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May 21, 2026
Vape companies are looking to stop a Pennsylvania law that would effectively ban most e-cigarettes, claiming in a federal lawsuit that the statute is unconstitutional, would destroy roughly $2 million of their inventory and targets products that federal regulators say helps smokers quit.
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May 21, 2026
A proposed class of Gatorade buyers sued parent company PepsiCo Inc. on Thursday, claiming the sports drink's newest labels are misleading in the claims they "Hydrate better than water," and that the reduced sugar variants have no artificial flavors.
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May 21, 2026
The North Carolina attorney general does not have the authority to sue two DuPont spinoffs over contamination from forever chemicals because the same claims were already resolved by an order with state environmental regulators, the spinoffs told the Tar Heel state's high court.
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May 21, 2026
The acting comptroller for Texas is asking the Fifth Circuit to overturn an order allowing vape companies and a trade association to pursue a suit challenging a state law banning e-cigarette products that use liquids from China and other "adversaries," saying the comptroller is entitled to sovereign immunity.
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May 21, 2026
Meta Platforms Inc., Snap Inc., TikTok Inc. and YouTube have each agreed to settle a bellwether school district's claims in social media addiction multidistrict litigation that were set for a six-week California federal jury trial beginning June 12, according to the Kentucky school district's counsel.
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May 21, 2026
Barnes & Thornburg LLP has hired a longtime Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP partner in Boston who will focus on commercial litigation and product liability matters for healthcare, medical devices and manufacturing clients, the firm announced Thursday.
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May 21, 2026
The Philadelphia judge overseeing the city's Zantac cancer mass tort will not halt proceedings while Keller Postman LLC appeals his refusal to recuse himself from the litigation on the basis that his wife works at Blank Rome LLP, which represents a pharmaceutical company in one of the 550 cases.
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May 20, 2026
A former Johnson & Johnson toxicologist could not find evidence his employer turned over a report to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that "unmistakably" found asbestos in the company's talc, according to a video deposition shown Wednesday to a California jury considering bellwether claims over three women's deadly ovarian cancer.
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May 20, 2026
A California appeals court declined to reinstate a mother's lawsuit blaming Uber for her daughter's death after she was hit by cars on a freeway that was miles away from where she was dropped off by an Uber driver, ruling Wednesday those intervening events are too attenuated to find the company liable.
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May 20, 2026
A statistics expert for Meta sought Wednesday to undermine the claim that social media has driven a rise in mental health conditions among teens, saying the New Mexico attorney general's key witness on the topic didn't consider alternative factors like widening access to mental health care.
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May 20, 2026
A Maryland federal judge on Wednesday refused an eleventh-hour request from the Dali cargo ship's owner and manager to delay a trial that's starting in less than two weeks to determine the scope of liability and damages over Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge disaster, according to an attorney for certain claimants.
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May 20, 2026
A Minnesota state jury has delivered a $10.2 million verdict to a married couple in their suit against Vi-Jon LLC and the makers of other talc products like Johnson & Johnson and Gold Bond in which they alleged the 45-year-old husband's mesothelioma was caused by exposure to body powder products.
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May 20, 2026
A Pennsylvania federal judge on Wednesday sent to arbitration a suit accusing Roblox Corp., Epic Games Inc. and Microsoft Corp. of causing a minor's video game addiction, saying the claims fall within broad arbitration provisions in the companies' user agreements.
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May 20, 2026
Two advocacy groups have asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate the online gaming platform Roblox, claiming its design features, virtual currency system and chat functions have harmed millions of children through grooming, abuse, unexpected charges totaling thousands of dollars and exposure to sexual references and racial slurs, an announcement Wednesday said.
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May 20, 2026
Automaker General Motors Co. and drivers seeking class certification over alleged air conditioning problems were sharply questioned by a Michigan federal judge Wednesday who pressed both sides on whether the claims can truly generate "common answers" across proposed statewide classes covering thousands of truck and SUV owners.
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May 20, 2026
A Pennsylvania federal judge said Eli Lilly & Co. and plaintiffs in multidistrict litigation accusing it of downplaying side effects of weight loss drugs were talking past each other in a dispute over expert testimony, denying Eli Lilly's bid to limit the opinions of the plaintiffs' expert to those disclosed in his report.
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May 20, 2026
Walmart, Gerber Products Co. and several other companies were hit with a suit in federal court claiming that they knowingly manufacture and sell baby foods containing dangerous levels of toxic metals.
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May 20, 2026
Three women whose mother died from breast cancer have persuaded a California appeals court to reinstate their wrongful death lawsuit against pesticide maker Monsanto, ruling that the trial judge abused his discretion by dismissing the case when the company suffered no prejudice from the delay in prosecution.
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May 20, 2026
A Pennsylvania federal judge on Wednesday rejected Kia America Inc.'s bid to dismiss a proposed class action alleging that it sold Soul and Seltos vehicles with a defect in their engines' piston oil rings.
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May 20, 2026
A group of 43 states and the District of Columbia are asking the Tenth Circuit to reverse a trial court order blocking enforcement of a new Colorado law requiring warning labels for social media used by minors, saying that even under strict scrutiny, the law is justified to protect minors' mental health.
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May 20, 2026
A Seventh Circuit judge on Wednesday pushed counsel for a mother asking to revive her lawsuit claiming Abbott Laboratories' infant formula caused her premature daughter to develop a fatal gut disease to address whether the mother had a burden to identify a more adequate warning that would have prompted her baby's treating physicians to act differently.
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May 20, 2026
Target urged a California federal judge to nix a proposed class action alleging its Good & Gather tuna products are deceptively labeled as "sustainably caught," arguing Tuesday the plaintiff takes issue with the global commercial tuna fishing industry, which "may reflect some bad actors, but none by Target's suppliers."
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May 20, 2026
Uber will appeal the verdict in a second bellwether case in which a jury found one of its drivers committed a battery against a North Carolina woman who claimed he sexually assaulted her during a trip in 2019, court records show.
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May 19, 2026
Monsanto has reached multimillion-dollar deals with Michigan and Rhode Island to end claims that the company contaminated waterways and natural resources with polychlorinated biphenyls, agreeing to pay the states as much as $240 million and $62 million, respectively, with most of that money contingent on how the company recovers from separate lawsuits.
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May 19, 2026
A former Johnson & Johnson toxicologist denied the company controlled a 1970s study of talc miners by insisting "you do not control" people like the professor behind the study, in a video deposition shown Tuesday to a California jury considering bellwether claims the company's talc products caused deadly ovarian cancer in three women.