Analysis

State Meta Verdicts May Offer Clues For 1st Federal Bellwether

By Cara Salvatore

Meta's recent state jury losses in suits over social media's harms to mental health provide clues as to what will happen this summer when a school district's suit against social platforms goes to trial in the first federal bellwether — and down the road in appeals some believe will reach the nation's high court.

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Ex-Twitter Executive Ends $20M Suit Against X Corp., Musk

By Kellie Mejdrich

Twitter's former chief marketing officer has agreed to drop her $20 million severance suit, which defendants X Corp. and Elon Musk had appealed to the Ninth Circuit seeking to force arbitration, after parties reported a settlement of their dispute late last month.

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Fed. Circ. Looks Askance At Sanctions In E-Banking IP Case

By Theresa Schliep

A Federal Circuit panel on Monday appeared bothered by a lower court's nearly $85,000 sanctions order against a company and its counsel in its infringement lawsuit over an online banking patent, with one judge saying the record does not seem to support such action.

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Parents Must Prove They Can't Refuse Arbitration, 9th Circ. Says

By Lauren Berg

A California federal judge must take a fresh look at parts of IXL Learning Inc.'s bid to arbitrate a proposed class action alleging the education technology company unlawfully collected and sold children's personal information, the Ninth Circuit ruled Monday, saying the lower court "misallocated the burden of proof on mutual assent."

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Columbia Seeks Fed. Circ. Redo Of Axed Norton Patent Ruling

By Ryan Davis

Columbia University has asked a Federal Circuit panel to partly reconsider a decision discarding a nine-figure patent judgment against the maker of Norton antivirus software, saying the university did request a jury instruction on foreign sales damages that the appeals court said it did not seek.

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DLA Piper Defeats Fired Associate's Claims Of Pregnancy Bias

By Pete Brush

A federal jury in Manhattan declined to award damages Monday to a former associate who says DLA Piper unlawfully fired her after she announced she was pregnant, absolving the BigLaw firm hours after tense closing arguments.

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Meta Pulls Some Attys' Social Media Addiction Ads

By Rachel Rippetoe

After losing a bellwether trial last month in one of a slew of cases from plaintiffs who claim to have been harmed by social media, Meta has begun removing ads from attorneys seeking clients with similar claims.

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Atty Says Ogletree Can't Litigate Against Her In 2 Similar Cases

By Adrian Cruz

A Georgia attorney said Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC should be disqualified from serving as defense counsel in a discrimination suit she's working on while simultaneously litigating against her on behalf of her ex-employer in a similar matter.

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Disney, WB, Universal's AI Suit Is 'Artificial,' Tech Cos. Say

By Hailey Konnath

Chinese artificial intelligence companies have urged a California federal court to throw out allegations from Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery and Universal that their service has been stealing the studios' intellectual property, calling it "ironic" that the case about artificial intelligence is "entirely artificial."

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AI Cardiac Imaging Co. Hits Ex-Consultant With IP Suit

By Elliot Weld

Artificial intelligence-powered cardiac imaging company Heartflow Inc. filed patent infringement and trade secret misappropriation claims on Monday against a competitor founded by a former consultant who, the company says, lifted technological trade secrets while he was under contract.

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GAO Says Agencies Should Reflect On AI Procurements

By Madeline Lyskawa

While federal agencies more than doubled their use of artificial intelligence between 2023 and 2024, they are not systematically collecting lessons learned from their AI acquisitions, despite White House guidance, the U.S. Government Accountability Office said in a Monday report.

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Analysis

State Telecom Roundup: X Case Widens Jurisdiction Fight

By Nadia Dreid

After a federal judge tossed a Washington man's suit accusing Twitter of illegally collecting his phone number, the user argued the case shouldn't have been moved to federal court anyway, and the federal courts have wrongly extended Article III jurisdiction to the lawsuit. Here's a breakdown of the problem over standing that some officials say they see coming.

