New York

  • July 14, 2026

    AGs Seek Emergency Block On Paramount-Warner Bros. Deal

    A dozen Democratic attorneys general are seeking an emergency temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction to block Paramount Skydance's controversial proposed $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. while litigation continues.

  • July 14, 2026

    2nd Circ. Grants Bail To Critically Ill Detainee Pending Appeal

    A split Second Circuit panel ordered a detained Jamaican man facing deportation to be released on bail, and criticized a dissenting judge's conclusion that the man's life-threatening kidney disease and need for regular dialysis treatments were not an "extraordinary circumstance."

  • July 14, 2026

    Google Faces Another AI Copyright Suit By Publishers

    Book publishers and legal novelist Scott Turow have lodged a copyright infringement suit alleging Google used their works to train its artificial intelligence model Gemini following an earlier suit they launched against Meta.

  • July 14, 2026

    Ex-NBA Player Denies 'Gatekeeper' Role In Betting Bust

    Former NBA center Ed Davis on Tuesday denied charges in Brooklyn federal court accusing him of conspiring to take bribes while communicating to bettors that his ex-teammate Malik Beasley would underperform in certain games.

  • July 13, 2026

    2nd Circ. Backs NYC Law Blocking Broker Fees For Tenants

    The Second Circuit held Monday that a lower court was correct to refuse to preliminarily block a New York City law prohibiting certain landlord broker fees, ruling that the city has pointed to legitimate government interests that warrant the law.

  • July 13, 2026

    Portofino Says Citadel Used Dismissal To Fuel Press Campaign

    Portofino Technologies has accused Citadel Securities of using its decision to drop its trade secrets lawsuit against the Swiss cryptocurrency trading firm as an opportunity to drum up bad press about Portofino, and papering over the fact that an $8 million judgment it won in the dispute is a "pyrrhic victory."

  • July 13, 2026

    Defense Gears Up To Fight Polymarket Insider Trading Case

    Counsel for a former Google software engineer accused of raking in over $1.2 million by leveraging the tech giant's confidential information to place bets on Polymarket told a Manhattan federal judge Monday about a number of defenses they are considering to fight the novel allegations of prediction market-based insider trading.

  • July 13, 2026

    BlackRock's Mutual Fund Accounting Inflated Fees, Suit Says

    Asset manager BlackRock Inc.'s accounting practices artificially inflated the values of more than 70 of its mutual funds, saddling investors with higher management fees and cutting into the dividends they might have collected, according to a proposed class action lodged Monday in New York state court.

  • July 13, 2026

    7th Circ. Nixes Clearview AI Privacy Deal Over Class Rift

    The Seventh Circuit has vacated a novel biometric privacy settlement between Clearview AI and classes of individuals who claim the company misused their public photos, saying a nationwide class representative should have signaled their agreement before the district court approved a deal containing such comparatively "meager" benefits.

  • July 13, 2026

    2nd Circ. Says Tylenol Maker Must Face Autism, ADHD Suits

    The Second Circuit said Monday that a lower court had wrongly excluded plaintiffs experts from testifying about an alleged relationship between using Tylenol during pregnancy and autism spectrum disorder and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, although the panel cautioned that the decision was not political or scientific.

  • July 13, 2026

    2nd Circ. Orders New Trial In NYPD Search, Prosecution Suit

    A Second Circuit panel on Monday ordered a new civil trial for four New York Police Department officers found liable for busting into an apartment without a warrant and arresting one of its occupants without cause, saying the district court erroneously refused to allow jurors to hear recordings of phone calls that cast doubt on the plaintiff's credibility.

  • July 13, 2026

    2nd Circ. Upholds Cumulus' Data-Tying Order Against Nielsen

    Nielsen cannot condition media company Cumulus' access to national radio ratings data on buying its local offerings, under a Second Circuit panel decision Monday upholding, and unpausing, a district court preliminary injunction, concluding that a 10-fold price increase for the standalone product likely amounted to anticompetitive coercion.

  • July 13, 2026

    2nd Circ. Rejects Bid To End NYC's Congestion Pricing

    The Second Circuit on Monday upheld New York City's congestion pricing, rejecting two suburban counties' claims that Manhattan's congestion pricing tolls are discriminatory and unconstitutionally restrict motorists' right to travel.

