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  • September 25, 2026

    Fake Warhols Dealer Fails To Appear At Sentencing

    A Miami art dealer who admitted to selling fake Andy Warhol works to his gallery clients failed to show up to his sentencing hearing on Friday, forcing a Florida federal judge to reschedule it for one week later while the government and his attorney try to track him down.

  • September 25, 2026

    Conn. AG Beats Dentist's Appeal In Press Release Fight

    The Connecticut attorney general and a former social services commissioner did not violate a dentist's constitutional due process or privacy rights when they issued a press release announcing the $300,000 settlement of a False Claims Act case based on Medicaid billing claims, a state appellate panel ruled Friday.

  • September 25, 2026

    Tech Co. Seeks FCC Reg Waiver For 'Silent Speech' Devices

    A technology firm has asked the Federal Communications Commission to waive part of its rules to allow it to market "silent speech," also known as lipsyncing, devices.

  • September 25, 2026

    Judge Moves Sen. Scott's Tax Info Leak Case To DC Court

    A Florida federal court transferred U.S. Sen. Rick Scott's suit against a former employee of federal contractor Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. for leaking his personal tax returns to D.C. federal court Friday, saying the employee's conduct didn't happen in Florida.

  • September 25, 2026

    9th Circ. OKs Class Cert. In Classmates.com Name Use Case

    The Ninth Circuit has approved a lower court's certification of a class of Californians suing over their names appearing in the yearbooks platform Classmates.com, rejecting a number of challenges from the website's operator, including that the lead plaintiff couldn't adequately represent the class.

  • September 25, 2026

    Detractors Tell Court Paramount Deal Fails To Fix Concerns

    Civil rights and public interest groups have told a California federal court the settlement ending a challenge of Paramount Skydance's purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery fails to address the concerns state enforcers raised in the first place.

  • September 25, 2026

    Cox Can't Recoup $15M In DMCA Suit Costs From Insurers

    A Georgia federal judge backed two insurers in a lawsuit by Cox Enterprises that alleged it was wrongly denied coverage for more than $15 million it racked up in separate litigation with a music publisher, saying the claims were not covered under Cox's policies.

  • September 25, 2026

    Nvidia Wins Stay In AI Voice Data Class Action

    An Illinois federal judge granted Nvidia's motion to stay discovery pending his ruling on its bid to dismiss a suit claiming it used journalists' and voice actors' voices to train its artificial intelligence models without permission, saying the plaintiffs could have sought emergency relief if continued dissemination of the models was an urgent concern.

  • September 25, 2026

    US, China Agree To Trade Truce Extension, Greer Says

    U.S. and Chinese negotiators agreed to temporarily extend a trade truce and provide preferential tariff treatment for a subset of goods bought and sold between the two countries while discussions continue on a broader trade agreement between the world's two largest economies, the top U.S. trade official said Friday.

  • September 25, 2026

    Meta Lied About Data Privacy, New Mexico Jury Finds

    A New Mexico jury said Friday that Meta lied willfully on 26 different occasions regarding data privacy, hate speech, misinformation and Facebook's outside investigation of third-party app developers after the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

  • September 25, 2026

    Cold Storage Co. To Pay $5.25M To Settle Data Breach Lawsuit

    Americold Logistics LLC agreed to pay $5.25 million to settle a pair of proposed class actions alleging that lax cybersecurity at the cold storage giant led to two separate data breaches that impacted nearly 225,000 workers.

  • September 25, 2026

    Taxation With Representation: Kirkland, Latham, McDermott

    In this week's Taxation With Representation, Royal Caribbean invests billions in a joint venture with Sandals, Telix Pharmaceuticals buys ITM Isotope Technologies Munich, and Priority Technology makes a go-private deal with an investor group helmed by the company's chair and CEO.

  • September 25, 2026

    Prediction Market Regulators, Bad Actors In AI Arms Race

    Artificial intelligence is playing an increasingly important role in policing prediction markets, and attorneys say that regulators and investigators are starting to effectively use the same technology that would-be bad actors have leveraged to try to score big with their bets.

