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September 01, 2026
A Florida-based broker-dealer is petitioning the U.S. Supreme Court to hear another case targeting the disgorgement powers of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, saying the court "left open" a question about victim identification after it last ruled on the issue earlier this year.
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September 01, 2026
The Federal Communications Commission said Tuesday it was revoking a Montana radio station's license for unpaid regulatory fees going back several years.
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September 01, 2026
Legal department hires during the past month included high-profile appointments at Anthropic, Zillow and ConocoPhillips. Here, Law360 Pulse looks at some of the top in-house announcements from August.
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September 01, 2026
U.S. Customs and Border Protection believes three golf cart importers may be evading duties on such vehicles and their subassmeblies from China, ordering interim measures at the investigation continues.
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September 01, 2026
The Eleventh Circuit on Tuesday held that the False Claims Act's qui tam provisions do not violate the appointments clause of the U.S. Constitution, maintaining private citizens' ability to sue entities on behalf of the United States for allegedly defrauding the federal government.
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September 01, 2026
A Massachusetts federal judge refused Tuesday to clear a sheriff of extortion charges, as prosecutors wrapped their case that he demanded a stake in a cannabis company that he was also partnering with for a job training program.
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September 01, 2026
The Federal Communications Commission has joined a call for the U.S. Supreme Court to lift a Fourth Circuit order blocking it from extending discounted television and radio advertising rates to committees that buy spots in coordination with political candidates, urging the justices to maintain the "status quo," despite allegedly inconsistent characterizations of the norm.
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September 01, 2026
Economic think tank The Club for Growth has asked the Federal Communications Commission for Telephone Consumer Protection Act waivers to use artificial intelligence to make noncommercial calls.
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September 01, 2026
The Florida Bar has asked the state's highest court for a protective order to "substantially" limit a suspended lawyer's "unduly burdensome" and "excessive" initial request for production of documents in a protracted disciplinary proceeding.
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September 01, 2026
A Fifth Circuit judge wanted to know why a panel should keep intact a court order blocking an anti-DEI Mississippi law that contained artificial intelligence hallucinations, asking whether the judges could confidently find that made-up citations did not ultimately sway the district court's decision.
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August 31, 2026
A New York federal judge Monday held that New York's Climate Change Superfund Act is preempted by federal law and cannot be enforced, saying the Clean Air Act does not authorize the Empire State to roll out its own emissions compensation scheme.
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August 31, 2026
The Writers Guild of America and Democratic attorneys general urged a California federal judge Monday to reject Paramount Skydance Corp.'s bid to make them put up a $1.9 billion bond, saying it was the studio's idea to pause closing its planned $110 billion purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery.
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August 31, 2026
California lawmakers have sent to the governor's desk legislation that would block private litigants from bringing website tracking lawsuits under a key provision of the state's wiretap law, as well as a separate pair of bills to expand protections under the state's data privacy law.
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August 31, 2026
Arbitrations between gaming giant Valve Corp. and nearly 15,000 gamers will remain paused as the Ninth Circuit weighs whether the antitrust disputes are eligible for arbitration under the company's updated subscriber terms, according to a bench ruling Monday from a Seattle federal judge.
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August 31, 2026
A split Sixth Circuit panel said a lower court should have blocked Tennessee's age-verification law for social media platforms while an internet industry group challenged the statute, finding the group had shown it would be harmed by compliance costs and the loss of free speech liberties.
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August 31, 2026
A Texas appellate court has revived Occidental Petroleum's attempt to arbitrate a multimillion-dollar dispute stemming from a project to deploy a technology aimed at reducing greenhouse gases in Australia, saying a tribunal in British Columbia must decide for itself whether it has jurisdiction.
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August 31, 2026
The Third Circuit on Monday upheld New Jersey's requirement that out‑of‑state physicians obtain a state medical license before consulting with in-state patients via telemedicine, concluding that the rule fits a centuries‑old tradition of regulating medical practice and does not trigger strict First Amendment scrutiny.
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August 31, 2026
Prediction market platform Kalshi said Monday that it permanently banned George Santos from the platform and imposed a $71,000 penalty against the convicted former U.S. representative for allegedly manipulating a prediction market on whether he would attend the 2026 State of the Union address.
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August 31, 2026
A bill that would expand California's Cartwright Act to allow the state to pursue monopoly and monopsony claims against a solo company, instead of requiring multicompany coordinated conduct, is headed to Gov. Gavin Newsom's desk after state lawmakers passed a narrowed version of the controversial measure Sunday.
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August 31, 2026
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and U.S. Food and Drug Administration are looking to bolster information-sharing related to FDA-regulated products in a bid to help each other in their respective oversight and compliance efforts, according to a three-year memorandum of understanding the agencies announced Monday.
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August 31, 2026
A California federal judge cut fees and expenses to $5.4 million for attorneys representing a whistleblower in her suit against Academy Mortgage Corp., after a Ninth Circuit remand deemed the previously awarded $8.6 million to be too high.
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August 31, 2026
Blockchain company Circle Internet Financial LLC said that the family of a man who was kidnapped and murdered by North Korean agents cannot collect $232 million from the company following the April Fools' Day exploit of crypto project Drift Protocol, arguing it was not in possession of the contents of the wallets at issue.
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August 31, 2026
The Federal Trade Commission and a bipartisan coalition of 22 states sued Amazon Monday, alleging it secretly overcharged advertising customers more than $20 billion by manipulating how it set prices for ads on its e-commerce website.
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August 31, 2026
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission staff have flagged transfer agents and broker-dealers not searching for "lost" customers whose mail is returned, issuing a risk alert about complying with requirements under the "Lost Securityholders and Unresponsive Payees" rule.
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August 31, 2026
An Oregon federal judge ruled against a national trade association's challenge of an Oregon law that imposed recycling system costs on producers of packaging materials, rejecting arguments that it was unconstitutional.