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  Alibaba Cos. Ink $600M Nonprosecution Deal Over Drug Sales

  By Sarah Jarvis

  Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and its U.S.-based payment processor AUS Merchant Services Inc. will avoid prosecutio...(read more)

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  Split Fed. Circ. Backs Block On Generic Of Otsuka Neuro Drug

  By Theresa Schliep

  A split Federal Circuit panel on Wednesday supported a lower court's temporary block on Hetero Labs from selling...(read more)

• Travel App Hopper To Pay $35M To Settle FTC Fee Complaint

  By Julie Manganis

  Travel app Hopper will pay $35 million to settle a Federal Trade Commission complaint alleging it misled consumers into paying hidden fees and overstated the value of other offerings, according to a consent judgment filed in Massachusetts federal court Thursday.

• Breaking Down The Vote: The High Court Term In Review

  By Jack Karp

  The U.S. Supreme Court's stark ideological divisions were on full display this term, particularly as it issued long-awaited rulings in the last few days of June. Here, Law360 dives into the numbers behind this court term.

• Product Liability Q2 Regulatory Roundup

  By Emily Field

  This spring and early summer saw the EPA setting its sights on "forever chemicals," approving some of them for use in pesticides and clawing back limits on their presence in drinking water. The former top FDA official is now out, and several nominees are waiting to fill gaps at the Consumer Product Safety Commission. 

• Del. High Court Revives $100M Paragon Fraud Case

  By Jarek Rutz

  The Delaware Supreme Court has revived fraud claims arising from private equity firm Stellex Capital Investors' $100 million acquisition of automotive components manufacturer Paragon Metals LLC, ruling that the buyer justifiably relied on the seller's contractual warranties.

• Transportation Regulation To Watch: Midyear Report 2026

  By Linda Chiem

  Revised vehicle fuel economy standards, negotiations on a new infrastructure and transportation funding package and the next iteration of a North American trade deal are some of the transportation industry's top regulatory developments to watch in the latter half of 2026.

• Top International Trade Developments Of 2026: Midyear Report

  By Jack McLoone

  The fallout from the U.S. Supreme Court striking down President Donald Trump's global tariff regime kept international trade attorneys busy in the first half of 2026, with the shifting landscape largely occupied by other tariffs and their respective court challenges. Here, Law360 examines the top developments in international trade so far this year.

• Fired NCUA Democrats Say Slaughter Ruling Is On Their Side

  By Jon Hill

  Democrats who sued after President Donald Trump booted them from the National Credit Union Administration's board have signaled they will keep seeking reinstatement, pressing ahead after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the president can fire most federal regulators at will.

• Calif. Man Says ChatGPT Fueled Bipolar Delusion, Self-Harm

  By Lauren Berg

  When a California man with bipolar disorder shared his intense delusions with ChatGPT, a lack of safeguards caused OpenAI's artificial intelligence chatbot to drive him deeper into those delusions and encourage him to attempt to take his own life, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday in San Francisco.

• 'I Would've Been Fired': FDIC Expert Pans SVB's Risk-Taking

  By Dorothy Atkins

  The FDIC's banking expert testified in a California federal bench trial Wednesday that Silicon Valley Bank violated prudent banking standards by mismanaging assets before it collapsed, saying officers knew SVB was taking excessive risks but did not stop, adding that "I would've been fired" if he had managed his bank's assets the same way.

• 7th Circ. Questions Contempt On Hytera Radio Redesign

  By Lauraann Wood

  A Seventh Circuit panel seemed unsure Wednesday that a district court correctly found Motorola Solutions Inc. entitled to a cut of Hytera Communications Corp. Ltd.'s sales of redesigned mobile radios under a 2022 royalty order entered after a jury found Hytera liable for trade secret theft.

• FCC Wants To Extend Covered List's Reach To Components

  By Nadia Dreid

  The Federal Communications Commission Wednesday announced new plans to expand the so-called covered list of telecommunications equipment — equipment deemed to be a national security risk — even further so that it bans not only a completed item but all the parts that make it up.

• 6th Circ. Backs Smucker In Salmonella Coverage Dispute

  By Hope Patti

  An alleged salmonella outbreak that potentially tainted peanut butter produced by J.M. Smucker Co. is a single occurrence under its commercial general liability policies, the Sixth Circuit affirmed Wednesday, saying Smucker's peanut butter production did not constitute 225 separate occurrences that are each subject to a $250,000 retainer.