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May 04, 2026
A Maryland appellate panel has said the family of a woman killed by her husband days after he was sent home from psychiatric care can move forward with their wrongful death lawsuit, finding the hospital had a duty to warn those living with the man of homicidal statements he made during his inpatient treatment.
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May 04, 2026
Massachusetts' top court on Monday appeared concerned that a state district court judge in 2018 offered to detain a defendant sought by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, as the justices considered a public reprimand.
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May 04, 2026
Macy's Inc.'s challenge to a Ninth Circuit ruling upholding a National Labor Relations Board order to reinstate strikers misstates the controlling precedent and mounts an "academic" attack on the board's heightened remedies, the operating engineers said Monday in a brief opposing U.S. Supreme Court review.
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May 04, 2026
A longtime Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP partner has joined the Los Angeles office of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, bringing years of experience in intellectual property litigation and expertise in the Copyright Act and Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
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May 04, 2026
Massachusetts' highest court on Monday was critical of the summary for a ballot proposal to reduce the state income tax during a trio of oral arguments on voter initiatives, including separate measures to repeal recreational marijuana legalization and to eliminate one-party primary elections.
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May 04, 2026
The Connecticut Supreme Court on Monday upheld the murder conviction of a man who claimed prosecutors failed to disprove that he acted in self-defense, and declined the defendant's request to adopt what the justices called a "more flexible standard" for instructing a jury on lesser included offenses.
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May 04, 2026
Two noncitizens filed a proposed class action Monday in federal court seeking to block parts of Texas' migrant arrest law from taking effect, less than two weeks after the full Fifth Circuit ruled that immigrant-rights groups and a Texas county lacked standing to challenge the law.
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May 04, 2026
A panel of First Circuit judges on Monday seemed dubious of a challenge to a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ban on the import of dogs younger than 6 months old, saying the agency seems to have multiple bases for the new rule.
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May 04, 2026
Prediction market KalshiEX may be facing long odds in its effort to convince Massachusetts' highest court that its sports-related offerings are governed by federal commodities regulators and not subject to state gaming laws, several justices suggested Monday.
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May 04, 2026
An abortion protester who blocked the doors to a Columbia, South Carolina, clinic did not have the right to a jury trial because the crime, for which he was sentenced to six months in jail and fined $1,000, was not serious enough to warrant it, a Fourth Circuit panel said.
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May 04, 2026
Out-of-state delivery drivers can't pursue their wage claims against Bimbo Bakeries in a Vermont federal court, the Second Circuit ruled Monday, finding their claims aren't tied closely enough to the company's activities in the state.
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May 04, 2026
The U.S. Department of Justice is calling for a halt to discovery in consolidated lawsuits against President Donald Trump over his involvement in the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol while the D.C. Circuit decides whether he should be immune from the litigation.
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May 04, 2026
The First Circuit on Monday weighed a challenge to the Trump administration's policy of detaining unauthorized immigrants without bond during removal proceedings, even as one judge noted that the issue has already divided appellate panels and will likely need to be sorted out by the U.S. Supreme Court.
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May 04, 2026
The Federal Circuit on Monday refused to revive a lawsuit accusing a unit of food safety company Fortrex of infringing a patent on a way to treat poultry, agreeing with an Arkansas federal judge that a key word in the patent wasn't properly defined.
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May 04, 2026
The Delaware Chancery Court this past week handled a wide-ranging docket of deal disputes, advancement fights, stockholder suits and contract claims, with several matters turning on timing, forum limits and the remedies available when transactions or governance agreements break down.
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May 04, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to review a pro se lawsuit brought by a man incarcerated in Florida against a nurse he accused of denying him medical care, leaving intact lower court rulings that dismissed his action as "malicious" and were later affirmed on separate grounds.
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May 04, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday temporarily reinstated telehealth access for the abortion medication mifepristone, pausing a lower-court order that had blocked by-mail and remote prescriptions.
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May 04, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday said it will not review a petition brought by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on behalf of doctors who challenged a Washington state medical board's investigation into an alleged COVID-19 misinformation campaign.
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May 04, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear BNSF Railway Co.'s challenge to a Minnesota business-registration law that the rail giant contends was improperly invoked to haul it into state court by an out-of-state plaintiff over alleged out-of-state harms.
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May 01, 2026
The federal Gun Control Act's prohibition on cannabis users possessing firearms does not preempt New Jersey's cannabis legalization law, a New Jersey state appeals court ruled Friday, rejecting Jersey City's bid to use the federal law to justify the firing of two police officers who tested positive for cannabinoids.
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May 01, 2026
A burgeoning campaign against the False Claims Act's whistleblower mechanism is suddenly center stage at the Ninth Circuit, where pharmaceutical companies say a momentous new ruling "illustrates perfectly" the constitutional concerns of U.S. Supreme Court justices regarding FCA enforcement.
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May 01, 2026
The Ninth Circuit rejected an appeal by a Black former Tesla employee who challenged the company's arbitration win over his claims of racial discrimination, agreeing with a California federal judge Friday that the plaintiff failed to meet the "high bar" to overturn the award.
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May 01, 2026
An Illinois state appeals court Friday reversed an order requiring Google to disclose the identity of an anonymous YouTube user who posted a video of a youth hockey player's on-ice meltdown after losing a game, saying the emotional distress allegations were insufficient to justify allowing pre-suit discovery.
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May 01, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court just handed down a decision in favor of an anti-abortion pregnancy center that a left-leaning media watchdog says supports its argument that a district court had the power to block a Federal Trade Commission subpoena before the agency tried to enforce it.
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May 01, 2026
A Florida jury heard in opening arguments Friday that a woman who died of lung cancer after smoking R.J. Reynolds cigarettes was a victim of the severely addictive nature of nicotine, something her lawyers said even the U.S. surgeon general didn't acknowledge until 1988.