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Latest News in Commercial Contracts

  • August 26, 2026

    Blake Lively's 'Blunderbuss' $8M Atty Fee Bid Nets $407K

    A New York federal judge Wednesday awarded Blake Lively $407,452 in attorney fees and court costs in her defamation dispute with her "It Ends With Us" co-star Justin Baldoni, significantly less than the $8 million she had requested, citing her "blunderbuss approach" and flaws in records she submitted.

  • August 26, 2026

    Chemical Co. Reps Can't Dissolve $1.9M Trade Secret Verdict

    A federal judge on Tuesday rejected a request by three chemical sales representatives to undo a $1.9 million jury verdict for their former employer in a trade secret dispute, ruling that Silver Fern Chemical Inc. clearly demonstrated that they took confidential customer information that was valuable and not readily accessible elsewhere.

  • August 26, 2026

    Texas Appeals Court Affirms Injured Oil Worker's Loss

    An oil worker who was paralyzed when a wellhead fell on him failed to persuade a Texas appellate court to revive his negligence suit against the safety training contractor he blamed for the accident, with the court saying he presented no evidence that the company's training caused his injury.

  • August 26, 2026

    Mass Tort Firm Galindo Law Can Use Cash In Ch. 11

    A bankruptcy judge said he would give interim approval to Galindo Law Firm's package of first-day motions Wednesday, allowing it to use cash on hand to fund operations, after the Texas mass tort firm resolved a lender's objection.

  • August 26, 2026

    9th Circ. Panel Won't Revisit Boeing's $72M Trade Secret Loss

    A Ninth Circuit panel has rejected Boeing's bid for a panel rehearing of its August 2025 decision reinstating a $72 million jury verdict for electric jet startup Zunum Aero Inc. in a trade secret dispute, spurning the aerospace giant's fresh argument that the case belongs in the Federal Circuit because of the patent counterclaims involved.

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