TikTok Inks $400M Deal With DOJ To End Kids' Privacy Suit

By Allison Grande

TikTok has agreed to pay $400 million to resolve the U.S. Department of Justice's claims that the short-form video platform illegally collected personal information from kids under 13, marking one of the largest recoveries ever obtained under the federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, the feds said Friday.

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Analysis

FTC Faces Off Against Zillow-Redfin Rental Listings Deal

By Bryan Koenig

Federal Trade Commission attorneys will appear before a Virginia federal judge Monday in what will likely be the FTC's only antitrust conduct trial this year, squaring off against a rental listings syndication deal it says amounted to Zillow's $100 million payout for the smaller Redfin to exit the market.

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Meta Tells DC Circ. To Reject FTC Appeal

By Bryan Koenig

Meta Platforms Inc. urged the D.C. Circuit not to revive the Federal Trade Commission's monopolization lawsuit targeting its purchases of WhatsApp and Instagram, arguing Thursday that a D.C. federal judge correctly held that in the here and now, competition from TikTok and YouTube means it "has no monopoly."

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Suno Loses Bid To Dismiss Artists' AI Copyright Claims

By Ivan Moreno

A Massachusetts federal judge has allowed independent recording artists to proceed with copyright claims that AI-music generator Suno Inc. created unauthorized derivative works and bypassed YouTube protections to obtain songs to train its platform.

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Ex-Google Engineer Wins Partial Acquittal After IP Theft Trial

By Dorothy Atkins

A California federal judge acquitted an ex-Google software engineer of espionage charges Thursday while upholding his trade secret theft conviction, ruling that although trial evidence showed his trade secret theft was "ad hoc, disorganized and feeble," such evidence isn't enough to prove he intentionally colluded with the Chinese government.

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Apple Paid $17B Taxes To Ireland In 2025, Mostly Due To ECJ

By Kevin Pinner

Apple Inc. paid more than $17 billion in taxes to Ireland last year largely because of a European Court of Justice ruling ordering it to pay back taxes, the company said Friday in its first public country-by-country report.

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Troutman's Lax Data Security Led To Breach, Suit Says

By Kelcey Caulder

Troutman Pepper Locke LLP failed to protect the personal data of more than 36,000 clients and third parties during a data breach that occurred Tuesday, according to a proposed class action filed in Georgia federal court.

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Trump Seeks Justices' Review Of DEI Grant Termination Case

By Madeline Lyskawa

The Trump administration is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to review a Ninth Circuit decision requiring the federal government to reinstate research grants that were terminated due to presidential orders against diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.

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Amazon Uses Twitch Streamers' Content To Train AI, Suit Says

By Gina Kim

Twitch and Amazon were hit with a proposed class action in California federal court Thursday by a Twitch streamer who says the companies are exploiting and using his live broadcasts, images and recorded videos to train Amazon's generative AI models by default, without obtaining their consent.

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Uber, DoorDash Lose Most Of NYC Tip Prompt Suit

By Benjamin Morse

A New York federal judge kept alive DoorDash and Uber's compelled-speech challenge to New York City laws requiring delivery platforms to display a tipping prompt at or before checkout that includes an option of at least 10%, but tossed their remaining five claims.

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Feature

11th Circ. Ruling Could Help ERISA Suits Survive Until Trial

By Kellie Mejdrich

The Eleventh Circuit's decision to reopen a suit from a former Royal Caribbean worker claiming 401(k) participants lost millions on underperforming target-date funds could make it easier for plaintiffs to get to trial in cases accusing companies of retirement plan investment picks that violate federal benefits law, attorneys said.

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DC Circ. Voids Block On OMB Funding Freeze

By Jared Foretek

The D.C. Circuit on Friday vacated a district judge's block on the Trump administration's pause on a wide array of federal grants, loans and financial assistance, ruling that the Office of Management and Budget's rescission of the memorandum rendered the lawsuit moot.

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Apple's ICloud Private Relay Leaks User IP Address, Suit Says

By Gina Kim

Apple misleads paying iCloud+ subscribers into believing its Private Relay feature hides their IP addresses and browsing activity in its default web browser, Safari, but flaws in Apple's technology expose that information, alleges a proposed class action lodged in California state court.    

