A Colorado appellate panel has unanimously affirmed a jury verdict in favor of Dish Wireless LLC after the court determined the master lease agreement governing a $32 million lease dispute between Dish and several telecommunications infrastructure companies was ambiguous.
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Dish Wins $32M Lease Dispute In Colo. Appeals Court

By Zach Dupont

A Colorado appellate panel has unanimously affirmed a jury verdict in favor of Dish Wireless LLC after the court determined the master lease agreement governing a $32 million lease dispute between Dish and several telecommunications infrastructure companies was ambiguous.

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Lumen Says Telecom Charged It Tariffs For Toll-Free Calls

By Nadia Dreid

Lumen, a trio of telecommunications carriers, filed a federal lawsuit in Colorado on Wednesday against telecom carrier Onvoy LLC alleging the Minnesota-based firm is improperly charging it tariffs on toll-free calls.

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Colo. Inks New Settlement Over Banned Cannabis Products

By Rachel Konieczny

A Texas cannabis company has entered into a new settlement with Colorado after the state accused the business of violating the terms of an earlier settlement by "deceiving" consumers through misrepresenting its products, the Colorado attorney general said Monday.

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Ga. Judge Denies Early Exit In Protester's Defamation Suit

By Chart Riggall

A Georgia federal judge has denied Atlanta's ex-police chief's bid to escape a defamation suit from a protester who says he was falsely accused of being a violent gang member, ruling that the suit sufficiently substantiated that the chief deliberately lied in public statements.

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LITIGATION

1st Circ. Upholds Block On Trump Admin NIH Funding Cuts

By Hailey Konnath

The First Circuit on Monday affirmed a Massachusetts federal judge's order permanently blocking the Trump administration from gutting National Institutes of Health funding for biomedical research, agreeing that the government didn't have the authority to cap indirect costs for research grants.

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Brief

Insurer Drops Nonpayment Suit Against Colo. Data Center

By Rachel Konieczny

Zurich American Insurance Co. indicated Monday it plans to dismiss its claim that a Denver-based data management company failed to pay nearly half a million dollars for an additional premium for new construction projects.

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Dish Hits Disney With Antitrust Counterclaims In Sling TV Row

By Craig Clough

Dish Network hit back Friday in New York federal court against ESPN and Disney in a breach of contract dispute over Dish's limited access passes on Sling TV, filing antitrust counterclaims accusing Disney of forcing it to carry less desirable channels in order to gain access to the "must-have" ESPN.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Average Quinn Emanuel Partner Payouts Rise To $9.5M

By Aebra Coe

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP saw a 10% uptick in its profits per equity partner in 2025, bringing the firm's average partner pay up over $9 million last year amid an active litigation market, a firm spokesperson confirmed Monday.

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Feature

His Client Got A Pro Se Suit. Then The AI Filings Started.

By Chris Villani

Employment attorneys say the increased use of AI by pro se plaintiffs has the potential to clog dockets, drag out cases and make litigation significantly more expensive.

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McGuireWoods Atty Fined Over Citation Errors In BoA Suit

By Chart Riggall

A Georgia federal judge has slapped a McGuireWoods LLP attorney with a $1,500 fine for using incorrect citations in a brief lodged in a recently dismissed mortgage suit against Bank of America.

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Quinn Emanuel Contempt In $600M Row Probed By Fed. Circ.

By Ryan Davis

A contempt finding against Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP that contributed to a more than $600 million patent judgment against the firm's former client NortonLifeLock was scrutinized by a Federal Circuit panel on Monday, with one judge saying the order appeared to be invalid.

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Wis. Judge Resigns After Conviction In ICE Arrest Case

By Jack Karp

A Wisconsin state judge has resigned from the bench after being convicted of felony obstruction for helping an unauthorized immigrant in her court evade arrest by federal immigration officers, the Wisconsin Assembly speaker confirmed to Law360 Monday.

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Federal Court Wrong Place For Judges' Suit, Justices Told

By Elaine Briseño

Federal immigration officials have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse an appellate decision that allowed immigration judges to hash out their spat over a newly created speech policy in district court instead of within the congressionally designated special review system.

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Roundup

The Top In-House Hires Of December

By Michele Gorman

Legal department hires during the last month of 2025 included high-profile appointments at Apple, Berkshire Hathaway and LPL Financial. Here, Law360 Pulse looks at some of the top in-house announcements from December.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

A&O Shearman

Bricker Graydon

Brownstein Hyatt

Buckley LLP

Clement & Murphy

Cohen & Gresser

Davis Graham

Jackson Lewis PC

Jenner & Block

Kirkland & Ellis

Latham & Watkins

Lowenstein Sandler

McDermott Will & Schulte

McGuireWoods

Munger Tolles

Nelson Mullins

O'Melveny & Myers

Papetti Samuels

Quinn Emanuel

Ropes & Gray

Seyfarth Shaw

Sherin & Lodgen

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Stanley Esrey

Steptoe LLP

Stites & Harbison

Sullivan & Cromwell

Victor M. Glasberg & Associates

Wade Grunberg

Weil Gotshal

Wheeler Trigg

Womble Bond

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

23andMe Inc.

Agiloft Inc.

Apple Inc.

Association of American Medical Colleges

Association of American Universities Inc.

Bank of America Corp.

Berkshire Hathaway Energy GT&S

Centura Health Inc.

Crown Castle Inc.

DISH Network Corp.

ESPN Inc.

GE Aerospace

Gen Digital Inc.

Gilead Sciences Inc.

Inteliquent Inc.

LPL Financial

Lumen Technologies Inc.

Maximus Inc.

MetLife Inc.

Meta Platforms Inc.

Microsoft Corp.

Morgan Stanley

Morningstar, Inc.

NortonLifeLock Inc.

OpenAI OpCo LLC

Parsons Corp.

Pfizer Inc.

S&P Global Inc.

Savient Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Sling TV LLC

Snap Inc.

Subaru of America Inc.

Texas Roadhouse Inc.

Tonix Pharmaceuticals Holding Corp.

Vantage Data Centers

Webtrends Corp.

Zurich Insurance Group AG

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

City of New York

Colorado Attorney General's Office

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Colorado Supreme Court

Douglas County, Georgia

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Executive Office for Immigration Review

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Communications Commission

National Institutes of Health

U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of State

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

U.S. Supreme Court

United States District Court for the District of Colorado