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July 02, 2026
A California federal court has ordered a cannabis business and two of its executives to pay nearly $43 million in a suit brought by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for allegedly raising more than $50 million from investors based on what the SEC alleged was "wildly inflated financial information."
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July 02, 2026
A Semtech Corp. stockholder has sued the company in Delaware Chancery Court, accusing it of imposing "massive" and unlawful new disclosure requirements for stockholder actions by written consent.
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July 02, 2026
Reed Smith LLP has bolstered its private equity practice with the hire of a former Norton Rose Fulbright group leader in Munich.
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July 02, 2026
After the U.S. Supreme Court narrowed paths to secondary liability in copyright and patent cases this term, trademark law stands apart with an older, potentially broader rule for when intermediaries can be held liable for another party's infringement.
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July 02, 2026
Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including attorney insights into recently enacted housing laws in California and Florida, as well as the latest multibillion-dollar data center deals and the law firms guiding them.
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July 02, 2026
The Delaware Chancery Court ruled Thursday that JPMorgan Chase & Co. must advance millions more in disputed legal fees to cover the appeal of the convicted founder of college financial aid startup Frank, concluding the bank failed to meet Delaware's demanding standard for withholding advancement by showing the billing requests reflected "clear abuse."
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July 02, 2026
Anthropic PBC has slapped Abnormal AI with a trademark infringement lawsuit in California federal court, claiming cybersecurity company Abnormal's 2025 rebrand copied Anthropic's slash-style logo and animated logo transitions, causing confusion among customers.
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July 02, 2026
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.
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July 02, 2026
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP has grown its mass torts litigation offerings in Chicago with the addition of a Goldman Ismail Tomaselli Brennan & Baum LLP attorney, the firm said.
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July 02, 2026
A shareholder of self-storage real estate investment trust National Storage Affiliates Trust sued the company and another self-storage REIT, Public Storage, over their proposed $10.5 billion all-stock merger, alleging in Colorado state court that NSA hid "critical facts" about the deal so that its shareholders would approve it.
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July 02, 2026
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.
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July 02, 2026
Womble Bond Dickinson announced Thursday that it has added an experienced executive compensation attorney in Houston to the corporate and securities practice group who previously practiced for more than a decade with Vinson & Elkins LLP.
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July 02, 2026
Amid the changes coming for general counsel, the policies and enforcement priorities of federal regulators may fluctuate more rapidly after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling this week that could dramatically remake independent government agencies. And the EEOC rescinded affirmative action documents that have guided employers for decades.
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July 02, 2026
California would extend by five years a tax credit program for businesses that agree to hire workers and invest in the state under budget-related legislation approved by state lawmakers and sent to Gov. Gavin Newsom.
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July 02, 2026
Hall Benefits Law has hired an executive and equity compensation practice group leader from Trucker Huss, bringing in a practitioner with more than three decades of experience advising employers about benefit plan designs and their tax implications as the firm expands in Sacramento, California.
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July 01, 2026
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.
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July 01, 2026
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and its U.S.-based payment processor AUS Merchant Services Inc. will avoid prosecution and pay $600 million to end the U.S. Department of Justice's allegations that they allowed merchants to sell and import illegal pharmaceuticals and controlled substances into the U.S., the DOJ announced Wednesday.
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July 01, 2026
A Microsoft Corp. shareholder has launched a derivative suit against the company's top brass, claiming they misled shareholders about the company's artificial intelligence business strategy and products, and caused it to violate copyright and intellectual property laws by "training its AI software on copyrighted works for which it did not possess lawful licenses."
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July 01, 2026
A California federal judge Wednesday partially granted Yelp Inc.'s request to lock in liability findings from the U.S. Department of Justice's landmark antitrust win over Google LLC for its own case against the company, thereby precluding Google from arguing it didn't monopolize the market for general search services.
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July 01, 2026
A plaintiff who alleges he became harmfully addicted to major social media platforms as a child and whose case is set to be the second bellwether trial later this month out of thousands of similar cases pending in Los Angeles court has reached a settlement in principle with TikTok, his counsel told Law360 on Wednesday.
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July 01, 2026
A New York federal court has sent antitrust claims from concertgoers who purchased Ticketmaster tickets on the secondary market to arbitration, after finding an arbitration clause in Live Nation's terms of service is enforceable.
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July 01, 2026
A Texas federal judge on Wednesday dismissed claims that semiconductor manufacturers negligently sold products the Russian government used to build missiles that killed Ukrainian civilians, but gave the Ukrainian civilians who brought the suit another shot at pleading their claims.
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July 01, 2026
The joint review process for the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement formally kicked off Wednesday as the U.S. announced its intent not to renew the agreement without changes, leaving practitioners with questions about the outcomes of negotiations and expectations of continued business uncertainty.
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July 02, 2026
A New Jersey state judge denied without prejudice the State Ethics Commission's bid to dismiss a former University Hospital executive's discrimination suit and rejected her cross‑motion for partial summary judgment, but reserved decision on the hospital's motion to toss portions of the case.
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July 01, 2026
The CMA CGM Group said Wednesday it has agreed to acquire FedEx Corp.'s supply chain unit in a $1.4 billion deal, with Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP advising CMA CGM and Baker McKenzie representing FedEx.