Rock Hall Of Fame's Photo Display Was Fair Use, Judge Says

By Elliot Weld

An Ohio federal judge has ruled that the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame's display of two photos of guitarist Eddie Van Halen was fair use, dismissing a photographer's claims of copyright infringement.

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HGTV Owner Sheds Video Privacy Suit Over Meta Data Sharing

By Allison Grande

A New York federal judge Thursday tossed a putative class action accusing the owner of HGTV of illegally sharing information about website visitors' video-watching activities with Facebook, finding that the plaintiff had failed to adequately allege that the media company disclosed the type of data protected by federal video privacy law.

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Gen Z Gamblers, Athletes Charged In Mob-Run Betting Ring

By George Woolston

Fourteen people were charged Thursday for their roles in a $2 million illegal sports betting ring operated by members and associates of the Lucchese crime family, New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin announced.

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Trump Org. Pushes DC Circ. To Back IRS Leaker's Sentence

By Anna Scott Farrell

President Donald Trump's private business organization said it opposes any reduction to the five-year prison sentence of the former IRS contractor who leaked Trump's tax returns and thousands of others, telling the D.C. Circuit the leaker has been shown enough leniency.

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Ex-FCC Members Say Carr's Abusing News Distortion Policy

By Nadia Dreid

Nearly a dozen former Federal Communications Commission officials — including seven once-commissioners — told the agency that it ought to repeal its news distortion policy "in full," accusing the head of the FCC of using the policy to police speech.

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Apple, OpenAI Can't Yet Nix XAI Antitrust Suit, Judge Says

By Rae Ann Varona

A Texas federal judge on Thursday denied Apple and OpenAI's requests to toss an antitrust lawsuit that Elon Musk's xAI lodged to target a deal that integrated ChatGPT into the iPhone operating system, but suggested that resolving the suit without a jury trial may be the way to go.

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Anthropic Judge Rips Opt-Out Law Firm As 'Quick Buck' Ploy

By Bonnie Eslinger

A California federal judge on Thursday blasted Arizona law firm ClaimsHero Holdings LLC for encouraging authors to opt out of Anthropic PBC's $1.5 billion deal to end copyright infringement claims, saying it looks like the firm is "trying to trick people" for a "quick buck."

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Dish Scores $42M Default Win Over Ukraine-Based Pirate Host

By Ben Adlin

Dish Network LLC has secured a nearly $42 million default judgment against a Ukraine-based internet hosting provider in a lawsuit that accused the host of enabling "pirate streaming services" that transmitted content owned by the network to U.S. viewers.

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NCAA, Big Ten Say Mich. Judge Right To Toss $50M NIL Suit

By Danielle Ferguson

The NCAA, the Big Ten Conference and Big Ten Network urged a Michigan federal judge on Wednesday to not disturb an order dismissing a $50 million lawsuit from former college football players, saying the court properly determined the claims were time-barred.

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MLB Star Reliever Denies Pitch-Fixing Conspiracy

By Pete Brush

Cleveland Guardians pitcher Emmanuel Clase on Thursday pled not guilty and vowed to fight charges in Brooklyn federal court accusing him of conspiring with gamblers to rig pitches during Major League Baseball games.

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3rd Circ. Says Quest Didn't Eavesdrop In Data Privacy Suit

By P.J. D'Annunzio

The Third Circuit on Thursday upheld a win for Quest Diagnostics, which beat a class action alleging it inappropriately shared patient data with Meta Platforms through ad tracking software on its website, with the court reasoning that information was not unlawfully collected because it wasn't obtained through eavesdropping.

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Maya Kowalski Fights Fla. Appeals Court's $213M Reversal

By Carolina Bolado

The subject of the Netflix documentary "Take Care of Maya" has asked a Florida appeals court to reconsider its decision reversing a $213 million judgment, saying the court needs to clarify how far the immunity that state law grants to those who report possible child abuse extends.

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Google Says Latest EU Probe Attacks Anti-Spam Efforts

By Matthew Perlman

Google said on Thursday that a new investigation launched by European enforcers into the tech giant's compliance with recently enacted rules for digital markets targets a practice designed to keep spam from infiltrating search results.

