Trump Threatens 100% Tariff For EU Nations Planning DSTs

By Dylan Moroses

President Donald Trump threatened to impose a 100% tariff on imports entering the U.S. from countries in the European Union planning to levy new digital service taxes, according to a social media post Friday.

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ATF Ends Location Data Contract After Bipartisan Push

By Courtney Bublé

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives canceled a contract to obtain Americans' commercial location data without a warrant, a bipartisan pair of lawmakers announced Friday.

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High Court To Issue Big Decisions In Term's Final Days

By Katie Buehler

As the U.S. Supreme Court enters the final days of its term, the justices still have several major decisions to issue, including some concerning birthright citizenship, the president's power to remove independent agency officials, transgender athletes and election rules. 

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Analysis

Bosch DOJ Declination Shows Benefits Of Early Self-Reporting

By Sarah Jarvis

The U.S. Department of Justice's recent decision not to prosecute German technology company Bosch for exporting products to a sanctioned Chinese company signals to businesses that prompt self-reporting to the government can help them secure a declination even for serious national security offenses.

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Analysis

5 ERISA Cases To Keep An Eye On In The Second Half Of 2026

By Kellie Mejdrich

A U.S. Supreme Court challenge to Intel Corp.'s 401(k) investment lineup tops the list of cases benefits attorneys will be watching this summer and fall, though appeals involving health plan tobacco fees, plan forfeiture spending and a potential Eleventh Circuit precedent shift are also top of mind. Here, Law360 looks at five ERISA cases that attorneys should have on their radar as 2026 rolls on.

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Analysis

To Protect And Stalk: How Some Police Misuse Plate Readers

By Jack Karp

Police officers' abuse of public surveillance technology to stalk people in their private lives highlights the need for greater transparency and accountability when it comes to how these tools are used, say experts.

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PACER Fees Will Rise To Fund Cyber Defense Upgrades

By Bonnie Eslinger

The federal judiciary announced Friday it will temporarily increase the fees for electronic access to court records to pay for a potential $800 million upgrade that will modernize and strengthen court records systems PACER and CM/ECF, an upgrade it previously said is needed to respond to escalating cyberattacks.

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Bankers Want Beefed Up 'Know Your Customer' FCC Rules

By Nadia Dreid

Bankers are behind the Federal Communications Commission all the way when it comes to the agency's plan to impose "know your customer" rules on originating telecom providers and fining those that don't comply, myriad financial service trade groups have told the commission.

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ABC Viewers Seek License Denials If Disney Cuts FCC Deal

By Christopher Cole

Several media advocacy groups and ABC viewers petitioned the Federal Communications Commission Friday to deny broadcast license renewals to eight Disney-owned stations if they strike a deal with the FCC meant to keep their operations intact.

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FCC Tweaks Alaska Rural Deployment Performance Plans

By Nadia Dreid

Following feedback from the telecom industry, the Federal Communications Commission has made a few changes to the performance plans Alaska Connect Fund recipients have to submit outlining how they plan to deploy and maintain their networks.

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Brief

Police Union Offers Sens. Revamped FirstNet Renewal Draft

By Christopher Cole

The Fraternal Order of Police has submitted draft language to the U.S. Senate to reauthorize the nation's first responder communications network that reasserts law enforcement's role in governing the network.

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PTAB Leaders Undo Ax Of Patent From $253M GoDaddy Case

By Ryan Davis

Top Patent Trial and Appeal Board judges have overturned a panel's decision invalidating claims in a website patent from a $253 million judgment against GoDaddy, saying that after a jury upheld the patent, there was no reason for the board to reach a different validity outcome.

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Brief

Patent Owner Drops Appeal Of $253M T-Mobile, Ericsson Case

By Elliot Weld

A patent owner on Friday dropped its appeal in the Federal Circuit seeking to revive a case against T-Mobile and Ericsson in which it had sought $253 million in damages after a jury rejected its claims.

