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May 21, 2026
A Mississippi federal jury has found that Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC committed negligent supervision as part of a mixed verdict in a trial over claims the firm allowed a timber company's nine-figure Ponzi scheme to unfold under its nose.
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May 21, 2026
A Georgia appeals panel has sent a man's malpractice suit back to trial court, finding the lower court judge wrongly denied his motion for a new trial when he determined that the jury was required to decide whether gross negligence standards applied to the case.
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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
The high-profile trial over Elon Musk's challenge to OpenAI's for-profit conversion wrapped Monday with a quick jury verdict in favor of OpenAI and its executives, but the three-week trial drew some surprising moments for those in the courtroom who had front row seats to the fight between billionaires.
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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
Prosecutors have asked a North Carolina federal court to sentence convicted insurance mogul Greg Lindberg to just over 14 years in prison and have him pay hundreds of millions in restitution, stating in a searing 32-page sentencing memorandum that his avarice has destroyed lives.
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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
A Manhattan federal judge sentenced stock vendor StraightPath's three founders to around a decade each in prison Wednesday, after a jury convicted them of defrauding clients who bought $400 million of pre-initial public offering shares from their Florida private equity firm.
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May 20, 2026
Goodwin Procter LLP announced on Tuesday that it has brought a former Jones Day lawyer to its newest office on the West Coast.
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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
VLSI Technology LLC urged the Federal Circuit Tuesday to unseal at least part of an anonymous whistleblower report that allegedly shows a connection between Intel Corp. and Patent Quality Assurance LLC, now that a copy has become public though the Freedom of Information Act.
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May 19, 2026
Quinn Emanuel and its team representing medical testing company Natera will shoulder further sanctions on top of the $3 million already imposed over the firm's misrepresentations concerning an expert witness in Guardant Health's false advertising case, a California federal judge ruled Tuesday.
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May 19, 2026
A D.C. federal jury handed prosecutors a loss on Monday, finding that a pair of consulting company executives were not guilty of bribing a top U.S. Navy admiral with a lucrative post-retirement job in exchange for government contracts.
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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.
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May 19, 2026
Technology industry groups and an organization that often files patent challenges have thrown their support behind Apple's fight against a Federal Circuit panel's finding that the U.S. International Trade Commission properly banned imports of Apple Watches with blood oxygen-monitoring features.
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May 19, 2026
A Florida federal judge on Tuesday sentenced a former One Sotheby's International Realty agent found guilty of stealing $3.7 million in proceeds from the sale of a Miami-area beachfront luxury condo to nearly two years in prison.
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May 19, 2026
The Federal Circuit has been asked to have another look at a decision that largely reversed a California federal jury verdict that awarded $18.3 million to International Medical Devices Inc. in a trade secret case related to penile implants.
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May 19, 2026
A Michigan man who suffered traumatic brain injury when his pickup truck was T-boned by a school bus was awarded over $32 million in damages by an Oakland County jury on Monday.
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May 19, 2026
U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap on Monday rebuffed Collision Communications Inc.'s bid for an injunction blocking Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. from selling products that a jury said were infringing in a $445 million verdict in a case that the federal government used to argue for broader use of injunctions in patent suits.
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May 19, 2026
An Eleventh Circuit panel on Tuesday said an insurer cannot file its action seeking to avoid coverage for a boat fire a third time, determining that its two previous voluntary dismissals barred any further litigation, even if the first dismissal was by mutual agreement.
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May 19, 2026
A Second Circuit panel on Tuesday refused to grant the North American Soccer League a new antitrust trial against Major League Soccer and soccer's U.S. governing body, concluding that the defunct league waived any arguments about market definition, and even if it didn't, its assertions still fail.
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May 19, 2026
A man's conviction for attempting to influence a public servant was upheld by the Colorado Supreme Court, which ruled that a state law covers defendants who use another person to pass along false information to a public official.
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May 18, 2026
A Florida jury heard opening arguments Monday in a trial over the lung cancer death of a woman who started smoking at a time when Philip Morris was "wallpapering" the nation with pro-smoking messages, her family's lawyer said.