Federal prosecutors heading to trial against former SCOTUSblog publisher Tom Goldstein are urging a judge to deny his bid to prevent a jury from hearing about four love interests allegedly paid as no-show employees at his former law firm.
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Feds Fight To Keep Goldstein 'Sham Employee' Evidence

By Cara Salvatore

Federal prosecutors heading to trial against former SCOTUSblog publisher Tom Goldstein are urging a judge to deny his bid to prevent a jury from hearing about four love interests allegedly paid as no-show employees at his former law firm.

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Chancery Orders $25K Daily Sanction In Trump Media Dispute

By Jeff Montgomery

The blank-check company that took Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. public last year drew a $25,000 per-day sanction on Monday in Delaware's Court of Chancery after refusing an over $2 million legal fee advancement bill arising from litigation involving a former CEO in Florida.

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OpenAI Told To Produce 20M ChatGPT Logs In Copyright Case

By Lauren Berg

OpenAI must turn over 20 million anonymized user logs to The New York Times, authors and other plaintiffs pursuing claims that the artificial intelligence company improperly used their copyrighted content, a New York federal judge ruled Monday.

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Pinterest Escapes Proposed Copyright Class Action In Calif.

By Adam Lidgett

A California federal judge on Monday sided with Pinterest in a proposed class action accusing the social media company of distributing images of copyrighted works outside its website without permission, finding Pinterest is shielded under a provision of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

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Zee, Asia TV Win Dismissal Of Video Privacy Action In NJ

By Joyce Hanson

A New Jersey federal judge has tossed a proposed class action claiming Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd. and its subsidiary Asia TV USA Ltd. violated the Video Privacy Protection Act, agreeing with the companies that the case belongs in India.

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Legatum Exec Keeps $8M Libel Verdict Against Investigator

By Jonathan Capriel

A private investigator can't escape an $8 million jury verdict on claims he and his company defamed a businessman by disseminating a bogus background report falsely stating the executive was a Russian asset, a D.C. federal court ruled, saying the defendants' "newly discovered evidence" is not important.

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OpenAI Sued Again Over ChatGPT's Role In Murder-Suicide

By Y. Peter Kang

A second lawsuit has been filed against OpenAI accusing it of negligently designing its artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT, which caused a man to murder his mother and commit suicide, according to the complaint in California federal court.

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NY Gov. Looks To Further Boost Online Protections For Kids

By Allison Grande

New York's governor floated a legislative package Monday that would expand on the state's already robust online protections for kids by subjecting game and social media platforms to additional privacy and safety mandates, including ensuring that location settings are turned off automatically and that certain chatbot features are disabled.

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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

Perplexity Says Reddit Data-Scraping Claims Not Directed At It

By Elliot Weld

Perplexity AI Inc. has told a New York federal judge it should be released from a suit where Reddit Inc. likened the AI startup and three data-scraping companies to bank robbers, saying the social media site had only made allegations of improper data procuring against the scraping companies and not Perplexity itself.

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Amazon Plaintiff Says 'Buy Movie' Button Fools Shoppers

By Ben Adlin

A California woman accusing Amazon of lying to consumers about whether they own movies purchased on its Prime Video platform said the e-commerce giant can't avoid the proposed class action by hiding behind fine print, arguing shoppers who bought media weren't sufficiently informed they could lose access at any time.

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Mobile Game Maker Sues To Reverse Trademark Cancellation

By Elliot Weld

A mobile game developer has sued a French rival seeking to reverse a ruling from the Trademark Trial and Appeals Board that canceled its trademark on the term "Edge Games," saying it is legally entitled to priority for the mark since it has used it continuously in commerce.

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COMPETITION

Dish Hits Disney With Antitrust Counterclaims In Sling TV Row

By Craig Clough

Dish Network hit back Friday in New York federal court against ESPN and Disney in a breach of contract dispute over Dish's limited access passes on Sling TV, filing antitrust counterclaims accusing Disney of forcing it to carry less desirable channels in order to gain access to the "must-have" ESPN.

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TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Groups Urge FCC To Deny $6.2B Nexstar-Tegna Merger Deal

By Nadia Dreid

Public interest groups, labor organizations and satellite companies are asking the Federal Communications Commission not to grant TV station giant Nexstar's request to approve its $6.2 billion plan to merge with rival Tegna in a deal that would breach the agency's national ownership cap.

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Wireless Builders Say FCC Powers Back Deployment Reforms

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission has "ample" legal authority to make changes sought by the agency's Republican leadership to more easily deploy cell sites around the country, a group of wireless tower builders has argued.

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INSURANCE

EA Not Covered In Video Game Addiction Suit, Insurer Says

By Hope Patti

A Nationwide unit said it has no duty to defend or indemnify video game company Electronic Arts Inc. against claims that it caused a minor's gaming addiction, telling an Arkansas federal court that the underlying suit does not allege bodily injury or property damage caused by an occurrence.

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GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS

Ga. Judge Denies Early Exit In Protester's Defamation Suit

By Chart Riggall

A Georgia federal judge has denied Atlanta's ex-police chief's bid to escape a defamation suit from a protester who says he was falsely accused of being a violent gang member, ruling that the suit sufficiently substantiated that the chief deliberately lied in public statements.

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PERSONAL INJURY & MEDICAL MALPRACTICE

Live Nation Says It's Not On Hook For EDM Festival Deaths

By Rachel Riley

Live Nation wants a pretrial win in a lawsuit brought by the families of two people killed at the Beyond Wonderland music festival in Washington in 2023, contending the company cannot be liable for the "random, unprovoked mass shooting" by a concertgoer who became psychotic while high on hallucinogenic mushrooms.

