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Visa, Mastercard and millions of merchants resolved two decades of antitrust litigation by agreeing to lower transaction fees and allow more flexibility on what cards retailers accept. Law360's Bryan Koenig has the story. www.law360.com/banking/arti...

Law360's Katie Buehler and Jeff Overley take a look.

20 years after John Roberts became chief justice, the new Supreme Court term looks transformative for the country. How the court navigates mounting distrust in the judiciary and spells out presidential authority will define his time leading the court. www.law360.com/aerospace/ar...

Class Actions May Be The New Injunction Bid, And Next Target - Law360 In the two months since the Supreme Court hobbled universal injunctions, lawyers and trial judges have pivoted to adjust to a new litigation landscape, with class actions playing a larger role in laws...

Thanks to the Supreme Court, class actions might be the new avenue for nationwide challenges to Trump's excecutive orders. The White House already has a plan to fight back. Law360's Cara Bayles has the story. www.law360.com/banking/arti...

State Solicitors General Become A Trump Judge Pipeline - Law360 Seven months into his presidency, more than a third of President Donald Trump's judicial nominees hailed from a pool not tapped nearly as much as his predecessors: state solicitors general.

Courtney Bublé reports more than a third of Trump's judicial nominees this term are state solicitors general, a group previous administrations largely overlooked. But Trump is tapping GOP SGs willing to pursue conservative legal policies in court. www.law360.com/appellate/ar...

DC Circ. Upholds FCC's Foreign Sponsorship Rule - Law360 The D.C. Circuit upheld the Federal Communications Commission's 2024 foreign sponsorship disclosure rule for broadcasters Friday, rejecting arguments that the rule violated First Amendment speech prot...

Law360's Jared Foretek reports that the D.C. Circuit ok'd the FCC's 2024 foreign sponsorship disclosure for TV and radio but reprimanded the agency for leaking nonpublic rulemaking details to broadcasters, calling the episode a "new low" of industry capture. www.law360.com/appellate/ar...

President Trump has cut traditional outside advisers from the judicial nomination process in his second term and is relying on close advisers and vetting candidates himself. Law360's Cara Bayles looks at Trump's new approach for picking federal judges. www.law360.com/appellate/ar...

How GOP Judges Teed Up 4th Circ.'s Supreme Court Shutout - Law360 No appeals court found the U.S. Supreme Court's latest term less endearing than the Fourth Circuit, where a supersize shutout accentuated a multiyear slump for the once-favored circuit and repeatedly ...

Dissents from the 4th Circuit's increasing assertive conservative bloc contributed to the appeals court's unprecented 0-7 drubbing before the U.S. Supreme Court this term. Law360's Jeff Overley has the story. www.law360.com/aerospace/ar...

The Supreme Court's emergency docket will fill up this summer as litigants seek new ways to challenge Pres. Trump's executive orders and policies after the justices cut judges' ability to issue nationwide injunctions. Law360's Katie Buehler has the story. www.law360.com/competition/...

The Supreme Court greatly limited federal courts' ability to issue nationwide injunctions on presidential orders in a ruling that let Pres. Trump partially implement his order limiting birthright citizenship. Law360's Katie Buehler has the story. www.law360.com/appellate/ar...

PACER, the online public repository of federal court documents, is vulnerable to cyberthreats, Congress was told Tuesday. Law360's Courtney Bublé has the story. www.law360.com/appellate/ar...

Arguments closed Friday over what remedy to impose now that Google has been found to monopolize online search. Law360's Bryan Koenig has the story. www.law360.com/competition/...

Are Circuits Suddenly Split 11-1 Over Forum Selection Fights? - Law360 UK Holy split! That exclamation would be a reasonable reaction to a new and lopsided divide described by industrial giant Honeywell, which contends that the Seventh Circuit abruptly and erroneously broke...

Honeywell contends the 7th Circ abruptly broke with all its sister circuits by holding that mandamus petitions are not appropriate mechanisms to challenge district courts' refusal to enforce a forum-selection clauses. Law360's Jeff Overley has the story. www.law360.com/aerospace/ar...

'Fingers Crossed' At FCC As Court's Subsidy Ruling Closes In - Law360 There's plenty of hand-wringing at the Federal Communications Commission as a U.S. Supreme Court decision draws near over the legality of the revenue-raising scheme used to pay for more than $9 billio...

A Supreme Court decision over broadband and phone subsidies will come by early summer. The White House is defending the Universal Service Fund even though it's being challenged in court by conservatives. Law360's Chris Cole has the story. www.law360.com/telecom/arti...

President Trump's pick to lead the U.S. Marshals vowed the agency will hold to its mission of protecting judges and enforcing court orders despite rising criticism of the bench from the president and other policymakers. Law360's Courtney Bublé has the story. www.law360.com/appellate/ar...

Despite having fewer openings to fill than he did last time around, departures by Democratic appointees offer Trump a chance to push the federal bench further rightward. Law360's Cara Bayles has the story. www.law360.com/publicpolicy...