  • July 13, 2026

    Adani Must Swear No Deal Prompted DOJ Dismissal Bid

    Apparent concerns about a potential quid pro quo have prompted a New York federal judge to order Indian billionaire Gautam Adani to state in an affidavit whether he "promised" anything to the government in exchange for the U.S. Department of Justice moving to dismiss criminal charges against him.

  • July 13, 2026

    Vodka Co. Looks To Block Golf Tour's Use Of 'LIV' Trademark

    A New York distillery has asked a federal judge to scuttle the formerly Saudi-backed golf tour's use of the "LIV" trademark for alcohol sales, arguing that the tour is threatening to diminish its brand.

  • July 13, 2026

    McDermott Hires Weil Dealmaker In NY To Co-Head PE Group

    McDermott Will & Schulte LLP announced Monday that it has hired a private equity attorney to co-head its global private equity group in a move that matches the firm's ambitions for its new state-of-the-art midtown Manhattan office.

  • July 13, 2026

    Northwell Escapes Suit Over Pension Plan Conversion

    Northwell Health defeated a proposed class action alleging it hid cuts to workers' pension plans when converting to a cash-balance plan in the late 1990s, with a New York federal judge finding the hospital system adequately disclosed how the change could impact participants' benefits.

  • July 13, 2026

    Arnold & Porter Names Director Of IT Apps As Chief AI Officer

    Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP announced on Monday the appointment of Roger Maeda, previously its director of information technology enterprise applications and application development, as its chief artificial intelligence officer, joining other firms that have recently assigned a C-suite executive to oversee the software.

  • July 13, 2026

    Simpson Thacher Adds Insurance Trio From 2 Firms

    Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP announced Monday that it has brought two Clifford Chance LLP attorneys and one Mayer Brown LLP attorney to its mergers and acquisitions practice, touting their experience in insurance M&A, reinsurance, private equity-backed insurance transactions and complex regulatory matters.

  • July 13, 2026

    NY Times Says Gov't Can't Justify Concealing Boat Strike Videos

    The New York Times told a New York federal judge that the U.S. Department of Defense's "vague and implausible" justification for withholding footage from several military strikes on boats in the Pacific and Caribbean is countered by its decision to release clips from the footage on social media.

  • July 13, 2026

    Frontier Will Pay $14M To End 401(k) Telecom Stocks Fight

    Frontier Communications Corp. has agreed to fork over approximately $14 million to end a proposed class action claiming its employee 401(k) plan was improperly overinvested in Verizon Wireless and other telecommunications stocks, according to a filing in Connecticut federal court.

  • July 13, 2026

    $725M Liquid Nails Deal Would Harm Market, FTC Tells Judge

    Loctite maker Henkel's planned $725 million acquisition of Liquid Nails would create a construction adhesives market behemoth with a "staggering" 80% retail share, the Federal Trade Commission told a Manhattan federal judge Monday as it challenges the deal.

  • July 13, 2026

    12 Democratic AGs Challenge Paramount-Warner Bros. Deal

    A dozen Democratic attorneys general on Monday sought to block Paramount Skydance's proposed $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, arguing in a California federal court challenge that the deal threatens competition for film distribution and basic cable.

  • July 10, 2026

    NYT Says 'Baseless' EEOC Suit Is Payback For Reporting

    The New York Times scoffed at the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's allegations that it unlawfully denied a white editor a promotion, arguing in counterclaims that the "baseless" lawsuit is retaliation for the newspaper's reporting on the Trump administration.

  • July 10, 2026

    NY Nonprofits Want ICE Docs On Courthouse Arrest Policies

    Nonprofit groups suing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement over courthouse arrest policies pressed a Manhattan federal judge to force the agency to produce documents and testimony concerning arrests it conducts outside immigration courts after the agency's revised policy concerning such arrests in Manhattan was put on hold.

Expert Analysis

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    NY Times Word Puzzles Make Me A Better Lawyer

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    Every morning I let The New York Times humble me with word games, which offer a chance to recalibrate my brain before the day's chaos arrives and remind me that a solution — whether to a puzzle or employment law issue — almost always exists once I find the right angle, says Amy Epstein Gluck at Pierson Ferdinand.

  • Data Center Developer Lessons From Maine's Vetoed Ban

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    The regulatory and political dynamics that recently led Maine’s governor to veto a popular bipartisan bill proposing a temporary data center development ban offer a useful template that developers can use to help their projects survive other states' attempts at moratoriums, say attorneys at Thompson Hine.

