New York

  • October 07, 2025

    Chanel, The RealReal Fail To Reach Settlement In TM Feud

    Fashion house Chanel and used-items retailer The RealReal Inc. have told a Manhattan federal judge they haven't been able to reach a settlement on Chanel's claims of trademark infringement despite, as The RealReal's attorneys put it, significant efforts being expended to try to reach a compromise.

  • October 07, 2025

    AGs Rip DOJ Bid To Pause Planned Parenthood Funding Suit

    The U.S. Department of Justice wants to use the ongoing government shutdown as a "shield" to stop a group of states from seeking an injunction against a halt to Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood, the states told a Massachusetts federal judge in opposing a possible pause on their lawsuit.

  • October 07, 2025

    2nd Circ. Rules Inmates Not Entitled To Specific Gender Care

    A Second Circuit panel has overturned a transgender inmate's partial win in a lawsuit against prison officials in Connecticut over allegedly inadequate gender dysphoria treatment, holding that the defendants are entitled to qualified immunity and that "inmates have no clearly established right to be treated by gender-dysphoria specialists" or receive specific treatments for the condition.

  • October 07, 2025

    Gov't, Gun Defendant Urge Justices Not To 'Double-Punish'

    The government and a New York man convicted in a fatal robbery both asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to rule that subjecting defendants to separate sentences stemming from a single deadly federal firearm offense is a double-jeopardy violation.

  • October 07, 2025

    Feds Seek 6 Years For Ex-Frank Exec's 'Brazen' $175M Con

    Prosecutors asked a New York federal judge Monday to sentence a former executive at financial aid startup Frank to six years in prison for helping its founder Charlie Javice trick JPMorgan Chase & Co. into buying the company for $175 million, saying he deserves no leniency for the "brazen" fraud.

  • October 07, 2025

    Zillow Can See Anywhere Deal Docs In Compass Antitrust Suit

    A New York federal judge partially approved real estate listings company Zillow Inc.'s discovery motion in brokerage Compass Inc.'s antitrust suit over Zillow's listings policy, ruling that Compass must provide Zillow with specific documents related to its $1.6 billion all-stock acquisition of Anywhere Real Estate Inc.

  • October 07, 2025

    Ex-Sprinter Gets 18 Mos. For Doping Scheme, COVID-19 Fraud

    A Manhattan federal judge sentenced a former Olympic-level sprinter to 18 months in prison Tuesday, after he admitted to scheming to provide track stars with doping substances, and also to applying for fraudulent COVID-19 era business loans.

  • October 07, 2025

    SEC's Atkins Wants To 'Future-Proof' Deregulatory Agenda

    U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Paul Atkins said Tuesday that he hopes that moving quickly to adopt new rules deregulating the public and private markets will "future-proof" his agenda against potential tampering by succeeding presidential administrations.

  • October 07, 2025

    United Can't Sanction Ex-Flight Attendant Over Pay Suit

    A former United Airlines flight attendant will avoid sanctions in his now-ended suit seeking unpaid wages, a New York federal judge ruled, saying he didn't abuse the judicial process even if his evidence that state law applied to his claims was weak.

  • October 07, 2025

    Fla. Lawyer Accused Of Scamming Clients Suspended

    A Florida lawyer accused of abandoning dozens of clients after charging them legal fees has been suspended from practicing law in the state on an emergency basis.

  • October 06, 2025

    Supreme Court Won't Review Russian Bank Jet Crash Suit

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to undo a precedential Second Circuit decision finding that Sberbank of Russia must face Anti-Terrorism Act litigation related to the 2014 downing of a commercial airliner over eastern Ukraine, rejecting the bank's argument it is entitled to sovereign immunity.

  • October 06, 2025

    NBA Scores 2nd Toss Of Privacy Suit Over Meta Data Sharing

    A New York federal judge Monday again dismissed a proposed digital privacy class action against the NBA, saying the league, based on binding Second Circuit precedent, didn't unlawfully disclose the personal information of one of its newsletter subscribers.

