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On August 18, 2026, Judge James J. Donato of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California approved a settlement resolving antitrust litigation over Google's Android and Play Store business practices, Utah v. Google, pursuant to which Google will pay $700 million and be bound by certain behavioral commitments. The State of Utah led a bipartisan coalition of 39 Attorneys General in prosecuting the litigation, which grew to 53 Attorneys General at settlement.

On June 30, 2026, the Supreme Court upheld an injunction blocking President Trump's Executive Order purporting to limit birthright citizenship, reaffirming the centuries-old, foundational promise of citizenship to all those born in the United States and subject to the laws of the United States. In dissent, Justice Alito called it "one of the most important decisions in the history of the Court". The firm represented two leading originalist scholars who have written on the bir

On May 29, 2026, the firm filed an amicus brief on behalf of the American Antitrust Institute ("AAI") supporting the Federal Trade Commission's appeal in the D.C. Circuit from its trial loss against Meta Platforms, Inc. challenging the company's acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp as acts of monopoly maintenance. The brief argues that the District Court's ruling made a number of legal errors in defining the relevant market and in refusing to infer monopoly power based on m