Don't 'Throw' Young Attys Under Bus, Judge Warns Musk Atty

By Dorothy Atkins

The California federal judge presiding over Elon Musk's challenge to OpenAI's for-profit conversion criticized Musk's attorney Marc Toberoff on Friday for eliciting "waste of time" trial testimony into Musk's $97.4 billion acquisition bid, warning Toberoff he "shouldn't throw young lawyers under the bus" by not quickly acknowledging his role.

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Analysis

What To Watch For As Meta Stares Down NM Injunction Trial

By Cara Salvatore

The attorney general who convinced a jury to penalize Meta Platforms Inc. $375 million for teen mental health harms now faces a critical follow-up bench trial to fight for a suite of court orders that Meta claims would force "a different Instagram to exist in New Mexico."

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UBS Can't Escape $92M FINRA Award Over Tesla Stock Advice

By Sydney Price

An Iowa district judge denied UBS Financial Services' bid to vacate an arbitration award granted by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc., telling the firm it must pay more than $23 million in compensatory damages and $69 million in punitive damages to several ex-UBS customers who said the firm advised them to short-sell electric car company Tesla Inc.'s stock.

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Vietnam Tops USTR Priority IP Watch List In Latest Report

By Adam Lidgett

Vietnam hasn't dealt with "long-standing" issues to protect and enforce intellectual property rights, and its actions have had the biggest negative impact on U.S. products, according to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative's latest annual global IP report.

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Pentagon Reaches AI Deals For Classified Network Use

By Ganesh Setty

The U.S. Department of Defense announced new deals Friday with major technology companies including Nvidia, Google and SpaceX, letting their artificial intelligence systems into its own classified networks.

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Q&A

How Paul Clement Does It All

By Katie Buehler

For most lawyers, getting to argue before the U.S. Supreme Court is a once-in-a-lifetime event, but for a select few, it's a common occurrence. Clement & Murphy PLLC name partner Paul Clement is one of those lawyers. 

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Analysis

Trump's Fixed-Price Contract Default Could Raise Gov't Costs

By Madeline Lyskawa

President Donald Trump's recent executive order making fixed-price contracts or contracts that tie profit to performance metrics the default for federal contracting could lead to costlier government procurement and less competition, in contrast to the administration's stated goals.

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Top Groups Lobbying The FCC

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission heard from lobbying groups almost 140 times in April on issues ranging from satellite spectrum sharing to the upcoming auction of C-band, changes to the E-Rate funding program, rules to tamp down on robocalls and more.

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Brief

ReConnect Program Back In Farm Bill Passed By House

By Nadia Dreid

The U.S. Department of Agriculture had floated the idea of ditching its ReConnect program, which provides loans and grants for broadband deployment in rural areas, but the farm bill that just passed through the House of Representatives included funding for the initiative.

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Analysis

5 Argument Sessions Benefits Attys Should Watch In May

By Kellie Mejdrich

HP, Siemens and Honeywell will defend victories in 401(k) forfeiture suits at the Ninth and Third circuits, while union pensioners will battle over life insurance and early retirement benefits at the Tenth and Seventh circuits. Here, Law360 looks at five coming oral argument sessions that benefits attorneys may want to keep an eye on.

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Forbes Strikes $10M Deal In Calif. Tracker Privacy Suit

By Craig Clough

A proposed class of Forbes.com website users has asked a California federal judge to preliminarily approve a $10 million settlement to resolve claims that Forbes Media violated Golden State privacy laws by using third-party tracking technologies on its website to collect and share visitors' data without their consent.

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Hartford Unit Owed Contractor Coverage In Data Center Row

By Mark Payne

A Hartford insurance specialty unit had a duty to defend a building contractor against an underlying suit over a data center's construction even after defamation claims were dropped, a California federal judge ruled, finding that existing claims could have exposed the contractor to additional defamation allegations.

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Judge Hits Brakes On Privacy Suit Over Unpaid Parking Bill

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

A Florida federal judge has dismissed a proposed class action accusing a parking company of illegally accessing driving records when charging delinquent drivers, saying the plaintiff suffered no injury.

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Zazzle Settles Suit Over Font Design Use

By Elliot Weld

Online retailer Zazzle has settled claims brought by a designer who alleged the site went beyond what was allowed by a license between the parties to use a copyrighted font she designed.

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PTAB Axes Part Of Memory Tech Patent, Upholds Another

By Adam Lidgett

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has found that only some of the claims in a computer memory patent that Western Digital Technologies was accused of infringing in California federal court were invalid, while upholding all the challenged claims of another patent.

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Del. Judge Leans Toward Candor In AI Tech Fight

By Jarek Rutz

A Delaware vice chancellor said Friday she's inclined to find that a legal technology company's term sheet with an Italian artificial intelligence business is binding and that specific performance may be the only workable remedy in a fight over emotion-recognition technology for legal proceedings.

