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April 29, 2026
The government did not prove that political consultant Esther Nuhfer was operating in bad faith when she worked with former Florida congressman David Rivera under a $50 million contract with a unit of Venezuela's state-owned oil company, Nuhfer's attorney said Wednesday in his final pitch to jurors.
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April 29, 2026
A Fifth Circuit panel seemed dubious of a law firm's argument that a federal court lacked jurisdiction over a claim that it shuffled assets to avoid paying an arbitration award that totaled $70 million, saying Wednesday that the firm's argument was "a stretch."
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April 29, 2026
A Wyoming-based holding company owned by a Colorado family claimed in state court Tuesday that the owners of a now-defunct facility that produced a charcoal substitute fleeced them out of $500,000 by making false assertions about the business and its financial health.
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April 29, 2026
Five technology industry groups have urged a California federal judge overseeing a suit accusing Anthropic of infringing copyrighted music to train the artificial intelligence model Claude to find that such activity falls under the umbrella of fair use.
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April 29, 2026
An engineering firm urged a Colorado federal judge to reject Lockheed Martin's attempt to evade claims the company failed to pay for work already performed under an engineering subcontract, saying the judge already rejected the same arguments in another case.
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April 29, 2026
Several music companies within Warner Music Group that are suing DSW over alleged improper use of their music in social media videos must turn over licensing agreements they have with social media companies, an Ohio federal judge has ordered.
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April 29, 2026
The Federal Circuit's May argument slate includes appeals of invalidity decisions and sanctions tied to VLSI Technology's multibillion-dollar chip patent dispute with Intel, as well as Amazon's challenge to a cloud storage patent verdict against it for over half a billion dollars.
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April 29, 2026
A lender says a pot dispensary across from Fenway Park owes it $8 million and should be placed into receivership, the latest in a series of lawsuits against one of Massachusetts' first social equity cannabis license recipients.
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April 29, 2026
Dollar General can't kibosh a proposed class action claiming it unlawfully charged employees who use tobacco nearly $500 more per year for health benefits, with a Tennessee federal judge ruling the company hadn't properly addressed how an exclusion in its arbitration agreement applied to the case.
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April 29, 2026
Rambus has received a grand jury subpoena in connection to an investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division, according to an investor filing from the chipmaker and technology company.
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April 29, 2026
Atkore Inc. has struck two deals to end claims against it in sprawling litigation accusing polyvinyl chloride pipe producers of conspiring to fix prices, agreeing to pay $72.5 million to a class of direct purchasers and another $64 million to another class of buyers.
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April 29, 2026
The full Fifth Circuit will reconsider insurance company Aetna's bid to force uniform and food services company Aramark to arbitrate its dispute over employee health benefit claims, staying a panel's ruling from December that had kept proceedings in court.
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April 29, 2026
The Delaware Supreme Court has upheld a lower court's dismissal of a dispute over a failed attempt to purchase a multimillion-dollar claim tied to the collapse of onetime crypto giant FTX Trading Ltd., affirming that the case does not belong in Delaware courts.
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April 29, 2026
Five Oklahoma tribal members are asking a Federal Claims Court to order the U.S. government to provide a full accounting of oil and gas leasing royalties they say are owed to more than 10,000 Indigenous landowners, arguing it failed to properly manage the funds.
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April 29, 2026
The maker of Little Debbie snacks has filed a federal complaint arguing that Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. must make good on construction bonds and cover millions of dollars in damages and legal expenses stemming from a construction company's failure to finish work on a plant in Tennessee.
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April 29, 2026
A group of South African investors who said their escrow funds were stolen by a now-disbarred Georgia lawyer has asked a federal judge to award them over $2.3 million in punitive damages atop the hundreds of thousands of dollars they allegedly lost to the attorney.
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April 28, 2026
Battery-maker Duracell cannot escape chemical company BASF Corp.'s lawsuit accusing it of stealing trade secrets about its lithium battery technology after gaining access to the information through a cooperation agreement, a Delaware federal judge ruled Tuesday.
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April 28, 2026
Bankrupt electric vehicle startup Canoo's former senior director of internal audit and controls has agreed to pay roughly $125,900 to settle the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's insider trading allegations against him, according to a final judgment entered Tuesday in Texas federal court.
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April 28, 2026
Billionaire Elon Musk testified in a California federal jury trial Tuesday that OpenAI executives Sam Altman and Greg Brockman illegally converted OpenAI into a for-profit company after he invested $38 million under the condition the ChatGPT-maker would remain a nonprofit, creating a potential precedent for "looting in every charity in America."
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April 28, 2026
Two Texas smoke shop owners claim they suffered police raids, arrests and nearly $5 million of their business funds being frozen, all because one of their vape suppliers, Delta Munchies LLC, sold them products containing illicit levels of THC despite marketing them as legal hemp, according to a lawsuit filed in Texas state court.
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April 28, 2026
A U.K. Islamic relief charity has urged a New York federal judge to compel to confidential arbitration a lawsuit by a former U.S.-based partner that some of its members founded, claiming it is running a "smear campaign" against the charity due to political pressure from Congress.
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April 28, 2026
The parents of Philadelphia Phillies third baseman Alec Bohm have hit back against allegations that they mismanaged his finances, telling a Pennsylvania state court that they have taken only prudent steps to protect their son's earnings.
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April 28, 2026
San Francisco has struck a deal with the Port of Oakland that ends a trademark infringement suit over Oakland's renaming of its airport that allows the East Bay city to use the name "Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport," the parties announced Tuesday.
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April 28, 2026
Pittsburgh-area construction firm Marco Contractors Inc. must pay Citizens Bank approximately $470,000 in sanctions to remedy the harm the contractor caused by deleting emails that were key to its claims that the bank should have caught an $8.7 million embezzlement scheme, a Pennsylvania federal court ruled alongside an order tossing the litigation.
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April 28, 2026
Former U.S. Rep. David Rivera's public opposition to the regime of former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was just a "facade" as he secretly worked on behalf of the government under a $50 million contract with a unit of Venezuela's state-owned oil company, federal prosecutors told jurors on Tuesday.