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Rumble Cites Judge's Longtime Friendship With Google VP

By Bryan Koenig

Rumble asked a California federal judge to consider recusal should the Ninth Circuit revive its antitrust lawsuit against Google, citing a yearslong friendship with Google's top in-house litigation chief that involved the judge officiating at her wedding and their ongoing participation in a fantasy football league.

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Chancery Presses Fox, Investors To End Discovery Fight

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court pressed Fox Corp. and a coalition of public pension plaintiffs Thursday to break a stalemate over the scope of summary judgment discovery, signaling neither side will be allowed to bottleneck the consequential inquiry into director Jacques Nasser's independence from Fox founder Rupert Murdoch.

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FCC Looks To Avoid 'Red Flag' Reg Hurdles In Space

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission says it envisions a framework for the fast-growing space industry that rejects heavy-handed regulations, which a top official on Thursday likened to British 19th-century "red flag laws" putting the brakes on the early auto industry.

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Mobile Biz Asks Congress To Nix Military's Spectrum Right

By Christopher Cole

Congress needs to toss a provision wrapped into the Senate's version of the defense authorization bill that allows the military to reject certain spectrum allocations to the private sector, a top wireless industry advocate said Thursday.

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Broadcasters Ramp Up Pressure To Limit C-Band Rework

By Christopher Cole

Broadcasters have long been concerned about relocating their satellites from the upper C-band airwaves, but they're even less pleased to see the scope of the Federal Communications Commission plan now that it's been released, according to a new filing.

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Dr. Phil Media Co. Must Trim Expenses In Ch. 11, Judge Says

By Emily Lever

A Texas bankruptcy judge on Thursday significantly trimmed a request by Merit Street Media to pay administrative expenses in its bankruptcy case, expressing concern that the company is appealing its case's Chapter 7 conversion while running its business at a loss.

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Reel Justice: 'Roofman,' Modus Operandi Evidence And AI

The recent film “Roofman,” which dramatizes the real-life string of burglaries committed by Jeffrey Manchester, illuminates the legal standards required to support modus operandi evidence — which may soon become complicated by the use of artificial intelligence in crime series detection, says Veronica Finkelstein at Wilmington University School of Law.

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New NCAA Betting Policy Fits Trend Of Eased Restrictions

Allowing NCAA student-athletes to bet on professional sports fits into a decade-long trend of treating college athletes more like adults in a commercial system, but decreasing player restrictions translates to increased compliance burdens for schools, say attorneys at Robins Kaplan.

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Series

Building With Lego Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Building with Lego has taught me to follow directions and adapt to unexpected challenges, and in pairing discipline with imagination, allows me to stay grounded while finding new ways to make complex deals come together, says Paul Levin at Venable.

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New California Bar Leader Aims To Rebuild Public Trust

By Tracey Read

After less than two weeks on the job, Laura Enderton-Speed, the California State Bar's new executive director, is already busy working to strengthen trust in the organization following the botched administration of the February bar exam.

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Roundup

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

By Laura Stewart Liberty

This past week in London has seen Freeths face a professional negligence claim from a Scottish car dealership, Rolls-Royce sue logistics giant Kuehne + Nagel, and a team of Oberon Investments Group investment managers sued by their former employer.  

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Roundup

GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

Experts say it will likely take at least a month for the thousands of SEC employees now back to work after the government shutdown to catch up with submissions for initial public offerings. Meanwhile, clean energy developers are increasingly looking to privately held investors amid a race to beat a July 2026 cutoff to maintain eligibility for clean electricity investment and production tax credits. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.

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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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Buchalter Won't Be Sanctioned For 'Hallucinated' AI Citations

By Rose Krebs

An Oregon federal judge has decided not to sanction Buchalter PC and other counsel representing an environmental nonprofit in a trademark infringement dispute for submitting "hallucinated" case citations generated by an artificial intelligence tool, saying he is satisfied with "remedial actions" already done or to be taken.