  • Submitting Ideas To AI Platforms May Affect Patent Rights

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    Recent judicial developments suggest that disclosing an invention to a consumer artificial intelligence platform constitutes public disclosure, making disciplined use of such tools and early filing strategies essential to preserving patent rights, say attorneys at Day Pitney.

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    Law School's Missed Lesson: Diagnose Before Arguing

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    Law school often skips over explicitly teaching students how to determine what kind of problem a case presents before they commit to a particular doctrinal path, which risks building arguments that are internally coherent but externally misaligned, says Melanie Oxhorn at Kobre & Kim.

  • Becoming The Biz-Savvy GC That Portfolio Companies Need

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    Candidates for general counsel roles at private equity-backed portfolio companies should prioritize proving their sector-specific experience, commercial judgment and ease with uncertainty — and attorneys hoping to be candidates in five to 10 years should start working on those skills now, says Dimitri Mastrocola at Major Lindsey.

  • Nielsen Appeal Tests Antitrust Limits Of Pricing And Bundling

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    In Cumulus v. Nielsen, the Second Circuit is considering a structural pattern in which a monopolist exploits upstream market power to foreclose downstream competition, which could potentially offer broad insight into how courts will assess exclusionary bundling and pricing defenses under antitrust law, says Luke Hasskamp at Bona Law.

  • Ch. 11 Ruling Raises Bar For Avoiding Default Interest

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    Following a New York bankruptcy court's recent decision in 33 Mako, solvent debtors may find it significantly harder to avoid paying contractual default interest to oversecured lenders under Section 506(b) of the Bankruptcy Code, say attorneys at Benesch.

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    Judges On AI: How Courts Can Survive The Tech Revolution

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    Colorado Supreme Court Justice Maria Berkenkotter and Colorado Court of Appeals Judge Lino Lipinsky de Orlov discuss how artificial intelligence has already fundamentally altered the legal system and offer tips for courts navigating deepfakes, hallucinations and a gap in access to AI tools.

  • A Framework For Habeas Relief After 5th Circ. Bond Ruling

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    Following the Fifth Circuit’s recent Buenrostro-Mendez v. Bondi decision foreclosing statutory bond for detained nonimmigrants not deemed admitted to the U.S., lawyers should adopt a framework that requests habeas relief pursuant to the Fifth Amendment’s due process clause, says Kemal Hepsen at Mandamus Lawyers.

  • 3 AI Adoption Mistakes GCs Should Avoid

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    The pressure in-house legal teams face to quickly adopt artificial intelligence tools, combined with budget constraints and the need to evaluate a crowded market of options, sets the stage for implementation mistakes that are often difficult to undo, says former 23andMe general counsel Guy Chayoun.

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    Playing Basketball Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    My grandfather used to say "I wear your jersey" as shorthand for wholly committing to support someone with loyalty and integrity — ideals that have shaped my life on the basketball court and in legal practice, says Tracy Schimelfenig at Schimelfenig Legal.

  • Nexstar Offers A Cautionary Tale On State-Level Deal Scrutiny

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    State-enforcement challenges to the $6.2 billion Nexstar-Tegna merger remind legal practitioners that federal approval isn't always sufficient to deliver certainty on closing, integration and timetable assumptions, says Brett Story at Britehorn Securities.

  • Salt-N-Pepa Suit May Shake Up Music Copyright Issue

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    James v. UMG Recordings is a copyright termination rights case that provides an opportunity for the Second Circuit to make concrete choices about grant language, authorship, work-for-hire status and survival of derivative works, says attorney Abdul Abdullahi.

  • How 'Bundling' Enforcement Is Parsing Efficiency, Access

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    Recent antitrust enforcement actions have taken a selective view of companies' bundling of products or services — challenging it when it shuts out rivals, but tolerating it when it creates efficient scale — making the real test now less about lower prices than about whether competition is being blocked, says attorney Alan Kusinitz.

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    The Biz Court Digest: Georgia Court Has Business On Its Mind

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    Thanks to recent legislation, the Georgia State-wide Business Court will soon offer business litigants greater access to the court than ever before, further enhancing the court's emphasis on efficiency, predictability and accessibility for sophisticated commercial disputes, says former GSBC judge Walt Davis at Jones Day.

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