Ex-Goldstein Employee Claims Accountants Made Mistakes

By Jared Foretek

Defense attorneys for SCOTUSblog founder Thomas Goldstein presented evidence Monday that his firm's tax accountants made serious mistakes in tax filings for Goldstein's wife, Amy Howe, in 2021.

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'Star Trek'-Citing Judge Says Moderna Can't Ax $5B Vax IP Suit

By Lauren Berg

Moderna Inc. will have to face most of a rival mRNA vaccine developer's $5 billion patent suit over the company's COVID-19 vaccines at a trial in Delaware, a federal judge ruled on Monday, invoking "Star Trek" in a summary judgment order that left issues like patent invalidity up to the jury.

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Judge Says 'Piddling' Dispute Slowing Arts Grant Cut Cases

By Pete Brush

A Manhattan federal judge on Monday prodded groups seeking the reversal of $175 million of Trump administration cuts to grants for writers to move past a lingering privilege dispute, saying it won't "advance the ball" toward judgment.

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Pandora Settles IP Suits By Robin Williams, Other Comedians

By Gina Kim

Pandora Media has resolved yearslong copyright infringement litigation by Robin Williams' estate, Lewis Black and other comedians, who alleged the streaming service owes millions for wrongfully profiting off their performances and works without licensing agreements, following a settlement conference in California federal court Friday.

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Judge Skeptical Of XAI's Claims In OpenAI Trade Secrets Suit

By Ivan Moreno

A California federal judge has said she's inclined to grant OpenAI's motion to dismiss a trade secrets complaint from Elon Musk's xAI "in full," saying the plaintiffs have not provided enough facts to support claims that OpenAI poached employees and stole source code.

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Businessman Fights Sanctions In $500M Miss America Feud

By Carolina Bolado

Attorneys for a Florida businessman locked in a $500 million dispute over the ownership of the Miss America pageant urged a federal judge Monday not to sanction their client for filing allegedly false documents, arguing they withdrew the documents once they were notified of questions about their authenticity.

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Law360 Seeks Members For Its 2026 Editorial Boards

Law360 is looking for avid readers of our publications to serve as members of our 2026 editorial advisory boards.

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Media & Entertainment Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn

By Alison Knezevich

Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP successfully defended OpenAI in the first defamation case against a chatbot, is representing Warner Bros. Television in a battle over the medical drama "The Pitt" and secured an appellate victory for Bob Dylan in a high-profile case, earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 Media & Entertainment Groups of the Year.

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Nvidia Faces New Class Action Over AI YouTube Scraping

By Elliot Weld

Chipmaker and artificial intelligence company Nvidia has been hit with more claims of improperly scraping data from YouTube for training material for its AI model Cosmos.

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Songwriter Says He Was Never Paid For Song In 'Smurfs' Film

By Elliot Weld

A musician has sued Paramount Pictures, claiming he was never compensated for a song he wrote that was recorded by singer Rihanna and was used in the "Smurfs" movie and that the studio tried to blame the singer when confronted.

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Mich. College Web Users Drop Meta Pixel Privacy Suit

By Carolyn Muyskens

Two plaintiffs Monday dismissed their Michigan federal court lawsuit alleging Hillsdale College violated the Video Privacy Protection Act by using Meta's automated tracker to gather data about people who viewed the school's online lectures.

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Monthly Merger Review Snapshot

By Matthew Perlman

U.S. enforcers reached three new merger settlements, while the Federal Trade Commission successfully blocked a $945 million heart valve deal and lodged an appeal for its case targeting Meta's past acquisitions.

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FTC Says Bezos, Amazon Execs Hid Evidence Via Signal App

By Bryan Koenig

The Federal Trade Commission asked a Washington federal judge to assume Amazon.com Inc. used auto-deleting Signal chats to hide the "anticompetitive nature" of rules that allegedly created an artificial pricing floor across online retail, escalating a long-simmering evidentiary fight that implicates Jeff Bezos and general counsel David Zapolsky.

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Netflix Slams HBO Max User's Challenge To Warner Bros. Deal

By Gina Kim

Netflix argued that an HBO Max subscriber lacks standing to challenge its plan to buy Warner Bros. Discovery, telling a California federal judge Friday that the subscriber doesn't show how the merger would injure her, as she's never subscribed to Netflix and doesn't say she plans to.

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DOJ Opposes Google's Bid For Partial Search Remedy Pause

By Matthew Perlman

The U.S. Department of Justice and state enforcers are opposing Google's bid to pause parts of the remedies imposed after a D.C. federal court found it monopolized the search market, while the tech giant appeals the ruling to the D.C. Circuit.

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ESPN Says Dish Can't Duck Sling Day Pass Claims

By Bryan Koenig

ESPN urged a New York federal judge not to let Dish Network duck breach of contract allegations challenging Dish's short-term Sling TV passes, arguing that the license for its sports content clearly requires subscriptions and not passes for as short as a single day.

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Philly Art Museum Wins Bid To Arbitrate CEO's Firing Suit

By P.J. D'Annunzio

Former Philadelphia Museum of Art CEO Alexandra "Sasha" Suda's lawsuit against the museum alleging that a "corrupt faction" in its leadership forced her out of her position must be handled in arbitration, a city judge has ruled, citing a contract provision.

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Mark Wahlberg-Backed F45 Training Signs Deal With Investors

By Sydney Price

Fitness franchise company F45 Training, which counts the actor Mark Wahlberg as an investor and board member, has reached a deal with investors over claims that it failed to disclose information about the sustainability of its once-rapid growth.

