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July 20, 2026
BNSF Railway Co. asked a Texas federal court on Friday to dismiss a suit brought by the family of a man who died when a train derailed, saying the parties had reached a settlement, and to appoint the man's family as personal representatives of the estate.
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July 20, 2026
A California federal judge has denied Meta Platforms Inc.'s bid to exclude testimony from a damages expert offered by a coalition of 29 states from an upcoming trial in a suit alleging Facebook and Instagram are intentionally addictive.
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July 20, 2026
The Third Circuit ruled in a precedential opinion Monday that an industrial equipment supplier did not have a duty to provide safety training to civilian workers who were killed or injured by an explosion in a paint-mixing facility at an army depot.
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July 20, 2026
University of Michigan athletic director Warde Manuel will leave at the end of the year, following a Jenner & Block-led investigation's findings that the school poorly handled an inappropriate relationship involving its fired football coach.
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July 20, 2026
A Florida-based attorney and accountant has accused DeWitt LLP of retaliating against him after he declined to merge his estate practice with the firm by representing a woman he sued for defamation in a separate case after he had shared confidential information with DeWitt.
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July 17, 2026
The full Third Circuit on Friday held that New Jersey's decades-long ban on semi-automatic firearms and high-capacity magazines is unconstitutional, though some judges said the way the weapons are now being used as well as recent technological advances couldn't have been foreseen by the Constitution's framers.
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July 17, 2026
A California federal judge overseeing an upcoming trial over states' social media addiction claims against Meta took issue with both sides' "extreme" penalty estimates during a pretrial hearing Friday, saying the states' $1.4 trillion proposal is "unreasonable," but Meta's $4 million estimate "is not even a slap on the hand."
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July 17, 2026
The families of the victims of a 2021 mass shooting in Boulder, Colorado, have proposed that gunmaker Sturm Ruger & Co. Inc. pay $90 million to resolve a pair of suits, according to a global offer of compromise filed in Connecticut state court.
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July 17, 2026
Taylor Farms and Taco Bell are facing proposed class litigation in California, Michigan and Ohio federal courts after public health officials linked contaminated lettuce that was supplied to Taco Bell to a parasitic outbreak that's sickened more than 1,600 people in several states.
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July 17, 2026
A North Carolina plaintiffs firm facing a lawsuit alleging unwanted calls were made to those on the National Do Not Call Registry says a marketing company should be on the hook for damages, urging a federal court not to allow the vendor to hide behind a predecessor's bankruptcy.
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July 17, 2026
A Texas appeals court ruled that Energy Transfer LP cannot compel the family of a man who died in a pipeline explosion to arbitration under the Federal Arbitration Act, finding Thursday that the FAA did not apply to his employment contract because he engaged in interstate commerce.
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July 17, 2026
The Tesla Model 3 driver who plowed into a Texas family's home, killing a 76-year-old grandmother, fully pressed down on the accelerator, which "overrode" the electric vehicle's so-called Autopilot feature, the National Transportation Safety Board has found.
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July 17, 2026
The Second Circuit on Friday deferred the appeal by a track athlete claiming Gatorade supplied him with tainted gummies to a New York state appeals court to determine whether his complaint is covered by state tort or contract law.
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July 17, 2026
Three former Washington County, Georgia, sheriff's deputies asked a federal court to free them from a lawsuit filed by the sister of a man who died after being shot with a stun gun in a widely publicized July 2017 confrontation with police, citing qualified immunity.
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July 17, 2026
Plaintiff-side litigation veteran Jerry Schlichter, founding and co-managing partner of Schlichter Bogard LLP, told Law360 that highlights among the firm's recent legal victories include a reported settlement to end 401(k) investment litigation against ADP, as well as a $150 million settlement in a toxic lead emissions case.
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July 17, 2026
A California state court judge denied a request Friday by Conagra Brands to reverse a jury's first-of-its-kind $25 million verdict finding it liable for causing a man's debilitating and rare lung disease known as bronchiolitis obliterans through his use of Pam butter-flavored cooking spray, but said it was a "close call."
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July 17, 2026
U.S. Supreme Court rulings determining that freight brokers can face state-based negligence lawsuits and that last-mile drivers can also be exempt from arbitration are among the biggest court decisions of the first half of 2026 affecting the transportation industry. Here, Law360 highlights a few of the biggest transportation-related rulings of 2026 so far.
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July 17, 2026
A former Baltimore Ravens linebacker has asked a Texas federal court to keep his lawsuit alleging that the National Football League Players Association and its attorney dropped his knee injury dispute with the team without his consent, arguing that he was never told his grievance in the disagreement had been withdrawn.
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July 17, 2026
In the second of a two-part series on the Virginia Revival Courtroom in the Charlotte federal courthouse, judges, architects and a trial consultant explain the strategy behind designing a space they see as more conducive to justice.
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July 17, 2026
Two major rulings from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court have left it up to the Legislature to address "skill games" and second-degree murder sentences, while other pending bills would tackle a long-standing challenge in administering elections, and make it harder for scalpers to snatch up high-demand tickets or products online.
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July 16, 2026
A California federal judge Thursday preliminarily approved a $75 million class deal struck mid-trial by Northrop Grumman and residents of a Los Angeles suburb who accused the aerospace company of contaminating their properties, a day after hundreds of the neighborhood's residents filed a similar lawsuit in state court.
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July 16, 2026
Washington, D.C.'s highest court refused to make a trial court vacate discovery orders requiring Meta to disclose certain communications concerning internal research related to the well-being of young social media users, saying Thursday that Meta failed to show it had a "clear and indisputable" right to such relief.
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July 16, 2026
The California Supreme Court on Thursday clarified the state's final judgment rule and held that a voluntary dismissal intended to speed up appellate review of adverse trial court rulings in a medical malpractice case essentially forfeited the case for the plaintiffs.
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July 16, 2026
U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Travis Allen and his wife are suing companies that provide privatized housing to military service members in Texas federal court, saying that despite being assured the housing was safe and properly maintained, their home had a host of problems that harmed Allen and his daughter's health.
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July 16, 2026
The Fifth Circuit ruled that a man convicted of domestic violence cannot have his right to own a firearm restored despite the U.S. Supreme Court's expansion of gun rights in recent years, and that Congress did not exceed its constitutional authority by limiting his Second Amendment rights.