​​​​​​​Alex Jones' Sandy Hook Atty Suspended Over Info Release

By Aaron Keller

Former Alex Jones attorney Norm Pattis will be suspended from practicing law for two weeks, a Connecticut judge has ruled, capping a three-year ethics saga that started when Pattis asked an associate to send Sandy Hook families' medical records to the Infowars host's Texas bankruptcy lawyer.

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Sandy Hook Families Oppose Revived Infowars Sale Bid

By MJ Koo

Families of the victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting have urged a Texas bankruptcy judge to block an Alex Jones-affiliated company's revived bid to buy his Infowars platform, saying it will cause delays in the more than three-year-old related bankruptcy cases.

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Meta Blocks Ex-Exec From Promoting Tell-All Memoir

By Dorothy Atkins

An international arbitrator issued an emergency ruling Wednesday blocking former Meta executive Sarah Wynn-Williams from promoting her recently released tell-all memoir "Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed and Lost Idealism," finding that Meta has shown it'll likely win its nondisparagement claim against the author.

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Swimsuit Pics App Maker Can't Revive Suit Against Facebook

By Gina Kim

California appellate justices on Wednesday refused to revive an app developer's contract breach suit alleging Facebook rescinded its commitment to provide third-party developers with access to user data, rendering his app for finding users' swimsuit photos unworkable, after concluding Facebook's terms expressly said it could limit developers' access to data.

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Smartmatic Wants MyPillow CEO Held In Contempt

By Ali Sullivan

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell hasn't paid the sanctions he owes to Smartmatic for filing "frivolous claims" against the voting systems company, Smartmatic told a D.C. federal judge in an effort to hold him in civil contempt.

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Soulja Boy Beat And Raped Assistant, Jury Told As Trial Starts

By Rachel Scharf

The artist known as Soulja Boy physically and sexually abused a live-in personal assistant for nearly two years, jurors in California state court heard on the first day of a civil assault and employment trial against the "Crank That" rapper on Thursday.

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Russell Simmons Accuser Refiles Suit After Jurisdiction Issue

By Elliot Weld

A Jane Doe plaintiff whose New York federal court suit alleging Def Jam Recordings co-founder Russell Simmons raped her in his apartment in the 1990s was dismissed on jurisdictional grounds on Thursday refiled the claims in state court.

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Public Broadcasting Sues FEMA Over Emergency Alert Funds

By Rae Ann Varona

The nonprofit responsible for providing funding to more than 1,500 U.S. public radio and television stations filed suit Thursday in D.C. federal court, accusing the Federal Emergency Management Agency of placing an unlawful hold on $40 million in grant funds meant to bolster the national's emergency alert system.

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Sony Sues USC Over Music Used In Social Media Ads

By Andrea Keckley

Sony Music has accused the University of Southern California of infringing more than 170 of its songs to advertise the university's sports program on social media, according to a copyright suit filed in New York federal court.

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Analysis

Who Is FCC Nominee Olivia Trusty? Here's What We Know

By Christopher Cole

Republicans on the five-seat Federal Communications Commission need a critical third vote to push through many of the changes they envision for the nation's telecom policies, and the White House has chosen longtime Capitol Hill aide Olivia Trusty for the role.

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Deals Rumor Mill

StubHub, Figma Pursue IPOs, And More Deal Rumors

By Al Barbarino

StubHub and Figma are pursuing IPOs, Granicus' owners are exploring a $4 billion sale, and deals tied to Reese Witherspoon and Eminem could be in the pipeline. Here, Law360 breaks down these and other notable deal rumors from the past week.

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Golden Globe Nominee Settles Conn. Feud With Talent Agent

By Aaron Keller

Golden Globe nominee Cynthia Gibb and her Connecticut acting school have settled a lawsuit against a talent agent, the agent's acting instructor husband and a school they founded by allegedly interfering with a lease and swiping photos and student lists from Gibb's own academy.

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Brave Software Claims 'Bullying' By News Corp. In IP Row

By Rae Ann Varona

Internet browser company Brave Software on Wednesday hauled News Corp. into California federal court, accusing the media company of trying to "bully" it out of the search engine market by crying copyright infringement and threatening legal action over Brave's use of its website content.

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Karol G Producer Admitted To Stealing Beat, Suit Claims

By Carolina Bolado

Two music producers on Wednesday accused star Colombian singer Karol G and Universal Music Group of lifting the beat from their track "Punto G" for her hit song "Gatúbela," claiming that one of the song's producers even admitted to the theft.

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Calif. Kids' Privacy Law Again Fails Constitutional Challenge

By Allison Grande

A California federal judge on Thursday again blocked the state from enforcing a landmark law requiring tech giants to bolster privacy protections for children, finding that a second review of the dispute didn't change the conclusion that tech trade group NetChoice was likely to succeed with its First Amendment challenge. 

