Anthropic's Valuation Soars To $965B, Surpassing OpenAI

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Artificial intelligence giant Anthropic has hit a post-money valuation of $965 billion after securing $65 billion of investor commitments in its massive Series H funding round, officially surpassing the valuation of its rival OpenAI.

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Justices Told USPTO's 'Settled Expectations' Rule Flouts Law

By Ryan Davis

A host of industry groups, professors, attorneys and more urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to take up Google's appeal arguing that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has exceeded its authority by using the age of patents as a reason to refuse to review them.

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Fed. Judge Rips Altice, Touchstream For Patent Case Delays

By Bonnie Eslinger

A New York federal judge denied broadband and video provider Altice's request for judgment on the pleadings in patent litigation brought by Touchstream Technologies, calling it "a delayed, misfiled, hyper-technical and largely meritless motion," while criticizing Touchstream as "also responsible for tactical decisions which led to significant delays."

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Hawaiian Electric Gets Final OK Of $100M Wildfire Deal

By Mike Curley

A Hawaii federal judge has given final approval to a $100 million deal to settle a shareholder derivative suit alleging the directors and executives of Hawaiian Electric Industries Inc. failed to prepare for the deadly 2023 Maui wildfire.

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'Pervasive Bad Faith': Uber Targets Sex Assault MDL Plaintiff

By Bonnie Eslinger

Uber Technologies Inc. accused a bellwether plaintiff of numerous discovery violations Friday in multidistrict litigation over alleged passenger sexual assaults, urging a California federal judge to issue sanctions for "pervasive bad faith" that has "plagued the discovery process."

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Exclusive

Facing Scrutiny, 'Schedule A' Suits Grow Beyond Chicago

By Ivan Moreno

Federal lawsuits that target dozens or even hundreds of online sellers at once kept climbing in 2025 and spread beyond their Chicago stronghold, even as new data shows more friction for brand owners' mass anti-counterfeiting strategy.

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House Panel To Consider Ideas For New Navigation Systems

By Christopher Cole

A U.S. House subcommittee will hold a hearing June 4 on proposals to deploy new Earth-based systems that would buttress the GPS in case of sabotage and signal disruptions.

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NJ Panel Advances Bill Creating AI Rules For Licensed Pros

By George Woolston

A New Jersey legislative committee has advanced a bill aimed at creating a model policy governing the use of generative artificial intelligence by licensed professionals across the state.

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Vermont Data Privacy Bill Poised For Signing Despite Doubts

By Allison Grande

Vermont is poised to become the latest state to enact comprehensive consumer data privacy legislation, after the legislature on Friday approved a framework that consumer advocates have criticized for being significantly weaker than a proposal for regulating companies' handling of personal information that the governor vetoed two years ago.

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5th Circ. Lets Texas Enforce App Age-Check Law

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

The Fifth Circuit has temporarily allowed enforcement of a state law that restricts app downloads by age and requires app stores to display age ratings in Texas, lifting a court order blocking the law while an appellate panel considers the litigation on its merits.

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11th Circ. Rejects Citadel Securities' Bid To Block Exchange

By Jessica Corso

The Eleventh Circuit said Friday it would not grant Citadel Securities' request to block a new options exchange from going live, ruling the IEX exchange does not unfairly discriminate against high-frequency traders that profit off lags in the marketplace.

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1st Circ. Says Mass. Police Head Immune Over Recording App

By Julie Manganis

The First Circuit has ruled that the superintendent of the Massachusetts state police is immune from civil rights claims in a proposed class action over the use of a Motorola app that secretly records phone conversations.

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NewsGuard Wants Appeal Over FTC 'Retaliation' Fast-Tracked

By Matthew Perlman

News rating organization NewsGuard Technologies is asking the D.C. Circuit to expedite its appeal in a case accusing the Federal Trade Commission of retaliating against the group for its reporting on disinformation.

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Intuit Didn't Infringe Browsing Patent, Calif. Judge Says

By Adam Lidgett

TurboTax-maker Intuit Inc. has beaten a lawsuit accusing it of infringing a patent that covers synchronized internet browsing after a California federal judge found that its tax preparation services don't meet key language of the patent.

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Nielsen Patent Survives Alice Invalidation Bid Before Trial

By Elliot Weld

A Delaware federal judge on Friday declined to invalidate a patent held by The Nielsen Co. covering audio recognition software under the U.S. Supreme Court's Alice test, saying the language of the patent was not abstract.

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Megan Thee Stallion Wins Back $75K Defamation Verdict

By David Minsky

A Florida federal judge reinstated a $75,000 verdict for Megan Thee Stallion, finding Friday that a Texas-based blogger wasn't entitled to a presuit notice required for media defendants because she engaged in a financially motivated campaign to defame the rapper. 

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Streamers Deemed NJ Employees, Contractors Under FLSA

By Benjamin Morse

A New Jersey federal judge ruled Friday that adult entertainers who perform on a streaming service are independent contractors under federal wage law but employees under New Jersey law, handing both sides partial wins in a wage class and collective action over the platform's pay practices.

