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  DOJ Unveils Law Firm Subpoenas In ABA Docs Bid Fight

  By Ryan Boysen, Rae Ann Varona, Alison Knezevich, Daniel Moritz-Rabson and Aebra Coe

  The BigLaw firms that cut deals with the Trump administration last year to skirt punitive executive orders are n...(read more)

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  States Stepping Up Merger Work In First Half Of 2026

  By Matthew Perlman

  Federal enforcers reached a number of merger settlements in the first half of 2026, while state attorneys genera...(read more)

• Kalshi Unwound Mich. Trades Before CFTC Order, Court Told

  By Aislinn Keely

  Kalshi told a Michigan judge that it will remain in compliance with a court order that instructed it to unwind certain residents' sports trades because it has no way to meet a U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission directive to defy the court and reinstate the contracts.

• Judge Decries 'Extreme' Penalty Bids In Social Media MDL

  By Dorothy Atkins

  A California federal judge overseeing an upcoming trial over states' social media addiction claims against Meta took issue with both sides' "extreme" penalty estimates during a pretrial hearing Friday, saying the states' $1.4 trillion proposal is "unreasonable," but Meta's $4 million estimate "is not even a slap on the hand."

• Taylor Farms, Taco Bell Sued Over Cyclospora Outbreak

  By Gina Kim

  Taylor Farms and Taco Bell are facing proposed class litigation in California, Michigan and Ohio federal courts after public health officials linked contaminated lettuce that was supplied to Taco Bell to a parasitic outbreak that's sickened more than 1,600 people in several states.

• FDIC Says Excessive Risk Dooms SVB's $1.7B Claim

  By Bonnie Eslinger

  The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. argued during closing arguments in a trial in California federal court that Silicon Valley Bank's 2023 failure was due to excessive financial risk and mismanagement, while SVB countered that its losses were sparked by an "unprecedented" bank run.

• New Public Charge Rule Leaves Immigration Attys Guessing

  By Britain Eakin

  The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's new public charge rule will give immigration officers wide discretion to decide who will become dependent on government assistance, replacing clearly defined guidelines with a system attorneys say has no guardrails or objective standards.

• Judge Open To TRO Blocking Paramount-Warner Bros. Deal

  By Dorothy Atkins

  A California federal judge appeared open Friday to granting a group of states' bid for a temporary restraining order blocking Paramount Skydance's $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, saying it appears the tie-up's anticipated market share presumptively violates the Clayton Act under U.S. Supreme Court precedent.

• Md. Judge Stays Reforms Set To Shrink ACA Coverage Pool

  By Gianna Ferrarin

  A Maryland federal judge stayed a set of Affordable Care Act marketplace reforms that were set to take effect Monday, finding several cities and groups representing doctors and small businesses were likely to succeed in their Administrative Procedure Act challenge against them.

• Del. High Court Says Jarkesy Doesn't Extend To State Cases

  By Katryna Perera

  The Delaware Supreme Court has declined to apply the U.S. Supreme Court's Jarkesy holding to a state securities fraud suit arising from an administrative enforcement action brought by the state's Investor Protection Unit, finding there are no similar common-law cases requiring the right to a jury trial.

• Van Leeuwen Wins $23.8M In Ice Cream Packaging TM Fight

  By Ivan Moreno

  A New York federal judge has ordered ketogenic ice cream maker Rebel Creamery to disgorge nearly $23.8 million in profits and redesign its pint packaging, finding after a bench trial that the company intentionally copied Van Leeuwen Ice Cream's pastel, minimalist trade dress.

• Top Transportation Rulings: Midyear 2026 Report

  By Linda Chiem

  U.S. Supreme Court rulings determining that freight brokers can face state-based negligence lawsuits and that last-mile drivers can also be exempt from arbitration are among the biggest court decisions of the first half of 2026 affecting the transportation industry. Here, Law360 highlights a few of the biggest transportation-related rulings of 2026 so far.

• Senate Bill Would Ease SEC Reporting For Rural Telecoms

  By Christopher Cole

  A bipartisan Senate bill would make it easier for small, rural communications providers to prepare reports to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission when obligated to submit paperwork for certain financial events.

• DaVita Wins Bid To Decertify 1,300-Member Collective

  By MJ Koo

  A Colorado federal judge dismantled a collective action brought by DaVita nurses and technicians alleging the kidney care giant forced them to work through unpaid meal breaks Friday, finding that the roughly 1,300 workers' vastly different experiences made collective treatment impossible.