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FCC Picks Nonprofit As New Admin For Cyber Trust Mark

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission has selected a nonprofit group focused on security of the Internet of Things as the next entity to run the U.S. Cyber Trust Mark, a government-endorsed seal of approval for devices.

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Fed Action Sought Against European Plan To 'Target' Iridium

By Christopher Cole

Iridium wants the Federal Communications Commission to push back against a European proposal that it says would "unfairly target" the satellite phone provider with new restrictions.

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Brief

FCC Plans To Create Portal For E-Rate Bids

By Nadia Dreid

The Federal Communications Commission plans to vote this month to make changes to the E-rate program, which subsidizes internet service for schools and libraries, that it says will simplify the program and make it harder for people to commit fraud.

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Brief

Bay Area Trains To Get Upgrade After FCC Rule Waiver

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission has approved a rule waiver for Hitachi Rail that will let Bay Area Regional Transportation upgrade a half-century-old train control system.

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Crypto Suit Fails Without Proof Of Partnership, 2nd Circ. Says

By Emilie Ruscoe

An Oregon man has not shown that he is entitled to a share of profits from a purported joint venture in cryptocurrency investment involving a once close friend, the Second Circuit said Monday, affirming a Manhattan federal judge's dismissal of the claims.

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Fed. Circ. Won't Revive Cisco Data Conversion IP Challenges

By Adam Lidgett

Cisco lost its bid to reinstate its challenges to a pair of patents owned by the intellectual property arm of Tel Aviv University after the Federal Circuit on Monday backed the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's findings that the technology giant failed to show the claims were invalid.

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Fed. Circ. Affirms Meta's Win Over AlmondNet Ad Tech Patent

By Dani Kass

The Federal Circuit on Monday upheld the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's decision to invalidate all claims Meta Platforms Inc. challenged of an AlmondNet Inc. patent.

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DC Circ. Digs Into FTC Rationale For Media Matters Probe

By Nadia Dreid

A D.C. Circuit panel tore into a Federal Trade Commission lawyer on Monday as the agency fought to convince the three judges that a lower court had no right to block it from investigating a left-leaning media watchdog, a probe the group claims is retaliation for publishing anti-Nazi content.

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OpenAI State Murder-Suicide Case Doesn't Ax Federal Suit

By Bonnie Eslinger

The estate of a man who it claims was driven by ChatGPT to murder his mother and commit suicide can proceed with its federal suit against OpenAI, a California judge ruled Monday, saying there's "substantial doubt" that a state court case brought by the mother's estate would resolve the federal action's claims.

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Some Claims, Plaintiffs Trimmed From AirPod Defect Suit

By Mike Curley

A California federal judge has thrown out breach of implied warranty claims and two plaintiffs' claims from a proposed class action alleging Apple Inc. misled consumers about defects in its AirPods Pro products.

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Tech Co. Can't Duck Ponzi Scheme Claims Over Data Boxes

By P.J. D'Annunzio

A Pennsylvania federal judge declined to dismiss civil Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organization claims against a tech company and others filed by a business alleging it was duped into buying billboard-adjacent data collection boxes on the false premise that the information would be sold to Intel.

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Oracle Wins TRO Against Ex-Worker Threatening Secrets Sale

By Lauren Berg

A North Carolina federal judge Monday issued a temporary restraining order barring a recently laid-off Oracle sales employee from disclosing trade secrets that the software firm alleges he has threatened to sell to the "highest bidder" unless he receives an "unreasonable" fee.

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Deal Struck In Former NCR Executives' Lifetime Benefits Fight

By Kelcey Caulder

The administrator of several NCR Corp. retirement plans has agreed to settle a class action from former executives who said the technology company failed to make good on a promise to send them annuity payments for life, according to a filing in Georgia federal court.

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Genius Wants Copy Of Settlement Between Sports Tech Rivals

By Elaine Briseño

Sports technology company Genius Sports Ltd. is asking a Texas federal court to compel Panda Interactive to follow the court's discovery order by sharing a copy of a settlement agreement Panda reached in a similar patent lawsuit with a different rival.