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Del. Justices Won't Revive Suit Over Twitter Stock Sale Loss

By Jeff Montgomery

Delaware's Supreme Court rejected on Monday a Washington state software engineer's late-filed, pro se attempt to resurrect a suit seeking damages after his sale of Twitter shares when Elon Musk briefly balked at a $44 billion closing on his company in 2024.

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Logan Paul Says CryptoZoo Buyers' Latest Complaint Fails

By Emilie Ruscoe

YouTuber Logan Paul seeks to once again shed a lawsuit accusing him of using his CryptoZoo game project to conduct a so-called rug pull, arguing that the latest version of a suit filed in Texas federal court doesn't show he can be held liable for the entity's conduct.

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House Lawmakers Set To Weigh FirstNet Renewal Bill

By Christopher Cole

U.S. House members Wednesday will consider legislative plans to renew the First Responder Network Authority for just over a decade beyond its scheduled sunset next year and also will examine whether to impose more federal oversight on the network.

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FCC's Phone Subsidy Fund Aims To Improve Nat'l Verifier

By Christopher Cole

As the Federal Communications Commission responds to reports from its internal auditors of widespread fraud in Lifeline phone services, the program's administrator has said progress is underway to strengthen a national system to verify beneficiaries.

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FCC Continues Work As Usual After Gov't Funding Lapse

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission said it has no immediate plans to alter operations as a result of the partial government shutdown that started over the weekend.

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Ex-UCLA Gynecologist Secures Sex Abuse Retrial On Appeal

By Lauren Berg

A California appellate court Monday tossed sexual assault convictions against a University of California, Los Angeles, gynecologist and ordered a new trial, saying the trial court judge failed to tell defense counsel about a jury note detailing concerns that one of their peers didn't understand English well enough to deliberate.

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NYC Bar Opinion Warns Attys On Use Of AI Recording Tools

Attorneys who use artificial intelligence tools to record, transcribe and summarize conversations with clients should heed the New York City Bar Association’s recent opinion addressing the legal and ethical risks posed by such tools, and follow several best practices to avoid violating the Rules of Professional Conduct, say attorneys at Smith Gambrell.

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The Biz Court Digest: Dispatches From Utah's Newest Court

While a robust body of law hasn't yet developed since the Utah Business and Chancery Court's founding in October 2024, the number of cases filed there has recently picked up, and its existence illustrates Utah's desire to be top of mind for businesses across the country, says Evan Strassberg at Michael Best.

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How 2 Tech Statutes Are Being Applied To Agentic AI

The application of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and the California Invasion of Privacy Act to agentic artificial intelligence is still developing, but recent case law, like Amazon's lawsuit against Perplexity in California federal court, provides some initial guidance for companies developing or deploying these technologies, say attorneys at Weil.

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Paul Weiss Chair's Emails To Epstein Include Apollo Info

By Aebra Coe

Files released by the Department of Justice over the weekend belonging to the late billionaire Jeffrey Epstein show a yearslong relationship between Epstein and Paul Weiss chair Brad Karp, which included dinners, phone calls and meetings, as well as communication related to Paul Weiss client Apollo Global Management.

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6th Circ. Clears Judge Boasberg In DOJ Ethics Complaint

By Courtney Bublé

The complaint the U.S. Department of Justice filed against Chief U.S. District Judge James Boasberg of the District of Columbia has been dismissed.

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Wheeling & Appealing: The Latest Must-Know Appellate Action

By Jeff Overley

What happened to a GOP donor's $250,000 Swiss watch? Can cigarette warnings show jarring medical images? Will a circuit split of "far-reaching importance" for arbitration get even wider? That's a taste of the oral argument menu we'll help you digest in this preview of February's top appellate action.

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Fenwick Reaches Deal In FTX Crypto Scam Suit

By Madison Arnold

Fenwick & West LLP and victims of the infamous FTX Trading Ltd. cryptocurrency scam are working toward a settlement in a case over the firm's alleged role in the trading platform's collapse.

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Watchdog Renews Halligan Bar Complaint After Court Rulings

By Emily Sawicki

The nonprofit Campaign for Accountability on Monday once again launched a bar complaint against former interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan in Virginia, after the Virginia State Bar declined to pursue an ethics investigation against the attorney last year, calling it a matter for the courts to determine.

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Judiciary Open As Usual Until Thursday Despite Shutdown

By Courtney Bublé

The federal judiciary has enough funding to sustain normal operations until Thursday, following the partial government shutdown that started at midnight on Saturday.

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DOJ Defends NJ US Atty Office Funding Amid Scrutiny

By Matthew Santoni

Defending the three-person leadership structure of New Jersey's federal prosecution operations since the departure of Alina Habba, an administrator told a federal court that two of the attorneys running the office are paid through the office's budget and the third is funded through the U.S. Department of Justice.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jeff Montgomery

A pair of new high-dollar suits in Delaware's Court of Chancery showed last week that post-deal stock appraisal suits still have legs, despite some efforts to reduce potential from deal-price gains challenges. The week ended with Delaware's justices nipping $100 million from the attorney fees owed by Tesla CEO Elon Musk from $176.2 million to roughly $70.9 million, rejecting part of a Court of Chancery fee calculation.

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The Top In-House Hires Of January

By Sue Reisinger

Legal department hires over the first month of 2026 included high-profile appointments at SiriusXM, at a host of West Coast tech companies including Microsoft and Meta, and at Black & Decker. Law360 Pulse looks at some of the top in-house announcements from January.

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