  • September 25, 2026

    UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

    The past week in London has seen Glencore Energy sue a refinery for allegedly defrauding it out of more than $236 million worth of crude oil, the former CEO of ankle-tag maker Big Technologies file a defamation claim against the company, and property investment group Hunter Jones hit by a claim from the Financial Conduct Authority. 

  • September 25, 2026

    US Backs Elon Musk In €120M EU Digital Transparency Case

    The U.S. has announced it will join Elon Musk in a bid to overturn a €120 million ($137 million) fine imposed by the European Commission on social media platform X for breaching the bloc's digital transparency rules.

  • September 24, 2026

    RICO, Antitrust Suit Over Pa. Sen's Ph.D. Scholarship Culled

    A Pennsylvania politician's lawsuit against the University of New Brunswick, its officers and a former Ph.D. candidate is down to a single claim, against the doctoral candidate, after an Oklahoma federal judge rejected the other allegations focused on suggestions of academic fraud in the politician's own Ph.D. scholarship.

  • September 24, 2026

    Game Publishers Eye Doc Request In Valve Antitrust Case

    Video-game publishers accusing Valve Corp. in a federal antitrust lawsuit of manipulating arbitration pacts with gaming customers have questioned the gamers' bid for access to the publishers' purportedly protected materials as the gamers fight a separate case against the digital content company.

  • September 24, 2026

    Google, Ex-Engineer End Suit Over Pregnancy-Loss Firing

    Google LLC and a former software engineer who sued the company over allegations that she was wrongfully fired for taking time off following the unexpected loss of a pregnancy agreed to dismiss the worker's lawsuit with prejudice, according to a Western District of Washington filing in the case Wednesday.

  • September 24, 2026

    Paramount Judge Won't 'Rubber Stamp' States' Merger Deal

    A California federal judge questioned state enforcers Thursday about the details of their proposed settlement to resolve antitrust litigation challenging Paramount Skydance's planned $110 billion purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery, telling counsel, "The court isn't a rubber stamp," and "I've got questions, and I'm not the only one."

  • September 24, 2026

    FTC Eyes Tech Cos.' Profits In Fight Against Online Scam Ads

    The Federal Trade Commission said Thursday it wants input on whether it should update rules for preventing impersonation scams online, homing in on ad optimization tools that have helped scammers net billions from consumers while allowing tech companies to "internalize the revenue but externalize the risk."

  • September 24, 2026

    ITC Takes On Patents, Trade Secrets In Large Decision Drop

    The U.S. International Trade Commission issued a flood of decisions this week on investigations in which imports are being evaluated to see if they infringe patents or misappropriate secrets, including three cases where it will reconsider holdings from administrative law judges.

  • September 24, 2026

    Ex-Google CEO's Rape Accuser Can't Undo $12M Arb. Loss

    A California judge on Thursday told a woman who accused former Google CEO Eric Schmidt of sexual assault that he will not vacate a $12 million arbitration award in Schmidt's favor, saying she appeared to have ignored the arbitrator's orders just like she disregarded his own, and asking, "Why did you do that?"

  • September 24, 2026

    Calif. Bill Deals Blow, But Not Knockout, To Tracking Suits

    A California bill awaiting the governor's signature is poised to reduce the swell of litigation under the California Invasion of Privacy Act, but the narrow scope of the pending lawsuit ban leaves open other avenues for plaintiffs to target the widespread use of website tracking technologies.

  • September 24, 2026

    TikTok Loses Bid To Trim Kids' Data Privacy Suit In Calif.

    A California federal judge on Thursday refused TikTok's bid to trim claims from a proposed class action alleging that the platform exploits the private information of users under 13, saying at a hearing that the question of whether previous TikTok settlements bar the plaintiffs' claims should be saved for later.

  • September 24, 2026

    Nintendo Wins $4.5M Default Against Reddit Moderator Archbox

    An Arizona resident and Reddit moderator known as archbox must pay $4.5 million to Nintendo of America Inc. for allegedly making and distributing illegal copies of Nintendo Switch video games, according to a default judgment handed down Wednesday by a Washington federal judge.

Expert Analysis

  • China's New Outbound Investment Rule Reshapes Deal Risk

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    China's new outbound investment regulation introduces broad national security review and penalties, including personal liability, that will necessitate deeper diligence of cross-border deal participants with Chinese ties, earlier regulatory planning and closer attention to sanctions exposure, say attorneys at Freshfields.

