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May 13, 2026
An Illinois appellate panel has reversed a summary judgment win for a Chicago attorney and her law firm in a legal malpractice dispute, saying a jury must evaluate whether her ex-client lost his workers' compensation case because of her failure to introduce a medical expert's opinion or whether he could have prevailed on appeal had the attorney filed one.
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May 13, 2026
An Idaho federal judge has largely denied frozen potato products company Lamb Weston Holdings Inc.'s bid to dismiss a proposed shareholder suit accusing it of botching the rollout of an enterprise resource planning system, saying the investors have sufficiently alleged the company sought to downplay challenges after the software went live.
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May 13, 2026
The full Fifth Circuit on Tuesday weighed whether to keep intact a lawsuit alleging the city of Jackson, Mississippi, poisoned its residents by allowing lead to leach into the water supply, asking what level of lead in the water would constitute "shocking the conscience."
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May 13, 2026
A group of Washington-based Denny's franchise operators said their Liberty Mutual insurers wrongfully refused coverage for a wage and hour class action, telling a federal court that they are entitled to recoup nearly $700,000 in costs they incurred to defend and settle the underlying suit.
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May 13, 2026
A Black former line supervisor and a Georgia Pepsi bottler told a federal court Wednesday they have settled his race discrimination and retaliation lawsuit, which alleged the company fired him weeks after he filed a charge with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
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May 13, 2026
New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill has nominated the head of compliance at the state Cannabis Review Commission with a decade of public service experience to lead the Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control.
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May 13, 2026
A Georgia-based IHOP franchise operator was sued in federal court by its former training and development director for allegedly firing him for missing work after his manager promised to notify human resources that he was entering an alcohol treatment program.
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May 13, 2026
The U.S. Department of Commerce cleaned up its evaluation of the energy used by a Chinese company in the production of a gum used as a food thickener, the Court of International Trade said, signing off on the agency's decision to zero the company's duty rate.
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May 12, 2026
The top Democrat on an influential U.S. House committee has begun to scrutinize corporate "surveillance pricing" practices, pushing Target, Walmart, Costco, Family Dollar, Whole Foods and 20 others Tuesday to explain whether and how they're using consumers' personal data to set individualized prices for certain products and services.
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May 12, 2026
A California producer of lab-grown chicken has asked a Florida federal judge to rule that the state's regulation against its product is unlawful, arguing a total ban on cultivated meat has no basis in public health and amounts to "economic protectionism" in violation of the U.S. Constitution's dormant commerce clause.
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May 12, 2026
A Washington federal judge declined to sanction Amazon for allegedly failing to preserve product pages for dietary supplements that shoppers claim were improperly labeled, ruling that the retail giant fulfilled its duty to retain the information despite storing it as lines of code instead of viewable documents.
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May 12, 2026
Del Monte Foods defended its Chapter 11 liquidation plan at a confirmation hearing Tuesday in New Jersey, arguing that, despite what a group of lenders has said, the debtor ran a transparent bankruptcy process that resulted in three separate sales.
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May 12, 2026
Investment firm S2G Investments on Tuesday announced it had closed its inaugural growth-stage investment fund after securing $1 billion in commitments.
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May 12, 2026
The U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division waded into a private patent infringement lawsuit Monday, telling a Delaware federal court that just "reading" a patent, or viewing and sequencing the genetic material that must be submitted for the seed patents at issue, can't on its own count as infringement.
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May 12, 2026
A California federal judge has held that Impossible Foods owes attorney fees after lifestyle brand Impossible X won a $3.25 million verdict in the parties' trademark dispute, but she refused to boost the jury's award.
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May 12, 2026
The U.S. Court of International Trade denied a group of Vietnamese raw honey exporters' bid to backdate an injunction blocking liquidation of their products, saying the producers' reliance on a Federal Circuit precedent is misplaced.
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May 12, 2026
A Colorado cannabis company is suing a former director as well as Snell & Wilmer LLP and an attorney with Martin & Hyman LLC, alleging "malicious prosecution" in the form of a frivolous suit that was cover for a theft of assets.
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May 12, 2026
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is using generative artificial intelligence to help redact records before public release, summarize documents and evaluate scientific literature, federal officials said in a recent conference.
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May 12, 2026
Two Cambridgeshire farmers and a campaign group can't challenge the U.K. government's plans to slash inheritance tax relief for farms on the grounds that there should have been a public consultation before the proposals were announced, a London court ruled Tuesday.
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May 11, 2026
President Donald Trump on Monday asked the Federal Circuit to block the U.S. Court of International Trade's order last week deeming his temporary global 10% tariffs unlawful, arguing the trade court misinterpreted the legislative history of the Trade Act.
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May 11, 2026
The mother of a pedestrian killed in a collision is suing Uber Eats and Instacart, claiming both companies are liable for negligently hiring an unqualified 18-year-old driver who was allegedly making deliveries at the time of the crash without a driver's license and using an unregistered vehicle.
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May 11, 2026
Nestlé Health Science U.S. filed a lawsuit in Washington state Friday in an effort to unmask "suspected bad actors" whom it accuses of illegally intercepting high volumes of nutritional supplements and funneling them to resellers on Amazon.com.
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May 11, 2026
Nestle Health Science permanently defeated a proposed class action alleging it deceptively labels its Carnation Breakfast Essentials drink as nutritious and rich in protein despite its sugar-dominant composition, after a California federal judge said Monday the drink doesn't become less nutritional due to the added sugar.
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May 11, 2026
A Connecticut federal judge on Monday appeared poised to order sanctions favoring a sushi chef in a proposed class action accusing a Fairfield restaurant of wage violations, criticizing the eatery's attorney for engaging as a purported consultant a client and manager of another restaurant the same chef is suing in New York.
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May 11, 2026
A plastic packaging company has asked a Massachusetts federal judge to undo a ruling that five of its food packaging patents were unenforceable due to inequitable conduct, saying the judge's reasoning contained "manifest factual and legal errors."