Lawyer Testifies Goldstein Dodged $500K Poker Repayment

By Jared Foretek

A former employee at Thomas Goldstein's law firm recounted in court Wednesday that a U.S. Internal Revenue Service levy was placed on the SCOTUSblog founder's accounts, while a lawyer at another firm said Goldstein dodged repaying him for money invested in his poker-playing exploits.

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Disney Can't Dodge 'Toy Story 3' TM Claim On Remand

By Elliot Weld

A California federal judge has refused to grant Disney a partial win in a trademark infringement case brought by a stuffed animal manufacturer over the "Toy Story 3" character Lotso, ruling that the manufacturer had established a Lanham Act case against Disney before the U.S. Supreme Court considered the case.

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Feds Ordered Not To Review Seized WaPo Reporter's Devices

By Lauren Berg

Federal officials are not to examine electronic devices and other materials seized from a Washington Post journalist's home until a dispute over the constitutionality of the search warrant at issue is ironed out, a Virginia federal judge ruled Wednesday.

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NYC Sues Dr. Phil's Son To Stop NYPD Reality Show

By Hailey Konnath

The city of New York on Wednesday sued the son of celebrity psychologist Dr. Phil in state court, claiming that he and his production company plan to air a reality television show about the New York Police Department that contains footage that would threaten the lives and safety of active police officers, witnesses and victims.

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Maxim Says Playboy Ripped Off Its Modeling Contest

By Elliot Weld

Maxim has sued Playboy in Manhattan federal court for trade secret misappropriation and copyright infringement, accusing Playboy of copying Maxim's online modeling competition by using the same mechanics and architecture when launching a contest of its own.

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Widow Of 'Sophie's Choice' Author Settles Stage Rights Spat

By Chris Villani

The 97-year-old widow of author William Styron has settled a suit by a playwright who claimed he held exclusive rights to the stage version of Styron's novel "Sophie's Choice," according to a filing in Massachusetts state court.

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Google Likely Stuck With $425M Loss, But Bid For $3B Flops

By Bonnie Eslinger

A California federal judge overseeing a class action accusing Google of illegally collecting information from 98 million cellphone users said Wednesday that he probably will not let Google decertify the class, but he is also unlikely to add $2.36 billion in alleged wrongful profits on top of a jury's $425 million verdict.

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Apple Shakes Mobile Users' Suit Over App Data Collection

By Allison Grande

A California federal judge released Apple from a putative class action accusing it of improperly collecting mobile device users' data when they interacted with Apple's App Store, Music and other proprietary apps, finding "perplexing" contradictory allegations and other deficiencies doomed plaintiffs' claims, including those under California and Pennsylvania's wiretap laws. 

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Analysis

FTC Must 'Scale A Slick Wall' To Revive Meta Suit

By Bryan Koenig

The Federal Trade Commission set itself up for a tough fight to overturn a D.C. federal judge's rejection of its lawsuit accusing Meta of monopolizing personal social media through its purchases of WhatsApp and Instagram.

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Brief

Netflix's $83B Warner Bros. Deal Draws DOJ Scrutiny

By Bryan Koenig

Warner Bros. Discovery has disclosed that Netflix's proposed $82.7 billion purchase of the entertainment giant is now under an antitrust microscope, after the U.S. Department of Justice kicked off an in-depth probe that keeps the deal from closing for the time being.

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'Out Of Control': Coach Says He Placed Bets For Ex-MLB Star

By Gina Kim

A baseball coach who placed illegal sports wagers for former MLB star Yasiel Puig took the stand Wednesday in the player's obstruction of justice trial, telling a California federal jury that Puig's gambling got "out of control" and that the coach feared repercussions from bookies after Puig didn't pay his debts.

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Gambler Gets 2 Years For NBA Bet-Rigging Scheme

By Stewart Bishop

A self-described compulsive gambler was sentenced in Brooklyn federal court Wednesday to two years in prison for conspiring with a now-former NBA player and others to place rigged bets on his performance with knowledge that the Toronto Raptors center and power forward would be taking a dive.

