The Seventh Circuit elaborated Thursday on its reasoning for denying the Trump administration's request to stay a ruling blocking the deployment of National Guard troops to Chicago, noting that "spirited, sustained and occasionally violent actions" of protest demonstrators, without more, don't constitute a "rebellion" that would justify deploying the Guard.
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Protests Aren't Rebellions Justifying The Guard, 7th Circ. Says

By Dorothy Atkins

The Seventh Circuit elaborated Thursday on its reasoning for denying the Trump administration's request to stay a ruling blocking the deployment of National Guard troops to Chicago, noting that "spirited, sustained and occasionally violent actions" of protest demonstrators, without more, don't constitute a "rebellion" that would justify deploying the Guard.

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Insurer Didn't Owe Coverage To IT Co. In BIPA Violation Suit

By Hope Patti

An insurer had no duty to defend or indemnify an information technology company in a class action alleging violations of Illinois' Biometric Information Privacy Act, a state appeals court affirmed, finding that underlying events occurred before the claims-made policy's retroactive date.

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7th Circ. Affirms French Montana's Win In Copyright Case

By Bonnie Eslinger

The Seventh Circuit on Thursday backed French Montana's win in a copyright case brought by a musician who alleged the rapper sampled his instrumental song to make the hit single "Ain't Worried About Nothin'," saying there wasn't evidence to show Montana duplicated the work "as opposed to merely imitating it."

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Brief

Fans Drop Biometric Privacy Suit Against Chicago Cubs

By Jonathan Capriel

Baseball game attendees who accused the Chicago Cubs of collecting, without consent, the biometric data of millions of fans at Wrigley Field have agreed to drop their proposed class action claims against the team and others.

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Ill. Judge Tosses Law Firm's $36M Pandemic Loan Fraud Suit

By Tom Lotshaw

An Illinois federal judge dismissed a Michigan law firm's $36 million whistleblower suit against dozens of automotive dealerships, ruling that the information underpinning its claims of pandemic loan fraud was already publicly available.

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States Battle Trump Admin To Recover Solar Program Funds

By Juan-Carlos Rodriguez

Attorneys general from across the country are suing the Trump administration for allegedly violating the Constitution and federal law by canceling a $7 billion program providing solar equipment to low-income households.

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Tech Co. Gets Ex-Employee's Bias Suit Shipped To Texas

By Patrick Hoff

An information technology services company must face a Black former employee's lawsuit claiming she was fired for complaining about a supervisor's racist remarks, an Illinois federal judge ruled, but said the case should be sent to Texas based on the worker's employment agreement.

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LITIGATION

Songwriters Claim Udio AI Was Trained On Copyrighted Music

By Elliot Weld

A group of songwriters is suing artificial intelligence company Udio AI, claiming its music-generating AI models were trained using copyrighted music scraped from the internet.

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USDA Can't Curb SNAP Benefits As States Fight Data Demand

By Dorothy Atkins

A California federal judge on Wednesday preliminarily blocked the U.S. Department of Agriculture from withholding potentially billions of dollars in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefit funds from states that refuse to turn over highly sensitive personal information on millions of SNAP food assistance benefit recipients.

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PEOPLE

Trump Taps V&E's Swett As New FERC Chair

By Keith Goldberg

President Donald Trump will appoint Vinson & Elkins LLP energy regulatory counsel Laura Swett as chair of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the White House confirmed to Law360 Thursday.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

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Traveling Solo Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Traveling by myself has taught me to assess risk, understand tone and stay calm in high-pressure situations, which are not only useful life skills, but the foundation of how I support my clients, says Lacey Gutierrez at Group Five Legal.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Loan Forgiveness Overhaul May Chill Legal Aid Work

By Alison Knezevich

Civil legal services groups and public defenders say the Trump administration's proposed change to the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program would politicize the initiative and make it harder to recruit attorneys to jobs that pay less than the private sector.

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Atty Quits Ga. Bar's 'Facade' Committee On Client Solicitation

By Chart Riggall

A Georgia attorney resigned Friday as head of the state bar's committee on attorney-client solicitation, accusing the bar of not even "reaching for a garden hose" while unlawful solicitation of accident victims has spread "like wildfire" across the Peach State.

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

By Max Austin

This past week in London has seen Johnson & Johnson hit with a £1 billion ($1.34 billion) claim for allegedly selling contaminated baby powder, Carter-Ruck bring a claim against the Solicitors Regulation Authority, and Hewlett Packard file a probate claim against the estate of Mike Lynch.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

Exxon was hit with a proposed class action alleging its new program to enable automated proxy voting for retail investors is intended to stifle shareholder dissent. Meanwhile, a new survey found that nearly two-thirds of in-house legal departments think they will rely less on outside legal service providers because of generative artificial intelligence. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.

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NY Court Orders Hearing On Counsel Conflict In Drug Case

By Elizabeth Daley

A man who pled guilty to gun and drug charges and was sentenced to 12 years in prison can argue for a new trial due to ineffective counsel after a similarly culpable co-defendant got a light sentence allegedly due to cooperation between their attorneys, a New York state appeals court said in a reversal.

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Utah Fires Motley Rice From Opioid Case

By Jack Karp

The state of Utah has fired Motley Rice LLC from representing it in long-running litigation over the opioid crisis, a spokesperson for the Utah attorney general's office confirmed to Law360 Pulse on Friday.

