Jury Selection Set For Fall In Mangione's Fed. Murder Trial

By Stewart Bishop

A judge in Manhattan said Friday that jury selection for the federal murder trial of Luigi Mangione over the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson will begin Sept. 8, but the rest of the trial schedule is dependent on whether prosecutors are allowed to seek the death penalty.

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5 Arrests Made In Shooting Of Indiana Judge, Wife

By Lynn LaRowe

Five people have been charged in connection with the shooting of an Indiana Superior Court Judge and his wife at their home Sunday following an investigation involving state law enforcement in Indiana and Kentucky and federal agencies.

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Ill. High Court Won't Grant Posthumous Innocence Certificate

By Elizabeth Daley

The Illinois Supreme Court denied a posthumous certificate of innocence for a man who spent over two years in prison for drug charges due to Chicago police corruption, finding Friday that the certificate is a "personal statutory right" that cannot survive the petitioner's death.

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DOJ Alumni Back Maurene Comey In Effort To Keep Suit Alive

By Rose Krebs

U.S. Department of Justice alumni and a group that includes attorneys, law professors and former judges have filed briefs supporting former Manhattan federal prosecutor Maurene Comey's call for a New York federal court to reject the DOJ's bid to dismiss a suit over her firing.

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10th Circ. Asked To Overturn Mail Scam Fraud Convictions

By Rachel Konieczny

Two former Epsilon Data Management LLC employees convicted for their roles in selling data to mail scammers who preyed on the elderly and vulnerable asked the Tenth Circuit to overturn their convictions Friday, while the panel questioned the government's conspiracy case against Epsilon's former business manager.

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CytoDyn CEO Gets 30-Month Sentence For Lying To Investors

By Jared Foretek

A lawyer for former CytoDyn CEO Nader Pourhassan — the man convicted in December of securities fraud and insider trading — said that the executive's journey at the company began with a "desire to help people." That journey ended Friday at a hearing in a Maryland federal courtroom with a 30-month prison sentence.

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Feds Seek $35M Forfeiture After Ex-CFO's Crypto Conviction

By Ben Adlin

Government prosecutors urged a Seattle federal judge to impose a $35 million forfeiture judgment on a software startup's former executive following his wire fraud conviction, arguing that Nevin Shetty's quick loss of the money in a cryptocurrency collapse doesn't change the fact that he stole it.

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Roundup

Conn. High Court Snapshot: $13.2M Estate Tax Tops January

By Aaron Keller

The state of Connecticut's attempt to collect $13.2 million in taxes from the estate of a healthcare executive and a hospital's potential liability for releasing a mental health patient who later killed his girlfriend are two of the top cases on the Connecticut Supreme Court's January and February docket. Here are the highlights of the court's fourth term of its 2025-2026 season.

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Ill. High Court OKs Police Force Evidence In Defense Cases

By Parker Quinlan

The Illinois Supreme Court on Friday ordered state trial courts to consider allegations of police use of excessive force when deciding whether to provide a self-defense jury instruction in police battery cases.

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Fla. Judge Stresses Need For Selective Publication System

By Parker Quinlan

A Florida appellate judge has strongly criticized the lack of a selective publication system for the state's appeals courts, which he said creates an overreliance on unsigned per curiam decisions that can lead to inconsistent applications of law across the state.

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Fla. Panel Says Court Properly Denied Acquittal In DUI Death

By David Minsky

A Florida appeals court on Friday upheld manslaughter-related convictions for a man accused of driving drunk and killing another motorist with his vehicle, rejecting his argument that prosecutors didn't prove he was the operator of a truck that caused the wreck. 

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Bookie Tied To Puig Ran With High-Profile Clients, Jury Told

By Craig Clough

A former manager of an illegal sports betting ring testified Friday in the obstruction of justice trial of former MLB star Yasiel Puig, telling a California federal jury that a man whom a previous witness said Puig at one point owed hundreds of thousands of dollars to was the gambling operation's biggest bookie.

