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July 31, 2026
In this month's review of defamation fights, Law360 highlights developments in a handful of suits involving President Donald Trump, as well as the dismissal of a case by U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Kash Patel over a man's social media posts accusing him of being a "Kremlin asset."
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July 31, 2026
A broadcast workers' union urged the Federal Communications Commission to scrap a plan by agency Chief Brendan Carr to lift the 39% national cap on TV station chains' audience reach, saying the proposal threatens local news operations.
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July 31, 2026
Meta sought to throw out a proposed class action claiming it flouted Illinois' biometric privacy law when it used the voices of journalists and voice actors to train their artificial intelligence models, arguing the suit is little more than "professional anxiety" over AI "in search of a cause of action."
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July 31, 2026
The Pennsylvania Superior Court has reiterated that "clickwrap" arbitration agreements are unenforceable, holding in the case of an amusement park patron dissatisfied over a roller coaster closure that the inconspicuous digital disclaimers weren't enough to deny a litigant's right to a jury trial.
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July 31, 2026
A top adviser to FIFA president Gianni Infantino resigned on Friday as Asia's soccer federation joined the condemnation of FIFA's proposed private investor sale, while the sport's international governing body defended the plan and said it would go forward.
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July 31, 2026
A federal plan would reinvigorate the 4.4 gigahertz airwaves for possible use in 6G wireless development, the U.S. Department of Commerce said Friday.
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July 31, 2026
The string of lawsuits Buc-ee's Ltd. has filed against businesses it says mimic its popular beaver branding has caught the attention of comedian John Oliver, who unveiled a bucktoothed "Buc-Off" mascot and dared the travel center chain to sue him — spotlighting the delicate balance trademark owners face between protecting a valuable brand and provoking backlash.
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July 31, 2026
Imprisoned SCOTUSblog founder Thomas Goldstein is formally launching a Fourth Circuit appeal challenging his 12 convictions for tax and mortgage fraud, as well as his six-year prison sentence and the $3.1 million restitution judgment against him, according to a new filing from his attorneys.
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July 31, 2026
The producer of an unreleased World War II spy movie starring Nicolas Cage has accused Netflix of allowing an unencrypted master copy of the film to be stolen and causing more than $105 million in damages by compromising the movie's marketability and distribution prospects.
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July 31, 2026
A putative class action accusing casino-style gaming website Stake.us, musical artist Drake and others of running an illegal gambling operation must be arbitrated, a Virginia federal court ruled, finding Stake.us' ability to unilaterally modify its arbitration provision doesn't render it unenforceable.
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July 31, 2026
The past week in London has seen George Michael's estate bring an intellectual property claim against the late star's friend over footage shared online, collapsed law firm Axiom Ince sue the U.K. branch of State Bank of India and Ryanair face a group claim from 262 people. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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July 31, 2026
A Portland strip club's co-owner has renewed his bid to end a dancer's retaliation lawsuit in Oregon federal court, arguing that the cancellation of a one-time $50 performance does not rise to the level of harm needed to sustain a federal retaliation claim.
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July 31, 2026
Anthropic says that a three-year statute of limitations bars the amended copyright claims of a group of authors who opted out of the $1.5 million settlement the artificial intelligence company reached in a suit claiming it pirated writers' works to train its flagship product, Claude.
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July 30, 2026
The producer behind an unreleased World War II spy movie starring Nicolas Cage has sued Netflix for $105 million in California federal court alleging a copy of the film was stolen from Netflix's Hollywood office, while Netflix accused the law firm representing the movie's producer of trying to "extort" $165 million.
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July 30, 2026
A Seattle federal judge on Thursday granted Valve Corp.'s bid for a quick appeal of an order declining to halt antitrust arbitrations brought by hundreds of individual gamers, pausing the litigation for the video game developer to seek the Ninth Circuit's input on whether the arbitrations can proceed under its subscriber terms.
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July 30, 2026
The Federal Communications Commission is not pleased that EchoStar is trying to convince a bankruptcy court to let it use a trust fund created to pay contractors to build its now-abandoned 5G network to instead pay a loan one EchoStar subsidiary made to another.
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July 30, 2026
A California federal judge Thursday tossed an author's suit accusing the Walt Disney Co., film director James Cameron and Cameron's production company of ripping off the author's work to create "Avatar" movie sequels, saying any substantial similarities between the works should be better fleshed out should the writer amend his complaint again.
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July 30, 2026
Tech trade group NetChoice is urging a federal court to reject Minnesota's bid to keep alive its new law requiring social media companies to display mental health warning labels at the login page, arguing the statute forces these companies to become "mouthpieces" for the state, violating the First Amendment.
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July 30, 2026
A Silicon Valley tech guru and theorist testified on Thursday in Tennessee's trial against Meta that, for him, it took "less than 10 lines of code" to create a time delay that broke the grip of a hard-to-resist design feature he released to the world in 2006, infinite scroll.
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July 30, 2026
As the federal government eyes a pair of bands for the expansion of 5G and 6G, a spectrum researcher has released a report saying that the 4.4 gigahertz band is the best option.
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July 30, 2026
The Communications Workers of America, rural counties in California and a consumer advocacy group for affordable utilities urged the Federal Communications Commission to reverse its automatic approval of AT&T's request to retire copper-line networks in California, saying that significant public interest concerns have to be addressed first.
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July 30, 2026
T-Mobile has told a California federal court that WCO Spectrum has admitted it does not have what it needs to state a viable antitrust counterclaim in the mobile carrier's case accusing the spectrum-buying company of racketeering.
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July 30, 2026
Lawmakers must put an end to delays in broadband deployment and renew a federal cybersecurity statute if they hope to feed the artificial intelligence boom while curtailing safety concerns, U.S. senators heard Thursday.
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July 30, 2026
The U.S. Department of Justice has asked a special master to rethink his New Jersey federal court mandate giving Apple a look into how the Pentagon, CIA, State Department and other federal agencies purchase smartphones, arguing that the retired federal judge applied the wrong legal standard in the antitrust case.
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July 30, 2026
A California federal judge on Thursday declined to order a group of women suing xAI Corp. over Grok-generated deepfakes of them in sexual situations to reveal their identities and allowed them to proceed pseudonymously, finding their fears of threatened harm and retaliation from having to disclose their real names were reasonable.