The U.S. Supreme Court asked the federal government Monday to weigh in on a cryptocurrency investor's challenge to the IRS' seizure of his account records, a request that followed a spate of support for the investor, including by attorneys general and Elon Musk's X Corp.
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Justices Ask US To Respond To IRS Crypto Doc Seizure Case

By Anna Scott Farrell

The U.S. Supreme Court asked the federal government Monday to weigh in on a cryptocurrency investor's challenge to the IRS' seizure of his account records, a request that followed a spate of support for the investor, including by attorneys general and Elon Musk's X Corp.

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France Fines Apple €150M For App Tracking Policy

By Matthew Perlman

France's competition enforcer fined Apple €150 million ($162.3 million) on Monday for its rollout of a policy designed to give users more control of the data apps can track over concerns that it hindered small publishers and others that rely on data collection to finance their business.

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Former Stimlabs Exec Must Face Trade Secrets Claims

By Kelcey Caulder

A former biomedical technology company executive must face claims that she absconded with thousands of internal files containing valuable product information in the days and weeks leading up to her ouster last year, a Georgia federal judge ruled.

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Analysis

DOJ Seeking Steep Costs To Make Challengers Think Twice

By Jeff Overley

The U.S. Department of Justice is quickly implementing President Donald Trump's plan to seek huge sums of money from litigants whose cases impede his agenda but ultimately prove unsuccessful, court records show.

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POLICY & REGULATION

FTC Chair Flags Data Risks In 23andMe Bankruptcy

By Allison Grande

The Federal Trade Commission has added to the swell of privacy and security concerns surrounding the potential sale of sensitive consumer information swept up in the 23andMe bankruptcy, with the agency's Republican chair on Monday stressing the importance of data continuing to be protected in the way that users have been promised. 

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Immigrant Groups Sue Over New DHS Registration Rule

By Madeline Lyskawa

Immigrant rights groups sued the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in D.C. federal court Monday, seeking to challenge the agency's interim final rule requiring unauthorized immigrants to register with the federal government or face criminal prosecution.

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LITIGATION

Wells Fargo Sued Over Online Wire Fraud Protections

By Jon Hill

Wells Fargo has been hit in by a proposed class action California federal court accusing the bank of leaving its online and mobile banking customers exposed to costly losses from fraudulent wire transfers.

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Conn. Law Firm Hit With Class Action Data Breach Suit

By Aaron Keller

A 26-attorney Connecticut business litigation, intellectual property and employment law firm waited 16 months to notify potentially thousands of current and former clients of an alleged 2023 data breach that may have left sensitive personal information exposed to cybercriminals, a Monday lawsuit alleged

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Driver Says Parking Garage Privacy Suit Can't Be Arbitrated

By Joyce Hanson

The lead plaintiff in a proposed class action claiming a nationwide operator of parking garages violates privacy laws with its use of video analytics to enforce phony parking fees is fighting the company's bid in Colorado federal court to force the dispute into arbitration.

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Trucking Co. Says Insurers Owe Coverage For BIPA Suit

By Elizabeth Daley

A trucking company's insurers owe coverage for underlying litigation brought by a former employee who said the company violated his biometric privacy rights by using a hand-scanning timekeeping system that stored his protected personal data, the company told an Illinois federal court.

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PEOPLE

Ex-Sen. Sinema Joins Hogan Lovells' Regulatory Group

By Jack Rodgers

Former U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, who made headlines by changing her party affiliation from Democrat to independent in 2022, will join Hogan Lovells in Washington, D.C., as a senior adviser in its global regulatory and intellectual property practice groups, the firm announced Monday.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Firms Must Embrace Alternative Billing Models Or Fall Behind

As artificial intelligence tools eliminate inefficiencies and the Big Four accounting firms enter the legal market, law firms that pivot from the entrenched billable hour model to outcomes-based pricing will see a distinct competitive advantage, says attorney William Brewer.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Willkie Becomes 3rd Firm To Reach Deal With Trump

By Alison Knezevich

After issuing a string of executive orders in recent weeks targeting BigLaw firms, President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP had agreed to provide $100 million in pro bono legal services for certain causes and to refrain from what Trump has called discriminatory diversity hiring practices.

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Ex-DHS Intel Head To Lead Mayer Brown Investigations Team

By Jack Rodgers

The former leader of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's intelligence office has joined Mayer Brown LLP to help lead its global investigations and white collar defense practice — a role that he says allows him to join forces with attorneys whom he's known for years.

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Ex-Speaker Gingrich Lends Support To Limited Injunctions Bill

By Courtney Bublé

Former GOP Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich on Tuesday endorsed the idea behind Republican legislation that would require nationwide injunctions imposed by lower courts against White House policies to be quickly brought before the U.S. Supreme Court. 

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Analysis

Fight Over AI Training Pushes Copying Question To Forefront

By Ivan Moreno

When courts weigh fair use in copyright disputes, how much a defendant takes from a particular work is usually overridden by other factors. But with artificial intelligence requiring immense amounts of training material, a legal tech company is trying to change that as it battles infringement claims by Thomson Reuters over the media company's Westlaw platform.

