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August 06, 2026
Meta Platforms is on the hook for an additional $567 million after a New Mexico judge on Thursday determined that the Facebook and Instagram parent must take measures to protect its youngest users, following a jury's $375 million verdict that Meta hid the full scope of mental health harms its apps caused.
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August 06, 2026
The Seventh Circuit on Thursday upheld the convictions of two Outcome Health executives for lying about the company's capabilities and value in a $1 billion fraud, rejecting their argument that an overzealous pretrial freeze on millions in assets violated their constitutional right to hire the defense attorneys of their choice.
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August 06, 2026
A Las Vegas tax preparation business owner was sentenced to 30 months in prison for conspiring to defraud the U.S. government by filing false tax returns and diverting portions of the resulting refunds to herself and an employee, the U.S. Justice Department said.
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August 06, 2026
A Connecticut federal judge has set a February trial date on claims from dozens of state attorneys general that generic-drug makers conspired to artificially inflate the prices of generic topical drugs.
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August 06, 2026
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP escaped a malpractice lawsuit late Thursday over its representation of Patriot National Inc. in a private investment in public equity transaction in the years before the company's downfall.
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August 06, 2026
A Minnesota federal judge on Thursday canceled the looming pork price-fixing trial after the last remaining defendant, Agri Stats, inked settlements in principle with the last remaining plaintiffs.
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August 06, 2026
A former Goldman Sachs executive director was convicted Thursday for his role in what Brooklyn federal prosecutors say was a wide-ranging conspiracy to bribe Ghanaian officials in support of a Turkish energy company's push to obtain a lucrative power plant contract as the West African nation was reeling from an electricity crisis.
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August 06, 2026
The Eleventh Circuit scrapped an $800,000 verdict in favor of a Black worker who claimed she was let go after complaining that she'd been racially targeted for wearing dreadlocks, ruling faulty jury instructions meant the security company she worked for should get a new trial.
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August 06, 2026
The number of patent infringement lawsuits soared in 2025 as patent owners saw their fortunes change at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, where petitioners filed significantly fewer America Invents Act challenges. Meanwhile, most patent infringement suits were brought in the Eastern District of Texas, which had considerably more filings than the Western District.
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August 05, 2026
A federal prosecutor on Wednesday told jurors in Brooklyn that emails and recordings back up allegations a former Goldman Sachs banker was the central player behind a plot to secure a lucrative energy contract by bribing Ghanaian government officials, while the defense argued that a dearth of evidence about illicit payments should doom the case.
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August 05, 2026
Social media companies are headed back to court over allegations that their platforms are designed to hook young people, while OpenAI faces claims that ChatGPT has meted out harmful health advice and helped users plan mass shootings. Here's what's on the radar for product liability for the rest of 2026.
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August 05, 2026
Boeing should pay substantial damages to the family of a former United Nations engineer who had a "magnetism" that spread light and comfort to others before he died in a "needless" and preventable plane crash aboard Ethiopian Air Flight ET302, Illinois federal jurors heard Wednesday.
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August 05, 2026
Roland Christensen of Arnold & Itkin LLP said that for the life of him, he couldn't understand why C.H. Robinson didn't cut a deal offered by the families of victims who burned to death following an 18-wheeler crash.
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August 05, 2026
The mother of a child who suffered severe burns to her face after a Sunbeam pressure cooker allegedly exploded is asking a Florida federal court to approve a confidential settlement to end their claims, reaching the deal in the middle of the trial.
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August 05, 2026
A Kansas state court has permanently enjoined a slew of restrictions on abortion care, including requirements that providers disclose patients' reasons for seeking an abortion to the state and inform patients about abortion pill "reversal" treatments the court said were "unlikely to be biologically plausible."
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August 05, 2026
Takeda Pharmaceuticals battled with a class of health plans over whether a Massachusetts federal jury's $885 million antitrust verdict against the drugmaker for conspiring to delay generic competition to anticonstipation drug Amitiza should be reduced by rebates the drugmaker paid and Medicare subsidies that reduced the health plans' costs.
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August 05, 2026
A New York engineering company and its insurers withdrew their bid for a new trial after a Colorado state jury found them liable for more than $1.3 million in damages for breaching a subcontract linked to an Interstate 70 construction project in Denver, saying they intend to appeal.
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August 05, 2026
The owners of Michigan's Ludington pumped storage plant have urged a federal judge to block Toshiba Corp. from reopening discovery after a jury awarded the plant owners nearly $394.4 million for Toshiba's botched overhaul of the facility, arguing the company is trying to build a new record to challenge issues already decided at trial.
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August 05, 2026
A juvenile who was sentenced to be placed in a secure detention facility after stealing money electronically from his guardian cannot have his conviction overturned after a Pennsylvania appeals court ruled that screenshots showing money transfers in a banking app were not hearsay.
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August 05, 2026
Netlist and Samsung have resolved their multipronged patent fight after reaching a deal in which the South Korean electronics giant agreed to make multimillion-dollar payments to get access to a portfolio of Netlist's patents.
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August 05, 2026
Another New York legal aid union has reached a deal with its organization's management, averting the possibility of a strike after its contract and those of four other unions expired at the end of June.
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August 05, 2026
A South Carolina federal judge on Wednesday dismissed disgraced attorney Alex Murdaugh's jury tampering suit against a former court clerk who was found to have interfered in his murder trial, ruling there was no connection between his alleged damages and the ex-clerk's misconduct.
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August 05, 2026
A Pennsylvania appeals court has vacated $19 million in damages, including $15 million in punitive damages, in a suit against nursing home operators and managers over the death of a resident, finding the trial court should have reconsidered damages after negating liability against two of the four defendants.
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August 05, 2026
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP wrapped up its defense Wednesday to a Florida state malpractice suit from the founder of Patriot National Inc. over the firm's handling of a private investment in public equity transaction, with a stock market expert testifying that short selling stock allowed under the deal didn't lead to the insurance services company's downfall.
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August 05, 2026
Collision Communications Inc. wants the Federal Circuit to undo a Texas federal judge's decision denying its bid to block Samsung from selling products a jury found were infringing, saying the judge "went inexplicably astray" following the $445 million verdict.