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Trio Leading US Atty Office Raises 'Red Flag' For Judge

By Carla Baranauckas

The same federal judge who disqualified President Donald Trump's former personal counsel Alina Habba as New Jersey's top federal prosecutor asked the government Friday to explain why the "triumvirate of attorneys" now supervising the office was any more legitimate.

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Ex-Olympic Snowboarder Arrested On Drug, Murder Charges

By Alex Lawson

Ryan Wedding, a former snowboarder on the Canadian Olympic team, was arrested in Mexico on murder and drug-running charges, FBI Director Kash Patel announced Friday, nearly 10 months after the bureau placed Wedding on its list of 10 most-wanted fugitives.

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Embezzler's Legal Malpractice Claims Too Late, Court Says

By Julie Manganis

A convicted embezzler who accused her attorneys of botching her defenses in criminal and civil cases cannot rely on a longer six-year statute of repose for breach of contract claims to overcome her delay in filing a legal malpractice case, an intermediate Massachusetts appellate court said Friday.

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Convicted Ex-Budget Official Gives Up Conn. Law License

By Brian Steele

With a second corruption trial looming, former Connecticut school construction official Konstantinos Diamantis has agreed to give up his license to practice law in the state and waive his ability to reapply to the bar.

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Contractor Indicted For Giving National Defense Info To Reporter

By Madeline Lyskawa

A Maryland man accused of unlawfully transmitting and retaining classified national defense information was indicted by a federal grand jury one week after FBI agents seized electronic devices from a Washington Post journalist's home as part of their investigation.

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Judge Blocks DOJ Anti-Diversity Conditions On Police Grants

By Brandon Lowrey

A California federal judge has blocked the U.S. Department of Justice from withholding community policing grants from a group of cities and counties that refuse to scrap their diversity programs and certify compliance with all of President Donald Trump's executive orders, saying those conditions directly conflict with the law that created the grants.

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Prisoners' Access To Health Info Should Have No Bars

To safeguard against unnecessary deaths in custody, courts and policymakers should clarify that incarcerated individuals’ constitutional right to medical care also includes access to sufficient information about their medical conditions, lifting current restrictions that can lead to crucial information being withheld, says Jaehyun Oh at Jacob Fuchsberg Law.

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Analysis

Supreme Court Caseload Hits 160-Year Low

By Katie Buehler

Not since the Civil War has the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in as few cases as it will this term — the latest milestone for the court's shrinking docket, and one attorneys say might have more to do with the high court's culture than its expanding emergency appeals caseload.

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Analysis

More Push In The 'Push-Pull' As DOJ Targets 'Gamesmanship'

By Bryan Koenig

The U.S. Department of Justice continues to build its task force targeting "gamesmanship" that it says BigLaw attorneys for major companies, especially technology platforms, are using to obstruct antitrust investigations — an effort that has been welcomed by some practitioners and questioned by others.

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Dems Push For Another Round Of Jack Smith Testimony

By Courtney Bublé

Following former special counsel Jack Smith's congressional appearance, Democrats are looking for him to return once he is able to speak about the second volume of his report on President Donald Trump's retention of classified documents after he left office.

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Roundup

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

By Max Austin

This past week in London saw Travelers Insurance hit with a claim from a property buyer over a payout tied to collapsed law firm Axiom Ince, Swedish music group Pophouse Entertainment clash with the production company that helped it create the ABBA Voyage experience, and biotech company Vertex Pharmaceuticals sue rival entity ToolGen for patent infringement.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

The EEOC voted to retract major harassment and discrimination protections as civil rights advocates protested. And Goldman Sachs denied rumors it was easing out its prominent chief legal officer despite the lingering stigma over her association with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Williams & Connolly LLP leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court held in a unanimous opinion that restitution is a criminal punishment subject to the Constitution's ban on increasing punishment retroactively.

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In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Law360

For those who missed out, here's a look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the most buzz on Law360 last week.

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