Media & Entertainment

  • October 07, 2025

    Fed. Circ. Talks Judge Denzel Washington, AI Susan Sarandon

    More than half of the Federal Circuit's judges were in Boston on Tuesday conducting out-of-town oral arguments, and afterward they discussed the most concerning and most promising elements of artificial intelligence, how to write a good brief, why en banc hearings are rare and which celebrities they'd love to see on a panel.

  • October 07, 2025

    Panel Said Congress Was 'Feckless,' 6th Circ. Told In FCC Row

    The Sixth Circuit should agree to a full court reconsideration of a panel's decision to back the Federal Communications Commission's expanded data breach notifications for telecom carriers, says a conservative legal organization that believes the panel assumed Congress was legislating "fecklessly."

  • October 07, 2025

    Goldstein's $968K Border Cash Claim To Be Admitted At Trial

    A Maryland federal jury will hear claims from prosecutors that SCOTUSblog publisher Tom Goldstein told Dulles International Airport border guards that the $968,000 in cash he brought into the country in 2018 had been gambling winnings, after a judge shot down his efforts to suppress his alleged statements Tuesday.

  • October 07, 2025

    Fed. Circ. Ponders Document Sealing In EDTX's Patent Cases

    A Federal Circuit panel grappled Tuesday with document sealing practices in patent cases in the Eastern District of Texas, appearing at points skeptical about a digital rights nonprofit's efforts to unseal records in since-concluded litigation involving Charter Communications Inc.

  • October 07, 2025

    Quiet Down! Calif. Law Targets Loud Streaming Platform Ads

    California enacted a new law Monday requiring video streaming services such as Netflix and Hulu to curb the volume on television commercials, making it the first state to issue regulations on commercial noise for streaming services. 

  • October 07, 2025

    NY Appeals Court Nixes Chris Cuomo's Arbitrator Bias Claim

    Ex-CNN anchor Chris Cuomo on Tuesday could not convince a New York appeals court to revive his bid to disqualify the JAMS arbitrator overseeing his $125 million unlawful termination claim against CNN due to the arbitrator's representation of the news network more than two decades ago.

  • October 07, 2025

    Dolphin Co. Creditor Balks At Credit Bid For Ch. 11 Sale

    A financial intermediary for dolphin park owner Leisure Investment Holdings LLC is asking the Delaware bankruptcy court to prohibit credit bidding in the park owner's Chapter 11 auction in order to preserve its $4 million claim from a judgment in 2017.

  • October 07, 2025

    DraftKings, FanDuel Fight Gambling Patent Suits

    DraftKings and FanDuel seek to dodge claims in New Jersey federal court that allege they willfully infringed a series of WinView IP Holdings patents covering online and mobile gambling, with FanDuel saying the patents are invalid to begin with.

  • October 07, 2025

    Apple Seeks To Toss IPhone, Watch Buyers' Antitrust Suits

    Apple has asked a New Jersey federal court to toss multidistrict antitrust litigation brought by iPhone and Apple Watch buyers, arguing that while they "try in vain to invent" theories about how Apple charges monopoly prices the inflation-adjusted price of the latest iPhone is nearly the same as the first model.

  • October 07, 2025

    DOJ Backs Patent Rights In Disney's Streaming Antitrust Case

    The U.S. Department of Justice urged a Delaware federal court to ensure wireless technology company InterDigital's patent rights are protected when it assesses Disney's antitrust case accusing the company of monopolizing video streaming technology.

  • October 07, 2025

    Monster.com Scores OK For Ch. 11 Plan After Creditor Deal

    A Delaware bankruptcy judge on Tuesday approved job search site CareerBuilder + Monster's Chapter 11 plan after the debtor struck a deal that could help holders of unsecured claims land a recovery.

  • October 07, 2025

    Copyright Chief Says DC Circ. Decision Bars Removal

    Shira Perlmutter has shot back at the government's arguments defending President Donald Trump's decision to fire her as head of the U.S. Copyright Office, saying the D.C. Circuit has said in her case that Trump likely never had the power to do so.

  • October 07, 2025

    NASCAR Wins Fight With LGBCoin Over Racing Deal Approval

    A Miami jury returned a defense verdict late Monday in favor of NASCAR in a $76 million suit by the LetsGoBrandon.com Foundation accusing the league of destroying the value of its cryptocurrency LGBCoin after it revoked approval of sponsorship of a racing team.

