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  Judiciary Cites AI Deepfakes In Opposing Courtroom Cameras

  By Courtney Bublé

  Two bipartisan bills to bring cameras into federal courtrooms advanced Thursday, but the policymaking body for t...(read more)

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  High Court Bars Federal Review Of State Court Appeals

  By Dan McKay

  The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a legal doctrine designed to curtail duplicative litigation prevents ...(read more)

• Split 6th Circ. Revives Ohio's Social Media Age Limit Law

  By Hailey Konnath

  A divided Sixth Circuit panel Thursday wiped out a lower court's order blocking an Ohio law barring social media companies from allowing children under 16 to create accounts without parental consent, ruling that the measure does not run afoul of the Constitution.

• Meta Can't Undo $35M Political Ad Penalty, Wash. Justices Say

  By Rachel Riley

  Most of the Washington State Supreme Court justices rejected Meta's First Amendment challenge to a state political advertising disclosure law in a divided Thursday opinion, while also spurning the social media giant's argument that a $35 million penalty against it violates the Constitution's prohibition on excessive fines.

• Musk Fights Uphill To Toss Fraud Verdict Of Twitter Buyout

  By Bonnie Eslinger

  A California federal judge considering Elon Musk's bid to toss a jury's verdict that he defrauded Twitter investors during his $44 billion buyout said Thursday it's "readily apparent to the court that Mr. Musk is liable" for making two false statements that were material to the trading public.

• Fed. Circ. Again Revives Valve Bid To Ax Patent In $4M Verdict

  By Ryan Davis

  The Federal Circuit on Thursday gave Valve Corp. yet another chance to try to invalidate rival SCUF's video game controller patent underlying a $4 million verdict, ruling that, after the appeals court revived the effort, the trial judge wrongly said Valve's arguments are barred by a prior challenge.

• FTC, Amazon Must Answer Attorney-Client Privilege Questions

  By Emily Sawicki

  The Washington federal judge handling the Federal Trade Commission's antitrust case against Amazon asked both parties on Thursday to provide more information about how he should consider attorney-client privilege when reviewing documents to resolve discovery disputes in the case.

• Blackstone's LivCor Cuts $7M Rent-Fixing Deal With 9 States

  By Dorothy Atkins

  Blackstone subsidiary LivCor LLC has agreed to pay North Carolina, California and seven other states $7 million in penalties to resolve allegations against it in a sprawling antitrust lawsuit alleging major landlords used software company RealPage to fix rent prices, according to documents filed in North Carolina federal court Thursday.

• DEA Picks Only Pot Foes To Join Rescheduling Hearings

  By Sam Reisman

  The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration on Thursday announced its selection of interested parties to participate in upcoming administrative hearings on a proposal to reclassify marijuana to a less restrictive status, each of whom is understood to oppose marijuana rescheduling.

• Law Students Undeterred Under Trump's Immigration Climate

  By Britain Eakin

  In a climate where immigration lawyers are coming under the Trump administration’s scrutiny to tamp down on asylum fraud, law students are being ignited to enter the workforce early and rectify the injustices they see.

• Trump Accounts Not Subject To ERISA, DOL Says

  By Asha Glover

  Trump accounts, the new tax-advantaged brokerage accounts for newborns, will generally not be considered employee pension benefit plans and will not be subject to federal benefits laws, according to guidance issued Thursday by the U.S. Department of Labor.

• Meta's Newspaper Analogy Doesn't Sway Instagram Judge

  By Carolyn Muyskens

  Meta faced some pushback from a Massachusetts state judge for comparing Instagram's design to a newspaper publisher's decisions about what to put on the front page, as the company pushed to end the state's lawsuit over alleged harm to youth from social media use.

• Trump Lawyer Advances In Senate Judiciary Noms Vote

  By Courtney Bublé

  The nomination of Matthew Schwartz to be a judge on the Second Circuit advanced out of committee Thursday.

• 5 Big ERISA Litigation Developments From 2026's First Half

  By Kellie Mejdrich

  The U.S. Supreme Court's acceptance of a petition challenging Intel's 401(k) investment lineup and a Fourth Circuit ruling unraveling a class of Genworth Financial retirement plan participants headlined the court developments that caught benefits attorneys' attention in the first six months of 2026. Here, Law360 looks at those and other noteworthy ERISA decisions.