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FCC Makes Exceptions To Foreign-Made Inverter Ban

By Nadia Dreid

The Federal Communications Commission is admitting that it may have been too hasty in putting all foreign-made inverters on the "Covered List" of technology deemed to be a risk to national security, and is carving out some exceptions.

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FCC License Transfer OK Opens Ch. 11 Exit Door For Cumulus

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

The Federal Communications Commission has paved the way for broadcasting company Cumulus Media to exit Chapter 11, granting its application to transfer control of the radio giant's licenses to its new shareholders.

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Dish Says Media Co. Gaia Infringed Streaming Patents

By Rachel Konieczny

Colorado-based Dish Technologies LLC and Sling TV LLC claim streaming company Gaia Inc. infringed five of their patents for content streaming that employ technology meant to adapt to a user's available bandwidth, telling a Colorado federal court the company had actual knowledge of the patents.

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Union Pacific Loses Bid To Block BIPA Class Claims

By Celeste Bott

An Illinois federal judge on Thursday certified a class of more than 22,000 truck drivers accusing Union Pacific of violating Illinois' biometric privacy law and denied the railroad's bid for summary judgment, finding that the finger scans in question fall in the purview of the statute and rejecting the railroad's federal preemption and government-contractor defenses.

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GoDaddy Fired Designer After Sex Bias Complaint, Suit Says

By Rachel Riley

A former user experience designer for GoDaddy claims the web services company falsely promised her a "principal" title when hiring her, then punished and ultimately ousted her for complaining when two men with less experience were given the high-ranking status, according to a lawsuit filed Friday in Washington federal court.  

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Wiley Data Breach Class Action Dropped As 2 Sides Confer

By Emily Sawicki

A Florida resident pursuing negligence and unjust-enrichment claims against Wiley Rein LLP over a data breach voluntarily dismissed his proposed class action on Friday while leaving the door open to refile, one day after the firm told the D.C. federal court that the two sides were "conferring" on next steps.

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Ex-Software Engineer Says His ADHD Led To Bias, Firing

By Kia Fatahi

An open source software developer fired an engineer after he raised concerns about disability discrimination in the workplace, was denied accommodations for his attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and had his symptoms labeled as performance problems, according to a case removed to North Carolina federal court Thursday.

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Patients Drop Data Breach Suit Against Medical Billing Co.

By Kelcey Caulder

A group of patients has dropped a lawsuit accusing a Georgia-based medical billing practice of failing to properly secure the personal information of patients and employees ahead of a September data breach.

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Brief

Motorola Rival Blasts 'Rush' To Add Latest Radio To IP Fight

By Lauraann Wood

Motorola Solutions' Chinese rival on Friday blasted the company's "rush" to ask an Illinois federal judge to supplement their long-running mobile radio source code fight with allegations targeting its latest product as Hytera Communications confirmed its opposition to the proposal.

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Cytek Hit With $56M Verdict For Infringing Cell-Sorting Patent

By Hailey Konnath

A Delaware federal jury Friday awarded roughly $36 million in damages to biomedical testing manufacturer Beckman Coulter after finding that Cytek Biosciences infringed one of its patents covering a technology that quickly analyzes single cells.

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Roundup

Taxation With Representation: Fenwick, Hengeler Mueller

By Zak Kostro

In this week's Taxation With Representation, Santander SA completes its acquisition of U.S. regional lender Webster Financial Corp., financial services company Stripe buys artificial intelligence routing platform OpenRouter and Madison Air Solutions Corp. acquires German airflow technology maker ebm-papst.

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Kirkland Guides Cloverleaf In Nvidia Stake For AI Buildout

By Nate Beck

Nvidia has made a minority investment in Cloverleaf Infrastructure to support digital infrastructure development across the U.S., the companies said Friday, in a deal advised by Kirkland & Ellis LLP.

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Brief

Ashurst Perkins Adds DOJ National Security Atty In Chicago

By Tracey Read

A former trial attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice's National Security Division has joined Ashurst Perkins Coie LLP as a partner in its complex litigation practice in Chicago after more than 12 years in public service.

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How To Structure Protective Order AI Provisions In IP Disputes

A survey of protective orders in recent intellectual property litigation reveals best practices for drafting provisions on artificial intelligence use that maximize IP protection while balancing enforceability with efficient discovery, say Matthew Stephens and Bryce Tabbut at MoFo.

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How FCC Covered List Blitz Is Sidelining Commerce Dept.

