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June 22, 2026
A Connecticut federal judge Monday agreed to lift the automatic stay that has stalled an asbestos indemnification lawsuit since October 2021, granting a joint motion from the bankrupt Nash Engineering Co.'s Chapter 7 trustee and two umbrella insurers seeking declarations that they don't owe coverage.
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June 22, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday reversed a Second Circuit decision that wiped out a murder conviction stemming from the 1979 disappearance of six-year-old Etan Patz due to allegedly inaccurate jury instructions.
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June 18, 2026
Counsel for a convicted Florida bitcoin fraudster who was sentenced to 12 years in prison for failing to pay over $20 million in restitution stemming from his role in a crypto heist on Thursday told the Second Circuit that the lower court's resentencing trampled on the constitutional rights of her client, who "never got due process at any stage."
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June 18, 2026
A Connecticut attorney facing possible sanctions over fake case quotations in a taco restaurant trademark fight told a federal judge that he takes "full and unqualified responsibility" for the flawed filings, saying he is "mortified" and acknowledging that his verification process for AI-assisted legal work fell far short.
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June 18, 2026
A Connecticut federal judge said Thursday that he is "impressed" with the "growth" that a suspended attorney has shown in the months since his reinstatement hearing began, but he would not rule on readmitting him to the bar until a state-level committee makes its own recommendation.
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June 18, 2026
The Washington federal judge handling the Federal Trade Commission's antitrust case against Amazon asked both parties to provide more information about how he should consider attorney-client privilege when reviewing documents to resolve discovery disputes in the case.
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June 18, 2026
A man who stole COVID-19 relief money from a Connecticut city asked a federal judge on Thursday to reduce his "unusually lengthy" eight-year prison sentence to time served, noting that he has been behind bars for more than three years while all others involved in the scam, including a former state representative, walk free.
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June 18, 2026
Blackstone subsidiary LivCor LLC has agreed to pay North Carolina, California and seven other states $7 million in penalties to resolve allegations against it in a sprawling antitrust lawsuit alleging major landlords used software company RealPage to fix rent prices, according to documents filed in North Carolina federal court Thursday.
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June 18, 2026
Connecticut and the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation have signed a cannabis compact allowing transactions between tribal enterprises and state-licensed entities, the first deal of its kind since Connecticut legalized recreational marijuana in June 2021 and the tribe penned its own cannabis regulations that same year.
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June 18, 2026
DirecTV and a coalition of state attorneys general urged the Ninth Circuit not to narrow a district court preliminary injunction blocking Nexstar's purchase of Tegna, arguing the only way to preserve competition while the case proceeds is a full block, not one restricted to 31 overlapping broadcast markets.
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June 18, 2026
Otter Tail has agreed to pay $30 million to resolve certain claims in litigation alleging it and two subsidiaries conspired with other polyvinyl chloride pipe producers to fix prices, the company said in a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing.
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June 18, 2026
A Second Circuit panel Thursday seemed skeptical of an Avangrid Management Co. employee's attempt to resurrect an age discrimination lawsuit, appearing to accept the company's assertion that it passed the Connecticut worker over for a lead financial reporting analyst position because another candidate was better qualified.
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June 18, 2026
The nomination of Matthew Schwartz to be a judge on the Second Circuit advanced out of committee Thursday.
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June 17, 2026
Medline Industries and AdaptHealth have been sued by the estate and daughter of a Connecticut woman who allegedly died after suffering burns over 47% of her body when an electric-powered hospital-style bed caught fire in a Newtown home.
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June 17, 2026
A Connecticut federal judge has agreed to throw out three Aetna entities' allegations that air ambulance operators misrepresented their services throughout an Independent Dispute Resolution award process, finding that the federal No Surprises Act bars the insurer's counterclaims.
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June 17, 2026
Luxottica and a former worker who challenged the company's methodology for paying annuity benefits agreed Wednesday to resolve a proposed class action, a month after the nation's highest court declined the eyewear-maker's bid to review a Second Circuit ruling keeping some of her claims out of arbitration.
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June 17, 2026
The co-founder of a capital firm wants a Connecticut state judge to lift an order that allows for a hold on $10.36 million worth of his assets in favor of an investment bank that accused him of involvement in a securities fraud scheme, noting that the underlying verdict was overturned on appeal.
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June 17, 2026
A Mexico-born woman who was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement last year is suing the government in Connecticut federal court, saying the agents violated agency guidelines and the Constitution when they arrested her in front of her young children while they were on the way to school.
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June 17, 2026
Aquarion Water Co. of Connecticut can take on nearly $214 million in new debt, including $200 million through unsecured bonds and nearly $14 million in safe drinking water loans, some of which are earmarked for PFAS "forever chemical" treatment and mitigation systems, Connecticut's Public Utilities Regulatory Authority decided Wednesday.
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June 16, 2026
The Second Circuit appeared poised Tuesday to uphold the dismissal of a proposed class action accusing the NBA of illegally sharing newsletter subscribers' video-viewing habits with Meta although one judge said prior rulings set the "wrong" circuit precedent for what data disclosures are prohibited by the Video Privacy Protection Act.
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June 16, 2026
At Connecticut's request, a state judge has briefly barred a property owner from demolishing a nearly 200-year-old house, giving the parties time to argue whether longer-lasting protections are warranted after the state sought to include the building in a proposed historic district.
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June 16, 2026
A federal judge in Seattle will not reconsider her decision declining to enforce an earlier order barring the U.S. Department of Education from ceasing school mental health grants, saying Washington and other plaintiff states have not shown that the court erred.
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June 16, 2026
Cigna "improperly asserted privilege" over hundreds of documents that three laboratories sought as part of the discovery process in federal payment litigation in Connecticut, according to a special master appointed by the judge in the consolidated cases.
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June 16, 2026
The Second Circuit issued a summary order Tuesday affirming the conviction of a Connecticut man who pled guilty to tax crimes, disagreeing that allegedly misleading advice from trial attorneys about the immigration implications of his plea warranted his withdrawing it.
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June 16, 2026
The former chief executive officer of a Connecticut utility co-op and its onetime board chair have successfully completed 18-month pretrial diversion programs and should no longer face federal charges that they conspired to use public funds for improper purposes, prosecutors said in seeking dismissal of their indictments.