Top Dems Launch Probe Into Trump Admin's Nvidia Dealings

By Dylan Moroses

The top Democratic lawmakers on the Senate Finance and House Ways and Means committees launched an investigation Thursday into the Trump administration's recent dealings with Nvidia following the resignation of its CEO, Jensen Huang.

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Nvidia Investor Sues Board Over Ex-CEO's Alleged Spy Affair

By Jessica Corso

Nvidia Corp.'s board of directors and its executive leadership team are facing a lawsuit in California federal court accusing them of earning $2 billion in insider trades while ignoring red flags about an affair that now-ousted CEO Jensen Huang had with an alleged Chinese spy.

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Masimo, ITC Tell Justices To Skip Apple Watch Ban Appeal

By Adam Lidgett

Masimo Corp. and the U.S. International Trade Commission said Thursday that the U.S. Supreme Court should ignore Apple's arguments that the Federal Circuit degraded the agency's domestic industry requirement by sustaining a finding that Apple watches infringed a pair of patents.

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Anker Owes $20M In Surveillance Tech Patent Case, Jury Says

By Elliot Weld

A Texas federal jury on Thursday found that Chinese electronics firm Anker should pay Japanese rival NEC Corp. $20 million in damages for infringing three patents covering image processing and surveillance technology.

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TikTok Backs School District In MDL Trial Witness Fight

By Dorothy Atkins

School district plaintiffs on Wednesday opposed a bid by YouTube, Snap and Meta to exclude late-disclosed witnesses from an upcoming bellwether trial in social media addiction multidistrict litigation, noting that defendant TikTok agreed the school district witnesses can be added if TikTok USDS Joint Venture's new CEO can testify as well.

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Anthropic, OpenAI Face Suit To Halt 'Insane' AI Development

By Dorothy Atkins

Nonprofits sued Anthropic, Google, Meta Platforms, OpenAI and SpaceXSI in California state court Thursday seeking to freeze the "insane" and "dangerous" development of advanced artificial intelligence that can escape human control, arguing the companies have no realistic way to stop the "catastrophic" events their own executives predict could occur.

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Alphabet Board Accused Of Ignoring 'Blazing Red' AI Flags

By Bonnie Eslinger

Alphabet's Board is ignoring red flags that the Google parent is misleading the public and unlawfully training its artificial intelligence models on creative works, images and voiceprints resulting in a costly "tidal wave of litigation" for copyright and biometric information infringement, a derivative lawsuit filed in California federal court alleges.

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NYC Becomes 2nd City To Ban Data-Driven Pricing

By Lauren Berg

The New York City Council on Thursday overwhelmingly approved a measure to ban companies from using personal data to offer different prices to different customers for the same goods and services, becoming the second city to prohibit the increasingly prevalent practice known as surveillance pricing.

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Cruz Sets Up Confirmation Vote For 3rd FCC Republican

By Christopher Cole

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, will push ahead with a committee vote on Nov. 18 to confirm Danielle Thumann Severs to the Federal Communications Commission.

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FCC To Allow Router Changes For AT&T Supplier

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission's staff has granted an AT&T gateway supplier a one-year exemption from a security restriction so that it can make hardware upgrades.

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Squires Grants Another 5 PTAB Petitions, Denies 2

By Dani Kass

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires has instituted five new patent challenges, largely in the pharmaceutical industry, in one of his final mass orders.

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Judge Says Stalker Owes $18.6M, Keeps Stay On Verizon Suit

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

A North Carolina federal judge has awarded a woman $18.6 million in a suit against her stalker while maintaining the stay of her suit against Verizon Communications Inc. over its allegedly allowing him to access her information.

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Proskauer Won't Rep Perplexity In Reddit Data-Scraping Suit

By Matthew Perlman

Perplexity AI Inc. has abandoned its effort to have Proskauer Rose LLP defend against a data-scraping lawsuit from Reddit Inc. after Reddit raised concerns about the law firm's past representation of the social media company.

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3 Vape Distributors Reach Deal To Flee Price-Fixing MDL

By Jonathan Capriel

Several cannabis vape distributors have reached a deal that would allow them to escape part of a sprawling multidistrict litigation accusing them of price-fixing CCell-branded hardware, asking a California federal court to give them until early next month to finalize the agreement.

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Insurance CEO Asks Jurors To Uphold $8M Promise

By George Woolston

The CEO of Cure Auto Insurance asked a New Jersey federal jury Thursday to hold two businessmen to their promise that he would receive 15% of the proceeds if a venture the three men started ever sold.

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Feds, SpaceX Say Groups Can't Show Land Swap Injury

By Spencer Brewer

SpaceX and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service renewed their call for a Texas federal judge to toss a lawsuit challenging their South Texas land swap deal, saying that the groups that sued cannot base their alleged damages on theoretical future development by SpaceX.

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Sex Toy Co. Fights Ex-Employee's Patent Counterclaim In Fla.

By David Minsky

A Singapore sex toy company has urged a Florida federal court to dismiss a former employee's counterclaim alleging patent theft, arguing that he failed to show any involvement in research and because the inventions were formally registered years after he resigned.

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Anthropic Accused Of Infringing AI Attention Patents

By Elliot Weld

A Texas technology company sued Anthropic on Thursday claiming it was infringing a set of patents covering AI attention for training when working on its marquee chatbot model Claude.

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AI Firm's $170M Merger Built On False Promises, Suit Says

By Jarek Rutz

The founders of technology company Constellation Network Inc. have accused artificial intelligence holding company AIAI Holdings Corp. and its chairman of fraudulently enticing them into a $170 million merger, then withholding promised funding that left their business on the brink of collapse.