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Karen Read Loses Double Jeopardy Bid In Federal Court

By Chris Villani

Karen Read, the Massachusetts woman who stands accused of killing her boyfriend with her SUV, will not be able to avoid a retrial in state court after a federal judge on Thursday denied her bid to escape two charges that jurors supposedly rejected during deliberations.

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FCC Creates New Nat'l Security Arm Focused On China

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission will operate a new organization within the agency focused solely on national security, particularly cybersecurity threats emerging from the Chinese government.

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Tampa Bay Rays Halt Plans For New $1.3B MLB Stadium

By Isaac Monterose

Major League Baseball's Tampa Bay Rays announced Thursday that it will stop developing a $1.3 billion stadium that's connected to a larger $6.5 billion redevelopment plan for the Historic Gas Plant District in St. Petersburg, Florida.

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Seminole Say Minn. Order Backs Bid To Nix Gaming Ad Suit

By Crystal Owens

The Seminole Tribe of Florida says a recent federal court order that dismissed a Minnesota casino and horse racetrack operator's claims that tribal entities' Class III gaming operations are illegal supports its bid to nix a proposed class action over allegedly misleading advertisements by its Hard Rock Digital gaming vendor.

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Springer Nature Planning 'Bait-And-Switch,' Court Hears

By Caroline Simson

Independent scientific journal publisher Pleiades Publishing is urging a New York federal court to bar Springer Nature from trying to use a "bait-and-switch" tactic with customers allegedly aimed at undermining Pleiades' reputation while the two companies arbitrate a dispute over a soured distribution deal.

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Ga. Judge Slams 'Meaningless' Reading Of Open Records Act

By Chart Riggall

A Georgia appellate judge took his colleagues to task Thursday for not backing a local newspaper publisher's effort to force a city to hand over its police records, writing that a majority opinion that declined to fully resolve the dispute "substitute[s] our policy preferences for the policy choices of the legislature."

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Ex-FCC Chief Ajit Pai Named Wireless Group's CEO

By Nadia Dreid

President Donald Trump's first Federal Communications Commission chief Ajit Pai, who led the charge to repeal net neutrality during his first term, has been tapped as the new head of wireless trade group CTIA.

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In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Law360

For those who missed out, here's a look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the most buzz on Law360 last week.

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PE Fund Accuses Ex-CEO Of Stealing To Pay Divorce Atty

By Thy Vo

A former private equity CEO has been sued by a Denver-based fund in Colorado state court for allegedly using its money to pay his divorce lawyer and for other personal expenses, following a settlement earlier this year with federal securities regulators over claims he improperly charged two other funds.

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UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

By Max Austin

The past week in London has seen J.P. Morgan face action by the founder of Viva Wallet in an ongoing feud over the company's takeover, retailer Next Group contest a claim by the home ware brand owned by private members' club Soho House, and the venue of the Wimbledon Championships sue a local group opposed to its plans to build new tennis courts on protected land in Wimbledon Park.

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Q&A

Skadden Tech Veteran Preps For AI's Planetary Revolution

By Al Barbarino

Kenton King helped open Skadden's Silicon Valley offices some 25 years ago and has lived and breathed tech for a majority of his career, so he's no stranger to so-called disruptors in the sector. But he said game-changers like artificial intelligence come along only once or twice in a lifetime.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

White & Case LLP, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP and Fish & Richardson PC lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Federal Circuit handed Apple a significant victory in a dispute that might have led to a ban on imports of its smartwatches.

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Atty Gets 8½ Years For Attempted Embassy Attack

By Jared Foretek

A Florida attorney who pled guilty to damaging a San Antonio sculpture and unsuccessfully trying to detonate explosives outside the Chinese Embassy in Washington, D.C., was sentenced to 8½ years Friday, after the judge overseeing the case said the defendant's own statements at the hearing likely got him more time.

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Philly Firm Decries Ex-Holland & Knight Atty's Counterclaims

By Ryan Boysen

A tawdry courtroom brawl between Pennsylvania personal injury firm Fritz & Bianculli LLC and former Holland & Knight LLP partner Patrick McCabe continues to boil, as Fritz & Bianculli denies that it is only suing McCabe for leverage in a messy divorce caused by his wife's "salacious" affair with name partner Brian Fritz.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

Delaware made news in the past week when revisions to its general corporation law, which arose in part from recent reports that some corporations were moving to other states, passed in the state Senate. Meanwhile, a judge blocked a late deposition from a Chubb unit that sought testimony from Smithfield Foods' legal officer, slamming the insurer for making the request more than five years after the case began. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.​

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Former SEC General Counsel Barbero Joins Venable In DC

By Jessica Corso

Venable LLP announced Friday that former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission general counsel Megan Barbero has joined the firm's Washington, D.C., office following a three-year stint at the Wall Street regulator. 

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