Musk Sought Control Of OpenAI To Fund Mars City, Jury Told

By Dorothy Atkins

OpenAI President Greg Brockman defended OpenAI's for-profit conversion during a California federal jury trial Tuesday and accused Elon Musk of demanding "unilateral absolute control" over OpenAI to fund his plans for a city on Mars, while acknowledging under examination that Musk proposed his stake would "change quickly" with additional investors.

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Meta Should Have Warning Label, NM Witness Says

By Cara Salvatore

New Mexico unveiled further details of safeguards it says a court should impose on Meta in a $3.7 billion bench trial, calling an expert witness Tuesday who said displaying a warning pop-up to minors is an idea that's backed by the former surgeon general and desperately needed.

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Apple Reaches $250M Deal Over Claims It Overhyped IPhone AI

By Lauren Berg

Apple customers asked a California federal judge Tuesday to greenlight a $250 million settlement resolving claims that the tech giant falsely promised the iPhone 16 would include new artificial intelligence Siri features, saying the "exceptional" deal will put cash in class members' hands and provide free future AI software updates.

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Ex-FDA Chief Testifies 100s Of J&J Docs Tie Asbestos To Talc

By Craig Clough

A former U.S. Food and Drug Administration commissioner on Tuesday testified in a Los Angeles bellwether trial over claims Johnson & Johnson's talc products caused deadly ovarian cancer in three women, saying hundreds of internal company documents reveal the company knew for decades that its talc contained asbestos.

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2nd Circ. Says NY Escrow Interest Law Is Preempted, Again

By Jon Hill

The Second Circuit ruled Tuesday that national banks are exempt from a New York law that requires interest to be paid on mortgage escrow accounts, handing a key victory to Bank of America NA in closely watched litigation testing the limits of states' banking regulatory authority.

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Home Depot Accused Of Helping Police Spy On Customers

By Bonnie Eslinger

Home Depot is running a covert surveillance system using automated license plate recognition technology and feeding that information to a database accessed by law enforcement, a proposed class action filed in California federal court has alleged.

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Analysis

High Court Clarity On Subpoenas Creates Murky Path For AGs

By Carla Baranauckas

The U.S. Supreme Court's unanimous decision that the New Jersey Attorney General's Office infringed free speech by asking an anti-abortion nonprofit to release donor names gives nonprofits and companies more leverage for challenging subpoenas at the outset, although the question remains if and how attorneys general and other enforcers can ultimately obtain sought-after information following a constitutional affront.

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Banks Say Stablecoin Yield Fix For Crypto Bill 'Falls Short'

By Aislinn Keely

Five banking groups say proposed language governing interest and rewards payments on stablecoins, intended to advance a bill to regulate crypto markets, "falls short," while the lawmakers behind the proposal say they've worked directly with banks for months to "encourage compromise." 

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Bittrex Seeks To Undo $24M Judgment After SEC Crypto Pivot

By Ben Adlin

Bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange Bittrex urged a Seattle federal judge to toss a $24 million judgment entered as part of a 2023 settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, arguing that the agency has since done an "about-face" on crypto and abandoned its position that digital tokens are securities.

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Ligado Satellite Plans Spur New Challenge To FCC Order

By Christopher Cole

A coalition opposed to the Federal Communications Commission approval six years ago of Ligado's plans for a terrestrial network is calling on the White House and Congress to block the network company's new plan to launch a 96-satellite constellation.

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ITC Recommends Trump Impose Tariffs On Quartz Surfaces

By Dylan Moroses

Two commissioners of the U.S. International Trade Commission recommended that President Donald Trump impose 40% tariffs on imported quartz surfaces, with a lesser 25% rate reserved for covered goods within a quota, according to a press release Tuesday.

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EPA Says Clean Water Act Doesn't Impose PFAS Sludge Curbs

By Elaine Briseño

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency told the D.C. Circuit Tuesday that the lower court rightly found farmers, who accused the agency of not regulating "forever chemicals" in sewage sludge, did not identify how the agency violated the Clean Water Act.

