Amazon's Deal To End Gambling Suit Draws App Makers' Ire

By Ben Adlin

Developers of casino-style mobile apps sought to intervene Wednesday in Amazon's tentative deal to end consumers' proposed class action accusing the platform of enabling illegal online gambling, arguing that the settlement would leave the developers on the hook for $140 million while forcing Amazon to pay just $2.5 million.

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Nadex Seeks To Shield OG Prediction Market Biz In Wash.

By Rachel Riley

North American Derivatives Exchange asked a Washington federal court Wednesday to protect its prediction market platform OG from potential enforcement action by the state, pointing to the state attorney general's lawsuit going after Kalshi for alleged violations of state gambling law.

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Wash. AG Settles Rent Hike Suit Against Trinity

By Isaac Monterose

The Washington Attorney General's Office has settled its state court suit against landlord Trinity Property Consultants LLC, which it had accused of violating the state's Residential Landlord-Tenant Act with illegal rent hikes.

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Wash. Law Bars Discriminatory HOA Enforcement, Panel Says

By Isaac Monterose

The Washington State Court of Appeals reversed the dismissal of the Washington State Human Rights Commission's administrative housing bias complaint against a homeowners association and other parties, ruling that the state's discrimination law stops homeowners associations from using their rules to discriminate against people.

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Organ Network, Hospital Sued Over Racial Kidney Criteria

By Rachel Riley

A kidney disease patient launched a proposed class action in Washington federal court Tuesday accusing the United Network for Organ Sharing and Seattle hospital operator Swedish Health Services of using a flawed race-based adjustment when scoring kidney functioning, hindering Black patients' chances of getting a transplant for years.

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Cambia Health Hit With FCA Suit Over Medicare Fraud Claims

By Ben Adlin

Cambia Health Solutions Inc. stole millions of dollars from the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services over more than a decade by submitting fraudulent diagnostic information to the government, according to a whistleblower's False Claims Act lawsuit unsealed by a Seattle federal judge this week.

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Feds Ask Wash. Judge To Back Canadian's $700K FBAR Fines

By Natalie Olivo

A Canadian man living in the United States should remain on the hook for more than $700,000 in penalties for failing to report foreign bank accounts, the U.S. government told a Washington federal court, arguing he willfully disregarded disclosure requirements.

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Writers Guild Wants Paramount-Warner Bros. Block Extended

By Bryan Koenig

The Writers Guild of America asked a California federal judge Wednesday to extend the two-week injunction against Paramount Skydance's proposed $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, warning that permitting the deal to close while challenges proceed would allow the companies to shut down projects and share negotiation information.

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AGs Appeal Order Blocking RealPage Damages In MDL

By Jared Foretek

Attorneys general for Kentucky, Washington state, New Jersey, Maryland and D.C. have asked the Sixth Circuit to review a district court ruling barring them from seeking damages on behalf of their residents alongside private plaintiffs' settlements in a sweeping multidistrict litigation accusing landlords of using RealPage software to collude on rent prices.

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States Say Nielsen Ruling Backs Claims In Live Nation Suit

By James Boyle

A recent Second Circuit ruling in a data-tying case was invoked Wednesday to support a motion by more than a dozen state attorneys general opposing Live Nation's attempt to overturn a federal jury verdict against the company.

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Huawei Loses Bid To Block Laptop Evidence In NY RICO Case

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

A New York federal judge has refused to grant a motion to suppress four laptops and two recordings involving Huawei employees that the government obtained during its lengthy investigation of the Chinese telecommunications company.

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Nexstar Execs On Tegna Board Violates Injunction, Judge Told

By Matthew Perlman

DirecTV and a coalition of states told a California federal court on Wednesday that Nexstar Media Group has taken over Tegna's board of directors, despite a preliminary injunction preventing the broadcasting companies from fully integrating.

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States Seek Win Over Trump Admin In DEI Contracts Dispute

By Madeline Lyskawa

Nineteen states and the District of Columbia are urging a Maryland federal judge to vacate federal agencies' implementation of President Donald Trump's executive order requiring government contractors to agree that they won't engage in "racially discriminatory" diversity, equity and inclusion activities.

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Analysis

World Cup Brand Battles Will Outlast Spain's Title Victory

By Chris Villani

The 2026 FIFA World Cup came to an end Sunday with Spain winning for the second time in its history, but intellectual property battles are just heating up as companies and individuals seek to capitalize on the global event, experts told Law360.

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9th Circ. Won't Reopen Vax Bias Suit Against Wash. Officials

By Patrick Hoff

The Ninth Circuit upheld a Washington state agency's win in a suit alleging it unlawfully fired over a dozen employees rather than accommodate their religious objections to the COVID-19 vaccine, ruling they hadn't shown the agency was purposely hostile toward religion.

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9th Circ. Says BIA Rightly Nixed Father's Bid To Stay In US

By Gina Kim

The Ninth Circuit ruled the Board of Immigration Appeals correctly denied an application from a father who said he had to stay in the U.S. to care for his children, finding Wednesday his son, who turned 21 during the pendency of his father's appeal, can't support his father's eligibility for removal cancellation.

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6 Copyright Cases To Watch In The Second Half Of 2026

By Ivan Moreno

An appeal over whether an AI-powered legal research tool unlawfully used Westlaw material and a long-running fight involving a Miles Davis tattoo could produce some of 2026's most significant copyright rulings. Here is Law360's list of the most notable copyright cases to watch for the rest of the year.

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Goodwin, K&L Gates Steer $1.5B Repligen Gene Therapy Deal

By Al Barbarino

Repligen said Wednesday it will acquire BioLife Solutions in a cash-and-stock transaction valued at about $1.5 billion, expanding its presence in the fast-growing cell and gene therapy market, with Goodwin Procter LLP advising Repligen and K&L Gates LLP representing BioLife.

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500-Member NYC Public Defender Union Ends Strike

By Andrea Keckley

The first and so far only New York City public defender union to go on strike this year announced on Wednesday that its approximately 500 members are returning to work after reaching a tentative agreement with their managers.

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ABA Rips DOJ's 'Absurd' Firm Subpoenas In Documents Fight

By Emily Sawicki

The American Bar Association has blasted as "absurd" the government's move to subpoena law firms as an attempt to avoid a documents request from the organization amid allegations the Trump administration worked to intimidate law firms into conforming with his policy goals through executive orders last year.

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Jack Smith's Lawyers Say Criminal Referral Twists Testimony

By Courtney Bublé

Former Special Counsel Jack Smith's legal team has said the criminal referral a U.S. congress member sent the Department of Justice to investigate Smith is based on a "spurious claim."

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Does Your Pay Measure Up? Take The Law360 Pulse 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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Simpson Thacher Warned Co. About Deal Terms, Jury Told

By Cara Salvatore

A retired Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP partner who handled the fundraising vehicle alleged to have destroyed Patriot National Inc. told a Florida jury Thursday that he flagged deal terms that later became detrimental to the insurance services company.

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Senate Confirms 2 Judges, Advances Ohio And Colo. Picks

By Courtney Bublé

The Senate on Thursday voted 48-47 to confirm Judge Daniel Traynor of the District of North Dakota to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and 49-44 to confirm Antonio M. Pozos, a partner at Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, as a judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

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Harvard Law School Illegally Froze Pay, ULP Claims

By Katherine Smith

Harvard Law School violated federal labor law by failing to give clinical instructors annual raises and bonuses — which they had received previously — after they unionized with a United Auto Workers affiliate, the instructors alleged in an unfair labor practice charge Thursday.

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