Trump Seeks High Court Rehearing In Carroll Case

By Cara Salvatore

President Donald Trump asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider its decision to let stand a jury's $5 million verdict finding he sexually abused writer E. Jean Carroll in a department store dressing room.

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Meta Pans States' Bid For $1.4T In Social Media Addiction MDL

By Emily Field

Meta said Monday that California and three other states are seeking more than a trillion dollars in penalties in their upcoming August trial in the multidistrict social-media-addiction litigation, based on sweeping, "unmoored" calculations.

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McCarter Atty's Work 'Fell Short' In $20M Deals, Judge Told

By Brian Steele

McCarter & English LLP and one of its Connecticut attorneys failed to uphold the applicable standard of care when advising insurers on $20 million worth of loan transactions that ultimately fell apart because the borrower stopped paying, an expert witness told a Connecticut state court on Tuesday.

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Align's Invisalign Patents Are Infringed But Invalid, Jury Finds

By Adam Lidgett

A Texas federal jury has found that claims in four patents Invisalign maker Align Technology Inc. asserted against orthodontics company ClearCorrect were invalid, but the jurors also rejected ClearCorrect's antitrust claims against Align.

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10th Circ. Revives Voter Intimidation Suit Over Canvassing

By Benjamin Morse

The Tenth Circuit revived voter intimidation claims against three Colorado election activists and a private group they formed to investigate alleged voter fraud after the 2020 election, holding that a lower court wrongly tossed the group from the case and too narrowly limited evidence about its canvassing campaign.

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DC Circ. Backs Tax Bribery Convictions Despite Jury Error

By Jack McLoone

A D.C. Circuit panel refused on Tuesday to reverse a lower court's judgments against two men in connection to a bribery scheme carried out to evade $2.3 million in business tax obligations, finding a jury instruction error "harmless," among other unsuccessful arguments.

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2nd Circ. Backs Judge's Immigration Cooperation Condition

By Tom Lotshaw

A Second Circuit panel on Tuesday said a New York federal judge reasonably imposed a supervised release condition that would require a Salvadoran citizen sentenced to prison in connection with an MS-13 gang shooting to cooperate with immigration authorities.

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Florida Cases To Watch In The 2nd Half Of 2026

By Carolina Bolado

New lawsuits over ChatGPT's role in a mass shooting on a Florida campus and a U.S. Supreme Court case that could upend most criminal trials in Florida are some of the litigation that the state's attorneys will be watching in the second half of 2026. ​​​​​​​Here, Law360 takes a look.

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Mass. Court Orders New Sex Abuse Trial Over Testimony

By Elizabeth Daley

A man found guilty of raping and sexually abusing girls in his family is entitled to a new trial, a Massachusetts appeals panel said Tuesday, finding that evidence of his prior bad acts was admitted improperly and may have overwhelmed and prejudiced the jury.

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8th Circ. Says Murder Charge Backs Sentence Enhancement

By Parker Quinlan

The Eighth Circuit held that a prior third degree murder conviction counts as a crime of violence for purposes of a later sentencing enhancement in a gun case because the Minnesota state law in the murder case was substantially similar to the generic definition of murder.

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Judge Sets 2027 Trial For Zillow Home-Flipping Investor Suit

By Nate Beck

A Washington federal judge has scheduled a September 2027 trial date in a class action from investors accusing Zillow of concealing the true performance of its house-flipping business, Zillow Offers.

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Illinois Cases To Watch In 2026: Midyear Report

By Celeste Bott

Mead Johnson is set to go to trial this summer in the first case to make it to a jury in multidistrict litigation claiming baby formula caused a serious gut illness in premature infants, while the U.S. attorney's office in Chicago is facing a possible sanctions hearing over prosecutorial misconduct allegations in two Illinois cases on attorneys' radar for the rest of the year.

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Judge Defends Decision Keeping Paraquat Cases In Philly

By P.J. D'Annunzio

The Philadelphia judge who blocked a bid to move several of the paraquat Parkinson's Disease mass tort cases out of the city is standing by his ruling, recommending that the Pennsylvania Superior Court adopt his rejection of the companies' arguments to the contrary in its appellate review of the case.

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5th Circ. Again Nixes Challenge To La. 340B Drug Delivery Law

By Gianna Ferrarin

A Fifth Circuit panel doubled down on its decision to uphold a Louisiana law prohibiting drug manufacturers from blocking contracts between pharmacies and providers in the federal 340B drug discount program, reiterating that conclusion upon rehearing but this time allowing intervention by an advocacy group.

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5th Circ. Backs Saltgrass In Texas Restaurant Land Row

By Isaac Monterose

The Fifth Circuit backed steakhouse chain Saltgrass Inc.'s quick win in a property contract dispute that involved the planned demolition of a former Joe's Crab Shack restaurant in Humble, Texas, ruling that the demolition contractually requires Saltgrass' permission.

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'Tiger King' Funeral Clip Ruling Offers Fair Use Road Map

The Tenth Circuit's decision in Whyte Monkee v. Netflix that the streaming service's use of another party's funeral footage in the docuseries "Tiger King" constituted fair use lays out a framework for producers to apply the four statutory fair use factors to their own projects, says Frank D’Angelo at Loeb & Loeb.

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Sealing The Deal

How Gibson Dunn Helped SpaceX Pull Off Its $75B Global IPO

By Al Barbarino

When SpaceX completed its record-breaking $75 billion initial public offering last month, the transaction was notable not only for its size — the largest IPO ever — but also for breaking new ground in how public offerings can be structured to reach retail investors around the world.

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CEO Cops To Conspiracy In BigLaw Insider Trading Case

By Sydney Price

A Dubai-based CEO and trader has pled guilty in Massachusetts federal court to charges that he worked with a former BigLaw associate and others to carry out a far-reaching insider trading scheme.

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Justices To Defend Court's Budget In Rare Hill Testimony

By Courtney Bublé

U.S. Supreme Court Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Elena Kagan will testify before House and Senate committees on July 14, marking the first time in seven years that a sitting justice has gone before lawmakers.

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Ex-DOJ Employees Tell Senate To Reject Blanche Nomination

By Emily Sawicki

Hundreds of former Justice Department employees and appointees urged the Senate in a Tuesday letter to reject the nomination of acting Attorney General Todd Blanche for the permanent role, particularly noting what they called Blanche's work toward politicizing the department.

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ChatGPT Edits Weren't 'Knowing' Errors, Conn. Justices Told

By Aaron Keller

A GLG Law LLC lawyer who blamed ChatGPT for misquotes and citation errors in three filings told the Connecticut Supreme Court on Tuesday he did not violate an ethics rule requiring candor to the tribunal because his briefs, though inaccurate, contained correct assertions about the law.

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Ogletree Co-Founder Deakins, 'Beacon Of Wisdom,' Dies At 90

By Emily Johnson

A co-founder of the global labor and employment juggernaut Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC died Monday after decades of helping shape the firm's values of honesty and transparency.

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House Dems Push To Ban Judges From Prediction Markets

By Emily Sawicki

Ranking members of the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday called on the federal judiciary to ban judges from taking part in prediction markets amid growing concerns that court-related wagers could undermine judicial integrity.

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