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NY Times, Other News Orgs Reframe AI Claims In Wake Of Cox

By Elliot Weld

The New York Times has expanded its suit against Microsoft alleging copyrighted content was used to train artificial intelligence, while trimming some contributory infringement claims in light of the U.S. Supreme Court's Cox ruling, a move that was followed by a group of regional newspapers requesting to do the same.

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Discovery Dispute Mounts In Boeing Moon Exploration IP Suit

By Emily Sawicki

A Colorado-based aerospace company is seeking expanded discovery in its ongoing intellectual property suit accusing The Boeing Co. of stealing patented technology for a NASA moon exploration program after repeatedly complaining that the company has failed to meet its duty to provide documents and depositions.

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Brief

Thermostat Patent Case Settles After Fed. Circ. Undid Verdict

By Elliot Weld

Two home automation companies have settled a case over a thermostat patent after the Federal Circuit undid an $11.5 million jury verdict awarded to one of them and faulted the judge overseeing the trial for using jury forms that collapsed all infringement allegations into a yes-no question.

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Google Gets Judge To Block 'Outsider Enterprise' Phishing

By Rae Ann Varona

A New York federal judge Friday barred an alleged Chinese cybercrime operation from having its members use Google's Gemini and other artificial intelligence tools to carry out bogus text message scams, saying Google demonstrated that the enterprise has "threatened the security of the internet" through its phishing schemes.

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Supreme Court Pauses Fine In Journalist's Appeal

By Jared Foretek

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday stayed a D.C. Circuit ruling upholding a civil contempt order against former Fox News journalist Catherine Herridge, further staving off a district judge's $800-per-day fine for refusing to expose her source.

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Fla., Roku Resolve Children's Data Privacy Suit

By Corey Rothauser

Roku Inc. has reached an agreement resolving Florida's lawsuit accusing the streaming platform of illegally collecting and selling children's personal data, with Roku agreeing to spend an estimated $25 million to enhance parental controls and child privacy protections.

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ZoomInfo Downplayed AI Biz's Slowdown, Investor Suit Says

By Sydney Price

Software company ZoomInfo was hit with a proposed shareholder class action in Washington federal court accusing it of hiding slowing growth and minimizing concerning trends regarding customers' adoption of its artificial intelligence tools.

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Roundup

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

By Laura Stewart Liberty

The past week in London has seen Michelle Mone sued by PPE Medpro, Broadfield Law sued by the founders of an international aid company, and litigation funder Fortress bring a claim against Edwin Coe and businesses the law firm represented in a cartel claim.

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Skadden, Baker McKenzie Guide $7B Onsemi, Synaptics Deal

By Al Barbarino

Onsemi has agreed to acquire Synaptics Inc. in an all-stock deal valued at approximately $7 billion, with Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP advising Onsemi and Baker McKenzie representing Synaptics.

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3 Firms Steer Cargo Drone Co.'s $800M SPAC Merger

By Elaine Briseño

Autonomous heavy-cargo drone developer Elroy Air Inc. announced Friday it plans to go public through a merger with a blank check company, in a deal that values the business at $800 million and is being steered by DLA Piper, White & Case and Kirkland.

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Roundup

Taxation With Representation: Sidley, Paul Weiss, Kirkland

By Zak Kostro

In this week's Taxation With Representation, Germany's Merck KGaA acquires life sciences tools supplier Bio-Techne Corp., drugmaker AbbVie buys clinical-stage biotechnology company Apogee Therapeutics, and building materials supplier CRH acquires infrastructure products maker Arcosa Inc.

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T-Mobile Asks High Court To Refund Its $92M In FCC Fines

By Nadia Dreid

T-Mobile has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to wipe out $92 million in fines it and Sprint were slapped with for selling users' location data, saying that even though the justices have declared the FCC can level such fines and companies can just refuse to pay, the telecom "did not have the benefit" of that decision at the time.

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Chicago IP Duo Leave Winston & Strawn For King & Spalding

By Tracey Read

King & Spalding LLP has added two more Winston & Strawn LLP partners who will reunite with 15 former colleagues who joined the firm earlier this year.

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Brief

Faegre Drinker Adds Withers Int'l Arbitration Atty In NY

By Tracey Read

A former Withers litigation and arbitration special counsel has joined Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP as a New York partner.