  • Calif. Wiretap Ruling May Reshape Pixel Tracking Litigation

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    The recent dismissal of a proposed class action accusing Blue Shield of California of violating the federal Wiretap Act highlights the gap between legacy wiretap laws and modern browser architecture, and the tendency of pixel tracking complaints to oversimplify or mischaracterize how browsers work, says Phil Richards at ThreatHandle Consulting.

  • Series

    Teaching SEC Investigations Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Instructing a law school course on U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission investigations has made me a more thoughtful, deliberate practitioner because it requires me to continually reassess and challenge what I know about securities law enforcement, how I know it and how best to explain it, says David Chase at Miami Law.

  • What Corporate Counsel Can Learn From OpenAI Test Breach

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    The significance of the recent artificial intelligence testing breach involving OpenAI and Hugging Face lies in what it reveals about the path of AI’s evolution, because legal professionals must translate that trajectory into actionable governance, contractual and advisory frameworks, says Jason Mueller at Vorys.

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    Judges On AI: Examining Administrative, Organizational Uses

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    U.S. District Judge Alan Albright of the Western District of Texas examines how artificial intelligence could transform a court's ability to deal with administrative work and organize materials when preparing for hearings or drafting opinions, thereby affording judges more time to resolve contested issues.

  • USPTO-Fed. Circ. Split Complicates Machine Learning Patents

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    The wide chasm between the USPTO's and the Federal Circuit's approach to eligibility for machine learning patents means that patent drafters must avoid functional claiming and specifications if they hope to avoid invalidation of a machine learning patent at the appellate court, says attorney Michael Kiklis.

  • Series

    Being A Singer Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Before law school, I spent seven years trying to make it as a professional singer in Los Angeles, and nearly everything I learned about preparation, humility, confidence and more has followed me into my legal practice, says Jessica Caterina at Moses & Singer.

  • Preparing For Next Congress With Eye On Investigation Risk

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    Rod Rosenstein, Brian Whisler and Bruce Linskens at Baker McKenzie offer advice for organizations seeking to build a proactive response plan to potential congressional oversight as the election looms.

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    Being A Magician Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    The skills I've developed as a lifelong magician have translated directly into tangible benefits in the courtroom because performing magic and trying cases both live at the intersection of psychology, storytelling, timing and disciplined rehearsal, says Mark Dombroff at Fox Rothschild.

  • Who Owns The Data Behind The Beautiful Game?

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    Every match at the 2026 FIFA World Cup generates enormous volumes of information that can improve performance, enhance fan engagement and create new revenue streams, but that same data can also create significant legal exposure if rights and responsibilities are not clearly defined, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.

  • CFIUS' Mandate Misses Foreign Risk In Project Subcontracts

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    Recent calls for the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States to review equity transactions like the Paramount Skydance-Warner Bros. deal miss a consequential oversight gap — CFIUS' inability to review the subcontracting layer of U.S. infrastructure projects, says Thibaut Giret at Alstef Group.

  • Looking At Drake's Diss Track Appeal Through An IP Lens

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    Though Drake's pending Second Circuit appeal over UMG's promotion of Kendrick Lamar's "Not Like Us" is formally about defamation, it shows that IP considerations can help identify records showing how a work traveled, which may guide courts when deciding context, says attorney Abdul Abdullahi.

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    Bass Fishing Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Landing a trophy striped bass and closing a big deal both require cultivating the patience to finesse — not force — your way to desired outcomes, changing course when your old approach isn’t working and learning from the ones that got away, says Jon Ruiss at Alston & Bird.

  • Roundup

    The Most Talked-About Supreme Court Decisions Of 2026

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    This term, 11 U.S. Supreme Court decisions quickly became hot topics among Law360's guest writers.

  • Trademark Law As A Tool To Bolster NIL Rights Against AI

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    The meteoric rise of artificial intelligence-generated deepfakes is prompting high-profile celebrities to protect their name, image and likeness rights using federal trademark law — a powerful yet limited supplement to traditional NIL claims, says Susan Natland at BakerHostetler.

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