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July 08, 2026
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP announced on Wednesday the hiring of the former chief knowledge and innovation officer at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP as its chief artificial intelligence officer.
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July 08, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court clarified the pleading standard for induced infringement of skinny labels, and the Federal Circuit opened the door to increased damages for patent owners. Here's what you need to know about these patent cases and other major decisions from the beginning of 2026.
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July 08, 2026
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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July 07, 2026
A Georgia federal judge Tuesday quashed a U.S. Department of Justice grand jury subpoena for names and other information of those in Fulton County who worked during the 2020 general election, saying it was too late for the DOJ to possibly prosecute anyone for any related election crimes.
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July 07, 2026
An Illinois federal judge has refused to toss a putative class action accusing health information technology services provider Veradigm LLC of illegally divulging patient portal visitors' protected health information to Google, finding that the plaintiffs had plausibly alleged that the company's conduct violated federal and state wiretap laws.
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July 07, 2026
Prediction market KalshiEX LLC urged a Washington state judge on Monday to reject state officials' effort to halt the company's operations under Washington gambling laws, arguing that federal law preempts the regulatory effort and that Washington has failed to show that the platform has caused meaningful harm.
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July 07, 2026
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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July 07, 2026
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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July 07, 2026
A Fifth Circuit panel pushed insurers to explain why they should be allowed to avoid covering the defense of Ericsson Inc. against claims the company funded foreign terrorist organizations, asking Tuesday if Ericsson knew the money it gave out "was going to kill Americans."
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July 07, 2026
There are more than 600 locations across the country where AT&T's copper phone lines have been disrupted — by theft, accident or natural disaster — and the company is hoping the Federal Communications Commission will give it the green light to leave them as they are.
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July 07, 2026
Cadillac Lyriq owners from six states have dropped their proposed class action against General Motors that claims it sold luxury electric vehicles with defects that cause the SUV to become inoperable, with the counsel for the drivers saying they intend to move the case to Michigan.
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July 07, 2026
The Federal Trade Commission announced Monday that it has notified seven retail businesses that sell drums, industrial laser machinery and e-cigarettes that they may be making unqualified "Made in the USA" or "Made in Texas" claims about their respective products, and have advised them to comply with the agency's labeling rules.
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July 07, 2026
A Federal Circuit panel seemed ready Tuesday to revive a company's bid for sanctions after it defeated Epic Tech LLC's patent case, with one judge calling the patent "very bad" and saying "if I were the district court judge in this case, I 100% would have granted the attorney's fees."
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July 07, 2026
Sony's online banking unit is a step closer to setting up a crypto-focused U.S. trust company with a preliminary conditional charter from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.
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July 07, 2026
A California federal judge overseeing an antitrust litigation accusing Google of shutting out rival search engines has asked for evidence showing that the consumers bringing the case have standing.
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July 07, 2026
Standard Nuclear, which makes fuel for small modular reactors across the U.S., unveiled plans on Tuesday for an estimated $356 million initial public offering steered by Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP and Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP.
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July 07, 2026
Elon Musk's Tesla has convinced the Patent Trial and Appeal Board to invalidate a wireless technology patent owned by Intellectual Ventures II, a win for the electric car company in its intellectual property war with the patent holding entity.
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July 07, 2026
A Missouri bankruptcy judge entered an order Tuesday authorizing a $46.7 million settlement between the plan administration trust created under the Chapter 11 plan of DNA-testing company 23andMe and data breach claimants, finding the deal is fair and equitable.
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July 07, 2026
Mayo Clinic retaliated against and eventually terminated its director of research operations after she brought up concerns about security, safety and privacy regarding the medical center's use of artificial intelligence and other protocols, according to a lawsuit filed in Minnesota federal court on Monday.
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July 07, 2026
Semiconductor-maker Photronics Inc. and its top brass made "overwhelmingly positive statements" about the company's growth while it was experiencing a "critical bottleneck" in its product pipeline, leading to a 36.4% stock drop when the truth came out, according to a proposed class action filed in Connecticut federal court.
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July 07, 2026
The Federal Communications Commission heard from lobbyists more than 140 times in June, with AT&T at the front of the pack hoping to convince the agency to preempt California rules that the telecom giant says are hindering network modernization.
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July 07, 2026
The practice of white collar criminal defense is fraught with uncertainty halfway into 2026 as lawyers try to navigate upheaval in the U.S. Department of Justice, the prospect of big changes in Congress and the rapidly developing use of artificial intelligence.
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July 07, 2026
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP has added a former Reed Smith LLP mergers and acquisitions star to chair its West Coast Mergers & Acquisitions Practice at its Menlo Park, California, office, where he brings deep experience handling complex mergers, cross-border acquisitions, divestitures, stock investments, consolidations and more.
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July 07, 2026
An estate trying to hold Uber accountable for the death of a driver should be forced to resolve its grievances in arbitration because Emmanuel Kwame Gbedee Sr. accepted a company agreement with an arbitration clause, Uber told a North Carolina federal court.
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July 07, 2026
Federal border agents did not need a warrant or probable cause before manually searching a fraudster's cellphone for evidence upon his return flight to the United States, the Seventh Circuit said Monday, keeping the evidence a part of his case.