Judge Decries 'Extreme' Penalty Bids In Social Media MDL

By Dorothy Atkins

A California federal judge overseeing an upcoming trial over states' social media addiction claims against Meta took issue with both sides' "extreme" penalty estimates during a pretrial hearing Friday, saying the states' $1.4 trillion proposal is "unreasonable," but Meta's $4 million estimate "is not even a slap on the hand."

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FDIC Says Excessive Risk Dooms SVB's $1.7B Claim

By Bonnie Eslinger

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. argued during closing arguments in a trial in California federal court that Silicon Valley Bank's 2023 failure was due to excessive financial risk and mismanagement, while SVB countered that its losses were sparked by an "unprecedented" bank run.

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Meta Avoids Workers' Bid To Block Allegedly AI-Tainted Cuts

By Rae Ann Varona

A California federal judge Friday denied a group of current and former Meta employees' bid to swiftly block the company from disturbing the benefits of certain employees it allegedly selected for termination using artificial intelligence, but requested more information on how Meta selected four employees on company-sponsored employment visas.

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Tesla Driver 'Overrode' Autopilot In Fatal Crash, NTSB Says

By Y. Peter Kang

The Tesla Model 3 driver who plowed into a Texas family's home, killing a 76-year-old grandmother, fully pressed down on the accelerator, which "overrode" the electric vehicle's so-called Autopilot feature, the National Transportation Safety Board has found.

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AGs Have 'Significant Concerns' With DOJ's Live Nation Deal

By Bryan Koenig

A bipartisan coalition of state attorneys general asked a New York federal judge Thursday for a peek into the negotiations behind the Justice Department's controversial midtrial settlement with Live Nation, voicing concerns the deal isn't in the public interest and saying they need details as they seek a breakup.

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Reexams Reach Record High As PTAB Reviews Hit Low

By Dani Kass

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's second quarter saw the agency receiving more requests for ex parte reexamination and fewer petitions for America Invents Act reviews than any quarter before, according to a new Unified Patents report.

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Generative AI Patents Booming Globally, World IP Org. Reports

By Adam Lidgett

The number of patent families for generative artificial intelligence inventions more than doubled between 2024 and 2025, with mostly Chinese companies leading the pack, according to a report from a United Nations intellectual property agency.

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Analysis

The Biggest Trade Secret Rulings Of 2026: A Midyear Report

By Ivan Moreno

The Federal Circuit issued two of the year's most consequential trade secret rulings within days of each other, wiping out Insulet's victory in a wearable insulin patch pump case while reopening a software company's path to potentially larger damages in a dispute with Ford Motor Co. Here, Law360 highlights the biggest trade secret decisions so far this year.

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Analysis

Top Gov't Contracting Decisions Of 2026: Midyear Report

By Madeline Lyskawa

The U.S. Supreme Court and federal circuit courts decided several consequential cases impacting contractors this year, including weighing whether contractors can immediately appeal district court denials of their immunity claims and clarifying what a successful protester needs to challenge an agency's decision to continue a contract during a bid protest.

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Roundup

Skill Games, Grinch Bots: A Midyear Pa. Legislation Review

By Matthew Santoni

Two major rulings from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court have left it up to the Legislature to address "skill games" and second-degree murder sentences, while other pending bills would tackle a long-standing challenge in administering elections, and make it harder for scalpers to snatch up high-demand tickets or products online.

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Bipartisan Bill Targets Google's Search Dominance

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

U.S. Sens. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., have introduced bipartisan legislation aimed at preventing dominant search engines such as Google from engaging in anticompetitive tactics to monopolize the online search market.

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Senate Bill Would Ease SEC Reporting For Rural Telecoms

By Christopher Cole

A bipartisan Senate bill would make it easier for small, rural communications providers to prepare reports to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission when obligated to submit paperwork for certain financial events.

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Dems Raise Alarm DOJ Will 'Rubber-Stamp' Fox's Roku Buy

By Bryan Koenig

Democratic lawmakers are targeting both Fox Corp.'s planned purchase of Roku and the Justice Department that will review it, in a letter announced Friday lambasting the deal itself and pushing the agency under Associate Attorney General Stanley E. Woodward Jr. not to be "corrupted by influence-peddling or political favoritism."

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Reexam Denial On Ex-BlackBerry Patent Cites Pre-Order Filing

By Ryan Davis

Pointing to a paper filed by patent owner Malikie Innovations Ltd. under a new policy put in place this spring, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has rejected Unified Patents LLC's request for reexamination of a video coding patent originally issued to BlackBerry Ltd.

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FCC's Subsidy Reform Plan Could Cut USAC Board By Third

By Nadia Dreid

Change is on the way for the Universal Service Administrative Co., which manages the Federal Communications Commission's multibillion-dollar subsidy fund, with the agency signaling its plans to consider slashing the company's board by more than a third.

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Feature

How A 'Revolutionary' Charlotte Courtroom Advances Justice

By Hayley Fowler

In the second of a two-part series on the Virginia Revival Courtroom in the Charlotte federal courthouse, judges, architects and a trial consultant explain the strategy behind designing a space they see as more conducive to justice.