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SeatGeek Ditches Site User's Data Tracking Suit, For Now

By Gina Kim

A California federal judge shut down a proposed class action alleging that SeatGeek deployed tracking pixels that share information about website users for targeted advertising, ruling Thursday that it didn't plead that the information was embarrassing or that its disclosure would be highly offensive, but she gave the plaintiff the opportunity to try again.

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Chime Can't Dodge Class Action Over 'Refer-A-Friend' Texts

By Ben Adlin

A Washington federal judge on Friday declined to throw out a proposed class action accusing online banking company Chime Financial Inc. of violating state law through its refer-a-friend text messages, ruling that the marketing texts don't fall under an exception to Washington's Commercial Electronic Mail Act.

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Luminar Exits Investor Suit Over Chip Image Rip-Off Claims

By Emilie Ruscoe

Bankrupt autonomous vehicle technology company Luminar Semiconductor Inc. no longer faces a proposed investor class action over claims it passed off an image of a competitor's technology as its own, though the suit remains ongoing against a former Luminar executive.

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Illumina Ducks DNA Sequence Rival's Antitrust Suit, For Now

By Bryan Koenig

A DNA sequencing startup will have to rejigger its antitrust lawsuit against Illumina after a California federal judge said it hasn't shown that the industry giant has entered exclusive agreements and hasn't adequately asserted that Illumina priced its offerings below cost, among other failings.

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LG Ends Suit Over Display Patents After Squires Rejected IPR

By Adam Lidgett

A Texas federal judge has signed off on LG's agreement to end its patent infringement suit against a Chinese company, bringing an end to a legal fight that led the head of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to say that foreign governments cannot file patent challenges under the America Invents Act.

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Adtran, Telecom Patent Owner Enter Deal To End Fight

By Adam Lidgett

Telecommunications company Adtran said Friday it has resolved a lawsuit in Alabama federal court accusing it of infringing five communication network and data transmission patents it had argued weren't valid.

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Telehealth Co. Hims Likely To Get Suicide Suit Trimmed

By Rachel Riley

A Washington state judge indicated Friday that he'll narrow a family's lawsuit blaming a 19-year-old's suicide on allegedly subpar mental health treatment he received through telehealth company Hims & Hers and its partner businesses, saying he'll nix corporate negligence claims and free online pharmacy XeCare from the case.

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X Corp. Calls Apple, OpenAI Deposition Bid 'Opportunism'

By Spencer Brewer

X Corp. on Friday called an attempt by Apple Inc. and OpenAI to conduct more than 10 depositions "simply opportunism at its most brazen," saying that the court should deny the defendants' bid to get more discovery in X's sweeping antitrust suit.

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Comcast Says EchoStar Must Face Contract Meddling Suit

By Benjamin Morse

Comcast urged a Colorado federal judge to reject Dish Wireless parent EchoStar's bid to escape a suit alleging the company directed Dish Wireless to abandon a fiber connection contract through baseless force majeure claims after EchoStar had sold $42 billion in spectrum licenses.

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AI Comms Co. Wants Calif. Phone Service Suit Moved To NY

By Matt Perez

Connex One, a customer communications software company that uses AI, asked a California federal judge to dismiss or transfer a lawsuit by personal injury firm DK Law alleging it oversold the capabilities of its call center platform, delivered defective services and improperly extended the parties' contract.

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T-Mobile Denied Call Center Workers Preshift Pay, Suit Says

By MJ Koo

T-Mobile required its hourly call center workers to boot up computers and log in to multiple software systems before their shifts without paying them for any of it, a former employee said in a collective and class action filed in Washington federal court.

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Motorola Solutions' Plate Readers Violate Calif. Law, Suit Says

By Lauraann Wood

Chicago-based Motorola Solutions Inc. operates an automatic license plate reader system in California without implementing state-required security measures that promote data usage transparency and prevent unauthorized information disclosure to federal and other non-state agencies, two Golden State residents claim in Illinois state court.

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ChargePoint Leaders Face Investor Suit Over Revenue Claims

By Sydney Price

Executives and directors of California-based electric-vehicle charging company ChargePoint Holdings Inc. were hit with a shareholder's derivative suit accusing them of allowing unsuitable revenue-inflating practices and misleading investors about the company's performance, the subject of multiple lawsuits the company is currently facing.

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Latham Advises CoStar On $800M Zonda Acquisition

By Al Barbarino

CoStar Group plans to acquire housing market data and software company Zonda for $800 million in cash from private equity firm MidOcean Partners, with Latham & Watkins LLP and Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP advising, according to deal announcements Friday.

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Roundup

Taxation With Representation: Latham, White & Case, Vischer

By Zak Kostro

In this week's Taxation With Representation, Fertitta Entertainment acquires Caesars Entertainment, Eli Lilly and Co. buys three companies involved in vaccine development, and nuclear energy company Newcleo Ltd. says it plans to go public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company, NewHold Investment Corp. III.

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AI Voice Co. Files Ch. 7 Amid Actors' Copyright Suit

By Vince Sullivan

Artificial intelligence-enabled voice generating software company Lovo Inc. has filed for Chapter 7 protection in New York in the midst of an ongoing putative class action brought by voice actors alleging their voices were used by the company without permission.