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Venezuelans Ask Justices To Keep Block On Removals

By Katie Buehler

Five detained Venezuelans urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to deny President Donald Trump's move to lift a D.C. federal judge's order prohibiting the removal of alleged gang members from the U.S. under the Alien Enemies Act, arguing the president's "staggering" assertion of authority under the wartime law is unsubstantiated.

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Wilson Sonsini Adds Antitrust Attys From MoFo, K&L Gates

By James Mills

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC is expanding its antitrust team, bringing in two new partners — a Morrison Foerster LLP trial attorney in San Francisco and a K&L Gates LLP litigator in Chicago.

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Schiff Says He'll Hold On Trump's Pick For DC US Attorney

By Lauren Berg

Senate Judiciary Committee member Adam Schiff announced Tuesday he will hold on President Donald Trump's nomination of Ed Martin to be the top prosecutor in Washington, D.C., calling Martin a "one-man wrecking ball" demolishing the wall between the White House and the U.S. Department of Justice.

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The Top In-House Hires Of March

By Michele Gorman

Legal department hires over the last month included high-profile appointments at the NFL, Supermicro and Dropbox. Here, Law360 Pulse looks at some of the top in-house announcements from March.

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Hub Hires: Ropes, Sherin, Nixon Peabody

By Chris Villani

March gave us a little madness in the Boston legal scene, with a former U.S. attorney returning to his old BigLaw stomping grounds, a smaller firm bringing on a real estate veteran, and the launch of a new plaintiff-side boutique.

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Approach The Bench: Judge Tymkovich On New Judgeships

When Tenth Circuit Judge Timothy Tymkovich testified before Congress recently about the need for more federal judges, it had been about 10 years since he'd made a similar request of Congress, which hasn't expanded the federal bench since 2002.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Akin Gump

Alston & Bird

Baker & Hostetler

Blood Hurst

Brewer Attorneys

Brown Paindiris

Brown Raysman

Bursor & Fisher

Cadwalader Wickersham

Carmody MacDonald

Center for Constitutional Litigation

Chartwell Law

Consovoy McCarthy

Covington & Burling

Davis & Gilbert

Davis Polk

Debevoise & Plimpton

Dentons

Foley & Lardner

Goldstein & Russell

Goodwin Procter

Greenberg Traurig

Gupta Wessler

Hogan Lovells

Jackson Lewis PC

Jeffer Mangels

Jenner & Block

K&L Gates

Krevolin & Horst

Levi & Korsinsky

Lowenstein Sandler

Mayer Brown

McDonald Hopkins

Morgan Lewis

Morrison Foerster

Nixon Peabody

Norton Rose

O'Melveny & Myers

Paul Weiss

Perkins Coie

Ropes & Gray

Sherin & Lodgen

Skadden Arps

Torridon Law

Venable LLP

Weil Gotshal

White & Case

Willkie Farr

WilmerHale

Wilson Sonsini

Zimmer Citron

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

23andMe Inc.

American Civil Liberties Union

American Federation of Government Employees

American Federation of State County & Municipal Employees

American Immigration Council Inc.

American Immigration Lawyers Association

Andreessen Horowitz LLC

Apple Inc.

Arizona Cardinals

Association of Corporate Counsel

Bitcoin Depot

Boost Mobile LLC

Cable News Network Inc.

Catholic Charities Fort Worth

Citigroup Inc.

Coinbase Global Inc.

Comcast Corp.

Cornell University

DISH Network Corp.

Democracy Forward Foundation

Dropbox Inc.

Fox Corp.

Global NAPs Networks Inc.

Google LLC

Green Bay Packers

Icebreaker Health Inc.

InterDigital Inc.

International Association of Better Business Bureaus Inc.

KFC Corp.

KPMG International

Kinsale Insurance Co.

Las Vegas Raiders LLC

Make the Road New York

Meta Platforms Inc.

Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority

MoneyGram International Inc.

NBCUniversal Media LLC

NFL Enterprises LLC

National Council of Nonprofits

National Immigration Law Center

National Urban League

New Civil Liberties Alliance

Nokia Corp.

Pacific Legal Foundation

Princeton University

ROSS Intelligence

RadioShack Corporation

Salary.com

Sling TV LLC

Spotify Technology SA

Super Micro Computer Inc.

The Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

Thomson Reuters Corp.

TikTok Inc.

Twitter Inc.

Tyson Foods Inc.

United Farm Workers

Verizon Communications Inc.

Wells Fargo & Co.

Whole Foods Market Inc.

iHeartMedia Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Arizona Supreme Court

City of New York

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Cartel Office

Federal Communications Commission

Federal Trade Commission

Food and Drug Administration

French Competition Authority

Internal Revenue Service

Maine Attorney General's Office

Nebraska Attorney General's Office

North Dakota Attorney General's Office

Ohio Attorney General's Office

Social Security Administration

State of Maryland

U.S. Attorney's Office

U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

U.S. Customs and Border Protection

U.S. Department of Agriculture

U.S. Department of Education

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. District & Bankruptcy Courts of Southern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

U.S. Office of Personnel Management

U.S. Supreme Court

US Office of Management and Budget

United States District Court for the District of Colorado