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EU High Court Adviser Backs Bulk Of €1.5B Google Fine

By Bryan Koenig

A European Court of Justice advocate general said Thursday that the European Union's top court should upend a lower court decision scrapping a €1.49 billion fine imposed over Google's past restrictions against rival search engines on third-party websites using its advertising tools.

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Defense Tech UForce Valued At $6B After $700M Funding

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Defense technology firm UForce on Thursday revealed it reached a $6 billion valuation after closing its Series A funding round with $700 million in tow.

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WeAre8 Seeks OK For Dec. Auction With $1.2M Baseline Bid

By Rick Archer

Artificial intelligence-moderated social media platform WeAre8 is asking a Delaware bankruptcy judge to give it the go-ahead for an asset auction in December with a $1.2 million baseline credit bid from the provider of its Chapter 11 financing.

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4th Circ. Curbs Gov't Access To Journos' Comms Via LinkedIn

By P.J. D'Annunzio

The Fourth Circuit has limited the scope of an order directing LinkedIn to give up journalists' communications with alleged sources on the professional networking website in response to a federal leak probe, noting that the government's ability to investigate potential violations of the law is tempered by the First Amendment.

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Meta Says DC Fed. Court Has Oversight Of FTC Settlement

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

A lawyer for Meta told a D.C. federal judge Thursday that his court has exclusive jurisdiction over a $5 billion privacy settlement from 2020, not the Federal Trade Commission.

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FBI Seizes $1.2B In Crypto Tied To Binance Heist

By Dorothy Atkins

The FBI has seized more than $1.2 billion of cryptocurrency recently stolen from the world's largest crypto exchange, Binance, according to an FBI statement Thursday — the same day Binance announced that it has replaced all assets stolen in the heist.

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4 Firms Steer Rowan's $1.5B Deal For Data Center Pipeline

By Nate Beck

Blackstone-backed data center builder Rowan Digital Infrastructure said Thursday that it secured $1.5 billion in total financing to support its development work in transactions advised by Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, Dechert LLP, Kirkland & Ellis LLP and Milbank LLP.

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Paul Weiss Hires S&C Duo For New Silicon Valley Office

By Bonnie Eslinger

Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison has launched a new office in Silicon Valley and its first two partners are Nader Mousavi and Mark Schenkel, prominent corporate dealmakers from rival Sullivan & Cromwell, according to a person familiar with the expansion.

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Data Center Injury Claims Require Broader Investigations

Due to the complexity of data center construction projects, plaintiffs attorneys representing workers injured at such worksites need to look beyond immediate hazards and examine the chain of decisions and constraints that may support an injury claim, say attorneys at Kherkher Garcia.

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Opinion

Large Meta Penalties Shouldn't Shape State AG Playbook

Meta Platforms' $17.1 billion settlement in California federal court and two New Mexico verdicts against the company resulting in large penalties are drawing renewed attention to the question of how state attorneys general should calculate civil penalties, but regulators and companies should treat the decisions as outliers, not a template, say attorneys at Troutman.

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Ex-Cravath Staffer Charged With Insider Trading

By Stewart Bishop

A former employee at Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP on Thursday was arrested and charged with insider trading for allegedly exploiting nonpublic information about major deals involving the firm's clients, including Paramount Skydance Corp.'s $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc.

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Posner Remembered For Wide Influence, Pragmatic Approach

By Ryan Boysen

The iconoclastic, prolific and hugely influential U.S. Circuit Court Judge Richard A. Posner is being remembered for a lifetime of relentless advocacy for a more pragmatic approach to the law and a legacy that will ripple through American jurisprudence for decades to come.

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Remembering Richard Posner: A Prolific Jurist

Judge Richard Posner died Tuesday at age 87, leaving a legacy as one of the most influential members of the judiciary who never served on the U.S. Supreme Court. Here, Law360 revisits its coverage over the years of the prolific retired Seventh Circuit judge, including interviews with him about his pragmatic approach to the law, his belief that the courts mistreat pro se litigants and his love of felines.

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Foley Revamps Associate Pay, Advancement Structure

By James Boyle

Foley & Lardner LLP is the latest law firm to alter the way it handles associate compensation and advancement to keep in line with Milbank LLP's update of its own associate pay scale in July.

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Weil's 1,000 Staff Face 'Absorption' Issue In Hunt For Roles

By Daniel Moritz-Rabson

As the approximately 1,000 professional staff members at Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP look for new roles, they're likely to encounter a more difficult job market than the firm's attorneys, recruiters told Law360 Pulse.

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DOJ Exodus Leaves Trump Facing Confirmation Crunch

By Courtney Bublé

Since the Democrats' sweeping victories on Election Day, there has been an exodus of top officials at the U.S. Department of Justice and prospects for confirming permanent replacement are slim.

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Feature

The Go-To Firms For Insurance Litigation In 2026

By Hope Patti

A Florida-based law firm filed the most insurance coverage actions in the first half of 2026, primarily representing policyholders in property damage disputes, while BigLaw firm Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani was the most frequent choice among insurer defendants.

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Senate Confirms First Judge Of Lame-Duck Period

By Courtney Bublé

The U.S. Senate confirmed Alabama Supreme Court Justice Gregory Cook to the Northern District of Alabama on Thursday, marking the first judicial confirmation of the lame-duck period.

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Arbitration Assoc. Wants Consumers' Monopoly Suit Tossed

By Rae Ann Varona

The American Arbitration Association urged an Arizona federal court Thursday to toss a proposed class action that accuses the organization of monopolizing the consumer arbitration services market, saying the plaintiff consumers are trying to hold it liable for contracts it never entered into.

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