CyberSec Pro Stole $53M In Uranium Finance Heist, Jury Told

By Stewart Bishop

A prosecutor on Monday told a Manhattan federal jury that a Maryland cybersecurity consultant stole around $53 million in crypto by exploiting software bugs on the decentralized exchange Uranium Finance, while defense counsel argued that the government won't be able to show "whose fingers were on the keyboard."

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Apple Briefs Set Stage For Challenge To Record $5.7B Verdict

By Ryan Davis

Friday's $5.7 billion verdict against Apple Inc. for infringing Taction Technology Inc.'s vibration technology patents is the largest in history, eclipsing many others that have been overturned, and filings by Apple preview its arguments for why this one should meet the same fate.

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Burford Eyes $1.4B Of $5.7B Patent Trial Verdict Against Apple

By Ryan Boysen

Burford Capital said it is entitled to $1.4 billion of last week's historic $5.7 billion patent infringement jury verdict against Apple, but the litigation funder cautioned Monday that the massive payday could still evaporate on appeal.

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Chamber Says H-1B Fee Renewal Requires Court Relief

By Britain Eakin

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce told the D.C. Circuit on Friday that President Trump's brand-new proclamation extending the $100,000 fee for new H-1B visa applications for another year confirms the need for relief in the case.

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Renters Seek Final OK For $360M RealPage Antitrust Deals

By Isaac Monterose

Renter plaintiffs have told a Tennessee federal court to grant final approval for more than $359 million worth of settlements that aim to resolve their antitrust claims against multiple landlords accused of using property management software company RealPage Inc.'s revenue management software for rent price-fixing.

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News Groups Call Out DOJ's Backing Of Fair Use In AI Fight

By Elliot Weld

A group of news organizations including The New York Times responded Monday to a letter of interest from the government supporting the view that artificial intelligence companies' use of copyrighted material for training counts as fair use, saying it was inconsistent with the views of the U.S. Copyright Office and the facts of the case.

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OpenAI Says ChatGPT Not Liable For FSU Shooter's Crimes

By Mike Curley

OpenAI and its affiliates are urging a Florida federal court to throw out a suit from a woman alleging that its ChatGPT program encouraged the mass shooting at Florida State University in April 2025, saying it could not have known what the shooter planned and had no duty to warn in a way that could have prevented the shooting.

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US, China Reach Deal On Tariff Cuts On $30B In Goods Each

By Jack McLoone

An intergovernmental body tasked with managing trade between the U.S. and China has reached an agreement on $30 billion worth of nonsensitive goods exported from one country to the other that could benefit from more favorable tariff treatment.

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Calif. Governor Vetoes Broad Ban On Sensitive Data Sales

By Allison Grande

California's governor has refused to sign off on legislation that would have made the state the latest to restrict the sale and sharing of consumers' geolocation, biometric and other sensitive information, saying the proposed "categorical ban" on these online data practices was "a step too far."

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FCC Seeks FirstNet Band Manager After Court Challenges End

By Christopher Cole

With a court challenge out of the way, the Federal Communications Commission took strides Monday toward choosing a band manager to coordinate use of the 4.9 gigahertz spectrum band by the First Responder Network Authority.

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FCC Needs More Time To Weigh Verizon Copper Retirement

By Nadia Dreid

The Federal Communications Commission says it needs more time to think about Verizon's request for the agency's permission to end copper line telephone service in certain parts of nine different states.

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SpaceX Pans Mobile Biz On Value Of 2 Spectrum Bands

By Christopher Cole

SpaceX told the Federal Communications Commission the wireless industry was overestimating the value of using two spectrum bands for terrestrial mobile services, arguing the spectrum would be better leveraged for satellite broadband.

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Don't Overstep On Submarine Cable License Regs, FCC Told

By Nadia Dreid

The Federal Communications Commission should shy away from implementing regulations for submarine cable landing licenses that would apply a uniform standard to all cable systems regardless of risk, says one of the country's biggest telecom trade groups.

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EU's Trade Growth With Deal Partners Outpaces Others

By Jack McLoone

Trade between the European Union and countries with which it has reached a trade agreement grew over twice as much in 2025 as trade with jurisdictions that don't have such a deal, the European Commission said Monday.

