11th Circ. Backs Fla. County In Firing Over Anti-Gay Blog

By Carolina Bolado

The Eleventh Circuit has affirmed a lower court decision tossing a lawsuit brought by a former Miami-Dade County communications aide who was fired for authoring a transphobic and anti-gay blog post, ruling the county's interest in effectively fulfilling its responsibilities outweighed the aide's free speech rights.

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AGs Urge Texas Ad Tech Judge Not To Delay Google Trial

By Bryan Koenig

An attorney for the Texas-led coalition of attorneys general targeting Google's advertising placement technology business urged a Texas federal judge Monday not to delay the upcoming jury trial, arguing there's no need to worry about potential inconsistencies with a Justice Department case in Virginia.

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Uber Is Sued After Driver Allegedly Raped Fla. Bartender

By Carolina Bolado

A bartender at a Miami-area restaurant has sued Uber after she allegedly was raped by a driver in November 2023, saying the ride-hailing company failed to use real-time facial recognition to verify the identity of a male driver who was using his wife's account to complete rides.

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George Clinton Faces Sanctions Bid In IP Suit

By Elliot Weld

Music executive Armen Boladian has asked a Florida federal court to sanction funk legend George Clinton, saying he was raising issues already adjudicated in their decades-long series of legal disputes.

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Fla. Panel Upholds Tossing Suit To Unseat Miami Official

By David Minsky

A Florida state appellate court on Monday declined to reinstate a lawsuit two property developers filed in their effort to forcibly remove a Miami commissioner via the city's charter after a federal jury ruled he was liable for violating civil rights, saying the developers lacked standing.

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Atty-Client Shield Null In HIV Drug Fraud Case Docs, Feds Say

By David Minsky

Two alleged distributors of sham HIV drugs can't shield more than 1,000 documents related to legal advice from discovery, U.S. prosecutors told a Florida federal judge Monday, asserting that any attorney-client privilege is invalidated because the advice was used to facilitate a $90 million fraud.

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11th Circ. Backs UBS' $6.5M Arbitration Win

By Sydney Price

The Eleventh Circuit has rejected a Puerto Rican man's bid to vacate a roughly $6.5 million arbitration award given to UBS Financial Services Inc. that stems from a long-running account contract dispute, finding there was no misconduct in the proceedings.

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11th Circ. Backs 30-Year Sentence Despite Marijuana Shifts

By Kelcey Caulder

The Eleventh Circuit on Monday upheld a 30-year sentence for a man convicted of possessing cocaine, marijuana and a firearm, rejecting his assertions that the punishment was excessive in light of shifting attitudes and laws surrounding marijuana.

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SEC Alleges $4M Fraud Scheme By Scooter Rental Company

By Katryna Perera

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has sued scooter rental company Go X Inc. and its executives in Florida federal court, alleging they fraudulently raised $4 million from 300 investors through unregistered securities sales.

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Fla. Condo Says Chubb Insurer Lowballed Hurricane Claim

By Isaac Monterose

A nonprofit Florida condominium owner is urging a federal court to reject a Chubb subsidiary's final summary judgment bid against the nonprofit's hurricane coverage suit, arguing that the insurer offered only $23,801 for property damage that eventually resulted in the nonprofit receiving an award of more than $7.2 million.

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Crypto Group, Treasury Drop 11th Circ. Tornado Cash Case

By Aislinn Keely

Crypto think tank Coin Center Inc. and the U.S. government have ended their battle over the Biden-era blacklisting of Tornado Cash now that the U.S. Treasury Department has removed the crypto mixing service from its list of blocked entities and a federal judge has deemed the designation unlawful.

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MLB Pension Plan Says Spouse Of 7 Weeks Doesn't Qualify

By Emily Brill

Major League Baseball's pension plan doubled down Monday on its argument that a woman who married a retired Cincinnati Reds pitcher seven weeks before he died cannot collect surviving spouse benefits, saying marriages must last a year for spouses to qualify.

