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June 30, 2026
A onetime McCarter & English LLP partner in Hartford testified Tuesday that he did not research New York's municipal contracting laws before helping two insurers enter into doomed $20 million loan repayment agreements with a Long Island town, but contended that he was under no obligation to do so.
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June 30, 2026
A California federal judge resentenced an ex-Palo Alto Networks engineer Tuesday, 17 months after the Ninth Circuit upheld his securities fraud conviction but threw out his 18-month sentence, saying it now "doesn't make any sense" to incarcerate the 51-year-old given his failing health and family obligations.
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June 30, 2026
The Eleventh Circuit on Tuesday upheld a $21 million verdict against an Atlanta Police Department officer whose shocking of a man with a Taser left him paralyzed from a resulting fall, keeping intact a $20 million compensatory damages award and a previously slashed $1 million in punitive damages.
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June 30, 2026
The Justice Department offered its formal defense of the controversial midtrial settlement that allowed Live Nation to keep its Ticketmaster subsidiary, telling a New York federal judge the deal frees up artists and venues much faster than any remedy state attorneys general could achieve through their jury win.
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June 30, 2026
Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Tuesday urged judges to "consider carefully" whether to enforce collateral-review waivers in plea agreements after the high court's recent decision in Hunter v. U.S., but agreed with her fellow justices in declining to review a decision that may have left an "egregious error" in place.
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June 30, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday sent back several cases over claims that Bayer unit Monsanto Co.'s Roundup weed killer causes cancer, after the court last week delivered its ruling that state-based claims about a failure to warn on the weedkiller's labeling are barred by federal law.
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June 30, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to take up Apple's challenge to a California federal court contempt order against it for violating a ban, won by Epic Games, on company policies that barred app developers from steering users to outside payment options.
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June 29, 2026
Silicon Valley Bank's former chief financial officer testified Monday during the first day of a California federal bench trial over the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s claims that the bank's brass mismanaged its assets, acknowledging under examination SVB took on sustained "excessive risks" under the bank's own definition months before it collapsed.
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June 29, 2026
The Oregon Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal of a decision overturning PacifiCorp's classwide liability for wildfire damages affecting about 2,000 property owners, days after an appeals judge who did work for the utility in private practice declined to recuse herself.
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June 29, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to hear a trademark fight over PepsiCo's "Mtn Dew Rise Energy" drink gives the justices a chance to clarify when juries, rather than judges, should decide whether a mark is inherently strong — a narrow question that attorneys say could affect how often infringement cases survive summary judgment.
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June 29, 2026
An Ohio man who pled guilty to drug trafficking charges will have a second shot at arguing that he should get back $218,000 that was found in his safe but stolen by an FBI agent, under a Ninth Circuit decision issued Monday.
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June 29, 2026
A McCarter & English LLP attorney botched two multimillion-dollar loan deals by failing to secure an ironclad repayment obligation from a New York town or include mandatory documents in the closing packages, a Connecticut state court heard Monday as a long-awaited malpractice trial got underway.
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June 29, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to take up a case over whether qualified immunity was correctly granted to two Wisconsin prison guards who left a naked man in an often freezing cold cell for 23 hours, drawing a dissent from Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson.
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June 29, 2026
The Second Circuit revived penalty collection challenges Monday by six companies found to owe $380 million to the IRS from participating in a tax scheme, saying an appeals officer's failure to verify that fines had been approved by a supervisor invalidated the collection process.
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June 29, 2026
A Seventh Circuit panel on Monday affirmed the dismissal of a former nanny's suit accusing "Sandman" author Neil Gaiman of sexually assaulting her while in New Zealand, finding the dispute should be heard in that country rather than Wisconsin where he currently lives as a lawful permanent resident.
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June 29, 2026
ClearPlay wants the full Federal Circuit to look at part of a panel decision that didn't reinstate a $469 million jury verdict against Dish Network LLC in a patent suit, saying the challenged portion of the decision deepens a conflict with U.S. Supreme Court precedent.
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June 29, 2026
A Texas federal jury has awarded $3 million in damages to a patent-holding company against Samsung for infringement of one of three asserted cellphone coverage patents that made it to trial.
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June 29, 2026
Exiled Chinese businessman and dissident Miles Guo on Monday was sentenced to 30 years in prison, after a Manhattan federal jury convicted him of defrauding investors of more than $1.4 billion in connection with what prosecutors say was "a criminal enterprise built on lies."
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June 29, 2026
A split Michigan Supreme Court has ordered a new trial for a man convicted of murder for a stabbing that followed a bar fight, ruling the jury in the case should have been instructed on the lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter.
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June 29, 2026
A Manhattan federal judge sentenced a Hollywood director to 2.5 years in prison Monday, after a jury convicted him of taking $11 million from Netflix for a show that was never finished and squandering money on stock bets and luxuries.
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June 29, 2026
A father-daughter attorney duo is asking the full Fourth Circuit to rethink their convictions in a $22 million tax avoidance scheme, arguing a U.S. Supreme Court decision that came down just two days after a panel affirmed their guilty verdicts supports their argument that prosecutors pursued charges in the wrong state.
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June 29, 2026
A New York federal judge on Monday pushed Luigi Mangione's trial back to January to give his attorneys enough time to prepare, after his state trial for the alleged murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was set for the fall.
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June 29, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court turned down four petitions over patent law Monday, meaning it won't review questions related to prosecution laches, jury verdicts, patent eligibility and marking.
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June 29, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a trademark dispute between PepsiCo and the maker of Rise nitro cold-brew coffee drinks, teeing up a case over whether judges or juries should decide a mark's inherent strength when assessing whether consumers are likely to be confused.
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June 29, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to review President Donald Trump's appeal of a $5 million sexual abuse and defamation verdict in favor of writer E. Jean Carroll.