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EchoStar, FCC Reach Deal To Settle Auction Defaults

By Christopher Cole

EchoStar inked a deal Friday with the Federal Communications Commission to settle debt claims from spectrum auction defaults for up to $2.9 billion, depending on how much money the FCC brings in from a new round of license sales.

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Key Legal Considerations For Data Center Battery Storage

Battery energy storage systems have become essential infrastructure for data center development — but as trade, energy and tax policies continue to shift, companies operating in this space must understand the importance of supply chain requirements and industry-tailored contracts, says RJ Colwell at Davis Graham.

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Defense Patent Holiday's Real Prize May Be Collab Potential

The true value of participating in the ongoing defense patent holiday program might lie not in access to technology developed by the U.S. Department of War, but in developing a working relationship with a federally funded lab and potentially achieving a cooperative research and development agreement, says Lawrence Kass at Steptoe.

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Your Next Litigation Hold Should Cover AI Chat Logs

The Delaware Chancery Court’s recent decision in Fortis Advisors v. Krafton to treat a CEO’s artificial intelligence chats as substantive evidence is being read as a discovery warning to litigators, but there is a second duty-to-preserve lesson that is especially pertinent to in-house counsel, say attorneys at Faegre Drinker.

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Double Shooting Renews Courthouse Safety Fears In NC

By Hayley Fowler

The shooting of two Fox Rothschild LLP attorneys outside a courthouse in Raleigh, North Carolina, ahead of Memorial Day weekend has renewed calls to protect the safety of judges and lawyers in an increasingly volatile justice system.

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Baker McKenzie Asks Judge Not To Toss Suit Against Ex-Atty

By Alison Knezevich

A lawyer for Baker McKenzie on Friday urged a Washington, D.C., judge not to dismiss the BigLaw firm's defamation suit against a former tax associate who accused a firm office leader of sexual assault, telling the court the accusations were false and made with "malice."

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Bonus Spotlight

Selendy Gay Doles Out Spring Associate Bonuses

By Aebra Coe

New York litigation boutique Selendy Gay PLLC paid its associates spring bonuses of as much as $25,000 this week, according to the firm.

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Akin Gump Owes Fees For Winebow's 'Self-Indulgent' Appeal

By Dorothy Atkins

The Ninth Circuit on Thursday ordered an importer's Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP attorneys to pay a European winemaker fees for having to defend against the importer's "spurious objections" to the winemaker's valid arbitral award, ruling that the importer's "self-indulgent" appeal warrants sanctions in the form of fees.

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Calif. Panel Reverses Order For Citing Atty's Bogus Case Law

By Dorothy Atkins

A California appellate panel on Thursday reversed a judgment in favor of a man accused of abusing his son, finding that "without doubt" the trial judge abused her discretion by incorporating the man's bogus legal citations into her ruling, despite being alerted to the mistakes in advance.

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NY Judge Doubts Nussbaum-Linked Firms Belong In Ch. 11

By Emily Lever

A New York bankruptcy judge on Friday questioned whether his court was the proper venue to wind down two commercial real estate law firms headed by Mark J. Nussbaum as the debtors sought to ditch an assignment for the benefit of creditors process in New York state court.

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Dems Say DOJ Blocked Bondi On Trump Questions

By Courtney Bublé

Democrats were incensed on Friday that the U.S. Department of Justice attorneys who accompanied former Attorney General Pam Bondi to her committee interview stopped her from answering questions about President Donald Trump.

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Civil Rights Icon Clarence B. Jones Dies At 95

By Andrea Keckley

Civil rights icon Clarence B. Jones, a speechwriter and personal attorney to Martin Luther King Jr., died May 22 at an assisted living facility in the Santa Clara County city of Cupertino, California, his family confirmed earlier this week. He was 95.

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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 the billionaire who donated £5 million ($6.7 million) to Nigel Farage sue Ben Habib, the leader of far-right party Advance UK, for defamation; Mashreqbank bring claims against three subsidiaries of dissolved private equity giant Abraaj Group for commercial fraud; and the property and investment vehicle of the State of Kuwait be targeted by four real estate figures who filed a miscellaneous claim. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

Kirkland & Ellis says it's investing a half billion dollars into developing its own artificial intelligence platform to better serve clients. And Law360 looks at the general counsel who is guiding BP through its latest leadership crisis after the company abruptly dismissed its board chair.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Phillips Black Inc., Hogan Lovells and Watkins & Eager PLLC lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a Black Mississippi death row prisoner who argued racial discrimination tainted his jury selection is entitled to habeas corpus relief.

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Titan Of The Plaintiffs Bar: Boies Schiller's Matthew Schwartz

By Sarah Jarvis

Matthew L. Schwartz oscillated among many career aspirations as a kid, from astronaut to mayor of New York. When it was time to head off to college, the man who would go on to handle the prosecution of employees tied to Bernie Madoff and become chair of Boies Schiller Flexner LLP set his sights on science, earning an undergraduate degree in physics.

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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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