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Senate Panel To Examine Upcoming FirstNet Renewal

By Christopher Cole

A U.S. Senate subcommittee will take a close look next week at legislative plans to renew the First Responder Network Authority, which currently has a long-standing public-private partnership with AT&T.

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FCC Warns Shows To Follow Political 'Equal Opportunity' Reg

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission cautioned TV broadcasters Wednesday that no exemption has been found that would let talk shows get around the agency's political equal opportunity rules.

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Epic Games Taps Veteran BigTech GC Amid Antitrust Fights

By Dorothy Atkins

Veteran technology-industry attorney Reginald "Reggie" Davis, who recently served as Qualia Labs Inc.'s general counsel, has joined Epic Games Inc. as its top in-house attorney, moving to Epic as the Fortnite game-maker is in the midst of wrapping up its years-long antitrust battle against Google and Apple.

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Gibson Dunn Formalizes First Amendment Practice

By Andrea Keckley

Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP announced Wednesday that it has formalized its First Amendment and free expression practice group under the leadership of three veteran litigators.

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Greenberg Traurig Builds Up Nat'l Security Group With 3 Hires

By Jack Rodgers

Greenberg Traurig LLP has hired the former cohead of Eversheds Sutherland's national security group in Washington, D.C., as the chair of its newly formed national security group, which is growing in the nation's capital with his addition and the hiring of a former CIA leader and a former deputy general counsel of the U.S. Cyber Command.

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How A 1947 Tugboat Ruling May Shape Work Product In AI Era

Rapid advances in generative artificial intelligence test work-product principles first articulated in the U.S. Supreme Court’s nearly 80-year-old Hickman v. Taylor decision, as courts and ethics bodies confront whether disclosure of attorneys’ AI prompts and outputs would reveal their thought processes, say Larry Silver and Sasha Burton at Langsam Stevens.

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Analysis

Nonprofits, Not BigLaw, Lead Legal Challenges To Trump

By Jack Karp

Public interest groups are handling a majority of the lawsuits filed against the second Trump administration, while most large firms remain on the sidelines, according to a review by Law360 of more than 400 lawsuits filed in the first year of Trump's second term.  

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Ballard Partners Led In Lobbying Earnings As Trump Returned

By Alison Knezevich

Ballard Partners more than quadrupled its annual federal lobbying revenue in 2025 amid President Donald Trump's return to office, surpassing the law firm policy practices that have led K Street in recent years.

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Former SG Prelogar Joins Cooley Team On Trump EO Appeal

By Alison Knezevich

Former Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar has joined the legal team representing Jenner & Block LLP in its fight with President Donald Trump's administration over his executive order targeting the BigLaw firm, according to a new court filing.

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House Speaker Johnson Supports Impeachment Of Judges

By Courtney Bublé

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., on Wednesday threw his support behind efforts to impeach federal judges in Washington, D.C., and Maryland.

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DOJ Outline Of New Fraud Role Doesn't Mention WH Oversight

By Courtney Bublé

A U.S. Department of Justice official explained the parameters of the new role of assistant attorney general for fraud in a recent letter to Congress, obtained Wednesday by Law360, but did not mention the individual will be overseen by the White House, as the vice president previously said.

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NYC Indigent Defense Program In 'Crisis,' Task Force Reports

By Andrea Keckley

The New York City Assigned Counsel Plan, which provides lawyers to indigent people in criminal and family courts who can't be served by institutional legal service providers, is "in a state of crisis," a New York City Bar task force said in an interim report released Wednesday.

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7th Circ. Cautions Pro Se Litigants To Avoid AI-Induced Errors

By Celeste Bott

The Seventh Circuit offered guidance to litigants using artificial intelligence while representing themselves in a ruling remanding a pro se plaintiff's civil rights case Wednesday, saying that AI has "great promise" for those who can't afford legal counsel, but that it doesn't abdicate them of their duty to avoid misrepresentations in court filings.

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Justices Wary Of Greenlighting Trump Bid To Fire Fed's Cook

By Jon Hill

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared reluctant to let President Donald Trump immediately oust Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook, with multiple justices expressing doubts about administration claims of broad presidential removal power over the central bank.

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