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Constructing AI Compliance Plans As State Laws Diverge

With Colorado, Connecticut and the federal government recently announcing wildly different approaches to artificial intelligence regulation, creating a workable compliance program means addressing overlapping obligations using shared systems rather than separate silos, say attorneys at Ogletree.

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As Quantum Computing Evolves, So Do Antitrust Risks

Amid quantum computing's increased strategic importance there are five potential antitrust fault lines that may arise not only between quantum developers, but also within and across the layers of the stack as the industry matures, say attorneys at Proskauer.

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The Future Of WDTX Patent Litigation After Judge Albright

With U.S. District Judge Christopher Wolfe set to take over much of Judge Alan Albright's patent infringement docket in the Western District of Texas later this year, attorneys should prepare for potential differences in Judge Wolfe's approach to the court's high volume of patent litigation, say attorneys at Sidley Austin.

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3rd Circ. Decision Sheds Light On BIPA Bank Exemption

The Third Circuit's recent decision in McGoveran v. Amazon illuminates how courts are extending the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act's financial institution carveout beyond banks and insurers to technology vendors and other businesses handling biometric data, a defendant-friendly shift that still casts uncertainty around BIPA's enforcement, say attorneys at Dorsey & Whitney.

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Opinion

State Courts Must Be Gatekeepers Of Expert Testimony

Based on my experience in the state judiciary, emulating federal courts' role as gatekeepers of expert witness testimony would help state court judges maintain the appearance of impartiality and assist juries, thus enhancing the overall confidence people have in their justice system, says Lorie Gildea at Greenberg Traurig.

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Q&A

This Pride Month, LGBTQ+ Bar Leader Talks Community, Hope

By Emma Cueto

In 2026, the LGBTQ+ Bar is focused on expanding programs, especially those focused on law students and younger attorneys, and building up community ties at a time of growing legal threats to LGBTQ people.

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Scientologists Want 'Ignored' Boies Schiller AI Errors Review

By Emily Sawicki

The Church of Scientology has asked the California Supreme Court to review an appellate order that didn't impose sanctions on Boies Schiller Flexner LLP for filing a brief containing artificial intelligence-generated citation errors in a harassment and retaliation suit pending against the church.

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King & Spalding Insists On Fraud Suit Pause Amid 'Conflicts'

By Brian Steele

King & Spalding LLP has urged a Connecticut state court to keep its involvement in a $300 million fraud lawsuit on hold while it challenges the denial of its attorneys' withdrawal from representing several individual defendants, citing "serious, nonwaivable conflicts of interest" that will prevent the firm from proceeding.

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Trump Reportedly Mulls FCC Attorney For DOJ Antitrust Chief

By Matthew Perlman

President Donald Trump is reportedly preparing to nominate the Federal Communications Commission's general counsel to serve as the top antitrust official in the U.S. Department of Justice.

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Judge Stays Jackson Walker RICO Suit Over Sorrento Ch. 11

By Clara Geoghegan

A California federal judge has paused Sorrento Therapeutics shareholders' litigation after a Texas bankruptcy court ruled they lacked standing to pursue racketeering claims over a former Jackson Walker attorney's relationship with the judge who initially oversaw the biotech company's Chapter 11.

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Messner Reeves Says $8.3M Fraud Suit Repeats Utah Case

By Zach Dupont

Colorado law firm Messner Reeves LLP has claimed in federal court that a lawsuit accusing it of stealing more than $8 million as part of a fraudulent loan scheme should be dismissed because the plaintiffs' Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act claims were dismissed by another court with prejudice.

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Roundup

GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

A Connecticut federal judge told attorneys to challenge clients who demand use of generative artificial intelligence tools to conduct legal research, and a Kansas federal judge blocked a state law imposing requirements on proxy advisers' voting recommendations. These were among the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Clement & Murphy PLLC, Covington & Burling LLP and Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court handed Monsanto a win in its long-running battle over the labeling of alleged cancer risks of its bestselling weedkiller Roundup.

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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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