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Spokeo Reaches $10M Settlement In Right Of Publicity Row

By Craig Clough

Spokeo has reached a $10 million preliminary settlement with a group of plaintiffs from nine states alleging their right to publicity was violated by the company through teaser profiles that used their private information to help sell subscriptions to the platform, according to a motion filed in California federal court.

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Albright Tosses Bending Spoons Patent Fight

By Elliot Weld

A Texas federal judge has dismissed a patent infringement suit against the Italian company that owns brands including Vimeo and AOL for lack of jurisdiction, weeks after the company hit public markets upon raising $1.7 billion in its initial public offering.

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Extreme Networks Investors Win Cert. In COVID Sales Dip Suit

By Gina Kim

A California federal judge has certified a class of Extreme Networks investors who say they were misled about its financial prospects during the COVID-19 pandemic, finding their out-of-pocket damages are measurable on a classwide basis and that they don't have to prove their case via common evidence.

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Music Publishers, X End Copyright And Antitrust Fights

By Adam Lidgett

Music publishers have agreed to drop their copyright infringement suit against X Corp., at the same time the social platform said it would end claims that the publishers and their trade group banded together to demand an industrywide license.

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Software Co. Settles Gay Bias Suit By Ex-Sales Rep

By Corey Rothauser

An educational software company has settled a lawsuit by a former sales representative who alleged he was subjected to discrimination and retaliation because of his sexual orientation before being fired, according to a joint notice filed in Georgia federal court.

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NetChoice Ordered To Produce Harm Studies In Va. Case

By Jared Foretek

A Virginia federal judge ordered tech industry group NetChoice to turn over any studies or reports it has examining social media's potential addictiveness or harm to young people Friday, partially granting a motion to compel from the state as it fights a suit challenging its law limiting children's access.

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Deutsche Bank Can Pursue Billionaire Vik Over $243M Order

By Aaron Keller

A Connecticut appeals court on Friday revived a Deutsche Bank lawsuit against billionaire Alexander Vik, concluding that the bank's prior litigation loss did not bar a second lawsuit accusing Vik and his daughter of disrupting a Norwegian software company's share sale designed to partially satisfy a $243 million English court judgment.

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Ex-Overstock CEO Seeks DC Judge DQ Over Dominion Ties

By Madison Arnold

Former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne has moved to disqualify a U.S. magistrate judge from a defamation lawsuit filed against him after she presided over the depositions of two of her own former clients, the co-founders of Dominion Voting Systems Corp.

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Attys Seek $39M Fee For $117.5M Comcast Data Breach Deal

By Rose Krebs

Class counsel is urging a Pennsylvania federal judge to grant it a fee award amounting to one-third, or about $39 million, of a negotiated $117.5 million data breach settlement with Comcast, saying it deserves that amount for the work put in and the "extraordinary result achieved."

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Gamers Fight To Keep Valve 'Loot Box' Gambling Claims Alive

By Ben Adlin

Gamers accusing Valve Corp. of violating Washington state gambling laws through in-game "loot boxes" containing potentially valuable virtual items on Thursday urged a Seattle federal judge not to dismiss their proposed class action, rejecting the gaming giant's assertion that the boxes are no different than a pack of baseball cards.

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Netflix Wants Judge To Reject DivX's New Patent Trial Bid

By Cara Salvatore

Netflix is urging a California federal judge not to grant compression technology company DivX a new trial over anti-copying and image-quality patents for streaming video after a jury cleared Netflix in March.

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Lenders, Tech Cos. Seek Exit From Antitrust Suit

By Isaac Monterose

A group of mortgage lenders and software companies once again pushed for the dismissal of a proposed mortgage price-fixing class action filed by homeowners in Tennessee federal court, arguing that the claims should be tossed, in part, because the plaintiffs failed to allege that the software products at the center of their suit made pricing recommendations.

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Core Scientific Data Center Builder Hit With $2.5M Suit

By Abigail Harrison

A contractor brought on to build a data center owned by cryptocurrency mining company Core Scientific Inc. is accused of owing a subcontractor $2.5 million after it failed to pay for completed work, according to a new lawsuit in North Carolina federal court.

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Rivian Hit With Chancery Derivative Suit Over EV Demand

By Jarek Rutz

A Rivian Automotive Inc. stockholder has filed a derivative lawsuit in the Delaware Chancery Court accusing the electric-vehicle maker's current and former directors and officers of misleading investors about customer demand, production growth and the company's path to profitability, allegedly exposing Rivian to significant legal costs and potential liability.

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Latham, Milbank Lead H1 '26 Private Infrastructure Deal Surge

By Al Barbarino

Global private infrastructure financing reached $820.5 billion in the first half of 2026, up 55.3% from $528.5 billion a year earlier, as Latham & Watkins LLP and Milbank LLP led deal counts globally and in North America, according to Infralogic data.