  • October 06, 2025

    IP Notebook: Miss Cleo, Political Slogans, Reggaeton Clash

    The latest edition of Law360's look at emerging copyright and trademark issues features a case where a judge injected some humor into dismissing a complaint involving a TV psychic who became known for her infomercials, as well as a sanctions request in a heated conflict over the birth of reggaeton.

  • October 06, 2025

    2nd Circ. Revives Investors' Green Infrastructure Co. Suit

    The Second Circuit on Monday revived a proposed class action against defunct green infrastructure firm Abengoa SA, ruling that details from Spanish criminal proceedings against the firm could be used to claim that the company had defrauded its U.S.-based investors.

  • October 06, 2025

    Morgan Stanley Race Bias Suit In NY Closed After Settlement

    A decade-old suit accusing Morgan Stanley of discriminating against its African American financial advisers and depriving them of lucrative opportunities has come to a close after the final plaintiff reached a settlement with the financial institution.

  • October 06, 2025

    2nd Circ. Declines To Reconsider NFL Arbitration Decision

    The Second Circuit on Monday declined the NFL's request to reconsider its finding that the league offers arbitration "in name only" and that it cannot force fired Miami Dolphins head coach Brian Flores to arbitrate his racial discrimination claims.

  • October 06, 2025

    Suit Aims To 'Claw Back' Kalshi's Ga. Predictions Proceeds

    Kalshi Inc. and Robinhood are among a slew of defendants who have been sued in Georgia over allegations that the companies' so-called prediction markets are sidestepping the Peach State's ban on gambling, adding to a growing roster of litigation stemming from the companies' business practices.

  • October 06, 2025

    NY Pot Regulators Say Towns' Local Laws Preempted

    New York cannabis regulators on Monday adopted a pair of advisory opinions finding that local laws in two Long Island towns restricting the operations of licensed cannabis retailers were "unreasonably impracticable" and were preempted by state policy.

  • October 06, 2025

    Justices Asked To Narrow Honest Services Fraud In FIFA Case

    A South American sports marketing firm has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review its reinstated bribery convictions, arguing that the Second Circuit's "extreme" application of honest services fraud law expanded the ability to secure convictions based on a private code of conduct.

  • October 06, 2025

    Buyers Launch False Ad Suit Over Trader Joe's Probiotics

    Two buyers have hit Trader Joe's Co. with a proposed class action alleging that the store's probiotics products contain far fewer "good bacteria" than advertised, with less than 8 billion colony forming units rather than the 30 billion the store claims.

  • October 06, 2025

    Angels Owner Testifies Noise Issue Marred NYC Penthouse

    Los Angeles Angels owner Arte Moreno testified Monday that he became "very concerned" about noise from a fire suppression system, as a Manhattan federal judge weighed his claim for the return of an $8.5 million deposit he made in a Park Avenue penthouse deal that never closed.

  • October 06, 2025

    High Court Wants Feds' Input On Coffee Drink TM Fight

    The solicitor general has been asked by the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on a trademark case against PepsiCo Inc. launched by a company that makes nitro-brewed coffee drinks called Rise.

  • October 06, 2025

    Ghislaine Maxwell's Appeal Is Rejected By Supreme Court

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell's appeal of her 2021 sex trafficking conviction.

  • October 06, 2025

    High Court Won't Review NYC Bus Tour Antitrust Case

    The U.S. Supreme Court refused on Monday to review a New York City tour bus operator's case accusing a group of rivals of combining their operations and using the partnership to squash competition for hop-on, hop-off tour bus service.

  • October 06, 2025

    High Court Passes On Halkbank's Immunity Claims

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up Halkbank's claims that it has common-law foreign sovereign immunity from criminal charges alleging the bank laundered about $1 billion in sanctioned Iranian oil proceeds.

Expert Analysis

  • 2nd Circ. Reinforces Consensus On Vacating Foreign Awards

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    In Molecular Dynamics v. Spectrum Dynamics Medical, the Second Circuit recently affirmed that federal district courts do not possess subject matter jurisdiction to vacate foreign arbitral awards, strengthening this consensus across the circuits most active in recognition and enforcement actions, says Ed Mullins at Reed Smith.

