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June 10, 2026
This round of Law360's review of emerging copyright and trademark issues looks at the ripple effects from the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on secondary copyright liability and highlights looming high court bids over "Top Gun" and Roberto Clemente's likeness on commemorative license plates.
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June 10, 2026
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has invalidated certain claims in a 3D printing patent owned by U.S.-Israeli company Stratasys, but agreed to keep the claims in another patent alive in challenges launched by a Chinese company accused of infringement.
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June 10, 2026
An electric cooperative told a federal court that Texas is the wrong place for an infrastructure company to pursue claims that it backed out of a contract after the infrastructure company had already racked up $120 million in costs, saying the work took place in North Dakota.
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June 10, 2026
U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren called on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to delay SpaceX's anticipated $75 billion initial public offering until steps are taken to protect investors and market integrity, expressing concerns that the company's books contain "troubling gaps," and the IPO poses "unique and precedent-setting" risk.
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June 10, 2026
Houston, Texas-based ERock, which supplies natural gas power systems to data centers, began trading Wednesday after raising $600 million at the midpoint of its range with Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP and Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP advising.
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June 10, 2026
The Fifth Circuit denied the U.S. government's request for the full court to review a three-judge panel's April opinion finding the tax code's ban on distilling whiskey at home unconstitutional after another appeals court's opposite conclusion affirmed the ban.
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June 10, 2026
A Texas hospital system agreed to settle a proposed class action from ex-workers alleging the healthcare nonprofit failed to curb excessive recordkeeping fees and remove underperforming funds from its $2.8 billion employee retirement plan, after a magistrate judge recommended denying its motion to dismiss an amended complaint in May.
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June 09, 2026
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has waived multiple environmental laws as it builds border barriers and roads through Big Bend National Park and Big Bend Ranch State Park, saying it must quickly deter illegal crossings in areas of high illegal entry on the Texas-Mexico border.
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June 09, 2026
Prediction market platform Kalshi Inc. announced on Tuesday that it will start requiring users to verify their employer before they can trade on certain markets, and will further implement features allowing users to directly report suspicious trading activity.
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June 09, 2026
A Fifth Circuit panel pressed the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to explain how an apparently uniform denial of flavored e-cigarettes would not fall under federal rulemaking, saying Tuesday that the agency's decision-making seemingly "squawks like a rule."
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June 09, 2026
A U.S. Government Accountability report released Tuesday revealed that hasty planning led to $19 million in waste tied to fluctuating occupancy and safety issues at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's largest detention center in El Paso, Texas.
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June 09, 2026
Natural gas mineral and royalty interests company WhiteHawk Income Corp. began trading publicly Tuesday after raising $200 million in its upsized initial public offering.
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June 09, 2026
The Federal Circuit on Tuesday affirmed a $37.5 million patent infringement verdict against two companies selling TP-Link wireless network devices that were sued by patent licensing company Atlas Global Technologies LLC.
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June 09, 2026
The Fifth Circuit on Tuesday reversed a lower court's decision dismissing a lawsuit against the head of an industrial cleaning services company over allegations that his business routinely steals employees from competitors, finding there was a plausible claim against him personally.
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June 09, 2026
A split Texas appeals court on Tuesday permitted a fast-growing Texas county near Austin to proceed with $439 million worth of infrastructure projects, dealing a setback to a group of county residents who claimed the election approving the bonds was invalid.
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June 09, 2026
Two bankrupt fracking sand miners on Tuesday asked a Texas bankruptcy judge for one more week to reach a deal for a cash offer outbidding the current $21 million stalking horse credit bid for their businesses.
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June 09, 2026
The Senate voted 51-46, along party lines, on Tuesday to confirm Tony Mattivi, director of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, to serve on the bench in the District of Kansas.
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June 09, 2026
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP announced Tuesday that it has expanded its energy and infrastructure team in Texas by bringing on a partner from King & Spalding LLP who helps energy clients engineer, design and construct projects.
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June 09, 2026
The Plano, Texas, City Council has approved a letter of intent with the Dallas Stars on plans to build the NHL team a new arena, signaling a move from the downtown Dallas arena where they have played since 2001.
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June 09, 2026
The race to build the legal industry's largest law firm accelerated in 2025, with major firms leaning on mergers, lateral hiring and strategic expansion to climb the ranks of the Law360 400.
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June 08, 2026
The "inflammatory" language used by the University of Texas to secure a $42 million patent infringement verdict against Boston Scientific is "about as good an example as one can possibly think of," U.S. Circuit Judge Richard G. Taranto told the university's attorney on Monday.
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June 08, 2026
The American Intellectual Property Law Association, National Association of Manufacturers and others urged the Federal Circuit to undo a lower court's ruling that Moderna, and not the government, must face a multibillion-dollar patent infringement suit over its COVID-19 vaccine.
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June 08, 2026
A Texas federal judge on Monday kept intact a reprimand against a law student who allegedly celebrated following the death of Charlie Kirk during an appeal, saying that the student "again seeks the wrong remedy" in her request.
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June 08, 2026
A California federal judge on Monday sided with Apple's assertion that a Swedish smartphone company's swipe-to-unlock patent lacks a valid written description, invalidating the patent owner's infringement claim.
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June 08, 2026
A Pennsylvania man has sued 7-Eleven Inc. after he severed his finger while emptying trash in a dumpster at a Philadelphia location, alleging the convenience store chain fostered a dangerous workplace condition.