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Roundup

Taxation With Representation: Freshfields, Slaughter And May

By Zak Kostro

In this week's Taxation With Representation, Uber Technologies Inc. buys food delivery company Delivery Hero SE, engineering group ABB Ltd. acquires flow technology company Rotork PLC, and Eli Lilly and Co. buys drug developer AtaiBeckley Inc.

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Don't Miss It: Willkie, Orrick Steer Hot Deals

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

A lot can happen in the world of mergers and acquisitions and equity fundraising over the course of a couple of weeks, and it's difficult to keep up with all the deals.

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Desktop Metal Exec Tipped Pals On Merger, SEC Says

By Sydney Price

An ex-officer at 3D printing technology company Desktop Metal and two of his friends have settled claims from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission accusing them of using nonpublic information to direct and make trades ahead of a 2021 acquisition announcement.

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How Justices Stayed Off The Geofence In Location Data Case

The U.S. Supreme Court's recent Chatrie v. United States decision reaffirms Fourth Amendment protections for location data but avoids more complicated questions about geofence warrants, say attorneys at Adams Duerk.

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How To Brace For A Potential Democratic Oversight Push

With the possibility of a shift in congressional control after the November midterm elections, companies and their general counsel should prepare now by mapping oversight exposure, reviewing government interactions, preserving records and developing coordinated communications strategies, say attorneys at Hogan Lovells.

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Carbon Health Settlement Highlights Why Evidence Is Key

The California Attorney General's Office's first-of-its-kind settlement with Carbon Health, imposing penalties for alleged corporate practice of medicine violations, shows that friendly professional corporation challenges usually hinge not on the parties' management services agreement, but on whether the operational record matches it, says Ben Dubin at VC Expert Services.

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How Competitive Is Your Compensation? Take Our Survey

Is your compensation keeping pace with the rate of inflation? Do you know what your colleagues made last year? Help Law360 Pulse answer these questions and more in this year's Law Firm Compensation Survey.

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DOJ Unveils Law Firm Subpoenas In ABA Docs Bid Fight

By Ryan Boysen, Rae Ann Varona, Alison Knezevich, Daniel Moritz-Rabson and Aebra Coe

The BigLaw firms that cut deals with the Trump administration last year to skirt punitive executive orders are now grappling with subpoenas from the U.S. Department of Justice seeking deal-related communications and depositions of the firms' managing partners or chairs, according to Friday court filings.

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K&L Gates Cuts Nonattorney Staff By 10% After Review

By Tracey Read

K&L Gates LLP has cut its nonattorney and business support staff by 10% following a monthslong review of its structure, the firm told Law360 Pulse Friday.

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Analysis

Upon Review: The 2026 World Cup's Biggest Legal Stories

By Alex Lawson

The grandest iteration of the World Cup to date unsurprisingly raised new legal and regulatory disputes, including immigration issues and the White House's intervention in a player disciplinary proceeding. Here, Law360 digs into the legal questions arising from the tournament.

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7th Circ. Admonishes Atty Over 'Astonishing' Bogus Citations

By Christine DeRosa

The Seventh Circuit has admonished but declined to sanction an attorney for a brief that included what a judge called "an astonishing number of erroneous and even hallucinated citations."

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Ashurst Perkins Gets Trial Date Pushed In Malpractice Case

By Rachel Riley

A Washington state judge granted Ashurst Perkins Coie's bid to postpone the trial date in a lawsuit accusing the firm's predecessor of making significant mistakes while representing a Middle Eastern screw and nail manufacturer in regulatory proceedings before the U.S. Department of Commerce, calling the case "complex" on Friday.

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Judge Warns Gov't Over Apparent AI-Hallucinated Citation

By Courtney Bublé

A federal judge in Michigan, appointed by President Donald Trump, called out the government for its apparent use of artificial intelligence to cite "nonexistent case law."

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Public Defenders Go On Strike In New York City

By Andrea Keckley

Hundreds of public defenders and social workers in Brooklyn and Queens have gone on strike, with the possibility of more walkouts to come as legal aid providers continue to negotiate with their unions.

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2nd Circ. Backs Public Defender's Firing For Computer Misuse

By Andrea Keckley

The Second Circuit has backed a district court's dismissal of a former public defender's lawsuit against Oneida County, New York, for firing him after he used his work computer to work on his private practice on county time, agreeing that the county did not violate his privacy rights or breach their contract.

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Roundup

GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is considering allowing electronic delivery to be the default method for sending investors information, and a panel of investor activists said the 2026 proxy season was shaped by regulators who seem to let public companies behave more like private ones. These are among the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.

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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 Snapchat and Dolby press on with a fresh infringement claim in their ongoing patent battle, The Telegraph face an intellectual property claim by a photo archive, a group of international human rights barristers and chambers sued, and oil business Equinor embroiled in a contract dispute with BP after recently acquiring full ownership in their offshore project. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Hogan Lovells Cadwalader leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Second Circuit determined that a lower court properly found that Nielsen cannot condition media company Cumulus' access to national radio ratings data on buying its local offerings.

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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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