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April 30, 2026
Two Indigenous groups say the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to narrow a provision of the Voting Rights Act that forbids discrimination on the basis of race "cruelly" undercuts a foundational tool for Native American voters and other minority voters to protect themselves.
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April 30, 2026
The Center for Biological Diversity told the Eleventh Circuit on Thursday that there are still remedies to pursue if the appeals court revives its challenge to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's approval of a road that contains radioactive phosphogypsum that has already been completed.
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April 30, 2026
A Pennsylvania university that was charged by a borough for stormwater management services doesn't owe the amount assessed because the charges constitute a tax that the university is exempt from paying, the state's Supreme Court affirmed Thursday.
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April 30, 2026
The Fourth Circuit has affirmed a lower court ruling that a South Carolina police officer does not have qualified immunity from a civil lawsuit alleging he illegally shot and killed a teenager who was later found to be armed while patrolling a neighborhood that was under a COVID-19 pandemic-related curfew order.
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April 30, 2026
Victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre have asked the Texas Supreme Court to let a court-appointed receiver lease Alex Jones' website Infowars to a company linked to satire publication The Onion, a move that could hasten the delivery of funds Jones owes the families after massive defamation judgments.
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April 30, 2026
Pennsylvania prosecutors cannot refuse to try a police officer who claimed he mistook his gun for a taser when he pressed his weapon to a mentally-ill man's leg and shot him in front of his mother at close range, the state's highest court said Thursday, affirming a lower court decision.
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April 30, 2026
Local governments can charge impact fees on new development projects as a condition of issuing a development permit, including on projects other than the development of a raw parcel of land, the Colorado Court of Appeals held Thursday.
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April 30, 2026
The Federal Circuit said Thursday it will not rehear arguments that Walmart infringed three content-sharing patents that were invalidated under the U.S. Supreme Court's test for assessing whether patents cover abstract subject matter.
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April 30, 2026
The Florida Supreme Court declined to hear a case involving a Maltese citizen's challenge of email service in a law firm's lawsuit to collect fees, validating a recent state law that allows parties to bypass the Hague Convention to serve legal documents to foreign entities electronically.
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April 30, 2026
The inclusion of a Pennsylvania-based Energy Transfer LP subsidiary in a state agency's administrative order over a pipeline spill should not be enough to give a state court jurisdiction over local residents' lawsuit stemming from the same spill, Sunoco and Energy Transfer's lawyers told a Third Circuit panel Thursday.
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April 30, 2026
It is not often that a Second Circuit ruling is hailed as "the greatest legal achievement in national history" by a country's president, but that's what happened after a team from Sullivan & Cromwell LLP persuaded the appellate panel to nix an $18 billion judgment against Argentina.
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April 30, 2026
A painting company that defeated litigation claiming it owed a union pension fund $427,000 can't make the fund cover its roughly $350,000 in legal fees, a New Jersey federal judge ruled, saying the company could only clinch fee coverage if the fund acted unreasonably, which it didn't.
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April 30, 2026
A Fifth Circuit judge questioned Thursday whether voting- and disability-rights groups have standing to challenge parts of a Texas voting security law alleged to make voting harder for Texans with disabilities and whether existing state law gives such voters a path to seek accommodations.
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April 30, 2026
A North Carolina federal judge has turned down Bank of America Corp.'s request for a quick appeal of his order denying the bank's request for an early exit from a proposed class action alleging forfeitures were misspent from workers' 401(k) plans.
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April 30, 2026
Georgia Power urged a state appellate court Thursday to reverse a trial court's order letting Ford and Union Carbide out of a construction worker's cancer claims, arguing that under the state's 2025 tort reform law, their dismissal would unjustly leave the utility company to face the suit alone.
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April 30, 2026
CACI Premier Technology Inc. has urged the Fourth Circuit to delay adjudicating its rehearing bid after a panel upheld a $42 million jury award over CACI's conspiracy to torture Iraq War detainees, pointing to a forthcoming U.S. Supreme Court ruling.
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April 30, 2026
The Seventh Circuit has agreed with a lower court that an online clothing retailer's minimal damages of $2,000 against a company found liable for willful counterfeiting and cybersquatting should not be boosted to $2.1 million, saying obtaining a default judgment was not enough on its own to support an increase.
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April 30, 2026
Arkansas is asking the Eighth Circuit to reject an appeal by two Cherokee Nation entities over the voter referendum revocation of a gaming license in Pope County, arguing that their claims omit crucial details in alleging that the state conspired to violate their constitutional rights.
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April 30, 2026
A Georgia appellate panel told a lower court Thursday to revisit its denial of a school district's motion to toss a negligence suit from a mother who said her son suffered second-degree burns after his teacher gave him hot chocolate, saying the trial judge mishandled the dismissal bid.
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April 30, 2026
A Jamaican man who pled guilty to robbery should have been afforded youthful-offender consideration, a New York state appeals panel has ruled, reinstating his robbery conviction despite his not receiving an immigration warning, but sending his case back for resentencing.
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April 30, 2026
Johnson & Johnson told a New Jersey federal court that a recent ruling in Illinois backs the Beasley Allen Law Firm's disqualification from multidistrict litigation over its talcum powder.
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April 30, 2026
A Fourth Circuit panel narrowly agreed Thursday with a North Carolina private jet operator's petition challenging a conclusion that a former pilot was fired in retaliation for reporting safety issues and grounding planes, remanding a sole issue centered on the pilot's efforts to mitigate damages.
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April 30, 2026
The Federal Circuit on Thursday refused to undo Google's successful invalidation of claims in a targeted advertising patent owned by tech company Wildseed Mobile LLC, backing the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's finding that they were obvious.
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April 30, 2026
After the Sixth Circuit ruled that a legal dispute between Ohio and a group of pharmacy benefit managers belongs in federal court, Express Scripts and Cigna now want dismissed the lawsuit accusing them of participating in an antitrust conspiracy that is driving up prescription drug prices.
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April 30, 2026
The Fifth Circuit upheld the dismissal of a man's claims that an India-based information technology and professional services firm violated the False Claims Act via fraudulent visa applications and improper tax withholding, finding no specific payment obligations under the FCA itself.