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NCAA Insists Athletes Must Arbitrate NIL Deal, Not 'Rewrite' It

By David Steele

College athletes' attempt to go through the courts to exempt certain revenue streams from NCAA oversight is an end-run around the resolution they reached in last year's $2.78 billion class action settlement, the association has told a California federal judge.

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Utah Judge Won't Block Kratom-Kava Product Sales Ban

By Emily Field

A Utah federal judge on Tuesday refused to block a new state law banning sales of psychoactive products derived from the kratom leaf the day before the law takes effect, finding that the new restrictions aren't barred by federal law.

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FCC Asks DC Circ. To End Nexstar-Tegna Merger Challenges

By Jared Foretek

The Federal Communications Commission is calling on the D.C. Circuit to dismiss challenges to its approval of the Nexstar-Tegna deal outright, arguing that the appeals court lacks jurisdiction because approval came from its Media Bureau staff rather than the full commission, and thus wasn't a final agency action.

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Brief

EU Hits Chinese Acid With Antidumping Duties

By Jack McLoone

Imports of Chinese adipic acid into the European Union will be subject to antidumping duties after the bloc found it was being sold at unfair prices and harming European domestic industry, the European Commission said Tuesday.

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Brief

FCC Chair Carr Promotes 6 In Key Legal, Policy Roles

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission's staff are playing musical chairs, and it means high-level promotions for a half-dozen legal aides of agency chief Brendan Carr.

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DOT, Mexico Inching Toward 'Consensus' In Airport Slots Fight

By Linda Chiem

The U.S. Department of Transportation said Tuesday that Mexico has tentatively agreed to reconsider some of its restrictions on flights into Mexico City's Benito Juárez International Airport, signaling there's some headway being made in a dispute over alleged violations of a decade-old bilateral air transport agreement.

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OpenAI Accused Of Giving ChatGPT User Info To Meta, Google

By Hailey Konnath

A ChatGPT user Tuesday filed a proposed class action against OpenAI in California federal court, claiming the artificial intelligence company disclosed private user information to Meta Platforms and Google without users' consent.

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Patient Data Tracking Suit Sent Back To Wis. State Court

By Allison Grande

A Wisconsin federal judge has thrown back to state court a putative class action accusing healthcare providers Hospital Sisters Health Systems and Prevea Health Services of deploying tracking tools that illegally transmitted patients' private information to Google and Facebook, finding that the plaintiffs hadn't alleged a sufficiently concrete injury to remain in federal court.  

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Software Co. Doxim Inks $5.5M Deal To End Data Breach Suit

By Melanie Dorsey

Credit union customers asked a Michigan federal judge Tuesday to preliminarily approve an amended $5.5 million class settlement resolving claims that software-as-a-service company Doxim Inc. failed to protect sensitive personal information that ended up exposed in a 2023 data breach.

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Pa. Sues Character.ai For Bot Acting Like A Doctor

By P.J. D'Annunzio

The state of Pennsylvania and its medical licensing board have sued Character Technologies Inc. for allegedly allowing an AI chatbot generated on its platform to engage in the unlicensed practice of medicine with members of the public.

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Deutsche, Pathward Want Fintech Blacklist Suit Tossed

By Sydney Price

Deutsche Bank AG and Pathward NA urged a New York federal court to dismiss a suit accusing them of improperly blacklisting a barter-based payment platform that the banks found was "transaction laundering" for companies selling gray-market pharmaceuticals, arguing that the suit's jurisdiction assertions are fatal to the claims.

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Hemp Powder Buyer Says Amazon Images Don't End Claims

By Mike Curley

A woman leading a proposed class action alleging Tilray Brands Inc. misleads consumers about the protein content of its hemp powders is pushing back against the company's dismissal bid, saying its latest motion is based on inadmissible evidence in the form of website printouts and other outside materials.

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Cannabis Giants Sued Over Mental Health Marketing

By Jonathan Capriel

Recreational cannabis users hit some of the industry's largest companies — Cresco Labs, Green Thumb Industries, Verano Holdings and Curaleaf — with two sprawling lawsuits alleging the businesses overcharged for products deceptively marketed as safe and effective treatments for mental health disorders.

