by a prior challenge.

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FTC, Amazon Must Answer Attorney-Client Privilege Questions

By Emily Sawicki

The Washington federal judge handling the Federal Trade Commission's antitrust case against Amazon asked both parties to provide more information about how he should consider attorney-client privilege when reviewing documents to resolve discovery disputes in the case.

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Meta's Newspaper Analogy Doesn't Sway Instagram Judge

By Carolyn Muyskens

Meta faced some pushback from a Massachusetts state judge for comparing Instagram's design to a newspaper publisher's decisions about what to put on the front page, as the company pushed to end the state's lawsuit over alleged harm to youth from social media use.

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News Orgs Must Give Cohere AI Use Policies

By Elliot Weld

A New York federal magistrate judge has ordered a group of news and magazine publishers to turn over their policies on how artificial intelligence is used in their newsrooms to AI startup Cohere, as Cohere stands accused of improperly using copyrighted news content to train chatbots.

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Musk Fights Uphill To Toss Fraud Verdict Of Twitter Buyout

By Bonnie Eslinger

A California federal judge considering Elon Musk's bid to toss a jury's verdict that he defrauded Twitter investors during his $44 billion buyout said it's "readily apparent to the court that Mr. Musk is liable" for making two false statements that were material to the trading public.

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Anthropic Files Protective Appeal Of Pentagon Designation

By Jared Foretek

Anthropic has filed a protective petition challenging the U.S. Department of Defense's June 3 decision reaffirming the artificial intelligence giant's designation as a supply-chain risk, asking the D.C. Circuit to consolidate it with the designation challenge already pending before the appeals court.

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Anthropic Faces New Copyright Suit From Authors

By Elliot Weld

A group of authors sued Anthropic, the company behind the artificial intelligence large language model Claude, accusing the firm of ingesting the authors' works illegally via online shadow libraries to use as material to train Anthropic's models.

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Once Dominated By Patent Claims, IP Suits Now More Diverse

By Adam Lidgett

Intellectual property litigation has become more spread out among patents, trademarks and copyrights over the years, as artificial intelligence and e-commerce systems have been drivers of legal matters, according to a new report.

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Analysis

Anthropic Export Controls Stir Fear Of Unforeseen Sanctions

By Madeline Lyskawa

The Trump administration's imposition of export controls against Anthropic should serve as a warning to other technology companies that missteps, and a lack of industrywide guidance on what the government considers national security risks, could result in unexpected sanctions.

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Q&A

5 Questions For NTIA Chief Arielle Roth

By Christopher Cole

Heading into her second year running the federal agency that manages spectrum and a $42 billion push to expand broadband deployment, Arielle Roth has her hands full.

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Bill For AI Deepfake Reporting System Clears Senate Panel

By Elliot Weld

A bill that would create a pathway for reporting AI-generated deepfakes online for removal cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday after a few senators had raised concerns over First Amendment implications but said they believed they could be resolved before a full Senate vote.

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Del. Bill Seeks Intermediary Municipal Rental Tax Collection

By Zak Kostro

Delaware would require accommodations intermediaries to collect short-term rental tax for municipalities under a bill introduced in the state House of Representatives.

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5 Big ERISA Litigation Developments From 2026's First Half

By Kellie Mejdrich

The U.S. Supreme Court's acceptance of a petition challenging Intel's 401(k) investment lineup and a Fourth Circuit ruling unraveling a class of Genworth Financial retirement plan participants headlined the court developments that caught benefits attorneys' attention in the first six months of 2026. Here, Law360 looks at those and other noteworthy ERISA decisions.

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Tort Report: Meta Set To Face Facebook Sex Trafficking Trial

By Y. Peter Kang

An upcoming trial in Texas for a first-of-its-kind case against Meta and claims against a health clinic owned by a U.S. senator lead Law360's Tort Report, which compiles recent personal injury and medical malpractice news that may have flown under the radar.

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Full Fed. Circ. Skips DePuy Bid To Redo Spine Patent Dispute

By Theresa Schliep

The full Federal Circuit won't revisit a panel decision that gave new life to an inventor's suit accusing DePuy Synthes Cos. of infringing his spinal realignment method patents, letting stand the decision that faulted a lower court's handling of expert testimony in the case.

