Bill McConnell
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DC Bureau Chief, Law360
Antitrust enforcers will likely review Netflix play for Warner Bros. Discovery's studio and streaming biz. Concerns will be the company's huge share of streaming and Netflix's disregard for theatrical releases, which could limit films for the big screen. www.law360.com/competition/...
Netflix Merger Raises Theatrical Release Antitrust Fears - Law360
Netflix's $82.7 billion play for Warner Bros. Discovery's studio and streaming business drew rebukes Friday from critics and lawmakers on both sides of the political spectrum, but antitrust observers ...
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December 6, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Antitrust enforcers will likely review Netflix play for Warner Bros. Discovery's studio and streaming biz. Concerns will be the company's huge share of streaming and Netflix's disregard for theatrical releases, which could limit films for the big screen. www.law360.com/competition/...
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...
Visa, Mastercard Cut New Deal Worth 'Well More Than $200B' - Law360
Visa, Mastercard and a class of potentially millions of merchants announced a new settlement Monday resolving two decades of antitrust litigation, which would permit more flexibility on what cards are...
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November 11, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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...
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...
The Roberts Court At 20: How The Chief Is Reshaping America - Law360
Twenty years after John Roberts became the 17th chief justice of the United States, he faces a U.S. Supreme Court term that's looking transformative for the country and its institutions. How Justice R...
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October 5, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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...
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...
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...
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September 9, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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...
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...
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.
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August 26, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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...
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...
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...
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August 5, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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...
Spurning Outsiders, Trump Expands Role In Picking Judges - Law360
President Donald Trump is tightly controlling judicial nominations in his second term, eschewing guidance from mainstream groups and instead relying on close advisers and vetting candidates himself.
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July 26, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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...
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...
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 ...
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July 22, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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/...
Justices Face Busy Summer After Nixing Universal Injunctions - Law360
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to limit nationwide injunctions was one of its biggest rulings of the term — a finding the court is likely going to be dealing with all summer. Here, Law360 takes a l...
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July 2, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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...
Justices Limit Universal Injunctions But Defer On Citizenship - Law360
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Friday that President Donald Trump can partially implement his executive order aimed at limiting birthright citizenship, in a ruling that significantly limits the ability ...
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June 28, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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...
Judiciary Warns Congress Of Cyber Risks To PACER - Law360
PACER, the online public repository of federal court documents, is vulnerable to cyberthreats, a top judiciary official told members of Congress on Tuesday.
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June 25, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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/...
'Not Sure It Fits': Google Judge Challenges DOJ AI Boost Idea - Law360
Generative artificial intelligence may be the future of online search, but a D.C. federal judge cast doubt Friday on the Justice Department's bid to force Google to share and syndicate its search resu...
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May 31, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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/...
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...
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...
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May 6, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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...
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...
'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...
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May 2, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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...
Marshals Service Pick Vows To Protect Judges Amid Tensions - Law360
President Donald Trump's nominee for director of the U.S. Marshals Service, Gadyaces Serralta, stressed to Democrats on Wednesday that the agency's mission to protect judges and enforce court orders w...
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May 1, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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...
Even With Few Openings, Courts Can Still Shift Under Trump - Law360
There were record low vacancies on the federal bench when Donald Trump took office in January, but the president could still radically alter some courts and swing the judiciary rightward, especially i...
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March 26, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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...
Chief Justice Speaks Out After Trump's Impeachment Push - Law360
U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. issued a rare statement Tuesday saying "impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision" after President ...
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March 19, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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...
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...
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...
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March 17, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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...
BREAKING: Judge Blocks Order Limiting Perkins Coie Government Access - Law360
A D.C. federal court halted on Wednesday enforcement of the Trump administration's executive order against law firm Perkins Coie LLP over its representation of Hillary Clinton during her 2016 presiden...
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March 12, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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...
February 19, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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...
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...
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...
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February 17, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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...
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...
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...
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February 1, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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...
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...
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...
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January 28, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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...
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...
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...
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January 15, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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...
5 Questions Attys Have About Supreme Court's TikTok Case - Law360
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Friday in TikTok's challenge to a law requiring the wildly popular social media platform to be divested from its Chinese parent company over national securit...
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January 10, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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...