Texas Nonprofits Can Be Sued For Doc Med Mal, Justices Rule

By Y. Peter Kang

The Texas Supreme Court ruled Friday that nonprofit health organizations can be sued for the alleged medical malpractice of one of their physician employees, in a dispute over an allegedly botched brain surgery.

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DOJ, Boeing Reach Deal To Drop 737 Max Criminal Case

By Linda Chiem

The U.S. Department of Justice said Friday that it won't criminally prosecute Boeing over the deadly 737 Max crashes after reaching a deal that saves the American aerospace giant from being branded a corporate felon in exchange for approximately $1.1 billion in fines, penalties and victims compensation.

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LG Cleared By Jury In Smart TV Patent Case In East Texas

By Adam Lidgett

A federal jury in Texas on Friday cleared LG Electronics of allegations that it infringed various Multimedia Technologies Pte. Ltd. smart television patents, while also finding that the patents were invalid.

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5th Circ. Sides With Texas Library In Book Ban Redo

By Spencer Brewer

The Fifth Circuit gave a green light for a Texas public library to toss several books that deal with topics such as sexuality and racism, labeling the arguments challenging the library's decision to remove the challenged literature as "over-caffeinated" in a Friday en banc opinion.

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X Alleges Vietnamese Group Is Exploiting Engagement Metrics

By Rae Ann Varona

X Corp. on Thursday filed suit in Texas federal court against several Vietnamese nationals it alleges run a cybercrime ring that farms money using computer-generated content and manipulating its social media platform's engagement metrics through bots.

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Dallas Jury Enters $9.4M Verdict Against El Rancho Chain

By Catherine Marfin

A Dallas County jury said that a Texas trucking company is owed nearly $10 million from the El Rancho Supermercado grocery chain and its shipping arm over contract breaches that occurred after the chain was acquired by a new company.

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Texas Justices Flip $6M Judgment In Gas Pipeline Row

By Spencer Brewer

The Texas Supreme Court chided a trial court after it "blue-penciled extra words" into a contract dealing with a natural gas pipeline, reversing Friday a $6 million judgment previously in favor of Rainbow Energy Marketing Corporation and what it called a "cascade of errors."

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Law360 Reveals Titans Of The Plaintiffs Bar

By Rachel Rippetoe

This past year, a handful of attorneys secured billions of dollars in settlements and judgments for both classes and individual plaintiffs against massive companies and organizations like Facebook, Dell, the National Association of Realtors, Johnson & Johnson, UFC and Credit Suisse, earning them recognition as Law360's Titans of the Plaintiffs Bar for 2025.

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Trump Says 'It's Time For Nuclear' And Orders New Reactors

By Juan-Carlos Rodriguez

President Donald Trump said Friday that he wants to revive the nation's nuclear power industry to serve defense and artificial intelligence needs, and ordered the U.S. Department of Energy to "eliminate or expedite" environmental reviews so new reactors can come online more quickly.

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Roundup

Real Estate Recap: Opp Zones, SFR Sector, NYC Casinos

By Real Estate Authority Staff

Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including how the "Big, Beautiful Bill" would tweak rules for opportunity zones, the prognosis for the single-family rental sector, and a look at the seven remaining bids for casino licenses in New York City.

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Alex Jones Says $45.1M Sandy Hook Verdict Unconstitutional

By Yun Park

Infowars host Alex Jones' newest attorneys have asked a Texas appeals court to overturn a $45.1 million defamation verdict awarded to Sandy Hook families, arguing the default judgment was unconstitutionally issued after limited discovery and that the award violates Texas law limiting punitive damages compared to actual harm.

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Texas Atty Still Disbarred For Failing To Report Client's Death

By Rose Krebs

A Texas appeals court has upheld the disbarment of an attorney who was found by a jury to have engaged in professional misconduct, in part, by failing to report the death of a client he had represented in an attempt to recover the value of bounced checks.

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X Says Media Matters Must Pay For 'Unjustified' Transfer Bid

By Bryan Koenig

Social media giant X Corp. wants Media Matters for America sanctioned for waiting more than a year to try to transfer X Corp.'s lawsuit against it, and told a Texas federal judge Wednesday that the left-leaning media watchdog must cover the costs of defending against the unsuccessful motion.

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Texas Justices Answer 5th Circ. Query On State Usury Laws

By Sydney Price

The Texas Supreme Court on Friday concurred with a credit card industry firm that sued a lender over its "usurious" interest charges, telling the Fifth Circuit that state law holds that the maximum permissible interest on a loan is based on the declining principal balance, not the initial total principal amount.

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Southwest Flight Attendant Fights To Revive Nixed Sanctions

By Grace Elletson

A flight attendant urged the Fifth Circuit to reconsider its move to axe a contempt order against Southwest Airlines in her wrongful termination suit, arguing it shouldn't be scrapped just because the panel took issue with court-ordered religious liberty training for Southwest attorneys.