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GM Says Brake Defect System Claims Came Too Late

By Susan Smiley

Claims that General Motors knowingly installed defective brake vacuum pumps on three SUV models are unfounded, the automaker told a Michigan federal court Monday, saying that issues experienced by plaintiffs are nothing more than normal wear and tear on the braking system.

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Tribal Loan Co. Wants To Arbitrate Predatory Lending Claims

By Sydney Price

Tribally owned online direct lender WithU Loans is urging a Washington federal judge to send a consumer's proposed class action over alleged predatory lending practices to arbitration, arguing that the plaintiff agreed to arbitrate any claims against the company when he signed the loan agreement at issue.

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DOJ Asks To Toss Subpoena Defeats In Powell Case As Moot

By Sarah Jarvis

The U.S. Department of Justice has asked a Washington, D.C., federal judge to vacate his decisions that blocked subpoenas from its now-closed criminal investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, arguing that the slate should be wiped clean on mootness grounds.

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Buffalo Wild Wings Wants Boneless Wing Suit Gone For Good

By Celeste Bott

Consumer surveys and social media posts introduced in a second amended complaint don't add any meat to claims that Buffalo Wild Wings deceived customers by marketing breast meat as "boneless wings," the restaurant chain argued Monday, asking an Illinois federal judge to throw out the lawsuit again, but this time for good.

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4 Mass. Rulings You May Have Missed In April

By Julie Manganis

Judges in Suffolk County Superior Court's business litigation session in Massachusetts sent two cases to arbitration and weighed in on disputes over trade secrets and tradespeople in recent rulings.

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Mylan Strikes $4.5M Deal With Maryland Over EpiPen Pricing

By Gina Kim

Mylan Pharmaceuticals will pay $4.5 million to resolve allegations by the state of Maryland that Mylan acted anticompetitively when it ratcheted up costs of its portable auto-injectable EpiPen device that's used during life-threatening allergic reaction episodes, according to a recent announcement.

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Opinion

Congress Should Ax Privacy Bill For Not Shielding Consumers

The SECURE Data Act should be rejected because, despite Congress' claims, it would not meaningfully rein in data practices, but instead would weaken enforcement, eliminate stronger protections and prioritize data extraction over consumer protection and accountability, say attorneys at DiCello Levitt.

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Bet On Prediction Market Regulation To Accelerate

Watershed developments concerning prediction markets — such as the first insider trading charges, major speeches from U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission leadership, and the introduction of rulemaking and legislation — dominated the first quarter of 2026, a trend that will likely continue throughout the rest of the year, say attorneys at K&L Gates.

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The 2026 Lawyer Satisfaction Survey: Make Your Voice Heard

How is your work-life balance? Are you content with your compensation and opportunities for advancement at work? Take the 2026 Law360 Lawyer Satisfaction Survey and share your thoughts.

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DOJ Atty Faces Possible Discipline Over DHS 'Lack Of Candor'

By Lauren Berg

A Rhode Island federal judge, whom the U.S. Department of Homeland Security criticized for releasing a noncitizen with an alleged overseas warrant for homicide, on Tuesday said she is referring an assistant U.S. attorney for disciplinary proceedings for not disclosing the warrant to her beforehand.

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Approach The Bench: Justice Bacon On School Accreditation

By Cara Bayles and Steven Trader

State high courts are responsible for regulating the legal profession in their jurisdictions, and so New Mexico Supreme Court Justice C. Shannon Bacon thinks it's only right that justices reevaluate the principles behind law school accreditation.

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Ga. Justices Sanction Asst. DA For AI Errors In Murder Case

By Lauren Berg

The Georgia Supreme Court on Tuesday sanctioned a Clayton County assistant district attorney for filing briefs that contained nonexistent case citations generated by artificial intelligence in a murder defendant's bid for a new trial, saying the prosecutor's misconduct has "sidetracked" the justices from delving into the merits of the appeal.

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SEC Lifts NY Atty's Lifetime Practice Ban

By Katryna Perera

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday lifted a lifetime ban preventing a New York attorney from practicing before the agency, following an attempt to leverage a client's testimony before the SEC.

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