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  • September 17, 2026

    'Bad Middle School Art' Tests Penn State's Counterfeit Bid

    A Third Circuit panel appeared reluctant Thursday to treat all of Vintage Brand's retro Penn State merchandise as counterfeit, even as the judges expressed skepticism about the print-on-demand retailer's broader bid to overturn a jury verdict finding that its unlicensed use of university marks infringed Penn State's trademarks.

  • September 17, 2026

    Family Tells 11th Circ. Tesla Can't Undo $243M Crash Verdict

    The estate of a woman killed in a crash and her boyfriend are urging the Eleventh Circuit not to throw out a $243 million verdict against Tesla Inc., saying the jury heard enough evidence to conclude that the Tesla driver who hit them was misled about the safety of the vehicle's "Autopilot" feature and that defects in the vehicle led to the crash.

  • September 17, 2026

    Cayuga Nation Gets Reduced Atty Fees After RICO Verdict

    The Cayuga Nation has been awarded more than $261,000 in attorney fees, costs and sanctions after convincing a New York federal jury that two smoke shop operators violated federal racketeering law, despite the tribe's damages being entirely offset by a larger award on the operators' counterclaim.

  • September 17, 2026

    Jury Clears UNC Of Race Bias Against Black Grad Student

    A federal jury has cleared the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill of wrongdoing in a Black former graduate student's lawsuit alleging she was booted from her Ph.D. program because of her race after she complained of discrimination internally.

  • September 17, 2026

    Meta Deal Highlights Advisory Jury Issues, Litigation Risk

    The $17 billion settlement of youth safety claims brought against Meta offers lessons for all consumer-facing companies because the court made the rare move of empaneling an advisory jury and the case was built on what the company learned from its own studies, says Mark Morgan at McCarter & English.

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