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April 21, 2026
The U.S. Bureau of Prisons is capable of handling a St. Louis attorney's outpatient needs, a North Carolina federal judge said, denying her request to delay her prison report date after she was convicted of helping perpetrate a $22 million tax fraud scheme.
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April 21, 2026
An attorney for the Federal Housing Finance Agency told the D.C. Circuit on Tuesday that the agency had clear authority to act in its own interest as conservator for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in the wake of the 2008 housing market crash rather than prioritize the interest of the companies' shareholders.
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April 21, 2026
A Texas appellate court on Tuesday kept in play a property owner's malpractice case accusing a Houston law firm of negligent representation over flood damage claims, ruling that factual disputes remain over whether the claims were time-barred.
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April 21, 2026
The Federal Circuit kept intact the disqualification of two law firms from a patent ownership fight on Tuesday, saying it had not been shown a district judge made a clear error in removing them.
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April 21, 2026
The Federal Circuit on Tuesday refused to revive a pair of semiconductor chip patents that Micron Technology was accused of infringing in Idaho federal court, backing the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's findings that they were invalid.
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April 21, 2026
The Eleventh Circuit on Tuesday considered vacating an injunction requiring Florida environmental regulators to temporarily stop issuing new septic tank permits over concerns for the well-being of manatees, with one judge appearing concerned that the ban didn't do enough to address pollution.
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April 21, 2026
A California federal judge on Tuesday ordered Golden State indigenous groups, KalshiEx Inc. and Robinhood to explain why their fight over allegedly illegal gambling shouldn't be paused pending the Ninth Circuit's decision in a case determining whether Nevada can enforce state gambling laws against prediction markets.
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April 21, 2026
The Second Circuit on Tuesday seemed reluctant to restart proceedings in a long-running suit against Cigna from retirees who challenged changes to their pensions, appearing unwilling to upend a decision to turn down post-judgment discovery in the class action.
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April 21, 2026
Three weeks after the First Circuit declined to pause two orders blocking the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development from cutting homelessness funding, HUD has dropped its appeal.
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April 21, 2026
A New Jersey appeals court on Tuesday rejected a contractor's bid to throw out a $2 million verdict won by a plumber in an injury suit, saying the contractor could not object to jury instructions that it accepted at trial just because its trial strategy backfired.
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April 21, 2026
Students in an antitrust case against Brown University, the University of Pennsylvania and other elite schools have asked an Illinois federal judge to appoint trial lawyer Steven F. Molo and his firm MoloLamken LLP as lead counsel, touting his courtroom experience and the firm's track record in high-stakes complex litigation.
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April 21, 2026
The Federal Circuit on Tuesday denied patent litigator William P. Ramey III's attempt to stay a California court's order that he self-report to various disciplinary authorities that he was sanctioned for practicing law without a license, as well as pay a six-figure attorney fee award, pending an appeal.
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April 21, 2026
The Georgia Supreme Court signed off Tuesday on removing the law license of an attorney who pled guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud in December and agreed to cooperate with federal prosecutors against a co-conspirator in a scheme involving fraudulent commercial and real estate deals.
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April 21, 2026
Georgia's highest court seemed to struggle Tuesday with whether it had the authority to tell a federal judge if residents suing chlorine products company Bio-Lab Inc. over the aftermath of a 2024 fire could ask for medical monitoring as part of their class action.
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April 21, 2026
Prosecutors have urged a New York federal judge to reject a bid by Nadine Menendez for bail while she appeals her bribery and corruption conviction, saying her argument falls short of the high bar for release.
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April 21, 2026
A Florida condominium association urged a state appellate court Tuesday to reverse a decision certifying a class of individuals displaced by a Miami structure fire, arguing the group of residents allegedly affected by the incident wasn't properly defined.
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April 21, 2026
The founder of Exxon-acquired company InterOil has asked the Fifth Circuit to approve a $25 million supersedeas bond as opposed to an amount exceeding $210 million due to a final judgment against him and his family.
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April 21, 2026
The Ninth Circuit on Tuesday upheld a National Labor Relations Board order requiring a Cemex unit to bargain with the Teamsters but declined to weigh in on the viability of the new bargaining order standard the board used the case to announce.
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April 21, 2026
A New Jersey appeals panel has dismissed with prejudice a suit from a man injured while snow tubing at a Bergen County site, finding the state's Ski Act applies to snow tubing and overrides his common law claims.
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April 21, 2026
State Farm doesn't owe uninsured motorist coverage to two women who were hurt in a rollover crash after one swerved to avoid a pedestrian on an interstate, the Tenth Circuit ruled, finding their injuries weren't sufficiently connected to the operation of an uninsured vehicle.
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April 20, 2026
A split Tenth Circuit panel on Monday refused to undo a Transportation and Security Administration determination that Frontier Airlines owes the agency nearly $5.4 million in unpaid security fees, agreeing with TSA that Frontier still owes fees on passengers who eventually canceled their flights.
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April 20, 2026
A Paramount Global newsletter subscriber is pushing the U.S. Supreme Court to refrain from limiting the reach of the Video Privacy Protection Act to only consumers that directly subscribe to audiovisual goods and services, arguing that such a narrow application would require a rewrite of the decades-old statute.
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April 20, 2026
A Washington federal judge on Monday denied two consumers' bid to certify insurance coverage questions to the Evergreen State's highest court in a lawsuit accusing insurers of failing to defend a now-defunct timeshare exit company from an unfair business practices class action that resulted in a $630 million deal.
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April 20, 2026
A divided Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court struck down a ban on Medicaid funding for abortions, declaring Monday that the ban violates a fundamental right to reproductive autonomy under the state's constitution and illegally discriminates on the basis of sex.
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April 20, 2026
A Washington state appeals court declined to revive a hotel trade group's class action seeking tax relief over the governor's COVID-19 emergency declaration in 2020, ruling Monday that the pandemic doesn't qualify as a "natural disaster" under state law.