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Investors Lose Contract Claims In Del. Over Stock Financing

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court has dismissed contract-based claims brought by early investors in materials science company Footprint International Holdco Inc., finding that they could not invoke the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing to add protections to a governance agreement after a disputed financing allegedly wiped out much of the value of their preferred stock.

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EV Battery Plant Fight Belongs In Arbitration, Ga. Panel Says

By Kelcey Caulder

The Georgia Court of Appeals on Friday said a trial court should have ruled that arbitration was the right venue for a case over millions in allegedly unpaid bills for construction work a subcontractor performed on a Georgia electric vehicle battery facility.

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Judge Dubious Of TikTok Bid To Trim Mass. Addiction Suit

By Julie Manganis

A Massachusetts Superior Court judge appeared skeptical Friday of efforts by TikTok to differentiate its product from Meta Platforms' Instagram, hinting that he is likely to reject the company's bid to dismiss claims in another social media addiction lawsuit brought by Massachusetts.

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Mortgage Giants Want Homeowners' Price-Fixing Suit Tossed

By Isaac Monterose

A group of mortgage originators and several software companies told a Tennessee federal court that a proposed price-fixing class action should be tossed because the plaintiffs didn't plausibly allege that the originators used certain software for a nationwide price-fixing conspiracy involving residential mortgage rates.

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Netflix Looks To Push Disability Bias Suit To Arbitration

By Patrick Hoff

A former Netflix engineer should have to arbitrate her lawsuit alleging she was fired for taking medical leave to address her mental health conditions, the streaming giant told a Georgia federal court, arguing her claims fall squarely in the purview of an arbitration agreement she signed.

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Va. Social Media Limit Law Should Stay Blocked, Court Told

By Nadia Dreid

There's no reason a Virginia federal judge should stay her decision blocking the commonwealth from enforcing a law that limits children's access to social media to an hour a day unless they get special permission from their parents, says the trade group challenging the law.

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Crypto Co. Seeks Sanctions For Depo Conduct In $8.1M Suit

By Hayley Fowler

A cryptocurrency business that accuses a former trader of usurping $8.1 million in digital assets wants him sanctioned for his conduct during a deposition, saying he was coached by his attorney and intentionally gave ambiguous answers.

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Streamers Say They're Not Like App Dog Walkers In Pay Suit

By Benjamin Morse

Performers for an adult livestream platform urged a Connecticut federal judge Friday to reject the platform operators' reliance on a ruling that found a dog-walking app was not a service provider with employees, arguing the out-of-state decision has no bearing on whether the performers were misclassified as independent contractors.

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Callaway Takes A Swing At Rival's 'Tortured' False Ad Suit

By Hailey Konnath

Callaway Golf Co. asked a California federal court to throw out claims it has run a disparaging smear campaign portraying TaylorMade Golf Co.'s products as poorly performing, calling the suit "a tortured effort to chill competition."

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Consumers Challenge Paramount-Warner Bros. Deal

By Bryan Koenig

News watchers and streaming subscribers have brought a lawsuit against Paramount Skydance Corp. opposing both its pending $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery and the completed tie-up between Skydance Media and Paramount Global, telling a California federal court the earlier transaction has already caused higher streaming prices.

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Amazon Accused Of Selling Kids Sunscreen With Lead

By Emily Field

Consumers on Thursday hit Amazon with a proposed class action in Washington federal court alleging that children's sunscreens it sells are contaminated with heavy metals such as lead and that its artificial intelligence shopping assistant Rufus doesn't disclose details about the product ingredients.

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Calif. Firm Says AI Service Co. Tried To 'Stiff Arm' Biz Renewal

By Lauren Berg

After a California personal injury law firm experienced persistent issues with a phone system supported by artificial intelligence, it told the service provider it wouldn't renew its contract, but the provider tried to "stiff arm" the firm into renewing by harassing employees and threatening litigation, according to a federal lawsuit.

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Mass. Residents Sue Over Data Center's Expansion

By Isaac Monterose

A group of Lowell, Massachusetts residents has accused the state's Department of Environmental Protection of wrongfully approving "a flawed air quality plan" for the expansion of a 14-acre, 352,000-square-foot data center that's allegedly been polluting their community.

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SpaceX Sued Over Rocket Noise Damage To Homes

By José Luis Martínez

Dozens of South Texas homeowners sued SpaceX in federal court, alleging the company's rocket activity at its Starbase facility repeatedly damaged their homes with noise, vibrations and sonic booms.

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Biotech Firm Wants Do-Over After Consultant's $58M Verdict

By Chart Riggall

A Georgia-based medical technology firm that was hit with a $58 million verdict last month over claims that it conspired to have a former consultant arrested has asked a Fulton County judge for a new trial, arguing the court allowed a jury charge that was "erroneous, irrelevant, [and] not tailored to the evidence."