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US Supreme Court Term In Review: What You Need To Know

The U.S. Supreme Court considered many significant legal issues this term, including the proper venue for challenging agency actions and the level of scrutiny courts should apply to bans on gender-affirming care for transgender minors. But the emergency docket and a decision limiting nationwide injunctions loomed large. Here, Law360 takes a look at the cases and those who litigated them, as well as the sharpest writings from the justices.

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Grieving Texas Legal Community Steps Up After Flood Losses

By Lynn LaRowe

Texas lawyers are rallying around colleagues whose children were killed in the Guadalupe River's floodwaters last weekend, as attorneys around the Lone Star State organize widespread efforts to assist victims and hard-hit communities.

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Top Supreme Court Atty Touts AI Version Of Own Argument

By Jeff Overley

You're not hallucinating — a tech-savvy U.S. Supreme Court advocate generated a near-facsimile of his voice, had an artificial intelligence chatbot use it to argue the same case he recently argued, and told Law360 on Tuesday that "many of its answers were as good or better than mine."

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Gordon Rees Taps Calif. Employment Atty As Next Firm Head

By James Mills

Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP announced Tuesday that a 20-year veteran employment litigator who has long been involved with firm management has been tapped to become the firm's new managing partner effective next year.

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Trump Tariff Fights Put Spotlight On Major Questions Doctrine

By Natalie Olivo

Challenges to President Donald Trump's global tariffs have brought renewed attention to the U.S. Supreme Court's major questions doctrine, including observations that lower courts have so far inconsistently applied this approach when scrutinizing a range of agency actions.

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Calif. Bar Seeks 30-Day Suspension For Ex-Exec's Misconduct

By Emily Sawicki

The California State Bar Court has recommended a 30-day "actual" suspension for its onetime executive director, who last year was found culpable for a "significant ethical violation" in making misrepresentations to the State Bar Board of Trustees regarding his 2014 visit to Mongolia, which allegedly cost thousands of dollars in bar funds.

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'Practice Better Judgment,' Judge Tells Comscore Foe

By Bryan Koenig

A California federal judge "strongly" admonished a film distribution and data company for filing an amended monopolization complaint against Comscore on the Fourth of July, while also concluding that the filing mooted, for now, a bid to force the box office giant to continue sharing data.

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Ex-DC Prosecutors Rip Pick Of Emil Bove For 3rd Circ.

By Jake Maher

A group of former federal prosecutors in Washington, D.C., panned Emil Bove as a "dangerous" pick for the Third Circuit and criticized his record as a prosecutor as that of a loyal follower of President Donald Trump, in a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee.

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Jackson Walker, US Trustee Have A Week To Finish Mediation

By Catherine Marfin

A Texas federal judge has given Jackson Walker LLP and the federal government's bankruptcy watchdog a week to finish mediation in a fee dispute stemming from a former bankruptcy judge's secret relationship with a former firm partner.

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Analysis

By Ivan Moreno

Two California judges were the first to deliver crucial rulings about what constitutes fair use in training generative artificial intelligence models — a question expected to test the boundaries of the copyright doctrine amid the emergence of the groundbreaking technology. Here is Law360's list of the biggest copyright decisions so far this year.

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PE Attorneys Remain Optimistic Despite First-Half Slump

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

While many private equity attorneys predicted a booming environment heading into 2025 with President Donald Trump's incoming pro-business administration, uncertainty surrounding tariffs and antitrust regulations has been a hurdle for dealmaking and fundraising, causing an unanticipated slowdown in private equity activity.

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Trade Court Judge Sworn In As USDA Deputy Secretary

By Courtney Bubl茅

Judge Stephen A. Vaden of the U.S. Court of International Trade has resigned from his judgeship to join the U.S. Department of Agriculture as the second-in-command.

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Approach The Bench: Judge Biery Has Fun Writing

By Cara Bayles and Steven Trader

U.S. District Judge Fred Biery is now famous for the quirky written opinions he's produced during three decades as a trial judge for the Western District of Texas, but he was on the federal bench for a few years before he started to experiment in his opinion writing.

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