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June 27, 2025
A jury cleared R&T Logging of Oregon Inc. of liability Friday in a $73 million trial over the death of a firefighter and EMT in an accident in which an employee of the logging company's trucking partner was driving drunk.
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June 27, 2025
An Illinois federal jury on Friday more than doubled the $28.9 million in damages it awarded a day earlier to a fleet management technology firm after finding a garbage truck manufacturer poached its former executive and capitalized on stolen trade secrets, slapping a $30 million punitive award atop the initial verdict.
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June 27, 2025
E-commerce company Storehouse In A Box has asked a federal judge in Michigan to issue a preliminary injunction and temporary restraining order against its former general counsel and chief operating officer, arguing he refused to give the company access to a laptop that the company provided and used the company's trade secrets for his benefit.
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June 27, 2025
The U.S. Department of Justice will take on more investigations involving the intersection of immigration, employment and tax law violations as part of the White House's push to increase enforcement in those areas, a DOJ official said Friday.
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June 27, 2025
The U.S. Department of Justice aims to finalize a reorganization plan for its Tax Division by summer's end that would separate the criminal and civil tax functions and relocate them to the department's main branches, a department official said Friday.
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June 27, 2025
A lawyer for Sean "Diddy" Combs on Friday attacked the legitimacy of the government's racketeering case, accusing prosecutors of invading the hip-hop icon's private sex life and saying two women he is alleged to have trafficked are motivated by money.
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June 27, 2025
Untouched by the summer slump, the North Carolina Business Court kicked off June with a sanctions order against a biogas company caught spurning court orders and a new complaint by a former NFL player accusing his longtime financial adviser of defrauding him for decades.
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June 27, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Friday that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' secretary had authority over a preventive care task force, rejecting a constitutional challenge to an Affordable Care Act clause that requires health insurers to cover certain treatments at no cost to patients.
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June 26, 2025
An Illinois jury awarded fleet management technology firm Sonrai Systems LLC more than $28.9 million Thursday, finding a garbage truck manufacturer the company had worked with had poached an executive and used confidential information he stole to develop a competing product.
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June 26, 2025
A Colorado federal judge Thursday allowed Filipino workers alleging they were subject to abuse while building stadiums for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar to proceed with their claims.
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June 26, 2025
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's Republican majority Thursday expressed support for paring back disclosures requiring publicly traded companies to compare CEO pay to that of the median worker as well as reporting requirements that detail how executive pay stands up to financial performance.
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June 26, 2025
Four current and former Seattle police officers who attended the Jan. 6, 2021, "Stop the Steal" insurrection have again asked the U.S. Supreme Court for an emergency stay to prevent the public release of their names after an initial denial from the high court, saying the justices have two days to act.
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June 26, 2025
A Massachusetts federal judge suggested Thursday he is open to allowing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to testify anonymously at an upcoming bench trial in a suit brought by academic groups challenging the detention of noncitizen students and faculty who express pro-Palestinian views.
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June 26, 2025
Connecticut employment law firm Hayber McKenna & Dinsmore LLC has asked a state judge to reconsider her decision to trim abuse of process claims from its suit against attorneys for restaurants who sued the firm over underlying labor class actions, saying she "must have overlooked" important state Supreme Court precedent.
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June 26, 2025
Sean "Diddy" Combs used his power, wealth and a "small army" of employees to commit crimes including sex trafficking for 20 years, a prosecutor told a Manhattan federal jury Thursday as the hip-hop mogul's trial neared an end.
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June 25, 2025
An Illinois state appeals court has refused to disturb a lower court's order certifying a class of employees suing over time clocks that scanned and used their biometric information, ruling that the common claim in the case presents a question that "is suitable for, if not demanding of, class-wide resolution."
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June 25, 2025
The founder of an Alabama-based perimeter security corporation accused its former chief operating officer of breaching a noncompete agreement, alleging in a Florida state court lawsuit that he formed a rival company to pursue business opportunities in the South American country of Guyana, including a communications deal with SpaceX.
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June 25, 2025
A California federal judge has granted certification to five different classes in a multidistrict litigation alleging Bank of America NA's security failures exposed their unemployment and disability benefits cards to fraud and led the bank to breach their contracts by freezing all accounts during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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June 25, 2025
The U.S. government is urging a Washington federal court to give it a win following a bench trial on a suit brought by a Navy veteran and former Department of Veterans Affairs nurse alleging that malpractice by her VA psychiatrist led to an episode in which she stabbed her mother with a knife.
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June 25, 2025
The Trump administration has said the fired leader of the U.S. Copyright Office has not shown that the agency's operations "will grind to a halt" if she is not immediately reinstated and asked a D.C. federal judge to reject her motion for a preliminary injunction.
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June 25, 2025
Agricultural products company AgXplore sued a former owner claiming that after a $100 million buyout he continued to compete with the company and misappropriated its trade secrets.
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June 24, 2025
A Tennessee federal judge on Tuesday dismissed a proposed securities class action accusing Dollar General and its executives of hiding inventory and staffing issues, saying the plaintiffs have failed to show that the defendants acted with an intent to deceive.
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June 24, 2025
Hockey players' unions and individual players have appealed to the Ninth Circuit after a Washington federal judge dismissed their antitrust lawsuit accusing the National Hockey League and the Canadian Hockey League of conspiring to suppress wages for junior league players.
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June 24, 2025
The federal court handling the U.S. government's lawsuit targeting a recent Illinois statute restricting the use of electronic employment verification systems on prospective hires should reject the government's injunction request and dismiss the case instead, because the statute steers clear of federal immigration law, the state asserted.
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June 24, 2025
A former Krispy Kreme Doughnut Corp. employee has filed a proposed class action in North Carolina federal court claiming the chain failed to properly protect its current and former workers' personal information before a November data breach, one of many suits brought against it over that same cyberattack.