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Group Asks 5th Circ. To Clarify Freight Broker Negligence

By Linda Chiem

Truck safety advocates asked the Fifth Circuit on Friday to preserve state-law personal-injury claims against freight brokers, weighing in on a dispute that alleges Penske Logistics LLC is liable for negligently hiring an unsafe motor carrier that caused a fatal 2018 accident in Texas.

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Analysis

IP Notebook: Trump's AI Plan, ChatGPT Logs, Dewberry Cited

By Ivan Moreno

In this round of emerging issues in copyright and trademark law, Law360 takes a closer look at comments submitted to the National Science Foundation and other federal agencies to create an Artificial Intelligence Action Plan as part of an executive order from President Donald Trump.

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Taxation With Representation: Troutman, A&O Shearman

By Zak Kostro

In this week's Taxation With Representation, Blackstone acquires TXNM Energy, OpenAI buys io Products, Lumen Technologies sells its Mass Markets fiber-to-the-home business in 11 states to AT&T, and AMD sells its data center infrastructure manufacturing business to Sanmina.

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Google Case Amicus Briefs Reveal Patent Damage Fault Lines

The 21 amicus briefs filed before the en banc rehearing of EcoFactor v. Google offer opposing viewpoints on important patent damages issues that extend beyond the specific question the Federal Circuit eventually ruled on, helping practitioners anticipate and address likely objections to future damages opinions, say attorneys at Stout.

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Series

Power To The Paralegals: An Untapped Source For Biz Roles

Law firms looking to recruit legal business talent should consider turning to paralegals, who practice several key skills every day that prepare them to thrive in marketing and client development roles, says Vanessa Torres at Lowenstein Sandler.

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4 Top Paul Weiss Attys Exit In Wake Of Firm's Deal With Trump

By Lauren Berg

Four top Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP partners who have represented Google, Amazon and other major companies in high-profile litigation left the firm Friday, in the wake of its decision to make a deal with the Trump administration to defuse an executive order targeting the BigLaw firm's business.

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Judge Strikes Down Trump Order Against Jenner & Block

By Jake Maher

Jenner & Block LLP on Friday defeated a Trump administration executive order suspending security clearances for its employees in retaliation for its pro bono work and for a former partner's work with former special counsel Robert Mueller.

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Analysis

Alarms Sound As DOJ Anti-Corruption Unit Withers

By Phillip Bantz

Created in the aftermath of the Watergate scandal as a guardrail against government corruption and politically motivated criminal prosecutions, the Justice Department's Public Integrity Section has been stripped down under the Trump administration to a skeleton crew with severely limited responsibilities, potentially opening the door for improper prosecutions and eliminating a knowledge base built up over decades.

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Former AG Garland Returns To Arnold & Porter

By Alison Knezevich

Former U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland has returned to Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, where he worked early in his career, the firm announced Friday.

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Feature

My So-Called Retirement: Some IP Lawyers Just Can't Quit

By Theresa Schliep

When patent partner Terry Rea set out to retire, the onetime acting director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office had her eyes on the independence that retirement promises — flexible hours, fewer deadlines and less stress over having lots of people counting on you.

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Brief

AI-Generated Evidence Rule Making Way To Public Comment

By Sarah Martinson

A committee of the Judicial Conference of the United States is scheduled to decide whether to approve a proposed new rule on evidence generated with artificial intelligence for public comment at its June 10 meeting.

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NC Judge Censured For Drunken Driving With His Child In Car

By Emily Sawicki

The North Carolina Supreme Court on Friday censured a state judge after he was found guilty of drunken driving with his minor daughter in the vehicle, calling the discipline the "minimum acceptable consequence" for the judge's wrongdoing.

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Legendary Calif. Judge Alsup Likely To Go Inactive In 2025

By Bonnie Eslinger

U.S. District Judge William H. Alsup, a larger-than-life jurist who's overseen some of the most consequential litigation in California's Northern District, indicated in a court filing Friday that he'll likely take inactive status before year's end, although the 79-year-old judge warned Law360 that he hasn't made a final decision.

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Brief

Grassley Slams Durbin Over Holds On US Attorney Nominees

By Courtney Bublé

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, slammed his Democratic counterpart on Friday for holding up U.S. attorney nominations.

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Westlaw AI Win Right But Appellate Review Wise, Judge Says

By Lauren Berg

A Delaware federal judge Friday voiced confidence in his ruling that tech startup Ross Intelligence infringed copyrighted material from Thomson Reuters' Westlaw platform to create a competing legal research tool powered by artificial intelligence, but explained that granting interlocutory appeal on two questions will help resolve the case more efficiently.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Latham & Watkins LLP leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a deadlocked U.S. Supreme Court left in place an Oklahoma state court ruling barring the launch of the nation's first religious charter school.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

A new study found that the total number of shareholder proxy proposals submitted this year dropped significantly after the SEC rescinded past guidance. Meanwhile, a handful of BigLaw firms wrote to members of Congress defending the controversial agreements they made with the Trump administration to avoid executive orders targeting their shops. 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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