  • October 06, 2025

    High Court Declines Challenge To Ore. Secret Recording Ban

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to take up conservative media group Project Veritas' First Amendment challenge to an Oregon law prohibiting secret audio recordings of people's conversations, leaving in place a Ninth Circuit ruling upholding the measure. 

  • October 06, 2025

    NBA Scores 2nd Toss Of Privacy Suit Over Meta Data Sharing

    A New York federal judge Monday again dismissed a proposed digital privacy class action against the NBA, saying the league, based on binding Second Circuit precedent, didn't unlawfully disclose the personal information of one of its newsletter subscribers.

  • October 06, 2025

    IP Notebook: Miss Cleo, Political Slogans, Reggaeton Clash

    The latest edition of Law360's look at emerging copyright and trademark issues features a case where a judge injected some humor into dismissing a complaint involving a TV psychic who became known for her infomercials, as well as a sanctions request in a heated conflict over the birth of reggaeton.

  • October 06, 2025

    ​​​​​​​Broadcasters Say FCC Can Nix Nat'l Ownership Cap. It's Iffy

    Top TV station chains insist the Federal Communications Commission has clear authority to scrap a decades-old cap on national audience share controlled by any one company. But they're wading into a murky legal area almost certain to prompt a flood of litigation.

  • October 06, 2025

    2nd Circ. Declines To Reconsider NFL Arbitration Decision

    The Second Circuit on Monday declined the NFL's request to reconsider its finding that the league offers arbitration "in name only" and that it cannot force fired Miami Dolphins head coach Brian Flores to arbitrate his racial discrimination claims.

  • October 06, 2025

    ICE Accused Of Silencing Press And Protesters In Chicago

    Chicago-area journalists and demonstrators on Monday sued the Trump administration in Illinois federal court, alleging in a proposed class action that federal agents in full combat gear have been violently violating their First Amendment rights to protest peacefully and report news.

  • October 06, 2025

    FCC Eyes Creating 'Assembly Line' For Space Licensing

    The Federal Communications Commission plans to streamline space licensing by setting up an "assembly line" to clear paperwork faster, the agency's chief said Monday.

  • October 06, 2025

    Supreme Court Isn't Pausing Google Play Store Order

    The U.S. Supreme Court refused on Monday to pause a sweeping injunction requiring Google to change its app store policies in a case being brought by Epic Games Inc., after the tech giant argued that the changes threaten the security and privacy of Android users.

  • October 06, 2025

    Artists Want Google To Produce AI Datasets In Copyright Suit

    Artists and writers accusing Google of infringing their copyrights to train its artificial intelligence models asked a California federal judge to order the tech giant to produce certain datasets the plaintiffs believe contain their work, while Google has argued the request is "yet another sideshow" seeking irrelevant information.

  • October 06, 2025

    Music Publishers Can Pursue Copyright Suit Against Anthropic

    Music publishers accusing Anthropic of using their songs' lyrics to train its artificial intelligence chatbot can pursue previously dismissed copyright claims, after a California federal judge said Monday that their updated complaint plausibly alleges that Anthropic knew people were using its AI system to create song lyrics.

  • October 06, 2025

    Meta Accused Of Retaliation In Pregnancy Discrimination Suit

    A former manager for Meta claims in a lawsuit filed in California federal court Friday that the company discriminated against her for pregnancy-related leave, giving her unfair reviews and overloading her with work before firing her weeks after she reported bias to the human resources department.

  • October 06, 2025

    Google Judge Anticipates 'Fine-Tuning' Ad Tech Remedies

    The Justice Department and Google questioned their last witnesses Monday in a fight over whether to break up the company's advertising placement technology business, in a two-hour hearing with a rebuttal witness, a rare surrebuttal witness, and an acknowledgment from the Virginia federal judge overseeing the case that even after she delivers her final judgment, it might need revisions in the future. 

Expert Analysis

  • Series

    Quilting Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Turning intricate patterns of fabric and thread into quilts has taught me that craftsmanship, creative problem-solving and dedication to incremental progress are essential to creating something lasting that will help another person — just like in law, says Veronica McMillan at Kramon & Graham.

  • What 2 Profs Noticed As Transactional Law Students Used AI

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    After a semester using generative artificial intelligence tools with students in an entrepreneurship law clinic, we came away with numerous observations about the opportunities and challenges such tools present to new transactional lawyers, say professors at Cornell Law School.