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US Presses High Court To Skip Tesla Case Over PTAB Review

By Theresa Schliep

The federal government has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to pass on Tesla Inc.'s challenge to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's limits on patent challenges, arguing Friday that the agency is under no obligation to grant requests for patent review.

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Netflix Gets Atty Fees From Ramey For 'Bad Faith' Conduct

By Rae Ann Varona

A California federal judge Monday refused to let intellectual property attorney Bill Ramey off the hook for paying Netflix's attorney fees, attributing nearly $1.4 million to the Houston-based attorney's misconduct, including the concealment of the fact that his client didn't own a patent they accused Netflix of infringing.

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Judge Cuts Patent Claims Against Volvo Over Payment Data

By Adam Lidgett

A Delaware federal judge has knocked out claims that a division of Volvo infringed a digital payment hub patent owned by ModoPayments, but kept alive the lawsuit's copyright infringement claims.

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WordPress Parent Ducks Extortion But Not Antitrust Claims

By Bryan Koenig

A California federal judge issued a mixed ruling last week in the two-way fight between WordPress parent Automattic and web hosting company WPEngine, dismissing digital extortion claims against Automattic while preserving WPEngine's antitrust allegations, and preserving Automattic counterclaims of trademark infringement but dismissing false advertising accusations.

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ChatGPT Users' Antitrust Suit Against Microsoft Gets Trimmed

By Nadia Dreid

Microsoft isn't going to be able to force into arbitration claims that it undermined OpenAI by forcing the artificial intelligence giant into using only its cloud computing, but it did convince the California federal judge overseeing the case to toss the proposed class's antitrust claim.

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Grok-Maker Can't Get Deepfake Suit Paused Or Transferred

By Hailey Konnath

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company must continue battling a proposed class action brought by women suing over Grok-generated deepfakes of them in sexual situations, a California federal judge ruled Monday, declining to pause or transfer the suit to Texas.

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Roblox, Epic Can't Force Arbitration In Gaming Addiction Suit

By Mike Curley

A Pennsylvania federal judge won't let Roblox Corp., Epic Games Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Mojang AB compel arbitration in a suit by a minor alleging that they became addicted to video games, hurting their mental health.

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Fla. Judge Axes Pot Co.'s THC Patent Suit Against Trulieve

By Carolina Bolado

A Florida federal judge on Monday granted cannabis company Trulieve Inc.'s request to toss a rival patent company's complaint alleging Trulieve infringed several of the rival's patents.

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Law Firm Seeks Exit From Carbon Capture Ponzi Suit

By Spencer Brewer

A group of investors failed to show how a law firm and a securities attorney who gave legal assistance to the perpetrators of a carbon capture Ponzi scheme knew the fraudsters were breaking the law, the firm and the attorney have told a Texas federal court.

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Atlanta Consulting Firm Sued Over May Data Breach

By Kelcey Caulder

Aprio Advisory Group LLC was hit with a proposed class action in Georgia federal court by a former employee who said its lax data security measures led to a data breach in May that exposed the personal information of hundreds, if not thousands, of people.

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JV Partner Accused Of Exceeding Air Force Contract Share

By Ganesh Setty

A government contractor has accused its joint venture counterpart of taking a greater share of work under a U.S. Air Force contract than it was supposed to and failing to give proper financial records access, telling an Alabama federal court there's been a "systematic breach" of their agreements. 

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court this past week heard arguments over whether to dismiss a derivative suit accusing UiPath Inc. insiders of misleading investors and trading on inside information, while a Match Group Inc. stockholder sued for records concerning reports of sexual assault and other violence involving users of the company's dating apps.

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Seed Patent Dispute Settles 3 Days Into Trial

By Elliot Weld

Corteva Agriscience and Inari Agriculture Inc. have settled a seed intellectual property dispute three days into a Delaware federal trial over whether the latter infringed three patents and misappropriated seed samples.

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Personal Assistant AI Biz Instinct Reaches $10B Valuation

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Artificial intelligence company Instinct on Monday revealed that its valuation soared to $10 billion after it raised $1 billion in its latest funding round.

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Kirkland, White & Case Lead Defense Firm's $1.25B SPAC Deal

By Al Barbarino

REDLattice and blank check company Bold Eagle Acquisition Corp. said Monday they have agreed to merge in a deal that would take the cyber intelligence company public at a $1.25 billion premoney enterprise value.