The swath of recent Federal Communications Commission rulemakings raises serious questions about the purpose and future of Commerce's Office of Information and Communications Technology and Services, and how the U.S. government will go forward in imposing national security regulation on domestic applications of adversary-linked technologies, says Peter Jeydel at Troutman.

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Discovery Into Insurers' AI Use Should Stay Proportional

As insurers increasingly use artificial intelligence to make claim decisions, plaintiffs in first-party coverage litigation should seek discovery that tracks how materially the automated system influenced the challenged decision, not whether the insurer used AI somewhere in its operations, says attorney Joe Zaid.

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How Does In-House Pay Compare? Take The Law360 Survey

How do in-house salaries vary across industries, roles, and organizational revenue? What compensation tools are companies using to lure top talent? Help Law360 Pulse answer these questions and more in this year's In-House Compensation Survey.

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Analysis

The Race Is On To Confirm Trump's Judges By Year-End

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump nominated 11 judges this past week, meaning 19 nominees are now in the pipeline. But how many can the Senate confirm before the end of the year, given that it will mostly be absent and consumed by the midterm election? 

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Trump Admin Moves Toward Nixing ABA's Accreditor Status

By Emma Cueto

The Department of Education has made a preliminary finding that the American Bar Association is not in compliance with the department's regulations and standards as an accreditor of law schools, a move that comes as the ABA seeks to modify or repeal standards related to diversity, equity and inclusion in an attempt to preserve its accreditor status.

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Law Schools Flooded With Applicants For 3rd Straight Year

By Tracey Read

This year's U.S. law school applicant pool is up nearly 8% over 2025, with significant growth in Asian and Black prospective attorneys, according to new data from the Law School Admission Council.

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Divided 2nd Circ. Backs DQ Of Acting NDNY US Attorney

By Stewart Bishop

The Second Circuit on Friday upheld a lower court's decision that found the acting U.S. attorney for the Northern District of New York, John Sarcone III, was unlawfully serving in his position when he obtained grand jury subpoenas of the New York attorney general's office.

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Fla. Attorney Fined, Referred To Bar For Unapologetic AI Use

By Madison Arnold

A Florida attorney is the latest to be sanctioned for his use of artificial intelligence, after a Florida state appeals court found Friday that his filings contained at least 46 hallucinations.

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Gov't To Take 9th Circ.'s Bar Of Nev. US Atty To High Court

By Madison Arnold

The U.S. government asked the Ninth Circuit to stay its ruling disqualifying Nevada's top prosecutor from assuming that role without Senate confirmation, saying it plans to take the issue to the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Trump Says Pardon Atty Ed Martin Leaving For Midterms

By Courtney Bublé

U.S. pardon attorney Ed Martin will be leaving the administration to work on the midterm elections, President Donald Trump announced on Friday.

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Judge's Job Bid Sinks Conn. Atty's Homicide Conviction

By Brian Steele

Former Cramer & Anderson LLP partner Robert L. Fisher Jr. is entitled to a new manslaughter trial because the presiding judge at his original trial "created an appearance of a lack of impartiality" when he did not disclose to the parties that he had applied for an oversight job with the state prosecutor's office, an appeals court ruled Friday.

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Roundup

Balancing The Scales: Diminished Capacity, Sentencing Rules

By Orlando Lorenzo

The Michigan Supreme Court has overturned 25 years of state precedent by reviving the diminished capacity defense, and the justices in Pennsylvania said the Legislature is out of time to craft new sentencing guidelines for second-degree murder. Here, Law360 highlights access to justice stories arising from litigation, verdicts and judgments you may have missed.

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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 former Liberal Democrat MP Mark Oaten sue a fur auction house, private equity and pensions magnate Edmund Truell hit by a commercial fraud claim and Charles Russell Speechlys file a contract claim against two of its previous clients in the Middle East.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

A California federal judge told Meta that its in-house attorney was absolutely wrong about what constitutes attorney-client privilege and should take an ethics course. And a bipartisan group of 128 ex-judges have asked the Florida Bar to investigate Homeland Security's general counsel for his attacks on sitting judges. These are some of 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

Eversheds Sutherland, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP and McDermott Will & Schulte lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after Maryland's tax court held that the state's first-in-the-nation digital advertising tax violates the federal Internet Tax Freedom Act.

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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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