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ITC Opens Patent Inquiry Into Joby Electric Air Taxis

By Elliot Weld

The U.S. International Trade Commission has opened an investigation into whether an electric air taxi company's imported materials were infringing the patents of a rival.

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Tesla Wins Chancery Suit Dismissal After Move To Texas

By Sarah Jarvis

A consolidated Delaware Chancery Court suit leveling breach of fiduciary duty claims against Elon Musk and Tesla Inc. directors belongs in Texas, a vice chancellor said Monday, finding that a forum selection bylaw applies retroactively even though the conduct at issue occurred before the company reincorporated in the Lone Star State.

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Uber Says Driver Deactivation Not Proof Of Sex Assault

By Abigail Harrison

On the eve of jury selection in a bellwether trial in multidistrict litigation against Uber over alleged sexual assaults, the ride-share company is asking a North Carolina federal court to exclude an offer of proof purporting to cast a driver's deactivation as an admission from Uber that an alleged sexual assault occurred.

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Hyundai Eyes Exit In Insurer Car-Theft Bellwether Trial

By Linda Chiem

Hyundai Motor America has asked a California federal judge to wipe out State Automobile Mutual Insurance Co.'s claims ahead of a bellwether trial next month seeking to hold the automaker liable for allegedly selling theft-prone vehicles that heightened the risk of insurance claims.

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Engineers Ask To Add Whistleblower To TikTok Sale Case

By Jared Foretek

Software engineers from Alphabet and Meta are asking the D.C. Circuit for permission to update their petition challenging the Trump administration's handling of the TikTok U.S. divestiture, saying whistleblower allegations from a former ByteDance employee bolster their claim that the deal doesn't comply with Congress' mandate.

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NordVPN Hit With Dark Patterns Class Actions In Va., Conn.

By Jared Foretek

Virtual private network provider NordVPN and its parent company are facing a pair of proposed class actions accusing the company of using deceptive "dark pattern" tactics, like automatic renewal, to keep consumers paying for unwanted and expensive internet security subscriptions.

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Honey Baked Ham Ignores Data-Tracking Opt-Out, Suit Says

By Gina Kim

Honey Baked Ham fraudulently assures website visitors they have control over whether their data is tracked or shared, but secretly records and discloses that information to third parties anyway without the visitors' consent, according to a proposed class action filed Friday in Georgia federal court.

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Dish Dodged Rent On 62 Tower Sites For Months, Lessor Says

By MJ Koo

Dish Wireless walked away from its rent obligations on dozens of wireless tower sites as its parent company winds down part of its network business, according to a suit filed in Colorado federal court.

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Roundup

NC High Court Snapshot: State Retirees Fight To Retain Class

By Hayley Fowler

The North Carolina Supreme Court in April will tackle a long-simmering fight over the state's obligations to provide health insurance to retired public employees, who are battling to keep their class status.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court's docket this past week featured a mix of high-stakes settlements, fast-moving deal litigation, governance disputes and a notable post-trial ruling involving fraud-tainted loans.

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Brief

Startup's Ticketmaster Antitrust Suit May Get 2027 Trial Date

By Ganesh Setty

A California federal court tentatively scheduled an October 2027 trial for a shuttered startup's antitrust suit against Ticketmaster and Live Nation, after the startup claimed that Ticketmaster's exclusive agreements with venues thwarted its ability to compete in the ticketing business.

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DC Judge Won't Stay Broadband Grants Suit Against Trump

By Gautama Mehta

A D.C. federal judge on Monday declined to pause a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's termination of broadband infrastructure grants while the D.C. Circuit considers a separate challenge over environmental grant cuts, saying the cases are substantially different.

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DOJ Seeks OK On Blackstone's LivCor Rent Price-Fixing Deal

By Bonnie Eslinger

The Justice Department has asked a North Carolina federal court to grant final approval to its settlement with LivCor LLC, a subsidiary of Blackstone, which would resolve allegations that the landlord used RealPage's revenue management software to fix rent prices.