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Split 6th Circ. Revives Ohio's Social Media Age Limit Law

By Hailey Konnath

A divided Sixth Circuit panel Thursday wiped out a lower court's order blocking an Ohio law barring social media companies from allowing children under 16 to create accounts without parental consent, ruling that the measure does not run afoul of the Constitution.

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DirecTV, AGs Tell 9th Circ. Not To Curb Nexstar-Tegna Block

By Bryan Koenig

DirecTV and a coalition of state attorneys general urged the Ninth Circuit not to narrow a district court preliminary injunction blocking Nexstar's purchase of Tegna, arguing the only way to preserve competition while the case proceeds is a full block, not one restricted to 31 overlapping broadcast markets.

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Louisiana Asks 5th Circ. To Lift Block Of Social Media Law

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

Louisiana is asking a federal appellate court to lift its block on a state law that requires social media platforms to verify users' ages and bans them from allowing minors to create or maintain accounts without parental permission.

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Patent Claims On Novartis Unit Drug Invalid, Del. Judge Says

By Adam Lidgett

A Delaware federal judge has cleared radiopharmaceutical companies of allegations they infringed claims in various patents owned by a French unit of Novartis after finding that all of those claims were invalid.

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Amazon Wraps Up Ex-Worker's Race Bias, Retaliation Suit

By Patrick Hoff

Amazon has reached an agreement to end a suit from a former executive assistant who claimed he was fired for complaining that he'd missed out on promotions and faced unwarranted criticism because he's Black, according to a filing in Georgia federal court.

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Microchip Co. Strikes Deal In Decade-Old Severance Dispute

By Grace Elletson

A microchip maker has agreed to settle a long-running class action alleging the company illegally shut down its severance program following a 2016 merger weeks before the case was set to go to trial, according to a California federal court filing.

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Pornhub Makes Deal With Child Sex Crime Victim Class In Calif.

By Craig Clough

The entities behind Pornhub have reached a settlement with a certified class of child sex trafficking and sexual abuse material survivors who allege the website profited from the crimes committed against them, an attorney for the class told a California federal judge Thursday.

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Free Speech Fight Over Fla. Social Media Law Goes To Trial

By Dorothy Atkins

A Florida federal judge refused to hand a decisive win just yet to either the state or technology groups challenging a law punishing social media websites for blocking political candidates, sending the dispute — which has already made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court — to a September bench trial instead.

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Express Scripts Can't Ditch Meta Wiretap Suit Yet

By Rae Ann Varona

A California federal judge refused to dismiss a proposed class action alleging Express Scripts lets Meta secretly read consumers' communications, saying a consumer sufficiently claimed the online pharmacy allowed Meta's unauthorized collection of personal health information.

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Consumer Drops Out Of Vape Price-Fixing MDL

By Jonathan Capriel

A consumer suing a Chinese vape manufacturer and its U.S. distributors over an alleged price-fixing conspiracy for cannabis vape cartridges has dropped out of the suit, while the broader proposed class action seeking to recover hundreds of millions in damages for consumers nationwide continues.

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Meta Can't Undo $35M Political Ad Penalty, Wash. Justices Say

By Rachel Riley

Most of the Washington State Supreme Court justices rejected Meta's First Amendment challenge to a state political advertising disclosure law in a divided opinion, while also spurning the social media giant's argument that a $35 million penalty against it violates the Constitution's prohibition on excessive fines.

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Rhode Island Supreme Court Lays Out GenAI Guidelines

By Matt Perez

The Rhode Island Supreme Court has amended the state's rules to better address the use of generative artificial intelligence by attorneys and judicial officers while also laying out interim guidelines.

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German Co. Defends Audio Patents In Dispute With Lenovo

By Abigail Harrison

A German nonprofit research organization tried Wednesday to persuade a North Carolina federal court not to hand Lenovo and its subsidiary Motorola a pretrial win, arguing that the organization's asserted patents for wireless audio communications are inventive and offer specific technical solutions.

