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May 26, 2026
The Fifth Circuit won't rehear appeals from the families of the victims of two fatal Boeing 737 crashes seeking to reverse the U.S. Department of Justice's dismissal of its criminal fraud case against the company, saying it has no jurisdiction to review the dismissal.
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May 26, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday passed on Meta's appeal in the Vermont state attorney general's suit alleging that the social media giant designed its platforms to be addictive to young people at the cost of their mental health.
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May 26, 2026
A New Jersey federal judge affirmed the Beasley Allen Law Firm's disqualification from multidistrict litigation over Johnson & Johnson's talcum powder on Tuesday, determining that the firm has failed to provide a valid reason to back its attempt at a stay and temporary reinstatement into the matter.
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May 26, 2026
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled that employees of a former shipbuilding company are too late to bring their asbestos-related lawsuits, so they can't pierce the corporate veil and seek damages against its parent company.
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May 26, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday spurned Florida's bid to file suit alleging California and Washington state flouted federal law by allowing unauthorized immigrants to obtain commercial driver's licenses, but dissenting Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito said the high court "cannot refuse to hear suits between states."
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May 26, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to take up Union Carbide Corp.'s appeal of a Fourth Circuit decision that revived a West Virginia woman's proposed class action over a manufacturing plant jointly owned with Covestro LLC that allegedly exposed nearby residents to ethylene oxide.
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May 26, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday rebuffed Ohio-based freight broker Total Quality Logistics LLC's bid to invoke federal law to shield it from state-based negligence and personal injury claims over a fatal 2019 accident.
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May 26, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to tackle a uranium mining company's lawsuit seeking $15 million in legal costs from the federal government related to nuclear contamination liabilities.
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May 22, 2026
This past year, 10 lawyers across the country at plaintiffs' firms big and small helped secure millions of dollars in settlements and verdicts for their clients, going up against powerful defendants like Google, Monsanto and the Trump administration, earning the attorneys recognition as Law360's Titans of the Plaintiffs Bar for 2026.
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May 22, 2026
Thirteen individuals who say they developed non-Hodgkin lymphoma after using Roundup for years objected to a $7.25 billion settlement over the herbicide, telling a Missouri federal court Friday that the underlying class action was launched not to litigate active claims but to "launder a liability-management scheme through the courts."
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May 22, 2026
A Montana federal judge on Friday seemed slightly reluctant to sanction Connecticut municipalities for moving firefighter turnout gear PFAS claims to his jurisdiction after roughly two years of litigation on the East Coast, suggesting the process of shipping purchaser claims across the nation is typical when complex cases arise.
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May 22, 2026
A California federal judge's recent use of advisory juries for high-profile tech disputes — including Elon Musk's OpenAI for-profit conversion challenge and states' social-media addiction fight with Meta — is an uncommon practice that's intended as a "reality check" for judges deciding "socially explosive" disputes, according to legal experts.
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May 22, 2026
A University of Toronto marketing professor on Friday told a Los Angeles jury considering bellwether claims that Johnson & Johnson's talc products caused deadly ovarian cancer in three women that the company advertised its talc as "pure" and safe even though its leaders fretted for decades that it could pose health risks.
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May 22, 2026
An email that Roblox Corp. sent to opposing counsel asking for an account username and saying that it was seeking to compel arbitration after it lost a bid to dismiss a parent's suit could be "damning" for the popular gaming company, a Ninth Circuit judge suggested on Friday.
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May 22, 2026
The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee advanced a $580 billion five-year surface transportation reauthorization bill on Friday to fund roads, bridges, transit and rail improvement projects, and highway and motor carrier safety programs, and establish the first-ever federal regulatory framework for autonomous commercial vehicles.
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May 22, 2026
Gucci America Inc. agreed to a confidential settlement contract with two companies it accused of trademark infringement, and on Friday, a Michigan federal judge issued a stipulated order granting a permanent injunction prohibiting the defendants from future infractions.
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May 22, 2026
Counsel for The Boeing Co. urged the Delaware Chancery Court on Friday to dismiss a stockholder derivative suit accusing its leadership of ignoring years of safety and manufacturing red flags, arguing the company's board had overhauled its oversight systems after the fatal 737 Max crashes and monitored risks leading up to an Alaska Airlines door-plug blowout.
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May 22, 2026
A group of plaintiffs in multidistrict litigation against McKinsey & Co. is urging a California federal court to sanction the company for deleting communications with Purdue Pharma and other opioid-makers, saying the court should enter a default judgment against the consulting firm.
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May 22, 2026
Structured settlement broker Integrated Financial Settlements Inc. and three affiliates have sued Riverside Capital NY in Connecticut state court, accusing the company of defamation and interference with business expectations for telling third parties about a purportedly improper $2.7 million Florida lien connected to an ex-CEO's allegedly unauthorized loans.
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May 22, 2026
A Pennsylvania federal judge has dismissed a proposed class action against gunmaker Sig Sauer claiming one of its optic sights lacked safeguards to keep kids from accessing the battery, ruling that while the buyer got less than what he paid for, the issue was remedied by a product recall.
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May 22, 2026
A California federal judge has dismissed racketeering claims brought against a kratom supplements company accused of hiding the addictive nature of its products from consumers.
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May 22, 2026
Florida, Texas, Pennsylvania and 23 other states urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a Colorado Supreme Court ruling that allowed local communities to pursue climate change damages under state law, arguing it jeopardizes states' constitutional right to govern themselves.
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May 22, 2026
A New Jersey cheese manufacturer admitted to selling listeria-tainted queso fresco linked to a 2021 outbreak that resulted in at least 13 hospitalizations and one death across four states, U.S. Attorney Robert Frazer of the District of New Jersey announced.
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May 21, 2026
An economics expert for Meta testified Thursday against New Mexico's desired $3.7 billion plan to abate social media's harm to mental health, calling it more "a spending plan" than one for abatement and claiming $27 million will do the job.
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May 21, 2026
The company behind the Aveeno brand has, for now, defeated a proposed class action claiming it misled parents when labeling its child skin care products as hypoallergenic, with a New Jersey federal judge saying the buyers failed to show they suffered any concrete financial injury.