  • Previewing State Efforts To Regulate Mental Health Chatbots

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    New York, Nevada and Utah have all recently enacted laws regulating the use of artificial intelligence to deliver mental health services, offering early insights into how other states may regulate this area, say attorneys at Goodwin.

  • E-Discovery Quarterly: Rulings On Relevance Redactions

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    In recent cases addressing redactions that parties sought to apply based on the relevance of information — as opposed to considerations of privilege — courts have generally limited a party’s ability to withhold nonresponsive or irrelevant material, providing a few lessons for discovery strategy, say attorneys at Sidley.

  • Opinion

    Section 1983 Has Promise After End Of Nationwide Injunctions

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    After the U.S. Supreme Court recently struck down the practice of nationwide injunctions in Trump v. Casa, Section 1983 civil rights suits can provide a better pathway to hold the government accountable — but this will require reforms to qualified immunity, says Marc Levin at the Council on Criminal Justice.

  • Courts Redefining Software As Product Generates New Risks

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    A recent wave of litigation against social media platforms, chatbot developers and ride-hailing companies has some courts straying from the traditional view of software as a service to redefining software as a product, with significant implications for strict liability exposure, say attorneys at Reed Smith.

  • Series

    Playing Soccer Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Soccer has become a key contributor to how I approach my work, and the lessons I’ve learned on the pitch about leadership, adaptability, resilience and communication make me better at what I do every day in my legal career, says Whitney O’Byrne at MoFo.

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    Law School's Missed Lessons: Learning From Failure

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    While law school often focuses on the importance of precision, correctness and perfection, mistakes are inevitable in real-world practice — but failure is not the opposite of progress, and real talent comes from the ability to recover, rethink and reshape, says Brooke Pauley at Tucker Ellis.

  • Midyear Rewind: How Courts Are Reshaping VPPA Standards

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    The first half of 2025 saw a series of cases interpreting the Video Privacy Protection Act as applied to website tracking technologies, including three appellate rulings deepening circuit splits on what qualifies as personally identifiable information and who qualifies as a consumer under the statute, say attorneys at Perkins Coie.

  • Series

    Adapting To Private Practice: From ATF Director To BigLaw

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    As a two-time boomerang partner, returning to BigLaw after stints as a U.S. attorney and the director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, people ask me how I know when to move on, but there’s no single answer — just clearly set your priorities, says Steven Dettelbach at BakerHostetler.

  • 4 In-Flux Employment Law Issues Banks Should Note

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    Attorneys at Ogletree provide a midyear update on employment law changes that could significantly affect banks and other financial service institutions — including federal diversity equity and inclusion updates, and new and developing state and local artificial intelligence laws.

  • New DOJ Penalty Policy Could Spell Trouble For Cos.

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    In light of the U.S. Department of Justice’s recently published guidance making victim relief a core condition of coordinated resolution crediting, companies facing parallel investigations must carefully calibrate their negotiation strategies to minimize the risk of duplicative penalties, say attorneys at Debevoise.

  • 5 Consumer Protection Compliance Issues In NY State Budget

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    Companies that engage with New York consumers should promptly familiarize themselves with new state budget provisions that require finance and retail companies to make certain business practices more transparent and easier for customers to execute, say attorneys at Mintz.

  • Rule 23 Class Certification Matters In Settlements, Too

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    The U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling in Trump v. CASA Inc. highlighted requirements for certifying classes for litigation in federal court, but counsel must also understand how Rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure may affect certifying classes for settlement purposes, say attorneys at Sidley.

  • 7 Ways Employers Can Avoid Labor Friction Over AI

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    As artificial intelligence use in the workplace emerges as a key labor relations topic in the U.S. and Europe, employers looking to reduce reputational risk and prevent costly disputes should consider proactive strategies to engage with unions, say attorneys at Baker McKenzie.

  • SEC, FINRA Obligations In Changing AI Regulatory Landscape

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    Despite the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's recent withdrawal of its proposed artificial intelligence conflict rules, financial regulators remain focused on firms developing the correct AI compliance framework, as well as continuously testing and supervising them to ensure they're fit for purpose, say attorneys at Cahill Gordon.

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