  • Despite SEC Reset, Private Crypto Securities Cases Continue

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    While the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission under the Trump administration has charted a new approach to crypto regulation, the industry still lacks comprehensive rules of the road, meaning private plaintiffs continue to pursue litigation, and application of securities laws to crypto-assets will be determined by the courts, say attorneys at Skadden.

  • Top Takeaways From Trump's AI Action Plan

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    President Donald Trump's AI Action Plan represents some notable evolution in U.S. policy, including affirmation of the administration's trend toward prioritizing artificial intelligence innovation over guardrails and toward supporting greater U.S. private sector reach overseas, say attorneys at WilmerHale.

  • Reel Justice: 'Eddington' Spotlights Social Media Evidence

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    In the neo-Western black comedy “Eddington” released last month, social media is a character unto itself, highlighting how the boundaries between digital and real-world conduct can become blurred, thereby posing evidentiary challenges in criminal prosecutions, says Veronica Finkelstein at Wilmington University School of Law.

  • It Ends With Us Having No Coverage?

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    A recent suit filed by Harco National Insurance disclaiming coverage for Wayfarer and Justin Baldoni's defense against Blake Lively's claims in the "It Ends With Us" legal saga demonstrates that policyholders should be particularly cautious when negotiating prior knowledge exclusions in their claims-made policies, says Meagan Cyrus at Shumaker.

  • Rebuttal

    BigLaw Settlements Should Not Spur Ethics Deregulation

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    A recent Law360 op-ed argued that loosening law firm funding restrictions would make BigLaw firms less inclined to settle with the Trump administration, but deregulating legal financing ethics may well prove to be not merely ineffective, but counterproductive, says Laurel Kilgour at the American Economic Liberties Project.

  • 9th Circ. Leaves Scope Of CIPA Applicability Unclear

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    Three recent Ninth Circuit decisions declined to directly address whether all of the California Invasion of Privacy Act's provisions actually apply to internet activity, and given this uncertainty, companies should heed five recommendations when seeking to minimize CIPA litigation risk, say attorneys at Skadden.

  • 5 Ways Lawyers Can Earn Back The Public's Trust

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    Amid salacious headlines about lawyers behaving badly and recent polls showing the public’s increasingly unfavorable view of attorneys, we must make meaningful changes to our culture to rebuild trust in the legal system, says Carl Taylor at Carl Taylor Law.

  • Series

    Hiking Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    On the trail, I have thought often about the parallels between hiking and high-stakes patent litigation, and why strategizing, preparation, perseverance and joy are important skills for success in both endeavors, says Barbara Fiacco at Foley Hoag.

  • 6 Tips On Drafting Machine Learning Patents Post-Recentive

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    While the Federal Circuit's decision in Recentive v. Fox narrows the scope of patent-eligible machine learning applications, there are several drafting and prosecution strategies that may help practitioners navigate Section 101 challenges, say attorneys at BCLP.

  • Regulating Online Activity After Porn Site Age Check Ruling

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    A recent U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding an age verification requirement for accessing online adult sexual content applied a lenient rational basis standard, raising questions for how state and federal courts will determine what kinds of laws regulating online activity will satisfy this standard going forward, say attorneys at Hogan Lovells.

  • DC Circ. Ruling Augurs More Scrutiny Of Blanket Gag Orders

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    The D.C. Circuit’s recent ruling in In re: Sealed Case, finding that an omnibus nondisclosure order was too sweeping, should serve as a wake-up call to prosecutors and provide a road map for private parties to push back on overbroad secrecy demands, says Gregory Rosen at Rogers Joseph.

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    Law School's Missed Lessons: Negotiation Skills

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    I took one negotiation course in law school, but most of the techniques I rely on today I learned in practice, where I've discovered that the process is less about tricks or tactics, and more about clarity, preparation and communication, says Grant Schrantz at Haug Barron.

  • Taxpayers Face Tough Choices Under NJ's New Nexus Rules

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    Though New Jersey’s new rules expanding the commercial nexus that triggers state taxation are likely to be challenged, businesses still need to carefully consider whether it’s best to minimize potential tax by reducing online customer support services or maintain their current instate services and begin paying tax, say attorneys at Husch Blackwell.

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