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Perplexity AI Limits Research Tool's Functions, Users Claim

By Hailey Konnath

A pair of Perplexity AI users has filed a proposed class action claiming the artificial intelligence company lures customers into fixed-term contracts and then "dramatically" decreases the services those customers can access midway through their subscription terms without notice.

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Mint Mobile Faces Class Action Over Deceptive Ads

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

Mint Mobile is facing a proposed class action alleging that it is baiting customers into ordering home internet with nonexistent advertised discounts and overcharging them.

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Accenture Unveils $4.2B Cybersecurity Software Buying Spree

By Al Barbarino

Accenture said Thursday it will acquire a majority stake in industrial cybersecurity company Dragos and buy runZero and NetRise in deals with a combined enterprise value of $4.175 billion, expanding its software offerings for securing critical infrastructure and industrial operations.

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Troutman, Bennett Jones Guide Deluxe On $625M Celero Buy

By Al Barbarino

Deluxe said it has agreed to purchase payments company Celero Commerce for about $625 million in cash, with Troutman Pepper Locke LLP and Bennett Jones LLP advising Deluxe and DLA Piper representing Celero. 

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Deals Rumor Mill

DeepSeek's Valuation Soars To $50B, Plus More Rumors

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Artificial intelligence company DeepSeek hit a $50 billion valuation following its latest funding round, the original backers of artificial intelligence company Manus are planning to buy the company back from Meta, and private equity shop KKR wants to buy a majority stake in the Indian business of Sweden's Medicover for at least $1 billion.

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FTX Trust Cleared For $600M Disputed Claim Fund Reduction

By Vince Sullivan

The FTX Recovery Trust received approval Thursday from a Delaware bankruptcy court to reduce the funds in a disputed claims reserve by $600 million after the trust processed thousands of claims that were either allowed or modified.

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Blackstone's LivCor Cuts $7M Rent-Fixing Deal With 9 States

By Dorothy Atkins

Blackstone subsidiary LivCor LLC has agreed to pay North Carolina, California and seven other states $7 million in penalties to resolve allegations against it in a sprawling antitrust lawsuit alleging major landlords used software company RealPage to fix rent prices, according to documents filed in North Carolina federal court Thursday.

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Calif., Carbon Health $4.5M Deal Over Clinic Biz Nears Review

By Gianna Ferrarin

A $4.5 million settlement resolving California's allegations that recently bankrupt urgent care company Carbon Health Technologies Inc. violated the state's prohibition on the corporate practice of medicine and misled patients about its billing practices is nearing court review, according to individuals familiar with the matter.

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ISP Tells FCC Minn. City Can't Force It Into Cable Agreement

By Nadia Dreid

Internet service provider Gateway Fiber has asked the Federal Communications Commission to step in and declare that a Minnesota city can't decide that its cable franchise agreement ordinances suddenly apply to broadband providers now.

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Microsoft Joins Fight To Preserve EU-US Data Transfer Pact

By Allison Grande

Microsoft Corp. has secured permission to support the European Commission in its effort to shield a vital agreement that enables personal data to flow freely from the European Union to the U.S. from a French lawmaker's attempt to convince the bloc's highest court to strike down the transfer mechanism.

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Meta Says IRS Seeks 'Do-Over' Of Facebook Case

By Molly Moses

The IRS, in increasing Meta's income under the periodic adjustment rule for years 2017-2019, is seeking a "do-over" of the Facebook case decided in 2025, valuing the same intangibles the U.S. Tax Court already valued under a different method, Meta argued.

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NJ Tax Court Protects Taxpayer Methodology Ahead Of Trial

By Jaqueline McCool

A New Jersey tenant appealing the property tax assessment of a legacy data center is not required to provide the township with a detailed methodology of its assessment challenge prior to the case's trial, the state Tax Court ruled.

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Brief

Kilpatrick Hires Fried Frank Innovation Leader In NY

By Tracey Read

A former artificial intelligence and knowledge management expert from Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP has joined Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP as director of innovation, executive search firm The Alexander Group announced Thursday.

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'Honeypot' Suit Spotlights Nuances Of Trade Secret Law

Fintech company MyCard's recent complaint filed in Delaware federal court, alleging that competitor Atomic FI copied its proprietary software, including a "honeypot" in the form of a specific 37-character string, highlights fact-intensive questions of when alleged trade secrets are actually secret, says Eugene Mar at Farella Braun.