Chief Justice Roberts pushes back against the president and others who call for impeaching judges that rule against Trump's drive to slash government and fire federal workers. Law360's Courtney Bublé has the story. www.law360.com/appellate/ar...

Law360's Cara Bayles has the story

Trump Asks Justices To Limit Pauses Of Birthright Order - Law360 President Donald Trump asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to limit three nationwide court orders prohibiting the implementation of his executive order aimed at limiting birthright citizenship, a...

Pres. Trump asked the Supreme Court to limit nationwide court rulings halting his ban on birthright citizenship. His petition could lead to the justices banning all nationwide injunctions by district courts, long a goal of Republican policymakers. www.law360.com/appellate/ar...

Just 24 hours after Perkins Coie filed a complaint, a D.C. federal judge temporarily halted enforcement of the Trump administration's executive order against the law firm. Law360's Jared Foretek has the story. www.law360.com/california/a...

What do defense counsel, trial lawyers, corporations and consumers what in common? They can't stand a new plan by judicial overseers to require court permission and more financial disclosures for circuit court amici, Law360's Jeff Overley reports. www.law360.com/articles/229...

Trump Admin Asks Justices To OK Special Counsel Firing - Law360 The Trump administration has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to allow the president's firing of the top government ethics watchdog to move forward, arguing a Washington, D.C., federal judge unlawfully se...

Pres. Trump asked the Supreme Ct. to allow firing of the top govt. ethics officer, saying a fed. judge was wrongly reinstated Hampton Dellinger atop the Office of Special Counsel. Trump fired him on Feb. 7. On Sat., an appeals panel upheld the judge. www.law360.com/articles/229...

Supreme Court Eyes Its 'Next Frontier' In FCC Delegation Case - Law360 A case about broadband subsidies will give the U.S. Supreme Court the chance to revive a long-dormant separation of powers principle that attorneys say could upend regulations in numerous industries a...

If it revives the long-dormant 'non-delegation doctrine' the Supreme Court could upend regulations in numerous industries and trigger a power shift that makes 2024's shakeup of federal authority pale in comparison. Law360's Katie Buehler has the story. www.law360.com/articles/228...

​​​​​​​States Back In Spotlight As Feds Exit Net Neutrality Debate - Law360 The Sixth Circuit might have recently hammered the last nail into the coffin of federal net neutrality rules, but states are poised to fill the void — just as some did when the last Trump administrati...

​​​​​​​Now that the 6th Circuit has nixed federal net neutrality rules, states are poised to fill the void — just as some did during the last Trump administration. Law360's Chris Cole has the story. www.law360.com/telecom/arti...

Legal Pros Offer LA-Area Fire Victims Insurance Tips - Law360 Personal injury and insurance attorneys offered Los Angeles fire victims practical tips during an hourslong info-session hosted by the Beverly Hills Bar Association on Tuesday, cautioning against hiri...

Law360's Dorothy Atkins has put together tips for victims of the LA fires who need to file insurance claims. We've put it outside the paywall, so feel free to repost or forward to anyone who might benefit. www.law360.com/articles/228...

The Justices Friday hear TikTok's bid to stay with its Chinese parent. Katie Buehler says a law ordering breakup faces key questions: Will tiers of court scrutiny be undone, Was TikTok illegallly singled out, and Do foreign owners get 1st Amend. rights? www.law360.com/articles/228...

The 6th Circuit struck down the FCC's net neutrality rules, finding that the agency can't regulate broadband providers as telecommunications common carriers. Law360's Chris Cole has the story. www.law360.com/articles/227...

Trump Seeks High Court's Pause Of TikTok Sale-Or-Ban Law - Law360 UK President-elect Donald Trump has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to freeze the impending deadline for TikTok to divest from its Chinese parent company or face a nationwide ban, suggesting his new adminis...

President-elect Trump urged the Supreme Court to freeze TikTok's deadline to divest from its Chinese parent or face a U.S. ban, saying his incoming administration could negotiate a deal that would end need for the mandate. Katie Buehler has the story. www.law360.com/articles/227...

Biden's 3rd Circ. pick Adeel Mangi would have been the first Muslim U.S. circuit judge but decried how federal judges are picked. He prepped for questions about judicial philosophy but was asked if he backed Hamas and celebrated 9/11, Courtney Bublé reports. www.law360.com/appellate/ar...

Grocery Store Rulings Back Enforcers' Merger Approach - Law360 Federal and state enforcers scored key victories Tuesday with a pair of court rulings blocking the planned $24.6 billion merger between Kroger and Albertsons that largely adopted their allegations abo...

Two rulings against the tie-up of the two largest groceries was cheered as a big win for Biden efforts to curtail corporate concentration many blame for high prices and low wages, even though courts didn't buy govt efforts to protect workers. Matt Perlman reports. www.law360.com/articles/227...