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Wachtell, Sidley Advise On Valley Bank's $340M Bluevine Deal

By Al Barbarino

Valley National Bancorp said Monday it has agreed to acquire digital banking platform Bluevine for about $340 million, expanding the regional bank's small business franchise and adding a nationwide digital deposit channel.

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Fla. AG Seeks To Put Guardrails On OpenAI's Models

By Carolina Bolado

Florida's attorney general on Monday asked a court to block OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman from developing artificial intelligence models without third-party guardrails and from offering ChatGPT to minors, in a suit accusing the AI company of spurring young people to commit crimes and acts of violence.

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Compliance Software Co. Mitratech Acquires BotDojo

By Matt Perez

Corporate legal and claims professional services company Mitratech Legal announced Monday the acquisition of BotDojo to accelerate the development of its artificial intelligence software Aries.

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HPE-Juniper Settlement Teaches Key Tunney Act Lessons

A California federal court's recent approval of the U.S. Department of Justice's settlement with Hewlett Packard over its Juniper Networks acquisition offers legal practitioners some crucial lessons, including on unique tech-sector remedies for mergers and acquisitions and the continued viability of the Tunney Act, says Shubha Ghosh at Syracuse University College of Law.

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What Opt-In Framework Means For Novel Space Activities

The U.S. Department of Commerce's Office of Space Commerce is advancing a voluntary certification framework for commercial space activities not covered by existing licenses — but it's unclear whether this approach becomes a durable mission authorization regime, and separate legal permissions from agencies may still be necessary, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.

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Senior Lawyers Survey: Tell Us About Your Career

How are senior lawyers adapting to evolving career paths and emerging technologies? Share your perspective in this five-minute survey.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

O'Melveny & Myers LLP and Reed Smith LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Ninth Circuit overturned a $140 million class verdict against CenturyLink, holding that the company had a reasonable interpretation of the Fair Credit Reporting Act.

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Arkansas Firm 5th To Seal PE Deal With Uplift Investors

By Tracey Read

Arkansas' largest personal injury law firm is the latest legal entity to ink a deal to take private equity investment using Uplift Investors' associated management services organization.

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AI Mishap Has Judge Questioning 'Our Collective Character'

By Julie Manganis

A California attorney was barred from representing the plaintiffs in a Massachusetts insurance coverage dispute and ordered to pay legal costs of up to $10,000 to opposing counsel, after a federal judge found he relied on "inaccurate and fictitious" case cites and holdings in three filings.

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Tarter Krinsky Faces Suit After Disclosing Data Breach

By Andrea Keckley

Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP maintained "intentional opacity" about a recently disclosed cybersecurity attack last year that may have compromised protected health information, a proposed class action alleged in New York federal court.

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A2J At The High Court: Gun Bans, Voting And Civil Remedies

By Marco Poggio

From the right to own semiautomatic rifles to the rules governing voter registration, the upcoming U.S. Supreme Court term will see the justices tackle a broad swath of constitutional and access to justice issues.

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Domino Foods Fights Paul Weiss DQ Bid In Price-Fixing MDL

By Madison Arnold

Domino Foods is pushing back on an attempt to disqualify its counsel from Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP in a sugar price-fixing multidistrict litigation, arguing Hershey, J.M. Smucker and other food makers filed the motion as a "strategic attempt to gain tactical advantage" at a critical point in the dispute.

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Duane Morris To Settle Employee's Tax Withholding Claim

By Asha Glover

Duane Morris LLP has agreed to private mediation to settle a proposed class action by an employee who alleged that the firm failed to withhold taxes for workers who were misclassified as partners, according to a notice.

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UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

By Megan Norcott

The past week in London has seen Glencore Energy sue a refinery for allegedly defrauding it out of more than $236 million worth of crude oil, the former CEO of ankle-tag maker Big Technologies file a defamation claim against the company, and property investment group Hunter Jones hit by a claim from the Financial Conduct Authority. 

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

Wilson Sonsini topped a list of law firms that have alumni attorneys working at six of the country's most prominent tech companies. And general counsel at most large companies expect to increase their litigation budgets next year.

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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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