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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 a Swiss energy trader bring a Financial List claim against shipping benchmarking company Baltic Exchange, law firm Slater and Gordon sued by a former client, Slack and Salesforce hit Microsoft with an antitrust claim, and Stephen Fry bring a personal injury claim after he broke bones falling off a stage. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

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Analysis

4 Key Takeaways From PitchBook's Latest Global M&A Report

By Al Barbarino

Global mergers and acquisitions activity surged to record highs in the first quarter of 2026, but beneath the headline numbers was a market shaped by diverging trends across sectors, geographies and buyer types, according to PitchBook's latest global M&A report.

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NYDFS Fines Delta Dental $2.25M Over MOVEit Data Breach

By Allison Grande

Delta Dental has agreed to pay $2.25 million to resolve the New York financial regulator's claims that the insurer maintained inadequate cybersecurity and breach response measures that enabled hackers to obtain access to files sent through the MOVEit transfer tool containing its customers' personal information. 

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Crypto 'Wash Trading' Co. Employee Ordered To Self-Deport

By Bonnie Eslinger

A California federal judge Friday ordered one of 10 foreign nationals accused of manipulating the cryptocurrency markets through "wash trading" to self-deport back to India after finding the 26-year-old man played a "relatively minor role" in the scheme, sentencing him to time already served.

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Feds Say RealPage Deal Fixes Rental Pricing Concerns

By Matthew Perlman

The government has told a North Carolina federal court its settlement with RealPage fully resolves issues regarding landlords using the company's software to inflate rental rates, despite criticism from a pro-enforcement group.

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Media Matters Says Justices' New Ruling Secures Its FTC Win

By Nadia Dreid

The U.S. Supreme Court just handed down a decision in favor of an anti-abortion pregnancy center that a left-leaning media watchdog says supports its argument that a district court had the power to block a Federal Trade Commission subpoena before the agency tried to enforce it.

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How 'Spillover' Effects Can Skew AI Securities Class Actions

Event study evidence is often central in securities litigation at class certification and beyond, but in an environment where earnings forecasts and statements can have spillover market implications, particularly when concerning artificial intelligence, the task of parsing out the price impact of news requires careful consideration, say Erik Johannesson, Olivia Wurgaft and Nguyet Nguyen at Brattle Group.

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How Data Center Accounting May Draw Enforcement Scrutiny

As public and media scrutiny of the data center industry intensifies, regulators, enforcement authorities and Congress will likely focus on accounting judgments that rely on aggressive assumptions, opaque financing structures or rapidly evolving collateral classes, heightening the risk of investigations and inquiries, say attorneys at King & Spalding.

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Opinion

Congress Must Repair USPTO's Inter Partes Review Process

To challenge recent changes to the inter partes review process issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Congress must establish clear statutory guardrails, transparency and meaningful judicial review so that questionable patents receive proper scrutiny, say Sean Tu at the University of Alabama, Arti Rai at Duke University and Aaron Kesselheim at Harvard.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a California federal jury cleared Armistice Capital and two of its executives of class action claims that it pumped and dumped $250 million in Vaxart stock during the COVID-19 pandemic and violated federal securities law with insider trading.

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Whistleblower Says DOJ Rushed SPLC Indictment

By Courtney Bublé

A whistleblower has come forward to say a top U.S. Department of Justice official ordered prosecutors in Alabama to "rush" the indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center despite concerns about the viability of the case, according to Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee.

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California High Court Rejects Dunn's Bid To Nix Suspension

By Adrian Cruz

The California Supreme Court has declined to review a California State Bar decision to impose a one-year stayed suspension on former State Bar executive Joseph Dunn.

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FTC, DOJ Say ABA Reliance Limits Law School Competition

By Matthew Perlman

The Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division told the Tennessee Supreme Court the American Bar Association's monopoly over law school accreditations is driving up the cost of legal education.

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Analysis

SEC's Corp. Governance Shift Puts Onus On States, Cos.

By Sarah Jarvis

Lawyers who work with clients on corporate governance matters had a warm response to a recent pledge from U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Paul Atkins to let states handle such issues, saying the shift marks a return to the agency's historical approach and may spur increased activity among state regulators.

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Ex-Bondi Adviser Tapped As Fraud Task Force's Chief Lawyer

By Phillip Bantz

Ousted U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi's former adviser is taking on a new role as general counsel for the White House's fraud task force.

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Roundup

GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

A pair of proxy advisory firms have sued two state attorneys general over laws they say impose burdensome requirements for issuing recommendations that go against corporate managers' wishes. Meanwhile, KPMG reports that legal is evolving into a key driver of business performance, and AI is a core component of the department. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.

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Roundup

The Top In-House Hires Of April

By Michele Gorman

Legal department hires during the past month included high-profile appointments at Intel, Colgate and Tripadvisor. Here, Law360 Pulse looks at some of the top in-house announcements from April.

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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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