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INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION

Italian Auto Design Co. Seeks OK Of $4.2M DeLorean Award

By Caroline Simson

An Italian company that provided design and engineering services for a reimagined electric version of the DeLorean vehicle made famous by the "Back to the Future" movie franchise is looking to enforce a roughly $4.2 million arbitral award it won after DeLorean failed to pay up.

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BANKRUPTCY

Nicklaus Takes Aim At Bankrupt Golf Co.'s Ch. 11 Loan

By Vince Sullivan

Retired professional golfer Jack Nicklaus is opposing the Chapter 11 financing and sale procedures floated by sporting gear and golf course design company GBI Services, saying the business is trying to sell assets that include valuable intellectual property that he owns.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Preparing For Congressional Investigations In A Midterm Year

2026 will be a consequential year for congressional oversight as the upcoming midterm elections may yield bolder investigations and more aggressive state attorneys general coalitions, so companies should consider adopting risk management measures to get ahead of potential changes, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Average Quinn Emanuel Partner Payouts Rise To $9.5M

By Aebra Coe

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP saw a 10% uptick in its profits per equity partner in 2025, bringing the firm's average partner pay up over $9 million last year amid an active litigation market, a firm spokesperson confirmed Monday.

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Feature

His Client Got A Pro Se Suit. Then The AI Filings Started.

By Chris Villani

Employment attorneys say the increased use of AI by pro se plaintiffs has the potential to clog dockets, drag out cases and make litigation significantly more expensive.

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McGuireWoods Atty Fined Over Citation Errors In BoA Suit

By Chart Riggall

A Georgia federal judge has slapped a McGuireWoods LLP attorney with a $1,500 fine for using incorrect citations in a brief lodged in a recently dismissed mortgage suit against Bank of America.

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Quinn Emanuel Contempt In $600M Row Probed By Fed. Circ.

By Ryan Davis

A contempt finding against Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP that contributed to a more than $600 million patent judgment against the firm's former client NortonLifeLock was scrutinized by a Federal Circuit panel on Monday, with one judge saying the order appeared to be invalid.

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Wis. Judge Resigns After Conviction In ICE Arrest Case

By Jack Karp

A Wisconsin state judge has resigned from the bench after being convicted of felony obstruction for helping an unauthorized immigrant in her court evade arrest by federal immigration officers, the Wisconsin Assembly speaker confirmed to Law360 Monday.

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Federal Court Wrong Place For Judges' Suit, Justices Told

By Elaine Briseño

Federal immigration officials have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse an appellate decision that allowed immigration judges to hash out their spat over a newly created speech policy in district court instead of within the congressionally designated special review system.

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Roundup

The Top In-House Hires Of December

By Michele Gorman

Legal department hires during the last month of 2025 included high-profile appointments at Apple, Berkshire Hathaway and LPL Financial. Here, Law360 Pulse looks at some of the top in-house announcements from December.

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COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

23andMe Inc.

Affordable Care LLC

Agiloft Inc.

Amazon.com Inc.

Apple Inc.

Bank of America Corp.

Berkshire Hathaway Energy GT&S

Common Sense Media Inc.

Communications Workers of America

DISH Network Corp.

ESPN Inc.

EchoStar Corp.

Electronic Arts Inc.

Emigrant Bank

GE Aerospace

Gen Digital Inc.

Gilead Sciences Inc.

Google LLC

International Centre for Dispute Resolution

LPL Financial

Lexmark International Inc.

Live Nation Entertainment Inc.

Maximus Inc.

Mediterranean Shipping Co. SA

MetLife Inc.

Meta Platforms Inc.

Microsoft Corp.

Morgan Stanley

Morningstar, Inc.

NBCUniversal Media LLC

National Content & Technology Cooperative

NortonLifeLock Inc.

OpenAI OpCo LLC

PGA TOUR Inc.

Parsons Corp.

Pfizer Inc.

Pinterest Inc.

Reddit Inc.

Roblox Corp.

S&P Global Inc.

Savient Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Sling TV LLC

Snap Inc.

Spectrum Management Holding Co.

Subaru of America Inc.

Tegna Inc.

Texas Roadhouse Inc.

The New York Times Co.

The Wireless Infrastructure Association

TikTok Inc.

Tonix Pharmaceuticals Holding Corp.

Webtrends Corp.

Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd.

LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

A&O Shearman

Bartlit Beck

Bricker Graydon

Buckley LLP

Bursor & Fisher

Carson & Noel

Clement & Murphy

Cohen & Gresser

Cole Schotz

Cowan DeBaets

DLA Piper

Faegre Drinker

Hagens Berman

Holland & Knight

Jackson Lewis PC

Keker Van Nest & Peters

Kirkland & Ellis

Latham & Watkins

Lewis Brisbois

Lieff Cabraser

Loevy & Loevy

Lowenstein Sandler

McDermott Will & Schulte

McGuireWoods

Morgan Lewis

Morrison & Foerster

Munger Tolles

Nelson Mullins

O'Melveny & Myers

Orrick Herrington

Panish Shea

Perkins Coie

Porter Hedges

Quinn Emanuel

Reese LLP

Richards Layton

Rothwell Figg

Schwartz White

Seyfarth Shaw

Sherin & Lodgen

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Slowinski Atkins

Stanley Esrey

Stearns Weaver

Steptoe LLP

Stites & Harbison

Sullivan & Cromwell

Susman Godfrey

Victor M. Glasberg & Associates

Wade Grunberg

Weil Gotshal

Wilson Sonsini

Wollmuth Maher

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Central Intelligence Agency

City of New York

Delaware Court of Chancery

Douglas County, Georgia

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Executive Office for Immigration Review

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Communications Commission

Federal Reserve System

New York Attorney General's Office

U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Maryland

U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of State

U.S. District & Bankruptcy Courts of Southern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

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

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

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

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

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

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

U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court