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November 12, 2026
A split California state appeals court panel has reversed a directed verdict win for Coldwell Banker and some employees accused of stealing trade secrets from a rival real estate company, finding a lower court judge imposed an unreasonable trial time limit and forced the rival to rest before it could finish presenting its case.
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November 12, 2026
Several cannabis vape distributors have reached a deal that would allow them to escape part of a sprawling multidistrict litigation accusing them of price-fixing CCell-branded hardware, asking a California federal court to give them until early next month to finalize the agreement.
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November 12, 2026
The Illinois federal judge probing potential falsehoods and undue influence behind a push to prosecute six U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement protesters solidified an early December date to hear U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros and others' testimony on the matter, after blasting the government's "immaterial" bid for more pre-proceeding clarity.
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November 12, 2026
A California federal judge appears poised to back Jackson Lewis' bid to force a disability bias suit from one of its former attorneys into arbitration, according to a tentative Thursday order which said he's not persuaded that a law barring mandatory arbitration of sexual harassment disputes covered her case.
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November 12, 2026
A New York attorney was sentenced Thursday to eight months in prison for embezzling more than $500,000 from a trust he managed, U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut David X. Sullivan announced.
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