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Ga. Judge Resigns After DUI Arrest Outside Fla. Strip Club

By Chart Riggall

A Georgia Superior Court jurist who led the state's Council of Superior Court Judges stepped down from the bench Thursday after his driving under the influence arrest last week outside a Jacksonville, Florida, strip club.

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UC Law School Can Drop Hastings Name, Appeals Court Says

By Andrea Keckley

California is allowed to drop Serranus Clinton Hastings' name from the University of California's San Francisco-based law school, a state appeals court has ruled, backing a trial judge's decision to toss a lawsuit filed by the former chief state Supreme Court justice's descendants and various school alumni.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Caldwell Cassady & Curry PC and Miller Fair Henry PLLC lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a California federal jury found Samsung must pay nearly $445.5 million for infringing four wireless communication patents.

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Liberty Mutual Attys Face Sanctions Bid Over Citation Errors

By Emily Sawicki

A St. Louis federal court is weighing whether to sanction Liberty Mutual Personal Insurance Company's lawyers after they submitted a motion containing citation errors and then, after a warning, "somehow" submitted a second motion with the same types of mistakes.

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Federal Courts To Scale Back Operations Amid Shutdown

By Ryan Boysen

The federal court system has run out of money and will scale back operations beginning Monday as a result of the ongoing government shutdown, possibly leading to case delays.

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Robbins Geller To Steer REIT Investors' Suit Over $787M Deal

By Sydney Price

Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP will lead a proposed class of investors in real estate investment trust Broadmark Realty Capital Inc. who claim they were misled by executives from the REIT ahead of a $787 million merger with Ready Capital Corp. in 2023.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

A&O Shearman

Akeel & Valentine

Akin & Tate

Alston & Bird

Armstrong Teasdale

BCL Solicitors

Brett Wilson LLP

Burges Salmon

Caldwell Cassady

Cambre & Associates

Capsticks Solicitors LLP

Carter-Ruck

Cooley LLP

Cox Byington

Crowell & Moring

Dhillon Law Group

Dickinson Wright

Edmonds Marshall McMahon

Ellis Jones Solicitors

Florida Justice Institute

Foley & Lardner

Forde & O'Meara

Fountain Court Chambers

Freshfields

Gibson Dunn

Goldberg Kohn

Goldblatt & Singer

Hill Dickinson

Hillis Clark

Holland & Knight

Jenner & Block

Jones Day

Keller Rohrback

Kennedys Law LLP

Kirkland & Ellis

Latham & Watkins

Laytons LLP

Leigh Day

Loevy & Loevy

Matrix Chambers

McKool Smith

Michael Yamamoto LLP

Miller Fair

Miller Shakman

Morgan Lewis

Motley Rice

Parr Brown

Pinsent Masons

Quinn Emanuel

RWK Goodman

Robbins Geller

Rule Garza

Rynearson Suess

Schueler Dallavo

Sidley Austin

Signature Litigation LLP

Silver Golub

Singleton Schreiber

Skadden Arps

Skarzynski Marick

Spencer Fane

Stephenson Harwood

Sterlington PLLC

Stewarts Law LLP

Summerville Firm LLC

Taylor Wessing

Travers Smith

Troutman

Trowers & Hamlins

Vinson & Elkins

Watson LLP

White & Case

Wood Craig & Avery

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Aldi GmbH & Co. KG

American Bar Association

American Public Health Association

Anglo American PLC

Anthropic PBC

Association of Corporate Counsel

Balfour Beatty PLC

Barclays PLC

BlackRock Inc.

Burford Capital LLC

Candela Corp.

Carnival Corp. & PLC

Chicago Cubs Baseball Club LLC

Clearview AI

Co-operative Group Ltd.

Concord Music Group Inc.

Conduent Inc.

Express Scripts Holding Co.

Exxon Mobil Corp.

FedEx Corp.

FirstEnergy Corp.

Fort Point Capital

Global Infrastructure Partners

Global Logistic Properties Ltd.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.

Iceland Foods Ltd.

Invenergy LLC

Investments Ltd.

Johnson & Johnson

L'Oreal SA

Legal Aid Society of Cleveland

Liberty Mutual Insurance Group

Lloyds Bank PLC

Macquarie Group Ltd.

Marks & Spencer

Maryland Clean Energy Center

Midcontinent Independent System Operator Inc.

Napleton Automotive Group

National Association for Law Placement Inc.

National Consumer Law Center Inc.

National Legal Aid & Defender Association

National Westminster Bank PLC

Ocado Ltd.

OptumRx Inc.

Ready Capital Corp.

Ritz-Carlton Company LLC

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

Solicitors Regulation Authority Ltd.

Southfield Capital

Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd.

Tesla Inc.

Tower Semiconductor Ltd.

UC Hastings Law

Visa Europe

Volcano Corporation

Waterfall Asset Management LLC

Wm Morrison Supermarkets PLC

YouTube Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

California Attorney General's Office

California Department of Justice

Competition Appeal Tribunal

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Federal Reserve System

Federal Trade Commission

Food and Drug Administration

Georgia Court of Appeals

Georgia Judicial Qualifications Commission

Georgia Supreme Court

Illinois Attorney General's Office

National Institutes of Health

New York Attorney General's Office

Office of the Comptroller of the Currency

Patent Trial and Appeal Board

Secretary of State for Health and Others

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

U.S. Department of Agriculture

U.S. Department of Education

U.S. Department of Energy

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas

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

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

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

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

UK High Court

United States District Court for the District of Utah

United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio