Meta And Google's 'Addiction Machine' Hurt Kids, Jury Told

By Craig Clough

The first bellwether trial over thousands of consolidated cases alleging social media apps harm young people's mental health began in a California state court Monday, with an attorney for the plaintiff telling jurors that internal documents from defendants Meta and Google will prove they knew their products addicted children.

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Meta 'Lies' Hid Risk To Kids, New Mexico AG Says

By Cara Salvatore

New Mexico's attorney general went to trial Monday over Facebook and Instagram's alleged harms to young users, saying parent company Meta has long known of mental health and sexual exploitation risks but has obscured the truth, sometimes with "outright lies."

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EU Moves To Block Meta's WhatsApp Restriction On AI Rivals

By William Janes

The European Union's competition regulator revealed Monday it plans to impose restrictive measures on Meta over suspicions that the tech giant has breached antitrust rules by excluding third-party artificial intelligence apps from WhatsApp.

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8th Circ. Lets Stand Minn. Law Banning Election Deepfakes

By Ivan Moreno

The Eighth Circuit on Monday declined to block Minnesota's law criminalizing deepfakes that are designed to influence elections, holding in a published opinion that a state legislator waited too long to seek emergency relief and that a political commentator who also challenged the statute did not have standing.

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Fed. Circ. Uses Alice To Scrap $2.5M Netflix Patent Verdict

By Ryan Davis

The Federal Circuit on Monday threw out a California jury's $2.5 million verdict against Netflix for infringing a GoTV Streaming LLC patent on wireless content delivery, agreeing with the streaming giant that the patent and two others are invalid because they cover only abstract ideas.

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Judge OKs Sanctions In Valve Fight, Warns More May Come

By Elliot Weld

A Seattle federal judge on Monday granted video game maker Valve Corp.'s request to sanction a rival litigant over discovery violations just ahead of a trial on the company's allegations of bad faith patent infringement claims, and threatened to issue more over a legal brief that contained fake quotes and fabricated citations generated by artificial intelligence.

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'Baby Shark' Ruling Doesn't Stop Google Anti-Phishing Fight

By Pete Brush

A Manhattan federal judge granted injunctive relief Monday to Google in its effort to combat an alleged China-based phishing enterprise, holding that faraway defendants were properly served electronically despite an appellate ruling mandating mail service in a "Baby Shark" infringement case.

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States Seek Quick Win On $100K H-1B Fee 'Power-Grab'

By MJ Koo

A group of 20 states asked a Massachusetts federal judge for a win in their challenge to the Trump administration's policy imposing a $100,000 fee on certain H-1B visa petitions, arguing the measure unlawfully rewrites Congress' carefully calibrated immigration scheme and exceeds executive authority.

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Autodesk Says Google Hijacked 'Flow' Video Production TM

By Lauren Berg

Autodesk, which developed its "Flow" line of software for film, television and video game production, says Google has swooped in and taken the name for its own video production software app, allowing it to "swamp Autodesk's place in the market," according to a new lawsuit filed in California federal court.

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Technology Group Of The Year: Davis Polk

By Adam Lidgett

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP worked on multiple technology matters over the past year worth billions of dollars, including advising the underwriters in SailPoint's nearly $1.4 billion initial public offering and helping Qorvo on a $22 billion merger with Skyworks, earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 Technology Practice Groups of the Year.

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NTIA Approves Nearly All State Broadband Funding Plans

By Christopher Cole

The U.S. Department of Commerce has signed off on almost all the recent state-level plans under the government's signature high-speed infrastructure spending initiative, moving projects across the country closer to fruition, a top official said Monday.

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FCC Said To Formally Launch Equal Time Probe At 'The View'

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission has reportedly started a formal investigation into whether ABC's "The View" fails to qualify for a "bona fide" news carveout that would exempt the show from political equal time rules.

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USTelecom Asks FCC To Protect 911 Amid Copper Rollback

By Nadia Dreid

Broadband trade group USTelecom is throwing its weight behind a petition that says the Federal Communications Commission must put protections in place to ensure that 911 services aren't disrupted as telecoms rush to retire copper phone lines.

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Fed. Circ. Mulls Whether Digital Ad Patent Can Survive Alice

By Dani Kass

An advertising management system company tried to persuade the Federal Circuit on Monday to revive its infringement suit against Google and YouTube, saying its patent was wrongly found to cover an abstract idea.

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Citadel Securities Rival Backs New Exchange Before 11th Circ.

By Jessica Corso

Wall Street reform advocates and a Citadel Securities LLC competitor have stepped forward to support Investors Exchange LLC in its bid to keep a new options exchange alive, telling the Eleventh Circuit that the exchange will create more competition to the benefit of investors.

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Prison Phone Co. Opposes Rate Case Move To 1st Circ.

By Christopher Cole

A prison phone service provider has urged the D.C. Circuit to deny a recent bid from public interest groups to move multidistrict litigation over federally set phone call rates in jails and prisons to the First Circuit.

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Meta Allows Pump-And-Dump Scam Ads, New Suit Says

By Katryna Perera

A new proposed class action in California federal court alleges Meta Platforms Inc. knowingly allowed pump-and-dump scammers to advertise on its platform and to promote and falsely inflate the prices of certain stocks before selling their shares, gaining millions of dollars from Meta users.

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Polymarket Sues Mass. To Halt Potential Sports Market Ban

By Julie Manganis

Polymarket filed a lawsuit Monday seeking to block Massachusetts from enforcing its sports gambling laws against the prediction market.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jeff Montgomery

Delaware's chancellor has rejected a bid for dismissal of a derivative suit accusing Coinbase Global Inc. insiders of massively unloading shares ahead of a steep stock drop, stressing a special litigation committee's failure to meet independence standards.

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Fed. Circ. Won't Reboot Startup's Patent Suit Against Shopify

By Elliot Weld

The Federal Circuit on Monday declined to breathe new life into a case from a defunct digital media startup alleging that Shopify was infringing its patents by using ideas disclosed during talks about a potential partnership.

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Amazon Inks Multibillion STMicro Deal Amid Massive AI Push

By Al Barbarino

Amazon Web Services is committing to buy several billion dollars' worth of STMicroelectronics chips and related services over the life of a new multiyear agreement, the chipmaker announced Monday. 

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Blockchain Co. Archblock Files Ch. 11 With Debt Over $100M

By Ben Zigterman

Blockchain financial technology company Archblock LLC filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy relief in Delaware, listing more than $100 million in liabilities and less than $10 million in assets.

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Prime Core Sues SFox For $2.6M Clawback In Crypto Ch. 11

By Hilary Russ

The litigation trust for bankrupt cryptocurrency custodian Prime Core Technologies Inc. is seeking to claw back $2.6 million of preferential transfers from one of the company's former end users, stablecoin platform sFox Inc.

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Altice Must Face 'Enhancement Fee' Case, Conn. AG Says

By Nadia Dreid

Altice USA should not be able to slip a retooled complaint brought by the state of Connecticut that accuses the company of improperly charging customers a $6 "network enhancement fee" and making misleading representations about its internet speed, a state court has been told.

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Baker Donelson Adds CFPB Founding Atty In DC

By Jack Rodgers

A founding member of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau who co-founded and spent the past 2½ years as co-leader of boutique SeldenLindeke LLP, has joined Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC in Washington, D.C., as a shareholder, the firm announced Monday.

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2 Arnold & Porter M&A Attys Join WilmerHale In Silicon Valley

By James Mills

WilmerHale continues boosting its dealmaking team with attorneys from Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, announcing Monday that two technology mergers and acquisitions experts are joining its Silicon Valley office in Palo Alto, California.

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Reviewing The Legal Landscape Of Social Media For Minors

States have initiated a wave of legislation regulating minors' access to and use of social media platforms, so it will be critical for social media companies to closely track the patchwork of state laws and pending legal challenges so they are prepared to pivot if necessary, say attorneys at Sidley.

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EEOC, Law Students End Legal Battle Over Firm DEI Letters

By Lynn LaRowe

A proposed class action brought by law students last year challenging the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's requests for diversity data from 20 law firms ended Monday with the government agreeing compliance "was not mandatory, and that most law firms did not provide any of the requested information."

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Ill. Legislation Targets Outside Investments In Legal Sector

By Emma Cueto

Two bills introduced in the Illinois state Legislature seek to place restrictions on the use of private equity-backed managed service organizations in the legal industry and on any fee-sharing between Illinois lawyers and firms owned by nonlawyers in states like Arizona.

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Goldstein's Defense Questions Missing Tax Emails

By Jared Foretek

Document retention at the outside accounting firm for SCOTUSblog founder Thomas Goldstein and his law firm took center stage at the U.S. Supreme Court lawyers' tax fraud trial Monday, as the defense claimed that the accountants' internal emails about Goldstein's tax returns were never produced despite being sought in subpoenas.

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Conn. Atty Sanctioned For Another Case Of AI Misuse

By Emily Sawicki

A Connecticut labor litigator's vow to permanently cease using generative artificial intelligence tools in his practice after he allowed AI-generated errors to appear in separate but similar June filings has weighed in his favor as a Bridgeport federal judge ordered sanctions against the attorney.

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High Court Asked To Take Up Malpractice Case Against Akin

By Adam Lidgett

A former Cornell University graduate student wants the U.S. Supreme Court to review the dismissal of his suit accusing Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP attorneys of manipulating patent litigation to steal his DNA sequencing intellectual property.

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Sentencing Commission's Reform Ideas May Cut Prison Time

By Stewart Bishop

Proposed new amendments to the federal sentencing guidelines could lead to shorter prison terms for many offenders, including by revising loss calculations for financial crimes and providing a first-of-its-kind path to reward defendants for post-offense, pre-sentence rehabilitative efforts.

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10th Circ. Ends Civil Rights Suit, Sanctions Atty For AI Errors

By Emily Sawicki

A self-represented Maryland attorney could not revive her $15 million racial discrimination suit against Denver-based Frontier Airlines after a Tenth Circuit panel found the district court had not erred in its dismissal, in a ruling that also sanctioned the lawyer for misusing generative artificial intelligence.

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Law360 Seeks Members For Its 2026 Editorial Boards

Law360 is looking for avid readers of our publications to serve as members of our 2026 editorial advisory boards.

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