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Prepping For White House's Proposed AI Framework

The artificial intelligence legislative framework issued by the White House last month reframes the policy landscape, creating a number of near-term developments for companies to track as congressional committees attempt to convert the framework into legislative text, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.

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Opinion

Apple Discovery Fight Could Revive DOJ's Antitrust Appetite

Winning discovery disputes in the ongoing federal antitrust litigation over Apple’s app store practices is a huge opportunity for the Justice Department to return to its once-vigorous pursuit of product tying by tech monopolies, catch up with foreign competition regulators and establish clear standards for digital markets, says Ediberto Roman at Florida International University.

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Lockdown To Ledger: COVID Rulings Inform Crypto Coverage

As cryptocurrencies move deeper into mainstream financial markets, courts tasked with determining whether traditional insurance policies respond to digital asset losses have been evaluating coverage through the analytical framework of COVID-19 business interruption litigation, with one key recurring theme, say attorneys at Kennedys.

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How Securities Litigation Risks Materialized In The 1st Quarter

The securities litigation landscape in 2026's first quarter was defined by higher filing frequency and increased litigation exposure with rising average settlement values, meaning issuers should maximize data-driven legal defenses early to disqualify alleged fraud-revealing stock drops, say Nessim Mezrahi and Stephen Sigrist at SAR.

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Defense Contractor Tips For Commercial Solutions Openings

Defense contractors interested in participating in the Army’s recently announced commercial solutions opening should familiarize themselves with the process, which promotes flexibility but requires prudence in preparing proposals, negotiating award terms, and crafting supporting documents such as teaming agreements and subcontracts, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.

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Opinion

State Bars Need To Get Specific About AI Confidentiality

Lawyers need to put actual client information into artificial intelligence tools to get their full value, but they cannot confidently do so until state bars offer clear, formal authority on which plan tiers of the three most popular generative AI tools are safe to use when sharing specific client details, says attorney Nick Berk.

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Q&A

Former Pardon Atty Says Trump's Clemency Grants Hurt DOJ

By Phillip Bantz

Former U.S. Department of Justice pardon attorney Liz Oyer spoke recently with Law360 about how the pardon process has changed, the impact the shift might have on the DOJ and how the system could be reformed.

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DOJ Urges DC Circ. To Revive Trump EOs Targeting Firms

By Alison Knezevich

The D.C. Circuit should individually review each section of President Donald Trump's executive orders targeting four law firms, allowing certain portions to stand if others are blocked, the U.S. Department of Justice argued in a new filing urging the court to revive the measures.

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Analysis

The Justices Had Their Say On Immunity. Is A DC Jury Next?

By Chris Villani

The limits of presidential immunity are once again set to be tested after a D.C. federal judge ruled President Donald Trump must face civil claims over the Jan. 6, 2021, riots, clearing the way for trial and potentially another high-stakes appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Brief

EEOC To Produce Law Firm DEI Letter Records By May 15

By Kelcey Caulder

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission told a federal court Monday that it would give two law professors documents related to 20 letters the agency sent to law firms over their purported diversity, equity and inclusion practices by May 15.

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Morgan & Morgan Sued Over Firing Amid Nevada Expansion

By Emily Sawicki

Personal injury titan Morgan & Morgan is facing allegations from a former firm attorney in California state court alleging the Golden State lawyer was pressured to file suits in neighboring Nevada despite having an inactive law license and no experience practicing there, and was then harassed and wrongfully fired over the filings.

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NJ Man Who Sought To DQ US Atty Leadership To Plead Guilty

By Gina Kim

A criminal defendant who joined a pending bid to disqualify assistant U.S. attorneys overseeing the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey and escalated a constitutional challenge to its leadership structure told a federal judge Saturday he plans to plead guilty in his drug case. 

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