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King & Spalding, Atty Move To End Bias Suit At 4th Circ.

By Grace Elletson

King & Spalding LLP and an attorney who complained that she didn't apply to a summer associate program as a straight, white woman because the firm sought diverse applicants have agreed to end her bias case, according to a filing in the Fourth Circuit.

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Manning Kass Hit With Age Bias Suit In Calif.

By Christine DeRosa

Manning & Kass Ellrod Ramirez Trester LLP is facing an age bias lawsuit in California state court alleging a firm leader has made ageist comments at employees over 40 and is trying to drive those workers out of the firm.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Sidley Austin LLP and Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a Washington federal jury cleared Novo Nordisk of allegations that it defrauded the state's Medicaid and Medicare systems by paying kickbacks and promoting off-label use to illegally boost prescriptions of its hemophilia drug NovoSeven.

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Non-Attys Could Help Close Georgia's Civil Justice Gap

By Emily Johnson

Low-income Georgians and rural Georgians face several barriers to accessing legal services, including living in a legal desert, according to a Georgia Supreme Court committee’s report. The panel's proposal allowing "limited licensed legal practitioners" to assist with civil housing and consumer debt matters could improve access to justice across the state.

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House Eyes Vote To Repeal Provision On Senators' Lawsuits

By Courtney Bublé

A House bill to repeal a controversial provision tucked into the government funding package that would allow senators investigated by former special counsel Jack Smith to sue for damages is listed for possible consideration on the schedule for the week of Nov. 17.

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Northern NY US Atty To Defend DOJ In Maurene Comey Suit

By Jack Karp

The U.S. attorney's office for the Northern District of New York has agreed to defend the U.S. Department of Justice against a lawsuit from former FBI Director James Comey's daughter over what she calls her illegal firing, that office informed a New York federal judge this week.

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DOJ Official Among Trump Picks For District Courts

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump announced judicial nominees for federal courts in Tennessee, Indiana and Missouri on Friday, including a current U.S. Department of Justice official.

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Frequent DEI Foe Takes Aim At Mich. Law Firm's Scholarships

By Madison Arnold

American Alliance for Equal Rights, a group known for challenging diversity, equity and inclusion scholarships, has set its sights on Michigan personal injury firm Buckfire & Buckfire PC for alleged discrimination via the firm's scholarship programs for minorities.

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NC, Utah Attorneys General Launch Nationwide AI Task Force

By Matt Perez

Democratic North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson and Republican Utah Attorney General Derek Brown have announced the formation of a nationwide artificial intelligence task force in collaboration with developers OpenAI and Microsoft, as well as the Attorney General Alliance, a nonprofit group of bipartisan state attorneys general.

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How To Kill A Person: A Legal Battle Over Execution Methods

By Marco Poggio

As botched executions pile up and states reach for untested methods like nitrogen hypoxia, prisoners are turning to the courts for a say in how they will die — and are being met with a legal framework stacked against finding execution methods unconstitutional.

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Perkins Coie Sued By Omani Co. Over Trade Case Defense

By Rachel Riley

An Omani screw manufacturer has launched a legal malpractice suit in Washington state court accusing Perkins Coie LLP of a "series of deadly mistakes" while representing the Middle Eastern company in a U.S. Department of Commerce probe, allegedly leading to steep penalties and tariffs that cost the company hundreds of millions of dollars.

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Analysis

Feds' Use Of AI In Permitting, Rulemaking Raises Concerns

By Juan-Carlos Rodriguez

Federal government agencies with environmental responsibilities have begun using artificial intelligence tools, but attorneys say information about exactly why, how and when they are being used has been hard to get, leading to uncertainty about their effectiveness and shortcomings.

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'Constitutional Word Salad': Judge Rips Suit Over Mascot Ban

By Bonnie Eslinger

A New York federal court judge denied a Long Island school district's bid to amend claims in a lawsuit challenging the state's ban on Indigenous mascots, calling proposed changes a "constitutional word salad," but said a district parent could add First Amendment claims to the litigation.

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