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Mapping US-China Investment Compliance For EB-5 Deals

Chinese capital deployment through the U.S.'s EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program, alongside China's recently established outbound investment security framework, creates compliance gaps with the U.S. framework, and unique risks and considerations for practitioners, says Xuan Zhang at Reid & Wise.

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High Court's FCC Ruling Adds To Comms Industry Paradox

The Supreme Court's recent decision in Federal Communications Commission v. AT&T, finding that the FCC's informal forfeiture process survives Seventh Amendment scrutiny, opens some doors for regulated entities, but the practical effect may be surprisingly constrained, says Jonathan Marashlian at The CommLaw Group.

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A Lender's Guide To Fraud: Identifying Risks

The evolving lending landscape, particularly the private credit boom, has heightened lenders' exposure to fraud, but recent bankruptcies demonstrate where fraud risks most commonly materialize and how banks can mitigate exposure at the outset, say attorneys at Moore & Van Allen.

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FTC Focus: Calibrating Biden-Era Issues In 2026's 1st Half

In the first half of 2026, Federal Trade Commission actions have redefined which of the previous administration's theories it views as legally sustainable, institutionally worthwhile and consistent with a more restrained conception, including a pivot from rulemaking to case-specific noncompete enforcement this spring, say attorneys at Proskauer.

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Series

Founding An Autism Academy Made Me A Better Lawyer

Starting a nonprofit autism school with no building, no funding model and no guarantee that families would trust us taught me the importance of mission, patience and purpose — lessons that sharpened my practice and showed how meaningful work outside the office can make lawyers better, says Phillip Russell at Ogletree Deakins.

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Trump Lawyer Advances In Senate Judiciary Noms Vote

By Courtney Bublé

The nomination of Matthew Schwartz to be a judge on the Second Circuit advanced out of committee Thursday.

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'Mortified' Atty Takes Blame For Fake Quotes In Taco TM Fight

By Ivan Moreno

A Connecticut attorney facing possible sanctions over fake case quotations in a taco restaurant trademark fight told a federal judge that he takes "full and unqualified responsibility" for the flawed filings, saying he is "mortified" and acknowledging that his verification process for AI-assisted legal work fell far short.

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Calif. Moves On Proposal To Allow Legal Aid By Nonlawyers

By Lynn LaRowe

The California Supreme Court has directed the state bar to solicit public comments on a proposed community justice worker program that would allow nonlawyers to provide limited legal assistance under the supervision of qualified legal aid organizations, according to a Thursday announcement.

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Analysis

Law Students Undeterred Under Trump's Immigration Climate

By Britain Eakin

In a climate where immigration lawyers are coming under the Trump administration’s scrutiny to tamp down on asylum fraud, law students are being ignited to enter the workforce early and rectify the injustices they see.

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Mich. Panel Sanctions Atty Over AI-Hallucinated Cases

By Susan Smiley

A medical malpractice suit in the Michigan Court of Appeals led to financial sanctions against an attorney who the court said during litigation repeatedly cited nonexistent cases that were generated by artificial intelligence.

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Ford Says 'Lemon Law' Firm Faked Bills Using Overseas Staff

By Linda Chiem

Ford Motor Co. accused California personal injury firm Quill & Arrow LLP of defrauding it out of more than $25 million in high-priced legal bills for work actually handled by virtual assistants overseas and non-lawyers in scores of product liability cases against the automaker.

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NY High Court Upholds Mandatory Judge Retirement Age

By Dorothy Atkins

New York's highest court Thursday affirmed a ruling that rejected jurists' challenges to the Empire State's mandatory retirement age of 70 for state judges and justices, finding that the centuries-old constitutional mandate doesn't conflict with a recent state civil rights amendment banning age discrimination.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

General counsel may cringe at the news, but their chief financial officers will rejoice over a new study that shows the average spending by legal departments dropped to a six-year low in 2026. And two in-house Cigna lawyers are at the center of a finding of "improperly asserted privilege" over key company documents related to a payment lawsuit brought by three labs.

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